Today is the day my brand new book, The Right Side of History, is out! Plus, Beto embraces third trimester abortion, and Vladimir Putin cracks down on the news! Ben Shapiro on The Ben Shapiro Show with Ben Shapiro. Subscribe to the show on iTunes and leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. You can also join our FB group, and join the conversation by using the hashtag , and find us on Insta if you like the show and want to become a Friend of the . Thanks to LendingClub, you can consolidate your debt or pay off credit cards with one fixed monthly payment. Since 2007, Lending Club has helped millions of people regain control of their finances with affordable, no trips to a bank, no high-interest credit cards. Check your rate in minutes, and tell them about yourself and how much you want to borrow up to $40,000. That s Lendingclub. . Once more, check them out right now. Go check out the lendingClub.com/BenShapiro on the lending website. It s the number one peer-to-peer lending platform with over $35 billion in loans issued. Ben by WebBank, Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. Go check your rates up to 40 Grand! Check them out now! Ben Shapiro - Ben Shapiro: This is the show where I talk about the New Zealand Shooter, the man who wrote the manifesto of The New Zealand shooter, and why he s a deeply evil white supremacist. I think it s not only a racist white supremacist, but a racist, but also a racist and sexist, white supremacist ideologue who writes about the West is a white supremacist the one who stands for liberty and stands up for the private property and private property And I think that he s not a bad guy, and I think he s good at it. The right side of history is not the only one I m Ben Shapiro s new book The Right side of History. by Ben Shapiro is The Left Side Of History by the guy who wrote a book about that. and I hope you re going to read it by a guy who writes it. I think you re gonna like it in this episode of the show.
00:00:25.000Plus, I want to talk about Beto and I want to talk about Andrew Yang, who is now making headlines for some good reasons and some not so great reasons.
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00:01:41.000Okay, so today is the day my new book release, which I am very excited about.
00:01:45.000We've been talking about it for a while here on the program, but I wanted to tell you what I think in general the book is about.
00:01:51.000It's called The Right Side of History.
00:01:53.000Don't worry, we're gonna get to the news as well.
00:01:54.000But this is tied into the news because the reality is that there is a great question right now in the West, in Western civilization, and it's tearing us apart.
00:02:03.000And that is, what is Western civilization?
00:02:21.000All of the good things that are around you, democracy, Liberalism, free speech, prosperity, science, all of these things are the outgrowth of a civilization in which you live and whose values you have embedded in your system, whether you like it or not.
00:02:36.000But it's fascinating to see how people really don't know much about the roots of the civilization that has led them to these critiques of the civilization or to a defense of something that is not Western civilization.
00:03:02.000Well, he meant racial superiority of white people.
00:03:05.000In the document, which you should not read, I've not encouraged people to read it, the only reason that I even mention the document now is because I think it is important to rebut what is a widespread perception about what exactly this evil white supremacist thought and with whom he sympathized.
00:03:19.000He talks about the West a lot in this document.
00:03:21.000And people on the left say, ah, see, he's just defending Western civilization.
00:03:48.000He says that conservatism had surrendered to the myth of the individual and the sovereignty of private property.
00:03:53.000Unfortunately, that view of the West, that the West is basically a hierarchy of racial power, and that we have created all of these concepts in order to excuse that racial hierarchy, that is not restricted to the views of white supremacists.
00:04:08.000Unfortunately, there's an intersectional theory club, and these people believe, a lot of folks on the political left believe, that when we say Western civilization, We mean the same thing as this white supremacist.
00:04:17.000Western civilization is really just a way for white people to cram down their power on other folks.
00:04:22.000This is why you had folks like Jesse Jackson in the 1980s leading chants at UC Berkeley, The idea being that Western civilization was truly Just a hierarchy of power established by white supremacists.
00:04:36.000And on the other hand, you have white supremacists saying that the West is basically a hierarchy of power established by white supremacists.
00:04:52.000In the same way that the ideas of the Declaration of Independence were not properly realized and took hundreds of years to come to full fruition.
00:05:00.000The notion that all men are created equal, encompassing people of all different races, for example.
00:05:32.000Well, I think that what the West really is, what the West really is, is a combination of Judeo-Christian values and Greek reason and these two things are in tension.
