The Ben Shapiro Show - The Roadmap To 2020 | Ep. 751

00:00:00.000 Two state elections last night give some 2020 clues.

00:00:03.000 President Trump goes after Joe Biden and the media take off the mask.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:07.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:13.000 Oh man, we have a ton to get to on today's show.

00:00:14.000 But first, let me remind you that tonight, the latest stop on my Young America's Foundation Speaking Tour brings me to Loyola Marymount University, where some of the professors are pretty ticked that I'm coming.

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00:00:43.000 OK, we're going to get to the news in just one second.

00:00:45.000 First, let's talk about safety and security in your community.

00:00:47.000 You've heard me talk about how Ring is reinventing home security with doorbells and cameras, even an alarm you can install yourself.

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00:00:57.000 You remember the Neighborhood Watch.

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00:00:59.000 I remember it.

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00:01:30.000 I put in my address and set the area around my home for a couple of miles because I really only care what's happening within those two miles.

00:01:36.000 And I could see all of the local crime that was happening, people reporting exactly what was happening so you know if there's a risk that Yeah, there's been a burglary in the neighborhood or something like that.

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00:02:15.000 OK, so.

00:02:17.000 Last night, there were a couple of local elections.

00:02:19.000 Now, as you know, this is a national show.

00:02:20.000 We don't tend to put too much stock in local elections or focus too much on local elections.

00:02:25.000 But in the lead up to 2020, everybody is looking for early indicators for how things are going to split.

00:02:31.000 And it's funny, when we talk about presidential elections, we tend to talk in national terms, obviously.

00:02:36.000 We tend to say that President Trump is going to win X percent of the popular vote, or Kamala Harris, if she were the nominee, would win X percent of the popular vote.

00:02:44.000 The reality is that this election is going to come down to about three states.

00:02:47.000 It's going to come down to Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan.

00:02:49.000 That's pretty much it.

00:02:50.000 The assumption is that President Trump is going to walk away with Ohio.

00:02:53.000 That assumption seems to hold pretty true.

00:02:55.000 Florida is more competitive.

00:02:56.000 If he loses Florida, the election is over.

00:02:58.000 So, assuming that Trump wins Florida, and that he wins Ohio, then he still has to win two out of the three, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin, in order for him to retain the presidency.

00:03:08.000 And the kind of conventional wisdom had been that Trump was going to continue to be competitive in Michigan, and that in Pennsylvania he was still somewhat competitive, but that in Wisconsin he was starting to fall off.

00:03:18.000 And the evidence for this is that the 2018 elections moved Wisconsin into more blue territory.

00:03:23.000 Well, last night there was a special election in Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

00:03:28.000 Now, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is not an overtly partisan seat.

00:03:30.000 It's not like somebody runs as a Republican or a Democrat for the actual Wisconsin Supreme Court.

00:03:35.000 But those candidates are backed by conservative groups or liberal groups.

00:03:39.000 And last night, the conservative won in Wisconsin, ensuring that the Wisconsin Supreme Court would remain majority conservative for the foreseeable future.

00:03:48.000 Because now, instead of things being 4-3 on that Supreme Court and ready to shift at a moment's notice in 2020, now conservatives have a 5-2 majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

00:03:59.000 And not only that, turnout was high.

00:04:00.000 And what the election showed is that while there were certain districts where Trump has fallen off a little bit, particularly in suburbia, in rural areas, he continues to dominate.

00:04:08.000 According to According to Madison.com, they report that the conservative is winning by a very small margin.

00:04:15.000 It may go to an automatic recount, but the Wisconsin Supreme Court race the liberals needed to win to have a shot at taking majority control of the court next year appeared headed for a recount with the conservative candidate declaring victory while holding a narrow lead following Tuesday's election.

00:04:27.000 The conservative candidate is up over 5,000 votes.

00:04:30.000 A conservative win would increase their majority to 5-2 and ensure their control over the court, which they've held since 2008 for years to come.

00:04:37.000 It would be a particularly stinging defeat for liberals who were confident in riding a wave of wins in 2018, including picking up a Supreme Court seat and ousting Republican Governor Scott Walker.

00:04:46.000 Conservative Brian Hagedorn, who was Walker's chief legal counsel for five years, led liberal-backed Lisa Neubauer by 5,900 votes out of 1.2 million cast based on the unofficial results.

00:04:56.000 That difference of about 0.49 percentage points is close enough for Neubauer to request a recount But she would actually have to pay for it, so maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't.

00:05:10.000 Minutes after he declared victory, the Neubauer campaign sent out a fundraising plea saying that with the vote total neck and neck, it looks like we're headed to a potential recount.

00:05:17.000 Counties will canvass the vote starting next week to determine the official margin of victory.

00:05:21.000 The last time there was a recount in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race was in 2011.

00:05:24.000 This was the only statewide election of the year.

00:05:29.000 So this is the only bellwether that we have this year.

00:05:31.000 And turnout was really strong.

00:05:33.000 In fact, it was a lot stronger than it was in 2018.

00:05:36.000 Republicans showed up in 2018.

00:05:37.000 They showed up in bigger numbers.

00:05:40.000 In 2019, 27% turnout for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat.

00:05:44.000 The tight outcome provides more evidence, says Madison.com, of how evenly divided Wisconsin is.

00:05:49.000 President Trump, you'll remember, carried the state by less than one percentage point.

00:05:52.000 Walker lost it by just over one percentage point.

00:05:54.000 So this state is basically dead even.

00:05:57.000 Pagodorn's victory in Battleground America sends a, quote, message to all of America that we're ready to keep Wisconsin red as we turn our attention to mobilizing for 2020 and re-electing President Trump, said Mark Jefferson, the executive director of the Wisconsin Republican Party.

00:06:11.000 So, this is, it's a pretty astonishing result.

00:06:14.000 I mean, she was heavily favored, the liberal in this race was heavily favored to take the seat.

00:06:19.000 Eric Holder had an outside group that was spending almost a third of a million dollars, more than a third of a million dollars actually, to help Neubauer win.

00:06:29.000 There were a bunch of conservative groups, including Americans for Prosperity, that matched Democratic outside spending.

00:06:35.000 Hagedorn spent much of his race defending his conservative beliefs.

00:06:39.000 Neubauer, by contrast, was appointed to the appeals court in 2007 by a former Democratic governor.

00:06:44.000 And the term there is 10 years.

00:06:46.000 And the retiring justice is 85 years old and a liberal.

00:06:50.000 So this is a move in the direction of conservatism in Wisconsin.

00:06:54.000 Now, if you actually look at the Wisconsin polls for 2020 president, what you see is President Trump continuing to run Relatively, relatively even with all of the other Democrats.

00:07:05.000 So that is not true, particularly for Joe Biden.

00:07:09.000 I can give you some of the latest polls from Wisconsin, which again, if Trump were to win Wisconsin, the odds that he wins the election are very good.

00:07:14.000 If he loses Wisconsin, then the odds obviously decline dramatically.

00:07:18.000 Against Joe Biden, according to Emerson College poll from March 17th, 2019, so a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden would beat President Trump 54 to 46.

00:07:31.000 According to a Firehouse Strategies poll from a little bit later, a couple days later, Biden would beat Trump pretty badly, 53 to 40.

