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Ep. 188 - Stop Trump So We Won't Be Mean To Fat People!

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	When Mitt Romney lost in 2012, there was very little discussion of blame.
	Everyone assumed Romney simply lost because he didn't do a good enough job of convincing voters to punch the ballot for him.
	He didn't debate Obama properly.
	He didn't stand up to Candy Crowley.
	He backed off the Benghazi issue or botched it completely.
	He gratuitously insulted 47% of Americans.
	Romney lost, Republicans generally believed, because Romney deserved to lose, even if he deserved to win morally.
	That's not so for Donald Trump.
	Never has a presidential candidate had so many ready-made excuses for his mess of a campaign.
	Since the primaries, Trump's defenders have justified every single gaffe by saying, well, he's just a businessman.
	His anti-conservative heresies have been excused with a wave of the hand and a comment of, well, conservatism has never accomplished anything anyway.
	His general ignorance with regard to basic issues has been shrugged away.
	He's learning.
	His general unpopularity has been attributed.
	Not to his own narcissistic nastiness, but to an unnamed group of conspirators out to get him.
	Sometimes it's the evil Cuck-Never-Trumpers, like me, hiding in their holes, waiting to strike him down at any moment.
	Sometimes it's the Machiavellian establishment seeking to crush this supposed change agent.
	Sometimes it's a suspiciously defective earpiece forcing him to go soft on David Duke and the KKK.
	Now, after his airplane vomit bag of a debate performance, a performance in which he spent the first 30 minutes bloodying Hillary Clinton, only to revert to insecure, incoherent offenses of birtherism, his business record, and his Iraq war opposition, Trump has a whole new set of excuses.
	First, Trump's defenders attack his microphone.
	Yep.
	His microphone.
	According to Trump, some nefarious conspiracy took place to sabotage his weapon of mass instruction, throwing him off his game, which seems both implausible and kind of irrelevant.
	More realistically, Trump's defenders point out correctly that debate moderator Lester Holt hit Trump far harder than he hit Clinton.
	Which is true.
	Holt interrupted Trump way more frequently, although in Holt's defense, Trump bulldozed both him and Clinton routinely.
	Holt asked Trump about birtherism and his Iraq war opposition and his IRS records and his mean comments about Clinton's look.
	He didn't ask Hillary about the Clinton Foundation or Benghazi.
	And he asked her zero follow-up questions about her private email server.
	Holt clearly did do Clinton's dirty work.
	Here's the question.
	So what?
	Trump has known the entire campaign the media would target him.
	He said so before every debate.
	He had the opportunity, every opportunity, to swivel and hit both Clinton and the media and he failed to do so.
	That's on him.
	This entire campaign, in the end, is on him.
	It's nobody's fault but Trump's.
	He spends the morning after the debate complaining about a Miss Universe contestant gaining too much weight.
	It's nobody's fault but Trump's.
	He ignored hitting Clinton over the Clinton Foundation so he could massage his own feelings over his prior business bankruptcies.
	Trump is the candidate gang.
	It's time for those who defend him to own it.
	If they don't, if they keep allowing Trump to get away with excusing all of his failures by blaming somebody else, they'll be paving the way to his defeat.
	Losers whine about the playing conditions and the referees all the time.
	Winners change their game plans.
	Those who whine for Trump won't be helping him win.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	All righty, tons to get to here on The Ben Shapiro Show today.
	In just a moment, we'll be joined by the guy who I think is the foremost public intellectual in the United States, Professor Thomas Sowell, who'll be joining us momentarily.
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	So, in just a moment, we'll be having Thomas Sowell on the program.
	Could not be more excited about that.
	It's obviously an honor to be joined by Professor Sowell.
	We're also going to be discussing, in short order, the idiotic attacks that the Trump campaign has been hit with over Alicia Machado, who is this Miss Universe contestant.
	There are a thousand holes in this story for the Democrats, and it's just hypocrisy of the highest order from Hillary Clinton.
	We will also be talking about more debate reactions from the left and the right, and what Trump can do differently next time.
	Plus, we have an epic Things I Hate coming up in Bible Talk, so it's a big show today.
	Lots to talk about.
	Guys, do we have Professor Sowell ready?
	Professor Sowell, thanks so much for joining the Ben Shapiro Show.
	Thank you for having me.
	Well, it's a tremendous honor.
	Obviously, I've read, I think, all of your books.
	If not, then nearly all of them.
	And the newest one is the newest edition of Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, which I think is a deeply, deeply important work.
	So, Professor Sowell, the basic principles of wealth, poverty, and politics, you talk about the fact that income inequality exists all over the world, and yet politicians make I don't think that standard of living equalities are nearly as large as income equalities.
	in ways that do no such thing.
	Do you think, number one, that income inequality, as generally expressed, is a big problem in society?
	In some societies it is.
	I don't think that standard of living equalities are nearly as large as income equalities because in these data, they leave out billions of dollars of government transfers, which are taken largely from the top of the income scale and given which are taken largely from the top of the income scale and given to people out.
	So the actual work living conditions are quite a lot less unequal than the data would suggest.
	And yet politicians like to make hay out of the income inequality issue by suggesting people at the top are somehow exploiting people at the bottom.
	And I want to ask you more about inequality in a second, but I want to start with sort of the presidential debate and what appears to be now the number one economic issue in these presidential debates.
	Which is the fact that no one has ever read your book, Basic Economics, so nobody understands how free trade works.
	So you have Donald Trump saying that NAFTA is the worst trade deal in the history of the world.
	And you have Hillary Clinton saying, yeah, it was great back in the 90s, but now I decided it's bad.
	Can you explain to people simply, because they're stupid, why it is that free trade is not bad and Donald Trump's idea of trade wars are really foolhardy?
	First on NAFTA, the hard data show that in fact unemployment in the United States declined substantially in the years following the NAFTA agreement.
	That was true in Canada as well.
	In regards to trade differences, one of the great disasters in the history of this country was the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930 based on the same ideas that Trump is talking about, namely that if we somehow stop imports, then our own domestic workers will then have more jobs and so on.
	People never seem to think beyond the immediate things that are in their mind.
	They act as if the rest of the world are just blocks of wood.
	Of course, the rest of the world reacted to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs by setting up their own tariffs.
	And so worldwide, international trade declined drastically throughout the 1930s.
	And so everyone was worse off than they were before.
	We had, instead of having the trade deficits that people complain about today, we had trade surpluses all during the Great Depression.
	That should give us some idea of what wonderful things to expect from trade surpluses.
	And I also wanted to ask you about, Donald Trump makes a big point about currency manipulations.
	He says the Chinese are inflating their currency or deflating their currency, and because they're moving their currency up and down, they're really destroying us on trade.
	This always seems to me such a weird argument.
