The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats Swing Far Left | Ep. 569

00:00:00.000 The Democrats embrace their socialist id, incivility becomes the word of the day, and the Supreme Court strikes a really harsh blow against public sector unions.

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00:02:50.000 OK, so the big news of the day is the Supreme Court has handed down a ruling that does serious, serious damage to public sector unions all across the nation.

00:03:00.000 And the reason is because public sector unions are awful.

00:03:02.000 OK, we need to explain a little bit about the background of public sector unions and why they are bad and how this corrupt bargain works between public sector unions and state governments, as well as the federal government.

00:03:12.000 So here's the way that usually works.

00:03:13.000 In order for you to be certified as a public sector union, or as a union generally, that is negotiating on behalf of an entire block, an entire industry, you have to be certified by the National Labor Relations Board.

00:03:26.000 The National Labor Relations Board decides that your entire industry now fits within a bargaining unit, and that if a majority of that bargaining unit votes to join a union,

00:03:34.000 Then that union now represents the entirety of that bargaining unit.

00:03:36.000 So let's say that you are a welder and you're contracting with the federal government.

00:03:40.000 So the NLRB will determine that you are part of a sector and that sector can now be represented by the AFL-CIO, for example, if they choose to, if half of the people in that unit

00:03:51.000 Choose to join the AFL-CIO.

00:03:53.000 Vote to be represented by the union.

00:03:55.000 Then, the union gets to represent that entire collective bargaining unit against the federal or state government.

00:04:00.000 And that's the way this typically works.

00:04:02.000 In the state of Illinois, they passed a law that permits public employees to unionize.

00:04:06.000 If a majority of the employees in a bargaining unit vote to be represented by a union, that union is designated as the exclusive representative of all the employees, even those who do not join.

00:04:14.000 Now, the way this becomes very corrupt, obviously, is, number one, public sector unions

00:04:18.000 All right.

00:04:39.000 We all want to get to the same point, but we're coming at it from opposite sides.

00:04:42.000 If you're a member of a public sector union and you are bargaining with legislators, legislators have no interest in saving money.

00:04:48.000 Legislators are much more interested in making some sort of deal with the union such that the union gets paid a lot of money and then the union then dumps a bunch of money back into electing those legislators again.

00:04:57.000 Legislators don't care because it ain't their money. 1.00

00:05:00.000 They're third parties.

00:05:01.000 It's your money and my money that are being represented by legislators.

00:05:04.000 So there's this corrupt bargain that goes on where unions get certified as a union, and then they go and bargain with a bunch of legislators, and then legislators hand them a bunch of money, and those unions take some of that money and they pour it back into the campaigns of those legislators to get them re-elected.

00:05:18.000 It's this very, very corrupt cycle.

00:05:19.000 It's happened in California for decades.

00:05:22.000 While Illinois has a very similar law,

00:05:24.000 Under the Illinois law, the real problem is not just that the union can be certified on behalf of an entire bargaining unit, which, again, I have no idea how that's even constitutional in the first place.

00:05:34.000 The National Labor Relations Act, in my view, is deeply unconstitutional.

00:05:38.000 I do not see how I, as an individual worker, should be co-opted into the bargaining of a collective unit.

00:05:44.000 This is not legislation.

00:05:44.000 This is not me voting for politicians who are going to install a minimum wage.

00:05:50.000 A group of people in my particular sector who may not represent a majority of the population voting for a union that is supposedly going to represent me even though I don't want them representing me.

00:06:01.000 It is removing my personal ability to bargain on my own behalf for a better job or a better pay or a better raise.

00:06:09.000 It's removing that ability from me on the basis of a vote inside of a collective bargaining unit decided by the federal or state government.

00:06:15.000 And that seems to me deeply unconstitutional in the first place, but even assuming that part's constitutional, the question before the Supreme Court that was decided today was, can all of those people who did not actually want to join the union be forced to pay the union?

00:06:28.000 So according to the law in Illinois, only the union may engage in collective bargaining.

00:06:33.000 Individual employees may not be represented by another agent or negotiate directly with their employer.

00:06:37.000 So my rights have been removed, right?

00:06:39.000 The union itself is the only unit that can now bargain with the government.

00:06:42.000 If I'm a really good employee of the federal or state government, then I can't bargain with my employer.

00:06:47.000 I can't go in and say I want a raise because they already have a union contract and violates the union contract for them to give me a raise.

00:06:52.000 This is one of the reasons why teachers unions are so terrible because great teachers can't bargain with the school for higher pay or for a raise and great schools can't fire bad teachers because of these union contracts.

00:07:02.000 Non-members, and this is the part that has become controversial, non-members are required to pay what is generally called an agency fee, which is a percentage of full union dues.

00:07:11.000 Under Abood v. Detroit, which was a decision made back in 1977, this fee may cover union expenditures attributable to those activities germane to the union's collective bargaining activities, but may not cover the union's political and ideological projects.

00:07:23.000 The problem, of course, is that unions use this money in fungible fashion.

00:07:27.000 Is it germane to politics?

00:07:29.000 To push Democrats?

00:07:30.000 Kind of.

00:07:31.000 Is it germane to the functioning of a union to push particular legislators?

00:07:35.000 The argument can certainly be made.

00:07:36.000 The union sets the agency fee annually and then sends non-members a notice explaining the basis for the fee and the breakdown of expenditures.

00:07:42.000 Here, in this particular case, it was 78% of full union dues.

00:07:47.000 Okay, so to recapitulate, there are several issues that have to do with unions.

00:07:50.000 Only one was decided today.

00:07:51.000 So issue number one is, should unions be given the power to bargain collectively on behalf of non-members?

00:07:58.000 I think the answer should be no to that.

00:08:00.000 It seems to me that unions can be just fine if everybody wants to join the union.

00:08:04.000 In fact, the whole point of having a union is that people want to join it.

00:08:08.000 But if you have to kneecap people, if you have to use the government in order to force people to be represented by a union, I don't see how that doesn't violate the Constitution.

00:08:14.000 That was not what was at issue, though.

00:08:16.000 Even assuming that unions have the capacity to represent people who do not want to be members, then there was a law on the books in Illinois, it's in California, it's in a bunch of other states in the union.

00:08:26.000 This law suggested that even if I did not want to join the union, but the union is now bargaining on my behalf, I now am forced by the government to pay that union.

00:08:35.000 So the government now becomes the enforcer for the union.

00:08:38.000 You see how corrupt this is?

00:08:39.000 The government forces me to pay money to a union so that the union can pay members of the government to cut it a better deal.

