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00:00:00.000Republicans are set to pass the enormous tax cut bill, President Trump delivers a new national security strategy, and a major backlash to Me Too begins, brought on by some very weird columns.
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00:02:50.000Every country that has ever dramatically lowered its corporate tax rate that I am aware of has seen significant fiscal boost immediately afterward.
00:03:11.000I'm sort of astonished that so many Republicans
00:03:14.000have failed to make the case for lowering the corporate tax rate on a regular basis.
00:03:18.000They've been focused solely on the idea that individuals have to have their tax rates reduced.
00:03:23.000Maybe it's because Republicans don't have the brains or the moral wherewithal to explain that corporations are really just ways that we organize with each other legally so that we can do business in more efficient fashion.
00:03:33.000If you lower the tax rate on those organizations, you're essentially lowering the tax rate on individuals.
00:03:39.000I wish that we had the brains to explain that.
00:03:40.000Apparently we don't, so it's more unpopular than it is popular.
00:03:43.000But people seeing more money in their pocket always ends up being popular.
00:03:47.000If you look back at the Reagan tax bill of 1981, that was not particularly popular at the time.
00:03:51.000It became very popular shortly thereafter when people realized they were getting more of their own money back.
00:03:56.000So even kind of wavering Republicans are now on board.
00:03:59.000Senator Tom Cotton had planted in this bill a repeal of the individual mandate under Obamacare.
00:04:04.000That's a good thing and it's a bad thing.
00:04:05.000It's a very good thing because it is the least popular provision of Obamacare, so it's a political win for President Trump and for the Republicans to get rid of the individual mandate.
00:04:13.000Remember, the individual mandate under Obamacare is what forces you to buy health insurance.
00:04:17.000The bad news is, that's going to increase prices in the individual market.
00:04:20.000Because it was the mandate that was forcing people like me to pay in the individual market, young people to pay in the individual market, that was keeping the prices down for older, sick people in the individual market.
00:04:29.000Those are now set to rise pretty dramatically.
00:04:32.000Congress is going to have to come in and fill the gap, which apparently they're doing through the Alexander, I believe it's the Alexander Murray Bill, in the United States Senate.
00:05:15.000She says that she supports the conference agreement that's about to go through.
00:05:19.000I rise to express my support for the conference agreement on the Tax Cuts and Job Act, the first major overhaul of our tax code since 1986.
00:05:35.000This legislation will provide tax relief to working families, encourage the creation of jobs right here in America, and spur economic growth that will benefit all Americans.
00:05:52.000Okay, so, you know, even when Susan Collins is on board, that means that you have a broad consensus of Republicans who are on board.
00:05:58.000This is a good thing, obviously, and it's very good for President Trump.
00:06:02.000There's a reason the Democrats were trying desperately to stop it.
00:06:04.000They might have been smarter to actually embrace parts of this tax plan.
00:06:08.000Bernie Sanders, the socialist, he says that they did everything they could to stop the tax bill.
00:06:13.000This looks like it's going to get passed through the Senate and the House and signed by the President, this tax cut bill.
00:06:18.000Is there anything more that opponents like you could have done to stop this?
00:06:22.000Well, I think we did everything that we could.
00:06:27.000But at the end of the day, what you had is people like Mr. Mnuchin, who himself is worth three or four hundred million dollars, the President of the United States, who is worth several billion dollars, as you mentioned, some four or five thousand lobbyists doing everything that they could to write a bill which significantly benefits the wealthiest people in this country and the largest corporations.
00:06:50.000Okay, this is one of my chief irritations about how Democrats play this.
00:06:53.000I wish that Republicans would just say the truth.
00:06:55.000The reason that you are seeing disproportionate shares of the tax cut go to people at the upper end of the income bracket is because those people are paying a disproportionate share of the taxes.
00:07:03.000Okay, the reason that rich people are going to get more of a tax break is because they are paying more of the taxes.
00:07:09.000Okay, in terms of net taxes, the amount of tax dollars that rich people are getting in the country, 95% of all federal spending on net is paid for by the top income bracket, the top 20% quintile of the American population.
00:07:22.000The top 1% are paying something like 50% of all federal income taxes in the nation.
00:07:26.000Of course, they're going to see a disproportionate share of the tax cut.
00:07:28.000You can't give a tax cut to people who aren't paying taxes.
