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The Year Of The Wokescold | Ep. 686
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Welcome back.
President Trump has himself a merry little Christmas, Mitt Romney decides to go after President Trump on his first day on the job, and Louis C.K.
gets clobbered by the Social Justice Warriors.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
Well, welcome back.
I hope that you had a wonderful Christmas and a wonderful New Year's.
I know that I did, and I could not be more excited to be back here with you.
I know, sounds like I don't want to be here, but that's not true.
I actually do want to be here.
I want to be here with you.
We're going to get through this next year together because it's going to be one heck of a ride.
And we have a lot of news to fill you in on.
A lot happened over the last week and a half.
Some of it humorous, some of it tragic.
There'll be laughs.
There'll be smiles.
There'll be crying.
There'll be tears.
There'll be a lot going on in just a second.
But first, let's talk about the national debt.
$1.2 trillion.
That's how much was added to the national debt in fiscal year 2018.
Economists say that by the end of 2019, we will be spending more on the interest on our national debt than we spend on Medicare.
And by 2023, more than we spend on the military.
As balloon payments become due, you should be asking yourself, what exactly is the impact on the U.S.
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Okay, so it is a brand new year, and there's a lot of debate already about whether 2019 is going to be 2018 part two, the revenge, or whether it's going to be part one of 2020.
Pretty obviously it's going to be part one of 2020 because everybody is already running for president.
Everybody is already trying to figure out whether President Trump is even going to stick around to run again for president.
The answer is probably yes.
But President Trump had himself a merry little Christmas.
He spent the Christmas of his life in the White House by himself.
Yeah, basically waiting out the government shutdown and tweeting furiously from the Oval Office.
So he had himself a lot of fun.
He was there for Christmas.
He was there for New Year's.
And that led him to send out a bunch of tweets, a bunch of videos talking about what he's done so far.
Now, all of that is fine.
The president has accomplished a great many things in his first couple of years in office.
Remember, he's only been in office for a little under two years, which is incredible.
So for President Trump, it's sort of like there's Trump years and then there's regular years.
So in regular years, it's only been like a couple of years of President Trump's presidency.
In Trump years, it's been at least 200 years of President Trump's presidency.
Time has warped completely.
President Trump has actually been president since 1733 in regular years.
But in Trump years, he's only been president for like two years.
So there's that.
But President Trump, I just want to wish you a very, very happy New Year.
It's going to be a great year.
Complicated, but great.
cut for Twitter.
Here's what it sounded like.
I just want to wish you a very, very happy new year.
It's going to be a great year.
Complicated, but great.
I will tell you, there has never been an administration, and I'm very proud of this, that's done more than the Trump administration in the first two years of office.
We've had a great two years.
I'm working hard for you.
I'm fighting for you.
We're going to win.
We're going to win all the way.
We're going to win at everything we do.
So happy new year, and let's enjoy the next year, and then we're going to enjoy the following year, and then we have four more.
And everything is going to be so beautiful.
Thank you very much.
Have a fantastic new year.
President Trump then tweeted out about all of his accomplishments.
He said, listen, everything's been great so far.
You guys just don't appreciate, you don't appreciate it.
You don't know it.
You don't know anything.
It's been great.
I don't know why you didn't get it.
So he tweeted out that everybody should calm down and enjoy the ride.
He tweeted out in all capital letters, This is his first tweet of the new year.
All capital letters.
Great things are happening for the country.
Nothing says to me, calm down and enjoy the ride, like somebody tweeting that at me in all capital letters.
years for those not suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.
So calm down and enjoy the ride.
All capital letters.
Great things are happening for the country.
Nothing says to me, calm down and enjoy the ride like somebody tweeting that at me in all capital letters.
I know that if I'm in the back of the car and somebody in the front of the car says, calm down and enjoy the ride.
Nothing is going to make me calm down and enjoy the ride quite like that.
But there was this feeling of incipient panic that was building up in the last days of 2018.
And now it has carried forward into 2019.
President Trump's furious tweets over the break were not helpful that way again.
The president has accomplished a lot of things in his first couple of years in office.
It's not supremely helpful to be leading off his re-election campaign with him kind of hunkered down in the White House just tweeting whatever comes into his mind.
Right now, what the White House should be projecting is a feeling of invincibility, a feeling of calm, a feeling of collected collected goal-making and shared purpose.
And instead, what we're sort of getting is President Trump feeling isolated and tweeting out a lot of things.
Now, a lot of things he's tweeting are true, by the way.
So the president, for example, was tweeting out a lot about the border.
Remember, we're still in the middle of a government shutdown.
That shutdown was initiated by the Democrats.
There's been a lot of talk about President Trump initiating the shutdown because he was foolish enough to claim on national television that he wanted to own the shutdown.
But in reality, President Trump did not really initiate the shutdown.
It was the Democrats who initiated the shutdown in the sense that they could just give him $5 billion for his wall and then be done with it.
He'd claim victory.
They'd be able to go home and sleep at night.
Instead, they've decided to deny him that funding.
So this led President Trump to tweet out a lot about the border wall.
Now, this would be a decent use of Twitter if it were not for all of his other use of Twitter.
He tweeted out, President and Mrs. Obama built, has a 10-foot wall around their D.C.
mansion and compound, I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security.
U.S.
needs the same thing, slightly larger version.
Okay, well that's fine.
Everybody went nuts.
How dare President Trump mention they have a wall around their home?
As though that's a security breach?
It's not a security breach, okay?
I have a wall around my home.
Most people have some sort of fence around their house, especially in California.
But President Trump then continued, The Democrats will probably submit a bill, being cute as always, which gives everything away but gives nothing to border security, namely the wall.
You see, without the border security, without the wall, there can be no border security.
The other stuff is just, by comparison, is just, by comparison, meaningless bells and whistles.
Remember this.
Throughout the ages, some things never get better and never change, President Trump tweeted.
You have walls and you have wheels.
It was always that way.
And it will always be that way.
Please explain to the Democrats, there can never be a replacement for a good, old-fashioned wall.