00:07:37.000 But if you look at him versus the other candidates, it's pretty much dead even.

00:07:41.000 Trump versus Kamala Harris, according to Emerson College, that is a 50-50 vote.

00:07:44.000 Trump versus Amy Klobuchar from Minnesota, that is a 50-50 vote. 0.50

00:07:49.000 If you look at Trump and Beto O'Rourke, Beto has a slight advantage but not much.

00:07:53.000 According to Emerson, only 51-49, the margin of error is 3.5, so effectively that is a dead even race.

00:07:58.000 Trump versus Bernie Sanders, 52 Sanders, 48 Trump, but again, it's kind of far out and that is effectively a dead even race considering a margin of error of 3.5 points.

00:08:09.000 With Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren, Warren runs away with it, according to Zogby, but is only up 52 to 48, according to Emerson.

00:08:15.000 So, effectively, Trump is still running very competitively in Wisconsin right now, unless the Democrats get smart and run somebody who is perceived as moderate and has blue-collar appeal.

00:08:25.000 Now, that's what makes it so interesting that the Democrats have decided to go after Joe Biden, who, it's pretty obvious from all the polls, is the most electable Democrat for the 2020 race.

00:08:34.000 And that's not just in Wisconsin.

00:08:35.000 Last night, there was another local race in Pennsylvania, and it was won by a Democrat named Pam Iovino.

00:08:43.000 She won a Pennsylvania Senate seat.

00:08:46.000 Well, the reason that she won is because, like Conor Lamb in Pennsylvania, she is a veteran.

00:08:50.000 She is a more Blue Dog Democrat type. 0.84

00:08:54.000 According to the Post-Gazette, the last time Pam Iovino was subject to a high-stakes vote tally was 2004, and she was unanimously confirmed to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs' Congressional and Legislative Affairs offices.

00:09:04.000 On Tuesday, the Democrat and Navy veteran was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate, besting Republican Dee Raja in a special election after a bruising two-month campaign that garnered national attention along the way.

00:09:15.000 During the race, Yovino, who's 62, told voters in the 37th District that her two decades-plus in the Navy and subsequent stint in the executive branch would make her the right fit for the legislature.

00:09:25.000 In the district spanning Allegheny County's western and southern suburbs and Peters Township, a majority of voters endorsed that message at the poll.

00:09:31.000 The election, which was expected to be close and possibly decided by a few hundred votes, was officially decided when Raja conceded to Ms.

00:09:37.000 Savino by phone at around 9.30 p.m.

00:09:38.000 She was about 4,000 votes ahead, with 94% of the precincts counted.

00:09:44.000 At the time.

00:09:45.000 So it's a big win for Democrats in the state of Pennsylvania.

00:09:48.000 But the point is that she is a lot more conservative than a lot of the Democrats that are being talked about for the 2020 election cycle.

00:09:58.000 So she has talked about greater focus on workforce training, for example.

00:10:01.000 She says that she's going to fight to alleviate the property tax burden by making corporations pay their fair share.

00:10:06.000 She says that she is going to focus in on taxing natural gas drilling.

00:10:11.000 These are sort of blue-dog Democrat positions.

00:10:14.000 She didn't focus in on social issues.

00:10:16.000 She didn't focus in on race.

00:10:17.000 Instead, she focused in on sort of bread-and-butter Democrat issues.

00:10:21.000 And she won.

00:10:22.000 What does this say? 0.99

00:10:24.000 What this says is that Democrats are gaining momentum in some of the suburbs that President Trump carried in 2016, but only, but only if Democrats are not stupid and run people who are perceived as moderate. 0.98

00:10:36.000 As I mentioned, Iovino is a veteran. 0.95

00:10:38.000 She was commissioned to Navy Ensign in 1980, she worked her way up to Lieutenant, and then she took over as the first female commander at Toledo's Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center.

00:10:46.000 She was nominated by George W. Bush to her post on Capitol Hill.

00:10:51.000 She ran against Conor Lamb for the Democratic nomination.

00:10:55.000 He went on to win that Congressional seat.

00:10:58.000 And both of the candidates went after each other hammer and tongs.

00:11:04.000 But Iovino did not run as a hardcore left Democrat.

00:11:10.000 She ran as a moderate Democrat, and that is why she won.

00:11:13.000 And this is the point.

00:11:14.000 The Democrats seem to have misread the map here.

00:11:16.000 They seem to believe that what is popular in San Francisco is popular in Allegheny County or in Wisconsin.

00:11:21.000 They seem to think that if they run somebody who is really extreme or who is intersectional on the merits, that that person is going to suddenly sweep through all of the areas that President Trump won in 2020.

00:11:33.000 This kind of indicates that you should shift 2020 back to toss-up lane.

00:11:37.000 Now, I've been saying for a while that I slightly favor Democrats in 2020.

00:11:42.000 Because President Trump lost the popular vote by two and a half million, and he ran the narrowest gauntlet in presidential history, winning three states by a combined total of 80,000 votes in an election against one of the most unpopular people in the history of American politics, a person who is expected widely to win.

00:11:56.000 I said you can't count on Democrats not showing up again.

00:11:58.000 That's true.

00:12:00.000 It is also true that if Democrats veer too far in the left direction, they could easily lose some of these purple states, especially these blue-collar purple states, who are looking at folks like Beto O'Rourke or Kamala Harris, and they're saying, really like this?

00:12:14.000 This is what you've decided to put up?

00:12:16.000 That's what makes it so entertaining that the Democrats seem to believe they have this... I'm not sure whether it's driven by a perception of invincibility or just pure anger, what they are doing in the Democratic primaries right now.

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00:13:59.000 So as I say, I'm not sure whether Democrats right now are driven by hope or whether they are driven by fear.

00:14:03.000 So here's the argument for hope.

00:14:06.000 The argument for hope is that President Trump is so deeply unpopular that they can push as far left as they possibly want and win an election.

00:14:13.000 That they can reconstitute the Obama 2012 coalition, that intersectional coalition, and sweep to victory by ignoring all the people who voted for President Trump.

00:14:20.000 And then they can push on with their Medicare for all, high tax, high spend, slavery reparations agenda. 0.58

00:14:26.000 That this is the push that they can make because they've misread the room and they think that Trump is inherently so unpopular that they can legitimately throw crap against the wall and see what sticks.

00:14:35.000 That is possibility number one.

00:14:36.000 Possibility number two is that they've been driven so mad by President Trump that they are sort of like Republicans circa 2016.

00:14:44.000 We want to nominate the person who's going to get on a stage and club President Trump.

00:14:48.000 We want the person who's going to be the most aggressive on a stage with President Trump.

00:14:52.000 Now, if that were the case, then you would sort of assume that Elizabeth Warren would be doing better because she's probably the most aggressive Democrat in the field when it comes to yelling at President Trump. 1.00

00:15:02.000 Some of the other Democrats who are doing well right now, people like Joe Biden, that's really not his bag.

00:15:09.000 You've seen it from Bernie Sanders a little bit.

00:15:11.000 But it seems to me that if I had to put my money on it, I would think the Democrats have just misread the unpopularity of Trump.

00:15:16.000 They think because he's at 42% in the polls, when it comes to popularity rating, that this somehow means that he's only going to win 42% of the vote.

