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July 3, 2017 - The Ben Shapiro Show

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	Sunday, Senator Kamala Harris, who has been cribbing Bernie Sanders' cheat sheet in order to position herself for a 2020 Democratic presidential run, tweeted out her feelings on the possible restructuring of Medicaid under the Senate health reform bill.
	She tweeted, quote, Americans won't lose their health care.
	It's not like we left it on the bus.
	The Republicans are taking it from us.
	Don't take our stuff.
	Needless to say, this is imbecilic.
	Kamala Harris is right.
	Nobody will be losing their health care.
	They didn't leave it on the bus because it's not a physical commodity, and it was never their stuff.
	Those on Medicaid had a grant from the government taken from redistributed money to help pay for their health care, which they obtained by pressuring doctors to provide it at low reimbursement rates.
	It wasn't theirs any more than unemployment benefits are yours, or welfare is yours, or any other redistributist outcome is yours.
	Healthcare is a series of goods and services that belong to someone else until you pay for them in an exchange, mutually agreed by the two sides.
	My wife is a doctor.
	Her labor is not your stuff.
	That would make her an indentured servant.
	She has sunk some nine years of her life into becoming a doctor.
	Four years of college, four years of medical school, and now she's just completed her first year of residency.
	That means we've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her education, and she's spent countless hours working, away from home, studying, and the like.
	That work is not yours.
	It is in Kamala Harris's.
	The sense of entitlement behind democratic policy is simply mind-boggling.
	More importantly, it's actually counterproductive.
	Declaring someone else's labor yours doesn't make it magically appear.
	Harris seems deeply concerned about cuts to Medicaid.
	Apparently she's unaware that Medicaid outcomes are generally no better than uninsured outcomes, and that doctors are dropping out of Medicaid coverage day in and day out thanks to government's failures.
	The moment you declare someone else's services yours, they stop providing them.
	But by invoking that sense of entitlement, Harris merely ensures that she'll increase her popularity.
	Unfortunately, it is political catnip to tell people that things that don't belong to them actually do.
	That's how Democrats gain power, even as they destroy the services they supposedly seek to provide.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	Everything is stupid!
	Oh yeah, that's right.
	It's another day, another glorious day!
	And everything is intensely stupid.
	We'll get to President Trump and the WWE and him playing 5D Hungry Hungry Hippos and the whole deal.
	We'll get to all of that.
	And then the media losing their minds and shouting NAZI about everything.
	It's...
	You know, I tweeted last week that each night I go to bed and I think, things can't possibly get any stupider.
	And then I wake up the next morning, and I think, God, things were so much smarter last night.
	And yes, yes indeed, that prophecy has come true, spoken in the book of Deuteronomy, and now repeated by me, or paraphrased by me.
	Everything is intensely stupid.
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	So President Trump on Fridays, So you recall that on Friday, President Trump tweeted out or Thursday, he tweeted out about Mika Brzezinski and her bloody facelift.
	And everybody said, oh, end of the world.
	It's so terrible.
	And we said, this is not presidential.
	This is not great because it's not because it's kind of schmucky.
	So, but does President Trump back off?
	No, this is a man who fights.
	He fights!
	He fights sort of like a boxer punching himself in the face repeatedly, but he fights.
	He fights sort of like a man who stuffs coins into a sock and then smacks himself in the groin, as Jonah Goldberg says, but he fights!
	Okay, so there are a lot of people on the right who are saying, oh, he fights and he's destroying the media.
	No, here's what's happening.
	He's destroying himself, and the media are destroying themselves, and they're both destroying themselves, and America sits over here and laughs because of the WWE.
	So, on Saturday, Trump tweets out, Okay, first of all, listen, we got the slogan, okay?
	It's modern day presidential.
	Make America great again.
	Okay, first of all, listen, we got the slogan, okay?
	Like, at a certain point, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, MAGA, it becomes tiresome because your tweets are not making America great again, okay?
	They're not.
	I'm sorry, they're not.
	They may have helped you during the campaign.
	That's great!
	Lots of things that help you during the campaign do not help you when you become president, as Barack Obama learned.