00:07:31.000It's astonishing to me that the Republicans refuse to say this.
00:07:33.000It's astonishing to me that Republicans refuse to make the case for a corporate tax cut.
00:07:37.000And there is a very strong case for a corporate tax cut.
00:07:40.000But, regardless, the policy is going to pass and we're going to see how it plays out in the Senate.
00:07:44.000And this is leading to some recasting of the Trump administration's entire first year.
00:07:48.000A lot of people who have been highly skeptical of Trump are now going back and revising their opinion of how his first year went.
00:07:55.000Now, do I think that it's been a golden first year?
00:07:57.000I don't think it's been a golden first year.
00:07:59.000Do I think that President Trump has governed a lot more conservative than we had any right to expect as conservatives from his campaign?
00:08:05.000I think that a lot of people hoped he would govern as conservative as he's governed, but he has governed extremely conservative.
00:08:11.000This has been the most conservative first year of an administration, certainly since Ronald Reagan.
00:08:16.000It's probably more conservative than George W. Bush's first year, when George W. Bush, if I recall correctly, was already pushing campaign finance reform at this point.
00:08:24.000That doesn't mean a lot has gotten done.
00:08:41.000There's no question that Trump has governed a lot more conservative than I thought he was going to, right?
00:08:45.000I was wrong about Trump on Gorsuch, and I thought that, based on the evidence, there was not a lot of evidence that he was going to govern this conservative once he got into office.
00:08:51.000And if you recall, the early indicators are that he was not going to do that, right?
00:08:54.000Steve Bannon was pushing the idea of an infrastructure bill first thing out of the gate, and then people were talking about an isolationist foreign policy.
00:09:18.000It is a day of good Trump, bad Trump, right?
00:09:22.000I mean, we end the first year, and we're getting close to the end of the year here, and it has been a very good Trump, bad Trump year.
00:09:27.000It's a construct that I created last year during the election cycle, saying that the problem with Trump is that when he's good, he's really good, and when he's bad, he's really bad.
00:09:35.000It's been a very good Trump, bad Trump kind of year.
00:09:36.000So in honor of that, I think that we, so in honor of that, we're going to do a little bit of good Trump, bad Trump.
00:09:42.000Coming up in just a few minutes here because there's a lot going on right between the tax cuts and his national security announcements There's a lot happening here.
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00:11:39.000You know, you gotta love the guy with the beautiful jobs, all caps.
00:11:43.000This is the thing about Trump, and this is what's so puzzling to me about his presidency, is that President Trump's policies, as I say, have been largely conservative.
00:11:51.000And when I say largely, I mean almost entirely very conservative.
00:12:03.000He transformed what is, by any measure, a dicey real estate empire into television fame and fortune, and then that into the presidency.
00:12:11.000And yet, he doesn't seem to know how to wed positive rhetoric and useful rhetoric to an agenda that has been very positive for Americans thus far.
00:12:19.000I mean, I was looking at a list of his accomplishments today, and the list is sizable.
00:12:23.000I mean, if you look at what they've done in the White House,
00:13:23.000There's been excellent growth, and the unemployment statistics are very strong under President Trump.
00:13:27.000I think that's largely due to the market understanding and knowing that Trump is not a threat to their business, that Trump is not somebody who's trying to threaten their business.
00:13:34.000He has cut regulations at a 22 to 1 ratio.
00:13:37.000For every new regulation added, 22 have been cut.
00:13:40.000Curbing the Iran deal, President Trump declared that Iran had been decertified under the deal, which paves the way for new sanctions.
00:13:47.000He should be pushing for further sanctions, but he's also been pushing for an anti-Iran alliance that has been extraordinarily powerful and has reshaped the region.
00:13:55.000A lot of that is the unintended result of President Obama's attempts to make Iran a regional power.
00:14:00.000But Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, they're now in a de facto alliance.
00:14:04.000He announced Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
00:14:06.000Obviously, he's started to open public land.
00:14:09.000The federal government has seized vast swaths of the West.
00:14:11.000Nearly all of Nevada is federal territory.
00:14:14.000A lot of that land ought to be returned to the people for their use.
00:14:16.000President Trump is moving along those lines.
00:14:18.000He passed new sanctions against North Korea.
00:14:20.000Now, listen, he hasn't solved the North Korean problem, but frankly, who could?
