The Ben Shapiro Show - Trump’s California Dreamin’ | Ep. 491

00:00:00.000 President Trump takes on California's sanctuary cities.

00:00:02.000 Democrats refuse to disassociate from Louis Farrakhan.

00:00:05.000 And the weather is getting stormy out there for the Trump administration.

00:00:08.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

00:00:09.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

00:00:15.000 Oh yes, we are here and there is much news to cover.

00:00:18.000 Some of it breaking.

00:00:19.000 The President of the United States now seems to be backing off some of his tariff plans.

00:00:22.000 He just said a moment ago that he has, quote, the right to go up or down on country, based on country, to which I say my two-year-old son says the same about the sea sauce.

00:00:31.000 That's very exciting.

00:00:32.000 But I have many things to discuss with you, including it's International Women's Day, which is just...

00:00:37.000 Fantastic, we'll talk about all of that.

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00:02:13.000 Okay, so first of all, happy International Women's Day.

00:02:16.000 To all of my favorites, that's Nikki Haley, that is Condoleezza Rice,

00:02:34.000 That is Margaret Thatcher. 1.00

00:02:36.000 Long may her name be celebrated.

00:02:37.000 That is Golda Meir.

00:02:39.000 That is Susan B. Anthony.

00:02:40.000 That's Harriet Tubman, the gun-packing underground railroad head. 1.00

00:02:44.000 Lots of great women to celebrate today. 1.00

00:02:47.000 I was mildly put off.

00:02:49.000 Eve Peyser, who writes for, I believe, Salon.com, she tweeted out,

00:02:56.000 Well, I mean, that's like a red flag in front of a bull for me.

00:02:59.000 I mean, come on.

00:03:00.000 First of all, let me just note about International Women's Day.

00:03:03.000 Gender is a social construct, we have been told.

00:03:06.000 Okay?

00:03:06.000 So I don't know why—why is it that International Women's Day—are we celebrating biological women, or are we celebrating gendered women?

00:03:16.000 So does Caitlyn Jenner get to celebrate International Women's Day, or is Caitlyn Jenner a man?

00:03:20.000 And if Caitlyn Jenner gets to celebrate International Women's Day, then why can't any other biological man celebrate International Women's Day by being a woman?

00:03:29.000 And none of these answers are easy in coming, because if you think gender is a social construct, it makes the feminist movement very difficult to take. 0.61

00:03:36.000 You know, I'm sorry to be annoying.

00:03:38.000 I am a man.

00:03:39.000 But for the purposes of this segment, let's just say that I'm a woman, and therefore I can comment on International Women's Day.

00:03:43.000 Again, I'm perfectly fine with International Women's Day.

00:03:46.000 It's fine.

00:03:46.000 I don't care.

00:03:47.000 Whatever.

00:03:48.000 You know, good.

00:03:49.000 Let's celebrate women. 0.89

00:03:49.000 My mom—we'll celebrate my mom. 0.89

00:03:51.000 My mom, who worked all through my childhood, and my dad stayed at home and took care of the kids.

00:03:55.000 We'll celebrate my wife, who rumor has it is a doctor.

00:03:57.000 We'll celebrate all of the women who are working and all of the women who are staying at home. 0.93

00:04:01.000 We'll see if any of the women who are pushing International Women's Day are celebrating stay-at-home moms who are home taking care of their children and ensuring that the next generation of Americans are better than the last generation of Americans.

00:04:11.000 So, happy International Women's Day to everyone with that proviso. 0.95

00:04:14.000 Again, remember, gender is a social construct.

00:04:16.000 Okay, so, in other news. 1.00

00:04:19.000 Jeff Sessions is now going to war with my stupid state, the state of California. 0.97

00:04:23.000 So he announced on Wednesday that he was going to escalate the Trump administration's war with California, suing over its so-called sanctuary state law and clashing with Democratic Governor Jerry Brown in a fiery exchange of words. 0.99

00:04:34.000 So Sessions said, I can't sit idly by while the lawful authority of federal officers are being blocked by legislative acts and politicians.

00:04:42.000 We're good to go.

00:05:00.000 I think so.

00:05:21.000 That is violation of federal law.

00:05:23.000 So Sessions is saying that's exactly what California is doing. 0.99

00:05:26.000 Jerry Brown, the governor of our stupid state, he of course is very upset about all this. 0.99

00:05:31.000 He fired back on Jeff Sessions. 1.00

00:05:34.000 He climbed out of bed, got on his walker, and then he just ripped into Jeff Sessions. 0.99

00:05:38.000 Jeff Sessions, the attorney general, lying about what happens here in the state of California.

00:05:47.000 He always dies in the middle of my impersonations.

00:05:49.000 It's unfortunate.

00:05:49.000 What Jeff Sessions said is simply not true.

00:05:53.000 And I call upon him to apologize to the people of California for bringing the mendacity of Washington to California and trying to insert discord and division.

00:06:06.000 And I might add dysfunctionality in a state that's really working.

00:06:10.000 So let's build some bridges, not walls.

00:06:12.000 Law enforcement in the state is not working.

00:06:14.000 Crime rates have been rising.

00:06:15.000 The homeless rate has been rising.

00:06:16.000 Welfare payments have been rising. 0.58

00:06:17.000 The state of California is a garbage heap, and that's largely thanks to the leadership of people like Governor Jerry Brown.

00:06:23.000 Jeff Sessions particularly pointed out a situation in Oakland where apparently the story was that the city of Oakland had been actively impeding deportations. 0.94

00:06:33.000 So, Sessions criticized Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for warning the public about an unannounced raid by federal deportation officers recently in California.

00:06:40.000 Sessions said it allowed hundreds of wanted criminals to avoid arrest.

00:06:43.000 And he said, how dare you?

00:06:44.000 How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of law enforcement just to promote your radical open borders agenda?

00:06:49.000 And, of course, Sessions is exactly right.

00:06:51.000 That's what happens in the state of California.

00:06:52.000 Because a huge percentage of voters in the state of California are Hispanic, a lot of the Democratic politicians think that Hispanics

00:06:58.000 are necessarily going to vote in favor of a more open borders agenda.

00:07:01.000 And so they pander by saying that they're going to resist federal law enforcement.

00:07:05.000 Now, one of the things that's amazing is that you recall the Obama administration sued the state of Arizona when the state of Arizona was arresting people based on immigration status under SB 70.

