The Ben Shapiro Show - May 23, 2018


The Power Of Being A Jackass | Ep. 544

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Ben Shapiro talks about a woman who threw a drink at conservative commentator Tomi Lahren at a brunch and why it's a good thing she's not a fan of hers. He also talks about President Trump's latest tweet storm, the deep state, and why the city of Seattle is bankrupting itself. He also discusses why the polls are beginning to point in favor of President Trump in the midterms and why Hillary Clinton supporters should be embarrassed by the amount of violence that went on at Trump rallies in 2016. And he asks the question, why is there so much anger directed at people who disagree with the president and his policies? And why is it that the left is so desperate to delegitimize the Trump administration and its efforts to elect a conservative president in 2020? Ben Shapiro is the host of the Daily Wire podcast "The Ben Shapiro Show" and host of "The Daily Wire Radio Show" on SiriusXM Radio's "Politics with Ben Shapiro" and "The Weekly Standard" on Fox News Channel's "The Situation Room" with Alex Castellanos. He's also a regular contributor on CNN and CNN's "ACOS" and hosts "The FiveThirtyEight" and is a frequent guest on "The Tonight Show with John Dickerson and Alex Blumberg on CBS Radio's Hard Knocks." and "MSNBC's Morning Show with Rachel Maddow on CBS News. and is the author of the new book, "The White House Correspondent's Guide to America's Most Influencer, "America's Most Powerful Person." and hosts of "America s Most Powerful People." He can be found on social media accounts on Insta-style social media and blogs, and he is a regular on the internet, and on the radio show, and radio show on the airwaves, and so much more! Click here to connect with him on all of that and more. on his new show on his website and on his newest podcast, on the social medias and social media platforms, including his new podcast, The Daily Wire and his new book "The Sixets." , The FiveThirtyFiveThirtyEight is a new podcast is now on the FourThirtyEight. . His new book is out now on Amazon's newest podcast is out on Tuesday, July 31st, and is available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo on Wednesday, August 8th, 2019, and October 9th, 2020.

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00:00:00.000 Tommy Lahren gets a drink thrown on her, President Trump goes after the deep state, and the city of Seattle decides to bankrupt itself.
00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
00:00:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:14.000 Oh, it's a tweet storm day for President Trump.
00:00:16.000 Category 5 tweet storm from the President, so we'll get into that in just a second.
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00:01:51.000 OK, so.
00:01:52.000 President Trump is gaining in the polls.
00:01:54.000 The polls right now look good for President Trump.
00:01:56.000 There was a poll yesterday that came out.
00:01:57.000 It showed that Republicans had a generic ballot six-point lead in the congressional election.
00:02:02.000 Now, that is an outlier.
00:02:03.000 There's no question that's an outlier.
00:02:05.000 The poll average still has Republicans down about four points.
00:02:07.000 That said, there has been a slow but incremental increase in Republican vote share in the congressional ballot for the last several months.
00:02:14.000 And the question is why.
00:02:16.000 Meanwhile, the Rasmussen tracking poll has President Trump up around 50%.
00:02:19.000 Even if you don't believe Rasmussen, he's in the mid-40s, his polls have also been trending in the right direction.
00:02:24.000 And the question, again, is why?
00:02:26.000 And I think that the answer lies in the fact that so many on the left have decided to just treat people with whom they disagree in deplorable fashion.
00:02:33.000 The latest example of this is Tomi Lahren, okay?
00:02:36.000 So Tomi Lahren goes out to brunch with her mom, and a bunch of people decide to scream at Tomi Lahren and then throw drinks on her. 1.00
00:02:43.000 So here's what it sounded like.
00:02:54.000 So there's a person who's tossing a drink at Tomi Lahren for no reason, because you're so cool, because you tossed a drink at Tomi Lahren for the great sin of going to brunch with her mother.
00:03:03.000 Now, you don't have to be a Tomi Lahren fan to understand that this is awful behavior. 0.99
00:03:06.000 It's just garbage behavior. 0.99
00:03:07.000 But that's no shock, because folks on the left have been engaging in garbage behavior throughout the campaign cycle. 0.99
00:03:12.000 You know, we tend to forget.
00:03:13.000 A lot of the things that happened in 2016 because there was so much that went on in 2016.
00:03:18.000 But there were Trump rallies where people legitimately showed up and did violence to Trump supporters.
00:03:23.000 It wasn't Trump supporters doing violence to Hillary Clinton supporters.
00:03:26.000 It was Hillary Clinton supporters in many cases doing violence to Trump supporters.
00:03:30.000 Now there were cases obviously very well publicized of people hitting dissenters inside Trump
00:03:36.000 Meetings and all the rest.
00:03:37.000 But if you're talking about widespread violence, wide-scale violence, I believe there was a rally in San Jose where violence broke out.
00:03:43.000 There was the rally in Chicago that had to be canceled because of violence outside.
00:03:47.000 The Democrats have decided to go full-scale 1968, and this sort of behavior is not going to help their cause.
00:03:53.000 Now, maybe this person feels they're gonna be cheered on social media for having thrown a glass of water at Tomi Lahren, but I just don't know what you gain through all of this.
00:04:01.000 Same thing is happening over at Harvard.
00:04:02.000 So the Harvard alumni from 2003
00:04:06.000 They used their alumni notes to attack Jared Kushner.
00:04:09.000 So according to Mediaite, once every five years, this has been done since the 19th century, Harvard alumni write class notes, informally referred to as the Red Book, to keep in touch with one another.
00:04:18.000 The Red Book consists of big life updates such as work, marriages, and children.
00:04:21.000 In this year's Red Book for the class of 2003, 15 years after graduation, these updates are interspersed with attacks on Kushner, according to the Boston Globe.
00:04:28.000 First of all, I know Jared Kushner.
00:04:30.000 Jared Kushner is not a fascist. 0.99
00:04:31.000 This is asinine. 0.94
00:04:54.000 Hey, Jared Kushner is relatively independently wealthy, meaning like worth hundreds of millions of dollars. 0.95
00:05:00.000 I really don't think he cares very much whether these ne'er-do-wells from his Harvard class of 2003 don't like him.