00:15:24.000 Come 2020.

00:15:25.000 And that, of course, is deeply inaccurate.

00:15:27.000 And as we are seeing in Wisconsin, as we are seeing in Pennsylvania, Republicans are still going to vote Republican.

00:15:32.000 The great lie of 2016 is that Donald Trump wildly outperformed Republican expectations.

00:15:38.000 That is not true.

00:15:39.000 He performed almost exactly in line with how George W. Bush performed in all of the swing states, almost exactly in line with how Mitt Romney performed in all of the swing states, including Wisconsin, where Romney won more absolute votes than Donald Trump did.

00:15:51.000 It's just nobody showed up to vote for Hillary Clinton.

00:15:53.000 In 2016.

00:15:55.000 So Trump is going to continue to perform like generic Republican.

00:15:59.000 The question is, does Democrat perform like generic Democrat?

00:16:02.000 Or does Democrat perform like Barack Obama, who was in fact a statistical outlier?

00:16:06.000 Democrats seem to believe that the world shifted on its axis when Obama was elected and that there was a permanent majority created for them forever.

00:16:13.000 Trump disabused them of that notion.

00:16:15.000 If they rely on that permanent majority, And simply swing to the left in the belief that they've got this thing locked up.

00:16:20.000 They're making an awful, awful mistake.

00:16:22.000 I think that's one of the things lying behind the attacks on Joe Biden.

00:16:25.000 So let's move on to Joe Biden.

00:16:26.000 So Joe Biden continues to fall under brutal attack from members of his own party.

00:16:31.000 Apparently two more women are now coming forward and talking about how Joe Biden is a bit of a creeper.

00:16:37.000 Again, it is amazing to me to watch as the Democrats suddenly discover something that has been in plain sight.

00:16:42.000 We were making fun of this for years.

00:16:44.000 The idea of handsy Joe Biden, Uncle Joe, creepy Uncle Joe.

00:16:48.000 This was a meme on the right for, I kid you not, at least, at least the last six to seven years.

00:16:53.000 There is nothing new here.

00:16:54.000 I mean, Joe Biden was famous for going into diners and putting women on his lap.

00:16:59.000 He was famous for, I mean, I can't tell you how many times I've seen that photo of him leaning over to kiss the little girl and the little girl shying away.

00:17:06.000 Well, now there are several women who are coming forward and saying he made them feel uncomfortable. 0.93

00:17:11.000 According to MSN.com, no prominent Democrat has suggested that Biden not run.

00:17:17.000 The women complaining about him have not claimed sexual harassment or assault.

00:17:20.000 Other women have stepped forward to say Mr. Biden's touches were welcome, but the accusations lodged against Biden have raised questions about when a tactile politician crosses the line into inappropriateness.

00:17:29.000 That's the Washington Post description.

00:17:31.000 I love that.

00:17:31.000 He's a tactile politician.

00:17:34.000 You mean he creepily touches people in a way that he should not if he were not a creepy person?

00:17:39.000 And overly physical with people?

00:17:41.000 Tactile politician.

00:17:43.000 Gotta love that.

00:17:44.000 Nancy Pelosi said that she didn't think it was disqualifying, but she also recommended that he use the straight arm system.

00:17:50.000 Gloria Steinem said politicians need to set the parameters. 0.98

00:17:53.000 The way out is simple.

00:17:53.000 Our bodies and our voices belong to us.

00:17:55.000 That should be the first step in democracy.

00:17:57.000 Just ask before hugging.

00:17:59.000 Which, by the way, I don't think is wrong, but I'm finding it funny that now Democrats are discovering all of this after ripping on Mike Pence for basically saying, I would like to remove myself from possibly fraught situations in general.

00:18:11.000 Now, President Trump went after Joe Biden because he understands there's vulnerability here.

00:18:14.000 So here is Trump last night at the NRCC, apparently speaking in front of the same bush in which Homer Simpson is hiding.

00:18:20.000 Here is President Trump going after Joe Biden.

00:18:23.000 I mean, Trump as stand-up comedian is pretty solid Trump.

00:18:27.000 I said, General, come here, give me a kiss. 0.86

00:18:32.000 I felt like Joe Biden.

00:18:35.000 Our former vice president, he's I was going to call him, I don't know him well.

00:18:40.000 I was going to say, welcome to the world, Joe.

00:18:44.000 You having a good time, Joe?

00:18:48.000 Are you having a good time?

00:18:49.000 Okay, well, that last line there by Trump is not unearned.

00:18:52.000 Joe Biden has been one of the chief pushers of the idea that an accusation is tantamount to a conviction.

00:19:00.000 Now, the fact is that Biden has been doing this sort of stuff with regard to harassment for a very long time.

00:19:06.000 According to Casey Johnson over at the New York Post, according to the standards of culpability that Biden has articulated in similarly conflicted situations, all of this is an open and shut case.

00:19:16.000 Perhaps no major American political figure has so consistently championed the erosion of due process for those accused of sexual misconduct.

00:19:23.000 He's championed this approach for accused college students, as the Obama administration used Title IX to impose guilt-tilting procedures on the nation's campuses.

00:19:31.000 Until 2016, high-ranking administration officials consistently refused to provide much, if any, explanation on why they imposed a preponderance-of-evidence standard, as opposed to a beyond-reasonable-doubt standard when it came to Convicting men of sexual harassment.

00:19:45.000 Biden has been the most outspoken senior Obama official to defend these policies.

00:19:50.000 In 2017, he framed campus sexual assault as a problem consisting solely of male attackers and female victims.

00:19:56.000 He used an interview with Teen Vogue to give a hypothetical address to fraternity members. 0.97

00:19:59.000 Quote, if you see a brother taking a drunk freshman co-ed up the stairs to his room and you do nothing, you're a coward.

00:20:03.000 You know that she's not able to give consent.

00:20:05.000 He responded with fury to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos's attempts to create fairer procedures for adjudicating campus sexual assault claims.

00:20:13.000 He called people like DeVos culturally Neanderthals.

00:20:16.000 So Joe Biden.

00:20:21.000 It is not uncalled for that Joe Biden is now being held to a standard that he has pervaded against others.

00:20:30.000 With that said, the Democrats coming out of the woodwork to attack Biden are generally not doing so, in my opinion, out of pure worry for the women.

00:20:40.000 Apparently there are a couple other women who now say that Biden made them feel uncomfortable.

00:20:44.000 Kaitlyn Caruso is a former college student and sexual assault survivor.

00:20:48.000 She said Biden rested his hand on her thigh, even as she squirmed in her seat to show her discomfort and hugged her just a little bit too long at an event on sexual assault at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

00:20:57.000 She was 19.

00:20:59.000 Caruso, now 22, said she talked chalked up the encounter at the time to how men act and didn't say anything publicly.

00:21:04.000 She said it was particularly uncomfortable because she had just shared her own story of sexual assault and had expected Biden to understand the importance of physical boundaries.

00:21:12.000 It doesn't even really cross your mind that such a person would dare perpetuate harm like that, she said.

00:21:15.000 These are supposed to be people you can trust.

00:21:17.000 Another woman came forward, DJ Hill, 59, a writer who recalled meeting Biden in 2012 at a fundraising event in Minneapolis.

