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00:00:13.000Listen, 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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00:01:07.000We're going to get to the news in just a second, but first...
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00:04:22.000Because the minute she goes away, she can't make money on her other lucrative side gigs.
00:04:27.000If 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.
00:04:36.000If she is not relevant to the national political discourse, the money train dries up.
00:04:41.000So a bunch of folks on the Democratic side are trying to basically say to her, stick around, but kind of go away.
00:04:45.000So Michael Avenatti, my favorite of the 2020 Democratic presidential contenders, and I'm openly rooting for Michael Avenatti.
00:05:39.000I 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.
00:05:45.000This 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.
00:05:52.000So you're saying, like, name a good thing about Hillary Clinton.
00:05:55.000Maybe she'd be good at, like, standing there sometimes.
00:05:59.000But that is not dissuading anybody in the Hillary Clinton camp from thinking that maybe she's toast.
00:06:05.000So Philippe Raines, who is just a jerk.
00:06:07.000So 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.
00:06:16.000Here is what he says about Hillary Clinton.
00:06:27.000She lost to Barack Obama, a nobody, an absolute nobody in 2008, with the entire media behind her at the beginning of that race.
00:06:33.000And 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.
00:06:43.000She almost lost to that guy in primaries.
00:06:45.000And 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.
00:06:54.000Like, that's legitimately who she lost to.
00:06:57.000So I don't think it's an oversimplification to say that she is the worst candidate you could possibly imagine.
00:07:02.000Like, if you were creating a bad candidate in a lab, that candidate would look exactly like Hillary Clinton.
00:07:07.000But 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.
00:07:14.000And then he was asked, will Hillary run?
00:07:17.000He says, the likelihood is somewhere between highly unlikely and zero, but it's not zero.
00:07:22.000So everywhere, Democrats, you can hear the shrieks of Democrats through the walls here.
00:07:25.000In 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.
00:07:32.000The problem is that Democrats have actually set up the narrative for her to run.
00:07:36.000This is the part that's really fascinating, is that the Democrats are now trying to run, again, their War on Women playbook from 2012.
00:07:43.000And they're doing it in a more intense way now.
00:07:46.000Now, Hillary would be a very bad fit for that playbook, except that Democrats are out of their minds.
00:07:50.000So 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.
00:07:59.000She literally did that for a solid 15 to 20 years of her career.
00:08:04.000But because she is woman, we must hear her roar.
00:08:07.000And you can see that the radical feminists are out in force.
00:08:11.000And when I say radical feminist, I mean radical feminist.
00:08:13.000The best radical feminist piece of the day comes courtesy of Tori Truscheit over at Slate.com, the repository for much of American stupidity.
00:08:22.000This is the actual title of the piece.
00:08:42.000In the wake of the Kavanaugh hearings, a dyke friend in her 20s posted that, real talk, she doesn't like men.
00:08:47.000I hit the like button super fast, feeling secretive and sort of guilty about it.
00:08:50.000She'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.
00:08:57.000Most men treat women like something less than human, whether accidentally or on purpose, and that means it's hard to like them.
00:09:31.000Where does he fall on the creep scale?
00:09:33.000It 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.
00:09:43.000Okay, again, that is a very, very vague definition of sexual violence.
00:09:47.000If 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.
00:09:54.000Republicans insisted that men were the ones who should be afraid, while women recounted the everyday harrowing ways we reroute our lives to avoid assault.
00:10:02.000My woke male co-workers made me two jokes, as if the whole thing were a funny spectacle.
00:10:06.000It was enough to make me want to stop talking to men entirely.
00:10:09.000I have a feeling that the feeling was mutual.
00:10:11.000Yet still, inside my head, the not all men chorus roared.
00:10:14.000What about the dads of two who liked all my angry tweets?
00:10:17.000Or the guy who showed up at the hospital with too much food when my spouse was in labor?
00:10:22.000That's where it gets really confusing.
00:10:23.000When you actually have a woman who says she's a man, are you supposed to hate her for being a man?
00:10:27.000Or are you supposed to like her for being a woman?
00:10:29.000This is when things get really baffling for folks on the left.
00:10:32.000Patriarchy runs so deep that I defend hypothetical men's feelings right away, even to myself.
