The Ben Shapiro Show - May 02, 2024


Time To DEFUND The Universities

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defunding universities DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM AND UNIVERSITY FUNDING
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Pro-Israel protesters have occupied a building on Columbia University s campus for the past seven months, and the administration is trying to evict them. What's the problem? Is it the administration? Or is it the students? And what are they up to now? In this episode, Alex Blumberg takes a look at the history of the protests at Columbia, and examines the role of the university, and how it responds to them. He also asks the question: What is the purpose of these universities anymore? And what role does the university play in responding to the growing demands of radical leftist movements? The answer might surprise you: it s not what you think it is. It s what it is, and it s a symptom of a larger problem: the university s role as a hub for radical ideas, and its relationship with radical ideas and ideas in the world and the role it plays in creating radical ideas in society a role that no other part of society is as responsive to social change as we are today. The current president of Columbia University, an Egyptian-American economist named Manous Shafiq, is an Egyptian economist, and he s a student of the left-wing left. In an interview with Columbia Magazine, he explains what a university is for, and why it s important to have an ideas that help push their ideas out into the world, but there s more chaos at Columbia but also chaos at the world. . The chaos we are now seeing at universities is for the betterment of our understanding of the world . The problems the world is for which we need to take the best ideas, not the chaos. - The chaos from chaos the chaos we're now seeing is for good reason, not just because they are better than we can be better, but because they will help us to get their ideas into the real world - the chaos is for us to help us help us get our ideas out of the real life as we can help us understand the world in a better understanding of our ideas in a world that s better, not less, not better, better, and better better, more, more more, we will help to understand the problems we are all of us so much better, the more we are better, so much more, better? - more, and so on and so forth.

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00:00:00.000 Well, folks, the professors at Columbia are fighting mad at the administration because the administration dared to call the cops on the good little cosplay terrorists.
00:00:08.000 Take, for example, Columbia professor Joseph Slaughter.
00:00:11.000 Here's what he had to say.
00:00:13.000 I can understand that the building occupation is a different matter than a completely peaceful, non-violent encampment that had existed on the campus for the last ten days or so.
00:00:24.000 But the fact that the building can be occupied is due partly to the gross mismanagement of this administration.
00:00:33.000 It has escalated consistently for the last seven months.
00:00:36.000 These students have been attempting to get what they understand to be a human rights message about justice for Palestine out for seven months, and at every turn they have been met with repressive actions to shut down their ability to speak, to demonstrate, to try to make their voices heard in what they see as the greatest human rights crisis of the moment.
00:00:54.000 Yes, the administration is at fault.
00:00:56.000 According to the faculty, according to the faculty, the good little cosplay radicals, the good little cosplay pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism radicals, they must be protected by the university.
00:01:07.000 That's the job of the university.
00:01:09.000 Which does raise the question, what is the purpose?
00:01:12.000 of these universities anymore.
00:01:14.000 Well, the purpose of Columbia was originally clear when it was founded as King's College in 1754.
00:01:19.000 According to the very first president of King's College, William Samuel Johnson, quote,
00:01:23.000 the chief thing that is aimed at in this college is to teach and engage the children
00:01:27.000 to know God in Jesus Christ and to love and serve him in all sobriety,
00:01:31.000 godliness and righteousness of life with a perfect heart and a willing mind
00:01:34.000 and to train them up in all virtuous habits and all such useful knowledge
00:01:38.000 as may render them creditable to their friends and family, ornaments to their country
00:01:42.000 and useful to the public wheel in their generations that they may be qualified
00:01:46.000 to make orderly and tractable members of this society, In short,
00:01:50.000 Columbia University was founded to teach eternal truths, to pursue the knowledge of nature and nature's God, to create good citizens and good men.
00:02:00.000 The social changes of the 1960s hollowed out the mission of Columbia University, mainly by fostering an entire generation of pseudo-revolutionaries devoted to overturning the status quo.
00:02:09.000 By 1968, Columbia University was faced with a choice to continue to promulgate its original mission of fostering virtue and good citizenship in accordance with eternal knowledge, or to become an activist training center.
00:02:21.000 And it opted to become an activist training center.
00:02:24.000 With an adjunct school attached.
00:02:26.000 In 1968, the president of Columbia University was a guy named Grayson Kirk.
00:02:30.000 He gave a speech in Charlottesville, Virginia.
00:02:32.000 There, he tore into the spate of university unrest, plaguing the country.
00:02:37.000 He said, quote, Our young people in disturbing numbers appeared to reject all forms of authority from whatever source derived, and they have taken refuge in a turbulent and inchoate nihilism whose sole objectives are destruction.
00:02:47.000 This is 1968.
00:02:49.000 That statement proceeded to touch off an extraordinary crisis at Columbia University, when Mark Rudd, a leader of the Radical Students for a Democratic Society, led a student takeover of multiple campus buildings, including Hamilton Hall.
00:03:00.000 Sound familiar?
00:03:02.000 Professional activists from around the country, including Tom Hayden and Stokely Carmichael, quickly descended on the campus.
00:03:07.000 Again, sound familiar?
00:03:08.000 One week later, the police were called in.
00:03:10.000 Hundreds of people were arrested.
00:03:12.000 Some were wounded.
00:03:13.000 Weeks later, another student takeover broke out.
00:03:16.000 The university promptly canceled finals, dropped charges against the offenders, and finally capitulated to student demands to divest from cooperation with the Pentagon, the Defense Department.
00:03:25.000 Kirk was then forced out.
00:03:27.000 His eventual replacement was a guy named William James McGill, a committed man of the left who'd gotten famous at UC San Diego, having hired Erbar Marquez, one of the heroes of the left.
00:03:37.000 He quickly pledged to, quote, cement the rapport between students, faculty, and administration.
00:03:42.000 In 1971, McGill said the university should take the lead in enforcing the federal government's equal rights mandates because, quote, no other part of society is as responsive to social change as we are.
00:03:53.000 In 1972, when protesters took over campus buildings again, he literally refused to call the cops, preferring to, quote, ride this one out.
00:04:01.000 Well, fast forward about half a century, and universities are now full-scale left-wing activism centers.
00:04:06.000 The current president of Columbia University, its 20th, is an Egyptian-American economist named Manoush Shafiq.
