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00:01:44.000Over the weekend, The Nation's op-ed pages decided to remind us all why President Trump is president.
00:01:49.000Not because he's so great at everything.
00:01:50.000Not because the president is playing MAGA, MAGA, MAGA chess.
00:01:53.000But because the left has decided to go fully crazy.
00:01:56.000There are several op-eds in a row that we're going to go through here talking about the outskirts of the left.
00:02:01.000But these are printed in mainstream newspapers.
00:02:02.000Again, this is not stuff from The Nation.
00:02:04.000This is not stuff even from Salon or Slate.
00:02:06.000This is stuff from The New York Times and The Washington Post and The Atlantic.
00:02:09.000All of these are mainstream outlets on the left.
00:02:12.000And none of them are particularly good.
00:02:14.000I don't know what was in the water over the weekend, or whether they just feel so emboldened on the left that they feel like they can say anything and get away with it.
00:02:21.000But whatever it is, it is not going to be good for their agenda.
00:02:27.000Ruth Marcus, who's the deputy editorial page editor, she has a high position over at the Washington Post, wrote an opinion piece called, quote, I would have aborted a fetus with Down syndrome.
00:02:37.000OK, this is just a piece in favor of eugenics.
00:02:40.000If the idea is that you get to abort a baby because the baby has Down syndrome, then what is the difference between aborting a baby with Down syndrome, not because you don't think it's a baby, but because it has Down syndrome, and doing that with somebody who is actually already born?
00:02:53.000There's a new push in anti-abortion circles to pass state laws aimed at barring women from terminating their pregnancy after the fetus has been determined to have Down syndrome.
00:03:00.000These laws are unconstitutional, unenforceable and wrong.
00:03:04.000This is a difficult subject to discuss because there are so many parents who have and cherish a child with Down syndrome.
00:03:08.000Many people with Down syndrome live happy and fulfilled lives.
00:03:11.000The new Gerber baby with Down syndrome is awfully cute.
00:03:47.000If it's not morally wrong, then what are you grieving?
00:03:49.000If it's just a cluster of cells, then what exactly are you grieving?
00:03:51.000Are you grieving the lost opportunity?
00:03:54.000Presumably, you're grieving the human that you just killed, or had killed in the womb.
00:03:58.000And just because that human in the womb had Down syndrome doesn't mean that it was okay for you to do that, and you should feel morally exculpated from what you just did.
00:04:06.000The point of prenatal testing in the first place is generally to see if there is some sort of condition that can be fixed as the pregnancy continues.
00:04:21.000So, for example, if there had been the capacity to actually look at my first child's heart and see that there was a hole in her heart when she was developing, they might have been able to do something prenatally.
00:04:29.000I don't know how the surgery works, but there are all sorts of surgeries that they do on children before they are born.
00:04:36.000They perform surgeries on children who are still in the womb, and they sew up the womb, and the pregnancy continues, and the kid is just fine.
00:04:42.000This sort of thing happens all the time.
00:04:44.000The point of prenatal testing is not kill the child if things come out wrong.
00:05:49.000I mean, it's an argument from authority.
00:05:51.000The same people who say you can't cite the Bible in defense of human life will say you can cite Ruth Bader Ginsburg in defense of the right to kill a human life.
00:07:52.000Every person who's been born will die, and everyone will have a health problem before then.
00:07:55.000It says most children with Down syndrome have mild to moderate cognitive impairment, meaning an IQ between 55 and 70, mild, or between 35 and 55, moderate.
00:08:03.000This means limited capacity for independent living and financial security.
00:08:06.000Down syndrome is life-altering for the entire family.
00:08:08.000Now, there's no question that that is true.
00:08:11.000But that is also true when you have a parent who's slipping into senility.
00:09:49.000North Dakota, Ohio, Indiana, and Louisiana passed legislation to prohibit doctors from performing abortions if the sole reason is because of a diagnosis of Down syndrome.
00:09:57.000Utah's legislature is debating such a bill.
00:10:22.000District Judge Tanya Walton-Pratt concluded in striking down the Indiana law, the state's high court determination leaves no room for the state to examine, let alone prohibit, the basis or bases upon which a woman makes her choice.
00:10:32.000So for any reason, abortion on demand.
00:10:34.000Can it be that women have more constitutional freedom to choose to terminate their pregnancies on a whim than for the reason that the fetus has Down syndrome?
00:10:42.000And proves the reverse of what she wants it to prove.