Well, first of all, you can have walls and you can have wheels and you can have fire.
These are great inventions of the past.
And President Trump, I can't wait to hear his essay on why the invention of fire was such a useful thing.
But all of this is not particularly terrible, right?
The President Trump going after the Democrats on the wall stuff is not particularly terrible.
It's just that the incessant nature of it is not good politics.
And this is going to become an issue for President Trump come 2020.
Because when it comes to the issues, President Trump has been pretty good.
As I've said many times, I did not expect him to govern this conservatively when he was elected in 2016.
He has governed far more conservatively than I thought he was going to.
With that said, the character flaws that the president has evidenced are going to be the chief reason why people are uncomfortable with him.
It's what's going to hurt him at the polls.
It's what's going to alienate people come 2020.
It's that stuff he has to get under control.
And it's also where the Democrats are putting all their heavy pressure.
They're putting all their heavy pressure right now on the character point.
Leading that charge was General Stanley McChrystal.
He's going to be on our Sunday special this week, by the way.
General McChrystal was on ABC's This Week over the weekend and he basically slammed President Trump's character.
Here he was talking with the very objective journalist George Stephanopoulos.
I think it's important for me to work for people who I think are basically honest, who tell the truth as best they know it.
You think he's a liar?
I don't think he tells the truth.
Is Trump immoral in your view?
I think he is.
If we want to be governed by someone we wouldn't do a business deal with because their background is so shady.
If we're willing to do that, then that's in conflict with who I think we are.
So there's McChrystal Sess with Martha Raddatz on ABC's This Week, going after Trump's character.
Now, this was always going to be Trump's Achilles heel, was going to be the character point.
It has been for a very long time.
President Trump has never been a guy of supreme moral fiber, shall we say.
And this was one of his selling points in 2016 was, you don't have to worry about me pulling my punches.
I'm not going to pull my punches.
I've never pulled my punches.
I'm not that kind of guy.
Well, he didn't pull his punches against General McChrystal either.
He then tweeted out in response, and this is where, again, a little bit of wherewithal from the president would be a lot more useful than what he is doing here, because he says something pretty immoral here.
He says, General McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama.
And he puts General in quotation marks and scare quotes.
First of all, General McChrystal is an actual general who served 34 years in the military under some very trying circumstances.
And he was fired by Obama because he was very critical of Obama's strategy in Afghanistan because he said Obama wasn't being hawkish enough in Afghanistan.
So it's not like he got fired for a bad reason.
But President Trump goes off on him.
He says, General McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama.
Last assignment a total bust for a big dumb mouth.
Hillary lover.
And which is weird.
Hillary hasn't had a lover in Decades.
But in any case, President Trump...
I'm tweeting out about how General McChrystal isn't an actual general, obviously not a great look for the President of the United States, saying that he was fired like a dog.
Again, as I've said before on the show, President Trump loves saying that people were fired like a dog.
I don't know where he grew up where dogs were fired.
I've never actually seen a dog fired.
It'd be weird, right?
You're doing a terrible job, dog.
You're fired.
But in any case, President Trump says that General McChrystal was fired like a dog.
Again, the point that I'm making here is a broader one, which is that if President Trump wishes to win re-election, he is going to have to convince the American people that he is actually fit for the job as a character.
It's not just that he's superior to the Democrat, but now we've actually seen him in the presidency, he said before he was elected he could be Lincoln-esque, he could be like Washington, might not be the way that he's used to working, but he could kind of grow into the office, and every day he proves, on a character level, that he's not actually doing that.
Now, does that mean Does that mean that President Trump can't win re-election?
No, of course not.
Democrats could win somebody radical.
They could run somebody crazy.
The economy could continue to be good.
Circumstances could continue to benefit President Trump.
Lots of things could happen.
Would it be easier for President Trump if he could somehow change his character?
Yes.
Is that going to happen?
No, it's not going to happen.
And that raises a question for Republicans.
And that question was really raised by Mitt Romney over the weekend.
So Romney is the new incoming senator from Utah.
And let's face a fact about Mitt Romney.
It was Mitt Romney's defeat in 2012 that I think broke the country.
Because Mitt Romney was maybe the most decent guy to run for president of the United States in my lifetime.
He was as clean as the driven snow in his personal life.
He was a guy who was moderate in his politics, so moderate that he had been governor of Massachusetts, and well-beloved by a lot of members of the left, who had given him strange new respect up to the point when he won the Republican nomination.
They proceeded to destroy him, slander him, call him a bad human being, and then he lost to Barack Obama in Obama's re-elect effort in 2012.
And that led Republicans to believe, listen, if they're going to drag somebody like Mitt Romney through the mud, If Romney's good character and five bucks would have bought him a cup of coffee in the 2012 election, then why do we need a guy of character in 2016 at all?
Let's just get the nastiest guy who can throw the most punches, and let's nominate that guy.
Well, now Mitt Romney is back, and he is criticizing President Trump on a character level.
And I'll explain why what he's doing here is tactically inept.
Why it's tactically inept.
Why you can criticize President Trump's character when President Trump says things that are character-free, like putting scare quotes around General when dealing with Stanley McChrystal.
Why, you can say that when President Trump does stuff that is bad, it's bad, but that's not the same thing as what Mitt Romney did today in the pages of the Washington Post.
I'll explain in just one second.
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Okay, so, Mitt Romney, His first day in office, so what does he decide to do?
Write an entire op-ed about how unpalatable President Trump is.
Now, there are those of us in the commentariat community whose job it is to actually comment when the president does good stuff and when the president does bad stuff.
I've been using the so-called good Trump, bad Trump model since 2015.
Since 2015, 2016, when President Trump was then just candidate Trump.
But Mitt Romney has been highly critical of Trump throughout.
He was very critical of him in 2016.
He gave a long speech about how he thought Trump was unfit to be President of the United States.
And then Trump thought about him for Secretary of State, picked Rex Tillerson instead, sort of humiliated him publicly.
And then Romney ran for Senate in Utah and took President Trump's endorsement.