00:05:55.000And these two things are constantly vying with each other for power.
00:05:58.000The problem is when you get rid of one of them, when you get rid of Judeo-Christian values, for example, you end up with secular tyranny.
00:06:04.000And when you get rid of secular reason, you end up with religious tyranny.
00:06:10.000The building of these values is a long 3,000 year story.
00:06:14.000And because we have lost the values that we share, because we have decided to see each other as either representatives of the hierarchy or people fighting against Western civilization, we're angrier at each other than ever.
00:06:26.000We've lost a sense of common meaning and common purpose.
00:06:28.000We've lost a sense of individual meaning and individual purpose.
00:06:32.000Polls show that we are angrier at each other than we have been in a very long time.
00:06:35.000The average trust in key institutions in the United States is down to 32%.
00:06:39.000That's not trust in the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.
00:06:54.00052% of Americans only say they trust most or all of their neighbors, which means that half of Americans don't trust most or all of their neighbors.
00:07:14.000The opioid epidemic is taking additional lives.
00:07:16.000We've had the first downturn in life expectancy in the United States in decades.
00:07:21.000And that is due to a crisis of meaning.
00:07:24.000So where does that crisis of meaning come from?
00:07:26.000So some people on sort of the populist right and the populist left suggest that the crisis of meaning is coming from economics.
00:07:32.000That we've had a bifurcated economy since the 1980s and since the 1970s and the rise of globalization has created a two-tier system in the United States.
00:07:41.000But the truth is that poverty spans politics.
00:07:44.000There are a bunch of people who live in the sticks in Ohio who are not voting the same way as people living in the inner cities in Los Angeles.
00:07:51.000This is not about the 1% versus the 99%.
00:07:53.000And just to be accurate about this, the fact is that since the 1970s, the upper middle class has been the fastest growing sector of the American population.
00:08:01.000And overall, we are all living better economically than we were in the 1970s because prices have gone down and we get more stuff for our dollar.
00:08:08.000And does that mean that everybody has the same kind of job that they had in 1950s when you were working on a construction, when you were working on some sort of assembly line for 30 years and then getting a gold watch at the end?
00:09:25.000Meaning it amplifies, but it's not the rationale for the amplification in the first place.
00:09:29.000Social media is a great way of spreading misinformation and division, but there has to be a desire to do that in the first place.
00:09:37.000We're not happy as a society, or at least our level of happiness has radically decreased in the freest, most civilized society in human history.
00:09:45.000So what exactly can restore happiness?
00:09:47.000First, we have to go back to the original definition of happiness.
00:09:49.000What is it that makes us happy in the first place?
00:09:52.000We've mixed up temporary joy for happiness.
00:09:55.000We've mixed up sensory experience for happiness.
00:09:58.000We've mixed up the idea of material prosperity for happiness.
00:10:03.000All of the ancients, whether you're talking about Judeo-Christian values or Greek philosophers, all of them believed that happiness had to do with a sense of moral purpose.
00:10:13.000In the Bible, the word for happiness is simcha, in the Hebrew Bible.
00:10:18.000And simcha essentially means right action in accordance with God's will, because God actually commands people to be b'simcha, to actually be happy.
00:10:25.000Well, how can I command you to be happy?
00:11:12.000And one second, I'll tell you what are the four things I think you need.
00:11:15.000A lot of this is in my book, The Right Side of History, out today.
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00:12:51.000Now, if you move too far in one direction, in the individual direction, then the social fabric crumbles, and you end up with a sort of dog-eat-dog individualism where we're not helping each other out, where we don't care about each other, and then usually people ask for some sort of overarching government in order to force people to care for each other.
00:13:10.000On the other hand, if you stretch too far in the communal direction and you forget about the individual, then the individual gets crushed because the idea is that the interests of the community outweigh the interests of the individual.
00:13:19.000This is sort of the French revolutionary idea that rights spring from government and therefore government can activate as a body moving in the communal interest to crush the individual.
00:13:30.000So we need both to recognize that human beings exist simultaneously as individuals and also as members of a society, as members of a polis, as members of a city.
00:13:39.000So, we have to have things that fulfill us, both as individuals and as members of a community.