00:10:44.000She's saying, well, why would we limit the capacity of women to choose on Down syndrome, but we wouldn't limit their capacity to choose to abort a fetus just for fun?
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00:13:27.000Now there are a couple of charts out there that show the Democratic and Republican Party splits, meaning where the right has moved and where the left has moved.
00:13:33.000And what the charts show is that basically since 2010, the Republican Party has been static.
00:13:38.000But the Democratic Party has been moving wildly to the left.
00:13:40.000They've been moving solely to the left.
00:13:41.000So the greater partisan polar gap that's being created right now is being created by the left moving harder to the left, not by the right moving harder to the right.
00:13:50.000Okay, so, with that in mind, here is crazy column number two.
00:13:54.000So this one is courtesy of some weird guy named Tim Crider.
00:13:59.000He's a professional essayist, which is to say he reads a bunch of stuff that the New York Times pays him for, but the only people who read him are people who sit there with their cat and their cup of coffee at brunch on Sunday morning on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
00:14:10.000He penned an op-ed that is—I mean, this is a crazy op-ed.
00:14:14.000It's called, Go Ahead Millennials, Destroy Us.
00:14:50.000And until now, burying a few dozen a year has apparently been a price that lots of Americans were willing to pay to hold on to the props of their pathetic role-playing fantasies.
00:14:58.000But they forgot what the adults always forget.
00:15:00.000That our children grow up and remember everything and forgive nothing.
00:15:05.000And then you just get a weird eerie cue from Children of the Corn.
00:16:35.000I smoke doobies with the kids, and then I'm the uncle at the barbecue, and I give the kids beer, and then I pat their back while they vomit into the bushes, and later their mom and dad say, stay away from Uncle Jim.
00:17:22.000Like most people in middle age, I regard young people with suspicion.
00:17:25.000The young, and the young in mind, tend to be uncompromising absolutists.
00:17:29.000They haven't yet faced life's heartless compromises and forfeitures.
00:17:32.000It's countless trials by boredom and ethical Kobayashi Maru's, or glumly watched themselves do everything they ever disapproved of.
00:17:38.000I am creeped out by the increasing dogmatism and intolerance of millennials on the left.
00:17:41.000I felt a generational divide open up under me last year when everyone under 40 seemed to agree that Dana Schutz's painting of Emmett Till in his coffin should be removed from the Whitney Biennial.
00:17:50.000When I was young, it seemed the natural order of things that conservatives were the prudes and scolds who wanted books banned and exhibitions closed, while we liberals got to be the gadflies and iconoclasts.
00:17:57.000I know that whenever you disapprove of young people, you're in the wrong, because you're going to die and they'll get to write history, but I just can't help noticing that the liberal side isn't much fun to be on anymore.
00:18:06.000So he acknowledges that people on the left, a lot of folks on the left, are not particularly tolerant.
00:18:43.000And most revolutions end in chaos and bloody murder.
00:18:46.000Most revolutions driven by young people end in absolute chaos, bloody murder, sometimes the murder of hundreds of millions of people in the case of communist revolutions.
00:18:54.000In the case of the French Revolution, they end with the guillotine.
00:18:56.000They always eat the old fogies who think that they're egging on the young.
00:18:59.000And Robespierre ends up on the guillotine just the same as the anti-Jacobins who ended up on the guillotine because of Robespierre.
00:19:06.000The revolutions that have done pretty well in human history tend not to be led by people who are 17.
00:19:11.000There is a disproportionate support for the Nazi party among the young.
00:19:14.000The revolutions that tend to do pretty well, I'm talking here particularly about the American Revolution, are led by middle-aged people.
00:19:19.000The average age of the Declaration of Independence signees, or signers rather, was 44.
00:19:23.000That was the average age of the people signing the Declaration of Independence.
00:19:26.000There were about a dozen people who signed who were under the age of 35.
00:19:29.000But life expectancy in those days was also a lot lower.
00:19:32.000Which is why the presidential age of limitation is at 35, because the idea was that you were a mature human being by 35.
00:19:38.000Even a 17-year-old in 1776 was probably the equivalent of a 25-year-old today in terms of maturity and responsibility.
00:19:46.000But this guy, Tim Kreider of the New York Times, he says, Now, do you get the feeling that Tim Kreider has an agenda here?
00:19:52.000He might have an agenda, and he only likes young people who agree with that agenda.
00:20:16.000So, as I mentioned, there are a bunch of young students who actually don't agree with that agenda.
