The Ben Shapiro Show - The State Of The Union Is Stupid | Ep. 710

00:00:00.000 President Trump prepares for the State of the Union address, Stacey Abrams prepares for her response, and Virginia Democrats continue their slow-motion implosion.

00:00:07.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:08.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:14.000 Man, who is excited for the State of the Union address tonight?

00:00:16.000 Woo! 0.99

00:00:18.000 Yeah, yeah, you can sense that excitement out there.

00:00:20.000 I'm so excited I'm gonna go in the back and hang myself later.

00:00:23.000 I am very pumped up about this.

00:00:25.000 But I'll do it after we have our State of the Union address coverage tonight because I know that we all have to suffer through that together.

00:00:31.000 I was so excited about the government shutdown.

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00:01:48.000 I have to tell you, a little bit of behind the scenes here at the Ben Shapiro Show.

00:01:52.000 It's not an auspicious day for the State of the Union here at the Ben Shapiro Show because it's raining in Los Angeles, first of all.

00:01:58.000 And whenever it rains in Los Angeles, people around the area believe that God's wrath has fallen upon this town at long last.

00:02:04.000 Second of all, our normal studios, you may have noticed that if you watch the show, that our normal studios, you know, with the bright, beautiful lights, have been replaced by this deep, dank cell.

00:02:12.000 You know, this terrible, terrible place.

00:02:15.000 That resembles the Pit of Despair from The Princess Bride.

00:02:18.000 Well, it turns out that not only have we moved into a temporary studio while we build out our beautiful new magnificent studios, but also there are huge leaks in here that happen every time it rains.

00:02:27.000 So, as we prepare for the State of the Union Address, we are also smelling the decomposing corpses of people that our producer Senya murdered.

00:02:34.000 Earlier and then stacked up behind the curtains behind all the soundstage boards and everything.

00:02:39.000 So, you know, it's a little depressing to be contemplating your own mortality while smelling the mold coming off the corpses as you prepare for the State of the Union address.

00:02:46.000 So that's that's my mood this morning as I prepare for the State of the Union address.

00:02:51.000 President Trump, of course, is supposed to give the State of the Union address tonight at long last.

00:02:55.000 The government shutdown did have its good aspects.

00:02:57.000 One of those aspects was no State of the Union address.

00:02:59.000 Now, I know there are some people who get super pumped up about the State of the Union.

00:03:03.000 They love the pump.

00:03:04.000 They love the circumstance.

00:03:05.000 They are into it, man.

00:03:07.000 They are just excited as can be about the State of the Union address.

00:03:10.000 They cannot wait for President Trump to go out there and say a bunch of words that no one's going to remember five minutes after he said them.

00:03:15.000 Quick quiz.

00:03:16.000 Do you remember anything from President Trump's State of the Union address last year?

00:03:20.000 I do, but only because I do this professionally.

00:03:22.000 I remember a couple of things.

00:03:23.000 One, there was the North Korean guy who's picking up his crutches.

00:03:25.000 And second, There was the soldier's wife, who he paid tribute to, while some Democrats stood for a second and then sat down, right?

00:03:32.000 But those were both controversial.

00:03:33.000 I don't remember a single thing that he said.

00:03:35.000 I remember the people that he used for the props, because this is what we've been doing since Ronald Reagan, where the president points up into the rafters and he goes, and now let me tell you the story of Bob.

00:03:45.000 And then everyone points to Bob and is like, yeah, Bob!

00:03:47.000 Woo! 0.99

00:03:48.000 So we're going to get a lot of that tonight.

00:03:50.000 And that's why we treat this thing like it is an entertainment vehicle.

00:03:55.000 And one of the big questions is, who's going to bring whom as guests?

00:03:59.000 Which guests are going to show up?

00:04:01.000 So here are the people who President Trump is bringing for his guests at the State of the Union at the Capitol building tomorrow.

00:04:07.000 The guests are going to include Deborah Bissell, Heather Armstrong, and Madison Armstrong.

00:04:10.000 These are family members of Gerald and Sharon David who were killed by an illegal immigrant. 0.92

00:04:14.000 President Trump, I'm sure, is going to talk about illegal immigrant crime and how it's linked to his need for a border wall, obviously.

00:04:19.000 I have recommended that what President Trump actually should do is literally take a paragraph from Bill Clinton's State of the Union address in 1993 and just read it straight, and let the media go nuts over how extreme it is, and then release a video of him side-by-side with Bill Clinton saying the exact same words on his Twitter feed.

00:04:37.000 The other folks, Matthew Charles, was released from prison under the First Step Act, that's criminal justice reform.

00:04:41.000 Grace Eline, a 10-year-old cancer survivor.

00:04:45.000 All worthy people.

00:04:45.000 One of the names on the list is Joshua Trump.

00:04:47.000 Who is Joshua Trump?

00:04:47.000 Is he any relation to Trump?

00:04:48.000 No.

00:04:48.000 He has no relation to President Trump.

00:04:49.000 Wiberly, the father of a Navy Seaman killed in a terrorist attack.

00:04:52.000 All worthy people.

00:04:53.000 One of the names on the list is Joshua Trump.

00:04:56.000 Who is Joshua Trump?

00:04:58.000 Is he any relation to Trump?

00:04:58.000 No, he has no relation to President Trump.

00:05:00.000 He is a sixth grader who the White House explains has been bullied in school due to his last name.

00:05:05.000 So a couple of months ago, there was a big story about him.

00:05:09.000 Here's what it said.

00:05:09.000 The bullying started two years ago when he was at Claymont Elementary School, according to his principal.

00:05:13.000 That was about the time Donald J. Trump became president.

00:05:15.000 Joshua's family might change his last name from Trump, which he got from his mother, Megan Trump, to Berto, his father's last name.

00:05:21.000 All that to stop Schoolyard teasing.

00:05:23.000 He said, I had to sit down with my son and hear him tell me that he hates himself and that he feels sad all the time, his mom said, on Facebook.

00:05:29.000 So, a couple of things that are sort of odd about this.

00:05:32.000 First of all, I'm not denying in any way that this kid got bullied, obviously.

00:05:35.000 I mean, if you are bullied, I mean, I was viciously bullied in school.

00:05:39.000 Bullying is awful. 0.95

00:05:40.000 And people who are bullies are pieces of human debris.

00:05:43.000 With that said, is the single best example of bullying across the country somebody who shares the president's last name?

00:05:49.000 Like, there's something peculiarly self-serving I'm going to talk about bullying.

00:05:54.000 And you know who's really bullied?

00:05:55.000 People with the last name Trump.

00:05:58.000 Those people.

00:05:59.000 Oh my goodness.

00:06:01.000 I had suggested earlier that it would be kind of hilarious if President Trump went, and the person who's been bullied the most, the person who's been bullied the most, is that man.

00:06:09.000 Ronald Trump.

00:06:10.000 And then just points up into the balcony, and it's a picture of Donald Trump with a mustache on.

00:06:16.000 Again, this whole event.

00:06:18.000 You may sense that I'm making light of the State of the Union Address. 1.00

00:06:21.000 That's because I think it's incredibly stupid. 0.98

00:06:22.000 The State of the Union Address was meant to be a letter sent by the President to Congress saying, what's going on? 0.99

00:06:27.000 And now it's this big, Monarchical display where the president comes in and we all cheer, yeah, because the executive branch is so important, even though it was supposed to be the second most important branch after the legislative branch.

