The Ben Shapiro Show - The Hard Stuff | Ep. 823

00:00:00.000 President Trump signs off on a massive budget deal, Democrats make grand promises, and Robert Mueller prepares to testify.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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

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00:02:14.000 We begin today not with Canada deciding whether or not women must be forced to wax the balls of men who claim they are women. 0.98

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00:02:26.000 Instead, we begin with a little bit more of a serious topic.

00:02:31.000 And that is the inability to come up with solutions.

00:02:34.000 So I'll begin with a quote tweeted from my friend Adam Grant.

00:02:38.000 So Adam is an organizational psychologist.

00:02:41.000 He teaches over at Wharton.

00:02:42.000 And yesterday he tweeted out, agendas aren't driven by problems.

00:02:45.000 They're driven by solutions.

00:02:47.000 Calling out what's wrong without proposing ways to make it right is complaining.

00:02:50.000 Suggesting potential fixes is constructive.

00:02:52.000 Testing them is proactive.

00:02:53.000 Now, I know all that sounds tautological, but unfortunately we live in a world where this is not true.

00:02:58.000 We live in a world where our politicians are constantly lecturing us on the problems.

00:03:02.000 And they're like, yeah, that guy, he at least knows the problem.

00:03:06.000 He knows the problem.

00:03:07.000 And then when it comes time to implement solutions, then everybody scatters for the hills.

00:03:11.000 Then everybody runs away.

00:03:12.000 So, we'll take a couple of examples today.

00:03:15.000 So, let's begin With the example of global warming.

00:03:19.000 So, global warming.

00:03:21.000 A fellow named Steve Silberman tweeted out, who is a... I'm trying to remember what exactly he does.

00:03:28.000 He's the author of Neurotribes, and he has written a bunch of books that have been on the bestseller list over at the New York Times.

00:03:34.000 He tweeted out a picture of a plaque from Iceland, from the Icelandic Hiking Society.

00:03:41.000 And it's called a letter to the future and it says, Okay is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier.

00:03:47.000 In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path.

00:03:51.000 This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done.

00:03:55.000 Only you know if we did it.

00:03:57.000 So it's a letter from the future.

00:03:58.000 Only you know if we actually stopped.

00:04:01.000 The global warming that is threatening the planet if we did what needs to be done.

00:04:04.000 This is virtue signaling of the highest order because, of course, the entire question when it comes to climate change is what do you do about it?

00:04:10.000 Even accepting the IPCC report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even if you accept those statistics, which, by the way, I do, even if you accept the risk modeling, much of which has been wrong, but some of which has been wrong in the milder direction.

00:04:23.000 Some people say climate change has been more extreme than that.

00:04:25.000 Even if you accept all that, there are no good solutions on the table.

00:04:28.000 There just aren't.

00:04:29.000 People who talk about alternative energy solutions that are ready to go are lying to you.

00:04:33.000 The only alternative energy solution that actually would lower carbon emissions is nuclear power, which the left opposes.

00:04:39.000 And when people talk about a carbon cap and trade deal, that would not cure the problem.

00:04:43.000 It would not take the carbon that's already up there down out of the air.

00:04:46.000 It would not actually apply, presumably, in places like India and China.

00:04:49.000 And it would damn a bunch of people living in the third world to live in absolute penury if they can't use carbon-based sources of fuel. 0.94

00:04:55.000 So there are no good solutions.

00:04:56.000 So when people talk about climate change, typically what you hear from them over and over and over again is, well, at least we agree on the problem.

00:05:03.000 At least we know the problem.

00:05:03.000 This is why folks on the left tend to spend an inordinate amount of time calling people on the right climate change deniers.

00:05:09.000 Because then they don't have to talk about solutions.

00:05:09.000 Why?

00:05:11.000 Then it turns into a moral battle about, here are those people who won't even acknowledge the problem.

00:05:16.000 They won't even accept that there's a problem.

00:05:19.000 And then the folks who are promoting the problem don't actually have to offer a solution.

00:05:23.000 This is what the left has done in the United States with the Green New Deal, for example. 0.83

00:05:26.000 Democrats signing on to a resolution talking about the necessity for a Green New Deal that is non-binding, that has no practical means of execution, that is insane in its actual proposals, if you actually took it seriously, and that got zero votes in the Senate.

00:05:41.000 So this has become a point where everybody sort of signs off on the problem, and then if you don't sign off on the problem, you're the bad guy.

00:05:48.000 But there are no solutions.

00:05:49.000 So nobody actually ends up coming to anything remotely approaching a practical solution.

00:05:54.000 A politician who's a perfect example of somebody who does this all the time is Cory Booker.

00:05:57.000 So Cory Booker, the former mayor of Newark, Mr. Potato Head, who always brings his angry eyes.

00:06:02.000 Cory Booker tweeted out this morning, It's not enough to tell us what you're going to do for our communities.

00:06:07.000 Show us what you've done for the last 40 years.

00:06:09.000 You created this system.

00:06:11.000 We'll dismantle it.

00:06:12.000 Ah, sufficiently vague.

00:06:14.000 Noting that there are problems in the United States and he did not create the problems, you created the problems.

00:06:19.000 Now, who is this you?

00:06:21.000 Corey, you are the mayor of Newark, which still has a murder rate in the top 30 in the United States, so far as I'm aware.

00:06:27.000 You're the mayor of Newark, which still has an unemployment rate a solid 1.5% higher than the average unemployment rate across the United States.

00:06:34.000 And if we're talking About the problems created over the last 40 years.

00:06:37.000 And Cory Booker says that he wants to dismantle the system.

00:06:41.000 I'm glad to hear that he wants to dismantle welfare, the federally controlled public education system, Medicare, Medicaid, and broadly applied social security, all of which have arisen in the last 50 years in the United States.

00:06:50.000 In other words, Cory Booker is doing what politicians very often do.

00:06:53.000 He's pointing at a problem, and then he refuses to solve the problem.

00:06:57.000 Instead, the virtue is in simply noting the problem.

00:07:00.000 This does not move the ball at all.

00:07:02.000 Because we can all talk about problems all day long.

00:07:04.000 We all have problems in our life.

00:07:05.000 But unless you have a solution, it's not helpful.

00:07:08.000 And politics is not the place for sympathy.

00:07:10.000 It really isn't.

00:07:11.000 Politics is not a place you go where people just grant you sympathy.

00:07:15.000 Politics is supposed to be for problem solving.

00:07:17.000 So my wife and I, I've talked about this on the show before, My wife and I have a rule.

00:07:21.000 It was developed very early on in our marriage when I discovered one of the major differences between men and women is sometimes what women would like from a conversation.

00:07:29.000 So my wife would come home and she'd be complaining about work. 1.00

00:07:33.000 And my first instinct, being a man, because this is a very male approach to issues, was not to offer a sympathetic ear, but to immediately jump to, okay, how do we solve that problem?

00:07:40.000 So she would say, I'm having a problem at work.

00:07:42.000 And I'd say, well, you should do X, Y, and Z. And she'd be like, well, I don't want to talk about what I should do.

00:07:46.000 All I want you to do is know that I have a problem.

00:07:50.000 I want you to hear me.

00:07:51.000 I want you to sympathize.

00:07:53.000 And this happened so often and became such a contentious point that we instituted a rule.

00:07:57.000 The rule was I was allowed to ask at the beginning of a conversation whether this was a sympathy conversation or a solutions conversation.

00:08:03.000 Was this conversation oriented toward finding an answer?

00:08:06.000 Or was this a conversation oriented toward me demonstrating that I love my wife by offering sympathy?

00:08:11.000 Well, politics should be about finding solutions.

00:08:13.000 It should not be about offering sympathy.

00:08:15.000 But politics has become nearly entirely about offering sympathy.

00:08:19.000 And so, whichever candidate is most likely to offer you and people like you sympathy is the candidate that you like the most, even if they offer no solutions, even if they leave you bereft of solutions, even if the solutions they implement suck.

00:08:32.000 Okay, this is all backdrop to our politics left and right.

00:08:36.000 So let's take an example from the right. 0.99

00:08:38.000 President Trump is prepared to back a budget deal that is garbage. 0.86

00:08:41.000 Okay, he's about to announce support for a two-year bipartisan budget deal that boosts spending and suspends the debt limit for a full two years. 0.97

00:08:47.000 Now, I'm old enough to remember when President Trump railed against debt spending.

00:08:52.000 He talked about how debt spending was a really bad thing.

00:08:55.000 He talked about how deficits were a really bad thing.

00:08:56.000 This is before he became president.

00:08:58.000 And he talked about correctly the fact that this is intergenerational stealing. 0.89

00:09:02.000 If you don't like tax increases on you today, why would you assume that your children will love tax increases on them when the bills come due?

00:09:09.000 You are doing something that is actually illegal in the United States if a credit card company did it.

00:09:14.000 You are doing this when you sign off on these budget deals.

00:09:16.000 If you took out a credit card and the credit card had a provision that your children have to pay off the credit card, if you do not pay off the credit card, that would be illegal.

00:09:25.000 It would be illegal.

00:09:26.000 You're the one who took out the debt.

00:09:27.000 You're the one who has to pay the debt.

00:09:28.000 If you have to declare bankruptcy, you declare bankruptcy, but it's on you.

00:09:32.000 When it comes to the national debt, you are actually allowed to foist off, you're allowed to pass off the debt onto your children.

00:09:38.000 So if you raise the debt, if you spend in huge deficit numbers and never pay for it, you're not the one who pays for it.

00:09:45.000 Your kids and your grandkids pay for it.

