The Ben Shapiro Show - The Republicans’ Best Friend | Ep. 643

00:00:00.000 President Trump's approval ratings jump, migrants approach the southern border, and the left goes ballistic over the Department of Education's approach to sex and gender.

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00:01:45.000 The polls in the lead up to the midterm elections are starting to look a lot better for the Republicans. 0.99

00:01:51.000 The reason for this is because Democrats suck at everything.

00:01:53.000 So there's a lot of attempt on the right to claim that this is all Republican know-how and suddenly Republicans are good at things. 0.97

00:02:01.000 No. 0.99

00:02:02.000 Well, what's really happening here is that the Democratic mask is off and Democrats are garbage at everything. 0.97

00:02:07.000 Basically, when President Trump is the second thing in the news, that is a very good thing for Republicans. 0.95

00:02:11.000 When he is the first thing in the news, it's a problem.

00:02:14.000 So when Democrats spend weeks demonstrating they don't care about due process and that they will railroad a guy simply for political reasons, very good for Republicans.

00:02:22.000 When the lead headline is the leading 2020 contender for the Democrats setting herself on fire over a DNA sample, that's really good for Republicans. 0.59

00:02:31.000 When the lead headline is Democrats approaching Ted Cruz in a restaurant and screaming at him and his wife.

00:02:36.000 Very good for Republicans.

00:02:37.000 The best friend of Republicans right now is the insanity of the Democrats.

00:02:41.000 And you are seeing that full scale in the polls.

00:02:44.000 Also, obviously, you're seeing the effect of a very good economy on the Republicans.

00:02:47.000 The margin by which voters trust Republicans over Democrats on the economy has never been larger in the history of the polling.

00:02:53.000 Really, it's like R plus 17 in this poll, which is amazing.

00:02:56.000 Also,

00:02:57.000 I don't want to give no credit to President Trump.

00:02:59.000 President Trump has done a couple of very good things.

00:03:02.000 Number one, he has taken proper economic measures that have really benefited the average American.

00:03:07.000 And number two, the President of the United States does make it feel like he is a change actor.

00:03:12.000 And usually in midterm elections, there's an attempt to vote for change.

00:03:17.000 Right now, what the polls show is that Republicans are actually seen as the party of change while being the party in power.

00:03:22.000 That's really unusual.

00:03:24.000 Usually the party out of power is seen as the party of change, but because Trump is so out of left field and so outrageous and so chaotic,

00:03:30.000 The benefit of that is that he feels like a change agent, even though he is the guy who's sitting in the seat.

00:03:35.000 That is very good for a Republican.

00:03:36.000 So here is what the latest polls show.

00:03:37.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, voter interest in the midterm elections has surged to records within both parties, helping to drive up President Trump's approval rating while maintaining the Democrats' lead as the party most preferred to lead Congress, according to a new Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll.

00:03:52.000 The findings point to an energized electorate buffeted by dynamics that bring great uncertainty to the outcome of an election just two weeks away.

00:03:59.000 And what the polls kind of show is that everything is narrowing.

00:04:02.000 Nearly two-thirds of registered voters show a high level of interest in the election.

00:04:05.000 That is the highest ever recorded in a midterm election since the Journal-NBC poll began asking the question in 2006.

00:04:12.000 Now, the reason for that is because largely of the Democrats.

00:04:16.000 The Democrats were always going to be energized to vote against President Trump.

00:04:19.000 But now Republicans are really mobilized to vote against the Democrats.

00:04:23.000 I know that my interest in voting peaked significantly thanks to the Democrats' behavior during the Brett Kavanaugh saga.

00:04:29.000 And I know that most other Republicans feel the same.

00:04:32.000 The once large gap between Republican voters and Democrats voters' interest in the election has now been closed.

00:04:37.000 68% of Republican voters and 72% of Democrats

00:04:41.000 Say they are very interested in the election.

00:04:43.000 That is the highest recorded for either party by the survey in a midterm election.

00:04:47.000 Also, President Trump's job approval rating has jumped to 47% according to the Wall Street Journal and NBC News poll.

00:04:54.000 That is the highest mark he has ever had in office.

00:04:57.000 In that poll, he is now higher than President Obama's average poll approval rating before the 2010 elections.

00:05:02.000 Now, it is worth noting that President Obama got skunked in the 2010 elections.

00:05:06.000 But with that said, President Trump has gained significant approval, only 49% disapproving.

00:05:10.000 So that's about as close to parity as Trump is ever going to get.

00:05:13.000 He's never going to be a 55% president.

00:05:15.000 He's just too polarizing a figure.

00:05:16.000 47% for President Trump is a very good number, and that is a re-election number.

00:05:20.000 If he gets up to 47% in the public approval ratings, he wins re-election in 2020.

00:05:25.000 That's an improvement from September.

00:05:27.000 That's when 44% approved and 52% disapproved of his performance.

00:05:31.000 And then Democrats decided it would be a great idea to shoot themselves in the foot repeatedly with an AR-15.

00:05:36.000 And now President Trump has soared in the approval ratings.

00:05:39.000 Democrats still do lead on the question of which party should control Congress.

00:05:43.000 Among poll respondents identified as likely voters, 50% prefer Democrats, 41% prefer Republicans, which is about the same as it was in last month's poll.

00:05:53.000 But the blue wave is now running into a riptide of uncertainty, according to certain pollsters, although Democrats are preferred in the national poll overall.

00:06:02.000 Here's the key.

00:06:03.000 So that means that in California, Democrats are really fired up.

00:06:06.000 In New York, Democrats are really fired up.

00:06:07.000 In Ohio?

00:06:21.000 Not quite as much, or at least Republicans are just as fired up as Democrats are in Ohio.

00:06:24.000 In last month's poll, this is an amazing thing, in last month's poll, Democrats led by 13 percentage points among registered voters and six points among likely voters.

00:06:33.000 Interest in the election has jumped among many groups that tend to favor Democrats, Latinos, African-Americans, young people.

00:06:38.000 More than two-thirds of black voters showed high interest in the election.

00:06:41.000 That's up from 57% in the average of polls taken from January through September.

00:06:47.000 But you're also seeing a massive increase, a massive increase among white voters, among Republican voters, among older voters.

00:06:55.000 It's consistent.

00:06:56.000 So we do not know what the case is here, but there is a massive gender gap. 0.99

00:07:00.000 And this massive gender gap is, again, the result of two things. 0.98

00:07:04.000 President Trump is toxic to women and Democrats are toxic to men. 0.94

00:07:07.000 The gender gap is not one factor. 0.99

00:07:09.000 It's not that men love Republicans and love President Trump because they hate women or anything like that.

00:07:14.000 It's that President Trump is uniquely off-putting to many women, particularly suburban moms, and the Democrats are supremely off-putting to men.

00:07:23.000 And this is why you're seeing the polls close.

00:07:25.000 The gender gap that has actually opened up wide in the last month is not between women and kind of the normal electorate.

00:07:31.000 It's between men and the normal electorate. 0.78

00:07:33.000 Men are now favoring Republicans in heavy numbers.

00:07:35.000 This poll found Democrats with a lopsided advantage among female voters. 0.91

00:07:38.000 For the second month in a row, women in the survey say they prefer a Democrat-controlled Congress by 25 percentage points, 57 to 32, which is a massive gap.