00:13:44.000We need, first of all, individual moral purpose.
00:13:47.000We need to believe that we have meaning as individuals, that we, here, have an identity as individuals that is meaningful, and that our action in the world is meaningful.
00:13:57.000This comes from the basic biblical idea that we are all made in God's image, meaning that we all have a godly mission, and God cares about this, and that we are endowed with both rights and duties.
00:14:07.000Our individual moral purpose lies in using our reason to individually live up to what God expects of us, or what reason would have us do.
00:14:14.000Which, in the religious vision, is the same thing.
00:14:17.000We have to have meaning as individuals apart from society's demands.
00:14:20.000You're alone on a desert island, what do you do with your life?
00:14:23.000The religious answer is you live in accordance with God's will, and the Aristotelian answer is you live in accordance with reason, and this is what makes you a virtuous person who is capable of happiness.
00:14:33.000We also have to have individual capacity.
00:14:35.000In a second, I'm going to get to what individual capacity means.
00:14:37.000So, individual capacity means that we have the capacity for reason.
00:14:41.000That we have the ability to pursue our goals with some degree of success.
00:14:47.000That we have the ability to choose otherwise.
00:14:49.000And it means that we also have to be able to exercise something magical and mystical called our reasonable instinct to overcome our own natural inclinations.
00:14:58.000The founders were all self-help specialists, and they believed in our capacity to better ourselves.
00:15:02.000Religion is all about this idea that we have to better ourselves.
00:15:06.000Viktor Frankl, who's a Holocaust survivor, wrote in the book Man's Search for Meaning about living through the Holocaust, quote, every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom, which determined whether or not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity, to become molded into the form of the typical inmate.
00:15:28.000In other words, it was the capacity to choose that gave us the meaning.
00:15:32.000You have to believe that you're here for a reason and also that you have the ability to fulfill that reason.
00:15:44.000The single best predictor of lifelong happiness, according to longitudinal studies from places like Harvard, is the existence of close relationships.
00:15:55.000Now, there's been a lot of talk about diversity.
00:15:57.000Diversity is great, so long as we are all looking in the same direction.
00:16:00.000Diversity is not great, so long as we are all pulling each other apart.
00:16:04.000This is what Robert Putnam discovered.
00:16:06.000In writing his book Bowling Alone, Harvard Sociologist, he said that the only two things that go up along with the diversity of a census tract is TV watching and protest marches.
00:16:16.000So the idea that diversity is our strength, he said, is not true except when there's a shared semblance of purpose so inside a church for example where everybody shares a purpose to worship god and commune with god then diversity can be a great boon because people have different experiences but they're all aimed the right direction the same thing is true in the army where you see i mean you speak to people who have been in the military they have a shared sense of purpose and all of their individual differences are secondary to their communal sense of shared purpose We as a country have to have that, too.
00:16:46.000And finally, we have to have communal capacity.
00:16:48.000We have to have strong social institutions because that allows us to be free as individuals without empowering the government to run roughshod over us.
00:16:55.000Alexis de Tocqueville talks about this at length in Democracy in America.
00:16:58.000He says what makes America different is that America has these strong social institutions.
00:17:06.000Even the ones who were deistic or even atheistic believed that you required a strong social fabric rooted in Judeo-Christian values in order to build a communal capacity.
00:17:15.000The ability for all of us to come together and do the things we need to do while still protecting each other as individuals.
00:17:21.000So what built our civilization such that we could fulfill individual purpose, individual capacity, communal purpose and communal capacity?
00:17:29.000The balance between Judeo-Christian ethics and Greek reason.
00:17:33.000Jerusalem and Athens in the typical formation.
00:17:37.000Jerusalem, the idea of Judeo-Christian values, brought us the idea that a master plan stands behind everything.
00:17:44.000And that we are capable, as human beings, of trying to understand that master plan.
00:17:49.000The idea that God is moral and demands of us a morality.
00:17:53.000That we are not supposed to simply make up our own morality.
00:17:55.000That gives us a shared sense of meaning and purpose.
00:17:58.000That history progresses and that we have a share in building that history.
00:18:01.000The story of the Bible is God taking a nation from slavery to freedom.
00:18:05.000And God caring about the progression of history.
