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00:01:31.000Okay, so as I say, I leave for a Jewish holiday, and every time I do, all hell breaks loose.
00:01:36.000I remember a couple of years ago, there was a Jewish holiday, and I come back from the Jewish holiday, and there's been an entire op-ed in the New York Times about how I'm a terrible person.
00:01:45.000And then, I left, I think, just last year for a Jewish holiday, and I come back, and there's a New York Times article about how we here at Daily Wire are bad.
00:01:54.000It's pretty much like every Jewish holiday.
00:01:56.000They schedule it out that way so that I have a really, really wonderful time coming back from the Jewish holiday, opening my computer, And seeing what stupidity has taken place.
00:02:05.000Well, this week's stupidity comes courtesy of the New York Times yet again.
00:03:02.000I'm not mentioned one time in the entire article, by the way.
00:03:04.000There's a picture of me, and then there's pictures of people like Stefan Molyneux, who has some borderline white supremacist race theories at the very mildest that's the mildest way to discover to describe it you have people like alex jones you have people like paul joseph watson you have folks like milo giannopoulos and then you have like milton friedman was in this mashup like milton free so milton friedman and i are in the same category as milo giannopoulos and like richard spencer
00:03:31.000according to this particular this particular graphic on the cover of the new york times and And the article itself is incredibly stupid.
00:03:38.000The article itself is basically about how he watched some videos and it led him to other videos, which led him to other videos, which led him to become a tradcon.
00:03:46.000And then people were upset at him becoming a tradcon, so then he became not a tradcon anymore.
00:03:56.000Number one, there's a full-on campaign by the left media at this point, from the Washington Post to the New York Times, from NBC to Media Matters.
00:04:05.000And I count Media Matters as part of the left media infrastructure.
00:04:08.000Any publication that calls Media Matters a watchdog group, you can tell, is on the side of Media Matters.
00:04:13.000There is this overt effort now on the part of all of these publications to suggest that the tech companies are basically leading people down the rabbit hole of alt-right white supremacist content by even allowing mainstream conservative content.
00:04:26.000That's the goal here, is to lump in everybody who's a mainstream conservative with people who are alt-right and then suggest that if you watch mainstream conservative content then inevitably you will be led down this rabbit hole.
00:04:38.000There are legitimately hundreds of thousands of people who listen to this show every day who are not even on the political right.
00:04:44.000There are hundreds of thousands of people who are on the political right and believe that the alt-right is evil, just as I do.
00:04:50.000But according to the New York Times and the Washington Post and all of these other outlets, basically, if you're on the right, you're going to slide gradually into white supremacism so long as you engage on YouTube.
00:04:59.000Now, the reason they are directing this at YouTube is because they are hoping to use YouTube in order to quash conservative viewpoints.
00:05:06.000They understand that there are certain shared fora where people post their views.
00:05:10.000Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, all the rest of those.
00:05:14.000And then what they're hoping to do, they understand conservatives aren't going to stop talking.
00:05:17.000So what they hope to do is make conservative speech so ridiculously outside the Overton window that all of these shared platforms have to shut it down.
00:05:26.000And they're hoping to do this in advance of the 2020 election.
00:05:31.000Ever since the left decided that Hillary Clinton had illegitimately lost the 2016 election, And that you really want.
00:05:37.000Ever since that, they've been looking for a scapegoat.
00:05:39.000And the scapegoat that is the most convenient for them are the tech companies.
00:05:42.000And by attacking the tech companies, what the left hopes to do...
00:05:45.000is cause the tech companies to curb the content they allow on their platforms in advance of 2020.
00:05:51.000So the argument they are making is that the tech platforms didn't do enough to shut down the nefarious Ruskies, and therefore, they have to shut down everybody on the right in advance of 2020, or at least curb their reach, or at least elevate, quote-unquote, authoritative voices.
00:06:04.000So here's what this New York Times idiotic piece says.
00:06:06.000They say, Caleb Cain pulled a Glock pistol from his waistband, took out the magazine, and casually tossed both onto the kitchen counter.
00:06:12.000I bought it the day after I got death threats, he said.
00:06:14.000The threats, Mr. Kane explained, came from right-wing trolls in response to a video he had posted on YouTube a few days earlier.
00:06:20.000In the video, he told the story of how, as a liberal college dropout struggling to find his place in the world, he had gotten sucked into a vortex of far-right politics on YouTube.
00:06:28.000I fell down the alt-right rabbit hole, he said in the video.
00:06:30.000So, a couple of things, right off the bat.
00:06:32.000Number one, he didn't actually, he was so crazily right-wing, he didn't even own a gun.
00:06:37.000Until he became a leftist again and then talked about it on YouTube.
00:06:43.000Now, I love how he lumps all of those things together.
00:07:09.000So, if you say that third-wave feminism is a dangerous ideology, which it is, Apparently, that is in the same box as believing that innate IQ differences are entirely to blame for racial disparities.
00:07:21.000So, you see, even here, what the New York Times is doing.
00:07:23.000They're taking mainstream conservative ideas, like third-wave feminism is a bad idea and dangerous for a civilization, and they're lumping that together with the racist idea that all disparities are attributable to innate biological difference between people in different racial groups.
00:07:39.000They're just lumping those two together, like that's not a problem.
00:07:42.000I just kept falling deeper and deeper into this, and it appealed to me because it made me feel a sense of belonging, he said.
00:07:54.000It's a piece of anecdotal data that supports the left-wing narrative that everybody who's in the alt-right originally started.
00:08:01.000As a member of the mainstream conservative movement, and then was radicalized by YouTube, and this is why we have to pressure YouTube into shutting down Steven Crowder, or shutting down Ben Shapiro, or shutting down Glenn Beck, or shutting down Mark Levin, or shutting down anybody who is on the right.
00:08:14.000Over years of reporting on internet culture, says this New York Times reporter, I've heard countless versions of Mr. Kane's story.
00:08:20.000An aimless young man, usually white, frequently interested in video games, visits YouTube looking for direction or distraction, and is seduced by a community of far-right creators.
00:08:28.000Some young men discover far-right videos by accident, while others seek them out.
