The left launches its war on children. The ninth circuit Court of Appeals declares that a high school football coach can't kneel at the fifty yard line and pray plus we do the mail that I mention here. This is the Ben Shapiro Show, and so you may edit game we're here it's Friday, and I want to talk to about something. That's been disturbing me for a long time and no I'm not talking about my loss of hair. I'm talking about the fact that the left is is moving in significant fashion to impact how we raise our kids and it really is upsetting an and a problem and uh to talk about. All of that plus will talk about. Is president Trump actually sinking in the possibility of the Republicans retaining the house in twenty eighteen and the Senate in two thousand and eighteen, which is nearly impossible, will get to all that plus the mailbag? So if you're going to buy a subscription today's the day to do it, because that means you get to be part of the mailbag will do live questions later. But first, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Skillshare, so

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unborn children, suggesting that they're, the only ones who care about Kamala Harris tweets this out yesterday, she tweeted out children are our nation's future. We must listen to them about what they care about and give them a voice in our government. So again, weird that she doesn't care about them up till the point where they're born up till that point, you can kill them at will and in fact, if you stand in the way of somebody killing them at well, that means you're a bad person, but also So this notion that children are the nation's future, and so we have to listen to them about what they care about and give them a voice in our government uhm. No, so one of the big problems in western civilization has been this weird notion. That's really cropped up since we're still in the early in the The 19th century that children are worth listening to a children are worth taking seriously. Their questions are worth answering. I treat my three year old with great seriousness. When she asked me a question. I tried to give her the most factual answer that can provide. But if you were to give me world advice, I would say your three sit down.

And eat your crackers. Ok, it's ridiculous for anyone to suggest that children are what should be defining voice in government is. The first sentence is that children are nations, few that's true. They are not our present. Ok they're, not our nation's present. It is yours. I was an adult to help. Civilize children have ever met a chai I wonder if people on the left over met a child like really met a child. Children are the worst people on earth. You're, wonderful and they're also the worst people on earth. They have no prefrontal cortex development; they don't have the capacity for inhibition. That means that your child does stuff for an adult. Did it you would immediate Helen carted off to jail like on a routine basis, children smack each other. Ok, if you want and just walked up to people and smack them for no reason they would go to jail for that right. Children routinely take other peoples, property and break it. Children scream at you. He children are little nut jobs and their their awesome they're. Wonderful, but that's also because you know that

to develop beyond that. If there are twenty and still acting like there, three that means that a garbage human being the whole point of civilization is to civilize children. Your job as a parent is to civilize children and to make them better people, because children are not, I think the only good resell road decision. Jacques Rousseau wrote this book called a meal. I, which is suppose a novel about a child who is basically left free in the state of nature. Russo's whole theory is that a state of nature man is inherently good and then the state puts us all in chains right man is free and everywhere he is in chains. This is Russo's theory, and so what he says in a meal is basically, if you just let a child launder around in nature and that child would become a noble savage, that child would be a beautiful, wonderful person capable of navigating the vicissitudes of life. Absol nonsense, number one if you three year old nature dead in two days. Two, if you leave ten year old alone in nature, the kid will turn into something from Lord of the flies killing animals and other children. The idea that people are born civilized is just stupid. That's the whole point of civilization. It's what religion is

based on. Religion is based on the notion that you, as an adult, have to sit I didn't raise your children and yet to acclimate them to acting morally, it's not something that is inborn, it's not something that is in bread. Okay, the fact is that at the there's, a concept in in jewish God called teen auction, ish bar again means literally a baby that was found. So there are certain basic rules in Judaism that you're not supposed to and even if you're, not jewish, you're, not supposed to violate these rules, and these are simple it's. Like don't murder people don't commit idolatry, ready, you're, certain basic rules for everyone. If you wanna get to Heaven, according to Judaism, you don't have to be jewish, but you do have to fill what they call the seven minutes flows of of no, I get to fill seven commandments of now all right because no existed before the tour had been given. These are commandments that you're supposed people's suss out from the surrounding universe, but if you don't actually do a lot of the let let's say, there's a jacket is born jewish rye, born to a jewish family and left in the middle of nowhere and doesn't fulfill any of the six hundred thirteen. Ms vote, many of the six hundred thirteen commandments. That's where this concept of Tina

finish by comes in. We don't blame that person, because that kid was basically like a kid who is found in the woods. Right is Mowgli, so you don't expect Mowgli to be civilized and in fact there was remember a few years ago. There is this story about a little girl who is basically left alone for years and years and years they found she's like twelve years old and she acted like an animal. What else would you expect her to do? She was she was growing up in a place that was basically surrounded by animals. How you raise your children matters. This idea that children are going to. They have some sort of God given innocence and wisdom. That is something that we should listen to know. They have a God given wonder about the world that is amazing to behold and love, Leanne. It reminds you how beautiful life is, because, when you view the world through a child's eyes, it reminds you that things around you are really cool and really interesting, but kids moral notions are usually really really stupid. Because kids are little immoral, Creedence. Ok, they only get smart later again. Their brains are not developed to the point where they can actually have smart more.