And now Romney is turning back around on Trump and smacking him directly in the groin.
He has a piece today in the Washington Post titled, Now, here's the problem with what Mitt Romney is doing here.
I may agree with a lot of his points with regard to the president's character, but What he is doing is trying, essentially, to force Republicans, trying to force conservatives into now having to choose between, quote-unquote, conservatism and Trumpism.
It's a false choice.
It's a false choice.
He's trying to force people to have to choose between President Trump and conservatism.
And that may have been more of a choice in 2016, before Trump was president, but Trump is president now.
And Trump's given us a lot of very conservative policies.
Here's what Mitt Romney writes today.
And it does beg a particular question, which is whether Mitt Romney is going to try to primary President Trump come 2020.
Come 2020.
So Romney writes, the Trump presidency made a deep dissent in December.
The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president's thoughtless claim that America has long been a sucker in world affairs all defined his presidency down.
It is well known that Donald Trump was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling.
It did not.
When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion.
His early appointments were encouraging, but on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions last month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.
Those are pretty strong words that the president hasn't risen to the mantle of the office, meaning basically he's still unfit for the presidency.
He says it's not that all of the president's policies have been misguided.
He was right to align U.S.
corporate taxes with those of global competitors, to strip out excessive regulations, to crack down on China's unfair trade practices, to reform criminal justice, to appoint conservative judges.
These are policies mainstream Republicans have promoted for years, but policies and appointments are only part of a presidency.
I'll continue by explaining more about Mitt Romney's perspective here in just a second and why he's doing it in the pages of the Washington Post and what this means for the sort of choice that is going to be set up falsely by Romney and by the press in 2020 for Republicans.
I'll explain that in just a second.
Mitt Romney says, to a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation.
A president should unite us and inspire us to follow our better angels.
A president should demonstrate the essential qualities of honesty and integrity and elevate the national discourse with comedy and mutual respect.
As a nation, we have been blessed with presidents who have called on the greatness of the American spirit.
With the nation so divided, resentful, and angry, presidential leadership in qualities of character is indispensable, and it is in this province where the incumbent's shortfall has been most glaring.
Then he talks about how in 2016, 84% of people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada, and Sweden believed the American president would do the right thing in world affairs.
One year later, that number had fallen to 16%.
I don't know why he's citing that poll.
Obama was terrible for foreign affairs, and who cares what the Germans have to say?
About American foreign policy.
But Romney continues.
He talks about America abdicating leadership, and then he talks about repairing our fiscal foundation.
Basically, this piece reads like Mitt Romney is interested in running for president again in 2020.
That's what it reads like.
He concludes his piece by saying, I remain optimistic about our future.
In an innovation age, Americans excel.
More importantly, noble instincts live in the hearts of Americans.
The people of this great land will eschew the politics of anger and fear if they are summoned to the responsibility by leaders in homes, in churches, in schools, in businesses, in government, who raise our sights and respect the dignity of every child of God, the ideal that is the essence of America.
So first of all, I want to argue with Romney's general perception of the presidency.
I don't think that the president really raises the level of the American people as a general rule.
I think the American people may raise the level of the president, but the president is a guy hired to do a particular job.
If you get your moral guidance from the president of the United States, I would suggest that you're looking to the wrong places.
If you get your moral guidance from your teachers, from your parents, from your family, from your pastor, from your priest or rabbi, that seems to make a lot more sense to me than getting your moral guidance from Barack Obama, Donald J. Trump, George W. Bush, or anybody else in what is a public governmental office.
But in any case, what Romney's doing here is really counterproductive.
Now, again, this is coming from someone who's been quite critical of President Trump's character.
But not in the pages of the Washington Post since President Trump became president.
And the reason for that is because what Romney is actually doing now is he's setting up the possibility of a primary run against Trump.
There's been a lot of talk about this from a certain segment of the Republican Party and it's a big mistake.
The reason that it's a big mistake is because basically what you are now suggesting, what the media will suggest is that a primary race between, say, Mitt Romney and Donald Trump is a race between true decency and conservatism versus the evil, evil Trump guy.
And then when Trump wins the primaries, it'll be, well, look at those deplorable Republicans.
They voted for Trump over Mitt Romney.
Look at those terrible, terrible Republicans, those evil, terrible people who voted for the incumbent president when they were given a choice of a more decent, kinder, gentler alternative.
When that isn't the actual calculus, because whoever runs against Trump in a primary is going to have to basically make three cases.
They're going to have to declare that they are a person of better character than Trump, which in all plausibility will be true probably.
They'll have to say they're a better representative of conservatism than Trump in 2020, which probably will not be true in terms of policy.
And then they'll have to say that they're more likely to win in 2020 than Trump, which is likely to be false.
And that's going to be the calculus that actual Republican voters do.
When they look at 2020, they're not just going to say in a vacuum, who would I prefer, Mitt Romney or Donald Trump?
They're going to look and say, Mitt Romney lost in 2012 and Trump won in 2016.
So I'm more likely to vote for the guy who I think is going to win, Trump.
They're going to look at Mitt Romney in 2012 versus Trump in 2020 and say, Trump has a record of appointing now, probably by that point, 100 federal judges.
Trump has a record of cutting regulations.
Trump has a record of rebuilding alliances in the Middle East.
President Trump has a record of criminal justice reform and movement of the U.S.
Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the American military and, God willing, a decent economy.
And they're going to look at all those factors and they're going to say, I'll pick Trump over Romney.
But what Romney will have set up, and have done so in the pages of the Washington Post, is this false narrative that choosing Trump over a Romney or a John Kasich or somebody else in the Republican Party is just Republicans doubling down on Trump's lack of character, which is really not what's going on here.
And most people accept it.
In the middle of 2015, 2016, what Trump was as a human being.
Most people certainly since then know what he is as a human being.
I don't think there are a lot of Republicans sitting around thinking that this guy is somebody you'd recommend to be your pastor.
Somebody that you'd recommend to babysit your kids when you go out for dinner at night.