00:05:05.000 Shonda Prescott Weinstein is another member of the class of 2003.
00:05:08.000 She expressed discouragement that only a fraction of her classmates decided to call out Kushner in their entries.
00:05:13.000 She said he was in Jerusalem with his wife while people were being massacred.
00:05:16.000 I feel so emotional about that.
00:05:18.000 First of all, who cares how you feel?
00:05:19.000 Who cares how you feel?
00:05:21.000 Why would Jared Kushner sit around wondering how some girl he probably never met when he was at Harvard cares about the movement of the embassy to Jerusalem? 0.98
00:05:28.000 As people were being massacred, he is a person who is doing horrible things as a black woman and a Jewish woman. 0.99
00:05:34.000 I think it's disgusting. 0.99
00:05:35.000 He's not alone in doing these disgusting things, but he's certainly one of the active participants.
00:05:38.000 I think it's emblematic of Harvard culture that people didn't want to call him out.
00:05:41.000 I think people thought it was rude and didn't want to be rude.
00:05:43.000 But I think genocide is rude, and I was happy to be rude.
00:05:45.000 So, first of all, what happened, obviously, on the Gaza border was not genocide.
00:05:49.000 It was Hamas tossing up a bunch of terrorists to get killed and putting them behind civilians in order to get civilians killed.
00:05:53.000 But, again, it demonstrates the utter scorn and hatred that so many folks on the left seem to have for anybody on the right.
00:06:02.000 By virtually any measure, Jared Kushner is one of the more moderate members of the Trump administration. 0.59
00:06:05.000 The attempt to turn Jared Kushner into some sort of fascist crazy person and then to call him out in the Harvard Red Book, which is supposed to be for, like, sending each other nice notes,
00:06:15.000 Demonstrative of the fact that the left has become so nasty toward people with whom it disagrees that they are actually alienating people into the moderate center or to the right.
00:06:24.000 That's the reason that Trump is gaining in the polls.
00:06:27.000 And the Democrats just keep campaigning further and further to the left.
00:06:30.000 And Meghan McCain, she came out yesterday and she's on The View, and she said, you know, on The View, I'm so sick of people on the left
00:06:36.000 Submitting that Planned Parenthood is the number one issue for all women. 0.85
00:06:39.000 Why are you playing this identity politics game?
00:06:41.000 Or if I disagree with you, it's because I must disagree with all women because all women deeply care about abortion. 0.99
00:06:46.000 We've talked about this many times on the show.
00:06:47.000 For me, my women's issues, foreign policy, number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 0.97
00:06:51.000 And the idea that Planned Parenthood is the number one issue for women in America, all women.
00:06:55.000 No, not the number one, but there are issues that are specific to women. 0.98
00:06:59.000 It's just false!
00:07:00.000 I'm sick of this!
00:07:00.000 I'm sick of the idea that all women's issues...
00:07:03.000 There are issues that are specific to women, and women legislators are more likely to introduce legislation that specifically benefit women, and that's just a stat. 1.00
00:07:11.000 If you go into midterm elections with that message, it is not going to be the blue wave you think it will be.
00:07:17.000 Okay, Meghan McCain is exactly right here. 0.97
00:07:18.000 The blue wave that was supposed to crest in November is actually petering out pretty far from shore here.
00:07:24.000 And again, the reason for that is the antipathy that so many folks on the left hold for people on the right.
00:07:29.000 It's also thanks to the cultural hegemony that is experienced by folks on the left.
00:07:34.000 So at the same time, you see people
00:07:36.000 Throwing glasses of water at Tomi Lahren, Harvard alumni trying to shame Jared Kushner, and folks on the left implying that everybody on the right hates women and all this kind of stuff.
00:07:43.000 At the same time, you have this nice warm cocoon of culture that has been created specifically for folks on the left.
00:07:50.000 So it was revealed over the last couple of days that Barack and Michelle Obama will work both in front of and behind the camera in a multi-year production deal with Netflix.
00:07:58.000 And listen, I love Netflix.
00:07:59.000 I'm a subscriber to Netflix.
00:08:00.000 I'm a subscriber to Amazon Prime.
00:08:02.000 There's a lot of material they generate on Netflix that I am not a big fan of.
00:08:06.000 But let's be frank about this.
00:08:07.000 Do you think they would ever consider doing a deal with George W. Bush?
00:08:11.000 Like a faith-based deal?
00:08:12.000 To make faith-based movies with George W. Bush?
00:08:15.000 Of course not.
00:08:16.000 Of course not.
00:08:16.000 There's a reason that YouTube helped sponsor The Young Turks, but YouTube will demonetize Dave Rubin.
00:08:22.000 There's a reason that all of these major media companies are happy to side with the left while excising the right.
00:08:28.000 According to CNN.com, the unique pack was announced on Monday.
00:08:32.000 The first content from the Obamas will appear in 2019 at the earliest, according to a person involved in the deal.
00:08:36.000 Netflix did not specify a timeline, but the company's announcement of the deal said the Obamas will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docuseries, documentaries and features.
00:08:48.000 Now, you might ask, what does Barack Obama or Michelle, what do these people know about producing film?
00:08:52.000 The answer is, of course, they know nothing.
00:08:54.000 What do these people know about great narrative art?
00:08:57.000 The answer, of course, is they don't know anything.
00:09:00.000 But because the people at Netflix are so blown away by the celebrity of the Obama, the Obama clan, they've decided that it's time to give them a multi-picture deal.
00:09:08.000 You know how many people struggle in Hollywood to ever get one picture from Netflix?
00:09:11.000 And Netflix is giving this entire broad-spectrum deal to the Obamas for no reason other than Barack Obama was a Democratic president that they admire and love.
00:09:19.000 That warm cocoon is what's driving away so many Americans.
00:09:23.000 Zip.
00:09:23.000 You know who actually wants to watch the Obamas some more?
00:09:25.000 No one.
00:09:52.000 There was a movie that came out about Barack and Michelle Obama's first date.
00:09:55.000 It did like $1 of business because no one cares.
00:09:59.000 But the whole point here...