00:07:47.000 Male voters, however, want Republicans to lead Congress by a 14-point margin, 52% Republican, 38% Democrats.

00:07:55.000 And competitive swing districts are mostly in suburban areas.

00:07:58.000 Urban voters favor a Democratic-controlled Congress by a 36% margin.

00:08:02.000 Rural voters favor the GOP by 31 points.

00:08:05.000 Among suburban residents, the parties are virtually tied.

00:08:07.000 44% favor GOP control.

00:08:09.000 45% favor a Democratic Congress.

00:08:13.000 Now why?

00:08:14.000 Because voters continue to trust the Republicans on the economy, on trade issues.

00:08:17.000 Republicans are preferred by a 17-point margin.

00:08:20.000 That's up from 8% in August.

00:08:22.000 The issue has been in the spotlight because President Trump was actually able to close a NAFTA deal.

00:08:26.000 So all of the talk about tariffs and trade wars, that has basically receded into the background.

00:08:31.000 So all of this is good news for Republicans.

00:08:33.000 Does that mean Republicans hold the House?

00:08:35.000 Is still more unlikely than not, but this upsurge is pretty amazing stuff for Republicans in the lead up to a midterm election.

00:08:43.000 And again, a lot of that has to do with the fact that the Democrats are just terrible at everything.

00:08:48.000 When I say they're terrible at everything, I mean they are completely off-putting on the most basic, basic issues.

00:08:53.000 And that's what we are seeing.

00:08:54.000 That is the story of today's politics, is how off-putting the Democrats are.

00:09:00.000 Mitch McConnell, for example.

00:09:01.000 Cocaine Mitch, as we are fond of calling him.

00:09:04.000 Cocaine Mitch was eating at a restaurant.

00:09:05.000 He was confronted by protesters.

00:09:07.000 If this thing becomes consistent,

00:09:09.000 It is not good for the country, and it is certainly not good for the Democratic Party, which seems to be embracing it in a way the Republican Party is not.

00:09:15.000 Now, Nancy Pelosi was also confronted over the weekend, and protesters shouted at her.

00:09:19.000 The difference is, high-level Republicans condemned that.

00:09:22.000 High-level Democrats are not doing a great job of condemning what's going on here.

00:09:25.000 Look at these protesters confront Cocaine Mitch and Elaine Chao.

00:09:28.000 They're eating at a restaurant, and, I mean, frankly, they're just lucky that Cocaine Mitch didn't go ballistic on them and tell them to say hello to his little friend.

00:09:36.000 I don't know why you'd want to go up against Cocaine Mitch and Elaine Chao.

00:09:39.000 They will claw out your eyes and feed you to the ravens. 0.99

00:09:41.000 But this is what these protesters decided to do.

00:09:55.000 Here's what I love.

00:09:56.000 This is how you know it's Kentucky.

00:09:57.000 Okay, the way that you know this is Kentucky is the protesters show up and they start shouting at cocaine Mitch and all the patrons are like, get the hell out of here.

00:10:04.000 Nobody likes you.

00:10:05.000 Leave. 0.99

00:10:06.000 And this is why it's so funny.

00:10:07.000 I've been asked before if anybody has ever confronted me at a restaurant or tried to make trouble at a restaurant.

00:10:12.000 I'm like, no, I eat kosher.

00:10:13.000 Those are all my friends.

00:10:15.000 Right?

00:10:15.000 You come into a kosher restaurant and you try to confront me?

00:10:17.000 These are all my buddies.

00:10:17.000 This is my security.

00:10:19.000 Right?

00:10:19.000 The Jew crew.

00:10:19.000 Okay?

00:10:20.000 So we will fight you off.

00:10:22.000 But Cocaine Mitch basically has that in Kentucky as well.

00:10:25.000 So he just activated his goons to basically fight back against these guys just by sitting there.

00:10:31.000 The cool collected turtle.

00:10:32.000 Gotta love it.

00:10:33.000 Okay, meanwhile, Democrats determined to show that they are just as nutty as you think they are in other ways as well.

00:10:39.000 They've decided that Beto O'Rourke is the most important person on planet Earth.

00:10:43.000 He is deeply important.

00:10:45.000 Why have they decided Beto O'Rourke is important?

00:10:47.000 I have no idea.

00:10:47.000 They're trying to say that he's sort of like Barack Obama, except without half the charm or the racial appeal.

00:10:53.000 But they're still trying to manufacture this kind of quasi-enthusiasm for Beto O'Rourke.

00:10:59.000 There was a report from ABC News that really fawned over him last night.

00:11:02.000 But the best stuff, the best stuff from these campaigns, and it was true for President Trump, and it's the thing I despise most about politics generally.

00:11:08.000 It's true for Obama and Trump. 0.88

00:11:10.000 Anybody who has any level of political notoriety has a certain number of fans who are completely crazy.

00:11:17.000 And those fans do completely crazy things in public.

00:11:20.000 I don't mean wearing T-shirts or lining up for book signing.

00:11:23.000 I mean what I'm going to show you in just a second, because it's astonishingly bad and really embarrassing.

00:11:28.000 And you got to imagine that these folks, the day after the election, they wake up and they go, what was I thinking?

00:11:33.000 Was this what I wanted to do with my life when I was 12?

00:11:35.000 Was this the image that I wanted to project to the world?

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00:13:09.000 When I say folks have made fools of themselves for Beto O'Rourke, I remember back in 2008 when the Democrats actually had small children sing hymns to President Obama, then candidate Obama.

00:13:20.000 Now Democrats have gone even beyond that.

00:13:23.000 Here is a bunch of

00:13:25.000 Beto O'Rourke supporters.

00:13:28.000 I don't know why.

00:13:29.000 Doing YMCA, but BETO.

00:13:33.000 In unison.

00:13:34.000 It's not good.

00:13:58.000 Wow.

00:14:04.000 Now, what I love about this most is the move that was made by Democrats that Beto O'Rourke draws an incredibly diverse crowd.

00:14:12.000 If you can't see this, this is all old white people and a small girl.

00:14:15.000 That's really what it is. 0.98

00:14:16.000 It's like all a bunch of old white people who can barely move. 1.00

00:14:18.000 It looks like workout night at the local old age home.

00:14:21.000 I mean, it looks like it does when you actually go down to the YMCA and you see the people who are 60 in the water doing physical therapy, except they're doing BETO for Senate.

00:14:30.000 So that was strong, but that was not the strongest entry in the Beto worship hymnal.

00:14:35.000 And the strongest entry comes courtesy of some crazy ladies who decided to cut the weirdest video I've seen in this election cycle. 1.00

00:14:41.000 Well, I can't say that.

00:14:42.000 I mean, I've seen so many weird videos in this election cycle.

00:14:45.000 I can't.

00:14:45.000 But this one is pretty astonishing.

00:14:47.000 Here we go.

00:14:48.000 I don't even know what this is.

00:14:50.000 But listen, if you can bear to.

00:14:52.000 Had a Ted Cruz yet?

00:14:55.000 Uh-uh.

00:14:57.000 By the way, where'd you meet him?

00:15:01.000 I first saw him on Ellen DeGeneres.

00:15:04.000 He's taking on the GOP.

00:15:05.000 You get the picture?

00:15:06.000 Yes, we see.

00:15:08.000 And Beto does it without a super PAC.

00:15:12.000 Here he comes now!

00:15:15.000 He's married with kids, but he's still my man.