Farts here. This is why even teenagers are not really developed to the point where they have smart moral thoughts. The reason that teenagers act like idiots all the time is because There are made to love, which is there. A motion sensor in the brain is over developed in the prefrontal cortex, which is the inhibition center is under developed. That's like that's, like teenagers do stupid stuff, so when she says we have to give children of voice in our government, which about three year olds, to vote but but what really underlies this perception? What really underlies this perception? The left doesn't really believe that children ought to be making their own decisions. The left believes that they ought to be making decisions for your children and doesn't believe that children ought to be making decisions for society. They believe that they ought to be making decisions for your children and the only reason, and that your children are growing up in the way they are is because of you. You are the problem, they were allowed to raise your children and everything would be fine. Now they can't just say that, if you're, if you're on the hard left, you can't say that you can't just say: listen, I think I'm going to a better. Raising your kid then you'll. You can't say that because number one, it's not true, I never to make

Have you come to me and you say: I'm gonna raise your kid better than you. Well then, I would say to you: you can go, take a hike son. If you try to take my kids from me, I meet you at the front door of the shotgun. So what is the left do instead? What? Instead they do? Is they say children are beautiful, innocent little creatures, but fully capable of making their own decisions, and if you inhibit the decision making process of a three year old, then you are the villain. We must step in to protect the independence of the three year old right, we're basically, the american government fighting the british we're stepping in to protect the citizen. Citizen is a three year old. We have to protect that three year old from you, the oppressive evil parents, whose putting your notions about God and Heaven and hell on kids. How dare you do all of these things is because of you their kid is growing up with all of these problems if your kids are just to make their own decisions just like email and everything will be fine and it's our job to step in and make sure the kids can make their own decisions. That's how you end up with eighty is sees the story from Rockland

Academy a ME schools just Sacramento area Charter school. This is a Paul block of of daily wire reporting, a kindergarten teacher at Rocklin Academy. Will the Sacramento area Charter School recently held a trend mission ceremony to celebrate what she believed was the transgenderism of a five year old boy in her class who fancies himself a girl and she did it without obtaining consent from or even notifying parents facing legal trouble from parents rightly outraged over having their children exposed to transgenders. Without their knowledge, Rocklin Academy, schools maintains they had no obligation to inform the parents, since California laws require consent only in matters of sex education. So let me get this straight: it's not sex education. When you decide to tell a five year old boy that it can be a five year old girl, the lesson they say has to do with gender identity, which the school claims falls under tolerance and diversity, curricula, the students who took part in the ceremony,

reportedly left shaken and to start yes, get somebody if somebody did this to my cat, if someone lives here, is that somebody did this to make it to be in physical danger for me like that, if you did this to make it, if you decided to take my parents in power away from my child from me and and pretend that you are going to raise my child as the opposite sex and thereby stamp their their psyche with gender confusion and put the permits for societal approval on the gender confusion, you're doing something truly evil and Jonathan Keller is represented for Cal. Family group was a group involved in counseling some of the kids, the said parents only learned of the ceremony from their kids, which began with a lesson on transgenderism involved two books. I am jazz and the Red Cran they're, both both about the subject Jasim courses about that that kid is on reality, tv who quote from the time she was two years old jazz. She had a girl's brain in a boy's body. Again, this is biologically incorrect and it's a

Okay, there is no such thing as a girl's brain in a boy's body and again that we get and that's true, because you don't actually have evidence what you girls, Brain it's like it's so funny. The feminist. You say there is no difference between the girls ran a boy's brain. Suddenly they go delete silent. When you say it's a girl's brain in a boy's body, you show me actual parts of the brain that operate more like girls than boys, and then we can decide whether or not this is true. It is possible that there are people who have brain development that is more similar to a girl than a boy. Those would presumably be genetically intersex people, but the idea that any boy is capable of having a girls brain his body if he thinks it so

not real. But again, this is the left saying that parents can't have a say in their own child's future because we're defending the children, don't you understand or defending their innocence? Do you understand that by suggesting that a child makes their own decision, you are ripping away their innocent their innocence? The hallmark of adulthood is the capacity to make your own decision. The hallmark of childhood is to be free not to make your own decisions on matters of weighty import. That's what parents are for. It's your job to have fun at your parents, dropped to take care of you and it's your job to learn and that's what being a child is all about the left his reverses polarity. Now adults never have to take responsibility for their decision. The children are to be left alone to make their own decisions, and if you intervene as a parent, you're, the bad guy and before I go any further here and there's another story on Wanna talk about that has some relevance here. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at USC Ca. So, tell you the story of a guy named buddy, but an army vet and his life defending his country and his fellow man, but one but needed help. The the legal system turned on him and thrown in jail for defending his family when