00:10:01.000 is that when you feel ensconced in a cultural ivory tower where everyone loves you, everyone thinks like you, it is very easy to look down on the people outside the ivory tower and say, look at those rubes, look at those charlatans, look at those people like Tommy Lahren, look at these people who like Donald Trump. 1.00
00:10:16.000 What a bunch of morons. 1.00
00:10:17.000 Let's just sit up here and spit. 1.00
00:10:19.000 We'll hock loogies from the front of the ship, just like the characters in Titanic.
00:10:23.000 That'll be our new thing.
00:10:24.000 We'll spit down on the crowd below.
00:10:26.000 Barack Obama said, Yeah, because if there's one thing I think when I think the Obamas, I think empathy for their political opponents, whom they slandered routinely and repeatedly throughout their political career.
00:10:34.000 These are the creatures of empathy.
00:10:36.000 But this is the whole point.
00:10:46.000 People can see themselves as empathetic, so long as they are members of a tribe.
00:10:50.000 Because they look at other members of their political tribe and they say, well, I care about those people.
00:10:55.000 And those other people I don't care about, that's because they're inherently uncaring.
00:10:58.000 They're inherently intolerant. 0.86
00:10:59.000 It's okay to throw water at Tomi Lahren, because after all, she's a bad person. 1.00
00:11:03.000 She doesn't care about us. 0.99
00:11:04.000 So why should I care about her? 0.97
00:11:06.000 When you don't see each other as brothers and sisters, when you see each other instead as enemies, it's pretty easy to make a case that the other person should be treated like garbage. 0.93
00:11:14.000 It's easy to make the case that Jared Kushner is a fascist when you haven't spent any time with Jared Kushner or even looked at what he's done. 0.94
00:11:20.000 It's very easy to make these cases.
00:11:23.000 But, you know, that's what the left has tended to do.
00:11:25.000 And the American people are responding pretty badly to that whole spiel.
00:11:28.000 They're responding pretty badly.
00:11:29.000 And they're also resonating to what President Trump has to say in response to that, which I'll get to in just one second.
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00:12:48.000 So in the face of all these people.
00:12:50.000 Who seem to hate you just because of your political points of view.
00:12:53.000 It's no wonder so many people are resonating to President Trump, because now, if people are enemies, you want the biggest hammer you can find.
00:12:59.000 And that's what President Trump has been doing.
00:13:00.000 So President Trump comes out yesterday.
00:13:02.000 He's at a pro-life gala.
00:13:04.000 And the other day,
00:13:27.000 Just the other day, Nancy Pelosi came out in favor of MS-13. 0.94
00:13:35.000 That's the first time I've heard that.
00:13:38.000 She wants them to be treated with respect, as do other Democrats.
00:13:43.000 That's not going to be happening.
00:13:45.000 We're not going to release violent criminals into our country.
00:13:51.000 Now, as I've been saying for a long time, the most effective tactic to take in politics is not necessarily the best tactic to take for the country.
00:13:57.000 So, I wrote an entire book called Bullies in 2013.
00:13:59.000 The entire premise, right, it was a long time ago, the entire premise is that the Democrats were spending all of their time engaged in character assassination against Republicans, and if Republicans continued to play this game where they talked policy alone without rebutting the character assassination by attacking character of Democrats, then they would lose.
00:14:16.000 Trump took up that mantle in spades.
00:14:18.000 President Trump understands character assassination better than pretty much anyone else in American public life.
00:14:24.000 He's been both the victim of it and the perpetrator of it for virtually his entire career, and that's why so many people have flocked to his banner.
00:14:31.000 The reason a lot of people are supporting President Trump right now is because you see a lot of people on the left, and you look at them, and they're yelling at people in MAGA hats, or they are trying to crash the party at particular Trump events, or they're throwing water at conservative commentators, and people go, okay, well at least Trump is fighting back.
00:14:46.000 I promise you, that's the number one phrase you get from Trump supporters.
00:14:49.000 At least he's fighting back.
00:14:51.000 And that is the perception, that he's fighting back.
00:14:53.000 And this isn't to say that Democrats have to surrender their political principles, but if they actually want to be successful, they might want to think about treating the American public as potential friends, rather than as current enemies.
00:15:03.000 If they continue to treat them as enemies, those enemies will go look for the best fighter they can find.
00:15:08.000 The perspective of a lot of conservatives is the perspective of a lot of Americans, who don't like what the left are doing right now.
00:15:13.000 Is the same perspective that was attributed apocryphally to Abraham Lincoln about Ulysses S. Grant.
00:15:18.000 I can't spare this man, he fights.
00:15:19.000 So who cares about Trump's heresies?
00:15:21.000 So long as the dude is slapping the right folks.
00:15:23.000 Well, I mean, what are you going to do? 0.99
00:15:25.000 Bend over for all these folks who are throwing water at you and yelling at you and taking out ads in the Harvard alumni newspaper to target you and calling you a rube and an idiot and signing deals with the Obamas at Netflix? 0.98
00:15:36.000 Better to have somebody who fights than somebody who's not going to fight properly at all. 0.77
00:15:40.000 And that's one of the reasons why I think the Trump investigation, the Trump-Russia investigation, is actually not redounding to Democrats' benefit.
00:15:45.000 So, let's talk about that for a second.
00:15:47.000 Democrats are very, very upset that President Trump appears to be pushing the DOJ to investigate the so-called FBI spying into his campaign.
00:15:56.000 Now, as I say, I am very skeptical that the FBI launched
00:16:00.000 We're good to go.
00:16:19.000 At any point.
00:16:20.000 Well, this has not stopped President Trump from going on a Twitter rant.
00:16:23.000 So, category five, President Trump tweet storm.
00:16:25.000 This came out this morning.
00:16:26.000 He says,
00:16:38.000 Well, apparently the guy who was the quote-unquote spy was a professor who'd written a couple of books, none of them very good.
00:16:43.000 He was actually, the professor who was the apparent spy, it is worth noting, was actually considered by Peter Navarro, a current Trump administration member, for a position inside the Trump administration after Trump's actual election.
00:16:53.000 He was paid, he was offered like $3,000 for a piece of writing, to write an essay or something.
00:16:59.000 Not sure why that is a giant, a giant overpay.