00:21:24.000 She said that when she and her husband, Robert, stepped up to take their photograph with the VP, he put his hand on her shoulder and then started dropping it down her back, which made her very uncomfortable.

00:21:32.000 Her husband, seeing the movement, put his hand on Mr. Biden's shoulder and interrupted with a joke.

00:21:36.000 Hill does not say anything at the time and acknowledged she did not know what Biden's intention was or whether he was aware of her discomfort.

00:21:42.000 Only he knows his intent, she said.

00:21:43.000 But norms are changing now, she said.

00:21:45.000 And if something makes you feel uncomfortable, you have to be able to say it.

00:21:48.000 Now, of course, other women have come out and defended Joe Biden.

00:21:51.000 That would include Stephanie Carter, the wife of Ash Carter.

00:21:54.000 Who is saying all of this.

00:21:56.000 But what is undergirding a lot of this is that the more radical members of the Democratic Party want Biden gone and the more moderate members want Biden to stay.

00:22:03.000 There's a lot of politics to this situation.

00:22:04.000 So Joe Manchin, who is one of the more moderate Democrats, presumably will be a Biden supporter if he declares.

00:22:09.000 The senator from West Virginia, he says, listen, I've never seen anyone actually offended by Biden.

00:22:13.000 I mean, come on.

00:22:15.000 I can tell you I've been around Joe Biden for many, many years.

00:22:18.000 I've been in many political events with Joe Biden.

00:22:21.000 I have never seen Joe Biden intentionally make anybody uncomfortable.

00:22:26.000 If anything, he goes out of his way trying to make people comfortable, he thinks, that might be in a difficult situation, that might have had some concerns, and has a lot on him.

00:22:35.000 I've seen that compassion in Joe.

00:22:38.000 Now, what Joe has said, and I accept that the same as I hope everyone does, if he's made anybody uncomfortable, he's extremely sorry for that.

00:22:45.000 I would hope they would accept that.

00:22:47.000 OK, so this this sort of gap, you can see it between the the older guard members of the Democratic Party who wish to preserve the candidacy of Joe Biden and the newer guard who are looking to get him out.

00:22:56.000 So this would include Representative Hakeem Jeffries, one of the younger members of Congress.

00:23:00.000 He came out and he said these are very serious allegations, even though, let's be real about this, the allegations are not Either unexpected or particularly serious.

00:23:08.000 Well, these are serious allegations.

00:23:10.000 They've been raised by serious individuals and they deserve a serious evaluation as to how Joe Biden should proceed.

00:23:20.000 But that's a decision that he needs to make on his own.

00:23:22.000 OK, so all of the younger members of the Democratic Party are trying to push Joe Biden out.

00:23:28.000 And it's fascinating how they're doing this.

00:23:30.000 It's fascinating how they're doing this again.

00:23:31.000 This is an overreach.

00:23:32.000 This is them over reading Overreading the results of 2012, rather than looking at the nature of politics on the ground.

00:23:38.000 We'll get to more of that in just one second.

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00:24:46.000 OK, so as I say, there's a gap between the old guard Democrats and the new guard Democrats.

00:24:49.000 The new guard Democrats want Biden out, and it is obvious that they want Biden out because they are using the same tactics that Democrats have been using on Republicans against Joe Biden.

00:24:59.000 The war on women meme has now been extended to Joe Biden.

00:25:02.000 The revolution eats its own.

00:25:04.000 And it is fascinating to watch.

00:25:06.000 Democrats have been trying since 2016, and even before in 2012, they tried it with Mitt Romney to suggest that Mitt Romney was fighting a war on women. 0.68

00:25:14.000 So when Mitt Romney said that he had binders full of women so that he could seek female employees to give them better job opportunities, the left jumped on that to proclaim that Mitt Romney, the most anodyne, milquetoast human being who has ever walked this earth, was actually a terrible, terrible sexist.

00:25:31.000 And then, of course, they had more material to go with with President Trump, so they went with that with President Trump, too.

00:25:35.000 It was a war on women. 1.00

00:25:37.000 This is a war on women meme, and it was pushed by the media over and over and over. 0.53

00:25:40.000 You can always tell who the enemy of the progressive left is by who they are using the war on women to target.

00:25:45.000 And this is what you are seeing now being used against Joe Biden.

00:25:48.000 Hilariously enough, after eight years of ignoring the fact that the guy gets handsy with pretty much everybody.

00:25:54.000 So there's a piece by a woman named Jennifer Senor in the New York Times, and it's called, What We're Not Talking About When We Talk About Joe Biden.

00:26:01.000 And you're seeing the Democrats and the left extend the definition of the war on women from actual harm to women to stuff that could be perceived as harm to women.

00:26:10.000 Because they're broadening the war on women specifically to take out political opponents. 1.00

00:26:14.000 Here's what Jennifer Senor says.

00:26:17.000 She says, This week it's Joe Biden's turn in the MeToo barrel, and like many Democrats, I'm torn about what to think.

00:26:22.000 The allegations by Lucy Flores that in 2014 when she was running for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, the VP touched her shoulders and kissed the back of her head cannot exactly be dismissed as an outlier, given that another allegation of guerrilla nuzzling following just 72 hours later, and that multiple photo montages online suggest a similar pattern.

00:26:39.000 And so we have another debate about male decency and respect, trying to weigh creepiness against over-exuberant affection, handsiness against glad-handing, all the while remembering that this is Joe Biden we're talking about, a retail politics guy from another era known for arm grabs and bear hugs.

00:26:52.000 He is, by nature, a physically expressive fellow.

00:26:54.000 Hugs are not unfamiliar to him.

00:26:56.000 These gray zone allegations are, of course, still worth examining, but they are, because they are salacious, because they are embodied, Because we can see them.

00:27:03.000 I wonder if we spend more time discussing them than another gray zone problem that, in my view, is far more pervasive and often less easily solved with a sharp rebuke or a complaint to human resources, not being taken seriously.

00:27:15.000 And here's where we go.

00:27:16.000 That if you are a male, and you side with Joe Biden here, It's because you're not taking women seriously.

00:27:22.000 Or, if you are a male who has not participated in any form of sexual harassment, if you're Mike Pence, you are guilty of not taking women seriously.

00:27:30.000 So the war on women has now been extended outward to include not taking women seriously.

00:27:34.000 Now, what does she mean by not taking women seriously?

00:27:37.000 Basically, any time a woman feels like she's not being taken seriously, we're supposed to believe that this is based on sexism.

00:27:44.000 The subjective perception of the alleged victim is all that matters when you're not being taken seriously.

00:27:49.000 Now, as a human being, there are many times when I have been not taken seriously.

00:27:54.000 My employees, I'm sure, feel routinely not taken seriously.

00:27:57.000 Sorry, guys.

00:27:58.000 But the fact is that that does not mean they're not being taken seriously, or that that's a crime, or that that's sexism in some way.

00:28:05.000 But Jennifer Senor says, Here's the truth.

00:28:07.000 Some of the women I know have Me Too stories, but most of the women I know have stories about feeling dismissed, invisible, and less than.

00:28:14.000 Okay, but how were they mistreated?

00:28:17.000 She says, What are they talking about?

