The Ben Shapiro Show - Tyranny With A Smile | Ep. 724

00:00:00.000 AOC declares herself the boss, Dianne Feinstein destroys small children, and the Oscars won't stop the politics.

00:00:06.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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00:00:12.000 So I know you're asking, Ben, how much of the Oscars did you watch?

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00:01:43.000 So we'll get into the Oscars in a little bit.

00:01:45.000 Suffice it to say, I was not supremely surprised by any of the choices except for Bohemian Rhapsody for best editing.

00:01:51.000 Clever guys.

00:01:52.000 Solid joke.

00:01:54.000 Solid joke, everyone.

00:01:55.000 Well done.

00:01:57.000 I appreciate the sense of humor. 0.99

00:01:58.000 But we'll get to the Oscars and its usual display of stupidity and over the top Over-the-top flashes of wealth that AOC and Bernie will have nothing to say about. 0.98

00:02:07.000 In any case, let's begin with the Green New Deal. 0.98

00:02:09.000 So over the weekend, something amusing happened.

00:02:12.000 The amusing thing was that AOC basically let spill, unfortunately, what too many folks on the left actually think about the uses of government power.

00:02:21.000 Now remember, AOC came into Congress as a fresh face.

00:02:23.000 You remember, so fresh, so face.

00:02:25.000 Incredible freshness as well as faceness.

00:02:28.000 And when she joined, she was the voice of the people.

00:02:30.000 She was the tribune of the people. 0.82

00:02:32.000 She was going to be the new voice of an underclass that had been underrepresented for so long.

00:02:38.000 She was certainly not going to be someone who tried to centralize power in herself. 0.87

00:02:42.000 She was someone who only stood with the population.

00:02:45.000 She's the person who stood with the downtrodden.

00:02:47.000 Well, she spoke over the weekend at the New York Hall of Science.

00:02:50.000 And there, she suggested that she's put forward a path in the Green New Deal. 0.95

00:02:55.000 And if you don't have a better path in the Green New Deal, well then, She should become dictator, basically, is what AOC had to say. 1.00

00:03:01.000 I just introduced Green New Deal two weeks ago, and it's creating all of this conversation.

00:03:07.000 Why?

00:03:07.000 Because no one else has even tried.

00:03:10.000 Because no one else has even tried.

00:03:12.000 So people are like, oh, it's unrealistic.

00:03:14.000 Oh, it's vague.

00:03:15.000 Oh, it doesn't address this little minute thing.

00:03:17.000 And I'm like, you try.

00:03:21.000 You do it.

00:03:22.000 Because you're not.

00:03:23.000 Because you're not.

00:03:25.000 So until you do it, I'm the boss.

00:03:28.000 How about that?

00:03:30.000 Okay, um, number one, I know a person who says that he's the boss a lot.

00:03:35.000 It's my two-year-old son.

00:03:36.000 He says it a lot.

00:03:37.000 He says, I'm the boss.

00:03:38.000 He is not the boss, in point of fact.

00:03:40.000 He is a two-year-old.

00:03:41.000 Also, I love when she says things like, people have questions like, over this little minute detail or that little minute detail.

00:03:48.000 No, no.

00:03:49.000 We have some questions about, you know, the destruction of the American economy, the slaughtering of all the cows, the end of air travel, perhaps, the retrofitting or destruction of every building in the United States.

00:03:59.000 If you want to classify those as minor questions, I'm sure you could do that.

00:04:03.000 I mean, I guess that's a thing.

00:04:05.000 Also, I will note that it's sort of hilarious when she's like, until I got here, nobody ever heard of the environment.

00:04:11.000 Until I was sitting here, nobody had ever heard of this thing called the Earth!

00:04:16.000 It's a big ball!

00:04:17.000 It spins in space!

00:04:19.000 And it's got an environment on it!

00:04:21.000 And I'm the only person who ever said anything.

00:04:22.000 So if you haven't said anything about the environment, well then I'm the boss now!

00:04:26.000 And Ed Markey, the senator from Massachusetts who co-sponsored the Green New Deal, is sitting there like, what?

00:04:30.000 I've been here longer than you, lady.

00:04:32.000 You got here five seconds ago.

00:04:34.000 Is she really unaware that the Democrats have been pushing cap-and-trade for legitimately, like, a dozen years at this point?

00:04:41.000 But I guess she is, because she is not a particularly smart person.

00:04:44.000 People were making this comparison over the weekend.

00:04:46.000 It seems kind of fitting.

00:04:47.000 AOC is basically the cash-meow side girl from Dr. Phil.

00:04:50.000 You do it.

00:04:51.000 Right.

00:04:52.000 Because you're not.

00:04:54.000 Because you're not.

00:04:55.000 So, until you do it, I'm the boss.

00:04:58.000 That's right.

00:04:58.000 How about that?

00:04:59.000 You heard it here.

00:05:00.000 And all these **** laughing like it's so funny.

00:05:03.000 She's talking about the audience, that they're laughing at her. 0.99

00:05:07.000 Did you say the h***s are laughing? 1.00

00:05:10.000 Yep. 0.99

00:05:11.000 So the audience are a bunch of h***s? 1.00

00:05:13.000 Yep. 0.99

00:05:17.000 Kiss me outside, how about that?

00:05:21.000 Huh?

00:05:21.000 Kiss me outside, how about that?

00:05:23.000 Well, I guess that we have a new congressperson.

00:05:26.000 So that's exciting.

00:05:27.000 Catch me outside, girl.

00:05:29.000 Our future president.

00:05:30.000 When she's president in 2060, she will probably end global warming. 1.00

00:05:33.000 I mean, the entire world will explode because she'll start a nuclear war or something, but that's very exciting stuff.

00:05:39.000 Now, what's kind of amazing about this is that what you get from AOC is that she's, number one, very irritated by criticism.

00:05:46.000 Anybody who criticizes anything she ever says, she cannot take.

00:05:49.000 And number two, she really wants the power.

00:05:52.000 For a lady who, again, came into Congress on the wave of this populist uprising, she really wants a lot of power. 1.00

00:05:58.000 I'm the boss.

00:05:58.000 And if you don't agree with me, well then, I'm the boss.

00:06:01.000 She said online sort of the same thing.

00:06:03.000 She tweeted out, well, if you haven't come up with a more bold, ambitious plan than I have, then I guess I'm the boss now.

00:06:09.000 And I tweeted back, listen to last Friday's show.

00:06:11.000 I gave you a bold, ambitious plan. 0.94

00:06:13.000 It was to bomb China and India and destroy all of their coal facilities. 0.91

00:06:17.000 It's bold. 0.96

00:06:18.000 Admittedly, not the best plan.

00:06:21.000 But better than yours, because it will at least stop climate change, presumably.

00:06:24.000 So I guess I'm the boss now.

00:06:26.000 Now, let's all be real.

00:06:27.000 We all know who the real boss is.

00:06:28.000 It's Tony Danza.

00:06:29.000 But if we... All of this is so insane.

00:06:35.000 I love... Nancy Pelosi just has to be sitting with her head in her hands every day over the fact that this person has somehow grabbed the headlines from her. 0.76

00:06:43.000 And Nancy Pelosi, by the way, is Bane in Dark Knight Rises. 0.99

00:06:47.000 She's sitting there going, Do you fear in control?

00:06:50.000 To AOC?

00:06:52.000 Because AOC actually has no control.

00:06:54.000 AOC actually has no power.

00:06:55.000 Nancy Pelosi is in charge of all the things.

00:06:57.000 AOC brought up her Green New Deal.

00:06:59.000 It didn't even get a vote in the House, which is controlled by the Democrats.

00:07:02.000 So no, she is not the boss. 0.97

00:07:04.000 But it does demonstrate full scale how, for people like AOC, power is absolutely intoxicating.

00:07:09.000 Incredibly intoxicating.

00:07:11.000 And one of the beautiful things about power means you never have to answer serious questions.