00:15:19.000 Man, man.

00:15:22.000 He played guitar in a rock and roll band.

00:15:25.000 Like Bernie Sanders, but he's got a tan.

00:15:28.000 There's nobody my Beto compares to.

00:15:32.000 Like JFK with a ten dollar hairdo.

00:15:35.000 Hey, Ted Cruz, you better watch your back.

00:15:42.000 Believe it or not, this is not a parody of Beto supporters.

00:15:44.000 These are actual Beto supporters.

00:15:45.000 I know people are telling me to cut this, but I can't.

00:15:52.000 It's mesmerizing.

00:15:53.000 It's mesmerizingly bad.

00:16:09.000 This is not actually a parody of Beto supporters from what I understand.

00:16:11.000 So good stuff there from the Beto supporters, really demonstrating that they don't care too much about a guy driving over a median line, being super drunk and crashing into a truck and then fleeing.

00:16:21.000 And also, I mean, I can see why they don't care that much about drunkenness, considering you would have to be drunk to think that was a good idea.

00:16:25.000 But there you are.

00:16:27.000 So I can't imagine why Republicans are responding the way that they are, except for Democrats.

00:16:32.000 Again, the theme of today's show, Democrats, terrible at everything. 0.82

00:16:35.000 Continuing with that theme,

00:16:37.000 My the woman who I've chosen to catcall on a routine basis, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the future congresswoman from Brooklyn.

00:16:46.000 Over the weekend, again, you wonder why folks in the United States are not taking Democrats maybe as seriously as they should, because they don't deserve to be taken seriously.

00:16:54.000 Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over the weekend saying that we should fight global warming the same way we fought the Nazis.

00:17:01.000 Well, I don't see really how bombing the Germans is going to help, but 1.00

00:17:07.000 I mean, I'm willing to try if she is, I guess.

00:17:13.000 Here is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggesting that I guess we're supposed to, I don't know, invade Normandy to stop global warming or something?

00:17:22.000 Here she is, the most intelligent advocate for her position the left can present these days, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:17:31.000 We're good to go.

00:17:44.000 It's very difficult to hear her.

00:17:47.000 When we talk about existential threats, we can stop her because it's very difficult to hear.

00:17:50.000 Because when we talk about existential threats, the last time we had a really major existential threat to the country was around World War II.

00:17:56.000 So she knows nothing about history.

00:17:57.000 There was an entire Cold War that existed for several decades after World War II, as it turns out.

00:18:02.000 And so we've been here before and we have a blueprint of doing this before.

00:18:06.000 Right when we bombed the Germans. 0.93

00:18:09.000 I mean, don't stop her, she's rolling. 1.00

00:18:12.000 She says, none of these things are new ideas.

00:18:14.000 What we had was an existential threat in the context of a war.

00:18:16.000 We had a direct existential threat with another nation. 0.89

00:18:18.000 This time it was Nazi Germany and Axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy.

00:18:23.000 As an enemy.

00:18:24.000 History lessons with Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez are some of my favorite history lessons.

00:18:28.000 We had a direct existential threat with another nation. 0.89

00:18:30.000 This time it was Nazi Germany and Axis. 0.82

00:18:33.000 Not Axe Body Spray.

00:18:35.000 Okay, you mean the Axis Powers?

00:18:37.000 Oh, that's what you mean.

00:18:39.000 And what we did was we chose to mobilize our entire economy and industrialize our entire economy, and we put hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to work in defending our shores and defending this country.

00:18:47.000 We have to do the same thing in order to get us to 100% renewable energy, and that's just the truth of it.

00:18:52.000 So we need to draft every male of military age, have them live in barracks for four years, ship them overseas, put women in the factories, and ration the butter. 0.99

00:19:03.000 Good idea.

00:19:04.000 Good.

00:19:05.000 Yeah.

00:19:05.000 Don't see how that's going to go around.

00:19:06.000 Why don't we take them seriously?

00:19:07.000 I just don't understand.

00:19:08.000 Speaking of not taking them seriously, a very serious issue right now is cropping up on America's southern border.

00:19:15.000 So, as folks know, I'm pretty libertarian when it comes to immigration.

00:19:19.000 I'm somebody who believes that there should be free movement of labor, not citizenship.

00:19:23.000 You shouldn't be able to come in the United States and become a citizen and vote.

00:19:25.000 You shouldn't be able to get taxpayer dollars.

00:19:27.000 But if you want to come here and work, I really don't have a huge problem with it.

00:19:30.000 But

00:19:31.000 Even I, a libertarian on immigration, believe that we ought to have actual borders in the United States, meaning defensible borders.

00:19:37.000 You don't just get to cross our borders because you want to cross our borders. 0.90

00:19:40.000 A country without borders is not actually a country.

00:19:44.000 This caravan issue is a serious issue.

00:19:46.000 This is according to the Associated Press this morning.

00:20:08.000 Listen, I have sympathy for folks who want to escape crappy places to come for a better life.

00:20:12.000 That doesn't mean the United States has an obligation to take in anyone who wants to get in without any sort of vetting procedures or determination as to whether this person is going to help the country or not.

00:20:35.000 That's not the way this works.

00:20:36.000 We live in a different time than we did in 1907 when there was no vast welfare state for people to take advantage of, when the structure of the economy was substantially different.

00:20:45.000 Again, I'm for free movement of labor, but you have to control your borders.

00:20:49.000 She says, My goal is to find work for a better future for my daughters. 1.00

00:20:52.000 I have sympathy for that.

00:20:52.000 Go claim asylum or try to apply through legal immigration means.

00:20:56.000 You don't just get to march across the United States' southern border.

00:20:59.000 And yet the left has claimed that's exactly what should happen.

00:21:02.000 President Trump has taken to Twitter to respond to all of this.

00:21:05.000 We'll get to that.

00:21:06.000 And here's what he says.

00:21:07.000 He says, you know, we'll get to that in just one second.

00:21:11.000 President Trump's response to the migrant crisis and the Democratic response to the migrant crisis.

00:21:15.000 But first, let's talk about your home security.

00:21:17.000 So Ring.com does an amazing job of ensuring your home security.

00:21:21.000 They've actually sent us some footage of Ring busting crooks in the act.

00:21:24.000 This one is pretty frightening.

00:21:27.000 We'll just have to watch it.

00:21:29.000 Hello?

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00:21:57.000 I'm calling the police.

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00:22:34.000 So, President Trump has responded to this growing caravan of migrants that have left Latin America and are moving up through Mexico, Latin and Central America, and moving up through Mexico.

00:22:44.000 He has responded, I think, properly by pointing out a couple of things.

00:22:49.000 One, we need border security.

00:22:50.000 Two, the countries that are allowing them to do this are doing so with the intent of creating a pressure situation on our southern border.

00:22:56.000 Why should we continue funding governments that are going to continue creating those situations?

00:23:00.000 If the Honduran government is going to allow folks to simply walk over the border to Mexico with the intent of going to the United States, why exactly would we be funding that government?

00:23:09.000 Same thing is true of the Mexican government.

00:23:11.000 Same thing is true of the Salvadorian government.

00:23:13.000 There is no reason for us to back governments that are going to create pressures on our southern border without actively working with us on the immigration issue.

00:23:22.000 That's correct.

00:23:23.000 We do have procedures.