But they look at his record, they look at the fact that he beat Hillary Clinton, and they'd be likely to vote for him in a primary.
But what Romney is doing here is he is setting up a narrative that the left will use to club Republicans into submission, which is that if you vote for Trump in 2020, then this is because you're a bad person.
It reinforces the deplorables theme that Democrats used to their great advantage in 2016, and hope to use particularly to advantage with younger people in upcoming elections.
That's bad news.
And so what Romney is doing here is strategically inept, unless he believes that Trump is going to leave office in disgrace, in which case he's basically positioning to be the heir apparent and to pick up the mantle, saying, well, I stood to thwart Trump all these years, and now you should hand it over to me.
By the way, the chances of that happening are zero.
Republicans are not handing over the party to the guy who lost to Barack Obama in his re-elect effort in 2012.
It's not going to happen.
The general feeling among Republicans about Romney is that Romney is a perfectly serviceable, nice fellow who lost to Barack Obama and is really milquetoast.
And is spending more time ripping Trump these days than he is going after Democrats.
That's the general perception among Republicans.
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I think there are problems.
For example, today, Jerry Falwell did an interview in the Washington Post that is not great.
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Speaking of the attempt to paint Republicans as bad characters, Jerry Falwell Jr., who is the head of Liberty University, a great institution.
I love the students at Liberty U.
I spoke there last year.
It's really a fantastic, fantastic place.
But Jerry Falwell Jr.
is doing a poor job of representing Republicans when it comes to President Trump, particularly, again, playing into the narrative that Republicans don't need.
So as I say, going forward to 2020, the narrative that would benefit Republicans is President Trump changes character.
Barring that, the narrative that Republicans are going to want to push is, you may not like President Trump's character.
I may think that he's a bad character myself, but is he getting the job done?
So far, the answer is yes.
And so I'm not going to turn over the government to radical leftists simply to show my disdain for President Trump's character, which I have done every day since President Trump basically announced whenever he has done something wrong.
I don't have to throw the election to Elizabeth Warren or Kamala Harris in order to demonstrate that I don't like President Trump's tweeting.
And that is not a necessity of American government.
That seems like a better argument.
But unfortunately, there are Republicans like Mitt Romney who want to make this next election a choice between President Trump's character and conservatism, which is not an actual choice.
That's not the choice that's happening here.
And then there are people like Jerry Falwell Jr. who sort of want to force the same choice.
They want to suggest that President Trump is actually a godsend in every possible way.
So Jerry Falwell Jr.
has this long interview in the Washington Post when he talks about how President Trump is just spectacular.
And he was asked about whether Christians were supposed to support nice guys.
He said, it's a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor, can somehow be imputed on a nation.
Jesus never told Caesar how to run Rome.
He went out of his way to say, that's the earthly kingdom.
I'm about the heavenly kingdom and I'm here to teach you how to treat others, how to help others.
But when it comes to serving your country, you render under Caesar that which is Caesar's.
I have a real problem with this basic idea, which is that it's an Augustinian idea, this city of God, city of man distinction.
And it's not quite as firm as Jerry Falwell Jr. is.
is making it right here, which is basically that Christians have no say in how the nation is to be governed.
Rendering to Caesar what is Caesar's means that Christians should have no care about the character of their leaders is a very weird contention.
And then he talks about how there's literally nothing that President Trump could do that would endanger his support.
That's an amazing statement.
Again, people of principle?
Should always say the answer is yes.
There's always stuff that Trump could do to endanger my support.
He endangers my support every day when he picks up, when he decides to do something unpalatable.
You should feel the way about every politician, by the way.
Even politicians that you love.
Politicians that you love should endanger your support every time they go out every day, because one pretty fundamental element of faith is that you should have faith in God, but not in man.
To say that nothing President Trump could ever do would endanger your support is an amazing statement from a Christian leader.
But this is, again, reinforcing a narrative that the left wants, which is that it's either total fealty to Trump or conservatism and decency.
That's a false choice, and it's not a real choice, and it's not what's really going on right here.
Again, I think that Jerry Falwell Jr.
does a disservice when he does interviews.
Like this.
And again, this is the narrative that Democrats are going to try to push in 2020.
Now, the good news for Republicans is that Democrats are going to have a really tough time pushing this particular narrative in 2020 because they've become so radical themselves.
So the narrative Democrats want in 2020 is the reverse narrative of 2000.
In 2000, it was two years after the Clinton impeachment scandal and the Monica Lewinsky stuff.
And President Clinton was out of the picture, but Al Gore was now running for the White House, and George W. Bush was running on the basis of bringing character back to the Oval Office.
It's the same thing that Jimmy Carter did in 1976 when he ran against Gerald Ford.
It's time for us to bring character back to the White House.
That's usually a pretty successful tack, but in order to make that Claim you actually have to be some semblance of normal and moral.
And the problem for Democrats is that there aren't too many candidates in their ranks or anything remotely resembling normal and moral.
The latest case in point is Elizabeth Warren.
So Elizabeth Warren is she declared over the weekend.
That she wants to run for president, which is a shock to precisely no one.
She'd been sending smoke signals from her wigwam about it for legitimately years at this point.
So she announced that she would be running for president and then she said she was going to build a grassroots campaign and that she would be wandering the plains in search of both Buffalo and voters.
Here is Senator, very Native American, Elizabeth Warren, talking about exploring her presidential run in front of a garage before the Boston, the assembled Boston media.
Right now, Washington works great for the wealthy and the well-connected.
It's just not working for anyone else.
But I am optimistic.
I believe in what we can do together.
I'm going to build a grassroots campaign.
It's already got people from all across this country who are going to be part of it, and together we're going to make change.
And if people out there see it and want to be part of it, I hope they go to ElizabethWarren.com and join us, because this is how we're going to build the movement that will change America.
She is inspiring.
I mean, it's like her campaign manager went out there and said, OK, we want Hillary's campaign without the name recognition or the charisma.
Let's do that.
Let's just make that happen right there.