	If inflating your currency were that successful, Venezuela and the Weimar Republic would have been absolute economic powerhouses.
	But I'm just, I'm wondering why people put so much focus on currency manipulation.
	Is there any, is there any truth to the idea that China manipulating its currency hurts us economically?
	Oh, I'm sure that somebody is hurt by it somewhere, but that's true in all international trade, whether it's with or without currency manipulation.
	There will always be people who lose jobs as a result of foreign competitors.
	At the same time, we gain jobs because of free trade.
	Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Americans working today for foreign companies such as Toyota or Nissan and others who have their plants in America.
	So it's by no means clear that we're worse off because some jobs go abroad if the ones that come in are either larger in number or else better paid.
	We're speaking with Professor Thomas Sowell, whose book is Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, among many of his other fantastic books, including Basic Economics, which is the primer that everybody should read if they're first getting interested in economics.
	Professor Sowell, obviously a lot of the swing states in this particular election cycle, places like Ohio, like Pennsylvania, these are places that used to have much more heavy manufacturing base, and a lot of those jobs have left.
	Donald Trump is trying to appeal to those people, so is Hillary Clinton.
	Have we reached the end of the point in politics?
	Do you think that there's going to be a resurgence at any point of the free trade mentality?
	Because the polls seem to be moving heavily against free trade because it's so easy to look at sort of the targeted losses of free trade as opposed to the widespread gains.
	That's prediction, which is very hazardous for economists.
	But I think in the long run, common sense does tend to assert itself, but a lot of dire things can happen before that comes along.
	It's wrong to talk about bringing back jobs that have left.
	Many jobs have left because of counterproductive political policies, particularly in places like Detroit.
	You notice that when foreign Automobile manufacturers come to the United States.
	They don't come to Detroit, where there's already a workforce that used to work in the big three auto plants.
	They go elsewhere because the policies in Detroit have driven all kinds of businesses, domestic as well as foreign, out of the country.
	I also wanted to ask you, Professor, about another issue just with regard to trade and protectionism.
	Both candidates keep citing trade deficits as though trade deficits mean anything.
	And you've written extensively about the fact that trade deficits can exist in good economies and bad economies.
	Should we care about trade deficits?
	No.
	That's the easiest question of all.
	As I mentioned earlier, we had a trade surplus for the entire decade of the 1930s, and that didn't do anything to get us out of the Great Depression.
	I wanted to ask you also, Professor Sowell, about some of the racial issues that have cropped up in this campaign, because you've written extensively about, in your book, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, you've written extensively about some of the problems that are really plaguing the black community, where they come from.
	And this has obviously cropped up recently because we've had riots in Ferguson and now riots in Charlotte, and Hillary Clinton attributes all of this to institutional racism and what she calls implicit bias.
	Is there any truth to that?
	And if not, what are the solutions that people should be pursuing in inner-city black communities? - Peace.
	First of all, the big question is whether what they're asserting is true.
	And the answer is it is not true.
	Because there was more poverty in 1950, let's say, and more racism than today.
	And yet you did not have riots in the 1950s such as we have today.
	The murder rate went down among black males in the 1940s and again in the 1950s.
	And it went up.
	It shot up in the 1960s when all these brilliant ideas on the left became ascendant.
	And so you had this huge increase in black male homicide rates that wiped out all the progress of the 40s and 50s.
	The factual record is what they don't want to talk about.
	They want to talk about their theories and dogmas.
	And because they want to talk about their theories and dogmas, it seems to be very successful in the black community.
	Do you think that that's a factor of two generations of government dependence, or is that more a factor of just the natural human tendency to look for an outside force that's—to blame for the failures inside your own community?
	Both.
	Moreover, it's not peculiar to the United States or to blacks.
	The very same phenomenon can be seen among lower-class whites in England, where there have been riots which are almost identical to the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore, right down to the rioters setting fire to police cars.
	And it's the very same thing.
	It's the notion that Other people who are better off got that way by taking advantage of you, and that you have no hope, and that the system is rigged.
	One of the phrases that constantly drives me crazy.
	I never hear people explain just how it was rigged.
	When they talk about economic matters, for example, they say the rich have rigged the system.
	Well, my research shows that in 2015, the 400 richest people in the world lost an aggregate of $19 billion.
	If this was rigging the system, it was a very incompetent job of doing it.
	Well, the book is Wealth, Poverty, and Politics.
	And Professor Sowell, you haven't—I'm still not sure where you're coming down in this election cycle.
	I'm not voting for either candidate, because neither one of them meets my standard for basic human beings to be even breathing air sometimes, but mostly just to be holding office.
	Obviously, I want them to live.
	But the idea here is that, you know, my view is that neither candidate meets a basic standard.
	Do you view this as a lesser of two evils election, as some people like Mark Levin have claimed?
	Do you see this more as, we're screwed either way we go, so there's no reason to participate on the presidential level?
	How do you come down on this?
	Well, my preference would be to leave the office vacant for four years and hope for better things in 2016.
	Unfortunately, that's not one of the options that we have.
	I think it's going to be dangerous, and not merely bad, if either of them becomes president.
	The question is where is the danger greatest, and more importantly, the most long-lasting.
	And I think that even though Donald Trump has no coherent vision that looks that promising, Hillary Clinton does have a coherent vision.
	And it's a world in which she can By determining who's on the next Supreme Court.
	For the next 50 years, law in America can be undermined.
	The first and second amendments we can write off if she's allowed to put a majority on that court.
	And so long after, whether it's Clinton or Trump, long after they leave office, the people they put on the Supreme Court will be a legacy for the next generation.
	Yeah, and that's a logic I definitely hear.
	My counter logic, just to not vote at all, has basically been, what I fear is that Donald Trump is doing a great job of perverting conservatism, and we're watching as many so-called conservative thought leaders have been shifting the very definition of conservatism to meet Trump.
	So suddenly a bunch of people who used to be pro-free trade, for example, are embracing the protectionism of Donald Trump.
	A bunch of people who wanted an entitlement reform are now pretending that it's okay that he wants to expand entitlements.
	And so the only hope for the country, which is a true small government movement, is being quashed in order to gain the temporary gain of having him prevent Hillary Clinton from the White House.
	I suspect that those positions will be as temporary as the Trump administration.
	And so I don't think that the ideas are going to go away.
	I mean, Jimmy Carter followed policies that appalled conservatives, but that didn't prevent Ronald Reagan from being elected after him.
	Absolutely.
	So the book is Wealth, Poverty, and Politics.
	Professor Thomas Sowell is the guest.
	Final question for you, Professor Sowell.
	You obviously work at Stanford University.
	Young people have a bizarre and outsized love for Bernie Sanders, who may or may not be the insane clown who we've been seeing cropping up in the woods in Florida, Ohio, and Virginia.
