The inevitable decline into stupid continues, and we will cover all of it. Hillary Clinton says you are complicit in murder if you disagree with her on gun control policy. Jimmy Kimmel is back for more, and it appears the Secretary of State called the President of the United States an effing moron at some point in the recent past. Yes, all of these things are really happening. Plus, Jimmy Kimmel just couldn t leave well enough alone. He decided to go back on the air last night and double down on the, "You're a mean and cruel if I disagree with you on Gun Control" theme that he's been using for the past few months. We begin today with more fallout from the Las Vegas shooting, including President Trump's response to a question about gun control, "I'll think about it" and "we'll talk about it as time goes by." And, of course, the left is focused on the fact that the shooter bought all of his guns legally, apparently. And because he had no symptoms of mental illness, apparently, he was a man who bought them legally. And because the shooter was apparently a crazed lunatic who should have been able to buy them legally, it's no surprise that he was able to do so. Ben Shapiro breaks it all down, and explains why the left doesn't seem to be getting any better at it than they do at all, and why they should be paying attention to it. Also, Ben explains why being sick makes you an expert on something other than tax policy, or paying taxes on your taxes, and you don't actually have to be an expert at it, right? And he also points out that Steve Scalise is probably the most famous gunshot victim in the country. You don't even exist, right?! If you're a gunshot victim? You just don't exist. You just DON'T exist, do you? You don' EVEN THINK YOU DO? -- Ben Shapiro -- THE PODCAST: The Dark Side of the Internet -- THE CHIEF -- BONUS EPISODE OF THE WEEKEND? -- BEN SHEPHERD? -- CHECK OUT THE PASTOR AND FAST RATE THE LINKS AND GOT A PRODUCING AN IDEA AND OTHER THAN THAT'S A MAGICIKE AND A FASTIE? -- EAT THEM ON SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS?
00:00:00.000Hillary Clinton says you are complicit in murder if you disagree with her on gun control policy.
00:00:04.000Jimmy Kimmel is back for more, and it appears the Secretary of State called the President of the United States an effing moron at some point in the recent past.
00:00:12.000Yes, all of these things are really happening.
00:00:22.000The inevitable decline into stupid continues, and we will cover all of it.
00:00:27.000The Rex Tillerson thing is pretty amazing.
00:00:28.000I mean, he actually... There's a report from NBC News that suggested that he had called the president a moron back during the summer, and instead of him just sort of brushing it off, he decided to do a full-fledged press conference, and we have a clip of that, and we'll show it to you a little bit later, because it's pretty amazing.
00:00:42.000Plus, Jimmy Kimmel just couldn't leave well enough alone.
00:00:44.000He decided to go back on the air last night and double down on the, you're mean and cruel if you disagree with me on gun control.
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00:01:56.000We begin today with more fallout from Las Vegas.
00:01:59.000So President Trump, yesterday, he did sort of what he likes to do when he's asked a question that he doesn't know the answer to, which is he says, I'll think about it.
00:02:07.000So yesterday the media asked him about gun control, and here was Trump's answer.
00:02:11.000We have a tragedy we're going to do and what happened in Las Vegas is in many ways a miracle.
00:02:19.000The police department has done such an incredible job and we'll be talking about gun laws as time goes by.
00:02:28.000Okay, so the very end of it is what people are focused on.
00:02:31.000The left is focusing on where he said that what happened in Vegas was a miracle.
00:02:34.000Of course, he's only talking about the law enforcement response.
00:02:36.000He's not talking about the shooting itself.
00:02:38.000People taking him out of context here are ridiculous.
00:02:40.000Clearly, he's not talking about Americans being murdered being a miracle.
00:02:44.000But it's that last part where he says, we'll talk about gun control as time goes by, that has a lot of people on the left very hopeful.
00:02:49.000Now, is Trump actually going to pursue that?
00:02:53.000That's Trump's go-to when he doesn't know what to say or he just wants to say something to leave the media with something to think about.
