Alfie Evans case continues to take priority in Great Britain, Parkland survivor Kyle Kashub is interviewed by the police for going to a gun range, and a feminist wants your 2nd grader to learn about transgenderism. No, I'm not joking. This is The Ben Shapiro Show, and it's a must-listen for anyone who wants to know what's going on with the British law enforcement system and why they should be focusing on other areas of the country where they need to be focusing their efforts. Today's special guest is Ben Shapiro, the host of The Daily Wire's "Ben Shapiro Show" and host of "The FiveThirtyEight" podcast, Ben Shapiro joins the show to talk about it all, including: The Alfie Evans Case in Britain, A guy who had a Nazi salute on his girlfriend s pug, and a guy who just gave his girlfriend's pug a Hitler salute on YouTube And much more! Ben Shapiro's full show is available wherever books are sold, including Audible, Audible and Barnes & Noble. Subscribe to the show and get 20% off your first month with discount code: BENSHEAPERS at checkout. That's right up to $99.99. If you don't have a Kindle, use discount code "BOOKS" at checkout at checkout, and you get 10% off the entire month, plus free shipping throughout the rest of the month! You'll get a copy of the entire service, plus a free course from Amazon Prime and VaynerSpeakeasy, and free shipping anywhere else, including the Kindle, and Audible too! Ben's newest book, "The Best Fiends, The Real Goodie Box, is available for free! Learn more about Ben's new book: "The Real Life Story" is available on amazon Prime and Kindle $99, plus shipping starts at $49.99, and they'll get 20 bucks off the first week of shipping starts starting at $99 and shipping starts are shipping starts from $99 after they get the deal starts after they ship you $99 or $49,99, they get 20GBRRP, they'll ship you a carton of the book is available in two months, plus they get free shipping starts after you get the book and two weeks of your first carton starts shipping free, free shipping, and two months of free, shipping starts will be shipping free.
00:00:00.000So, here we are, and the Alfie Evans case continues to take priority in Great Britain.
00:00:04.000Parkland survivor Kyle Kashub is interviewed by the police for going to a gun range, and a feminist wants your second grader to learn about transgenderism.
00:00:21.000The Salphy Evans case in Britain truly is astonishing, and it is accompanied by British law enforcement focusing in areas where, let's just say, they probably should not be putting their law enforcement focus.
00:00:30.000We'll get to all of that in just a second.
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00:01:45.000All right, so, I have to say, the British law enforcement system, I think they have their priorities all screwed up.
00:01:53.000So I'm gonna show you something that the British law enforcement system is cracking down on, and then I'm gonna show you something that the British law enforcement system is, something else they are doing,
00:02:02.000And you'll see the difference right away.
00:02:04.000So, they're obviously spending heavy amounts of time right now cracking down on people who violate traffic ordinances.
00:02:10.000So, this has become a very popular clip online.
00:02:14.000The local police in Britain tweeted out that this one guy who was speeding and violating the law and had a laser jammer, I guess, that was aimed at a traffic camera.
00:02:26.000He was flipping off the traffic camera all the way.
00:02:31.000They tweeted out, top tip, if you want to stay out of trouble, don't do what this driver did and swear at our mobile safety cameras while driving past in a car fitted with a laser jammer.
00:02:40.000Today, this guy is beginning eight months in jail for perverting the course of justice.
00:02:45.000And then they released a video of this fellow who's driving with his finger up in the air, flipping off the camera.
00:03:53.000They're not focused on rape gangs in Britain.
00:03:55.000According to the UK Independent, grooming gangs abused more than 700 women and girls around Newcastle with arrogant persistence.
00:04:01.000After police appeared to punish victims while letting the perpetrators walk free, a case review is found.
00:04:06.000The report into the response by authorities to child sexual exploitation found that before a large-scale police operation was launched in 2014, officers' actions were sending an unhelpful message to perpetrators.
00:04:16.000Investigators said the abuse could not be stopped without work to understand the profiles, motivations, and cultural influences of perpetrators after finding similarities with grooming in Rotherham, Rockdale, and Oxford.
00:04:47.000Instead, they're ensuring that a child must die.
00:04:50.000So, the big story out of the UK today is actually the story of Alfie Evans.
00:04:54.000And this is very similar to the case you'll remember of Charlie Gard.
00:04:57.000Charlie Gard was an 11-month-old baby who had a degenerative brain condition.
00:05:01.000And the British courts ruled that the hospital could trump his parents' wishes.