00:14:23.000I don't see a real solution there, and unless he knows something I don't, the best he's going to be able to do is pass those new sanctions, which he did.
00:14:31.000They're going to repeal the individual mandate, as I discussed.
00:14:52.000He stopped ripping on the police, which is something that President Obama was very fond of, was ripping on the police at every available opportunity.
00:14:57.000He's done a lot of very good things, right?
00:14:59.000And this is the problem for President Trump.
00:15:02.000In the good Trump, bad Trump construct, there's so much good.
00:15:09.000Because when you look at the bad Trump list, most of the bad Trump list is about things that he's failed to do, picks that he's made in his administration, and stupid stuff that he said.
00:15:19.000Well, maybe if he didn't say stupid stuff and pick bad people for his administration, he would be able to get more good stuff done.
00:15:25.000A disciplined President Trump is the best President Trump, okay?
00:15:27.000President Trump has been more disciplined over the last three weeks.
00:15:31.000It's been a lot less rabid than usual.
00:15:33.000We haven't gotten a lot of the random fights with LeVar Ball.
00:15:36.000We haven't gotten as much of the, I'm ripping on the NFL now.
00:15:40.000If you look at Trump's failures, they've largely been driven by his mouth.
00:15:43.000And if you look at Trump's successes, they've largely been driven by his administration.
00:15:47.000And if he would just let his administration do their job, I've been saying this literally since the beginning of his administration, he's picked some very good people to do their job.
00:15:54.000If he would just shut up and let them do their job, everything would be much better.
00:15:57.000So, you know, let's play the Good Trump, Bad Trump song, because this is an ultimate Good Trump, Bad Trump episode.
00:17:06.000You remember George W. Bush for his tax cuts and the war in Iraq, right?
00:17:10.000Those are basically the things that you remember George W. Bush for.
00:17:13.000But what you remember about each of these presidents is how they changed the American culture in deep and abiding ways.
00:17:19.000That's how you remember the presidents.
00:17:20.000What you really remember about Clinton is not his legislative accomplishments.
00:17:24.000What you remember about Bill Clinton is that he was somebody who totally disconnected honor from the office of the presidency.
00:17:29.000What you remember about Ronald Reagan was the mourning in American optimism of the Reagan administration.
00:17:34.000What you remember about Nixon was Watergate and the idea that the presidency was corrupt.
00:17:38.000What you remember about Jimmy Carter was generalized feelings of incompetence in the presidency which led to the rise of Reagan.
00:17:43.000What you remember about George W. Bush was the notion of an honorable guy who didn't know how to defend himself if you're a Republican and a liar and a cheat if you're a Democrat.
00:17:51.000If you remember Barack Obama, what you see as a Democrat is a guy who finally made America come to terms with racial conflagration.
00:17:57.000And if you're on the right, what you see about Barack Obama is a man who deliberately used race as a polarizing issue in America, tearing American from American, fighting class and race war, and making intersectionality a chief plague in the Democratic platform.
00:20:17.000He's unpopular because President Trump says dumb things on a regular basis.
00:20:21.000And if you'd stop saying dumb things on a regular basis, if somebody just unplugged his phone, and he couldn't use Twitter for two weeks, his approval rating would go up by 10 points in two weeks.
00:20:29.000I promise you, he'd be up in the mid-40s.
00:20:33.000Because if you look at the list of the big boo-boos that he's made, virtually all of them are rhetorical.
00:20:38.000Charlottesville being the most obvious example when he went out there and said both sides were responsible and then he suggested a moral equivalence between the people who were protesting in Charlottesville and the people who were actually the white supremacist instigators.
00:20:51.000and suggested that there were good people at Charlottesville.
00:20:54.000This is the problem for President Trump.
00:20:56.000If you look at the list of his failures, you know, the Mike Flynn, the firing James Comey, the overall rhetoric, the fake news stuff, the LeVar Ball stuff, the fights with the NFL, right?
00:21:04.000All of that stuff is stuff that is stoppable.
00:21:05.000That's why we are so close to having a dream administration, really.
00:21:09.000But that's going to require President Trump to control himself.
00:21:12.000And I don't know that his base wants him to control himself.
00:21:14.000It seems to me that many in the base are more interested in Trump doing the NFL stuff than passing the tax cuts.
