The Ben Shapiro Show - The She-Woman Men Haters Club | Ep. 642

00:00:00.000 Radical feminists unveil their agenda, Hillary Clinton will never leave, and President Trump does a silly thing. 1.00

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro. 0.70

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00:00:13.000 Listen, I know when I say President Trump does a silly thing that that's a little bit vague because it's a day ending and why but we'll discuss the very silly thing and it wasn't just silly it was actually a bad thing he said at a rally last night we'll also get to Hillary Clinton who will never leave ever ever ever ever and we'll discuss radical feminism and we'll get to the mailbag so it's gonna be a jam-packed show but

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00:02:21.000 Okay, so Hillary will never, ever, ever go away. 0.83

00:02:24.000 Ever.

00:02:25.000 Okay, so there's a new article in Politico today about how Hillary may want to run for president for a third time. 1.00

00:02:30.000 Now, I think that folks on the right are a little bit too sanguine about this.

00:02:33.000 I think they figure, okay, Trump beat her last time, he'll beat her again this time. 1.00

00:02:37.000 And let's face it, Hillary's a garbage candidate. 1.00

00:02:39.000 She's a smoking garbage sheet of a candidate. 1.00

00:02:41.000 The reason that President Trump is president is, yes, because he has a certain skill set. 1.00

00:02:46.000 This kind of skill set that makes him dangerous to people like you.

00:02:49.000 But, President Trump's skill set is not the actual reason that he is president alone.

00:02:53.000 It is because Hillary Clinton is the worst candidate in the history of American politics. 1.00

00:02:57.000 How do I know this?

00:02:58.000 Because she lost to Donald Trump in a race for the presidency.

00:03:01.000 And she won by two and a half million votes in the popular vote still.

00:03:04.000 So, all the folks who are being sanguine, well, what's really funny is you see folks on the right. 0.98

00:03:07.000 And they say things like, well, silly Hillary. 0.99

00:03:09.000 Didn't even visit Wisconsin. 0.98

00:03:11.000 Didn't even visit Michigan.

00:03:12.000 The implication being that if she had visited Wisconsin or Michigan, she would have won.

00:03:16.000 Which is to suggest that maybe that election was really, really, really razor-thin close.

00:03:21.000 Now, it is true that President Trump will now have a very good economic record to run on.

00:03:26.000 It is also true that a lot of folks just didn't show up to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

00:03:31.000 Donald Trump won fewer votes in Wisconsin in 2016 than Mitt Romney won in 2012.

00:03:36.000 Romney lost the state by something like eight points.

00:03:38.000 Hillary lost the state of Wisconsin.

00:03:40.000 No one likes Hillary Clinton, but

00:03:43.000 Because no one likes her, a lot of people thought that she was going to run away with it and just didn't show up to vote for her. 0.90

00:03:47.000 There was no enthusiasm.

00:03:48.000 It's like, okay, I'm not going to ruin my day.

00:03:50.000 New York Times says there's a 99% shot she's going to be president anyway. 1.00

00:03:53.000 Why am I going to bother?

00:03:54.000 If she were to come back, I'm not quite as sanguine as everybody else that it ends in a radical defeat for her.

00:04:00.000 I think Democrats show up in large numbers in a sort of revenge play.

00:04:04.000 I think that's a significant possibility.

00:04:06.000 That said,

00:04:07.000 Would Trump prefer her to some of the other candidates who are out there?

00:04:10.000 No question.

00:04:11.000 I mean, she's a person.

00:04:12.000 He knows how to handle.

00:04:13.000 She's got more baggage than any national airline that you care to speak of.

00:04:18.000 And she is truly, truly awful at what she does.

00:04:21.000 Still, she won't go away.

00:04:22.000 Because the minute she goes away, she can't make money on her other lucrative side gigs. 1.00

00:04:27.000 If you look at the donations to the Clinton Foundation, incredibly, donations to the Clinton Foundation dropped precipitously as soon as she was no longer running for president, because that's how things work in Clinton-land.

00:04:36.000 If she is not relevant to the national political discourse, the money train dries up. 0.71

00:04:41.000 So a bunch of folks on the Democratic side are trying to basically say to her, stick around, but kind of go away.

00:04:45.000 So Michael Avenatti, my favorite of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, and I'm openly rooting for Michael Avenatti.

00:04:52.000 I've made this absolutely clear.

00:04:54.000 I root for entertainment value.

00:04:56.000 The outcome's going to be what the outcome's going to be.

00:04:58.000 I'm not God.

00:04:59.000 I can't control the outcome.

00:05:00.000 I can tell you how I think you should go vote, but if I'm rooting for a candidate, make it Michael Avenatti, guys.

00:05:06.000 Democrats, just like an Avenatti-Trump race would just be the greatest.

00:05:09.000 The first question in a debate would be, which one of you slept with Stormy Daniels more times? 1.00

00:05:14.000 That would be an actual question in a presidential debate.

00:05:17.000 And I'm all for it.

00:05:18.000 I mean, we're there, man.

00:05:18.000 Let's embrace the hurricane.

00:05:20.000 Embrace the suck. 1.00

00:05:21.000 Like, let's just do this thing. 0.99

00:05:22.000 Michael Avenatti, here's what he had to say about Hillary Clinton in this article in Politico.

00:05:26.000 He says,

00:05:35.000 Just to say, like, stay away, Hillary.

00:05:37.000 Stay far, far away.

00:05:39.000 I think there's still a lot of people that support her, and for that reason, she could certainly play a positive role in some capacity in 2020.

00:05:45.000 This is like the question in a job interview where they ask you to name your worst quality, and you're desperately trying to think of your worst quality to name.

00:05:52.000 So you're saying, like, name a good thing about Hillary Clinton.

00:05:55.000 Maybe she'd be good at, like, standing there sometimes.

00:05:58.000 So that's pretty great.

00:05:59.000 But that is not dissuading anybody in the Hillary Clinton camp from thinking that maybe she's toast. 1.00

00:06:05.000 So Philippe Raines, who is just a jerk. 0.99

00:06:07.000 So Philippe Raines has been known for years, legitimately two decades, as Hillary's fixer, and he's a nasty guy, and he attacks his opponents with aplomb and alacrity. 1.00

00:06:16.000 Here is what he says about Hillary Clinton.

00:06:19.000 He says,

00:06:24.000 Nope, it is not. 0.98

00:06:25.000 She is a giant failed candidate. 0.99

00:06:27.000 She lost to Barack Obama, a nobody, an absolute nobody in 2008, with the entire media behind her at the beginning of that race. 0.99

00:06:33.000 And then she nearly lost to Bernie Sanders, a septuagenarian, crazy loon bag socialist who was tossed out of a commune in the 70s for being too useless. 0.94

00:06:43.000 She almost lost to that guy in primaries. 0.93

00:06:45.000 And then she lost to a real estate developer whose main claim to fame is saying you're fired on national television and running a Miss USA. 0.99

00:06:54.000 Shtick.

00:06:54.000 Like, that's legitimately who she lost to.

00:06:57.000 So I don't think it's an oversimplification to say that she is the worst candidate you could possibly imagine.

00:07:02.000 Like, if you were creating a bad candidate in a lab, that candidate would look exactly like Hillary Clinton. 0.94

00:07:07.000 But Reign says, she is smarter than most, tougher than most, she could raise money easier than most, and it was an absolute fight to the death. 1.00

00:07:14.000 And then he was asked, will Hillary run? 0.98

00:07:17.000 He says, the likelihood is somewhere between highly unlikely and zero, but it's not zero.

00:07:22.000 So everywhere, Democrats, you can hear the shrieks of Democrats through the walls here.

00:07:25.000 In fact, our leftist-tears-hot-or-cold Tumblr is overflowing because even Democrats understand that Hillary Clinton running for president is a bad, bad idea.

00:07:32.000 The problem is that Democrats have actually set up the narrative for her to run.

00:07:36.000 This is the part that's really fascinating, is that the Democrats are now trying to run, again, their War on Women playbook from 2012.

00:07:43.000 And they're doing it in a more intense way now.

00:07:46.000 Now, Hillary would be a very bad fit for that playbook, except that Democrats are out of their minds. 1.00

00:07:50.000 So she'd be a bad fit for the War on Women playbook because she legitimately fought a war on every woman that her husband harassed, abused, slept with. 1.00

00:07:59.000 She literally did that for a solid 15 to 20 years of her career. 0.99

00:08:04.000 But because she is woman, we must hear her roar. 0.99

00:08:07.000 And you can see that the radical feminists are out in force. 1.00

00:08:09.000 They think that this is their time.

