The Ben Shapiro Show - Welcome To The Jungle | Ep. 659

00:00:00.000 Amazon turns heads by selecting New York and Washington, D.C.

00:00:03.000 as its new second headquarters.

00:00:05.000 The Florida recount efforts get uglier.

00:00:07.000 And President Trump goes after the French?

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

00:00:10.000 Now listen, while I love mocking the French as much as the next guy, it's always more entertaining when President Trump does it. 0.80

00:00:20.000 We'll get to that in just a second.

00:00:22.000 Plus, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez now finally has a platform to stand on. 0.67

00:00:27.000 The platform is She Hates Amazon, which is a weird platform, but we'll get to all of that in just a second.

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00:01:49.000 We begin today with the announcement by Amazon that they have found their next headquarters too.

00:01:54.000 Now, there was a big year-long search for where they were going to locate their second headquarters.

00:02:00.000 One of the reasons, nobody will talk about, that they are trying to start a second headquarters is because the business climate in Seattle has really gone south.

00:02:06.000 Amazon is not the first company based in Seattle that has started creating headquarters outside Seattle.

00:02:11.000 Boeing famously did this a couple of years ago when they went down to South Carolina with one of their latest plants because doing business in Seattle was too expensive thanks to leftist governance.

00:02:20.000 Well, Amazon Had announced like a year ago that they were going to open up a second headquarters.

00:02:26.000 Now they've decided that they're going to open a second and third headquarters.

00:02:29.000 They're going to split that second headquarters. 0.99

00:02:31.000 Are they going to locate it in a distressed town in Ohio or Pennsylvania?

00:02:35.000 Are they going to restart industry in a part of the country where industry has been falling away?

00:02:41.000 No, of course not.

00:02:42.000 They're going to locate it in New York and Washington, D.C.

00:02:44.000 So, after all was said and done, they're locating this thing in Crystal City, which is basically a bunch of cement buildings just out of D.C., and they're going to be locating it in Queens, which happens to be the home district of, you guessed it, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

00:02:55.000 They've decided to move into According to the Wall Street Journal, New York City and Northern Virginia will be the homes for Amazon's second and third headquarters, according to people familiar with the matter, ending a more than yearlong public contest that started with 238 candidates and ended with a surprise split of its so-called HQ2.

00:03:15.000 In other words, they gave the runaround to 240 cities, then picked the two cities everyone figured they would locate in, the one nearest to legislative power and the one nearest to financial power, New York City and Washington, D.C.

00:03:25.000 The imminent announcement is expected today, according to People.

00:03:28.000 Other cities may also receive major sites, some of the People said.

00:03:31.000 So, the second headquarters is divided evenly between New York's Long Island City and Arlington County's Crystal City neighborhoods, which are both located directly across from major city centers.

00:03:41.000 They're saying there will be approximately 25,000 employees in each location.

00:03:46.000 It is unclear exactly what the deal was.

00:03:49.000 Amazon was sort of pitching this publicly so that people could be making overtures to them.

00:03:53.000 Tax breaks, tax loopholes, subsidies.

00:03:57.000 And it's not clear what either city did, Crystal City or New York City, did to draw Amazon there.

00:04:02.000 Suffice it to say, I'm not in favor of business subsidies from government.

00:04:06.000 I don't think taxpayers should be subsidizing businesses, just as I don't think that businesses should be taking advantage of taxpayers.

00:04:13.000 With all of that said, what really should be happening is all the tax breaks available to major corporations should be available to every business in a particular area.

00:04:21.000 If New York thinks it's drawing business by paying off Amazon, wouldn't it be drawing more business by lowering the tax rate on all the businesses already in New York?

00:04:30.000 Wouldn't that be a good way to draw more business to New York?

00:04:32.000 It's amazing how the logic seems to go out the window when it comes to leftist governance in major cities.

00:04:37.000 They're willing to offer all sorts of goodies and incentives and chocolate sweets to various companies to come in, and they will cherry pick the companies they want to come in, but they won't lower the overall tax rate and regulatory burden so that more businesses will just enter naturally.

00:04:52.000 In any case, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who's a communist, discussed the Amazon deal Monday night during his weekly television appearance Although he didn't confirm that the city had been officially selected.

00:05:01.000 He was hopeful that HQ2 would come to New York City.

00:05:07.000 He said, Again, if you really want to make an economic development deal for New York City, you just get rid of a lot of the taxes and regulations and rent controls and all of the idiotic policies Bill de Blasio has followed that have alienated a lot of businesses from New York City and to other places in the country.

00:05:22.000 Amazon is also moving to New York in order to face up against Google, because Google is also looking to expand into the city.

00:05:28.000 Apparently, Alphabet Inc., which is Google, is going to add office space for more than 12,000 new workers, which is an amount nearly double the search giant's current staffing in the city.

00:05:37.000 Amazon had recently been in late-stage negotiations with several locations, including New York, Crystal City, and Dallas.

00:05:44.000 Aside from the GHQ 2 decisions, Amazon may also announce other cities have won big projects.

00:05:49.000 One of the reasons, by the way, that Amazon is moving to Crystal City is because it is number one, close to DC, and number two, it's close to Jeff Bezos, who's the founder of Amazon.

00:05:57.000 and has his house over there.

00:06:00.000 So, in sheer size and proximity to Washington, Reagan National Airport Metro stops another transportation.

00:06:06.000 Crystal City was an attractive prospect for Amazon's ambitious second headquarters plans.

00:06:11.000 Also, it is largely in the hands of a single developer, which means that they can grab as much real estate as they want.

00:06:17.000 There's some bad traffic over there.

00:06:19.000 The real reason they're moving there is highly educated populations, access to capital, access to regulation, regulatory control, regulatory capture.

00:06:25.000 One of the things that people need to know about big business is that big business and capitalism are not identical.

00:06:31.000 Big businesses take advantage of whatever profit there is to be had, even at the hands of the government.

00:06:36.000 They're not shy about going to the government for help.

00:06:39.000 And this is a case in point of Amazon doing just that.

00:06:42.000 It's also a case in point of, you know, Amazon's been doing that with regard to food stamps, for example.

00:06:46.000 There's been a lot of talk about how many folks who work for Amazon are on food stamps, and people blame Amazon for that.

00:06:51.000 Well, the reason that Amazon can pay those people low wages is because food stamps are available.

00:06:57.000 And overall, the rip on Amazon, that Amazon is a terrible, terrible employer, is simply not true.

00:07:01.000 Well, regardless, so my general points are two.

00:07:05.000 One, when business comes to a city, it is good for the city.

00:07:08.000 Two, when businesses come to a city because the city is paying the business to come to the city, that is ripping off taxpayers.

00:07:14.000 Both of these points can be true at once.

00:07:17.000 Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in New York is very, very upset about Amazon moving into her city for one good reason and for mostly bad reasons. 0.99

00:07:23.000 So here is what she tweeted out today.