00:06:39.000 And then we have members of the Supreme Court who sit there and they clap and then they sit there silently while the president insults them.

00:06:44.000 It's what Barack Obama did to members of the Supreme Court.

00:06:47.000 So it'll just be, it'll just be a good time.

00:06:49.000 So who else is President Trump bringing?

00:06:50.000 He's bringing Ashley Evans, who has struggled with opioid and substance abuse for much of her life.

00:06:54.000 In 2017, she was pregnant and suffered a relapse.

00:06:57.000 Her recovery began with the birth of her daughter, along with the help of Bridges Path Medical Care Facility in Kettering, Ohio.

00:07:03.000 So that's one of the guests.

00:07:04.000 Elvin Hernandez, a special agent with Trafficking in Persons Unit of the Department of Homeland Security.

00:07:09.000 Roy James, who's plant manager of the Vicksburg Forest Products Lumber Facility.

00:07:13.000 So I guess that Vicksburg was designated an opportunity zone, so he's going to talk about the tax act.

00:07:20.000 You know, it'll be a lot of people.

00:07:23.000 It'll be a lot of people.

00:07:24.000 It'll just be like a whole group of folks.

00:07:26.000 Alice Johnson is showing up, of course.

00:07:27.000 Alice Johnson was the woman who was released thanks to the intervention of Kim Kardashian, so that'll be exciting.

00:07:34.000 Meanwhile, the Democrats are preparing their response to the State of the Union address, and the person who they have chosen to give this State of the Union response is Stacey Abrams.

00:07:42.000 Now, Stacey Abrams, you'll recall, narrowly lost her gubernatorial race in Georgia. 1.00

00:07:46.000 She did very well in the suburbs, Stacey Abrams.

00:07:48.000 One of the reasons she did well in the suburbs when she ran for governor of Georgia is because her sort of radical intersectional message is not what she spat out in the Georgia suburbs. 1.00

00:07:57.000 In the Georgia suburbs, she talked about sort of a moderate plan for keeping people safe and some new government programs, but she did not campaign as sort of a hardcore intersectional pander to the Democratic-based candidate.

00:08:07.000 That is exactly what she has become after this race was over.

00:08:11.000 She started, number one, complaining that the election was not legitimate. 0.99

00:08:14.000 She still refuses to acknowledge that she lost that race.

00:08:16.000 And then she started talking in pure intersectional terms about why we should divide each other by identity group.

00:08:22.000 And she has a long piece in Foreign Affairs magazine, a very long piece, in Foreign Affairs magazine in which she talks about how upset she is with Francis Fukuyama.

00:08:31.000 Francis Fukuyama, the end of history guy from the 1990s who suggested that liberal capitalism had won the world and therefore the end of history may have arrived.

00:08:39.000 Well, he wrote a piece recently in which he decried identity politics as tribalism.

00:08:42.000 And he talked about the tribal nature of our politics and why it's supremely dangerous.

00:08:46.000 Well, Stacey Abrams wrote a response in which she said she's a fan of tribal politics.

00:08:49.000 She thinks that intersectionality, which is basically the theory that we can all be described as human beings by the groups to which we belong.

00:08:55.000 So I am not an individual human named Ben Shapiro.

00:08:58.000 I am a Jewish white male who is upper income, right?

00:09:04.000 That's all you need to know about me.

00:09:05.000 You don't need to know my personal experiences.

00:09:06.000 You don't need to know how I got here.

00:09:08.000 You don't need to know if I've experienced any discrimination.

00:09:10.000 All you need to know is about those groups.

00:09:12.000 My producer, Senya, is a Hispanic female.

00:09:14.000 That's all you need to know about her.

00:09:15.000 You don't need to know her thoughts, her dreams, her aspirations, her serial killer record.

00:09:19.000 You don't need to know anything about her except for the groups to which she belongs.

00:09:23.000 This is the intersectional notion.

00:09:25.000 It's really vile, because again, intersectionality doesn't just suggest that we can learn sort of information about you from your group.

00:09:33.000 It suggests that the only information that is necessary for us to know about you is your group information, and therefore we should categorize you as a member of your group.

00:09:40.000 And if you think differently than other members of your group, it's because you are not legitimately a member of your group.

00:09:44.000 You have become some sort of group traitor.

00:09:47.000 That's the problem with intersectionality in a nutshell.

00:09:49.000 It is identity politics.

00:09:51.000 It's a response of identity politics.

00:09:53.000 And so there's this cycle of identity politics that has occurred.

00:09:57.000 Stacey Abrams says that we don't actually need to be anti-intersectional identity.

00:10:02.000 We should instead encourage group identification.

00:10:05.000 This is the response to the State of the Union address.

00:10:07.000 Now, President Trump is supposed to give a big unifying address tonight.

00:10:09.000 Is he the best proponent of American unity?

00:10:14.000 No.

00:10:14.000 I mean, I don't think that President Trump has ever unified anything.

00:10:17.000 Like, legitimately anything.

00:10:19.000 He didn't unify, like, his business offices at Trump Tower.

00:10:22.000 So, I don't think he's the most unifying character, and I don't think that that's a huge shock to anybody.

00:10:28.000 But, I also think that the Democrats have made an actual strategy to divide and conquer among particular groups in the United States, particularly split along racial and now class lines.

00:10:38.000 Stacey Abrams is arguing in favor of that.

00:10:40.000 So, here is what she says.

00:10:43.000 In this piece in foreign affairs, she suggests that intersectionality is a result of Donald Trump.

00:10:47.000 That is just a lie.

00:10:48.000 It is not true.

00:10:48.000 And the reality is that intersectionality was a theory proposed by Kimberly Crenshaw a solid decade ago and has roots in the broader social justice movement that started in the 1960s that divides people from people by group.

00:11:02.000 And then it was promoted by Barack Obama in a very heavy-handed way during his presidency.

00:11:08.000 It led to incredible rises in the amount of discontent along racial lines in the United States.

00:11:12.000 If you look at the polls, what you will see is that most Americans of every race were moving toward the idea that America was post-racial.

00:11:19.000 As of 2008, Barack Obama was elected.

00:11:21.000 Suddenly those numbers started to split again.

00:11:23.000 That is not a surprise.

00:11:24.000 I'll explain in a second why that is.

00:11:26.000 Like, why exactly America is now more racially split than it was before Barack Obama was president.

00:11:30.000 I'll get into that and then we'll get into Stacey Abrams' take on what American politics should be and why it's a problem. 1.00

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00:12:55.000 Barack Obama in 2008 took office, and he was given this incredible opportunity to unify Americans.

00:13:02.000 He was given this opportunity to say, listen, we're all striving to move in the right direction.

00:13:05.000 My election is proof.

00:13:07.000 My overwhelming election against an American hero, John McCain, is proof that Americans want to move into a post-racial era.

00:13:14.000 And that means that we are going to call out instances of racism where we see them, but we are not going to spread the label of racism To a bunch of stuff to which it doesn't apply.

00:13:23.000 Instead, Barack Obama knew that his most solid political path, that would have been a politically risky path.