	But I love that it's modern-day presidential.
	Tomorrow is July 4th, brought to you by such presidents as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
	And now, modern-day presidential is this.
	So, demonstrating just how modern-day presidential all of this is, Trump tweets this out on Saturday.
	This is really, he tweeted this out.
	Hey, if you cannot see what this is, it is Trump from the WWE when he's in the WWE Hall of Fame.
	And this is Trump tackling some dude.
	And somebody, I guess somebody from Reddit did this.
	They pasted into the meme a logo of the CNN head.
	And then Trump tackling CNN and pummeling CNN.
	Clotheslining CNN and pummeling it.
	Okay, your first reaction has to be to laugh because it's really freaking funny, okay?
	It's just... Inherently, this is all insane.
	We now live in idiocracy, which came half a century too early.
	It's all crazy, okay?
	Everything is crazy.
	We have reached peak stupid.
	Or, you know, I think that every time I think we've reached peak stupid, it turns out that there's another hill yet to climb.
	It's Sound of Music.
	Climb every mountain.
	I mean, literally every time we reach peak stupid, we look up and there's 300 more feet of stupid yet to surmount.
	It's pretty amazing.
	So, Trump tweets this out.
	He tweets out, hashtag fraud news CNN.
	He doesn't want to call them fake news anymore.
	He thinks fraud news is better, which I don't really know why.
	But in any case, he writes, hashtag fraud news CNN.
	And then he, and all hell breaks loose because the President of the United States has done something deeply awful.
	A couple of notes on the deeply awful thing.
	First of all, his followers immediately go, Oh my god!
	It's the greatest thing that ever happened!
	It's just spectacular!
	What a genius!
	No.
	Just no.
	Okay, just no.
	It's not no.
	Okay, it's hilarious, but it's hilarious like Dumb and Dumber is hilarious, okay?
	I love the movie Tommy Boy.
	Tommy Boy, my parents think I'm an idiot for liking the movie Tommy Boy.
	I think the movie Tommy Boy is hilarious with Chris Farley and David Spade.
	I think it's really funny.
	But it is not the greatest thing that the love child of Chris Farley and David Spade in that movie is now tweeting from the Oval Office, apparently.
	Like, that's weird.
	Okay, it's weird.
	And it's not great.
	And again, John Adams once, on the day that he occupied the White House, he wrote a letter to his wife and he said, may none but good and honorable men occupy this office.
	Mm-hmm.
	So in any case, Trump tweets this out and his followers are like, yeah!
	Because it's mean to CNN, get it?
	Because CNN's stupid!
	Stupid!
	S-T-O-P-I-D, stupid!
	And then CNN responds, CNN, they've got to win here, right?
	I mean, CNN can just sit here and go, my God.
	My God.
	But instead what they decide to do is lose their minds.
	CNN decides that it is important.
	They can't just say this is dumb.
	They can't just say it's unpresidential, which it is.
	They can't just say it's sort of disgraceful to the Oval Office.
	I mean, listen, this is not the only disgrace that's ever happened to the Oval Office.
	Bill Clinton, you know, got his juices spread around the Oval Office.
	So there have been a fair number of things that have happened in the Oval Office that haven't been great.
	But is this, you know, is this elevating the discourse?
	Is this elevating America?
	Is this a good, is this good role modeling from our leadership?
	No, no, no, not so much.
	Okay, but instead of Democrats just saying that, instead of Democrats saying, you know, this is really incompetent, like the President of the United States should spend his time talking about important things and bringing the country together, and instead he's tweeting out this kind of silly crap, right?
	Instead of them doing that, they go to 11, right?
	They always go to 11 on the spinal tap, on the spinal tap machine.
	Let's go to 11 on those speakers.
	And now it turns out that not only is this just stupid.
	It's not just stupid and dim-witted and ridiculous and hilarious.
	It's not just any of those things.
	No.
	Donald Trump is a threat to the Republic.
	So here comes, here comes School Marm, Brian Stelter over on CNN to warn America.
	Trump is gonna come and he's gonna clothesline you just like he clotheslined that logo of CNN or something or... Okay.
	Alright.
