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Feb. 8, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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Ep. 249 - Is Donald Trump Vladimir Putin? Nope.

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	Katie Couric wanted to make the case for fluidity of gender.
	Instead, she made the case against abortion.
	Yes, seriously.
	Appearing with Ellen DeGeneres to talk about her new documentary, Gender Revolution, Katie Couric began spouting off about gender in the womb.
	Gender, Couric explained, was, quote, really a deeply biological thing, an unintentional ringing rebuke to the gender as a social construct crowd.
	She then added, just because you operate on a child and tell the child you're a certain gender, that doesn't necessarily coincide with who that person feels he or she actually is.
	This applies really to intersex children, not generally to biologically male or female children, but Couric forged ahead.
	She said, quote, Put aside the gender politics of this argument for just a second.
	The science isn't really settled as to how a baby is really male or female in the brain based on hormone surges.
	Science actually suggests Couric is wrong.
	But instead, focus on Couric's argument that a fetus can, quote, feel as if that baby or that person is a particular gender.
	A fetus is not a clump of cells.
	It's not a ball of tissue.
	It feels things.
	As Ed Morrissey of Hot Air points out, quote, "If we're to suddenly sensitize ourselves of the deeply biological implications of the fetus's own perception of gender identity, can we finally agree a fetus is an actual human with a right to its own life as well as its own gender identity?" This is where the entire logic of leftism on abortion breaks down.
	The left focuses incessantly on the victim status of various human beings from various racial, sexual, ethnic groups.
	The left will sing the lyrics to Born This Way with all their heart, but then they'll attempt to argue that until you're born, you weren't this way.
	That's ridiculous.
	If we're going to talk about the ultimate victim group, let's talk about unborn children, who have done nothing to deserve their fate, or developing human beings in the womb.
	If it takes some talk about intersex babies to make leftists care about babies all of a sudden, that is certainly worth the price.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	Okay, we're gonna get to everything Trump-related in a second, plus it was a good time over at Ferris State University, and we'll talk a little bit about that a little bit later.
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	All right.
	So as I mentioned a minute ago, Katie Couric now thinks that – I mean, this is good news, I suppose.
	All leftist logic in the end turns in on itself.
	And that's certainly true of abortion.
	I think it's amusing that Katie Couric now only thinks babies are babies if they are intersex babies or transgender babies.
	So apparently babies who are not any of those things, babies who don't suffer from those conditions, Those are not babies, but if you're a transgender baby, then you're a baby, which is just kind of weird.
	But in any case, that wasn't the only stupid thing to come out yesterday.
	Hillary Clinton is back.
	Oh yes, she's back.
	She was wandering the woods.
	The children emerged from those woods, weeping and told tales of a hellhound, loose in the woods, crying over her own fate.
	And now she's back.
	Hillary Clinton is here.
	She's come.
	Here's Hillary Clinton, she's saying things about ladies and vaginas and such.
	Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that yes, the future is female.
	Okay, pause it for one second.
	Just look at the amazing energy we saw.
	The future is female.
	Okay, let's just be factual about one thing here.
	The future is asexual.
	Yeah, the future is gender fluid.
	The future is a temporal state.
	Okay, the future is not male or female or black or white.
	I hate this kind of phraseology.
	It's so dumb.
	But again, it all comes back to that intersectionality politics that the left is so focused on.
	Babies are only babies if they're transgender babies, and the future is only the future if it's female, for some odd reason.
	By the way, if the future is only female, Then you sorta do wonder how babies are gonna get made in the future.
	Are there any babies in the future?
	Or is it like the future one generation of females, and then everyone dies, or they live forever like the Amazonians in Wonder Woman land?
	No one really knows, but Hillary Clinton continues along these lines because she just won't go away.
	Here she continues.
	Last month, as women organized a march that galvanized millions of people all over our country and across the world.
	So please, set an example for every woman and girl out there who's worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities, and values will endure.
	And remember, you are the heroes and history makers, the glass ceiling breakers of the future.
	As I've said before, I'll say again, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world.
	Okay, I have a daughter and she is just three now.
	And I also think that she is going to have a wonderful future.
	I also don't think she's going to have a lot of glass ceilings to break.
	Her mom's a doctor.
	Her grandmother runs a television firm.
	The country is replete with rich and powerful women.
	America, 55% of voters are women.