00:09:47.000 It is intergenerational stealing. 0.71

00:09:49.000 My generation, I'm a millennial, we have been the victim of baby boomer intergenerational stealing. 0.99

00:09:54.000 If you look at how social security operates, it used to be that every person on social security was supported by 14 or 15 American taxpayers.

00:10:01.000 We are now down to the point where every person on social security is supported by between two and three taxpayers.

00:10:06.000 So I basically have an additional member of my family I don't even know and who I get to pay every month.

00:10:11.000 It's very exciting.

00:10:12.000 And that was because people decided to put money in their own pocket at the expense of future generations.

00:10:18.000 Which is a problem.

00:10:19.000 And President Trump even acknowledged this problem last year.

00:10:21.000 He signed a bad budget deal last year.

00:10:23.000 And he said at the time, I'm not going to do this again.

00:10:26.000 Because I acknowledge the problem of the debt.

00:10:28.000 Well, acknowledging the problem is not solving the problem, Mr. President.

00:10:31.000 Here was the president last year.

00:10:34.000 My highest duty is to keep America safe.

00:10:39.000 Nothing more important.

00:10:40.000 Therefore, as a matter of national security, I've signed this omnibus budget bill.

00:10:46.000 There are a lot of things that we shouldn't have had in this bill, but we were, in a sense, forced, if we want to build our military, we were forced to have.

00:10:55.000 There are some things that we should have in the bill.

00:10:59.000 But I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again.

00:11:03.000 I'm not going to do it again.

00:11:04.000 Well, fast forward a year.

00:11:05.000 Get in your time machine.

00:11:07.000 The White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reached a tentative two-year budget deal Monday.

00:11:11.000 They would raise spending limits by $320 billion and suspend the federal debt ceiling until after the 2020 presidential election.

00:11:18.000 The agreement, which still must be passed by Congress, probably would prevent a debt ceiling crisis later this year, but also would continue Washington's borrowing binge for at least two years.

00:11:27.000 President Trump tweeted on Monday, I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on a two-year budget and debt ceiling with no poison pills.

00:11:40.000 This was a real compromise to give another big victory to our great military and vets.

00:11:44.000 Listen, I understand the problem of not funding our military, but we did have a unified Republican Congress until about seven months ago.

00:11:52.000 Why didn't we lower spending then?

00:11:54.000 The deal was met with fierce resistance from some prominent Republicans who said it would add too much to the debt, a backlash that will force congressional leaders to work hard this week to ensure they have enough votes for passage.

00:12:03.000 By the way, they should not.

00:12:05.000 They should not have enough votes for passage because, again, we are raising debt on future generations and Republicans are complicit in this as much as Democrats.

00:12:11.000 Barack Obama blew out the national debt.

00:12:14.000 Okay, George W. Bush contributed to the national debt.

00:12:16.000 Barack Obama then proceeded to blow out the national debt, almost doubling it in his time in office.

00:12:21.000 He's raking up a trillion dollar deficit pretty much every year.

00:12:25.000 Four trillion dollar budgets.

00:12:27.000 Donald Trump enters office, and now that's the new normal, and so he just keeps spending at that rate.

00:12:32.000 The agreement could spark concerns from House liberals because of concessions made to the Trump administration.

00:12:36.000 The agreement marks a significant retreat for the White House, which insisted just a few months ago it would force Congress to cut spending on a variety of programs to enact fiscal discipline.

00:12:44.000 Instead, the White House agreed to raise spending for most agencies, particularly the Pentagon.

00:12:48.000 So I say you're not allowed to propose problems without solutions.

00:12:51.000 Here's the solution.

00:12:52.000 Do not sign a budget that raises spending.

00:12:54.000 At the very least.

00:12:55.000 I'm not even saying you got to cut spending.

00:12:56.000 Do not sign a budget that raises spending.

00:13:00.000 Start from that premise.

00:13:01.000 If you got a cut in particular areas, you cut in particular areas.

00:13:04.000 And if that includes some defense cuts, then you cut there too.

00:13:08.000 Because guess what?

00:13:08.000 We're still spending an enormous, enormous amount of money on our military.

00:13:12.000 Because here's the reality.

00:13:13.000 We shouldn't have a deal like sequestration where 50% of the cuts came from the military.

00:13:17.000 That was Barack Obama's deal.

00:13:18.000 Donald Trump is the president now.

00:13:20.000 He doesn't have to do that.

00:13:21.000 But if we don't cut our spending, we are in a world of hurt.

00:13:26.000 We are in serious, serious trouble if we refuse to acknowledge what exactly is going to happen here.

00:13:30.000 And here's the reality, too.

00:13:32.000 The discretionary spending, which rose about 4% this year, is not the real problem.

00:13:36.000 It is the systemic spending that is the real problem.

00:13:38.000 I'll explain in just a second.

00:13:39.000 Everybody knows the solution for that.

00:13:41.000 Nobody will take that solution. 0.98

00:13:43.000 The letter from the future to the American people looks something like, we're now in a debt crisis because you selfish bastards wouldn't actually cut back your Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, or restructure them so they're workable. 0.94

00:13:54.000 That's what the letter from the future looks like, and that's exactly what's going to happen. 0.96

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00:15:02.000 So again, we have a bunch of politicians and they are all fibbing about what exactly things are going to cost.

00:15:08.000 And this is a serious problem because we all know in reality what the solution is.

00:15:12.000 66% of the federal budget every year is Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

00:15:15.000 These all need to be restructured, particularly Social Security, which is effectively bankrupt.

00:15:19.000 We are now taking money directly out of not the funds for Social Security, but from other places.

00:15:25.000 It's basically a giant pyramid scheme.

00:15:26.000 And then we are passing those debts along to future generations or we are racking up debts by selling bonds.

00:15:32.000 Whatever it is, the debt is going to come due.

00:15:36.000 Noah Rothman has a piece over at Commentary Magazine dated in April talking about what an American debt crisis would look like.

00:15:43.000 He says, in 2035, just 16 years from now, Social Security's funds will be insufficient to meet its obligations.

00:15:50.000 Social Security trustees announced that the program's ballooning costs are expected to exceed the revenue it takes in by next year.

00:15:57.000 Medicare is just as bad.

00:15:59.000 That program's hospital insurance fund will run aground as early as 2026.

00:16:03.000 And unlike the situation with Social Security, Medicare trustees found that increased tax revenue has not altered its doomed trajectory.

00:16:10.000 According to last year's estimate from the CBO, the federal debt, which is currently equivalent to 78% of U.S.

00:16:15.000 gross domestic product, will reach 100% of GDP in 2028.

00:16:19.000 That means if you confiscated every dollar made in the United States by 2028, it still would not be sufficient to pay off the U.S.

00:16:26.000 national debt.

00:16:28.000 That projection rests on several assumptions, all of which are false.

00:16:31.000 No new federal spending initiatives.

00:16:33.000 Democrats are pledging many new federal spending initiatives.

00:16:36.000 No new wars.

00:16:37.000 No recessions.

00:16:38.000 A projected decline in defense spending.

00:16:40.000 And none of that is true, which means that we will be at a 100% debt-to-GDP ratio probably by 2024-2025 at the latest.

00:16:49.000 Rothman says Americans know a debt crisis is coming and they don't care.

00:16:53.000 In 2005, George W. Bush outlined a major initiative to reform Social Security that would introduce secured individual investments into the system, stabilizing the program, rendering it financially sustainable.

00:17:02.000 The effort failed.

00:17:03.000 In 2012, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan recommended gradually raising the retirement age for younger workers and slowing the growth in benefits for Americans with higher incomes.

00:17:11.000 They were defeated.

00:17:13.000 In 2016, Trump ran explicitly against conservative efforts to rein in entitlement spending, and he won.

00:17:18.000 This is the new normal in America.

00:17:20.000 Everybody bitches about the problem, and nobody has any solutions. 1.00

00:17:23.000 And if you do provide a solution, then you're immediately ruled out of order.

00:17:27.000 Because your solutions, as it turns out, very often stink, as we will see from the Democrats.

00:17:33.000 So the national debt crisis is not going to stop.

00:17:35.000 And it didn't stop just because the name on the Oval Office changed from Obama to Trump.

00:17:40.000 I was carping about the national debt.

00:17:42.000 I'm old enough to remember when there was a thing called the Tea Party.

00:17:44.000 And the Tea Party complained that we were spending out of control, that we couldn't afford things like Obamacare, that we couldn't afford TARP, that we couldn't afford all of Obama's spending initiatives, cash for clunkers, and all the rest.

00:17:55.000 Where'd everybody go?

00:17:56.000 Where'd everybody go?

00:17:57.000 I understand we're all intoxicated by the brew of having Donald Trump in the White House, but guess what?

00:18:01.000 That didn't change the underlying fact.

00:18:04.000 So if you were complaining about the problem then, but you're not now, check yourself before you wreck yourself.

00:18:08.000 More importantly, check yourself before you wreck the American economy.

00:18:11.000 And if you're President Trump, or Republican voting in Congress, get your head on straight.

00:18:16.000 It's time for you to put your money where your mouth is.

00:18:18.000 Or rather, stop taking money from the mouths of kids who have not yet been born.

00:18:22.000 Because that's what's going on here.

00:18:25.000 And again, here's one of the big problems.

00:18:26.000 When you label problems incorrectly and then come up with solutions, here's the second problem.

00:18:30.000 So we have a couple of problems.

00:18:31.000 One is people who want to carp about the problem but not solve it.

00:18:35.000 And then there are people who want to carp about the wrong problem and then solve it in the wrong fashion.

00:18:40.000 So this would bring us to the problem that we have seen of criminal justice reform.