00:04:11.000 In an interview with Columbia Magazine, upon taking this role, Shafiq explained what a university is for, quote, The problems the world is facing today are so complex and so pressing that new ideas are needed to address them.
00:04:23.000 Great universities like Columbia excel at generating new ideas.
00:04:26.000 Supporting faculty and students who want to get their ideas out into the world will help, but there's more to it.
00:04:32.000 The chaos we are now seeing at the universities, from ignorant radicals masquerading as incisive, revolutionary truth-tellers, it's not a bug of the college system.
00:04:41.000 It is now the point.
00:04:42.000 Our universities increasingly treat activism as the main focus.
00:04:46.000 They are left-wing activism centers.
00:04:48.000 In fact, they recruit for it.
00:04:50.000 Just look at the leaders of Columbia's radical pro-Hamas protests.
00:04:53.000 Take, for example, Kaimani James, who we discussed last week.
00:04:56.000 This is a student protest leader recently suspended from campus for saying that, quote, Zionists don't deserve to live. 0.97
00:05:02.000 By the age of 18, Kaimani James had been featured by the Boston Globe for his activism declaring, quote, I hate white people.
00:05:08.000 His college admittance essay compares, quote, chewed gum hiding beneath the surface of my desk to, quote, our education system rooted in systemic racism.
00:05:17.000 The same activism was the basis, presumably, of the admittance of Johanna King Slutsky. 0.78
00:05:22.000 That would be the student protest leader, who we discussed yesterday on the program, who became infamous for suggesting that the university provide, quote, humanitarian aid to the trespassing students to prevent their imminent starvation.
00:05:33.000 Prior to joining Columbia, she, quote, worked as a political strategist for leftist and progressive causes, according to her university biography.
00:05:40.000 Now she's a PhD student, quote, particularly interested in theories of the imagination and poetry, as interpreted through a Marxian lens.
00:05:48.000 Sounds highly employable.
00:05:50.000 Great skillset there.
00:05:52.000 Or take Cameron Jones.
00:05:53.000 That'd be the fashionably garbed, bare midriffed, keffiyeh-wearing, off-Broadway background dancer for King Slutsky during her press conference, playing a part from Springtime for Sinwar.
00:06:02.000 Jones is a lead organizer of Jewish Voice for Peace, which is a radical anti-Israel front group.
00:06:06.000 It is not Jewish. 0.99
00:06:07.000 It is not a Voice for Peace.
00:06:08.000 It is funded by George Soros and the Rockefeller Foundation.
00:06:11.000 Prior to joining Columbia, he was a, wait for it, political activist for various left-wing campaigns.
00:06:16.000 He is, per his LinkedIn, quote, particularly interested in the intersection of public policy and activism and how both are required to affect significant change in our society.
00:06:25.000 These students were likely not selected to Columbia for their brilliant academic performance.
00:06:30.000 I really doubt they did well on the SATs.
00:06:32.000 And it wouldn't matter even if they did, because Columbia threw out the SATs years ago and made that permanent last year.
00:06:37.000 These people were selected for their activism.
00:06:40.000 So were many of Columbia's faculty and administrators.
00:06:43.000 Take, for example, Professor Mohammed Abdu.
00:06:45.000 He was certainly no great addition to the Columbia faculty based on his famous scholarship on, quote, Islam and queer Muslims. 0.93
00:06:51.000 That's literally the name of one of his papers or his writings in the Anarchist Development in Cultural Studies journal.
00:06:58.000 He is, of course, a longtime activist.
00:07:00.000 He was hired months after declaring that he was with Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad after October 7th.
00:07:06.000 That wasn't a mistake.
00:07:07.000 It was part of promoting the university's mission of social change.
00:07:10.000 Because that's what these universities now are.
00:07:13.000 These universities are, in fact, little indoctrination machines generating activists.
00:07:19.000 That's what they are for.
00:07:20.000 They recruit activists and then they promote those activists.
00:07:23.000 Why?
00:07:23.000 Because this is the jet fuel of left-wing movements.
00:07:27.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:08:30.000 The reason these administrators are selecting for these people is because these people are the vanguard.
00:08:35.000 This is why they're negotiating with them.
00:08:36.000 It's an inside-outside game in which outside agitators Make a lot of trouble. 0.53
00:08:41.000 And then inside, the administrators say, well, we have to negotiate with them.
00:08:44.000 We have to deal with them.
00:08:45.000 And unfortunately, this is now the position of the Democratic Party writ large.
00:08:49.000 Joe Biden is in the same exact position as Manoush Shafiq.
00:08:53.000 This is why, presumably, Kareem Jean-Pierre won't answer if Joe Biden has been silent on all of the campus chaos because he's scared of young voters.
00:09:00.000 The answer is, yes, not only is he scared of young voters, he sees them as the future.
00:09:04.000 He sees them as the most passionate, most dedicated members of his coterie.
00:09:09.000 Here's Kareem Jean-Pierre trying to dodge questions.
00:09:12.000 I'll speak more broadly.
00:09:13.000 I can't speak to youth and support and voters.
00:09:16.000 That's not something I can do from here.
00:09:19.000 The President has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about.
00:09:27.000 And a lot of those actions are popular with those young folks, whether it's giving a little bit of breathing room with student debt relief.
00:09:33.000 We made an announcement today, matter of fact, and we are going to continue to do that because we think it's important.
00:09:38.000 as families or as an American and you're coming out of college and you want to build a family by home,
00:09:43.000 you have the opportunity to do that and not be crushed by student debt. The President understands
00:09:48.000 how important it is to deal with that issue. Climate change, something that young people
00:09:53.000 really truly care about. One of the crises that the President said he came into having to deal with
00:09:58.000 was the climate change crisis. As the President has taken more, has taken aggressive, aggressive...
00:10:03.000 What is this Jackie was creed and babbling about? 0.76
00:10:05.000 Look I can't speak to youth voters or their support.
00:10:10.000 What we're going to do is continue to take actions that we believe helps all Americans
00:10:15.000 and all communities.
00:10:16.000 Okay, what you're actually going to do is avoid all questions as to why you keep patting
00:10:19.000 radical protesters who are doing violent things and taking over buildings while you're patting
00:10:23.000 them on the head.
00:10:24.000 We know the answer why you're patting them on the head.
00:10:25.000 Again, they're the vanguard of the revolution.