00:08:45.000 This is all deeply, deeply corrupt.

00:08:47.000 So there's a member of the union, a non-member of the union actually, a state employee, whose unit was represented by a public sector union in Illinois.

00:08:55.000 And he refused to join the union because he doesn't like a lot of its positions, including those taken in collective bargaining.

00:09:01.000 And he was paying something like 500 bucks a year to this union, even though he didn't want to join the union in the first place.

00:09:07.000 So, the Supreme Court held today, under the decision written by Justice Alito and joined by Kennedy and Gorsuch and Thomas and Roberts, this decision held that this part of the law is no longer applicable.

00:09:19.000 That you cannot force non-members of unions to pay union dues.

00:09:23.000 Which seems like an obvious thing.

00:09:25.000 I didn't want to join the union.

00:09:27.000 Why should I be forced to pay the dues?

00:09:28.000 So the counter argument to that that's been made by folks on the left is, well, what happens when all the members of the union decide not to pay the union?

00:09:35.000 They decide they don't want to be represented by the union anymore because they don't want to pay the union dues and they are quote-unquote free riders, right?

00:09:40.000 Now they're getting benefits of union representation without having to pay the fee.

00:09:45.000 And the answer to that is, so what?

00:09:48.000 So what?

00:09:49.000 The answer to that is, then the union should do a better job of earning its members' loyalty and earning its members' money.

00:09:54.000 It shouldn't be the government stepping in and forcing people to pay the union when you don't want to pay the union in the first place.

00:10:00.000 So Justice Alito delivers the opinion of the court, and he writes,

00:10:11.000 We conclude that this arrangement violates the free speech rights of non-members by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.

00:10:18.000 And this, of course, is exactly right.

00:10:21.000 And Justice Alito goes on to explain why all of the foolishness that is being pushed by the left on these union issues is unconstitutional.

00:10:31.000 He says, The First Amendment, made applicable to the states by the Fourteenth Amendment, forbids abridgment of the freedom of speech.

00:10:36.000 We've held time and again that freedom of speech, quote, includes both the right to speak freely and the right to refrain from speaking at all.

00:10:41.000 The right to eschew association for expressive purposes is likewise protected.

00:10:46.000 As Justice Jackson memorably put it, if there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.

00:11:00.000 Compelling individuals to mouth support for views they find objectionable violates that cardinal constitutional command, and in most contexts, any such effort would be universally condemned.

00:11:09.000 Suppose, for example, the state of Illinois required all residents to sign a document expressing support for a particular set of positions on controversial public issues, say the platform of one of the major political parties.

00:11:18.000 No one we trust would seriously argue that the First Amendment permits this.

00:11:22.000 Perhaps because such compulsion so plainly violates the Constitution, most of our free speech cases have involved restrictions on what can be said rather than the law's compelling speech.

00:11:30.000 But measures compelling speech are at least as threatening.

00:11:33.000 And it goes on to discuss the fact that these unions are essentially compelling speech.

00:11:38.000 He says that the dissent in this particular case proposes that we apply what amounts to a rational basis review, that is, that we ask only whether a government employer could reasonably believe that the exaction of agency fees serves his interest.

00:11:51.000 This form of minimal scrutiny is foreign to our free speech jurisprudence, and we reject it here.

00:11:55.000 So then they go through the Abood decision, which is a 1977 decision, saying that the state can compel people to pay money to unions.

00:12:02.000 And just Alito destroys it.

00:12:04.000 He says there were basically two rationales that were used by the court in Abood to suggest that unions could actually be forced to, that non-union members could be forced to pay agency fees.

00:12:15.000 Okay, argument number one was labor peace.

00:12:18.000 Right?

00:12:18.000 So, what the hell is labor peace?

00:12:20.000 That's a stupid argument in the first place. 0.99

00:12:23.000 Labor peace is apparently the idea that if you are not forced to pay an agency fee to the union, then you may instead go join another union, and then that other union will be certified and a different union will be decertified. 1.00

00:12:33.000 And the answer to that is, so the hell what?

00:12:34.000 Why should you be locked into a union forever? 1.00

00:12:36.000 That's idiotic. 1.00

00:12:38.000 And Alito debunks that fully. 1.00

00:12:40.000 I'll explain what Alito has to say in just a second.

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00:13:51.000 Okay, so, again, the argument that was being made by a bunch of folks on the left is that we have to prop up these unions because we must have labor peace.

00:14:19.000 Hey, there's no such thing as labor peace.

00:14:21.000 Labor peace is called monopoly.

00:14:23.000 If you suggested on the other side of the aisle that employers should be able to get together and decide wages because what we really need is wage peace, everybody would understand that amounts to collusion and monopoly.

00:14:33.000 But when a union does it and the government props up that union, this is supposed to lead to labor peace, which is just ridiculous.

00:14:39.000 The only capacity for unions to strike is when they have a monopoly.

00:14:44.000 You want to destroy the labor market, all you have to do is have monopoly of unions, because then those unions can walk off the job, particularly if they are contracted with public sector employers.

00:14:54.000 You've seen this.

00:14:54.000 You've actually seen police officers walk off the job and firefighters walk off the job, which makes cities completely unworkable.

00:15:00.000 You've had sanitation strikes.

00:15:01.000 They completely destroy cities, basically.

00:15:04.000 All of this does not create labor peace.

00:15:06.000 It creates labor warfare.

00:15:08.000 But the left thinks that labor peace amounts to labor should be forced into a position of bargaining thanks to a union.

00:15:14.000 So Justice Alito destroys this.

00:15:15.000 He says,

00:15:25.000 Nevertheless, nearly a million federal employees, about 27% of the federal workforce, are union members.

00:15:30.000 The situation in the Postal Service is similar.

00:15:32.000 Although permitted to choose an exclusive representative, Postal Service employees are not required to pay an agency fee, and about 400,000 are union members.

00:15:39.000 In other words,

00:15:41.000 It is now undeniable that labor peace can be readily achieved through means significantly less restrictive than the assessment of agency fees. 1.00

00:15:48.000 Okay, so labor peace is a stupid argument. 0.99

00:15:49.000 Then, there's the better argument. 1.00

00:15:51.000 The better argument is the risk of free riders, right?

00:15:53.000 So this is the idea that you're going to benefit from the union bargaining on your behalf, but you're not going to pay the union.

00:15:58.000 So the union doesn't make the money, but they're bargaining on your behalf, supposedly out of the goodness of their hearts.

00:16:03.000 So here is what Alito says about that.

00:16:06.000 He says, In other words, I didn't want to join this union.