00:08:11.000 And when I say radical feminist, I mean radical feminist. 1.00

00:08:13.000 The best radical feminist piece of the day comes courtesy of Tori Truscheit over at Slate.com, the repository for much of American stupidity. 1.00

00:08:22.000 This is the actual title of the piece. 1.00

00:08:24.000 The Rage of All Women. 0.99

00:08:26.000 Okay, there's a quote from the piece.

00:08:28.000 This isn't me being homophobic.

00:08:30.000 There's a quote from the piece. 0.99

00:08:31.000 Man-hating dyke is the worst thing you can call a lesbian. 1.00

00:08:34.000 But in the Me Too era, it's time to reclaim it. 0.99

00:08:38.000 Okay.

00:08:38.000 What do you mean, Tori Druescheit?

00:08:40.000 Well, she will tell you.

00:08:42.000 In the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, a dyke friend in her 20s posted that, real talk, she doesn't like men. 0.96

00:08:47.000 I hit the like button super fast, feeling secretive and sort of guilty about it.

00:08:50.000 She'd come through the same radical queer and trans circles I came up in, and in that click, I felt relieved to acknowledge an obvious truth.

00:08:57.000 Most men treat women like something less than human, whether accidentally or on purpose, and that means it's hard to like them. 0.98

00:09:03.000 Men are bad. 1.00

00:09:04.000 Men are evil. 1.00

00:09:06.000 Solid political argument. 0.93

00:09:07.000 I can see that you're aiming for political victory here by immediately alienating half the population.

00:09:13.000 I had recently been scanning the men coming into my workplace, wondering about their histories of sexual assault.

00:09:17.000 Yeah, that's a normal thing to do.

00:09:18.000 That's a real normal thing to do.

00:09:19.000 Sonia, how often have you done that at the office? 0.96

00:09:21.000 You just walk in, you're like, I wonder who here has raped someone? 0.85

00:09:25.000 Okay, so I stand corrected. 0.82

00:09:26.000 Senya says she does this every day.

00:09:28.000 In any case, this woman says, is he a rapist?

00:09:30.000 What about him?

00:09:31.000 Where does he fall on the creep scale?

00:09:33.000 It was an old impulse that had returned in force as the nation debated just how many of their husbands, brothers, and sons were perpetrators, given that one in three American women experienced sexual violence in their lifetimes.

00:09:43.000 Okay, again, that is a very, very vague definition of sexual violence.

00:09:47.000 If you're suggesting that one in three women in America is raped over the course of her life, that is just not a true statistic.

00:09:52.000 That is just a false statistic.

00:09:54.000 Republicans insisted that men were the ones who should be afraid, while women recounted the everyday harrowing ways we reroute our lives to avoid assault.

00:10:02.000 My woke male co-workers made me two jokes, as if the whole thing were a funny spectacle.

00:10:06.000 It was enough to make me want to stop talking to men entirely.

00:10:09.000 I have a feeling that the feeling was mutual.

00:10:11.000 Yet still, inside my head, the not all men chorus roared.

00:10:14.000 What about the dads of two who liked all my angry tweets?

00:10:17.000 Or the guy who showed up at the hospital with too much food when my spouse was in labor?

00:10:20.000 Or my friends who are trans men?

00:10:22.000 That's where it gets really confusing.

00:10:23.000 When you actually have a woman who says she's a man, are you supposed to hate her for being a man?

00:10:27.000 Or are you supposed to like her for being a woman? 1.00

00:10:29.000 This is when things get really baffling for folks on the left.

00:10:32.000 Patriarchy runs so deep that I defend hypothetical men's feelings right away, even to myself.

00:10:38.000 I am a married lesbian, as far away from needing male approval as a woman can get, and I still feel it, the slow, poisonous drip of cultural conditioning that tells me to prioritize men.

00:10:49.000 Actually, that cultural conditioning says you might want to treat human beings like, you know, individual human beings, because they're human beings.

00:10:54.000 Just my imagination, that thing that could break us out of American fascism,

00:10:59.000 Your imagination is not going to break anybody out of anything.

00:11:02.000 I mean, it's not even going to break you out of the asylum, lady. 0.97

00:11:04.000 She says, it's trapped in an old feminist loop, because I've been trained that the worst thing I can be is a man-hating dyke. 1.00

00:11:10.000 But it's time to confront the latent homophobia in that insult. 0.88

00:11:12.000 It's not latent homophobia, that's an actual just homophobic insult.

00:11:15.000 There's nothing latent about that.

00:11:16.000 And she says, in our fear that anger makes us seem too gay, because anger, not fear, is precisely the emotion that's needed these days.

00:11:23.000 Beware the person who says that anger is the proper response to your life.

00:11:27.000 The people who say that anger is the proper response to the generalized situation in your life, that person is not giving you good advice.

00:11:36.000 My friend Andrew Klavan, he has a great phrase, he says, anger is the devil's cocaine.

00:11:40.000 I think that is basically correct.

00:11:41.000 I think that if you are looking at your life and you don't have a specific instance of injustice to point to, you just have a generalized outrage about the world,

00:11:49.000 You're going to fail in life.

00:11:51.000 A great way to fail in life is to sink yourself into a generalized feeling that you will never be able to succeed, especially in a free country.

00:11:59.000 It's one thing to say that in a dictatorship, but this is the freest country in world history.

00:12:02.000 I mean, this lady is writing a piece about how much she hates men in the pages of a national newspaper, basically. 1.00

00:12:08.000 And probably being championed for it by a bunch of folks on the left.

00:12:12.000 The radical feminist movement is in full swing.

00:12:14.000 And this is why Hillary Clinton could still come back, because it would be easy for Hillary to say, the real reason I lost was radical sexism, and then try and drive out single women to the polls in high numbers to take revenge against Donald Trump. 1.00

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00:13:56.000 The anger that has broken out on the radical feminist left is good for Hillary Clinton, obviously. 1.00

00:14:01.000 It's also good for folks like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:14:04.000 On the intersectionality scale, radical feminists are trying to push women up that scale. 1.00

00:14:08.000 Right now, there's a philosophy that I've talked about a lot on the show, on the left, that says that we can prioritize people's viewpoints based on their genetics, based on their ancestry, based on their ethnicity, based on their

00:14:20.000 Class.

00:14:21.000 So basically, here's how this hierarchy goes, of views that we should respect.

00:14:25.000 It goes like this.

00:14:26.000 LGBT person.

00:14:27.000 Black person.

00:14:29.000 Hispanic person.

00:14:30.000 Woman.

00:14:32.000 Asian person, Jewish person, white person.

00:14:35.000 That's how it goes.

00:14:36.000 That's the hierarchy.

00:14:37.000 And women are somewhere in the middle, as I mentioned, right? 1.00

00:14:40.000 They're kind of behind Hispanic, but ahead of Asian. 1.00

00:14:42.000 That's where women are. 1.00

00:14:44.000 So what radical feminists are trying to do is elevate women in the hierarchy of victimhood higher up the ladder. 1.00

00:14:49.000 And that way folks like Hillary Clinton have a better shot at being elected by claiming victimhood. 1.00

00:14:52.000 This is why it's because women aren't high enough on the intersectionality scale that you saw Elizabeth Warren trying to claim Native American ancestry. 1.00

00:14:59.000 Because she was saying, it's not enough for me to be a woman in Democratic primary.

00:15:02.000 I also have to claim membership in a historically victimized group.

00:15:05.000 I'm also a Native American.

00:15:07.000 That, of course, fell apart for her.

00:15:08.000 So, if you can't beat the intersectionality course, you join the intersectionality course.

00:15:13.000 Radical feminists are trying to elevate women as victims in American society. 1.00

00:15:17.000 And so, this woman at Slate, as crazy as she sounds, this Tori Truscheit, who says that she basically wants to be part of the She Woman Man Haters Club. 0.94

00:15:29.000 The reverse of the gang from Alfalfa.

00:15:34.000 When she says this, this is not actually that far out of the realm of the mainstream in certain democratic circles.

00:15:40.000 I love this.

00:15:40.000 Here's another example.

00:15:41.000 Carolyn Hax is an advice columnist over at the Washington Post. 0.76

00:15:45.000 And there's a letter.

00:15:46.000 Here's the letter.

00:15:47.000 Dear Carolyn, I have a daughter, and some other moms of daughters and I have started getting together at a local playground at a set time each week.

00:15:53.000 Recently, a mom of a boy brought her son to the playground at the same time we were there.

00:15:56.000 I asked her nicely, I thought, if she would mind leaving because we had wanted it to be a girls-only time. 0.81

00:16:01.000 She refused and seemed angry at me. 0.99

00:16:03.000 If she comes back, is there a better way I can approach her?

00:16:06.000 This has been such a sweet time for moms and daughters, and having a boy there is naturally going to change things.

00:16:10.000 We live in a world where boys get everything and girls are left with crumbs.

