The Ben Shapiro Show - The Democrats Take Over | Ep. 688

00:00:00.000 Nancy Pelosi is sworn in as the new Speaker of the House, the far left makes its policy pitch, and the shutdown continues.

00:00:06.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:07.000 Oh, man, so much to get to today.

00:00:14.000 All the Democrats had to do was not be bat bleep loony. 0.86

00:00:17.000 That's all they had to do.

00:00:19.000 And they just couldn't do it.

00:00:21.000 The first day of the new Democrat Congress goes about as horribly as you'd expect.

00:00:25.000 And a new economic report out that It shows that President Trump's economy is not slowing down.

00:00:29.000 Not quite yet.

00:00:30.000 We'll talk about all of that in just a second.

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00:01:39.000 OK, so day one of the new Democratic Congress, all the Democrats are sworn in and it's a beginning of a new dawn.

00:01:46.000 I mean, if you look at how the media portrayed this, it was fresh faces galore, diversity, beautiful diversity.

00:01:53.000 Diversity of the radical left, because it turns out that all the Democrats had to do when they took office was not be completely insane.

00:02:01.000 And they just couldn't do it.

00:02:03.000 It's truly amazing.

00:02:03.000 If you look back at the last days of the 2018 campaign.

00:02:07.000 The key question in the 2018 campaign was going to be, who were voters going to focus on? 0.99

00:02:12.000 Were they going to focus on the foibles of the Republicans, or are they going to focus on the myriad stupidities of the Democrats? 0.92

00:02:16.000 In the aftermath of the Judge Kavanaugh hearings, where Democrats proved themselves to care nothing about due process or decency, Republicans skyrocketed in the polls because all the focus was on how terrible the Democrats were. 0.97

00:02:28.000 And then President Trump shifted the topic from Judge Kavanaugh to the the caravan and to his border policies.

00:02:34.000 And suddenly the focus was on Republicans and people decided they didn't like the Republicans and they ran screaming from the Republicans and Republicans ended up losing the popular vote in the House by 8.6 percentage points.

00:02:45.000 The same thing happened in 2016.

00:02:46.000 The question was, is the focus on Hillary or is the focus on Trump?

00:02:50.000 When the focus was on Trump, Trump went down in the polls.

00:02:52.000 When the focus was on Hillary, as it was at the very end of the election, in large part thanks to James Comey's memo, at that point, the focus shifted to Hillary Clinton and Hillary Clinton lost.

00:03:01.000 Well, in 2020, whoever the focus is on is going to lose because it turns out that Americans hate both parties.

00:03:07.000 Americans think that both parties stink. 0.96

00:03:08.000 Americans hate these politicians.

00:03:10.000 And so whoever they are focused on at that moment, whoever the public eye of Sauron alights upon is going to be in trouble.

00:03:17.000 So all the Democrats had to do for 2020 was just keep the focus on President Trump. 0.98

00:03:22.000 They can't do it because they're crazy.

00:03:24.000 And it turns out that their agenda is radically to the left, radical left. 0.90

00:03:27.000 They're not bringing up any serious policy proposals.

00:03:30.000 They're not bringing up any serious Any serious measures to alleviate the problems that America is experiencing.

00:03:37.000 They're not unifying Americans around common values or decency. 0.63

00:03:40.000 Instead, they're going to be just as crazy as they can be, and the media are going to celebrate them for it.

00:03:45.000 The media are going to talk about how wonderful they are for being incredibly radical.

00:03:49.000 So Nancy Pelosi... 1.00

00:03:50.000 ...takes the gavel yesterday.

00:03:52.000 As Speaker of the House, after eight long years in the wilderness, she is back.

00:03:56.000 And her first thing is that she says that she's going to tackle climate change.

00:04:01.000 Okay, if we are going to actually look at the priorities that Americans care about, climate change is not in the top ten.

00:04:08.000 Climate change is not a major priority for Americans, specifically because, if you look at the statistics, America's carbon emissions have actually been dropping in recent years.

00:04:16.000 The statistics show that two of the chief ways, Noah Rothman writes this in commentary today, two of the chief ways in which individuals can reduce their carbon footprints according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, that's the UN, would be to purchase electric or hybrid cars or to install smart thermostats in their homes.

00:04:32.000 And consumers are already doing that in the United States, right?

00:04:34.000 You got that Nest thermostat that the state pays for.

00:04:37.000 People are putting that in their house already.

00:04:39.000 Also, U.S.

00:04:40.000 carbon emissions declined to a 67-year low in 2017.

00:04:44.000 The U.S.

00:04:44.000 power generation sector cut emissions by 28% since 2005.

00:04:47.000 The U.S. 0.98

00:04:48.000 is meeting its Paris Climate Accord targets, despite having left the stupid agreement in early 2017. 0.83

00:04:56.000 All that's happening, and Americans are not deeply concerned about climate change because they do recognize that in reality, technological change is going to outpace all the sort of socialistic cram-downs that Democrats want.

00:05:07.000 Nonetheless, Nancy Pelosi targets climate change As her chief priority.

00:05:11.000 And she's not the only one.

00:05:11.000 Bernie Sanders was saying climate change is a top priority.

00:05:14.000 Hank Johnson was saying that climate change is a top priority.

00:05:16.000 Democrats across the border are saying climate change is their top priority.

00:05:20.000 That's where you're going?

00:05:21.000 Really?

00:05:22.000 To climate?

00:05:22.000 Well, here's Nancy Pelosi doing it yesterday.

00:05:24.000 The existential threat of our time, the climate crisis, a crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions.

00:05:33.000 The American people understand the urgency.

00:05:36.000 The people are ahead of the Congress.

00:05:38.000 The Congress must join them.

00:05:40.000 And that is why we have created a select committee on climate crisis.

00:05:43.000 The entire Congress must work to put an end to the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future.

00:05:53.000 Okay, if you really think that this is what the American people are looking for, you're out of your mind, and the Democrats campaigning on this is crazy.

00:05:58.000 It's particularly crazy when you have people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has thrown out what she calls a Green New Deal. 1.00

00:06:04.000 Her Green New Deal document that she put out yesterday is fully crazy. 1.00

00:06:09.000 It's the text of a proposed House rule change outlining a plan, her Green New Deal.

00:06:14.000 Now, the reason that we bring up Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, this is always what I caveat with.

00:06:18.000 We're not bringing her up because we think she's an inherently important person.

00:06:22.000 She's a woman who won 12,000 votes in a heavy Democrat district in a primary that was majority-minority and had a white representative, and they threw him out in favor of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. 0.99

00:06:32.000 This is not some sort of great puzzle.

00:06:34.000 This is not some sort of massive movement inside the American public.

00:06:37.000 But she has been touted by the media as a leader in the Democratic Party. 0.98

00:06:41.000 It's not my fault the media decided to choose a complete ignoramus. 0.94

00:06:44.000 As the face of the New Democratic Party. 0.90

00:06:46.000 It's not my fault.

00:06:47.000 It's the fault of the Democrats and the fault of the media.

00:06:49.000 And that means that it is now incumbent on us to take whatever crazy ideas she has seriously.

00:06:54.000 Now, listen, I'll admit that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a good dancer. 1.00

00:06:58.000 There's this video that came out of her yesterday, dancing on top of a rooftop.

00:07:02.000 And for some reason, I guess there were people, there wasn't anybody on the right that I saw who was upset about this.

00:07:06.000 We all thought, oh, this is kind of charming and fun.

00:07:08.000 There was one person on Twitter who said, this just shows Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's privilege or something.

00:07:14.000 And everybody came down on this person so hard that they actually left Twitter.

00:07:17.000 The media played it as though conservatives were scolding her over her dancing.

00:07:20.000 I don't care that she's dancing. 0.90

00:07:21.000 She seems like a pretty good dancer, right? 0.74

00:07:22.000 I mean, here's the video of her dancing on a rooftop, basically reenacting one of the kind of montages from The Breakfast Club.

00:07:30.000 It's cute and it's funny.

00:07:31.000 It's nice.

00:07:31.000 I mean, who cares?

00:07:32.000 We can show it.

00:07:33.000 Here she is dancing.

00:07:36.000 She's dancing around, right?

00:07:37.000 Cute girl, dancing around. 1.00

00:07:39.000 All right.

00:07:40.000 Well, it turns out she is significantly, significantly better at dancing than she is at economics.

00:07:46.000 Now, if you asked me to take her seriously as a dancer, I'd be like, okay, this video's important.

00:07:49.000 But this video isn't important. 0.99

00:07:51.000 Okay, the part that's important is that she doesn't know anything about economics, and she says crazy crap all the time. 0.99

00:07:56.000 And that's what the New Democratic Party is. 0.97

00:07:58.000 What they want you to see is the fun girl dancing and being Alex from the Bronx, or whatever she calls herself. 0.98

00:08:04.000 What she actually is is a crazy loon bag socialist. 1.00

00:08:06.000 She was a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. 0.97

00:08:08.000 Okay, and now, here are the details of her Green New Deal that she put out. 0.97

00:08:12.000 Okay, this is nuts.

00:08:14.000 Here's what she says.

00:08:15.000 This is according to Tom Elliott over at Grabian.com.