00:05:05.000His parents wanted to bring him to the United States for experimental treatment, and the British court system ruled that the hospital, which had testified that it would be against the child's interests for him to be moved to the United States for the possibility of further treatment, they ruled instead that the kid had to be removed from life support and the parents had to watch him die.
00:05:20.000Well, now they're doing the same thing to Alfie Evans, who's two years old, suffers from an undiagnosed brain condition that has left him in a semi-vegetative state, and he's been ordered removed from life support by the British government over the wishes of his parents.
00:05:31.000His parents want to ship him to Italy and put him under the care of the Vatican Hospital.
00:05:35.000His parents wanted to move him there to pursue palliative measures, but the British court ruled that that would not be in Alfie's best interest.
00:05:40.000Instead, it would be in Alfie's best interest to die.
00:05:50.000It seems like a ruling in favor of euthanasia as opposed to a ruling in favor of the possibility of a medical miracle or in favor of the possibility that maybe some doctor knows something that you don't.
00:06:01.000So they removed him from life support, pursuant to the order of a British court.
00:06:05.000And then Alfie continued to breathe on his own for 15 hours after being disconnected from life support.
00:06:09.000They didn't think that was going to happen.
00:06:10.000They thought he'd die as soon as he was removed from life support.
00:06:12.000The hospital still has not reconnected him to oxygen machines, even though he's lived for 15 hours without the oxygen machines.
00:06:18.000There's supposed to be another court hearing today.
00:06:21.000And Alfie Evans' dad has talked to the media about all of this.
00:06:25.000As you all know, I'm still here now, and Alfie's still here.
00:06:32.000I've been in touch with the ambassador of Italy.
00:06:34.000If these doctors dare to remove my son's life, they're going to be done for murder by the Italians.
00:06:38.000I've got a private prosecution case right now in front of the chief judge.
00:06:42.000The chief judge will now decide if these are murder of my son, and I'm confident he will decide that.
00:06:48.000I've been Alfie's side every minute of every day.
00:06:50.000I've been with them all day today and all they've done is try to do what they've been given the mission to do and that's murder my son in a straight up execution.
00:07:15.000Okay, so the Italian government gave Alfie Italian citizenship so that they could issue an effort to save his life in the European High Court.
00:07:25.000You know, the United States government tried to do that, I believe, with Charlie Gard.
00:07:28.000Something I was encouraging Congress people to do is give him honorary citizenship so they could make a case that he ought to be removed from Britain and headed over to the United States.
00:07:40.000I renew my appeal that the suffering of his parents may be heard and that their desire to seek new forms of treatment may be granted.
00:07:44.000Again, all this comes down to is in Britain, they believe that in a conflict between the parents and the hospital, in a case of controversy, not in a case where clearly, you know, the parents are refusing a life-saving treatment for example, but in a case where the parents want to save the life,
00:07:57.000And the hospitals want the kid to die.
00:07:59.000They're saying the hospitals still have full range over what exactly should happen to the kid.
00:08:04.000Which is just an amazing, amazing argument.
00:08:16.000Evil comes in the form of governments that take a hands-off position with regard to murder.
00:08:21.000Evil also comes in the form of bureaucratic niceties.
00:08:24.000Bureaucrats who sit atop the world in their little offices in Britain and decide whether a child should live or die because they know more than the parents do or because hospital administrators say they know more than the parents do.
00:08:34.000The British government actually had to place 30 officers around the hospital to prevent protesters from attempting to move the baby.
00:08:40.000Those protesters were attempting to storm the hospital and remove the baby.
00:08:43.000And by the way, this father, I believe, under natural right, has every right to grab that baby and make a break for it and push everyone out of his way.
00:09:15.000I remember there's a movie called John Q. It came out in 2002.
00:09:18.000It was a movie with Denzel Washington.
00:09:20.000And the movie was about a black kid who had an enlarged heart and they didn't have the money to pay for his heart surgery.
00:09:26.000And so John Q took over the hospital with a gun and tried to hold the doctors hostage to perform the surgery on his son.
00:09:32.000And this movie was praised to the skies by liberals because liberals said, this is what the American health system is like.
00:09:38.000Well, in this particular case, this is not about who's paying for what.
00:09:41.000The parents aren't asking the British government to pay for anything.
00:09:44.000In this particular case, you've got a father who is trying to remove his son from a hospital to save the son's life.
00:09:49.000And the American left is utterly silent.
00:09:50.000So when it comes to free market economics in the health care system in the United States, then they're very upset.
00:09:54.000But when it comes to actual bureaucratic murder,
00:09:57.000happening in the UK, then the American left just goes completely silent.