00:16:13.000 And I would think this mom would realize that, but she seems to think her son is entitled to crash this girl's only time.

00:16:18.000 I know I can't legally keep her from a public park, but can I appeal to her better nature?

00:16:22.000 And then the response was, shooing off the mom and her boy was terrible.

00:16:27.000 But I have to admit that I actually have a little bit of sympathy for the mom.

00:16:33.000 Not in the sense that she should shoo off the boys, but

00:16:36.000 Boys do change the dynamic when girls are playing. 0.99

00:16:38.000 I have a son, I have a daughter.

00:16:39.000 They play very, very differently.

00:16:41.000 When boys go to a girls-only group, it changes the dynamic. 0.53

00:16:43.000 Boys are different than girls. 1.00

00:16:44.000 Radical feminists want to have it both ways. 1.00

00:16:46.000 Boys and girls are exactly the same, but girls are different from boys and therefore should be separated off from boys when they want to be separated off from boys. 0.99

00:16:53.000 I think that we should recognize some truths.

00:16:55.000 Boys and girls are different.

00:16:56.000 Also, we live in a free country.

00:16:57.000 And because we live in a free country, people should be able to rise and fall on their own merit without claiming victimization at the hands of the freest society in world history.

00:17:04.000 OK, so is Hillary Clinton going to run again? 0.99

00:17:05.000 I highly doubt it.

00:17:06.000 I don't think she's going to, but maybe she will.

00:17:08.000 Who the hell knows?

00:17:09.000 OK.

00:17:10.000 Meanwhile, President Trump, he did a rally last night and his rallies are usually highly entertaining.

00:17:16.000 He's speaking in Missoula.

00:17:18.000 And, you know, his rallies are basically stand-up comedy routines.

00:17:22.000 The president doesn't rally like President Obama would, go out and make a stump speech.

00:17:25.000 The president goes out there and he just riffs for an hour.

00:17:28.000 And it's usually very entertaining, and a lot of folks have been to President Trump's rallies.

00:17:32.000 They say it's a lot of fun.

00:17:33.000 Obviously, the crowd is there to have a good time.

00:17:35.000 It really is kind of half a political rally and half a comedy routine, because Trump is a highly entertaining human.

00:17:41.000 Well, sometimes that has upsides, and sometimes that has downsides. 0.69

00:17:44.000 Because, like all comedians, when President Trump gets a riffin', sometimes the riff is good, and sometimes he is just going to put his foot so far down his mouth that it comes out his colon and out his rear end and back around again.

00:17:56.000 Sometimes he creates an Ouroboros of human physicality.

00:18:01.000 So, here is the good.

00:18:02.000 Sometimes you see President Trump do stuff like this.

00:18:04.000 Like, this is kind of funny.

00:18:05.000 So, President Trump, there's a woman in the crowd, and she shouts, I love you, and here is President Trump's response.

00:18:10.000 Wise guys.

00:18:12.000 The Democrats have turned... I love you too.

00:18:16.000 Who said that?

00:18:18.000 Who said that?

00:18:20.000 Who said that?

00:18:23.000 It's finally a woman.

00:18:24.000 You know, I get it from the men all the time.

00:18:29.000 So far, every guy that said, I love you, they're just not my type.

00:18:36.000 I finally heard it from a woman.

00:18:37.000 Thank you.

00:18:40.000 I mean, come on, that's funny stuff.

00:18:41.000 That's funny stuff.

00:18:42.000 And then people break that down, oh, it's because he's sexist.

00:18:45.000 It's because he's funny, okay?

00:18:46.000 That's a funny thing to say.

00:18:47.000 That's a funny thing to say.

00:18:49.000 The problem is, because the president is actually a performer, Donald Trump is a performer.

00:18:53.000 He spends his entire life being a performer.

00:18:55.000 As someone who performs on stage, I know what it's like.

00:18:57.000 You play to the crowd.

00:18:58.000 The crowd that's in front of you responds with cheers, and they respond with boos, and they respond with laughter, and you're constantly trying to keep them hooked.

00:19:04.000 And President Trump even said this when he was just candidate Trump.

00:19:07.000 He would say that he'd go to a rally,

00:19:08.000 And if he

00:19:22.000 Doesn't actually have a fully functional brain-to-mouth filter.

00:19:26.000 Like, that filter is pretty shoddy.

00:19:30.000 Whatever starts here, ends up here.

00:19:33.000 And it doesn't matter what started there.

00:19:35.000 It's one of the good things about the president.

00:19:36.000 It's why he's authentic.

00:19:38.000 People like authenticity in politics.

00:19:40.000 The reason he's authentic feeling is because he's authentic in the same way that my four-and-a-half-year-old is authentic.

00:19:44.000 She thinks it, it comes out.

00:19:45.000 That's the way it is.

00:19:46.000 Like, there's no pretense.

00:19:48.000 That's good in politics because it's honest, right?

00:19:50.000 You get the feeling that he's honest.

00:19:52.000 Even the stuff that Trump says that is dishonest feels honest because he actually believes it at the time.

00:19:56.000 People who say that Trump is just going out there and he's lying and he's prevaricating.

00:19:59.000 Donald Trump believes everything that Donald Trump says.

00:20:02.000 That doesn't mean everything that Donald Trump says is right or factual, but it is authentic.

00:20:07.000 So that's the good side of Trump.

00:20:09.000 The problem is, sometimes the thoughts that go through the head should not come out the mouth.

00:20:15.000 And that happened yesterday.

00:20:17.000 Twice, actually.

00:20:19.000 So, he was talking about Greg Ginfort, who is the, he's Montana congressman, and I guess Ginfort was at this rally.

00:20:27.000 And the president decides, you know what would be a great idea?

00:20:30.000 To praise that time that Congressman Gianforte body-slammed a reporter.

00:20:34.000 So if you all recall back to the 2016 campaign, there was a situation in which a reporter confronted Greg Gianforte, it was like two nights before the election, and Gianforte got mad and he went full Macho Man Randy Savage on him.

00:20:48.000 Right?

00:20:48.000 He went full Undertaker.

00:20:49.000 He like grabbed him by the neck and he slammed him to the ground.

00:20:52.000 And this is caught on tape.

00:20:54.000 And then he had to plead guilty to a misdemeanor.

00:20:57.000 President Trump thinks, you know what?

00:20:59.000 I'm in front of a crowd.

00:21:00.000 I've done WWE before.

00:21:01.000 Let's talk about this thing.

00:21:02.000 You know, this is an issue that really needs to be out on the table two years later.

00:21:04.000 Let's do this.

00:21:05.000 So here is President Trump.

00:21:06.000 And the only reason I'm smiling is because this is the world we have chosen.

00:21:10.000 This is the business we have chosen, as Hyman Roth says.

00:21:12.000 Okay, we're here.

00:21:13.000 We can't go back.

00:21:14.000 I'm only smiling because I'm smiling like that guy in the Survivor GIF.

00:21:18.000 Have you ever seen the Survivor GIF that's online?

00:21:20.000 Where, where,

00:21:22.000 It's a bunch of women who are standing in the foreground and they don't know a piece of news and the guy in the background knows the piece of news. 1.00

00:21:27.000 And all the women start getting very upset. 0.57

00:21:29.000 They start crying.

00:21:30.000 And the man in the background just starts smiling broadly.

00:21:33.000 That's me about politics right now.

00:21:35.000 I know all this is going to happen.

00:21:37.000 And if you've been watching, you know all this is going to happen.

00:21:39.000 So all of the tears and the suffering,

00:21:42.000 Like, that's just because you didn't know it was going to happen.

00:21:45.000 But if you've been watching, you knew it was going to happen.

00:21:47.000 What were the chances that Trump wasn't going to mention Gianforte body slamming a reporter if Greg Gianforte is in front of him?

00:21:53.000 What were the chances?

00:21:55.000 0%?

00:21:55.000 Negative 100%?

00:21:57.000 I'm just shocked that Trump hasn't flown in Gianforte as an actual rally mascot.

00:22:02.000 Does that mean that it's a smart move? 0.99

00:22:03.000 No, it turns out it's an unbelievably dumb move. 0.95

00:22:06.000 And I'll discuss in a second what Trump said and why it was an incredibly dumb move and why entertaining the crowd in front of you is not always the smartest thing when there are cameras present in the room. 0.97

00:22:16.000 You're not actually speaking to the crowd in front of you.

00:22:18.000 You are speaking to everyone who can see you on the TV.

00:22:20.000 But we'll talk about that in just a second.

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00:23:49.000 All right, so, the president of the United States, speaking in Missoula.

00:23:52.000 I've given enough lead up to this clip.