00:18:08.000The Bible provides us, the Judeo-Christian ethic provides us with the idea of free choice.
00:18:54.000But what Aquinas did, what Maimonides did, is they said, no, reason brings you to the same place that Judeo-Christian ethics do and provides you the impetus for action.
00:19:02.000Not only that, reason allows you to build science because you have to study the universe in order to understand what is true and what is good.
00:19:27.000This is what Thomas Jefferson writes in the Declaration of Independence when he's talking about natural law.
00:19:32.000When he says nature and nature's God, what he is talking about is the natural law.
00:19:36.000The idea that you can look at the universe around you and discover telos, purpose, in nature.
00:19:41.000Natural law theory is the foundation of the notion that you have rights that are independent of government and that government didn't create those rights out of nothing.
00:19:51.000The tension between Jerusalem and Athens, the interplay, that is what built the West.
00:19:56.000That is what built the greatest civilization in the history of mankind.
00:21:04.000That's what happens when you abandon religion.
00:21:06.000When you abandon reason, you end up with theocracy.
00:21:09.000You end up with what we've seen historically in Christian countries a thousand years ago.
00:21:14.000You end up with what we see in Pakistan right now or Afghanistan.
00:21:18.000Theocratic systems where human rights go by the wayside.
00:21:22.000We have to revisit these roots if we want to rebuild our civilization.
00:21:25.000That's what my new book is all about, The Right Side of History.
00:21:27.000It's on sale today, so go check it out right now.
00:21:30.000I'm speaking about all of this at the Reagan Library tonight, is why I believe it's sold out, but I'm going to be speaking a lot more about these themes, and these have real relevance to today's debate.
00:21:37.000If you're not going to defend Western civilization for what it is, Then we are in real trouble.
00:21:45.000Okay, in just a second, I'm going to get to the latest news from the 2020 race.
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00:23:06.000So Beto, yesterday, came out and he basically embraced late term abortion.
00:23:12.000A position that is only held by some 13% of the American public.
00:23:15.000Only 13% of Americans are in favor of keeping abortion legal past the 20th week.
00:23:20.000Beto is one of them because the Democratic Party has decided to whole-scale embrace abortion at every turn and turn it into an identity politics issue.
00:23:29.000That if you don't support abortion up till point of birth, somehow you're anti-woman.
00:23:34.000He's got this real weird habit, Beto does, of going into various institutions, public establishments, and then standing on the counters as though it's dead poet society.
00:23:43.000And maybe he thinks that it makes him seem romantic.
00:23:45.000Maybe there are people who find this sort of thing romantic.
00:23:48.000Are you for or against third trimester abortions?
00:23:53.000So the question is about abortion and reproductive rights.
00:23:56.000of Sat's authenticity of Beto O'Rourke.
00:23:59.000Here's Beto O'Rourke explaining why it's okay to kill babies late in the term.
00:24:03.000- Are you for or against third trimester abortions? - So the question is about abortion and reproductive rights.
00:24:10.000And my answer to you is that that should be a decision that the woman makes. - He knows his lines and he knows what he is supposed to say.
00:24:23.000And Democrats continue to maintain this radical position, even in opposition to their own base.
00:24:26.000Because when every issue boils down to an identity politics issue, when it's not about reasonable conversation about the nature of human life and what is happening inside the womb, when it turns into an attack on a political principle, I wish were true is an attack on me, it's very easy to get people to clap for you like seals.
00:25:09.000The former congressman from El Paso quickly listed a few issues when he was speaking to a group of women Sunday afternoon and was asked to share his vision for America.
00:25:16.000And then he detailed his vision for the campaign.
00:25:23.000Going everywhere, writing nobody off, taking no one for granted, could care less what party you belong to, to whom you pray or whether you pray at all, who you love, how many generations you've been here, whether you just got here yesterday.
00:25:35.000We're going to define ourselves by our aspirations, our ambitions, and the ability to bring this country together.
00:26:19.000Olga Sanchez, 70, who drove more than two hours on Saturday from the Des Moines suburb to Waterloo to see O'Rourke speak, said, he's just so positive.
