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The Day After | Ep. 633
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As Brett Kavanaugh takes his seat on the Supreme Court, the left copes in mature, considered fashion.
Or not.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
This is the Ben Shapiro Show.
Oh, man, we have a lot going on today.
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Okay, so over the weekend, Democrats really handled the Brett Kavanaugh vote, I think, with great aplomb, dignity, poise.
Folks on the left really They really, I think, showed tremendous maturity when they realized that Brett Kavanaugh was actually going to be on the Supreme Court.
For those who missed it, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed on Saturday by a 50-48 vote.
It was only 50-48, not 51-49, because Mike Daines, who's the senator from North Dakota, had to go home for his daughter's wedding.
Until Lisa Murkowski abstained instead of voting against Kavanaugh.
So it became a 52-48 vote.
And Democrats responded in their typically moderated and I think modulated fashion.
It was really good to watch.
It was good to see the country come together after such a rough time because Democrats did, I thought, just a great job.
I mean, like here is what happened at the Supreme Court immediately as Kavanaugh was being confirmed inside.
For those who can't actually see this, these are people who are legitimately standing there beating on the 13-ton bronze doors of the Supreme Court.
My favorite is this lady who's trying to pry the door open.
Like Frodo trying to get into the Mines of Moria without the actual passcode.
She's just there trying to pry open the doors with her bare hands, though the doors are gonna part before her.
It's pretty astonishing stuff.
Obviously, people really reacting well to all of this.
We have an anti-Kavanaugh protester who started threatening people as well, so that was pretty solid.
And like to this, this was good.
I don't know if this guy was arrested or what, but things obviously have cooled down in the country.
There aren't and we're not.
But there's a lot more of us than there are of them.
So I'm going to say it straight up.
When y'all come back, get ready to physically fight these motherf***ers.
When y'all come back, if y'all got any guts about you, be ready to fight these motherf***ers and f*** their asses up.
When y'all come back, be ready to f*** up a pig.
I'm sure that this fellow is an expert in the intricacies of Supreme Court jurisprudence based simply on the language that he's using.
With regard to his political enemies, I'm sure that he knows the entire line of cases stretching prior to Griswold on the rights of privacy, and he's just upset at how that line of cases could be curbed by the presence of Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court.
Probably that's what's going on.
But I don't want to make it sound like it's just, you know, members of an angry mob who are involved in being an angry mob.
I mean, they are.
But it's more than that, right?
It's some of the elites in our society.
First of all, I'd be remiss here if I didn't note that Cory Gardner says that his wife has now received gruesome beheading video after his pro-Kavanaugh vote.
He's not the only one who's receiving those sorts of threats.
Those threats actually are becoming quite common with regard to Republican members of Congress.
I've heard from a few of them who have said that this sort of thing is becoming sort of the norm.
But as I say, this isn't just the people at sort of the Popular level of the Democratic Party.
This isn't just leftist grassroots folks who are very very upset.
We're talking about high-ranking Democratic Party people who have completely lost their mind.
I mean legitimately and completely lost their mind over Brett Kavanaugh joining the Supreme Court in much the way they lost their mind over Donald Trump being elected in the first place.
So take for example this Maisie Hirono.
So Maisie Hirono is a senator from Hawaii and she was specifically asked whether she believes that people should be confronted, Republicans should be confronted at restaurants and in their daily lives.
Watch as she bobs and weaves to avoid answering the question as to whether people should be harassed in their daily lives for the vote on Kavanaugh.
I think that it just means that there are a lot of people who are very, very much motivated by what is going on.
Because what happened with Judge Kavanaugh is, from the very beginning, this was not a fair process.
Should the going after people at restaurants stop?
Well, this is what happens.
Because when you look at white supremacists and all of that, this is what's coming forth in our country.
There's a tremendous divisiveness in our country, but this is the kind of activism that occurs, and people make their own decisions.
Oh, people make their own decisions!
Right, but we're asking about your opinion on the decisions they're making, see?
Like, we're asking whether you think it's okay to yell at Ted Cruz's wife in a restaurant, or yell at Sarah Huckabee Sanders, or try and harass senators.
You're saying, well, you know, people have their opinions.
Yeah, people have their opinions.
My opinion is that Maisie Hirono is a completely immoral person based on these statements, or at least she's making completely immoral statements.
That's pretty astonishing stuff.
It's not just Maisie Hirono, of course.
You have the members of Hollywood and members of the comic community who are joining in.
So here is a writer for Stephen Colbert.
Stephen Colbert, as we all know, the finest comedian among us.
I mean, just a hysterical example of heartbreaking genius.
He has a writer named Ariel Dumas, or dumbass.
I think that it's probably properly pronounced the latter.
Here's what she wrote.
Whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life.
Yeah, I have a feeling that's how a lot of folks on the left actually feel these days, so points for honesty.
And then you have these comedians who decided they were going to follow around Brian Kilmeade.
So Brian is legitimately one of the nicest people in the media business.
It has nothing to do with politics.
Brian is just a genuinely nice human being.
He was walking to the subway, I believe from Fox News home, and comics started following him on the subway and then harassing him on the subway, asking people on the subway to harass him as well, and here's what that sounded like.
If you have anything you want Donald Trump to say...
Or do, tell this guy, because he's the only person in America that Donald Trump listens to.
I'll literally give you $10 if you ask Trump to resign tomorrow.
Look in the camera and you say, Donald, Mr. President, it's time to resign.
I'll raise it to $15.
$15.50.
$15.50, a napkin, five Tic Tacs, mango, passion fruit smoothie.