00:20:20.000In fact, by polls, young people tend to be more in favor of gun rights than older people.
00:20:25.000Young people, people who are below the age of 25, tend to be more in favor of concealed carry than older people.
00:20:31.000But my favorite thing here is he gets to the end of this ridiculous essay.
00:20:36.000And he starts basically, he starts basically lobbying for the young people to listen to him and then to build a statue of him, Tim Kreider of the New York Times.
00:20:44.000He says, the students of Parkland are like veterans coming home from the bloody front of the NRA's de facto war on children.
00:20:50.000Again, I'm getting very, very sick of the notion that everybody who is in favor of gun rights is responsible for Parkland.
00:20:58.000It's like right after JFK's assassination, when the entire left decided that it was a bunch of Southern Republican rednecks who had shot JFK, even though he was a communist.
00:21:08.000And we now have news that the Parkland shooter was reporting to the authorities.
00:21:12.000He was reporting to his teachers that he was having dreams of shooting his fellow students and walking around dipped in their blood.
00:21:18.000And the schools knew about it, and they did nothing about it.
00:21:21.000And there's a report from Real Clear Investigations last week showing that the Broward County schools had implemented new policies that were specifically designed to prevent the reporting of kids who are involved in misdemeanor crimes because they wanted to lower their crime stats.
00:21:44.000All those cringing provincials who still think climate change is a hoax, that being transgender is a fad, or that socialism means purges and reeducation camps.
00:21:51.000Rid the world of all of our outmoded opinions, vestigial prejudices, and rotten institutions.
00:21:55.000Gender roles as disfiguring as foot binding.
00:21:57.000The moribund and vampiric two-party system.
00:22:17.000I mean all those crazy Republican conservatives who think things like socialism's bad, and like sex, there's such a thing as biological sex, and that maybe we shouldn't have the government run all of our industries because of climate change.
00:22:29.000It's truly amazing, but this is the virtue signaling that's going on on the left.
00:22:35.000Gender roles as disfiguring as foot-binding?
00:22:37.000Okay, no one thinks that women are being foot-bound in Western society.
00:22:40.000Okay, the savage theory of capitalism that allows Tim Crider to write his crappy columns rather than mopping up a stall with his discarded drafts, as he probably should be doing.
00:22:48.000And that discarded theory of capitalism is the only thing that separates Tim Crider from absolute penury and poverty, considering the quality of his work.
00:22:57.000Okay, so the editorial pages get even worse over the weekend, and I will explain why in just a second.
00:23:02.000First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at USCCA.
00:23:04.000So, are you sick of listening to idiots like Tim Crider talk about why you, law-abiding citizen, would like a gun?
00:23:10.000You know, he thinks you want a gun because you want to shoot schoolchildren, and it turns out you want to protect your schoolchildren from bad people, which is why you want a gun.
00:23:16.000You want to protect your home, you want to protect your family, you want to protect your freedom.
00:25:00.000And she was very angry that I wrote a piece about it.
00:25:03.000She got very mad that I wrote a piece in response to all of that.
00:25:06.000And what she was particularly mad about is that I pointed out that Venezuela, Cuba, Soviet Union, North Korea, China, these are not good countries to live.
00:25:15.000And that socialism has a pretty long and bloody history.
00:25:17.000And I also pointed out, she didn't like this particularly, that a lot of the Nordic countries, a lot of the Scandinavian countries, all these supposed socialist paradises, are in fact largely either mercantilist, meaning state-sponsored capitalism,
00:25:42.000Those are the two general principles of socialism, that the state owns the distribution of resources, and also that the state owns the means of production.
00:25:49.000So the state decides how much people are paid, the state decides what resources you get, the state redistributes as it sees fit.
00:25:56.000So a lot of Scandinavian countries have a lot of redistributionism, so they have one half of socialism, but most of them have also heavy structures of private ownership, which is true in Denmark, it is true in Sweden.
00:26:05.000These are actually good places to do business.
00:26:07.000If anything, they're more mercantilist than they are socialist, because these are not places where they are redistributing all resources inwardly.
00:26:14.000They're not nationalizing every industry.
00:26:16.000Instead, they are sponsoring and subsidizing particular private industries in large ways.
00:26:20.000Okay, that's fairly typical of these Nordic systems.
00:26:43.000It wasn't that I was trying to create a strawman.
00:26:45.000I just think her original column was bad.