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Then, my family now dot com going check it out. Yes, does wonderful work and you should go. Give them a look. Okay, so The ceremony getting back to the ceremony in this kindergarten class Lifesitenews described it this way after the teacher introduced the five year old students in the class is a boy. He then went into the bathroom and emerged dressed as a girl, the Teacher then re introduced her to the children, explaining that she was now a girl who know how to girls name and also be called that from now on. According to Keller, who is this guy from the family group said, kids were left really deeply emotionally bothered and traumatized several of the little girls that went to their parents and we're crying saying, mommy or daddy, am I going to turn into a boy. This is evil. It's evil, ok, teachers who are teaching entire classrooms of small children that they can magically transform into members of the opposite. Sex. Hey! It's so funny. These people will say that if teach people about religion that that's the math, if, if you teach them about Santa Claus, the the Easter Bunny, that's that Smith, this

significantly more mythical, because it runs absolutely counter to biology and the idea that kids are not malleable when it comes to sexual orientation, they're, not malleable. When it comes to gender identity. There's no science to demonstrate that at all none hey there may be just predispositions for transgenderism there, maybe they may be genetic predispositions on sexual orientation, but to suggest that environment plays no part, is to ignore every single piece of available data ever like all of it, not some of it all of it. And yet this is what they say because there's an agenda right. The agenda is to make it clear to children that gender identity is fluid. This is one of the things left wants to do is tear down the basic building blocks of western civilization in order to build something new it for widgets. If we're all just claymation figures and their little in their little parable of life, then they the more of us. However, we want to get some of this amorphous, however, they want, and that means taking over our children and using them

against us and using them against our standards of right and wrong. So the left, which will say that they have the power to go in until your five year old child that he may be a girl. This is the same left. It says that if they teach her praise on the fifty yard line that that teacher ought to be fired. There's a case out in the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals today is an amazing case. K Bremerton school district is he is a school district in Washington State and the assistant football coach at one of their high schools, a guy named Joseph Kennedy prayed at the fifty yard line after football games and before them as well, students frequently joined him? He would also give them religiously oriented motivational speeches. The school district tried to punish him for doing this. He settled for praying alone after games, but then he began praying at the fifty yard line, but for everyone gone home. So, instead of waiting till everyone leave left and then praying at the fifty yard line, he would go over right after the game. The game is over. He goes over. He praised the fifty yard line and surprise surprise. A lot of the kids started joining him and people started coming,

out of the stands to join him. Praying on the fifty yard line end of the world. How dare he public school teacher praying by himself on the fifty one people joining him voluntarily must be fired, so the school district fired him I suspended him and then they allowed his contract expire. So can I be sued? You suggested discrimination. Under the first amendment, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found the school district had every right to dismiss Kennedy. So there were two legal questions here. First legal question was: was he a public? Employee second was as a public employee. Did he violate his job description as a public employee? By doing this, So there are two separate legal questions. The court said when Kennedy kneeled and prayed on the fifty yard line immediately after games. Well in view of students and parents, he spoke as a public employee, not as a private citizen, and his speech therefore was constitutionally unprotected the case they make in Favor of this idea is one he's still wearing all of his high school year. Second, if you were just a citizen, you couldn't walk out in the middle of the fifty yard line right. You have to be a member of the high school staff in order to do this, so I think that this is actually legally arguable,

we doing this is a private citizen, or is he doing this on school grounds on school time and therefore he's doing it as a public employee? It's a little bit, it's a little bit more confusing than that, because the fact is that, if you're at school, like if I'm with public school teacher- and I decided to have medical- which is the second jewish prayer of the day- I went in a broom, closet, somewhere and and prayed and prayed men caught. That doesn't mean that I would necessarily be acting as a public school employee. Clearly, I'm attempting to separate separate myself. The court found he was acting, however, in his auspice sees as a public school influence employee, but that isn't really the worst part. The worst part is that the court and said it what he did violated his job description, a prank at the fifty yard line, doing a voluntary prayer. The people decide to join, violates his job description. Now, let me explain wo, but his job description was ok, Kennedys job included, becoming quota, coach mentor and role model for the student athletes. It included an explicit job requirements to attempt to create both good athletes and good human beings is directly in his job description.