00:07:15.000 SB 70 was a law that was passed in the state of Arizona when Jan Brewer was governor.

00:07:21.000 How dare you vilify members of our community?

00:07:50.000 By trying to frighten the American public into thinking that all undocumented residents are dangerous criminals.

00:07:58.000 How dare you distort the reality about declining violent crime in a diverse sanctuary city like Oakland, California, to advance your racist agenda?

00:08:14.000 Okay, except for the fact that the violent crime rate is apparently going up.

00:08:18.000 So according to the Public Policy Institute of California, California's violent crime rate increased by 3.7% in 2016 to 444 per 100,000 residents.

00:08:22.000 There were other recent uptakes in 2012 and 2015.

00:08:30.000 Obviously, this is not comparable to the 60s, but these upticks are troubling.

00:08:34.000 And in the city of Los Angeles, for example, which is a sanctuary city, we have seen not only increased crime rates, we've also seen an attempt to obfuscate those increased crime rates by the simple, ridiculous measure of reevaluating what exactly counts as a crime.

00:08:49.000 So, the police have basically been told that in order for them to hit certain marks, they should just redefine things from felonies to misdemeanors.

00:08:55.000 It was a bill that passed recently—it was a referendum, actually, that passed recently in the state of California that redefined a bunch of felonies as misdemeanors and also allowed the state to allow people out of prison on misdemeanors.

00:09:07.000 So, if you just miscount the statistics, it's pretty easy to get to California has a lowered crime rate, even when the quality of life in California is declining.

00:09:15.000 So, is Jeff Sessions right to go after the state of California on all of this?

00:09:18.000 Of course he is.

00:09:19.000 Sessions in his speech referenced Confederate states that refused to abide by federal law.

00:09:23.000 Kamala Harris, the senator from California who wishes to run for president of the United States in 2020, she of course ripped into Jeff Sessions for making such a reference.

00:09:31.000 Listen, as far as I'm concerned, Jeff Sessions should be advised, and I'll advise him right now, that it's a bad idea for him to start talking about anything to do with the history of slavery or Reconstruction or the Civil War in the United States.

00:09:48.000 His credibility is pretty much shot on those issues.

00:09:51.000 Why?

00:09:52.000 Why?

00:09:52.000 Jeff Sessions prosecuted members of the KKK when he was a DA.

00:09:55.000 Why exactly is his credibility shot on those issues?

00:09:57.000 Because a white guy from the South?

00:09:58.000 Is that the implication here? 0.97

00:10:00.000 And then she suggested that Republicans are hypocritical because they're Federalists when it comes to issues like environmentalism or drugs, but they're not Federalists when it comes to immigration law.

00:10:09.000 Well, of course we're not federalists when it comes to immigration law, in the sense that states should have control over their own borders, because that's one of the basic powers that is granted to a centralized federal government. 1.00

00:10:19.000 That's just stupid. 0.91

00:10:20.000 If she says, you can look at members of this administration, whether it's the head of the EPA, when he was attorney general of Oklahoma, said that federal emission standards and other standards as it relates to greenhouse gas emissions should not apply to the states, 0.99

00:10:30.000 What he actually says, the EPA does not have the federal authority under law to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which is true.

00:10:35.000 She says you can look at this attorney general who said that imposing the terms of the Voting Rights Act on the states creates an undue burden and is meddling with the affairs of each state.

00:10:42.000 That is also true of the Voting Rights Act, which was a federal attempt to get rid of racism in the registration of voters in the South and has been obsolete for decades now.

00:10:51.000 That is a violation of state sovereignty.

00:10:53.000 It clearly is under the Constitution.

00:10:56.000 It's amazing how folks on the left will conflate certain terminology in order to avoid the obvious implication of what they're doing, which is nullification of federal law.

00:11:05.000 Sanctuary cities are a nullification of federal law, at least insofar as they're actively impeding the federal government from doing its job.

00:11:12.000 Now, the question is whether the state of California can have its funds cut by the federal government, whether cities can have their funds cut by the federal government, because there are laws on the books, there are constitutional issues with regard to attaching strings to federal funding.

00:11:25.000 But certainly, you know, President Trump is supposed to come to California to talk about the Sanctuary City issue in the next few days.

00:11:31.000 It is an issue that is top of mind for a lot of people in the state of California.

00:11:34.000 And I'm not somebody who is particularly radical on illegal immigration.

00:11:38.000 I'm not somebody who says that we ought to deport everybody who's here illegally.

00:11:41.000 I think that we ought to go through and determine on a one-to-one basis whether people belong in the country or not, whether they are of use to the country or not.

00:11:48.000 And if they are not, then we should deport them.

00:11:49.000 But that's not the same thing as saying everybody who came here illegally should be deported.

00:11:52.000 In fact, there's not a person living in Southern California who has not met or worked with an illegal immigrant at some point.

00:11:59.000 But with all of that said, a state that is actively preventing the federal government from enforcing the law is violating the supremacy clauses of the Constitution of the United States, and there is no legal justification for anything remotely resembling that.

00:12:12.000 Okay, in just a second I'm going to talk about the continued radicalism of the Democratic Party.

00:12:15.000 They're so radical that now they're embracing the idea that sanctuary cities can actively fight the federal law enforcement officers.

00:12:23.000 But it gets even worse than that.

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00:13:53.000 There's still fallout for Democrats over the Louis Farrakhan hubbub.

00:13:58.000 So, Louis Farrakhan obviously is an anti-Semite.

00:14:01.000 We played clips of him a couple of days ago in his latest iteration of anti-Semitism.

00:14:05.000 He is still, for some odd reason, given a Twitter verified checkmark, which is an amazing thing, right? 0.97

00:14:11.000 We were told that you would have your verification removed, like Richard Spencer had his verification removed by Twitter because he's a disgusting racist.

00:14:18.000 Okay, I thought that was a bad move because verification on Twitter is supposed to be designed to prevent fraud.

00:14:23.000 It's supposed to be designed to prevent people from pretending to be Richard Spencer, for example.

00:14:27.000 Why you'd want to do that's beyond me.

00:14:28.000 But pretend to be Richard Spencer, and that's what the checkmark is for.

00:14:32.000 So for fake Ben Shapiro accounts, they can be distinguished from the real Ben Shapiro account by the blue checkmark.