	55% of the people in college are women.
	58% of the people with graduate degrees are women.
	The idea that women are suffering en masse in the United States, which is what Hillary seems to say, you can overcome!
	You overcame, okay?
	You're the majority of the voters.
	You're the majority of the people in college.
	In 147 out of 150 of the biggest, most populous cities, women who are single and unmarried and work the same number of hours as men earn 8% more on average than men do.
	So can we cut it out with this whole glass ceiling shattered routine?
	It's really irritating.
	And when Hillary Clinton does it, it's even more irritating because the fact of the matter is that Hillary Clinton's shattering of the glass ceiling involved her marrying a more powerful man and then riding his coattails to all sorts of glory, but not the White House.
	But not the White House.
	Actually, my favorite headline of the day was apparently there's some couple that's been married, I guess, for 22 years, have been together for 22 years, and they're breaking up over Trump.
	And the first thing that went through my mind is I'm really feeling bad for the Clintons.
	That's terrible.
	I can't believe they broke up over Trump.
	Okay, so Hillary lost, obviously, because if you watch her there, it's impossible for her not to lose because she's awful.
	But Donald Trump is now the president.
	And so this comes with its benefits and it comes with its drawbacks.
	Do we have a little bit of Good Trump, Bad Trump?
	Shall we do that today?
	Good Trump, Bad Trump, which one will we get today?
	Yes.
	All right.
	So Donald Trump speaks yesterday at CENTCOM, Central Command, and he does something that is not quite true, but is also kind of smart.
	So in the middle of this, it's sort of unintentionally smart, I think.
	This is a good Trump.
	In the middle of his speech at CENTCOM, he drops the notion that the media have not covered terrorism properly.
	Here's what he has to say.
	Radical Islamic terrorists are determined to strike our homeland, As they did on 9-11, as they did from Boston to Orlando to San Bernardino, and all across Europe.
	You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice.
	All over Europe, it's happening.
	It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported.
	And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it.
	They have their reasons, and you understand that.
	I do love the fact that as time goes on, Donald Trump sounds more and more like Marlon Brando from The Godfather.
	He's beginning to lose his voice now, and so he's kind of sitting there petting a cat and telling you about terrorism.
	But aside from that, what he says there about the media not properly covering terrorism, it's sort of true.
	True, and it's sorta not true.
	So it is not true that the press does not cover terrorism.
	In fact, they released a list of 78 attacks since 2014 that they said had not received enough media attention, and on that list were terrorist attacks in Nice, France, and terrorist attacks in Berlin, and the terror attack in Orlando.
	I'm pretty sure those received enough media attention.
	But here's what's smart about all of this.
	Here's what's smart about all of this.
	It has forced the media now to go back and rehash all of the terrorist incidents.
	The media are so crazy and so stupid that Trump says, you didn't cover the terrorist attacks enough.
	And instead of them just saying, that's not true.
	Now, this is a misdirect, because you actually want to talk about X, Y, or Z. Instead, the media goes into, How dare he!
	We'll show you how much we covered terrorist attacks, and we'll cover them anew, just to prove you wrong!
	And Trump's sitting there smirking at himself, knowing that the entire premise of that speech, the entire premise of him saying that, was designed to force the media to spend lots of time talking about terror attacks, so suddenly Americans would recognize what he's trying to do with his immigration and refugee order.
	It's amazing.
	Now, I'm not going to credit Donald Trump with playing 4D chess, because I think very few people in politics actually play 4D chess.
	I think most people who play 4D chess are, as I said a couple of days ago, just like the Wookiee.
	And you sometimes let the Wookiee win.
	The Wookiee doesn't know how to play 4D chess.
	He's just going to rip your arms out and beat you to death with them.
	I think that's more what Trump is doing here.
	But the media is so stupid that they make Trump, who is playing like regular chess, look like he's playing 4D chess by comparison.
	Sean Spicer, not Melissa McCarthy, actual Sean Spicer, was out there defending this yesterday and it's pretty funny.
	We'll provide a list later.
	There's several instances, and the President, again, got a great update today on the fight against ISIS that's going on throughout the region and what our military is facing throughout this globe trying to combat ISIS.
	But there's a lot of instances that have occurred where I don't think that they've gotten the coverage it's deserved, and I think that's what the President's clearly referring to there.