00:27:26.000One of the things that you love about Elizabeth Warren is that she says that she is for America's institutions being durable enough to contain President Trump, and yet she wants to abolish the Electoral College.
00:27:36.000Here she was yesterday talking about abolishing the Electoral College.
00:27:40.000Presidential candidates don't come to places like Mississippi.
00:28:26.000And that, unfortunately, is the Democratic argument.
00:28:29.000On this score, the Electoral College has served America pretty well.
00:28:32.000And the fact is that if we were to have a straight popular vote, there is no question that people who live in the rural areas would certainly feel a greater divide from people who live in the cities, because the fact is that the cities would then dominate our electoral politics.
00:29:12.000Well, maybe you should have considered it before you entered a presidential race, lady.
00:29:15.000You are a co-sponsor of Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill, and I understand there are a lot of different paths to universal coverage, but his bill that you've co-sponsored would essentially eliminate private insurance.
00:30:01.000She's trying to steal Bernie Sanders' base.
00:30:03.000I don't think that it is going to go where she wants it to go.
00:30:06.000There is one area where she believes that she can make some hay, and that is on the intersectional theory area.
00:30:11.000She believes that she can move into Kamala Harris' base if she panders hard enough, and so she's been pushing slavery reparations.
00:30:17.000The impact of discrimination handed down from one to the next means that today in America, because of housing discrimination, because of employment discrimination, we live in a world where the average white family has $100, the average black family has about $5.
00:30:39.000So, I believe it's time to start the national, full-blown conversation about reparations in this country.
00:31:04.000Well, I didn't enslave anybody, and nobody I know enslaved anybody, and none of my ancestors enslaved anybody, and I have not benefited from slavery, so I'm having a hard time with the I'm supposed to Pay out of my own pocket to somebody who may not even be the descendants of slaves if this is simply race-based as opposed to history-based.
00:31:21.000And, again, slavery ended in the United States in 1865.
00:31:23.000If there's a case for reparations, the best case for reparations is that people were systemically harmed by Jim Crow and that the people who specifically damaged them should pay them reparations, but The case for slavery reparations is obvious political pandering by Elizabeth Warren and all the other Democrats who are pushing this sort of stuff.
00:31:38.000Again, focusing on what divides us as opposed to what unites us because nobody actually wants to talk about what unites us because unfortunately for a lot of people on the left and on the populist right, what divides us is more important than what unites us.
00:31:50.000Okay, so we're going to talk a little bit more about the Democratic presidential candidates, all of whom are proposing vast institutional changes to the nature of American government.
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00:32:29.000Today, also at long last, as I have mentioned, my latest book, The Right Side of History, is officially released.
00:32:34.000The book details the crisis of purpose that is happening right now in Western civilization.
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00:33:09.000So it's not just Elizabeth Warren trying to push harder to the left in order to shore up the intersectional base as well as the Bernie Sanders base or cut into it.
00:33:24.000It's also Cory Booker, who's the odd man out in this presidential cycle.
00:33:40.000And you can see all the gears moving, just like in a Transformers flick.
00:33:43.000But here was Cory Booker yesterday, claiming that he wants term limits for Supreme Court justices.
00:33:47.000Weird, he didn't want that five minutes ago, but now that President Trump has appointed two Supreme Court justices, now he wants term limits so that he can term out people like Clarence Thomas, obviously.
00:33:56.000I think we need to fix the Supreme Court.
00:33:57.000I think they stole the Supreme Court seat.
00:35:11.000According to the New York Post, Mayor Bill de Blasio's ongoing tease of a presidential run didn't exactly pull in the crowds during a campaign-esque event in the Granite State.
00:35:19.000Only 20 people showed up Sunday to hear the leader of America's largest city hold a roundtable on mental health, including the 14 people on the panel.
00:35:28.000So six people showed up, a full half dozen.
00:35:32.000I mean, maybe they knew that meeting with the Groundhog Killer was actually a dangerous proposition.
00:35:37.000There were also six reporters on hand.
00:35:41.000There is a reporter for every member of the crowd, for Bill de Blasio.
00:35:44.000De Blasio pulled a well-worn page from his mayoral campaign, and he put First Lady Chirlane McRae center stage on what was his second day touring the crucial primary battleground state.