00:10:01.000Which says to me that this has a lot less to do with how they think the healthcare system should be run and a lot more to do with how they value human life.
00:10:08.000That if the baby has some sort of degenerative brain condition, that this is a baby that is not deserving of life.
00:10:13.000You can see the short leap from here to the eugenics of the left in the early 20th century.
00:10:17.000It is not a long leap by any means whatsoever.
00:10:22.000And to show how horrifying it is, just remember, this week, the British royal family, Princess Kate and her husband, Prince Harry, they had a baby this week, and the entire nation of Britain celebrated.
00:10:34.000And this is a beautiful thing, of course.
00:10:36.000Imagine if, God forbid, God forbid, one of the members of the royal family had a child like Alfie Evans.
00:10:42.000Do you really think, do you really think the royal family would allow the hospital to kill the child in violation of the will of the parents?
00:10:49.000Do you really think that would happen?
00:10:51.000Or is there a class differentiation, even in a system where we pretend there is no class differentiation?
00:10:56.000Is there a difference between royal and rich in Britain, and being poor and in the clutches of the National Health Service?
00:11:03.000Once the government gets to say what sort of care you deserve and what sort of care you must be provided, they also get to say what sort of care you don't deserve and what is best for the child.
00:11:11.000So there are folks who say this has nothing to do with nationalized healthcare because it isn't a question of rationing.
00:11:16.000But inherently, it is a question of how a rationed system considers the value of human life.
00:11:21.000Because they do have to make calls as to what is best for particular human lives.
00:11:25.000And they also have to decide whether they think a human life is worth living at a particular point.
00:11:29.000And they've decided this kid is suffering and that his suffering is not worth trying to preserve his life, which isn't their decision in the first place.
00:11:37.000And it's demonstrative of the difference in value held between the right and the left when it comes to saving human lives, even kids like Alfie Evans.
00:11:46.000This kid is the same age as my own kid.
00:11:48.000And the thought of a hospital trying to do this to me with regard to my own kid is so horrifying.
00:11:53.000I can't imagine a situation in which I would not bring a gun and try to break my kid out just because... I mean, I don't know what the hell right the hospital has to tell a parent what is best interest for their child when it comes to trying to kill the child.
00:12:04.000Again, it's one thing to say that the kid...
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00:13:49.000Yesterday, he called me up, and he told me that he had been called by school administrators to sit before school security and be grilled.
00:13:58.000What exactly did Kyle do that required school security, the armed resource officers, the armed school resource officers, to actually sit across from him and grill him?
00:14:05.000Well, he went to the gun range with his dad.
00:14:07.000Which, last I checked, in America is not only perfectly legal, but highly recommended.
00:14:11.000People should learn to shoot with their parents.
00:14:15.000They should know what gun safety looks like.
00:14:17.000And Kyle is a kid who has met with a multiplicity of senators on both sides of the aisle.
00:14:21.000He's gone to the White House in an attempt to push solutions to gun violence.
00:14:24.000He was called by administrators down to the office, and then he was grilled
00:14:29.000For 10 to 15 minutes over pictures of him at a gun range.
00:14:49.000Obviously, this sounds like the words of a deeply violent human being, right?
00:14:52.000Obviously, Kyle is a threat to public safety.
00:14:54.000It wasn't a threat to public safety when 30 times, 30 times, the police were informed about the shooter in Parkland and weren't able to remove his guns from him.
00:15:02.000It wasn't a threat to public safety when the FBI ignored two separate red flag warnings about the shooter in Parkland.
00:15:07.000But Kyle, he's a real threat because he went to a gun range with an instructor and his father and then tweeted about the value of the Second Amendment under the Constitution.
00:15:54.000Then a third officer from the Broward County Sheriff's Office walked in.
00:15:57.000Remember, this is the same Broward County Sheriff's Office that had armed resource officers on the grounds when the shooting was happening, and they didn't charge in because supposedly that would have been too dangerous.
00:16:06.000So they let the kids get shot inside while they did nothing outside.
00:16:09.000A third officer from the Broward County Sheriff's Office walked in and began asking me the same questions again, says Kyle.
00:16:14.000At that point, I asked whether I could record the interview.
00:16:23.000It's always weird to me when police officers say that you can't record a particular interaction.
00:16:27.000Because this is somehow going to be a serious problem.
00:16:29.000If you're doing your job, you shouldn't be worried about recording interactions in the middle of doing a job that is paid for with public dollars.
00:16:35.000He said, I asked if I had done anything wrong.
00:16:40.000Do you not remember what happened here a few months ago?