00:03:00.000But the reality is that Republicans are not pushing gun control right now because no gun control measure that I can think of or that anyone on the left can think of would have stopped what just happened in Las Vegas.
00:03:45.000No, I'm not a fan of this procedure, this technique.
00:03:47.000I don't think that you being shot makes you an expert on gun policy any more than I think you being sick makes you an expert on health policy, or you paying taxes makes you an expert on tax policy, right?
00:03:57.000You actually have to study issues in order to have expertise on them.
00:04:00.000But one of the things I find really fascinating is that if you are a gunshot victim and you disagree with the left, they just pretend you don't exist.
00:04:07.000So Steve Scalise is probably the most famous gunshot victim in the country at this point.
00:04:11.000Steve Scalise, of course, the Louisiana congressperson,
00:04:14.000Who was shot by a crazed Bernie Sanders supporter in the congressional baseball shooting just a few months back.
00:04:19.000And Steve Scalise was asked specifically about Las Vegas and the Second Amendment and here was his answer.
00:04:25.000Inevitably questions about the Second Amendment are raised by what happened in Las Vegas.
00:04:32.000Have you, your experience of your own and what you saw in Las Vegas, has it changed how you feel about any of that?
00:04:40.000I think it's fortified it because, first of all, you've got to recognize that when there's a tragedy like this, the first thing we should be thinking about is praying for the people who were injured and doing whatever we can to help them, to help law enforcement.
00:04:56.000We shouldn't first be thinking of promoting our political agenda.
00:05:00.000Okay, but he's not allowed to say that.
00:05:34.000She's a statistician and former writer at FiveThirtyEight and she has a Washington Post column today that I think is really worthwhile talking about how before she started researching gun deaths, gun control policy used to frustrate her and she used to be anti-NRA and she used to think that shrinking magazine sizes and all of this would actually help with gun deaths and mass shootings.
00:05:54.000And then she did the research and she found that that isn't true.
00:06:23.000She says that Britain and Australia didn't prove much what America's policy should be.
00:06:27.000She said neither nation experienced drops in mass shootings or other gun-related crime that could be attributed to their buybacks and bans.
00:06:34.000She says, as I said yesterday, mass shootings were too rare in Australia.
00:06:38.000for their absence after the buyback program to be clear evidence of progress.
00:06:42.000And she goes through all of the gun measures that have been suggested, and she points out that the next largest set of gun deaths after suicide, number one is suicide, this is all stuff I said yesterday, number one cause of gun death in the United States is suicide, number two are young men aged 15 to 34 killed in homicide, very often in gang violence.
00:07:02.000But the left never wants to talk about that because that would suggest different policies, including jailing people from gangs who commit violent acts for longer periods of time in order to tamp down crime.
00:07:40.000Okay, so we should release all those people, but we should put out law-abiding people who want to buy a gun that you don't want them to have in jail.
00:08:41.000My gosh, we computerize everything and we can't computerize that?
00:08:44.000Dylan Roof was never supposed to get that gun that he used to kill people at Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston because he had a pre-existing arrest that should have disqualified him.
00:08:56.000But the system, you know, is deliberately kept all creaky and slow.
00:09:04.000This is nothing but pure, unadulterated greed motivated by people who want to sell as many guns as they can to engage in a falsity of fear and rhetoric about why everybody has to have guns.
00:09:28.000So everybody who wants to be able to buy guns legally, these are the people who are the problem, and people are deliberately keeping the system leaky.
00:09:35.000Because here's the background on Dylann Roof, just so you have the factual background.
00:10:25.000They want people to shoot people so that they can sell more guns.
00:10:28.000If you really believe that, you don't know any gun owners and you don't know any Republicans.
00:10:32.000The Democrats, though, are starting to really, I think, reveal what they think about gun owners and what they think about guns, which is refreshing.
00:10:39.000I mean, I like when there's a little bit of honesty in this process.
00:10:42.000And in just a minute, I'm going to show you what Democrats have been saying about what sorts of guns they want to ban.