00:23:56.000 Here is the president, just fresh off his messaging about how the Democrats are engaged in mob politics and violent rhetoric, talking about how it's a good thing that a Republican congressman body slammed a reporter.

00:24:09.000 Yep, this is real.

00:24:12.000 Mm-hmm.

00:24:13.000 Play it.

00:24:14.000 And we endorsed Greg very early.

00:24:16.000 But I had heard that he body slammed a reporter.

00:24:19.000 And he was way up and I said, oh, this was like the day of the election or just before.

00:24:26.000 And I said, oh, this is terrible.

00:24:27.000 He's going to lose the election.

00:24:28.000 Then I said, well, wait a minute.

00:24:30.000 I know Montana pretty well.

00:24:32.000 I think it might help him.

00:24:33.000 And it did.

00:24:38.000 Now, he's a great guy.

00:24:40.000 Tough cookie.

00:24:43.000 Here's why that's bad.

00:24:45.000 So, you're trying to make the argument that it's weird to me that I have to explain why it's bad when the President of the United States says it's good for people to bodyslam reporters.

00:24:52.000 Like, but I guess that's where we are right now.

00:24:55.000 Guys, you're not supposed to bodyslam anybody in public or in private, it turns out.

00:25:00.000 Like, violence, not good in civilized society.

00:25:03.000 Bad.

00:25:04.000 Honest to God, I punish my two-and-a-half-year-old for pushing his sister.

00:25:08.000 I would not allow a congressman for picking up another human and body-slamming him by the neck. 1.00

00:25:14.000 It's almost two parts of stupidity what Trump said here. 0.99

00:25:19.000 So part one is, I thought it was bad when he body-slammed the guy, and then I thought, well, maybe it'll help. 1.00

00:25:23.000 OK, first of all, you are now removing the moral component from you shouldn't body slam people.

00:25:27.000 And then second of all, you are saying that your own people, the folks who support you, are the kinds of people who are enthusiastic about the treatment of by violence of your political opponents in the middle of a giant campaign in which you are tweeting hashtag jobs, not mobs.

00:25:43.000 Why?

00:25:44.000 Why, God, why?

00:25:46.000 And then the president doubled down on this.

00:25:48.000 He challenged Joe Biden.

00:25:50.000 And he again makes a reference to June 4th.

00:25:52.000 So it's not a mistake.

00:25:52.000 It's not like he just slipped out.

00:25:54.000 Now he knows that the crowd cheered for it.

00:25:55.000 So because the crowd cheered for it, the president has to double down on it.

00:25:58.000 Very, very important that the president makes clear, absolutely clear, that he has no problem with body slamming reporters.

00:26:04.000 Here he is again.

00:26:05.000 How about sleepy Joe Biden?

00:26:09.000 Sleepy Joe.

00:26:12.000 Remember, he challenged me to a fight, and that was fine.

00:26:16.000 And when I said he wouldn't last long, he'd be down faster than Greg would take him down.

00:26:23.000 He'd be down so fast.

00:26:25.000 OK, so now the president is saying, yeah, let's do the fight. 1.00

00:26:27.000 So it was idiotic when Joe Biden challenged Trump to a fight. 0.99

00:26:30.000 And now Trump's like, yeah, let's fight. 1.00

00:26:32.000 First of all, I will admit, would I actually like to see a 2020 debate that is just fisticuffs between two 80 year old men? 0.99

00:26:39.000 You bet your ass I'd love it. 0.97

00:26:41.000 I would love every second of it. 0.99

00:26:42.000 They would just get up there.

00:26:43.000 They have their walkers.

00:26:44.000 They have the tennis balls on the bottom and they just club each other.

00:26:49.000 It would just be great.

00:26:50.000 I mean, let's— And by the way, it'd probably be more articulate than an actual debate between Joe Biden and President Trump.

00:26:55.000 Like, there'd actually be more political content to them just smacking each other with walkers than them actually talking politics.

00:27:00.000 But, is it good that the president again references Gianforte?

00:27:05.000 No, it is not.

00:27:06.000 It is not because this is immoral behavior.

00:27:09.000 I can like, for the millionth time on this program, I can like a lot of President Trump's policy.

00:27:14.000 I can like a lot of what President Trump does.

00:27:16.000 I can be inclined to support him in 2020. 1.00

00:27:18.000 And I can also think, hmm, this is stupid and also immoral. 1.00

00:27:22.000 These things can coexist. 0.99

00:27:23.000 Two things can be true at once because this is reality and the world works that way.

00:27:26.000 Now, President Trump does benefit from the fact that the media are completely insane.

00:27:33.000 So instead of the media simply saying, 0.96

00:27:35.000 You know, he's talking about mob politics and Democrats being violent, and then he goes out and he says stuff like this, and it's really hypocritical and gross and he shouldn't say that sort of stuff.

00:27:43.000 Instead of them doing that, the direction they go is, you know what? 0.91

00:27:48.000 This is just like the Saudi Arabian government.

00:27:51.000 That just took a guy in the Istanbul consulate, killed him, chopped up his body, and then liquefied it.

00:27:59.000 When he says that Greg Gianforte should be body slammed, that's probably, that's that type of attitude that led the Saudis to believe that they could murder a journalist. 0.52

00:28:07.000 I'm not making this up.

00:28:08.000 This is what members of the media say. 1.00

00:28:10.000 Now, because the members of the media are insane and respond, so let's say Trump says something that is 100% stupid. 1.00

00:28:16.000 And then the members of the Democratic Party and the media come back and say something that is 400% stupid. 1.00

00:28:21.000 Folks on the right go, see, Trump triggered him. 1.00

00:28:23.000 Trump triggered him.

00:28:25.000 Trump is really good at triggering them.

00:28:28.000 Well, I don't think it's actual genius. 1.00

00:28:31.000 I always attribute to stupidity what I cannot attribute to malice. 1.00

00:28:35.000 And I think that what we are watching here is President Trump just saying stuff and then the media being unable to hold themselves back and saying stupid things in response. 1.00

00:28:42.000 So do I think that this is President Trump manipulating the media into being crazy? 0.99

00:28:46.000 No, I think they're crazy and he drives them crazy and he's good at poking them, but they have a unique capacity to pull his chestnuts out of the fire. 0.91

00:28:54.000 He'll say something.

00:28:55.000 And then the media overreaction is so insane that you go, well, I guess I can't side with those people.

00:29:01.000 So here is CNN, CNN hosts, drawing a comparison and a link between President Trump praising Greg Gianforte and the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi Arabian government. 1.00

00:29:12.000 You know how stupid you have to be to make this link? 0.99

00:29:13.000 The Saudi Arabian government has been murdering people since, you know, their entire existence. 1.00

00:29:18.000 They've been murdering dissidents and journalists for literally decades.

00:29:21.000 But it was only Trump.

00:29:23.000 We're just going to ignore all of his... Trump came around?

00:29:25.000 This is the part that's so annoying about the media.

00:29:27.000 Yes, Trump says bad things.

00:29:28.000 Guess what?

00:29:29.000 The world was also a rough, bad place before President Trump was born and before he was president.

00:29:33.000 The world didn't start spinning the moment that President Trump was elected.

00:29:36.000 Here are CNN hosts, though, trying to attribute the spike in treatment of bad journalists in places like Saudi Arabia to Trump, as though Trump is dictator of Saudi Arabia.

00:29:45.000 At that rally last night, we'll play it for you, the president praised the body slamming.

00:29:49.000 I need a guy who can do a body slamming like that. 0.94

00:29:53.000 So why does it matter?

00:29:53.000 Well, you might think that assaulting a journalist in any circumstance is bad, but remember, this happens three weeks after the apparent murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

00:30:05.000 And the president, we should note, acknowledged that it certainly looks 0.98

00:30:10.000 Okay, so if you think that President Trump is okay with the murder of a journalist because he says something stupid about Greg Gianforte, no. 0.92

00:30:23.000 And if you think that President Trump is suddenly driving press members around the world to be killed because he said, like, the Russian government needed a cue from us, 0.81

00:30:32.000 Like, I don't remember this sort of talk about President Obama when journalists were being killed all around the world under his watch, and journalists were legitimately being killed around the world under his watch, but because he didn't say this kind of public stuff, there was no linkage. 0.88

00:30:43.000 Well, there's still no linkage, but Trump says dumb things, which is the obvious, you know, answer to all of this.

00:30:48.000 The worst example of this came courtesy of Joaquin Castro, one of the Castro brothers, who wants, I guess Julian wants to run for president.

00:30:56.000 Joaquin is just the other role, he's the other one.

00:30:59.000 And nobody cares about that much.

00:31:01.000 And he was on CNN, and he suggested that President Trump's administration had literally greenlit the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi Arabian government.

00:31:11.000 And then he was kind of using the Gianforte comments as evidence of this.