00:16:08.000 I don't want them bargaining on my behalf, and now you're forcing me to pay them.

00:16:31.000 So, how the hell am I a free rider?

00:16:33.000 I don't want to pay them because I don't want to be part of the union.

00:16:35.000 If I could get away from the union, I would do it.

00:16:38.000 And Alito says, and this is the telling point, he says, And this, of course, is exactly right.

00:16:56.000 Again, just because a group says that it speaks on behalf of a broader group does not mean that it should be able to leverage the government into forcing those people to pay that group.

00:17:03.000 Now, the left is going nuts over this decision.

00:17:05.000 And in just a second, I'm going to explain why it is that the left is losing its mind over this decision.

00:17:10.000 The left believes that this is going to destroy public sector unions.

00:17:14.000 The left truly believes that this decision, now that people are not forced to pay the unions, is going to destroy the public sector union wholesale.

00:17:20.000 That basically people will stop paying the unions, the unions will run out of money, and then the unions will no longer have a monopoly on labor, and it will destroy the unions as they stand.

00:17:28.000 The answer to that is, okay, so?

00:17:31.000 Really, that's the answer.

00:17:32.000 Because it is forbidden to kneecap people to force them to join a union.

00:17:35.000 Pointing the government gun at people and forcing them to pay a union is no better.

00:17:40.000 So, if the unions can't provide services and benefits that make people want to join the union, that is their problem.

00:17:46.000 The truth is that the American law in states and the federal level have been stacked in favor of public sector unions for a very long time and it has corrupted our entire system of government.

00:17:55.000 Unions take more than $3.5 billion a year from public sector union members.

00:18:01.000 They spend billions of dollars a year on politics.

00:18:03.000 People are always talking about money and politics on the left.

00:18:06.000 They're always talking about these big corporations.

00:18:08.000 Ooh, the evil corporations that are spending money to lobby politicians and giving money to politicians.

00:18:13.000 Folks like Cenk Aygar are constantly making this case after taking millions of dollars from outside funders to prop up their companies.

00:18:20.000 Sure, you know, all of this is... Corporate money is bad.

00:18:23.000 We know corporate money is bad, but...

00:18:25.000 The truth is, the corporate money pales in comparison to what public sector unions have been spending on politics for a very long time.

00:18:31.000 Unions spend a ton of money on politics.

00:18:33.000 They spend a ton of money on politics because they are bribing the public officials with whom they will have to bargain.

00:18:38.000 So, when people are screaming and crying about the unions not being able to force people to pay the money, understand the reason they're upset about this is because they believe that people do not want to voluntarily join unions.

00:18:48.000 If they wanted to voluntarily join unions, then they would go ahead and voluntarily join unions.

00:18:53.000 Now, the way the left is playing this is that the Supreme Court in the last several days over the course of several decisions, the travel ban decision and the religious freedom decision, that they are now cutting against left-wing interest groups.

00:19:03.000 What they're really cutting against is non-legal justification for political ends.

00:19:10.000 That's really what the Supreme Court has done here.

00:19:12.000 The left has this very perverse view of the Supreme Court that the Supreme Court exists to green-light and rubber-stamp the leftist agenda.

00:19:19.000 The Supreme Court is there to benefit particular populations of people that the left wishes to benefit.

00:19:23.000 So the left believes that in the travel ban case, the question is not whether the president does have executive authority under current law to actually use national security as an excuse to shut down immigration from five predominantly Muslim countries.

00:19:35.000 They say, no, no, no, that's religious discrimination. 0.96

00:19:38.000 That's because Trump hates Muslims. 0.96

00:19:40.000 Even though 92% of the world's Muslims can still enter the United States because they're not coming from these particular countries, this is obviously because the Supreme Court, like President Trump, hates Muslims. 0.94

00:19:49.000 It can't be that the status of the law requires them to actually look at the law. 0.94

00:19:52.000 It must be that they hate Muslims. 0.53

00:19:54.000 And then, when it comes to religious freedom, it can't be that the Supreme Court looked at the status of the First Amendment and said, you cannot compel people to act in artistic fashion on behalf of a group that you like.

00:20:06.000 You can't do that by force of government. 0.98

00:20:08.000 They say, no, no, that's because the Supreme Court must hate gay people. 0.99

00:20:11.000 And then when it comes to this particular case, it must be that the Supreme Court hates poor people. 0.99

00:20:14.000 The Supreme Court hates unions.

00:20:16.000 The Supreme Court hates blue-collar workers.

00:20:18.000 It can't be that the Supreme Court looks at the First Amendment and says, how in the hell can you possibly justify forcing someone at point of gun to pay an organization they don't want to join?

00:20:27.000 Instead, it must be they hate unions.

00:20:29.000 And it's this sort of shortcut thinking that leads to a breakdown in civil politics in our society.

00:20:34.000 We're going to get to the civility in politics in just a second, because the Democrats are moving radically to the left, and it's happening incredibly quickly.

00:20:40.000 But it is this mentality that is leading to that polarization.

00:20:44.000 Every time the left sees an outcome from the right, every time they see an outcome that is based on law, based on neutral principles of law, that does not cut in their favor, they immediately attribute bad motivation to the party that is pushing that particular opinion.

00:20:58.000 So if I say that the First Amendment suggests that you cannot force me to join a union, or you cannot force me to pay fees into a union, their suggestion is, I'm only saying that because I hate blue-collar people.

00:21:10.000 It's always they go directly to the character attack.

00:21:13.000 It's never that they stand and say, well, you know, maybe this person has a little bit of justification for their point of view.

00:21:18.000 Maybe it is that they believe in competing values like freedom of speech above compelled payment to collective bargaining.

00:21:25.000 They can't actually credit the other side with any sort of logic or decency.

00:21:28.000 Instead, they immediately go to the Supreme Court is filled with a bunch of bigots, Justice Gorsuch,

00:21:32.000 Must be a big hit.

00:21:32.000 If only we had Merrick Garland there, then he would have voted in favor of our favorite constituencies.

00:21:36.000 If you believe that the purpose of the Supreme Court is to back your favorite constituencies instead of to enforce the law as it stands, to adjudicate the law as it stands, then I would suggest that you are perverting the cause of the Supreme Court.

00:21:49.000 So would Alexander Hamilton, who wrote in the Federalist Papers that the minute that the judiciary begins to substitute will for judgment, it loses its raison d'etre.

00:21:56.000 There's no reason for it to exist in the first place.

00:21:59.000 So, you know, the Supreme Court decision is quite good, and makes a lot of sense, but the left is not going to accept it because the left has moved radically to the left.