	But how do you deal with the rising support for socialism among kids who don't even know what socialism really is?
	Well, fortunately, I don't do any teaching, and so I don't deal with the academic world at all, which is the ideal situation as far as I'm concerned.
	That definitely helps.
	So the book, again, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics by Thomas Sowell, the foremost public intellectual, as I say, in the United States.
	Professor Sowell, it's a real honor to have you on the show.
	Thanks so much for joining us.
	Thank you for having me.
	So that's cool stuff, gang.
	Okay, well, Professor Sowell is, again, the book is Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, and I can't recommend it highly enough.
	Terrific, terrific book.
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	So, let's talk about, let's talk about the desperation that is setting in among Democrats.
	So, Donald Trump performs really poorly in the debate.
	As I said yesterday, the first 30 minutes, he destroys Hillary Clinton.
	The next 60 minutes, he basically falls apart.
	But, you can still see that the Democrats are not comfortable.
	Hillary's looking more comfortable out there, but they're now bringing out, they're finally beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel.
	So, first the desperation.
	President Obama is very upset that people are thinking about voting third party.
	Hillary can't break 45% in a lot of polls now because so many people are looking at Jill Stein and Gary Johnson.
	President Obama is out there raving about this.
	Here's the president.
	If there's one message I want to deliver to everybody, if you don't vote, that's a vote for Trump.
	If you don't vote, that's a vote for Trump.
	If you vote for a third party candidate who's got no chance to win, that's a vote for Trump.
	Alrighty, so he's making the same argument that people on the right side of the aisle argue about people like me.
	If you vote third party, then it's a vote in favor of Donald Trump because it's not a vote in favor of Hillary Clinton.
	They're trying to convince Gary Johnson voters, many of whom are Democrats, to come back into the fold and vote for Hillary Clinton.
	We'll get in a moment to more of the Democrats' desperation, plus what I think is the big issue of the day, Hillary rolling out the sexism argument.
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	All righty.
	So here we are.
	And President Obama has given his desperation play.
	Don't vote third party.
	Please, please, please don't do it.
	Howard Dean is out there saying that the former DNC chair, and Nutcase, you remember him, we're gonna go to Washington D.C.
	and take back the White House!
	You remember him.
	He now says that Donald Trump uses cocaine.
	He was saying this on national TV.
	So following a bunch of sniffles, Governor Dean, you wrote on Twitter, notice Trump sniffing all the time.
	Coke user?
	Why did you go there?
	You can't make a diagnosis over the television.
	I would never do that, but he has some interesting... That is actually a signature of people who use cocaine.
	I'm not suggesting that Trump does, but... Well, you are suggesting it, actually, in a tweet.
	No, I'm suggesting we think about it, because here's the interesting constellation.
	So, he sniffs during the...
	During the presentation, which is something that users do.
	He also has grandiosity, which is something that accompanies that problem.
	He has delusions.
	I'm not talking about being crazy, but for example, when he told everybody he was very smart not to pay taxes and then denied he said it after he said it in front of a hundred million people.
	It's not that he's delusory about it.
	It's that he thinks somehow he's not going to get caught.
	That is delusional.
	Okay, so this is how desperate the Democrats are.
	Donald Trump, believe it or not, is a teetotaler.
	He doesn't drink, which means that his drunk uncle routine is even more incredible that he's doing that sober.
	But nonetheless, he doesn't drink, he doesn't do drugs, but the Democrats are desperate.
	So they're doing this routine now.
	CNN's Don Lemon, he says that Trump isn't even aware that he's racially insensitive.
	It's not that he's a racist, he's just so racist he doesn't even know he's a racist.
	I think Donald Trump believes as much as he can that he's not racist.
	I think that he is not aware of his insensitivity towards race and towards people of color.
	Okay, so very convenient answers from all of the people who oppose Donald Trump.
	He's not even aware that he's a racist.
	Okay, so, that means that the Democrats are trying to trot out everything now because this is the time when they think they're going to put this away.
	Between the first debate and the second debate, they're going to trash Trump, he's going to go down in the polls, and they're finally going to destroy him.
	It's going to be over.
	Avatar of Destruction is going to be a woman named Alicia Machado.
	Now, you remember, we talked about this in the debate yesterday, that Donald Trump in the debate, Hillary Clinton, at a certain point, she said, there's a woman who used to be a Miss Universe contestant for you, and you called her Miss Piggy, and you called her Miss Housekeeping, because she was Latina, and you're a sexist, basically.
	And Trump got all flustered, and he didn't know what to say, and then he said, well, I could say very mean things about your family, but I'm not going to do that, because I'm a nice guy.
	It was ridiculous.
	Hillary Clinton is now tweeting out videos of this woman, Alicia Machado, and what she's tweeting out is, she's tweeting out this video basically saying anybody, any person who does not, any person who insults a woman on the basis of her weight cannot be President of the United States.
	This is the direct quote.
	A man who bullies and shames a woman for her weight should never become President.
	Okay, so I have a few issues with this particular formulation.
	A man who bullies and shames a woman for her weight should never become president.
	First of all, if you can name me any man who has never made a joke about a woman's weight, they don't exist.
	If you can name me a woman who's never made a joke about a woman's weight, Then show me that person, okay?
	The office of the presidency will be, as Dr. Sewell wanted, as Professor Sewell wanted, unoccupied.
	There'll be no one left in the United States who's never said anything bad about another woman's weight.
	Taylor, have you ever met a girl who's never said anything bad about any woman's weight at any point?
	Nope, Taylor has not.
	Dudes, ever met anybody who's never said anything bad about a woman's weight?
	No, they don't exist.
	These people don't exist.
	Now, it's not the same thing as saying something directly mean to a woman about her own weight, obviously, but that just means you're nasty.
	It doesn't mean that you can't be president.
	Hillary Clinton's a nasty piece of good.
	She bullied an alleged rape victim, Juanita Broderick.
	I mean, that seems to me a lot more troublesome than him calling Miss Universe contestant Miss Piggy.
	By the way, the way that the media treated this lady, for people who don't know, the original story is that this lady was the Miss Universe contestant.
	She gained a crap load of weight.
	And then Donald Trump did like an exercise video with her to try and get her to lose weight because she's contractually bound not to become fat.
	Right.
	If you're Miss Universe, sorry to break it to you, folks.
	If you're Miss Universe, it's a beauty contest.
	In beauty contests, if you win, the obligation is for you not to become fat, right?
	That's actually in the contract.
	And so, how did the media cover it?
	Okay, headline from People Magazine, 1997, about this woman, Alicia Machado, quote, weight of the world.
	That's the name of the story from People Magazine.
	May 1997.
	Female Orlando Sentinel writer calls Alicia Machado, quote, a blimped-out reigning queen.