00:28:18.000 They're talking about seeing their ideas gain traction in a meeting only after a man has said them, or being told after they've asserted themselves in a meeting that they dominated it, or at the least talked too much.

00:28:28.000 Now, we don't know any of the context.

00:28:29.000 We don't know whether it's possible that a woman in a meeting just didn't express her ideas forcefully enough, or maybe she was too forceful.

00:28:35.000 It turns out, people don't like men too. 0.99

00:28:38.000 How many meetings have you been in where the guy is just a jerk? 0.99

00:28:41.000 Where the guy is obnoxious? 0.99

00:28:43.000 That's not sexism, but sometimes people are annoying.

00:28:47.000 And yet there's a full article in the New York Times now broadening the scope of the inquiry about Joe Biden from he's handsy and physically aggressive with people to sometimes women feel disrespected.

00:28:59.000 Personally, says this columnist, I've been mansplained about my own book. 0.92

00:29:03.000 Mansplained is one of the dumber phrases in human history. 0.94

00:29:06.000 Mansplained. 0.94

00:29:07.000 This, this, this pseudo term of art.

00:29:10.000 When is it just explaining something to a human, and when is it mansplaining?

00:29:14.000 Why do you have to assume bad motives on the part of somebody who's explaining something?

00:29:18.000 Like, legitimately, I spend a lot of my time explaining politics to people.

00:29:21.000 That is not mansplaining, that is me explaining.

00:29:23.000 I explain things to my kids.

00:29:25.000 Sometimes I explain things to my wife.

00:29:26.000 Oftentimes my wife explains things to me.

00:29:29.000 Like, why didn't you take out the garbage?

00:29:31.000 And also, get up out of bed and take out the garbage.

00:29:34.000 Like, people get explained to a lot.

00:29:37.000 But the attempt to broaden out victimhood from originally sexual assault, to now you're being nuzzled by a weirdo, to exuberant politician, to I feel mansplained into, is a pretty radical move that is intended to divide Americans.

00:29:53.000 And it's not just this silly column that suggests that women are constantly being victimized in soft ways around society.

00:30:01.000 As I mentioned on yesterday's show, there's a certain amount of ghost hunting that happens on the left, where if you feel something bad has happened, we're supposed to ascribe it to some ghost in the machine, some weird societal force that we can't peg down to particular actions, but that made you feel bad.

00:30:16.000 I'm a big evidence fan, so this is not one of my favorite things.

00:30:19.000 And you're seeing the left do this with regard to statistics as well, constantly shifting the statistics.

00:30:23.000 So yesterday, for example, there was an article, it was Equal Payday, which is a statistical lie It does not take until April 2nd of the following year for women to earn the same as men.

00:30:32.000 Women earn effectively the same as men because they make different decisions about their careers. 0.98

00:30:37.000 Equal payday is based on aggregate statistics without taking into account job choice, time out of the workforce, motherhood, Amount of time spent at the office.

00:30:46.000 How often you ask for a raise.

00:30:47.000 Like, there are a lot of factors when it comes to this stuff.

00:30:49.000 But women are effectively earning as much as men. 1.00

00:30:51.000 And according to some studies, in major cities particularly, women who are fresh out of college in the same degrees as men, who are single and don't have kids, are earning more than men.

00:31:00.000 According to one Time Magazine article from 2010, a lot more than men, actually.

00:31:05.000 So now the left is shifting the goalposts because in order to divide Americans from Americans, we have to shift the goalposts and suggest that discrimination is still a deeply active factor in every aspect of American life.

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00:32:33.000 The left in an attempt to move beyond the old left in an attempt to move beyond the Joe Biden's of the world.

00:32:38.000 They're now broadening out the definitions of discrimination because one of the fundamental signs of leftist theology and it really is a new religion at this point is dramatic and gratitude toward the state of things in the United States where even Joe Biden is not far left enough for you.

00:32:54.000 I'll get to more of that in just a second.

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00:34:38.000 So let's talk about the expansion of definitions so as to rule out the old school left.

00:34:43.000 I talked yesterday about the attempt by the left to move beyond the Obama era.

00:34:47.000 Obama is the old, and in with the new.

00:34:49.000 We need AOC.

00:34:50.000 We need Bernie Sanders.

00:34:51.000 We need extremism.

00:34:53.000 And earlier in the show, I talked a little bit about the fact that this is actually a large mistake by Democrats.

00:34:57.000 That if Democrats believe that they are going to win swing states by swinging wildly to the left, they're wrong.

00:35:02.000 But Democrats are trying to recapitulate Obama's 2012 win, not his 2008 win.

00:35:07.000 In 2008, Obama ran on the platform that we are all brothers and sisters, there's no red states, there's no blue states, there's the United States!

00:35:14.000 And that was attractive.

00:35:15.000 And then in 2012, Obama said, well, turns out I was wrong.

00:35:19.000 There are some red states and there are some blue states.

00:35:22.000 And mostly there are a lot of victim groups.

00:35:24.000 And if we can get those people together and they can vote for me, well, that's a durable coalition.

00:35:28.000 And that turned out to be the democratic model.

00:35:30.000 Well, now they're trying to rebuild that coalition along the lines of a victimhood that is certainly not in evidence, particularly with regard to sex.

00:35:37.000 So they've continued to push this war on women meme and suggest that suburban women should vote for them because they recognize the problems of women. 1.00

00:35:45.000 And so they're now looking at Joe Biden and saying, this guy's old school.

00:35:48.000 He's bad with women, bad with women. 0.99

00:35:50.000 He's been this way his entire career, guys.

00:35:52.000 And, um, It ain't that bad.

00:35:54.000 Let's just be frank about this.

00:35:55.000 His behavior is not all that terrible.

00:35:57.000 Is it something that I would do?

00:35:59.000 No.

00:35:59.000 I am not a physically forward person the way that Joe Biden is.

00:36:01.000 I have boundaries.

00:36:03.000 Joe Biden has none.

00:36:04.000 But, are we going to pretend that Democrats were unaware of all of this for years with Joe Biden?

00:36:09.000 And now they've expanded the definition out from, he's not actually, none of these women allege sexual harassment by the way.

00:36:14.000 So they're not saying he even sexually harassed them.

00:36:16.000 They're saying they felt uncomfortable because of something they did.

00:36:19.000 And now you have an article in the Washington Post suggesting it's not just that we felt uncomfortable, it's that we feel disrespected by a variety of issues.

00:36:28.000 And now you have the Washington Post Doing this on the economic front, suggesting that the problem is not equal pay because equal pay basically exists.

00:36:37.000 Now it is unequal wealth.

00:36:39.000 So they are now shifting the standards to pretend that America is still systemically discriminating against women for purposes of suggesting that people like Joe Biden are too old school.

00:36:48.000 So you have people like Janice Trafflett and Robert Wright writing articles for the Washington Post called America doesn't just have a gender pay gap, it has a gender wealth gap. 1.00

00:36:56.000 They say April 2nd is equal pay day, which reminds employees everywhere how much progress remains to close the gender pay gap.

00:37:01.000 Okay, first of all, that is a lie.

00:37:03.000 That is simply a lie.

00:37:05.000 Women are not earning dramatically less than men. 0.99

00:37:07.000 But then they expand the definition because they understand secretly, a lot of members of the media, that equal pay day is a bunch of crap. 0.94

00:37:13.000 So instead, they expand the definition.