00:26:47.000She was particularly mad that I mentioned Cuba, the Soviet Union, Venezuela, because she says,
00:26:55.000Well, I never suggested that you actually wanted America to become those places.
00:26:59.000You didn't mention any countries in your column.
00:27:01.000You just said capitalism is bad and socialism is good, which means that I should probably examine some of the socialist countries that are out there.
00:27:08.000She writes, Last week, I wrote a column arguing that liberals concerned about ongoing failures in the American experiment should consider socialist remedies.
00:27:16.000What she actually wrote is that capitalism was bad.
00:27:18.000What she actually wrote, the direct quote from her piece, is that capitalism itself was inherently flawed.
00:27:27.000She wrote, quote, That's a direct quote.
00:27:34.000That's not some aspects of capitalism.
00:27:36.000That's not we should keep capitalism, but we should have a socialized health care system.
00:27:39.000That's capitalism itself should be discarded in favor of socialism.
00:27:43.000So she says, Again, not what she wrote.
00:28:04.000I don't think anybody actually believes I'm rooting for totalitarian forms of socialism, nor for its most devastatingly ill-mannered variants.
00:28:22.000No one claimed that Elizabeth Brunning wants a bunch of communist genocides to occur all over the world.
00:28:29.000But I am saying that if you are talking about socialism, some things have unintended side effects, and socialism is one of those things.
00:28:35.000It would be kind of ridiculous to ignore the results of socialist experiments elsewhere just because you didn't like the results.
00:28:40.000It's called the No True Scotsman Fallacy.
00:28:42.000You get to claim that it wasn't truly socialism because bad crap happened after it.
00:28:46.000No, it was truly socialism, and bad crap happened after it.
00:28:51.000She may not have intended for the citizens of—I doubt that she or anyone else intended for the starving citizens of Venezuela to be eating dog right now, but they are, even if they didn't intend it to be.
00:29:01.000I doubt that Hugo Chavez wanted his citizens shooting dogs in the streets and eating them, but that's what they're doing.
00:29:06.000Okay, because that's what socialism brings.
00:29:08.000Okay, so then she gets mad because I mentioned that some of these supposedly socialist paradises in Nordic countries are not actually particularly socialist.
00:29:37.000No country is socialist except in Elizabeth Bruning's mind.
00:29:39.000She says, After all, these countries are inconvenient when arguing that socialism necessarily means mass murder and famine.
00:29:44.000And then she quotes me, saying, No, Sweden and Denmark aren't socialist countries.
00:29:48.000And she says, The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro noted it apropos of nothing in his piece on my alleged Stalinism.
00:29:52.000Well, no, actually, I'm dismissing them as socialist countries, because if you're going to talk about true socialism, you should talk about true socialism, not capitalist countries with some redistributionist tendencies.
00:30:02.000The United States is a capitalist country with redistributionist tendencies.
00:30:12.000Well, no, I'm happy to discuss the socialism, the supposed socialism of these countries.
00:30:16.000And then what's funny is that Brooding doesn't really discuss Sweden or Denmark, right?
00:30:19.000She ignores Sweden and Denmark, the two examples that I picked, and which Bernie Sanders usually uses, right, when he talks about socialism.
00:30:27.000This is the only podcast today where you're going to hear lots of stuff about Norway.
00:30:29.000But you're going to hear lots of stuff about Norway, not just because they're really good in Winter Olympic sports, but also because they're a favorite of the left when the left is arguing in favor of socialism.
00:30:47.000With countries and policies being more or less socialist rather than either or.
00:30:50.000It's fair to say, for example, that single-payer health care is a more socialist policy than private market-based health care.
00:30:55.000But that doesn't mean that single-payer is the most socialist health care policy one could dream up, nor that any country that uses such a system is de facto socialist.
00:31:03.000Along these axes, we can determine whether policies are more or less socialist.
00:32:03.000My conversation will stream live on the Ben Shapiro Facebook page and the Daily Wire YouTube channel.
00:32:07.000It will be free for everyone to watch.
00:32:09.000Only subscribers can ask the questions.
00:32:11.000To ask questions as a subscriber, log into our website over at dailywire.com, head over to the Conversation page and watch the live stream.
00:32:17.000After that, just start typing into the Daily Wire chat box and I will answer questions as they come in.
00:34:08.000The county of Los Angeles is 3.9 million people.
00:34:13.000There are no people in Norway, so it's kind of easier to do redistribution when you have no people and also an enormous oil industry.