00:08:31.000Some travel all the way to neo-Nazism, while others stop at milder forms of bigotry.
00:08:35.000The common thread in many of these stories is YouTube and its recommendation algorithm.
00:08:40.000Well, there's another common thread, which is that when dispossessed young men go looking for content that appeals to them, they might be able to find the content that appeals to them because they are dispossessed young men.
00:08:51.000In other words, these are human beings who are created with the capacity for free will.
00:08:55.000And this means they get to choose which videos they access and which videos they believe.
00:09:00.000But according to YouTube, if you watch a video of me ripping the alt-right, which is like every other video of me online, if you watch a video of me ripping the alt-right, this inevitably leads you to the alt-right.
00:09:10.000This is how you end up at the idiotic media coverage of a couple weeks ago, where the media tried to blame me for an attack on a synagogue, which is the most asinine contention I could possibly imagine.
00:09:20.000But the New York Times continues, But, and it's the but that matters here, Critics and independent researchers say YouTube has inadvertently created a dangerous on-ramp to extremism by combining two things, a business model that rewards provocative videos with exposure and advertising dollars, and an algorithm that guides users down personalized paths meant to keep them glued to their screens.
00:09:49.000Tristan Harris, former design ethicist at Google.
00:09:52.000By the way, if you are a design ethicist, this should answer the question as to whether these big tech companies are designing the algorithms with certain values in mind.
00:10:01.000They've been saying all along, no, no, no, they're just following the traffic.
00:10:03.000They actually had a position called a design ethicist at Google.
00:10:08.000Tristan Harris says, if I'm YouTube and I want you to watch more, I'm always going to steer you toward crazy town.
00:10:13.000Weird that no one on the left has ever suggested that YouTube should maybe disassociate from, say, the Young Turks on the left.
00:10:18.000No one has ever suggested that YouTube disassociate from far-left views.
00:10:28.000In recent years, social media platforms have grappled with the growth of extremism on their services, says the New York Times.
00:10:33.000Many platforms have barred a handful of far-right influencers and conspiracy theorists, including Alex Jones of InfoWars, and tech companies have taken steps to limit the spread of political misinformation.
00:10:44.000YouTube, whose rules prohibit hate speech and harassment, took a more laissez-faire approach to enforcement for years.
00:10:49.000And this is where the New York Times is trying to push.
00:10:52.000The New York Times is trying to push by saying that this laissez-faire approach has been a complete failure and is causing people to be radicalized.
00:10:58.000Because radicalization never happened before the YouTube algorithm and because YouTube has the temerity to leave conservative views on their platform.
00:11:07.000What's funny about this is they're really not blaming YouTube's algorithm.
00:11:10.000In the end, this article, as you will see, does not blame YouTube's algorithm and suggests that the algorithm needs to be changed so that it doesn't benefit some of the fringe views.
00:11:17.000Instead, they basically argue that YouTube should crack down on mainstream conservative views because there's no difference between mainstream conservatism and far-right alt-right views.
00:11:26.000We'll get to more of that in just one second.
00:11:27.000First, we need to talk about your freedoms.
00:11:31.000You hear me talk all the time on the show about the growing attacks on religious freedom and freedom of speech.
00:11:36.000You can see today's show is all about the attack on the principled nature of freedom of speech.
00:11:40.000And we've talked Repeatedly on the show about the attacks on religious freedom that come as a consequence of the radical growth of government.
00:11:47.000Well, now's a great time to tell people like Baronelle Stutzman, a small business owner, floral artist, and grandmother who was sued by her state's government and the ACLU for simply declining to create custom floral art celebrating an event that conflicted with her Christian beliefs.
00:12:00.000We had Baronelle on our radio show last week.
00:12:02.000She could lose her business, her home, and her life savings if she loses.
00:12:05.000This is why Alliance Defending Freedom exists.
00:12:07.000ADF provides free legal services to Barronelle and others whose freedoms are under assault.
00:12:51.000Okay, so this New York Times piece, which again, lumps in everybody on the right, continues.
00:12:56.000With 2 billion monthly active users uploading more than 500 hours of video every minute, YouTube's traffic is estimated to be the second highest of any website behind only Google.com.
00:13:05.000According to Pew Research Center, 94% of Americans aged 18 to 24 use YouTube, a higher percentage than for any other online service.
00:13:13.000Like many other Silicon Valley companies, YouTube is outwardly liberal in its corporate policies.
00:13:17.000It sponsors floats at LGBT pride parades, its chief executive endorsed Hillary Clinton, In reality, YouTube has been a godsend for hyper-partisans on all sides.
00:13:31.000I can't imagine why the New York Times would do that.
00:13:34.000And then they say, I love this, it has also been a useful recruiting tool for far-right extremist groups.
00:13:38.000Bellingcat, an investigative news site, analyzed messages from far-right chat rooms and found that YouTube was cited as the most frequent cause of members red-pilling, an internet slang term for converting to far-right beliefs.
00:13:49.000Well, since you just said that 94% of people aged 18 to 24 watch YouTube, I can imagine that's true.
00:13:56.000This is like saying, guess what helps people change their viewpoint?
00:14:04.000A European research group, VoxPol, conducted a separate analysis of 30,000 Twitter accounts affiliated with the alt-right and found the accounts linked to YouTube more often than to any other site.
00:14:13.000Because it's the most linked site on the internet.
00:14:17.000Becca Lewis, who runs a garbage study for data and society, a study that was so dumb that they basically had to retract their own findings.
00:14:26.000OK, this study basically suggested a seven degrees of separation.
00:14:30.000It was six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but with politics.
00:14:32.000It was basically like, OK, so Dave Rubin interviewed me and I have interviewed Steven Crowder and Steven Crowder has interviewed Stefan Molyneux.
00:14:40.000Therefore, Dave Rubin And Dave Rubin also once interviewed, like, Mike Gatto, the Democratic Assemblyman.
00:14:46.000Therefore, Mike Gatto is linked to Stefan Molyneux.
00:14:52.000She says YouTube has been able to fly under the radar because until recently, no one thought of it as a place where radicalization is happening.