00:23:24.000 One of the problems here is that you can actually show up

00:23:40.000 At a point of entry and you can apply for asylum.

00:23:42.000 That's the legal way to do this.

00:23:43.000 That's not what these caravans are doing.

00:23:45.000 Some of these caravans are simply finding places that are open in the United States border and crossing there.

00:23:49.000 Now, I'm not sure what immigration laws he wants changed specifically.

00:23:58.000 We actually just have to enforce the laws that are already on the books.

00:24:01.000 You're not allowed to illegally enter the country.

00:24:03.000 We are allowed to deport people. 0.97

00:24:05.000 We can streamline that process.

00:24:06.000 Maybe those are the laws he wants changed, but it is true that the Democratic Party has been using the immigration issue as a club against Republicans, suggesting that Republicans don't care about Latino folks because they want to defend America's borders.

00:24:18.000 That argument isn't working very well, specifically because a lot of Latinos in the United States are also interested in living in a country with borders.

00:24:24.000 They're not interested in living in a country where anyone can go and come as they see fit.

00:24:29.000 One of the great lies of the media is that everyone agrees with an open borders agenda.

00:24:33.000 Virtually no one in the United States actually agrees with an open borders agenda.

00:24:38.000 And it's pretty obvious that there's an actual agenda to this caravan.

00:24:41.000 It's organized.

00:24:42.000 Not only is it organized, it's organized for the cameras.

00:24:44.000 The AP reports, hundreds of migrants applied for refugee status in Mexico in the southern city of Ciudad Hidalgo.

00:24:50.000 By Sunday evening, the Interior Department reported it had received more than 1,000 requests, but most of them were not doing this.

00:24:56.000 A far bigger group forded the Suchiat River from Guatemala to the Mexican side individually and dozens at a time and resumed the trek at first light, marching 10 abreast on the highway.

00:25:06.000 Si se pudo, they chanted in Spanish.

00:25:07.000 Yes, we did.

00:25:09.000 Well, we don't have to let those people cross the border.

00:25:12.000 Presumably some of those folks are from Mexico.

00:25:14.000 They're not necessarily from countries to the south of Mexico.

00:25:16.000 Their destination on Sunday was the city of Tapachula in the Chiapas state.

00:25:18.000 Under a blazing sun, small groups of 20 to 30 paused to rest in the shade of trees on the side of the road.

00:25:36.000 By afternoon, the caravan had evolved into long lines of walkers straggling for miles.

00:25:40.000 Basically, what this looks very much like is the Middle Eastern migration that has swamped a lot of Europe. 0.94

00:25:47.000 That's what this looks like, just visually.

00:25:49.000 Now, the numbers are not the same, obviously, as you're seeing from immigration from North Africa and the Middle East into islands off the coast of Italy.

00:25:58.000 But the imagery is the same.

00:26:00.000 It's a group of folks who are trying to escape a worse life and simply cross the border illegally into the United States.

00:26:05.000 Again, the United States is a sovereign nation.

00:26:07.000 We can't afford to simply take in everybody that we would want to take in.

00:26:11.000 Out of economic necessity or out of some sort of sympathy for the folks crossing the border.

00:26:18.000 You cannot have a country that is the strongest economy on planet Earth taking in thousands and thousands of people illegally without vetting them and without any sort of skill set. 0.96

00:26:25.000 That does not make for a good economy.

00:26:27.000 This is one of the reasons why it's so funny.

00:26:29.000 Folks on the left, they love Norway, they love Denmark, they love Sweden.

00:26:32.000 The immigration restrictionists have been winning in Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

00:26:36.000 You cannot actually have a full-on socialist state in terms of redistribution of wealth when you have an underclass that is coming that does not have a skill set. 1.00

00:26:45.000 One of the things about the Nordic countries, the Scandinavian countries, is that they've basically banned immigration.

00:26:53.000 Well, the United States, the left in the United States wants it both ways.

00:26:56.000 They want full-on open immigration at the same time that they want to raise social spending to heights never before seen in human history.

00:27:02.000 That is not a recipe for victory.

00:27:05.000 And that's why President Trump, the Republicans are going to win on this issue.

00:27:09.000 Even Lindsey Graham, who's a real dove on immigration, right?

00:27:11.000 Lindsey Graham, famously one of the Gang of Eight, along with John McCain, a big fan of immigration reform.

00:27:16.000 Even he said, listen, this is not something we can do.

00:27:19.000 Nancy Pelosi would welcome these caravans. 0.95

00:27:20.000 I don't know what happened to Lindsey Graham, whether he bumped his head or something, but Lindsey Graham 2.0, the reset, is really good.

00:27:26.000 And here's Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, saying Nancy Pelosi will welcome these caravans.

00:27:31.000 You want to be the country of people that run you up and down the hall and spit on you?

00:27:35.000 Or do you want to be a country of Republicans who can actually deliver for working families out there, that will put good judges on the court, that will stand up to the enemies of this country?

00:27:48.000 Nancy Pelosi will welcome the caravans here. 0.96

00:27:51.000 Donald Trump and the rest of us will stop them.

00:27:54.000 Okay, well, that is exactly right.

00:27:55.000 And that's not out of lack of sympathy.

00:27:57.000 That's because a country that has a rule of law must abide by that rule of law.

00:28:01.000 Democrats who continue to push this issue are going to lose.

00:28:03.000 It's funny, because Democrats are so ensconced in their own bubbles.

00:28:07.000 I mean, what polls show is that Democrats have far fewer Republican friends than Republicans have Democrat friends.

00:28:12.000 Because Democrats who live in blue areas actually see Republicans as nasty, evil human beings, and so they won't even talk to them.

00:28:18.000 They actually believe that it's a mainstream view that people should be able to flood into the country. 0.71

00:28:21.000 They actually believe that it's a mainstream view that gender and sex are completely separate.

00:28:26.000 And not only that, that if a man calls himself a woman, that that man is then a woman.

00:28:31.000 The latest evidence of this, I mean, this is an amazing story, is the way the media are covering

00:28:36.000 An attempt by the Department of Education to define what Title IX actually says.

00:28:41.000 So here's the headline from the New York Times today.

00:28:43.000 It says, Now when you read that headline, what does that sound like to you?

00:28:51.000 It sounds like the Trump administration is saying there are no such thing as transgender people or people who suffer from gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder.

00:28:59.000 That's what it would sound like from that headline.

00:29:01.000 Is that what's actually happening? 1.00

00:29:03.000 No, that's not what's actually happening because that's idiotic. 0.99

00:29:06.000 Nobody is saying there aren't people who are transgender. 0.99

00:29:09.000 What the Trump administration is saying is that under the law, laws that have to do with sex discrimination are specifically focused on biological sex.

00:29:17.000 They're not focused on you thinking you are a member of a different sex.

00:29:20.000 So when the Civil Rights Act was written and it included language about men and women and sex discrimination, it did not mean that it is sex discrimination for you to say that a man who shows up in a classroom, a fifth grade classroom, dressed as a woman

00:29:33.000 And you say, that's not cool.

00:29:35.000 We're not going to do that.

00:29:36.000 That's not the same thing as saying a woman can't work in the classroom. 1.00

00:29:39.000 That's not sex discrimination.

00:29:41.000 That's what the Trump administration is saying.

00:29:43.000 They're saying that behavior by men is not the same as being female.

00:29:48.000 That's the actual... I'll read you the actual article.