00:18:45.000 Now, I'm very much in favor of some of the provisions of criminal justice reform, the so-called First Step Act, the bipartisan bill passed by President Trump.

00:18:53.000 Okay, the first step acted a couple of things that are good.

00:18:55.000 It moved prisoners closer to their hometowns, so presumably family could visit them, made family reunification easier in the aftermath of prison.

00:19:04.000 But it also did some stuff I don't like.

00:19:06.000 It lowered sentencing capacity.

00:19:08.000 It made it easier for people to let other people out of prison.

00:19:13.000 Well, naturally, this means that some criminals are getting out of prison.

00:19:16.000 We should note here that the recidivism rate for American prisoners is extraordinarily high, somewhere between 60 and 80%.

00:19:23.000 Now Fox News is reporting that more than 100 violent criminals have been released under the First Step Act, and the data were first obtained exclusively by Tucker Carlson Tonight.

00:19:31.000 They seemingly contradicted lawmakers' promises that legislation would affect only prisoners sentenced for minor drug-related offenses.

00:19:39.000 Of the 2,243 inmates released under the First Step Act, only 960 were incarcerated for drug-related offenses.

00:19:46.000 496 were imprisoned for weapons and explosives related crimes.

00:19:50.000 So people who had guns when they weren't supposed to or explosives.

00:19:53.000 239 for sex offenses.

00:19:54.000 These people being released early.

00:19:56.000 178 for fraud, bribery, and extortion.

00:19:58.000 118 for burglary and larceny.

00:20:00.000 And 106 for robbery.

00:20:02.000 Another 59 were imprisoned over homicide or aggravated assault and now released onto the streets.

00:20:06.000 46 for immigration related offenses.

00:20:09.000 9 for counterfeiting embezzlement.

00:20:11.000 And 2 for national security reasons.

00:20:14.000 In all, 2,023 of the inmates were male, only 211 were female, and about half of the inmates were black, while about half were white.

00:20:23.000 So about 1,000 of the inmates were black, about 1,100 were white, which reflects the general Sort of breakdown of America's federal prison population, which is heavily minority.

00:20:37.000 And this, of course, was the driving force where people complaining that America's quote-unquote mass incarceration system was targeting blacks and Hispanics and that this is all about drug crime.

00:20:46.000 But as it turns out, it wasn't all about drug crime.

00:20:49.000 A lot of these people are being released from prison after committing non-drug related offenses.

00:20:54.000 And we're starting to see the effect of liberal governance when it comes to crime.

00:20:58.000 I would not be surprised over the past few years we've seen, in 2014, 2015 particularly, we saw the so-called Ferguson effect, rising murder rates in cities around the country.

00:21:07.000 That seems to have leveled off in 2017, 2018.

00:21:10.000 Would not be surprised to see crime rates start to go up again as America takes a more liberal position when it comes to fighting crime.

00:21:17.000 An anecdotal example comes courtesy of Seattle.

00:21:21.000 Jason Rantz, my friend over at MyNorthwest.com, and he's hosted for me before.

00:21:27.000 He says a prolific Seattle offender with over 70 criminal convictions allegedly attacked another victim, this time a toddler in a stroller.

00:21:33.000 It's the same offender Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes has fought to keep out of jail.

00:21:37.000 The latest incident happened in downtown Seattle on July 20th.

00:21:40.000 Francisco Calderon, a homeless man, entered multiple businesses along the 500 block of Pine Street, causing disturbances and trying to start fights.

00:21:48.000 He's done this before.

00:21:49.000 According to witness accounts outlined in a police report, Calderon grabbed a cup of coffee from a random passerby and threw it in the face of a random toddler.

00:21:56.000 The child's father struck Khal Daron roughly six times, knocking him to the ground when police arrived.

00:22:00.000 He was arrested for assault three of a child.

00:22:02.000 The child was rushed inside the nearby gap by his mom, where he was cleaned and treated in the store's bathroom.

00:22:07.000 The officer on scene said the temperature of the coffee was unclear.

00:22:10.000 It was unknown if there was any biohazard component.

00:22:12.000 The kid was not physically injured or appeared not to be, but was not communicative and appeared to be staring off into space, possibly in shock.

00:22:18.000 When questioned by police, Calderon said he tripped, spilling the coffee, but apparently multiple witnesses say this was not true.

00:22:24.000 This is close to Calderon's 100th run-in with law enforcement.

00:22:28.000 As Rant says, he's a criminal who shouldn't be on our streets, but in Seattle, we don't punish criminals because social justice.

00:22:33.000 The same thing, by the way, happens in Los Angeles, where crime rates are undoubtedly rising, despite the attempts of the mayor's office to try and hide all of that.

00:22:40.000 When you mislabel the problem as a problem of discrimination rather than a problem of crime, you end up with bad policy.

00:22:47.000 And some of that bad policy involves reversing good policy, namely punishment of criminals.

00:22:52.000 In just a second, we're going to get to people making new promises.

00:22:56.000 New promises that are completely unfulfillable.

00:22:58.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:24:44.000 Okay, so, meanwhile, while we are labeling problems and missolving them, or labeling problems and not solving them at all, Democrats are setting a new agenda, and the new agenda is making radical promises that no one is ever going to keep.

00:24:57.000 And that agenda is being set by the most radical members of the Democratic Party, unfortunately.

00:25:01.000 It's funny, when you talk to Democratic legislators, when they're off the record, they'll acknowledge that there is room for compromise.

00:25:06.000 They'll acknowledge there are solutions that might be able to be reached.

00:25:09.000 But when they go out in public, the first thing that they do, I mean, I know Democratic legislators who do this, I've talked with them, but unfortunately, and this happens on the right too, it's not unique to the left, Unfortunately, when you get out in public, then it becomes more about posturing than it is about anything else.

00:25:22.000 And so you see Democrats throwing out radical agenda items that make no sense at all.

00:25:28.000 Like really no sense at all.

00:25:30.000 And starting civil wars inside the Democratic Party, it's bad for the Democratic Party for them to be impractical.

00:25:34.000 New York Times' Thomas Friedman, who's wrong about pretty much everything, is right about this.

00:25:38.000 He says, if the Democrats fight amongst themselves because the radicals are fighting the moderates, nothing gets done and you're not going to have a unified agenda if you're facing up against Trump.

00:25:47.000 I think there's just a lot of people out there who really want someone to keep it, I think, basically simple.

00:25:54.000 And to me, the simplest democratic message is, I think, national unity.

00:25:58.000 I think there are a lot of people around the country, Anderson, yearning for someone who's going to pull the country together.

00:26:04.000 I think there's a lot of people who feel like we're heading for civil war, a kind of political civil war.

00:26:09.000 So I think there's a huge yearning for that.

00:26:12.000 OK, so I think that he is actually right here, but the Democrats are not going to go for it, because for the Democrats, they don't actually have a unifying national agenda.

00:26:19.000 So it becomes about what kind of promises you can make, what kind of problems you can identify.

00:26:23.000 No solutions allowed.

00:26:25.000 None.

00:26:26.000 And the Democratic Party knows that if you're going to go to a place where the problems are misidentified and no solutions are available, you go to the squad. 0.95

00:26:33.000 Those are the people you go to when it's time to come up with solutions that are completely unworkable and stupid, when it comes to labeling problems that don't exist, when it comes to exacerbating problems that do exist. 0.84

00:26:43.000 Who are you going to go to? 0.99

00:26:43.000 You're going to call female Ghostbusters. 0.99

00:26:45.000 You're going to call the Squad.

00:26:47.000 So here you have a Democratic Representative Underwood admitting that the Squad is now setting the agenda for the Democratic Party.

00:26:53.000 It's been really disturbing to see the president escalate this exchange of words between sitting Democratic Congresswomen.

00:27:02.000 And you know, Mr. President, like it or not, sir, we are here, we are serving in the United States Congress.

00:27:08.000 There is a cohort of smart, prepared, dynamic young women serving in the Congress.

00:27:14.000 And yes, they are bold and are setting the agenda.

00:27:17.000 But quite frankly, Andrea, women are setting the agenda in this 116th Congress. 0.99

00:27:21.000 And that's something that we haven't seen before.

00:27:23.000 So it's all about identity politics and it's not at all about what are the actual ideas.

00:27:26.000 You know why they're doing that?

00:27:27.000 You know why they're focusing it on the faces rather than the ideas?

00:27:30.000 Because the ideas absolutely blow.

00:27:32.000 The ideas are terrible.

00:27:33.000 The ideas are absolutely awful.

00:27:34.000 So, let's take some examples of the supposed problems.

00:27:38.000 And solutions being offered by the Democratic left.

00:27:41.000 OK, so Ilhan Omar, the new insane thought leader of the Democratic Party.

00:27:45.000 My goodness.

00:27:46.000 I mean, last last week, she's such a thought leader that she proposed an openly anti-Semitic pro-BDS resolution labeled anti-Semitic by Nancy Pelosi a month earlier at AIPAC.

00:27:55.000 Not a Democrat said a word because this is how things work now.

00:27:57.000 So here is Ilhan Omar creating what can only be described as a mad lib of Democratic policies.

00:28:03.000 So when I say a Mad Lib, I mean that you can, I'll read you the sentence that she writes and then I will put it in Mad Lib form and you'll realize that this is basically how Democrats are now doing policy.

00:28:12.000 She says, no one should fear receiving medical care because they are undocumented.

00:28:15.000 We must ensure that all people in our country have access to reproductive health care.

00:28:19.000 She's putting a lot in there.

00:28:21.000 What is she talking about there?

00:28:22.000 She is saying that we should have taxpayer funded abortion for illegal immigrants.