00:14:57.000But it's where young people are getting their information and entertainment.
00:15:00.000It's a space where creators are broadcasting political content that, at times, is overtly white supremacist.
00:15:06.000Okay, then the article gets back to this Mr. Cain, this Caleb Cain, who's a very, very important human.
00:15:11.000I visited Mr. Cain in West Virginia after seeing his YouTube video, denouncing the far right.
00:15:27.000Right there, they should have ended the article.
00:15:29.000If you've watched more than 12,000 videos and more than 2,500 search queries on YouTube dating back to 2015, you're spending a lot of time on YouTube.
00:15:47.000These interviews and data points form a picture of a disillusioned young man, an internet-savvy group of right-wing reactionaries, and a powerful algorithm that learns to connect the two.
00:15:56.000It suggests that YouTube may have played a role in steering Mr. Kane and other young men like him toward the far-right fringes.
00:16:01.000It also suggested that in time, YouTube is capable of steering them in very different directions.
00:16:05.000Okay, well now you really don't have a point of your article, right?
00:16:07.000So you're saying that YouTube could direct you to the far-right.
00:16:09.000Also, it could direct you to the left.
00:16:11.000Which means you're an independent human with the capacity to click on things.
00:16:18.000It shows the number of political videos that this guy watched each month.
00:16:22.000It says the right-wing content Mr. Kane viewed in 2015 and 2016 often consisted of videos by Stefan Molyneux with titles like Social Justice Warriors Always Lie and The Global Warming Hoax.
00:16:32.000And then it says Mr. Kane also watched many videos by members of the so-called intellectual dark web.
00:16:37.000That would be a group in which I'm involved.
00:16:39.000Like the popular comedian Joe Rogan and the political commentator Dave Rubin.
00:17:59.000Mr. Molyneux, who describes himself as an anarcho-capitalist, had a political agenda.
00:18:02.000He was a men's right advocate who said that feminism was a form of socialism and that progressive gender politics were holding young men back.
00:18:08.000He offered a conservative commentary on pop culture and current events, explaining why Disney's Frozen was an allegory about female vanity or why the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer was proof of the dangers of rap culture.
00:18:19.000Mr. Kane was a liberal who cared about social justice, worried about wealth inequality, and believed in climate change.
00:18:24.000But he found Mr. Molyneux's diatribes fascinating, even when they disagreed.
00:18:28.000And then apparently, he started watching a lot of Molyneux videos, he watched some Paul Joseph Watson, and then he watched a lot of videos on feminism, and then he watched some racist videos, but he never actually became racist.
00:18:40.000Okay, this is the part that's hilarious.
00:18:42.000So, he says that he never became an actual racist.
00:18:45.000He says, these people weren't all shouty demagogues.
00:18:48.000They were entertainers, building their audience with satirical skits, debates, and interviews with like-minded creators.
00:18:54.000These creators were active on Facebook and Twitter too, but YouTube was their headquarters, the place where they could earn a living by hawking merchandise and getting a cut of the money spent on advertisements that accompanied their videos.
00:19:05.000And then he says that he felt alienated and he started being programmed by the algorithm to watch particular other ads.
00:19:17.000So finally, you get to the point of all of this.
00:19:19.000He is asked whether, in fact, he ever turned into a racist after watching all this stuff.
00:19:25.000Quote, Mr. K never bought into the right's most extreme views, the far-right's most extreme views, like Holocaust denial or the need for a white ethnostate.
00:19:32.000Still, far-right ideology bled into his daily life.
00:19:35.000He began referring to himself as a trad con, a traditional conservative committed to old-fashioned gender norms.
00:19:39.000He dated an evangelical Christian woman, and he fought with his liberal friends.
00:19:43.000It was kind of sad, said Zelda Waite, a friend of Mr. Kane's from high school.
00:19:53.000Because you date an evangelical Christian woman and because you fight with your liberal friends.
00:19:58.000So if you're not a liberal and you date a conservative, obviously there is something wrong with you.
00:20:05.000And then they focus in on Molyneux a lot.
00:20:07.000I mean, this article is largely about Stefan Molyneux.
00:20:10.000But again, I'm confused as to why it is, why it is that this particular person is being profiled when he was never sucked into Stefan Molyneux's kind of alt-right worldview.
00:20:25.000And then, I love this, in 2018, nearly four years after Mr. Cain had begun watching right-wing YouTube videos, a new kind of video began appearing in his recommendations.
00:20:32.000These videos were made by left-wing creators, but they mimicked the aesthetics of right-wing YouTube.
00:20:36.000One video was a debate about immigration between Ms.
00:20:38.000Southern, Lauren Southern, and Stephen Bunnell, a liberal YouTuber known as Destiny.
00:20:42.000Cain watched the video to cheer on Southern, but Mr. Bunnell was a better debater, and Mr. Cain reluctantly declared him the winner.
00:20:48.000Mr. Kane also found videos by Natalie Wynn, a former academic philosopher who goes by the name ContraPoints.
00:20:53.000Wynn wore elaborate costumes and did drag-style performances in which she explained why Western culture wasn't under attack from immigrants or why race was a social construct.
00:21:02.000And then it talks about how wonderfully funny and engaging all of these people are on the right.
00:21:08.000And then he says, well, he became left-wing.
00:21:38.000So the question is, why did the New York Times dedicate this much space to it?
00:21:41.000The reason the New York Times dedicated this much space to it is because this is part of a hard push by the left in advance of the 2020 election to silence right-wing views.
00:21:50.000That is why they are lumping in everybody on the right.
00:21:52.000That's why they are suggesting that YouTube's algorithm, not that people watch my videos and that YouTube's algorithm wrongly directs them to alt-right videos, a proposition with which I would generally agree, but the idea is that my videos should not be promoted.
00:22:06.000And Crowder's videos should not be promoted.
00:22:08.000And anybody else who's on the right, their videos should not be promoted.
00:22:10.000Like mainstream right-wing figures, their videos should not be promoted.
00:22:14.000Jordan Peterson shouldn't be promoted.