00:21:19.000They're more excited about the culture war aspect of Trump than they are about the policy side.
00:21:32.000On the new national security strategy that he rolled out yesterday.
00:21:35.000And what's funny about Trump's national security strategy, what's really fascinating about this particular national security strategy is something that is common to virtually all of Trump's speeches and all of Trump's rhetoric on foreign policy.
00:21:48.000Trump says one thing, and then he implements Bushian foreign policy.
00:21:52.000President Trump's foreign policy is very, very similar to George W. Bush's foreign policy.
00:21:57.000It's basically neoconservative in a lot of ways.
00:21:59.000During the campaign, there was every indicator he looked more like Rand Paul or Ron Paul than he did like George W. Bush.
00:22:04.000But in implementation, his foreign policy has looked a lot more like George W. Bush than like Rand or Ron Paul.
00:22:10.000The isolationist sentiments that he mailed during the campaign have not materialized in real life.
00:22:15.000And so whenever you listen to one of his foreign policy speeches, what you actually see is a disconnect, right?
00:22:20.000Kind of preaching the Ron Paul line, or the Rand Paul line, and then when he actually talks policy, him embracing the idea of a powerful, muscular America in the world, making sure that our principles are upheld, and strengthening alliances through greater military firepower.
00:22:34.000I mean, basically he's embraced Reagan-esque foreign policy while pretending to be a pappy candidate, which is a really interesting combo.
00:22:41.000Not a particularly honest one, but it's interesting.
00:22:44.000Throughout our history, the American people have always been the true source of American greatness.
00:24:02.000The reason that I say this is because the idea that the American people make us great, well, that's like saying the Greek people make us great.
00:24:08.000What's different genetically about an American than about a Greek?
00:24:11.000Well, not much because a Greek can become an American.
00:24:13.000What's genetically different between an Englishman and an American?
00:24:31.000But the reason that he's saying that is because as soon as you start talking about greater principles that America holds, then you have to talk about how we promulgate those principles and now we're back in neoconservative land, right?
00:25:43.000Made a disastrous, weak, and incomprehensibly bad deal with Iran, and allowed terrorists such as ISIS to gain control of vast parts of territory all across the Middle East.
00:25:59.000Okay, so the first couple sentences here have no bearing on the last couple sentences.
00:26:02.000So what he's talking about here in the end is exactly right.
00:26:05.000You know, they ignored North Korea, that they allowed Iran to run roughshod over the Middle East, that they allowed ISIS to grow.
00:26:12.000But the only way to fight that is with a more muscular American military.
00:26:14.000So he's right about funding the American military, but when he says our leaders engaged in nation-building abroad, but they failed to build up and replenish our nation at home,
00:26:22.000That statement right there is pure Rand Paul and Rand Paul, and then he proceeds to immediately swivel and say we need to be more involved in foreign policy.
00:26:28.000This is something that he says repeatedly.
00:26:31.000In other words, the fruits of his foreign policy have been directly opposed to the isolationist sentiments that he espoused on the campaign trail and that he continues to quasi-espouse sometimes during his speeches.
00:26:42.000It's not the end of the world, but I just want to point out the inconsistency because what I don't want is for people to attribute the wins of his foreign policy to the isolationist foreign policy that he seems to be espousing publicly sometimes.
00:26:54.000The fact is Trump is winning foreign policy victories.
00:26:56.000He's just doing it in the name of an ideology that he's not actually upholding in practice.
00:27:00.000So Trump is right when he says that he's won a big victory over ISIS in the Middle East.
00:27:06.000He did continue Obama's foreign policy on ISIS.
00:27:09.000He just strengthened it, but he gets credit for doing that.
00:27:11.000Following my trip to the Middle East, the Gulf states and other Muslim-majority nations joined together to fight radical Islamist ideology and terrorist financing.
00:27:24.000We have dealt ISIS one devastating defeat after another.
00:27:29.000The coalition to defeat ISIS has now recaptured almost 100% of the land once held by these terrorists in Iraq,
00:28:06.000This is the foreign policy that he's pursuing, and I'm glad that there's a disconnect between what he was saying on the campaign trail and what he's doing in practice.
00:28:13.000This, I thought, was the best part of his speech.
00:29:49.000...has really begun based on the MeToo movement now making clear that there is no standard for even such basic things as consent.