00:28:27.000 That is what she's saying right there.

00:28:28.000 She is saying that if a legal immigrant comes across the border and wants you to pay for their abortion, we should pay for it. 0.98

00:28:34.000 So, this is the new Democratic Mad Lib formulation.

00:28:38.000 Taxpayer-funded noun for group.

00:28:42.000 You just have to pick what fits into that noun and group.

00:28:44.000 My favorite?

00:28:45.000 Taxpayer-funded dolphins for lesbian single moms. 0.99

00:28:50.000 You can just pick any noun and any group and it totally works.

00:28:54.000 Taxpayer-funded avocado toast.

00:28:56.000 For millennials, right?

00:28:58.000 And this just becomes part of the democratic agenda.

00:29:02.000 And this is their whole thing.

00:29:03.000 Again, these are promises that will never come true.

00:29:05.000 The American people are not up for spending taxpayer funded money on abortion, let alone abortions for illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:29:13.000 Come here to have your baby killed. 1.00

00:29:14.000 Welcome to America. 1.00

00:29:16.000 No one's up for that.

00:29:17.000 But this is what the Democrats are proposing because they don't have any solutions to actual problems.

00:29:22.000 What are some of the other solutions?

00:29:24.000 How about Rashida Tlaib? 0.97

00:29:25.000 So Rashida Tlaib, another member of the squad presenting ideas for your consumption.

00:29:29.000 Yesterday, she comes out and she's cheering the $15 minimum wage that Democrats just passed in the House.

00:29:36.000 Minimum wage has always been bad economic policy.

00:29:39.000 It creates, it kills jobs.

00:29:41.000 Artificially boosting wages means that you're artificially boosting prices.

00:29:44.000 It also means that you're artificially lowering the number of hours that people can work.

00:29:48.000 Minimum wage is a bad idea, but it is a particularly bad idea when you randomly pick a number out of the air and then decide that this is what the minimum wage should be.

00:29:55.000 So why $15?

00:29:56.000 Why not $20?

00:29:57.000 Rashida Tlaib says, good question!

00:29:59.000 Let's make it $20! 0.99

00:30:00.000 For no reason.

00:30:01.000 Because she says so.

00:30:03.000 We can't allow people to be living off of tipped, you know, relying on tipped wages.

00:30:09.000 It's just not, or whatever they call it, it's just income.

00:30:12.000 Because it's just not enough to support our families.

00:30:15.000 Big fights like this one, $15.

00:30:16.000 By the way, when we started it, it should have been $15.

00:30:20.000 Now I think it should be $20.

00:30:22.000 Make sure America arrives in here tonight. 0.96

00:30:24.000 It should be $20.

00:30:25.000 No, it should be $20 an hour.

00:30:26.000 Like $18 to $20 an hour at this point.

00:30:28.000 Everything, all the costs.

00:30:30.000 And so when they say all this is going to raise the cost, It's a little bit hard to hear her.

00:30:34.000 She's saying it should be $20 an hour.

00:30:36.000 And then it basically turns into a bidding session for cattle.

00:30:40.000 Why not $21?

00:30:40.000 Do I hear $21?

00:30:41.000 I got $22.

00:30:41.000 Do I hear $22?

00:30:43.000 Do I hear $50?

00:30:43.000 Do I hear $1,000?

00:30:44.000 If you really think that minimum wage is going to solve this problem, solve income inequality, I have a proposal.

00:30:49.000 I proposed it long ago to Shama Sawant, who is a socialist city councilwoman in the city of Seattle.

00:30:53.000 We had a long debate on this topic.

00:30:54.000 You can find it on YouTube.

00:30:55.000 It's pretty amusing.

00:30:56.000 I asked her straight off, why not $1,000 an hour?

00:31:00.000 We'll solve income inequality in one day.

00:31:03.000 It'll be unbelievable.

00:31:05.000 And she could not explain why not $1,000 an hour.

00:31:08.000 People who are sitting next to her, they were like, well, that would just be unrealistic.

00:31:11.000 Really?

00:31:12.000 Now you explain to me what's unrealistic.

00:31:14.000 Because apparently you know how to run businesses better than all the people who have built, run businesses, and hired everyone.

00:31:18.000 You don't hire anyone.

00:31:20.000 Rashida Tlaib is not hiring anyone.

00:31:22.000 The folks in Congress who are calling for $15 minimum wage have no employees paid for by them.

00:31:28.000 All of their employees are paid for by the American taxpayer, which means future taxpayers, really.

00:31:33.000 And yet they're gonna stand on their high horse and tell people sit on their high horse and tell people what exactly minimum wage should be again. 0.99

00:31:39.000 Identifying a problem that people aren't making enough money and providing no solution other than something that is completely unworkable and stupid. 0.99

00:31:47.000 This is the new Democratic Party of your making. 0.83

00:31:50.000 And this is why Donald Trump, despite all of his foibles, despite all the things that he tweets, despite the fact that he pursues policy sometimes that I don't like, is in a strong position going into 2020.

00:32:01.000 It is because for whatever his problems, at least he's provided some solutions.

00:32:06.000 The Democrats are out there providing pretty much no solutions at this point.

00:32:10.000 Their agenda is supposedly to make the country better by just not being Trump.

00:32:14.000 I'm not sure that that's enough.

00:32:16.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.

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00:34:49.000 Okay, so the democratic solutions are apparently, according to the squad, who are now the ideological thought leaders, taxpayer funded abortion for illegal immigrants, $20 minimum wage.

00:35:05.000 And according to Alexander Ocasio-Cortez, the illustrious, the brilliant, the thought leader, everyone here in the United States illegally should be allowed to stay.

00:35:15.000 And everyone around the planet who wants to cross into our country should be allowed to come. 1.00

00:35:20.000 So apparently the United States, first of all, I don't know why this isn't imperialist, Like really, she's worried about colonialism and imperialism?

00:35:26.000 How about making everyone on earth an American citizen?

00:35:29.000 Basically, this is what she suggests.

00:35:30.000 Anyone who makes it into the United States should stay. 1.00

00:35:32.000 So here's what we've got.

00:35:33.000 Taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal immigrants who can stay no matter how they got here. 1.00

00:35:41.000 So for billions of illegal immigrants who cross our borders.

00:35:45.000 And also they get paid a $20 minimum wage.

00:35:47.000 How could it ever go wrong?

00:35:49.000 Here's AOC.

00:35:51.000 I think migration to me is liberation.

00:35:58.000 It's the ability to move and be.

00:36:02.000 It's the freedom to be, really, is what we're talking about.

00:36:06.000 And I think that all people should be free to be here and in our communities.

00:36:13.000 Because I think that when you start viewing human beings as intrinsically valuable, Okay, then she should open her front door and feel increasingly blessed that random people walk in and eat her cookies. 0.92

00:36:28.000 This is ridiculous. 0.99

00:36:29.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:36:30.000 She's Marianne Williamson if Marianne Williamson were birthed by Karl Marx. 0.98

00:36:34.000 It's insane.

00:36:36.000 By the way, it's not just the AOC squad.

00:36:38.000 It's also the Democratic leading lights.

00:36:40.000 It's Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, is beloved by all of the intelligentsia in the Democratic Party because, of course, she is a smart lady because she taught at Harvard Law.

00:36:47.000 But that's not stopping her from proposing radical solutions that are not going to be implemented. 0.97

00:36:52.000 She says, we're all going to transition to government-run health care, depriving 155 million Americans of their private health insurance.

00:36:57.000 This is being openly proposed.

00:36:59.000 She did this in an AARP presidential candidate forum.

00:37:02.000 It is amazing, by the way, how left the AARP is.

00:37:05.000 We have sponsors here on the program who provide an alternative to AARP.

00:37:10.000 There is a reason.

00:37:11.000 The fact that the AARP is doing a forum where everybody nods and laughs when she talks about government-run health care for everyone, you know who benefits a lot from private health insurance?

00:37:20.000 Older folks who are buying supplemental insurance, even if they have Medicare, and older folks who have private insurance, who, by the way, represent an enormous health care burden on the United States Medicare system.

00:37:30.000 Here she is saying, well, put everybody on Medicare, but don't worry, it won't hurt the old people somehow.

00:37:34.000 Here is here is Elizabeth Warren saying nonsense. 0.83

00:37:36.000 Your Medicare for all proposal would eliminate private insurance, correct?

00:37:43.000 Is that right?

00:37:45.000 What it does is it transitions people to more complete insurance coverage, more complete healthcare coverage at a lower cost, which I think is what we all want.

00:37:56.000 Everyone gets covered, but we do it at the lowest possible cost.

00:38:01.000 It's about healthcare from our babies to our seniors so that no one has to go bankrupt over a medical problem.

00:38:09.000 Okay, so this is...

00:38:11.000 The Democrats have nothing, and their radical agenda is alienating Americans.

00:38:15.000 And here is how you know that this is going to be a very competitive election in 2020.

00:38:18.000 Because the Democrats, by ignoring all the issues, by bringing up problems that don't exist in order to address, in order to avoid problems that do exist, By providing no solutions?

00:38:28.000 If Donald Trump could just control himself, he would win this thing in a walk.

00:38:31.000 There's a new Gallup poll out just now, and it is a question as to what is the most important problem facing the country today?

00:38:37.000 What's the most important question facing the country today?

00:38:40.000 Number one, immigration.

00:38:43.000 27% say immigration.

00:38:44.000 Number one, the vast majority of those people, I would assume, are people who are not in favor of open borders.

00:38:50.000 And the Democrats preaching open borders and taxpayer-funded abortions for illegal immigrants, that is not going to help them. 0.98

00:38:56.000 Number two is the government and poor leadership.