00:14:37.000 But Twitter decided they were going to use the blue checkmark as a sign of approval.

00:14:41.000 So they got rid of the blue checkmark for Richard Spencer.

00:14:45.000 They did not get rid of it for Louis Farrakhan.

00:14:47.000 So, Louis Farrakhan is out there tweeting, making a fool of himself.

00:14:54.000 And he's also—I mean, he tweeted this 24 hours ago. 0.98

00:14:57.000 The FBI has been the worst enemy of black advancement. 0.98

00:15:00.000 The Jews have control over those agencies of government. 0.98

00:15:03.000 This is a guy who's been embraced by three of the four heads of the Women's March.

00:15:06.000 Happy International Women's Day, gang.

00:15:08.000 By three of the four heads of the International Women's March.

00:15:12.000 And now, a woman named Tamika Mallory, who actually went to Louis Farrakhan's latest lecture with the Nation of Islam, and this lecture included him talking about the Satanic Jew and all the rest of it, she has written a defense of herself.

00:15:25.000 So here is what she wrote.

00:15:27.000 This is for News1.com, which is, I believe, a black-oriented political website.

00:15:32.000 We're good to go.

00:15:48.000 I don't know when AI joined it.

00:15:50.000 Is artificial intelligence part of LGBTQ or am I screwing up those initials?

00:15:53.000 Maybe.

00:15:54.000 To my Jewish friends and black women, including those who do and those who don't, check off either of those other boxes. 0.84

00:15:59.000 I affirm the validity of those feelings, and as I continue to grow and learn as both an activist and as a woman, I will continue to grapple with the complicated nature of working across ideological lines and the question of how to do so without causing harm to vulnerable people.

00:16:11.000 This one's not tough.

00:16:12.000 Don't go to lectures by an open anti-Semite.

00:16:15.000 Really not difficult.

00:16:16.000 Amazing that Barack Obama was able to get away with it with Reverend Wright.

00:16:20.000 It is not surprising that these women are able to get away with it with the Women's March.

00:16:25.000 She says, You're not helping, lady. 1.00

00:16:26.000 That doesn't help your case. 0.92

00:16:26.000 If your case is, I'm not a radical anti-Semite, I'd just go and listen to Louis Farrakhan spout about the satanic Jew and the white devil every year for 30 years. 0.92

00:16:44.000 That's weird.

00:16:46.000 Kind of weird.

00:16:47.000 I go to synagogue every week.

00:16:49.000 If the rabbi said things that I thought were truly racist or awful, I would leave because why would I go to a service where the rabbi did that?

00:16:56.000 But she goes to Savior's Day every year, apparently for 30 years.

00:16:58.000 She says,

00:17:06.000 In that most difficult period of my life, it was the women of the Nation of Islam who supported me, and I have always held them close to my heart for that reason. 0.98

00:17:11.000 Okay, what does that have to do with Farrakhan being an awful, egregious, disgusting anti-Semite? 0.95

00:17:15.000 Nothing. 0.93

00:17:15.000 Because I am the same woman who helped build an intersectional movement—intersectional just means a movement that is built on identity politics—that fights for the rights of all people and stands against hatred and discrimination of all forms, except against the Juden. 0.93

00:17:29.000 I am the same person today I was before Savior's Day, which begs the question, why are my beliefs being questioned now?

00:17:34.000 Well, her beliefs are being questioned now because we have tape of her at this event.

00:17:38.000 That's the answer.

00:17:40.000 Because I was raised in activism, and I believe that as historically oppressed people, blacks, Jews, Muslims, and all people must stand together to fight racism, anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia.

00:17:49.000 Except that she's not going to throw Farrakhan under the bus anywhere in here.

00:17:52.000 Anywhere in here.

00:17:53.000 And we'll continue with this in just a second, because it really is

00:17:57.000 Amazing.

00:17:58.000 It's amazing the length to which she goes to avoid saying Farrakhan's name.

00:18:00.000 There's an entire piece about Louis Farrakhan and not once is Louis Farrakhan's name mentioned.

00:18:05.000 She says, Where my people are is where I must also go.

00:18:18.000 I go into difficult spaces.

00:18:20.000 I attend meetings with police and legislators, the very folks so much of my protest has been directed towards.

00:18:24.000 I've partnered and sat with countless groups, activists, religious leaders, and institutions over the past 20 years.

00:18:28.000 I've worked in prisons as well as with present and former gang members.

00:18:31.000 It is impossible for me to agree with every statement or share every viewpoint of the many people who I have worked with or will work with in the future.

00:18:37.000 As I do not wish to be held responsible for the words of others when my own history shows that I stand in opposition to them, I also do not think it is fair to question anyone who works with me, who supports my work, and who is a member of this movement because of the ways I may have fallen short here or in any other instance.

00:18:50.000 And she says it is her intention to walk in the tradition of Dr. Dorothy Height, successor to Marion McLeod Bethune, as president of the National Council of Negro Women.

00:18:59.000 In 1995, she faced criticism for participating in the Million Man March, which was organized by the Nation of Islam.

00:19:04.000 She said financial support was withheld from her organization.

00:19:07.000 And she said—and she stood strongly and addressed the Million Man March anyway.

00:19:11.000 And she said, I am here because you are here.

00:19:14.000 Oh, isn't that nice?

00:19:15.000 Except that, again, you've been going here for 30 years.

00:19:17.000 How hard is it to condemn anti-Semites if you're in the middle of an intersectional movement?

00:19:20.000 Apparently super hard, because you are most afraid of alienating other members of your intersectional community than you are of alienating open anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan.

00:19:32.000 Pretty astonishing.

00:19:33.000 But this is how the left operates now.

00:19:36.000 So you are a bad person if you are not of the Marxist left, and you are a bad person if you question people who are of the Marxist left.

00:19:44.000 New York Times columnist Barry Weiss has found this out over in her position at the New York Times.

00:19:48.000 Barry Weiss is not a conservative.

00:19:49.000 Barry Weiss is probably—I don't know if she voted for Hillary Clinton.

00:19:53.000 I would assume she did.

00:19:54.000 But Barry is, I would say, a mainstream classical liberal.

00:19:59.000 She's certainly not a hardcore conservative by any stretch of the imagination. 0.60

00:20:03.000 But she wrote a column for the New York Times talking about the pathetic attempts by people on the left to continuously call people who are not of the radical left fascists.