00:31:15.000 Do we have that clip?

00:31:16.000 Let me get to the point that I think is most disturbing right now.

00:31:20.000 The reporting that Jared Kushner may have, with U.S.

00:31:24.000 intelligence, delivered a hit list, an enemy's list, to the crown prince, to MBS in Saudi Arabia, and that the prince then may have acted on that, and one of the people that he took action against was Mr. Khashoggi.

00:31:38.000 That didn't happen.

00:31:40.000 That's not a thing.

00:31:42.000 Jared Kushner did not send a hit list to the Saudi Arabian government and tell them to go murder journalists.

00:31:46.000 There's no evidence of this and I like how Joaquin Castro says there's a rumor going around.

00:31:50.000 There's a rumor going around that Joaquin Castro dismembers babies and eats them in his backyard.

00:31:54.000 I don't have to provide any evidence for this rumor.

00:31:57.000 It's just a rumor.

00:31:58.000 I heard it.

00:31:58.000 Around.

00:32:00.000 This is why Trump will continue to win so long as people do not treat him with the proper level of objectivity.

00:32:07.000 And by the way, objectivity does not mean moral censure when he says bad stuff. 0.99

00:32:09.000 It means that if you respond like a dumbass to his dumbass comments, then double dumbass on you. 1.00

00:32:16.000 In the words of Star Trek 4. 1.00

00:32:17.000 So, in a second...

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00:33:32.000 Alrighty, so, meanwhile, as the media continue to wildly overreact and blame President Trump for the murder of a Saudi journalist, I would like to make one note about this particular topic, okay?

00:33:42.000 When it comes to the murder of this Saudi journalist, couple of things.

00:33:46.000 One, the people who are most loudly criticizing President Trump for his treatment of the Saudi government are people who are absolutely in the pocket of the Iranians. 1.00

00:33:53.000 It's members of the former Obama administration who want the Middle East to be controlled by an Iranian hegemon spreading its power from Afghanistan in the east to Lebanon in the west and south to Yemen.

00:34:05.000 It is Obama characters who are saying that Saudi Arabia has to be cut off by the United States.

00:34:09.000 Now, should there be serious consequences to an ally's murder of a journalist?

00:34:12.000 Of course there should be.

00:34:14.000 But I'm not going to take at face value the complaints from Turkey, an actual despotism that has arrested 150,000 dissidents in the last two and a half years.

00:34:22.000 I'm not going to take at face value their complaints about human rights, and I'm not going to take at face value complaints about human rights from a bunch of people who propped up and gave billions of dollars to the worst human rights violator and dictatorship on planet Earth outside of North Korea.

00:34:35.000 I'm not going to do that.

00:34:37.000 So, two things can be true at once.

00:34:38.000 Don't murder journalists and there should be consequences.

00:34:40.000 And also, that doesn't mean that we in the United States have an interest in undermining an alliance with the Saudi Arabians on behalf of the Iranians the way that the Obama administration wanted to do.

00:34:52.000 Okay, you know what?

00:34:54.000 I can't handle this anymore.

00:34:54.000 Let's just do some mailbag.

00:34:55.000 Let's just do mailbag. 0.98

00:34:56.000 Okay, fine.

00:34:57.000 You know what?

00:34:57.000 Too much, too much of this.

00:34:58.000 All right, mailbag time.

00:34:59.000 Joe says, Hey Ben, who do you think is the favorite to win the 2020 Democratic nomination?

00:35:04.000 In addition, who are some people you think Trump would beat handily in an election?

00:35:07.000 Who are some people you think he would struggle to beat?

00:35:09.000 Thanks and love the show.

00:35:10.000 Okay, so in the category of people he would beat handily, Cory Booker.

00:35:13.000 He would mess up Cory Booker, right?

00:35:16.000 Farticus would go down harder than a journalist at the hands of Greg Gianforte, as the president would say. 0.71

00:35:21.000 Cory Booker is mechanical and awful. 0.88

00:35:24.000 He is awful at his job. 0.96

00:35:25.000 He posed as a moderate and he actually is a radical leftist. 0.99

00:35:30.000 And he, like Hillary Clinton, he's actually like a bad version of a robot.

00:35:35.000 He's not even like a good T-1000 from Terminator.

00:35:39.000 He's like the early version that spazzed out a lot and kind of broke down on the battlefield.

00:35:44.000 He's more like Gizmo from some of those old series.

00:35:46.000 He's not...

00:35:49.000 You can see every gear turning for Cory Booker, a man who is very bad at his job.

00:35:52.000 So Trump would finish him, because Booker is the most inauthentic candidate since Hillary Clinton.

00:35:56.000 Just a terrible candidate. 0.98

00:35:58.000 I think that Trump would also womp somebody like Eric Garcetti, the LA mayor, who pretends to be cool but is actually just a dork. 0.99

00:36:05.000 So I think Trump would destroy him pretty quickly. 0.97

00:36:08.000 I think that the most dangerous candidate for him

00:36:11.000 Would have been Elizabeth Warren if she didn't implode. 1.00

00:36:14.000 Frankly, I thought she was a lot smarter politically than she is. 0.71

00:36:17.000 And I was shocked to watch her set herself on fire, sending smoke signals to the rest of the world that she didn't know what she was doing. 0.99

00:36:24.000 And she just sat there and set her teepee on fire. 1.00

00:36:25.000 And I didn't understand why she would do that.

00:36:27.000 But she's kind of taken herself out of the smart candidate circle. 0.99

00:36:32.000 I would say right now, of the top Democratic contenders, the most dangerous is still Biden because it's hard to destroy a guy who's been in the public eye that long.

00:36:39.000 One of the benefits that Trump has is that everybody has an opinion on him, which means that nothing that you say about him changes anybody's mind.

00:36:45.000 If you say that Donald Trump is bad with women, everybody goes, eh, right, we knew, yep.

00:36:50.000 Okay.

00:36:50.000 And if you say Donald Trump says things sometimes that are really bad and immoral, you're like, well, yep, we've been here, we know.

00:36:55.000 And if you say that Donald Trump shot a man on Fifth Avenue, we'd all be like, well, kind of, probably, okay.

00:37:02.000 Right?

00:37:02.000 Like, he really is right.

00:37:03.000 That was the truest thing Trump ever said.

00:37:06.000 High name recognition and a history of skeletons in your closet means that it's very difficult to actually destroy somebody politically if they've dealt with the skeletons in their closet and they're obvious about it.

00:37:16.000 So Joe Biden has been out there for a long time.

00:37:18.000 There's not a lot out there that isn't known about Joe Biden.

00:37:20.000 That makes him dangerous.

00:37:21.000 Also, he does have blue-collar appeal in a lot of the states that Trump won, places like Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.

00:37:27.000 That is sort of Biden territory, democratically speaking.

00:37:30.000 So Biden would be a dangerous candidate.

00:37:31.000 So when Trump says he wants Biden, I don't think that's right.

00:37:35.000 Kamala Harris, I have yet to see.

00:37:36.000 So Kamala, she is much better at this routine than Cory Booker is.

00:37:41.000 She also happens to be somebody, her downside is that she has this kind of absolutely clean, clean-as-the-driven-snow image in a lot of the public mind. 1.00

00:37:51.000 That she's just a prosecutor, a hard-nosed prosecutor asking the tough questions.

00:37:55.000 I think when people start digging into clean characters in politics, they don't stay clean for long.

00:37:59.000 And President Trump is a master of throwing dirt on people's hems.

00:38:02.000 He's just great at it.

00:38:03.000 So I think he would fare okay against Kamala Harris.

00:38:06.000 Okay, let's see.

00:38:06.000 Ophir says,

00:38:13.000 Hashtag Shapiro5784, which is 2024 in the Hebrew calendar.

00:38:17.000 You know, I don't know.

00:38:18.000 Maybe.

00:38:18.000 You know, I really enjoyed doing the election special and it was a lot of fun and it was great to be able to do it right before the election.

00:38:24.000 We'll see what, you know, what comes.

00:38:27.000 We will find out.

00:38:27.000 We'll find out.

00:38:28.000 Joel says, as the saying goes, a way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

00:38:31.000 What food does your wife make that falls under this axiom? 1.00

00:38:33.000 Any foods that signal events.

00:38:36.000 Wow.

00:38:37.000 Dude.

00:38:39.000 Okay, so I have to be honest about this.

00:38:41.000 My wife has cooked me three meals in the last ten years. 0.81

00:38:44.000 That is because my wife.

00:38:46.000 Wait for it.

00:38:47.000 Is a doctor.

00:38:48.000 That means that she's incredibly busy.

00:38:49.000 And she has not actually cooked meals very often at all.