00:34:20.000The oil industry, which was nationalized under Statoil in Norway in the 1960s, the oil industry is responsible for fully 22% of the GDP of Norway.
00:34:30.000They have a trillion dollar state fund that is completely funded by oil wealth.
00:34:34.000And 67% of all exports from Norway are in oil and natural gas.
00:34:38.000So it's more like the United Arab Emirates than it is like the United States.
00:34:41.000It's a giant oil plutocracy in which everyone is in plutocrat because you have five people and lots of oil.
00:35:41.000Hey, and that's not the extent of their government holdings.
00:35:43.000The government also seized all German owned stocks after World War Two.
00:35:47.000So after World War Two, Norway just seized all of the stocks and they nationalized them, which explains the state's high levels of ownership in the stock market.
00:35:53.000But does this mean that the state runs the businesses for the benefit of the workers?
00:36:21.000So the state actually operates more like mercantilist 18th century Britain with regard to, for example, the royal trading companies, than it does like the Soviet Union or Cuba or along Marx's lines.
00:36:34.000And Norway's a relatively friendly business climate for people who are looking to set up a business.
00:36:37.000Heritage Foundation ranks it 23rd in the world, the United States ranks about 18th.
00:36:41.000Now again, it is important to recognize that also the redistributionist tendencies of Norway and its workable economy are partially a result of the people who live there.
00:37:21.000Norwegians in the United States earn more than Norwegians in Norway.
00:37:25.000This is also true of Danish folks living in the United States and Swedish Americans.
00:37:30.000Danish Americans, according to Nima Sandanji,
00:37:33.000She says, or he says rather, that Danish Americans have a 55% higher living standard than Danes themselves.
00:37:40.000Swedish Americans have a 53% higher living standard than Swedes.
00:37:43.000The gap is even greater, 59% between Finnish Americans and Finns.
00:37:47.000So if you come over here from your home country of Norway, you're going to do better in the United States than you were doing in Norway.
00:37:52.000Even Norwegian Americans who don't have the oil wealth, the redistributionist oil wealth of Norway, they have a 3% higher living standard than their cousins overseas.
00:38:01.000So that statistic about higher per capita GDP, it doesn't make as much of a difference as you would think, OK?
00:38:05.000Norway has about $71,000 per year per capita, $59,500 in the United States.
00:38:10.000But again, a lot of that's due to oil wealth.
00:38:13.000And the top personal income tax rate in Norway is 48%.
00:38:40.000A haircut can cost you 50 bucks in Norway.
00:38:43.000Now, I may pay 50 bucks for a haircut, but that's because I'm a professional person on television.
00:38:47.000OK, there is no super cuts for eight dollars in Norway.
00:38:50.000It is the second most expensive country to buy food in Europe, which means it is the second most expensive country to buy food on planet Earth.
00:38:56.000It is the most expensive country to buy alcohol and tobacco.
00:39:00.000Vehicles cost 40 to 50 percent more in Norway than they do in the United States.
00:39:04.000Food costs like 60 percent more than it does in the United States.
00:39:07.000And by the way, they're running out of money.
00:39:09.000Despite all of this, all of this oil wealth, they are realizing that eventually the oil wealth will run out.
00:39:14.000And that's why they elected a conservative government, not a liberal government, a conservative government in 2013, and re-elected that government in 2017.
00:39:22.000Norway may be more socialistic than the United States, but it is certainly not a paradise.
00:39:25.000And the notion that we are going to base all of this, that we're going to become Norway, is just so ignorant on every level.
00:39:34.000I have to imagine the only reason Elizabeth Burdick spit out Norway as opposed to Denmark or Sweden is that she recognized I was kind of right on Denmark and Sweden, so she picked another Nordic country to talk about.
00:43:22.000But what makes it ridiculous is that people in the media are still trying to schoolmarm him.
00:43:26.000So what they really should say is, listen, the president of the United States, we understand he's having a tough time out there in the approval ratings.
00:43:31.000But, you know, not appropriate language.
00:43:33.000But instead, they decided to go completely over the top.
00:43:35.000So as somebody who's been called every name in the book by pretty much everyone,
00:43:39.000I mean, there was a full op-ed in the New York Times, like, not that long ago.
00:43:44.000By a particular columnist, suggesting that I was not as courageous as I think I am, that I was sort of a coward in some way.
00:43:52.000That columnist and I regularly correspond now.
00:43:54.000OK, so the fact that people are mean to members of the media and the members of the media can't take it, there are some pretty thin-skinned members of the media.