00:37:14.000 You've seen this happen also with regard to wealth differentials among communities, racial communities.

00:37:20.000 So instead of talking about income mobility and the possibility of income mobility if you make good decisions in your life, instead what the media will talk about is the wealth gap.

00:37:30.000 So this is what they're doing with women now. 0.98

00:37:31.000 They're saying it's not just the pay gap that should concern women, it is also the wealth gap. 0.79

00:37:35.000 On average, women in the United States own a mere 32 cents to every dollar owned by men. 0.98

00:37:40.000 Now, first of all, if women are married to men, they have precisely, in community property states, they own precisely the same amount of dollars as men do.

00:37:47.000 They have exactly the same wealth.

00:37:49.000 My wife and I have the same wealth.

00:37:50.000 My earning power is a lot higher than my wife's earning power. 1.00

00:37:53.000 It doesn't matter.

00:37:54.000 We have exactly the same amount of wealth.

00:37:55.000 It's a community property state.

00:37:56.000 We have a joint bank account.

00:37:58.000 We own our house jointly. 0.96

00:37:59.000 This is, this is silly. 0.97

00:38:01.000 This is silly. 0.78

00:38:01.000 But beyond that, what this is really an attempt to do is suggest that because women were historically discriminated against, therefore they are currently discriminated against. 0.78

00:38:10.000 That is not an argument.

00:38:11.000 That is a leap in logic.

00:38:13.000 Just because something bad was true 50 years ago does not mean that same bad thing is true today, even if the impact of the bad thing 50 years ago is still felt today.

00:38:21.000 And things like racial wealth gaps or sexual wealth gaps.

00:38:24.000 But there's an attempt to paint America as deeply unjust, as deeply unequal, that requires radical solutions.

00:38:31.000 This is the direction the Democratic Party wishes to move.

00:38:35.000 They're looking for soft ways that they can sense discrimination.

00:38:40.000 Soft ways that they can create victim classes. 0.54

00:38:43.000 I mean, all the way down to leggings.

00:38:44.000 There's an article in the New York Times, a full article in the style section of the New York Times about why are men, and some women, so upset about people wearing leggings in public.

00:38:52.000 It must be sexism. 1.00

00:38:54.000 Or alternatively, they're just not a huge fan of people wearing clothing that is effectively tight in public, because that doesn't seem either modest or prudent.

00:39:04.000 Like, are we supposed to pretend that if you just walked around naked in broad daylight, that that would be the same thing as if you wore a burqa in broad daylight? 0.95

00:39:09.000 Like, clothing does seem to matter a little bit in how we perceive people, which is why police officers and doctors wear uniforms.

00:39:16.000 But all of this is supposed to be a soft form of sexism.

00:39:19.000 The continued breaking down of Americans into victim groups is one of the chief core tenets of the modern Democratic Party, which is why, for example, I think that Pete Buttigieg is in trouble.

00:39:29.000 Pete Buttigieg, who is a gay man in America, does not make a point of him being a victim.

00:39:34.000 He doesn't try to say, I'm a victim in America.

00:39:36.000 His book, which is actually pretty interesting, he doesn't make a huge deal out of this idea that I'm gay, therefore I'm a massive victim of discrimination in the United States.

00:39:44.000 He's the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, right?

00:39:45.000 I mean, that's not exactly great evidence that people hate you. 0.99

00:39:48.000 The person who was just elected, the mayor of Chicago, is a black lesbian. 0.98

00:39:53.000 And this is not a country where discrimination is a wildly prevalent, everyday, deep-seated occurrence that is causing mass disparity. 0.83

00:40:03.000 It is possible that disparities are caused by other factors, but the Democratic Party is banking on a feeling of dispossession in order for them to regain power.

00:40:11.000 Now, listen, President Trump did this in reverse.

00:40:13.000 In 2016, he suggested there's a vast swath of people across the country feeling dispossessed with the current political system who have been effectively ignored and disparaged by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, been called deplorables, been told that they are somehow inferior or lesser or they are racist, bigot, sexist, homophobes and all the rest.

00:40:31.000 And those are the people I'm going to speak to.

00:40:33.000 Well, Democrats are doing the same thing and have been doing the same thing for years, trying to identify victim groups and then broadening the definition of victimhood in order to make excuses for why obviously non-victim groups are actually victim groups.

00:40:47.000 And then suggesting that candidates they don't like are the victimizers.

00:40:50.000 Joe Biden has found himself in the crosshairs because of this.

00:40:52.000 He does not mesh with the current priorities of the Democratic Party, and thus he is in the victimizer class.

00:40:58.000 And you're starting to see this from the left about Buttigieg.

00:41:01.000 About Buttigieg.

00:41:02.000 It's pretty amazing.

00:41:03.000 He's part of the victimizer class, too.

00:41:05.000 Now, the person who's been able to escape all of this, of course, is Bernie Sanders.

00:41:09.000 He's not part of the victimizer class.

00:41:10.000 Why?

00:41:11.000 Because despite the fact that the Bernie bros were not exactly great with the ladies, and despite the fact that Bernie Sanders It is pretty impressive to watch as the Democrats prepare to shoot themselves in the feet, providing the impetus for President Trump's 2020 campaign.

00:41:23.000 and widely perceived as an extreme leftist.

00:41:26.000 So that means that we can rule him in as opposed to ruling him out.

00:41:30.000 It is pretty impressive to watch as the Democrats prepare to shoot themselves in the feet, providing the impetus for President Trump's 2020 campaign.

00:41:37.000 This is all President Trump wants for his birthday, man, is for the Democrats to do exactly this.

00:41:42.000 So yesterday, President Trump spoke at the NRCC And you can see, this is going to be his angle in 2020 as well.

00:41:48.000 It should be.

00:41:49.000 Here is President Trump going after the Green New Deal and pointing out if he loses to this, he deserves to lose.

00:41:53.000 The Green New Deal, done by a young bartender, 29 years old.

00:42:00.000 A young bartender, wonderful young woman.

00:42:04.000 The Green New Deal! 0.97

00:42:06.000 You know, but it's crazy.

00:42:07.000 You know, the first time I heard it, I said, that's the craziest thing.

00:42:10.000 You have senators that are professionals, that you guys know, that have been there for a long time.

00:42:14.000 White hair, everything perfect.

00:42:16.000 And they're standing behind her and they're shaking, they're petrified of her.

00:42:20.000 We support the Green New Deal! 0.89

00:42:21.000 Okay, he is totally right about all of this, of course.

00:42:24.000 And, you know, he's gonna get flack for saying, oh my God, he's demeaning her as a bartender.

00:42:29.000 No, he's saying she doesn't have any expertise Don't underestimate the power of socialism to get a vote. 0.92

00:42:32.000 It's what happens over a 10-year period when the country is destroyed, but they don't care about that.

00:42:36.000 after socialism in the Democratic Party.

00:42:38.000 They're making it easy for him, it's amazing.

00:42:40.000 I've never seen a party own itself so hard as the Democrats are doing currently. - Don't underestimate the power of socialism to get a vote.

00:42:49.000 It's what happens over a 10 year period when the country is destroyed, but they don't care about that.