00:20:11.000 And she points out all of the protests that we've seen over the last week against Jordan Peterson and Christina Hoff Sommers and a variety of other figures.

00:20:17.000 I mean, Steven Pinker is being called alt-right now.

00:20:20.000 We talked about Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, who has been an ardent Democrat

00:20:25.000 We're good to go.

00:20:44.000 She's of course exactly correct.

00:20:46.000 I've been labeled a fascist by a bunch of people on the left.

00:20:48.000 They call me alt-right, which is just insane considering I was the alt-right's number one target during the 2016 election cycle.

00:20:53.000 Weiss writes this, quote, We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

00:21:00.000 And she names Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping and Bashar Assad.

00:21:03.000 But she continues, these are generally not the extremists the left is focused on.

00:21:07.000 Instead, they seem to believe that the real cause for concern are the secret authoritarians passing as liberals and conservatives in our midst.

00:21:13.000 So, who are these people?

00:21:14.000 Christina Hoff Sommers and Laura Kipnis of Northwestern University, who questioned whether people should be run out of town on a rail in campus show trials if a professor has sex consensually with a student.

00:21:24.000 Is that deserving of being fired or destroyed? 0.86

00:21:26.000 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is an atheist, a black female atheist, who's now being considered a fascist because she objects to the excesses of radical Islam. 0.95

00:21:37.000 Mary Beard, who's another feminist who's being run out of town on a rail. 1.00

00:21:41.000 She says,

00:21:57.000 For even the most minor transgressions, as in the case of Professor Beard, people are turned radioactive.

00:22:01.000 The main effect is that these endless accusations of fascism or misogyny or alt-right dull the effects of the words themselves.

00:22:07.000 As they are stripped of meaning, they strip us of our sharpness, of our ability to react forcefully to real fascists and misogynists or members of the alt-right.

00:22:15.000 Okay, this is, of course, exactly correct.

00:22:17.000 Everything Barry Weiss says here is right.

00:22:18.000 So, what was the reaction of people on the left? 0.91

00:22:21.000 Amanda Marcotte, who is one of the stupidest humans on planet Earth, she writes for Salon.com, here's what she tweeted, quote, So, the entire point that Barry Weiss is making is that the left keeps using labels on mainstream conservatives and liberals, and Amanda Marcotte's solution is 0.99

00:22:44.000 Clearly, Barry Weiss is a fascist alt-righter. 0.99

00:22:47.000 Just fantastic. 0.87

00:22:49.000 If the left thinks they're going to win any contests through this, they must be out of their minds.

00:22:53.000 We have now boiled down politics to culture wars, and these are not culture wars the left is likely to win if they continue along these lines.

00:22:59.000 OK, so before I go any further, and we'll talk Stormy Daniels, we'll talk guns, we'll talk foreign policy, and also there's a piece in Vox.com that I may or may not discuss because I think that the left is making a disturbing mistake with regard to sex, particularly.

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00:24:50.000 Alrighty, so, in other news, Stormy Daniels is back in the news, and CNN is just beside itself.

00:24:58.000 So when I go to work out, one of the things that is unfortunate is that CNN is what's on the TV.

00:25:03.000 Well, that means that it was wall-to-wall Stormy Daniels coverage yesterday.

00:25:07.000 So Stormy Daniels' lawyer is now suing the president to try and avoid an injunction.

00:25:12.000 So, Michael Cohn, Trump's lawyer, as we know, signed an agreement with Stormy Daniels, former porn star, or current porn star, I guess she's still a porn star, and paid her $130,000 to keep her story under wraps.

00:25:24.000 And now Daniels is suing Trump because she says that Trump did not actually sign that agreement.

00:25:29.000 Now, legally speaking, it's not clear that that actually is a good legal case.

00:25:35.000 Like, if I sign an agreement, and then you don't countersign and send it back to me,

00:25:39.000 Not at all.

00:25:57.000 I think so.

00:26:19.000 Mr. Cohen, through his attorney, Mr. Rosen, further threatened my client in an effort to prevent her from telling the truth about what really happened.

00:26:25.000 We do not take kindly to these threats, nor will we be intimidated.

00:26:28.000 So...

00:26:29.000 You know, getting into the legal vagaries of this is not really worthwhile.

00:26:33.000 There are really only two questions of any sense.

00:26:35.000 One is, did Trump know that his lawyer was paying off Stormy Daniels?

00:26:39.000 And two, do we care?

00:26:41.000 Those are the only two questions that matter here.

00:26:43.000 So, the media obviously focusing in like a laser beam on all of this.

00:26:47.000 Sarah Huckabee Sanders was grilled yesterday from the podium.

00:26:49.000 Apparently Trump was very unhappy with how Sarah Huckabee Sanders answered these questions.

00:26:53.000 He wanted her to

00:26:55.000 Say in more convincing fashion that she thinks that Trump didn't know about the payment by Michael Cohen, his lawyer, to Stormy Daniels.

00:27:01.000 Here's Sarah Huckabee Sanders answering some questions.

00:27:03.000 The president has addressed these directly and made very well clear that none of these allegations are true.

00:27:12.000 This case has already been won in arbitration, and anything beyond that I would refer you to the president's outside counsel.

00:27:19.000 So she wouldn't answer what exactly the arbitration case was, she didn't answer what it meant to have won this case in arbitration, and then she was asked repeatedly whether Trump knew that Cohen was paying off Stormy Daniels.

00:27:28.000 Now, let's be frank about this, okay?

00:27:30.000 Let's just be clear.

00:27:31.000 Obviously Trump knew.

00:27:33.000 Of course Trump knew. 1.00

00:27:34.000 Anyone who thinks Trump didn't know is a fool. 1.00

00:27:36.000 This is just ridiculous. 1.00

00:27:37.000 Lawyers don't go around spending $130,000 on behalf of clients to pay off their former porn star lovers out of the goodness of their heart. 0.96

00:27:45.000 It's just not something that happens.

00:27:47.000 And to suggest to anybody that they ought to buy that account is just insane. 0.81

00:27:52.000 You have to be a crazy person to actually believe that, or you have to be so in the tank for Trump that you are willing to overlook basic reality.

00:27:59.000 Obviously Trump knew his lawyer was paying off Stormy Daniels, which brings us to the second point. 0.79

00:28:03.000 Does anyone care about any of this?

00:28:05.000 Now, there are two sub-questions there.