I mean, it was so bad, her presidential announcement, that not only did she have to avoid a question about her DNA and her Native American ancestry, which she did, she also tried to be a cool kid.
I'll show you the cool kid thing in a second.
Here was Elizabeth Warren being asked about her Native American DNA.
This is why the Democrats are going to have a little bit of a tough time.
arguing character against President Trump because they can't even get their own party on board with saying it's okay to be a particular genetic ancestry.
The reason Elizabeth Warren has to pretend to be Native American is because she doesn't rank high enough on the intersectionality scale for Democrats to care about her.
That's what's happening here.
She's out-Bernied by Bernie Sanders, she's out-Obama-ed by Beto O'Rourke, and she's out-intersectionality-ed by Kamala Harris.
So, she really has no path here.
I worry about electability.
enough.
She's not radical enough like Bernie Sanders, and she's not charming enough like Beto O'Rourke.
And so she is kind of forced into this weird corner where two years ago she was a hot thing, and now she's a nothing.
Here's Elizabeth Warren dodging the DNA question.
I worry about electability.
I worry about a campaign more about Native American ancestry than the middle class.
You know, look, I'm in this fight because I understand what's happening to working families.
I grew up in a paycheck-to-paycheck family, and my big chance was a commuter college that cost $50 a semester.
I run for office because I'm grateful down to my toes for the opportunities that were given to me, and I am determined that we will give those same opportunities, not just to some of our kids, but to all of our kids.
Yeah, I'm sure she's going to just blow Trump out of the water with that kind of character and charisma, I'm sure.
My favorite part of her campaign is that she opened up by then doing an Alexander Ocasio-Cortez-style Instagram.
So, AOC, we will call her AOC because that's the thing now, right?
They've gotten notorious.
We've got RBG, we've got AOC, we've got all of these initial political leaders.
But AOC does these political Instagrams where she cooks instant pot recipes while taking questions from her mailbag.
My instant pot recipe would basically be cereal and milk, by the way, if I were to do an Instagram like this.
But in any case, I love that Elizabeth Warren, she's basically the Steve Buscemi character from Saturday Night Live, How Do You Do Fellow Kids?
She's walking into the Instagram and she is now doing Instant pot recipes in her kitchen while drinking beer.
I don't know if you remember in 2016, Hillary Clinton went to Cedar Rapids and she had like a can of some sort of juice or something.
She said, I'm just chilling in Cedar Rapids!
Well, here's Elizabeth Warren doing that.
I'm gonna get me a beer.
My husband, Bruce, is now in here.
You want a beer?
No, I'll pass on the beer for now.
You sure?
Okay, stay a little longer.
Yes.
Who else have we got?
Kenny?
Is that right?
And I'm crazy.
I love you.
I love you too.
Thank you for being here.
Pleasure.
I'm glad you're here.
Enjoy your beer.
Who else have we got?
Kenny?
Is that right?
Kenny and the boys?
So there's grandma swigging off the top right there.
Yeah, that's gonna go over great with the kids.
The kids are like, oh man, she's awesome because she drinks beer!
She's the best!
Wow!
Look at Grandma over there taking out her teeth and then swigging on the beer.
Yeah, this is gonna go great for the Democrats.
We'll get to more of the Democrats being unable to play the character card against President Trump in just a second.
Again, part of character is also a feeling of authenticity.
Nothing is less authentic than that video.
I mean, that video is just...
Airsats garbage.
It's so fantastic in pretty much every way.
I haven't seen a candidate that inauthentic since Hillary Clinton, since they did this last time.
We'll get to all that in just a second.
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By the way, if Elizabeth Warren had actually had a drink of beer from the Leftist Tears Cotter cold tumbler, it would have made her video a lot cooler.
So, Elizabeth Warren, gonna have a tough time running against President Trump.
And meanwhile, the Democrats are busy clubbing each other with bricks over the 2020 nomination.
Every Democrat on planet Earth wants to run.
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington State.
Who?
Yeah, I know.
He wants to run.
Eric Swalwell.
Who?
Yeah, he wants to run.
Eric Garcetti, the horrible, horrible mayor of Los Angeles, wants to run.
Like, name a Democrat, and that person probably wants to run for president.
The top three candidates right now on the Democratic side are pretty obviously Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Beto O'Rourke.
I think that O'Rourke wins the nomination, if I had to predict it right now.
He's going with the momentum.
He's the only one of these guys who's charming.
He's got the press behind him.
I mentioned before the break that I think that Beto O'Rourke is the only candidate who has the possibility of sort of unifying the various parts of the Democratic Party.
But the problem for the Democrats is that while they are running on character issues against President Trump, politics sometimes betrays character.
And when the Democrats go so radical on politics that they seem wildly out of kilter and off base.
When they seem like they're not in touch with the American people, people take that as a character critique too.
And so it doesn't help them when their top politicians are saying things about climate change, like Bernie Sanders, the socialist loon bag from Vermont.
He tweeted out the other day, we must look at climate change as it was devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet.
We must respond accordingly.
Well, I mean, if Bernie Sanders has one, I guess that means that we would surrender.
If there were a devastating military attack against the United States, I guess Bernie Sanders' take would be that we should surrender to global warming.
But in any case, if the Democratic pitch is, President Trump is immoral, we have to treat it being hotter outside the same way that we would treat a military attack by nuking the power plants.
Like, by shooting the sun?
Not sure what he's recommending there.
That's going to be a bit of a hard pitch.
He's not the only one saying this.
This is the New Democratic pitch.
Their moral case, their political moral case, is that President Trump is not just a man of little character, which, again, I think is a case that can be made.
The case that they are going to try and make is that President Trump is immoral in his politics.
And the way they've been making that case has been really awkward because they've been making the case that he's immoral because he wants a wall, which is patently not immoral.
In fact, it's a good idea to have some sort of border barrier to prevent people from illegally immigrating into the United States.
And now they're trying to make the case that President Trump is almost a Hitlerian character because he doesn't care enough about climate change, an issue about which most Americans don't care.
