On Monday, the supposedly bipartisan Women's March tweeted out a happy birthday message to an actual, honest-to-goodness terrorist, Assata Shakur. The tweet came complete with a picture of Shakur with the slogan, IS IN THE STRUGGLE, pasted at the top, and above her head were the words, Today s sign of resistance in Assata s honor by Melonius Funk. Ben Shapiro explains why this is awful, and why the far-left should be ashamed of themselves. Plus, Ben explains why Linda Sarsour should be welcomed with open arms by the Women s March. And why we should all be thankful for the fact that the Black Liberation Army splintered off from the Black Panther Party into a splinter group called the "Black Liberation Army" and became a legitimate terrorist organization. Ben also explains why the assassination of Osama Bin Laden is a good thing, and what we should do about it. Ben Shapiro's full show is on all of that and more on this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, wherever you get your news. Subscribe to Ben Shapiro on iTunes and leave us a rating and review the show on Apple Podcasts. Thanks for listening and reviewing! Subscribe, review, and share the show with your fellow podcasting friends! If you like what you've listened to, share it with a friend, and spread the word to your friends about Ben Shapiro and/or share it on whatever you're listening to this podcast on your social media platforms. Thank you for listening to The Ben and Branchor Podcasts! - Ben Shapiro and Good Morning America is a podcast dedicated to all things podcasting, real, honest and unfiltered, non-profit journalism, real and unillegible, unapologetically leftist, and unapologetic, and full of love, no matter what that means . - the truth is what you're gonna get from Ben Shapiro, not just what you hear from me, not only about it, but also what you need to know about it! , no matter how much you're going to like it, right? , right? Thank you, thank you, Ben Shapiro is a friend of the truth, right, and you'll get a good night's rest, and that's enough rest, right there, no more than that? - thank you? -- Thank you Ben Shapiro.
00:00:00.000On Monday, the supposedly bipartisan Women's March tweeted out a happy birthday message to an actual honest-to-goodness terrorist, Assata Shakur.
00:00:07.000There's an image of her, and it's a drawing of Assata Shakur against a pink and purple background, and above her head are the words, It says, Today's sign of resistance in Assata's honor is by Melonius Funk.
00:00:22.000The tweet came complete with a picture of Shakur with the slogan, IS IN THE STRUGGLE, pasted at the top.
00:00:27.000In May 1973, Shakur was wounded in a shootout with state troopers on the New Jersey Turnpike.
00:00:31.000One trooper was killed execution style.
00:00:33.000She was convicted of the murder and then sentenced to life in prison.
00:00:36.000She'd also participated in a bunch of bank robberies, apparently.
00:00:39.000In 1979, she escaped from prison and then finally fled to Cuba, where she's been living.
00:00:43.000She's still on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorist list.
00:00:45.000There's a $2 million reward on her head.
00:00:47.000As David French points out at National Review,
00:00:49.000All told, from 1970 to 1984, the BLA, the Black Liberation Army, was responsible for four bombings, four hijackings, 32 violent armed confrontations in the U.S., 16 of those involved confrontations with law enforcement officers who were killed.
00:01:02.000In other words, by every reasonable contemporary definition of terrorism, Shakur was a violent terrorist who belonged to a violent terrorist organization.
00:01:09.000Now, Shakur has become a hero to leftists because she rejects the morality of Western civilization.
00:01:13.000She was a member of that Black Liberation Army, a more violent splinter from the Black Panther Party.
00:01:18.000In Cuba, she wrote a trite autobiography in which she made claims like this, quote, They call us bandits.
00:01:23.000Yet every time most black people pick up our paychecks, we are being robbed.
00:01:26.000Every time we walk into a store in our neighborhood, we are being held up.
00:01:29.000And every time we pay our rent, the landlord sticks a gun into our ribs.
00:01:33.000The rulers of this country and their flunkies have committed some of the most brutal, vicious crimes in history.
00:01:37.000They are the bandits, they are the murderers, and they should be treated as such.
00:01:41.000This is pretty vile stuff, but it's true by the far left, brought up on Howard Zinn and trained to see America as the enemy.
00:01:46.000No wonder Linda Sarsour is welcomed with open arms by the Women's March.
00:01:49.000By the way, the Women's March has now written a full explanation of their happy birthday message.
00:02:42.000So we'll talk about why everything is so terrible in just a second, but it's also, in every horror is a little bit of sick, sad hilarity, as there is today.