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00:23:31.000I have lots of friends who have Okay, so, it's not just this New York Times piece.
00:23:39.000This asinine New York Times piece about a guy who was a liberal, who then watched a lot of YouTube videos and considered himself a traditional conservative, until he went back to being a mild-mannered, good liberal.
00:23:53.000That's not what the New York Times piece is about.
00:23:55.000What the New York Times piece is about is the evils of the right.
00:23:57.000And how the right will suck you in with their nefarious videos on the YouTubes.
00:24:01.000And really how YouTube should shut this thing down.
00:24:04.000And YouTube is already eager to please.
00:24:07.000This is true for all of the tech companies.
00:24:12.000They are looking to avoid scrutiny by left-wingers who continue to blame them for all of the ills in the world.
00:24:18.000And it's not just YouTube, it's also Pinterest.
00:24:20.000So Pinterest is apparently owned by Google.
00:24:23.000James O'Keefe just got a whistleblower from Pinterest to talk about how they are silencing particular voices on Pinterest.
00:24:29.000One of the voices that they are silencing on Pinterest is live action and Lila Rose.
00:24:34.000According to a new project by Project Veritas, this is Daily Wire reporting, it presents a series of accusations of political and ideological bias against conservatives, Christians, and pro-lifers behind the scenes at Pinterest, a social media platform with some 300 million active monthly users.
00:24:49.000Since the report was first released, Pinterest reportedly has taken action concerning one of the allegations.
00:24:53.000In a video that includes testimony from a whistleblower who works for Pinterest and whose identity is concealed in the video, O'Keefe presents internal documents provided by the whistleblower showing what appear to be various means of censoring content, including a porn site block list that includes liveaction.org, which is a pro-life site run by Lila Rose.
00:25:10.000So in other words, if you are against abortion, they listed you on the porn site block list so that your content could not appear.
00:25:17.000Some of the other content that was censored by the site was content from yours truly.
00:25:21.000Here is James O'Keefe talking about it in a video from Project Veritas.
00:25:25.000The Pinterest insider also saw how, quote, white supremacist, unquote, content, like Ben Shapiro's commentary, for instance, goes from identified to censored.
00:25:37.000This is if Ifeoma or Ife-Ozoma calling Ben Shapiro a white supremacist.
00:25:44.000Some would say that, well, that's just her giving her opinion on a private Slack board.
00:25:50.000So this was actually in a war room where policy makers were making decisions about content and there was follow-up action made to these posts.
00:26:02.000What sort of actions do they take on Shapiro content that you've seen?
00:26:06.000So they made an advisory document about this type of content, and then this advisory content ended up in our sensitive terms list, which is content that has to be manually entered that then affects all the content that comes into home feed, search, people's recommendations, etc.
00:26:25.000Okay, so they are limiting what you can get in a search.
00:26:28.000This is what the New York Times wants from YouTube, too.
00:26:31.000This is what the New York Times wants from Google.
00:26:32.000This is what the New York Times wants from Pinterest.
00:26:35.000What Democrats would like is for all of these various outlets to feel the pressure from the media so strongly that they simply start censoring conservative content.
00:26:45.000According to the Daily Wire, reporting on this Project Veritas report, among the claims presented by the whistleblower is that my content was censored in a zero-tolerance movement, terms related to Christianity are blocked from autocomplete, a video series exposing Planned Parenthood was included in a censor list as a harmful conspiracy, and liveaction.org was included on a list of porn sites blocked by the platform, meaning no links to its content could be produced by users.
00:27:08.000And then you've got the CEO of Google, who's openly coming out and saying, listen, we are trying to determine what exactly hate speech is.
00:27:14.000What's amazing here, truly, is to watch, as members of the media, this is Axios, on HBO, right?
00:27:31.000Well now Axios on HBO is interviewing the head of Google and trying to get the guy to basically establish hate speech standards that will be used by Google to shut down particular content.
00:27:41.000There is no good definition of hate speech.
00:27:44.000That definition simply does not exist.
00:27:46.000And the danger in trying to define hate speech in any real way is that folks on the left are likely to label anything from the right hate speech as that New York Times piece exposed you to, showed you.
00:27:57.000Here is the CEO of Google, though, trying to suggest that he's going to somehow implement a standard for hate speech that does not exist under American law, nor should it exist under American law.
00:28:07.000More recently we have introduced, just like today we do this in search, we rank content based on quality.
00:28:14.000And so we're bringing that same notion and approach to YouTube so that we can rank higher quality stuff better and really prevent borderline content.
00:28:25.000Content which doesn't exactly violate policies which need to be removed.
00:28:35.000It's also a hard societal problem because we need better frameworks around what is hate speech, what's not, and how do we as a company make those decisions at scale and get it right without making mistakes.
00:28:45.000Okay, well, you're not getting it right and you will make mistakes.
00:28:48.000I mean, this was shown last week with YouTube banning actual historical coverage of the Nazis because YouTube's algorithm couldn't determine what was historical coverage of Nazis and what was neo-Nazi content.
00:28:59.000Some of the most disturbing stuff there is when they say, well, you know, we're going to get rid of borderline content, or we're going to limit borderline content.
00:29:04.000So explain to me how The Daily Wire, for example, should be treated as borderline content, while Huffington Post should be treated as non-borderline content.
00:29:11.000You're going to have to explain that one to me.
00:29:13.000And if you believe that Google and YouTube and Facebook aren't going to elevate left-wing sources above right-wing sources, you're out of your mind.
00:29:21.000When they talk about the authoritative sources that they like, those authoritative sources are in fact the mainstream media outlets that are currently pushing for the limitations.
00:29:28.000What they're looking for, in effect, is a crony capitalism that is effectively a business type of collusion.
00:29:35.000It's actually much closer to monopolistic interference than it is to free markets or free minds.
00:29:42.000Because what's happening here is that the New York Times, CNN, a lot of left-wing outlets are looking at the future of the internet and they're concerned.
00:29:49.000They're concerned that the market is dissipating their influence.
00:29:53.000And so what they are doing is they're going to the tech companies and they're saying, listen, we are going to attack you incessantly.