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00:23:23.000 So, when we talk about the radical move to the left by the Democratic Party, it is obvious from yesterday's elections that this is the case.

00:23:29.000 So, yesterday,

00:23:38.000 A guy named Joseph Crowley was ousted.

00:23:41.000 He was expected to challenge Nancy Pelosi for the speakership.

00:23:44.000 So how old is the Democratic Party?

00:23:45.000 Nancy Pelosi is 78 years old.

00:23:47.000 Joe Crowley, who is 58 years old, is just slightly younger than my dad.

00:23:51.000 Joe Crowley was seen as the heir apparent to Nancy Pelosi.

00:23:54.000 So he was the up-and-comer.

00:23:56.000 He was the fresh face, the 58-year-old.

00:23:57.000 Well, he was ousted yesterday in a Democratic primary by a woman named Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is 28, a first-time candidate, and an open member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

00:24:08.000 So she's a Bernie Sanders Socialist, and she is a former bartender.

00:24:12.000 She's bartending until about five minutes ago. 0.91

00:24:14.000 She's a graduate of Boston College, or Boston University, rather, in 2011, and she is wildly left. 0.96

00:24:19.000 When I say she's a leftist, I mean she is an insane leftist.

00:24:21.000 Not only does she believe that Israel is genocidal, she also favors Medicare for all, abolishing immigration and customs enforcement.

00:24:28.000 She suggests that there should be a job for everyone provided by the government.

00:24:31.000 She believes that there should be a minimum wage of $15. 0.59

00:24:34.000 She says, quote, when it comes to power, we can't just be tempted by power and money alone.

00:24:38.000 What we need to do is be bold enough and courageous enough to choose leadership that takes no corporate money and advances health care, education and housing for all.

00:24:45.000 So this is another one of her programs is housing for all.

00:24:47.000 So she is a full scale redistributive socialist.

00:24:51.000 And she's really, really radical.

00:24:53.000 The reason that she won in the district is because nobody came out to vote.

00:24:56.000 Only 5% of registered voters, eligible voters in this district, actually voted in this primary.

00:25:01.000 It was on a really weird day.

00:25:02.000 There were only a grand total of about 27,000 votes in the primary total.

00:25:06.000 She won about 17,000 of those.

00:25:08.000 Also, Joe Crowley did not take his district particularly seriously.

00:25:11.000 He'd won 10 consecutive terms, so he didn't spend any time in that district.

00:25:15.000 Nonetheless,

00:25:15.000 This is the dawning of a new era for the Democratic Party.

00:25:18.000 They've fully embraced Bernie Sanders' socialism and Maxine Waters' nuttiness.

00:25:22.000 Here is this new hero of the Democratic Party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:25:26.000 Here she was today after winning the primary.

00:25:28.000 She'll win the general too because this is a heavily Democratic district. 0.58

00:25:31.000 Claiming that ICE, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, is running black sites on the border.

00:25:35.000 Black sites being like CIA sites set up in Jordan to torture people. 1.00

00:25:38.000 She thinks that's what's happening on the American border because she's a crazy person. 0.98

00:25:43.000 I think that ICE is right there as a part of it.

00:25:45.000 Its extrajudicial nature is baked into the structure of the agency and that is why they're able to get away with black sites at our border, with the separation of children. 0.92

00:25:58.000 We are committing human rights abuses on this border and separating children from their families.

00:26:04.000 Okay, so one of the reasons that Joe Crowley lost this election also, number one, he wasn't radical enough for the district, but number two, one of the things that's been happening in his district is that he's moved to what is now a majority-minority district.

00:26:14.000 It's a heavily Hispanic district, and he was one of the last remaining Democrats living in a heavily minority district who was a white guy.

00:26:21.000 So there's been a real shift in racial demographics in this particular district, and that was reflected in this election as well.

00:26:27.000 She is a deep radical, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 0.91

00:26:29.000 She will be treated as an up-and-comer.

00:26:31.000 She'll be treated as the new heroine of the left, of course, because she's a pretty young woman, obviously. 0.97

00:26:36.000 And also, she is talented at what she does.

00:26:39.000 So, I mean, she's a good face for the Democratic Party, if you like socialism. 0.95

00:26:42.000 If socialism is her thing, she's a much more attractive candidate on every possible level than Joe Crowley, except for the fact that she is a radical, insane person.

00:26:49.000 So here she is talking some more in a debate about ICE and trying to go after Joe Crowley's folks, trying to suggest that Joe Crowley is not extreme enough on ICE.

00:27:00.000 If this organization is as fascist as you have called it, and you have said it's fascist, then why don't you adopt the stance to eliminate it?

00:27:10.000 This is a moral problem, and your response has been to apply more paperwork to this situation, to have ICE collect more information on immigrants.

00:27:19.000 And that puts our communities in danger, and it also conveys a profound misunderstanding of how we should be approaching this problem.

00:27:26.000 She wasn't the only radical who was elected last night.

00:27:29.000 Ben Jealous, who's the former head of the NAACP, won Maryland's Democratic primary for governor on Tuesday, and he promised to deliver an agenda that makes college free, legalizes marijuana, and raises the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour.

00:27:40.000 So the Bernie Sanders full-on Medicare-for-all

00:27:44.000 Legalized marijuana, raising the state's minimum wage.

00:27:46.000 I don't care about legalizing marijuana all that much, but making college free and raising the state minimum wage, all of this stuff is really radical stuff.

00:27:52.000 And you're seeing a significant move, a really heavy move, toward the far left among Democrats.

00:27:58.000 Now, that clip that I just played you of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez showing righteous indignation against Joe Crowley because he doesn't want to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement, because he doesn't want to abolish the people who actually enforce the border.

00:28:10.000 You know, that sort of righteous indignation is now what animates the Democratic Party.

00:28:13.000 It makes the Democratic Party feel special.

00:28:16.000 It makes them feel as though they are authentic.

00:28:18.000 This is one of the big problems in American politics generally right now, and this is true right and left, is that people are mistaking decency for insincerity.

00:28:24.000 That if you are a decent person, and you don't want to go after people hammer and tongs, and you are not demonstrating sufficient passion, that means that you are not authentic.

00:28:32.000 Really authentic people are people who can't keep their emotions in check.

00:28:35.000 If you're truly authentic, you're the kind of person who pounds the table, right?

00:28:38.000 You're the kind of person who looks across at your opponent and yells at them.

00:28:41.000 That's true authenticity.