00:10:38.000I 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.
00:10:49.000Actually, that cultural conditioning says you might want to treat human beings like, you know, individual human beings, because they're human beings.
00:10:54.000Just my imagination, that thing that could break us out of American fascism,
00:10:59.000Your imagination is not going to break anybody out of anything.
00:11:02.000I mean, it's not even going to break you out of the asylum, lady.
00:11:04.000She 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.
00:11:10.000But it's time to confront the latent homophobia in that insult.
00:11:12.000It's not latent homophobia, that's an actual just homophobic insult.
00:11:41.000I 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,
00:11:51.000A 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.
00:11:59.000It's one thing to say that in a dictatorship, but this is the freest country in world history.
00:12:02.000I mean, this lady is writing a piece about how much she hates men in the pages of a national newspaper, basically.
00:12:08.000And probably being championed for it by a bunch of folks on the left.
00:12:12.000The radical feminist movement is in full swing.
00:12:14.000And 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.
00:12:28.000I'm going to get more into this in just one second.
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00:13:56.000The anger that has broken out on the radical feminist left is good for Hillary Clinton, obviously.
00:14:01.000It's also good for folks like Kamala Harris.
00:14:04.000On the intersectionality scale, radical feminists are trying to push women up that scale.
00:14:08.000Right 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
00:14:44.000So what radical feminists are trying to do is elevate women in the hierarchy of victimhood higher up the ladder.
00:14:49.000And that way folks like Hillary Clinton have a better shot at being elected by claiming victimhood.
00:14:52.000This 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.
00:14:59.000Because she was saying, it's not enough for me to be a woman in Democratic primary.
00:15:02.000I also have to claim membership in a historically victimized group.
00:15:08.000So, if you can't beat the intersectionality course, you join the intersectionality course.
00:15:13.000Radical feminists are trying to elevate women as victims in American society.
00:15:17.000And 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.
00:15:47.000Dear 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.
00:15:53.000Recently, a mom of a boy brought her son to the playground at the same time we were there.
00:15:56.000I asked her nicely, I thought, if she would mind leaving because we had wanted it to be a girls-only time.
00:16:44.000Radical feminists want to have it both ways.
00:16:46.000Boys 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.
00:16:53.000I think that we should recognize some truths.
00:16:57.000And 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.
00:17:04.000OK, so is Hillary Clinton going to run again?
00:17:33.000Obviously, the crowd is there to have a good time.
00:17:35.000It really is kind of half a political rally and half a comedy routine, because Trump is a highly entertaining human.
00:17:41.000Well, sometimes that has upsides, and sometimes that has downsides.
00:17:44.000Because, 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.
00:17:56.000Sometimes he creates an Ouroboros of human physicality.
00:18:58.000The 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.
00:19:04.000And President Trump even said this when he was just candidate Trump.
00:20:19.000So, he was talking about Greg Ginfort, who is the, he's Montana congressman, and I guess Ginfort was at this rally.
00:20:27.000And the president decides, you know what would be a great idea?
00:20:30.000To praise that time that Congressman Gianforte body-slammed a reporter.
00:20:34.000So 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.
00:21:22.000It'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.
00:21:27.000And all the women start getting very upset.
00:21:57.000I'm just shocked that Trump hasn't flown in Gianforte as an actual rally mascot.
00:22:02.000Does that mean that it's a smart move?
00:22:03.000No, it turns out it's an unbelievably dumb move.
00:22:06.000And 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.
00:22:16.000You're not actually speaking to the crowd in front of you.
00:22:18.000You are speaking to everyone who can see you on the TV.
00:22:20.000But we'll talk about that in just a second.
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00:23:49.000All right, so, the president of the United States, speaking in Missoula.
00:23:52.000I've given enough lead up to this clip.
00:23:56.000Here 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.
00:24:45.000So, 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.
00:24:52.000Like, but I guess that's where we are right now.
00:24:55.000Guys, you're not supposed to bodyslam anybody in public or in private, it turns out.
00:25:00.000Like, violence, not good in civilized society.
00:25:04.000Honest to God, I punish my two-and-a-half-year-old for pushing his sister.
00:25:08.000I would not allow a congressman for picking up another human and body-slamming him by the neck.