00:29:57.000We're going to attack you incessantly as creating violence.
00:30:00.000We're going to attack you incessantly as radicalizing people.
00:30:03.000We're going to attack you repeatedly, continuously.
00:30:06.000We're going to do this all the time until you elevate our content and de-platform and de-elevate content that we don't like.
00:30:12.000Now, even if I agree with a lot of the content being banned, meaning that I agree that some of that content is gross, I don't think that it should be banned.
00:30:20.000The reason is because I don't trust these companies to make those sorts of decisions.
00:30:25.000I trust the American people to make these decisions.
00:30:27.000And it is astonishing to watch media outlets that purportedly worry about Donald Trump cracking down on freedom of the press spending front page space and time on HBO trying to condemn tech platforms for being open fora.
00:30:43.000And there are only a couple reasons to do it.
00:30:45.000One is ideological and one is market based.
00:30:46.000The ideological reason is because they don't like that there are views that they don't like that are gaining credence.
00:30:52.000And the market-based reason is that there are all of these other outlets that are gaining all sorts of credibility and credence and money and making lots of money, and they are afraid that their influence is dissipating.
00:31:01.000So they are creating a false monopoly again with the help of the tech companies.
00:31:04.000They're going to restore the media monopoly that existed back in the 1980s and the 1970s by using the tech bros to shut down everybody else.
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00:34:32.000All righty, so now the latest on President Trump and his tariff push on Mexico.
00:34:44.000So late last week, I gave credit on the show to President Trump because there were a bunch of reports that President Trump was going to be able to leverage a significant concession from the Mexican government.
00:34:55.000That significant concession was a safe third country provision.
00:34:58.000So the United States has what's called a safe third country deal with the Canadian government.
00:35:02.000What that safe third country deal does, it says that if somebody is trying to escape a human rights abusing country, And they want to get out and they go to Canada.
00:35:12.000They have to apply for asylum in Canada.
00:35:14.000The first country that they reach is the country where they have to apply for asylum.
00:35:19.000So you can't go to Canada and then apply to asylum in the United States because then it really is more just you want to come to the United States.
00:35:25.000It really isn't about you applying for asylum.
00:35:28.000We have a safe third country provision with Canada.
00:35:31.000Well, we'd like one of those with Mexico.
00:35:33.000And there was talk last week, late last week, like Thursday night, The Mexican government was going to give us one.
00:35:38.000That finally, we were going to get a deal with Mexico, where if people entered Mexico from Guatemala or El Salvador, that people would first have to apply for asylum in Mexico before they could apply to enter the United States.
00:35:49.000And President Trump's tariffs were given credit for that.
00:35:51.000And President Trump came online on Friday and he said that the tariffs would not go into effect because he'd made some sort of deal with Mexico.
00:35:57.000So we have a bunch of conflicting reports on this.
00:35:59.000What exactly the Mexican government gave up?
00:36:11.000So the Washington Post has a piece today called How Mexico Talked Trump Out of Tariff Threat With Immigration Crackdown Pact.
00:36:18.000Says Mexican negotiators persuaded President Trump to back down from his tariff threat by agreeing to an unprecedented crackdown on Central American migrants and accepting more expansive measures in Mexico if the initial efforts don't deliver quick results, according to officials from both governments and documents reviewed by the Washington Post.
00:36:34.000The enforcement measures Mexico has promised include the deployment of a militarized National Guard at the Guatemalan border, thousands of additional migrant arrests per week, and the acceptance of busloads of asylum seekers turned away from the United States border daily, all geared toward cutting the migrant flow sharply in coming weeks.
00:36:49.000The measures described by officials from both sides and included in Mexican negotiating documents reviewed by The Post appear to be more substantial than what the Mexican government has attempted thus far during the precipitous rise in migration to the United States border.
00:37:02.000Since heralding the pact in a Friday night tweet, Trump has fumed at criticism that he capitulated to Mexico and that his accord amounts to a series of previously agreed to measures.
00:37:10.000Trump officials on Monday described the accord as a breakthrough.
00:37:13.000The president considered Mexico's plan aggressive enough to suspend his tariff threat, even though he liked the idea of imposing the duties over the howls from members of his own party.
00:37:21.000officials say they were particularly impressed with Mexico's pledge to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops to its border region with Guatemala.
00:37:28.000officials as the first time in recent history that Mexico has decided to take operational control of its southern border as a priority, according to Mexican government documents.
00:37:37.000Such language amounted to the kind of rhetorical shift Trump officials were looking for from the leftist government of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who last year dismissed migrant enforcement in Mexico as dirty work at the behest of the United States.
00:37:50.000Trump said Monday his deal with Mexico was fully signed and documented and has provisions that have not yet been fully disclosed.
00:37:57.000On Monday afternoon at the White House, Trump said that the agreement has been locked in and will be announced very soon.
00:38:03.000Most asylum seekers who reach the U.S.
00:38:04.000are now processed and released into the United States interior.
00:38:08.000Mexico has repeatedly said it will not agree to a safe third country accord that would require it to take in U.S.
00:38:13.000bound asylum seekers transiting its territory.
00:38:17.000But Mexican officials have been willing to negotiate something that would function similarly if responsibility for asylum seekers were shared among others in the region.
00:38:25.000They say asylum changes would require approval from the Mexican lawmakers.
00:38:28.000Trump said in a tweet Monday he will impose tariffs if the regional asylum overhaul does not pass.
00:38:33.000So, it is not clear at this point what exactly is in place and what exactly is not in place.
00:38:40.000However, if a safe third country provision ends up being enforced and it was done so because President Trump threatened tariffs, then good for President Trump.
00:38:48.000My fear was that President Trump simply wanted to use tariffs on Mexico because he likes tariffs, not because he actually hoped to achieve an immigration breakthrough.
00:38:55.000If he achieves the immigration breakthrough, well then he gets credit and I was 100% wrong and I am more than happy to admit it.
00:39:01.000I like being wrong when it's good for the country.
00:39:04.000However, there is a major controversy.