You're the only person that can stop this mess.
Please, I'm begging you.
I'm begging you.
So much comedian-ing, so much journalism-ing.
These folks on the left, they're really holding it together nicely, I think.
I think they're really holding it together in a pretty significant way.
Kirsten Gillibrand, by the way, if you think that the extremists in the Democratic base are in no way related to the folks at the top of the Democratic Party, all you have to do is watch the relationship between the two.
Linda Sarsour, Who's legitimately a pro-terrorist operative.
I mean, she actually has stood up for terrorists before.
She's radically anti-Semitic.
She, of course, is one of the heads of the Women's March.
She introduced Kirstjen Gillibrand at one of the, at this latest rally outside the Supreme Court.
So, here is an actual terrorist supporter introducing a sitting senator of the United States in an event and no one on the left batting an eye.
Next up, I want to introduce to you another champion, another one of our people who works for us on the inside, someone who understands that she works for the people of this country, who has been speaking up against sexual assault and sexual violence before there was a Brett Kavanaugh.
Please give it up to the senator from the greatest state in the United States of America, my state, New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
Oh, how delightful.
What a delight.
And there's Kirsten Gillibrand, you know, a real feminist, standing up there with Amy Schumer as a woman who talked about the great paid maternity leave in Saudi Arabia introduces her.
Good stuff there from the Democratic Party.
President Trump is correct that the Democrats have indeed turned into an angry mob.
And you can see how much of an angry mob they've turned into when we get to what policies they are proposing, because it's pretty astonishing.
But here's President Trump hitting the nail on the head.
As I've said before, the president is a hammer.
Sometimes he hits a nail.
Sometimes he hits a baby.
Well, yesterday, he hit a nail.
And it was satisfying, because he said what is correct here.
The only thing Democrats had to do, honestly, when Trump was elected, all Democrats had to do was not be crazy.
That's all they had to do.
They have failed dramatically in that task of not being crazy.
Instead, they've decided to go full-blown crazy.
Here is President Trump pointing that out.
In their quest for power, the Radical Democrats have turned into an angry mob.
You saw that today with the screaming and the shouting, not from the 200 people or less.
You know what?
Those people, they couldn't fit in the front row.
Look what we have here tonight.
Okay, Trump is exactly right about all of this.
Now, what do the left, what do the folks on the left want to do about this?
Well, they want to do two things.
One, they want to come up with systemic ways to change the system.
And two, they want to try out a war on women narrative.
The war on women narrative is their great hope that they can start a war of the sexes.
They tried this in 2016.
They said that there was a war on women, and Hillary Clinton was a representative of women in this fight.
They're hoping that because President Trump is alienating to a lot of particularly suburban women, that they can glom onto that, and then they can combine that with Enthusiasm for the MeToo movement and use that to club Republicans into submission on a political level.
We'll get to the war on women narrative in a second.
But first, what they want to do is they want to radically change the system of American government.
They're full-blown members of the media.
I'm talking about Washington Post reporters today who are shocked, shocked to discover that the Senate of the United States is not represented by population.
They're shocked to discover that, in fact, each state has two senators.
And then they realize that, wait, Montana has fewer people than New York, which means the Senate isn't representative.
Oh, my God.
They're literally realizing this, like, right now.
I don't know where they've been for, I don't know, the past 300 years in this country.
But yeah, I mean, this is actually a case that they are making.
Right now.
We'll get to all of that in just one second.
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Okay, so the media have discovered a few things that they are upset about.
So after 2016, they discovered they didn't like the Electoral College very much because Hillary lost.
And now they've discovered that there is such a thing called the United States Senate.
And that the United States Senate, believe it or not, actually represents a different population than the House of Representatives.
Now, originally, the Constitution said that the Senate was not even to be selected by popular vote within the states.
Originally, the state legislature selected their own senators, which was The correct move.
That's the way it should have worked because that meant that there was even another layer between the population and the Senate.
See, the founders were actually quite worried about mob rule.
They were quite worried about the idea of pure democracy because they figured that demagoguery could win over broad swaths of the population and that would enable all sorts of bad things to happen to minorities inside the United States.
This is what they're worried about, and so they set up a system of checks and balances to provide for the rights of states, while ensuring that if there was overwhelming support for a measure, that all of that would be able to happen anyway.
But Aaron Blake over at the Washington Post, in shocking news, breaking news, he's the senior political reporter at the Washington Post, this is breaking news guys, hot off the wires, quote, People are suddenly deciding that population disparities render the Senate undemocratic.
Upon ratification, Virginia had 12 times as many people as Delaware.
Disparities are bigger now, but they very much existed when our founders decided on this system.
So Aaron Blake is obviously You know, actually saying the truth here.
But there are a bunch of people in the media who have been suddenly calling on folks to get rid of the Senate.
I'm not kidding.
I'm looking for all the tweets right now.
But basically, they're making the case that the Senate needs to go away.
Or alternatively, they're making the case instead that the Supreme Court ought to be packed.
So, my favorite is Democrats suggesting that Republicans undemocratically got Brett Kavanaugh through the Senate, when Republicans had the votes in the Senate.
Somehow that's undemocratic.
And now they're saying their solution to the undemocratic nature of the movement of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court requires them to add more justices to the Supreme Court in violation of the Constitution.
This is from the New York Times today.
The bitter partisan fury that engulfed Justice Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation was the fiercest battle in a political war over the judiciary that has been steadily intensifying since the Senate rejected Judge Robert Bork in 1987.
But an even greater conflagration may be coming.