00:07:26.000 Our favorite congressperson who thinks that I can't call her.

00:07:29.000 She says, we've been getting calls and outreach from Queens residents all day about this.

00:07:33.000 The community's response, outrage.

00:07:34.000 So first of all, I really, really doubt that the response of Queens to a massive company moving into Queens and bringing 25,000 jobs was outrage.

00:07:45.000 I can't name the number of cities that, like, really.

00:07:48.000 Really, I don't think any cities exist where people are deeply, deeply outraged overall about major companies moving into their midst.

00:07:55.000 Except for the fact that there are a certain group of people who are afraid they won't get jobs from Amazon and are afraid that upward pressures in housing and gentrification are going to push them out.

00:08:04.000 I assume those are the people that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is talking about.

00:08:07.000 And the reason that all of that is happening is specifically because of policies that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pushes. 1.00

00:08:13.000 The policies that she pushes include rent control, they include wage subsidies, they include heavy regulations of business.

00:08:19.000 All of these policies are likely to result in less employment in the area and upward pressure on rents.

00:08:25.000 How do we know this?

00:08:26.000 Because Amazon's original headquarters in Seattle has been pressured by just those things.

00:08:30.000 Seattle recently tried to pass a head tax on Amazon, trying to tax them for every employee in the city.

00:08:36.000 Which is one of the reasons why Amazon is fleeing to other parts of the country, or at least diversifying its labor base across other parts of the country.

00:08:45.000 The reason there's been upward rent pressure in Seattle is because of serious Restrictions on the sort of housing that people can build.

00:08:54.000 You think developers wouldn't want to build and redevelop in Queens to build new housing as there's upward rent pressure?

00:09:01.000 Of course they would.

00:09:02.000 Supply would then meet demand.

00:09:03.000 But New York supply can't meet demand because it's almost impossible to build anything there.

00:09:07.000 And because heavy rent control regulations have prevented everyone from being able to rent at market prices.

00:09:12.000 Which means that people are being forced out of their apartments as apartment owners have started to have started to figure out ways to toss people out.

00:09:20.000 Rent control is legitimately the worst policy that you can pursue in an area with upward rent pressure and new employees.

00:09:27.000 Here's what Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez tweets, though. 0.98

00:09:29.000 She says the problem is not all the regulation.

00:09:32.000 The problem is not even the tax subsidies.

00:09:34.000 The problem is Amazon.

00:09:35.000 Amazon is evil.

00:09:36.000 How do we know Amazon is evil? 0.66

00:09:37.000 Because it's a company.

00:09:38.000 And companies are bad, according to Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, whose entire employment history includes working at a bar.

00:09:45.000 Part-time, I guess.

00:09:46.000 And who has, by age 29, not saved enough money to be able to afford two months of rent in Washington, D.C., in expectation of a six-figure salary from the federal government.

00:09:57.000 Here's what she tweeted out.

00:09:58.000 Well, number one, this is the part where I say she's sort of half right.

00:10:00.000 The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need more investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here.

00:10:09.000 Well, number one, this is the part where I say she's sort of half right.

00:10:12.000 She's right that Amazon should not be getting all sorts of tax breaks.

00:10:15.000 Everybody in New York should be getting all sorts of tax breaks.

00:10:18.000 She's wrong here, though, when she suggests that what we really need is more tax dollars poured into the MTA.

00:10:24.000 $15 billion a year is spent on the MTA, more than the entire GDP of 70 counties in the United States.

00:10:31.000 The MTA is not bankrupt because it's lacking tax dollars.

00:10:34.000 The MTA is bankrupt because people are not actually paying what it costs to ride the subway.

00:10:39.000 And every time there's a proposal to raise the subway fee in New York City, everybody cries about it, and then they just toss more taxpayer dollars at it, and then it doesn't get solved.

00:10:48.000 And the fact is that the MTA requires higher subway fees.

00:10:52.000 I mean, that's just the reality of the situation.

00:10:54.000 But she continues, and here's where it gets really bad for Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, who does not understand free markets, or even want to understand free markets.

00:11:01.000 She says, when we talk about bringing jobs to the community, we need to dig deep.

00:11:05.000 And here we get into the full-on socialist, not democratic socialist, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who wants to control the means of production. 1.00

00:11:13.000 Because I want a part-time bartender figuring out how Amazon, a billion-dollar company, ought to run its business.

00:11:19.000 A company, by the way, with 600,000 employees globally.

00:11:22.000 I want Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez determining how exactly Amazon can maintain profit and also ensure employment. 0.99

00:11:29.000 She says, when we talk about bringing jobs to the community, we need to dig deep.

00:11:33.000 Has the company promised to hire in the existing community?

00:11:36.000 Well, in this particular case, yes.

00:11:38.000 I mean, they're not shipping in a bunch of people from Portland.

00:11:40.000 What's the quality of jobs and how many are promised?

00:11:42.000 Are these jobs low wage or high wage?

00:11:44.000 Are there benefits?

00:11:45.000 Can people collectively bargain?

00:11:46.000 Okay, number one, the company is going to hire precisely the number of people that it needs to fill particular jobs, because this is how markets work.

00:11:54.000 As for the idea that Amazon is going to unionize, Amazon is not going to tolerate unions because Amazon does not need to tolerate unions.

00:12:00.000 Amazon, again, employs hundreds of thousands of people.

00:12:05.000 And if they were to raise the labor rates, presumably they would also lay some of those people off. 0.62

00:12:11.000 This is what happens whenever there's a government-enforced attempt to raise wages. 0.72

00:12:15.000 There's a backlash in terms of employment.

00:12:17.000 In a second, I'm going to explain why Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is so wrong here and why, unfortunately, her particular perspective on what government should do with business is not restricted to one side of the aisle. 1.00

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00:13:41.000 Okay, so Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, again, she tweets that she wants to know what kind of jobs are gonna be created by Amazon. 0.99

00:13:48.000 And this has been the great sort of pitch that has been made by people like Bernie Sanders about Amazon.

00:13:55.000 Ooh, they're not paying their workers enough.

00:13:57.000 Here is the reality of the situation.

00:13:59.000 Amazon created 130,000 new jobs last year alone.

00:14:03.000 The folks who are on food stamps are mainly part-time workers, and many of them, a huge number of them, are opting to work part-time.

00:14:10.000 In the United States, the average hourly wage for a full-time associate in their fulfillment centers, including cash, stock, and incentive bonuses, is over $15 an hour before overtime, in addition to a full benefits package, including health, vision, and dental insurance, retirement, generous parental leave, and skills training for in-demand jobs through their Career Choice program, which has 16,000 participants, according to Amazon.

00:14:31.000 So the idea that Amazon is just creating a bunch of crap jobs, this is the new argument that you saw a lot of people make about Walmart for years.