00:38:53.000 Early in our marriage, the way to my heart was through boiling ravioli like it was literally that.

00:38:58.000 You just go to the store, pick up some pre-packaged ravioli.

00:39:01.000 And man, I miss when I was young and my metabolism was great.

00:39:04.000 Because I would down like three bags of that stuff.

00:39:06.000 I'd eat like legitimately like 35 ravioli in a sitting.

00:39:09.000 It was pretty spectacular.

00:39:10.000 Can't do that anymore.

00:39:12.000 But,

00:39:13.000 Whoever said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach?

00:39:16.000 No, that's true of, like, motherly love.

00:39:18.000 When it comes to your wife, the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach.

00:39:22.000 Jordan says, Well, the problem is that every government program also has an incentive to grow.

00:39:25.000 Name a government program that has shrunk over time.

00:39:37.000 Every government program that is subsidized by tax dollars ends up growing over time.

00:39:40.000 So the government also has an interest in growing.

00:39:43.000 The government has an interest in growing the number of people who work for it, the number of prisons that are built.

00:39:47.000 There is legitimately not one area of American public life that has shrunk over time.

00:39:51.000 So if your problem is that the private businesses have an incentive to build new prisons, I'm still confused as to how those private businesses are leveraging us to change our criminal laws to imprison more people.

00:40:02.000 I don't think the problem with the prison system is a private-public system as much as it is an issue of oversight.

00:40:07.000 There's not very good oversight of our prison systems, and our criminal laws in some cases are too harsh and in some cases are seriously not harsh enough.

00:40:14.000 I mean, in the state of California, I think the average time served for a rape is something like five and a half years, which is just nuts.

00:40:20.000 And what do you do when you have a termite problem?

00:40:22.000 As an American Jew, it's difficult not to feel threatened by the growing anti-Semitism coming from the extreme liberal left. 0.89

00:40:27.000 This is, of course, a reference to Louis Farrakhan calling for the extermination of Jews and saying that he's not an anti-Semite, he's an anti-termite.

00:40:35.000 Which is weird, because every time I try to fumigate my house for termites, what they do is they then proceed to build half the inventions in human history, create the basic morality of the West, and create the only successful state in the Middle East. 0.97

00:40:46.000 Every time I try to fumigate the termites, that's what happens.

00:40:49.000 It's an astonishing thing.

00:40:50.000 He hasn't been banned from Twitter, of course, because he's Louis Farrakhan, and Democrats love him.

00:40:54.000 According to Shelby, my very own Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who's supposed to represent one of the most Jewish areas in the world, is being cheered on stage by openly anti-Semitic figures like Linda Sarsour. 0.93

00:41:02.000 Where do you see this ending?

00:41:04.000 The answer is nowhere good, because, I mean, let's look at history.

00:41:07.000 It never ends all that well for the Jews. 0.73

00:41:08.000 The difference is, this time, number one, America, I do believe, is a different country.

00:41:13.000 I do believe that an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values, that believes in the 0.97

00:41:18.000 Biblical truth of the Jewish mission and the Christian mission is very friendly to Jews and has historically been so.

00:41:25.000 And there is a state of Israel, and the state of Israel does have the capacity to defend itself, and that changes the very nature of the history in which we live.

00:41:32.000 Charles says, Dear Ben, why do large cities seem to always vote Democrat and more rural areas Republican?

00:41:36.000 The answer is because in rural areas you tend to be a lot more self-reliant and there's a lot less conflict with the people you live around.

00:41:42.000 If you have a big part of space, if you have a big piece of land, your neighboring can bother you that much.

00:41:47.000 So you don't feel the necessity to regulate your neighbor all that much because there are no externalities to what your neighbor is doing.

00:41:52.000 When you live in a city, externalities are everywhere.

00:41:54.000 When you live in a city, the guy next door is playing his music too loud?

00:41:57.000 It bothers you.

00:41:58.000 And that means that you need a regulation about how much noise is allowed in a particular residential building.

00:42:03.000 If the guy next door decides to keep a messy apartment.

00:42:07.000 And the smells emanating therefrom are a problem.

00:42:09.000 You need regulations.

00:42:11.000 If the streets are not clean and we all share the same streets, well then, that requires regulation too.

00:42:16.000 And all this requires tax dollars.

00:42:18.000 Spillover effects in highly populated areas are more significant.

00:42:21.000 This is the reason why cities tend to be more highly regulated and more top-down driven.

00:42:26.000 Now, does that mean that's how they should be run, economically speaking?

00:42:29.000 No.

00:42:29.000 Doesn't mean that's how they should be run in terms of regulatory policy.

00:42:31.000 No.

00:42:32.000 But that's the reason why you get a lot of people together in a very small area.

00:42:35.000 It does generally drive people toward the idea that we have to heavily lock down how we live in a way that you wouldn't if you were out in the middle of nowhere where you're not bothering anybody and nobody's bothering you.

00:42:44.000 Reid says, Hey Ben, much like you, I was viciously bullied in middle school and high school.

00:42:47.000 I feel like a stronger person for it, but I also avoid thinking about those times.

00:42:50.000 Have you been able to forgive the bullies from your youth?

00:42:52.000 If yes, how so?

00:42:54.000 Well,

00:42:55.000 I think forgiveness requires, in Judaism, forgiveness requires somebody to ask for forgiveness.

00:43:00.000 I think one of the guys who did this asked for forgiveness at one point.

00:43:02.000 It wasn't actually one of the guys.

00:43:04.000 It was one of the guys who was there and didn't do anything.

00:43:06.000 He asked for forgiveness that I had no problem giving. 0.99

00:43:08.000 If somebody came and asked for forgiveness now, I think I would do it just because we were all kids, we were young, and people act like idiots when they're young. 0.99

00:43:15.000 They act terribly when they're young. 0.99

00:43:17.000 But,

00:43:19.000 I don't think so.

00:43:35.000 Absolutely.

00:43:36.000 But is that something that I spend an awful lot of time thinking about?

00:43:39.000 No.

00:43:40.000 And do I think that it made me stronger?

00:43:41.000 Yeah, I do.

00:43:42.000 I think that when you go through adversity and you come out the other side determined to succeed, I think that does make you stronger.

00:43:46.000 Good question.

00:43:47.000 I will say that I prefer Chopin, but I am fond of both of them, although I have to say that

00:43:59.000 To me, both are composers of showier pieces.

00:44:02.000 I prefer what would be termed more serious music, folks like Brahms.

00:44:06.000 Let's see, Steven says,

00:44:14.000 What other resources does your team use to find objective opinion on topics in regard to laws or government policies?

00:44:19.000 Please help me be less like Skylar Turden and more like the Benjamin Shapiro show, Facts Over Feelings with Steven.

00:44:24.000 Skylar Turden, of course, a reference to Steven Crowder's character, Skylar Turden, who does this debate show that I was just on a little bit earlier this week.

00:44:32.000 When I'm looking for

00:44:33.000 Objective law, I tend to look directly at the court rulings.

00:44:37.000 This is one of the benefits to being a lawyer.

00:44:38.000 I can actually read those court rulings, and I can read the law, and I can understand it.

00:44:41.000 So that, obviously, is very helpful.

00:44:44.000 Also, there are some sites that are pretty good about trying to sum up these things without too much opinion injected.

00:44:50.000 SCOTUSblog is pretty famous for being fairly good about this sort of stuff.

00:44:54.000 Oyez is a good resource on this sort of thing.

00:44:56.000 They'll just kind of give you the ruling, the controversy of the ruling, and the extension of the ruling.

00:45:00.000 So there are a number of sites that are not partisan in this way.

00:45:06.000 So I have to admit, I'm split on congressional term limits.

00:45:11.000 On the one hand, I think that people should be able to elect whomever they want.

00:45:14.000 And if people continue to elect the same Congress people because they're lazy, that's on you.

00:45:17.000 That's your fault.

00:45:18.000 I think that freedom for voters is something that I am in favor of.

00:45:22.000 On the other hand, because congressmen have basically been using government resources not only to enrich themselves, but also to enshrine their own capacity to stay in Congress, the idea of term limits has some appeal.

00:45:35.000 One of the great advantages to being in Congress is you can use office stationary to send out missives that are basically campaign literature, and even if you're not openly campaigning,

00:45:43.000 When you send out a missive to your entire population saying, here's something great I did for you.

00:45:47.000 It's obviously a piece of campaign literature.

00:45:49.000 You just guise it as a piece of information that you're trying to give folks.

00:45:52.000 So, I'm split on it.

00:45:55.000 I think I could probably fall either way on all of this.

00:45:57.000 Let's see.

00:45:58.000 John says, good morning.

00:45:59.000 Given that Democrats have moved and are still moving further and further to the left in 2020, what do you think will be the most significant or most ridiculous change to the official Democratic Party platform from 2016?