	The president is grappling with Senate Republicans who've missed a self-imposed deadline on health care.
	He's preparing for a stare-down this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	But on Twitter, he's wrestling with... us.
	Look at this video from his Twitter account this morning.
	This is a WWE WrestleMania video from years ago.
	You can see that the CNN logo has been superimposed onto the other fighter's face.
	Now this showed up on a Reddit message board days ago.
	Now it's showing up on the President of the United States' own Twitter feed.
	The early reactions in the last 90 minutes have ranged from, this is juvenile, ridiculous, idiotic, oh wait no it's just funny, he's just having fun, oh wait no it's actually scary, dangerous.
	We've heard a wide range of reactions to this.
	The first, CNN's response.
	The strongest statement I've seen from CNN or any news outlet this year in response to the president's attacks.
	Quote, it is a sad day when the President of the United States encourages violence against reporters.
	Clearly, Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she said the President had never done so.
	Okay, like, stop it.
	Okay, it's, okay, so it's just, okay.
	So, yes, if you watched that video and what you got from that is someone ought to punch Brian Stalter, okay, then you're an idiot.
	You're an idiot.
	So, two weeks ago, a Trump-hating Bernie Sanders supporter went and shot up a bunch of Republican Congress people and tried to assassinate dozens of them.
	And I said on this program, the Democrats were not openly calling for violence, so I'm not gonna blame Democratic rhetoric for a nutjob trying to shoot people.
	And now, and CNN said the same thing, right?
	And now they're turning around, they're saying, Trump's gonna get us all killed because he tweeted out an idiotic WWE wrestling meme.
	CNN.
	So here, it's basically, here's the cycle of conversation now.
	Trump tweets something stupid, indefensible, ridiculous, quasi-vile.
	The media then says, it's not enough to say that it's all those things.
	He's a Nazi!
	A violent, evil Nazi!
	Nazi, Nazi!
	And then everybody goes, okay, well, I guess I'm not that, I guess, like, if I have to choose between these two people, I guess Trump's tweeting that bad.
	I mean, like, really, guys?
	Like, seriously?
	But the entire media, because they can't help it, they are, they keep looking for the kill shot.
	And this is the problem, okay?
	They keep looking for whatever is going to somehow oust Trump from office.
	And they think that every time he tweets, this is now impeachment worthy.
	The time has come.
	And so you get Brian Stelter saying, this is like Hugo Chavez, or Receip Tayyip Erdogan, like the dictator of Turkey, or Vladimir Putin.
	Is this president trying to impersonate Hugo Chavez, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Vladimir Putin?
	Because this is exactly the kind of language that leaders use when they are trying to undermine the press.
	Is he trying to be Hitler?
	Stalin?
	Okay, okay, okay.
	Shut him up.
	This is such stupidity.
	I mean, really.
	Pansy.
	Pansy stuff from CNN.
	And then it continues.
	So CNN's Jim Acosta, he comes out, he says, someone's going to get hurt.
	Don't you understand?
	Someone will die because Trump tweeted out a meme of himself from a WWE fake wrestling event tackling a logo of CNN.
	Oh, it's all so stupid.
	It's so intensely stupid.
	I've lost all capacity to speak intelligently about something so intensely stupid.
	The more you watch the news, the more IQ points you lose.
	By the time, if this continues for another six months, we will all be clinically brain dead from losing this many brain cells.
	It is fully, fully insane.
	Okay, here is Jim Acosta saying, someone will get hurt.
	Someone.
	All right, Jim.
	There are two approaches to this.
	One is we can just sit back and be silent and just take it.
	There are some people who say, you know, don't take debate.
	You're just going to encourage this behavior even more.
	But I think we're well past that now.
	I think we're at the stage where we have to try the other.
	We're past that.
	It's too dangerous.
	We have to... Okay, first of all, you have a third choice, which is to treat the tweet like it is.
	It's Trump, who's not world's most intelligent man, contrary to what his public thinks, okay?
	Tweeting something that his unbridled, volatile id told him to tweet, and that doesn't mean anything, because he's just Trump, and he tweets things, and he says stuff.