00:16:42.000I mean, obviously, not only does Kyle remember what happened there a few months ago, he's been stumping for legislation by working with Bill Nelson, a Democrat, and Marco Rubio, a Republican, in the state of Florida.
00:16:50.000Not only does Kyle know what happened at Parkland, the reason that he went to the range to learn how to use a gun is because he believes that guns can be used in self-defense and defense of others.
00:16:59.000But the idea, of course, here, is that now that he's touched a gun, the gun has infected him with the sickness that caused what happened at Parkland, which is just an insane idea.
00:17:06.000And all these folks on the left who act like touching a gun is the same as getting bubonic plague is ridiculous.
00:17:11.000Anyway, Kyle continues, they continued to question me aggressively, though they could say nothing I had done wrong.
00:17:16.000They kept calling me the pro-Second Amendment kid.
00:17:29.000He says that the situation at the school is not particularly great for him, not only because the administrators are relatively unfriendly, but there are a lot of other students who are pro-gun control who are very upset with him for speaking out on these issues.
00:17:44.000Demonstrating once again the leftist tolerance only extends to people who agree with you, but the fact that government bureaucracy in the United States, government bureaucracy in Britain, government bureaucracy in Canada, the government bureaucracy has gone so far that basic freedoms are now being ruled out of bounds by bureaucrats, and we're all supposed to sit here and take it for the sake of our safety.
00:18:04.000So in Britain, obviously these two cases are not similar except for the bureaucratic incompetence at issue, or the bureaucratic malice at issue.
00:18:10.000Now obviously in Britain you have this case with a kid who's now being left to die by the bureaucrats, and in the United States you have bureaucrats from the county sheriff's office who are now grilling a kid for having exercised his Second Amendment rights.
00:18:21.000Up in Canada, of course, they have bureaucrats who will prosecute you for speech violations if you say things that they don't like.
00:18:27.000We are living in an era when freedom is going by the wayside in favor of particularly approved politically correct views.
00:18:33.000Those views range from guns are bad to a kid doesn't deserve to live if the kid is suffering or if the kid has a degenerative brain condition to if I don't like what you say I simply get to shut it down.
00:18:56.000Unfortunately, it is also the outgrowth of a 250-year project in the West to remove decision-making possibilities from the common man and take it up to the top level again.
00:19:06.000And one of the amazing things about the Enlightenment is what the Enlightenment said is basically everybody should have a say in how the government is run.
00:19:12.000Everybody should have a say in how society functions.
00:19:15.000And then, there was a counter-enlightenment that happened, or part of the enlightenment itself.
00:19:19.000I don't want to call it the counter-enlightenment.
00:19:21.000It was part of the enlightenment itself, the Comtean idea, the Auguste Comtean idea, that there was a select group of people at the top of a society who knew better than you how society ought to run, and those people were more enlightened, they were more logical, they were more reasonable, they knew the social science better, and therefore they should get to make the rules.
00:19:38.000That mentality, whether it is applied to economics, or whether it is applied to social life, or whether it is applied to speech, is a dangerous mentality.
00:19:45.000It is a mentality that threatens your freedom in an extraordinarily serious way.
00:19:48.000And it threatens your freedom also because those authorities, again, are willing to make political compromises that damage your rights in every conceivable way.
00:19:57.000They're willing to make compromises for their own political betterment.
00:20:01.000They're willing to say and do things in order to gain votes and gain public credit that they wouldn't do if it affected their own family.
00:20:10.000It's truly an amazing and sort of horrifying thing, honestly, that they're constantly willing to make these sorts of decisions at the bureaucratic level that affect your life.
00:20:21.000And I'm going to tell you about some of those bureaucratic decisions in just a second.
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00:22:03.000In Germany, Europe is really on the brink here.
00:22:05.000And you can see that the United States is going to follow if we are not careful.
00:22:09.000So on Tuesday, a guy named Joseph Schuster, he's the head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told German Jews they should avoid wearing kippahs on the street.
00:22:16.000Kippah is a yarmulke thing I wear on the top of my head right here.
00:22:18.000After an Arab-Israeli was assaulted for wearing a yarmulke just days ago in a social experiment.
00:22:23.000So the Arab-Israeli walked around town in Germany, in Berlin, and he was wearing a yarmulke because he didn't believe all of the talk about anti-Semitism spreading in Europe.
00:22:39.000The suspect who beat him up was shouting Yahudi, which means Jew in Arabic.
00:22:44.000The suspect in the assault is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee of Palestinian origin.