00:28:07.000 One is, do we care in general?

00:28:08.000 And the second is, is this a violation of campaign finance law?

00:28:11.000 Not clear this is a violation of campaign finance law.

00:28:13.000 A settlement outside of court that allows you to pay somebody to keep quiet is not rare in the legal world.

00:28:20.000 In fact, John Edwards was basically paying alimony to a camera woman that he knocked up, and she was pregnant with his baby.

00:28:26.000 He paid her $900,000 from campaign funds, and that was not a violation of law according to the court.

00:28:31.000 So, if that's not a violation of law, not sure why $130,000 is a violation of law, they're going to have to go further than just saying that Trump paid off a porn star to say this is a violation of campaign finance law.

00:28:42.000 Maybe it's an in-kind contribution by Michael Cohen or something, but it's going to be kind of hard to make this particular case.

00:28:48.000 Then there's the more general question, should we care? 0.86

00:28:50.000 So on a moral level, yes, we should care that the President of the United States is a douche with regard to women. 0.99

00:28:55.000 President Trump is not great on the female front. 1.00

00:28:59.000 The fact that this is even mildly controversial is again demonstrative of the fact that we have broken down into tribal identity.

00:29:04.000 I'm sorry if it hurts feelings.

00:29:06.000 The President of the United States has had three wives.

00:29:08.000 He has cheated on all of those wives. 0.93

00:29:10.000 Each and every one of those wives has been cheated on. 1.00

00:29:12.000 We are only lucky that Stormy Daniels is not the current First Lady of the United States. 1.00

00:29:16.000 Because that's what Trump does. 0.96

00:29:18.000 And Trump is a sleazebag with regard to women. 0.98

00:29:21.000 He always has been a sleazebag with regard to women. 1.00

00:29:23.000 He is the kind of person who said in interviews that nothing matters as long as you've got a beautiful and young piece of ass. 1.00

00:29:29.000 He's the kind of person who said that surviving the 1970s without acquiring an STD was his own personal Vietnam. 1.00

00:29:34.000 This is not a guy of quality with regard to how he treats women in his sex life.

00:29:39.000 That said, does anyone care?

00:29:40.000 No, because he's been like this his entire life.

00:29:42.000 We already knew.

00:29:42.000 This is baked into the cake.

00:29:44.000 So, should we care?

00:29:45.000 Yes.

00:29:46.000 Should it make a difference?

00:29:47.000 Yes.

00:29:47.000 Will it make a difference?

00:29:48.000 No, because we already know what we're getting.

00:29:51.000 Bottom line, we already know what we're getting.

00:29:52.000 So the media's attempt to try and turn this into a big scandal, it's not going to be a big scandal because we already know.

00:29:57.000 It's not a thing.

00:29:59.000 Okay, so, before I go any further here, and I want to talk about an article that is—we'll talk a little bit about the poll outlook for Democrats in 2018, and then there's an article that I think is worth discussing at Vox.com.

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00:33:26.000 So, there's an article out of Vox.com.

00:33:28.000 I asked my wife to read it because I wanted to see if she had the same reaction to it that I did.

00:33:32.000 And it's kind of a fascinating article because the article is about sexual assault within marriage.

00:33:36.000 Now, sexual assault can happen within marriage.

00:33:38.000 We're in a Me Too moment.

00:33:39.000 Obviously, it's International Women's Day.

00:33:41.000 And so, you know, it's very important to talk about proper behavior toward women.

00:33:46.000 It's important to talk about what women should expect from men.

00:33:50.000 It is important to talk about how men should behave toward women.

00:33:54.000 All of that's very important.

00:33:56.000 One thing that I'm seeing in the feminist movement, it's been happening for a long time, is conflation of a lot of terminology that is actually dangerous to relationships and dangerous to marriage. 1.00

00:34:03.000 There's an article today about sexual assault within marriage by Anonymous over at Vox.com.

00:34:08.000 Anonymous happens to be a feminist professor, shockingly, and this article is about how she says she was sexually assaulted within marriage. 0.99

00:34:15.000 Sexual assault can occur within marriage.

00:34:16.000 Obviously it can occur outside of marriage as well.

00:34:18.000 Sexual assault is just a woman says no and a man says I'm doing it anyway, right? 0.99

00:34:22.000 That's sexual assault, right?

00:34:24.000 A woman refuses consent and a man disobeys that and then does the most evil act a human being can do outside of murder, which is that he takes advantage of a woman against her will, right? 0.98

00:34:34.000 That is, in my view, should be punishable by castration or death.

00:34:38.000 I mean, that's how seriously I take sexual assault. 0.85

00:34:40.000 But one thing that the left has done is they have watered down consent.

00:34:43.000 So we saw this with the Aziz Ansari story, where a woman accused Aziz Ansari of violating her consent when she did not, in fact, say no to him at any point.

00:34:51.000 When she did say no, he stopped.

00:34:53.000 It was just him being persistent.

00:34:54.000 There was really no evidence that he raped her or sexually assaulted her in any way. 0.91

00:34:58.000 She got naked in his apartment. 0.99

00:34:59.000 They performed sex acts on each other. 1.00

00:35:01.000 That whole story was ridiculous. 0.99

00:35:02.000 Vox.com has another story that Ezra Klein is calling deeply important.

00:35:06.000 And so I think it's important to recognize a couple of things.

00:35:08.000 Within marriage, number one,

00:35:10.000 As a married man, and as a man, and as somebody who reads social science studies, and as someone who believes in evolutionary biology, men want sex more than women do. 0.92

00:35:19.000 Or at least they want sex on a more regular basis than women do. 1.00

00:35:22.000 Every social science study ever done shows this.

00:35:24.000 Men, on average, want sex more often than women do. 1.00

00:35:26.000 The great feminist lie that women want sex in the same way that men want sex is just absurd, it's crap, it's not true. 1.00

00:35:31.000 Men are more aggressive about sex. 1.00

00:35:33.000 Men want sex more often. 0.97

00:35:34.000 Men want sex with more different partners. 0.93

00:35:36.000 All of these things are supported by a vast bevy of social science statistics.

00:35:40.000 What that means is that within marriage, there is often an imbalance.

00:35:43.000 Men want sex more often than their wives do. 0.99

00:35:45.000 And so, a question arises. 0.85

00:35:47.000 What happens if a woman does not really want to have sex, but the guy wants to have sex?