This confirmation vote will not necessarily be the last word on Brett Kavanaugh serving a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, said Brian Fallon, executive director of the liberal group Demand Justice and the top spokesman for Hillary's 2016 campaign.
So what exactly are they talking about, said?
Some have gone as far as proposing if Democrats were to retake control of Congress and the White House in 2020 or after, expanding the number of justices on the court to pack it with liberals, or trying to impeach, remove, and replace Brett Kavanaugh.
So good news, the Democrats are taking this all extraordinarily well.
They just want to change the system of government completely.
They want to get rid of the Senate, and they also want to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court because they couldn't win an election.
So well done to Democrats.
That's kind of tactic number one.
Then there is tactic number two.
And tactic number two is, okay, we'll leave the institutions of government in place, but what we are going to focus on innately and inordinately is the supposed war on women.
So this is one of the great lies that's being perpetrated.
It's being perpetrated by folks like Valerie Jarrett.
So Valerie Jarrett, you will remember, was a top advisor to President Obama, and she tweeted this out.
I think it sums up well the argument being made by folks on the left.
left, quote, to all of the survivors of sexual assault and women who wonder if they will be believed if they are attacked.
No, there's a growing, powerful movement of support that will always have your back.
We believe you.
We will stand with you.
We will defend you.
Change is coming.
So the idea here is that if you supported Brett Kavanaugh, you are ignoring women who make allegations of sexual assault.
This is so transparent, and it's really quite vicious and disgusting.
I, again, opposed Roy Moore for the Senate in Alabama as a Republican because there is verifiable evidence that he had done bad things with young girls when he was a younger man.
I did not vote for President Trump in large measure because of his treatment of women.
There are lots of people who are not happy with sexual assault allegations.
Not on the left.
On the left, they're okay as long as it's Ted Kennedy or Bill Clinton.
But there are a lot of people who actually get kind of upset about these allegations.
But Brett Kavanaugh's case did not have the required verification or corroboration.
Christine Blasey's for his account sort of fell apart.
Susan Collins, the senator from Maine who came out in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, she was basically the deciding vote.
She's been ripped apart for what she had to say on CNN, but there's nothing innately wrong with what she said on CNN.
Here is her explaining that while she believes something happened to Christine Blasey Ford, she just doesn't believe that according to the preponderance of the evidence that Brett Kavanaugh was the guy who did it.
I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant.
So I do believe that she was assaulted.
I don't know by whom, and I'm not certain when, but I do not believe that he was the assailant.
Okay, and that prompted Maisie Hirono to come out and say, how could Susan Collins doubt?
How could Susan Collins doubt?
Well, it's really funny, because I remember that, like, a week ago, literally a week ago, there was a woman named Julie Swetnick, brought forward by Michael Avenatti, and she claimed that Brett Kavanaugh had gang raped her, or that he was involved in gang rapes.
You never hear her name anymore from the Democrats.
Why?
Don't they believe all women?
Don't they believe that all women ought to be believed, regardless of whether there is any sort of verifiable or corroborative evidence?
But Julie Swetnick sort of disappeared.
Boop.
She was gone.
So it's not believe all women.
It's believe the women who we want to believe because they're slightly more credible.
And then Republicans say, OK, well, we agree that Ford was slightly more credible than Swetnick, but we don't believe that she's totally credible either, or at least her story isn't corroborated.
And then people are like, no, no, no.
That means you're not believing all women.
Right?
But you don't believe all women.
You don't believe Juanita Broderick.
You don't believe Kathleen Willey.
You don't believe Paula Jones.
You don't believe the waitresses who were sandwiched by Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd back in the 1980s.
You don't believe any of that stuff.
It's just, it's maddening, but here is Maisie Hirono saying, because this is a free country where we do not condemn people without due process of law, and we certainly don't condemn people's lives to the ash heap of history, simply without any corroborative evidence whatsoever.
Well, to say that she thinks that Dr. Ford thinks that she was assaulted, what is that?
Is she mistaken?
There was corroboration because she had talked about this assault to her husband, to others, before Brett Kavanaugh was ever nominated to the Supreme Court.
She took a lie detector test.
Corroboration was there.
Okay, so Mazie Hirono just, again, this is the line.
So the line is that we may have lost the battle regarding Brebecavino, but we're winning the cultural war.
The cultural war is going to be that men versus women, and that women always must be believed, and that men who do not buy in, or women who don't buy in, are just lackeys of the system.
This is the argument being made.
So Alyssa Milano was on Meet the Press.
Which is just because of her expertise in meh.
So Alyssa Milano showed up on Meet the Press after showing up at the hearing because of Dianne Feinstein, who's a very serious senator we know.
Alyssa Milano on Meet the Press, and she explained we're winning the cultural battle.
I think a lot has changed, but I also think a lot hasn't changed.
And yesterday, we may have lost a political battle, but I do think we are winning the cultural battle.
And often, I don't fight for the win.
I'm fighting so that generations don't have to deal with the abuses of power that we've had to deal with.
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So, quick note on the undemocratic Senate thing.
So it's mostly, so I don't want to hit Aaron Blake, because Aaron Blake is saying the right thing there, obviously.
But there are a bunch of people on the left, like Daily Kos guy David Neer.
He says, please stop lecturing us about how the Senate is deliberately undemocratic by design.
We know this.
We point it out because we think it's a bad thing.
Except when you thought it was a good thing, like two years ago.
When the Democrats were in control of the Senate, like in 2014, 2013, and you were real happy with the Senate, is undemocratic.
I love this.