00:39:09.000The New York Times reports the Mexican foreign minister said on Monday that no secret immigration deal existed between his country and the United States, directly contradicting President Trump's claim on Twitter that a fully signed and documented agreement would soon be revealed.
00:39:22.000In a second, I'll explain how this controversy is continuing to unfold.
00:39:26.000Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's top diplomat, said at a news conference in Mexico City, there is an understanding that both sides would evaluate the flow of migrants in the coming months.
00:39:34.000If the number of migrants crossing the U.S.
00:39:36.000border is not significantly reduced, he said, both sides have agreed to renew discussions about more aggressive changes to regional asylum rules that could have a bigger impact.
00:39:44.000Ebrard said, let's have a deadline to see if what we have works.
00:39:47.000If not, we'll sit down, look at the measures you propose and that we propose.
00:39:51.000The public statement served as an official response to several days of tweeting by Mr. Trump.
00:39:56.000Now, as I say, I don't want these tariffs to go into effect.
00:40:38.000It said that the countries agreed to continue their discussion on the terms of additional understandings to address irregular migrant flows and asylum issues to be completed and announced within 90 days.
00:40:47.000American officials said on Monday Trump appeared to be referring to an agreement in principle to revisit the migration situation in 45 days and again in 90 days.
00:40:57.000There was apparently significant disagreement on Monday between the Mexican government and American officials about what the negotiators actually agreed to regarding further action.
00:41:05.000So, as I said, when President Trump achieves an actual victory here that is documentable, I will give him 100% credit.
00:41:12.000As it stands, this looks a lot like when President Trump was in North Korea and President Trump was suggesting Over and over again that he had reached some sort of breakthrough with Kim Jong-un that turned out not to be true.
00:41:21.000So I think that we can trust but verify.
00:41:23.000So, sure, happy to give President Trump credit on a breakthrough.
00:41:30.000Is a safe third country provision in the works?
00:41:32.000Will any of this stuff actually happen?
00:41:36.000Trump didn't specifically mention the safe third country provision on Monday, but he said they would have an agreement they would announce very soon.
00:41:42.000That is not what was described by the foreign minister for Mexico.
00:41:45.000Ebrard said they will propose a safe third country.
00:41:48.000We said it will have to be with the UN Human Rights Council and it will have to be regional.
00:41:52.000He said Mexico preferred a regional asylum agreement that would review the flow of migrants across Mexico and Central America with a number of countries, including Panama and Brazil.
00:42:02.000So I think this whole thing is still in flux is the bottom line.
00:42:06.000Now, the good news is that President Trump can snap back those tariffs pretty much any time he wants.
00:42:11.000So there's a pretty strong incentive for the Mexican government not exactly to screw around with President Trump.
00:42:15.000But maybe if they apply a delay tactic, maybe if they delay this thing all the way until next year, they hope that a Democrat will be elected, at which point open immigration begins again.
00:42:26.000I will say that President Trump's strategic use of tariffs with regard to China has not been exactly the serious problem that I think everyone thought that it was going to be.
00:42:36.000Now, it has been a serious problem in terms of the economy.
00:42:42.000But the amount of Chinese leverage that they are willing to apply at this point does not appear to be all that high.
00:42:47.000China does have more to lose than the United States.
00:42:49.000And as I've said before, there is a case to be made that the Chinese government ought to be pressured in a way the Mexican government is not pressured.
00:42:56.000The Mexican government should be pressured to stop the migrant flow, but the Mexican government is not an open adversary of the United States.
00:43:04.000And the good news is that China's attempts at leveraging the United States are so far a giant fail.
00:43:09.000There's an article in the Washington Post talking about how China's hints that it will choke off rare earths access in the United States is not in fact that easy.
00:43:18.000David Lynch writing for the Washington Post.
00:43:20.000He says, China dominates the global market for rare earths materials and has been threatening to take them hostage in the deepening trade conflict.
00:43:26.000Just the suggestion that Beijing could starve American factories of essential materials has sent rare earth prices soaring over the past month with dysprosium oxide used in lasers and nuclear reactor control rods up by one third.
00:43:38.000But the alarm overlooks the rise over the past decade of alternative sources of rare earths and ignores the difficulties China would face in implementing a ban, including the prospect of widespread smuggling and the likelihood of hurting countries that Chinese authorities may prefer not to alienate.
00:43:53.000So President Trump has been applying leverage to China, and he is right to do so.
00:43:58.000We'll see how the Mexican negotiation, which I'm more skeptical of, plays out.
00:44:03.000Again, I'm hoping that the president's strategy there pays off and that we see some real gains.
00:44:08.000I will say that the media, obviously, they're jumping to the conclusion that Trump has got nothing in exchange for backing down from his tariff threats.
00:44:15.000You have Anderson Cooper, the very objective journalist on CNN, not waiting to see, but instead jumping in and saying that this was all about nothing.
00:44:22.000Their story says, and I'm quoting now the lead, the deal to avert tariffs that President Trump announced with great fanfare on Friday night consists largely of actions that Mexico had already promised to take in prior discussions with the U.S.
00:44:35.000over the past several months, according to officials from both countries who are familiar with the negotiations.
00:44:40.000In other words, whatever might be coming down the pike when it comes to what has already transpired, all the drama, all the talks, all the threats of what amounts to waging economic warfare on a major trading partner and ally, We're all about nothing.
00:44:53.000OK, well, maybe they were, and maybe they weren't.
00:44:55.000We don't know yet, is sort of the issue.
00:44:57.000So I think that Trump's adversaries are going to declare that this is a big loss for Trump.
00:45:02.000But honestly, where is the big loss for Trump, exactly?
00:46:28.000You can tell the Democrats are desperate when they're calling in John Dean.
00:46:31.000If you call in John Dean, the guy from 1974 who called President Bush a Watergate style president, if you're inviting that guy and that's the best you can do, I would recommend that you guys get some better candidates.
00:46:42.000Because if you're relying on John Dean to take down the president, you may be in serious trouble.
00:46:46.000OK, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:50:17.000In 2008, a Dutch professor named Mark Post presented the proof of concept for what he called cultured meat.