00:25:14.000It's almost two parts of stupidity what Trump said here.
00:25:19.000So part one is, I thought it was bad when he body-slammed the guy, and then I thought, well, maybe it'll help.
00:25:23.000OK, first of all, you are now removing the moral component from you shouldn't body slam people.
00:25:27.000And 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.
00:27:23.000Two things can be true at once because this is reality and the world works that way.
00:27:26.000Now, President Trump does benefit from the fact that the media are completely insane.
00:27:33.000So instead of the media simply saying,
00:27:35.000You 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.
00:27:43.000Instead of them doing that, the direction they go is, you know what?
00:27:48.000This is just like the Saudi Arabian government.
00:27:51.000That just took a guy in the Istanbul consulate, killed him, chopped up his body, and then liquefied it.
00:27:59.000When 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.
00:28:25.000Trump is really good at triggering them.
00:28:28.000Well, I don't think it's actual genius.
00:28:31.000I always attribute to stupidity what I cannot attribute to malice.
00:28:35.000And 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.
00:28:42.000So do I think that this is President Trump manipulating the media into being crazy?
00:28:46.000No, 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.
00:28:55.000And then the media overreaction is so insane that you go, well, I guess I can't side with those people.
00:29:01.000So 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.
00:29:12.000You know how stupid you have to be to make this link?
00:29:13.000The Saudi Arabian government has been murdering people since, you know, their entire existence.
00:29:18.000They've been murdering dissidents and journalists for literally decades.
00:29:29.000The world was also a rough, bad place before President Trump was born and before he was president.
00:29:33.000The world didn't start spinning the moment that President Trump was elected.
00:29:36.000Here 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.
00:29:45.000At that rally last night, we'll play it for you, the president praised the body slamming.
00:29:49.000I need a guy who can do a body slamming like that.
00:29:53.000Well, 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.
00:30:05.000And the president, we should note, acknowledged that it certainly looks
00:30:10.000Okay, so if you think that President Trump is okay with the murder of a journalist because he says something stupid about Greg Gianforte, no.
00:30:23.000And 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,
00:30:32.000Like, 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.
00:30:43.000Well, there's still no linkage, but Trump says dumb things, which is the obvious, you know, answer to all of this.
00:30:48.000The worst example of this came courtesy of Joaquin Castro, one of the Castro brothers, who wants, I guess Julian wants to run for president.
00:30:56.000Joaquin is just the other role, he's the other one.
00:31:01.000And 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.
00:31:11.000And then he was kind of using the Gianforte comments as evidence of this.
00:31:16.000Let me get to the point that I think is most disturbing right now.
00:31:20.000The reporting that Jared Kushner may have, with U.S.
00:31:24.000intelligence, 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.
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00:33:32.000Alrighty, 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?
00:33:42.000When it comes to the murder of this Saudi journalist, couple of things.
00:33:46.000One, 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.
00:33:53.000It'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.
00:34:05.000It is Obama characters who are saying that Saudi Arabia has to be cut off by the United States.
00:34:09.000Now, should there be serious consequences to an ally's murder of a journalist?
00:34:14.000But 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.
00:34:22.000I'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.
00:34:38.000Don't murder journalists and there should be consequences.
00:34:40.000And 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.
00:35:58.000I think that Trump would also womp somebody like Eric Garcetti, the LA mayor, who pretends to be cool but is actually just a dork.
00:36:05.000So I think Trump would destroy him pretty quickly.
00:36:08.000I think that the most dangerous candidate for him
00:36:11.000Would have been Elizabeth Warren if she didn't implode.
00:36:14.000Frankly, I thought she was a lot smarter politically than she is.
00:36:17.000And 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.
00:36:24.000And she just sat there and set her teepee on fire.
00:36:25.000And I didn't understand why she would do that.
00:36:27.000But she's kind of taken herself out of the smart candidate circle.
00:36:32.000I 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.
00:36:39.000One 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.
00:36:45.000If you say that Donald Trump is bad with women, everybody goes, eh, right, we knew, yep.
00:37:03.000That was the truest thing Trump ever said.
00:37:06.000High 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.
00:37:16.000So Joe Biden has been out there for a long time.
00:37:18.000There's not a lot out there that isn't known about Joe Biden.