00:13:29.000 It would have been, because it would have meant surrendering his greatest advantage in politics, his race, as a way of defending himself against political attacks.

00:13:38.000 He wasn't willing to do that.

00:13:39.000 Instead, what he did is he said that every attack on him was, in essence, a racial attack.

00:13:42.000 Attacks on Obamacare were backed by racism.

00:13:45.000 Tea Party formation was based on racism.

00:13:48.000 And then, every opportunity he could to stoke the flames of racial conflagration, he did.

00:13:52.000 From Trayvon Martin to Michael Brown.

00:13:54.000 Every time there was any sort of racial incident in the United States, or incident that had nothing to do with race in the United States, but could be perceived as racial, Barack Obama stoked that flame.

00:14:03.000 He used the intersectional identity politics In order to divide Americans so that he could win re-election and build an agglomeration of the aggrieved.

00:14:11.000 And you can see this, right?

00:14:12.000 In 2008, Barack Obama won, not because he separated Americans, but because he said, I'm here to unify.

00:14:17.000 And then in 2012, running a rough re-election race against Mitt Romney, he decided more important to win re-election than to continue to run under a sort of unity ticket.

00:14:26.000 Because he governed as a very divisive guy.

00:14:28.000 And so because his policies divided us, he instead implied his race divided us.

00:14:32.000 People bought into that, and then the Democratic Party began to say things like, well, you know what, maybe we don't need white voters anymore.

00:14:38.000 Maybe what we really ought to do is go after this agglomeration of increasing minority voters, who will eventually be a majority, and those will be the people who rule the roost. 1.00

00:14:46.000 And then in 2016, Trump ran on the backlash, right?

00:14:49.000 Trump said, okay, well, You guys are going to do this routine where you pander to every minority group?

00:14:53.000 Well, I'm going to treat a lot of white folks as though they are not, in fact, as though they are under assault from this viewpoint, which is at least half true. 0.98

00:15:03.000 That was part of Trump's campaign.

00:15:06.000 So Obama started this cycle, and then Trump responded to the cycle.

00:15:10.000 And both of those things are a problem.

00:15:12.000 Now, Democrats are saying, well, let's respond in kind.

00:15:15.000 Let's keep going with the Obama program.

00:15:17.000 Here's the deal.

00:15:17.000 Stacey Abrams is about to give the State of the Union address response tonight.

00:15:20.000 So, her perspective on intersectionality is actually a very damaging perspective.

00:15:25.000 It is the perspective that basically suggests that intersectionality, group identity, is inherently good and useful as a political tool.

00:15:32.000 And her tendency, like a lot of Democrats, is to blame President Trump for identity politics.

00:15:35.000 That President Trump is basing his perspective on sort of a white identity politics that is nasty and negative and dangerous.

00:15:43.000 But the reality is that that identity politics, which I agree, I think Trump engaged in 2016, is actually a response to the identity politics in which Barack Obama engaged.

00:15:52.000 So to understand where we are with identity politics, we have to start from the Barack Obama administration.

00:15:56.000 We have to start back in 2008, when Obama was elected.

00:16:00.000 The American people were extremely optimistic about race relations in America.

00:16:03.000 If you look back at the polls, they show that most Americans, black, white, brown, everyone thought that race relations were moving in the right direction. 0.71

00:16:09.000 Obama was then elected on a particular basis.

00:16:12.000 Barack Obama was elected on the basis of uniting Americans.

00:16:15.000 He ran a campaign that said, we are all individuals, right?

00:16:17.000 We're not white Americans.

00:16:18.000 We're not black Americans. 0.96

00:16:19.000 We're all Americans.

00:16:20.000 There's no red America. 0.90

00:16:21.000 There's no blue America.

00:16:22.000 There's just America.

00:16:24.000 That's how he was elected, and he won a broad-sweeping victory on that platform.

00:16:27.000 Then, when he came into office, he had the ability to say, OK, now we're going to have an honest discussion about what's racist and what's not in America, and I'm not going to pretend that every policy with which I disagree is steeped in racism.

00:16:38.000 I'm not going to pretend that the Tea Party is racist.

00:16:40.000 Maybe they just oppose me based on the size of government.

00:16:43.000 I'm not going to pretend that Republicans who oppose me on the basis of Obamacare Do so because they are vicious racists, because there's no evidence of that.

00:16:51.000 Instead, Barack Obama, particularly in 2012, decided that he was going to ramp up racial tensions in order to win re-election.

00:16:57.000 He decided that he was going to use every racial flashpoint in America as a prop for his presidency.

00:17:02.000 So when Trayvon Martin was shot by George Zimmerman in Florida, he was going to come out and say, Trayvon Martin could have been my son.

00:17:08.000 He was going to say about Michael Brown, people in Ferguson, they're not just making things up.

00:17:12.000 He was going to do that routine.

00:17:14.000 And by doing that routine, he helped divide Americans.

00:17:16.000 The response to that was Donald Trump.

00:17:18.000 So in 2012, Obama ran on this idea that there is this oppressed group of Americans who historically have been put under the thumb of the American hierarchy.

00:17:25.000 We're going to unite.

00:17:26.000 We're going to sweep back to victory, and it's a proof that the minorities in America have finally achieved dominance in America. 1.00

00:17:31.000 You saw this in the media a lot, the talk about the shrinking white majority and how there is going to be this durable coalition of minority groups for the future.

00:17:40.000 Then in 2016, Donald Trump ran largely on the basis of, we're not going to stand for that, and he won.

00:17:46.000 And the Democrats at that point had a choice.

00:17:48.000 They could have said, listen, this intersectional politics stuff is dangerous.

00:17:51.000 This stuff where we divide each other by group instead of appealing to each other as individuals, it's really dangerous and it's a real problem.

00:17:57.000 Instead, they decided we're going to double down on that.

00:18:00.000 We are going to suggest that in order to fight Donald Trump, in order to fight his preferred policies, we are going to call everything that he believes racist and all of his voters racist.

00:18:08.000 And then we are going to unify as groups in order to fight the Trumpian agenda.

00:18:12.000 Well, Stacey Abrams is a loud and proud progenitor of this argument. 1.00

00:18:16.000 So she has a piece in Foreign Affairs magazine called Identity Politics Strengthens Democracy, which is a weird thing since identity politics from white people for most of America's existence was evil.

00:18:27.000 Identity politics of white people caused slavery.

00:18:29.000 It caused Jim Crow. 0.98

00:18:30.000 It caused discrimination against gays, Jews, and Asians.

00:18:34.000 Identity politics was the problem in the United States.

00:18:38.000 So what's changed?

00:18:39.000 Why is it no longer dangerous?

00:18:41.000 Well, according to Stacey Abrams, identity politics is different now because of the identity of the groups.

00:18:46.000 So, here is what she suggests.

00:18:49.000 She says, Francis Fukuyama, who has written an essay about why identity politics is dangerous, she says, Francis Fukuyama and other critics of identity politics contend that broad categories such as economic class contain multitudes, and that all attention should focus on wide constructs rather than the substrates of inequality.

00:19:05.000 But such arguments fail to acknowledge that some members of any particular economic class have advantages not enjoyed by others in their cohort.

00:19:12.000 U.S.

00:19:12.000 history abounds with examples of members of dominant groups abandoning class solidarity after concluding that opportunity is a zero-sum game.