Kennedy's postgame prayers originally lasted a grand total of thirty seconds. There were a brief quiet prayer of Thanksgiving for player safety sportsmanship and spirited competition over then they morph into motivational speeches given to students of both teams. Even people on the other team would come over because they enjoyed what he was saying about sportsmanship in the games. Students. Terribly wanted to hear him. The district suggested these activities violated school board policy. That said, that quote: Stachel neither encourage nor discourage students from engaging non disruptive, oral or silent prayer or any other form of devotional activity, Ok, this didn't violate that the guy literally went out to the fifty yard line knelt down and prayed. That's it. He didn't say: people have to show up, he didn't force anybody, he didn't help people that if they showed up and they didn't show up and they be kicked off the team or suspended the school board. Only acknowledge that Kennedy didn't force anyone to pray with him, but the school Board insisted that Kennedy allow students to pray with him at all. They should force. We turn them away if he goes to the fifty yard line kneels down and he starts to pray and a bunch of students crowd around him

that this is some sort of evil that is violated. His public school duties and you should tell them for really get outta here, you're not allowed to be here. They said any activity had to be quote physically separate from any student activity. Students may not be allowed to join such an activity. So what actually started All of this would actually started all this is, of course, he did this fifty yard prayer thing and the satanist being good, Satanas devotees of Satan suggest they wanted their own right to pray on the field, because, obviously there's no difference between Satan is praying on the field and people of judeo christian values praying on the field. Not all religions are created equal in quality. If you're going to bring up a child in the church of Satan, I don't think that child ends up exactly the same as if you bring the average child is. If you bring up a child in the judeo christian values system. If it were, then Satanism would have created the greatest civilization in the hip free of mankind, it didn't ok, so the district responded by telling Kennedy had to pray only when the stadium was empty. He disobeyed any

started. Praying right after the game is because he said: listen. It doesn't make any sense for me to pay an hour after the game on the fifty yard line. The game just ended. I want to thank God for good game and for everyone. Staying safe. Now is a good time to do it, so the court found in favor of the district. As I say. First, they found that he was a public employee. They said the speech at issue is directly, at least in part, the students in the surrounding spectators. It is not solely speech directed to God, so this is really dicey territory. The court is getting into right now, they're saying that his prayer was directed as a public school employee at others. Hey, I wear a yamaka. I word around. It's a public sign of my faith, millions and millions and millions of Americans, including many people on the left, wear crosses around their neck. That is a public proclamation of faith. Is that them? privately saying I believe in Jesus who are the cross or, I believe in the jewish God. If you very Amika or is that mean preaching to you, do you feel? preached to every time I wear my yarmulke, because it If you do? I would suggest that maybe you need to get a life if you feel preach to be

you don't like what I wear on my head, and this is, as you are, a loser. Okay and if you feel preach too, because a high school coach by himself goes to the fifty yard line and praise, then you are a defense and a loser and you need to get a life. But obviously that's not the priority here. The court said by kneeling in on the fifty yard line immediately after Games Kennedy was the filling his professional responsibility to communicate, demonstrably to students and spectators yeah. He took advantage of his position to press his particular views upon the impressionable in captive minds before him, so they're saying okay, so his view point means something because he was acting as an employee. That brings us to the second question, and the second question is: did that violate his job, which is to create better human beings and better students we'll get to that in one second first, I wanna say thank you to a new sponsor the tides of history. He can go to the Apple podcast app or every listen to podcast, Itunes, Soundcloud, Google, tides of history. It's a brand new podcast. It's really great. I've listened to a few episodes of it. It asks you why uh

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living in western civilization that is based on judeo christian tradition. That would actually be teaching not preaching. I'm not saying you have to believe in the Bible. I'm not saying you have to believe that God gave the commandments on Mount Sinai. I am saying that those beliefs were the foundation stone of western civilization, which is true, okay, so judge me. One g Smith wrote this in concurrence, and this is the crux of matter. He writes the context would bolster the perception that the district was endorsing religion. Here it is K. Here's the key point, irrespective of the district's views on that matter. A reasonable observer would conclude in light of the history and context surrounding Kennedy's conduct at the district in actuality, favors religion and prefers Christianity in particular. Hey, listen, teachers, don't have the absolute right to do and say what they want as employees of school districts. Did they have the right to fire this guy, maybe, but to suggest they have an obligation to fire him. That's what the courts now saying, not just that they have the right, but they had the obligation, because no public school teacher can pray on the fifty yard line without imposing his religious views on others. Let's make something