00:07:15.000 There's a piece in the New York Post about AOC today talking about the fact that it's very possible that she does not even live in her neighborhood, the one that she suggests she lives in, where she's a member of the people.

00:07:27.000 Where she actually lives right now is in the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., one of the most upscale places in Washington, D.C.

00:07:32.000 Paid for, by the way, because of a public-private project to build Washington Nationals Park, the kind of project that she didn't like with Amazon.

00:07:39.000 In any case, the New York Post has a long piece saying that they were trying to figure out exactly where she lives in New York.

00:07:44.000 Like, does she even live in her own district?

00:07:46.000 And her people refuse to answer where she lives. 1.00

00:07:48.000 She says for safety reasons, but they're not asking for her home address.

00:07:53.000 All they are asking is, does she live in the district she says she lives in?

00:07:55.000 And they won't answer the question.

00:07:57.000 The Post emailed Ocasio-Cortez's spokesman Corbyn Trent four times with specific questions, which were all ignored.

00:08:03.000 On Saturday, the Post reached Corbyn by phone.

00:08:05.000 We will not be commenting, he said.

00:08:07.000 Among the queries he refused to answer, where does the congresswoman live?

00:08:09.000 On Saturday night, A staffer promised a Post reporter that Ocasio-Cortez would talk to him after speaking event in Corona.

00:08:17.000 During the event, two staffers were seen reading an early edition of this story on their phones.

00:08:21.000 Come downstairs.

00:08:21.000 I have to take a picture quick.

00:08:23.000 The congresswoman then told the reporter after the event, instructing him to wait for her.

00:08:26.000 20 minutes later, she ducked out a back door, jumped into a chauffeured SUV and zoomed off. 0.96

00:08:30.000 Gone.

00:08:32.000 But don't worry, she's the boss.

00:08:34.000 Ocasio-Cortez was in New York City last weekend and this weekend, with appearances in Queens on both Saturdays, yet she was not seen coming or going from her park chester pad either day.

00:08:42.000 Her apartment's next-door neighbor said she had never seen Ocasio-Cortez.

00:08:47.000 Another neighbor, who has lived down the hall from the Congresswoman's apartment for the last 40 years, said she'd never seen her or her boyfriend, Riley Roberts, who has claimed the address as his own since last spring.

00:08:55.000 I would have remembered, said the neighbor when shown a photograph of AOC.

00:08:58.000 Workers at Jerry's Pizzeria, less than a block from her building, and at the local grocery store said she had never patronized their businesses.

00:09:05.000 And a server at a nearby taqueria said the congresswoman had only come in to be filmed by news crews.

00:09:12.000 A postal worker who delivers mail to the building said that in the last 10 years he has only seen Ocasio-Cortez intermittently and that several months worth of mail regularly accumulates in the mailbox before anyone bothers to collect it.

00:09:22.000 The worker said that Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts were the only ones getting mail at the address.

00:09:26.000 He said just because their names are on the box doesn't mean they live there.

00:09:30.000 And in 2017, when Ocasio-Cortez first filed paperwork to become a congressional candidate, she didn't even know what district she lived in, mistakenly declaring plans to run for neighboring District 15 before correcting the error days later.

00:09:42.000 Her new digs over in the Navy Yard feature gold-plated amenities like a rooftop infinity pool, a cycling studio with a dozen pricey Pelotons, men's and women's saunas, a golf simulation lounge, but no affordable units for low-income residents in spite of a local law that requires them, the news site reported.

00:09:57.000 That'd be Washington Examiner reported.

00:10:00.000 So, so much for all of this.

00:10:02.000 Apparently, once again, Ocasio-Cortez not being clear about her own personal behavior.

00:10:06.000 But the good news is, she's the boss. 0.99

00:10:08.000 Now, what's hilarious about all of this is what makes her the boss is that she says catastrophic things on a regular basis. 1.00

00:10:14.000 I mean, stuff that is just steeped in catastrophic thinking.

00:10:18.000 So for example, AOC talks about climate change and the way she talks about climate change is the same way a small child would talk about climate change.

00:10:24.000 I say the same way a small child talks about climate change because in just a few minutes I'm going to play you audio of a small child talking about climate change and it's indistinguishable from AOC.

00:10:34.000 Indistinguishable except for the timbre of the voice.

00:10:37.000 So AOC said over the weekend that Republicans won't have to deal with climate change because, after all, they'll all be dead.

00:10:44.000 Which is weird because she's like six years younger than I am.

00:10:48.000 And I speak regularly to thousands of Republicans who are younger than she is.

00:10:52.000 But apparently all the Republicans will be dead so they won't have to deal with climate change.

00:10:55.000 She will have to deal with climate change.

00:10:58.000 I'm 29 and I know that this is going to be the world that we're going to have to deal with, that we're going to have to live in.

00:11:06.000 And with all due respect to my colleagues, but especially in like the Republican Party, it's like, you're not going to have to live with this problem.

00:11:13.000 You're just, I'm sorry.

00:11:15.000 IE you're too old.

00:11:18.000 I mean, no, but seriously.

00:11:20.000 Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are 1000 years old.

00:11:24.000 The average Democratic leader is older than the average Republican leader.

00:11:27.000 So she's just saying nonsense at this point.

00:11:29.000 But again, all of this is catastrophic nonsense.

00:11:31.000 And, you know, Rahm Emanuel, who is chief of staff for Barack Obama, once said, never let a good crisis go to waste.

00:11:37.000 So now Democrats are manufacturing massive crises.

00:11:40.000 Massive, like world-shaking, end-of-world, all-humans-will-die crises so that they can say, I'm the boss.

00:11:46.000 That's really what this is about.

00:11:47.000 AOC is merely a miniature of what her party is. 0.83

00:11:50.000 If we pretend that the problem is so looming and so big and so disastrous, but not disastrous enough for us to do anything practical like, you know, build nuclear power plants, but so big and so disastrous that we have to wreck the entire economy on the shoals of this problem, Well then, I guess you'll have to give us all the power.

00:12:05.000 I mean, that makes me the boss, doesn't it?

00:12:07.000 In a second, we'll get to... That wasn't... These were not even her dumbest statements of the weekend. 0.99

00:12:11.000 Wait until you hear what else she had to say about the Green New Deal. 0.95

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00:13:28.000 AOC is so catastrophic in her thinking because the bigger the catastrophe, the more government control we need.

00:13:33.000 This is how things match up.

00:13:34.000 Why do you think the Democrats like talking about World War II?

00:13:37.000 Because you know what happened during World War II?

00:13:39.000 A vast government seizure of pretty much everything in the United States.

00:13:43.000 Goods were rationed, prices were controlled, wages were controlled, all the men were put in barracks and given rations.

00:13:49.000 If this was your ideal for how to build an economy, I would say that you've got some real thinking to do about liberty and freedom.

00:13:55.000 But the bigger you can make the catastrophe, the more power you're able to seize.

00:13:59.000 Now it's amazing because Democrats will suggest that President Trump is doing this with the border.

00:14:02.000 They'll say that he's manufacturing a crisis at the border and therefore he is seizing executive power in order to build a wall.

00:14:08.000 That is nothing compared to what Democrats are trying to do with the Green New Deal and the issue of climate change.

00:14:15.000 In just a second, I'm going to show you what AOC had to say about this because it's really insane.

00:14:19.000 Again, You have to maximize the damage climate change is going to do and the extremity of how bad things are going to get and how quickly they're going to get in order so that you can grab power in the here and now.

00:14:31.000 So here is AOC suggesting that we will all die, literally we'll all die, if we don't pass her Green New Deal.

00:14:40.000 We're screwed on climate.

00:14:43.000 Mike, I'm sorry to break it to you. 0.57

00:14:46.000 If we do nothing, there is no hope.

00:14:50.000 There is a global threat to the planet.

00:14:54.000 A global threat.

00:14:56.000 And at this point, we don't even have to prove it.