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00:12:37.000I mean, let's just be clear that the pace of these epic mass shootings, ten or more people being killed, doubled after the assault weapons ban expired.
00:12:49.000I think we also have to look at these aftermarket modifications that allows you
00:12:53.000Fairly to turn a semi-automatic weapon into an automatic weapon.
00:12:57.000But Willie, I also don't think we can be caught in this trap.
00:13:01.000I think the gun lobby wants you, in the wake of one of these mass shootings, to only talk about the policy changes that would have affected the shooting that happened the day before.
00:13:11.000We have to get back to the evergreen changes.
00:13:25.000Okay, so number one, so again, that is not true.
00:13:28.000Many of the guns that are used in crime, I believe the majority of guns that are used in crime, are not obtained legally.
00:13:33.000The idea that in mass shootings, the people are not going through federal background checks is not true.
00:13:38.000This shooter did go through a federal background check.
00:13:40.000I believe that the shooter in the Pulse nightclub shooting went through a federal background check.
00:13:45.000So the idea that all of these measures would have stopped any of this is not true.
00:13:49.000But notice what he glosses over there.
00:13:50.000And that is that he says he supports a ban on semi-automatic rifles.
00:13:54.000Okay, understand that's pretty much every rifle in the country.
00:13:56.000Pretty much every rifle in the country is a semi-automatic rifle, because again, a semi-automatic just means you pull the trigger once, and one round is fire.
00:14:05.000AR, people think it stands for assault rifle, of course it does not.
00:14:08.000Okay, AR-15 is one of the most popular sporting rifles in the country.
00:14:12.000You ban that, you're talking about either having to confiscate literally tens of millions of these guns from law-abiding Americans,
00:14:19.000Or preventing them from buying those guns on the market right now with federally licensed firearms dealers and background checks and the whole deal.
00:14:27.000Democrats are starting to come out of the closet as to what they want here and Americans aren't going to like it.
00:14:31.000It's so funny, the Democrats, after a mass shooting, they always think, ooh, now the tide of public opinion is with us.
00:14:36.000The tide of public opinion is with the idea that we're all together in this and we hate mass shooters and we want them to die and they're evil people.
00:14:44.000We're all on that, but we're not all together on the policies that you prescribe, because the policies you prescribe are very much contra traditional American concepts about freedom and liberty and gun ownership.
00:14:54.000It's not just Chris Murphy who's trying to make hay off of this.
00:14:57.000You also have people like Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts arguing that the founders didn't want people to be able to purchase guns.
00:15:07.000When the Second Amendment was written in order to maintain a well-regulated militia, they did not have in mind that people could purchase guns indiscriminately, go up into the top of buildings and rain down this death on 59 people, hundreds of other people.
00:15:34.000Again, the founders did believe that you should be able to own weapons that you could use in the militia, right?
00:15:56.000Now, these guns have the capacity for burst fire or fully automatic, so there is a big difference.
00:16:03.000But again, all this really is, is the left attempting to use emotion in place of real policy.
00:16:10.000So, you know, Jimmy Kimmel was back last night, and Jimmy Kimmel is not backing down off of his, I am holier than you are, I care more about people who died, therefore you must agree with me.
00:16:20.000Here's what he had to say last night to critics like me, who said that his gun monologue last night was factually incorrect.
00:16:27.000I'm not going to get deep into it again tonight.
00:16:29.000I said what I had to say last night, but I do want to say something to these nuts who spent most of the day today on television and online attacking those of us who think we need to do something about the fact that 59 innocent people were killed.
00:16:42.000Okay, so first of all, we didn't spend yesterday attacking people who think that something has to be done.
00:16:49.000We attacked you for attacking Americans and saying that Americans are basically a bunch of dunder-headed, cruel jackasses if they don't agree with you on policy.
00:16:57.000I mean, if you actually want to propose a policy, we can talk about the policy.
00:17:00.000What I said in the minutes after the shooting is, how about we get all the information on the shooting and then we talk policy?
00:17:14.000But again, Kimmel is strawmanning here.