Waleed Shaheed, who is a writer for Cynthia Nixon, he did comms and policy for Cynthia Nixon, he said the Senate is undemocratic and it matters.
Alec McGillis is a reporter for ProPublica, reporter, saying, the undemocratic nature of representation in the Senate is unlikely to be remedied anytime soon.
Good job, everybody.
Okay, so back to this war on women narrative that the left is trotting out.
This is best exemplified by a woman named Alexis Grinnell.
She has written on gender and politics for the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, and other outlets.
So she is a professional useless person.
And she writes a piece today that is titled, White Women, Come Get Your People.
They will defend their privilege to the death.
So what I like about this is that now the left is not just attacking men.
Now it's not just a war between women and men.
Now it's a war between intersectionality groups.
So it's black women versus white women and Hispanic women versus white women because it turns out white women largely sided with Brett Kavanaugh.
White women vote Republican more often because it turns out a lot of women actually think individually.
Women don't always think like the left wants them to think, which is fine and good.
I thought the whole point of feminism is you get to think what you want to think, but not according to the feminists.
Here is this insane piece.
I mean, this is fully crazy.
This is like, get the butterfly net and the straitjacket stuff.
Here's what Alexis Grinnell writes, in keeping with the moderate tone of the Democrats lately.
After a confirmation process where women all but slit their wrists Letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol.
The Senate still voted to confirm Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
With the exception of Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, all the women in the Republican conference caved, including Senator Susan Collins of Maine, who held out until the bitter end.
All but slit their wrists, letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through the Capitol.
I wasn't aware that screaming at people was a necessitating factor in them agreeing with you.
And if you scream at people about your experiences that have nothing to do with Brett Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh is guilty.
But Alexis Grinnell drops the hammer.
These women are gender traitors, to borrow a term from the dystopian TV series The Handmaid's Tale.
First of all, I think that we ought to have a new rule.
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I'm trying to remember the rule about using Hitler on the internet.
What's it called?
There's an actual name for it.
Godwin's Law.
So it's called Godwin's Law.
That basically the longer an internet argument goes on, the more likely somebody is going to drop Hitler in the middle of the argument.
Well, the same thing now holds true for the Handmaid's Tale.
Call it Shapiro's Law.
The longer any argument goes on with the left,
The more of an opportunity the left is going to have to drop a reference to Handmaid's Tale, the most overrated book of the last half century, and a series that has become popular largely because the media have decided that it is deeply important for women to believe that they are on the verge of being sexually enslaved by men, in a society where fewer women than ever in American history are getting married, in which women are waiting longer to get married, having fewer children, and having more income from jobs than any time in American history, but women are this close.
They're this close.
If Mike Pence has his way, we're going to stick those women in those red burqas and we're just going to force them to reproduce with us.
That's what we're going to do.
If Mike Pence has his way, that evil, evil Mike Pence.
So here's what Alexis Grinnell writes.
These women are gender traitors, to borrow a term from the dystopian TV series The Handmaid's Tale.
They've made standing by the patriarchy a full-time job.
The women who support them show up at the Capitol wearing Women for Kavanaugh t-shirts, but also probably tell their daughters to put on less revealing clothes when they go out.
Ooh, they tell their daughters not to dress all skimpy.
Ooh!
Ooh!
That means that they're bad moms, because the best moms tell their daughters to go out in the streets naked.
That's what the best moms do.
I love that.
First of all, I just have to stop right there.
This notion that if you tell your daughter not to dress skimply because she should respect herself more than that, that this makes you a bad parent or a restrictive parent is utterly insane.
It's utterly insane.
Only somebody who has never really raised children in any serious capacity could think this.
Or maybe if you think this, maybe you have a different strategy.
I don't know about Alexis Grinnell's situation.
Maybe she has kids.
Maybe.
Maybe.
All I will say is that it is a bad strategy to send your teenage girl to a high school in her bra and panties.
Just gonna say it's a bad idea.
And it doesn't make you a bad parent to say so.
It means that you're trying to protect your daughter from the fact that there are dangerous people in the world.
And also, because maybe your daughter doesn't want to look like a sex object all the time.
Maybe she doesn't want to portray herself as a sex object.
I like how the feminist movement moved from the correct opinion about pornography, that pornography was objectification of women for the pleasure of men, to pornography is empowerment of women.
Yeah, I'm sure that all those men who are in their basements right now watching Stormy Daniels old tapes are thinking about the empowerment of women.
They're all feminists.
That's what they're thinking right now.
Hey, but I love this.
Women who show up at the Capitol wearing Women for Kavanaugh t-shirts probably tell their daughters to put on less revealing clothes.
I also like the equation.
Put on less revealing clothes is the same thing as we want to make you a nun now.
Okay.
When did modesty become such a terrible thing?
I think men should be modest too, by the way.
But let's not pretend that men don't view women as sexualized objects, especially when women wear clothing that makes them more likely to be viewed as such.
It's a free country, you can wear what you want.
I'm not saying you shouldn't wear what you want.
I'm saying I would tell my daughters that because I'm not an idiot.
Okay, this piece continues.
They're more sympathetic to Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who actually shooed away a crowd of women and told them to grow up.
Well, right, because they were screaming at him like banshees.
We played the tape on the show.
And then he told them to grow up, and then they told him to grow up, which was hilarious, since he's one million years old.
Or Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whose response to a woman telling him she was raped was, I'm sorry, call the cops.
Which is, again, not an improper response.
Like, I'm sorry that happened to you.
Maybe you should talk to the authorities so we can catch the rapist and put him in jail is not a horrible response.