00:22:48.000So Joseph Schuster explained that people should stop, quote, showing themselves openly with a kippah in a big city setting in Germany and wear a baseball cap or something else to cover their head instead.
00:22:57.000So listen, as an Orthodox Jew, there are certain times when I'm traveling where I will wear a baseball cap specifically because I know that I'm going into a more anti-Semitic area.
00:23:04.000When I was in France with my wife a few years ago, I would not wear my kippah openly in France because of all the anti-Semitism in France.
00:23:11.000There have been cases of people wearing yarmulkes who were beaten in the streets in Paris.
00:23:57.000According to the Associated Press, Schuster suggested three years ago Jews should not wear skull caps in areas with large Muslim populations.
00:24:05.000This is one of the things you're not allowed to talk about.
00:24:06.000So if you're a member of the bureaucracy in Europe, you're supposed to pretend that the large increase in Muslim immigration into Europe has had no cultural impact.
00:24:27.000And this is not suggesting that all Muslim immigrants into Europe are bad people or anti-Semites.
00:24:32.000It is suggesting that the percentage of people who are immigrating to Europe from Muslim lands who are anti-Semites is higher than in the natural born population.
00:24:38.000And I am not saying this on the basis of no evidence.
00:24:42.000Johannes Duenstad of the University of Oslo writes, quote, in a June 2017 study, quote,
00:24:50.000Available data on perpetrators suggests that individuals of Muslim backgrounds stand out among perpetrators of anti-Semitic violence in Western Europe.
00:24:57.000Attitude surveys corroborate this picture insofar as anti-Semitic attitudes are far more widespread among Muslims than among the general population in Western Europe.
00:25:05.000Hey, Paulina Neuding wrote in the New York Times last year, quote,
00:25:30.000Or as spokesman for the Göteborg Synagogue put it, According to this writer in the New York Times, fully 51% of all anti-Semitic attacks in Sweden were perpetrated by Muslims, as opposed to 5% perpetrated by right-wing extremists and 25% perpetrated by left-wing extremists.
00:26:01.000I'm not a fan of a lot of these far-right nationalist groups.
00:26:03.000But let's not pretend that those far-right nationalist groups are presenting the same level of risk and threat to Jewish citizens of Europe as new Muslim immigrants are if you're talking about just the group data.
00:26:13.000Again, this does not mean every individual Muslim immigrating to Europe is an anti-Semite who is a danger.
00:26:17.000It does mean that the increased Muslim immigration unvetted from areas like Syria is going to have a marked impact on how Jews are treated, on how gay people are treated, on how non-Muslim citizens are treated in Europe, which is why you're seeing such a blowback in terms of Europeans reacting to Angela Merkel importing so many folks from these areas into Europe.
00:26:37.000These are serious cultural questions that have to be tackled.
00:26:39.000And when you have an entire society that has decided that assimilation is a mistake, this is what you get.
00:26:46.000All these folks who keep claiming diversity and tolerance.
00:26:49.000Diversity and tolerance are fine so far as they go, but it can't be tolerance for bad behavior.
00:26:52.000It can't be tolerance for violent behavior or for anti-Semitism, for example.
00:26:58.000But the bureaucrats in Europe have made hay over this multicultural issue for years.
00:27:02.000Now, it's hilarious that every so often, even the same officials who push the multicultural ethos are forced to admit that it's not working.
00:27:09.000Angela Merkel a few years back said multiculturalism was not working, and that was about the time she decided to import hundreds of thousands of more people from an area of the world that had a very poor history of assimilation.
00:27:19.000This is David Cameron, the former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
00:27:22.000He did a whole speech a few years back about how multiculturalism had failed in Britain.
00:27:26.000But all these authorities, all these bureaucrats believe they know better than you, they believe they know better than their own citizenry, and they believe that they can change society simply by wishing that it would be so.
00:27:37.000And ignoring this problem is not going to make it go away.
00:27:40.000Well, one of the kickbacks from the multicultural left on this is that if you talk about the problem, that you are somehow exacerbating violence.
00:27:46.000So, I hesitate even to mention it because it's so stupid, but there's a shooter named Alexander Bissonnette, who is up in Canada, he's in Toronto, and this was in 2017.
00:27:58.000And I announced that his name was Alexander Bissonnette, who had shot up a mosque.
00:28:02.000The reason I mention his name is because he's been convicted and because it's relevant to the particular story.
00:28:06.000I generally don't mention the names of mass shooters on the program, regardless of who they are.
00:28:11.000In this particular case, it matters a little bit because the left is trying to claim that I am responsible for the shooting.