00:10:28.000 Because these are the makings of the future Democratic Party.
00:10:32.000 These are the activists being trained at Columbia University.
00:10:34.000 Now remember, most people are sending their kids to Columbia University because they want the credential.
00:10:38.000 Because Columbia is a very, very famous school.
00:10:40.000 Just like Harvard, just like Yale, just like Princeton.
00:10:42.000 These are all very famous schools.
00:10:43.000 They're supposed to earn you more money when you get out.
00:10:45.000 The credential is supposed to mean something.
00:10:47.000 And the reason the credential means something is because of the parts of the university that are not the activist parts of the university. 0.76
00:10:52.000 Not the dumb sociology department with 47 associate professors.
00:10:56.000 The reason Columbia is a famous university is because of, say, its physics department. 0.79
00:11:01.000 But most of these people are going to Columbia, and they're going to poli sci, and they're going to sociology.
00:11:07.000 They're coming out with a couple hundred thousand dollars in student loan debt, and they're learning how to be activists.
00:11:12.000 So basically you have an activist leech that is living off The university, the actual university, and destroying it.
00:11:20.000 So what have these universities become?
00:11:21.000 They're basically now Hannibal Lecter.
00:11:22.000 They are wearing around the face of the university, but it's been completely hollowed out and turned into a radical activist center.
00:11:30.000 And it has nothing to do, by the way, with Gaza or with Hamas or with any of these people.
00:11:34.000 Hamas is just a great way of showing how loyal you are to the cause, as we've discussed before. 1.00
00:11:38.000 If you can pick literally the worst example, of a group in the world, meaning a group that clearly its 0.99
00:11:44.000 own suffering is its fault.
00:11:46.000 Hamas's suffering is its fault. The suffering of people in Gaza is Hamas's fault. 0.97
00:11:50.000 If you can somehow blame the Jews or blame Israel or blame the West or blame the United States, 1.00
00:11:54.000 man, that is showing fealty to a really stupid cause. 1.00
00:11:57.000 It's all part of an intersectional coalition to tear down the entire system. 0.99
00:12:02.000 Which, by the way, the New York Times is now reporting Jeremy Peters today, quote, talked to student protesters across the country, and their outrage is clear.
00:12:08.000 They've been galvanized by the scale of death and destruction in Gaza.
00:12:11.000 They will risk arrest to fight for the Palestinian cause. 0.86
00:12:14.000 For many, the issues are closer to home, at the same time much bigger and broader.
00:12:17.000 In their eyes, the Gaza conflict is a struggle for justice linked to issues that seem far afield.
00:12:22.000 They say they are motivated by policing, mistreatment of indigenous people, discrimination toward black Americans, and the impact of global warming.
00:12:30.000 In interviews with dozens of students across the country over the last week, they described to a striking degree the broad prism through which they see the Gaza conflict, which helps explain their urgency and recalcitrance.
00:12:41.000 So, again, it has nothing to do with Gaza.
00:12:43.000 It has nothing to do with Israel.
00:12:44.000 That is just the stand-in for a broad panoply of anti-Western causes.
00:12:49.000 And again, the left is getting behind this.
00:12:51.000 In that Columbia University video that we played just a few moments ago, you can see students who are marching with UAW posters.
00:12:59.000 That would be like the United Auto Workers.
00:13:02.000 The hell do the United Auto Workers have to do with anything?
00:13:04.000 Well, the answer is the UAW came out in support of the protesters.
00:13:07.000 Why?
00:13:08.000 Because the intersectional left marches together.
00:13:10.000 They are the revolutionary vanguard and they all march together, which is why the proper solution for all of this is to kill dead federal funding of student loans. 1.00
00:13:20.000 Kill it dead. 1.00
00:13:22.000 Seriously. 1.00
00:13:23.000 Because the original premise of federal funding for student loans is that universities were places where you learned a skill set and became a good citizen.
00:13:31.000 And now a huge number of departments no longer produce a skill set and are producing the opposite of good citizens.
00:13:39.000 People who believe in virtue.
00:13:40.000 They're producing good little radical activists who wear Abercrombie keffiyehs while pushing around Jews. 1.00
00:13:47.000 And the answer there is just remove the funding.
00:13:49.000 And that's what Congress actually should do.
00:13:51.000 What Congress actually should do today is they should say the minor in West Virginia has no interest in subsidizing the student loans of a gender studies major at Columbia. 0.99
00:14:02.000 This doesn't mean people wouldn't go to college, by the way.
00:14:04.000 You know what it would mean?
00:14:05.000 It would mean privatization of student loans.
00:14:06.000 You know why that would be good? 0.92
00:14:07.000 That would create an actual incentive structure for people to think before they take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt to major in something dumb.
00:14:15.000 So, to take an example, when I went to school, I took federal student loans for poli-sci at UCLA.
00:14:21.000 Why?
00:14:21.000 Because they were there, they were available, just like anyone else.
00:14:24.000 Then I got to Harvard Law School, and the vast majority of my loans were loans that were payable to a private source.
00:14:32.000 Why?
00:14:32.000 Because private sources were perfectly willing to give me a loan to major in law at Harvard Law because my income trajectory was really, really good.
00:14:39.000 And so they knew they'd get the money back.
00:14:42.000 One of the weird things about an education loan is there's no collateral. 0.96
00:14:45.000 That's why the federal government keeps stepping in to subsidize these dumb student loans. 1.00
00:14:49.000 Which means that when you default, it's the taxpayer who pays. 0.96
00:14:52.000 But the reality is, most of these degrees are a waste of time.
00:14:55.000 Most of them are a waste of money.
00:14:57.000 They're a subsidization scheme for activist training centers at Columbia and Brown and Princeton and all the rest of these places.
00:15:04.000 If you privatize the student loan industry, maybe kids and their parents would for the first time actually have to consider what their kids are learning in school and whether it is worth the money.
00:15:14.000 Maybe income trajectory would then be linked to actual skill set.
00:15:19.000 As with everything else, federal funding of things makes it more expensive, it makes it worse, and that's precisely what has happened with our colleges and universities.
00:15:28.000 Because it turns out if you're majoring in physics at Columbia, somebody's gonna give you a private loan for that.
00:15:33.000 Because you have a pretty good job trajectory.
00:15:36.000 If you're majoring in gender studies, ain't nobody gonna give you a private loan for that.