	That'd be Charles Hoskin, and he writes for the Washington Examiners, did this research.
	CNN, quote, some people, when they have pressure, eat too much, like me, like Alicia.
	Quoting Donald Trump, 1997, CNN also said, as her universe expanded, so did her waistline.
	That's a quote from CNN, okay?
	So let's cut out this whole high and mighty, anybody who makes a joke about the fat girl, it's the end of the world, no one can, now does that mean you're not a jerk?
	No, of course, of course you're a jerk.
	Of course he's a jerk, okay?
	If this is your first rodeo and you're just learning Donald Trump is a nasty piece of goods, Welcome.
	He's a nasty piece of good.
	Does that mean he can't be president of the United States?
	No, of course not.
	This is so stupid.
	And there's something sexist about this, too.
	Hillary Clinton says any man who says anything bad about a woman's weight, who bullies and shames a woman about her weight, cannot be president.
	I was under the impression women were strong.
	I thought Hillary's whole pitch is, we tough things out.
	I toughed out pneumonia.
	Women are so strong.
	Women not only give birth, they can pull trains.
	Women are so—they're emotionally strong.
	They handle things men couldn't even dream of handling.
	Okay, if that's true, then how about Chris Christie, okay?
	Like, everybody in the United States has made jokes about Chris Christie.
	He was on the cover of Time Magazine, and the headline was, The Elephant in the Room.
	That was the headline at Time Magazine.
	I, myself, have made an enormous number of fat jokes about Chris Christie, and Donald Trump, and Newt Gingrich, and everybody else in the Republican Party who's overweight, right?
	I mean, I've called Donald Trump a fat old bloated sack, right?
	Does Donald Trump collapse over that?
	No, he doesn't.
	So is the idea that if you say that about a woman, the woman is weaker?
	Hillary Clinton's vision of what women are is so insulting to actual women, it's unbelievable.
	Her actual vision of what women are is they sit around all day long and listen to fight song, eating ice cream, and then if a guy makes a mean comment about their weight, they go and purge.
	That's Hillary's vision of what a single woman in America is.
	And so, any man who says anything bad about a single— Look, again, does that mean he's not a jerk?
	Of course he's a jerk!
	We all know he's a jerk.
	I've been saying it for a year that he's a jerk.
	Everyone knows he's a jackass.
	But the idea that Donald Trump's jackassery, like his general jackassery, is disqualifying?
	Read a book, for God's sake.
	John F. Kennedy was schtupping everything he could find in the White House.
	LBJ was a piece of vulgar crap.
	LBJ was a nasty, nasty man.
	Hillary Clinton was cursing out military members supposedly for wearing a uniform.
	She was throwing lamps at people.
	This idea that the office of the presidency is occupied only by the most dignified among us.
	I mean, come on!
	Her husband was getting particular pleasures in the Oval Office from the chunky intern.
	I mean, come on.
	This is just like, really?
	Really?
	Again, does that mean that there's an excuse for Trump to keep this up?
	No, Trump's a moron.
	So Trump happens to be a Bulgarian and also a moron.
	So Trump keeps saying over and over, "Well, she was a fat chick." Okay, Donald, just stop.
	Just for your own political sake, just stop.
	It doesn't help.
	But this is so dumb.
	This stuff is so dumb.
	And Hillary, like, if she thinks that a lot of voters are gonna swivel on a dime, you know what?
	He called the fat Miss Universe a fatty.
	The overweight Miss Universe, he called her Miss Piggy.
	I guess we're gonna shift, you know, I guess we can't vote for him anymore.
	For God's sake, he mocked a disabled reporter, called John McCain not a war hero, and went easy on the KKK, and attacked a Gold Star family, and here's where you're gonna draw the line, guy?
	This is the point where you say I've had enough of this guy?
	Back in the 1980s he said women should be treated like bleep.
	He said nothing in life matters so long as you have a young and beautiful piece of ass.
	Okay, these are direct quotes from Donald Trump.
	But here's where you're going to draw the line that he called this lady Miss Piggy.
	By the way, no verification that this ever happened.
	No verification, like she said it happened, but we have no verification.
	But it doesn't matter.
	They have to convince all the women that Donald Trump is a sexist.
	First of all, I do actually think Donald Trump is kind of a sexist.
	I also think that he's, he may not be a sexist, maybe he's just a jerk to everyone.
	I think the best evidence he's a sexist is the stuff about Ted Cruz's wife, she's ugly, the fact that he's constantly marrying models and then cheating on them with other models.
	Okay, I don't think this is a guy who tremendously respects women in any serious way, but if this is your best example, is Alicia Machado, there are a few holes in this theory.
	Let me name a couple of them.
	First, Alicia Machado, this innocent young woman, totally victimized, really, really victimized by Donald Trump.
	It turns out that she was a suspect in 1998 as an accomplice to a murder.
	Okay, and then she allegedly threatened the judge with killing him.
	Also, in 2008, it was reported she gave birth to a narco lord, a drug lord's baby, and a bunch of other drug lords attended the birth.
	She just became a citizen.
	So first of all, we should start asking some questions about our immigration system.
	I mean, seriously.
	Like, people who were murder suspects at one point and weren't prosecuted in Venezuela, which is not known for its fantastic justice system, and then get pregnant by drug lords in Mexico, which is, I think, where this was.
	I don't know why they're getting citizenship, that's another question, but if that's your great example of the woman who's victimized by sexism, you could have picked a better, there are a thousand better examples of Donald Trump being a sexist jackass.
	Okay, but it doesn't matter, this is the pitch.
	So Barbara Boxer, legitimately the stupidest woman in the history of the United States Senate.
	There are smart women in the United States Senate, Barbara Boxer just isn't one of them.
	She says that Donald Trump interrupting Hillary during the debate was a disrespect of women.
	Let me just point out.
	Donald Trump interrupted incessantly during the primaries every man he could find.
	Donald Trump is a jerk to everyone.
	But according to Barbara Boxer, he only interrupted Hillary because Hillary's a woman and he couldn't deal with the woman talking.
	By the time the debate was over, Trump had interrupted her 51 times, where she interrupted him just 17 times.
	Does that read to you as a disrespect?
	Absolutely.
	It's a disrespect of women.
	I can tell you.
	I remember very well the first time I took office in a local office.
	I couldn't get three words out, Tamron, before my male colleagues jumped down my throat.
	It's something that they do.
	I don't even think they realize it.
	But I think Donald Trump did realize it.
	I think Donald Trump did really.
	Okay, this is the same stupid woman who said about a military member, can you call me, can you call me Senator?
	He called her ma'am.
	And she said, can you call me Senator?
	I earned that.
	Like she's looking for sexism behind every tree.
	It's not sexist by the way for me to call her a stupid woman.