00:29:51.000 It doesn't ban transgender people.

00:29:53.000 That's not what they are doing.

00:29:55.000 The media is so dishonest with regard to how they cover transgender issues because they refuse to even acknowledge the fact that there is such a thing as biological sex.

00:30:02.000 It's utterly self-defeating.

00:30:03.000 What the left suggests is that gender and sex are exactly separate, but gender is sex.

00:30:10.000 Right, so gender and sex are completely separate.

00:30:11.000 You can be a man, but your gender is female, and that makes you a biological female. 0.99

00:30:15.000 That makes you an actual woman. 0.91

00:30:17.000 This is how they want to read the law.

00:30:19.000 That makes no sense under any circumstances.

00:30:21.000 I will explain in just one second.

00:30:23.000 And they think this is a winning issue.

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00:33:12.000 So when President Trump rails at the fake news, this is what he's talking about.

00:33:15.000 This sort of headline from the New York Times.

00:33:16.000 Transgender could be defined out of existence under Trump administration. 0.94

00:33:20.000 We're just gonna disappear the transgenders now. 1.00

00:33:22.000 No, that is not what they're doing. 0.99

00:33:24.000 Okay, here's what they're doing.

00:33:25.000 Quote, the Trump administration is considering narrowly defining gender as biological immutable condition determined by genitalia at birth.

00:33:33.000 The most drastic move yet in a government-wide effort to roll back recognition and protections of transgender people under federal civil rights law.

00:33:40.000 Well, because gender is biological and immutable and it is delivered at birth. 0.99

00:33:45.000 Now, what the left has said is they've redefined the terms.

00:33:48.000 One of the great areas of confusion in the transgender debate is what the hell everyone's talking about.

00:33:53.000 Really, I mean that.

00:33:54.000 Because sometimes when people on the left say gender, what they mean is expressed feminine or masculine qualities, and sometimes what they mean is actual sex.

00:34:01.000 And it is impossible to tell which unless they actually specify, and then they shift the definition based on what they want their point to be. 0.77

00:34:07.000 So if you say, okay, I accept that there's such a thing as an effeminate man, because there are men who are effeminate.

00:34:13.000 Okay.

00:34:28.000 Here's the problem with defining gender as the expression of effeminacy or masculinity.

00:34:33.000 This means that there are literally 6.8 billion genders, 7.3 billion genders.

00:34:38.000 However many people there are on the planet, that's how many genders there are because we each have an individual amount of effeminate or masculine characteristics. 0.98

00:34:46.000 We all have individual amounts of masculinity, of testosterone and estrogen.

00:34:50.000 We are all created differently.

00:34:52.000 Based on genetics and environment.

00:34:54.000 So if you're going to say that there are only that the left is really the one making the case there are only two genders. 0.96

00:34:59.000 They're saying that if you're a feminine man, you're actually a woman. 0.99

00:35:01.000 And if you're a masculine woman, you're actually a man. 0.75

00:35:03.000 If you want to define gender as just expressed characteristics of femininity or masculinity, there are 7.3 billion genders on planet Earth, which means it's meaningless.

00:35:11.000 It's a word that means nothing.

00:35:13.000 If you want to say that gender has to do with biology,

00:35:16.000 Now, you have to separate it into sex.

00:35:18.000 Sex is based on Y-chromosomes and X-chromosomes.

00:35:22.000 Now, there are intersex people.

00:35:23.000 There's a very, very small percentage of the population.

00:35:25.000 That is not the argument being made by transgender advocates.

00:35:28.000 They're arguing that you can be fully genetically male and still female.

00:35:32.000 All of this makes no logical sense.

00:35:34.000 It's completely confusing because it makes no sense.

00:35:36.000 There is no internal consistency or logic to the transgender civil rights movement.

00:35:40.000 They can't even define their terms.

00:35:42.000 If they simply want to say people should be treated well, I'm with you. 0.93

00:35:45.000 If they want to say that I have to pretend that a man who says he is a woman is a woman, that Caitlyn Jenner is just as much a woman as my wife, give me a freaking break. 0.94

00:35:53.000 And everyone with half a brain on planet Earth knows this. 0.85

00:35:56.000 But here's what the New York Times says. 1.00

00:35:58.000 First of all, sex assigned at birth is the dumbest term in the world. 0.96

00:36:01.000 If you want to say gender assigned at birth, at least now you're being consistent with the terminology. 0.97

00:36:06.000 But even in that sentence, you can see the terminology shifting, right?

00:36:09.000 There's gender and then there's sex assigned at birth.

00:36:22.000 You don't assign a sex at birth.

00:36:25.000 Babies are born.

00:36:26.000 They are what they are.

00:36:27.000 When my girl was born, she was a girl.

00:36:29.000 I didn't assign her girl.

00:36:31.000 You know who assigned her girl?

00:36:33.000 Genetics.

00:36:33.000 God.

00:36:34.000 That was sort of baked in.

00:36:36.000 You know how I know?

00:36:36.000 Because she's a girl!

00:36:37.000 My God, people!

00:36:39.000 And the same thing with my son.

00:36:40.000 When he was born,

00:36:41.000 You know how I knew he was a boy?

00:36:43.000 I looked at him.

00:36:44.000 Wow.

00:36:45.000 This was difficult.

00:36:47.000 And it turns out he is in fact a boy.

00:36:49.000 Amazing that the coincidence that he comes out and he has all male characteristics and that he's also a boy.

00:36:55.000 Unreal.

00:36:56.000 Just amazing.

00:36:57.000 Almost scientific.

00:36:59.000 Okay, so here's what they say.

00:37:01.000 I love the New York Times.

00:37:02.000 This is their way of slandering religious people as bigots.

00:37:04.000 It's not people who actually use their brain and recognize that there are men and women and these are two separate categories.

00:37:22.000 And that maybe there are women's groups that want to remain women's groups and not have men who believe they're women in those groups.

00:37:27.000 And the same thing for men's groups.

00:37:30.000 And the same thing for bathrooms. 1.00

00:37:31.000 No, it must be that it's those crazy people who believe in the Jesus. 0.99

00:37:35.000 It's those people. 0.98

00:37:36.000 If it weren't for those crazies who believe in the Jesus, then everything would be fine.

00:37:41.000 Then we could all acknowledge that men and women are exactly the same, except for a little bit of appendage down below.

00:37:46.000 But here's what the New York Times says.

00:37:47.000 Now, so here's the bad stuff.

00:37:48.000 Okay, what's the bad thing the Trump administration did?

00:37:51.000 Now the Department of Health and Human Services is spearheading an effort to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX, the federal civil rights law that bans gender discrimination in education programs that will receive government financial assistance, according to a memo obtained by the New York Times.

00:38:05.000 The department argues in its memo that key government agencies needed to adopt an explicit and uniform definition of gender as determined on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective, and administratable.

00:38:18.000 The agency's proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals a person is born with, according to a draft reviewed by the Times.

00:38:26.000 Any dispute about one's sex would have to be clarified using genetic testing.

00:38:30.000 How in the world is that not just basic rationality?

00:38:32.000 If you claim you're a woman, I should be able to objectively tell whether you are a woman or not. 0.98

00:38:36.000 It shouldn't be up to you to decide.

00:38:39.000 And it's amazing to me that the same left that has now come around to Elizabeth Warren is not of Native American,

00:38:44.000 Because not... Well, if she says she's a Native American, why isn't she a Native American?