00:15:00.000 Just walk outside in winter in a lot of places and it's either way worse than you're used to or way warmer than you're used to.

00:15:11.000 Hurricanes, storms, wildfires.

00:15:14.000 We are dying now.

00:15:16.000 We are dying now?

00:15:17.000 What world is she living in? 0.74

00:15:18.000 Just a question.

00:15:20.000 Does she know any history at all?

00:15:22.000 The average life expectancy in the United States is 80 years old.

00:15:25.000 80.

00:15:27.000 People over the centuries would have killed to have that life expectancy.

00:15:31.000 Everyone was dying at like 35, 150 years ago.

00:15:32.000 What is she even talking about?

00:15:36.000 She's sitting in like a top-notch apartment in Washington, D.C., slicing squash and putting it in a blender on Instagram and talking about how we're all going to die and the world is over and you don't even have to provide evidence.

00:15:50.000 All you have to do is walk outside.

00:15:52.000 Really, you seem pretty comfortable there, AOC.

00:15:54.000 It seems like you're kind of living through this thing.

00:15:56.000 I mean, congr- What?

00:15:57.000 Good for you.

00:15:59.000 Such bravery.

00:16:00.000 Such toughness.

00:16:00.000 Living through this thing well.

00:16:01.000 Instagramming here.

00:16:02.000 Instant pot cooking.

00:16:03.000 Unbelievable.

00:16:04.000 I mean, who- The coolness under fire.

00:16:08.000 Really, that's what's truly impressive.

00:16:09.000 Is that she knows if she walked outside she'd be dead in a second because of the freezing cold temperatures or because of the massive heatwave thanks to global warming that is happening in the here and now.

00:16:18.000 So bad that she says she does not even have to prove that it's going to happen in the future or that her plans are going to do anything to mitigate it.

00:16:24.000 That's how bad it is.

00:16:25.000 Because people are dying.

00:16:26.000 It's all over.

00:16:27.000 Everybody freak out.

00:16:29.000 Oh, and by the way, here's my great recipe for a squash kugel.

00:16:34.000 It's just disingenuous.

00:16:35.000 It's obviously disingenuous.

00:16:36.000 It is clearly and obviously disingenuous.

00:16:38.000 And then it gets even better.

00:16:40.000 She says, not only are we all going to die, maybe we shouldn't have kids.

00:16:44.000 Well, listen, AOC, if you want to be the first to start with this, I am fine with that.

00:16:48.000 Frankly, I don't think that if you're going to indoctrinate your kids into believing that they are on the verge of their doom, then please don't.

00:16:55.000 Like, please don't.

00:16:57.000 All these people- I'm not going to have kids because the environment is so scary out there.

00:17:00.000 Again, now is a better time to live than any time in human history.

00:17:04.000 Life expectancy around the world has never been higher.

00:17:06.000 Poverty rates have never been lower.

00:17:08.000 What are you even talking about?

00:17:11.000 What are you saying?

00:17:12.000 But here's AOC encouraging young people not to have babies because it's hot outside or something.

00:17:17.000 It's scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult.

00:17:22.000 And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, should, is it okay to still have children?

00:17:32.000 And I mean, not just financially, because people are graduating with 20, 30, $100,000 worth of student loan debt, and so they can't even afford to have Is it okay to still have children?

00:17:48.000 - It's also just this basic moral question, like what do we do?

00:17:50.000 And even if you don't have kids, there are still children here in the world and we have a moral obligation to them to leave a better world for them. - Is it okay to still have children?

00:18:02.000 Okay, if you're taking your moral advice on life from a 29-year-old bartender turned congresswoman who is not married and doesn't have kids, if that's where you're gonna get your moral advice, All you, man.

00:18:12.000 Go for it.

00:18:13.000 Seriously.

00:18:14.000 I hope you do.

00:18:15.000 I hope you do.

00:18:15.000 If you're the kind of person who thinks this is intelligent commentary from AOC, then I hope you live out all of her prescriptions and don't have kids.

00:18:22.000 Because, what the hell? 0.99

00:18:24.000 It's just, it's inane. 0.99

00:18:25.000 It's inane nonsense. 0.97

00:18:27.000 But it's inane nonsense that is directed at full-scale alarmism so that she can grab more power. 0.94

00:18:32.000 That's all this is about. 0.77

00:18:33.000 It's all it was always about.

00:18:35.000 Now, what's hilarious about this is I said earlier that she speaks like a small child on these issues.

00:18:39.000 I said that advisedly.

00:18:40.000 When I say she speaks like a small child, I mean literally like a small child.

00:18:43.000 My favorite video of the last few days, there are a bunch of kids from something called the Sunrise Movement, and they've been indoctrinated by their teachers and by their parents to believe that they are on the verge of their own death, which they are not, okay?

00:18:55.000 Again, the United States is the safest, most prosperous...

00:18:58.000 Healthiest country that has ever been, that has ever been.

00:19:01.000 The only possible exceptions are in Western Europe, which we prop up with our economy.

00:19:06.000 And yet, these kids are going to Dianne Feinstein's office and trying to lecture her about climate change.

00:19:11.000 Now, I tweeted out this clip.

00:19:12.000 If this doesn't make you love Dianne Feinstein, I don't know it will.

00:19:15.000 I've despised Dianne Feinstein as my senator for years.

00:19:18.000 Like, I don't know her as a lady. 0.99

00:19:19.000 Maybe she's a nice lady. 1.00

00:19:20.000 I don't know.

00:19:20.000 But, as a senator, I've thought she's terrible for years and for literally my entire life because she's been a senator since I was like eight years old in the state of California.

00:19:27.000 And I'm now 35.

00:19:29.000 So she's been around for a long time in the state of California.

00:19:32.000 But, with all of that said, Watch how she, an adult, deals with children on climate change, and it's pretty fantastic.

00:19:39.000 We are trying to ask you to vote yes on the Green New Deal.

00:19:44.000 Okay, I'll tell you what.

00:19:47.000 We have our own Green New Deal.

00:19:49.000 Some scientists have said that we have 12 years to turn this around.

00:19:55.000 Well, it's not going to get turned around in 10 years.

00:19:58.000 What we can do is put ourselves... Senator, if this doesn't get turned around in 10 years, you're looking at the faces of the people who are going to be living with you across the country.

00:20:06.000 The government is supposed to be for the people and by the people and all for the people.

00:20:10.000 You know what's interesting about this group?

00:20:13.000 I've been doing this for 30 years.

00:20:16.000 I know what I'm doing.

00:20:18.000 You come in here and you say it has to be my way or the highway.

00:20:23.000 I don't respond to that.

00:20:24.000 Yes!

00:20:26.000 Thank you!

00:20:26.000 An adult!

00:20:27.000 Okay, I don't even agree with Dianne Feinstein on policy, but thank you for the love of God.

00:20:32.000 And now please, somebody go say that to AOC.

00:20:35.000 Somebody go say, listen, I'm an adult.

00:20:36.000 I've been doing this for a while.

00:20:38.000 Sit down.

00:20:39.000 You don't know what you're talking about.

00:20:40.000 Like, just stop.

00:20:41.000 Just stop.

00:20:42.000 Say whatever you want. 1.00

00:20:42.000 You know, do your stupid Instagram vegetarian chili cooking. 1.00

00:20:46.000 Do whatever you want. 1.00

00:20:47.000 But if you are going to pretend that you're the boss, come the hell on.

00:20:52.000 So good on Dianne Feinstein owning the small children of the facts and logic.

00:20:55.000 Now, if she will only turn to the small children within her own party, the mental The mental derelicts inside her own party, who apparently have no compunction about saying completely factless things, who are not interested in real solutions, who simply want to primp and pose so that they can get on the covers of magazines and then take more power for themselves so that they can be the boss.

00:21:15.000 Okay, then, Dianne Feinstein, step in. 0.84

00:21:17.000 Nancy Pelosi, step in. 1.00

00:21:19.000 Honest to goodness.