00:02:52.000So we'll get into all of that, but first,
00:02:54.000On that bright note, I want to thank our sponsors over at Bull & Branch.
00:02:58.000So, perhaps you woke up and saw the news and wanted to go back to sleep.
00:04:44.000Obamacare is forcing the insurance companies to offer a bunch of things on their plan.
00:04:48.000Now, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz had come up with an amendment that would have allowed insurance companies to actually provide plans outside of the Obamacare regulations, but when Mitch McConnell put it back in the bill, the provision did not include that.
00:05:01.000It said that you could get out of some of the regulations, but then you were still subject to the Obamacare marketplace exchanges, which means that it artificially jacks up the prices for young, healthy people who want to buy skimpier versions of health insurance.
00:05:12.000Yesterday, Mike Lee and Jerry Moran, who is the senator from Kansas, they both came out and they said that they are not going to back the bill.
00:05:19.000So, Moran explained, we should not put our stamp of approval on bad policy.
00:05:23.000Furthermore, if we leave the federal government in control of everyday healthcare decisions, it is more likely that our healthcare system will devolve into single-payer,
00:05:29.000So that meant that there were four senators now who are not going to vote to advance the House bill with the Senate changes.
00:05:57.000And then you have Jerry Moran and Mike Lee who said they're not gonna vote for it.
00:06:00.000But lest anyone think that these four are really the only obstacle, the fact is that there were supposedly eight to ten other senators who were really tentative on it.
00:06:06.000And that's because the thing had a 20% approval rating.
00:06:09.000It was basically keeping a lot of the worst aspects of Obamacare and getting rid of the funding mechanism, which was all the taxes under Obamacare, and
00:06:17.000Increasing subsidies in certain areas.
00:06:19.000So, that was... It wasn't a great plan.
00:06:35.000So yesterday started on a bizarre note, okay?
00:06:38.000This was supposed to be Made in America week for the Trump White House.
00:06:41.000And President Trump leads off yesterday by sitting in a firetruck, which of course led to 1,000 terrible headlines for him.
00:06:54.000Listen, I understand what photo ops are for most, but having the Vice President and the Presidents of the United States standing around and then getting in a fire truck.
00:07:03.000We've already had Trump in a different kind of truck.
00:07:07.000Now we have Trump driving a fire truck.
00:07:29.000He's not the only president to do stupid photo ops, but this is a really dumb photo op.
00:07:32.000It's a particularly dumb photo op when he's in a fire truck, at the wheel of the fire truck, and literally a mile away, his Trumpcare bill is on fire.
00:07:41.000He then came out yesterday, and John McCain, one of the things that helped kill this was John McCain was probably going to vote in favor of the Trumpcare bill, or at least that was the rumor, and then he got sick and had to have a surgery, and so Trump yesterday, he was touting John McCain and saying that he needed his vote.
00:07:54.000We hope John McCain gets better very soon, because we miss him.
00:08:03.000Okay, that was true, but it wasn't enough.
00:08:06.000Okay, so Mike Lee comes out and he explains why exactly he didn't vote for this thing, and he said, this is not a full repeal of Obamacare.
00:08:12.000We promised we were going to fully repeal Obamacare, and this isn't it.
00:08:15.000I have made very clear from the outset of this discussion that what the American people asked for
00:08:22.000What they expected when they elected Republicans to the House, to the Senate, and to the White House was a full repeal of Obamacare.
00:08:55.000This bill no longer relieves people of some of the most significant burdens, regulatorily speaking, from Obamacare that have made the cost of healthcare go sky high.
00:09:06.000And we can do better, but the American people have to demand it.
00:09:10.000Okay, so I agree with everything that you heard Mike Lee just say.
00:09:14.000So the question is, who is to blame for all of this?
00:09:19.000We're going to explain what's coming next after Trumpcare has gone down, because now Senator McConnell says that he wants to bring a full repeal bill.
00:09:49.000Number one, Senate moderates who lied when they said they were going to support Obamacare repeal.
00:09:53.000And they demonstrated that they lied when they said this, okay?
00:09:56.000As I say, Mitch McConnell says that now he's going to bring to the floor some sort of repeal bill.
00:10:01.000He's going to use the House bill that was passed as basically the vehicle for a full repeal, and the repeal would go into effect in two years.