00:14:36.000 It was not true about Walmart and it is not true about Amazon either. 0.91

00:14:40.000 That's not stopping Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez from mouthing off as though she knows what she's talking about when it comes to business. 0.87

00:14:45.000 She says displacement is not community development.

00:14:48.000 So the idea is Amazon is coming in and all these people are going to come in with them and people are going to be displaced.

00:14:53.000 Again, residential displacement is a result of rent control and prevention of developers from actually building new buildings and new rental units.

00:15:01.000 That is how you, honestly, you want to make sure that people can't afford to live in an area.

00:15:05.000 Ensure that there can only be a set number of units for a larger number of people.

00:15:10.000 This creates upward price pressure.

00:15:11.000 This is basic econ 101.

00:15:13.000 Alexander Ocasio-Cortez doesn't understand it.

00:15:16.000 Sonny Bunch over at the Washington Examiner and the Weekly Standard.

00:15:20.000 He had a very funny line about this.

00:15:22.000 He said, you know, if she's so worried about displacement, you know what we could do?

00:15:24.000 We create a company town, like we call it Primetown.

00:15:27.000 And in Primetown, all the workers would have to live in Primetown.

00:15:32.000 They would have to live in the area.

00:15:33.000 And they would actually have to spend part of their paycheck with Primetown.

00:15:37.000 And they would be given company script to spend on various products.

00:15:41.000 And all of the services would be provided by that company.

00:15:44.000 And nothing bad would ever happen.

00:15:46.000 Right?

00:15:46.000 If this idea sounds good to you, then you should think about every coal company in the 1930s and 40s that did have these company towns, and which ended up being wildly restrictive and preventing people from living free lives.

00:15:57.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:15:58.000 If you want control from the top or you don't want control from the top.

00:16:01.000 More on this in just one second.

00:16:03.000 So, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn't stop there. 0.99

00:16:05.000 She ripped on Amazon's job quality now that Amazon is moving to New York City, into Queens, because I'm sure what Amazon really wanted was to be harassed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when they decided to move to Queens. 1.00

00:16:16.000 She ripped on job quality. 1.00

00:16:17.000 She ripped on displacement. 0.96

00:16:18.000 She says, we need to focus on good health care, living wages, affordable rent.

00:16:23.000 Corporations that offer none of those things should be met with skepticism.

00:16:27.000 Well, number one, a corporation that does not offer a living wage is not in business for very long because all of its employees are dead.

00:16:32.000 That does not mean that all employers are paying what they should be paying.

00:16:38.000 They're paying what the market will bear.

00:16:40.000 And if people don't want to work for those companies, we live in a free country, they don't have to.

00:16:43.000 It's not the job of a company to provide affordable rent.

00:16:46.000 That is the job of the government to get out of the way.

00:16:48.000 And she talks about good health care.

00:16:50.000 I wasn't aware that it's Amazon's job to provide good health care.

00:16:54.000 It is their job to provide the incentives that allow people to work for them, including health insurance, if necessary.

00:17:01.000 She says it's possible to establish economic partnerships with real opportunities for working families instead of a race to the bottom competition.

00:17:08.000 If you think that it's a race to the bottom competition to bring in a company that has 25,000 employees in your area, I don't know what to tell you.

00:17:15.000 Chelsea, by the way, says investing in luxury condos is not the same thing as investing in people and families. 0.99

00:17:20.000 Well, investing in condos is the same thing as investing in people and families because guess who lives in the condos, you moron? 1.00

00:17:26.000 I mean, legitimately, this is a stupid point. 1.00

00:17:29.000 Investing in new rental units is one of the ways that you provide housing to people. 1.00

00:17:33.000 In fact, it is the chief way that you provide housing to people.

00:17:36.000 And you know who occupies those luxury condos?

00:17:38.000 All of the rich people who otherwise would be living in rent-controlled hovels in Queens.

00:17:43.000 She says, Again, the only reason that those people would be shuffled out of the community is due to regulation.

00:17:50.000 And finally, she concludes, Okay, well, what's your proposal?

00:17:52.000 To ban Amazon?

00:17:53.000 one company or one headquarters.

00:17:54.000 It's about the cost of living, corpse paying their fair share, et cetera, assuming corpse means corporations.

00:17:59.000 It's not about picking a fight either.

00:18:00.000 I was elected to advocate for our community's interests and they've requested clearly to voice their concerns.

00:18:05.000 Okay, well, what's your proposal?

00:18:07.000 To ban Amazon?

00:18:08.000 To force Amazon to pay higher taxes again so they can take all those jobs and leave? 0.99

00:18:12.000 Right, to ensure that Amazon pays for affordable housing by presumably using the power of government to cram down on them?

00:18:19.000 and It's amazing how folks who are in favor of social control of the means of production are suddenly shocked when all of that turns out to be a giant failure.

00:18:29.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:18:30.000 Either you want your area to get nicer, which includes bringing in businesses that bring with them jobs and upward mobility and, indeed, upward rent pressures.

00:18:38.000 Or you can sit there and you can talk about how you're helping your community when you're actually not helping your community.

00:18:44.000 It's truly amazing when folks suggest that gentrification is terrible for a community and then they decry that no jobs are coming to the community.

00:18:52.000 You can't have it both ways.

00:18:54.000 If jobs come to the community, it's because crime rates have gone down and because people are moving in who are trying to work at those companies.

00:19:01.000 And because economic pressures are moving rents up.

00:19:03.000 All those things come as a basket.

00:19:06.000 There is no world in which rents stay the same with high regulations and yet more jobs come into the neighborhood.

00:19:11.000 That has never happened in human history because it violates every basic law of human behavior and economics.

00:19:18.000 It is amazing, though, to watch the conflict between Alexander Ocasio-Cortez and Bill de Blasio.

00:19:23.000 Bill de Blasio, of course, understands that he has to subsidize Amazon to come into New York City in order to overcome the burden of having to work with places like Queens with all of its regulatory burdens.

00:19:35.000 The fact is that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders, they like to talk about the Nordic countries and how the Nordic countries are wonderful places to live.

00:19:43.000 You know what the Nordic countries don't do?

00:19:45.000 Tax their businesses at exorbitant rates.

00:19:47.000 The Nordic countries, the reason that their economies are able to work okay is because their economies are largely based on low business regulation and low cost of doing business in those states.

00:19:59.000 Where Norway and Denmark and Sweden, where all those countries go off the rails when it comes to their domestic tax rates.

00:20:05.000 And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez presumably wants those too. 1.00

00:20:08.000 This is what she'll never tell you, what Bernie Sanders will never tell you.

00:20:11.000 If you want to pay for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's program, it's not enough for her just to glom onto Amazon and take away their profit margin. 1.00

00:20:19.000 In the end, she's going to need to go to people who are middle class in the United States and take away all their money too. 1.00

00:20:25.000 The tax rates in places like Denmark are 60% for people making above 50, 60 grand a year.