00:35:54.000The day began with de Blasio and McRae touting her under-scrutiny $1 billion mental health initiative, Thrive at New York City.
00:36:01.000De Blasio said she's my partner in everything I do, and that is a phrase we say every opening and have said for years.
00:36:05.000They feel her humanity and they feel her compassion.
00:36:09.000I've never truly understood why it is that first ladies are considered political figures.
00:36:16.000If you want to elect Shirlene McRae, then you know what you can do is elect Shirlene McRae.
00:36:20.000But why you should get a package deal with the wife's political priorities when you elect the husband or the other way around is really bizarre to me.
00:37:11.000Just positions on every possible issue.
00:37:13.000We do have a theme song for Andrew Yang, actually.
00:37:17.000So the only reason That we are using this song is because he does have an unfortunate habit of sounding off on weird issues.
00:37:28.000Today's weird issue from Andrew Yang, he is taking a strong public stance against circumcision.
00:37:35.000Because this is what we need our presidential candidates sounding off about, is circumcision.
00:37:39.000Now, listen, as an Orthodox Jew, I have a vested interest in the continuation of the availability of circumcision.
00:37:45.000I will say that I find it very odd that Democrats, many Democrats, okay with chopping a baby's head off in the womb, not okay with chopping a little bit off the tip of the penis.
00:37:56.000Not okay with getting rid of the foreskin, which, by the way, does not inhibit sexual function in any way.
00:38:17.000He said in a little-noticed tweet last week that he was against the ritualized practice of cutting a newborn's foreskin.
00:38:22.000He said that in an interview with the Daily Beast, he would incorporate that view into public policy, mainly by pushing initiatives meant to inform parents they don't need to have their infant circumcised for health reasons.
00:38:33.000Well, that, of course, is controversial.
00:38:36.000It does lower rates of, for example, penile cancer, and I believe it also lowers rates of certain STD transmissions.
00:38:46.000Andrew Yang says he wants a top-down take on the medical availability of circumcision.
00:38:53.000I thought that, why can't that be a decision between the parents and their doctors?
00:38:56.000So it's a decision between a woman and her doctor when she wants to kill a baby in the womb.
00:38:59.000It is not a decision between a woman and her doctor when she decides whether to circumcise a baby, which has no significant after effects on children in any way.
00:39:21.000I've invited, I believe, every major Democratic presidential candidate.
00:39:24.000I invited Pete Buttigieg on the actual, on Twitter, on the Sunday special.
00:39:30.000He said he'd be interested, never got back to us.
00:39:32.000Honestly, if people ever watch the Sunday special, you will see that I treat everybody on all sides of the aisle with I think a fair bit of generosity.
00:39:41.000The same would be true of Andrew Yang.
00:39:42.000I'd love to have Andrew on the Sunday special.
00:40:17.000But if you are proposing it in addition to the current welfare system we have in the United States, then all you're doing is just adding more money on top of an already failing system.
00:41:34.000But the fact is that at least Yang has some ideas as opposed to some of these other Democrats who are trotting out a bunch of nonsense.
00:41:42.000As I've said before, of these Democrats, Buttigieg and Yang are the most interesting to me.
00:41:46.000They're also the people who have 1% of support, so maybe there's a correlation there.
00:41:50.000Meanwhile, there's a lot of hubbub today over President Trump going after Kellyanne Conway's husband.
00:41:56.000This has been a long, simmering debate and feud between George Conway, who's the lawyer husband to Kellyanne Conway, and President Trump finally fired back at George Conway because George Conway was tweeting out that President Trump is nutso, bazunkers, and so President Trump tweeted back, a total loser.
00:42:15.000He recently warned, George Conway did, in a series of tweets and retweets that Trump's erratic and voluminous social media activity was a sign that his mental condition was getting worse.
00:42:25.000Kellyanne had said that she doesn't share those concerns with her husband.
00:42:29.000I've said before, guys, that I think that you do have to share some political priorities, not only with your neighbors, but presumably with your spouse.
00:42:35.000It's gotta be kind of uncomfortable, right?
00:42:37.000To be Kellyanne Conway at this point and have your boss going after your husband openly on social media.
00:43:30.000There's a new movie on Netflix, and this movie is just chock full of stars.