When did that become a bad response?
I'm just wondering.
What do you think Lindsey Graham's gonna do?
He's gonna grab his pistol like Yosemite Sam?
And you're gonna lead him to a house?
He's gonna burst through the front door, Lindsey Graham?
He's gonna burst through the front door?
He's like, well, I guess I have to shoot this fella now because this woman, without any evidence, said that she was raped by you.
Like that's gonna happen?
What do you think Lindsey Graham is going to say?
You want him to say, a woman comes up, she says, I was raped.
What's he supposed to say at that point?
You know what?
Now that you told me you were raped, Brett Kavanaugh is a rapist.
What in the?
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So the rampant mind loss that has taken over large swaths of the left obviously is being forwarded by their belief that if they just scream loud enough about how men are sexist, this will win out.
Alexis Grinnell has this piece in the New York Times we're going through, and I think it's indicative of a mindset on the left that it's pretty insane.
So, she's already accused women who supported Brett Kavanaugh or any Republican of being traitors.
She says, these are the kind of women who think that being falsely accused of rape is almost as bad as being raped.
The kind of women who agree with President Trump that it's a very scary time for young men in America, which he said during a news conference on Tuesday.
Well, it turns out, you don't actually have to compare the two, being falsely accused of rape is pretty bad.
Being falsely accused of rape does indeed ruin your life, destroy your reputation, destroy your family.
I don't have to compare that to rape, because there's no comparison.
Like, I don't see the necessity of comparing the crimes, but being falsely accused of rape is kind of a bad thing.
And when President Trump says, it's a very scary time for young men in America, that is 100% true.
I don't know a single mom, not a single mom with a boy who is not worried about the possibility of where all of this is going, especially considering the vagary of the nature of consent in our current political discourse.
We're now living in a time when Title IX charges can be brought against basically any man on any campus for any reason without any evidence and destroy the guy's life.
But here's Alexis Grinnell continuing, The people who scare me the most are the mothers, sisters, and wives of these young men, because my stupid uterus still holds out some insane hope of solidarity.
First of all, I just would like to point out that this appeared in the New York Times, the most solid paper in the United States, according to folks on the left.
And it printed a sentence in which a woman said that her uterus holds out hope.
Uteri do not hold out hope.
Uteri are an organ.
It's like me saying my appendix holds out hope.
In any case, she says, we're talking about white women, the same 53% who put their racial privilege ahead of their second-class gender status in 2016 by voting to uphold a system that values only their whiteness, just as they have for decades.
So white women put their femininity behind them.
They're not real women, is where this is going.
White women aren't real women, they're just white people.
They're just faceless, nameless white people.
You know, like these genderless widgets of whiteness.
Ooh!
Since 1952, white women have broken for Democratic presidential candidates only twice.
In the 1964 and 1996 elections, according to an analysis by Jane Jhun, a political scientist at the University of Southern California, women of color, and specifically black women, make the margin of difference for Democrats.
The voting patterns of white women and white men mirror each other much more closely, and they tend to cast their ballots for Republicans.
The gender gap in politics is really a color line.
Well, actually, that's not really true.
The gender gap in politics is really a marriage line.
If you actually look at how single people vote versus how married people vote, that's really the distinction.
Married people tend to vote heavily Republican.
Married women tend to vote heavily Republican.
Single women tend to vote heavily Democrat.
So it's not about color and it's not even about sex.
It's very much about marital status.
Why?
Because when you have kids and you start thinking to the next generation, and when you start thinking, what's the kind of society where I want to bring up a family?
And when you start thinking, You know, I have a family unit that requires protection from an overarching federal government that wants to get in my grill.
Well, that changes your mind a little bit.
But according to Alexis Grinnell, it's all about the whiteness.
That's because white women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain.
In return, they're placed on a pedestal to be cherished and revered, as Speaker Paul Ryan has said about women, but all the while denied basic rights.
This is just nonsensical.
It's just nonsensical.
I don't even know what that first sentence means.
White women benefit from patriarchy by trading on their whiteness to monopolize resources for mutual gain.
First of all, replace white with black in that sentence, and obviously it's racist.
But beyond that, the idea that women are somehow trading on their sexuality in order to achieve some decent treatment at the hands of the patriarchy, this is all crazy.
I'm sorry, this is all crazy stuff.
And I urge Democrats to run down this hill screaming like banshees as fast as possible.
Like, please, go, do this.
Make this your electoral strategy.
All those suburban white women, Go for that.
Let's do that.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
So here's her evidence.
scream at them and tell them that they're terrible people because they're white.
Go for that.
Let's do that.
It's amazing.
It's amazing.
So here's her evidence.
She says, during the 2016 presidential elections, did white women really vote with their whiteness in mind?
Lori Frazier-Yockley, a political scientist at UCLA, recently measured the effect of racial identity on white women's willingness to support Trump in 2016, and found a positive and statistically significant relationship.
So white women who voted for him did so to prop up their whiteness.
Or, alternatively, correlation does not equal causation because that's basic mathematical and statistical science.
In the study, white women who agreed that many women interpret innocent remarks or acts as sexist were 17% more likely to vote for a Republican candidate.
Right, that makes sense, because Democrats have gotten hysterical on this issue and they have decided that everything ought to be treated as rape.
When Matt Damon suggested that there were gradations of sexual misconduct, he was run out of town on a rail by folks on the left.
So finally, she concludes, this blood pact between white men and white women is at issue in the November midterms.
President Trump knows it, and at that Tuesday news conference he signaled to white women to hold the line.