Jerry Brown, our senile governor of California, who's been governor since approximately 1833, Legitimately, he's now 1,211 years old.
It's really amazing.
So Jerry Brown is doddering around here in my home state, and he says that climate change is as devastating as the Nazis to humanity, which comes as a shock to my people.
No, not smuch.
It's been hot outside, but It was a lot hotter in certain situations for Jews in the past.
Here's Jerry Brown from California making the claim that climate change is just like Hitler and the Nazis!
I would point to the fact that it took Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis.
Well, we have an enemy, though different, but perhaps very much devastating in a similar way, and we've got to fight climate change, and the President's got to lead on that.
Okay, so it's just like Roosevelt mobilizing America for World War II.
It's just like the President mobilizing America to fight global warming.
If this is the moral case the Democrats are going to make, they're going to have a tough time.
Here's the thing.
In the late 90s, Americans basically came to the conclusion that you could divorce character and politics.
That President Clinton's character and his politics were completely separable.
That you could get good policy out of a guy who's a bad person.
And most Americans basically learned to agree with that because then we got a good character in the president, George W. Bush, who most Democrats decided was evil on policy.
So you had a, what Democrats decided, a bad character with good politics, Bill Clinton, and then a good character with bad politics, George W. Bush, and then the view of Democrats, a good character with good politics in Barack Obama, and then a bad character with bad politics in President Trump, right?
That's the view of Democrats on the various presidents that we've had over the past 20 years.
What that means is that character and politics are separable.
Well, if character and politics are separable, then Donald Trump can be a bad character and also be a pretty good president.
But according to Democrats, they have to make the case that he's also a bad character on politics, and if the most solid case they have is that he is not intersectional enough, or that he doesn't pay enough attention to climate change, or that he is insufficiently kind to illegal immigrants, that's gonna be a bit of a tough case.
Okay, meanwhile, I have already dubbed what this year is going to be.
So I think that the year 2019 is going to be the year of the woke scold.
Okay?
Not woke's gold.
Woke.
Scold.
So, We now live in an era in which the left insists, and this is where the radicalism of the left really comes to the fore in cultural and political terms, that we rewrite biology, language, religion, Politics, art, all these things must be rewritten so that we all stay woke.
And if you refuse to abide by these new moral strictures of the left, then this makes you immoral.
This is why so many people have reacted to President Trump's character failings and said, okay, whatever, at least he's not trying to tell me what to say or what to do.
You guys are trying to tell me what to say and what to do.
You're the new Puritans, except the Puritans actually were trying to promulgate some decent social policy once in a while.
The latest indicator that the left has gone too far in the woke scolding has been Louis C.K.
So, Louis C.K., before his downfall, was probably my favorite working comedian.
And that is saying that, despite the fact that Louis C.K.
is a wild leftist who hated Sarah Palin, is vulgar, is vile as a human being, he's really, really funny.
If you ever want to watch a great comedy set, go watch Louis C.K.
talk.
About what it is like to raise children who ask too many questions.
It's really, really good.
Louis C.K.
is a very talented comedian.
Well, if you recall, last year, Louis C.K.
was outed in the middle of the Me Too movement for having basically brought back female comedians to his green room and then having pushed them to watch him perform sexual acts upon himself, right?
And he went into self-imposed exile and lost tens of millions of dollars and all of the rest.
Well, now, he's coming back.
Well, the woke scolds don't want him to come back.
They say that he has sinned, he can never return to public life.
I mean, this is the amazing thing about the new woke-scolding SJWs, is that there's no such thing as repentance, there's no such thing as redemption.
If you sin against them, then you must be cast out into the nether regions forever.
Unless you are sufficiently wildly leftist, like Kathy Griffin, then maybe you get to come back.
In any case, Louis C.K., who is indeed a wild leftist, was never supposed to come back.
But now he is coming back.
And he did a comedy set the other night.
And in this comedy set, he made some jokes.
Now, Louis C.K.' 's brand of comedy has always been transgressive.
And we were told by the left, for years, that transgressive comedy was a social good.
Like George Carlin, social good.
Richard Pryor, social good.
Blue comedy, great.
All of these violated barriers, violated taboos, were good for society because they awakened us to our own excesses and hypocrisies.
Well, Louis C.K.
comes back, and he does a couple of jokes.
And he tells a joke about Auschwitz, and then he tells a joke about Parkland survivors, and then he tells a joke about gender fluidity.
Here's a little bit of his set.
And the left went nuts on him, because apparently, Louis C.K.' 's brand of humor is no longer acceptable in woke, scold world.
I loved New York for 20 years.
Now, I'd rather be in Auschwitz, honestly.
I mean Auschwitz now, not Auschwitz.
Back then, I mean Auschwitz.
And I was kind of excited to be in my 50s and see people in their 20s and be like, they're crazy!
These kids are nuts!
But they're not!
They're f***ing eee!
They're just boring!
You should address me!
They're like royalty!
They tell you what to call them.
You should address me as they-them.
Because I identify as gender neutral.
I don't know, they testify in front of Congress, these kids?
What are you doing?
You're young.
You should be crazy.
You should be unhinged.
Not in a suit saying, I'm here to tell you.
You're not interesting.
Okay, so everybody's going crazy.
How dare he make these jokes?
Well, because he's a comedian.
That's what he does.
Are the jokes taboo and transgressive?
Yes, but that's his whole shtick.
Go back and watch his comedy routine three, four years ago.
It's probably not six to ten years ago, in which he talks about But where he says, of course, but maybe it's a great comedy routine where he talks about all these things that we now consider deeply immoral, but maybe they're not.
Right.
He talks about how, of course, of course, we should make sure that kids who have peanut allergies are never exposed to peanuts.
But maybe if we just let them all be exposed to peanuts, then peanut allergies will be a thing of the past in one generation.
He's been doing this sort of transgressive comedy his entire career.
The left has decided he must be scolded out of existence.
Well, and then they say we have to redefine comedy, where Louis C.K.
is no longer funny.
But you know who's seriously funny?