00:10:09.000So it would basically be a ticking time bomb, and then Republicans would have two years to get their act together and come up with some correctives for when the time bomb goes off after the elections, right?
00:10:17.000So it's actually a relatively smart play by McConnell, but it also holds a bunch of Republicans' feet to the fire
00:10:23.000Trying to demonstrate who exactly was willing to vote for repeal and who is not.
00:10:26.000Already, within 15 minutes of him announcing this, already this morning, there were three Republicans who said they would not vote for simple repeal.
00:10:33.000Remember, for seven years, we have heard nothing from the Republican Party, but we need to repeal Obamacare.
00:10:39.000Repeal and replace was a formulation pursued by Trump, okay?
00:10:42.000It was a formulation pursued by moderate Republicans, but they all said they were going to repeal.
00:10:47.000And the proof is in the pudding, okay?
00:10:48.000Rob Portman today, the senator from Ohio, he voted for a simple repeal bill in 2015 when Barack Obama was president.
00:10:55.000Today, Mitch McConnell said, we want to pass a simple repeal bill, the exact same repeal bill we voted for in 2015, and Senator Rob Portman, who is just a weak-T senator from Ohio, here's what he had to say about it.
00:11:08.000So I'll have to look and see what the so-called repeal bill entails.
00:11:11.000But if it is a bill that simply repeals, I believe that will add to more uncertainty and the potential for, you know, Ohioans to pay even higher premiums, higher deductibles.
00:11:50.000They say this kind of stuff and they don't mean it one iota, or at least many of them don't.
00:11:54.000And when they do mean it, like Mike Lee, they get ripped up and down by a bunch of establishment lackeys and hacks who say that it's Mike Lee's fault that Obamacare's still on the books.
00:12:02.000Basically, here was the deal the GOP made.
00:12:24.000He said today that he probably will not.
00:12:27.000Shelley Moore Capito, who voted for exactly the same bill in 2015, said today, In other words, repeal and replace was just an excuse for keep Obamacare.
00:12:32.000That's what we had suspected all along.
00:12:51.000He said, while he was doing this bill, that even the Medicaid reforms that everybody really loved, he said that those Medicaid reforms would never materialize.
00:13:00.000It was not enough to get Susan Collins on board anyway.
00:13:02.000Okay, so all of these people are totally full of it, which means that the new Republican program is basically, let's just complain about Democrats, but when we have power, we won't do anything.
00:13:11.000Here's Mitch McConnell lamenting the Democrats who are saying that they're happy that this thing went down in flames.
00:13:18.000I imagine many Democrats were celebrating last night.
00:13:22.000I hope they consider what they are celebrating.
00:13:29.000And it's regretful that our Democratic colleagues decided early on that they did not want to engage with us seriously in the process to deliver that relief.
00:13:39.000Okay, so again, you know, he can say all he wants here, but he's the guy in charge.
00:15:58.000Instead, he sat back, he let Mitch McConnell take the reins, he let Paul Ryan take the reins, because Trump was not engaged, because Trump doesn't care about this, and because Trump doesn't even know his own policy, and because Trump doesn't even know what's in the bill.
00:16:10.000If you ask Trump what's in this bill, he would not be able to tell you, which is why today, President Trump offered, in 12 hours, three different strategies for what should happen after the death of this bill.
00:16:20.000He tweeted, Republicans should just repeal failing Obamacare now and work on a new health care plan that will start from a clean slate.
00:16:45.000Literally within hours of him saying, repeal, and then figure it out with Democrats, he's now saying, don't repeal, let it fail, and then figure it out with Democrats.
00:16:53.000Okay, all of this confusion does not allow you to exert pressure on your own members of Congress.
00:18:20.000Screw-up number two was he didn't actually embrace Obamacare repeal in the first place when he became president.
00:18:25.000And screw-up number three is that he has completely abdicated responsibility for this, even while people are praising him for his engagement.
00:18:40.000It's his signature piece of legislation.
00:18:42.000Obama was heavily involved in pushing his signature piece of legislation.
00:18:45.000I don't think that we should expect anything less from President Trump.
00:18:49.000It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me in any case.
00:18:53.000But the media, of course, are in full Trump defense mode, at least on the right, because it's more important to please Trump than it is to actually push good policy, which is one of my key criticisms here, okay?
00:19:03.000For fellow conservatives, Trump can be all the things you want him to be.