00:19:19.000 The oppressed have often aimed their impotent rage at those too low on the social scale to even attempt rebellion.

00:19:24.000 This is particularly true in the catch-all category known as the working class.

00:19:27.000 So she's pointing at working class racism to suggest that now identity politics is more important than class solidarity.

00:19:34.000 Now my view is that class solidarity is wrong and identity politics is wrong.

00:19:38.000 I don't feel a solidarity with other people of my economic class.

00:19:41.000 I don't feel like I have more morally in common with people who make the same amount of money that I do.

00:19:45.000 I wasn't making this amount of money five years ago and I had the same values.

00:19:48.000 So, this argument that some working class white people are bad to working class black people, therefore black people are a class and white people are a class, that doesn't follow.

00:19:57.000 It is also possible that if we treat each other as individuals, we are best off.

00:20:01.000 So she is correct.

00:20:02.000 She's not wrong to suggest that group identity politics were originally created by a white majority intent on marginalizing particular groups.

00:20:10.000 That, of course, is true. 0.83

00:20:11.000 You had a white majority enslaving a black minority. 0.97

00:20:13.000 You had a white majority keeping black people in dire straits thanks to Jim Crow. 0.98

00:20:18.000 Of course, that's true. 0.88

00:20:20.000 And maybe those groups had to mobilize in order to fight back against the dominant white majority.

00:20:24.000 They had to mobilize, but they had to appeal to white people at the same time.

00:20:26.000 They had to use a universal message while mobilizing as a group.

00:20:29.000 They had to do both of those things.

00:20:30.000 But if you're now suggesting that we are living in a system that oppresses people as groups, you're going to need to show evidence of that.

00:20:38.000 It's not just enough to say that black people are generally victimized in the United States.

00:20:42.000 In 1960, you could point to Jim Crow as an actual legal system that kept black people under the thumb of white people.

00:20:48.000 If you can't point to a system that does that right now, then you're going to have to abandon your notion that you have to mobilize as a group to fight back against another group.

00:20:56.000 Right?

00:20:57.000 Groups form in opposition to other groups.

00:20:59.000 If there is no dominant group that identifies as a group and that is attempting to quash your group, your group identity is no longer threatened.

00:21:05.000 So for you to use your group identity as a baton to wield against other people is actually an act of evil.

00:21:11.000 Here's what she says.

00:21:12.000 She says, The facile advice to focus solely on class ignores these complex links among American notions of race, gender, and economics.

00:21:20.000 She says, My campaign championed reforms to eliminate police shootings of African Americans, protect the LGBTQ community against ERISAT's religious freedom legislation, expand Medicaid to save rural hospitals, and reaffirm that undocumented immigrants deserve legal protections.

00:21:32.000 I refuse to accept the notion that the voters most affected by these policies would invariably support me simply because I was a member of a minority group.

00:21:40.000 My campaign built an unprecedented coalition of people of color, rural whites, suburban dwellers, etc, etc.

00:21:45.000 And then she talks about how she lost because she was cheated, basically, which is not true.

00:21:49.000 And then she says, to seek redress and inclusion, the first step is to identify the barriers to entry, an array of laws and informal rules to prescribe, diminish, and isolate the marginalized.

00:21:58.000 And here is where she gets into her main point.

00:22:00.000 Her main point is that discrimination in the United States is still done along group lines.

00:22:04.000 And this is a lie that intersectional Folks are going to tell you all the time.

00:22:07.000 The intersectional proponents tell you.

00:22:09.000 We'll get into it in just one second.

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00:23:39.000 Okay, so Stacey Abrams is supposed to give the response to the State of the Union tonight, and she is very much in favor of an intersectional politics she thinks will drive her to victory. 1.00

00:23:47.000 The problem for her is it won't.

00:23:49.000 In Georgia, the reason that she came close to winning is because she appealed to suburban women. 1.00

00:23:54.000 White suburban women are not really turned on by the intersectional notions that are pushed by people like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and Stacey Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates. 0.82

00:24:03.000 This is not really what they are thinking when they're thinking, who do I want running the government?

00:24:07.000 But the case for intersectionality, which again is identification with group politics, It's a dangerous case, and here she is making the case.

00:24:15.000 She says, The specific methods by which the United States has excluded women, Native Americans, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community from property ownership, educational achievement, and political enfranchisement have differed.

00:24:26.000 So too have the most successful methods of fighting for inclusion.

00:24:30.000 Hence the need for a politics that respects and reflects the complicated nature of these identities and the ways in which they intersect.

00:24:36.000 The basis for sustainable progress is legal protections grounded in awareness of how identity has been used, To deny opportunity.

00:24:43.000 And so she suggests, for example, anti-abortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.

00:24:51.000 This is a perfect example of how the intersectional identity is evil. 0.83

00:24:55.000 Anti-abortion laws are not directed at minority women.

00:24:58.000 They are not directed at quashing the hopes and aspirations of minority women.

00:25:01.000 To mobilize minority women against a law that is not targeting them by suggesting that their identity is under threat is an appeal to tribal politics that is evil by its nature. 0.78

00:25:11.000 Anti-abortion laws are directed at protecting the unborn.

00:25:14.000 That's all they're protecting.

00:25:15.000 They're aimed at doing that.

00:25:16.000 They're not created by white patriarchies in order to harm women of color.

00:25:21.000 To mobilize qua women of color and suggest to people that their group is under threat is to constantly be pressing the red alarm button in a situation that does not call for it, and to be dividing Americans on the basis of perceived threat, where no threat exists.

00:25:35.000 And when you do that, when you do that often enough, you end up in a very dangerous political environment Where every political difference is now grounds for all forms of resistance up to and including, in some cases, violence.

00:25:49.000 If you feel your identity is threatened, not your politics, your identity, your identity as a woman of color is threatened by an anti-abortion law, you are likely to feel a lot more passionately about the evil of the people who are proposing that law than if you just say, well, it's a political disagreement about the nature of life and when it begins.

00:26:06.000 I mean, this is why intersectional identity is dangerous, dangerous stuff.

00:26:09.000 And it's funny, because people on the left used to acknowledge this.

00:26:12.000 People on the left used to acknowledge that identity politics was bad when it was the identity politics of white people.

00:26:17.000 But now that it's the identity politics of groups they hope to mobilize against the prevailing hierarchy, then identity politics is good.

00:26:24.000 Stacey Abrams concludes, the current demographic and social evolution toward diversity in the United States has played out alongside a trend toward greater economic and social inequality.

00:26:33.000 These parallel but distinct developments are inextricably bound together.

00:26:36.000 The entrance of the marginalized into the workplace, the commons, and the body politic spawned reactionary limits on their legal standing and restrictions meant to block their complaints and prevent remedies.

00:26:45.000 Okay, this is just a lie.

00:26:46.000 What she is suggesting is that as black people have been more accepted in American society, informal rules have come about to make them less equal.

00:26:54.000 That's simply not true.

00:26:56.000 She's going to have to point to what exactly are those informal rules.

00:26:59.000 What are those informal limits?

00:27:01.000 If she can point to limits and rules that actually exist, that we can all fight together, then I'm sure we'll all be on the same side.