00:17:17.000He's basically suggesting that all of us who criticized him were really, we just don't want to do anything and that's why we're criticizing him.
00:17:22.000No, I'm criticizing you because what you're saying is factually incorrect and then you're implying that those of us who want evidence to back our policies are somehow cruel and nasty.
00:17:31.000Talking about it because it's too soon.
00:17:34.000Well, maybe it's too soon for you because deep down inside you know, in your heart, you know you bear some responsibility for the fact that almost anyone can get any weapon they want.
00:17:43.000Now you want to cover yourself until the storm of outrage passes.
00:17:47.000You can go back to your dirty business as usual, but
00:17:49.000It's not too soon for us, because we're Americans, and last time I checked, the First Amendment is at least as important as the Second Amendment, so... Jimmy, I mean seriously, this is egregious stuff.
00:18:04.000I hope you're a better person than this, but this is really egregious stuff.
00:18:07.000If I didn't think you were a better person than this, I'd tell you to go to hell, because that's ridiculous, okay?
00:18:11.000For you to suggest, go back to your dirty business?
00:18:30.000And it's not a dirty business for people to be in the gun sales business selling methods of self-defense to Americans who want to defend themselves and their country.
00:18:40.000But the suggestion that I bear responsibility for Vegas?
00:18:44.000The only person who bears responsibility for Vegas is the guy who's pulling the trigger on a bunch of people who are innocent standing below.
00:18:50.000If we're going to do that routine now, if we're going to suggest that we bear responsibility for our public policy choices with regard to gun control, then I would suggest that Jimmy Kimmel bears responsibility for every dead baby that he backs through Planned Parenthood.
00:19:06.000There's a significantly greater connection between that.
00:19:09.000Planned Parenthood's sole goal is to kill babies.
00:19:12.000The goal of selling rifles is not to kill innocent people.
00:19:26.000For Jimmy Kimmel to suggest that everybody who disagrees with him, again, is just so disgusting.
00:19:30.000For him to suggest that I have some sort of blood guilt on my soul and that's why I don't want to talk about this?
00:19:35.000I've been talking about it all week, dude.
00:19:37.000I've made my bones talking about gun control and the case for and against.
00:19:41.000I know a lot more about it than Jimmy Kimmel does.
00:19:44.000And for Jimmy Kimmel to suggest that anyone who wants to talk about it who's not named Jimmy Kimmel is somehow motivated by their dirty business, their greed.
00:19:52.000I promise you, Jimmy Kimmel makes a hell of a lot more money than I do.
00:19:55.000Jimmy Kimmel's making a lot of money off a lot of leftists who think that he is just the bee's knees because he does this kind of stuff.
00:20:01.000So if we're going to talk about who's making more money off political pandering, Jimmy, I don't think that's a business you want to get into.
00:20:08.000Even more objective journalists like Chuck Todd are suggesting that, you know, it's just a fear of talking about gun control that's led to this impasse.
00:20:17.000Folks, there's no doubt about what the Second Amendment does say.
00:20:20.000But at what point does a person's right to bear arms start infringing on his neighbor's right to live safely and freely?
00:20:26.000And if you've ever caught yourself checking the exits while at a concert hall, or a school assembly, or a movie, just in case, you probably already are ready to have that conversation.
00:20:36.000You would think our leaders should be able to have it, too.
00:20:39.000Well, again, I think there's actually a pretty easy answer to, when does my neighbor's right to bear arms impinge on my ability to live freely?
00:20:45.000And it's when he starts shooting at me.
00:20:49.000That's like saying, when does your neighbor's right to own a sword impinge on your right not to be chopped?
00:20:54.000Well, when he starts trying to chop me.
00:20:57.000Again, I think there are arguments to be made about what sorts of, you know, machine guns have been banned in the United States since 1986.
00:21:04.000But, you know, for this suggestion that we have not been having the conversation we have, it's just the left is angry because they've been losing, because they don't have any evidence to support their positions.
00:21:14.000And again, it's just infused the entire culture.