The people that have been complaining to me about it the most, about what's happening, are women.
Women are very angry.
Yes, women are very angry.
Many mothers, many mothers are very angry, and that crosses racial lines.
But this is, the attempt to militarize the MeToo movement, which was supposed to be a bipartisan movement with basically universal support, no one wants to see women mistreated, has now been shattered thanks to politics, because the left decided that MeToo, any allegation, that under MeToo, any allegation brought against someone they like is going to be ignored, and any allegation brought against someone they don't like is going to be upheld.
That's the way this now works according to the left.
So me too broke on the shoals of politics because we were all on the same side with regard to all of this stuff.
But no longer.
I can't be on the same side as people who want to do away with due process simply because they think that this is somehow going to...
Okay, in just a second, I want to get to the craziest story of the day.
The craziest story of the day, as it turns out, comes courtesy of an astronaut.
This astronaut's name is Scott Kelly.
So Scott Kelly, is he a relation to Mark Kelly?
I don't know.
In any case, he's a former astronaut.
He went into space in, I believe, 1999, and he got himself into hot water with the political left.
Why?
Well, not because Scott Kelly's actually a right-winger.
He's not.
He actually tweeted this out.
One of the greatest leaders of modern times, Winston Churchill, said, in victory, magnanimity.
I guess those days are over.
Now, I could argue with that tweet on the merits.
Victory and magnanimity has not been part of American politics for quite a while.
I'm old enough to remember when Joe Biden told Barack Obama that Obamacare was a big effing deal.
I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama shined a rainbow flag on the wall of the White House after Obergefell.
I'm old enough to remember after 2008 when Barack Obama simply said to Republicans, I won.
I have a memory.
I don't have short-term memory loss.
I'm not Dory from Finding Nemo.
I remember all of this stuff happening.
But now we're told that it's bad if you celebrate Judge Kavanaugh being appointed to the Supreme Court.
But here's the part that's hilarious.
So Scott Kelly isn't ripped up by the right for this tweet.
Instead, he's ripped up by the left.
Why?
Because he had the temerity to quote Winston Churchill.
He tweeted out, did not mean to offend by quoting Churchill.
My apologies.
I will go and educate myself further on his atrocities, racist views, which I do not support.
My point was, we need to come together as one nation.
We are all Americans.
That should transcend partisan politics.
I will not come together with anyone who says I cannot quote Winston Churchill.
Not going to happen.
I will not come together with anyone who says I cannot quote Abraham Lincoln.
Because Abraham Lincoln, for most of his career, was a guy who believed in colonization of black people in Africa from the United States.
He was wrong about that.
That was a bad perspective.
I am not going to live in a country where I can't quote Abraham Lincoln and suggest that Abraham Lincoln was not a hero.
I'm not going to make common cause with people who say that I cannot quote Thomas Jefferson or George Washington or the wide variety of historical figures who were shaped by their time and held opinions that are not within the mainstream of today and are considered immoral today.
You know why?
Because that's idiotic.
There are two visions of how West works.
Vision 1.
The West is based on certain fundamental good principles.
And those principles were held by people who simultaneously did not live up to those principles in the fullest way, shaped as they were by the times in which they lived.
This is called being historically accurate.
That there are lots of good ideas embedded in times when lots of bad things are happening.
And this is the same thing that folks say about, they very often use this with regard to biblical criticism.
Well, the Bible is an immoral document because it contains things that we would not like today.
So, for example, it talks about slavery in the Bible.
And it's like, right, because the Bible was directed toward people who were routinely enslaving people, and the Bible was attempting to curb them from slavery, which is why, over time, the greatest advocates for freeing slaves were actually biblically-minded people in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The point is that either you see the West as a repository of certain eternal truths that we have not all lived up to, or you see it as a repository of evil that must be torn down.
And the same people who are saying you can't quote Churchill are the people who say we have to tear down the entire structure from the inside.
It has to be torn down, root and branch, and then, when we're finally done, then we can erect a new system in its place.
And so they'll tell lies about Churchill.
Churchill said some very nasty things during his career.
Things we would consider nasty now.
He heaped racial scorn on a variety of groups ranging from the Indians to the, like, from India, to the Sudanese, to certain Asian tribes.
But what the left has done is they've taken those comments out of context to suggest that he was complicit in genocide in Burma, which is not true.
To suggest that he wanted to gas people, which is also not true.
He suggested using tear gas against people to save their lives as opposed to using bullets, actually.
So they take all this stuff out of context.
This has relevance today not only because it demonstrates the extremism of the left, that we're now at the point where we're not allowed to quote Winston Churchill, But it explains why there's this big fight that's now taking place over Columbus Day.
So on the left, the perspective is that Columbus Day is bad because Western Civilization is bad, and so we must celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on the day that Columbus discovered Hispaniola.
And on the right, the perspective is Christopher Columbus and the West have committed a lot of sins, but it is an eminently good thing for the world that Western Civilization found the Western Hemisphere.
That's the basic argument.
It's really not about Columbus.
It's about the value of Western Civilization.
That's really, at root, that is what the argument is about.
So, meanwhile, I want to talk about some things that I like, and then we'll talk about some things that I hate.
So, things that I like today.
Heather McDonald has a fantastic, fantastic piece over at City Journal, in which she talks about the moving definition of rape.
It's called, Trauma and Truth.
The feminist movement has shifted the definition of rape to include regret.
And she talks specifically about, it's very difficult to come to agreement on Me Too when you won't define your terms.
So what she says, and she points out, is that in preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the Believe Survivors mandate as well as its corollary.
The claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don't report their assaults, that's because the social and emotional costs are too high, as California Congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.
And the point that Heather McDonald makes is that a lot of A lot of the variability in how sexual activity takes place makes for confusion about what exactly rape is.
And so when the left draws this hard line where anything a woman says rape is, is rape, what they are really doing is they are refusing to acknowledge the inherent vagaries of sexual relationships.
So here's what Heather McDonald says, and this is correct.
In 2015, the Association of American Universities conducted a sexual assault survey at 27 selective colleges.
The vast majority of survey respondents whom the AAU researchers classified as sexual assault victims never reported their alleged assaults to their college's rape hotlines, sexual assault resources centers, or Title IX offices, much less to campus or city police.
And the overwhelming reason the alleged victims did not report is that they did not think that what happened to them was that serious.
At Harvard, for example, over 69% of female respondents who checked the box for penetration by use of force did not report the incident to any authority.
Most of those non-reporters, 65%, did not think that their experience was serious enough to report.
Now, why is that?
That's because, in college campuses, we have what is called a yes-means-yes standard, which means that if a woman goes through with the act of sex with a guy, and they're both drunk, and she wakes up the next morning, and she didn't say yes at every step because she was drunk, then therefore, she was raped.
But, in many cases, the woman says, you know what?
I wasn't really raped.
I made a report, but I didn't feel it was that serious.
Now, is she wrong?
Is her subjective opinion wrong?
Or is it possible that people are subjective in their opinions of what constitutes consent?
Like there's certain hard lines that we all agree to, right?
Forcible rape is rape.
And then there's a bunch of gray area.
And failing to acknowledge the gray area with regard to this stuff leads to absurdities like the yes means yes rules.
No one has ever had sex with a legal checklist on hand.
No one in history has ever done this.
And so when people in college campuses say you're supposed to say like, can I touch your hand now?
Can I touch your shoulder now?
Can I touch your knee now?
There's a great episode of New Girl.
where, what's the name of the star of New Girl?
I'm trying to remember her name.
You know, the bangs.
This is going to drive me crazy.
In any case, her character, who's the main character in...
Zoe Deschanel.
Thank you, Zoe Deschanel.
Her character is going out with a high school boyfriend, and it's prom night, and she wants to have sex with him.
And he sits down with her, and he's a feminist.
And so he goes, do I have permission to touch your hand?
She's like, yes.
And he's like, do I have permission to touch your knee?
And she's like, yes.
And finally, she's like, listen, you have permission to do anything you want.
You have permission to do whatever you want.
And he's like, but I don't feel comfortable with that.
He said, I feel like you're getting aggressive with me now.
And so she ends up running out and having sex with some random guy behind, like, in the children's play area.
Because no one actually operates like this.
No one operates like this.
And that's not to suggest that bad things don't happen to women.
Terrible things happen to women all the time.
That's true.
But we actually have to define our terms if you want all of us to agree on things.
I want to agree with these women.
I want to believe victims.
I want to believe survivors.
I want to.
But I have to know what definitions we're using and I have to know what the corroborative evidence is.
Otherwise, we have just a moving standard.
A moving target.
Good example.
You remember when the entire left went nuts over Aziz Ansari inviting a woman back to his apartment whom he had sex with?
And then she was like, oh yeah, I was raped.
And you read her story and there was nothing in there that suggested she was sexually assaulted or raped.
Nothing.
And they went nuts over it anyway.
And you had to apologize.
Do I think that this has become a moral panic?
Yes, I think this has become a moral panic.
Heather McDonald's piece is really good.
She says, Our booze-fueled hookup culture has made relations between men and women messier than ever, leaving many girls and women with pangs of regret, but those regrets do not equal rape.
If we were actually in the midst of an epidemic of sexual assault, as New Jersey Senator Cory Booker asserted the evening of the Ford Kavanaugh hearings, we would presumably have seen women and girls take protective actions, such as avoiding frat parties and flocking to single-sex schools.
It's a good piece by Heather MacDonald and she is, in large part, correct.
Okay, other things that I like.
So I have to give props to Banksy.
Not a big fan of Banksy's art, but I will say that this was an amazing, amazing prank.
to the latter consideration.
It's a good piece by Heather McDonald, and she is in large part correct.
Okay, other things that I like.
So I have to give props to Banksy.
Not a big fan of Banksy's art, but I will say that this was an amazing, amazing prank.
So Banksy created a painting of a girl with a balloon and sold it at a Sotheby's auction.
It went for, I think, $1.4 million.
And he had his art rigged so that when the final gavel was sounded, the painting would begin to shred itself.
It would go through the bottom barrier of the frame and actually physically shred, which is hilarious because the truth is that the value of art is entirely subjective.
It's entirely subjective.
And it's based on artificial scarcity, and he's making that point.
So I have to give it to Banksy.
I think this is a pretty good prank.
And he'll sell the thing for more money after it's been half-shredded, because now he made a meta point.
Because this is what art is.
It's not really appreciation of the art, it's appreciation of the meta point of the message.
So I think Banksy may not even understand the amount to which he's mocking the art community.
I think he thinks he's mocking capitalism, but he's actually mocking the subjectivity of art.
But nonetheless, it's pretty funny.
Here's some video.
Okay, and then look to the wall.
Uh oh, there goes the painting.
And the audience goes silent and shocked.
Oh my god, what just happened?
People can't believe it.
So, that's pretty funny.
So, good times.
Alright, time for a couple of things that I hate.
Okay, so Pete Davidson was on SNL over the weekend.