00:15:40.000 Because that is not a good job trajectory.
00:15:42.000 And that makes more sense.
00:15:43.000 Because you should be responsible for your decision making when it comes to how you go to college and what subject you choose to major in.
00:15:50.000 It should not be the federal government deciding to subsidize all of its favorite activist trainers at these major universities.
00:15:56.000 That's what Republicans should be doing in Congress. 0.88
00:15:59.000 Instead, Republicans have decided to push what I think is a badly thought out bill.
00:16:03.000 We'll get some more on this in just one moment.
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00:17:06.000 So there is a bill that passed through the House.
00:17:09.000 It passed through with 70 votes against by Democrats, 21 votes against by Republicans.
00:17:13.000 The kind of group that voted against ran the gamut from people who are overtly anti-Semitic like Ilhan Omar, to people who are sort of like borderline anti-Semitic, to people who are just strong free speech libertarians.
00:17:27.000 The reason is a badly thought out bill.
00:17:28.000 I'll explain.
00:17:29.000 I'll explain also what the House thought it was doing here.
00:17:31.000 So, there is a bill called H.R.
00:17:34.000 That's the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2023. 0.59
00:17:36.000 The bill, which is led by Representative Michael Lawler, who's a Republican from New York, has 13 Democratic co-sponsors.
00:17:43.000 It will codify the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of anti-Semitism in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:17:52.000 Okay, so let's explain what's going on here.
00:17:54.000 Okay, right now, the reason that you are seeing a lot of angst from administrators on college campuses is because federal funding is tied to fulfillment of the Civil Rights Act.
00:18:04.000 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 dictates there cannot be discrimination on the basis of shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics, or national origin.
00:18:14.000 Environments of harassment on these basis can remove your federal funding at a university.
00:18:20.000 So if, for example, there were to be giant rallies at a university that suggested that all black people should be re-enslaved, and the university did nothing about that, that is already illegal under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:18:33.000 Now, there's been a lot of talk about the fact that that is a violation of free speech principles.
00:18:38.000 It absolutely is.
00:18:39.000 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a full-scale violation of free speech principles.
00:18:44.000 As Christopher Caldwell wrote in his book, The Age of Entitlement, this is replete throughout the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
00:18:50.000 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is chock full of violations of the Constitution.
00:18:56.000 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, for example, criminalizes private accommodations discriminating on the basis of various categories.
00:19:06.000 Private accommodations, like you own a bed and breakfast.
00:19:09.000 It criminalizes that, right?
00:19:10.000 You're now called a public accommodation, and now the federal government can step in and fine, regulate you, criminally prosecute you.
00:19:16.000 It's a violation of what used to be a divide between private property and public property, which is why I've always had massive problems, I've talked about this for years, with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
00:19:24.000 I also have massive problems with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, because Title VI of the Civil Rights Act is very unclear.
00:19:31.000 It obviously violates free speech principles because it says that if you create, quote, a harassing environment on, for example, a college campus or in a business that takes any sort of federal contract, the federal government can then remove money from you.
00:19:46.000 And now, that being said, the Supreme Court has already cleared Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and there appears to be no actual momentum inside Congress for getting rid of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:19:59.000 Now again, if you got rid of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, what would actually happen at campuses?
00:20:02.000 Okay, you would have some rallies that were really bad, or maybe you wouldn't, because it would turn out that now colleges and universities would have student codes, and they would enforce their student codes.
00:20:12.000 One of the great lies about universities generally, it's one of the reasons I don't like public universities nearly as much as I like private universities, generally speaking, mainly because public universities, you run into all sort of viewpoint and free speech concerns.
00:20:24.000 Universities, believe it or not, were not meant to just be repositories of everyone's thought are equivalent.
00:20:33.000 Universities, as we talked about at the very top, Columbia College, Columbia University, when it was King's College, was designed to foment particular views.
00:20:40.000 There's nothing wrong with that.
00:20:42.000 In fact, that's quite good.
00:20:43.000 The idea that a university actually promulgates virtue and does not take a morally relativistic stance about good and bad, that to me is a good thing.
00:20:53.000 The problem with classical liberalism in general, which is sort of the idea that all viewpoints are to be treated with equal fervor, classical liberalism only works so long as there are boundaries to the classical liberalism.
00:21:06.000 Meaning that if everyone shares a basic notion of virtue, then yeah, we can have arguments within that basic notion of virtue about what's good and what's bad.
00:21:12.000 But if that completely disappears, classical liberalism turns very quickly into simple moral relativism, where we're supposed to treat neo-Nazism, communism, and constitutional conservatism as exactly the same thing on a college campus.
00:21:24.000 I don't think the universities have an obligation to do that.
00:21:27.000 I don't.
00:21:28.000 We'll get to more on this in just one moment.
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00:22:34.000 When it comes to Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act has been used by administrators on college campuses to protect their favorite intersectional minorities.
00:22:42.000 Only.
00:22:43.000 So, as we all know, if these were protests right now that were being held on college campuses, and they were calling for, say, killing black people as opposed to killing Israelis or killing Jews, if they were chanting for the elimination of an entire state, an entire Muslim state, for example, if it said, Saudi Arabia ought to be wiped off the map completely, you know that the administrators would shut that down forthwith, right? 0.76
00:23:10.000 Because there are groups that rank high on the intersectionality hierarchy, and those groups are preferred. 0.53
00:23:15.000 Those groups are the ones you're not allowed to discriminate against.
00:23:17.000 So Title VI has been unevenly applied for literally decades, which is why you can see open anti-white discrimination on campus all the damn time, even though it's forbidden by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 64.
00:23:27.000 Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 64 is at least facially neutral with regard to which groups can be victimized by discrimination.
00:23:34.000 But in application, I have yet to see a case where anti-white discrimination, which happens all the time, harassing environments for white students on college campuses are quite real and they've been quite real for decades.
00:23:46.000 People on college campuses shouting anti-white racist slogans, that's been a thing since I was in college and long before.
00:23:52.000 And nobody's ever said that's a Title VI violation.
00:23:56.000 So, Title VI has always been applied only to the left's favorite intersectional groups.
00:24:01.000 So what the Congress was attempting to do today with this bill was to define anti-Semitism such that Jews would also be protected.