00:44:05.000Here is Chuck Todd's response after all of this.
00:44:08.000Many people, including myself, raise their kids to respect the office of the presidency and the president of the United States.
00:44:14.000When he uses vulgarity to talk about individuals, what are they supposed to tell their kids?
00:44:29.000And that'd be the end of the conversation.
00:44:30.000Okay, but this sort of schoolmarming and tut-tutting, all of this combined with the leftist radicalism, none of this is going to hurt Trump.
00:44:37.000In fact, all of it is probably going to help Trump.
00:44:40.000Now, I want to discuss the latest on Trump, North Korea, and all the rest.
00:44:44.000So, President Trump, at this rally in Pennsylvania, he came out and discussed his upcoming meeting with Kim Jong-un.
00:44:51.000So, last Friday, he sort of flip-flopped.
00:44:53.000There was a statement that he wanted preconditions to meet with Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea, that he only wanted to meet with him if there were certain conditions met.
00:45:01.000And then, the White House walked that back and said, we don't want preconditions.
00:45:05.000A lot of this is about Trump's faith in himself as a negotiator.
00:45:07.000A lot of this is Trump thinks that he can walk into a room and get deals done.
00:45:13.000The last time he negotiated a deal, it was a deal that involved Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer walking in on the budget and walking out with exactly what they wanted.
00:45:20.000But Trump thinks he's a great negotiator, and so here he is talking at his rally about meeting with Kim Jong-un.
00:45:25.000He says, I'm the only guy who can make this deal happen.
00:45:28.000They announced that he's not going to send missiles up anymore until through the meetings.
00:45:52.000OK, so again, if this is the big concession that they're not going to fire missiles for like six weeks until they meet, that's not a concession.
00:46:23.000Ben Rhodes, the former National Security Advisor to Obama, whose entire job
00:46:29.000Description before that consisted of writing unpublished novels from his Brooklyn apartment.
00:46:33.000He ends up being the instigator of the Iran deal, allowing the United States to basically surrender regional sovereignty to Iran.
00:46:41.000Here he is tut-tutting Trump over the North Korean meeting.
00:46:44.000Now listen, I'm not in favor of the North Korean meeting, but I'm not going to hear it from idiots like Ben Rhodes.
00:46:48.000Well, the concern I have is, look, this is not a real estate deal or a reality show.
00:46:52.000When you're in a negotiation with something as complex as a North Korean nuclear program, in a situation that is volatile as the Korean Peninsula, you need diplomats.
00:47:01.000So, advice one is, don't hollow out the State Department.
00:47:06.000The person who was in charge of North Korean negotiations just left the State Department.
00:47:10.000So, one, get the professionals in the room to put together a strategy.
00:47:13.000Okay, you mean the professionals in the room, like the people you sent in to give a billion dollars in cash to the Iranians, like those people?
00:47:22.000And the people who you sent in the room to give the Iranians everything they could ever want, including regional control over large swaths of Iraq and Syria and Lebanon?
00:47:49.000So, speaking of socialism, so this week we're going to talk a little bit about socialism for the education of Elizabeth Bruning over at the Washington Post.
00:47:55.000Okay, there's a great book called The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell.
00:53:12.000There are certain moral demands that are made upon you by nature and nature's God.
00:53:17.000It's your job to fulfill those things.
00:53:19.000Your obligations exist outside of you.
00:53:21.000Your obligations are not only to yourself.
00:53:23.000And if you believe that all of morality can be found within you, and that all you have to do is fulfill what you feel, and then everything will be great, this is how you end up with a solipsistic, nihilistic society where no one has anything in common because we all have our own mission in the world, and those missions often conflict with one another, but we're the only people in the end who really matter.
00:53:41.000I hate this stuff more than I can tell you.
00:53:51.000This will take me 30 seconds because it's a very, it's a very historically based Federalist paper.
00:53:55.000So, Federalist paper number 19, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison writing.
00:53:58.000They consider talking about why the Articles of, they're still considering about why the Articles of Confederation were insufficient to preserve the Union.
00:54:06.000They give a couple of examples as to why loose confederations have failed in the past.
00:54:10.000They explore the situations of Germany pre-Bismarck, because obviously they're living pre-Bismarck, and the Polish Confederation and the Swiss Confederation.
00:54:18.000Long story short, they essentially say all of these places have made themselves vulnerable to foreign invasion and have suffered from severe internal warfare as well, and that's why we need a stronger centralized government.