00:17:02.000 In any case, Trump continues
00:17:05.000 Okay, now, none of this makes any sense.
00:17:27.000 Hillary lost because none of this information came out during the election cycle.
00:17:30.000 So that's weird.
00:17:31.000 And then President Trump continues along these lines.
00:17:33.000 Look how things have turned around on the criminal deep state, all caps.
00:17:36.000 They go after phony collusion with Russia, a made up scam, and end up getting caught in a major spy scandal, the likes of which the country may never have seen before.
00:17:43.000 What goes around comes around.
00:17:45.000 Now, as I say, if it turns out that the Obama administration was sicking informants on the Trump campaign in order to crush the Trump campaign,
00:17:54.000 Without any evidence.
00:17:54.000 It is significantly worse than Watergate.
00:17:56.000 I haven't seen the evidence to support that quite as of yet.
00:17:59.000 And then Trump continues.
00:18:00.000 He's really ranting now.
00:18:02.000 He's quoting Napolitano from Fox & Friends this morning.
00:18:08.000 And then he continues along these lines.
00:18:09.000 He says Spygate could be one of the biggest political scandals in history.
00:18:14.000 Well, I mean, it was one of the biggest football scandals in history, asked Bill Belichick.
00:18:17.000 And then Donald Trump continues.
00:18:19.000 He says, trying Trump should be happy that the FBI was spying on his campaign.
00:18:23.000 No, James Clapper, I am not happy.
00:18:25.000 Spying on a campaign would be illegal and a scandal to boot.
00:18:27.000 Fair enough. 1.00
00:18:27.000 James Clapper's an idiot. 1.00
00:18:29.000 And then he finally concludes, which aren't. 1.00
00:18:32.000 Right, all caps, WITCH HUNT!
00:18:34.000 Which, as soon as he says witch hunt, I just think of duck hunt, and I'm seven years old again playing in my grandmother's basement, and shooting the ducks with the gun right up to the TV.
00:18:43.000 So, WITCH HUNT!
00:18:44.000 This has to be the sixth or seventh time that President Trump has tweeted out witch hunt.
00:18:48.000 And this, of course, has prompted great hilarity on Twitter.
00:18:51.000 I tweeted out duck hunt with the picture of the laughing dog.
00:18:54.000 There is somebody who tweeted out
00:18:57.000 Yeah, look, does President Trump have solid backing for these accusations?
00:19:11.000 No, but we're going to find out in this investigation, you would hope.
00:19:14.000 But the point is this, Democrats have decided that President Trump has no authority to do any of this, and so they've decided that he is a dictator.
00:19:21.000 Now, two things can be true at once. 0.99
00:19:23.000 Trump may not have support for this position that he was spied on by the Deep State in any serious fashion, and by the same token, or at least not in an unjustified fashion, and by the same token, when Democrats say things like Trump is a dictator, it's really stupid. 0.96
00:19:35.000 So when you have Mazie Hirono, who is the Democratic senator from Hawaii, saying that Trump is like a dictator, how is he like a dictator? 0.96
00:19:41.000 We have a system of checks and—what?
00:19:43.000 What?
00:19:43.000 But this is their routine.
00:19:45.000 So you have a president, Trump, who has attacked the media.
00:19:49.000 He's gone after judges who don't agree with him.
00:19:53.000 He's certainly going after the intelligence community, the FBI, Department of Justice.
00:19:59.000 And these are the kinds of actions taken by people like Erdogan in Turkey, Duterte in the Philippines, and of course,
00:20:09.000 Yeah, exactly, because all three murdered their political opponents.
00:20:13.000 Has Donald Trump murdered any of his political opponents lately?
00:20:15.000 I missed that part.
00:20:16.000 See, this is the part where Donald Trump has a gift that just keeps on giving, and that is that everybody on the left will always overreact to everything he does.
00:20:24.000 So, what they should say is, President Trump has no support for any of the things that he is tweeting, and it's a slander on our intelligence community to suggest that they were politically motivated in their investigations into George Papadopoulos and Carter Page.
00:20:36.000 And they should just stick with that, that this guy's talking nonsense. 0.95
00:20:39.000 Instead, they go to, he's a dictator, he's like Duterte in the Philippines, who kills drug dealers. 0.98
00:20:44.000 He's like Erdogan, who imprisons and murders his political opponents.
00:20:48.000 He's like Putin, who's done exactly the same.
00:20:49.000 And you go, really?
00:20:51.000 Really?
00:20:52.000 No wonder Americans are not resonating to the Democratic message right now.
00:20:55.000 No wonder Democrats are really disheartened, because the Deus Ex Machina is not coming, okay?
00:20:58.000 Miller's not gonna save you from Trump.
00:21:00.000 Okay, so in a little while, I'm gonna talk about Democratic policy.
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00:22:11.000 All right, so.
00:22:12.000 What about democratic policy?
00:22:13.000 So they've spent all of their time ripping on President Trump and suggesting that President Trump is on the verge of being taken down, and their favorite story now is that Michael Cohen's business partner named Evgeny Friedman has agreed to cooperate as part of a plea deal.
00:22:27.000 It is not clear that this is going to have any ramifications for Trump in any serious way.
00:22:30.000 According to CNBC, Evgeny Friedman has agreed to cooperate.
00:22:33.000 The cooperation by the taxi king Friedman could spell very bad news for Cohen,
00:22:37.000 We're good to go.
00:22:54.000 Just anger.
00:22:55.000 Just anger at President Trump.
00:22:57.000 They certainly don't have policy to run on.
00:22:59.000 And the latest indicator the Democrats do not have policy to run on is the way that they are wrecking major cities.
00:23:04.000 They've wrecked Los Angeles.
00:23:05.000 They've turned my city into, as President Trump might say, a bleephole.
00:23:10.000 The city of Los Angeles now has 55,000 to 60,000 homeless people who are sleeping on the streets every single night.
00:23:16.000 Enough people to fill Dodger Stadium are sleeping on the streets of Los Angeles.
00:23:21.000 They've not filled the potholes.
00:23:22.000 They've not made the city better.
00:23:23.000 They've not made the city cleaner.
00:23:24.000 They've made the city more crime-ridden.