	And again, reiterating this point is smart because, number one, every time Trump picks a fight with the media and then the media allow him to do that, every time the media kick back by saying, how dare you attack the media, Americans go, I don't care about you, you're the media.
	Why would I possibly care if Trump attacks you?
	You attack each other, fine, whatever.
	It's smart of Trump.
	So this is good Trump.
	And then there's bad Trump.
	Trump is speaking at CENTCOM and Trump again reiterates that NATO is somehow a boondoggle and NATO allies have to pay more money or the tacit threat is we're going to cut them off.
	Here's Trump talking about NATO at CENTCOM.
	We strongly support NATO.
	We only ask that all of the NATO members make their full and proper financial contributions to the NATO alliance, which many of them have not been doing.
	Many of them have not been even close.
	And they have to do that.
	So Trump says that, and a lot of people say, OK, well look, he's expressing his support for NATO.
	OK, juxtapose that, the way he just talked about NATO, with the way he talks about Vladimir Putin.
	We've killed a lot of people also.
	We killed lots of people also.
	He's much more sympathetic, apparently, just from the tone of his rhetoric, to Vladimir Putin than he is to NATO.
	And that's a problem.
	That's a problem.
	Because the fact is that there's a great piece in Foreign Policy magazine today about this, that there's a new sort of Revised isolationism that has come to the fore in American politics.
	Americans have a tendency toward isolationism.
	We're very lucky geographically.
	We're surrounded on both sides by oceans, and to our south we have a weak state, Mexico, and to our north we have a very friendly state in Canada.
	So, the United States does not have a lot of border problems in terms of being in the middle of Europe, for example, and facing down a threat from multiple sides.
	And so what that's meant, typically, is that Americans tend to have this real isolationist streak.
	Which is understandable.
	The only problem is in an era of mass communication, in an era of easy jet travel, in an era of missiles and global trade, it's very difficult to isolate yourself from the world without also harming yourself economically and harming yourself In terms of security.
	And every time the United States has tried to isolate itself, and has said, okay, let's turn inward, let's cut our military, let's turn inward, let's stop worrying about what's happening over in Estonia or Latvia, let's stop worrying what's happening over in the South China Sea, every time we do that sort of thing, it ends up redounding not to our benefit, but to our detriment.
	It always ends up building to the point where rogue states end up attacking us, whether it's Japan in World War II, or whether it is Germany in World War I, we always end up being dragged into wars against our will, Because if you leave the playground and there's nobody there to boss it around, you may not like bossing it around.
	The United States may not like being the global organizer.
	But, if we're not going to organize, you know who's going to do it, is Russia and China.
	And you may think that doesn't matter.
	It does matter when China starts cutting off trade between all of these Southeastern Asian countries and the United States through a sphere of influence.
	It does matter when they begin encroaching territorially more and more toward American interests.
	It does matter when China becomes more powerful and Russia becomes more powerful in Eastern Europe and starts threatening our Western European allies And then all of a sudden we get dragged into conflict again, except conflict with an emboldened and strengthened enemy like a Russia or a China.
	The start under Obama, this isn't unique to Trump, but it did start with Obama and it's continued under Trump, this sort of revanchism, this idea that we're going to Just come back into our borders and everything is going to be okay.
	It sounds like a beautiful idea.
	Every time it's been tried, it fails, and this is true not just with World War I and World War II.
	Bill Clinton tried this in the 1990s by slashing our military to the bone, and the result was 9-11.
	George W. Bush built up the military and got aggressive on the foreign policy sphere, and we saw a dramatic decrease in the number of terrorist attacks on American soil.
	Then, he leaves office, and the number of terrorist attacks increases massively because ISIS grows.
	The fact is, you cannot remove yourself from the international scene and hope that everything is going to be okay.
	And that seems to be the premise of a lot of what Trump is saying here, and that's a problem.
	With all that said, the media are losing their ever-loving minds over Donald Trump, and we're going to have to continue this over at Daily Wire.
	But I want to talk a little bit about the fact the media keeps saying, they keep throwing around this term, constitutional crisis, constitutional crisis.
	I want to talk about what a constitutional crisis actually looks like, whether it's a crisis or not, and the fact that the Constitution is actually built to withstand crises.
	It's built to have crises and withstand them.
	We'll talk about all of that over at dailywire.com.
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