00:08:18.000 The proposed rule change for the upcoming 116th Congress would require the creation of a select committee for a Green Deal that would be responsible for creating a plan by January 1st, 2020, with corresponding draft legislation soon after.

00:08:30.000 The text of the rule change lies in the Senate.

00:08:31.000 What is she looking for?

00:08:32.000 jurisdiction and required areas of action.

00:08:35.000 Its scope and mandate for legislative authority amounts to a radical grant of power to Washington over Americans' lives, homes, businesses, travel, banking, and more.

00:08:43.000 So what exactly are they looking for?

00:08:45.000 What is she looking for?

00:08:46.000 Their goal is to meet 100% of national power demand through renewable sources by like 2020.

00:08:55.000 Or by 2030.

00:08:56.000 By 2030, she wants 100% renewable power sources crammed down by government.

00:09:00.000 Let me explain how insane this is, off the top of it.

00:09:04.000 Here is America's energy consumption by energy source for 2017, which is the latest data available.

00:09:11.000 37% of America's energy consumption came in the form of petroleum.

00:09:13.000 Another 29% came in the form of natural gas.

00:09:16.000 Another 14% came in the form of coal.

00:09:19.000 Another 9% came in the form of nuclear electric power, which the Democrats don't like.

00:09:24.000 11% of America's energy supply came from renewable energy.

00:09:28.000 So in other words, the growth of America's economy, the growth of the world economy, which is dependent on the growth of America's economy, is powered 89% by sources of energy that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez doesn't like.

00:09:41.000 She doesn't like nuclear energy, so we're not going to count that even though that really is a pretty clean source of energy, right?

00:09:46.000 France is basically run on nuclear energy. 0.91

00:09:49.000 This is, it's just ridiculous.

00:09:51.000 And by the way, even when we talk about renewable energy...

00:09:54.000 Okay, wood constitutes 19% of that.

00:09:56.000 Okay, so that's not quite as renewable as people want.

00:10:00.000 That has carbon emissions.

00:10:01.000 When you use wood for fuel, that actually does have carbon emissions.

00:10:04.000 Solar represents 6% of the 11% that is renewable energy.

00:10:09.000 Wind represents 21% of the 11%.

00:10:10.000 In other words, solar and wind, and hydroelectric, represent something like 5% of the total energy supply of the United States.

00:10:18.000 She wants it to be 100% by 2030.

00:10:20.000 How is that going to happen?

00:10:22.000 Through massive taxation and quashing of the American economy.

00:10:25.000 That's how it's going to happen.

00:10:26.000 But it doesn't stop there.

00:10:28.000 The document also states that the Green New Deal will advance non-environmental projects such as social, economic, racial, regional, and gender-based justice.

00:10:37.000 What a Green New Deal has to do with gender-based justice is beyond me.

00:10:41.000 I don't know.

00:10:42.000 I don't know what the hell that's even supposed to mean.

00:10:44.000 Doesn't matter.

00:10:46.000 She says that we should have a national energy-efficient smart grid.

00:10:50.000 I'd like her to design it, right?

00:10:51.000 Since she's obviously an expert in energy management, you know, more so than people in coal and natural gas and petroleum, probably she should design it, right?

00:10:58.000 I mean, she's a government expert.

00:11:00.000 She was bartending until five seconds ago. 1.00

00:11:02.000 But clearly, if there's one person who knows how to build a national energy-efficient smart grid, and that's not just a mashup of a bunch of words that sound nice together, it would be somebody like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose combined brainpower could maybe, maybe provide the electricity to lightly toast a piece of bread.

00:11:20.000 As long as we're talking about people providing renewable sources of energy. 0.96

00:11:24.000 I'll get to more on Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's idiotic plans. 1.00

00:11:27.000 All the Democrats had to do was not be crazy. 1.00

00:11:29.000 They couldn't do it.

00:11:30.000 And this is the least crazy part of what they did yesterday.

00:11:32.000 First, let's calm down for a second.

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00:12:58.000 Okay, so back to AOC's grand new deal.

00:13:01.000 And again, the reason we're talking about this is because she is the fresh new face.

00:13:04.000 I was encouraged by a friend of mine on Twitter.

00:13:08.000 Who's a professor of policy.

00:13:10.000 I believe it's over at Yale.

00:13:12.000 His name is Howard Forman.

00:13:14.000 He's a health policy and economic policy advisor.

00:13:16.000 You know, he he says, well, why don't you just pay attention?

00:13:19.000 Why don't you just pay attention to the more moderates in the Democratic in the Democratic caucus?

00:13:24.000 Because the media is not.

00:13:26.000 Okay?

00:13:26.000 Because the Democrats are not.

00:13:27.000 Because AOC is on 60 Minutes this Sunday.

00:13:29.000 That's why.

00:13:30.000 That's why.

00:13:31.000 Okay, so, I'm going to go through the rest of her plan, and then I will tell you how she plans to pay for all of this. 0.99

00:13:34.000 So she says, we should upgrade every residential and industrial building for state-of-the-art energy efficient comfort and safety.

00:13:40.000 That's not going to cost any money.

00:13:41.000 We're going to retrofit every building in the United States with all this stuff.

00:13:45.000 Eliminating greenhouse gas emissions for manufacturing, agriculture, and other industries.

00:13:51.000 How?

00:13:52.000 You know, how is a good question.

00:13:53.000 It's a really useful question.

00:13:54.000 How?

00:13:55.000 Why?

00:13:56.000 These are useful questions in politics.

00:13:59.000 She says, funding massive investment in reducing existing greenhouse gases.

00:14:03.000 But that's not all.

00:14:04.000 The proposed committee would also have seeming total oversight of American industry, with a mandate for pushing union membership.

00:14:10.000 So it's not just that we are going to green the economy through the force of government, we are going to unionize every industry to green the economy through the force of government.

00:14:18.000 If this sounds a lot like the government controlling industry from the top down and destroying the economy, that's because it's precisely what it is.

00:14:24.000 She wants a national jobs force to help people participate in the transition to the green economy.

00:14:29.000 She says the Green New Deal will provide all members of our society across all regions and all communities the opportunity, training, and education to be a full and equal participant in the transition, including through a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one.

00:14:43.000 So, let me get this straight.

00:14:45.000 We can have the government take over all the industries and regulate them down to the ground, unionize all the industries, guarantee the employment through all the industries, and redistribute income for gender-based justice through all of this.

00:14:58.000 Have we ever tried anything like this before in human history?

00:15:01.000 Yes.

00:15:03.000 Has it worked out super well?

00:15:05.000 No.

00:15:06.000 It turns out people like their property.

00:15:08.000 It turns out that people are fans of being able to create.

00:15:11.000 People like being entrepreneurs.

00:15:12.000 People like working in creative areas.

00:15:14.000 People like freedom.

00:15:15.000 Freedom is a nice thing.

00:15:17.000 And beyond that, obviously, this is gonna destroy the economy.

00:15:19.000 I mean, it's just immoral for her to suggest that innovation is dying, and therefore, we have to cram it.

00:15:25.000 What has she ever invented? 0.99

00:15:26.000 Has she invented a thing?

00:15:27.000 I mean, granted, she does Instagram instant pot cooking lessons.

00:15:32.000 Ooh! 0.96

00:15:34.000 But has she ever created, like, a job?

00:15:36.000 Has she ever hired anyone?

00:15:37.000 You know, not with government money at her congressional office.

00:15:39.000 Like, an actual job?

00:15:41.000 Has she ever, like, produced a product, or a good, or a service anyone wanted to buy?

00:15:45.000 And yet, she's going to be running the economy. 1.00

00:15:47.000 Perfect.

00:15:48.000 Also, she says that the plan includes fail-safes in the form of universal income and Medicare for All.

00:15:53.000 Those are like the side projects that they're going to be working on in their spare time.

00:15:56.000 Universal income and Medicare for All.

00:16:00.000 Yeah, this isn't going to go wrong in any way.

00:16:03.000 So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez puts out this plan, and then she's asked—she's on 60 Minutes. 0.63

00:16:06.000 Remember, she is the new face.

00:16:09.000 She's the new face.

00:16:09.000 Not my fault!

00:16:10.000 You picked her, morons! 1.00

00:16:11.000 Okay, so she's the new face. 1.00

00:16:16.000 And here's what she says.

00:16:17.000 She's asked, so how are you going to pay for all of this?

00:16:20.000 Her answer, of course, is we are going to raise taxes massively on the rich. 0.99

00:16:25.000 Here is her dumb answer. 0.98

00:16:27.000 Again, much better at dancing than economics, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. 1.00

00:16:31.000 Sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent.

00:16:35.000 That doesn't mean all 10 million dollars are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more.

00:16:45.000 What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done right now.

00:16:52.000 Do you call yourself a radical?

00:16:53.000 Yeah, you know, if that's what radical means, call me a radical.

00:16:56.000 Okay, well, I will.

00:16:57.000 You're a radical. 1.00

00:16:58.000 You're an insane radical. 0.92

00:17:00.000 And when she says, oh, thank you for explaining marginal tax rates to me, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

00:17:05.000 Now, what would be awesome is if she explained how much money the people in the top quintile of the United States pay in federal income tax. 0.98

00:17:13.000 Okay, here is the latest statistic.