00:38:48.000 She should be.

00:38:49.000 Why not?

00:38:50.000 She is more Native American than Caitlyn Jenner as a woman.

00:38:52.000 So what exactly is the problem here?

00:38:55.000 It's truly amazing.

00:38:56.000 So you wonder why the right doesn't trust the media?

00:38:58.000 You wonder why people are resonating to the right?

00:39:00.000 It's because the left insists that we absolutely frontally lobotomize ourselves on basic concepts like what is a woman and what is a man?

00:39:08.000 And we're supposed to pretend it's a great evil when the Trump administration says gender discrimination means discriminating against women, not discriminating against men who believe they are women.

00:39:17.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:39:18.000 I want to explain more in just one second.

00:39:20.000 So Title IX of the Civil Rights Act was specifically written with discrimination against women in mind.

00:39:26.000 This is what Title IX of the Civil Rights Act does.

00:39:28.000 Title IX bars discrimination under the Civil Rights Act.

00:39:32.000 That is what it is for.

00:39:34.000 Okay, it says, this is what Title IX says, okay?

00:39:36.000 Quote, this is from the Education Department.

00:39:38.000 Now, notice the word that is used there.

00:39:38.000 No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex, of sex, not of gender.

00:39:43.000 Now, even if it had said on the basis of gender in 1972,

00:40:05.000 That still would not have meant gender as the transgender left wants to explain gender now. 0.72

00:40:10.000 In 1972, nobody was foolish enough to believe that a man who said he was a woman was actually a woman. 0.84

00:40:15.000 Nobody.

00:40:16.000 Okay, this is not a thing.

00:40:17.000 And so to redefine, so they're doing a twice switch here.

00:40:21.000 They're doing a linguistic and legal twice switch here.

00:40:23.000 What they're saying is, number one, that provision of Title IX doesn't refer to sex, it refers to gender.

00:40:30.000 And gender is just expressed feminine or masculine characteristics.

00:40:33.000 Then they are saying that by gender, we actually mean sex.

00:40:37.000 So a woman who says she is a man is actually a man. 0.95

00:40:42.000 So just to get this straight, Title IX, which was designed to protect women from male discrimination, now is designed to protect men who believe they are women from discrimination on the basis of discrimination against women.

00:40:57.000 No.

00:40:58.000 No, I'm sorry.

00:40:59.000 This is, like, just no.

00:41:02.000 There's nothing in the law that suggests any of this.

00:41:04.000 And for the left to go nuts over this or suggest transgender people are being defined out of existence?

00:41:07.000 No.

00:41:08.000 What this is saying is there needs to be an objective measure of male or female before we can determine whether someone is being discriminated against on the basis of their sex, as opposed to the basis of their behavior.

00:41:17.000 Now, you can still outlaw discrimination on the basis of behavior.

00:41:21.000 If you really think this is an important thing, why don't you just try to pass a law?

00:41:24.000 This is why the left won't actually do what they want to do.

00:41:28.000 If the left actually did what they say they want to do, what they would do is they would pass an anti-discrimination law that would say no school can fire any man who shows up dressed as a woman at work.

00:41:39.000 This is what they would say.

00:41:41.000 No school can take any action against anyone based on perceived gender identity.

00:41:47.000 They can actually do this.

00:41:48.000 But instead, because the left wants to hijack the law, this is what the Obama administration did, they're forcibly rewriting regulations in order to carve the heart out of laws and interpret them in exactly the reverse of what they were meant to be.

00:42:01.000 If the left can't win elections, they'll do it through regulation.

00:42:03.000 They did the same thing with regard to carbon emissions.

00:42:05.000 They tried to use the Clean Air Act in order to regulate carbon emissions.

00:42:08.000 There's nothing in the Clean Air Act that suggests carbon emissions can be regulated by the EPA.

00:42:14.000 Win an election, guys.

00:42:15.000 You want to do this stuff?

00:42:16.000 Win an election, and then pass legislation that you think the American people like, and then we can answer as to whether we think you're right or wrong.

00:42:22.000 But they don't want to actually do that.

00:42:24.000 Instead, they just want to sit outside and shout and scream.

00:42:27.000 Like small children.

00:42:28.000 Okay.

00:42:29.000 Meanwhile, this is a story that I just have to touch on because I think that it is important and obvious.

00:42:34.000 We have forgotten all the obvious things in our society, obviously.

00:42:37.000 I mean, that's basically what today's show has been about.

00:42:39.000 Global warming is not Nazism, and we can't respond in the same way.

00:42:43.000 Also, America has borders and we have to enforce them.

00:42:46.000 Also, men are men.

00:42:47.000 Women are women. 1.00

00:42:48.000 Men who believe they are women are not, in fact, women.

00:42:50.000 And trying to define gender and sex as the same thing sometimes and define them as completely separate other times leads to linguistic and terminological confusion.

00:42:58.000 These are obvious things.

00:42:58.000 Other obvious things.

00:43:00.000 You're going to be happier in your life if you have less sex partners before you get married.

00:43:04.000 The Atlantic now has reported on a study over at the Institute for Family Studies.

00:43:09.000 Nicholas Wolfanger,

00:43:10.000 He's a sociologist at the University of Utah.

00:43:12.000 He's found that Americans who have only ever slept with their spouses are the most likely to report being in a very happy marriage.

00:43:17.000 Meanwhile, the lowest odds of marital happiness, about 13 percentage points lower than a one-woman partner, belong to women, who have had six to ten sexual partners in their lives.

00:43:25.000 For men, there's also a dip in marital satisfaction after one partner, but it's never low as it gets for women.

00:43:31.000 This is what the graph shows.

00:43:32.000 Why?

00:43:33.000 Because marriage is a very good institution.

00:43:35.000 And it turns out that when you reserve yourself for marriage and you make sex special and connected to a level of emotional and spiritual intimacy, you're likelier to lead a happier life.

00:43:45.000 I speak as someone who has led this life.

00:43:47.000 My wife also led this life.

00:43:49.000 Thank God my parents led this life.

00:43:51.000 I think that is a good life. 1.00

00:43:52.000 And the promise of the sexual revolution, that free sex all around is going to make everyone happier, is a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:43:58.000 It is not true. 0.99

00:43:59.000 It has never been true.

00:44:00.000 It is a false promise.

00:44:02.000 Act morally, you will live a happier life.

00:44:04.000 Attach yourself to one human being, and recognize that sex is more than just getting your rocks off.

00:44:09.000 You will lead a happier life, and by the way, your sex life will be happier too.

00:44:14.000 All of this should have been obvious, but we as a civilization have decided to discard the obvious in favor of the attractive, and that, of course, is a huge mistake.

00:44:21.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then some things I hate, and we'll do a Federalist paper.

00:44:25.000 Thanks for having me.

00:44:41.000 Books to each other.

00:44:42.000 There's a great meme that I saw today.

00:44:44.000 Have you seen that meme from... What's the show where the guys are throwing the chair at each other?

00:44:50.000 We have a room full of humans.

00:44:52.000 You know the meme of the guys shouting at each other and then one picks up a chair and throws the chair at the other guy?

00:44:59.000 I don't know.

00:45:15.000 We're good to go.

00:45:36.000 Okay, so in any case, one of the books that Drew recommended, and it was a quick and easy read, is the book Submission by Michel Wielbeck, which I'm obviously mispronouncing.