00:35:51.000 So, the way traditionally women have treated sex within marriage is that there's a difference between I actively don't want to have sex with my husband and I'm not super into it, but I'll go ahead with it anyway. 0.99

00:36:01.000 Okay, I'm not super into it, but I'll go ahead with it anyway because I love my husband, is a pretty common thing within marriage.

00:36:06.000 In fact, it's a very common thing within marriage.

00:36:08.000 And I think it's a good thing within marriage.

00:36:10.000 I don't think it's an active... I think the woman is not doing something wrong.

00:36:13.000 I think she's doing something healthy and right for the relationship. 0.99

00:36:15.000 Because when it comes to... That's not saying that a woman should have sex if she really doesn't want to, if she thinks her husband's a boor and disgusting person. 0.98

00:36:22.000 If that's the case, divorce him. 0.98

00:36:23.000 Or if the woman's feeling sick, or she's not up to it. 0.94

00:36:26.000 Like, a woman should never have sex if she doesn't want to have sex in the most egregious possible terms. 1.00

00:36:31.000 But there are lots of times when women go along with a man. 1.00

00:36:33.000 A man says, I would like to have sex with you. 1.00

00:36:35.000 And the woman's like, well, not super into it. 0.99

00:36:37.000 The guy says, please.

00:36:37.000 And the woman says, OK.

00:36:39.000 This is a thing that happens routinely within marriage.

00:36:41.000 It happens within every marriage.

00:36:42.000 And it is healthy for marriage.

00:36:43.000 Because one of the things about doing things for people you love is that you're constantly doing things where you are ambivalent about them, but you do them for the sake of the person that you love.

00:36:52.000 Now what's weird is that the feminist left treats it as though the only form of sex that can ever be had is the most passionate, the most 1.00

00:37:01.000 I don't know.

00:37:16.000 That happens all the time, and I don't think that's a bad thing.

00:37:18.000 I think it's a very healthy thing.

00:37:19.000 I think it's setting an expectation up for women that can't be fulfilled within a relationship if they think that a man is going to be happy with his wife, only having sex with him, only at the times when she's most enthusiastic about it. 0.74

00:37:31.000 Because again, just biologically speaking, women are not going to be enthusiastic about sex nearly as much as men are.

00:37:37.000 Relationships are about people doing things that they are ambivalent about, or even maybe don't want to do all that much, because they love their partner.

00:37:44.000 Again, this is not to say that men should be able to violate the consent of their wives.

00:37:47.000 Of course not.

00:37:48.000 That's rape. 1.00

00:37:49.000 But it is to say that there are lots of situations in which women consent, aren't super enthusiastic, and consent anyway.

00:37:55.000 We have this in everyday life with a variety of issues.

00:37:58.000 And it's true of sex as well.

00:38:00.000 The reason I say this is because this article from Vox.com blurs this line. 0.95

00:38:03.000 They say that anytime a man says to his wife, can we have sex, and she says, you know, I'm not super into it, but okay, that he's now raping her. 0.94

00:38:11.000 This is a problem. 0.94

00:38:13.000 This undermines the nature of relationships.

00:38:16.000 It creates false expectations for women on how sex is supposed to go within relationships. 1.00

00:38:19.000 It creates false expectations for men on how sex is supposed to go within marriage.

00:38:24.000 So here's what this anonymous person writes, who is of course a feminist. 1.00

00:38:27.000 She says, 0.72

00:38:43.000 Now, she doesn't say that she said no and then he raped her anywhere in this article. 0.96

00:38:47.000 She just says that she didn't want the sex, she apparently said yes or consented to it, and then she went and retched. 0.91

00:38:52.000 Which is just, I mean, I wonder why these people were married.

00:38:55.000 There's part of the story we are not hearing here.

00:38:57.000 That's not a normal thing. 0.97

00:38:58.000 You have sex with your husband on a consensual level and then you go vomit? 0.97

00:39:01.000 I'm gonna go with they've got some other problems. 0.99

00:39:02.000 So, quick note here.

00:39:02.000 Men see sex as a substitute for intimacy.

00:39:04.000 Women see intimacy as a reason for sex. 1.00

00:39:26.000 So if a woman won't have sex with her husband, the man sees that as a rejection of him.

00:39:32.000 The man sees it as a rejection of love for him.

00:39:34.000 If a woman doesn't feel emotional intimacy and she feels like she is only being used for sex, then she feels like she is being used. 0.97

00:39:41.000 So men and women are almost coming at sex from polar opposite directions.

00:39:44.000 Okay, but the way that they meet is inside a committed relationship when intimacy and sex are completely overlapped.

00:39:51.000 One of the things the feminist movement has done, and I think it's been really egregious, is they've separated off intimacy and sex.

00:39:55.000 They've said sex is a bodily function, and intimacy is an emotional function.

00:39:58.000 And that means that you can separate these two things off.

00:40:00.000 They did this so that they could separate commitment from sex.

00:40:03.000 They did this so they could say that marriage had nothing to do with sex.

00:40:06.000 They did this so they could say single people sleeping around, totally fine, totally praiseworthy, totally healthy, no bad ramifications.

00:40:13.000 All you have to do is just see sex as pooping, and it's the same thing, right? 0.86

00:40:16.000 Sex is eating. 0.70

00:40:16.000 It's just another bodily function you engage in. 0.70

00:40:18.000 Why should there be any emotional connection?

00:40:20.000 But then, when it comes to how actual human beings behave, intimacy is inherently connected to sex.

00:40:26.000 And that's true for men as well.

00:40:28.000 If a woman who is married to a man will not have sex with him under any circumstances, he is going to feel slightly peeved. 0.56

00:40:33.000 He is going to feel as though the woman doesn't love him.

00:40:36.000 And I don't think that's completely unjustified.

00:40:38.000 Anyway, this woman continues, He sounds like an insane person, by the way, to be happy in this relationship.

00:40:52.000 At home, having tried without success, the therapist prescribed exercises for restoring emotional connection, check-ins about feelings, non-sexual touch.

00:40:58.000 My husband lobbied for his own solution.

00:41:00.000 The thing you need is really complicated and difficult, and it's not something I can do.

00:41:03.000 But the thing I need is easy and quick.

00:41:05.000 Why can't you just give me the thing I need?

00:41:07.000 I acquiesced.