00:37:36.000So Kamala, she is much better at this routine than Cory Booker is.
00:37:41.000She 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.
00:37:51.000That she's just a prosecutor, a hard-nosed prosecutor asking the tough questions.
00:37:55.000I think when people start digging into clean characters in politics, they don't stay clean for long.
00:37:59.000And President Trump is a master of throwing dirt on people's hems.
00:38:18.000You 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.
00:39:18.000When it comes to your wife, the way to a man's heart is not through his stomach.
00:39:22.000Jordan says, Well, the problem is that every government program also has an incentive to grow.
00:39:25.000Name a government program that has shrunk over time.
00:39:37.000Every government program that is subsidized by tax dollars ends up growing over time.
00:39:40.000So the government also has an interest in growing.
00:39:43.000The government has an interest in growing the number of people who work for it, the number of prisons that are built.
00:39:47.000There is legitimately not one area of American public life that has shrunk over time.
00:39:51.000So 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.
00:40:02.000I don't think the problem with the prison system is a private-public system as much as it is an issue of oversight.
00:40:07.000There'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.
00:40:14.000I 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.
00:40:20.000And what do you do when you have a termite problem?
00:40:22.000As an American Jew, it's difficult not to feel threatened by the growing anti-Semitism coming from the extreme liberal left.
00:40:27.000This 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.
00:40:35.000Which 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.
00:40:46.000Every time I try to fumigate the termites, that's what happens.
00:40:50.000He hasn't been banned from Twitter, of course, because he's Louis Farrakhan, and Democrats love him.
00:40:54.000According 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.
00:41:04.000The answer is nowhere good, because, I mean, let's look at history.
00:41:07.000It never ends all that well for the Jews.
00:41:08.000The difference is, this time, number one, America, I do believe, is a different country.
00:41:13.000I do believe that an America steeped in Judeo-Christian values, that believes in the
00:41:18.000Biblical truth of the Jewish mission and the Christian mission is very friendly to Jews and has historically been so.
00:41:25.000And 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.
00:41:32.000Charles says, Dear Ben, why do large cities seem to always vote Democrat and more rural areas Republican?
00:41:36.000The 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.
00:41:42.000If you have a big part of space, if you have a big piece of land, your neighboring can bother you that much.
00:41:47.000So you don't feel the necessity to regulate your neighbor all that much because there are no externalities to what your neighbor is doing.
00:41:52.000When you live in a city, externalities are everywhere.
00:41:54.000When you live in a city, the guy next door is playing his music too loud?
00:42:32.000But that's the reason why you get a lot of people together in a very small area.
00:42:35.000It 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.
00:42:44.000Reid says, Hey Ben, much like you, I was viciously bullied in middle school and high school.
00:42:47.000I feel like a stronger person for it, but I also avoid thinking about those times.
00:42:50.000Have you been able to forgive the bullies from your youth?
00:43:04.000It was one of the guys who was there and didn't do anything.
00:43:06.000He asked for forgiveness that I had no problem giving.
00:43:08.000If 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.
00:44:14.000What other resources does your team use to find objective opinion on topics in regard to laws or government policies?
00:44:19.000Please help me be less like Skylar Turden and more like the Benjamin Shapiro show, Facts Over Feelings with Steven.
00:44:24.000Skylar 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.
00:45:18.000I think that freedom for voters is something that I am in favor of.
00:45:22.000On 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.
00:45:35.000One 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,
00:45:43.000When you send out a missive to your entire population saying, here's something great I did for you.
00:45:47.000It's obviously a piece of campaign literature.
00:45:49.000You just guise it as a piece of information that you're trying to give folks.
00:45:59.000Given 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?
00:46:08.000I would not be surprised if the Democratic Party platform in 2016 embraces full-on nationalized healthcare.
00:46:15.000I 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
00:46:24.000Any 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.
00:46:35.000I think by 2024 that's probably in the platform.
00:46:38.000Derek 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.
00:46:48.000How do you recommend we approach the school to solve this problem
00:46:54.000Well, here's the way I would deal with it, and this is the last question.
00:46:57.000The way that I would deal with this is I would actually go to my congressperson, and I would threaten them with the Solomon Amendment.