00:28:16.000So the left is claiming I'm responsible for the shooting, particularly one reporter for a far-left publication in Toronto, because this human piece of garbage who shot up a mosque had viewed some of my videos apparently.
00:28:40.000I don't know if they had to do with feminism.
00:28:41.000I don't know if they had to do with economics.
00:28:43.000I'm not aware that they had to do with Muslims in particular.
00:28:45.000But in any case, the idea here is that because I say
00:28:49.000That a higher percentage of the Muslim population is radicalized than, for example, a percentage of the Christian population, or the European percentage at large, that this is somehow promoting violence against Muslims.
00:29:23.000I've said in this particular rant about the impact of Muslim immigration into Europe that I'm not talking about individual Muslims and whether they're anti-Semitic or not.
00:29:31.000I'm talking about the data that is being demonstrated in Europe and what that means for government policy.
00:29:36.000But what the left has decided to do is if you mention these facts because they don't like these facts being mentioned because it cuts against their worldview, which is that there are no such thing as Western values and that everyone from anywhere should be imported into any country with no impact on how the prevailing culture operates.
00:29:49.000They believe that if you mention these facts, you should be cast out of polite society, or you should be blamed for violence.
00:29:53.000Now, I have been incredibly consistent on this particular point.
00:29:57.000If you say something, if you make a political argument, and you are not calling for violence, if somebody does violence in your name, you are not responsible for that violence.
00:30:04.000I said this about Bernie Sanders and the congressional baseball shooting.
00:30:29.000But the left fails to make that connect deliberately.
00:30:32.000Because what the left wants to do is shut down speech.
00:30:34.000Their whole goal here is to shut down speech, is to prevent rights, because they believe that the citizens' exercise of the citizens' rights is more of a danger than the bureaucrats' shutdown of the citizens' rights.
00:30:46.000So they'd prefer to shut down free speech and blame free speech for the sins of evil human beings, rather than make arguments against the arguments that I'm making.
00:30:55.000Or make arguments against the arguments that Kyle Kashuv is making with regard to guns.
00:30:59.000Or make arguments with regard to the arguments that are being made about the value of life in Britain.
00:31:08.000Better to pretend none of this is happening.
00:31:10.000Okay, so I want to talk about the expansion of the bureaucracy in the United States with regards to economics in just a second.
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00:31:55.000So speaking of the growing bureaucracy in the United States, this is an amazing story.
00:31:58.000Bernard Sanders, Bernie Sanders, the socialist Vermont loon bag, he has now announced his new plan.
00:32:05.000His new plan is to give every American a job.
00:32:08.000Apparently after reading some Marx, smoking some dope, eating a pudding cup while watching the movie Dave, he decided that we would now give every American a job.
00:32:18.000Senator Bernie Sanders will announce a plan for the federal government to guarantee a job paying $15 an hour in health care benefits to every American worker who wants or needs one, embracing the kind of large-scale government works project that Democrats have shied away from in recent decades.
00:32:34.000You know, this isn't going to change anything.
00:32:36.000Adding a massive layer of government bureaucracy to just hand people jobs to make work projects, you know, dig a hole, fill the hole back in, like FDR, it won't do any damage.
00:32:44.000Sure, exactly that kind of policy led to a lengthening of the Great Depression by seven years, according to economists from UCLA.
00:32:50.000But if we do it now, it won't make any difference.
00:32:53.000We'll just tell people, we'll go out on the street, and if you want a job, come in here, we'll pay you 15 bucks an hour for doing something completely useless, and it'll just be awesome.
00:33:26.000It's gonna be funded by taxing the crap out of people who actually earn in the private sector, so we can pay for an ever-growing, ever-present public sector.
00:33:33.000If full employment were this easy, the Soviet Union would have been a paradise.
00:33:38.000They show for the plan, even though Bernie Sanders says he has no way to pay for it and he has no idea how much money it's gonna cost, but it's a great plan.
00:33:44.000Let me tell you, the best plans, all of the best plans are for fairness.
00:33:48.000Fairness guaranteed by an amount of money I will not tell you about, paid for by people who might be you, but I will pretend not for purposes of this conversation so we can pretend that I am full of charity and largesse.
00:34:01.000So here's how the Washington Post pushes this stupid plan.
00:34:03.000So the logic here, apparently, is that the government will offer you a job that you get paid more than you would in the private sector, so the private sector has to pay you more to compete.
00:34:38.000In the three years following the implementation of FDR's policies, wages in 11 key industries averaged 25% higher than they otherwise would have done, the economists calculate.