Samantha Bee.
Samantha Bee and Hannah Gadsby.
The best kind of comedy is the comedy where you don't laugh, ever.
See, what we've been doing wrong all these years is defining comedy as funny things, when in reality, the only thing that's funny is that we ever considered comedy funny at one time.
The real comedy is you being lectured on why you aren't enough of a woke person to make those kind of jokes.
That's real comedy.
True comedy is that.
If this is the way that the left wants to promulgate culture, they are going to lose.
This is the real downfall of the left.
They can attack President Trump's character as much as they want, but if I have a choice between listening to the dopes who think that Louis C.K.
shouldn't be able to make a taboo joke, and Donald Trump tweeting like a moron from the White House, this is not a choice for me.
This is a very easy choice for me.
If that's my only choice, if it's just a black-white one-or-the-other choice, I don't think you should have to choose either, but if you want to choose one or the other, You think I'm gonna turn over the country to people who think that Louis C.K.
should be forced to tell knock-knock jokes?
You think I'm gonna turn over the country to a bunch of people who say that Louis C.K.' 's jokes now are deeply inappropriate when ten years ago the same people were cheering him on when he was like ripping into Sarah Palin and calling her a C-word?
Sorry, not gonna buy it.
You think I'm gonna turn over the country to a bunch of people who have to cancel their own marches because they're not intersectional enough?
In Northern California, there was a Women's March.
And the Women's March in Northern California had to be cancelled because it was too white.
I'm not kidding you.
They actually cancelled their own Women's March because they said there were not enough black people in it.
This is according to the... It's Annie Weinstein of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Northern California Women's March cancelled for being overwhelmingly white.
They said the decision came after organizers and supporters of the movement noticed participants over the years had been overwhelmingly white in lieu of the march, which was originally set to take place on January 19th.
Organizers will discuss a way to broaden cultural representation going forward, the committee wrote in a statement.
Instead of pushing forward with crucial voices absent, the organizing team will take more time for outreach.
You think I'm going to turn over the country to a bunch of people who think that you can't do a march if people aren't of the right color?
Like, that sounds great to me.
And then turn it over to the anti-semitic women's marchers who won't march unless they're more black people, and the people who think that Louis C.K.
is terrible, and that Kevin Hart is terrible.
They'll come for Bill Burr next.
You know they're coming for Bill Burr next, right?
They'll come after Joe Rogan.
Everybody who you find funny or interesting will eventually be destroyed by the woke skulls, and that's what this year is gonna be.
And President Trump should only be hoping and praying that if that actually happens, that it will propel him to victory again in 2020.
Because the reaction to cultural woke scolding is people in politics saying, you know what?
I'm not going to be scolded by these people.
I'm just going to vote for whomever is most likely to break things.
That's where that's where this is going.
The people woke.
It's really funny.
The people on the left think that Elizabeth Warren running for president is what's going to stop President Trump or Bernie Sanders or Beto O'Rourke.
What they don't understand is the thing most likely to propel Trump back to the presidency in 2020 is not a race against any of these people.
It's going to be all of the morons on Twitter and all the morons on Facebook and all the idiots in the media who think that Louis C.K.
has to be scolded into subservience and obedience.
For telling jokes about Auschwitz or something.
Like that's what's driving people up a wall.
Okay, time for some things I like and then some things that I hate.
So, things that I like this week.
So, there's a guy, a really, really talented artist named Mike Miller, and he was the lead artist on the Injustice series from DC Comics.
Well, now he's gone independent, and he has a new project called Lone Star, Heart of the Hero, and it's really worth checking out.
You can go check out his Indiegogo.
What's really cool is that when you do his kind of upper-level Indiegogo fundraising, you can actually send copies of this new comic, Lone Star, to the troops.
You can send a minimum of five copies to troops around the world via the USO.
Go check them out right now at Indiegogo.com.
Here's a little bit of the art.
It's just beautiful.
Go check out Lone Star from Mike Miller.
Lone Star Squadron. Lone Star. Heart of the Hero. Heart of the Hero.
So it's kind of like 80s style.
And it's also, the art of it is really cool.
You should go check out the art of it.
It's really beautiful.
It's fun to read.
So check it out, Lone Star, Heart of the Hero.
And if you want to give some copies to the troops, then you can go check that out at indiegogo.com slash projects Lone Star.
That's something worth checking out.
OK, other things that I like.
I would be remiss if I did not mention President Trump's Christmas.
So President Trump had himself a merry little Christmas.
And I will admit that I sent this clip to probably 15 people on Christmas Eve, wishing them Merry Christmas.
Why?
Because President Trump did phone calls with a bunch of kids who called into the White House, and one of these kids was a 7-year-old girl.
And President Trump asked the 7-year-old girl if she still believes in Santa Claus.
Here he was.
It was great.
Oh, that's very good.
You just have a good time.
Okay, so first of all, yes.
Yes.
So first of all, it's great.
Owning the Libs with certitude and confidence.
President Trump, owning the seven-year-old Libs who still believe in Santa Claus.
I mean, that is just spectacular stuff.
Do you still believe in Santa Claus?
Are you stupid?
Like, he's saying it to a seven-year-old.
It's kind of borderline, right?
Like, what happens if she's like, yeah, I still believe in Santa Claus.
Like, oh, okay.
I'll just back away slowly.
All right.
Where are your parents?
Pretty spectacular.
Now, I will admit that I have been in the President Trump side of that phone call before.
I've done that to people.
Like, I did that when I was, I think, four?
Like, see, in the Jewish community, we don't do the Christmas, which means we also don't do the Santa.
And there was a girl who lived across the street named Colleen, and I was friends with her, and she was a nice Christian girl, and she and I were the same age, we're probably both three or four years old, and she came over to my house, and she was talking about how Santa was gonna bring her lots of presents for Christmas, and I said to her, Santa's not real.
And her mom got super pissed and called my parents and wanted to know why I had said that.
And my parents were like, well, is Santa real?
And she's like, no, but you're not supposed to tell kids that.