00:21:20.000 You want to make sure your party doesn't collapse into the dust because I don't think most Americans resonate to this.

00:21:24.000 At some point, you're going to have to tell the children to shut up.

00:21:26.000 At some point, you're going to have to tell the children that they don't know what they are talking about.

00:21:31.000 More that they don't know what they're talking about than to shut up.

00:21:33.000 Let them, honestly, from a Republican point of view, from a conservative point of view, keep talking.

00:21:37.000 Speak amongst yourselves and in front of the cameras.

00:21:39.000 Please do this.

00:21:39.000 Meanwhile, we're going to get to Kamala Harris, the Democratic presumed frontrunner?

00:21:45.000 Maybe?

00:21:45.000 In just one second.

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00:22:54.000 Meanwhile, As the Democratic Party slides ever to the left, Kamala Harris has tried to leap to the front of the pack.

00:23:00.000 Now, in all of the polls, she is not quite doing that.

00:23:03.000 She has some momentum.

00:23:04.000 She has more momentum than, say, Elizabeth Warren, who is, I guess, fading out into the colors of the wind.

00:23:10.000 But Kamala Harris Is still trailing Bernie Sanders because Bernie Sanders has what all the young people are looking for, a bag full of crazy and some old people charm. 0.99

00:23:20.000 Kamala Harris is trying the intersectional approach.

00:23:22.000 So Kamala Harris basically is taking the Oscars approach to politics. 1.00

00:23:27.000 So I knew that Green Book was going to win last night at the Oscars.

00:23:30.000 How did I know that Green Book was going to win last night at the Oscars?

00:23:32.000 Because I knew that Shape of Water was probably going to win the year before.

00:23:35.000 Why did I know that?

00:23:36.000 Because I have a very simple algorithm that I use for the Oscars.

00:23:39.000 The simple algorithm that I use for the Oscars is simply, I just look at the PC metric on particular The intersectional metric on particular movies.

00:23:48.000 So, last night, nominated for Oscars in the Best Picture categories were Bohemian Rhapsody, a movie about a gay guy, The Favourite, a movie about an old lesbian, Black Panther, a movie about black folks, Black Klansman, a movie about black folks, Vice, a movie about Dick Cheney, which was gonna go nowhere, A Star is Born, a movie about straight white people going nowhere, Roma, a story about a Latino woman, and Green Book, a story about a black gay guy.

00:24:15.000 Obvious what's gonna win, right?

00:24:17.000 I mean, so Kamala Harris is basically doing the same thing, but in the 2020 Democratic primary.

00:24:21.000 She's basically saying, listen, there's a lot of women in this primary, and there's some black people in this primary, but do you have a black woman in this primary? 0.85

00:24:28.000 And if the answer is no, well, honey, I got an answer for you right here.

00:24:32.000 That's Kamala Harris' campaign. 1.00

00:24:34.000 And she is basically saying it out loud.

00:24:36.000 That's what's so astonishing.

00:24:37.000 So she came out yesterday and she says, you know, people keep complaining about this identity politics stuff.

00:24:43.000 She's referring to Bernie, because Bernie has said that identity politics is a bad idea, generally, that we should judge candidates based on their merits, not based on their race or their sex.

00:24:51.000 Kamala Harris has to fight back against that, because that's basically the only reason she's in the race. 1.00

00:24:56.000 She's a first-term senator from California.

00:24:58.000 She has not done a thing, anything.

00:25:00.000 The only reason anyone is discussing her This term, identity politics, people will use that term. 1.00

00:25:04.000 It's like people used to talk about the race card. 0.85

00:25:06.000 happens to be a black woman. 1.00

00:25:07.000 So she has to somehow fight back on the idea that identity politics is bad. 0.76

00:25:11.000 So here she is explaining identity politics is actually good.

00:25:14.000 This term identity politics, people will use that term.

00:25:19.000 It's like people used to talk about the race card.

00:25:22.000 Right.

00:25:22.000 And they'll bring this term up when you talk about issues that are about race, about sexual orientation, about religion.

00:25:30.000 Thank you.

00:25:31.000 They'll bring it up when we're talking about civil rights issues as a way to marginalize the issue.

00:25:39.000 Okay, I love this so much because what identity politics itself is, is a way to silence and shut up.

00:25:47.000 And so now if you say identity politics is bad, then you are the person shutting people up.

00:25:51.000 Here is why identity politics shuts people up.

00:25:53.000 The way identity politics works is it makes an essential claim.

00:25:56.000 The essential claim that it makes is that you and I cannot understand each other if we are members of different racial groups, or different ethnic groups, or different sexual groups.

00:26:04.000 That if I am a white man, I can therefore not understand what you, a black woman, are saying, Kamala Harris. 0.97

00:26:08.000 There's no meeting of the minds.

00:26:10.000 There's no actual logic that allows us to speak beyond our own personal identity.

00:26:14.000 And thus, if you say something and I say, listen, that's wrong.

00:26:16.000 You say, listen, that's my truth.

00:26:18.000 And you don't have the capacity to challenge my truth.

00:26:20.000 All I can do is appeal to my own in-group.

00:26:22.000 And if you don't respect that my in-group has authority on this issue, then you are not respecting identity politics.

00:26:28.000 You're not respecting my identity.

00:26:29.000 In fact, if you disagree with my politics, then you are disagreeing with my identity.

00:26:33.000 It makes you bad. 1.00

00:26:34.000 You're a racist. 0.99

00:26:35.000 This is how you get from, I disagree with Kamala Harris to I'm a racist. 0.99

00:26:39.000 Right?

00:26:39.000 That's how you get from one to the other.

00:26:40.000 The idea being that Kamala Harris's politics are rooted in her identity.

00:26:45.000 If I disagree with her politics, I therefore don't understand or I'm afraid of her identity and therefore I've attacked her identity and therefore I am discriminating against her simply by virtue of disagreeing.

00:26:55.000 Identity politics is a way of destroying common conversation.

00:26:58.000 That's what it is.

00:27:00.000 Western civilization was built on the notion that we are all individuals freely capable of using our reason to communicate with one another.

00:27:06.000 All of liberal republicanism is based on this.

00:27:09.000 I mean like a liberal republic, a free republic, all of it is based on the idea that we are able to overcome our own membership in particular groups and speak to each other as individuals capable of using human reason.

00:27:21.000 Identity politics cuts directly against that.

00:27:24.000 But Kamala Harris wants to be able to run on the basis of identity politics. 1.00

00:27:27.000 So now she says that if I call out her identity politics, if, for example, I say that she's pandering on particular issues because she's trying to pander to particular political groups that she thinks will benefit her, when she says that she's for, for example, slavery reparations, when I say that this is obviously a move to try and gain black votes in the Democratic primaries in 2020, because that's the only group in America that overwhelmingly supports slavery reparations, And so that is an aspect of her invoking politics of identity in order to garner certain votes back.

00:27:56.000 If I say that, then that's me attempting to shut her up.

00:27:59.000 Now, that's silly, because I'm more than willing to have a conversation about the relative merits and demerits of slavery reparations.

00:28:05.000 We did it twice last week on the show, but Her point is that if you challenge anything she has to say, then you are by nature challenging her identity.

00:28:13.000 And that's the only way she's going to get through these primaries.

00:28:15.000 Now, maybe it works.

00:28:16.000 Too many Democrats have bought into this.

00:28:18.000 But it is an ugly way of doing politics.

00:28:21.000 And once again, it demonstrates that Kamala Harris's biggest selling point is, in fact, her identity and not actually her capacity to be a good senator or to do anything of use. 0.99

00:28:30.000 This should be obvious from another answer she gave yesterday in this same interview.

00:28:33.000 She was asked specifically about the cost of all of her various programs on MSNBC with Joy Reid.

00:28:38.000 Who, by the way, how does Joy Reid still have a show? 1.00

00:28:40.000 Question.