00:34:46.000Wouldn't that be great, according to Bernie Sanders?
00:34:48.000But unemployment was also 25% higher than it should have been, given gains in productivity.
00:34:53.000Meanwhile, prices across 19 industries averaged 23% above what they should have been, given the state of the economy.
00:34:59.000Because when you drive up the cost of labor, you also drive up the cost of the product.
00:35:03.000With goods and services that much harder for consumers to afford,
00:35:06.000So, apparently Bernie Sanders' idea is, let's copy that.
00:35:16.000Also, the Washington Post says that Bernie Sanders' plan will reduce racial inequality because black workers face unemployment at about twice the rates of white workers, as well as gender inequality because many iterations of the plan call for the expansion of federal child care work.
00:35:29.000So again, this is the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:35:31.000If you think that black workers can't compete with white workers because of their color, or women can't compete with men because of their femalehood, this is stupid.
00:35:38.000It's stupid, it's the soft bigotry of low expectations, and it's a welfare program for particular segments of the population that are politically powerful.
00:35:46.000But again, this is all about growing the government at the expense of the private citizen, because remember, the private citizen is going to have to pay for all of this.
00:35:52.000Bernie Sanders doesn't want to mention that part, because it's awkward.
00:35:55.000If they actually mention that you have to pay for all of this, then people might push back on the idea that everything in the world is free.
00:36:00.000Now, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand have both embraced Bernie Sanders' plan, because Bernie Sanders now runs the Democratic Party.
00:36:06.000Whatever you think of the chaos inside the Republican Party at any given point, at least they're not proposing full employment plans from the movie Dave.
00:36:13.000At least they're not thinking of Bernie Sanders as a thought leader.
00:36:16.000My God, that dude... I wonder if he has two brain cells to rub together.
00:36:22.000The French are visiting the United States and things are weird.
00:36:25.000So apparently President Trump and the Prime Minister of France, the President of France rather, Emmanuel Macron, they planted a tree together.
00:36:35.000A really kind of pathetic tree that they planted together over at the White House.
00:37:12.000And the pictures are pretty hilarious.
00:37:14.000But one of the reasons the French are over here is because they want to make the case that Donald Trump should maintain the
00:37:20.000Horrible, awful, no good, very bad Iran deal.
00:37:22.000So the Iran deal, of course, was signed by President Obama and the Europeans, and it essentially gave a crapload of money to the Iranians in exchange for a promise that they would not go nuclear for 10 years.
00:37:32.000They presumably have been using all of that money for terrorism throughout the Middle East, in Syria, in Lebanon.
00:37:37.000They've been handing some of that money to Hamas.
00:37:40.000And they have been expanding their reach all across the Middle East with the money handed to them by the Europeans and by President Obama.
00:37:46.000Meanwhile, they've been developing all of the predicates for nuclear technology.
00:37:49.000And after 10 years, they can go nuclear anytime they want.
00:37:52.000John Oliver, for some reason, was making the case on HBO that the Iran deal should remain in place.
00:37:57.000I'm not sure why John Oliver is seen as some sort of political know-it-all, considering the amount he knows about politics could fit inside a shoebox.
00:38:04.000But here he is trying to explain why the Iran deal should stay.
00:38:06.000He makes as good a case as anyone in the Democratic Party.
00:38:08.000Unless Congress or our European allies figure out something they can sell to Trump as a fix, it seems that Trump is going to reimpose sanctions on May 12th.
00:38:17.000And if he does that, this deal could collapse.
00:38:19.000And the damage of that would be long-term and potentially irreversible.
00:38:25.000You would alienate a whole generation of younger Iranians who support this deal.
00:38:28.000Just think about what this would do to America's credibility.
00:38:31.000Why would North Korea consider signing a nuclear agreement with us if we just broke the agreement we signed only three years ago with Iran?
00:38:39.000And if this deal dies and Iran resumes its nuclear weapons program, it could then start a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.
00:38:46.000And the problem here is, I can't offer you much hope.
00:38:50.000There is not really a write-your-congressman solution to this.
00:38:57.000First of all, the younger generation of Iranians are not in favor of the Iran deal because they don't like the mullahs.
00:39:01.000They want anything that gets rid of the mullahs.
00:39:02.000They may be in favor of a little bit more economic growth in Iran, but they're certainly not in thrall to the mullahs the same way that the American left seem to be, or the British left seem to be, or the European left seem to be.
00:39:12.000Also the argument that it shreds our credibility when we sign a nuclear deal with Iran if we get rid of the nuclear deal.