00:45:49.000 This book was a massive bestseller in France.

00:45:50.000 It was translated into English.

00:45:52.000 What's hilarious about this book is because Wielbeck is a

00:45:56.000 Very famous author.

00:45:57.000 The left in the United States has to take him seriously, even though he's obviously supremely right-wing.

00:46:02.000 It is a very, very right-wing book.

00:46:04.000 It's not right-wing for the reason that a lot of people think it is.

00:46:06.000 The basic plot line is that the Muslim population in France has grown to such an extent that the Muslim Brotherhood has a party in France that wins 21% of the vote.

00:46:14.000 They get into a runoff with the National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, and they form a coalition with the Socialists in order to actually win the presidency of France.

00:46:22.000 In the process, they decide to privatize a lot of the education system,

00:46:27.000 And create an Islamic education system.

00:46:29.000 The main character is a professor in that education system who basically has to decide whether to convert to Islam to maintain his job or not.

00:46:35.000 Now, a lot of people have taken this as like, oh, it's an Islamophobic novel.

00:46:38.000 It's talking about the evils of Islam. 1.00

00:46:40.000 Now, it does talk at length about the evils of radical Islam. 1.00

00:46:44.000 It talks about the fact that Islam is patriarchal and 0.98

00:46:48.000 Okay's polygamy and is okay with the mistreatment of young women and all of the rest of it. 0.96

00:46:53.000 But what the book is really about, more than any of that, is the emptiness of the West.

00:46:58.000 How the West has completely, completely ripped away the heart of its own content.

00:47:02.000 That the original appeal of the West was based on eternal truths and religious values, and those values have been completely subsumed under the rubric of an empty humanism that gives people no reason to actually live with meaning.

00:47:13.000 Basically, we've said to ourselves that we can substitute hedonism, sex, a nice happy feeling about others for actual drive toward doing something worthwhile with your life.

00:47:25.000 And so the main character in the novel basically goes around in this kind of empty post-Christian Europe, feeling like he's got nothing to keep him going and having promiscuous sex with as many people as he basically wants.

00:47:37.000 And eventually he realizes that he's got nothing going for him.

00:47:41.000 I don't want to give away the ending of the book.

00:47:42.000 Suffice it to say that the book is really more a critique of Western Europe than it is of Islam. 0.70

00:47:46.000 It's much more of a critique of what the Europeans have done to take away their reason for existing and that this is leading to the complete hollowing out of one of the great civilizations in world history. 0.90

00:47:57.000 It's well worth reading.

00:47:58.000 Now, it is X-rated.

00:48:00.000 Wheelbeck is sort of famous for his sex scenes.

00:48:03.000 I will say they're incredibly raunchy.

00:48:05.000 You can skim them, so that's the good news.

00:48:06.000 It's only about a 240-page book.

00:48:07.000 You'll cut out about 70 pages of the book if you just skip the sex scenes, so it becomes a lot shorter read.

00:48:13.000 But it's worth reading because his take on what Western civilization has become is, I think,

00:48:20.000 Well, it is worthwhile.

00:48:21.000 The nonfiction version of this book, not about Islam, but about the emptiness of what's happened in the West, is my book, which is coming out next year.

00:48:28.000 We have the cover for it.

00:48:29.000 It looks really good.

00:48:30.000 I can't wait to bring it out.

00:48:31.000 It's really exciting.

00:48:32.000 All right, time for some things that I hate.

00:48:39.000 All right, so.

00:48:41.000 Late last week, a couple of actresses decided that fairy tales were bad. 1.00

00:48:45.000 Kristen Bell was probably, maybe, half-joking.

00:48:48.000 But there was this talk by Kristen Bell and Keira Knightley that princesses don't need to be saved, we don't need to read stories to our daughters about princesses being saved.

00:48:56.000 Here's the reality.

00:48:58.000 Princesses do need to be saved, and princes need to be saved.

00:49:00.000 Men need women, women need men. 1.00

00:49:01.000 We save each other.

00:49:02.000 This is what fairy tales are largely about.

00:49:04.000 Even if you read the fairy tale of Rapunzel, at the very end of Rapunzel,

00:49:11.000 The guy carves his way through a thicket.

00:49:12.000 No, actually, it's Sleeping Beauty.

00:49:15.000 Which one does he go blind?

00:49:16.000 In the original fairy tale, there's one where a guy has to carve his way through a thicket of thorns.

00:49:19.000 I believe it's Sleeping Beauty.

00:49:21.000 And he's actually blinded in the process.

00:49:24.000 And only when the princess cries into his eyes is he reawakened.

00:49:29.000 I can't remember whether that's Rapunzel or Sleeping Beauty in the original version.

00:49:31.000 I'm sure our emailers will tell us hundreds of them.

00:49:34.000 In any case, 0.99

00:49:35.000 The idea that fairy tales are all about female submissiveness and men sexually abusing women is just ridiculous. 0.91

00:49:42.000 So that didn't stop, of course, Amnesty International from suggesting that Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are completely evil because women have, it's Rapunzel, that's what I thought, that women have fallen into these spells and now they must be awakened with the kiss of true love. 0.61

00:49:57.000 There's no consent though, guys.

00:49:59.000 There's no consent.

00:50:00.000 So Amnesty International cut this absurd little video

00:50:03.000 That has nothing to do with the actual fairy tale.

00:50:05.000 And then they suggested that this was what the fairy tale is.

00:50:12.000 Okay, for those who can't see, it's a prince approaching a sleeping princess in a glen.

00:50:17.000 And he goes in for the kiss. 0.99

00:50:19.000 But then he decides that he's instead going to sexually abuse the woman by putting his hand between her legs. 0.99

00:50:24.000 Because this is what happens in the fairy tale, obviously. 0.99

00:50:27.000 Dude, seriously.

00:50:29.000 Yeah, dude.

00:50:30.000 Seriously.

00:50:31.000 What?

00:50:31.000 This?

00:50:32.000 Nah.

00:50:33.000 Nah, it's cool.

00:50:34.000 I'm a prince.

00:50:35.000 She's a princess.

00:50:35.000 We were gonna, you know, we messed around at the party, so we're just picking up where we left off.

00:50:40.000 But is she into it now?

00:50:42.000 She told me earlier she wants the D from the P. From the P?

00:50:46.000 Yeah, that's me.

00:50:46.000 The prince.

00:50:47.000 The P. I'm the P here.

00:50:49.000 The prince.

00:50:51.000 What?

00:50:52.000 We should have made a contract or something?

00:50:53.000 No, but, uh, I mean, did you ask her if she wants to?

00:51:00.000 Well, I guess.

00:51:02.000 Not really.

00:51:04.000 It says, no consent, no fairy tales.

00:51:06.000 So apparently, so my favorite meme that came from this was somebody took the Sleeping Beauty, like the Disney Sleeping Beauty, and showed the prince bending in, leaning in to kiss the princess.

00:51:17.000 And then he gets very close, and then he says, wait, she hasn't consented.

00:51:21.000 And then the next picture is just of Skeleton Sleeping Beauty, because she's dead.

00:51:26.000 The whole point of the fairy tale is that she dies if you don't kiss her.

00:51:29.000 So if the question is, can you give someone CPR to wake them up without their consent?