00:28:41.000 How does Joy Reid still have a show? 1.00

00:28:43.000 Didn't she have like a bunch of old homophobic posts? 0.99

00:28:45.000 And then she pretended that she didn't write them?

00:28:47.000 And that she was hacked?

00:28:49.000 And somehow she still has a job? 0.99

00:28:50.000 Probably for the same reason Ralph Northam still has a job.

00:28:52.000 Anyway, Harris was making the rounds.

00:28:53.000 She was on Joy Reid.

00:28:54.000 And then I guess she was also on CNN with John King.

00:28:56.000 And she was asked specifically about how she was going to pay for all of her bizarro world, Medicare for all, free college for all, everything free for everybody proposals.

00:29:05.000 And she gave the same answer that AOC gave, which is, well, money grows on trees and I'm the boss. 0.69

00:29:11.000 Can we afford it?

00:29:12.000 Of course we can afford it.

00:29:13.000 Two and a half, three trillion dollars a year for Medicare for All by some studies.

00:29:16.000 Depending on which portions of the Green New Deal you pick to do first, that's money.

00:29:21.000 You know what the Republicans are going to say, tax and spend liberals, pie in the sky.

00:29:25.000 One of the things that I admire and respect is the measurement that is captured in three letters, ROI.

00:29:31.000 What's the return on the investment?

00:29:33.000 People in the private sector understand this really well.

00:29:36.000 It's not about a cost, it's about an investment.

00:29:39.000 And then the question should be, is it worth the cost in terms of the investment potential?

00:29:45.000 Are we going to get back more than we put in?

00:29:46.000 Okay, if she is really suggesting that there is an ROI, a return on investment, that's the term we use in the private sector for what she's talking about.

00:29:53.000 First of all, she's not investing her own dollars.

00:29:55.000 She's investing my dollars and your dollars. 1.00

00:29:57.000 Second of all, there is no ROI on what she is talking about.

00:30:01.000 Right now, there's an ROI on the dollars that I personally spend on my healthcare.

00:30:04.000 How do I know?

00:30:04.000 Because I'm paying for it.

00:30:05.000 What is the ROI on her grabbing two to three trillion dollars out of the American economy and allocating it through government resources? 0.96

00:30:12.000 And whenever somebody, if somebody ever asks, you know, how much is this going to cost?

00:30:15.000 They say, you don't, don't worry about it.

00:30:17.000 Just look at the benefit.

00:30:18.000 Just look at the upside.

00:30:19.000 They're selling you something.

00:30:21.000 She's selling you something.

00:30:22.000 And what she's selling you, it ain't great.

00:30:24.000 Yeah, well, we're going to discuss more on Kamala Harris.

00:30:26.000 Plus, we have to get to Venezuela, where Democrats are still struggling to condemn, and the Oscars, right?

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00:31:48.000 So Kamala Harris, look, maybe she wins Maybe she does. 1.00

00:31:57.000 But I don't think there's a lot there other than the intersectional appeal.

00:32:00.000 Because other than that, she's basically just doing a warmed-over Bernie routine.

00:32:04.000 Her strongest case for why she should be nominated is she says, we need someone to prosecute the case against Trump.

00:32:09.000 Do you really think there's any shortage of people in the Democratic Party willing to say bad things about Trump?

00:32:13.000 That's pretty much all they have in common at this point.

00:32:15.000 Here's Kamala Harris, though, suggesting that she's going to prosecute Trump properly.

00:32:19.000 We're gonna need somebody who knows how to prosecute the case against this president.

00:32:27.000 Okay, I just don't know why that's enough appeal.

00:32:32.000 Like, as opposed to every other Democrat who wants to prosecute the case against the president?

00:32:36.000 All right, then.

00:32:37.000 I guess.

00:32:38.000 Meanwhile, things have collapsed over in Venezuela, where it looks like open turmoil is the latest situation.

00:32:44.000 This has not stopped some Democrats from coming out in defense of the current Venezuelan regime, or at least in lukewarm fashion for the Venezuelan regime.

00:32:51.000 There's an amazing tweet thread from Chris Murphy, who is, believe it or not, an actual United States Senator from Connecticut.

00:32:57.000 He tweeted out over the weekend, Okay, we can stop right there for a second.

00:33:04.000 First of all, the potential trap being set by Trump?

00:33:07.000 If you look at Venezuela and you think the problem is Trump, you got another thing coming.

00:33:10.000 The problem in Venezuela is a socialist government run by a socialist dictator who is, in fully socialist fashion, murdering his people and preventing human aid from getting in.

00:33:19.000 Preventing any sort of food or water from getting in through particular borders.

00:33:22.000 Chris Murphy says cheering humanitarian convoys sounds like the right thing to do, but what if it's not about the aid?

00:33:28.000 So now he's arguing a full United States senator is arguing against humanitarian convoys for people who are eating dogs, children are dying in Venezuela, and we're being told by Chris Murphy we should worry about Trump.

00:33:38.000 He says what if the real agenda is laying a pretext for war?

00:33:41.000 Follow my logic for a second.

00:33:43.000 Okay, first of all, you know who used to say all options were on the table a lot?

00:33:46.000 A president named Barack Obama.

00:33:47.000 when he repeatedly asked McMaster for a plan to overthrow Maduro.

00:33:49.000 New McKay book confirms, now Trump says all options are on the table and Rubio objects to Senate resolution that forbids war.

00:33:55.000 Okay, first of all, you know who used to say all options were on the table a lot?

00:33:59.000 A president named Barack Obama.

00:34:00.000 He said it with regard to Iran, with whom he was secretly attempting to cut a nuclear deal, leaving Iran in control of more weaponry and more money.

00:34:06.000 So that's always been part of American policy.

00:34:10.000 The idea that behind the velvet glove lays an iron fist or the possibility thereof.

00:34:14.000 So that's nothing new.

00:34:16.000 But do you really think Trump wants to go to war in Venezuela?

00:34:19.000 You think that's really something Trump is up for?

00:34:21.000 Chris Murphy continues, though.

00:34:23.000 He says, I want aid to get to Venezuelans, but let's be honest.

00:34:25.000 Venezuela didn't just lurch into humanitarian crisis.

00:34:28.000 The aid is being sent there now as part of regime change strategy.

00:34:31.000 Many are hoping that it will be the match that lights a civil war against Maduro.

00:34:34.000 The civil war against Maduro is already taking place, dude.

00:34:36.000 There are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets.

00:34:38.000 Some are being shot by the active military.

00:34:41.000 They're trying to recruit the military over to their own side.

00:34:45.000 I guess being a Democrat means that you're more worried about Donald Trump than you are about Nicolas Maduro.

00:34:49.000 It's an amazing thing.

00:34:50.000 Murphy says, Senator Rubio rushed to tweet out reports today of Maduro allies firing into Colombian territory, warning that the United States will help Colombia confront any aggression against them.

00:34:59.000 Venezuela ordered Colombian diplomats out in 24 hours, ramping up the crisis.

00:35:02.000 By the way, Rubio also tweeted out the two expatriate members of the Venezuelan National Assembly were poisoned in Colombia yesterday, presumably by the by the Maduro.

00:35:11.000 Well, yeah, it does sound familiar.

00:35:11.000 Didn't your boss do that?

00:35:12.000 Didn't Barack Obama do that back during the Libyan war when some of us were saying, um, bad idea, dude?

00:35:15.000 And the United States should pursue a strategy to undermine him and prompt new elections.

00:35:18.000 But no one can defend what he has done in Venezuela.

00:35:21.000 But it's quite a different thing for the U.S. to incite a civil war with no real plan for how it ends.

00:35:25.000 Sound familiar?

00:35:26.000 Well, yeah, it does sound familiar.

00:35:29.000 Didn't your boss do that?

00:35:30.000 Didn't Barack Obama do that back during the Libyan War when some of us were saying, I'm bad idea, dude?