00:41:08.000 That's called consent. 1.00

00:41:10.000 So she's stupid, first of all. 1.00

00:41:12.000 She sounds like a person who at least is making bad decisions. 1.00

00:41:16.000 If your husband says to you, I can't give you anything that satisfies you emotionally, just give me the sex, and you go along with that,

00:41:22.000 You're making a mistake in your relationship.

00:41:23.000 It says, at the time, it didn't feel like a choice.

00:41:25.000 It felt inevitable.

00:41:26.000 I lived every evening dreading the signals of my husband's desire.

00:41:28.000 I bargained my way out of sex as often as I could.

00:41:30.000 I gloried in being sick enough to have the right to refuse.

00:41:33.000 On the nights when I couldn't get out of it, we used a method I taught myself to tolerate and that he astoundingly tolerated as well.

00:41:39.000 I read a book to distract myself for as long as I could while he did the thing he needed to do.

00:41:42.000 I did not let him kiss me for the last several years of our marriage.

00:41:45.000 That was the rule.

00:41:46.000 You can bleep me, but you can't kiss me, and I don't have to pretend to like it.

00:41:49.000 That satisfied him.

00:41:50.000 First of all, he sounds like a real messed up dude. 0.99

00:41:53.000 If that satisfies any guy, if a guy feels satisfied by that sort of level of sexual connection with his intimate partner, then that person is screwed up. 0.96

00:42:01.000 There are a lot of deeper issues in this marriage, but the problem I have with this article is the conflation of what seems to be... what she's talking about is a failed marriage, a real failed marriage, where she hates her husband and he doesn't care about her. 0.73

00:42:14.000 But what she's conflating that with is every woman who has ever said yes to sex with her husband

00:42:19.000 When she wasn't like super into it.

00:42:21.000 And she's conflating that with sexual assault.

00:42:23.000 But I blame myself.

00:42:24.000 Well, I mean...

00:42:41.000 To a certain extent, you should have used your volition, right?

00:42:44.000 I mean, you should have stood up and said no if this is the way that your marriage was going.

00:42:48.000 And he does sound like a piece of work.

00:42:50.000 But, honestly, it sounds like you never said no.

00:42:53.000 I mean, it sounds like you never said, listen, without emotional connection, nothing's happening in the bedroom, Buster.

00:42:57.000 Which seems like the right way to do this.

00:42:59.000 But if you're setting up the expectation, here's the problem that I have with all this. 0.76

00:43:03.000 If you're setting up the expectation from men that men are only going to have sex with their wives when their wives are fully, fully emotionally deployed, fully into it, really horny, right?

00:43:13.000 If that's the idea, then that's not going to work inside marriages. 1.00

00:43:16.000 It just isn't.

00:43:17.000 Women routinely make the decision that because they love their husbands they are going to have sex with their husbands at times when it seems inconvenient or at times when they are okay with it but not supremely into it. 0.70

00:43:26.000 At times when it's not passionate lovemaking on the beach all from here to eternity.

00:43:31.000 If women are told that they don't have to... 1.00

00:43:35.000 Not that they don't have to.

00:43:36.000 They don't have to do anything they don't want to.

00:43:37.000 But if women are told that it's healthy for a marriage, that they can have a fulfilled, emotionally stable relationship on the basis of turning down sex except when they are most enthusiastic about it, that's not going to work.

00:43:46.000 It's setting up unfulfillable expectations with regard to men.

00:43:50.000 And if men are told that when they get married, then there's no greater access to sex than when they were single,

00:43:56.000 Then, to be perfectly blunt about this, there will be less marriage.

00:44:00.000 One of the reasons that men have sex, one of the reasons men get married, in the basic bargain of things, is because when they love a woman and believe that they are in a relationship for life, they're giving up polygamy, polyamory, for the sake of frequency in the basic economic bargain.

00:44:15.000 That's to put it in its most blunt terms.

00:44:16.000 On an emotional level, what they're really doing is they're saying, I love this woman so much, I'm willing to be with her the rest of my life, and because we love each other so much, we are going to have a lot more sex than I would if I were a single guy.

00:44:26.000 Men identify sex with love, and women do too.

00:44:28.000 They just come at it from different angles.

00:44:29.000 Okay, so...

00:44:31.000 It's time for a couple of things that I like and then some things that I hate.

00:44:36.000 So, let's do a thing that—let's start with a thing that I like.

00:44:40.000 So, we've been doing heaven-related things this week.

00:44:44.000 We've been doing all sorts of art that has been related to heaven.

00:44:47.000 So, there's a really underrated Broadway musical called The Secret Garden.

00:44:50.000 The musical is actually written by Lucy Simon, who has written a bunch of pop songs as well.

00:44:54.000 She's Carly Simon's sister.

00:44:56.000 And Lucy wrote all the music to The Secret Garden, which is a really quite beautiful musical.

00:45:01.000 This ran for, I believe, 709 performances on Broadway in the early 90s.

00:45:05.000 And one of the numbers, the singer, I think, is named Rebecca Luca, she sings Come to My Garden from The Secret Garden.

00:45:12.000 The story of The Secret Garden, if you don't know, is a little girl whose parents die.

00:45:16.000 She's adopted by her uncle, and her uncle is, his wife died.

00:45:21.000 He had a child with his wife, who is a cripple. 1.00

00:45:24.000 And who is, I believe, a paraplegic, a Colin.

00:45:28.000 And she has also locked—she had a garden on this estate, and the husband has locked away this garden because after she died, he never wanted to see it again.

00:45:37.000 It was kind of their special place.

00:45:38.000 He locked it away.

00:45:39.000 And it's the discovery of this little girl of this garden, and she brings the crippled child to the garden.

00:45:44.000 And the musical is quite beautiful.

00:45:45.000 This is—this number is the ghost of the wife and mother.

00:45:50.000 Singing to the son who is paraplegic.

00:45:53.000 And of course, miracles happen in the Broadway show.

00:45:55.000 But here is, this is the most beautiful song from the show.

00:45:57.000 ♪ Come to my garden ♪ ♪ Rest there in my arms ♪ ♪ There I will see you safely grown up ♪

00:46:30.000 When love breaks me apart, come to my garden.

00:46:55.000 So it really is a good musical, and it's too bad that it never met the sort of acclaim that it should have.

00:47:00.000 It's Rekha Luker is the name of that singer.