00:21:16.000You can't even watch sports anymore without this routine.
00:21:59.000You know, we have to stop arguing, is what she's saying.
00:22:01.000And the only way to stop arguing is for us to agree with her.
00:22:04.000I do love that the talking points for Chuck Todd and Rachel Nichols are nearly identical with regard to these mass shootings.
00:22:09.000As I said yesterday, using mass shootings as your gauge of gun control policy is actually a foolish idea because they are not representative of the broader whole.
00:22:44.000Number one, is the suggestion that every single person in the United States who owns a gun and believes in gun rights is part of a death cult?
00:22:50.000Because I think that, again, death cults could be more properly attributed to people who think that Planned Parenthood is doing wonderful work in killing babies.
00:22:57.000But I actually did have some questions for Keith Olbermann that I tweeted back at him.
00:23:00.000Questions like, if you are so good at your job, why have you been fired from your last 3,297 jobs?
00:23:27.000Okay, so I'm gonna talk about Puerto Rico and the Secretary of State apparently calling the president a moron.
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00:24:44.000Meanwhile, in other crazy news, there was an NBC News report this morning that the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, back during the summer, said that President Trump was an effing moron.
00:25:15.000It seems to me the best response to this could have been and should have been really like this is what we're talking about we just had a mass shooting like four days ago and Puerto Rico is half underwater and you're and we're going to talk about like whether the Secretary of State one time said that the boss was an effing moron.
00:25:31.000But because President Trump is an egomaniac and because everybody has to pay personal homage to him, Rex Tillerson was forced to go out and do a press conference that got extraordinarily awkward when he was asked, did you in fact call the president an effing moron?
00:25:43.000Can you address the main headline of this story that you called the president a moron?
00:25:48.000And if not, where do you think these reports are coming from?
00:25:51.000I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that.
00:25:53.000I mean, this is what I don't understand about Washington.
00:25:57.000Again, you know, I'm not from this place.
00:26:00.000But the places I come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense.
00:26:04.000And it is intended to know nothing but divide people.
00:26:07.000And I'm just not going to be part of this effort to divide this administration.
00:26:45.000Is it kind of funny that the Secretary of State called a press conference just to not say that he didn't call the President of the United States a moron?
00:26:52.000Yeah, I'm gonna go with that's not great 40 MAGA MAGA MAGA chess.
00:26:56.000That's not, that didn't seem particularly brilliant to me.
00:26:58.000Okay, in other news that was not particularly brilliant.
00:27:01.000So President Trump goes to Puerto Rico.
00:27:04.000Now, all he had to do going to Puerto Rico was basically go there and look somber for the cameras, because it is a somber thing, and help hand out supplies.
00:27:12.000Do exactly what he did in Texas, right?
00:27:25.000First, he says to Puerto Rico, I hate to tell you this, but you've thrown our budget out of whack, which is a very weird comment in the middle of a hurricane relief effort.
00:27:34.000Mick Mulvaney is here, right there, and Mick is in charge of a thing called budget.
00:27:41.000Now, I hate to tell you, Puerto Rico, but you've thrown our budget a little out of whack, because we've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico, and that's fine.
00:29:19.000Inappropriate for President Trump to be so flip about hurricane relief and that picture's really not great.
00:29:25.000You know you want the president to be taking this seriously.
00:29:27.000Instead, you have Democrats completely going off the rails and suggesting the most absurd thing.
00:29:32.000So here is the council speaker for New York City saying that Trump was treating people like animals in Puerto Rico.
00:29:38.000This president needs to be called out for his lack of seriousness to this humanitarian crisis, and this visit today was an utter disgrace and an insult to the Puerto Rican people.
00:29:49.000To be throwing and lobbing paper towels at us as if we were animals, you know, is really making light of a situation that is very severe.
00:29:59.000Throwing a test as if we were animals?
00:30:18.000The mayor of San Juan, who has been in a hate-hate relationship with Trump for the last few days.