00:50:23.000Five years later, in a London TV studio, Mr. Post and his colleagues ate a burger they had grown from animal cells in a laboratory.
00:50:28.000Secretly funded by Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, the journey from Petri dish to plate had cost $325,000, making theirs the most expensive meal in history.
00:50:37.000Fortunately, the results were promising.
00:50:38.000Hany Rützler, a nutrition scientist, concluded the patty was close to meat, but not as juicy.
00:50:43.000The next question was whether this breakthrough could be made cheaper.
00:50:53.000Within a decade, they will probably be more affordable than even the cheapest barbecue staples of today, all for a product that uses fewer resources, produces negligible greenhouse gases, and remarkably, requires no animals to die.
00:51:04.000So far, this is a pretty stirring representation of how awesome capitalism is, isn't it?
00:51:09.000And they're talking about how private funding created a burger that will be cheaper than regular burgers and also avoid many of the side effects of burgers.
00:51:19.000So, it's a pretty good case for capitalism.
00:51:21.000But remember, this is an article about communism.
00:51:23.000Wait, it's not just barbecues and burgers.
00:51:25.000Last year, Just, a leader in cellular agriculture, cut a deal to start producing one of the world's tastiest steaks, Wagyu.
00:51:32.000A company called Endless West, which also makes grapeless wine, has started to produce Glyph, the world's first molecular whiskey.
00:51:39.000The case of cultured food and drink, far from a curiosity, is a template for a better, freer, and more affluent world, a world where we provide for the needs of everyone in style.
00:51:48.000To say that, well, I mean, I think that we just explained how we got there, didn't we?
00:51:52.000I mean, weren't the first few paragraphs all about how all these private companies are creating awesome new stuff that will become insanely cheap because of the free market?
00:51:59.000We could just stop the article there, but no, we still got 600 words to fill.
00:52:03.000So according to this genius columnist, Aaron Bastani, so he says, How do we get there?
00:52:09.000there to say the present era is one of crisis borders on cliche it differs from the dystopias of george orwell or aldous huxley or hell in the paintings of hieronymus bosch it is unlike europe during the black death or central asia as it faced the galloping golden horde and yet it is true ours is an age of crisis i swear this was written by a high school junior getting a c and like to say it differs from other dystopias And then, let me show you how many books I've read.
00:52:34.000All from my high school English class.
00:52:49.000Low productivity, historically speaking, not even close to true.
00:52:53.000Low growth is kind of true, and that's mostly because of government interventionism.
00:52:57.000This is a world where billions, mostly in the global south, live in poverty, a world defined by inequality.
00:53:01.000Actually, the world is defined by a massive reduction in the amount of inequality between the poorest and everybody else, considering that 80% of the global extreme poor have been lifted out of global extreme poverty since 1980 by capitalism.
00:53:13.000But remember, this is an article about communism.
00:53:15.000The most pressing crisis of all, arguably, is an absence of collective imagination.
00:53:43.000Whenever people talk about collective imagination, understand what they really mean by collective imagination is one person at the head of a massive government who imposes their ideas on everybody else.
00:53:53.000Because you know what is the collective imagination in the free market?
00:53:57.000It's all of our individual imaginations, but in a market.
00:54:01.000Collective imagination is where there's somebody at the top bossing people around.
00:54:06.000The term collective imagination, in fact, is somewhat self-defeating because imagination is by nature individual.
00:54:12.000Now, we can work in groups and toss ideas back and forth to each other, but the idea of a collective imagination, a hive mind, so to speak, the reason that a hive mind doesn't really work that way is because a hive is subservient to the queen bee.
00:54:25.000But this columnist says, it is as if humanity has been afflicted by a psychological complex in which we believe the present world is stronger than our capacity to remake it.
00:54:33.000As if the very essence of humanity, if there is such a thing, is not to constantly build new worlds.
00:54:44.000If we can move beyond such a failure, we will be able to see something wonderful.
00:54:47.000The plummeting cost of information and advances in technology are providing the ground for a collective future of freedom and luxury for all.
00:54:54.000Automation, robotics, and machine learning will, as many august bodies from the Bank of England to the White House have predicted, substantially shrink the workforce, creating widespread technological unemployment.
00:55:02.000But that's only a problem if you think work is something to be cherished.
00:55:05.000For many, work is drudgery, and automation could set us free from it.
00:55:09.000Okay, well, for many it's not, so that's a problem.
00:55:12.000But also, you're gonna have to give people something to do.
00:55:15.000And it turns out that communism doesn't give anything for people to do.
00:55:19.000Gene editing, this is one of the funny things about people who promote socialism and communism.
00:55:23.000There's this weird idea that if you promote socialism, you promote communism.
00:55:27.000That what will spring free is a bunch of itinerant poets.
00:55:30.000Who sit around writing about the beautiful flowers and creating a world of art.
00:55:35.000I remember that Nancy Pelosi said this about so-called job lock, right?
00:55:38.000She said that people were locked into their jobs for healthcare and that was a bad thing.
00:55:42.000We needed to disconnect healthcare from your job by presumably nationalizing it so that you could write poetry.
00:55:49.000Now, I know a lot of people without jobs, very few of them, except for producer Nick here, actually sit around writing poetry or going and learning to mine for gold.
00:55:59.000Most people who are unemployed are pretty depressed and pretty unhappy because they don't have a lot of stuff to do.
00:56:03.000But this article continues by talking about how as we make things more and more prosperous, well now we can try communism.
00:56:10.000He says, I love this, he says the consequences are far-reaching and potentially transformative of the of the increasing technological Hey man, technological achievements, hey man.
00:56:20.000For the crises that confront our world today, technological unemployment, global poverty, societal aging, climate change, resource scarcity, we can already glimpse the remedy.
00:56:30.000It has created the newly emerging abundance, but it is unable to share around the fruits of technological development.
00:56:35.000Okay, if you really believe that capitalism has been unable to share around the fruits of technological development, I ask you, how many people in the United States have cell phones?
00:56:43.000I ask you, how many people in the United States have microwaves and cars?
00:56:47.000Everybody takes this stuff for granted because of capitalism.