	She is a stupid woman.
	If she were a man, I would call her a stupid man.
	I call Donald Trump stupid all the time.
	But this is the way the left plays the game, is that if you say something about a woman that you would obviously say about a man, you must be a sexist.
	And that's why Hillary, the way Hillary tweeted it was, a man who insults a woman's weight can't be president.
	But apparently a woman who insults a woman's weight, she can be president.
	By the way, women are much tougher on women than men are.
	Women are, when it comes to looks, women are a thousand times tougher.
	Women don't even dress for men.
	Okay?
	Because the fact is that if a woman were dressing for a man, she wouldn't get dressed.
	Women dress for women.
	This is why a woman can change her haircut and her husband won't notice, but all of her friends will.
	Women care much more about women's looks than men do as a general rule.
	Men want women to be pretty, but the idea that men sit around thinking about, well, I mean, she really has the wrong haircut.
	Scarlett Johansson could get a buzz cut and wear blue lipstick and men would think she's sexy.
	This whole thing is ridiculous.
	Okay, so Alicia Machado was on Megyn Kelly last night and Megyn Kelly asks her some questions.
	They seem to be denying the specific charges Hillary leveled, which is the language of Miss Piggy and Miss Housekeeping.
	Was anybody there to witness when he said those things to you?
	Well, first, I want to say thank you to give to me this space and to share my story with Mr. Trump.
	Then, this happened 20 years ago.
	And, you know, I don't need to share this story if I don't believe that person is not the right person then.
	Being a president, or trying to be a president.
	This happened 20 years ago.
	In that moment, he was not the person that you can see now.
	Maybe he was more just a business guy.
	And I was a little girl too, with 18 years old.
	And you know, the only thing I want to do is to share my story.
	She just wants to share her story.
	Isn't that moving?
	She shows up just in time for the presidential election after being missing for 20 years in action while being suspected of being an accomplice in a murder and also getting pregnant by a drug lord, apparently.
	And she shows up just in time to vote for Hillary Clinton and rip into Trump for things that he said back in 1997.
	Honestly, I'm more bothered by Donald Trump attacking the other person on the screen, Megyn Kelly, over her period than I am about stuff that Donald Trump said in 1997 about a Miss Universe contestant again.
	I'm not making the case he's not a jackass, folks.
	I'm the number one Donald Trump is a jackass advocate in the United States, but that doesn't mean that this is the kind of thing Hillary is saying it is, that it's the end of the world.
	This is the thing that breaks you on him.
	If this breaks you on Donald Trump, my God.
	I mean, if this is where you're... Now it's over the top.
	Now he called her Miss Piggy.
	Now it's over the top.
	Man, imagine if he called her Fozzie the Bear.
	So Machado was also on CNN and then she was asked about all these allegations about complicity in murder by Anderson Cooper and she does not have some very good answers.
	An incident in 1998 in Venezuela where you were accused of driving a getaway car from a murder scene.
	You were never charged with this.
	The judge in the case also said you threatened to kill him after he indicted your boyfriend for the attempted murder.
	I just want to give you a chance To address these reports that the Trump surrogates are talking about.
	He can say whatever he wants to say.
	I don't care.
	You know, I have my past.
	Of course, everybody has.
	Everybody has a past.
	And I'm not a think girl.
	But that is not the point now.
	That moment in Venezuela was wrong.
	Was another speculation about my life because I'm a really famous person in my country because I'm an actress there and in Mexico too.
	And he can use whatever he wants to use.
	The point is that happened 20 years ago.
	Okay, so she's not a saint girl.
	Everybody has experiences in life like almost being an alleged accomplice in a murder and having sex with a drug lord.
	We all have that experience.
	I mean, I know I've had that experience at least several times.
	I mean, come on.
	But the media are going to push this as far forward as they can go.
	Now, that does not absolve Trump of being really crappy at this.
	Now, Trump continues to just be adult because he has no other speed.
	Again, when you nominate a joke for the presidency, you can't be surprised when people laugh.
	Donald Trump, now apparently his camp wants to bring up all of Bill's women.
	And Donald Trump says that he decided not to bring up Bill's women in the debate.
	You remember his reaction to all of this was to say, I could say very mean things about the Clintons, but I won't say mean things about the Clintons.
	You remember this.
	So now here's Donald Trump explaining why he didn't say the mean things about the Clintons.
	Is that what you mentioned?
	You know, I had something I could bring up, but I didn't want to bring it up?
	Yeah, having to do with her husband.
	Many people thought that... All of the women.
	Yeah, they sort of thought that was it.
	And I didn't feel comfortable doing it.
	I think I did the right thing.
	It's not worth a point.
	I didn't feel comfortable doing it with Chelsea in the room.
	I think Chelsea's a fine young lady.
	I didn't like doing it with Chelsea.
	OK, so he was just beyond his delicate sensibilities about Chelsea Clinton.
	And Kellyanne Conway says that just shows that he has he has the restraint of a saint.
	I mean, he's just it's presidential virtue that he didn't go off on Trump's women.
	It was an exercise in tremendous restraint.
	And restraint is a virtue.
	And in fact, Brian, it's a presidential virtue.
	I think Donald Trump's restraint there in not bringing up what millions of Americans must have had on their minds, which is really she's going to take you on on a comment here and there you've made about women.
	And yet her husband has admitted to having affairs and, of course, including one with an intern in the White House when he was President of the United States, paid out a settlement to Paula Jones.
	The last time I didn't sexually harass someone, I didn't give them $700,000 in a settlement.
	So instead of going there, he explained, hey, I'm prepared to do that.
	I knew this was coming, but I'm not going to do it because your husband and your daughter are here.
	And then he went on to say, and yet this doesn't stop you, Hillary Clinton, from running hundreds of millions of dollars of negative ads against me.
	Those are just the ads you see, by the way.
	We now have these mail pieces that are about Trump and women going to independent Republican-leading women in states like Florida.
	We just got those yesterday brought to our attention.
	So I think this will grow in importance over the next couple of days when people realize what he didn't say, what was conspicuous by its absence.
	It doesn't mean people won't think it, though.
	It doesn't mean that they already haven't made up their own minds.
	I mean, it's just a magical example.
	I mean, it was just, I thought it was just, it was a magical example of what a deeply vulnerable and decent human being Donald Trump is.
	First of all, he shouldn't be talking about like Jennifer Flowers anyway.
	If he's going to talk about this stuff, talk about the fact, talk about talk about what Hillary did.
	The targeting of Bill's alleged rape victim, Juanita Broderick, is a relevant story.
	Jennifer Flowers, not so much.
	It is also important to recognize that Hillary actually ran the so-called bimbo eruptions unit, the idea that she was going to help cover up any time Bill put his pecker in a place he shouldn't have put it.