00:47:02.000 I mean, just historically gorgeous voice.

00:47:05.000 So check out The Secret Garden.

00:47:06.000 Get the Broadway cast recording virtually anywhere, and it is well worth it.

00:47:10.000 Mandy Patinkin plays the father, and he's quite good in it, although he is very Mandy Patinkin.

00:47:15.000 So he's very Mandy Patinkin.

00:47:17.000 So check that out.

00:47:18.000 OK.

00:47:19.000 Other things that I like.

00:47:21.000 So Joe Scarborough versus Ted Cruz.

00:47:23.000 So yesterday,

00:47:25.000 Every American doesn't have a constitutional Second Amendment right to carry an AR-15.

00:47:28.000 Yes or no?

00:47:43.000 I'm not going to debate that.

00:47:44.000 The courts will assess it.

00:47:46.000 No, but the courts have assessed it.

00:47:48.000 No, they haven't.

00:47:49.000 That's not what a denial of cert means.

00:47:50.000 I don't need you to lecture me on what the Supreme Court does and what it doesn't do.

00:47:56.000 There is not a constitutional right, and you know it,

00:48:01.000 And you can talk down to me all you want to, but you know there is not a constitutional... Joe, who's talking down to who?

00:48:08.000 If you want to stop violent crime, this debate is dancing on the head of a pin.

00:48:11.000 Okay, but... Here's what stops... But hold on, I may agree with you, Senator.

00:48:16.000 So you can see how Scarborough is trying to browbeat Cruz.

00:48:18.000 He does need a lecture on constitutional law.

00:48:20.000 Ted Cruz litigated before the Supreme Court dozens of times, so he knows constitutional law a hell of a lot better than Joe Scarborough does.

00:48:27.000 It is amazing to see Joe Scarborough, who once had an A from the NRA when he was in Congress, flip completely, and now he's a gun control guy because he's on Morning Joe, of course.

00:48:34.000 But Cruz did a pretty good job with Scarborough.

00:48:38.000 He should have gone back harder at Scarborough, I think, but that's because I have a different debating style than others.

00:48:43.000 OK, other things that I like.

00:48:46.000 So I think this is a worthwhile thing that happened last night on cable TV, which is a rare thing to say.

00:48:52.000 Tucker Carlson got into a big debate with John Bolton.

00:48:55.000 John Bolton is rumored to be up for National Security Advisor if H.R.

00:48:59.000 McMaster should step down inside the White House.

00:49:02.000 And Tucker has a suddenly isolationist view of foreign policy that I don't remember him having quite as much during the Bush administration.

00:49:09.000 Bolton is not.

00:49:11.000 Bolton is more of an interventionist.

00:49:13.000 And Bolton tries to educate Carlson on foreign policy.

00:49:15.000 I'm obviously on Bolton's side of this debate.

00:49:17.000 You just said that Iran is the single greatest threat. 1.00

00:49:20.000 I think?

00:49:50.000 I think the fall of Saddam made Iran stronger? 0.76

00:49:52.000 I think it made, the fall of Saddam, no, did not make Iran stronger.

00:49:57.000 What made Iran stronger ultimately was the withdrawal of American forces in 2011.

00:50:03.000 So if you, I mean, I'm not saying you're the only person who thinks that, you're the only person I have met who thinks that.

00:50:08.000 OK, that is not true.

00:50:09.000 I mean, there are a lot of people who think that.

00:50:11.000 The fall of Saddam Hussein did not necessarily make Iran stronger if we had stayed and if we had stabilized Iraq as a counterbalance to Iran. 0.89

00:50:18.000 So, I understand Tucker's point, which is that Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, was anti-Iran.

00:50:22.000 It is also true that Iraq was participating in terrorist activity, that they threatened their neighbors, that Saddam Hussein was clearly proclaiming that he was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.

00:50:30.000 All of that is clearly true.

00:50:32.000 It's worthwhile.

00:50:33.000 Go back and watch the entire debate, if you have a chance, between John Bolton and Tucker Carlson, which I think is intelligent and useful, actually.

00:50:40.000 Although Tucker does get a bit snarky at the end, which is something I'm not fully appreciative of in that sort of discussion.

00:50:46.000 OK, time for a quick thing that I hate.

00:50:53.000 OK, a couple quick things that I hate.

00:50:54.000 So, first of all, Daniel Malloy, who's the governor of Connecticut, called the NRA a terrorist organization.

00:50:58.000 This is just obnoxious on every level.

00:51:00.000 That's clip four.

00:51:01.000 So, let's watch the governor of a state actually suggest that a domestic lobbying group is equivalent to al-Qaeda.

00:51:09.000 The NRA as it exists today is a far cry from the NRA that in 1999 said teachers shouldn't be, shouldn't carry weapons in schools.

00:51:21.000 Or between, in the 90s also said that we should have universal background checks.

00:51:27.000 They have in essence become a terrorist organization.

00:51:30.000 That's absurd.

00:51:30.000 So what, are you going to start arresting members of the NRA?

00:51:32.000 Is this kind of language that ensures that we're never going to be able to move forward on anything remotely resembling a debate about crime and violent crime in the United States?

00:51:39.000 OK, other things that I hate.

00:51:40.000 So there's this thing that's come into fashion now, and it is corporate virtue signaling.

00:51:44.000 You want to get a free headline?

00:51:45.000 All you have to do is virtue signal to the left.

00:51:48.000 McDonald's yesterday decided to flip its golden arches in order to celebrate women everywhere.

00:51:53.000 So it took the M and turned it into a W. A quick way to get a headline.

00:51:57.000 And what's amazing is that people on the left are perfectly willing to grant that headline to a major corporation like McDonald's, which every other day of the week they are ripping as a low-wage employer.

00:52:07.000 All you have to do is flip that M into a W, like for Wario, instead of Mario, and suddenly everything changes, and we are supposed to pretend that McDonald's is a halcyon and a beacon of light in the darkness.

00:52:19.000 It is amazing how easily these corporations play the left, and it's amazing how easily the left allows itself to be played by these corporations that normally they hate and want to put out of business.

00:52:27.000 Okay, so we'll be back here tomorrow for much more.

00:52:31.000 And we'll be back here tomorrow.

00:52:32.000 It's a Thursday already, right?

00:52:33.000 So that means mailbag tomorrow.

00:52:34.000 Yeah!

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