00:17:14.000 This is from April of 2018.

00:17:17.000 For 2018, the reality is that top earners will pay the overwhelming majority of all taxes in the United States.

00:17:26.000 Houses in the top 20% will have income of about $150,000 or more and 52% of total income.

00:17:29.000 thousand dollars or more and 52 percent of total income they will pay 87 percent of all income taxes 87 percent of all income taxes are paid for by the people in the top 20 percent of income earners By the way, it's worth noting here that America has the most progressive tax system in the entire industrialized world.

00:17:48.000 And when I say progressive, I mean the more money you make, the more money you pay.

00:17:52.000 This is truer in America than it is in any of the European countries that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is talking about.

00:17:58.000 The reality is that in order to pay for all of her god-awful, terrible, regulatory, economy-crushing programs, she would have to raise taxes radically on people who are lower down on the income scale.

00:18:07.000 And when you hear people like Bernie Sanders say things like, well, back in the day of JFK, the top marginal tax rate was 91%.

00:18:14.000 Why cannot we do that now? 1.00

00:18:16.000 A few quick notes about this idiotic point. 0.97

00:18:19.000 Number one, the top marginal tax rate in the day of Eisenhower and JFK was indeed 91%, but that was for people who earned, filing jointly, $3.4 million in inflation-adjusted dollars. 0.97

00:18:30.000 The top marginal tax rate in the United States today kicks in at about $400,000.

00:18:34.000 It's not the same thing.

00:18:38.000 Two, even that 91% top marginal tax rate was never paid for by anyone.

00:18:42.000 The effective tax rate for people making that amount of money in 1955 was about 45%.

00:18:47.000 Why?

00:18:48.000 Because everybody was shielding their income because of the lower corporate tax rate and also because until at that point you were actually allowed to deduct on your taxes depreciation on all loans and depreciation on all real estate.

00:19:01.000 So people just weren't paying that tax rate, is the reality.

00:19:04.000 And the economy was good, because people weren't actually paying that tax rate.

00:19:07.000 For every year between 1952 and 2014, the government brought in between 17% and 20% of GDP in tax revenue, and between 7% and 9% of GDP in income tax revenue.

00:19:16.000 So it's just a lie to suggest that taxes used to be so high, and the economy was awesome, when the taxes were super duper high.

00:19:22.000 People just weren't paying them.

00:19:24.000 They just were not paying them. 1.00

00:19:26.000 If you really believe that you can do this to the tax rates, and that magically everything will be okay, you're an idiot. 1.00

00:19:32.000 And by the way, all the proposals they're talking about, these Medicare-for-all studies, Guy Benson put this together a few months ago. 1.00

00:19:39.000 He talked about how to raise tax rates to pay for AOCs and Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-all nonsense.

00:19:45.000 And here's what he came up with.

00:19:46.000 Here's what you have to do.

00:19:48.000 You'd have to raise the payroll tax paid for by workers and employers by 10 percentage points for everyone.

00:19:54.000 Hey, for the workers and the employers.

00:19:56.000 So that's a 20% increase.

00:19:57.000 Impose a brand new 20% national VAT sales tax and hike income tax rates across the board for poor people, middle class people and rich people by 10 percentage points.

00:20:07.000 Not one of those.

00:20:09.000 All of those.

00:20:10.000 All of those.

00:20:11.000 This is why, if you look at all the famed socialistic countries, the supposed socialistic countries that the Democrats like to talk about, the Norways and the Denmarks, the average tax rate across the board is exorbitant.

00:20:23.000 Exorbitant.

00:20:24.000 People are paying 60% of their income to the Denmarkian government, okay, to the government of Denmark.

00:20:29.000 The Danish government, you're paying 60% of your income when you make over $60,000 a year in Denmark.

00:20:34.000 And that does not include the national sales tax, which means that when all is said and done, like 80% of your income is going to the government of Denmark.

00:20:41.000 Does that sound awesome to you?

00:20:43.000 Do you think that might have an impact on, you know, how business works in the United States?

00:20:46.000 Now, it's always easy, always, always to look at these Democrat socialist countries in Well, look, their economies are still working fine.

00:20:54.000 You know why they're working fine?

00:20:55.000 Because everyone on planet Earth is reliant on the economic strength of the United States.

00:20:59.000 When the U.S.

00:21:00.000 hits a depression, the rest of the world hits a depression.

00:21:02.000 The economy is interconnected.

00:21:04.000 It's why China right now is having economic problems, and it's going to affect the U.S. 0.95

00:21:08.000 markets.

00:21:09.000 If the U.S.

00:21:09.000 has economic problems, everyone goes down the crapper.

00:21:12.000 It's easy to survive with a population of 6 million and exorbitantly high tax rates.

00:21:16.000 A homogenous population of 6 million and exorbitantly high tax rates. 1.00

00:21:19.000 You can survive if you've got the float of the United States bolstering the world economy.

00:21:24.000 All socialism does is redistribute the gains made by capitalism.

00:21:28.000 But it's slightly a different thing when there is no backup plan.

00:21:31.000 What happens when the U.S. 0.98

00:21:32.000 economy tanks because of all these myriad stupidities being pushed by the radical left in terms of policy? 0.99

00:21:38.000 So that's their big plan. 0.98

00:21:40.000 So their big plan is this new green deal, big spending, Medicare for all, free college for all.

00:21:46.000 All of these grandiose things that cost exorbitant amounts of taxpayer dollars and are wrongheaded in the extreme as well.

00:21:52.000 You know, that when it comes to their college free for all plan, they say, well, you know, we can pay for that by just raising taxes a little bit and we'd pay for the education.

00:21:58.000 We don't need more people going to community colleges to get degrees they don't need.

00:22:03.000 What we need is more people going into careers that are useful.

00:22:05.000 The idea that college is inevitably driving income is just wrong.

00:22:10.000 Correlation does not equal causation there.

00:22:13.000 The bottom quintile of college degree earners is earning less than the top quintile of high school degree earners.

00:22:19.000 Meaning that you can have a high school degree and still make a good living in the United States if you're willing to move up to Montana and work in oil rigging.

00:22:25.000 But apparently we're not allowed to talk about any of those things anymore.

00:22:28.000 Okay, so that wasn't the only thing on the Democrats' agenda this week.

00:22:32.000 So what did they propose in their first couple of days?

00:22:34.000 Well, we have Brad Sherman, who is my representative here in California and is a full-fledged doof.

00:22:41.000 He intends to introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday as the new session of Congress convenes.

00:22:46.000 Because this is a priority.

00:22:48.000 We're going to impeach President Trump with no underlying charges. 0.96

00:22:51.000 He's going to accuse Trump of obstruction of justice in the firing of James Comey, which is absolutely asinine.

00:22:57.000 There's no obstruction of justice in firing your own FBI director. 0.71

00:23:01.000 You have the authority to do that.

00:23:03.000 Comey himself testified that the Mueller investigation was not hampered in any way by his firing.

00:23:09.000 And yet, they're now going to try and impeach him.

00:23:11.000 But that's not all.

00:23:12.000 They're going to scream about it.

00:23:13.000 So Rashida Tlaib, who's another one of these new faces, a fresh face.

00:23:16.000 Again, I'm not the one labeling these people the new leaders of the Democratic Party.

00:23:21.000 The Democratic Party are.

00:23:23.000 The media are.

00:23:24.000 Not my fault.

00:23:26.000 I'm not just cherry picking these folks.

00:23:28.000 When Vanity Fair did their spreadsheet, their big spread, in their new magazine, I think it's a February issue, of Power Players, in which yours truly appears, the Democrats they chose, from Congress, Were AOC, Rashida Tlaib, there's all these radicals.

00:23:43.000 This is the people they chose to feature.

00:23:45.000 This was the new wing, the new diverse magical wing.

00:23:49.000 So, Rashida Tlaib is a radical anti-Semite.

00:23:52.000 Not only is she in favor of boycott, divestment and sanctions from the state of Israel, she has tweeted out radically awful things about Israel and Jews before. 0.99

00:24:00.000 She's a terrible person.

00:24:02.000 And Rashida Tlaib, but we can't say that she's a terrible person because she's diverse, right? 0.86

00:24:05.000 She's one of the first Muslim American congresspeople.

00:24:08.000 She, along with another one of her colleagues in Congress this year, she is just, they're Muslim.

00:24:14.000 And this means that they're inherently good, right?

00:24:16.000 This means that they're inherently good because diversity is inherently good.

00:24:19.000 Rashida Tlaib, number one, her office immediately, I mean, just to show who she is. 0.95

00:24:23.000 She moves into her congressional office and Hannah Allum, who is a reporter, tweets out this photo of a map in her office.

00:24:30.000 And says, someone has already made a slight alteration to the map that hangs in Rashida Tlaib's new congressional office.

00:24:35.000 What does it show?

00:24:36.000 It shows a post-it note that has been placed over Egypt with an arrow toward Israel and the word Palestine.

00:24:42.000 So she wants to replace Israel with Palestine, which means the genocide of the Jews in the area.

00:24:46.000 And she has placed that on her map in her congressional office.

00:24:49.000 But don't worry, she's new and fresh-faced.