00:51:34.000 The answer is yes, you can. 0.94

00:51:36.000 In life-saving situations, if you, like, was there any guy who actually saw the movie Sleeping Beauty and was like, oh man, now I'm gonna go to parties and rape chicks. 1.00

00:51:44.000 Like, was there anyone who did that?

00:51:45.000 Was there anyone who watched Snow White and they're like, oh, that was, did you see the hotness of that non-consent with all the dwarves sitting around? 0.99

00:51:53.000 Really?

00:51:54.000 That was their thing?

00:51:55.000 Oh man, look at all the forest animals watching, this is hot!

00:51:59.000 It's just absurd, but this is the point that we've reached. 0.98

00:52:04.000 Anything will teach a boy, apparently, to be a rapist, and a girl to submit to rape, because that's our culture. 0.99

00:52:09.000 There's a great irony in this. 0.56

00:52:11.000 Sleeping Beauty came out in, I believe, 1954, 1956.

00:52:14.000 Cinderella came out around the same time.

00:52:17.000 All of these came out in the 50s and 60s.

00:52:20.000 All of the women who watched these movies growing up ended up being part of the 60s and 70s.

00:52:25.000 The most empowered group of women in human history.

00:52:28.000 But what happened?

00:52:29.000 Didn't they watch Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella?

00:52:31.000 Yes, they did.

00:52:31.000 And you know what?

00:52:32.000 It didn't teach them that they ought to let themselves be raped. 1.00

00:52:35.000 My goodness, you dolts. 1.00

00:52:37.000 Okay, so, other things that I hate.

00:52:38.000 Bernie Sanders is obviously attempting to set up himself for a 2020 run, which is just great.

00:52:44.000 When will the boomers leave us alone? 1.00

00:52:46.000 When?

00:52:47.000 When?

00:52:47.000 Just go away, guys.

00:52:48.000 Just retire. 1.00

00:52:49.000 Okay, Bernie Sanders, the octogenarian crazy loon bag from Vermont, who spent most of his life being completely useless slash counterproductive, and now has emerged to be useless and counterproductive on a national scale. 0.99

00:53:02.000 You know, and all of us who are parents, I've got four kids, seven grandchildren, the old kids, you know, we try to raise our 0.98

00:53:41.000 I mean, he is just teaching our children all the wrong things. 0.99

00:53:48.000 Unlike Bill Clinton, who received oral sex in the Oval Office. 0.99

00:53:51.000 Unlike Ted Kennedy, who drove a woman into a river and let her die there. 1.00

00:53:55.000 Donald Trump is uniquely bad. 0.78

00:53:57.000 Uniquely, uniquely bad.

00:54:00.000 I'm sorry, I'm not going to hear it from people who are completely silent about this sort of bad activity from people on their own side.

00:54:05.000 Now, I've been very consistent calling out President Trump's bad behavior.

00:54:08.000 And I was consistent in calling out Ted Kennedy's behavior and Bill Clinton's behavior.

00:54:11.000 Bad behavior is bad behavior.

00:54:13.000 But the partisan weaponization of bad behavior, that I find almost completely useless.

00:54:19.000 If you're not going to call it out on one side, you can't call it out on the other.

00:54:21.000 Honestly, you have to be consistent in the attempt to uphold virtue.

00:54:24.000 And that holds true on the right too.

00:54:26.000 People who are willing to let

00:54:28.000 Donald Trump off the hook for his personal behavior, but rip on Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton?

00:54:32.000 Doesn't work that way either.

00:54:33.000 Okay, time for a quick Federalist paper.

00:54:34.000 So every week we go through a Federalist paper.

00:54:36.000 We are all the way up to Federalist 48, making steady progress.

00:54:39.000 This one written by James Madison.

00:54:41.000 In this one, Madison continues to discuss separation of powers.

00:54:44.000 In Federalist 47, he began that discussion.

00:54:46.000 He asks how the branches can protect themselves against usurpations by the other branches of government.

00:54:50.000 How can the executive protect itself against the legislature?

00:54:53.000 How can the judiciary protect itself against both?

00:54:55.000 He points out that he thinks that the real danger is legislative usurpation.

00:55:00.000 This just demonstrates that the modern form of government that we have in the United States is very, very far from what we originally had.

00:55:07.000 We did not have a regulatory state when the United States was first created.

00:55:10.000 Madison was not greatly fearful of the executive branch usurping power or the judicial branch usurping power because he believed the legislature could simply defund the executive branch or restrict the jurisdiction of the judicial branch, both of which it has the power to do.

00:55:23.000 But now, in today's government, it seems that in many cases, the legislative branch has become almost a vestigial organ of government, except when it comes to massive spending programs like Obamacare.

00:55:34.000 But here is Madison's original case.

00:55:35.000 He says,

00:55:45.000 It can, with greater facility, mask, under complicated and indirect measures, the encroachments which it makes on the coordinate departments.

00:55:52.000 So in other words, because the legislature has more power, and is given more power under the Constitution, that gives it more ability to usurp power from the other branches.

00:56:00.000 He argues that usurpations by the executive and judiciary are unlikely.

00:56:03.000 Why?

00:56:04.000 Because he says, as the legislative department alone has access to the pockets of the people, and has in some constitutions full discretion,

00:56:11.000 Now, there's one problem with the founding vision for how the government was supposed to balance itself.

00:56:32.000 The main problem is the perception by the founders that the big problem was going to be ambition, right?

00:56:38.000 What they said is the ambition was going to counteract ambition.

00:56:40.000 This is also said in the Federalist Papers that the legislators were going to be ambitious.

00:56:44.000 They weren't going to stand for the executive encroaching on their power.

00:56:46.000 The executive was going to be ambitious.

00:56:48.000 The executive wasn't going to stand for encroachments on his or her power.

00:56:51.000 Same thing in the judiciary.

00:56:53.000 The problem is, the legislature, because of the regulatory state, actually is not ambitious enough.

00:56:59.000 The legislature now has an incentive to kick every tough question over to either judiciary or executive.

00:57:05.000 If it's a tough constitutional question, they don't feel the necessity to argue whether it's constitutional or not.

00:57:11.000 They just say, we'll pass what we want, let the judiciary decide what it wants to do.

00:57:14.000 And they want to pass laws that are highly nonspecific.

00:57:19.000 The more non-specific, the better.

00:57:21.000 Because if you pass a law that says, I want the executive branch to do good stuff, and then the executive branch gets to fill in all the blanks, and the executive branch fills in bad stuff, you say, hey, that's not what I passed.

00:57:31.000 I said I wanted them to do good stuff.

00:57:33.000 You see this with environmental legislation.

00:57:35.000 Environmental legislation is very often not detailed enough.

00:57:37.000 It gets kicked over to the EPA.

00:57:39.000 The EPA does tens of thousands of pages of regulations, and then Congress runs against the regulations it gave the EPA the authority to pass.

00:57:46.000 The regulatory state completely undercuts the bargain between the branches.

00:57:50.000 The same thing is true of the judiciary.

00:57:52.000 In other words, what we need is a legislature that attempts to grab back its power, whether we're talking in the context of war powers or in the context of environmental regulation.

00:58:00.000 Across the board, the legislature was designed to be the first among equals, not the president and not the judiciary.

00:58:05.000 OK, we'll be back here tomorrow with more updates on the migrant caravan and all the rest.

00:58:10.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 22, 2018

The Republicans’ Best Friend | Ep. 643

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