00:35:34.000 And he did it repeatedly during the Arab Spring when some of us were saying bad idea.

00:35:38.000 Murphy concludes, finally, perhaps most importantly, go look up the 1947 Rio Treaty.

00:35:43.000 It's a Western Hemisphere mutual defense treaty and may not require a war declaration if Trump is legitimately coming to the defense of Colombia.

00:35:49.000 Don't think the Venezuela hawks don't know this.

00:35:52.000 Again, Donald Trump does not want to go to war in Venezuela.

00:35:55.000 He does not want to be expending American blood and treasure in Venezuela.

00:35:58.000 But we are going to support the Venezuelan people every way short of war if we can.

00:36:04.000 And we'll support Colombia with presumably military aid if they need it against the Venezuelan government.

00:36:09.000 If you're a Democrat and your chief worry today is about America's war and about Trump and how volatile he is, and not the fact that Maduro is doing all this stuff, again, there's been no indicator from the Trump administration they are interested in going to war.

00:36:21.000 None.

00:36:22.000 None.

00:36:24.000 And once again, administrations signal routinely, every single one, Democrat and Republican, they are always signaling that they are willing to go to the ultimate if they have to.

00:36:34.000 But there's been no indicator that Trump actually wants to do that, and it's amazing to watch Democrats come out of the woodwork to try and defend Maduro in effect, even as they pretend that they really don't like Maduro very much.

00:36:42.000 Okay, meanwhile...

00:36:44.000 The Oscars took place last night, and it was exactly what you would think it was.

00:36:48.000 It was a liberal, self-pleasuring fest. 0.97

00:36:52.000 It was ridiculous in every possible way. 0.95

00:36:55.000 First of all, nobody had seen any of these movies except for Bohemian Rhapsody and Black Panther.

00:36:59.000 So two of the movies people saw, Bohemian Rhapsody won a bunch of awards, including for best film editing, which is just, I mean, as I said early on the show, solid prank everyone.

00:37:09.000 For those who actually saw Bohemian Rhapsody, Or clips from Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:37:13.000 Essentially, the way that that film was edited, is that they had several cameras running on the same scene, and then they had a monkey with a toggle switch, who just toggled between reaction shots that meant nothing.

00:37:23.000 It's one of the worst edited films of all time, and it won Best Film Editing, because guess what?

00:37:27.000 People in Hollywood don't know anything about movies.

00:37:30.000 Or at least quality of movies.

00:37:32.000 In any case, the Oscars are always a back-patting fest, and there's always a large helping of irony when the folks who are most concerned about income inequality and who are cheering Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris walk in with $30 million diamonds around their neck.

00:37:48.000 I'm not kidding.

00:37:49.000 Lady Gaga wore a $30 million, what, 128-carat diamond to the Oscars last night?

00:37:53.000 She cares about the people, guys.

00:37:55.000 She's really in touch with the people.

00:37:57.000 I always find it amazing how AOC finds time to rip on Jeff Bezos, who has created legitimately hundreds of thousands of jobs, but never finds any time at all to go after, you know, some of the major celebrities who are walking around wearing $10,000 gowns they will wear once and then discard on the charity pile.

00:38:16.000 It's pretty incredible.

00:38:16.000 The most celebrated gown of the evening, by the way, was worn by somebody named Billy Porter.

00:38:20.000 I don't know who the hell Billy Porter is.

00:38:22.000 Have any of you guys ever heard of Billy Porter?

00:38:24.000 I've never heard of this guy.

00:38:25.000 So this was just an attention-gathering thing.

00:38:27.000 So this guy walks onto the red carpet.

00:38:31.000 Wearing a tuxedo gown.

00:38:34.000 Like a full-on ballroom gown.

00:38:36.000 With a... It essentially looks like a hoop skirt with, like, a trail.

00:38:39.000 And people are like, oh!

00:38:41.000 So brave!

00:38:43.000 Brave and stunning!

00:38:44.000 Stunning and brave!

00:38:45.000 Bravery McStuns a lot! 0.96

00:38:48.000 It's just like Normandy, the bravery!

00:38:50.000 Oh! 0.60

00:38:51.000 Magnificent!

00:38:52.000 Now... Forgive me.

00:38:54.000 But dudes wearing gowns on a... On a carpet?

00:38:58.000 On a red carpet?

00:39:01.000 Eh?

00:39:03.000 Maybe I missed it.

00:39:04.000 Maybe I'm missing the great joy that is to be had from dudes wearing gowns on a red carpet.

00:39:10.000 But honestly, I actually think it's an actual issue for the country.

00:39:14.000 Not because I think it's very important.

00:39:15.000 I don't think it's very important.

00:39:16.000 But I do think that the attempt by the media to conflate male with female, and to pretend that males acting in stereotypically female ways does not have any impact on children, and that gender confusion is actually a good thing, and that all of this is merely a... that all gender distinctions in dress and in manner and in behavior and in what they wear, that all of these are simply social constructs of no serious import, If that's true, then you're gonna have to explain why virtually every culture in the history of the planet has had separate dress for men and women.

00:39:45.000 Very few cultures men and women dress identically.

00:39:48.000 Because men and women are different. 0.98

00:39:49.000 And the attempt to say, oh, well, it's so brave that here's this guy who's willing to dress like a woman... Question. 0.60

00:39:54.000 Why is it cultural appropriation when a white chick wears a kimono, but it is not cultural appropriation when a black male wears a stereotypically female dress? 0.71

00:40:04.000 An historically female dress.

00:40:06.000 There is no answer to this because it makes no sense, of course. 0.78

00:40:09.000 This was, of course, not the only silly thing that happened at the Oscars. 0.54

00:40:11.000 There was lots of silliness at the Oscars. 0.93

00:40:13.000 So, at the very beginning, President Trump got mocked over the wall.

00:40:16.000 Now, I will note, there were a couple of names that were not mentioned in the entire Oscars telecast, so far as I know.

00:40:21.000 One of the names was Bryan Singer, the director of Bohemian Rhapsody.

00:40:24.000 It was amazing.

00:40:25.000 It won Oscar after Oscar in a bunch of categories the director is kind of responsible for. 0.91

00:40:29.000 Not one person thanked Bryan Singer because he's under suspicion of having statutorily raped underage boys.

00:40:35.000 So nobody was willing to mention Bryan Singer.

00:40:37.000 So that's one name that didn't get mentioned.

00:40:38.000 The other name that didn't even get joked about is Jussie Smollett.

00:40:41.000 It's only the leading story in America, and it's about an actor in Hollywood faking a hoax crime, faking a hate crime.

00:40:47.000 Not one mention at the Oscars last night, but plenty of mentions of Trump because brave, stunning, stunning, brave, brave McStuns, stunning McBravery.

00:40:57.000 If you think that it is brave for people in Hollywood to get up in front of other people in Hollywood and make jokes about Donald Trump, Let me introduce you to, like, anyone who is brave on planet Earth.

00:41:08.000 Because any one of those people is braver than what just happened last night.

00:41:10.000 So here are all these women dumping, like, legitimate bad jokes. 1.00

00:41:14.000 Forget about going after Trump.

00:41:16.000 Every president can be made fun of except Obama.

00:41:18.000 We don't make fun of him.

00:41:19.000 But all the other presidents we can make fun of.

00:41:22.000 And that's fine.

00:41:24.000 I'm just wondering why this is a funny joke.

00:41:25.000 So here are the leading women of Hollywood. 1.00

00:41:28.000 This is Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and I can never... And Maya Rudolph, thank you.

00:41:33.000 Making jokes about Trump.

00:41:35.000 Just a quick update for everybody in case you're confused.

00:41:37.000 There is no host tonight.

00:41:39.000 There won't be a popular movie category and Mexico is not paying for the wall.

00:41:43.000 What?

00:41:49.000 What?

00:41:50.000 Why is that a joke?

00:41:50.000 How is that even close to a joke?

00:41:53.000 She could have made the same joke this way.