00:47:03.000So the Solomon Amendment says that if you defund ROTC, then you lose your federal funding.
00:47:08.000Extending that to the allowance of ROTC to do what it needs to do on college campuses seems to me perfectly rational.
00:47:14.000If 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?
00:47:20.000Those ROTC folks are going to be in the military defending the rights of people to be idiots on college campuses all over the world.
00:47:26.000Sorry, I'm going to do one more because this one seems very sincere.
00:47:29.000I was hoping you could help me because I feel like I'm being a bad conservative.
00:47:32.000In the news and popular culture, it's become well documented that conservatives love to denigrate women, marry women, and make them subservient to men.
00:47:38.000So 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.
00:47:43.000Her 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.
00:47:50.000She 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.
00:47:54.000I love my wife and I'm very proud of her for the work she's doing, but sometimes I worry.
00:47:58.000Am I being a bad conservative for loving my wife and making sacrifices to the overall benefit of our marriage?
00:48:22.000It doesn't make you a bad conservative to be kind to your wife.
00:48:27.000But this does raise a good issue about marriage that you should know.
00:48:30.000The reason that marriages fail is because you have unrealistic expectations of the other party.
00:48:34.000The lower your expectations are of your spouse, the better your marriage will be.
00:48:37.000That doesn't mean that you can't have reasonable expectations that your spouse treats you well.
00:48:41.000It doesn't mean that you should allow your spouse to treat you badly or anything like that.
00:48:44.000But presumably you married them because you don't think that they will.
00:48:47.000What I mean is that if you have an expectation that all housework is going to be split 50-50, not going to happen.
00:48:51.000If you have an expectation all childcare is going to be split 50-50, not going to happen.
00:48:55.000If 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.
00:49:01.000The first rule in marriage is do it yourself.
00:49:05.000And then if your spouse does something for you, it's a nice thing.
00:49:18.000If you expect that politics is going to solve all of your problems, you're going to be disappointed in life and in politics.
00:49:24.000If you expect that the circumstances surrounding you are going to solve all of your personal problems, you're destined to failure.
00:49:29.000And 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.
00:49:36.000Before I got married, I actually said to my parents, I hate buttering my bagel.
00:50:10.000When 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.
00:50:29.000And then, your job is to acknowledge that God is in control of the world as a religious person.
00:50:33.000This 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.
00:50:40.000I feel the emotional appeal of that, particularly in absolutely tragic situations.
00:50:43.000Something happens to a child, you live through the Holocaust, you know, stuff like that.
00:50:47.000But, expectations of God are unfair to God and unfair to you.
00:50:51.000Because that's not the way the world works.
00:50:52.000And then when God gives you a gift, you can be grateful for it.
00:50:55.000Gratitude is the number one ingredient in happiness.
00:50:58.000Okay, time for a couple of things I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.
00:51:45.000So 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.
00:55:29.000I'm voting to keep Congressman French here and the Republicans because we have to protect our men and boys.
00:55:36.000We 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.
00:56:12.000I 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.
00:56:20.000They 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.
00:56:55.000So I think we can all acknowledge that that is not a good ad.
00:56:57.000However, MSNBC cannot acknowledge what is a good guest.
00:57:00.000So, 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.
00:57:13.000He 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.
00:57:21.000So here is Steve Schmidt doing this routine.
00:57:24.000When they reach the border, and they see a uniform with an American flag, and they are no longer safe.
00:57:33.000But that baby is ripped away and put into an internment camp?
00:58:04.000Rosie O'Donnell is a legit insane person.
00:58:07.000And just to prove that, here's Rosie O'Donnell saying, in that same segment, as she nods there, sagely,
00:58:12.000Comparing 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.
00:58:22.000Instead, the children were supposed to be given over to guardians outside jails, right?
00:58:26.000That's a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion, implemented under the Obama administration and then extended under the Trump administration.
00:58:33.000Rosie O'Donnell sitting there nodding sagely when that is compared to a slave auction, which is deeply insulting to black folks.
00:59:22.000I would have said no, did we not live in a parallel universe.
00:59:25.000But in this universe, in this universe, not only can it, it most certainly will.
00:59:30.000And 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.
00:59:39.000We'll be back here on Monday to discuss that news.