00:23:26.000 This is true across the state of California.
00:23:28.000 And it's not just in Los Angeles.
00:23:29.000 It's in Seattle.
00:23:30.000 Seattle is a beautiful city.
00:23:31.000 I used to do a show exclusively in Seattle on station KTTH.
00:23:36.000 Now, let me tell you, Seattle,
00:23:38.000 Gorgeous.
00:23:39.000 It is an upper crust city.
00:23:41.000 By income, it is an upper crust city.
00:23:42.000 It is a growing city.
00:23:43.000 It has three major companies, more than that, actually, that are located there.
00:23:46.000 It has Microsoft, Amazon, and Starbucks, all of which are located in the city of Seattle, and Boeing, which is located just outside the city of Seattle, Tacoma, Seattle area.
00:23:55.000 So, here's the problem.
00:23:56.000 Seattle has determined that they are so interested in social justice warrior-ing that they're going to empty out their city.
00:24:01.000 What's the latest?
00:24:02.000 So, as you recall, last week Seattle decided on an Amazon tax.
00:24:06.000 It's a head tax.
00:24:07.000 The head tax was a couple hundred bucks per employee for companies that make over $20 million a year.
00:24:13.000 And this money was supposed to go to alleviate the homeless problem.
00:24:16.000 It will not alleviate the homeless problem, because the homeless problem is created by the fact that if you won't arrest people who are sleeping on the streets, and if you won't allow people to build more housing because of building regulations, then you're going to end up with more homeless people on the streets.
00:24:30.000 And that's especially true if you implement maybe like a $15 minimum wage, which Seattle did a couple of years ago, and in doing so, helped crush a lot of small businesses and force a lot of people out of jobs.
00:24:40.000 Well now, they've decided, Seattle City Council, they've decided to go even further.
00:24:45.000 Now they're considering an enormous property tax on all of these people.
00:24:48.000 So according to Q13Fox, King County homeowners, which is where Seattle is located, they saw a bump of 17% in their property taxes in 2017.
00:24:56.000 But now, city council members want to see property taxes increased even more.
00:24:59.000 Council members Lorena Gonzalez and Rob Johnson are sponsoring the measure, which states the council wants to lift the limit on regular property taxes in order to levy additional taxes.
00:25:08.000 In 2014, Seattle voters approved a $58 million dollar levy allowing low-income kids to go to preschool for free.
00:25:13.000 Since 2015, the city says the program has allowed affordable or free preschool to 850 families.
00:25:19.000 So, just to do that quick calculation, okay?
00:25:22.000 That means that there are $58 million dollars.
00:25:25.000 That means that they have spent to put each of these preschool families in preschool.
00:25:29.000 And I assume that's about one child per family?
00:25:30.000 $68,000 dollars!
00:25:31.000 Okay?
00:25:34.000 So, well done local government.
00:25:36.000 Yay, local government.
00:25:37.000 All you had to do was spend $58 million to give affordable and free preschool to 850 families.
00:25:41.000 It's $68,000 per family.
00:25:42.000 You could have just signed them a check, gang.
00:25:48.000 Now the city wants to send hundreds more to preschool, and Mayor Jenny Durkan's office is pushing to send high school graduates to community college for free.
00:25:54.000 So they're going to establish their socialist utopia on the back of — or redistributionist, at the very least, utopia — on the back of major businesses they will tax out of business.
00:26:03.000 The property tax would amount to, on average, more than another $250 per year for homeowners.
00:26:09.000 Now, has any of this alleviated living conditions in Seattle?
00:26:12.000 The answer, of course, is no.
00:26:13.000 Seattle still has a massive homeless problem.
00:26:15.000 They have tent cities that exist all over the city.
00:26:18.000 Seattle's building code is 745 pages.
00:26:20.000 Their residential building code is another 685 pages.
00:26:24.000 So it's impossible to build anything in Seattle.
00:26:27.000 The Seattle City Council has focused far more on road diets, far more on road diets, narrowing roads via bike lanes, than on the quality of traffic.
00:26:35.000 King County spent billions of dollars on useless light rail. 0.97
00:26:37.000 They allotted something like $50 billion for a stupid light rail that nobody cares about. 0.98
00:26:43.000 But now they want to bust a homeowner's wallet again after instituting a $15 minimum wage. 0.99
00:26:47.000 This is how you empty out major American cities.
00:26:49.000 First, you create building codes because you want to maintain the pristine aura of the area.
00:26:54.000 Then, you raise rents because there's less housing and more demand and less supply.
00:26:58.000 Then, you increase minimum wage to compensate, which drives out small business.
00:27:02.000 Then you tax the big businesses to compensate.
00:27:04.000 Then they leave.
00:27:05.000 So you tax the homeowners to compensate.
00:27:07.000 So they leave.
00:27:08.000 This is how you empty out a major American city. 0.99
00:27:10.000 Detroit used to be a booming city, and then Democrats got a hold of it and they turned it to crap. 0.94
00:27:14.000 That's not a great shock, because this is what Democrats do with policy. 0.97
00:27:18.000 This is what Democrats do with policy.
00:27:20.000 And no wonder they're relying on President Trump's supposed
00:27:25.000 Supposed out-of-the-box ridiculousness as president to try and drive them to victory, their policies are not attractive.
00:27:31.000 Nothing they are doing right now is attractive policy.
00:27:34.000 And by the way, Barack Obama's agenda is completely collapsing.
00:27:37.000 I mean, Donald Trump is erasing the Obama agenda one bill at a time, basically.
00:27:43.000 The Dodd-Frank bill is now being dismantled piece by piece.
00:27:46.000 So according to NBC News, the House voted late on Tuesday to pass a bill that will change significant aspects of Dodd-Frank, which is the banking reform bill introduced
00:27:53.000 After loose lending and risky measures by financial institutions led to the country's worst recession since the Great Depression, since it passed in 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Consumer Protection Act has been the target of animosity by many conservatives and the banking industry.
00:28:07.000 Right.
00:28:08.000 That's because the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act doesn't actually protect consumers or reform Wall Street.
00:28:13.000 In fact, it enshrines government bailouts.