00:28:43.000 And that's how we know that you're a decent, authentic person and you're not just a political phony, is the more you yell and the more you scream and the more emotional you are, the more we believe that you're an authentic human being. 0.99

00:28:52.000 Well, I think that that is about as stupid a policy as you can have when it comes to voting for candidates. 0.99

00:28:56.000 Unfortunately, it's being adopted on both sides of the aisle. 0.99

00:28:59.000 But the Democrats have fully embraced this stuff and they're moving radically to the left politically as well.

00:29:04.000 President Trump said yesterday the Democrats have become the party of Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi.

00:29:08.000 There's no question Nancy Pelosi is now the moderate in the Democratic Party. 0.89

00:29:11.000 Nancy Pelosi is now representing the moderate wing of the Democratic Party because the up and comers are all Bernie Sanders acolytes.

00:29:17.000 They're only good at one thing.

00:29:18.000 What's that term?

00:29:19.000 Resist!

00:29:21.000 It's the party of Maxine Waters.

00:29:24.000 Do you believe her?

00:29:27.000 No, no.

00:29:29.000 No, no.

00:29:30.000 This has become the party of Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi.

00:29:34.000 That's how it is.

00:29:35.000 There's no question he's correct about this.

00:29:37.000 Of course that's right.

00:29:37.000 Of course it is.

00:29:38.000 Now, I'll say one thing President Trump was not correct about is that after Joe Crowley lost his race last night, President Trump tweeted this out.

00:29:45.000 He tweeted out, uh, wow, big Trump hater Congressman Joe Crowley, who many expected was going to take Nancy Pelosi's place, just lost his primary election.

00:29:53.000 In other words, he's out.

00:29:54.000 This is a big one nobody saw happening.

00:29:56.000 Perhaps he should have been nicer and more respectful to his president.

00:29:59.000 Pretty solid guess that Joe Crowley did not lose because he wasn't nice enough to President Trump.

00:30:03.000 He lost to an open socialist who thinks Trump should be impeached, so he's not correct about that.

00:30:07.000 But he's certainly right that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Maxine Waters crowd, these are the future of the Democratic Party.

00:30:16.000 That's obvious.

00:30:17.000 The Democratic Party has been radicalizing for a long time.

00:30:19.000 You want to know where Trump came from?

00:30:20.000 It's the radicalization of the Democratic Party and the reactionary nature of the right in response to all of that.

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00:31:45.000 So the radicalism of the Democratic Party has been in the works for quite a while, and more evidence of this.

00:31:50.000 So Keith Ellison, who's currently the number two at the DNC, he nearly won the top slot as head of the Democratic National Committee.

00:31:58.000 He's a radical with long-standing connections to racist and anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan.

00:32:04.000 He came out yesterday, he compared the travel ban decision by the Supreme Court saying that President Trump has the authority, in fact, to cut down on immigration from countries that are heavily ensconced in terror.

00:32:14.000 It includes five Muslim countries, but the countries that the travel ban includes are North Korea, Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Chad, and Venezuela.

00:32:22.000 So not even all Muslim countries.

00:32:24.000 He says that this is the equivalent of the Dred Scott decision.

00:32:26.000 The Dred Scott decision said that black people were not humans.

00:32:29.000 That's how radical Keith Ellison is when he makes this comment.

00:32:31.000 The Supreme Court in the 1850s said that it was okay to own a black person.

00:32:37.000 That was a Dred Scott decision.

00:32:39.000 That decision hit the dustbin of history.

00:32:42.000 So did Plessy v. Ferguson.

00:32:44.000 So did Korematsu.

00:32:45.000 And this one will, too.

00:32:47.000 I'm telling you, discrimination and racism and hatred and religious bigotry is never going to be winning in the end.

00:32:55.000 Now, my favorite part of that is that he says religious bigotry and racism and hatred will never win in the end, except that he's a giant Louis Farrakhan fan.

00:33:01.000 Jake Tapper had on Keith Ellison yesterday and it got really rough.

00:33:04.000 OK, when you're too far left for when Jake Tapper can destroy you this easily because you're this far left.

00:33:10.000 Maybe your party has a problem.

00:33:11.000 Here's Keith Ellison, number two at the DNC, who, by the way, has worn shirts that say, I hate borders, right?

00:33:17.000 The entire Democratic Party has now embraced the consensus, or at least large swaths of the Democratic Party.

00:33:21.000 I don't want to exaggerate.

00:33:23.000 Large swaths of the Democratic Party have embraced the idea that every legal immigrant in the country ought to be remanded out of custody and released into the general population.

00:33:31.000 They've moved far, far, far to the left.

00:33:33.000 Here's Jake Tapper going after Keith Ellison for his associations with Louis Farrakhan.

00:33:36.000 This is the number two at the DNC.

00:33:38.000 The Washington Post fact checker did give you four Pinocchios about that.

00:33:42.000 That's just true.

00:33:43.000 Jake, they were wrong.

00:33:44.000 They were wrong.

00:33:45.000 Jake, I have not... It's untrue, Jake.

00:33:48.000 I'm sorry.

00:33:49.000 And, you know, I'm dismayed that that's why you called me on your show today.

00:33:55.000 Okay, let's be real about this.

00:33:57.000 If any Republican were to have the sort of associations that Louis Farrakhan has, they would be called out every single day and every Republican would be made to disassociate from that Republican as well.

00:34:05.000 The Democrats have moved radically to the left, so far so, that the incivility of the Democratic Party, as I said yesterday, I think that there are a couple of people in the Democratic Party who are trying to hold back the tide.

00:34:14.000 Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, they've been saying that incivility, mob action, this stuff is inappropriate for Democrats to pursue.

00:34:21.000 They're gonna hit the dustbin of history.

00:34:23.000 Those people are not loved by their base.

00:34:25.000 Their base is not into it.

00:34:26.000 Their base is Occupy Wall Street.

00:34:28.000 Their base is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slamming the desk and suggesting that ICE is running black sites. 0.97

00:34:33.000 That is their base right now.

00:34:35.000 And you can see this pretty clearly.

00:34:36.000 Linda Sarsour, for example.

00:34:37.000 She goes after Chuck Schumer, right?

00:34:39.000 Linda Sarsour, who has in the past supported terrorists.

00:34:43.000 Linda Sarsour says that civility is wrong and Chuck Schumer is the problem.

00:34:47.000 Martin Luther King warned us about people like Chuck Schumer.

00:34:50.000 He said it wasn't the Ku Klux Klan and the white citizen counselors who are the obstacles towards justice.

00:34:55.000 It was the people calling for, quote, civility and people that were telling us when to protest, at what time, and how to protest.