00:38:58.000 And this is where if President Trump would shut his pie hole, he would be in pretty good position come 2020, because that's a lot of Democrats who, again, don't have real policy solutions, but are angry at President Trump.

00:39:09.000 Only 7% say race relations and racism.

00:39:11.000 So the media's key focus, race relations and racism.

00:39:15.000 Only 7% of Americans say that is their top problem in the United States, which, by the way, is a lot less than minority population of the United States, right?

00:39:24.000 I mean, 10% of the American population Only 7% of Americans saying that race relations are the number one problem in America, which is correct. 1.00

00:39:33.000 They are not the number one problem in America.

00:39:35.000 Only 7% name healthcare.

00:39:36.000 Only 4% say climate change.

00:39:38.000 The media's top priorities, which are racism, healthcare, and climate change.

00:39:44.000 Those represent a collective 18% of people who say it's their top priority as opposed to immigration, which is 27%.

00:39:52.000 And then you get to unifying the country at 4%, the economy in general at 3%, poverty, hunger, and homelessness at 3%.

00:39:58.000 The Democrats are blowing this thing.

00:40:01.000 Because innately, I think most people understand what I've been talking about this entire hour.

00:40:05.000 I think most people innately understand that if you're not providing solutions, then you're part of the problem.

00:40:10.000 And right now, Democrats are part of the problem.

00:40:12.000 And that's why President Trump, there are polls that show that more than half of Americans approve of President Trump on the economy.

00:40:18.000 And more than half also say that they will not vote for him.

00:40:21.000 I really wonder whether the latter number is true.

00:40:24.000 Because in the end, people feel the impact of politics on their lives.

00:40:27.000 That's what Trump has to hope for.

00:40:28.000 And again, it's why the best thing Trump could do is make his personality secondary to the actual policy he is pursuing.

00:40:35.000 Even if I don't like some of the policy that he is pursuing.

00:40:38.000 Okay, meanwhile, across the pond in Britain, the big story is that Boris Johnson has become the next Prime Minister of Britain.

00:40:46.000 According to the Washington Post, Boris Johnson handily won the race to lead the Conservative Party on Tuesday and will be Britain's next Prime Minister within a day.

00:40:53.000 Now, Johnson has been perceived as sort of the Trump of Britain.

00:40:57.000 This is not the case.

00:40:59.000 He has pretty sterling intellectual credentials, says Boris Johnson.

00:41:02.000 He tends to act like a buffoon for fun because it's good for his image and he understands that being straight-laced and uptight, like Theresa May, that that is not actually going to help you when it comes to British politics.

00:41:13.000 So he's this sort of cartoonish character who happens to be a pretty solid knife fighter when it comes to British politics.

00:41:18.000 I spoke with Daniel Hanan, who is the UK representative to the European Parliament.

00:41:23.000 We did a Sunday special a couple of weeks ago.

00:41:25.000 We talked about Boris Johnson.

00:41:26.000 He said that Boris is one of the smartest people he knows.

00:41:28.000 According to the Washington Post, Johnson, a bombastic Latin-quoting Oxford classicist, not quite Trumpy, with a mop of intentionally must yellow hair, made his name as an over-the-top journalist in Brussels, and then as London mayor, and galvanized the successful Brexit campaign in 2016.

00:41:43.000 He'll walk through the black enameled doors of 10 Downing Street on Wednesday, fulfilling what his biographers describe as his relentless, blonde ambition, To follow his hero, Winston Churchill, into the top spot.

00:41:54.000 Johnson captured about 92,000 votes inside the Conservative Party to Jeremy Hunt, the current Foreign Secretary, who's at 47,000.

00:42:02.000 A dominant victory, showing Tories want a leader who promises above all else to deliver Brexit.

00:42:07.000 President Trump, of course, is rooting for Johnson.

00:42:09.000 He tweeted, congratulations to Boris Johnson on becoming the new Prime Minister of the UK.

00:42:13.000 He will be great.

00:42:15.000 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also congratulated Johnson.

00:42:19.000 He tweeted, Iran's Nazi confrontation.

00:42:21.000 We have 1500 miles of Persian Gulf coastline.

00:42:24.000 These are our waters and we will protect them.

00:42:27.000 So there's an ongoing standoff right now between the Iranian government and the government in London.

00:42:32.000 The handoff will be very quick, and then the question will be exactly how Johnson gets Brexit done, because Brexit was voted for two years ago.

00:42:39.000 The clock is ticking.

00:42:40.000 Basically, according to current law, by October 31st, if there is no deal on Brexit, then no-deal Brexit happens, which means that Britain just leaves the EU without any negotiated deal with the EU.

00:42:50.000 The problem for Theresa May is she didn't want any of that to happen. 0.99

00:42:53.000 She wanted a deal with the EU.

00:42:54.000 The EU holds a lot of leverage over Britain in terms of trade.

00:42:58.000 They've been threatening Britain not to leave the EU.

00:43:00.000 They've been trying to overrule the will of the people.

00:43:02.000 Which, of course, explains exactly why Brits voted for Brexit in the first place.

00:43:07.000 They voted for Brexit because they said the EU is trying to control our lives with their onerous regulations.

00:43:12.000 And we don't trust the EU to handle things like immigration.

00:43:14.000 We don't trust the EU to handle things like trade agreements as a bloc with other countries.

00:43:19.000 We've created internal freedom to trade, but then you've got the EU that is actually setting barriers to our trade with, for example, the United States.

00:43:26.000 And we shouldn't have that.

00:43:28.000 And so we're voting to leave.

00:43:29.000 And the EU says, you say that we're too controlling?

00:43:32.000 Well, if you leave, we're going to hurt you.

00:43:34.000 The EU is pretty abusive, obviously, toward member states that do not wish to accede to all of their demands.

00:43:40.000 So Boris Johnson has on the table no-deal Brexit, which would go forward October 31st.

00:43:44.000 He has vowed if there is no deal by October 31st, that is exactly what will happen.

00:43:48.000 The market's dropped slightly on this news, but basically this is already all priced in.

00:43:52.000 Would it be the end of the world, a no-deal Brexit?

00:43:54.000 No, it wouldn't, because the fact is that the UK is still an economic powerhouse with regard to the EU, and people inside the EU are still going to want British products, and vice versa.

00:44:04.000 So there will be agreements between the UK and the EU.

00:44:07.000 The UK is not going to be frozen out by the EU.

00:44:10.000 One of the lies that has been told by the media is that the folks who are in favor of Brexit are in favor of high tariffs against the EU.

00:44:16.000 Of course, that is untrue.

00:44:17.000 They're seeking lower tariffs with the rest of the world.

00:44:19.000 And Trump has already vowed that he will negotiate quickly an agreement with the UK separate from the EU.

00:44:25.000 So how does this move forward?

00:44:28.000 We'll find out.

00:44:29.000 Writing in Monday's Telegraph, Johnson said it's time the country recovered some of its Kansu spirit.

00:44:33.000 He said that if the Americans could land men on the moon 50 years ago using hand-knit bits of computer code, then 21st century Britain could imagine a way to provide for frictionless trade.

00:44:42.000 Across the Northern Irish border, which has been one of the stumbling blocks of the Brexit deal.

00:44:46.000 The reason that's part of the stumbling block is because the nation of Ireland is divided, the island of Ireland is divided, and part of the country It's actually two separate countries, technically speaking, thanks to the Irish peace deal.

00:45:01.000 Part of the country is still part of the UK, part is independent.

00:45:03.000 And there are no barriers in terms of crossing that border.

00:45:08.000 That could change if Brexit goes forward, because then you would need barriers to monitor one country that is part of the EU and one that is part of the UK.

00:45:17.000 Tony Blair is telling the BBC that these things are technically different when it comes to how to do all of this.

00:45:25.000 The European's top Brexit negotiator, Michael Barnier, said that his side looked forward to working constructively with Johnson.

00:45:31.000 Barnier said the EU was prepared for some compromise, ready to rework the Declaration on Future Relations.

00:45:36.000 In all likelihood, whenever people kick a deal down the road, worse does usually come to worse.

00:45:41.000 I'm predicting that there will be a no-deal Brexit.

00:45:44.000 And if that happens, then that happens.

00:45:46.000 And I don't think that the fallout is going to be nearly as bad as folks think that the fallout is going to be.

00:45:51.000 The Washington Post, of course, predicting that Boris Johnson becoming prime minister is then going to fall apart on him as No Deal Brexit goes forward.

00:45:58.000 Ishan Tharoor writing at the Washington Post, he says, After his widely anticipated confirmation in a leadership vote by members of the Conservative Party on Tuesday, Johnson is expected to carry out the ritual visiting of Buckingham Palace on Wednesday before assuming his role as Britain's newest prime minister.

00:46:13.000 Johnson's rise to power has long been telegraphed.

00:46:16.000 A scion of wealth and privilege, Johnson went to Eton and Oxford before embarking on a controversial career in journalism that would catapult him into politics.

00:46:23.000 Now Johnson gets the chance to prove that the manure in Britain smells different.

00:46:27.000 He has vowed to push forward Brexit, break free of the tyranny of the EU, and lead a liberated Britain to its former global greatness.

00:46:33.000 His supporters are willing to look beyond a cringeworthy record of gaffes, sordid peccadillos, and soft bigotry.

00:46:38.000 So they're already trying to portray him as a bigot.

00:46:40.000 That's always how this goes.

00:46:42.000 Most analysts reckon he is in for a rude awakening.

00:46:45.000 Because if he goes forward with Brexit, then that will be deeply unpopular.