absolutely clear. That is an imposition of a religious you and others that rule is an imposition of a secular religious view on others. It is the imposition the idea that religion must be disfavored that the first amendment must be applied in reverse at freedom of religion is not to be protected, that instead, we have to disestablish forcibly disestablished anybody's religious belief, matter whether they're forcing it on anybody or not again, this isn't even the equivalent of the guy going into the classroom and preaching. This is the equivalent of him doing something. People are free to show up or not show up it's voluntary for the left. The presence of religion itself is insulting. So how does this tie in with the broader argument about children. Here's what the left is seeking to do. They're seeking to say that if there are five year old can be taught by their teacher without permission that he is a she, but a fifteen year old cannot have the option of praying at the fifty yard line with the coach. That's an agenda! Folks! Ok, that's not about protecting the innocence of children is about depriving them of certain types of choice that they don't like and giving the

types of choice that they do. Like my se types of choice, I mean them up permanently in many cases, because it is important to promulgate a leftist view of social politics. That's scary, stuff, and you know, that's that's gonna- be fought at every turn. Bye, bye, good, well, good! Will people who are parents again, I'm a parent! You try to do this to my kid. You try to do this to my kid that you won right. People are taking a kid out of public school and sending them to private school. You wonder why people are retreating from the public square. You wonder why the fever pitch of politics is so high right now is because of garbage like this, people feel that their children are being threatened by outsiders, who think they know how to raise their children better than I do you don't even know my kids names. You don't know what their birthdays. You don't know, a damn thing about them. You don't care about them. The point of Phil Gramm made at one point- there is some some lefty that he was. He was interviewing a Senate committee and the and the senator was questioning the the it's left as in. What's that, I care about your children as much as you do and Phil Gramm said what are their names? That's exactly right. Parents have the ability to.

Is their children, not only ability the duty of the duty to raise your child? You have the duty to raise your child under a rubric of values that makes him a better human being. That is your charge in this life, for our society to ignore that and fight, actively against. It is a true evil and what we're looking at right now is a serious battle against truth and decency, just horrifying. Ok. So in other news on the more political front, there's a new poll out. President Trump has been spending the last few days ripping on Senate Republicans. He went on twitter this morning, again Repton Senator Mcconnell.

I returned Bob Corker, the senator from Tennessee, and I understand rubbing on Mcconnell. He doesn't feel like Mcconnell's and the job ripping on Bob Corker, it's kind of weird, since he actually interviewed Bob Corker for his Secretary of state. It seems more like Trump is angry at these people then like he is actually interested in changing their behavior, except as regards to him. This is a distinction. You know if you're going to attack centers, the purpose of attacking senator presumably is to move money issues. We can leverage senators but I think that right now trying to sort of lashing out at centers because he doesn't like them personally. So you know at the end that rally on Tuesday that President Trump did in Phoenix. He attacked both of the senators Mers on Mccain and flake. He attacked Mccain because Mccain didn't vote for the Obamacare repeal. That seems fair to me. He attacks like because flake was mean to him. You know I that seems to me less productive right now, there's a serious possibility that Republicans lose flakes eat if Lakewood lose the primaries. If flake loser, primaries right now and better shot that flake wins the general

then Kelly Ward, whose primary opponent Kelli Ward may be great. I don't know that much about are, but the fact is that when you're talking about primarying people now, because you want to change their vote because they're mean to you, this is not positive stuff. The polls show that that people disapprove of Trump's behavior, largely for all the talk about Trump propping up a public in two thousand. Sixteen was really the other way around from under performed every single republican Senate candidate throughout the country, except perhaps from the the I think, there's a Senate race in Ohio where he over performed, but that was a rarity. The vast majority of cases from underperformed their Publican Senate candidate so is really republican to drag trump across the finish line, not the other way around and right. Now there is the possibility that if Trump doesn't get its act together, he could drag down a few Senate candidates. It's almost impossible for a public and salute the Senate this time around. That's just the way that were remember senators are elected once every six years and we rotate so only one slash three of the Senate is up every two years. This to you,