00:30:23.000Trump went to Puerto Rico, was nice to her, and then she was nice to him for a minute, and then he left, and then she started ripping him again.
00:30:29.000Here she is ripping the paper towel stuff.
00:31:18.000The media has been just overplaying its hand on everything.
00:31:20.000They can't just call it out to the extent to which it's wrong.
00:31:23.000They have to go over overboard by, you know, by leagues.
00:31:27.000So, yesterday, here was Trump praising the low death count in Puerto Rico.
00:31:30.000Now, that is something that, I mean, it is worth noting that Puerto Rico's had, I think, about 40 deaths, something in that neighborhood, which is supremely awful.
00:31:38.000When people were comparing the Haitian crisis to Puerto Rico, however, it is worth noting that the Haiti earthquake
00:31:46.000That happened, I think it was 2010, that the Haiti earthquake ended up with the death of something like 100,000 people, the Haiti earthquake.
00:31:52.000I don't want to look up the actual number of dead in the Haiti earthquake, but it was way higher than this.
00:31:59.000And here was Trump basically saying that.
00:32:01.000The casualty figures, by the way, from Puerto Rico, where I'm looking it up, apparently it's anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 deaths in Haiti.
00:32:08.000In Puerto Rico, we are talking in the dozens.
00:32:11.000And that is largely due to a, you know,
00:32:14.000The federal government, or at least in part due to the government's ability to bring aid in timely fashion.
00:32:19.000In any case, here is Trump basically saying that, and then the media goes nuts anyway.
00:32:24.000But I'm just very, very proud of the fact that, you know, if you look at just one statistic, 16 deaths.
00:33:26.000There's 13 minutes of video and audio there.
00:33:30.000He talks about how the weather is usually so great in Puerto Rico.
00:33:35.000There's video of him throwing food out like he's a dime store Santa Claus to people.
00:33:44.000Even for Donald Trump, who is a breaker of political convention, who has, I think, defined the presidency downward in many ways... Okay, everybody just calm down.
00:34:05.000I mean, I really don't know what to say beyond that.
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00:36:03.000A lot of people like the peace parts better than they like the war parts.
00:36:07.000I will admit that I like Anna Karenina better than I like War and Peace so far.
00:36:11.000Maybe I will change my opinion as it goes on.
00:36:13.000But Tolstoy is a very lucid writer and a very easy to read writer, so anybody who says Tolstoy is difficult.
00:36:18.000No, there are other Russian writers who are much more difficult than Tolstoy.
00:36:21.000The new translation is quite lively and quite good.
00:36:24.000The one that I recommend is by Richard Piviar and Larissa Velikonsky.
00:36:28.000That's the one that I'm in the middle of right now.
00:36:30.000And it is lively, it is fun to read, and the nice thing is that it's written in these serialized chapters, so you can read it three pages at a time.
00:36:38.000It'll take you the rest of your life, but you can read it that amount at a time.
00:36:42.000And it is indeed a good book, so it has not been overblown that this is a great book, because it is.
00:36:47.000So yesterday, I was at the California State Legislature, and the Republicans in the legislature had invited me to speak on a panel about hate speech and the Constitution.
00:36:58.000So I'm going to look at what the panel was actually called.
00:37:00.000It was actually called, Combating Hate While Protecting the Constitution.
00:37:04.000Okay, so you would assume that this would have something to do with how to fight hate groups, but half of this was about stuff that happened on campus, like at Berkeley, where I was speaking.
00:37:16.000They were conflating the problem with actual white supremacist groups and the violence that's going on campus, the implication being that a bunch of hate groups, so-called hate groups, are showing up on campus, or white supremacist groups.
00:37:27.000I like to be specific, because when people say hate groups, sometimes it's like Southern Poverty Law Center hate group, which just means conservative.
00:37:34.000So they were conflating white supremacists and like any conservative who shows up on campus and Antifa beats the crap out of people.
00:37:40.000So the Republicans wanted to have me come and speak.