00:19:41.000The president said, before he knew that these two, he had these two defectors, reported according to Politico, he goes, if the Senate Republicans don't get this thing done, they'll look like dopes.
00:19:55.000It's not a question of being true to your party or true to your country.
00:19:58.000It's a question of being true to your word.
00:20:00.000They should not have elevated the issue for eight years among Republicans saying, first thing we'll do is repeal and replace if they weren't capable of doing it.
00:20:08.000Okay, again, all of this, they're going to toss all of this at the feet of McConnell and Ryan.
00:20:11.000They deserve a heavy dose of blame, both of them.
00:20:13.000The Congress deserves a heavy dose of blame.
00:21:36.000Let's get back to what exactly happens from here.
00:21:39.000So, as I say, the first proposal was, let's just repeal Obamacare wholesale.
00:21:43.000And a bunch of moderate senators said, no, we're not going to do that.
00:21:47.000And then the proposal is, okay, we'll let Obamacare fail and then we'll come back to the table.
00:21:51.000The problem with this is that they need the tax increase, they need the revenue that was saved through Obamacare cuts in order to pass tax reform.
00:21:58.000So it's not just that Obamacare repeal went down, it's that tax reform is now in danger.
00:22:03.000Remember, everything has to be passed with a 51 vote reconciliation rule.
00:22:06.000That means the CBO has to score everything as revenue neutral, meaning that you can't lose money on it.
00:22:11.000You can't create more debt, more deficit, in order to pass a bill.
00:22:15.000What that means is that all of the savings they were going to have from the Obamacare repeal, they were originally going to apply to tax reform.
00:22:20.000If they don't get the repeal, they don't get the tax reform, and the entire legislative agenda is sunk.
00:22:25.000Obamacare continues to devolve into disaster, and now that Republicans have put their grubby mitts on it, it's going to be very difficult for them to remove their stink from it.
00:22:43.000Especially after Republicans tried to push a Democrat-like program.
00:22:47.000All of this is a bollocks, and it demonstrates.
00:22:49.000In politics, if you do not campaign on a program, and if you're not clever enough to campaign on other things and then implement a program with the full weight of your authority, you are going to be in serious political trouble, plus you're not going to get anything done.
00:23:02.000And so the question's going to become here.
00:23:04.000Can you pressure your Republican representatives and the President to do the right thing?
00:23:07.000And so I'm going to do something I never do on this program, okay?
00:23:09.000Here are the phone numbers for Senators Portman, Capito, and Collins.
00:23:12.000These are their Senate office phone numbers.
00:23:15.000I want people to call and flood their offices, okay?
00:23:17.000Senator Rob Portman today, the Senator from Ohio, who says he will not vote for peer repeal, his number is 202-224-3353.
00:23:22.000That is his Senate office phone number.
00:24:10.000As we continue, we're going to move over to Daily Wire right now, but I still want to talk about a bunch of things, including whether the polls actually matter to President Trump.
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00:27:07.000Okay, Republicans are smart enough to read the signals from the polls.
00:27:10.000So, when someone from ABC News calls up and says, we have a poll question for you, Republicans aren't just hearing the poll question, they are hearing the subtext of the poll question, and they are answering the subtext.
00:27:19.000So if they're asked, do you think that Donald Trump Jr.
00:27:22.000did something wrong on the Russia stuff?
00:27:23.000What they are hearing is, do you think that Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government?
00:27:28.000Republicans are answering the questions they think are being asked,
00:27:32.000And in reality are actually being asked by the media.
00:27:34.000So I think that a lot of the people who are being polled on the right side of the aisle have gotten too smart for the pollsters.
00:27:39.000In other words, when polls, when pollsters call them up, they are giving them answers that are designed to go right to the subtext.
00:27:45.000So instead of them saying, yes, Donald Trump Jr.
00:27:47.000met with the Russians, but I don't think it matters.
00:27:49.000Instead, they say he didn't meet with the Russians at all because screw you, you know, go to hell.
00:27:53.000I think that there's a lot of that in the polling now.
00:27:55.000That is not true with approval ratings.
00:27:57.000I don't think there are a lot of Republicans today who are saying, you know, I love President Trump, but I'm gonna lie to the pollsters and say that I hate President Trump.
00:29:23.000I think that this is essentially correct.
00:29:25.000Explain in your book why you say Trump may be kryptonite to the smear.