Michael, is very, very bad for Democrats, but Trump's activities could hurt Republicans as a new George Washington University, Battleground poll trying to get a sense of how Americans feel about Trump's Savior, and it's in good ok basically asked if they agree or disagree with the statement that Trump's behavior is not what I expect from a present. Seventy one percent agreed only twenty seven percent disagreed. Sixty eight percent people said they worried that the terms words and actions could get us accidentally involved in international conflict. Just twenty nine percent disagreed. Do these polls really matter very much? They only matter if something goes wrong. If people are already predisposed to be blame trump. If something goes wrong, what happens when something goes wrong? I think that's what we're being set up for this weekend by the way, I think that we are being set up for this weekend. There's a big hurricane scheduled to hit Texas and the media are all over, the the media are all over this thing. The media are are very much focused on what's happening in this hurricane in Texas, see

about the hurricane is, but if there is some sort of disaster and Trump is not in idiot Liani. I promise you they're looking for another hurricane Katrina situation and they know that the public is predisposed to think that Trump is chaotic and doesn't know how to govern so trump better. Do a great job with it Trump is it three thousand four hundred and thirty five percent approval rating right now he is not experienced any serious crisis like zero, serious crises. So if there is a crisis and he botches it, then you could see him tank and that really could hurt. Republicans. Meanwhile, there's chaos inside his own administration. I don't like this very much Gary Cohn, who is president top economic adviser. He said call the administration can and must do better. Inconsistently unequivocally can unequivocally condemning groups like what's your promises groups and do everything we can to heal the deep divisions that exist in our communities. He said he felt compelled to quote voice my distress over the events of the past two weeks. Is that

He was disgusted and appalled with Trump's response to white nationalist role in the violence in Charlottesville. I agree with a lot of this by the way, but Gary you work for the guy. You work for the guy like shouldn't. You say that to him AJ? I understand you're in a difficult situation when you work for Trump, because if you feel like you're doing a good job, you don't want to give up the power to help the american people, but you still are working for Trump. You know somebody to come. When had a severe disagreement with me publicly, it would be a problem and is a problem for trump. When people site is on administration, are ripping him publicly and openly get like Gary Cohn is we'll talk more about that plus. I do want to talk about the Democrats, new attempt to cast Trump as a crazy man and we'll get the mail back. First we're going to have to go over and subscribe for nine hundred and ninety nine a month you get a subscription to daily wire. An if you subscribe right now, beep of today's mailbag we're going to do a full summit mailbag today to make sure that you subscribe at nine hundred and ninety nine a month, you get the rest of the show live on other weekdays, other

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I understand Trump making a move against Gary Cohn. Now, if you were going to do so- and I do wonder if Gary Cohn is setting himself up for that, I wonder if Gary Cohn is Trump's. Economic advisor is setting himself up so that when Trump fires him, he can say that Trump fired him for insubordination on an issue where Trump was wrong, rather than firing him for being a global list right, which is sort of what Breit Bart wants him to be fired for, but there is this burgeoning attempt by people on the left and some people on the right to cast Trump as a crazy person. A democratic congresswoman yesterday suggested that there are signs that worry us about Trump's mental health. This is Zoe Lofgren. California, comparing Trump to a person who has Alzheimer's the legislation, urges the this president, along with the cabinet, to secure for the assistance of medical professionals, as has been noted by your prelim into this. A lot of people are concerned about the presidents behave He seems to lack impulse control. He

the swings from topic to topic, any of us who's had in older person. We know a suffering from channel decline can see certain signs that worry us. Ok, so this kind of nonsense, you're not supposed to say this stuff publicly. Generally, because I mean this is what they called the Goldwater rule that you're not supposed to psychologically assessed people that you don't know very well, I mean we used to do it all the time with with Obama said that had narcissistic personality disorder, but that's not quite the everything is saying. The president is legit crazy, like Obama was clearly a narcissist, but that doesn't mean he can't do his job trump, I think also is a narcissist. I think that he fits the textbook definition of a narcissist, but that does not mean that he's not capable of doing his job. This is all building up, so that, if Trump does something wrong, everybody is ready to pounds. This is all the set up. The punch line is coming. There's all this up. The punchline is kind of us. I'm sorry, Democrats can't about crazy old people if they're not going to Nancy Pelow. See here is the minority leader in the house. Talking about free speech, see if you can see what she's saying that is wrong and stupid

park service justify denying that organization, their free speech rights, because the constitution does not say that a person can shout Wolf walls, a theater. If you are endangering people other than you, you don't have a constitutional right to do that so he's wrong on the law and also, why would you shout Wolf in a crowded theater, so weird thing to shout: is shouting elephant in a crowded dinner and she means fire in a crowded theater but she's a dummy? So she says Wolf in a crowded, theater yeah. If we're going to talk crazy towns, then then crazy Nancy Pelosi should be at the top of that list. Democrats really don't get to go down this path, ok time for some things. I like things. I hate then we'll do a fulsome mailbag. So things I like-

This week, we've been doing things associated with blindness because of the eclipse, this actually very serious movie about one this. This is a it's a terrific film, the miracle worker, indeed, Academy Award Winners and Bancroft and Patty Duke and then cross. It plays Helen Keller's. Teacher Patty Duke plays Helen Keller, and this is one of the. This is the sort of the sixteen of the movie. Did the scene in which Helen Keller realizes that words are associated with with objects, because she's basically grown up unable to speak, unable to communicate properly and she's frustrated about in here is and Bancroft is her teacher teaching her what water is.