00:35:01.000 Okay, so MLK, according to Linda Sarsour, would oppose civility.

00:35:05.000 Okay, his protests were not uncivil.

00:35:08.000 His protests were protests.

00:35:09.000 There's a difference between a protest and civil disobedience and you going into a restaurant and shouting at people until they leave and then following them to another restaurant and then shouting at them until they leave.

00:35:17.000 But the left, the hardcore left base, really believes this stuff.

00:35:21.000 They really do, right?

00:35:22.000 MSNBC's Chris Hayes, who is not unrepresentative of the base, he says it's actually important to harass public officials.

00:35:27.000 In a real deep sense, like, hectoring?

00:35:30.000 Yelling at public officials?

00:35:31.000 I mean, I covered all the tea party town halls in 2009.

00:35:34.000 That was a festival of yelling at public officials.

00:35:37.000 And in the same way, that's actually an important right to preserve.

00:35:40.000 Okay, that's not true.

00:35:42.000 That just isn't true.

00:35:43.000 I went to tea parties in 2009, 2010.

00:35:46.000 It was generally protests that were held at parks.

00:35:48.000 If they went to places with public officials,

00:35:50.000 They were standing outside the Capitol building, and they were yelling as public officials came down the steps.

00:35:55.000 They weren't going into restaurants and yelling at people.

00:35:57.000 The conflation of those two things is astonishing, but it shows you that the Democratic Party has embraced its id.

00:36:03.000 They really have embraced their id.

00:36:04.000 This is why Sarah Huckabee Sanders now requires Secret Service protection. 1.00

00:36:07.000 There are a bunch of members of the Trump administration who now need Secret Service protection, specifically because of the insanity of the left in all of this.

00:36:14.000 Here's some tape from yesterday that was making the rounds.

00:36:16.000 Elaine Chao, who is the wife of Mitch McConnell, she is coming out of some sort of dinner party at a private residence, and she starts being harassed by a bunch of protesters who decide that they're going to harass her.

00:36:27.000 Again, if this were a bunch of Republican men harassing Nancy Pelosi, all we would hear about is toxic masculinity for three weeks.

00:36:33.000 But it's a bunch of Democratic men harassing

00:36:36.000 Harassing Elaine Chao, an Asian woman. 1.00

00:36:38.000 So we won't hear about any of that.

00:36:39.000 Plus, I mean, I guess because they're Democrats, we can't assume their gender or anything.

00:36:43.000 So here is the tape of that.

00:37:04.000 Okay, so that's great.

00:37:04.000 You have mobs who are standing outside private residences now to harass Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao.

00:37:10.000 All of this is going to go really well.

00:37:11.000 I just can't see how this goes bad in any way.

00:37:13.000 Civility is a thing of the past.

00:37:16.000 It's been a thing of the past for a while.

00:37:17.000 So people are blaming this on Trump.

00:37:18.000 People are suggesting that Trump has contributed to incivility.

00:37:21.000 I'll admit that Trump has contributed to incivility, but to pretend that Trump is the source of incivility is to ignore the last 20 years of American politics.

00:37:28.000 It just is not accurate at all.

00:37:30.000 I remember Bush-Hitler. 0.95

00:37:31.000 I remember the left describing George W. Bush as a monster and a genocidal maniac. 0.96

00:37:36.000 I remember.

00:37:37.000 Barack Obama said to a group of CEOs that if they didn't do what he wanted, he's all that stood between them and the pitchforks and the torches.

00:37:50.000 That's something Barack Obama actually said.

00:37:52.000 He's the guy who said, don't bring a knife to a gunfight, politically speaking.

00:37:55.000 It was Joe Biden who suggested that Mitt Romney wanted to put y'all back in chains about a bunch of black folks. 0.61

00:38:00.000 All of this

00:38:01.000 Does not contribute to an era of civility, but authenticity is now connected deeply within civility.

00:38:06.000 The more authentic you are, the more uncivil you are.

00:38:09.000 This can't go anywhere good.

00:38:10.000 So we are losing civility, and we are losing the concept of reasoned politics in general.

00:38:14.000 Instead, we're just supposed to shout at the moon about what we wish politics would bring to us, and then, magically, it will descend upon us.

00:38:20.000 We've reached the when you wish upon a star moment in American politics.

00:38:25.000 So in just a second, I'm going to explain what I mean by that.

00:38:27.000 The when-you-wish-upon-a-star moment in American politics is basically the Pinocchio moment where when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.

00:38:33.000 All you have to do is shout at the moon and all of your dreams will descend upon you.

00:38:38.000 You can see this a little bit among Republicans who believe that all of their problems will immediately be solved if President Trump simply does what they want. 1.00

00:38:45.000 This is why there are so many Republicans who are willing to go along with President Trump's idiotic tariffs. 0.98

00:38:50.000 But you see it a lot more among Democrats. 0.97

00:38:52.000 So among Democrats, the idea is if they shout at the moon, and if they wish that President Trump were not president, and if they yell, and if they scream, and if they make trouble, and if they confront public officials, and if they bang the table hard enough, then everything they want will magically come to fruition.

00:39:05.000 OK, this is not correct.

00:39:06.000 And not only is it not correct, it's not good for our politics.

00:39:08.000 Politics was always about rational reason debate, or it should have been, right?

00:39:11.000 This is what the founders believed.

00:39:12.000 The founders believed that it would be interest juxtaposed against interest, checking interest, and that the only way to hash any of that stuff out was to have these reasonable, rational conversations.

00:39:21.000 Those reasonable, rational conversations have gone completely by the wayside in favor of people screaming at the moon.

00:39:26.000 The RNC just highlighted this among Democrats.

00:39:28.000 They cut a really fantastic ad.

00:39:30.000 It's the best ad they've cut in years regarding Democrats pushing violence and extremism.

00:39:34.000 And here's what it sounded like.

00:39:35.000 A few years ago, ideas that we talked about were thought to be fringe ideas, radical ideas, religious ideas.

00:39:44.000 Those ideas are now mainstream.

00:39:47.000 I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country.

00:39:51.000 Maxine Waters, of course.

00:39:56.000 Of course, Samantha Bee.

00:40:18.000 There's Michelle Wolf.

00:40:18.000 There's Bill Maher.

00:40:19.000 That's Johnny Depp.

00:40:20.000 Madonna.

00:40:33.000 And there, of course, a picture of Snoop Dogg shooting an actor dressed as President Trump.

00:40:37.000 And then the ad concludes, the left in 2018 unhinged.