00:41:55.000 She could have said, just a quick update in case you're confused.

00:41:57.000 There is no host tonight, there won't be a popular movie category, and we all hate Republicans!

00:42:02.000 Yeah!

00:42:06.000 So much talent in that room.

00:42:07.000 My goodness.

00:42:08.000 Then Javier Bardem got up and condemned borders and walls.

00:42:11.000 He did this in Spanish so that nobody in America who doesn't speak Spanish could understand him.

00:42:15.000 There he was doing that last night.

00:42:17.000 Because there are no borders or walls that can restrain ingenuity and talent.

00:42:23.000 And Trump's like, wait until you see mine.

00:42:27.000 He said in any region of any country of any continent, there are always great stories that move us.

00:42:33.000 Okay.

00:42:34.000 And tonight we celebrate the excellence and importance of the cultures and languages of different countries.

00:42:38.000 This is the best foreign language category.

00:42:39.000 That's fine.

00:42:40.000 That's all fine.

00:42:40.000 But I love these.

00:42:42.000 No borders and walls can restrain ingenuity and talent.

00:42:45.000 How about this alligator moat?

00:42:47.000 Check this out.

00:42:48.000 It's like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

00:42:51.000 Unbelievable.

00:42:54.000 It's so tiring, honestly.

00:42:56.000 It's so tiring, and it's tiresome.

00:42:58.000 More than tiring, it's tiresome.

00:42:59.000 And then Chef Jose Andres gets up, and he says, we owe compassion to the invisible people.

00:43:04.000 The invisible people, like immigrants. 1.00

00:43:06.000 Immigrants are not invisible in the United States.

00:43:08.000 We all know many of them.

00:43:09.000 My wife is an immigrant.

00:43:10.000 Like, just stop.

00:43:10.000 Just stop.

00:43:11.000 You're boring.

00:43:12.000 In Roma, Alfonso Cuarón presents an honest and vital portrait of the Mexico City of his childhood.

00:43:19.000 A place full of contrast and contradictions.

00:43:22.000 But love is where everyone meets.

00:43:25.000 And this beautiful, intimate film, one that gives a voice to the voiceless, reminds us of the understanding and compassion that we all owe to the invisible people in our lives, immigrants and women who move humanity forward.

00:43:46.000 Okay, I just have to point out right here, Roma is so boring. 1.00

00:43:50.000 I know, I know.

00:43:51.000 It's not really on topic.

00:43:51.000 I mean, it is a little.

00:43:52.000 They mentioned Roma. 0.96

00:43:54.000 Roma is death on wheels.

00:43:56.000 I watched the first 25 minutes and I thought to myself, there was a four minute establishing shot of water running over cobblestones.

00:44:02.000 Stop it! 0.99

00:44:04.000 Just stop! 0.89

00:44:06.000 So, the Oscars did what the Oscars do, and they do the same thing every year, and they are always equally irritating.

00:44:11.000 People are always like, why are you irritated by the Oscars?

00:44:13.000 Well, because you put out a program that's supposed to be the best of one of America's seminal domestic industries, and all you can come up with is the latest PC films that nobody saw, and then make fun of whatever Republicans happen to be in office, while feeding whatever Democrats happen to be in office.

00:44:28.000 You want to do something?

00:44:28.000 Honestly, if the Oscars want to do something different, they should have a Republican host them.

00:44:31.000 Then it would actually be entertaining and fun, like roast Hollywood.

00:44:35.000 By the way, they used to do this.

00:44:36.000 Like, even Bob Hope, when he was hosting the Oscars for years and years and years, he would always start off by roasting Hollywood, because we all love Hollywood, we all like going to the movies, but these people deserve to be roasted a little bit, don't they?

00:44:48.000 Don't they?

00:44:48.000 Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.

00:44:50.000 So, things that I like today.

00:44:52.000 Over the weekend, I was reading a book by Michael Denton, who is, in fact, a biologist, called Evolution Still a Theory in Crisis.

00:44:58.000 The book does not suggest that evolution does not take place, of course.

00:45:02.000 The book is basically about how microevolution takes place, but he makes the point that the notion that natural selection combined with genetic mutation, the idea that this has provided for all change in human history, and that macroevolution, meaning the jump from species to species, That that is simply a result of natural selective pressure combined with mutations?

00:45:21.000 There's just not enough evidence for that.

00:45:22.000 So macroevolution and microevolution might actually run along different lines.

00:45:26.000 And you'd be surprised to learn how many major biologists and scientists agree with him.

00:45:31.000 People including folks like Stephen Jay Gould.

00:45:33.000 The notion that evolution is a continuous slow process of incremental change, and that that has taken us from species to species, that's not really accurate, just biologically speaking.

00:45:46.000 There's evolution within species, there's evolution over time, but the notion that you can move from one to the other without some sort of different factor making the change happen, as opposed to just random natural selection, natural selection and random mutation, that's essentially what the book is about.

00:46:01.000 It's highly technical, there's a lot in there that's technical, but the book is well worth the read.

00:46:04.000 Michael Denton's Evolution Still a Theory in Crisis.

00:46:07.000 Okay, time for some things that I hate.

00:46:13.000 Okay, so thing that I hate, number one.

00:46:14.000 So Nike ran a commercial last night and everybody was fawning over this commercial.

00:46:17.000 Oh, look at this commercial.

00:46:19.000 It's all about how women are victimized in our society. 1.00

00:46:21.000 Number one, there are some women who are victimized in our society. 1.00

00:46:24.000 You know who they aren't?

00:46:25.000 Prominent athletes.

00:46:26.000 Prominent female athletes in our society are not victims. 1.00

00:46:29.000 They're earning millions and millions of dollars to play a sport. 0.96

00:46:31.000 That's silly.

00:46:33.000 Also, if we're going to talk about people who are victimized in our society, Women are not high on the list. 0.98

00:46:38.000 Women are now living freer, better lives than any people ever on planet Earth in history at any time. 1.00

00:46:45.000 This is, this, it's just, it's ridiculous. 0.96

00:46:47.000 It's ridiculous contention. 0.97

00:46:48.000 In the same way it's ridiculous when AOC says we're all moments away from death, it is ridiculous when Nike contends that women are sorely put upon in the United States. 0.98

00:46:56.000 It is simple pandering. 0.87

00:46:58.000 People like to be told that they are a victim of American society.

00:47:02.000 Most people in the United States are not victims of American society. 0.72

00:47:05.000 Listen to this, this silly Nike commercial. 0.96

00:47:08.000 When we stand for something, we're unhinged. 0.98

00:47:11.000 No.

00:47:14.000 When we're too good, there's something wrong with us.

00:47:18.000 And if we get angry, we're hysterical.

00:47:21.000 Okay, can we pause for a second?

00:47:22.000 Okay, when they say, when we stand for something, then we are unhinged, really, Margaret Thatcher, did people call her unhinged for standing for something?

00:47:32.000 Condi Rice, did people call her unhinged for standing for something? 1.00

00:47:35.000 Women in your life, when they stand strong for something worthwhile, do we call them unhinged? 1.00

00:47:39.000 No, we don't.

00:47:39.000 And then they say, when we outperform, then there's something wrong with us.

00:47:42.000 And they show a picture of a woman named Semenya.

00:47:44.000 Semenya actually has a genetic disorder, which means that she, as a child and as an adult, has received essentially male levels of testosterone throughout her life.

00:47:54.000 And that means that she's been able to out-compete other women on the base of this.

00:47:56.000 It was an actual Olympic controversy.

00:47:58.000 So let's not pretend that there was no genetic abnormality with Semenya.

00:48:02.000 There was a genetic abnormality with Semenya, which is why she was dominating women in competition. 1.00

00:48:05.000 Okay, I'm not making actual formal allegations that they use child slavery in Bangladesh.