00:29:57.000Now, I talked about this a few weeks ago on the show and I got a little bit of flack for it.
00:30:00.000I said that one of the problems with left-wing social ideology is that they proclaim that consent is the only value when it comes to sex, but then they refuse to abide by those rules when the chips are on the table.
00:30:12.000What I meant by that is that the left doesn't actually believe that yes means yes and no means no.
00:30:16.000The left wants to say that consent is the only thing that matters.
00:30:19.000Listen, I believe consent is deeply, deeply, deeply important.
00:30:22.000But the idea that consent is a clear yes or no line, and there's no malleability to it at all, that is just not practical in terms of human sexual relationships.
00:30:32.000No does mean no, but yes doesn't always mean yes.
00:30:34.000And what's interesting is that the left is beginning to recognize this, but they don't know how to deal with this.
00:30:38.000And they also don't know how to set a standard for what should end a career and what should not.
00:30:42.000Matt Damon is being raked over the coals today because he had the temerity to suggest that sexual harassment is not the same as sexual assault.
00:30:48.000That saying something mean to a woman is not the same as Harvey Weinstein raping them.
00:30:52.000And the left is just going after him hammer and tongs.
00:31:01.000That's not making light of pickpockets.
00:31:04.000Somebody who is a car thief doesn't get treated the same as a serial killer.
00:31:09.000And they're both bad, but the left refuses to acknowledge these distinctions.
00:31:13.000What's funny is even the left is beginning to realize this now.
00:31:15.000Of course, in order for the left to realize this, their ox has to be gored.
00:31:18.000A lot of what the left is doing now is largely because Al Franken is on his way out of the Senate, and they're sad about that.
00:31:24.000They feel like they wish they hadn't gotten rid of him.
00:31:26.000Mika Brzezinski, finally sounding off on me too, and she says, Yeah, we've been saying this for a while here, Mika.
00:31:36.000I think the process itself is what we need to be talking about before we talk about the men, because the process needs to be... It's gonna be complicated, but I think women feel that they are maligned and mistreated through the process, and therefore they're afraid to step forward.
00:32:18.000Matt Damon is being raked over the coals for basically saying the same thing Mika Brzezinski did.
00:32:21.000He did an interview with Business Insider, and here's what he said.
00:32:26.000We're in this watershed moment, and it's great, but I think one thing that's not being talked about is there are a whole bleep load of guys, the preponderance of men I've worked with, who don't do this kind of thing and whose lives aren't going to be affected.
00:32:36.000When he was asked if he'd ever worked with someone who'd been accused of sexual misconduct, he said it would have to be on a case-by-case basis.
00:32:42.000He said, And then he also said there's a difference between, you know, patting someone on the butt and rape or child molestation, right?
00:33:10.000I mean, I'm not a Matt Damon defender.
00:33:11.000I think Matt Damon is not exactly the brightest egg in the basket, but what?
00:33:17.000Like, Rose McGowan said Matt Damon is dense.
00:33:20.000Zerlina Maxwell says Matt Damon equals every white man who is used to people taking his opinion seriously, even if he has no idea what the F he's talking about.
00:34:30.000Bennett continued, and she argued that consent is actually societally defined.
00:34:34.000That our idea of what we want, of our own desire, is linked to what we think we're supposed to want, is what Bennett writes.
00:34:40.000But Bennett offers no clear solution on this, right?
00:34:42.000So now she's saying that sometimes yes doesn't actually mean yes, sometimes yes means no, and sometimes no means yes, meaning a woman doesn't want to have sex, or she does want to have sex, but she wants to be persuaded into it, she's playing hard to get.
00:34:52.000Okay, this has happened, I'm sure, to thousands of people over the years, millions of people, where a woman says no, and then a guy says, please, and the girl says, okay, sounds great, right?
00:35:03.000The idea that no means no permanently, obviously, is not true.
00:35:06.000The idea that no means no from minute to minute is not always true.
00:35:51.000How are they supposed to know that you're not into it?
00:35:53.000I mean, like, I've been at a lot of weird dinner parties, but I would never just say yes to having sex with people out of a desire not to be rude.
00:36:10.000It's so funny how this definition has changed, right?
00:36:12.00050 years ago, if you said a girl was a nice girl, that meant she didn't put out, right?