00:37:50.000These witnesses included people like Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of UC Berkeley, who spoke about the First Amendment and is quite pro-First Amendment, obviously.
00:37:59.000They had a senior investigative researcher from the ADL.
00:38:02.000They had a five-person panel that was basically an intersectional festival of victimhood, where people talked about how much they were victimized by hate crimes in California, which
00:38:11.000is fine, except then there was a lot of talk about intersectionality and the level of political discourse and why the relevance of your identity group is relevant to the credibility with which you speak, which I think is a bunch of nonsense.
00:38:23.000And then finally, they had a bunch of people, including Andrew Greenwood, who was the chief of police at Berkeley.
00:38:27.000So they ended up having, as I say, 11 people on these panels, but they couldn't make any time for me on any of the panels, despite the Republican request.
00:39:53.000Okay, so as I say, over at the California Legislature yesterday, I was given 120 seconds.
00:39:59.000So everybody else was given 10 minutes, 15 minutes, Chemerinsky was given half an hour.
00:40:03.000I was given two minutes in public comment, which, you know, they just open it up and whoever is there can talk.
00:40:08.000So here is a little bit of tape of what I said.
00:40:11.000I sort of reamed out the Democrats on the panel.
00:40:14.000Your job, obviously, here at the legislature is to ensure that our freedom of expression is maintained, that our First Amendment rights are maintained.
00:40:21.000And what that means first and foremost, in my experiences on college campuses, is that the heckler's veto must be stopped.
00:40:29.000I was at Cal State Los Angeles in February 2016, and there was almost a riot there, and the police were not allowed to do their jobs, and students were physically assaulted in the crowd.
00:40:39.000It is the job of this legislature to ensure that police can do their jobs.
00:40:42.000And when they do do their jobs, and they're allowed to do that at places like UC Berkeley, everything goes fine.
00:40:46.000And I'd like to make a point here about UC Berkeley.
00:40:48.000The reason it cost $600,000 to bring me to UC Berkeley was not because of me.
00:40:53.000Okay, everybody keeps suggesting that it was because I was coming.
00:40:56.000I came exactly one year before and it cost this many dollars.
00:40:59.000It cost zero dollars for security at UC Berkeley.
00:41:02.000The reason it cost $600,000 at UC Berkeley is because Antifa and violent groups had decided that Berkeley was their domain and they were going to be able to run roughshod over law enforcement there.
00:41:11.000And this does bring up one final point that I want to make in the long period of time that I have to discuss and that is the
00:41:57.000That as a legislature, your chief job is to ensure that my taxpayer dollars in this state go toward making sure that people like me and people with whom I disagree get to speak in places like college campuses, and not toward regulating what speech you find good and what speech you find bad, because it's a really dangerous business, and there's speech I don't like, there's speech you don't like, but if we can't agree that there is a difference between speech and violence, we're not going to be able to have a free state, let alone a free country.
00:42:26.000The Sacramento Bee had an entire editorial today about how dumb the Democrats were for barring me from speaking, essentially, until public comment, and then me getting up there and smacking them.
00:42:35.000So, well done, Democrats, as always, undercutting your own points on free speech.
00:42:39.000Okay, so, time for a couple of quick things that I hate.
00:42:46.000Okay, so quick thing that I hate, number one.
00:42:49.000So there's a pro-life GOP congressperson whose name is Tim Murphy.
00:42:56.000And apparently, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he asked his mistress to get an abortion.
00:42:59.000So he's been representing Pennsylvania's 16th congressional district since 2003.
00:43:03.000He admitted to having an extramarital affair last month.
00:43:06.000His old lover is accusing him of being hypocritical in his pro-life beliefs.
00:43:09.000Apparently, the Republican congressman's ex-mistress texted
00:43:15.000Quote, you have zero issue posting your pro-life stance all over the place when you had no issue asking me to abort our unborn child just last week when we thought that was one of the options.
00:43:24.000And then Murphy said, I get what you say about my March for Life messages.
00:43:57.000But I would rather that somebody actually be pushing the right standard and not living up to it than that somebody be pushing the wrong standard and living up to that wrong standard.