00:24:52.000 Also, we know she's new and fresh-faced because she uses lots of curse words. 1.00

00:24:55.000 Now, I remember a time, you know, 30 seconds ago, when we kept hearing that Donald Trump was a very vulgar bad man because he's vulgar and bad.

00:25:03.000 Now, there are those of us who don't like vulgarity.

00:25:06.000 There are those of us who think that Donald Trump is vulgar and that his vulgarity is not excusable and that it's a bad thing.

00:25:11.000 There are those of us who think that this sort of approach to politics is ugly, whether it's Republicans or Democrats. 0.96

00:25:17.000 But there's something a little hypocritical about the Democrats whining about vulgarity and then celebrating as Rashida Tlaib goes out there and says that her chief goal is going to be impeaching the mother effer. 0.94

00:25:27.000 She was caught saying this yesterday on tape. 0.93

00:25:29.000 Here she was.

00:25:30.000 People love you and you win.

00:25:32.000 And when your son looks at you and says, mama, look, you won, bullies don't win.

00:25:37.000 And I said, baby, they don't because we're going to go in there.

00:25:40.000 We're going to impeach the mother. 0.55

00:25:43.000 That's how you know she's authentic.

00:25:45.000 And by the way, if she said to her daughter, impeach the mother-effer, that's not very good parenting. 0.95

00:25:49.000 I mean, I don't know how old her daughter is, but I don't curse to my children.

00:25:51.000 That's a bizarre choice.

00:25:53.000 Now, that doesn't mean that people can say, like, if you're not pissed at Trump doing this sort of stuff, then you're not allowed to really be pissed at Rashida Tlaib for doing this sort of stuff.

00:26:01.000 But the same holds true the other way.

00:26:03.000 So Nancy Pelosi, who's been whining about Donald Trump being vulgar for the last several years at this point, She shied away from moving forward with impeachment, but she said that the language used by Rashida Tlaib, well, it was no worse than what he said.

00:26:16.000 She said that impeachment is divisive, but she's not actually going to, like, chide Rashida Tlaib over all of this because she can't control her own radicals. 1.00

00:26:22.000 This is going to be an ongoing problem for Nancy Pelosi. 1.00

00:26:25.000 Here is Pelosi basically making room for her own radicals while at the same time pretending that only the Republicans are radicals.

00:26:31.000 Many Democrats are talking about impeachment.

00:26:35.000 You've said it would be sad and divisive for the country to pursue impeachment.

00:26:40.000 Are you willing to rule it out?

00:26:41.000 Well, we have to wait and see what happens with the Mueller report.

00:26:45.000 We shouldn't be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn't avoid impeachment for a political reason.

00:26:52.000 So we'll just have to see how it comes.

00:26:54.000 So that's her saying impeachment is on the table.

00:26:56.000 She can't really name why yet, but sure, why not?

00:26:58.000 And then she says about the language used.

00:27:00.000 She says, generationally, that would not be language I would use, but nonetheless, I don't think we should make a big deal of it. 0.93

00:27:06.000 The hypocrisy of politicians is so tiring. 0.85

00:27:08.000 It's so tiring. 0.75

00:27:10.000 If you're going to complain about Donald Trump's behavior, and when your own members use that same kind of behavior, you have to condemn it.

00:27:16.000 And the same holds true on the right.

00:27:17.000 If you're going to condemn Rashida Tlaib, then when President Trump uses this kind of behavior, you should also condemn it.

00:27:23.000 You need to be consistent with these sorts of standards, otherwise there are no standards at all with which to be consistent.

00:27:28.000 But that wasn't the only thing that Democrats were doing yesterday.

00:27:30.000 Rashida Tlaib, for her part, she tweeted out that she's unapologetic about using the Mother F Royce says, I will always speak truth to power.

00:27:37.000 Hashtag unapologetically me.

00:27:40.000 Oh, I'm so tired.

00:27:43.000 It's January 4th and I'm so tired.

00:27:45.000 I will always speak truth to power.

00:27:47.000 Yeah, speaking truth to power is calling the president a mother effer as people cheer wildly for you.

00:27:51.000 Wow, what a difficult life you lead, Rashida Tlaib.

00:27:55.000 Being elected once and then saying whatever you want and people cheering for you because you're a diverse congressperson.

00:28:02.000 And I love it when it's like, unapologetically, me.

00:28:05.000 I'm here and I'm proud to be me. 0.66

00:28:08.000 You're so boring.

00:28:10.000 You know it's not boring self-betterment.

00:28:11.000 You know what actually is boring?

00:28:13.000 I'm me.

00:28:14.000 Oh, it's so just self-absorbed.

00:28:17.000 Congratulations.

00:28:18.000 You know who else is me?

00:28:19.000 My son.

00:28:19.000 And he poops in his diaper.

00:28:22.000 Just ridiculous. 0.99

00:28:22.000 Okay, that's not the only thing Democrats were doing either. 0.99

00:28:25.000 Also, Representative Steve Cohen.

00:28:27.000 Introduce two bills on Thursday.

00:28:29.000 One to eliminate the Electoral College.

00:28:30.000 So that's exciting.

00:28:33.000 It's particularly exciting because he doesn't understand how the Constitution works.

00:28:35.000 You can't introduce a bill to remove the Electoral College. 1.00

00:28:38.000 It's part of the Constitution, you moron. 0.99

00:28:40.000 You actually have to introduce a constitutional amendment, which would never pass. 0.99

00:28:44.000 So glad to see the Democrats have all their priorities in the correct place.

00:28:47.000 Hank Johnson, a man who thinks that the island of Guam is going to tip over from too many people because he's a highly intelligent human.

00:28:53.000 This is Congressman Hank Johnson from the GA 4th District.

00:28:56.000 Meanwhile, he is ranting and raving about how Trump supporters are all committing suicide.

00:28:59.000 So Democrats really demonstrating that they should be trusted with power.

00:29:03.000 Their whole pitch was, you can't trust Trump with power.

00:29:05.000 And now their whole pitch is, we crazy. 0.98

00:29:08.000 I mean, so here is Hank Johnson being totally nuts. 0.97

00:29:12.000 Donald Trump supporters are older, less educated, less prosperous, and they are dying early. 0.62

00:29:20.000 Their lifespans are decreasing, and many are dying from alcoholism, drug overdoses, liver disease, or simply a broken heart caused by economic despair.

00:29:34.000 Yeah, that's what Trump supporters are. 0.85

00:29:35.000 They're all dying, committing suicide. 1.00

00:29:37.000 It's all the Trump supporters. 1.00

00:29:38.000 That's what's happening here.

00:29:39.000 No Democrats have ever committed heroin overdoses.

00:29:41.000 None.

00:29:42.000 I mean, incredible knowledge being dropped there by Hank Johnson, who legitimately said that an island was going to tip over because of overpopulation.

00:29:51.000 The good news, though, is that the media are doing yeoman's work in covering the Democrats.

00:29:55.000 CNN took Nancy Pelosi for ice cream.

00:29:58.000 I'm not kidding you.

00:29:59.000 Remember when they did this to Paul Ryan when he became Speaker?

00:30:02.000 Nah, neither do I. Remember when Donald Trump became President and they took him for a milkshake?

00:30:05.000 I mean, we know he likes milkshakes.

00:30:07.000 Bill O'Reilly took him for a milkshake once.

00:30:08.000 Okay, but do you remember when CNN did that?

00:30:10.000 I don't.

00:30:11.000 But here they are taking charming Nancy Pelosi over to the local Vaqueros for some ice cream.

00:30:18.000 Hopefully sugar-free so it doesn't melt away at those dentures. 0.77

00:30:21.000 Here they are on CNN.

00:30:22.000 She attributes her boundless energy to Italian genes. 0.65

00:30:26.000 It's certainly not a balanced diet.

00:30:28.000 Dark chocolate and ice cream.

00:30:30.000 Vicaro's has been her favorite since she was a little girl.

00:30:34.000 The chocolate.

00:30:35.000 Not the chocolate chip, the chocolate.

00:30:37.000 I like my childhood unadulterated.

00:30:39.000 Okay, so that's a thing.

00:30:48.000 She likes her chocolate unadulterated.

00:30:50.000 Good coverage there, CNN.

00:30:51.000 Solid coverage.

00:30:52.000 I mean, I can't imagine why people think CNN's a biased network.

00:30:55.000 I mean, come on!

00:30:56.000 That's not bias!

00:30:57.000 That's hard-hitting reporting!

00:30:59.000 She attributes her long-standing life expectancy to Italian genes.

00:31:04.000 Very, very important stuff.

00:31:06.000 By the way, do we have any data about whether Italians live longer?

00:31:10.000 I don't know that that data exists, but it doesn't matter.

00:31:13.000 She's an old lady, and we have to trust everything she says. 0.99

00:31:15.000 She loves dark chocolate, and she loves ice cream, and she used to go to Vaquero's as a child, and this means that she is going to legislate on behalf of the children. 0.99

00:31:24.000 Oh, CNN, you suck so radically much. 1.00

00:31:27.000 It makes you actually want to chant that at a rally. 1.00

00:31:30.000 CNN sucks. 1.00

00:31:32.000 Just awful stuff. 1.00

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00:33:12.000 So the government shutdown, meanwhile, continues apace. 1.00

00:33:15.000 As the Democrats push out their own idiotic policies, they say one thing that they will certainly, certainly not pay for. 0.99

00:33:21.000 So they'll spend literally trillions of dollars on programs that do not work. 1.00

00:33:25.000 Medicare for all.