00:36:16.000I mean, really, this is what it meant.
00:36:17.000If you go back to 1955, and you said that a girl was a nice girl, what this meant, this was a euphemism for, she wants to remain a virgin until she is married.
00:36:24.000Now a nice girl means that you're supposed to say yes to any sexual proposition, because otherwise you're being mean.
00:36:30.000Sometimes being careful means having sex you don't want.
00:36:32.000It leaves you feeling dirty and sad and a bit icky.
00:36:34.000It's not rape, it's not abuse, but it's not nice either.
00:36:36.000But now we're going to conflate rape, abuse, and not niceness apparently.
00:36:40.000In the pages of the New Yorker, there's this short story that went viral.
00:36:53.000Well, it's about a woman named Margot who seduces a man.
00:36:55.000She sends him all the signals that she wants to have sex with him, but she's internally divided over whether to go through with it.
00:37:00.000Quote, she knew that her last chance of enjoying this encounter had disappeared, but she would carry through with it until it was over.
00:37:06.000In the end, she has sex with the guy, right?
00:37:08.000She goes ahead with it, even though she's sort of repulsed by it.
00:37:11.000And it's not really rape, because she says yes the whole way, but then she doesn't like it, and then she breaks up with the guy, like she never contacts him again.
00:37:18.000And he's texting with her, and then he says that she's a whore.
00:37:21.000And the whole idea of this short story is she's not really a whore because she didn't really want to go through with it, but she went through with it to be nice, and now he's being mean because he's calling her a whore.
00:37:29.000And there is this sort of vagary in sexual relationships, and this is painful stuff, I'm sure, for a lot of women, but it does raise a pretty serious question.
00:37:46.000But, if the suggestion is that you had a bad sexual experience, and now you get to ruin a guy's career over it, or ruin his life over it, there I am not so cool, right?
00:37:55.000We are in the midst of a crusade not to make women feel better about sex, but to punish male aggressors, right?
00:38:02.000This is not about making women feel better about sex.
00:38:04.000The Me Too movement was not supposed to be about just all sexual experiences for women are supposed to be glorious and wonderful, because not all sexual experiences are going to be glorious and wonderful.
00:38:19.000The idea that, as a society, we are now targeting bad men, we have to differentiate between the two goals.
00:38:26.000One is, assure that sex for women is better.
00:38:28.000The other is, assure that men are not aggressors.
00:38:31.000The second one seems to be easier than the first, but we're conflating the two.
00:38:35.000If we water consent down to nothingness, if yes sometimes means no and no sometimes means yes, and men are supposed to read minds, and if they don't read minds properly, we ruin their careers, then how can we ever expect there to be any sort of comfortable sex at all?
00:38:47.000Because men are not going to engage if they're bright.
00:38:51.000And women are then going to claim that men are denying them, I suppose.
00:38:55.000What we have here is a problem of expectations, okay?
00:38:57.000All three of these articles that talk about yes not meaning yes and no not meaning no all the time, they're articulating a complaint that women want to fulfill men's expectations.
00:39:05.000Basically, they're blaming men for their own confusion over sex, right?
00:39:45.000That if a woman is an old-fashioned nice girl, that if a woman says, I don't want to have sex until I'm married, because I find that to be a perversion of nature and a movement away from what God intended for us.
00:40:35.000What changed here was that the feminist movement said to women that you have a responsibility to treat sex casually, otherwise you are falling in line with the patriarchal system.
00:40:46.000Our consent-only society, in which sexual activity has become a throwaway, and any notion of cherishing it is scoffed as patriarchal.
00:41:00.000Consent only matters in a system where people are capable of saying no.
00:41:04.000And what I'm saying is that society is basically telling women on all sides to say yes, and then they're telling men that it's okay if women say yes, unless women actually meant no.
00:41:13.000Okay, that's a mess of its own making.
00:41:15.000Okay, well, we're going to have to break there.
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00:42:30.000After last week, you remember I played a clip of Roy Moore riding in on a horse to the song from Blazing Seattles, and that got me thinking.
00:42:37.000What are some great movies that have title songs or songs involved that are just hilarious?
00:42:45.000The first one that popped to mind is a movie I grew up with when I was a kid.
00:44:42.000Kirk Douglas apparently, you know, he's trying to play Doc Holliday, who has consumption, and apparently they shot all the scenes out of order.