00:46:49.000 But again, I think that is unlikely and I think that the British public is willing to grant him at least a window of opportunity to do all the things that he says that he is going to do.

00:46:59.000 So, Boris Johnson in the UK, congratulations on his accession to the prime ministership.

00:47:04.000 And I think that a lot of folks across the pond are rooting for Boris Johnson to be successful in negotiating a Brexit deal and providing for more independence from Brussels.

00:47:13.000 Alrighty, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:47:16.000 So, I stumbled on this singer named Yola.

00:47:20.000 And she is just first rate.

00:47:23.000 She really is terrific.

00:47:23.000 So as you know, when I recommend music, typically it is classical music or old school jazz.

00:47:27.000 It's very rare that I recommend a modern artist.

00:47:29.000 There's an artist, her name is Yola.

00:47:32.000 She is from Britain and she does this sort of country rhythm and blues deal that is really unique.

00:47:40.000 Her name is Yola.

00:47:40.000 Her voice is just terrific.

00:47:42.000 And her personal story, she was a victim of an abusive home.

00:47:46.000 Her newest album is something called Walk Through Fire, and it's literally based on her house catching on fire, and her catching on fire.

00:47:53.000 And she says that she was laughing while her house was on fire.

00:47:56.000 Why?

00:47:56.000 Because when she was on fire, she thought to herself, okay, to distract from the pain, I need to think of the worst thing that's happened to me.

00:48:01.000 And she thought of her abusive childhood, and she started to laugh because she realized that literally being on fire was not as bad That's her abusive childhood.

00:48:08.000 In any case, she is immensely talented.

00:48:10.000 Here is a little bit of one of her songs.

00:48:12.000 I take a ride out in the country It's all I can do When the Whippoorwill sings A song so blue

00:48:26.000 Falling out of love with you Is not an easy thing to do But you don't care about me Baby Running

00:48:55.000 here is all I know The country satisfies my soul When I think I'm going Hey I take a ride out in the country She's terrific.

00:49:13.000 I mean, she really is talented.

00:49:15.000 She has been on CBS this morning, I guess back in March.

00:49:19.000 She was, before this, I mean, it was really only this year that she started to break out.

00:49:22.000 Before this, she was a backup singer for Massive Attack, the Chemical Brothers, and Iggy Azalea.

00:49:27.000 So that is going wildly unappreciated because she is just tremendous.

00:49:31.000 So check out her album. 0.77

00:49:32.000 She's really good.

00:49:33.000 Okay, time for some things I hate.

00:49:38.000 Now we reach the other side of the ledger.

00:49:40.000 So when we talk about artistic failings, I don't know if you have been... I don't know if you have been... What's the opposite of privileged?

00:49:47.000 Damned to see the trailer for Cats. 0.71

00:49:51.000 So Cats is one of the worst musicals of all time. 0.97

00:49:53.000 I'm a musical theater aficionado.

00:49:54.000 I grew up with the musical theater.

00:49:55.000 My father wrote musicals.

00:49:57.000 In fact, my father and I are writing a musical together right now.

00:50:00.000 Cats is an abomination.

00:50:02.000 It's awful.

00:50:03.000 It is just a pastiche of cats singing to you.

00:50:07.000 It's by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who is a talented guy, right?

00:50:09.000 Phantom of the Opera is a well-crafted piece of musical theater. 0.54

00:50:15.000 This, Cats, is just, it was always garbage, and the only people who were in the audience for a very long time were blue-haired old ladies who like cats. 1.00

00:50:22.000 Now they've decided that they're going to make a movie of Cats, and this is some of the creepiest bleep you will ever see in your entire life. 0.66

00:50:29.000 I mean, this is creepy.

00:50:30.000 I couldn't even make it all the way through the trailer because I was afraid that I would have nightmares the rest of my natural life.

00:50:36.000 It is so frightening.

00:50:38.000 It is a bunch of people who are dressed up as cats, but they're not dressed up kind of as cats in the kind of furry way that Beto O'Rourke would dress up as a cat.

00:50:46.000 No, they're dressed up as cats that are sort of CGI'd a little bit, as though humans were merged with cats.

00:50:53.000 It falls directly into the uncanny valley, right?

00:50:56.000 The Uncanny Valley is something they say in animation, where the closer you get to portraying a human on screen, the worse it is, because human beings are programmed to be able to see what looks human and what doesn't, and so it just kind of creeps you out.

00:51:06.000 Well, this is like that, because they're not cats and they're not human.

00:51:09.000 It looks as though Dr. Moreau's lab were real.

00:51:11.000 And it is creepy as all hell.

00:51:13.000 Here's a little bit of the trailer.

00:51:15.000 If you subscribe, then you too can share my nightmares.

00:51:17.000 Here's a little bit of one of the worst trailers in the history of humanity.

00:51:20.000 I'm your face too.

00:51:28.000 Oh no.

00:51:32.000 Let your mother leave me. 1.00

00:51:37.000 I haven't seen you before, have I?

00:51:38.000 Open up and tell me.

00:51:42.000 For me.

00:51:45.000 If you find me.

00:51:47.000 The meaning of what happiness is.

00:51:53.000 So could I, wait, could I interest you in a movie about humanoid cats singing to you, directed by the guy who did the Danish girl?

00:52:02.000 Could I interest you in a movie by the director of Les Mis?

00:52:06.000 About a movie where Idris Elba, one of the most awesome actors on planet Earth right now, plays a cat?

00:52:15.000 Where Jason Derulo shows up playing a cat?

00:52:17.000 Could I interest you in something like this?

00:52:19.000 Now, I don't know how they got a cast this large, except that I hope this thing bombs. 0.52

00:52:24.000 I hope it bombs terrifically. 0.99

00:52:26.000 Let me read you the cast of this movie, because people are insane! 1.00

00:52:28.000 Are you crazy? 0.96

00:52:30.000 Hey, you've got Idris Elba playing Macavity, cat. 0.87

00:52:33.000 You got Taylor Swift as Bombalurina. 0.69

00:52:37.000 Rebel Wilson shows up.

00:52:39.000 Judi Dench shows up.

00:52:41.000 Ian McKellen shows up.

00:52:42.000 Jennifer Hudson shows up. 0.95

00:52:43.000 James Corden shows up.

00:52:44.000 Jason Derulo shows up.

00:52:46.000 Ray Winstone shows up.

00:52:48.000 So, like, half of Hollywood shows up for this thing.

00:52:51.000 And all I can think of is burn it with fire. 0.99

00:52:54.000 Burn it with fire. 0.98

00:52:55.000 The best tweet on this, I was informed by one of my producers, Mike, is that this trailer makes you want to kick an actual cat. 0.95

00:53:04.000 Which, don't abuse animals, folks. 0.85

00:53:06.000 Enough animal abuse took place in the making of this film.

00:53:09.000 It was human abuse, it wasn't even cat abuse.

00:53:12.000 What a horror show.

00:53:14.000 Okay, speaking of horror shows, over in Canada, things have gotten wild.

00:53:18.000 There is a case that has made a lot of headlines at the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

00:53:25.000 According to the National Post, a B.C.

00:53:28.000 Human Rights Tribunal hearing devolved into repeated outbursts and name-calling this week as it considered a transgender woman's complaint that a home-based salon discriminated against her by denying her a Brazilian wax.

00:53:38.000 Now, so far, you might think, well, this is bad.

00:53:40.000 I mean, here's a transgender woman who presumably has had all the surgeries and doesn't have the male genitalia and wants just her surgically altered female parts to be waxed. 0.99

00:53:51.000 Wrong you are! 1.00

00:53:53.000 This is a case about a person named Jessica Yaniv, a man who believes he is a woman, but still has very, very female penis and testicles. 0.99

00:54:05.000 Jessica Yaniv, the complainant, told the hearing she was entitled to receive the advertised wax service, and that if the tribunal ruled against her, it could lead to a dangerous precedent. 0.98

00:54:13.000 You cannot choose who your clientele is going to be, she said.

00:54:15.000 The she is coming courtesy of the National Post.

00:54:17.000 This would be a he. 1.00

00:54:18.000 How do I know it's a he? 0.99

00:54:19.000 Because genetically, it's a he. 1.00

00:54:22.000 Physically, it's a he. 1.00

00:54:24.000 Even non-surgically, it's a he. 0.99

00:54:26.000 Because buried in paragraph six of this article is the actual news. 0.74

00:54:30.000 Business owner Marcia da Silva said she was not comfortable carrying out a Brazilian wax on a person with male genitalia, nor did she have the training for it. 0.99

00:54:37.000 So we went real quick from bake the cake, bigot, to wax my balls, bigot. 0.99

00:54:42.000 J. Cameron... I'm sorry, no other way to put this, guys. 0.99

00:54:46.000 J. Cameron, De Silva's lawyer and litigation manager with the Alberta-based Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms, told the hearing that a ruling against his client would be tantamount to ordering intimate services against someone's will.

00:54:56.000 Of course this is true.

00:54:58.000 Of course this is true.

00:54:59.000 So, we live in a world where we are willing to acknowledge that women are very often threatened by males.

00:55:05.000 That women, for too long, their experiences have been overlooked at the hands of quote-unquote toxic masculinity.

00:55:11.000 And some of that is true.

00:55:12.000 For too long, women have been mistreated by males. 1.00

00:55:14.000 And there is a reason why women might be afraid of a random male coming to their house where they perform a service on their intimate areas. 0.86

00:55:20.000 There might be a reason for that, but I guess the B.C.

00:55:22.000 court now has to rule on whether a woman does not have a right to be nervous about any of this.