00:33:26.000 They're going to spend trillions of dollars on universal basic income.

00:33:29.000 They're going to spend trillions of dollars on a Green New Deal, which is just basically a cronyist boondoggle where they pay their friends and their union cronies.

00:33:35.000 They're going to spend billions of dollars on that, but they will not give President Trump $5.6 billion for a wall.

00:33:40.000 No deal.

00:33:40.000 No.

00:33:41.000 Not a dime.

00:33:42.000 And Nancy Pelosi is saying that.

00:33:44.000 She says, I will offer President Trump one dollar.

00:33:48.000 She literally said this.

00:33:49.000 Her opening bargaining position was like Alec Baldwin from 30 Rock.

00:33:52.000 One dollar.

00:33:53.000 Here she is.

00:33:54.000 Is there any situation in which you would accept even a dollar of wall funding for this president in order to reopen the government?

00:34:03.000 She's in such a good mood.

00:34:05.000 She spent a dollar.

00:34:06.000 One dollar?

00:34:08.000 Yeah, one dollar.

00:34:08.000 How high were you willing to go?

00:34:10.000 You said a dollar.

00:34:12.000 You said a dollar.

00:34:13.000 How high were you willing to go?

00:34:13.000 Well, that's not your question.

00:34:14.000 You said a dollar.

00:34:15.000 She's in such a good mood.

00:34:18.000 She spent a dollar.

00:34:19.000 There's an old Oscar Wilde joke in which Oscar Wilde apparently went up to a woman at a cocktail party. 0.86

00:34:24.000 And he said to her, this is how you know it's apocryphal because Oscar Wilde was gay.

00:34:29.000 But in any case, Oscar Wilde supposedly went up to this woman and he said to her, madam, would you sleep with me for a million pounds? 0.97

00:34:37.000 And she said, I'd have to think about it.

00:34:39.000 And they said, well, would you sleep with me for one pound?

00:34:41.000 And she said, how dare you, sir?

00:34:42.000 What kind of woman do you think I am? 0.96

00:34:43.000 He said, well, we already know what you are.

00:34:45.000 We're just haggling over the price now.

00:34:47.000 Really, I mean, if Nancy Pelosi is willing to give a dollar, why not 5.6 billion?

00:34:50.000 I mean, really, same thing in federal government terms.

00:34:52.000 In any case, they will not grant a dollar for the wall, or if they will, it's like one dollar.

00:34:57.000 Meanwhile, Mike Pence says the shutdown is going to continue without the wall, which, by the way, it should.

00:35:03.000 We'll talk about the politics of this in just a second, because there are a lot of people saying, oh, it's going to damage President Trump.

00:35:08.000 Democrats are in control of Congress now.

00:35:09.000 I'm not sure that's how this is going to play out.

00:35:12.000 Ever since the Christmas holiday, The president sent us to Capitol Hill.

00:35:16.000 I met with Senator Schumer not once but twice.

00:35:18.000 We engaged in good faith negotiations.

00:35:20.000 The president and I canceled all of our Christmas vacation plans.

00:35:24.000 We were here in Washington, D.C.

00:35:26.000 Democrats broke off negotiations about a week ago, but the president's made it clear.

00:35:30.000 We're here to make a deal.

00:35:33.000 But it's a deal that's going to result in achieving real gains on border security.

00:35:38.000 And you have no border security without a wall.

00:35:41.000 We will have no deal without a wall.

00:35:43.000 By the way, Pence apparently in a meeting already went to Schumer and said, we don't need 5.6 billion, we'll do 2.5 billion.

00:35:48.000 And then Schumer was like, well, you guys said you wanted 5.6 billion.

00:35:50.000 And Trump's out there nodding at Schumer, which is just amazing, undercutting Pence in the room during the negotiations.

00:35:57.000 It's just...

00:35:58.000 Incredible stuff.

00:35:58.000 But the fact is that the Trump administration is willing to move.

00:36:01.000 The Democrats are simply not willing to move.

00:36:04.000 President Trump called sort of an impromptu press conference.

00:36:06.000 He went into the press room yesterday.

00:36:07.000 He congratulated Nancy Pelosi and then he talked about the border wall and he is correct to do so.

00:36:12.000 I just want to start off by congratulating Nancy Pelosi on being elected Speaker of the House.

00:36:17.000 It's a very, very great achievement.

00:36:20.000 And hopefully we're going to work together and we're going to get lots of things done, like infrastructure and so much more.

00:36:26.000 I know they want to do that very badly, so do I. So hopefully we're going to have a lot of things that we can get done together.

00:36:32.000 And I think it's actually going to work out.

00:36:34.000 I think it'll be a little bit different than a lot of people are thinking.

00:36:37.000 So I congratulate Nancy.

00:36:39.000 Tremendous, tremendous achievement.

00:36:41.000 Okay, and then he went on and talked about, you know, why we needed a wall, and he is right about that.

00:36:45.000 So this is Trump being generous.

00:36:46.000 The media cracked down on him anyway.

00:36:48.000 How dare President Trump interrupt the swearing-in of these new Democratic members?

00:36:52.000 How dare he steal the spotlight?

00:36:53.000 Because Obama never stole the spotlight from anybody.

00:36:55.000 That was never his thing, Obama. 0.52

00:36:57.000 He just eschewed the spotlight like crazy.

00:36:59.000 If there's one thing I remember about Barack Obama, that was a man who disdained the spotlight.

00:37:03.000 He definitely never wanted to be the center of attention.

00:37:06.000 President Trump did put out a tweet about the border wall.

00:37:08.000 It was basically about the crisis on the border, showing video of people climbing the border.

00:37:12.000 You can show it, I'll narrate it.

00:37:16.000 It's video showing people throwing rocks at border agents, and criminals throwing rocks at border agents, drugs being shipped over the border, and all the rest, and him saying we need a border wall.

00:37:23.000 All of this is obvious.

00:37:24.000 He had a bunch of border agents to the White House, and in typical media fashion, it demonstrates exactly Where the media's heads are at.

00:37:31.000 So he had at this presser a bunch of border agents who came forward and they blasted the Democrats over the wall.

00:37:36.000 Here's what they had to say.

00:37:37.000 I've been a Border Patrol agent for 21 years.

00:37:39.000 I can personally tell you, from the work that I have done on the southwest border, that physical barriers, that walls actually work.

00:37:47.000 You all gotta ask yourself this question.

00:37:50.000 If I come to your home, do you want me to knock on the front door, or do you want me to climb through that window?

00:37:56.000 These criminal aliens that have been released from jail, that have been deported, will come right back into the United States. 0.99

00:38:02.000 However, if we had a physical barrier, if we had a wall, we wouldn't be able to stop that.

00:38:07.000 Okay, so, you know, Trump said this, and the border agents say it, and they're all right.

00:38:11.000 I mean, this is all exactly correct.

00:38:13.000 But the media don't cover that.

00:38:15.000 The media instead cover it as though there's an open debate to be had about this.

00:38:18.000 The Democrats have not put forward a single proposal for how they plan to stop illegal immigration at the border.

00:38:22.000 Not one.

00:38:23.000 Not a proposal.

00:38:24.000 And yet the pressure is supposed to be on President Trump?

00:38:26.000 President Trump should bring these border agents with him everywhere.

00:38:28.000 He should go on a national tour with these border agents.

00:38:30.000 He should go down to the border right now, to the empty area of the border.

00:38:33.000 See, there is no wall here.

00:38:35.000 Do you think that our border agents are magic?

00:38:37.000 You think they can just stop people walking over the border?

00:38:39.000 We have no way of alerting them to people crossing these borders.

00:38:42.000 Trump should make this a national issue.

00:38:44.000 And he should force Nancy Pelosi to answer why she is willing to allow government workers to be furloughed simply to not pay for a wall. 0.98

00:38:50.000 They're gonna have to explain that one.

00:38:53.000 So Trump is not wrong to do this.

00:38:54.000 Meanwhile, the markets have been tumbling.

00:38:56.000 They've been going up and down and all around.

00:38:58.000 But there's a very good economic report that came out today.

00:39:01.000 The new economic report shows an amazing 312,000 jobs added in December, plus average hourly pay improved 3.2% from a year ago, up from average wage growth of 2.7% at the end of 2017.

00:39:13.000 It's a very, very solid economic report.

00:39:16.000 The amount that was expected was like 200,000 jobs added.

00:39:19.000 It's 312,000 jobs added instead.

00:39:21.000 The unemployment rate did rise slightly to 3.9% because people were looking for more work.

00:39:28.000 They've gotten back into the jobs market.

00:39:32.000 4% is basically considered by economists full employment.

00:39:34.000 So we have a full employment economy and Democrats are treating it as though we are supposed to wreck that economy with 70% tax rates across the board and massive green scams designed to pay off all of their political cronies.

00:39:45.000 Trump should just run on their radicalism.

00:39:47.000 This would be a very good... Now Trump has an opponent.