00:43:35.000It's Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, who's a shockingly good actor, actually, and Pedro Pascoe, who you'll recall from Game of Thrones and also from Narcos, who's a terrific actor.
00:43:46.000The movie is about a bunch of soldiers who decide that they're going to essentially rob a drug cartel leader in South America.
00:45:16.000This is one of the reasons why I think that we had better get back into the mode of you don't get to take other people's money.
00:45:22.000The mode of every individual is made in the image of God and that means you do not have a right to other people's property.
00:45:27.000But it's always amusing to me when people who are on the left then cite these polls as evidence that people are in favor of a more socialized system.
00:45:35.000Yeah, they're in favor of it until they realize the cost of it.
00:45:37.000It's very easy to believe that all of the rich people have giant Scrooge McDuck money bins in the backyard, and that if you just take those money bins, they'll continue to work just as hard, and that they will continue to employ just as many people.
00:45:52.000If you want to know how Singapore, which is legitimately a rock, like there's no actual natural resources on Singapore, has become a powerful economy, it's because they don't actually believe in taxing the living hell out of everybody who is wealthy.
00:46:05.000The same thing was true in Hong Kong when it was run by the British.
00:46:09.000Basically, any safe haven for wealth ends up being a wealthy country.
00:46:14.000Nonetheless, they cite these polls as evidence that this is what the people want.
00:46:18.000Yeah, you know what the people then don't expect?
00:46:20.000That you're going to have to hike the middle class taxes.
00:46:22.000It turns out the rich people don't have enough money to pay everyone else their salary and also pay for everybody else's welfare programs.
00:46:31.000People said in this poll of 21 OECD countries, the industrialized countries, that they were not getting their fair share given what they paid into the system.
00:46:40.000People were, on average, particularly concerned about access to good quality, affordable, long-term care for the elderly, housing, and health services.
00:46:47.000Weird, because all of these countries are the ones that we are emulating.
00:46:49.000So, you're telling me all of the OECD countries that we emulate want even more welfare?
00:46:53.000They're not even satisfied with what they have now?
00:46:55.000And in places like Denmark, they're paying 60% taxes if you're middle class?
00:47:09.000Somebody's gonna have to pay for all this crap, and it's going to be you.
00:47:13.000Okay, meanwhile, other things that I hate.
00:47:14.000So, Representative Devin Nunes, a Republican of California, has now sued Twitter, two anonymous Twitter accounts, and political consultant Liz Mayer for more than $250 million.
00:47:24.000He's alleging that the defendants engaged in negligence, defamation per se, insulting words, and civil conspiracy.
00:47:30.000I'm not sure that insulting words is a cause of action.
00:47:34.000In the suit, Nunes accuses Twitter of having a political agenda by allowing two anonymous accounts, Devin Nunes' mom and Devin Nunes' cow, and Liz Mayer, to attack, defame, and demean him.
00:47:43.000The suit alleges that the two Twitter accounts engaged in a vicious defamation campaign against Nunes that lasted for over a year, and claims that Mayer relentlessly smeared and defamed him by filming stunts at his DC office, accusing him of multiple crimes and filing fraudulent ethics complaints against him.
00:47:58.000The lawsuit also claims that Twitter shadow banned Nunes, which restricted his free speech and amplified the abusive and hateful content.
00:48:06.000Now, I think that this lawsuit is probably improperly filed.
00:48:11.000I think it is difficult to win a defamation lawsuit as a public figure, generally, and you just have to take an enormous amount of crap.
00:48:16.000I mean, as a public figure, presumably more public than Devin Nunes, I take an enormous amount of abuse and garbage on social media.
00:48:23.000That just goes along with the territory.
00:48:25.000I've never once thought about suing my detractors on Twitter, for example.
00:48:29.000With that said, the loud outcry and amusement of people at Nunes, from people on the left, people saying, well, you know, why is he so offended by Twitter?
00:48:38.000These are the exact same people who say that Russian bots got Trump elected using Twitter.
00:48:43.000Which of course, either Twitter is just something we're all gonna have to live with, and you're just gonna have to deal with it, or Twitter is innately, insanely powerful, in which case, Devin Nunes should be able to sue people.