00:46:08.000 I would not be surprised if the Democratic Party platform in 2016 embraces full-on nationalized healthcare.

00:46:15.000 I would also not be surprised if they embrace the idea of gender neutrality, meaning that it would be that they're in favor of anti-discrimination laws that prevent

00:46:24.000 Any sort of difference in outcome between men and women, and even reflect the idea that legislation should allow you to self-register in terms of gender.

00:46:33.000 That would not be a great surprise.

00:46:34.000 I think that's probably not 2020.

00:46:35.000 I think by 2024 that's probably in the platform.

00:46:38.000 Derek says, Hey Ben, I teach in the ROTC department of a major university and our program receives constant opposition from the school to the point where our cadets can't wear uniforms to class without harassment and can't use dummy rifles in training.

00:46:48.000 How do you recommend we approach the school to solve this problem

00:46:52.000 Thanks.

00:46:54.000 Well, here's the way I would deal with it, and this is the last question.

00:46:57.000 The way that I would deal with this is I would actually go to my congressperson, and I would threaten them with the Solomon Amendment.

00:47:03.000 So the Solomon Amendment says that if you defund ROTC, then you lose your federal funding.

00:47:08.000 Extending that to the allowance of ROTC to do what it needs to do on college campuses seems to me perfectly rational.

00:47:14.000 If you're going to try and crack down on ROTC for political reasons, why are you taking federal funding from the federal government that is defending you? 0.98

00:47:20.000 Those ROTC folks are going to be in the military defending the rights of people to be idiots on college campuses all over the world. 0.98

00:47:26.000 Sorry, I'm going to do one more because this one seems very sincere. 0.99

00:47:28.000 Jesse says,

00:47:29.000 I was hoping you could help me because I feel like I'm being a bad conservative.

00:47:32.000 In the news and popular culture, it's become well documented that conservatives love to denigrate women, marry women, and make them subservient to men.

00:47:38.000 So far, one and a half years into my marriage, however, my wife hasn't worked, as she is pursuing a master's degree and I'm the primary earner.

00:47:43.000 Her school schedule often keeps her too busy to help around the house, so I cook about 90% of all the meals, make sure lunch is ready for both of us, meal plan, etc.

00:47:50.000 She does tend to clean more than I do, but I attribute that more to her having a more strict definition of cleanliness than I do.

00:47:54.000 I love my wife and I'm very proud of her for the work she's doing, but sometimes I worry.

00:47:58.000 Am I being a bad conservative for loving my wife and making sacrifices to the overall benefit of our marriage?

00:48:03.000 Jesse.

00:48:04.000 Jesse, I feel you, man.

00:48:05.000 I just said earlier on the program, my wife hadn't cooked a meal in like 10 years.

00:48:09.000 OK, I spend more time with our kids right now than my wife does. 1.00

00:48:12.000 That'll change when she takes time off or if she works part time after she graduates. 0.96

00:48:16.000 But I've been there.

00:48:17.000 I feel you, dude.

00:48:18.000 And no, it doesn't make you a bad conservative, obviously.

00:48:20.000 I understand the letter is sarcastic.

00:48:22.000 It doesn't make you a bad conservative to be kind to your wife.

00:48:27.000 But this does raise a good issue about marriage that you should know.

00:48:30.000 The reason that marriages fail is because you have unrealistic expectations of the other party.

00:48:34.000 The lower your expectations are of your spouse, the better your marriage will be.

00:48:37.000 That doesn't mean that you can't have reasonable expectations that your spouse treats you well.

00:48:41.000 It doesn't mean that you should allow your spouse to treat you badly or anything like that.

00:48:44.000 But presumably you married them because you don't think that they will.

00:48:47.000 What I mean is that if you have an expectation that all housework is going to be split 50-50, not going to happen.

00:48:51.000 If you have an expectation all childcare is going to be split 50-50, not going to happen.

00:48:55.000 If you have an expectation that your wife is going to take care of things or your husband is going to take care of things, you're setting yourself up for failure. 0.79

00:49:01.000 The first rule in marriage is do it yourself. 0.87

00:49:05.000 And then if your spouse does something for you, it's a nice thing.

00:49:09.000 And you can appreciate it.

00:49:10.000 But you shouldn't... Expectations are a killer of relationships.

00:49:14.000 This is true in politics also, by the way.

00:49:16.000 Expectations kill politics.

00:49:18.000 If you expect that politics is going to solve all of your problems, you're going to be disappointed in life and in politics.

00:49:24.000 If you expect that the circumstances surrounding you are going to solve all of your personal problems, you're destined to failure.

00:49:29.000 And if you expect that getting married is going to solve all your problems because your wife is going to butter your bagel every morning, then you're destined to fail. 0.79

00:49:36.000 Before I got married, I actually said to my parents, I hate buttering my bagel.

00:49:39.000 I hate it.

00:49:40.000 Now, I'll be honest.

00:49:41.000 I miss bagels.

00:49:42.000 I've been on a low carb diet for a long time.

00:49:43.000 Bagels are spectacular.

00:49:45.000 I hate it.

00:49:46.000 When I was a kid, I hated buttering my bagel.

00:49:47.000 And I always said to my sisters, when I get married, I have only one requirement, and my wife buttered my bagel for me.

00:49:53.000 My wife has never buttered a single bagel.

00:49:55.000 Ever.

00:49:55.000 Has never happened.

00:49:56.000 You know what?

00:49:57.000 It's fine.

00:49:58.000 I don't care.

00:49:59.000 And if she ever did it, I'd be so happy.

00:50:01.000 Like, whenever she cooks a meal, I'm the happiest person.

00:50:03.000 Not because, like, she's a great cook, though she is a very good cook.

00:50:07.000 She cooks Moroccan.

00:50:08.000 It's terrific.

00:50:08.000 But because

00:50:10.000 When you treat everything that your spouse gives you as a gift, you're likely to be a happier person than if you feel like your spouse has done it out of fulfillment of an expectation.

00:50:18.000 True of God as well, by the way.

00:50:19.000 True in religion.

00:50:20.000 People think that God is a gumball machine.

00:50:21.000 If I pray hard enough and if I act well enough, God will be nice to me.

00:50:24.000 God has no requirement to be nice to you.

00:50:26.000 That is not God's job.

00:50:27.000 Your job is to do your duty.

00:50:29.000 And then, your job is to acknowledge that God is in control of the world as a religious person.

00:50:33.000 This is why whenever people say, and listen, I feel the emotional appeal of something bad happened to me in my life and therefore I blame God for it.

00:50:40.000 I feel the emotional appeal of that, particularly in absolutely tragic situations.

00:50:43.000 Something happens to a child, you live through the Holocaust, you know, stuff like that.

00:50:47.000 But, expectations of God are unfair to God and unfair to you.

00:50:51.000 Because that's not the way the world works.

00:50:52.000 And then when God gives you a gift, you can be grateful for it.

00:50:55.000 Gratitude is the number one ingredient in happiness.

00:50:58.000 Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.

00:51:00.000 So, things that I like.

00:51:02.000 So, I was on an Elvis kick this week.

00:51:04.000 As you know, last week I actually visited Graceland.

00:51:06.000 Senya is very pleased.

00:51:07.000 Senya is a huge Elvis fan.

00:51:08.000 And we brought her back a mug from Graceland, as well as a cup from Graceland.

00:51:12.000 We're cheap that way.

00:51:14.000 So, we've been doing a little bit of Elvis this week.

00:51:17.000 I have to say, I didn't realize, because I hadn't listened to a lot of Elvis, that Elvis actually could sing.

00:51:21.000 Because when you actually just do pop culture stuff with Elvis, it's always like Elvis impersonators in Vegas.

00:51:27.000 It's just not great stuff.

00:51:29.000 Bad Elvis, late Elvis, fat Elvis.

00:51:32.000 And that's not best Elvis.

00:51:34.000 Or, you have the Jailhouse Rock version of Elvis, which is a lot of energy, but not necessarily tremendous vocal skills.

00:51:40.000 He's a very good ballad singer.

00:51:42.000 I think his best stuff is actually ballad singing.

00:51:44.000 He's actually pretty soulful.

00:51:45.000 So here is what I think is his best song, Can't Help Falling in Love, which was from Blue Hawaii, I believe, was originally recorded for this.

00:51:52.000 And it's quite a beautiful song.

00:51:54.000 One of the funny things about a lot of Elvis songs, Elvis never wrote any of his own stuff.

00:51:57.000 He didn't write a single.

00:51:58.000 I think he wrote two of his own songs his entire career.

00:52:00.000 But, half of his great songs are actually old foreign songs translated into English with different lyrics.