It has a name who hello,. Hello, and it is an amazing woman- was blind and deaf and couldn't speak. And somehow they figure is, she actually would give speeches I mean by the end of our life she was giving for many years. He gave speeches on college campuses,

ok imagine trying to learn how to speak. If you can't see somebody's mouth move, and you can't hear what they're saying I mean an unbelievable thing in the movie, the miracle worker is a classic. This young and Bancroft people remember him bankrupt from graduate which is garbage movie, but this is a natural good movie. The miracle worker with Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke Mathis, don't give me that look graduates garbage, and we will talk about that. Another time, maybe we'll do a deconstructing. The culture on my math is wrong. About about that particular movie. Ok, so other things I'd like anytime there's a baseball brawl. I have to show it that's just the way it works. So there's a baseball brawl yesterday between the TIGERS and the Yankees. But the funny thing about baseball brawls is basically the way they work is. One person gets in a punch and then everybody just tackles each other, and then they just dance around. So that's what this

spell broad look like so Cabrera now will all account: there's a fight at home, Plate Miguel, Cabrera, going toe to toe with Roman and their swinging with hammer. Yes, they were wow. When is the last time you saw is. It is very funny bitch ball for him down there still there when she talks about how he was punished, because during one of these brawls, like everybody cleared, you see bullpen coming in people running it, and he says that in one of these brawls, in a guy from the opposite team, more friends and they would actually just like fake punch each other they're like dance around and they fake punch should look like they're really clocking each other but that's what baseball brawls always remind me of the number of great baseball. Brawls is really low and there was there's one.

Last year, where there is a thing is between Texas and the Blue Jays. Now, where, where the second baseman threw a punch, that was like a first class, it was a first class cross, but mostly these baseball fights are not very good. Ok time for a quick thing, I hate, and then I want to mail bag Okay, so the thing that I hate today One of the things that really annoys me is how there is a double standard with regard to the sorts of racist jokes that people make so there's this game of thrones parody. That is not very good that was pushed by Huffington Post, a woman in Carolina Moreno, wrote about this. This game of Thrones Perry called Gente of thrones, Is this one's no knows something. So what is it it's? A bunch of the idea is that all of the kingdoms have to get together to stop the white walkers. This is supposed to be in Manhattan, So what are the white walkers? This is the very end of the parody. What are the white walkers? Of course they have to get together to stop you'll see come the White one.

Perfect place to fix up choppy seas. Everybody's he chose a bunch of hispanic people Dominican Republic in Porter Rican saying we have to get together, and then they go up to the the the north of New York and who's coming in as much of hipsters carrying coffee gentrifying place, God they have to be stopped. It's so terrible. The white walkers,

Ok. Now we can all kind of laugh at that. I guess. But can you imagine if the situation were reversed? Imagine if, for example, there are a bunch of people who made a parody video game of thrones about building a wall to keep out the white walkers and it turned out. It was a bunch of illegal immigrants from Mexico. Can you imagine the number of racist accusations that would appear and it would likely be partially right? This is racist when you say that a bunch of urban hipsters are white walkers, who must be prevented from entering Manhattan. 'cause they're running the city, listen New York garbage anyway. Ok, let's be real about this. There are parts of New York they're, ok, but New York City. I'm sorry for people who live there like it's a fun place to visit. My sister has lived there for awhile, but like if you're coming in gentrifying crappy areas of the city like half the city used to look like a scape from new work. So if you're coming in gentrifying and building a coffeehouse, I really don't think you've done anything deeply wrong. Ok, I don't get in the mailbag. So let's just do that Matt says: do you thing?