00:48:08.000 hysterical well no women get angry on a fairly regular basis and are not considered hysterical when you're hysterical we consider you hysterical just like when men are hysterical we consider them them hysterical like what what this whole like women are so put upon but they can overcome buy this crappy sneaker made by child slaves in bangladesh okay i'm not making actual formal allegations that they use child slavery in bangladesh it's just a rumor guys one of our producers 0.89

00:48:36.000 producers, Austin, said that Nike really should change their slogan, not to just do it, but not all of our shoes explode, which seems about right after what happened in the Duke, North Carolina basketball game. 0.86

00:48:47.000 Anyway, the rest of this commercial is similarly silly. 0.93

00:48:49.000 Or just being crazy. 0.99

00:48:52.000 But a woman running a marathon was crazy. 1.00

00:48:57.000 No.

00:48:57.000 Okay, can we stop at that for a second?

00:49:00.000 Literally no one said that it was crazy for Serena Williams to compete coming back from a child.

00:49:05.000 80 or winning 23 grand slams, having a baby and then coming back for more.

00:49:11.000 Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy and crazy.

00:49:16.000 OK, can we stop at that for a second? 0.51

00:49:17.000 Literally no one said that it was crazy for Serena Williams to compete coming back from a child.

00:49:23.000 No, not a human.

00:49:24.000 Literally no one said it was crazy for her to win 23 grand slams, except that it's crazy in the sense that she's amazing at what she does.

00:49:31.000 She's the narrator of this commercial, by the way.

00:49:34.000 Literally no one says that it is crazy for Simone Biles to compete, or for a woman to compete in a hijab, or for a woman to change sports, or for a woman to flip twice on a snowboard or something.

00:49:43.000 No one says that.

00:49:44.000 What are they talking about?

00:49:45.000 I like that you shifted the notion of crazy.

00:49:48.000 So crazy, as in like the colloquial sense, well that's wild, that's incredible the person did that, has now been shifted to be the same thing as they were doubted.

00:49:56.000 Who doubted Serena Williams? 0.82

00:49:57.000 Serena Williams has been the most dominant player in women's tennis for two decades.

00:50:00.000 Who doubted Simone Biles? 0.98

00:50:02.000 Anybody who saw her knew what kind of talent she had. 0.91

00:50:05.000 This is just, it's just asinine and it's sort of, and then what's even more kind of saccharine and sickening is all the men on Twitter are like, oh, what a beautiful commercial. 0.66

00:50:13.000 Oh, what an incredible commercial. 0.67

00:50:14.000 Listen, guys, I know that you want the ladies to think that you love, that you're sensitive and kind, but come on.

00:50:21.000 Come on. 0.89

00:50:21.000 It's a silly commercial. 0.89

00:50:22.000 It's a silly commercial. 0.98

00:50:24.000 We all want women to be strong. 0.95

00:50:25.000 We all want women to be independent. 0.83

00:50:27.000 We all want women to be free. 0.95

00:50:28.000 We all want the same things for women. 0.99

00:50:30.000 Who is this mysterious other who's telling women, you can't play tennis. 1.00

00:50:34.000 You can't compete in a heat.

00:50:36.000 Like, who's doing this?

00:50:38.000 I hate the creation of false enemies simply so that you can declare yourself the hero.

00:50:41.000 Which, in fact, may be the theme of the show, right?

00:50:43.000 I mean, that's what AOC does with global warming, and now it's what Serena Williams and Nike are doing with this ad.

00:50:47.000 There's a group of nefarious men, living in the shadows, telling Serena Williams she can't play tennis anymore.

00:50:53.000 Who are they?

00:50:54.000 They don't exist.

00:50:55.000 But if they did, they would be telling you not to buy Nikes.

00:50:59.000 So buy Nikes.

00:51:01.000 Just do it. 0.80

00:51:02.000 What absolute silliness.

00:51:03.000 Okay, final thing that I hate today. 0.97

00:51:06.000 Bill Maher said a very, very silly thing over the weekend.

00:51:09.000 It is amazing how people in blue states like to pretend, very often, blue state folks, they like to pretend that they are all for people in red states, the downtrodden, they're for people who earn less economically, who are lower income.

00:51:22.000 There's an enormous amount of scorn for people in red states from blue states.

00:51:25.000 People in red states tend not to think... I've been in a lot of red states.

00:51:27.000 I've spent a lot of time there.

00:51:29.000 People in red states do not spend a lot of time thinking about people in blue states.

00:51:32.000 They really don't.

00:51:33.000 Like, people in Texas don't care about California.

00:51:35.000 They just don't want California coming to Texas.

00:51:37.000 People in... People in Indiana don't spend a lot of time thinking about New York.

00:51:42.000 They really don't.

00:51:42.000 Like, they have their own lives.

00:51:43.000 They have their own things that they're doing.

00:51:45.000 Folks in Tennessee, not worried about what's happening in Massachusetts.

00:51:49.000 People in Massachusetts are deeply worried about what's happening in Tennessee.

00:51:52.000 People in California are deeply worried about what's happening in Texas.

00:51:55.000 They are deeply concerned about all of the evil people in Texas.

00:52:00.000 Doing what they want to do and they have to somehow justify to themselves why it is that they're paying twice what other people pay for living where they live and why it is that people in Texas seem pretty happy without any of the government restrictions or social values that folks on the left want them to have.

00:52:14.000 And so you end up with this Bill Maher here saying that red states are jealous of blue states.

00:52:17.000 The truth is the other way around.

00:52:19.000 People in blue states are very often jealous of people in red states because people in red states don't think about people in blue states all that much.

00:52:26.000 Here's Bill Maher though just sneering at people in red states.

00:52:31.000 There are two Americas, and it seems like one is where all the cool jobs are, where people drive Teslas and eat artisanal ice cream.

00:52:41.000 We have orchestras and theater districts and world-class shopping.

00:52:45.000 We have chef Wolfgang Puck.

00:52:47.000 They have chef Boyardee.

00:52:50.000 Wow.

00:52:52.000 Wow.

00:52:52.000 Okay, first of all, you know what else we have in LA?

00:52:53.000 Like, I'm from the same city as Bill Maher.

00:52:55.000 You know what else we have?

00:52:56.000 70,000 homeless people on the streets, needles in the open, people crapping on street corners, speed bumps everywhere, pornography billboards all around our schools.

00:53:04.000 Like, there are some problems.

00:53:07.000 There's some problems.

00:53:07.000 Like, don't get me wrong.

00:53:08.000 I like L.A.

00:53:09.000 I've lived my entire life in L.A.

00:53:11.000 But to pretend that all the good things are ha- You really think that, like, Nashville doesn't have any symphony orchestra?

00:53:18.000 You really think Dallas doesn't have a symphony orchestra?

00:53:20.000 You think there's no theater in Dallas?

00:53:22.000 He's living in a- Really, the people on the coast are living under rocks.

00:53:26.000 They're living in their own bubbles, and they've created a picture of the rest of America that simply is not true.

00:53:31.000 Also worth noting, really nasty to Chef Boyardee.

00:53:34.000 The truth is that Chef Boyardee was founded by an Italian immigrant in Ohio in 1928.

00:53:40.000 So I guess it's Red State America. 0.64

00:53:42.000 His name was Ettore Boyardee.

00:53:44.000 In 1924, he opened his first restaurant in Cleveland, and people started asking him about his spaghetti sauce.

00:53:50.000 And then he opened a factory and moved production to Milton, Pennsylvania.

00:53:53.000 The U.S.

00:53:54.000 military commissioned the company during World War II for the production of army rations.

00:53:57.000 So if you want to rip on Chef Boyardee, go for it, man.

00:53:59.000 You want to rip on a great American company founded by an immigrant? 1.00

00:54:02.000 All you.

00:54:03.000 You do you, Blue States. 0.63

00:54:05.000 All righty.

00:54:05.000 We will be back here a little bit later.

00:54:07.000 Two more hours of The Ben Shapiro Show later today.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - February 25, 2019

Tyranny With A Smile | Ep. 724

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