00:28:15.000 It says that if there is that much risk that is taken on by a particular firm, the government has to bail them out.
00:28:20.000 It forces a government bailout.
00:28:22.000 So, the bill is likely to become law.
00:28:25.000 So, Dodd-Frank, of course, was an attempt to reestablish oversight and control over financial institutions after the economic meltdown.
00:28:31.000 It was a 2,300-page bill. 0.99
00:28:32.000 It was garbage. 0.92
00:28:33.000 It included the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has not been used for consumer financial protection, but instead has been used for cronyism by Democrats in an attempt to shut down businesses they don't like. 0.98
00:28:44.000 It has led to increased bank reporting requirements, as well as the so-called Volcker Rule in an attempt to separate hedge funds from—they've tried to reestablish Glass-Steagall, separating hedge funds from investment banks and all of the rest.
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00:31:08.000 All righty, so, back to the Dodd-Frank bill.
00:31:11.000 So, according to NBC News, the proposed changes, to be called systemically important and subject to more regulations, banks would need assets of $250 billion rather than the current $50 billion.
00:31:22.000 That significantly reduces the number considered too big to fail.
00:31:25.000 As I said, Dodd-Frank, one of the worst things that it did is it enshrined a certain amount of risk-taking by these banks.
00:31:30.000 Basically what they said is that in the aftermath of the financial collapse,
00:31:34.000 All these banks were terrible actors.
00:31:35.000 They'd undertaken great risk.
00:31:37.000 The reason they undertook great risk is because of something we call moral hazard in economics. 1.00
00:31:41.000 Moral hazard is the idea that if I pay you to do something stupid, or if you know they're going to pick you up and brush you off when you do something stupid, you're more likely to do something stupid. 0.99
00:31:49.000 So, moral hazard is me saving my son from falling off the back of a chair. 0.99
00:31:53.000 Okay, moral, it creates a certain, I should do it because he's my kid, but it creates a certain amount of moral hazard because now he thinks that he can stand on the back of the chair with no real ramifications.
00:32:01.000 Well, the bank was standing on the back of the chair and the government picked them up and brushed them off.
00:32:05.000 And Dodd-Frank, instead of saying, listen, from now on, we're not doing this anymore.
00:32:08.000 There's no more too big to fail.
00:32:09.000 You go bankrupt, you go bankrupt, that's the end of it.
00:32:12.000 Instead, Dodd-Frank enshrined all of these banks and said, if you have $50 billion in assets, well, then we will enshrine you as too big to fail and we will pay you off.
00:32:20.000 And then they said, in order to prevent you from taking these risks, we are now going to regulate you from taking the risks.
00:32:25.000 So you get the downside of too big to fail, and you also get the downsides of banks that are not willing to undertake loans that they may not have taken before.
00:32:33.000 We're good to go.
00:32:48.000 Fifth third, key bank, Citizens Bank, those would all be under the limit.
00:32:52.000 Okay, so all of those would no longer be considered too big to fail.
00:32:55.000 The new bill will allow the mid-sized banks to not be under such scrutiny when it comes to their lending practices.
00:33:00.000 Many original supporters of Dodd-Frank think that this is a rollback.
00:33:03.000 They say that this is really bad because we want to make sure that everybody is going to be regulated up the wazoo.
00:33:11.000 So banks with under $10 billion could ignore the Volcker Rule.
00:33:13.000 As I mentioned, the Volcker Rule actually allows them to deposit funds in speculation.
00:33:17.000 The Volcker Rule prevents them from using deposit funds in speculation, prevents banks from investing.
00:33:21.000 Remember, when you deposit money in a bank, it is typically used for investment in other projects.
00:33:26.000 The government has cracked down on these banks.
00:33:28.000 The market takes care of all of these things so long as people do their research.
00:33:32.000 The government involvement in the banking industry has led to additional moral hazard.
00:33:37.000 And the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is one of the worst bureaus in America. 1.00
00:33:42.000 It's just garbage. 0.99
00:33:44.000 I mean, it's been used to crack down on businesses. 0.99
00:33:47.000 It's been used to crack down on particular actors that members of the government don't like.
00:33:54.000 According to Diane Katz over at the Heritage Foundation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by Dodd-Frank is living up to its billing as one of the most powerful and unaccountable federal agencies ever created after just 18 months.
00:34:06.000 She wrote this shortly after its creation in 2012.
00:34:08.000 And with the staff exceeding 1,000 and funding of $600 million, the Bureau is restructuring the mortgage market, devising restrictions on credit bureaus, education loans, overdraft policies, payday lenders, credit card plans, and prepaid cards, amassing unverified complaints
00:34:22.000 With which to assail creditors and bankers.
00:34:25.000 And they're basically unelected, the folks over at the CFPB.
00:34:28.000 You remember that earlier this year there was a big fight over the CFPB because President Trump wanted to restaff it using Mick Mulvaney to clean the place out, and Democrats cried foul.
00:34:37.000 Dodd-Frank needed to be gutted.
00:34:38.000 Good for President Trump for doing that gutting.
00:34:40.000 That indeed is something that is well worthwhile.
00:34:44.000 And look, Obama's legacy is falling apart.
00:34:47.000 It should be falling apart.
00:34:47.000 It was a bad legacy, but at least he'll still have his series on Netflix.
00:34:51.000 Now, meanwhile, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this just because it's an important global issue.
00:34:54.000 This Friday, I've been getting a lot of mail from Ireland.
00:34:56.000 I want to mention this.
00:34:57.000 Ireland is set to hold a referendum to allow abortion in state hospitals.
00:35:01.000 There's an Eighth Amendment to their country's constitution.
00:35:03.000 It recognizes a right to life for babies from conception.
00:35:07.000 Wish to God that we had that here in the United States.
00:35:09.000 Instead, there's a referendum that's on the ballot as of Friday.
00:35:12.000 It would repeal that amendment.
00:35:13.000 The government is prepared to push legislation allowing abortion up to 12 weeks.
00:35:17.000 And abortion advocates are being dishonest.
00:35:19.000 They are suggesting that it would just be to 12 weeks.
00:35:21.000 It would not just be to 12 weeks.