00:20:29.000 She's never going to tell you that.

00:20:32.000 She's never going to tell you that because what she wants is to be able to tell you you can have everything.

00:20:36.000 You can have low tax rates as a middle class person, and you don't have to move out of your rent control department, and you can have a job from Amazon.

00:20:43.000 That is not the way any of this works.

00:20:44.000 Okay.

00:20:46.000 In just a second.

00:20:46.000 I want to talk to you about Jim Acosta and CNN, who are now suing President Trump.

00:20:50.000 I also want to talk about a situation that has broken out in the Gaza Strip in Israel.

00:20:55.000 A few people are talking about it, but you'll only hear about it when Israel actually fights back, because that's the way this works.

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00:22:42.000 Okay, meanwhile, the great battle of our time between Jim Acosta and Donald Trump continues because this is just what the country needs.

00:22:52.000 This is what the country needs.

00:22:53.000 CNN has now sued President Trump demanding the return of Jim Acosta to the White House because presumably he has some sort of right to be in the White House.

00:22:59.000 Now, it is true the federal government is not allowed to engage in viewpoint discrimination.

00:23:03.000 So the federal government cannot just decide that they don't want somebody covering the White House because they don't like the guy's viewpoint, right?

00:23:09.000 That would be a violation of certain basic First Amendment precepts.

00:23:14.000 And there's an argument to be made that President Trump is doing that with Jim Acosta, but that's not really what's happening with Jim Acosta.

00:23:19.000 Right?

00:23:19.000 Because the fact is, 95% of the press room hates President Trump.

00:23:23.000 95% of the press room agrees with Jim Acosta, and Trump isn't banning any of those people.

00:23:27.000 In reality, President Trump banned Jim Acosta because Jim Acosta would not give up his microphone, and instead insisted on holding his microphone, overriding all the other reporters, and yelling at the President of the United States in the middle of a press conference.

00:23:38.000 CNN is suing anyway.

00:23:39.000 They're suing the Trump administration demanding that Acosta's press credentials to cover the White House be returned.

00:23:44.000 The administration revoked them last week, obviously.

00:23:47.000 The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

00:23:49.000 District Court.

00:23:50.000 CNN claims the revocation of Acosta's press pass violates the constitutional rights to freedom of the press and due process.

00:23:57.000 CNN is asking for an immediate restraining order To return Acosta to the White House, there's no immediate comment from the administration.

00:24:05.000 This seems like a sort of bizarre argument, again, because he did violate certain basic rules of the press room.

00:24:12.000 When the White House suspended him, it said that it did so because he placed his hands on an intern who was trying to take the microphone from him.

00:24:19.000 Really, it was, in my opinion, incidental contact, but CNN is making the claim that this is really about the president doesn't like Acosta, and so he doesn't want Acosta there.

00:24:26.000 Again, I think that's a weak argument.

00:24:27.000 President Trump hates every member of the press that he can find, including April Ryan, who has not had her press pass revoked in the White House.

00:24:34.000 So there are plenty of people in the White House press room who President Trump cannot stand.

00:24:39.000 All those people are still attending every single day.

00:24:41.000 So the claim by CNN that this is simply about Trump doesn't like Acosta seems far-fetched to me.

00:24:47.000 I don't buy it.

00:24:47.000 Meanwhile, in other news, It must be pointed out that there are hundreds of rockets a day that are now falling on Israel.

00:24:53.000 I'm getting emails from people, videos from people who are legitimately living in their basements.

00:24:58.000 They're living in bomb shelters right now across Israel because of hundreds of rockets that are descending from the Gaza Strip.

00:25:04.000 Before you say this is because of the quote-unquote occupation, Recognize that for 12 years, Israel has not been present in the Gaza Strip.

00:25:11.000 The Gaza Strip is run by a terrorist group called Hamas.

00:25:14.000 And that terrorist group has routinely used the Gaza Strip as a staging point for attacks on Israelis.

00:25:19.000 They've built terror tunnels to try and kidnap Israelis.

00:25:21.000 They've tried to breach the border in order to invade Israeli land.

00:25:24.000 They've burned thousands of acres of Israeli lands with kites that have incendiaries attached to them and balloons that have incendiaries attached to them. 0.93

00:25:31.000 And now they're firing rockets randomly into civilian areas.

00:25:34.000 You're not seeing this covered in the media because the media don't care when Jews get killed in Israel.

00:25:38.000 The media don't care about that.

00:25:41.000 The media pretend to care about anti-Semitism in a serious way when Jews get killed in Pittsburgh, because then they can try and blame President Trump, and they can talk about right-wing anti-Semitism, which is a brand of anti-Semitism that does exist.

00:25:52.000 When it comes to radical Muslim anti-Semitism, they go completely silent.

00:25:56.000 For the same reason that President Obama once said about a radical Islamist attack on a kosher supermarket in France, that it was random.

00:26:02.000 It wasn't anti-Semitic, it was a random attack. 1.00

00:26:05.000 The idea that it is not the same anti-semitism that drives Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians as drives attacks on a shul in Pittsburgh is a bunch of crap. 1.00

00:26:14.000 It is simply nonsense. 0.98

00:26:15.000 And what you're going to see from the press is nothing about the hundreds of rockets falling into the civilian areas of a democratic ally of the United States until Israel fights back, at which point you're going to see the press say, Mighty Israel strikes the poor, quivering Palestinian population. 0.55

00:26:31.000 And all the Palestinians have to do in the Gaza Strip is elect a government that is not Hamas.

00:26:36.000 All they have to do is elect a government that wants to make peace with Israel and then open up their markets and the capital would come flowing in.

00:26:43.000 Gaza has some actual nice seaside territory.

00:26:47.000 But they're not going to do that because there's an ideological An ideological commitment to the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews.

00:26:53.000 These rockets are not directed at military installations.

00:26:56.000 This is not a war.

00:26:57.000 This is an attack on a civilian population, very deliberately, and the media will ignore it up to the point when Israel fights back, at which point they will blame the Jews.

00:27:04.000 That is, in and of itself, an aspect of leftist anti-Semitism that manifests itself every time the media covered the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

00:27:14.000 Every time that conflict breaks out, the media suggests that Israel is at the top of the power hierarchy, and therefore, Hamas' attacks on Israel are not really anti-Semitic, it's really about power relationships.

00:27:26.000 And this is how they cover for radical Muslim anti-Semitism.

00:27:29.000 But what we are watching right now, schools being hit, bakeries being hit, and there's 52 Israelis who have gone to hospitals thanks to bombs randomly falling in their midst.

00:27:40.000 Again, hundreds of rockets being shot every day.

00:27:42.000 I mean, this is the worst it's been in Israel since the 2014 Gaza War.