Like, well, we didn't do it.
It was our kid.
In any case, I did that when I was four.
I wasn't 73 when I did that to a seven-year-old.
But you got to love it.
President Trump, I mean, that is some ownership of the libs right there.
That's why we elected him.
And no one really expected it, right?
Because he had ended the war on Christmas, the president.
And the president And fought against those assaulting Christmas.
No one expected him, like, no one expected him to simply swivel and then blitzkrieg Christmas that way.
Right?
Like, he had already ended the war and then suddenly he decided to launch his own offensive on Christmas?
It was really incredible.
So, well done, President Trump, for what was a studly display of owning with facts and knowledge.
Okay, time for some things that I hate.
So I'll acknowledge, I hate New Year's celebrations.
I think New Year's celebrations are, because I'm a killjoy, and also because they suck.
So, have you ever been to a New Year's party where you're like, yeah, that was totally worth it?
So my wife and I were in Times Square, probably now seven or eight years ago, and we had gone to a musical, and then we were gonna stay in Times Square, and we decided this is probably the most miserable place to be on New Year's Eve.
It's packed in, in this claustrophobic place where if five people turn around and start a stampede, 100,000 people die.
This is a bad idea.
You know, staying up to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve is no fun.
And you can tell when people are sort of forced to have fun, right?
It's what we at the office like to call mandatory fun, like our Christmas party.
Mandatory fun, right, is sort of what everybody has on New Year's Eve.
It's like, well, it's New Year's Eve, you're supposed to have fun.
It's what we have to do.
And so the media members decide that they are going to force you to engage in the fun along with them.
And this means that we are going to watch news anchors act like morons.
One of the things I find hilarious about this is we have gotten non-stop virtue signaling from the media all day long, all day long, all year long, for years now, about how the United States is now a dangerous place for members of the news media.
Let me ask you a question.
When you watch those broadcasts on New Year's Eve of members of the news media getting drunk and talking about their sex lives, did this seem to you like a wildly dangerous place for members of the news media?
It didn't to me.
Why are we having on random celebrities who were last relevant in 1973?
To talk about the countdown to 2019.
No one knows, but here was NBC talking about steaming of the genitals on their New Year's Eve countdown show, because this is solid TV.
Mandatory fun, guys.
Chrissy Teigen talking about steaming her genitals.
A classic vaginal steaming.
Yeah, I like to steam my vag.
I'd rather not do that.
I don't like to do it, but listen, if PB tells me to do it, I'm kind of into it.
What does that mean?
You steamed your heart out.
Alright, don't skate.
It doesn't matter.
There's a lot to explain with it, but whatever.
You should be in prison.
Honestly, for more reasons than that.
Okay guys, it's less than 15 minutes!
I mean, I guess it's better than dry cleaning down there, but in any case... What?
Like, this is on the New Year's Eve... There are kids who actually watch this stuff, and yet that was the thing that was happening.
That wasn't the only thing that was happening on the networks.
CNN's Anderson Cooper decided to talk about his mom's sex life on air.
He talked about one time when his mom nailed Marlon Brando, which...
I mean, honestly, it's no shock.
Apparently, Richard Pryor also nailed Marlon Brando, which is more of a shocker.
Richard Pryor and Marlon Brando, like the villain from Superman 3, and Superman's dad getting it on in, like, 1979.
Things are weird.
In any case, here was Anderson Cooper talking about his mom's sex life on CNN.
Don't worry, these are respected members of the media.
Stop it.
They are journalism-ing.
These are journalists.
Take them seriously.
They must be taken seriously.
Here's Anderson Cooper, who I guess we're supposed to take seriously.
Working with him, he's just so inventive.
My mom hooked up with him.
She did?
With hot Marlon Brando, not like Apocalypse Now Marlon Brando.
She hooked up with like, I think it was on the waterfront Marlon Brando.
Wow!
She and Carol Mathau both watched the movie and both made a deal that they were going to meet up.
Did they really?
You're not kidding.
Carol got it first and then set it up for my mom.
Okay, well, that's always good stuff is when you're talking about your mom's sex life on national TV.
I can't imagine if that affected Anderson Cooper as a child or anything.
In any case, very, very weird.
And then CNN's Randy Kaye, another great reporter, is drinking champagne from a bong live on New Year's Eve.
These are journalists who are very much in danger.
Remember, President Trump has endangered their lives.
President Trump has single-handedly put their lives in danger.
They are so afraid that they are out at public bars drinking from champagne bongs on New Year's Eve, on the most populous night of the year.
I mean, look at the date.
This is true journalisming.
Here we go.
Really, just a little bit.
All right.
I dragged it.
Yeah, yeah.
All right.
You ready?
You got to hold it up, up straight.
It's a bad idea.
All right, this is not a good idea.
Not a good idea.
Oh, yeah!
That was an excellent idea, actually.
Okay, and it turns out that the worst move of the night came courtesy of CNN as well.
Jane Curtin, I guess, is some sort of commentator for CNN.
She came on CNN.
Don't know who she is or which crypt she crawled out of, but she says that she has a New Year's resolution to ensure the GOP dies.
Great.
Fantastic stuff, guys.
My New Year's resolution is to make sure that the Republican Party dies.
Wow, that's so funny.
That's, like, amazing.
Wow.
So she's a comedian sometimes, I guess.
She was referred to as the Queen of Deadpan, and was included in a 1986 list of the top primetime actors and actresses of all time.
Awesome.
Thank you, Wikipedia.
So, yeah, the media doing Yeoman's work each and every day to remind us why they are in the positions that they are.
But we're supposed to take them seriously, but we're not supposed to take President Trump seriously, because they're serious people.
And Trump is not a serious person.
Okay, well we'll be back here tomorrow.
Now let me remind you, it is a brand new year.
It's going to be a long year.
It's going to be a hard slog.
We're going to be here with you every step of the way.
We're going to be enjoying, having fun, breaking it all down for you.
And we can't wait to do it, because it's going to be a blast.
See you tomorrow.
I'm Ben Shapiro.
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