00:39:49.000 So it was suggested yesterday by the exorable Michael Knowles that President Trump does better when he has an opponent, an actual opponent.

00:39:57.000 Now he has actual opponents in Congress.

00:39:58.000 Maybe that's true. 1.00

00:39:59.000 He should aim his fire directly at their idiotic programs that they are pushing as hard as they possibly can because they're going to keep pushing these programs even if the economy is good. 1.00

00:40:08.000 There are warning signs on the horizon for the economy. 0.99

00:40:11.000 Apple, for example, announced that its earnings would come up short.

00:40:14.000 That's because Apple has been poorly run.

00:40:16.000 I mean, really, their products just are not as innovative as they once were.

00:40:20.000 And this is one of the realities of the economy.

00:40:21.000 It's why when people talk about Google being inevitably large and eating the world economy and all the rest of it, companies rise, companies fall.

00:40:28.000 The number of companies that have been on the S&P 500 is not 500 over the course of the last 50 years.

00:40:34.000 It is several thousand because companies join, companies fall off.

00:40:37.000 There was a time when Apple was a secondary company, when IBM was the big company, and now IBM is barely alive, and Apple is on top.

00:40:44.000 Well, Apple will fall too.

00:40:45.000 The same will happen with Google.

00:40:46.000 I remember a time when AltaVista was a thing, and Yahoo was a thing.

00:40:49.000 All these companies rise and fall because of innovation.

00:40:51.000 Now, innovation makes people uncomfortable.

00:40:53.000 It makes them feel like they're not in control.

00:40:54.000 There are a lot of articles today out in the New York Times about how innovation is basically stalling, and we don't know where the next big thing is going to come from.

00:41:03.000 If we knew where the next big thing was going to come from, then I would have invested in it, wouldn't have you?

00:41:08.000 Innovation always takes us by surprise.

00:41:10.000 As well as should.

00:41:11.000 In a free economy, innovation always takes us by surprise.

00:41:15.000 Which is why we should remove all barriers to innovation.

00:41:17.000 And that means we should reduce tax rates, we should reduce regulations, we should reduce tariffs.

00:41:21.000 Innovation.

00:41:22.000 Entrepreneurship.

00:41:23.000 People coming up with new and better stuff.

00:41:25.000 That is what creates a booming economy and will create the next wave of stuff.

00:41:29.000 And we don't have to know where that's coming from.

00:41:31.000 The great lie that's told by centralized planners is that there are a few geniuses who can just forecast where technology is going to go.

00:41:38.000 Again, if they could forecast where technology were going to go, they would just invest in the technology and be rich themselves.

00:41:44.000 Certainly the folks at government level can't do that.

00:41:46.000 When you try to force innovation, it generally fails.

00:41:49.000 It does not succeed.

00:41:51.000 Innovation can only happen when people are left to their own free devices.

00:41:55.000 The inspiration of man has allowed 7.3 billion people to remain alive on a planet that really in a subsistence economy would sustain maybe a billion, right?

00:42:03.000 I mean, it's just not...

00:42:05.000 It's not credible to believe that technology is not going to continue to advance in the wake of human ingenuity and human intelligence.

00:42:12.000 But that seems to be the case made by folks on the left, is that human intelligence and ingenuity, suddenly they're not up to the task.

00:42:17.000 Capitalism, which has raised nearly the entire globe from abject poverty, Needs to be curbed because it's too rapacious and greedy and terrible and all the rest. 0.98

00:42:27.000 This sort of stuff is just, it's foolish. 1.00

00:42:29.000 It's foolish. 0.93

00:42:30.000 But foolishness is stock and trade for a lot of folks these days and that's what President Trump should campaign on because it turns out that whatever President Trump's problems, at least he isn't proposing destroying the entire United States and thus world economy on the shoulders of centralized planning by bartenders from New York. 0.89

00:42:44.000 Okay, let's get into the mailbag for a few minutes.

00:42:46.000 So Annette says, hey, my seven-year-old is super into U.S. history.

00:42:49.000 He really enjoys watching Crash Course on U.S. history videos.

00:42:53.000 However, I've noticed a significant liberal bent in a lot of these videos.

00:42:55.000 Do you have any recommendations for U.S. history that are trustworthy and could still be considered somewhat entertaining to a seven-year-old?

00:43:01.000 Well, you know, I've recommended for years the musical 1776.

00:43:05.000 My daughter is four.

00:43:05.000 She loves the musical 1776 because, indeed, it is, in fact, musical.

00:43:10.000 I've been seriously considering the possibility of putting out podcasts on American history, or putting out graphic novels on American history, because I think that it is ill-taught, and I think the most entertaining versions are put together by folks from Hollywood who legitimately are attempting to bias American history in the worst possible way.

00:43:28.000 Listen, there is sophistication to American history.

00:43:30.000 There are nuances to American history.

00:43:32.000 Not all of American history is glorious and wonderful, but the overarching thrust of American history and philosophy is inherently wonderful.

00:43:39.000 And if that's not what kids are initially taught, and they're instead taught that America was initially bad and was founded on racism and sexism and slavery and all this kind of stuff, Then what they're going to come away with is a leftist version of history that ignores the transformative power of the United States and really doesn't answer the question as to why the U.S.

00:43:55.000 is so good, so powerful, and so righteous on the world stage across the scope of history.

00:44:00.000 Daniel says, It begins on Monday, so you can go to your local radio station that may be carrying it.

00:44:11.000 We are going to be on in all the major markets, in real time.

00:44:15.000 It broadcasts live from 12 to 3 on the West Coast, right?

00:44:19.000 So it'll be the first hour is the recut version of the podcast, and then the last two hours are going to be live radio, but it plays basically a three-hour radio show.

00:44:28.000 So you should be able to find that at your local radio station.

00:44:30.000 If you don't catch it there, then you need to subscribe.

00:44:32.000 You need to go over to dailywire.com and subscribe, and then you can actually join me during the breaks.

00:44:36.000 Like, one of the things we're planning is that occasionally during breaks, I'll take questions from you in the audience, and we'll have fun with our subscribers.

00:44:42.000 So go check that out at dailywire.com.

00:44:44.000 Matthew says, hey, I'm a new subscriber after a year of watching on YouTube.

00:44:47.000 I'm a follower of the intellectual dark web and have been intrigued and disturbed by the recent developments with Patreon's banning of Sargon of Akkad.

00:44:53.000 I've been following Dave Rubin's and Jordan Peterson's recent announcement to leave Patreon with the hope to create a competitor platform.

00:44:59.000 What are your thoughts on the Rubin-Peterson platform and on Peterson's worried about the change of terms, site movement, and potential for credit card companies to further the social push toward radical leftist ideologies and censorship on the internet?

00:45:10.000 Well, my view is that Jordan and Dave are doing exactly the right thing.

00:45:14.000 And not only that, there's all sorts of market opportunities that are going to be opened up by the censorship of the left.

00:45:19.000 If Mastercard decides that they're going to crack down on your ability to subscribe to my show, for example, people will just get another credit card.

00:45:25.000 And that's all that will happen.

00:45:27.000 Freedom finds a way.

00:45:29.000 If Jeff Goldblum said that life finds a way, so does freedom, so does liberty.

00:45:33.000 If people can somehow find a way to listen to this show in China, and I know there are people who do, then you can certainly find a way to get another credit card to listen to this show if these credit card companies decide to try and reach out and harm you.

00:45:43.000 Veronica says, we had a discussion in the DW chat that sparked this question.

00:45:47.000 Since alcohol kills more people a year than drugs, does it make sense to legalize marijuana, cocaine, etc.

00:45:51.000 and ban alcohol?

00:45:53.000 My view when it comes to all of these things is that legalization is preferable for all substances and that it is your personal responsibility not to abuse those substances.

00:46:04.000 We have ancillary crimes that are attached.

00:46:06.000 To abuse of those substances.

00:46:08.000 If you smoke pot and then you drive while smoking pot, that's a crime.

00:46:13.000 That's DUI.

00:46:14.000 If you become violent after using cocaine, then that is a crime.

00:46:20.000 The real question about legalization of drugs is whether there are certain drugs that are so powerful that they actually rob you of your capacity to reason And be a good citizen in the process.

00:46:30.000 And there are certain drugs that do make you into a zombie.

00:46:33.000 I mean, heroin obviously makes you into a zombie.

00:46:36.000 So, would legalization of heroin... Then the question becomes, is government policy and criminalization effective in combating the use of heroin or not?

00:46:45.000 And I think the evidence on that is fairly mixed.

00:46:48.000 I believe that heroin is actually legal in places like Amsterdam.

00:46:52.000 And I'm not sure that it has radically increased the number of people who are addicted to heroin, for example.

00:46:56.000 I'd want to do some more research on that topic.

00:46:58.000 Drew says, Hey Ben, I've heard you say a few times you're an absolutist when it comes to free speech in the First Amendment.

00:47:02.000 Therefore, I'm curious what your thoughts were on free speech in schools, specifically high school.

00:47:06.000 The two scouts cases, SCOTUS cases, I immediately think of are Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District and Morse v. Frederick.

00:47:13.000 Well, you do give up certain rights depending on their time, place, and manner restrictions.