00:27:46.000 It's really been quite awful over there.

00:27:49.000 You can see the videos online that will never be covered by the mainstream media.

00:27:52.000 There's a pretty heartbreaking video of a dog that had been fatally wounded by a rocket that just fell into a civilian area.

00:27:59.000 All of this, again, will be ignored by the global media up until the point at which Israel starts to defend itself, at which point Israel will be condemned for disproportionate force.

00:28:08.000 And all of the people on the left, like the J Streets of the world, who will condemn Israel at that point, demonstrate exactly what it is that they are, which is a bunch of anti-Semitic enablers.

00:28:19.000 If you're enabling all of this, then you are part of the problem. 0.97

00:28:23.000 And meanwhile, In other news, over in Florida, the recount process continues to be a complete crap tornado. 0.98

00:28:31.000 It's a disaster.

00:28:33.000 According to Mark Caputo over at Politico, Broward election chief is likely to be forced from office by Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis.

00:28:40.000 That makes perfect sense.

00:28:42.000 That makes perfect sense because, again, she's awful at her job. 1.00

00:28:45.000 Her name is Brenda Snipes.

00:28:46.000 Here's what Mark Caputo writes.

00:28:48.000 Counting unlawful votes, destroying ballots, sunshine law violations, busted deadlines.

00:28:52.000 So many controversies have bedeviled Broward County election supervisor Brenda Snipes, culminating in her office's troubles in the aftermath of Florida's chaotic 2018 elections that her days in office are now numbered, insiders and lawmakers say.

00:29:05.000 She was bound by law to start turning in election results within 24 hours of the actual election taking place.

00:29:12.000 Instead, it took her a week and then she was suddenly discovering ballots coming in out of nowhere.

00:29:16.000 Now that doesn't necessarily mean election fraud took place, but one of the reasons that you want to have these laws on the books in the first place is to fully ensure that election fraud does not take place.

00:29:27.000 This is one of the things that we actually care about in the United States.

00:29:30.000 It's quite important that we have these laws on the books.

00:29:33.000 We want no even appearance of impropriety.

00:29:36.000 That's why we have sunshine laws. 0.99

00:29:37.000 That's why we have reporting obligations.

00:29:38.000 Brenda Snipes blew through all of those. 1.00

00:29:40.000 The difference between the right and the left on this issue is the left keeps saying, well, we just want all the votes counted.

00:29:45.000 No, you want all of the votes counted, including illegal votes.

00:29:49.000 The right wants only legal votes counted and according to the process of law.

00:29:54.000 That's a real differentiation.

00:29:56.000 And it is amusing to watch the positions flip-flop when it comes to Florida and Georgia.

00:30:00.000 In Georgia, there are some election problems.

00:30:02.000 And suddenly the Democrats are saying that election fraud took place and that they lost there because of election fraud.

00:30:08.000 But when Republicans say that they're worried about election fraud in Florida, then all of a sudden it's the end of the Republic.

00:30:14.000 It's the end of the world when Republicans talk about the possibility of election fraud in Florida, when Democrats talk about election fraud in Georgia, then all of a sudden it's perfectly legitimate.

00:30:22.000 When Democrats talk about how Trump stole the election because of the Russians, perfectly legitimate, not a threat to the democracy in any way.

00:30:27.000 When Republicans talk about an actual official, Brenda Snipes, who has a history of destroying ballots and counting unlawful votes, when they talk about maybe that's a problem, then all of a sudden they're delegitimizing election results.

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00:33:28.000 So again, Brenda Snipes is losing support from her fellow Democrats, and she faces the likelihood of a suspension by Governor Rick Scott or Ron DeSantis.

00:33:43.000 That makes perfect sense.

00:33:44.000 Again, she's been awful at her job.

00:33:46.000 Senator Marco Rubio said, This is not just the most troubled elections office in the state.

00:33:49.000 It's the most troubled elections office in the nation.

00:33:51.000 She has shown Brenda Snipes she's incapable of conducting a large, important election in a way that inspires public confidence and trust. 0.96

00:33:57.000 She's been found to have destroyed ballots in violation of the law, opened absentee ballots early in violation of the law, misprinted ballots have gone out.

00:34:04.000 And naturally, she's so incompetent that Democrats are trying to blame Republicans at this point. 1.00

00:34:09.000 Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC falsely tried to claim that Brenda Snipes was a Republican. 0.95

00:34:13.000 We should also point out that Brenda Snipes in Broward County is a Republican appointed by former governor, then governor, Jeb Bush.

00:34:21.000 So she was put in by a Republican governor after the mess that we all remember from 2000.

00:34:28.000 And she's hardly a Democratic official. 0.92

00:34:33.000 No, she's a Democratic official. 1.00

00:34:34.000 She's in fact a Democratic official.

00:34:36.000 She was replaced on the Broward County Elections Board by former Governor Jeb Bush when her predecessor was also terrible.

00:34:43.000 She's a Democrat.

00:34:44.000 She's a registered Democrat.

00:34:45.000 She went on to win four elections to cement her hold on the heavily Democratic county's election machinery. 1.00

00:34:50.000 So yes, she's a Democrat. 1.00

00:34:52.000 Trying to blame it on the Republicans is not exactly going to help none of this.

00:34:56.000 is good for the state of the nation when it comes to elections.

00:34:59.000 And by the way, for all the folks in the media who keep claiming that Republicans are throwing elections into doubt, I will remind them that they have been doing this since Donald Trump won election in 2016.

00:35:09.000 I will also remind them that over in Arizona, where Martha McSally sadly lost her election bid against insane person Kyrsten Sinema, She has not claimed elections fraud in any way, shape or form.

00:35:19.000 She has not claimed elections impropriety.

00:35:21.000 A recount happened.

00:35:22.000 She lost the recount and she accepted the results of the recount because there wasn't this sort of elections impropriety.

00:35:28.000 This is not stopping Democrats and folks in the media from claiming that Republicans are trying to overthrow democracy by calling for people to actually abide by the law in Florida.

00:35:37.000 David Leonhardt, an opinion columnist over at the New York Times, he says, America finally has a pro-democracy movement and it did very well at the polls last week.

00:35:46.000 And he talks about measures to reduce gerrymandering and the attempts to finish gerrymandering.

00:35:50.000 OK, here's the reality.

00:35:52.000 All of the laws with regard to gerrymandering and voter ID, these are not laws designed to disenfranchise voters.

00:35:58.000 Gerrymandering has always been a contentious partisan issue.

00:36:00.000 It has never prevented a party from gaining power when there is a sweep.

00:36:05.000 The notion that Republicans are standing against democracy.

00:36:09.000 It'll be interesting to see how many Democrats start calling for an end to gerrymandering now that Democrats control an enormous number of governorships.

00:36:15.000 Suddenly it seems like all of those concerns will simply go by the wayside.