	And by the way, his defenders should say this.
	This would be the best defense for Trump, is the man just says stuff, right?
	He gets up in the morning, and while he's peeing, he watches Morning Joe, And then he gets mad.
	And then he tweets the thing.
	And then we all go on with our day.
	Because guess what?
	Nothing has changed.
	Has anything markedly changed since January except everything has gotten supremely stupid?
	Like, even more stupid than it was last year?
	You thought that 2016 was stupid.
	And then 2017 came along and said, hold my beer.
	Okay.
	Martha Raddatz on ABC, she does the same thing.
	She says, it seemed like a threat to me.
	It seemed like a threat.
	I mean, I'm feeling, I'm feeling scared and fragile.
	Okay, as someone who receives death threats on a fairly regular basis, a death threat sounds like someone calling up your phone and saying, I'm gonna come to your house and murder you.
	It doesn't sound like a meme where somebody tackles you.
	Okay?
	It's not even a meme where somebody has you in a gas chamber pushing a button, okay?
	I get hundreds of those, okay?
	This one is a meme literally of the logo.
	Like, it would be like if someone took the Daily Wire logo and had... and had Bernie Sanders tackling it.
	Would I feel threatened by that, or would I just say, this is the stupidest crap I've ever seen?
	But the media, oh no.
	We have to play wounded.
	Well, this is a real threat.
	It's a threat to liberty!
	ABC's Martha Raddatz.
	He certainly can communicate to the people, but I want to ask you, is that the kind of communication you want?
	That he's beating up on somebody?
	That he's beating up on the media?
	You're in charge of Homeland Security there.
	That seems like a threat.
	Yeah, certainly not, though.
	I think that no one would perceive that as a threat.
	I hope they don't.
	But I do think that he's beaten up in a way on cable platforms.
	Okay, and then the right responds, of course, we'll get to the right's response in a second, because the right, basically, the left has lost its mind and the right is losing its soul.
	So those are basically the two things that are happening right now.
	The stupidest response came courtesy of our friend Sally Cohen.
	So Sally, she responded saying, is there no line?
	Have you no decency, sir?
	Let me make a point and ask a question.
	I actually can't believe this is happening.
	It was Donald Trump who said that Barack Obama wasn't a citizen of this country.
	It was Republicans who said he had a Kenyan colonialist mindset that literally questioned his legitimacy to even be in the White House.
	Had President Obama gone to a veterans event, Kayleigh, a veterans event, and used that event to attack the media, you'd be all over.
	And guess what?
	He got roaring applause.
	He got roaring applause for that, by the way.
	You got to talk.
	Now it's my turn.
	So I can't believe you can defend this.
	I mean, really?
	Is there no... So my question is, is there no line?
	Like, if that had been a picture, not of the CNN logo, or video, not of the CNN logo, but it had been Jake Tapper's head he was punching, would that cross a line for you?
	What if it was a picture of Donald Trump holding a bloodied CNN logo up?
	Sally, you clearly... When does it cross the line?
	When does it cross the line?
	You haven't listened to me.
	When does it?
	Okay.
	I have a question, Sally.
	When does this cross the line?
	Okay, you tweeted this a week ago.
	One week ago.
	Quote, troubled Wisconsin man goes on 50 state killing spree.
	And it's a picture of Paul Ryan.
	Hmm.
	And this is why the right has gone into this routine of whataboutism, which is, okay, well, the media have been doing all this sort of violent threats for years, and now all of a sudden they're very upset.
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	Okay, so one of the reasons the right has responded to Trump's tweet the way they have is because the right looks at this and they say, okay, so in an ideal world would be like over the moon that Trump tweets this kind of stuff?
	No, but but On the other hand, Kathy Griffin, Trump bloody head, Julius Caesar performance, Trump being killed, the CNN coverage with the spotlight over Trump's head.
	There's been a lot of violent, nasty rhetoric surrounding Trump since the election cycle.
	So what's so wrong with this?
	And we'll discuss what's wrong with that in just a second, because I think that there is a problem with the general notion.
	I think there's a problem with the general notion that when it comes to the rhetoric that you use, We are no longer in retaliatory mode.