00:24:10.000 Now, theoretically, white people should already be protected because, again, discrimination based on race Is forbidden by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 64.
00:24:18.000 Discrimination of Jews is forbidden.
00:24:21.000 But discrimination against Jews is a bit of a weird category.
00:24:24.000 Because antisemitism is a category different from racism.
00:24:27.000 They're not... Antisemitism is not a subset of racism.
00:24:30.000 It's an entirely different theory of discrimination.
00:24:33.000 Not better, not worse.
00:24:35.000 Not more important, not less important.
00:24:36.000 Just different.
00:24:38.000 Antisemitism, in its essence, is a conspiracy theory about the shadowy power of the Jews behind the institutions. 0.82
00:24:45.000 About how the Jews are conspiratorially ganging up together in order to harm other people and that's why they must be stopped. 1.00
00:24:51.000 That's the common running thread of all anti-Semitism. 0.87
00:24:54.000 So, what Congress was trying to do was create a working definition of anti-Semitism such that they could then apply Title VI restrictions to go after the funding for the universities.
00:25:04.000 That's what this bill was about.
00:25:06.000 The problem is the bill fails in two particular ways.
00:25:09.000 It fails, number one, because it obviously is unconstitutionally vague, right?
00:25:16.000 It operates as yet another element of what should originally have been an unconstitutional hate speech law.
00:25:22.000 As I say, all of Title VI is an unconstitutional hate speech law, but this adds to that by incorporating within it the international Holocaust remembrance definition Working definition of antisemitism.
00:25:37.000 And that working definition of antisemitism has some cases that are included within it that obviously are vaguely worded, to say the least, and probably encroach, almost certainly encroach, on free speech concerns.
00:25:50.000 The IHRA definition.
00:25:52.000 So the IHRA definition of antisemitism, for example, which is what was codified in this House Bill 6090.
00:25:58.000 It says, quote, So that's quite vague.
00:26:00.000 antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.
00:26:04.000 Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals
00:26:09.000 and or their property toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
00:26:13.000 So that's quite vague.
00:26:14.000 So the IHRA then gives a bunch of examples.
00:26:18.000 And some of these examples are in fact, good examples of antisemitism.
00:26:22.000 And some of them are quite vague in how they're worded or in some cases, just plain overbroad.
00:26:27.000 Thank you.
00:26:28.000 So for example, here's an example of what's obviously anti-semitic.
00:26:31.000 Calling for aiding or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion.
00:26:37.000 Right, that obviously I think everyone agrees is anti-semitism. 0.90
00:26:40.000 Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing, or stereotypical allegations about Jews, as such, or the power of Jews as collective, such as especially, but not exclusively, the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy, or of Jews controlling the media, economy, government, or other societal institutions.
00:26:54.000 Hey, again, that seems like pretty rote anti-Semitism.
00:26:58.000 But there are some of these that are overbroad.
00:27:00.000 So, for example, drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. 0.52
00:27:05.000 Now, I can see why the IHRA is saying that that swings into anti-Semitism, because when you accuse the Jews of doing to other people what the Nazis did to the Jews, it's uncomfortably borderline anti-Semitic in the same way that it's uncomfortably borderline racist if you were to accuse black people of enslaving white people.
00:27:24.000 It's weird, but however, that definition may have worked better 30, 40 years ago.
00:27:29.000 It doesn't particularly work well now because everyone compares everything to the Nazis.
00:27:32.000 So comparing Israel to the Nazis is basically rote at this point.
00:27:35.000 It's what everyone does with everyone at all times. 0.95
00:27:37.000 Trump is Hitler. 0.98
00:27:38.000 Biden is Hitler. 0.99
00:27:39.000 Everyone is Hitler. 0.99
00:27:40.000 Everyone I don't like is a Nazi.
00:27:41.000 So that is now an overbroad definition.
00:27:43.000 We'll get to more on this in just one second.
00:27:45.000 First, let's get one thing out of the way here.
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00:28:46.000 Or for example, There's a claim here, it says, using the symbols and images associated with classic anti-Semitism, e.g., claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel, to characterize Israel or Israelis.
00:28:57.000 Now again, I know what they are going for.
00:28:58.000 What they're going for is the Disturber cartoon of, for example, an Israeli soldier who is drinking the blood of a Palestinian child, right?
00:29:05.000 Clearly anti-Semitic.
00:29:06.000 Or, an Israeli soldier who is killing Jesus. 0.99
00:29:11.000 And Jesus is a Palestinian, clearly anti-Semitic. 0.93
00:29:13.000 However, the way this is phrased suggests that it is anti-Semitic to say that Jews killed Jesus.
00:29:18.000 Well, according to the New Testament, Jews did involve themselves in the killing of Jesus.
00:29:24.000 The Sanhedrin, according to the New Testament, again, I'm a Jew, so this is not my book, but my best understanding from all my Christian friends and from reading the New Testament is that the Jews, under the New Testament, the Jews referred Jesus for prosecution to Pontius Pilate, Who then convicted, out of fear of riots, Jesus to death, and then gave the Jews the opportunity to free Jesus, and they chose not to do so.
00:29:45.000 And in the book of Matthew, there's a verse where it says, His blood be upon us and our children.
00:29:50.000 Right?
00:29:50.000 That's all from the New Testament.
00:29:52.000 Christians saying all that stuff doesn't make Christians antisemitic.
00:29:55.000 I think what the IHRA was actually going for here was a different claim, which has been rejected by the Catholic Church, which is that Jews today are collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.
00:30:04.000 Which is not what the Catholic Church says, it's not what Protestants say. 0.80
00:30:08.000 Again, my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong, because again, I'm not a Christian, is that the basic idea is that all of humanity is collectively responsible for the death of Jesus.
00:30:16.000 That is, humanity's great sin, and Jesus wiped away original sin through his death.
00:30:21.000 And Jews are a stand-in as a sinful group in the death of Jesus for everyone. 1.00
00:30:25.000 Okay, put all of that aside.
00:30:28.000 The definition is vague and badly worded.
00:30:29.000 Okay, that is the problem with the IHRA definition here.
00:30:34.000 The problem with this bill is that in encapsulating this definition, it strays into free speech territory.
00:30:39.000 Now, as I say, I'm kind of bewildered as to why everyone is now getting upset about this, as opposed to, say, Title VI itself, which wildly veers into free speech territory, but I get it.