SNL has just been egregious this season because folks on the left are utterly incapable of making light of the events happening.
For folks on the left, the feeling that they have down in the pit of their stomachs is that their brother just died.
And because their brother just died, how can you joke about your brother just dying?
So instead, you just get kind of bitter and cynical and nasty.
And that's basically what you're seeing from SNL these days.
So Pete Davidson I don't even know what he's wearing.
It's like a tangerine orange kind of long-sleeved t-shirt.
It looks like he was picking up stuff on the side of the road before he came in.
In any case, he goes off on Kanye West.
Why?
Because Kanye West was on SNL the previous week and had worn his MAGA hat So, speaking strictly for myself, what Kanye said after he went off the air last week was one of the worst, like, most awkward things I've ever seen here.
And I've seen Chevy Chase speak to an intern.
And we all had to stand behind him.
And here's what it looked like.
So, like...
I'm like on the left, I'm like, oh God.
And then I'm like, I want a career, so I leave.
Being mentally ill is not an excuse to act like a jackass.
And then he went on to say, Kanye's a genius at art, but he doesn't know anything about politics.
You're a comedian, dude.
Like, you're on SNL.
And yet you know something about politics?
I'm old enough to remember.
I keep using that phrase today because the hypocrisy of the left is so strong.
I'm old enough to remember when Laura Ingraham was ripped up and down for suggesting that LeBron James should shut up and dribble because he knew basketball, but that didn't mean he knew politics.
And I said at the time, anybody's entitled to their opinion on politics, but we get to assess whether those opinions are smart or not.
Kanye's entitled to his opinion on politics.
And listen, this is coming from the guy who said, live by the Kanye, die by the Kanye.
But, when folks on the left suddenly discover that Kanye West is a celebrity, and maybe celebrities don't have the smartest takes on politics, it's kind of ironic and kind of silly.
Okay, other things that I hate.
So, CNN's original headline on this story was just terrible.
The original headline was Israelis report that Palestinian kills two Israelis in terror attack.
Wasn't that a Palestinian killed two people in terror attack.
Their original report suggested that it was a workplace violence incident, which is absurd.
What actually happened is that over the weekend, a 27-year-old Israeli named Kim Yechezgal was tied up and executed point-blank by a Palestinian co-worker in the West Bank, a place where Jews and Arabs work together.
The Palestinian Authority obviously will give money to the terrorist family.
She leaves behind a baby daughter and a husband.
She was one of two people who was killed.
There's a picture of her, obviously a very beautiful young woman, and she was murdered for the crime of being a Jew and living in Judea and Samaria.
That's exactly what happened here.
The media covered it, as they always do, as the predictable effect of occupation, which is pretty astonishing that if you are working at a factory next to Arabs with whom you share a life, and one of them Okay, so that's a great tragedy.
I believe there's a GoFundMe for the family.
I'll try and tweet it out a little bit later if I can find it.
Okay, let's do a quick Federalist paper since we've been remiss the last few weeks.
So we are all the way up to Federalist 46.
People don't have freedom of action.
Okay, so that's a great tragedy.
I believe there's a GoFundMe for the family.
I'll try and tweet it out a little bit later if I can find it.
Okay, let's do a quick Federalist paper since we've been remiss the last few weeks.
So we are all the way up to Federalist 46.
In this Federalist paper, Madison is wrong.
So here is where Madison is wrong.
James Madison argues in favor of the notion that the people will be more loyal to the states than they are to the federal government.
So this is still true in, like, Texas, and not true pretty much anywhere else.
I live in California.
No one is more loyal to the state of California than they are to the federal government.
No one.
That's just not the way it works.
No one says, I'm a Californian.
That's not how it operates.
But Madison says, truth in the less than decency requires that the event in every case should be supposed to depend on the sentiments and sanction of their common constituents.
Many considerations besides those suggested on a former occasion seem to place it beyond doubt that the first and most natural attachment of the people will be to the governments of their respective states.
And originally, of course, this was true.
At the time of the founding, people were more loyal to the state of Virginia than they were to the federal government, which is why, note to leftists, The Senate requires two votes per state because the only way the states were going to sign on is if they felt that they had enough insurance against the popular vote that they could afford to sign on to a federal constitution.
Smaller states didn't want their authority withdrawn from them without their permission, not on the basis of having a smaller population.
That's why there is a United States Senate today.
Madison argues the only way the federal government could ever earn the appreciation of the people would be terrific administration.
He says, if the people should in the future become more partial to the federal than the state government, the change would only result from manifest and irresistible proofs of a better administration.
That obviously is untrue.
He missed the point, which is that if the federal government grows and grows and grows and encroaches and encroaches and encroaches slowly and more slowly, Then people would just get used, like a lobster in a pot, they'd just get used to the heat.
They'd just get used to the federal government being deeply important in their lives.
And then he adds that the federal government would seriously take into account state interests, just as state legislatures take into account county interests.
But he says, in the end, and this is the point that the left really doesn't want to acknowledge because it ties into Second Amendment rights, He says that the states, if the federal government got too big for its britches, the states would cut it down to size.
He says,
This is the reason why people in Texas don't want to give up their guns to the federal government, because they believe if you give up your guns, you're giving up all your other rights because they believe if you give up your guns, you're giving up as well.
He says the only real problem would be federal power for its own sake, and he says that would never happen because the state governments with the people on their side would be able to repel the danger.
So, Madison was pretty clear about what the function of states and arms ownership was in Federalist 46.
Okay.
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So it should be a lot of fun.
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