00:57:08.000Free markets work through competition.
00:57:10.000Just like today's, companies of the future will form monopolies and seek rents.
00:57:14.000The results will be imposed scarcity when there's not enough food, healthcare, or energy to go around.
00:57:18.000This has not been the history of capitalism.
00:57:20.000The only enforced monopolies are ones that are enforced by the government.
00:57:23.000Government monopolies are monopolies too, and result in far more scarcity than free market economics.
00:57:30.000But according to this columnist, we have to go beyond capitalism.
00:57:32.000Many will find this suggestion unwholesome.
00:57:34.000To them, the claim that capitalism will or should end is like saying a triangle doesn't have three sides or that the law of gravity no longer applies while an apple falls from a tree.
00:57:42.000But for a better world, it is an imperative.
00:57:45.000We can see the contours of something new.
00:57:47.000A society as distinct from our own as that of the 20th century from feudalism or urban civilization from the life of the hunter-gatherer.
00:57:53.000It builds on technologies whose development has been accelerating for decades.
00:57:57.000To grasp it will require a new politics.
00:58:16.000My goodness, if your case for communism is basically that technology is gonna solve all of our problems, you just made the unwitting case for capitalism, thank you very much.
00:58:24.000Now, on the right, you're seeing some folks who are making an unwitting case against capitalism, or a witting case.
00:59:10.000An elitist is somebody who believes they should run the world for everybody else.
00:59:13.000That is the opposite of free market libertarianism, which suggests that you should make your own choices without the government cramming down choices and subsidies upon you.
00:59:22.000There's been a debate brewing within the world of conservatism ever since Donald Trump won the GOP nomination.
00:59:27.000Some on the right bitterly oppose his divergence from Republican economic orthodoxy and are fighting to defend the role of economic markets in society against what they perceive as attacks from other conservatives.
00:59:37.000These elites may be right to be afraid, but that's because at heart, they are more libertarian than they are conservative.
00:59:43.000I think you and I are defining conservative differently, then, because it turns out that conservative is about conserving the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.
00:59:51.000Many of those liberties are tied into the free market.
00:59:55.000Such libertarian-minded opinion leaders have criticized Trump's call to rule out reform for Social Security and Medicare.
01:00:00.000They ignored his calls to dramatically increase spending on infrastructure.
01:00:06.000Trump's overwhelming victory in the primaries should have shocked them out of their ideological slumber.
01:00:10.000Instead, they're like the French Bourbon monarchs, who, upon being restored to the throne, remembered nothing and forgot nothing about the reasons they were overthrown in the first place.
01:00:17.000Okay, Donald Trump, and then he name-checks me, right?
01:00:20.000He suggests that Fox News television host Tucker Carlson's rather mundane point that today's global economy contributes in part to the economic and social decline in many parts of the United States was scorned by leading lights such as David French and Ben Shapiro.
01:00:32.000Right, we talked about it on the show.
01:00:34.000Because my point was that the moral failings of the United States are far more linked to the moral history of the United States in the 1960s than they are to the fact that you can get a cheaper product from China.
01:00:44.000Like, I don't think people are failing to get married because we signed NAFTA.
01:00:49.000I think people are failing to get married because our society has disdained marriage for generations.
01:00:52.000The marriage rates started to decline far before the effect of so-called kind of trade imbalances began to be felt.
01:00:59.000I mean, marriage rates in the United States started to decline in the 60s.
01:01:03.000When the economy was still pretty good.
01:01:06.000Now, what's hilarious, and by the way, the economy is still pretty good.
01:01:08.000I mean, we have an all-time low unemployment rate right now.
01:01:11.000But according to Henry Olson, here's where we get to the point.
01:01:14.000When I say that the left is pushing for communism, but they're really in favor of capitalism, like that article from the New York Times, and then you have people on the right who are pushing for government involvement in the name of conservatism, that's Henry Olson.
01:01:26.000My libertarian-oriented friends will not want to hear this, but we live in the garden that Franklin Delano Roosevelt made.
01:01:33.000Now, this should be anathema to conservatives.
01:01:36.000If somebody comes to you and they say, you know, we just have to accept the new form of government that FDR brought about.
01:01:42.000FDR was about as close to a socialist dictator in the United States as we had, except for maybe Woodrow Wilson, as we've had in the United States.
01:01:49.000He wasn't able to get all of his plans through, but the National Recovery Act was a fascist piece of legislation in which the government overtly gave a stamp of approval to particular businesses that abided by the government's diktats.
01:02:04.000FDR's muddling with the economy lengthened the Great Depression by eight years.
01:02:10.000FDR led to the second great- There were two Great Depressions, basically.
01:02:12.000There was one that was from 29 to 33, and then there was one that kicked in again from 37 to, basically, World War II.
01:02:19.000FDR's economic policy was disastrous, and he created all of the economic unsustainability that we have seen.
01:02:26.000He created the roots of the union system that destroyed America's car industry.
01:02:31.000He created the roots of the social security system that is bankrupting us in the future, and Medicaid and Medicare, systems that comprise now 66% of the federal budget.
01:02:41.000So when you hear a conservative say something like, I mean, that's an amazing, amazing statement.
01:02:55.000If you're a conservative and you believe that your role is basically to conserve FDR, I don't think that's particularly conservative.
01:03:01.000You can make the argument that that's what should be done on a practical policy level because you can't get through a more libertarian program.
01:03:08.000But if your argument is that FDR's basic economic structure, in which he derided malefactors of great wealth, regulated the banking industry, debased the currency, and did all sorts of other things to undermine the fundamental free market nature of America's economy, that that was a good thing, and that we have to maintain that?
01:03:24.000I don't know how that strikes a chord with anybody who believes in the Constitution of the United States, or the economic philosophy that created the great majority of America's wealth.
01:04:12.000President Trump wins big on his deal with Mexico.
01:04:15.000Of course, the mainstream media don't give him credit for it.
01:04:17.000We will examine what is really in the deal.
01:04:20.000Then, another social media platform bans conservatives and Masterpiece Cake Shop owner Jack Phillips gets sued for a third time by radical leftists.