	We are now in offense mode.
	So if the left weren't even doing this, I think the right, a lot of members of the right would be celebrating this sort of stuff.
	But how should the media really be responding to this?
	Well, the way the media should be responding to this is the way that David Fahrentholdt of the New York Times responded to this.
	So here is David Fahrentholdt.
	He was on a panel on CNN about this, and here's what he had to say.
	David, I also remember President-elect Trump saying that he was going to limit his use of Twitter once he got into office.
	I was going to be restrained, that's right.
	He said, yeah, if I even get on Twitter, it'll be restrained.
	Does all of this surprise you?
	No, not at all.
	Look, this is dumb.
	It's a dumb thing to have tweeted.
	It's not a very presidential thing to have tweeted.
	But listen, everybody else in the world has learned from this.
	The foreign leaders that Trump insults on Twitter, the companies that he goes after on Twitter, they've all realized that it's mostly just talk.
	It's just a guy talking.
	He's yelling at the screen.
	He's expressing his anger.
	And they've begun basically to ignore it.
	If you look at Macron, Merkel, the leaders of China, companies like Carrier that Trump was harassing earlier on, they've all managed to sort of put it aside and focus on whatever they were going to be doing.
	OK, so what Farenthold says is exactly right.
	OK, he's at The Washington Post, not The New York Times.
	My mistake.
	So what he says here is exactly right.
	And this is what the media should be saying.
	They should be saying, if you're an enemy of Trump, this is what you'd be saying about this tweet.
	What you'd be saying, if you were smart, is this tweet just shows that Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
	That he's a volatile dope who goes on Twitter and spouts off and is not advancing any policy, but he's catering to a base of people who are mad and whatever.
	And Trump's people don't want that to be.
	So Trump's people are of divided minds.
	On the one hand, they want to say, why are you taking this so seriously?
	On the other hand, they want to say everyone should take Trump super seriously.
	On the left, they say, we don't want to take Trump seriously.
	And then they say, but we're going to take him super seriously, like it's a threat of violence.
	Basically, I have another wrestling gif that sort of shows what exactly really is happening in this Trump media fight.
	Right.
	That's actually what's happening here.
	Because everybody's treating it like Trump is kicking media in the head and knocking them out.
	And the media is treating it like the media are kicking him in the head and they're knocking him out.
	Basically, they're both knocking each other out because this is all just insane and stupid.
	It's just insane and stupid.
	And one of the reasons, again, that the right is responding the way they are to Trump's tweet is because of the media coverage of other violent rhetoric, right?
	They've ignored it for years, except when it comes from the right, in which case they declare it the worst thing in the world.
	There's a representative named Zeldin, who is on CNN, and he was being asked about all of this, Congressman Lee Zeldin, I guess, and he was being asked by Frederica Whitfield about Trump's tweet, and she won't let him talk, right?
	He says, you guys do this all the time, and she won't let him talk, and you wonder why the right is frustrated, guys?
	This is why.
	So what was the message today?
	What was the message today, then?
	I'm not here to defend the tweet that was there this morning, so that's why I'm giving the answer, that there's a way for the President to be able to raise his game, but there is a... It's not a changing of direction, that we all need to do more to be able to raise our game, because while we're here talking about it, you have people in Hollywood making jokes about assassinating the President of the United States, punching him in the face, cutting his head off, you do have people in the media
	You're trying very hard not to deal with the topic at hand right now by bringing up these other examples that have already been discussed ad nauseum.
	And you're trying to shift.
	No, that is relevant, okay, because that's what Trump always says, right?
	Trump's entire defense is, I'm punching back, which means that the left needs to call out their own rhetoric the same way that they're calling out the right's rhetoric.
	And the right, by the way, is full of crap also, because the right does this routine where they're very pissed that Barack Obama used a selfie stick in the Oval Office.
	Totally fair, okay?
	He shouldn't be using a selfie stick in the Oval Office.
	It's disrespectful.
	You can't do that and then turn around and say, this is totally cool what Trump is doing.
	And we'll talk about what the Republicans are doing wrong in just a second.
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