00:35:22.000 It would be a lot more like 23 weeks.
00:35:24.000 It would look a lot more like America's abortion laws in a lot of states.
00:35:28.000 All you're required to have an abortion in Ireland is two physicians saying the pregnancy would harm the mental or physical health of the woman in any way, which is a pretty low bar to clear.
00:35:37.000 So this means that babies who have not been killed up to this point would obviously be killed in much larger numbers.
00:35:42.000 The pro-abortion side is being incredibly disingenuous in Ireland.
00:35:45.000 So there have been a bunch of ads that were taken out featuring Down syndrome babies because abortion in Western countries has been used as basically a eugenic sterilization measure to prevent the birth of Down syndrome babies.
00:35:56.000 Well, the folks in Ireland were very upset about this.
00:35:59.000 The Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, condemned pro-lifers.
00:36:02.000 He said, So in other words,
00:36:17.000 Pay no attention to the fact that people are actually killing Down Syndrome babies before they're born.
00:36:21.000 It's mean to mention that.
00:36:22.000 We shouldn't be mentioning that.
00:36:24.000 Social media have taken their lead from the Irish Prime Minister, from the Irish President.
00:36:30.000 The Life News reports that the Washington Post says that Facebook announced that it would stop accepting related advertisements from groups based outside Ireland.
00:36:38.000 So if you're a pro-life group based outside Ireland, there would be no new ads that were allowed to go up during this Irish referendum.
00:36:44.000 The restriction testifies to the depth of concern that foreign advertising could skew the outcome.
00:36:49.000 This, by the way, is a great indicator of just how the left is going to use worries about Russian collusion and Russian interference in order to shut down messages they don't like.
00:36:57.000 Pro-life groups including the Pro-life Campaign, the Save the 8th group and the Iona Institute say that they are being censored by Facebook and by Google.
00:37:03.000 According to the UK Spectator, posters of unborn children have been torn down around Ireland as well.
00:37:09.000 This is a deeply important issue.
00:37:11.000 Right now the polls show that the attempt to repeal protection for the unborn in Ireland is likely to pass.
00:37:17.000 That babies will again be allowed to be killed in Ireland in large numbers.
00:37:21.000 It's a real tragedy that so many folks who grew up in a civilization that was predicated on the individual worth of each human life are now rejecting that in favor of this bizarre notion of autonomy that included killing the unborn in the womb.
00:37:37.000 It really is tragic, by the way, that the Catholic Church has not taken a stronger hand in this debate.
00:37:41.000 The Catholic Church obviously still has an enormous amount of sway in Ireland, but they've stayed out of the debate for the most part.
00:37:46.000 You know, we can all hope and pray that the folks in Ireland do the right thing and kick back against this leftist attempt to re-enshrine abortion as some sort of fundamental right for people who want to kill babies in the womb.
00:37:58.000 Okay, meanwhile...
00:38:00.000 I just have to comment on this story, because this story is pretty great.
00:38:03.000 Wynton Marsalis is, of course, a very famous jazz musician. 0.98
00:38:07.000 And Wynton Marsalis has come out, and he has said that rap culture sucks. 0.98
00:38:11.000 Okay, so he's allowed to say it, because Wynton Marsalis is black, of course. 0.99
00:38:14.000 But Wynton Marsalis, he says rap culture sucks, and he is exactly correct. 0.97
00:38:19.000 My words are not that powerful.
00:38:21.000 I started singing in 1985.
00:38:22.000 I don't think we should have music talking about n****s and b****s. It had no impact. 1.00
00:38:28.000 I've said it, I've repeated it, I still repeat it, to me that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee. 0.97
00:38:38.000 That statue of Robert E. Lee took me, I saw the statue, my great uncle hated it, I talked about it, but try to talk somewhere in front of a group of black folks about turning that off. 1.00
00:38:49.000 Okay, good for Wynton Marsalis.
00:38:50.000 I mean, this is exactly right.
00:38:51.000 Now, here's the problem.
00:38:52.000 If you are not a black person and you say that the rap culture is not good for people of any stripe, that rap culture focuses on mistreatment of women, use of drugs, materialistic nonsense, then this is considered racist in some sort of way.
00:39:06.000 It is not racist to point out that any cultural totem that glorifies the vile is not going to be good for a large number of people.
00:39:14.000 And it seems to me that there should be more folks across the political aisle who point out that when there are rap songs that glorify disgusting things, that this actually has a cultural impact.
00:39:25.000 And more of a cultural impact, by the way, as Wynton Marsalis says, than these Confederate statues.
00:39:30.000 I'm not a huge fan of Confederate statues because I think that honoring people who were slaveholders or fighting to uphold slavery is not a good thing.
00:39:36.000 I'm also not in favor of ripping down those Confederate statues.
00:39:38.000 I have the same opinion as Condoleezza Rice on this.
00:39:40.000 I think that it is valuable to have those statues in place specifically so we can have hard conversations about America's history, how America has changed, whether the statues ought to be up should be an ongoing conversation.
00:39:50.000 I think all of that is good.
00:39:51.000 You know, wiping away history I don't think is worthwhile.
00:39:54.000 But if you're talking about what's more damaging to black children, rap culture, or that statue of Robert E. Lee they've never seen in a park four miles away, I don't think that that's much of a comparison.
00:40:04.000 It seems to me that's not much of a comparison.
00:40:06.000 And it turns out that culture has a relatively large impact on how people think.
00:40:09.000 Which is, of course, one of the reasons why people are so intent on preventing the right from seizing the cultural high ground.
00:40:17.000 It's why Obama gets a deal with Netflix.
00:40:19.000 It's also why there's a controversy that's broken out over Ed Sheeran.
00:40:23.000 So Ed Sheeran has a song called Small Bump.
00:40:25.000 It came out a few years ago, and it's been used by pro-lifers.
00:40:28.000 The reason it's been used by pro-lifers is because it is obviously a pro-life song.
00:40:31.000 He wrote it about a woman he knew who'd had a miscarriage, and here is what the song sounds like.
00:41:10.000 We were just a small bump unborn For four months then torn from life
00:41:18.000 Okay, so if you missed those lyrics, he's talking about how this small bump is a person, basically, right?