00:40:39.000 Alright, this is a, it's a very good ad and it's also true. 0.91

00:40:43.000 Now, I assume that the left could cut a similar ad about people on the right saying similarly ridiculous things, although I think that it wouldn't be quite as prominent members of the right saying such ridiculous things.

00:40:52.000 The difference is that the Democrats have claimed for a long time they're the nice guys.

00:40:55.000 They're not the nice guys anymore.

00:40:56.000 They've embraced their radical side.

00:40:58.000 And what we are seeing is a complete shift in the Democratic Party away from a liberal party and toward a hard left party that wants to restrict its opponents, that believes that the Supreme Court should be a tool of its own politics, that believes that you should be compelled to believe everything that they believe, and believes that violence is not necessarily out of bounds.

00:41:14.000 Now, this is going to go some really bad places.

00:41:17.000 It's going to lead to a reactionary side.

00:41:18.000 So, Laura Loomer, who is kind of a nutty human being in my perspective, Laura Loomer, she confronted Maxine Waters.

00:41:26.000 Now, I will say that I think that turnabout is fair play when it comes to Maxine Waters.

00:41:30.000 She's calling on people to be pushed on.

00:41:31.000 I think that creating a certain sense of mutually assured destruction, that this is not the country we want, so you better figure this out, that's not

00:41:38.000 Unwarranted.

00:41:38.000 So Laura Loomer confronts Maxine Waters in public, and here's how Maxine Waters responds to somebody doing to her exactly what she has suggested be done to other Republicans.

00:41:46.000 Do you think it's civil to call for the harassment and harassment?

00:41:48.000 Please come to my office and sit down and talk with me.

00:41:50.000 No, I'm asking you right now.

00:41:52.000 Will you please come to my office?

00:41:53.000 Are we supposed to sit at the back of the bus?

00:41:55.000 Are we supposed to sit at the back of the bus?

00:41:57.000 This elevator is members only.

00:41:58.000 This elevator is members only.

00:42:00.000 Are we supposed to sit at the back of the bus?

00:42:02.000 Ma'am, it's a ma'am.

00:42:03.000 Ma'am, it's a member's elevator.

00:42:05.000 And there's Maxine Waters grinning as Laura Loomer is pushed off the elevator.

00:42:09.000 But the irony there is that Maxine Waters says, why don't you come up to my office and talk civilly about it?

00:42:12.000 That's exactly what Maxine Waters is telling people not to do.

00:42:15.000 Maxine Waters is telling people not to do that.

00:42:17.000 So when Laura Loomer does that, I can't say that Laura Loomer is wrong to do that when she is just doing what Maxine Waters has specifically asked

00:42:25.000 Her to do.

00:42:25.000 OK, so so all of this is to say that what we are watching right now is a polarization in politics that simply is unhealthy and it's going to get worse before it gets better.

00:42:33.000 I don't think that this is something we're on the verge of curing.

00:42:35.000 I don't think a mass breakout of civility is in the cards.

00:42:38.000 I just think that we're too polarized as a country and we are too in love with the idea that anger is authenticity to let it go.

00:42:44.000 And certainly it's not being helped by the by the political situation we now find ourselves in when judges are really, the federal judge has now ordered the Trump administration to basically release all illegal immigrants.

00:42:54.000 As long as our politics continues to be this polarized, there can't be any rational discussion to be had at all.

00:42:59.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate and then we'll do a little Bible talk because it's Wednesday and I do hope that

00:43:05.000 A certain level of Judeo-Christian values can return to our public discourse. 0.53

00:43:09.000 So, we'll start with the thing I like.

00:43:10.000 So this is really funny.

00:43:11.000 Tracy Ullman, the comedian, she did a little skit for the BBC in which she mocked leftists, woke leftists.

00:43:18.000 This is a woke leftist therapy session.

00:43:21.000 And it's actually quite funny.

00:43:23.000 How did you guys get on with the homework that I set you?

00:43:26.000 Guys is no especially inclusive term.

00:43:28.000 Not now, Jamie.

00:43:29.000 By homework, do you mean having to watch that old people's sitcom?

00:43:32.000 It's called Friends, Lily.

00:43:33.000 And you were supposed to watch it and enjoy it.

00:43:36.000 Well, I tried, but I found it deeply problematic.

00:43:39.000 Why? 0.99

00:43:39.000 Well, there's the homophobia, the transphobia, the fatism and the slut-shaming. 0.99

00:43:43.000 And could Chandler be any more annoying? 0.98

00:43:45.000 You can't go through your 20s worrying about every aspect of everything.

00:43:49.000 You have to pick your battles.

00:43:51.000 And just remember that it doesn't really matter, because by the time you hit your 30s, most of you are going to be massively right-wing anyway.

00:43:59.000 Have any of you started to think that maybe poor people don't deserve benefits?

00:44:03.000 No.

00:44:04.000 Well, watch out for that one, because that's how it starts.

00:44:07.000 Look, I understand this has all been a bit much for some of you, so let's take five and have a hobnob.

00:44:12.000 I find the word hobnob very phallocentric.

00:44:18.000 I don't think Tracy Ullman's a right winger, okay? 0.81

00:44:22.000 Even members of the left now are beginning to recognize how crazy the left is.

00:44:24.000 This is the good news. 0.86

00:44:25.000 The good news is that if there's a new consensus built, it's going to be built on the back of the insane.

00:44:29.000 So the insanity of some folks on the right, the insanity of a huge swath of the left, this is going to drive a lot of people to say, you know what, maybe you ought to have rational conversations instead of screaming and tweeting at each other.

00:44:39.000 At least that's what I hope.

00:44:41.000 That's my hope, is that we can have these rational conversations, because I think that we can, you know, if we can't come to consensus, at least we can clarify our positions through rational conversation, as opposed to getting up in each other's grills, shouting at each other, suggesting that because we disagree on the nature of government, that means that we're inherently bad human beings.

00:44:58.000 I think that that can be hopefully stopped.

00:45:01.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate. 0.98

00:45:07.000 So I have to mention, if I'm talking about incivility and stupidity on the left, I also have to mention it when it happens on the right. 0.92

00:45:13.000 So Chris Cuomo of CNN, he had on Steve King, Representative King from Iowa, whom I know, I think is personally a perfectly nice human being. 0.99

00:45:24.000 But when it comes to his politics, I will say that he does very stupid things politically on a fairly regular basis. 0.96

00:45:29.000 And Chris Cuomo has on Steve King. 0.99

00:45:31.000 Steve King had tweeted out a Nazi sympathizer retweet.

00:45:35.000 I don't believe that you recognize his values as your own.

00:45:43.000 But you say, but I won't delete the tweet.