00:44:50.000And so one of the things that he did is he would time his coughs scene to scene so that it looked like he was getting progressively sicker as the film went on, which works in the movie.
00:44:58.000It's a good performance by Kirk Douglas, who is... We may have to do a week of Kirk Douglas movies at some point, but worth watching and holds up pretty well.
00:45:07.000It's not as good a movie as Tombstone, of course, but it is a good movie.
00:45:53.000They're just standing there taking it.
00:45:54.000These are kids who are probably 11 or 12 years old.
00:45:56.000They've been told by their parents that they need to go over and harass the Israeli soldiers, get themselves arrested.
00:46:01.000So they walk over and look at the Israeli soldiers trying to ignore them.
00:46:04.000Right, the Israeli soldiers trying to stay away from them.
00:46:07.000Because they don't want to get in a confrontation with these kids.
00:46:09.000And they're literally smacking these Israeli soldiers in the face.
00:46:14.000And eventually, the Israeli soldiers are forced to arrest them because you can only slap a law enforcement officer a thousand times before he's going to arrest you.
00:46:23.000For all these people who say the Israeli soldiers are out to shoot people, okay, there's not a cop in the United States who would stand for this kind of crap.
00:46:28.000There's not a soldier in the American army who would stand for this kind of crap.
00:46:31.000Maybe they would in Iraq or Afghanistan, but, you know, the IDF is doing this every day.
00:46:35.000The idea that the IDF are the bad guys here is just insane.
00:46:38.000Okay, time for a quick thing that I hate, and then we'll deconstruct culture for a second.
00:47:54.000Okay, another quick thing that I hate, so...
00:47:57.000People are making a very big deal out of this one story that's now going around the internet about apparently an unidentified flying object that appeared in front of a Navy pilot and then jetted off incredibly quickly.
00:48:48.000If the aliens were here, either they're prepping for an attack, in which case we should all be scared out of our minds and this should be the top of the news.
00:48:54.000Or, uh, there is something that we just don't understand going on, and, uh, it's not aliens.
00:48:59.000Because if aliens were to come here, they'd probably make their presence known.
00:49:02.000Also, if they have technology that's superior to anything that we have, uh, then presumably, they would move on us, uh, because this has apparently been going on for years.
00:50:10.000The lyric that people go crazy about, uh, is that there is a, uh, there's, the woman is basically protesting that she has to leave, but she doesn't really want to leave, and then she asks at one point, what's in this drink?
00:50:23.000She said, it says, the neighbors might think, say, what's in this drink?
00:50:26.000And so it sounds like he's date raping her.
00:50:27.000Yeah, that's not what's happening, okay?
00:50:29.000The whole point is that she's feeling buzzed, and she's feeling happy, and she's feeling flirty, and she doesn't want to leave, and he's trying to convince her to stay.
00:50:54.000What's hilarious is that all the same people who say that Baby It's Cold Outside is a rapey song are fine with Top 40 music, which is like the most rapey music of all time.
00:51:01.000Half the music is about some guy saying, I'm gonna jump on that thang, right?
00:51:05.000I'm gonna jump on her and I'm gonna do what I want with her.
00:51:07.000And the girl saying, yeah, it's great, you know, that's what I'm into.
00:51:10.000Like, first of all, let's put it this way.
00:51:14.000If all of the lyrics to Top 40 music were actually applied in real life by men to women,
00:51:19.000These would not be good pick-up lines.
00:51:20.000These would be really rapey pick-up lines.
00:51:22.000So there's a song out right now called Havana.
00:51:26.000And there's a part where there's a rap interlude which has become a staple of Top 40 music and it's horrifying.
00:51:31.000In any case, this is one of the rappers rapping a little bit.
00:52:37.000Point blank, close range, zappy, if it cost a million, that's me.
00:52:40.000I was gettin' mula, man, they feel me.
00:52:43.000Yeah, clearly that's not rapey at all.
00:52:44.000What's more rapey is a guy saying to a girl, stay inside with me and begging her to stay inside with him and her finally saying yes.
00:52:50.000Clearly that's the rapey problem here.
00:52:53.000Our society may be screwed up beyond all repair on matters sexual.
00:52:56.000At least until there's a return to traditional notions of male and female and what men want and what women want and standards where we can accommodate both.