00:42:55.000 When they say we're gonna give you free education, we're gonna give you free healthcare, we're gonna not have you pay your loans for college, We're going to give you free everything.

00:43:06.000 Everything is free!

00:43:08.000 It's very seductive to people.

00:43:12.000 It's not going to be so easy like you think.

00:43:15.000 Now, in 10 years, it's going to be easy when the country goes to hell.

00:43:20.000 So we have to work.

00:43:20.000 We can never take it for granted.

00:43:22.000 We have to explain how bad it really is.

00:43:24.000 Okay, and he is not wrong about any of this, and Democrats are providing him room to run because they are either delusional, delusionally hopeful, or delusionally angry.

00:43:33.000 Now, they do have one hope, and that is that the media will somehow save them, because the media have done yeoman's work on behalf of Democrats for legitimately years.

00:43:41.000 The best example of this came yesterday when CNN's Christine Amanpour, who for some reason is considered an objective journalist, she decides to journalism all over James Comey. 0.75

00:43:50.000 Here she is explaining that lock her up Of course, Lock Her Up was a feature of the 2016 Trump campaign. 0.96

00:44:02.000 Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, I mean, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language?

00:44:12.000 That it was dangerous, potentially?

00:44:14.000 That it could have created violence?

00:44:16.000 That it's kind of hate speech?

00:44:19.000 Should that have been allowed?

00:44:21.000 That's not a role for government to play.

00:44:23.000 The beauty of this country is people can say what they want, even if it's misleading and it's demagoguery.

00:44:29.000 The people who should have shut it down were Republicans.

00:44:32.000 Yeah, the point is not James Comey's response here, which is basically correct.

00:44:36.000 It is the fact that Christiane Amanpour is considered some sort of objective journalist.

00:44:40.000 Or how about the ladies of The View, who ripped on Meghan McCain yesterday. 1.00

00:44:43.000 Meghan McCain said, uh, yeah, Obama had some scandals, and all the ladies of The View were like, he never had a scandal!

00:44:49.000 He was the best!

00:44:50.000 Obama, he was so great!

00:44:51.000 He never had a scandal at all.

00:44:53.000 It must be great to be a Democrat, honestly.

00:44:55.000 None of this happened in the Obama administration.

00:44:57.000 People say if this was Obama, nothing like this, even remotely close, ever happened in that administration.

00:45:02.000 Completely scandal free.

00:45:04.000 I don't know about that.

00:45:06.000 Do you know a scandal?

00:45:08.000 Can you name a scandal?

00:45:09.000 Yes, but I don't want to do this with you this morning.

00:45:11.000 I think the problem is, when you put the Obama administration up as this pristine, scandal-free, perfect administration that never did anything wrong, for conservatives and Republicans, there were a lot of policies that were put into place.

00:45:23.000 But it was pretty scandal-free.

00:45:23.000 But I'm saying there was a lot of policies put into place that rational conservatives disagreed with.

00:45:28.000 And I think part of the problem is, he was very judgmental.

00:45:30.000 If you didn't like the Obama administration and you have a problem with the Iran deal, that's how you got Trump.

00:45:35.000 Okay, and she is right about this.

00:45:36.000 It is also true that they were not scandal-free.

00:45:39.000 What the living hell?

00:45:40.000 The IRS under Barack Obama targeted opposing 501c3 groups.

00:45:45.000 Eric Holder was held in contempt by Congress over Fast and Furious, and Barack Obama asserted executive privilege to protect him.

00:45:52.000 Barack Obama said openly on an open mic to the Russians that he would provide them flexibility after the election if they would lay off before the election.

00:46:01.000 Barack Obama scandal-free.

00:46:03.000 It is so highly irritating to hear that nonsense over and over from our great protectors, the firefighters who protect us.

00:46:09.000 How about Good Morning America?

00:46:10.000 They're doing the same thing.

00:46:11.000 They invited on Valerie Jarrett, who presided over the scandal-filled Obama administration, to talk about how terrible Trump was.

00:46:17.000 I mean, it was just an open invite to Valerie Jarrett to bash Trump.

00:46:20.000 I think the political landscape today, in some ways, is depressing.

00:46:24.000 I think tone does start at the top.

00:46:26.000 We look to the President of the United States to be the leader, to be a role model, particularly for young people, and I think some of the rhetoric has been profoundly disappointing and troubling to me.

00:46:37.000 He was very much a part of the birther controversy.

00:46:40.000 What was that meeting like?

00:46:41.000 The driving force behind the birther.

00:46:44.000 Controversy.

00:46:45.000 I think it's unconscionable, and I think it, um, you know, it incited hatred, and I think it put President Obama and his family in harm's way.

00:46:54.000 Okay, so, again, it is fun to watch the media simply play defense for every Democrat.

00:46:59.000 There's a reason all the top Democrats in Virginia are still holding their offices.

00:47:02.000 It's also amazing that the media continue to pretend they're objective when they're obviously not.

00:47:06.000 Dean Paquette.

00:47:07.000 Who's the publisher of the New York Times?

00:47:09.000 He said yesterday that we are happy to publish all sorts of perspectives, like they literally published a full on 12,000 word screed on why Israel should be boycotted by somebody who is paid in part by the government of Qatar, a terror supporting state.

00:47:22.000 That was fine, but they will never print apparently any opinion that questions the science behind global warming, despite the fact that a lot of the modeling has been incorrect so far.

00:47:30.000 And this is coming from somebody, by the way.

00:47:32.000 Who is not a global warming skeptic.

00:47:34.000 I think that anthropogenic global warming is a thing.

00:47:36.000 I think that human activity has an effect on the climate.

00:47:39.000 But I am happy to hear more about various sides of the debate.

00:47:42.000 But according to the New York Times, you're not allowed to even publish that stuff, but these are the objective journalists.

00:47:47.000 I'm not sure both-siderism is the right approach, and it's not the approach I believe in. 1.00

00:47:52.000 I think that's become sort of a stalking horse for fairness.

00:47:58.000 Fairness means fairness and open-mindedness.

00:48:01.000 And a sense of inquiry.

00:48:03.000 That, to me, is journalism.

00:48:05.000 That does not mean if you... we do not go out to make sure we quote 25 people that say there's no... man did not contribute to the changing climate. 0.68

00:48:16.000 That would be ridiculous.

00:48:17.000 That's not what most people believe.

00:48:18.000 There's a debate.

00:48:20.000 The only debate is what should be done about it.

00:48:23.000 I don't believe in that.

00:48:25.000 I believe in open-mindedness, open-minded inquiry.

00:48:29.000 Open-minded inquiry is what he believes in, not anyone who disagrees with him on fundamental issues.

00:48:33.000 That's your media right there.

00:48:34.000 I love that.

00:48:35.000 And if you say, well, maybe you should get another opinion, well, that's both-siderism. 0.93

00:48:40.000 Open-minded inquiry is where I interview people who agree with me, and we just disagree about how strongly to agree with me.

00:48:46.000 Uh, your media in a nutshell.

00:48:48.000 Dean Beckett over at the New York Times.

00:48:50.000 Okay, time for a thing that I like.

00:48:51.000 So, there is, as I say, I've been signing a lot of books lately.

00:48:55.000 And because I sign a lot of books, that means that I'm watching TV while I sign those books.