00:47:16.000 school do you think these rights should be preserved and respected at these schools thanks for all you do for the conservative community well you do give up certain rights depending on their time place and manner restrictions it's not appropriate for you to get up and protest in the middle of your math class because there's actual jobs that have to be taken care of in that math class such as teaching math for example i'm not sure that free speech applies in the same way in in public schools now So long as it is not impeding the educational mission of the school, I think free speech is fine.

00:47:45.000 If it is impeding the educational mission of the school, then I think that obviously free speech is a problem.

00:47:50.000 But that's not the same thing as bringing in a guest speaker on college campus, for example.

00:47:55.000 Or restricting certain types of political activity at the expense of other types of political activity.

00:48:00.000 I mean, the general rule when it comes to time, place, and manner restrictions is that they have to be content neutral.

00:48:04.000 Isaac says, Hey Ben, your argument against Trump pulling our military presence from the Middle East is solid.

00:48:08.000 Allow me to present a counter-argument you may not have heard.

00:48:11.000 In short, we need our troops here at home.

00:48:13.000 We've lost all our important social fabric to the ravages of tribalism and nihilism.

00:48:16.000 We are now embroiled in a culture war against these forces.

00:48:19.000 Maybe the return home of a bunch of people who believe in this country and have an interest in restoring our social fabric is just what we need to win.

00:48:24.000 Well, honestly, listen, I think that our troops are unbelievable people.

00:48:31.000 I mean, they're incredible, they're far braver than I, they made a commitment that I have not made.

00:48:35.000 I have nothing but praise for them.

00:48:37.000 The idea that you join the military to be at home and then influence other people, I don't think is exactly correct.

00:48:43.000 I mean, what you're actually suggesting More effectively would be some sort of national service program, you know, like Israel, that everybody does a year of national service, everybody serves in the army.

00:48:51.000 I'm generally uncomfortable with government force being used that way.

00:48:53.000 I think rebuilding of the social fabric ground up through local community is a better solution.

00:48:57.000 Matthew says, Ben, I'm looking at becoming a political commentator, hopefully similar to what you do.

00:49:01.000 What college degrees and courses would you suggest to be the best equipped for this path?

00:49:06.000 I mean, I'm not sure the college prepares you to actually do any of this stuff.

00:49:09.000 I think that taking poli-sci courses, then reading all of the stuff they don't want you to read is probably useful.

00:49:14.000 I think that taking a journalism course and realizing what it is that they want you to do is maybe a little useful.

00:49:20.000 Learning how to write in an English course is useful.

00:49:23.000 But most... I actually believe this about college generally.

00:49:27.000 Unless you are going to a college that is pushing you to learn a skill set that is specific.

00:49:33.000 So my wife was in pre-med, and now she's a doctor.

00:49:36.000 Right?

00:49:37.000 I know.

00:49:38.000 Shocking.

00:49:38.000 But...

00:49:39.000 That's an actual college degree that's worth something.

00:49:41.000 I'm not sure that it's necessarily worth something to go to college and then major in a subject where you're actually going to learn what to do while you're on the job.

00:49:48.000 As far as being a political commentator, opinion maker, I always say to young people, the first thing people want is information.

00:49:53.000 People like our show because we're information first.

00:49:55.000 We provide you enormous amounts of information and then my opinion.

00:49:58.000 And this is true.

00:50:00.000 When you are in college as well, you have access to information, stuff that's happening on your campus.

00:50:05.000 As Andrew Breitbart said to everyone, to me also, he said, listen, if you have a cell phone, you are now a reporter.

00:50:10.000 And this is true.

00:50:11.000 If you see something bad happen on your campus, you have access to information.

00:50:15.000 You should distribute that information.

00:50:16.000 It'll make you more worth listening to.

00:50:18.000 Okay, let's see.

00:50:20.000 Just says, Dear Ben, in downtown Portland, homeless people wandering around with trash bags full of cans, which they collect to turn in for money, are ubiquitous.

00:50:26.000 As I walked to put some cans in my building's recycling bins today, I wondered, is leaving cans in recycling bins the new leaving a corner of one's wheat field for the poor?

00:50:33.000 If not, what is?

00:50:34.000 Thanks, from a former Jewish day school student.

00:50:36.000 So, that's a reference to Paya and Leket, which are biblical sort of taxes.

00:50:41.000 You're supposed to leave one, basically, you're supposed to leave a corner of your field unreaped for the poor and if you go through your field and you drop stuff on the ground you're not supposed to pick it up you're supposed to leave that for the poor as well is that what recycling is kind of a funny idea i don't think so i think that the idea of pay and like it was to provide job opportunities for people uh that they were it wasn't that you were supposed to pick the the grain and then hand it over to a poor person although that is a form of tzedakah of of charity

00:51:09.000 You're actually supposed to leave something for the poor people to do so that they become self-sufficient.

00:51:14.000 And I think that that's what we should be aiming toward, giving people a job as the highest form of charity.

00:51:18.000 Okay, let's see.

00:51:19.000 Maybe one more question.

00:51:21.000 Let's do this one.

00:51:25.000 Okay, Joshua says, my issue has to do with the United States not producing enough children to sustain a growing population.

00:51:31.000 Because we aren't having enough kids, it will impact the economy, social security, etc.

00:51:34.000 But having paid maternity leave, like Europe, be enough of an incentive for parents to have more kids. 1.00

00:51:38.000 No.

00:51:38.000 The answer is no.

00:51:40.000 Paid maternity leave is not the reason people aren't having kids. 1.00

00:51:42.000 If that were true, then Europe would be having a lot of kids. 0.68

00:51:44.000 They're not having a lot of kids.

00:51:46.000 It is a cultural thing to have a lot of kids.

00:51:47.000 In the Orthodox Jewish community, the average number of children is 4+.

00:51:51.000 In the Catholic community, the average number of children is similar.

00:51:54.000 It's 3-4 people.

00:51:56.000 Average number of kids being had in secular households is under two. 0.99

00:51:59.000 And the reason for that is because kids are a pain in the butt. 0.99

00:52:03.000 Okay? 0.99

00:52:03.000 Really, just putting this as blatantly as possible. 0.99

00:52:06.000 Kids are a giant pain in the butt. 0.80

00:52:08.000 They're also the most wonderful thing that will ever happen to you in your life, don't get me wrong, but they're a lot of hassle. 0.97

00:52:12.000 They change your life radically.

00:52:13.000 You have to plan every day around the most minute needs of your children.

00:52:16.000 You have to change your schedules to deal with them.

00:52:18.000 You have to deal with their fussing and their whining.

00:52:20.000 You have to feed them.

00:52:21.000 They're a large time and energy drain.

00:52:24.000 Well, it used to be that the reason people had kids was so that they could work the farm, or so one day when you were old, your kids would take care of you, but in an era when the government is supposedly going to take care of you, which it won't, but in an era when the government is supposed to take care of you, then the idea is that you don't actually need kids to do all of that stuff.

00:52:39.000 The only reason to have kids would be to pay for these programs 20 years down the road, but you're gonna be dead, so what do you care?

00:52:44.000 So people aren't having kids.

00:52:46.000 Kids have become a net Negative, as opposed to a net asset.

00:52:50.000 Well, that means that people are not going to have kids.

00:52:52.000 Which means the only reason people are having kids, really, is for religious reasons.

00:52:55.000 Because they believe that it's a good thing for the world to have kids, because they believe that kids are an inherent good, and because there still is a human biological need, and this is particularly true among women, to have children.

00:53:04.000 Okay?

00:53:05.000 Doesn't mean that every woman wants to have children. 1.00

00:53:07.000 The vast, vast majority of women are happier having kids. 0.84

00:53:10.000 They are.

00:53:11.000 And all this talk about how you're going to be fulfilled having a career as a high-powered lawyer at 50 with no kids is nonsense.

00:53:19.000 It's just not the case.

00:53:21.000 You may be fulfilled if that's part of your life, but if that's your whole life, there's not a man or woman who's totally fulfilled by that, but particularly not a woman who feels that she forwent her magical power of being able to produce and spawn another human being And did that so they could build more hours at the office.

00:53:36.000 I just don't think that's a recipe for happiness.

00:53:38.000 And feminism, which has taught women this, has made more women miserable. 1.00

00:53:41.000 So, I think that the cure for this is a values cure.

00:53:45.000 It's not an economic cure.

00:53:46.000 I don't think it's about paid maternity leave.

00:53:47.000 Now, is there a conservative argument for paid maternity leave?

00:53:51.000 Yeah, I think there is, which is why I think that there are a lot of private companies that undertake that argument.

00:53:55.000 But I think it's ridiculous to suggest that, for example, my private company has to pay people for taking time off Should be forced by the government to pay people for taking time off at the same rate they would be if they were working.

00:54:07.000 Like, if that's something I want to offer to incentivize really well-qualified women to come to the company, because that's something I believe in, great. 1.00

00:54:12.000 But if the idea is I'm supposed to sacrifice the economic income of the company because you are making a personal choice to have a child, that's top-down control.

00:54:21.000 I'm very much opposed to it.

00:54:22.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:54:25.000 So, Things that I like.

00:54:27.000 So, over the last couple of days driving around with the kids, and I realized my kids were not familiar with the work of Stevie Wonder.