00:55:27.000 She has to serve this person because this person says they are a woman. 1.00

00:55:30.000 So in other words, you should be more afraid of a man who says straight out, I want you to wax my testicles than a man who says he is a woman who says that he wants to have his testicles waxed by you. 0.98

00:55:43.000 So somehow it is more dangerous For a person who does not believe they are a member of the opposite sex and suffer from the mental disorder known as gender identity disorder, it is more dangerous to serve a male who does not suffer from that disorder than to serve a male who suffers from that disorder and still has all of his parts and is demanding that you service him in your home by waxing his genitals. 0.98

00:56:06.000 That's what this case is all about. 0.97

00:56:08.000 So, Jessica Yaniv was asked about all of this in an interview, and it didn't go all that great for Jessica Yaniv, but it doesn't have to because the social justice warriors will always come out in defense of the stupidest possible solution. 0.96

00:56:22.000 No problem. 0.77

00:56:22.000 You do what you want to do, Jessica, and you live your life whatever way you want to live your life. 0.77

00:56:26.000 But the concern I have is that those women should also be allowed to live their lives the way they want to live their lives. 1.00

00:56:30.000 But not when they discriminate against the rights of others.

00:56:33.000 But they'll argue that they're not discriminating, that they're just saying, I'm sorry, we don't supply a service of a bikini wax or a Brazilian or whatever it happens to be, or the removal of hair from a genitalia, from a man, as far as they're concerned.

00:56:45.000 Because it's male genitalia.

00:56:48.000 And that's what they're saying. 0.88

00:56:49.000 They're saying we shouldn't be forced to do that.

00:56:53.000 Oh, have we lost his line there?

00:56:54.000 Hello?

00:56:54.000 You there?

00:56:55.000 We'll try and get him back in a second.

00:56:56.000 He seems to have lost the line.

00:56:57.000 Have we lost our line, Scott?

00:56:59.000 Okay.

00:57:00.000 Okay, there are 10 seconds of silence because this person hung up.

00:57:03.000 Because, of course, by any objective measure... I know, we have moved from the objective to the subjective.

00:57:07.000 I know that we are now all supposed to... We are now all supposed to comply with the subjective demands of people.

00:57:13.000 So, in the real world, when we interact with one another, we have to use objective measurements of what things are.

00:57:19.000 So, to take an example, before me sits a computer.

00:57:21.000 If I thought that this computer were an elephant, that would be because I'm wrong.

00:57:24.000 And the way you can tell I'm wrong is because you can look at the computer yourself, and you can tell...

00:57:28.000 That this right here would be a computer, right?

00:57:31.000 Well, I'm fairly certain that if a woman looks at a set of twig and berries and says, you know what that is right there? 1.00

00:57:37.000 That would be a penis and testicles. 1.00

00:57:40.000 And the other person says, no, no, no, no, no. 1.00

00:57:42.000 I say, I feel that these are female genitalia. 1.00

00:57:45.000 These are a female penis and testicles. 1.00

00:57:49.000 That would be just as wrong as me saying right here that this is an elephant. 1.00

00:57:51.000 This is not an elephant.

00:57:52.000 This is a computer. 1.00

00:57:53.000 And a penis and testicles. 1.00

00:57:54.000 That would be male appendages. 1.00

00:57:56.000 And you are a male.

00:57:58.000 Jessica Yaniv is a male.

00:58:00.000 And if Jessica Yaniv went to the doctor for services, the doctor would treat them.

00:58:04.000 They would do a prostate exam, for example.

00:58:06.000 They would not do an exam for the uterus. 1.00

00:58:08.000 And if they did, they would be a moron. 1.00

00:58:10.000 They'd be wasting time and they'd be wasting money. 1.00

00:58:12.000 But we now live in a world where doctors are expected to do a uterine exam on a biological male.

00:58:18.000 I told you about a story in Nature where they suggested that there was a real problem with doctors classifying people by their biological sex.

00:58:26.000 You know, doctors are taught biology.

00:58:28.000 You know what we are all taught here in the real world?

00:58:30.000 Objective reality.

00:58:31.000 We are taught in the real world that there are objective indicators.

00:58:34.000 You don't have to, you know, it's not a giant mystery.

00:58:36.000 All of this isn't a giant mystery.

00:58:37.000 You don't have to sit around wondering whether a person is a male or a female.

00:58:40.000 Generally, you can look at them.

00:58:41.000 There are a few outlying cases where people are so androgynous looking that you don't know.

00:58:46.000 There are a few outlying cases where people have had surgeries to appear as a member of the opposite sex.

00:58:51.000 And when it comes to some of those cases, when we talk about, for example, bathrooms, then it's less of a problem if a person who looks like a female goes into a female bathroom.

00:58:59.000 It is a lot more of a problem because women in that bathroom will not think to be frightened or upset about all of that. 1.00

00:59:06.000 If a male walks into a female bathroom and females get upset, I think they have every right to do so. 0.99

00:59:10.000 Why?

00:59:10.000 Because they're using their eyes and they're using their head.

00:59:13.000 We are supposed to disable our prefrontal cortex in all of this.

00:59:16.000 Well, one person who was unwilling to disable her prefrontal cortex was Lindsey Shepard. 0.57

00:59:21.000 So Lindsey Shepard is an activist in Canada.

00:59:24.000 She's a free speech activist, graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University.

00:59:28.000 And she was permanently banned from Twitter earlier this week. 0.96

00:59:30.000 Why?

00:59:31.000 She, a woman, got into an exchange with a man, Jessica Yeny, in which the activist mocked Shepard from suffering from a uterine condition known as septate uterus. 0.99

00:59:42.000 In a tweet, she replied to this person, at least I have a uterus, you ugly fat man. 1.00

00:59:48.000 Harsh. 1.00

00:59:49.000 Harsh.

00:59:51.000 Fact check.

00:59:51.000 Okay, but not something that is kind, but is that bannable?

00:59:56.000 Because you called a man a man?

00:59:59.000 The suspension came after a jousting match with a notorious trans woman named JY, who has been accused of predatory behavior toward children and making frivolous human rights complaints.

01:00:08.000 The post-millennial reached out to Shepard, who said, I got suspended for two tweets, although they didn't tell me exactly which tweets were the problem, so I'm giving my best guess.

01:00:15.000 She said she was concerned about her inability to respond to mistruths now that she is banned from the platform.

01:00:19.000 Well, she deleted that tweet, right?

01:00:21.000 So very often on Twitter, people are suspended.

01:00:23.000 They delete the tweets and then they're allowed back in.

01:00:25.000 Not Twitter.

01:00:26.000 Not Shepard.

01:00:27.000 They decided to ban her outright.

01:00:30.000 Shepard first came to international prominence in late 2017 when she released a recording of being interrogated by staff at Wilfrid Laurier University following a class in which she presented a Jordan Peterson clip in contrast with a pro-transgender video as part of a class exercise.

01:00:44.000 For this, she was threatened with having violated Canadian human rights law for having presented the video of Professor Peterson.

01:00:51.000 Jordan, I'm friends with him. 0.91

01:00:53.000 This is ridiculous. 0.98

01:00:54.000 The staff compared Jordan Peterson to being as bad as Hitler or Milo Yiannopoulos. 0.98

01:00:59.000 So a couple of things there.

01:01:00.000 On the gradation of Hitler to Jordan Peterson, it doesn't go like within this tiny circumscribed circle.

01:01:07.000 Here it is.

01:01:08.000 Hitler, Milo, Jordan Peterson.

01:01:11.000 That's not how this works.

01:01:13.000 I don't like Milo. 0.98

01:01:14.000 I think Milo stinks. 0.99

01:01:15.000 I think Milo's a bad person. 0.98

01:01:16.000 But Milo is also not Hitler.

01:01:18.000 It turns out Hitler is Hitler. 0.76

01:01:20.000 And comparing people to Hitler, doesn't go all that well.

01:01:22.000 But Lindsey Shepard ended up filing a $3.6 million defamation lawsuit or a lawsuit against Wilfred Laurier, and then Professor Peterson filed a subsequent defamation lawsuit. 0.87

01:01:32.000 Shepard is not a controversial voice in a free speech debate.

01:01:37.000 She's a left-leaning centrist who supports vegetarianism.

01:01:41.000 But she's been banned from Twitter. 0.94

01:01:43.000 Here's Lindsay Shepard talking about her ban from Twitter for the great crime of suggesting that a male is a male. 1.00

01:01:47.000 I was banned from Twitter for responding to a couple of tweets that an individual that I will only refer to as JY made about me. 0.99

01:01:59.000 on Twitter starts tweeting about how I'm dumb and how I have a loose vagina from pushing out a 10 pound baby. 0.97

01:02:08.000 So I tweeted back and basically said, if you want to sound like a woman, this is not really the way to do it because this is more of a male way of speaking. 0.99

01:02:18.000 Then J.Y.

01:02:19.000 starts mocking how I have a reproductive abnormality called a septate uterus. 1.00

01:02:25.000 And then I reply, and I say, at least I have a uterus, you ugly fat man. 0.99

01:02:33.000 Okay, so, by the way, Jayway was not suspended for any of this. 0.99

01:02:36.000 For any of this.

01:02:37.000 So this is an exchange where people were being mean to each other. 0.99

01:02:40.000 And Lindsey Shepard was responding to a person who was criticizing her uterus and her vagina. 1.00

01:02:44.000 And she was suspended from Twitter, because this is the world we now occupy, in which, if you are a member of a protected class, you can be offensive and terrible as you want to be, and everyone is supposed to respect that. 0.96

01:02:54.000 Whereas if you are not, then if you respond in kind in any way, then you will be thrown out of polite society or considered cruel and mean and terrible. 1.00

01:03:03.000 Wax my balls, you bigot. 1.00

01:03:05.000 This is where we are. 1.00

01:03:08.000 And now this is being encoded in law in places like Berkeley. 1.00

01:03:10.000 How stupid is Berkeley? 1.00

01:03:12.000 So Berkeley has a few problems. 1.00

01:03:13.000 One, a massive homeless problem.