00:30:49.000 I get it.
00:30:50.000 So, and I agree.
00:30:51.000 I think it's overbroad, and I think the definition should not be applied in American law in this way.
00:30:57.000 The solution to that, by the way, is to get rid of Title VI, as I said at the very outset right here.
00:31:00.000 The most important thing that fails here is that it actually doesn't achieve what it's trying to achieve.
00:31:05.000 So the goal of the bill is to give the legislature an additional tool to hold Joe Biden and the White House accountable for not defunding all of these universities.
00:31:16.000 Well, they can already do that.
00:31:18.000 There are already letters on the books from the Department of Education.
00:31:22.000 They are called Dear Colleague Letters that say that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI applies to Jews.
00:31:31.000 You don't even need a definition of anti-semitism to hold the executive branch to account.
00:31:35.000 What's more important, you shouldn't do any of that anyway.
00:31:37.000 You shouldn't leave it up to the executive branch.
00:31:39.000 You should just defund the universities through political act.
00:31:42.000 All you have to do is pass a law that says federal funds shall not be used on behalf of higher education.
00:31:50.000 You should go seek private loans.
00:31:53.000 That would be the actual solutions to the higher education problem.
00:31:56.000 But they're not going to do that.
00:31:57.000 Again, I see what they're attempting to do, which is to say to Democrats, listen, we see that you only want to protect certain groups.
00:32:03.000 We want to protect all the groups.
00:32:04.000 And so we're going to add new definitions here that protect all the groups.
00:32:06.000 But it's sort of like the argument people sometimes use with DEI, where they're like, should we abolish DEI or should we just broaden DEI to include other groups?
00:32:13.000 The answer is you should abolish DEI.
00:32:15.000 It's the same sort of argument.
00:32:17.000 Which is why I basically agree with Representative Chip Roy on all of this.
00:32:20.000 He voted against it.
00:32:21.000 He said anti-Semitism is evil.
00:32:23.000 It's been the driving ideology behind some of the worst atrocities in human history.
00:32:26.000 It has no place in a decent and civilized society.
00:32:28.000 It especially has no place whatsoever in any educational institution that receives taxpayer funding, an issue that has once again been pushed to the forefront by pro-Hamas protests coddled by leftist administrations at colleges across the country.
00:32:40.000 And again, what he's saying here is not that it's not free speech. 0.99
00:32:42.000 He's saying that universities should have no obligation to admit students who are morons, which I think is correct. 1.00
00:32:47.000 The bill put before us today did not have a full committee hearing or a markup. 0.96
00:32:51.000 He says the definition of antisemitism used by the bill was created by an international organization and includes certain examples that pose First Amendment concerns.
00:32:57.000 As I said, the House should never airdrop bills on the floor without adequate time for regular order, deliberation, and amendments.
00:33:03.000 The bill simply doesn't go far enough.
00:33:04.000 It's not good enough to merely ask the DOE to consider a definition of antisemitism in discrimination investigations.
00:33:10.000 Rather, we should cut off taxpayer funding to the supposedly elite institutions that are poisoning the minds of our children and propagating this despicable behavior.
00:33:19.000 Sounds right to me.
00:33:21.000 That sounds exactly right to me.
00:33:23.000 Okay.
00:33:25.000 Meanwhile, what's the actual solution to all this?
00:33:27.000 It actually turns out the solution to all this is quite easy.
00:33:29.000 If you're an administrator at a college campus, and students are violating the Student Code of Conduct, which is what they are doing if they are shouting things like, go back to Poland, just expel them.
00:33:38.000 There's a Student Code of Conduct.
00:33:40.000 You, as a person at a university, sign a contract with the university.
00:33:44.000 The university can then enforce its rules upon you, just as you can enforce your contract with the university.
00:33:51.000 Not only that, if they violate the law, as they have been doing at colleges across the country, don't negotiate with people who violate the law.
00:33:57.000 Simply expel them.
00:33:58.000 Arrest them and expel them. 0.95
00:33:59.000 And it all goes away.
00:34:02.000 And as for what individuals can do, at this point I need to pay homage to the gentleman at Pi Kappa Phi.
00:34:09.000 Pi Kappa Phi is a frat over at UNC Chapel Hill.
00:34:15.000 They went over to a pro-Hamas protest.
00:34:19.000 Where they proceeded to raise the American flag and prevent it from hitting the ground.
00:34:26.000 And so a GoFundMe was started to fund a rager for them.
00:34:31.000 It has currently raised well over $200,000.
00:34:34.000 Congratulations to those gentlemen.
00:34:38.000 The GoFundMe is the best thing all day. 0.90
00:34:41.000 Here's what it says, quote, Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak university administrators. 0.92
00:34:47.000 But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the antisemitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes.
00:34:53.000 Armored in vineyard vines in Patagonia, fueled by zin and white claws, these triumphant brohemians protected old glory from the unwashed Marxist horde, laughing at their shrieks and wails, and shielding the stars and stripes from Soviet missiles. 0.75
00:35:06.000 These boys, no men, of the UNC Chapel Hill, Pi, Kappa Phi, gave the best to America and now they deserve the best.
00:35:12.000 Help us raise funds to throw this frat, the party they deserve, a party worth, worthy of the boat shoes, broletariat who did their country proud. 0.64
00:35:22.000 Absolutely awesome.
00:35:23.000 By the way, Bill Ackman gave $10,000 to the bros.
00:35:27.000 So, love that.
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00:35:29.000 Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on House Republicans engaged in, once again, another circular firing squad.
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00:36:56.000 Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor Greene, she is back and weaker than ever.
00:37:00.000 She says she's going to force a vote on a motion to vacate next week.
00:37:03.000 She has to do that because she'd been threatening it for weeks at this point. 0.52
00:37:06.000 She does not have the votes to make this happen. 0.91
00:37:08.000 Here she was yesterday announcing it.
00:37:11.000 And so next week, I am going to be calling this motion to vacate.
00:37:14.000 Absolutely calling it.
00:37:16.000 I can't wait to see Democrats go out and support a Republican speaker and have to go home to their primaries and have to run for Congress again, having supported a Republican speaker, a Christian conservative.
00:37:29.000 I think that'll play well.
00:37:30.000 I'm excited about it.