00:54:33.000 Stevie Wonder is one of the most talented musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.

00:54:38.000 And I think, is it safe to say, sort of underrated?

00:54:41.000 Because people say that Michael Jackson is the king of pop.

00:54:44.000 So I was listening to some Michael Jackson.

00:54:46.000 I'm not sure there's a Michael Jackson album you'd actually want to listen to beginning to end, like three times.

00:54:51.000 Stevie Wonder's stuff is fan-fricking-tastic.

00:54:53.000 The man is just unbelievably talented.

00:54:56.000 And obviously his best song is Superstition, the bass line of which is the catchiest bass line in the history of pop music.

00:55:03.000 Here's a little bit of superstition for folks not familiar if you've been living under a rock with the work of Stevie Wonder.

00:55:08.000 Really, I do think underrated.

00:55:09.000 I tweeted out Stevie Wonder over Michael Jackson.

00:55:11.000 I got a lot of flack for it.

00:55:11.000 I was kind of shocked by that.

00:55:13.000 I thought this was perfectly obvious.

00:55:14.000 Stevie Wonder is a much better musician than Michael Jackson.

00:55:18.000 And again, I may have my political disagreements with Stevie Wonder, but talent, man, I mean, he's incredible.

00:55:24.000 He works in a variety of genres.

00:55:27.000 He's terrific.

00:55:27.000 Here's a little bit of Stevie Wonder.

00:55:29.000 Here's a little bit of Stevie Wonder.

00:55:59.000 Here's a little bit of Stevie Wonder.

00:56:14.000 Okay, I mean... The man can sing, the man can play multiple instruments.

00:56:18.000 I mean, he's really a talented guy, so... Don't forget about the Stevie Wonder.

00:56:22.000 Stevie Wonder's fantastic.

00:56:23.000 And by the way, he would have survived in Bird Box.

00:56:29.000 Okay, so a couple of things that I hate today.

00:56:31.000 So, demonstrating once again that our social media outrage culture absolutely stinks.

00:56:35.000 This is a story from The Daily Caller. 0.79

00:56:36.000 At first, it appeared to be just another story about a white person calling the cops on a black person over the summer.

00:56:41.000 A supposedly racially motivated phone call to the police that caught international attention out of hundreds of others.

00:56:46.000 Stories of police arriving to scenes around the United States to find black people committing crimes of barbecuing, sleeping in a university dorm common room, or selling water bottles were taking over the media.

00:56:54.000 With each story, a white person made the phone call, and each caller was given a memorable nickname.

00:56:58.000 In this case, the caller was Doorway Debbie.

00:56:59.000 I don't know if you remember this one.

00:57:01.000 On a midsummer day in July, Darcelle Obregon ducked into an apartment building to shelter herself from the rain while waiting for an Uber. 0.76

00:57:07.000 Minutes later, the front door swung open and out walked a 19-year-old girl who demanded that Obregon leave the premises immediately. 0.99

00:57:13.000 The resident's name is Arabel Torres, a 19-year-old student at Brooklyn College who also has autism.

00:57:18.000 I came downstairs and a woman was standing as I am right now and wouldn't leave, said Torres.

00:57:22.000 What might have been an unremarkable, high-strung incident that occurs hundreds of times a day in New York City ended up becoming a fake news story that race-baited an incident without any credible evidence of bigotry.

00:57:30.000 Torres said, Hey ma'am, this is private property, could you please move? 0.99

00:57:34.000 Okay, and the woman, Obregon, is an assistant to a fashion model. 0.93

00:57:39.000 She flat out refused to leave.

00:57:40.000 After about 10 times of me saying, ma'am, go, this is private property, Obregon still refused, so I called the cops.

00:57:44.000 As a person with autism, I was scared.

00:57:46.000 When somebody is blocking me from leaving, it's a problem, and I was alone in that situation.

00:57:50.000 Torres dialed 911, so Obregon whipped out her phone and began filming.

00:57:53.000 Later that evening, the words worthless skank popped up on her phone.

00:57:56.000 When Torres was at a Broadway show, messages poured in.

00:58:00.000 Hashtags like white privilege and barbecue Becky were included.

00:58:03.000 Obergon's Facebook post reads, on Sunday afternoon, I was in Brooklyn walking to the train when a sudden rainstorm began and I hid in the doorway outside of a random apartment to shield myself from rain.

00:58:11.000 No more than three minutes later, a young woman who lives in the building opened the front door and told me I cannot stand there and had to leave.

00:58:16.000 And then she proceeded to call the police and then she released all of this tape.

00:58:20.000 And there's a lot of talk about how she was maybe high or maybe she's not Spanish, she looks Jewish, all of this stuff.

00:58:27.000 It turns out that this woman was diagnosed with autism.

00:58:30.000 She has ASD.

00:58:32.000 And Torres said that for an individual with autism, she's pretty good at communication.

00:58:36.000 But when she sees or hears people outside the building, it triggers feelings of paranoia and tremendous discomfort.

00:58:40.000 Doesn't matter.

00:58:41.000 She was labeled a racist. 0.98

00:58:42.000 And this story was reported at Ebony Magazine and at the New York Post and all the rest.

00:58:48.000 It turns out the Taurus herself is not white and she's not even sure that Obregon is black.

00:58:51.000 So, well done social media.

00:58:53.000 Makes everybody feel better to tweet about how people are terrible without actually recognizing maybe you're the terrible one for jumping to a conclusion in the first place.

00:59:00.000 So, well done there.

00:59:01.000 New York City, also another crazy story today.

00:59:03.000 New York City added to the growing list of U.S.

00:59:05.000 states and cities to offer residents a third gender option on their birth certificates. 0.97

00:59:09.000 Now, here is why this is absolutely asinine. 0.95

00:59:11.000 When you are born, you have a sex. 0.95

00:59:14.000 The purpose of putting a sex on your birth certificate is so that if a doctor, let's say that something happens, there's a car crash, and the baby has to be rushed to the hospital, and now you have to determine how to operate on the baby or the child, and you actually have to determine how are you going to credibly deal with this child.

00:59:30.000 Health problems are different based on sex.

00:59:34.000 For example, let's say that you are in a situation where you have a government census being done to determine how healthcare is differentiating between males and females and can healthcare be changed to change any sort of imbalance.

00:59:50.000 Then these statistics matter.

00:59:51.000 The purpose for the government keeping statistics is so that we can use them for our data production for purposes of public policy. 0.99

00:59:58.000 Mixing that up by putting X on a birth certificate is just absolutely idiot. 1.00

01:00:02.000 It's idiocy. 1.00

01:00:03.000 It's just idiocy. 1.00

01:00:04.000 The new law allows the choice of X in addition to male or female. 0.98

01:00:06.000 The non-binary category can be selected by those who identify as non-binary, as well as by parents who choose the category for newborn children.

01:00:13.000 Now, what's so amazing about this part?

01:00:15.000 You know, the parents who choose the category for newborn children.

01:00:17.000 First of all, you don't get to choose your own sex. 0.96

01:00:18.000 That's nonsense.

01:00:19.000 You are a biological human.

01:00:21.000 Second, I love the idea that I am imposing on my child by recognizing a biological reality, but I am not imposing on my child by pretending biological reality doesn't exist. 0.98

01:00:32.000 So it is not an agenda-driven item for me to suggest that my child is neither male nor female, but it is an agenda-driven item for me to recognize that my boy has a penis. 0.99

01:00:43.000 All of this is insane. 1.00

01:00:44.000 It's fully insane.

01:00:46.000 New York Mayor Bill de Blasio dropped a groundhog and then praised the law for furthering the city's commitment to defending the rights of the LGBTQ community.

01:00:54.000 Here he reiterated his stance in a statement this week.

01:00:57.000 He said, You do not get to choose how people identify you.

01:01:00.000 You can choose how you identify.

01:01:01.000 Change your name.

01:01:01.000 Live with respect and dignity.

01:01:02.000 You do not get to choose how people identify you.

01:01:07.000 You can choose how you identify.

01:01:09.000 Change your name.

01:01:10.000 Call yourself Bojangles.

01:01:13.000 Call yourself whatever you want.

01:01:14.000 Doesn't matter.

01:01:16.000 Just call yourself a cat.

01:01:17.000 I don't care.

01:01:18.000 But, if you insist that society treat you as a non-biological entity, Then you are living in a world of fantasy, and that's just reality.

01:01:26.000 That's just nonsense.

01:01:27.000 California already does this. 1.00

01:01:28.000 So does Washington and Oregon.

01:01:30.000 Now, I always laugh at this sort of stuff because the truth is that in the end, none of this is going to matter at all.

01:01:35.000 Biology outweighs all of this stuff.

01:01:37.000 This will be a fringe phenomenon.

01:01:39.000 A few people will do it.

01:01:40.000 It'll become trendy for a while, and then it will go away because no one is going to actually do this overall.

01:01:44.000 But the fact that we are all supposed to change what biology is, So that your self-identification becomes how we use objective measures to identify you.

01:01:52.000 So basically, the government defines you.

01:01:55.000 So you define yourself to the government, and then the government defines you for everyone else.

01:02:00.000 And that is a form of thought control that I just simply am not going to engage in.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - January 04, 2019

The Democrats Take Over | Ep. 688

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