	So this is sort of the routine that the Trump campaign is trotting out.
	But they're not good at this.
	It doesn't Donald Trump is going around not talking about Juanita Broderick, but still talking about how Alicia Machado was a fatty fat McFatFat.
	OK?
	That's just—it's bad politics.
	It's really, really stupid.
	OK.
	All of that said, all of that said, the debate reactions, it's now clear that—if you didn't know who won the debate, you should be able to tell from the debate reactions.
	Here's Hillary Clinton reacting to the debate, and this is the most lifelike she's looked the entire time.
	It's as though she swallowed an actual human, and that human is now coming out in her actual personage.
	What about his stamina?
	What about his stamina?
	Anybody who complains about the microphone is not having a good night.
	At what grade would you give Lester Holt?
	The media are just, that's the craziest.
	Whoa, that was harsh.
	She's harsh and is mellow there.
	Whoa.
	And she says, if you missed it, she says, anybody who's complaining about the microphone isn't having a good night, which is true.
	Whoever's complaining after the debate lost, right?
	And so here's Donald Trump complaining about the moderator.
	- At what grade would you give Lester Holt? - I'd give him a C, C plus.
	I thought he was okay.
	I thought he was fine.
	You can check the box.
	I mean, nothing outstanding.
	I thought he gave me very unfair questions at the end, the last three, four questions, but, you know, I'm not complaining about that.
	I thought he was okay.
	Okay.
	Well, you've got to go and take a shower.
	Thank you, Trump.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you, Mr. Trump.
	Thank you.
	Even Laura Ingram, who is not just on the Trump train, she's actually an official conductor of the Trump train, she said that Trump did not do a particularly good job in this debate.
	I think tonight Donald Trump probably learned a lot about debating.
	He never has done a one-on-one debate before.
	It's a different animal from being up against eight or ten other people.
	And I think in the beginning he was kind of like his old self.
	As it went on, I felt like he was responding to stupid questions too often.
	Taxes, that's already been litigated.
	He's not going to release his taxes.
	He's already said why.
	That's not the burning issue on the minds of the American public.
	Sean, I know you know the same thing when the issue of cyber security was mentioned.
	That was begging for Donald Trump to say, wait a second, is this a joke question?
	Like a woman who had like a private server in some bathroom somewhere that wasn't as secure as Gmail is going to lecture us on cybersecurity.
	So that having been said, those moments were left on the table, missed opportunities.
	What you saw tonight was, I think, an image of strength.
	And an adamant defense of the everyman versus yesterday.
	And then we get to the spin, right?
	Then we get to the routine where she talks about how actually he was wonderful.
	So despite the fact that he was terrible, he actually was wonderful because obviously he has to be.
	I mean, this is Hannity with special guest Laura Ingram.
	So that means that everything is really great.
	Now I do want to posit this one theory.
	It's possible, it's possible that Donald Trump doesn't end up in a bad position after this debate simply because he was aiming in the first 30 minutes with all of the economic fallacies that we talked about with Professor Sowell, he wasn't aiming at the broad American public, he was aiming at the swing states.
	He was aiming at Pennsylvania, Colorado, New Hampshire, Wisconsin.
	Those states are very, very heavy in white, non-college educated voters.
	36.4% of the electorate in 2012 in Pennsylvania, white, non-college educated.
	Colorado, that's 37%.
	New Hampshire, 45%.
	Wisconsin, 49%.
	Those are all states where Trump is competitive.
	He's even competitive now in Minnesota, where it's 44.6%.
	Again, all the states that have that sort of population, Trump was aiming at those.
	It's possible the first half hour outweighs his sort of collapse over the last two-thirds of the debate, so we've yet to see that.
	There are a couple polls out today showing that Hillary has a pretty significant boost.
	The morning consult poll has her jumping four points.
	There's another poll today that has her up 45-40.
	We'll see if that lasts.
	She hasn't been able to pull away so far.
	We'll see what happens.
	Okay, time for some things that I like and then some things that I hate.
	So, things I like, it's Thomas Sowell Day.
	So, one of my favorite Thomas Sowell books, as I mentioned, I've read virtually everything that he's written, is The Quest for Cosmic Justice.
	This is a brilliant, brilliant book.
	I've cited the title many times in speeches.
	The basic idea in The Quest for Cosmic Justice is that what drives the left is hatred for natural conditions.
	meaning that some people are born smart, some are stupid, some are born tall, some are born short, and the left can't deal with the fact that there is natural inequality that exists in everyday life, and so they have to use the government as a substitute for God to rectify all injustices that exist across the planet.
	The only problem is, it doesn't work.
	The book is The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell.
	Terrific, terrific book.
	Okay, other things that I like.
	So, I have to admit, I am not a big fan, as a general rule, of public displays of affection.
	I I reserve my public displays of affection for my wife for private.
	It's just my thing.
	I think that, you know, your relationship is your business.
	I don't know why it should have to be my business.
	Just my general thing.
	So one of the things that drives me nuts is these people, excuse me, who do proposals at sports games.
	This drives me crazy.
	I just want to watch the ballgame.
	I don't want you to propose to your girlfriend.
	I don't know why in the world you think it would be a nice thing to propose in front of 70,000 people.
	What if she hates you?
	What if she wants to break up with you that day?
	Roping me into your wedding proposal is not my favorite thing to do.
	I didn't even have a good wedding proposal story.
	My wedding proposal to my wife was me finally convincing her that she should marry her, her saying yes, and me saying great.
	That was the actual proposal story.
	Fantastic story.
	I didn't do this whole routine where you pre-plan some fancy thing where a helicopter descends with a dog in the helicopter and the dog has a ring hanging from its neck and the dog has to ride a pony into a sports stadium in front of 70,000 people where he finally proposed after handing her a dozen white roses and a turtle dove.
	Like, I think that stuff is just not my cup of tea.
	I understand some people love these sorts of romantic gestures.
	My romantic gesture was, I want to spend the rest of my life with you, build a family with you, and have children.
	Like, my proposal to me was the point when I actually proposed, and she decided to say yes anything after that.
	And so that led to, because I'm sort of serious about this sort of stuff, When we went and we got her engagement ring, we bought her engagement ring together.
	I wanted her to get something she liked.
	I didn't want to surprise her with something in bad taste.
	And it turns out that she doesn't like the ring that says on it, bling, for her engagement.
	So we went and we bought it together.
	When I finally got it from the jeweler and I brought it home for her, I just gave it to her.
	I said, your ring came.
	Here it is.
	And should you not even get down on one knee?
	And I said, well, but we already know we're getting married and everything.
	And she says, well, at least get down on one knee.
	Come on!
	And I said, fine, fine.
	I got down on one knee.
	All right, fine.
	So, in any case, that's all preface to this story, which I love.