00:27:07.000 But if the suggestion is that as we have become more tolerant, we have also become more unequal because there are secret, nefarious forces at work in society to keep minority groups down, then you're spouting conspiracy theory bull.

00:27:20.000 And that conspiracy theory bull is dangerous.

00:27:23.000 It was dangerous when it was directed against Jews historically. 0.94

00:27:25.000 It was dangerous when it was directed against blacks historically.

00:27:29.000 Whenever there is a conspiracy theory about a particular group of people seeking to keep your group of people down, you can't point to any actual rule doing it.

00:27:36.000 It's just out there in the miasma of politics.

00:27:41.000 You're participating in an extraordinarily dangerous exercise in polarization of Americans along tribal lines, and it really destroys the nature of America.

00:27:50.000 She says the natural antidote to this condition is not a retrenchment to amorphous universal descriptions devoid of context or nuance.

00:27:57.000 So we can't just appeal to each other as Americans or individuals.

00:28:00.000 Instead, we have to recognize that we are inevitably part of groups and that those groups are our chief mode of identification. 0.95

00:28:06.000 She says, This is such absolute, sheer, unmitigated bullcrap. 0.99

00:28:08.000 This is such absolute sheer unmitigated bull crap, I can't even tell you. 0.99

00:28:26.000 That if you think that the way to unite Americans is to say, yeah, but you're not really an American, you're a black American, you're a Hispanic American, you're a Jewish American... 0.99

00:28:34.000 And until we recognize your unique identity as these things and your unique history of victimization, we can't move forward.

00:28:41.000 Listen, I can acknowledge the victimization of an enormous number of groups in American history.

00:28:45.000 The question is, what do we do now?

00:28:47.000 And if your idea is that we have to treat you as a member of a group rather than as an individual subject to a creedal identity, You're destroying the very nature of what was great about America in the first place.

00:28:59.000 Okay.

00:28:59.000 Meanwhile, as all of the State of the Union preparations continue...

00:29:03.000 Ralph Northam in Virginia is in serious, serious trouble.

00:29:06.000 So he is going to maintain that job.

00:29:09.000 He is not leaving.

00:29:09.000 He says that if he left right now, then he would be leaving in disgrace.

00:29:13.000 People would think that he's a racist for the rest of his life, so he's just not going to leave.

00:29:17.000 There is something to this, right?

00:29:18.000 If you are a politician, your best bet right now is to double down and never leave.

00:29:22.000 The minute that you show your neck, somebody's going to chop it off.

00:29:25.000 There used to be a sort of agreement in American politics that if you resigned in disgrace, You sort of went away.

00:29:30.000 And then over time, we warmed to you.

00:29:32.000 Even Richard Nixon, he went away in disgrace.

00:29:34.000 And then over time, Americans kind of went, yeah, that was a terrible thing that he did with Watergate. 0.85

00:29:39.000 But was he really like an evil, nefarious, terrible, horrible human being?

00:29:43.000 Probably not. 0.70

00:29:44.000 Bill Clinton was the same sort of thing.

00:29:46.000 If he had resigned in 1998, he would have been a troubled guy with problems of sex.

00:29:50.000 Instead, he stuck it out in 1998.

00:29:52.000 And now we have this situation where politicians are best off sticking it out.

00:29:56.000 Because if you can stick it out, then you get to rewrite your legacy completely.

00:29:59.000 Right, if Ted Kennedy had done the right thing after driving a woman into a river and leaving her to drown, if he'd done the right thing and just ended his political career, then he would have lived off his life in obscurity in the 1970s, but he stuck around.

00:30:10.000 And by sticking around, he got to rewrite his legacy into Lion of the Senate.

00:30:15.000 And so if you're Ralph Northam, why in the world would you leave?

00:30:17.000 What is the upside of leaving?

00:30:18.000 The answer is, there is no upside of leaving.

00:30:22.000 OK, we're going to get into Ralph Northam and Justin Fairfax, where things are going wildly wrong for the lieutenant governor of Virginia as well.

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00:32:03.000 So, Ralph Northam in serious trouble...

00:32:11.000 So now he's trotting out all of his friends to say that he is not, in fact, a racist.

00:32:16.000 And it's getting awkward.

00:32:17.000 So here's a childhood friend of Ralph Northam's, one of his black friends, because this is good politics, is to say, I have a black friend, and then you're like, here is my black friend.

00:32:26.000 So here is one of his black friends on with block of wood Chris Cuomo on CNN. 0.85

00:32:30.000 And she is explaining that she believes that he is not the man in the picture from his yearbook page.

00:32:36.000 of a man in blackface and another man in a KKK outfit at a Halloween party or something.

00:32:41.000 She says she believes that it's not him because she's never seen him be racist.

00:32:45.000 What the governor did was took ownership of a picture that had his name as a prominent heading.

00:32:53.000 He took ownership of, as the governor, he had to, he felt compelled to address that.

00:32:58.000 Ralph Northam is not the person that is depicted In the photograph that's on his page.

00:33:06.000 If Ralph tells me he's not in that picture, I believe him.

00:33:10.000 Okay, well, you know, at this point, honestly, his best move was to basically say, I don't remember being in that picture.

00:33:15.000 If I was in that picture, I apologize. 0.91

00:33:17.000 It was a dumb, racist, insensitive thing to do back in 1985. 0.58

00:33:20.000 I'm a different person than that. 0.98

00:33:21.000 People who know me know I'm a different person than that.

00:33:23.000 And then he would have been able to live this out.

00:33:25.000 His botching of the entire situation is what's led to a lot of the crisis for him.

00:33:28.000 Meanwhile, His lieutenant governor is in even hotter water than Ralph Northam.

00:33:32.000 So, if Ralph Northam did indeed dump the oppo on his lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, about his 2004 sexual assault allegation?

00:33:40.000 Successful!

00:33:41.000 I mean, wow!

00:33:42.000 Well played, Ralph Northam, if it was you.

00:33:44.000 He says it was not.

00:33:45.000 Nonetheless, his lieutenant governor is now blaming the governor of Virginia for dumping oppo on him about an alleged 2004 sexual assault.

00:33:53.000 Does anybody think it's any coincidence that on the eve of potentially Mai being elevated, that that's when this uncorroborated smear comes out?

00:34:00.000 A year ago, this was brought up.

00:34:03.000 And yet, the post who investigated it for three months dropped the story, did not do it, and they did not do it because it was uncorroborated, and it's uncorroborated because it's not true.

00:34:11.000 And so, it goes away for a year, and it crops back up right at this moment.

00:34:17.000 You don't have to be Okay, so he's obviously implying that the Virginia governor dumped the apple on him.

00:34:31.000 Then he softened that suggestion.

00:34:32.000 He said he had no indication that Northam was responsible late on Monday night.

00:34:35.000 In the same conversation, he then hinted that LeVar Stoney, who's the mayor of Richmond and a potential rival to Fairfax for the 2021 Democratic nomination for governor, may have played a role.

00:34:45.000 He praised the acumen of a reporter who inquired whether Stoney might have been responsible.

00:34:49.000 And then Mr. Stoney said, the insinuation is 100% not true, and frankly, it's offensive.

00:34:53.000 So now we have a three-way standoff.

00:34:57.000 I mean, it's the end of the good, the bad, and the ugly, basically.