00:36:20.000 Meanwhile, Democrats also trying to claim that the White House is cracking down on the Mueller investigation.

00:36:25.000 Again, without evidence.

00:36:26.000 There's a New York Times story out yesterday claiming that the White House is trying to use Matt Whitaker, the new acting Attorney General, to crack down on the Mueller investigation.

00:36:37.000 There's not a lot of evidence to suggest that is the case.

00:36:40.000 Again, anonymous sources from The New York Times says, people close to Mr. Trump believe he sent Mr. Whitaker to the department in part to limit the fallout from the Mueller investigation.

00:36:47.000 White House aides and other people close to Mr. Trump anticipate that Mr. Whitaker will reign in any report summarizing Mr. Mueller's investigation and will not allow the president to be subpoenaed.

00:36:57.000 We should investigate, by the way, we should investigate exactly what this language means.

00:37:01.000 Quote, people close to Mr. Trump believe he sent Mr. Whitaker to the department in part to limit the fallout from the Mueller investigation, one presidential advisor said.

00:37:09.000 Who the hell is that presidential advisor?

00:37:11.000 Are they still currently working with the White House?

00:37:14.000 Not clear.

00:37:15.000 If you're an outside the White House advisor, could be Steve Bannon.

00:37:18.000 He's just deciding to make trouble for people who are still inside the administration.

00:37:21.000 Could be a lot of folks.

00:37:23.000 But the minute that Matt Whitaker tries to shut down the Mueller investigation, he will immediately be shut down by Congress, and everybody knows it. 1.00

00:37:28.000 Also, it's idiotic. 0.95

00:37:30.000 If they actually tried to use Matt Whitaker, the acting attorney general, to shut down the Mueller investigation, come January, the Democrats are in control of Congress. 0.98

00:37:37.000 You don't think that Robert Mueller will be called to testify in open testimony about Donald Trump if that happens?

00:37:42.000 You don't think it would become just another point against Trump in an impeachment hearing on obstruction if he were to use the acting attorney general to shut down the Mueller investigation?

00:37:52.000 I don't believe this story at all, but it's not stopping the Democrats from claiming that Donald Trump is on the verge of shutting down the Mueller investigation.

00:38:00.000 So all the talk about elections legitimacy, and all the talk about democracy, and all the talk about the process working as the process is supposed to work, it is Democrats who have been continuously claiming that the process didn't work how it was supposed to work in 2016, and who are claiming that President Trump is corruptly keeping his office now without any evidence that that is, in fact, the case.

00:38:19.000 All of that is pretty ugly.

00:38:21.000 And it does speak to the radicalization of the Democratic Party that I'm not sure Nancy Pelosi can stave off.

00:38:26.000 It's kind of fascinating to watch.

00:38:27.000 The Democratic Party is now split between the moderate Nancy Pelosi wing.

00:38:32.000 Yes, I said that phrase, moderate Nancy Pelosi wing.

00:38:35.000 And I say moderate not because she's a moderate, but because compared to the intersectional coalition about to take over the Democratic House, she's a quote-unquote moderate.

00:38:43.000 So this is the battle, the intersectional coalition and Nancy Pelosi.

00:38:48.000 There is a piece by the New York Times, Sheryl Gay Stolberg writing, There is a former NFL linebacker, a climate scientist and a rapper with a Harvard Law degree.

00:39:00.000 There's one immigrant from Somalia and another from Ecuador.

00:39:02.000 There are two former CIA officials, an Air Force veteran, a former Navy helicopter pilot and a retired Marine commander, all of them women.

00:39:08.000 Not to mention a pediatrician and a human rights advocate.

00:39:10.000 But these and other newly elected House Democrats arrive in Washington for their orientation this week.

00:39:15.000 They will reflect the most diverse, most female freshman class in history.

00:39:18.000 The class is ideologically diverse as well.

00:39:21.000 And herein lies the problem for Democrats.

00:39:23.000 And we're going to get into that problem in just one second.

00:39:27.000 So the big problem for Democrats is that their caucus is pretty fractious.

00:39:32.000 Half their caucus realizes that there is severe danger in going too far to the left.

00:39:36.000 That the Democrats who won, including Kyrsten Sinema in Arizona, who campaigned, is much more of a moderate than she actually is.

00:39:42.000 She actually embraced the idea of sending troops down to the border, for example.

00:39:45.000 She refused to come out in favor of other Democratic officials in her own state. 0.95

00:39:49.000 And that's probably why she won in Arizona. 1.00

00:39:52.000 Moderates won, but the radicals in the Democratic base are suggesting that they want more radicalism.

00:39:57.000 More cowbell is the answer.

00:39:59.000 Steve Phillips, making that case in the New York Times, says, do the math.

00:40:02.000 Moderate Democrats will not win in 2020.

00:40:06.000 I've argued this strategy for years.

00:40:07.000 In my 2016 book, I analyzed President Barack Obama's victories in the context of the country's changing demographics.

00:40:11.000 in Florida and Georgia, but the strategy they followed is still the best strategy for Democrats to win, inspiring, mobilizing, and turning out voters of color and progressive whites.

00:40:19.000 I've argued this strategy for years.

00:40:21.000 In my 2016 book, I analyzed President Barack Obama's victories in the context of the country's changing demographics.

00:40:26.000 The implications of the Gilliam and Abrams races are profound, and learning the right lessons from 2018 is key for Democrats as they look ahead to the 2020 elections.

00:40:35.000 He says, over the past 20 years, the best performing Democratic candidates in statewide elections in Florida of Georgia have been Mr. Obama, Mr. Gillum, and Ms. Avery.

00:40:42.000 Abrams.

00:40:43.000 This year, Ms.

00:40:44.000 Abrams dramatically increased Democratic turnout, garnering more votes than any other Democrat running for any office in the history of Georgia.

00:40:50.000 She did turn out heavy Democratic votes. 0.99

00:40:52.000 She's still lost in Georgia.

00:40:54.000 If she'd been a moderate Black Democrat in Georgia, then she probably would have won. 1.00

00:40:58.000 She did not win, because she was not, in fact, a moderate black Democrat, and she was unable to turn out enough suburban votes to bring her victory, even in an election where the Georgia 6th swung to the Democrats.

00:41:07.000 So the Democrats are in danger of falling off a cliff with regard to their own radicalism, and that makes some sense.

00:41:14.000 That makes some sense, because the Democratic base is owned lock, stock, and barrel by the intersectional coalition built by Barack Obama.

00:41:21.000 It is a coalition built by the Obamas.

00:41:24.000 And coming from people like Michelle Obama.

00:41:26.000 Michelle Obama is an eminently talented person.

00:41:29.000 She is very charming on camera.

00:41:32.000 But her mentality is an intersectional mentality. 1.00

00:41:34.000 How do you know that?