	This guy wanted to propose to his girlfriend at Yankee Stadium, and things go wildly wrong.
	Fumbles right away.
	I mean, he's nervous.
	This is, like, one of the big moments of his life, and now he can't find the ring.
	The box is empty.
	Oh, that poor guy.
	Maybe somehow he can come up with this.
	Oh, look.
	Oh, look at this poor guy.
	Maybe he can come up with the save somehow.
	You get it?
	He needs Mariano to come in for the save.
	Yeah, he does.
	Wait a minute.
	They're smiling.
	Yes!
	He found it!
	Oh!
	Oh, that's great.
	He's on one knee.
	That is awesome.
	Oh, she better say yeah now.
	Oh, that poor guy.
	Congratulations.
	Okay, so that is richly deserved.
	You're holding up all of humanity.
	I know there are certain people, like Dennis Prager loves this kind of thing, because he thinks that it sets an example for the rest of society about how to get married.
	Since I think that marriage is between me and my wife, and I think that my community matters to me, the people who I invite will matter to me, but I don't think that I don't care what random strangers think of my marriage.
	At all.
	Like, at all.
	I find that whole thing rather hilarious.
	Okay, time for, let's do it, some things that I hate.
	So, Mary J. Blige is a human, and Mary J. Blige sang a song to Hillary.
	She's decided that it's important that Hillary knows her thoughts about cops murdering black people in apparently less than proportional numbers if you actually follow real statistics.
	But she sings a song to Hillary Clinton about racism in the police force.
	If an officer stops you, always be polite.
	And never ever run away.
	Promise mama you'll keep your hands inside.
	Is it a gun?
	Is it a knife?
	Is it a wallet?
	This is your life.
	It ain't no secret.
	Hillary's like, I am so white, I have no idea what's going on.
	And you can get killed just for living in your American skin.
	Hillary looks so confused.
	I love that so much.
	Hillary's sitting there so awkward.
	I mean, it looked like something from The Office.
	It really does.
	Like, there's Hillary just looking.
	I mean, look at her.
	She's like, why am I here?
	Why is this lady singing to me?
	Why can't she just use her English?
	Why doesn't she just use words?
	What's going on?
	I don't know.
	This is the most awkward thing since Bill tried to woo me wearing underwear and playing the saxophone.
	And first of all, the whole thing is ridiculous.
	We've reached the point in Feelings America where you can't even make a coherence argument.
	So your coherence argument is singing about guns and knives to the former Secretary of State and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
	I'll put this half on Hillary because she sat for this.
	If this wins her any votes, good for her.
	I mean, I guess it's worth the humiliation.
	But I don't know what's going through Mary J. Blige's mind.
	Sorry, Hillary, I have a thought.
	I think the cops are murdering all the black folks.
	And there's Hillary going, Okay, all right.
	This is politics in 2016, and we all want to hang ourselves.
	Okay, other things that I hate.
	So Sean Hannity was very, very upset with members of the media yesterday, and I have to preface this.
	I just have to say this.
	Sean is legitimately one of the nicer people I've ever met.
	Sean is a wonderful, wonderful guy on an interpersonal level, but what he says here is so mind-boggling that I can't avoid playing it.
	So, the debates about the old standard, let's memorize our lines, let's regurgitate them robotically, and let's get our zingers in there that somebody else wrote, well that's disconnected from the real suffering of real people caused by government.
	Now, my overpaid friends in the media, well, they have their chauffeur-driven limousines, they like their fine steakhouses and expensive wine lifestyles.
	None of them are feeling this.
	The people you're watching on TV.
	And therein lies the contempt.
	Okay, so all the media elites have contempt for you because their limos and their steaks and their fancy wine.
	I just want to point something out.
	Sean Hannity makes $29 million a year.
	Sean Hannity has a private jet.
	He flies on a private jet.
	Sean Hannity likes steak.
	I know that because we have a lot of mutual friends.
	Sean Hannity likes fine wine.
	He's very generous about giving it to people.
	The idea that, like, the kind of everyman shtick that people roll out, the everyman, you know, these media elites sitting in their ivory towers who care about things like, you know, politics and how fancy you are.
	Like, it's just—it's not that what he's saying is wrong.
	There's a disconnect between the media and the populace.
	I agree there's a disconnect between the media and the populace.
	I think there may be a disconnect between my view of politics and the normal person's view of politics, because I study this stuff and care about it on a deep level, but the whole kind of Man of the people, elite versus non-elite schtick, it just doesn't wash.
	It doesn't wash for me.
	And I think everybody last night watched this, and a lot of people were laughing a little bit because, come on, come on.
	First of all, I wasn't aware that it's a very bad thing to be paid well for doing your good job.
	But second of all, no one in the media is an overpaid elite on the level of Sean Hannity in the conservative media.
	I mean, there's, like, legitimately maybe one other guy in the media, in the conservative media, who's paid more than Sean, maybe two.
	It's like Bill O'Reilly and Rush, and that's it.
	I mean, Sean is probably the third best-paid conservative commentator in the United States.
	He makes more than professional baseball players make.
	So, you know, the whole I'm a man of the people versus the elites shtick, it doesn't go down well for me.
	Okay.
	A couple of other things I hate, then we'll get to a little bit of Bible talk.
	So, Fox News, on Tuesday morning—this just shows how ridiculous a lot of the coverage of this election has been—Fox News, their executive VP sent a note to all the Fox News hosts on Tuesday morning after the debate, and they said, do not cite online polls.
	Don't do it.
	They're not real.
	Don't cite the Drudge poll, where it shows that Donald Trump won Saddam Hussein like 83 percent numbers.
	Don't cite any of these spammed polls.
	And Hannity and Eric Bolling and a bunch of other hosts on Fox News, apparently, they cited the polls anyway, which just shows you that there's an alternative reality that's being built up that has nothing to do with actual reality.
	If you're citing online polls today as evidence that Trump won, you don't know anything about polling.
	This is—it's legitimately stupid.
	I mean, because what Trump was doing is he would tweet out the time poll, have all his people spam the time poll, and then, oh, my God, look at that.
	I won.
	That's amazing because people can vote more than once on these things, and the only people aware of the time poll are the people who are going there through the Trump link.
	So it's just—it's just silly talk.
	Okay, final thing that I—final thing that I hate.
	Modern Family is now going to feature in one of its new episodes an 8-year-old transgender boy, which means a girl who thinks he's a boy.
	Okay, he's going to be playing a character named Tom.
	She is going to be playing a character named Tom.
	She's 8 years old.
	80% of kids who suffer from gender dysphoria grow out of it, who think they're the opposite sex.
	Kid hasn't even hit puberty yet.