01:03:15.000 Poop on the streets, affecting Antifa, runs half the city.

01:03:19.000 I mean, there's some serious problems in Berkeley, California.

01:03:21.000 When I visited Berkeley a couple of years ago, it required 600 police officers and the state-ies in order so that I could give a speech there.

01:03:26.000 I mean, they got some problems over in Berkeley.

01:03:28.000 But Berkeley is taking on the issues that matter.

01:03:31.000 According to the Associated Press, Berkeley, California has adopted an ordinance to replace some terms with gender-neutral words in the city codes.

01:03:39.000 The San Francisco Chronicle reports that she and he will be replaced by they, which is going to make things very awkward when it comes to, for example, I don't know, separate funding of sports, for example.

01:03:49.000 Title IX specifically says that you have to have female sports and male sports. 1.00

01:03:52.000 I guess now you will just have they sports, which means no female will ever compete in a sport. 1.00

01:03:55.000 Again, if you have government-sponsored sporting leagues, for example.

01:03:58.000 The words manpower and manhole will become workforce and maintenance hole.

01:04:04.000 Maintenance hole, by the way, sounds awful.

01:04:06.000 Just got to tell you, you're not helping yourself.

01:04:09.000 Maybe it should be PERSON-tence-hole.

01:04:12.000 The City Council on- That's so- What in the- What in the world?

01:04:16.000 The City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed the measures to replace more than two dozen commonly used terms.

01:04:20.000 There will be no more craftsmen in city code, only craftspeople.

01:04:23.000 Or artisans.

01:04:25.000 Berkeley says the AP has a long history of leading on politically and socially liberal issues. 1.00

01:04:30.000 You might say that they have a long history of being idiots. 0.98

01:04:32.000 The sponsor of the ordinance is Councilman Rigel Robinson, a 23-year-old recent grad of Berkeley, of course. 1.00

01:04:38.000 He says his time in college expanded his awareness of gender issues.

01:04:41.000 Super duper important.

01:04:43.000 Glad that you're cleaning up the trash and making sure crime doesn't take place, but everything is called now a maintenance hole.

01:04:48.000 That is, that is entertaining stuff.

01:04:50.000 Also!

01:04:51.000 Also, it is important to note here that this whole routine where folks are being silenced in their views that men are men and women are women has carried over into the field of science.

01:05:01.000 It is so wildly controversial to publish anything that talks about scientific rigor in examination of gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder that scientists are just not doing it anymore.

01:05:11.000 We talked about the case last year.

01:05:13.000 I mean, there is a danger to political correctness shutting down science.

01:05:17.000 One danger is that it kills science.

01:05:18.000 Another danger is we don't actually know the consequences of what in the world we are doing.

01:05:23.000 The politically correct declare that something is healthy, thus it becomes healthy, and if you study it, then you're a bigot.

01:05:28.000 We had this last year with Brown University, where a professor wrote a paper on what was called rapid-onset gender dysphoria, the fact that it was becoming trendy to become transgender in high school, and there was data to back it up, and Brown basically pulled back the paper temporarily and apologized for running an abstract.

01:05:45.000 Now there's a report from BBC Newsnight called Transgender Treatment Puberty Blockers Study Under Investigation.

01:05:52.000 England's only NHS, National Health Service, youth gender clinic, lowered the age at which it offered children puberty blockers, partly based on a study now being investigated.

01:06:01.000 In other words, a study came out.

01:06:02.000 It was a bad study.

01:06:02.000 It suggested that puberty blockers didn't do anything bad to kids.

01:06:05.000 It turns out it does do bad stuff to kids, but everyone went along with the myth because it was more important to go along with the myth than to tell the truth and protect children.

01:06:13.000 Which would be evil, right?

01:06:14.000 If you have a study that is flawed and you push it out there because you have an agenda that is broader than that.

01:06:20.000 Then that would be, and it affects children?

01:06:22.000 Pretty sure this is almost the essence of evil.

01:06:24.000 The study's full findings have not been published.

01:06:26.000 Early data showed some taking the drugs reported an increase in thoughts of suicide and self-harm.

01:06:31.000 I can't imagine why that would be, that if you take a child who is not hormonally developed, and you start giving them puberty blockers to prevent them from growing in the way that they normally would grow naturally, that this might harm their mental awareness, their mental health.

01:06:43.000 I can't imagine that's the case. 0.90

01:06:45.000 Absolutely ridiculous.

01:06:46.000 In the United States, you can't get an antibiotic prescription at school without parental permission, but you can get an abortion in many cases without parental permission. 0.99

01:06:54.000 In Britain now, they're saying we should be able to shoot you up with hormones that prevent you from growing, and if you're a girl, will prevent your breasts from growing, and if you're a boy, will prevent you from maturing and body hair growing and your testicles dropping.

01:07:05.000 We can give you all of that, and don't worry, it'll be fine. 0.97

01:07:08.000 Don't worry, it'll be totally fine.

01:07:09.000 Well, as it turns out, it's not totally fine.

01:07:12.000 Children as young as 11 are now being offered these hormone-blocking drugs.

01:07:15.000 The clinic said data was from a small sample, and so no meaningful conclusion could be drawn from it.

01:07:20.000 Of course.

01:07:21.000 Of course.

01:07:22.000 Experts on clinical trials have criticized the design of the study, which they say makes it hard to tell if the reported effects were due to puberty blockers or something else.

01:07:29.000 But experts said they warranted further investigation.

01:07:32.000 Yes, I'm sure that additional depression has more to do with the all-purpose blame machine.

01:07:38.000 It has to do with societal intolerance, I'm sure, more than it has to do with physically taking hormones and shooting them into children.

01:07:45.000 I'm sure.

01:07:46.000 The Health Research Authority, which ensures that medical studies are ethical and transparent, is now investigating claims brought to them by BBC's Newsnight program about the early findings from the study and the information that is understood to have been shared with patients and parents about the possible effects of puberty-blocking drugs.

01:08:02.000 So in other words, the BBC is now trying to stop people from disseminating study information that might dissuade them from hormone-treating their kids.

01:08:09.000 When a child in the UK is questioning their gender, they can be referred to the Gender Identity Development Service at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust in London and Leeds.

01:08:18.000 One treatment on offer is puberty blockers.

01:08:19.000 They work on the brain to stop the eventual release of estrogen or testosterone.

01:08:23.000 I'm sure that's the only effect on the brain, guys.

01:08:25.000 I'm sure it's fine.

01:08:26.000 Before 2011, kids would give puberty blockers to children only once they had turned 16.

01:08:31.000 But now, they are now doing this for kids who are 11.

01:08:34.000 Acknowledging the weak evidence for the drugs, the research team made up of kids and University College Hospital staff set out to evaluate the psychological, social, and physical effects of the blockers on a carefully suggested group of young people.

01:08:46.000 Details about the risks, such as potential adverse effects on bone strength, the development of sexual organs, body shape, or final adult height, were provided in a patient's information sheet, but Newsnight found certain information was not included.

01:08:59.000 Previous research had suggested all young people who took the blockers went on to take cross-sex hormones, the next stage toward fully transitioning.

01:09:06.000 But patients and parents were not told this in the information sheet.

01:09:11.000 Michael Biggs, associate professor of sociology at Oxford, said, I don't see that the parents and their children could really have given informed consent given the lack of information that was provided.

01:09:20.000 Professor Biggs, who's attracted criticism from some in the transgender community, said they were not given the information they needed in order to take this momentous, life-changing step.

01:09:30.000 And this is the way this is going to work from here on out.

01:09:33.000 Is that you're going to end up with science being silenced in the name of subjectivism.

01:09:37.000 You're going to end up with people's rights being violated in the name of the supposed rights of people to have other services directed at them in the name of their subjective self-identification.

01:09:48.000 If we don't even share language anymore, if we don't even share common definitions of male and female anymore, still, none of this makes any sense.

01:09:54.000 I'm just going to point out that folks who are pushing the idea that a woman must be forced to wax the genitalia of a man, that these people still have not provided any definition by which Jessica Yaniv is an actual woman.

01:10:06.000 Not one.

01:10:07.000 Self-identification is not identification as a woman, because you still have not defined woman.

01:10:11.000 My colleague Matt Walsh makes this point all the time.

01:10:14.000 If you can't define woman, how do identify as one?

01:10:16.000 Because a woman is not a biological woman, and a woman is not a set of stereotypes. 1.00

01:10:20.000 So what exactly is woman? 1.00

01:10:22.000 A woman isn't a social role fulfilled by a woman, because these same advocates will say that gender is a social construct. 1.00

01:10:27.000 So how are you identifying as woman?

01:10:30.000 You're identifying as what?

01:10:31.000 A set of stereotypes or as a biological woman? 0.91

01:10:33.000 If it's a set of stereotypes, why can't you be a male and fulfill those set of stereotypes?

01:10:37.000 And if it's biological, you're not it.

01:10:40.000 All of this suffers from lack of definitional awareness.

01:10:43.000 But again, there's a problem that is being labeled, which is that anyone who disagrees is a bigot.

01:10:48.000 There is no solutions being provided and the world gets worse.

01:10:51.000 All right, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours.

01:10:53.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 23, 2019

The Hard Stuff | Ep. 823

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