00:41:35.000 Because here's what she said when she talked about meeting Barack Obama for the first time.

00:41:39.000 She said she was suspicious of Barack Obama because white people liked him.

00:41:43.000 I have my suspicions when a bunch of white folks fawn on over a black man because I sort of think, OK, he can talk straight.

00:41:50.000 So they think he's wonderful.

00:41:52.000 So.

00:41:55.000 Okay, I love that she's able to say this and get away with it, but imagine if there were a white woman who said about her husband, you know, I have my suspicions when a bunch of black people love my husband. 0.79

00:42:04.000 That'd be really a problem, right?

00:42:06.000 Michelle Obama can say that sort of thing because of the intersectional politics being pushed by the folks on the left. 1.00

00:42:12.000 And this intersectional politics is actually Donald Trump's best bet for re-election.

00:42:16.000 All he has to do is make an appeal to the suburbs on the basis of the radicalism of the Democrats.

00:42:21.000 Again, this radicalism led by intersectional politicians and Bernie Sanders acolytes like Alexander Ocasio-Cortez or Andrew Gillum.

00:42:30.000 But the fact is, And that moderates were the ones who won the key elections across the country.

00:42:37.000 Democrats are turning away from those moderates because they believe that they can go as radical as they want to be.

00:42:42.000 They may be suckered into believing that they can run somebody supremely radical in 2020 and win.

00:42:47.000 I don't think that that is actually the case.

00:42:50.000 I think that would be a huge mistake for Democrats to make, but it is their mistake to make.

00:42:54.000 A couple of quick notes that I think are necessary here.

00:43:01.000 Number one, I think because the Democratic base is so pandering toward intersectionality.

00:43:07.000 It makes it very difficult for folks in 2020 like Kirsten Gillibrand.

00:43:10.000 Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York who wants to run for president.

00:43:13.000 She's a deeply dishonest politician. 1.00

00:43:15.000 She has shifted her positions on everything from guns to abortion. 0.82

00:43:18.000 She has done so specifically in order to pander to a far-left base. 0.98

00:43:22.000 She's not good at her job. 1.00

00:43:24.000 And she says that she wants to run for president in 2020.

00:43:26.000 I think she has no shot at the nomination in 2020.

00:43:30.000 Okay, so are you staying in the Senate, or are you going to run for president?

00:43:33.000 Well, I'm obviously very dedicated to serving New Yorkers, but that is a very important moral question that I've been thinking about.

00:43:41.000 And I've been thinking about it because, as we said earlier, what President Trump has been putting into this country is so disturbing, so divisive, so dark, that I believe that I've been called to fight as hard as I possibly can to restore that moral integrity, that moral decency.

00:43:57.000 That sounds like a yes.

00:43:58.000 So I'm thinking about it.

00:44:00.000 Hillary Clinton 2.0, over there, she ain't going anywhere in the primaries, and everybody knows she's going nowhere in the primaries. 1.00

00:44:05.000 The folks who are going somewhere in the primaries are the folks who gain the love of the radical base, and this is Trump's best shot at victory, is for the Democrats to make an awful, awful mistake.

00:44:14.000 Now, he could improve that by doing a better job reaching out to folks, but, you know, that isn't necessarily President Trump's thing.

00:44:21.000 So, we'll talk about all that in just a minute.

00:44:24.000 Let's do a couple of things that I like, and then a couple of things that I hate.

00:44:28.000 So, things that I like today.

00:44:30.000 There's a new movie on Netflix that's kind of Braveheart-lite with Chris Pine.

00:44:35.000 It's called Outlaw King, and it's about Robert the Bruce.

00:44:38.000 And the movie is pretty good.

00:44:41.000 I would say it would be better if it had a little more fleshed-out character development.

00:44:44.000 The best thing in it is Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

00:44:46.000 He's a really underrated actor.

00:44:47.000 You remember him from the movie Kick-Ass?

00:44:49.000 Also, I think he was the main character in 2014's Godzilla, another underrated film.

00:44:54.000 Outlaw King is pretty good.

00:44:57.000 Basically, it covers from when William Wallace dies and on.

00:45:00.000 So, you remember the end of Braveheart?

00:45:02.000 After William Wallace is drawn and quartered, which is an unpleasant way to go, then there is the long shot of the I'm thinking about revenge.

00:45:12.000 Where's Robin?

00:45:12.000 Where's your husband?

00:45:13.000 It tears at the soul.

00:45:14.000 Where's your brother?

00:45:14.000 the Bruce sort of picks up the sword and ends up winning Scotland's freedom.

00:45:20.000 This is the movie where Robert the Bruce basically does that.

00:45:22.000 Here's a little bit of the preview.

00:45:23.000 I'm thinking of your revenge.

00:45:25.000 Where's Robert?

00:45:28.000 Where's your husband?

00:45:30.000 It tears at the soul.

00:45:33.000 Where's your brother?

00:45:35.000 No!

00:45:35.000 But it can also be a weapon.

00:45:40.000 I'm done with running and I'm sick of hating.

00:45:52.000 I'm done with running and I'm sick of hating.

00:45:53.000 Power is making decisions.

00:45:54.000 And whatever course you are charting, I choose you, my husband.

00:46:01.000 I will say this.

00:46:01.000 The film has some of the best battle sequences, ancient battle sequences I've ever seen.

00:46:05.000 I mean, there's one night battle in a forest.

00:46:08.000 The sequence is pretty stunning.

00:46:09.000 And then there is a battle sequence near the end that is fully spectacular.

00:46:15.000 I mean, it's an incredible battle sequence.

00:46:18.000 Brutal, and historically accurate.

00:46:20.000 The film itself is pretty historically accurate as well.

00:46:23.000 I think that it's worth a watch.

00:46:24.000 It's very brutal.

00:46:25.000 I mean, I will say that this movie is not for the faint of heart.

00:46:28.000 There's a lot of blood, and there's a lot of guts, and I mean, like, actual guts.

00:46:31.000 So, if that's your sort of thing, then you'll like Outlaw King.

00:46:34.000 If it's not, then you probably will not.

00:46:37.000 Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.

00:46:43.000 Okay, so, first thing that I hate, this is just a terrible story.

00:46:47.000 A police officer in Chicago allegedly killed a black security guard who was holding down a suspected shooter at a bar he worked for, according to Paul Bois over at Daily Wire.

00:46:54.000 According to the Huffington Post, Jamel Roberson, 26, was working early Sunday at Manny's Blue Room, which is a bar in the predominantly black Chicago suburb of Robbins, Illinois, when a patron who was part of a drunken group that had been kicked out returned with a gun at 4 a.m.

00:47:06.000 and opened fire.

00:47:07.000 Several people were shot.

00:47:09.000 You normally wouldn't hear that story because it's a Chicago shooting.

00:47:11.000 Only mass shootings that occur in non-Chicago are ever covered by the media.