00:52:06.000 So, it's Now or Never is Solemnia, just slowed down.

00:52:11.000 And this song, Can't Help Falling in Love, was actually an old French ballad that was updated and then given English lyrics.

00:52:21.000 What's the other famous Elvis song?

00:52:22.000 I mean, there are many, but there's a very famous Elvis ballad

00:52:29.000 Love Me Tender is actually an old Southern Civil War ballad that was updated and given new lyrics.

00:52:37.000 Kind of interesting stuff.

00:52:38.000 Anyway, here is Elvis singing Can't Help Falling In Love.

00:52:40.000 My kids love this song.

00:52:41.000 They're right, it's a great song.

00:52:45.000 What's that?

00:53:13.000 That's great stuff.

00:53:15.000 Also, his gospel stuff is really good.

00:53:16.000 Go listen to his gospel stuff.

00:53:17.000 He grew up singing gospel, and he's very into gospel music.

00:53:20.000 Elvis was really kind of a fusion musician.

00:53:22.000 He did gospel, he did R&B, and he did country.

00:53:24.000 And he sort of merged all those three into one form.

00:53:27.000 I've become a new appreciator of Elvis since I visited Graceland.

00:53:30.000 And that's why I'm going to do my hair like Mathis Glover.

00:53:32.000 So, other things that I like.

00:53:35.000 So, this is really spectacular.

00:53:36.000 Nikki Haley, my spirit animal, sadly to depart from the Trump administration.

00:53:42.000 I still lament the movement of my spirit animal on from here.

00:53:45.000 She was at the Al Smith dinner, and she dropped a great line on Elizabeth Warren.

00:53:50.000 It's just, this is great stuff.

00:53:51.000 So here is my beloved spirit animal, Nikki Haley.

00:53:55.000 Last year you went with Paul Ryan, who's a boy scout, and that's fine, but a little boring.

00:54:03.000 So this year you wanted to spice things up again, right?

00:54:07.000 I get it.

00:54:08.000 You wanted an Indian woman, but Elizabeth Warren failed her DNA test. 1.00

00:54:12.000 That's a good joke.

00:54:17.000 See?

00:54:17.000 Republicans can tell jokes.

00:54:21.000 Nikki Haley's great.

00:54:22.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:54:28.000 If you feel like everybody is taking crazy pills, that's because they are.

00:54:32.000 So, I'm about to play for you the worst ad in political history.

00:54:35.000 Are you ready for this thing? 1.00

00:54:37.000 This thing is hot garbage. 0.98

00:54:38.000 So, this is an ad that is currently making its way across the FM waves in Arkansas. 1.00

00:54:43.000 It is targeted at black voters.

00:54:45.000 And it is from a GOP super PAC, a GOP-associated super PAC.

00:54:50.000 It's not actually run by the GOP and it's not run by Congressman French Hill.

00:54:53.000 The ad is run on behalf of Congressman French Hill from this kind of unnamed group.

00:54:59.000 The ad starts off bad, but if you wait for it, it gets worse.

00:55:04.000 It's so bad, it's great.

00:55:06.000 So here is the ad for Congressman French Hill from Black Americans for the President's Agenda.

00:55:11.000 Woo boy!

00:55:13.000 What will happen to our husbands, our fathers, or our sons when a white girl lies on them? 1.00

00:55:19.000 Girl, white Democrats will be lynching black folk again. 1.00

00:55:22.000 Honey, I've always told my son, don't be messing around with that. 1.00

00:55:26.000 If you get caught, she will cry rape. 1.00

00:55:29.000 I'm voting to keep Congressman French here and the Republicans because we have to protect our men and boys. 0.99

00:55:36.000 We can't afford to let white Democrats take us back to bad old days of race verdicts, life sentences, and lynchings when a white girl screams rape. 0.97

00:55:48.000 Well. 0.99

00:55:50.000 That.

00:55:51.000 Well.

00:55:53.000 Um.

00:55:54.000 Okay.

00:55:55.000 Yeah.

00:55:56.000 So there's that.

00:55:58.000 Moving on, Steve Schmidt.

00:56:01.000 What can you say about that?

00:56:03.000 My goodness.

00:56:05.000 Okay, well then.

00:56:07.000 So French Hill, to his credit and to his necessity, came out and said, that's a bad ad.

00:56:11.000 I have nothing to do with that ad. 0.99

00:56:12.000 I certainly hope not, because whoever did have to do with that ad obviously fell from the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down. 0.99

00:56:20.000 They also fell from the racist tree and then hit every branch on the way down, followed by falling from the sexist tree and then hitting every branch on the way down. 1.00

00:56:29.000 Solid stuff there.

00:56:30.000 We've seen some pretty spectacular ads in this last election campaign, haven't we?

00:56:33.000 I mean, we had the guy who's doing Cocaine Mitch, which was just amazing.

00:56:36.000 This tops Cocaine Mitch, I think.

00:56:37.000 This is a better ad than Cocaine Mitch.

00:56:39.000 Cocaine Mitch, although, that will stick a little bit longer, because it actually is a great name for Mitch McConnell, Cocaine Mitch.

00:56:46.000 Okay.

00:56:46.000 Oh yeah, that was the same ad where he did describe Cocaine Mitch being married to a China person, which was pretty great.

00:56:52.000 Okay, other things that I hate.

00:56:55.000 So I think we can all acknowledge that that is not a good ad.

00:56:57.000 However, MSNBC cannot acknowledge what is a good guest.

00:57:00.000 So, Steve Schmidt, former Republican consigliere to the McCain campaign, who's made a living for the past eight years, nine years, ten years, off of basically going on MSNBC and ripping into other Republicans.

00:57:13.000 He says that the Republican Party is treating immigrants like slaves at an auction, which makes perfect sense if you know nothing about immigration, slavery, or auctions. 0.65

00:57:21.000 So here is Steve Schmidt doing this routine.

00:57:24.000 When they reach the border, and they see a uniform with an American flag, and they are no longer safe.

00:57:33.000 But that baby is ripped away and put into an internment camp?

00:57:36.000 No, please.

00:57:37.000 This is a moral outrage that hearkens to the worst excesses in the history of the country.

00:57:43.000 To the separation of families at the slave auction blocks.

00:57:47.000 Yes.

00:57:47.000 To the separation of Native American families.

00:57:50.000 I love everybody nodding along like this is an intelligent thing to say.

00:57:53.000 And Rosie O'Donnell, I'm old enough to remember when the media thought that Kanye West was crazy.

00:57:58.000 And then they brought Rosie O'Donnell on MSNBC and said that Rosie O'Donnell was totally with it. 0.99

00:58:02.000 Rosie O'Donnell's a crazy person. 1.00

00:58:04.000 Rosie O'Donnell is a legit insane person. 1.00

00:58:07.000 And just to prove that, here's Rosie O'Donnell saying, in that same segment, as she nods there, sagely, 0.84

00:58:12.000 Comparing an actual 9th Circuit Court of Appeals policy about separation of families at the border, specifically designed to prevent the detention of children in jails.

00:58:22.000 Instead, the children were supposed to be given over to guardians outside jails, right?

00:58:26.000 That's a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion, implemented under the Obama administration and then extended under the Trump administration.

00:58:33.000 Rosie O'Donnell sitting there nodding sagely when that is compared to a slave auction, which is deeply insulting to black folks. 1.00

00:58:37.000 It really is.

00:58:38.000 Here is Rosie O'Donnell then saying that she wants to send the military to the White House after Trump.

00:58:43.000 Do you even constitution, bro?

00:58:45.000 People were like, Marshall, what's wrong with you? 1.00

00:58:47.000 You're a lunatic. 0.99

00:58:48.000 He wants to send the military to the border. 1.00

00:58:50.000 So I want to send the military to the White House to get him.

00:58:59.000 Ah, so much humoring!

00:59:01.000 Ah, the laughter!

00:59:02.000 Ah, the revelry!

00:59:03.000 She wants to send the military to the White House to get him. 0.80

00:59:09.000 Man, such good joking.

00:59:12.000 Such good comedian-ing from Rosie O'Donnell.

00:59:15.000 Ah, my heart, I can't take it anymore.

00:59:17.000 Okay, well, we'll be back here on Monday with all the latest news.

00:59:20.000 Can it get more absurd from here?

00:59:22.000 I would have said no, did we not live in a parallel universe.

00:59:25.000 But in this universe, in this universe, not only can it, it most certainly will.

00:59:30.000 And we'll be back on Monday to discuss the fact that King Kong has overtaken the entire White House and is now ripping out the West Wing and replacing it with a Polly Pocket set.

00:59:39.000 We'll be back here on Monday to discuss that news.

00:59:41.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - October 19, 2018

The She-Woman Men Haters Club | Ep. 642

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