00:35:00.000 You have three major Democratic figures in Virginia who are all pointing guns at each other, seeing who is going to fire first.

00:35:06.000 And Justin Fairfax is just wildly shooting into the air, trying to hit whomever.

00:35:10.000 Here's the reality about the sexual assault allegation against Justin Fairfax.

00:35:13.000 It is already eminently more plausible than Christine Blasey Ford's allegation against Brett Kavanaugh.

00:35:17.000 Why?

00:35:18.000 Well, because Fairfax has acknowledged that he knows the woman and had sex with the woman.

00:35:21.000 So, right off the bat, you have at least commonality that they went back to a hotel room.

00:35:25.000 What happened in the hotel room is anybody's guess.

00:35:28.000 Now, there are no witnesses as to what happened in the hotel room.

00:35:30.000 You have a basic he-said-she-said scenario from 2004.

00:35:33.000 Does that mean that I believe the woman? 0.67

00:35:34.000 No, I don't have any evidence to believe the woman at this point.

00:35:37.000 Maybe she's telling the truth, maybe she's not.

00:35:38.000 I don't know, you don't know, nobody knows.

00:35:41.000 But I'll tell you this, there's a lot, there are a lot fewer red flags about her story than there were about Christine Blasey Ford's story as it emerged.

00:35:47.000 Or she didn't know time, place, she didn't know date, she didn't know location, she didn't know any, and all the people she said were at the party said, uh, no, I don't remember any of this happening.

00:35:56.000 In this particular case, the woman knows the time, she knows the date, she knows the location.

00:35:59.000 He agrees with her about the time, date, and location.

00:36:02.000 He just says that she consented, and she says that she did not consent.

00:36:06.000 So, she has now, I mean, this is getting rich, she has now hired the law firm for Christine Blasey Ford.

00:36:13.000 She has hired the exact law firm that Christine Blasey Ford used, so we'll see if the media are as eager in pressing on with the investigation into the allegations against Justin Fairfax as they were in pressing the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh that ended, ironically, with another yearbook scandal in which Democrats were questioning the potential justice on the Supreme Court about the use of the word boof on a Facebook page from his high school days.

00:36:36.000 So, it's amazing.

00:36:38.000 You know, they say that history repeats itself first time as tragedy, second time as comedy.

00:36:43.000 And that's fairly accurate.

00:36:45.000 I mean, Brett Kavanaugh, that was a tragic situation for the country.

00:36:49.000 Now, I think it's fair to say that we have reached the point of comedy.

00:36:52.000 Have we reached the point of comedy in this whole thing?

00:36:54.000 I think so.

00:36:55.000 Because we're now going through every major Democratic figure and finding a scandal a day about them.

00:37:00.000 It is amazing, by the way, that nobody found out any of this stuff.

00:37:03.000 Like, where were the Apo researchers in Virginia?

00:37:06.000 I know it's easy for me to say I wasn't doing the Apo research.

00:37:09.000 Still.

00:37:11.000 Pretty amazing stuff.

00:37:12.000 So that is the latest from Virginia, where the Democratic Party is falling apart.

00:37:17.000 I mean, frankly, they're just blowing each other up.

00:37:19.000 It could provide an opening for Republicans if Republicans could actually take advantage.

00:37:23.000 And all Republicans in Virginia have to do, honestly, all they have to do is the same thing that Democrats nationally have to do with Trump.

00:37:29.000 Not be crazy.

00:37:30.000 So we'll see if Republicans can do better in Virginia at not being crazy than Democrats have done nationally at not being crazy.

00:37:35.000 In the not-being-crazy sweepstakes, Democrats are doing horribly on the national level.

00:37:40.000 How horribly are they doing?

00:37:41.000 Well, yesterday, Democrats decided that it was deeply necessary to fight against, I promise you, fight against an anti-infanticide bill.

00:37:50.000 I am not kidding.

00:37:51.000 Okay, so Senator Ben Sasse, we had him on the show last Friday, and yesterday, he introduced a bill to ban infanticide.

00:37:59.000 And Democrats voted to stop it.

00:38:00.000 He wanted to bring it up by unanimous consent.

00:38:03.000 And the Democrats rejected it.

00:38:05.000 They rejected it.

00:38:06.000 What would the bill have done?

00:38:07.000 It would simply suggest that if a baby is born alive, you have to use life-saving measures on the baby.

00:38:12.000 You can't just let the baby die or kill the baby.

00:38:15.000 The legislation would create criminal penalties for doctors who allow infants to die rather than providing medical care after attempting abortion procedures.

00:38:22.000 It mandates that a child born alive in an abortion clinic be transported to a hospital for further care.

00:38:27.000 Health care practitioners must report any violations of the law.

00:38:30.000 The bill institute penalties for intentionally killing a newborn, including fines and up to five years imprisonment.

00:38:35.000 It would also grant the woman on whom the abortion is performed a civil cause of action against the abortionist and protection from prosecution if her child is not cared for after birth.

00:38:44.000 Senate Democrats opposed it.

00:38:45.000 Senate Democrats opposed it.

00:38:47.000 So in a second, I'm going to play you Senator Ben Sasse explaining exactly what happened here, and then we'll get into the increased radicalism of the Democratic Party, which just continues apace.

00:38:56.000 So, here is Senator Sasse explaining that Democrats were going to block this anti-infanticide bill, which they proceeded to do.

00:39:04.000 In a few minutes, the United States Senate is going to have an opportunity to condemn infanticide.

00:39:11.000 100 United States senators are going to have an opportunity to unanimously say the most basic thing imaginable, and that is that it's wrong to kill a little newborn baby.

00:39:23.000 Every senator will have the opportunity to stand for human dignity.

00:39:27.000 To stand for the belief that, in this country, all of us are created equal.

00:39:31.000 Because if that equality means anything, surely it means that infanticide is wrong.

00:39:36.000 Okay, well, Democrats found that it was not wrong. 0.92

00:39:38.000 They say, well, this wasn't really going to change the status of the law.

00:39:40.000 That is not true.

00:39:41.000 Alexandra DeSantis, over at National Review, she writes, as of 2014, only 26 states had laws creating a specific affirmative duty for physicians to provide medical care to infants born in botched abortions.

00:39:51.000 As of 2016, only six states required that abortion providers report instances of infants born alive under such circumstances.

00:39:58.000 In New York, a born-alive protection was on the books.

00:40:00.000 The recent abortion expansion from the state removed it.

00:40:04.000 The new Virginia bill would have downgraded the requirement that doctors provide care to newborn infants from a must to a shall standard, which is a legally significant definition.

00:40:13.000 So Democrats say that nothing was actually going to change her.

00:40:16.000 They say it's part of good medicine to be able to let the baby die.

00:40:20.000 Diana Green Foster, a professor of obstetrics, recently told the Judiciary Committee in the Senate that doctors and nurses and women themselves know best whether care would lead to survival.

00:40:31.000 Well, maybe not.

00:40:32.000 I don't know why women themselves would know whether care would lead to survival. 0.95

00:40:34.000 They're not doctors, so that in and of itself is pretty insane.

00:40:37.000 The extremism of the Democrats continues apace.