00:47:15.000 Armed at the time, Roberson actually did the right thing.

00:47:17.000 He grabbed one of the suspected shooters and then held him down and waited for the police to arrive.

00:47:22.000 He had somebody on the ground with his knee in his back, with his gun in his back, like, don't move.

00:47:25.000 And apparently, allegedly, when the police arrived, an officer with the Midlothian Police Department shot Roberson, who later died at the hospital.

00:47:33.000 Witnesses said they did everything to warn the confused officer of Roberson's innocence in the ensuing chaos.

00:47:38.000 according to Adam Harris, who's one of the witnesses, he says, just waiting on the police to get there.

00:47:42.000 I guess when the police got there, they probably thought he was one of the bad guys because he had his gun on the guy and they shot him.

00:47:46.000 Everybody was screaming out security. 0.58

00:47:48.000 He was a security guard and they still did their job and they saw a black man with a gun and basically killed him.

00:47:52.000 So this is implying that there is a racial motive here.

00:47:56.000 Maybe there was a racial motive.

00:47:57.000 Not clear at this point whether it was racially motivated since everybody, security guard and shooters, were black apparently in the situation.

00:48:04.000 We don't know the race of the officer either.

00:48:07.000 Whatever it is, this is Either a tragic mistake or negligence, whatever it is, it's really bad.

00:48:13.000 Obviously, there are too many police officers out there, meaning more than one, who are ill-trained and are quick on the trigger in bad situations.

00:48:22.000 And a good man just got killed because of it.

00:48:25.000 And that, I think, has more to do with bad police training than it does with racism, although we'll have to wait to see all the facts of this particular case.

00:48:32.000 Whatever it is, not good stuff.

00:48:33.000 Other things, That I hate.

00:48:35.000 So, Stan Lee passed away yesterday, which is really sad.

00:48:40.000 It's never quite as sad when somebody dies at age 95, right?

00:48:42.000 I mean, that in and of itself doesn't carry the same sort of tragic weight as somebody dying before their time.

00:48:47.000 95 is definitely a full life.

00:48:49.000 And Stan Lee led, certainly, a full life.

00:48:51.000 He was responsible for Spider-Man, the X-Men, Thor, Iron Man, Black Panther, and the Fantastic Four.

00:48:56.000 Pretty full career.

00:48:57.000 He began in the business in 1939, and he created or co-created An enormous number of characters.

00:49:03.000 He's basically responsible for the Marvel Universe.

00:49:07.000 His final few years were tumultuous, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

00:49:10.000 After Joan, his wife of 69 years, died in July 2017, he sued executives at PAL Entertainment, a company he founded in 2001 to develop film, TV, and video game properties for a billion dollars, alleging fraud, then abruptly dropped the suit weeks later.

00:49:22.000 He also sued his ex-business manager.

00:49:25.000 Once people get older, sometimes things get kind of rough.

00:49:27.000 But what he's going to be remembered for, obviously, is all the characters that he created and were beloved to teenagers and adults now across the world.

00:49:37.000 Lee, by the way, had no rights to the characters he helped to create, and he didn't receive any royalties on them, but he still died an extraordinarily wealthy man, obviously.

00:49:45.000 His story is an all-American story.

00:49:46.000 He got a job as a gopher for eight bucks a week at Marvel's predecessor, Timely Comics.

00:49:50.000 Two years later, he wrote a two-page story titled The Traitor's Revenge that was used as a text filler to qualify the company for the inexpensive magazine mailing rate, and he used the name Stan Lee, the pen name Stan Lee, because his actual name was Stanley Martin Lieber.

00:50:06.000 Pretty great story and obviously I think everybody's thankful to Stan Lee for the characters he created and that we enjoy.

00:50:12.000 Okay, other things that I hate, final things that I hate...

00:50:17.000 You know, President Trump decided that he would go off on France.

00:50:21.000 This is not a thing that I hate.

00:50:23.000 It's a thing I slightly dislike, I think is fair. 0.96

00:50:25.000 Now, the president needs to stop feeding his id.

00:50:28.000 It's not going to happen, but he needs to stop feeding his id.

00:50:30.000 If you don't want to alienate folks, then you shouldn't look like you are responsive to every criticism.

00:50:35.000 The president was criticized by Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, while he was over in France.

00:50:40.000 And he could have made a speech explaining what nationalism is, what patriotism is, what America stands for.

00:50:46.000 It would have been a great opportunity to do that in the aftermath of Macron's statement.

00:50:49.000 Instead, he went on Twitter and whined about French wine.

00:50:52.000 I kid you not, he said, On trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S.

00:50:56.000 The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France and charges big tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it very easy for French wines and charges very small tariffs.

00:51:06.000 Not fair.

00:51:07.000 Must change.

00:51:08.000 I'm fine with the idea that France should lower its tariffs on American wine, but it's weird that this sprang to mind immediately after the French were ripping President Trump.

00:51:16.000 I mean, it's just, I don't think that's a big coincidence.

00:51:19.000 Also, he then ripped into Macron directly.

00:51:21.000 He said, the problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low approval rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%.

00:51:29.000 He was just trying to get onto another subject.

00:51:31.000 By the way, there is no country more nationalist than France.

00:51:34.000 Very proud people, and rightfully so.

00:51:36.000 And then he tweeted out, all caps, make France great again.

00:51:40.000 Number one, that assumes France was ever great.

00:51:42.000 But second of all, the tendency of the President of the United States to go mano y mano with anyone who insults him.

00:51:50.000 He's the President of the United States, the most powerful man on earth.

00:51:52.000 You don't actually need to do this, Mr. President.

00:51:54.000 And I think that this is not worthwhile or useful.

00:51:57.000 So, you know, just my suggestion.

00:52:00.000 He doesn't have to take it.

00:52:02.000 Also, he tweeted out, Emmanuel Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the US, China, and Russia.

00:52:08.000 But it was Germany in World Wars I and II.

00:52:10.000 How did that work out for France?

00:52:12.000 They were starting to learn German in Paris before the US came along.

00:52:14.000 Pay for NATO or not?

00:52:16.000 Again, I'm all for a good French joke about the Germans. 1.00

00:52:21.000 But with that said, you can't simultaneously say you don't want to pay for NATO anymore and that NATO is not in America's interest and that the EU is not in America's interest and then be upset when the Europeans start to form contingency plans to defend against things like Russia.

00:52:36.000 So that is what it is.

00:52:37.000 All right.

00:52:37.000 Well, we will be back here tomorrow with all the latest tonight.

00:52:39.000 We are in Columbus, Ohio, at the Ohio State University.

00:52:43.000 Look forward to seeing you there if you're in town.

00:52:45.000 If not, you can stream it online at yaf.org slash live.

00:52:48.000 We'll see you then.

00:52:48.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 13, 2018

Welcome To The Jungle | Ep. 659

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