00:29:30.000I call him the anti-smear candidate because every traditional smear tactic used against him, very effective tactics against other people, kind of bounced off of him.
00:29:42.000You know, the smear was just no good to him.
00:29:44.000In fact, he was able to grab it and co-opt it and turn it around in most every case.
00:29:49.000And I argue that if he had apologized in summer of 2015 when the first attack that I noticed was after John McCain called some of his followers crazies and Trump counterattacked by saying McCain wasn't a war hero in Vietnam.
00:30:05.000And they were called the media wanted him to get out of the race and apologize I started airing more of him thinking the public would hate him if they saw more of him, but the public liked him I think if he had apologized then he would never have made it But he did the opposite of what is intuitive to politicians But turned out to be the right thing for him to do for his followers
00:30:25.000So I don't think that his base is going to drop out anytime soon.
00:30:27.000The question is, how much of his base is going to turn out to vote, and is it enough for him to win re-election?
00:30:32.000It's a little early to talk about re-election.
00:30:33.000Not every day is a battle for re-election for President Trump.
00:30:36.000But if he, let's say he passes, not much.
00:31:09.000No, I think the president has a role, and this is the problem with electing someone who you expect their job is only going to be to be angry at things and yell at things.
00:31:17.000Do I think that Trump's bottom is going to fall out here?
00:31:26.000Now, it'll be interesting to see if he swivels to the left in the aftermath of the Trumpcare failure and tries to get some infrastructure stuff done with Democrats, tries to pass more big government stuff, and tries to bring in a different crowd.
00:31:38.000That is one strategy for getting to 50.
00:31:40.000He's going to need to get closer to 50% if he wants to win re-election.
00:31:45.000Ironically, one of the best things that might have happened to him in this entire cycle is Mike Lee killing this Trumpcare bill.
00:31:50.000Because imagine if the Trumpcare bill actually passed, and now Trump owns what comes next in the healthcare system.
00:31:55.000Well, Trump, I think Trump knows this by the way, which is why he's not fully fulminating over the failure of Trumpcare.
00:32:00.000I think Trump knows it would have been politically poisonous for him to pass something this unpopular and then sign it, and he'd have that hanging around his neck for 2020.
00:32:07.000Mike Lee might have just saved Trump's presidency by killing this bill.
00:32:11.000It also, you know, the Republican failure to kill Obamacare also demonstrates what lackeys they are.
00:32:17.000So you could easily see a situation in which Trump wins re-election after Democrats win the House in 2018, try to impeach him, and the reaction is so strong that he wins re-election, but you could see Republicans not being able to get anything done.
00:32:28.000You know, and maybe all we got out of this was Gorsuch, and we'll find out if that's enough.
00:32:32.000Okay, so with all of that said, the Russia fallout
00:32:35.000It is amazing that the Democrats are really grasping at straws here, because they don't need to.
00:32:42.000The overreach is so great from the Trump administration that the Democrats don't need to overreach, but everyone is incompetent at everything.
00:32:47.000So, for example, there's a Democratic representative, Mike Quigley.
00:32:50.000He makes one of the most bizarre statements I have ever heard about this Russia, Trump-Russia stuff.
00:33:00.000I think you're starting to see public evidence of that coordination.
00:33:04.000Not just the meeting with Trump Jr., but others as well.
00:33:08.000You know, Roger Stone suggesting that he had a relationship with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
00:33:15.000And that he knew that Mr. Podesta was next in the barrel.
00:33:18.000But actually the Trump campaign's digital operation?
00:33:22.000Look, I don't want to get into specifics in terms of a digital operation or any specifics that are not in the public domain at this point in time.
00:33:31.000I think you're seeing a clear pattern of people in the Trump campaign coordinating with Russians.
00:33:39.000And I think what we're learning with the Trump Jr.
00:33:42.000meeting is when you meet with any Russians, you're meeting with Russian intelligence and therefore President Putin.
00:33:49.000Okay, so the idea that if you meet with any Russian ever, you're suddenly meeting with Vladimir Putin is totally insane, and this is why people are responding with ire to all of this.
00:33:58.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration's actual defense on Trump-Russia is not very good, right?
00:34:01.000I mean, here's Sean Spicer yesterday talking about—this is literally yesterday, okay?
00:34:17.000The President's made it clear through his tweet.
00:34:20.000And there was nothing, as far as we know, that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for a discussion about adoption of the Majinsky Act.