00:37:32.000 Okay, so apparently she's doing a favor to the Republican Party by challenging the Speaker of the House for no reason that anyone can quite discern.
00:37:39.000 She says that Speaker Johnson has become unrecognizable.
00:37:42.000 Which, again, is very weird since he's cutting exactly the same sort of deals that Kevin McCarthy would have.
00:37:47.000 Maybe, again, the fact is that there are a bunch of people in Congress who grandstand for a living as opposed to the people in Congress who are actually trying to get things done from time to time.
00:37:56.000 I voted for Mike Johnson because his voting record before he became Speaker was conservative.
00:38:03.000 He voted against funding Ukraine.
00:38:05.000 He was solidly pro-life.
00:38:08.000 He voted to secure the border.
00:38:11.000 He voted to fight against Democrats.
00:38:14.000 Fight against the witch hunt against President Trump.
00:38:16.000 But once he became Speaker, he has become a man that none of us recognize.
00:38:21.000 He passed three continuing resolutions.
00:38:24.000 And then he finally passed a two-part omnibus that fully funded Joe Biden's agenda and the Democrat agenda.
00:38:34.000 Okay, or alternatively, you guys kept stymieing every attempt to change those bills, and then many of you ousted the Speaker of the House who was attempting to get through the bill, and then Johnson had to decide whether or not to have a government shutdown in the middle of a presidential election.
00:38:51.000 Lauren Boebert, another one of the luminaries in the Republican Congress, she says it makes no difference to her if Johnson or Jeffries is the Speaker, which is a really dumb thing to say because, and it probably doesn't, because again, if your entire goal is to get on cable news, then it doesn't make any difference.
00:39:03.000 If you actually would like to, you know, have the chairmanship of the House Oversight Committee, or if, for example, you would like to be on the House Rules Committee determining what makes it to the floor and what does not, it kind of makes a difference who runs the House.
00:39:15.000 We are passing the Democrat agenda each and every day that we're here.
00:39:19.000 Well, I mean, it should make a difference, because it actually does make a difference.
00:39:27.000 Now the motion to vacate is going absolutely nowhere.
00:39:30.000 Mike Johnson right now.
00:39:47.000 In fact, the reason that they are saving Johnson here, if they do save Johnson, is simply because they also don't want a rule whereby Ilhan Omar can challenge Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker of the House anytime she damn well pleases.
00:39:59.000 Mike Johnson, for his part, he continues to maintain that he has to do his job, which of course is correct.
00:40:05.000 House Democratic leadership just announced that they would vote to table a motion to vacate, effectively saving your job for you.
00:40:11.000 What's your reaction to that?
00:40:13.000 First, I've heard of it.
00:40:15.000 Look, I have to do my job.
00:40:17.000 We have to do what we believe to be the right thing.
00:40:21.000 What the country needs right now is a functioning Congress.
00:40:24.000 They need a Congress that works well, works together, and does not hamper its own ability to solve these problems.
00:40:30.000 And so we saw what happened with the motion to vacate the last time.
00:40:33.000 Congress was closed for three weeks.
00:40:35.000 No one can afford for that to happen.
00:40:38.000 So we need people who are serious about the job here to continue to do that job and get it done.
00:40:45.000 He is correct about that.
00:40:46.000 One of the rules here in politics is never interrupt your opponents when they're making a mistake.
00:40:50.000 Democrats are making a series of terrible mistakes right now.
00:40:54.000 On the Middle East, they're making a huge mistake. 0.68
00:40:56.000 It turns out, new poll, 71% of Palestinians support October 7th still.
00:41:00.000 And Joe Biden is still unable to simply allow Israel to finish the job in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, which is unbelievable to me.
00:41:07.000 It's political malpractice.
00:41:08.000 The longer things carry on with Israel in the Gaza Strip, the worse it is for Joe Biden.
00:41:13.000 He should be urging Israel to go in. 0.99
00:41:15.000 By the way, the hostage negotiations are apparently being held up by, you guessed it, Yahya Sinwar, who's the head of Hamas.
00:41:21.000 According to Israeli reports and reports from people who are speaking with Sinwar in the Arab world, apparently he's literally holding hostages around him personally.
00:41:32.000 Because he's afraid that he's going to get hit by an airstrike. 0.98
00:41:34.000 So one of the reasons he is hesitant to give up the hostages is because they are his leverage so that Israel doesn't just drone his ass. 0.94
00:41:41.000 And meanwhile, the Biden administration is trying to press Israel into making concessions. 0.97
00:41:44.000 Still.
00:41:45.000 And not going into Rafa.
00:41:46.000 Good luck with that.
00:41:49.000 Meanwhile, Joe Biden's economy is on the brink again.
00:41:52.000 According to Axios, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday for the sixth straight time, acknowledging a lack of further progress on cooling inflation.
00:42:00.000 The Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policy setting body of the central bank, kept its target interest rate in a range between 5.25% and 5.5%.
00:42:07.000 It's been there since last July.
00:42:10.000 Jerome Powell confirmed the Fed is not going to cut interest rates as soon as it had previously signaled.
00:42:15.000 He said, so far this year, the data have not given us that greater confidence that inflation is headed back toward 2%.
00:42:20.000 It is likely that gaining that greater confidence will take longer than previously expected.
00:42:25.000 He said he thinks it's unlikely the next policy rate move will be a hike, but also if it just stays there, these are historically high interest rates for most people living in the United States.
00:42:33.000 And the inflation continues to be a major drag on Joe Biden's economy.
00:42:38.000 Which is why, again, Joe Biden's map for this election is not looking good.
00:42:43.000 Politico noted that yesterday.
00:42:45.000 They say Joe Biden's path to re-election has become increasingly clear.
00:42:47.000 It's the Rust Belt or bust.
00:42:49.000 So you remember, in 2020, Joe Biden was able to rely on the Sun Belt as well.
00:42:53.000 That'd be like Arizona and Georgia.
00:42:55.000 No longer.
00:42:55.000 Those are both solidly in Donald Trump's camp.
00:42:59.000 Apparently, according to Politico, polls broadly show Biden continuing to fall behind President Donald Trump in swing states across the country.
00:43:05.000 They consistently show older, whiter states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin as the most competitive for Biden.
00:43:11.000 Trump has larger leads in the Sun Belt states as well as in Nevada.