	They're putting this on national television to suggest that this girl is actually a boy, and any parent who doesn't believe that their little girl who thinks she's a little boy or little boy who thinks he's a little girl is intolerant and bigoted.
	And so Modern Family's trotting this out.
	Now, Modern Family's always been a leftist show.
	The entire premise of the show is all forms of family are equal.
	It's this whole Mrs. Doubtfire routine where It doesn't matter, children.
	If you have a dog and a chicken raising a child, that, too, is a family because it has love.
	You know, that whole routine?
	It was crappy when Mrs. Doubt fired at it back in 1994.
	My cousin was in that film.
	And it's crappy now.
	But this is worse, okay?
	Because what this is, is this is now mainstreaming what is an actual mental illness.
	It's actually taking kids who have a real problem and pretending that if we all pretend along with them that they chop off their genitals or have some sewn on, they're the opposite sex, and that you're a bigot if you don't believe likewise.
	It's really nefarious.
	Now, what Modern Family is apparently going to do is they're going to make the villains in this case the gay couple.
	They're going to say the gay couple didn't understand.
	That's their way of not offending all the straight people in the United States.
	We're not calling you bigots.
	We're even saying the gay people are bigots, thanks to the transgenders.
	Even the gays are bigots.
	Okay, first of all, I have no clue why gays are lumped in with transgenders.
	It makes no sense to me.
	Why exactly?
	Why is it LGBT?
	I mean, like, I understand people of varying sexual orientations banding together in favor of alternative sexuality, but I don't understand why a lesbian should be more in favor of a girl who thinks she's a guy than a straight woman.
	Like, what do these have to do with one another?
	Caitlyn Jenner is not a—is Caitlyn Jenner a lesbian or a straight man right now?
	Like, no one knows.
	So, like, what this has to do with sexual orientation is beyond—in fact, The transgender argument actually destroys both the feminist argument and sort of the gay argument because if we're all the same, if men and women are exactly the same in every way, then why is your sexual orientation so bigoted?
	Right?
	Why do you only like dudes if you're a dude?
	Why don't you like girls?
	I mean, after all, your dude could be a girl.
	You just never know.
	It's all foolishness, but this is what Hollywood does.
	They found their new civil rights routine, and so they're going to pretend that this—this is an act of child abuse.
	They're going to pretend that this little girl who thinks she's a little boy, something heroic is being done for kids who suffer with gender dysphoria by pretending along with them that their delusion is reality.
	Okay.
	And finally, it's time for—it's a Wednesday.
	That means it's time for some Bible talk.
	So this week's Torah portion—every week, the Jews read a separate portion of the Torah.
	This week's portion is from Deuteronomy.
	It's called Nitzavim.
	And the Nitzavim and from Deuteronomy, the two sukkim, the two verses I want to cite here, Our Deuteronomy 29, 13, 14.
	And it's really interesting because it actually has some political ramifications, as always.
	So here's what it says.
	Not only with you am I making this covenant and this oath, but with those standing here with us today before the Lord our God and also with those who are not here with us this day.
	So what does that mean?
	What does it mean that God is making a covenant with people who aren't here?
	How can you make a covenant with people who aren't there?
	If you make a contract, the other person has to sign the contract.
	How do you make a covenant with somebody who's not there?
	So the commentators say they're not referring to people who are currently alive, it's referring to the people who have yet to be born.
	The idea was that Sinai, the Midrash says, the Midrash is sort of the apocryphal story.
	Some of them are supposed to be true.
	Some of them are supposed to be metaphorical.
	But the idea was that when God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai, when he gave the Old Testament at Mount Sinai, that all Jews were there.
	All Jewish souls were present at that time.
	So the idea was that people who are before God, even people who haven't been born, are bound by this covenant.
	What's the morality of being bound by a covenant that you didn't sign into?
	What's the morality of that?
	Well, Thomas Jefferson, when it came to the Constitution, he said, we should have to re—we should have to sort of re-vote on the Constitution every 20 years.
	Every 20 years, we should have to re-vote on the Constitution, because, after all, there's a whole new generation of people who have been born who didn't sign on to the Constitution.
	So we should have to redo it every 20 years.
	The Founding Fathers disagreed with Thomas Jefferson, and they said, no, this document is good in perpetuity.
	There's room to change it through the amendment process, but this document is good for perpetuity.
	The reason for that is that eternal truths are always binding on people, whether they agree to it or not.
	The covenant that God is talking about is not you accepting the covenant.
	It's God binding himself to you.
	Because God's truth is God's truth.
	He doesn't care whether you accept it.
	I mean, he does care, but it doesn't make a difference whether you accept it.
	The truth is the truth.
	God's truth, as expressed in the Bible, it's true for Jews, whether Jews accept it or not, which is why in Judaism, the idea is, and I'll talk about this with Drew tomorrow, that Jews who convert away from Judaism, they actually are still technically Jewish, according to Jewish law.
	Now, they might not consider themselves that.
	That's their issue.
	If you're born into a truth, you're stuck with that truth no matter how much you try to escape that truth.
	If you're born under a constitutional system that expresses basic values about human nature that are true, you're born into that system and that doesn't change even if you wish to overthrow it.
	That's very different than the left version of reality, in which reality is constantly rewritten on a day-to-day level because the world begins with you.
	The world didn't begin with you.
	There's an eternal truth that preceded you.
	Your soul was born into eternal truth because God created your soul in that eternal truth and then put you on that earth in order to find out that truth and live it through.
	So the idea is that God isn't binding you to a covenant you didn't sign on to.
	He's binding himself to a covenant with you that he is going to treat you in accordance with that covenant.
	Because God can do whatever he wants.
	God could theoretically screw you on this deal, but he's not going to.
	That's what God is saying.
	I'm here, binding myself.
	Not only with you am I making this covenant and this oath, but with people standing today and also with the people who aren't here yet.
	I'm making a deal with your kids.
	They're not here, but I'm assuring you, if they do the things that I've said, if they fulfill these eternal truths, I will bind myself to them even though they weren't here to make the promise.
	Even though they weren't here to make the press, some people see this as obligations are being put on me that I never accepted.
	Look, it's a free world.
	You can do what you want.
	But those realities, those obligations still exist for you whether or not you accept them.
	What God is doing is binding himself to your kids and he's assuring you that forever, forever, he's going to bind himself to the people who pay attention to the covenant that he created and the reality that he created just for you and just for your children.
	Okay, so tomorrow is Mailbag Day Plus.
	Andrew Klavan's going to stop by.
	I've been getting a lot of flack for posting Drew's book on my Facebook page, and I want to talk about that and why we've been doing that and what Drew's book actually says.
	I've read Drew's book, so we can talk about it at length.
	Looking forward to that.
	Thanks so much for joining us today.
	Thanks to Professor Sowell for joining us, and we'll see you tomorrow.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.

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