00:45:46.000 Right.

00:45:46.000 I don't get it.

00:45:47.000 It's pretty simple.

00:45:49.000 It's pretty simple.

00:45:50.000 I tweeted a Breitbart story.

00:45:52.000 I didn't tweet a message from him.

00:45:54.000 I tweeted a Breitbart story.

00:45:56.000 I'm not deleting that because then you all pile on me and say King had to apologize.

00:46:00.000 He was wrong.

00:46:01.000 He knows he's guilty.

00:46:02.000 I'm not.

00:46:03.000 I don't feel guilty one bit.

00:46:04.000 I'm human.

00:46:05.000 I'm not here to say that you are a neo-nazi, okay?

00:46:08.000 That you know me better than that.

00:46:09.000 I'm here to say that you're so caught up in this us versus them thing with the left and the right that you don't want to give ground on even something that you acknowledge is wrong.

00:46:18.000 Okay, well, here's the truth.

00:46:19.000 What he should do is delete the tweet, and then he should retweet the Breitbart story if that's what he wants to do.

00:46:24.000 But, you know, check the counts of people that you're retweeting. 0.97

00:46:27.000 Just don't be so stupid that you retweet neo-nazi accounts and then leave it up. 1.00

00:46:31.000 Come on, come on. 1.00

00:46:33.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:46:35.000 At a rally this week, President Trump went after Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel as well.

00:46:43.000 And these comedians decided that in order to demonstrate that they were not biased against President Trump and weren't fat comedians, they would do a skit in which they all combined to attack President Trump.

00:46:53.000 So this is great.

00:46:54.000 I mean, it is wonderful when comedians basically acknowledge all of their own biases and justify everything President Trump said about them.

00:47:02.000 It is also demonstrative, I think, of the fact that all of these comedians are so self-centered that they feel the necessity to defend themselves against the president of the United States instead of just saying, listen, I'm a comedian, which is the actual proper response to this.

00:47:13.000 Instead, they're going to cut a video about basically how much they dislike Trump, mocking Trump right back, because this, look, they're happy when Trump name checks them.

00:47:21.000 It's their favorite thing. 1.00

00:47:23.000 Hey, little ass. 1.00

00:47:24.000 Hey, lost soul. 1.00

00:47:25.000 What are you up to? 0.62

00:47:28.000 Be a man.

00:47:28.000 I'll try.

00:47:30.000 What are you up to?

00:47:31.000 Oh, I'm busy having no talent.

00:47:32.000 Did you see Trump's rally last night?

00:47:34.000 Nope.

00:47:35.000 Me either.

00:47:36.000 Heard he said some pretty bad stuff about us.

00:47:38.000 Really?

00:47:39.000 That doesn't sound like him.

00:47:40.000 I heard he said we're all no-talent, low-life, lost souls.

00:47:44.000 Well, that's not right.

00:47:45.000 That's Conan.

00:47:47.000 Hold on.

00:47:47.000 I'll get him.

00:47:50.000 Oh, hey, guys.

00:47:50.000 What's up?

00:47:53.000 President who?

00:47:54.000 Trump.

00:47:55.000 Donald Trump.

00:47:57.000 The real estate guy who sells steaks?

00:47:59.000 He's president?

00:48:01.000 Yeah.

00:48:02.000 Wow.

00:48:04.000 How's he doing?

00:48:05.000 Not so good.

00:48:07.000 Oh.

00:48:08.000 Well, guys, give him time, OK?

00:48:10.000 And remember, please, be civil.

00:48:13.000 If we're not careful, this thing could start to get ugly.

00:48:18.000 Hey, I'm about to start shaving my chest.

00:48:20.000 You guys want to watch?

00:48:21.000 No, thanks.

00:48:24.000 Hey, you still up for lunch?

00:48:26.000 Yeah.

00:48:26.000 What do you want to eat?

00:48:27.000 Red Hen?

00:48:28.000 Red Hen.

00:48:29.000 Okay, and at the very end, the punchline, of course, is that they want to go eat at a restaurant that threw Sarah Huckabee Sanders out.

00:48:34.000 Yeah, that's not going to drive the right further into the arms of President Trump.

00:48:38.000 That's not going to justify President Trump, just everything he said about you.

00:48:41.000 And bringing the country together by ripping the guy who you say is politically biased and who says you are politically biased.

00:48:46.000 Just brilliant stuff.

00:48:48.000 I mean, honestly, if that's the best thing to come up with, and the only funny thing there is Conan, then...

00:48:53.000 First of all, they should have left Conan in late night.

00:48:55.000 Let's be real about this.

00:48:56.000 Conan was much better.

00:48:57.000 He's much more talented than either of these other two bums. 1.00

00:48:59.000 Okay, time for a quick Bible review.

00:49:02.000 So, I've decided that instead of haphazardly picking from the Bible, as I have been doing, now I want to go through the Book of Psalms.

00:49:08.000 So, we're going to pick a psalm every week and we're going to go through it.

00:49:10.000 So, the first psalm is, I think, rather apt, actually, this week.

00:49:14.000 It says, Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked, or stand in the way that sinners take, or sit in the company of mockers.

00:49:21.000 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night, that person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season, and whose leaf does not wither, whatever they do prospers.

00:49:31.000 Not so the wicked, they are like chaff, and the wind blows them away. 1.00

00:49:34.000 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

00:49:37.000 For the Lord watches over the ways of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.

00:49:41.000 I'm not sure that one needs all that much commentary, but the tribalism of our American politics has become sitting in the company of mockers, standing in the way that sinners take, walking in step with the wicked.

00:49:50.000 If you are following people who you know are wicked, if you are engaging in wicked activity just because it is owning the cons or owning the libs,

00:49:58.000 You are not standing with the Lord.

00:50:00.000 You are not standing with decency.

00:50:01.000 You are not standing with virtue.

00:50:02.000 You are standing with a group of people.

00:50:03.000 Put not your faith in other human beings whose variable standards of morality are going to change with the times and in line with their own particular proclivities.

00:50:11.000 Instead, stand with truth, stand with virtue, and you won't go wrong.

00:50:15.000 You won't go wrong.

00:50:15.000 That doesn't mean you'll have a lot of company.

00:50:18.000 But it does mean that you will be the tree that is planted by streams of water rather than the chaff that is blown away over time.

00:50:24.000 Because standing with anything variable means that you're likely to be blown away when the strong winds come.

00:50:30.000 Okay, we'll be back here tomorrow with all the latest.

00:50:31.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - June 27, 2018

The Democrats Swing Far Left | Ep. 569

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