00:48:59.000 Well, there are some movies that have become available on Amazon for rent that kind of fell through the cracks and are pretty good.

00:49:05.000 There's a movie called Prospect.

00:49:07.000 With Pedro Pascal, who has become one of my favorite actors.

00:49:10.000 He's really terrific.

00:49:11.000 He's in Triple Frontier.

00:49:12.000 You'll also remember him from Game of Thrones.

00:49:14.000 He is quite versatile.

00:49:16.000 And a girl named Sophie Thatcher.

00:49:18.000 And it essentially is a space western.

00:49:21.000 I believe that this, I'm pretty certain that the people who wrote the movie Prospect were basing it on Treasure Island because it pretty much follows all the beats of Treasure Island.

00:49:33.000 But the movie is a good, tight, like hour and thirty, hour and forty minute movie.

00:49:38.000 And it's about a little girl who lands with her father on this planet where there's a natural resource that people are seeking to extract.

00:49:46.000 And she's confronted by, effectively, a pirate named... who's played by Pedro Pascal.

00:49:50.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:49:53.000 requesting release I'm here to harvest.

00:50:05.000 I'm here to harvest.

00:50:05.000 I have the location of a massive deposit of warlock.

00:50:09.000 The Queen's Lair.

00:50:11.000 By my estimation, it's the largest anyone's ever seen.

00:50:18.000 Someone is approaching.

00:50:18.000 Where are you from?

00:50:22.000 Nowhere.

00:50:23.000 Capoeira.

00:50:24.000 The Queen's lair.

00:50:31.000 Okay, so the movie is good.

00:50:34.000 And again, it's a very tight movie.

00:50:36.000 It's only 97 minutes, which I said yesterday that I'm a big fan of shorter movies.

00:50:41.000 It's not a special effects-based sci-fi movie.

00:50:43.000 It's a space western, kind of.

00:50:45.000 And the movie is worth watching.

00:50:47.000 So you can go check that out.

00:50:48.000 I believe it's available at Amazon for rent right now.

00:50:51.000 The movie is called Prospect.

00:50:52.000 Okay, some things that I hate.

00:50:58.000 Okay, thing that I hate, number one, why is it that online is where we find all of the weird quasi-solutions to people's problems?

00:51:05.000 And when I say solutions, I mean no one in their right mind would do these things, but we are supposed to pretend that, like, they're a thing?

00:51:10.000 Well, Vocative is apparently one of the places you go for this sort of stuff, and they have a story today about adults who want to be swaddled In a fake womb to be comforted.

00:51:21.000 I have nothing for you here.

00:51:24.000 If you can't see the video, it's legitimately people who are being tied.

00:51:28.000 It says this Japanese therapy is supposed to beat stress by taking you back to the womb. 0.88

00:51:34.000 They legitimately wrap people like Frodo is wrapped in spiderweb at the end of Return of the King.

00:51:42.000 It's supposed to recreate safety of the womb.

00:51:45.000 Babies feel when they're being swaddled.

00:51:47.000 Okay, quick note. 0.88

00:51:48.000 Never swaddle a baby by putting the blanket over the baby's head, you dolts. 1.00

00:51:53.000 I mean, the swaddle is supposed to go, apparently, over the entire adult.

00:51:58.000 I remember, wasn't this tried, by the way?

00:52:00.000 In the United States, there was this theory that this would be tried in psychiatrists' offices.

00:52:03.000 A couple people have died because of it, if I'm not mistaken.

00:52:06.000 And they tried this.

00:52:07.000 It was like a weird therapy thing.

00:52:09.000 And people would actually, like, suffocate in the blanket and all of this. 1.00

00:52:14.000 Man, people are dumb. 1.00

00:52:16.000 Does humanity deserve to survive? 1.00

00:52:18.000 Open question.

00:52:19.000 Other things that I hate today.

00:52:21.000 So there's an amazing story today from the BBC.

00:52:23.000 It just broke a couple of hours ago.

00:52:25.000 And it talks about a quote-unquote magic bullet carbon solution to climate change.

00:52:30.000 Here's the article.

00:52:31.000 A technology that removes carbon dioxide from the air has received significant backing from major fossil fuel companies.

00:52:36.000 British Columbia-based Carbon Engineering has shown it can extract CO2 in a cost-effective way.

00:52:41.000 It has now been boosted by $68 million in new investment from Chevron, Occidental, and coal giant BHP.

00:52:47.000 Climate campaigners are worried that the technology will be used to extract even more oil.

00:52:52.000 Why?

00:52:52.000 Because if we can suck the carbon emissions out of the air, then we might continue to use oil.

00:52:57.000 But then why are you whining about us using the oil if there are no carbon emissions because we're sucking it out of the air?

00:53:00.000 I'm confused.

00:53:01.000 The quest for technology for carbon dioxide removal from the air received significant science endorsement last year with the publication of the IPCC report on keeping the rising global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius this century.

00:53:14.000 In their summary for policymakers, the scientists said all pathways that limit global warming should be pursued effectively.

00:53:20.000 Carbon engineering says that its direct air capture process is now able to capture gas for under $100 a ton.

00:53:28.000 With its new funding, the company plans to build its first commercial facilities.

00:53:31.000 These industrial scale plants could capture up to 1 million tons of CO2 from the air each year.

00:53:37.000 So how is it that this works?

00:53:39.000 Well, apparently, The comparatively low concentrations of CO2 in the air make it difficult to design efficient machines to remove the gas, but carbon engineering has a process that sucks in the air and then exposes it to a chemical solution that concentrates the CO2.

00:53:54.000 Further refinements mean that the gas can be purified in a form that can be stored or utilized as liquid fuel.

00:54:00.000 It's basically complicated chemistry.

00:54:02.000 And they're talking about making a liquid fuel directly from CO2.

00:54:05.000 So instead of having these massive emissions, you are instead using the carbon dioxide to make new fuel.

00:54:13.000 So they take the carbon emissions in the air, they suck it out of the air, and then they are recycling the carbon emissions, effectively speaking.

00:54:22.000 They're investing in this process because they don't want to be regulated, presumably, because this is called a market solution, and the left is opposed to it.

00:54:29.000 Environmentalists are angry.

00:54:30.000 Why?

00:54:31.000 Well, they think that it's—some are worried that they think that it's good, but Sipora Berman, international program director for Stand.Earth, told BBC News it's a huge concern, because they're worried that it will prolong the fossil fuel era.

00:54:42.000 But again, why are you upset about the fossil fuel era if it's not actually going to wreck the Earth anymore?

00:54:49.000 So, it suggests that there is an ulterior motive.

00:54:51.000 That is the thing I hate.

00:54:52.000 Not the technology, which is great.

00:54:53.000 The thing I hate is the ulterior motive.

00:54:55.000 If I give you technology that will help you solve the climate change issue, say nuclear technology, or sucking the carbon out of the air, then why exactly would you oppose it unless you have some sort of ulterior motive?

00:55:06.000 Which does suggest that there is something else going on for a lot of climate change Forward thinking politicians that has more to do with economic redistributionism than it has to do with actually solving a problem.

00:55:16.000 Alrighty, well, we will be back here a little bit later today for two additional hours.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - April 03, 2019

The Roadmap To 2020 | Ep. 751

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