00:41:28.000 Okay, so a bunch of pro-life groups started using this.
00:41:45.000 As sort of their anthem.
00:41:46.000 So what did Ed Sheeran do?
00:41:48.000 He whined about it.
00:41:49.000 So Ed Sheeran says, he says, you shouldn't use my video to push a pro-life message because there are a bunch of people who, based on the Irish referendum, were using this for the no campaign in the Irish referendum.
00:42:00.000 And he said he didn't like that.
00:42:01.000 He said, I've been informed my song Small Bump is being used to promote the pro-life campaign.
00:42:04.000 I feel it's important to let you know I have not given approval for this use.
00:42:07.000 It does not reflect what the song is about.
00:42:09.000 It reflects exactly what the song is about.
00:42:11.000 The song is about how it's an unborn child in there.
00:42:13.000 Culture matters.
00:42:14.000 Culture matters.
00:42:15.000 And when people in politics say culture is upstream from politics, this holds true whether it is bad culture.
00:42:20.000 I'm not saying every rap song is equivalently bad or all rap is by necessity bad.
00:42:24.000 I'm saying that too much of rap culture is about brutalization of women, use of drugs, glorification of crime.
00:42:30.000 You know, that has a cultural impact, and so do songs like Ed Sheeran's, which is why his art is beyond him, okay?
00:42:37.000 What happens in that song is beyond his capacity to hold that in, because it does promulgate what I think is a pretty important message.
00:42:43.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then maybe we'll do a thing I hate.
00:42:47.000 So the thing I like today, there's a good book by William Lane Craig.
00:42:50.000 William Lane Craig is a Christian theologian.
00:42:53.000 He's written this massive tome, along with, I'm trying to remember the name of the guy who co-wrote it with him, about Christian apologetics and arguments on behalf of God.
00:43:01.000 A much shorter version of that is a book called En Garde, Defending Your Faith with Reason and Precision, with a foreword by Lee Strobel.
00:43:07.000 It's a pretty good, I would say, guide to sort of how to argue faith.
00:43:12.000 The last third of the book is great for Christians in terms of trying to argue the veracity of their faith.
00:43:16.000 I don't buy a lot of the arguments, but that's because I'm Jewish.
00:43:19.000 The first two thirds of the book is really about sort of the generic defense of God.
00:43:22.000 Why it is not unreasonable to believe that God exists from a rational point of view.
00:43:26.000 Why it is not unreasonable to believe that you need God in order to create a moral system.
00:43:32.000 He's a good debater, William Lane Craig, and if you ever watch a debate that he did with Sam Harris, it's pretty fascinating to watch.
00:43:37.000 Check it out.
00:43:37.000 The book is En Garde by William Lane Craig.
00:43:39.000 Okay, other things that I like.
00:43:41.000 So, somebody did this yesterday.
00:43:44.000 So yesterday, as you recall,
00:43:46.000 On the show, I did a... This is so stupid. 1.00
00:43:50.000 I did the lyrics to Kendrick Lamar's Mad City because there was a big story about how Kendrick Lamar had brought up a white woman on stage to sing Mad City, and then when she sang his exact lyrics, then he got mad at her because he's the idiot who wrote a bunch of N-words in the lyrics. 1.00
00:44:03.000 And then when she spoke to him, he was like, no, you can't say that.
00:44:05.000 Well, so yesterday I did the lyrics without the N-word to demonstrate that it is unlistenable.
00:44:10.000 And somebody promptly, we have lots of listeners, somebody promptly took my read of the lyrics and inserted it into the song.
00:44:16.000 As you can see, this may not be where my talent lies.
00:44:35.000 Well, well, there it is.
00:44:37.000 It's just.
00:44:38.000 So that's the thing that happened.
00:44:40.000 All right.
00:44:41.000 Time for some things I hate.
00:44:42.000 Got nothing to say about that.
00:44:43.000 Time for some things I hate.
00:44:48.000 Here's the thing that I hate today.
00:44:49.000 OK, so this is unbelievable and it just demonstrates Democrats got nothing.
00:44:53.000 I mean, lately, the Democratic left has nothing, no ideas, nothing.
00:44:57.000 The mayor of West Hollywood, California, will join city officials on Wednesday to present adult film star Stormy Daniels with a key to the city.
00:45:05.000 And a city proclamation, according to a media advisory.
00:45:08.000 In the press release, city officials recognized Daniels for her leadership in the resist movement and noted that the city has previously passed resolutions calling for articles of impeachment to be introduced against President Trump.
00:45:17.000 Right, because Trump cares deeply that the city of West Hollywood thinks he ought to be impeached.
00:45:22.000 Yeah, there's a shocker.
00:45:23.000 The city of West Hollywood thinks he ought to be impeached.
00:45:24.000 For people who don't know, the city of West Hollywood very, very much to the left.
00:45:28.000 They actually fly the rainbow flag above the city hall in West Hollywood.
00:45:30.000 So they are very, very much to the left.
00:45:33.000 Daniels, according to the press release, has proven herself to be a profile encouraged by speaking truth to power, even under threats to her safety and extreme intimidation.
00:45:42.000 Really?
00:45:43.000 Seems to me she took $130,000 from the President of the United States and then has been making a lot more money and a lot more hay by talking about how one time she had sex with him. 0.99
00:45:52.000 But she gets a key to the city.
00:45:54.000 So, there are lots of doctors, lawyers, people doing great things, I'm sure, humanitarians, living in the West Hollywood area.
00:46:01.000 Did any of them get a key to the city?
00:46:02.000 No. 0.60
00:46:03.000 Stephanie Daniels, who has sex for money on camera, 0.97
00:46:06.000 And then had sex with the president of the United States when he was not president, but was married and had just had a baby. 0.98
00:46:12.000 She is a class act. 0.96
00:46:14.000 She deserves the key to the city. 0.51
00:46:16.000 I can't imagine why people on the right don't take the left seriously.
00:46:19.000 I can't imagine why they don't take the left more seriously.
00:46:21.000 I mean, maybe it's because the left doesn't take themselves seriously these days.
00:46:24.000 Alrighty.
00:46:25.000 So, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest.
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