00:40:39.000 Ilhan Omar, who is one of the fresh faces of the Democratic Party, so fresh, so face, tape has now emerged of her from 2013 blaming the United States for the rise of Al-Qaeda because she should sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

00:40:50.000 I see no reason why a woman who despises Israel, who is openly anti-Semitic, who Blames the United States for the rise of Al Qaeda.

00:40:59.000 I don't see any reason why she shouldn't sit on the House Foreign Affairs Committee as a Democrat. 0.71

00:41:02.000 We don't hear the American apologize when their troops, when their states destroy other countries, when their state's empire misbehave overseas.

00:41:13.000 Nobody wants to face how the actions of the other people that are involved in the world have contributed to the rise of the radicalization and the rise of terrorist acts.

00:41:32.000 Right, so it's all the United States' fault that there's been an increase in terrorist acts.

00:41:35.000 The Democratic Party doing a wonderful job of painting themselves into a national corner.

00:41:39.000 My favorite instance of Democrats just destroying themselves yesterday was Nancy Pelosi. 1.00

00:41:45.000 I do love when people in the Democratic Party quote the Bible.

00:41:48.000 It's one of my favorite things.

00:41:50.000 So here is Representative Nancy Pelosi, an ardent advocate of abortion, speaking about the Bible.

00:41:54.000 She quotes a Bible verse that, in fact, does not exist.

00:41:58.000 I can't find it in the Bible, but I quote it all the time, and I keep reading and reading the Bible.

00:42:02.000 I know it's there someplace.

00:42:04.000 It's supposed to be in Isaiah.

00:42:05.000 But I heard a bishop say, to minister to the needs of God's creation is an act of worship.

00:42:14.000 To ignore those needs is to dishonor the God who made us.

00:42:20.000 It's there somewhere in some words or another, but certainly the spirit of it is there.

00:42:25.000 No, that is not in the Bible.

00:42:27.000 That's not a thing.

00:42:28.000 She does quote it apparently all the time, but that is not a thing.

00:42:32.000 So, I don't know what she's talking about, but it is fun to be able to just pretend things are in the Bible that are not in the Bible, and then pretend that there are things in the Bible that don't belong in the Bible.

00:42:40.000 It really is fun to watch Democrats selectively quote the Bible while simultaneously cracking down on religious people across the country.

00:42:46.000 It's one of my favorite things.

00:42:47.000 I love it.

00:42:48.000 Meanwhile, I have to acknowledge the incredible wonder of Andrew Cuomo. 0.98

00:42:52.000 Andrew Cuomo is just a fool, and it's hilarious because Democrats who keep saying that we ought to tax the rich into oblivion, why not a wealth tax? 0.97

00:43:00.000 Why not a 70% top tax bracket? 1.00

00:43:02.000 Why not just take all of their money?

00:43:04.000 Well, it turns out they were trying this in New York.

00:43:06.000 It's a giant, giant fail.

00:43:08.000 So Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday announced a dramatic drop in state income tax revenue of $2.8 billion.

00:43:13.000 He says it will prompt him to revise his 2019-2020 budget and reconsider spending on schools, health care, and repairs to roads and bridges.

00:43:20.000 But why not just raise taxes in New York, Governor Cuomo?

00:43:23.000 I mean, aren't there rich people in New York, Governor Cuomo?

00:43:25.000 I have heard there's an endless pile of money, and that all the rich people in New York have giant money bins like Scrooge McDuck, and they go swimming in them at night.

00:43:32.000 Can't you just suck those money bins dry and use it to pay for all the impoverished in New York, Governor Cuomo?

00:43:37.000 And here was Governor Cuomo's answer to that question.

00:43:40.000 He said, no, we can't do that.

00:43:42.000 He said, if we do that, all the rich people will leave.

00:43:45.000 Yeah, no bleep, Sherlock. 1.00

00:43:47.000 I mean, we all know that, you idiot. 1.00

00:43:49.000 Then why are you guys on a national scale pushing for exactly those kinds of policies over and over and over? 0.99

00:43:55.000 He says, at this point, there is no doubt that the budget we put forward is not supported by the revenues.

00:43:59.000 It's as serious as a heart attack.

00:44:02.000 And then he suggested that it would be a horrible idea to raise taxes on the wealthy again.

00:44:07.000 He said that would be a very, very bad idea.

00:44:10.000 He says, we did everything right from a tax point of view, yet somehow all the rich people continued to leave.

00:44:15.000 How weird.

00:44:16.000 How strange.

00:44:19.000 He said that he and his administration are blameless.

00:44:21.000 He said the continued exodus of residents from the state and a temporary millionaire's tax created in 2009 to contend with the Great Recession, but which he has since extended, so it was not temporary, that was not a contributing factor.

00:44:32.000 But he said also, God forbid that the billionaire should leave the state.

00:44:36.000 I do love the odd choice that Democrats are forced to make between tax all the billionaires and we need billionaires so we can tax them.

00:44:45.000 That's always fun.

00:44:46.000 The Democrats saying, we need lots of billionaires so we can take all their money, but also there shouldn't be a system that allows billionaires.

00:44:53.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez said that.

00:44:54.000 She said there shouldn't be a system that allows billionaires.

00:44:56.000 That'd be terrible. 0.94

00:44:57.000 Also, we need the billionaires to exist so we can steal all their money and use it for our garbage programs. 0.96

00:45:03.000 You're gonna have to pick one, guys. 0.95

00:45:04.000 Do you want the rich people to exist so you can take their money, or do you want to obliterate the rich and then have no money at all?

00:45:10.000 Choose.

00:45:12.000 Democrats, you know, generally have to make that choice eventually, and that choice eventually is you have to let the rich people exist, is the reality.

00:45:19.000 Otherwise, all the rich people leave, and you can redistribute nothing, and then you can see how well that goes for you.

00:45:24.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:45:27.000 So, things that I like today.

00:45:30.000 I do love, love this CNN article.

00:45:33.000 It is one of my favorite CNN articles of all time.

00:45:36.000 The article was, here's their tweet.

00:45:39.000 Why are Adam Levine's nipples fine for air, but 2004's wardrobe malfunction made Janet Jackson a pariah for years? 0.98

00:45:46.000 That's the question some fans are asking after the Super Bowl.

00:45:49.000 And here is, it's a piece, it's a news piece by A.J. Witt.

00:45:52.000 Willingham and Brandon Griggs.

00:45:54.000 One of my favorite things is a news article that says, Some Are Asking.

00:45:57.000 So it's basically just an op-ed where you quote a couple of people to pretend that it's a news coverage story.

00:46:02.000 They say, Another Super Bowl is in the books, and let's just say it was okay.

00:46:05.000 It was adequate.

00:46:05.000 It was a football game that was played to completion, but you know things are slow when one of the most notable plays of the night was a punt.

00:46:12.000 The night wasn't without a few moments that got people talking.

00:46:14.000 Here are some highlights from a mostly somnolent Super Bowl The Super Bowl. 0.84

00:46:19.000 Okay, they say people had opinions about Adam Levine's nipples. 0.62

00:46:22.000 Maroon 5's Adam Levine slowly molted throughout the halftime show, shedding a jacket, then another jacket, and finally a tank top until he was bare-chested in front of God and Big Boy and everyone. 0.82

00:46:31.000 This didn't sit well with some fans who wondered why Adam Levine's nipples were apparently fine for air, while 2004's Nipplegate made Janet Jackson a pariah for years.