00:34:28.000Okay, there was, first of all, it's called the Magnitsky Act, but there was anything except for adoptions.
00:34:35.000How about, like, the entire email exchange that says it's not about adoptions?
00:34:39.000Like, that might lead you to believe that.
00:34:40.000But again, the Democrats are so crazy that they're willing to grasp at any straw here.
00:34:44.000And this is what is driving support for Trump.
00:34:46.000Again, it's a lot of reaction and not a lot of policy, and so we're going to have to ask ourselves, do we demand from President Trump that he give us policy, or is reactionary stuff enough?
00:34:54.000Maybe it is enough, maybe it is enough, but I'm not sure that it's enough for me.
00:34:57.000I don't think it should be enough for conservatives because, you know, there's a whole group of people who spend their days reacting against the left.
00:35:22.000So, you are at home, it's late at night, you hear somebody rumbling around your front door, and then you see the end of a crowbar because somebody's trying to get in your house.
00:35:30.000So, you go over to your gun safe, you unlock it, you grab your gun, they break into your house and you shoot them.
00:35:38.000Except for when the police come and arrest you, and then they ask a bunch of questions, and they hold you up in the legal system for three years, and it costs you tens of thousands of dollars to defend yourself.
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00:37:05.000It's all about the heroin epidemic, the opioid epidemic that you've heard so much about.
00:37:09.000It traces the epidemic, where it came from, why it's affecting small towns in a different way than it's affecting big cities.
00:37:18.000Addiction is a very different thing in many cases than, you know, typical like cocaine addiction or other hard drug addiction.
00:37:25.000The reason for this is because most opioids are originally prescribed by a doctor, right?
00:37:30.000You go into the doctor, you want a painkiller, they give you a hydrocodone, and next thing you know you're looking for an oxycontin, and the next thing you know you can't get that so you're looking at black tar heroin.
00:38:11.000The opioid epidemic is one that actually can be dealt with in ways that some of the other epidemics cannot be because sometimes you might be able to stop it at the source in terms of prescriptions.
00:38:22.000Forget about heroin dealing and legalization of drugs.
00:38:26.000The prescription of drugs is over-prescribed and doctors have to be very careful and you as a patient should be very careful before you start accepting prescription dosages of opioids because they are highly, highly addictive.
00:38:37.000So, for those who missed it, over at Evergreen State College
00:38:41.000There was this insane story where a professor named Brett Weinstein refused to not go to work on the, quote, Week Without Whites, or Day Without Whites, and he was forced to flee the college after he refused to participate, right?
00:38:54.000Okay, Weinstein is a real leftist, and he spoke in front of the Board of Trustees about what exactly happened to him.
00:39:30.000That lawless bands roamed the campus unimpeded.
00:39:33.000Police were physically and intentionally blocked by protesters.
00:39:37.000Police were cruelly, systematically, and personally taunted.
00:39:41.000They were humiliated and forced to stand down by the president.
00:39:45.000Students that held different opinions were, by the protesters' own analysis, stalked, harassed, and doxed, meaning that their names, pictures, and addresses and phone numbers were distributed online.
00:39:55.000Do you know that concessions made under intimidation and threat during the protest are now being enacted by the college?
00:40:02.000That includes mandatory bias training for all faculty.
00:40:05.000This has come about by an agreement between the faculty... I mean, good for this guy, but Weinstein, remember, is a leftist.
00:40:11.000Okay, Weinstein is a hardcore leftist, and here he is testifying like a right-winger because the left is so insane.
00:40:16.000This is why the hard left is eventually going to drive everybody into Trump's arms.
00:40:19.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:40:26.000Okay, thing I hate, number one, when people who are not cool try to be cool.
00:40:30.000So, one of the things that I appreciate about myself, because I'm awesome, is that I don't try to be cool.
00:40:34.000Okay, I don't try to be cool because I am not cool.
00:40:38.000Okay, the fact is, I know I am not cool, and therefore I do not try to be hip and with it and with the kids because that's stupid, because I think a lot of the things the kids do are stupid.
00:40:47.000So, this apparently does not hold true for our congresspeople.
00:40:50.000The Speaker of the House yesterday came out and said he loves emojis.
00:40:59.000Have you ever seen the shirt where it shows the evolution of man?
00:41:02.000It's got the amoebas and it's got the monkeys and then it goes all the way up to man.