00:43:16.000 So, again, Joe Biden is running an incredibly weak race right now, which means that Republicans shouldn't get in his way.
00:43:24.000 Meanwhile, all Donald Trump has to do is stand there and point, and he's largely doing just that.
00:43:27.000 He's either in court falling asleep or he's pointing at Joe Biden, which is a fine campaign from where he's sitting.
00:43:31.000 Here he was yesterday saying, with Joe Biden, you're going to get World War III.
00:43:35.000 That is not off the table.
00:43:37.000 You know, we never got into a war with me.
00:43:39.000 I beat ISIS in record time. 0.96
00:43:42.000 We never got into a war.
00:43:44.000 With this guy, you'll end up in World War III.
00:43:47.000 You'll end up in World War III, I'll tell you what.
00:43:50.000 This next six months is going to be very scary.
00:43:52.000 You could end up in World War III with this person, and there's a grossly incompetent man.
00:43:57.000 Well, that is not wrong.
00:43:59.000 That's a pretty good way to run this campaign.
00:44:02.000 We'll get to more on this in a moment.
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00:45:21.000 Well, meanwhile, things got real at UCLA last night, but I think that the important thing
00:45:25.000 is what the UCLA Palestine Solidarity Encampment demanded.
00:45:30.000 Okay, so they demanded a bunch of needs and their list is pretty hilarious.
00:45:34.000 So I wanted to go through it for just a moment because this says everything
00:45:37.000 about these cosplay revolutionaries.
00:45:39.000 Urgent!
00:45:40.000 Headlamps, airsoft goggles, gas masks, and respirators, especially for our medics.
00:45:45.000 Skater helmets, shields, wood for barrier, knee and elbow pads, rain ponchos, canopies, utility gloves of various sizes, especially for small hands.
00:45:53.000 Yeah, I figured.
00:45:54.000 Super bright flashlights with strobe charged.
00:45:56.000 Umbrellas.
00:45:58.000 Medical, they need some EpiPens, non-steroid inhalers, headlamps, and organizational bins.
00:46:02.000 Here's what they need for food. 0.80
00:46:03.000 Hot food for lunch!
00:46:04.000 Triple exclamation point.
00:46:06.000 Important!
00:46:07.000 Double exclamation point.
00:46:08.000 They cannot subsist on cold food?
00:46:11.000 These brave, intrepid warriors for Palestine? 0.90
00:46:15.000 That food, by the way, needs to be vegan.
00:46:17.000 They need vegan food.
00:46:19.000 As you would suspect.
00:46:21.000 Honestly, you know, I've talked a little bit about the possibility that at some point, all of these Stands for Hamas. 0.74
00:46:27.000 At a certain point, maybe they start to actually imitate Hamas and do truly violent and terrible things. 0.89
00:46:31.000 That would require some testosterone. 0.76
00:46:33.000 So, maybe not.
00:46:35.000 Maybe it's just a bunch of blue-haired pansies who are going to sit in their encampments and basically do nothing until they're removed by the cops. 1.00
00:46:43.000 They need vegan food, gluten-free food, ice.
00:46:47.000 No packaged food.
00:46:49.000 No coffee.
00:46:51.000 No bagels.
00:46:53.000 Or as the encampments call them, Jew Donuts.
00:46:56.000 No bananas.
00:46:58.000 No nuts.
00:46:59.000 Some people have allergies.
00:47:02.000 Just like Gaza. 1.00
00:47:03.000 Okay, there are some other requests.
00:47:06.000 Sleeping pads.
00:47:09.000 AA, AAA, C and D batteries.
00:47:10.000 Rope zip ties.
00:47:13.000 Electric solar power generators.
00:47:15.000 Lotion.
00:47:16.000 Aquaphor.
00:47:18.000 No sunscreen.
00:47:19.000 I'm not sure why they hate sunscreen so much.
00:47:22.000 What did sunscreen ever do to them?
00:47:25.000 They then proceeded, by the way, to build a wall around their encampment at UCLA.
00:47:28.000 I thought walls don't work, by the way, and are racist.
00:47:31.000 But they built a wall around their encampment using plywood and wood pallets, and they used zip ties and drilled screws.
00:47:40.000 So, yeah, it turns out it's not going to stop the cops.
00:47:43.000 So, yeah, that did not go as well as they thought it would for them.
00:47:49.000 Well done, everybody.
00:47:51.000 These are the geniuses at America's leading universities.
00:47:54.000 Honestly, I went to UCLA.
00:47:55.000 I went to Harvard Law. 0.99
00:47:57.000 Like, they were bad in my day, and they've just gotten stupider over time. 0.98
00:48:00.000 Parents, it's time to stop sending your kids to these universities. 0.98
00:48:04.000 It really, really is.
00:48:05.000 Unless they're in the physics department, or the math department, or the hard sciences, you should not be sending your kids to these universities.
00:48:11.000 You should find them an internship somewhere.
00:48:13.000 Get them a job.
00:48:13.000 Get them an apprenticeship.
00:48:14.000 Give them the money to go into business.
00:48:16.000 Buy them a house.
00:48:17.000 There's so much better uses of money than training your kids to be good little LARP terrorists.
00:48:24.000 Seriously.
00:48:26.000 Meanwhile, Donald Trump has now been held in contempt after violating his gag order in his hush money trial.
00:48:32.000 According to the Washington Post, former President Trump was held in contempt of court on Tuesday for repeatedly violating a gag order.
00:48:39.000 The judge overseeing his ongoing criminal trial warned him he could go to jail if he keeps breaking the court rules again.
00:48:43.000 All of this is designed to silence Trump.
00:48:47.000 It's not going to succeed. 1.00
00:48:48.000 And also, it is obviously stupid. 1.00
00:48:50.000 These gag orders are unconstitutional. 1.00
00:48:52.000 They are violative of the First Amendment.
00:48:53.000 He's the sitting Republican nominee and former president of the United States, and likely future president of the United States, and you're telling him that accountants sound off about the trial in material ways.
00:49:03.000 I cannot imagine this isn't setting up the predicate for reversal on appeal.
00:49:07.000 So, we'll see how it plays in the court of public opinion.
00:49:10.000 I think the answer is not particularly well.
00:49:14.000 All right, coming up, we are going to jump into the Volunteer Ben Shapiro Show Mailbag.
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