00:46:40.000 So the rest of the halftime show was mostly underwhelming.

00:46:43.000 Okay, so a couple of notes about Adam Levine going shirtless.

00:46:46.000 Number one, you have to have made some really terrible decisions in life to have a giant tattoo of the word California above your belly button.

00:46:53.000 Like, that's just a bad decision.

00:46:55.000 Like, why?

00:46:56.000 Like, in case you get drunk in Vermont or something and you end up shirtless on the side of a road so they mail you to California?

00:47:03.000 At least you should, like, tattoo your home address on your shoulder or something.

00:47:06.000 Then they just shove you in a giant box and send you via stamps.com back to California.

00:47:13.000 That's a solid life call there, Adam Levine.

00:47:17.000 But also, as I noted yesterday, you know the number of male fans who are desperate to see Adam Levine with his shirt off, generally.

00:47:24.000 I mean, males love Maroon 5.

00:47:25.000 They love him.

00:47:27.000 And then they also love Adam Levine with his shirt off.

00:47:28.000 It's just one of their favorite things.

00:47:29.000 But I love it.

00:47:31.000 I love the fact that CNN is bewildered by why there is a difference between Janet Jackson flashing her boob during a show and Adam Levine with his shirt off.

00:47:41.000 Hint, it's because apples and bananas are not the same.

00:47:45.000 CNN said that they call an apple an apple.

00:47:47.000 This is not a banana, it's an apple.

00:47:49.000 Apples are not bananas.

00:47:51.000 And breasts are not male pectoral muscles. 0.99

00:47:54.000 Men are not women. 1.00

00:47:55.000 And they are treated very differently in terms of sex.

00:47:58.000 They're treated very differently in terms of attraction. 0.99

00:48:00.000 And this is so silly. 1.00

00:48:02.000 It's so silly, but it is indicative of how stupid everyone is altogether. 1.00

00:48:07.000 Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate. 1.00

00:48:12.000 All right, thing that I hate today.

00:48:14.000 First of all, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer did a cameo on Stephen Colbert, which is basically just the weak Democratic National Committee comedy show.

00:48:22.000 That's all that happens now.

00:48:24.000 So here was Stephen Colbert at his supposed Super Bowl party with Gritty from the Philadelphia Flyers and Patrick Stewart.

00:48:30.000 And then suddenly Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer show up because why the hell not?

00:48:34.000 I mean, they have nothing better to do, right?

00:48:36.000 Oh, doorbell.

00:48:41.000 Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer.

00:48:45.000 Please, Stephen, we're friends.

00:48:47.000 Just call us Chuck and Speaker of the House Nancy.

00:48:51.000 Okay, so what are you guys doing here?

00:48:54.000 We figured your little get-together needed us.

00:48:57.000 Why is that?

00:48:58.000 Because we're the party leaders!

00:49:02.000 Well, I'm glad you're here.

00:49:07.000 Why don't you come on in?

00:49:08.000 Oh no, there's more trouble in Washington.

00:49:11.000 We gotta go.

00:49:11.000 Oh, okay.

00:49:13.000 Use it, Nancy! 1.00

00:49:16.000 Oh, so much hilarity.

00:49:17.000 So much, you know, it's the joshing with the Democrats that really gets me about Colbert.

00:49:21.000 It's just all the joshing, you know?

00:49:22.000 That they josh together.

00:49:24.000 Cause, you know, you don't want like actual comedy or funny stuff or cutting, biting commentary.

00:49:28.000 What you really want is a little bit of gentle joshing.

00:49:31.000 It's just, it's so much fun, right guys?

00:49:32.000 So sincere.

00:49:34.000 Gotta love it.

00:49:35.000 Okay, final thing that I hate today.

00:49:36.000 So, Liam Neeson is being ripped up and down for a piece of audio in which he explained that a friend of his, this must have been, what, 30, 40 years ago or something, because Liam Neeson is now 80, that some time ago, a female friend of his was raped, and he asked her, by whom, and the friend said, a black person, and then he had a tribal, vicious, evil response.

00:49:55.000 And he explained that.

00:49:55.000 And then he says on the tape that he felt that it was an act of evil.

00:49:59.000 He never should have thought like this.

00:50:01.000 It just demonstrates what darkness lies in the human heart.

00:50:03.000 Here's a bit of the audio.

00:50:04.000 I asked, did you know who I was?

00:50:07.000 No.

00:50:08.000 What color were they? 0.61

00:50:11.000 She said it was a black person.

00:50:15.000 I went up and down areas with a kosh, hoping I'd be approached by somebody. 1.00

00:50:26.000 I'm ashamed to say that. 0.98

00:50:28.000 And I did it for maybe a week, hoping some black bastard would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know? 1.00

00:50:39.000 So that I could kill him. 1.00

00:50:44.000 And it took me a week, maybe a week and a half, to kind of go for that. 0.96

00:50:49.000 And she said to me, where are you going?

00:50:50.000 I said, I'm just going out for a walk, you know?

00:50:52.000 What's wrong?

00:50:53.000 No, no, nothing's wrong.

00:50:54.000 Fine.

00:50:56.000 It was horrible.

00:50:57.000 Horrible, when I think back.

00:50:59.000 But I did that.

00:51:00.000 And I've never admitted that to... I'm saying it to a journalist.

00:51:03.000 God forbid.

00:51:03.000 It's awful.

00:51:08.000 But I did learn a lesson from it.

00:51:09.000 When I eventually thought, Okay, so the entire moral of the story is tribal instincts take over sometimes and they're evil and they're bad and you have to fight them.

00:51:19.000 So everybody immediately took away the important lesson, of course, which is Liam Neeson is a racist.

00:51:23.000 So he tells a story about how he did something terrible back when he was young and now he is going to come forward and explain that those instincts are things that you have to fight because they're evil and they're bad and there's a dark side of humanity.

00:51:34.000 And people are like, how dare he tell this story about a bad thing he did when he was young?

00:51:37.000 He never should have done a bad thing when he was young.

00:51:40.000 Okay, I think you're missing the point of redemption.

00:51:41.000 I think you're missing the point of every story about where somebody did something wrong and then learned not to be that person.

00:51:46.000 And maybe you ought to rethink how you think about humans if your first reaction to that story is not, I'm glad that Liam Neeson learned a lesson and can now inform people about how terrible human nature is.

00:51:56.000 And instead it's, I can't believe Liam Neeson ever sinned or thought a bad thing.

00:51:59.000 You know, that's... You're doing being a human wrong, honestly.

00:52:02.000 Like, how about a little bit of grace, and particularly grace for people who are redeeming themselves and coming clean about some evil things that they may have thought or done in the past.

00:52:10.000 If we don't have grace as a society, we're finished.

00:52:12.000 Alrighty.

00:52:13.000 Well, we will be here later today with two more hours, and then we're gonna be here covering the State of the Union Address, which, as I've told you, I'm so eager about it, I'm gonna go drink some cyanide now.

00:52:21.000 It's gonna be awesome!

00:52:22.000 So if we're there, you should be there too, because come on, we'll all suffer through it together and enjoy ourselves to the utmost.

00:52:28.000 See you then.

00:52:28.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 05, 2019

The State Of The Union Is Stupid | Ep. 710

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