00:41:07.000Well, I have a whole thing about the evolution of language that basically we went from grunting at each other to hieroglyphics to short phrases to full language
00:41:17.000Now we are going back to short phrases through text messages and then back to hieroglyphics through emojis.
00:41:22.000I have a deep and abiding hatred for overuse of emojis.
00:41:25.000And yet here's Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, talking about why he loves emojis.
00:42:09.000Caitlyn Jenner, whose sole qualification for running for the Senate is apparently that Caitlyn Jenner is a dude who thinks that he is a lady and the rest of the world is going to humor him in this sad delusion, says that he should run for Senate in California.
00:42:21.000Now listen, if he runs for Senate in California as a Republican, I will vote for him.
00:42:26.000You know, he's still a dude, but I'll vote for him because he's not a Democrat.
00:42:50.000So if Caitlyn Jenner runs for Senate, I don't know, I'll vote for him in a primary, but in a general election, if forced to do so, I will do so.
00:42:58.000Here's Caitlyn Jenner saying that he will run for the Senate because why the hell not?
00:43:53.000If there's one thing, I work very closely with a group called the American Unity Fund, that their sole purpose, their mission statement is to get the Republican Party to do a better job when it comes to all LGBT issues.
00:44:46.000Again, I understand that nobody has to have any qualifications these days, like being able to read a piece of legislation or, you know, have positions, and that fame is a sole qualifier, but this is not a door that I think is great that it's been opened.
00:45:04.000The news of the day is that, according to BuzzFeed reporter Jim DeRogatis, three sets of parents are claiming their daughters have been brainwashed and they're being held against their will in a cult by R&B star Robert R. Kelly.
00:45:17.000Three former members of the singer's inner circle back up such accounts, reveal even more disturbing details of actions allegedly perpetrated by the singer, with a litany of sex-related criminal accusations launched against him, including child porn charges.
00:45:28.000This is according to Amanda Prestigiacomo over
00:45:43.000The singer reportedly videotapes their sexual encounters, forces the girls to call him daddy, and wears only baggy attire to hide their figures, permits them to communicate via cell phone with only him, and routinely verbally and physically abuses the females, punishing them for ridiculous infractions such as laughing at male cab drivers' jokes.
00:45:58.000So this story made the rounds, but it didn't turn into a front-page story.
00:46:02.000Can you imagine if this had been a country star who had done this?
00:46:06.000I have a feeling that there would be a lot more ire if it were, like, Toby Keith who had done this.
00:46:11.000Because it would actually confirm a lot of the left media bias with regard to right-wing people, right?
00:46:16.000That everybody who's actually sexist and brutal to women and keeping them in the back room and using them as sex— The Handmaid's Tale, which is what this sounds like, right?
00:46:22.000The Handmaid's Tale wouldn't be—it has to be coming from the right.
00:46:27.000Now what's hilarious about this is that if you actually listen to a lot of rap songs, which we've done in our Deconstructing the Culture segments before, the idea of treating women as garbage is not particularly rare in rap culture.
00:46:39.000It's not a particularly respectful medium toward women and their autonomy.
00:46:44.000So I'm not sure that we should be super shocked by anything R. Kelly is doing.
00:46:47.000It's also not unique to rap culture, right?
00:46:50.000In Hollywood, the casting couch has been a thing forever.
00:46:52.000The idea that directors use their sexual leverage over willing starlets in order to get in bed with them and then sometimes abuse them, right?
00:47:00.000I mean, that sort of thing has been going on in Hollywood for years.
00:47:04.000One is that left cultures, which is Hollywood and the rap culture, left cultures that
00:47:10.000Supposedly are all for equality when it comes to their actual activity very often or not and number two
00:47:16.000The quest for fame in our culture has become so egregious and so negative that people are putting themselves into dangerous situations that they wouldn't otherwise because they want fame.
00:47:26.000Okay, fame is not all that it is cracked up to be because the fact is that even once you are famous, what you actually need is a place to be safe and away from the fame.
00:47:36.000So, I think that it is sad that we as a culture have decided to value fame over genuine value as a human being.
00:47:45.000That is happening everywhere from politics to pop culture, and I don't think it's going to change anytime soon.
00:47:50.000Okay, so we will be back tomorrow, and when we do come back, we will have updates on Trumpcare.
00:47:55.000Hopefully President Trump will have an alternative plan he wants to pursue, so that I can say nice things about him tomorrow.