00:45:00.000Because I think standards are important.
00:45:02.000So I think that we should relegate our criticism of Tim Murphy to being a piece of crap, not to Tim Murphy, his standard on being pro-life.
00:45:16.000Michelle Obama, for some reason, has decided to emerge from the woodwork again to talk about how America's racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe.
00:45:24.000This is 2008 Michelle Obama, not 2015 Michelle Obama, who was popular.
00:45:28.000I don't, you know, I don't like this version of Michelle Obama.
00:46:14.000On the other side of the room, there are yellows and blues and whites and greens, and there's a difference on the one because the left is just so much better at doing things because, you know, they actively have more people who are people of color.
00:46:25.000Again, if you're judging somebody's merit or their viewpoint based on their color, this makes you a racist by definition.
00:46:30.000So, just because you happen to be a black person saying that doesn't make you a non-racist.
00:46:38.000This week, the reason I'm taking off time and taking my vacation at the same time, because I would have to take the days off anyway, is because this week we celebrate Sukkot.
00:46:44.000Sukkot is a celebration in the Jewish calendar of the...
00:46:50.000Wanderings in the wilderness, essentially.
00:46:54.000And what Sukkot is supposed to represent, we actually go outside and we eat in essentially a shack that we set up.
00:47:00.000It's three sides, or two and a half sides at minimum, but three sides usually, that are sort of made, it's almost like a tarp draped over some poles, and then you have some palm fronds on top.
00:47:10.000That's sort of the typical way the Sukkot are done.
00:47:16.000It's supposed to remind us of our time in the desert and how fragile everything was and the idea that the entire world is basically that Sukkah, right?
00:47:23.000Your entire material life is that Sukkah.
00:47:25.000We decorate it, we make it beautiful, but in the end it can be blown away quickly just like that.
00:47:30.000And we have to remember that there is a deeper meaning to everything that we do.
00:47:33.000There's a whole wider world outside the Sukkah.
00:47:35.000Our attempts to create a permanent life for ourselves in this world are
00:47:41.000Doesn't mean you shouldn't do it, doesn't mean that you shouldn't pursue a better life and a more beautiful life for yourself, but you have to understand that there is a world beyond this one, a meaning beyond this one, and that investing solely in the material is a mistake.
00:47:51.000Okay, there's a bunch of beautiful commandments that have to do with Sukkot.
00:47:54.000One of them is waiving what's called the lulav and the esrog.
00:47:57.000So the lulav and esrog, you may have seen videos of Orthodox Jews doing this.
00:48:02.000It talks about it in the New Testament when they talk about the festival with the fronds.
00:48:04.000Okay, that's what they're talking about.
00:48:07.000What you're waving is you're waving a palm frond that's basically tied up so it looks like a stick almost.
00:48:12.000And then on one side you have myrtle and on the other side you have willow and then you hold also together with this an esrog which is basically a citron.
00:49:07.000The point here is that in Jewish philosophy, you need all of these elements to have a nation.
00:49:12.000It's not enough to have just people who are the righteous people, the people who both study and do good deeds and fulfill the commandments.
00:49:20.000You need people who study and don't do the good deeds.
00:49:23.000You need all of these people together.
00:49:25.000The Jewish people and people generally are composed of all sorts of these people, and we have to recognize that our inherent value to God doesn't necessarily lie
00:49:34.000Only in what we are individually, but what we are collectively, and that is people who care about one another, people who try to help one another, and people who recognize each other's weaknesses and still recognize that we're brothers and sisters.
00:49:43.000I've talked a lot about unity this week, because in the aftermath of something like Vegas, it's easy for us to fragment, and it's tragic that we fragment.
00:49:52.000If we are going to come back together, we need to recognize that it takes all types in the United States in order to make a country, and we have to move toward the notion that we're friends and not enemies, or the country is going to fall apart, and it shouldn't.
00:50:04.000Okay, so with that message, I leave you for a week and a half.