00:39:17.000No, it actually reimposes our credibility given the fact that we know that they're going to develop nuclear weapons and we're putting the threat of sanctions and military force back on the table.
00:39:26.000That would be us saying to the North Koreans, listen guys, we're not going to sign a fake deal with you.
00:39:30.000We're not going to do with you what we did with Iran.
00:39:32.000We're not going to pay you off so you can go and cheat again.
00:39:36.000But again, the left is so in favor of anything that President Obama did, and so against anything Trump does, that they're willing to ignore the fact that this Iran deal was garbage at the start.
00:39:44.000The same left that's complaining about human rights atrocities in Syria, funded with Iranian dollars, is now complaining that we shouldn't pull out of a deal that's giving those dollars to Iran to go to Assad to be used for genocide against people in Syria.
00:40:17.000The left's hysteria with regard to everything Trump's done is so overwhelming that it's leading them into this box canyon of politics where they're suddenly on the same side as the mullahs, which is just an amazing thing.
00:40:28.000But it just goes to show you that there are too many folks on the left who are more willing to make common cause with some of the worst people on earth rather than acknowledging that fighting the worst people on earth might force them to make common cause with people like President Trump from time to time.
00:40:39.000Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
00:42:39.000So the movie's really effective, and I think that it does, again, a really good job of trying to draw out all sides of the conflict here.
00:42:47.000And it does generate a fair bit of sympathy for everyone involved.
00:42:52.000And it does demonstrate that there is bad blood on every side and bad people on every side in this particular conflict, which is really good.
00:42:58.000Well worth remembering, and that people do bad things, but sometimes strive to overcome the bad things that they've done.
00:43:04.000I thought the movie was really, really good.
00:43:05.000I'm surprised that it didn't get more play in the press, but I guess that anytime you make a movie that isn't Dances with Wolves about Native Americans, where it turns out that the white guys are universally bad and the Native Americans are universally good, then I guess that you get a lot of flack for that.
00:43:20.000It's really an interesting watch, I think.
00:43:22.000Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate.
00:43:28.000So the radicalism of the Democrats is on full display.
00:43:31.000Kamala Harris, my senator from California, she is now making statements like assault weapons need to be banned across the country, but she says this in probably the least articulate way that I've heard in quite a while.
00:43:43.000To address the fact, again, another false choice.
00:43:57.000Second of all, you generally can't carry a rifle around in public.
00:44:01.000And third, when she says that she's in favor of the Second Amendment, but quote unquote assault weapons should be banned, everybody acknowledges that when people talk about banning assault weapons, they really mean removing virtually all operative rifles in the United States.
00:44:13.000It's really amazing that the left keeps... They're just being dishonest.
00:44:17.000They're just being dishonest at this point.
00:44:18.000What the left really wants is a full gun ban.
00:44:19.000They should just argue for a full gun ban because that's actually what they want.
00:44:22.000That's what they think would be effective.
00:44:24.000And so if that's what they think would be effective, let's have that conversation.
00:44:27.000But they're not willing to have that conversation.
00:44:28.000Instead, they want to have these little ancillary conversations around the edges that will have no impact on gun violence and will simply be the predicate for a further encroachment on American liberties.
00:45:01.000You know, we can take the ones that will make it harder for people to get them.
00:45:03.000You say, well, what about the ones already in circulation?
00:45:05.000And they say, well, we'll have to probably take some of the ones away from you people in the end anyway, because we have to get them out of circulation.
00:45:11.000Then you say, well, what about revolvers?
00:45:12.000Because those basically operate the same way.
00:45:15.000They just don't automatically load the next round in the chamber.
00:45:17.000They say, well, yeah, revolvers probably have to go, too.
00:45:19.000And by the end of the conversation, you've come around to the idea that there should be a full gun ban.
00:45:23.000Because they believe, in the end, they believe that guns are responsible for the violence.
00:45:27.000They don't believe that some types of guns are more responsible than other types of guns.
00:45:30.000Because there's no data to support that, anyway.
00:45:32.000So, just pointing out the stupidity here.
00:45:34.000But, you know, the radicalism of the Democrats is of course a feature, not a bug, for so many on the left.
00:46:39.000Al Sharpton and Kamala Harris on one wing of the party, and the radicalism of the party is only being united by their hatred for President Trump.
00:46:45.000It's one of the reasons why the Democrats lost election after election, all the way up to the point where Trump won the presidency.
00:46:51.000We'll find out whether uniting around hatred for Trump is strong enough to actually create solidarity within the party.