The black kid from the inner city has a greater than average chance of getting accepted to college because of affirmative action or less than average chance because they graduated from a crappy school. So the sir, is that they have a greater than average chance of being accepted to college, but they have a less than average chance of graduating from high school with the proper grades. Okay, that's just the statistical fact. If you graduate from high school with the same grades, a kid who is not like it, we we don't compare apples in order because it is a complex social phenomenon. Schools in the inner city are not very good. Parents thing in the inner city is largely not as good as parenting in the suburbs and that's not just because of the quality. That's not because of the quality of people per SE is because of the Kuala. These are the decisions made by parents if you're a single mom, it's going to be very hard for you to provide the same sort of environment learning environment crime ridden area that it is for a two parent household and suburbs to provide that environment? For him? That's not a racial thing, there's nothing to blackened right, a black two parent family in the suburbs, is going to be better off in a single mom in the inner city, but it means that kids, ten

underperform in the inner city academically, which is why, when you see a lot of those kids move to charter schools outside those neighborhoods, they only perform really well, is why we shouldn't lock kids down to the public school in their neighborhood. We should allow them freedom of choice to go to schools outside their neighborhood. Then there's the question of affirmative action. Affirmative action is constructed in order to make it easier for black kids from the inner city to get into school. I mean that's what it's constructed to do. So, of course, it's easier by that standard, hey Daniel, says hello Ben. Will you ever grow a beard and is taxation theft. So too weird questions will I grow a beard, so I've I've grown some pretty heavy stubble. It starts to itch. I guess, for certain point is really itchy, so I'm not really huge on the growing of the beard. Also, I mean look at this point. Am you want to hide behind a beard unless they're going to grow like a tormund, giantsbane style like heavy beard and just look like I was going to crack someone skull all the time, then maybe that seems like a lot of work and a lot of grooming and food gets caught in it. So I'm not so big on it.

Is taxation theft. So my view on taxation is, as I say, as I said Before- Read Richard Epstein's book takings. Basically, tech station is theft unless you're getting back the amount of services that justify the taxation and it has to be you getting back the amount of services, not society at large you. So if you are taxed for the Defense Department, it is the purpose of tax, not the amount of tax, that's really issue, so the purpose of taxation. If I'm in tax you because there's an imminent nuclear assault on the United States, and we need to build up our defense capabilities you're, getting back to benefit right, you are being taxed for a collective benefit of which you receive. If you tax me for welfare, I'm not receiving the welfare, so you're just taking my money and giving it to someone else, then taxation is theft, its redistribution Haley says: do you think, once you go to college for a degree they don't currently need? Is it worthwhile to have a degree? Just in case thanks will depend on the degree I mean. I think that your degree should always be focused or job prospects. I think that you know if you, to get a degree in western civ go for it, but that doesn't necessarily come along with a job offer

I think that it is very important that people be educated and be ready to work, even if they are not currently doing so. So even but I was married. I always wanted to marry someone who had the capacity to get at a good paying job specifically, because I think that it's important god forbid. Something should happen to me that my wife be able to take care of our kids. I think that's a that's a decent decent measure of of getting an education I'm, but you should get a degree if you're better off, not getting a great, if you're, better off moving to Nebraska working on a pipeline to do that, a it's all about jobs, I'm Daniel says: what do you think is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of a libertarian Republican so it used to be a social conservative view of what government ought to do. It is not anymore. Now. The biggest obstacle is the basic republican idea. That government should be involved in a ton of crap and the government should be involved in fixing the world. I don't think government should be involved in fixing. World libertarians are right about that. On the other hand, as I say, I think, libertarians look at Republicans and conservatives, and they say you, people with your crazy churches and you're crazy.

I'd like he just re died around and the reality is that without that that church based social Fabric, without that judeo Christian value base social fabric, you can't have a libertarian society. It quickly devolved into into nihilism quickly devolves into look in the libertarianism will devolve into libertinism without us being able to restrain ourselves right. This is John Adams. Entire point can have a free country without a moral and religious people. Chelan says hello. I would like to answer my question you read last week was, I remember, read a very bizarre question last week about puppies kitties pay less and ABC to what they have in common. I said they're all animals. Well, apparently the correct answer was they they make people. Somebody said they make people happy. No, that's but answer Williams as all of these mention. Babies are protected by law, but human babies are not so that was it that that is a. That is a a better answer, but not even it is really not a true answer. I mean the fact is that once the baby is born is protected by law. I don't know that unborn baby sea turtles are protected by

although they maybe they may very well be a Travis says some will say that has stab lish morality in our hearts, and why do some of us have different or bad morals and if it is based, and belief, and why do we not have an epidemic of crime among atheist? I believe that morals come from parents and other adults during young age, not from the existence or belief in God or religion. Well, ok, so two things, one that is begging a question when you say that morals come from your parents and that your parents and society teach you about morals. I agree where do they get them where they come from? You just said they don't come from from the human heart. So don't your parents, human heart, where did their standards come from? I mean at some point to work humans on planet. Earth, where do they get their morals, so you can't have it both ways. You can't say that nature doesn't generate morality, but your parents generate morality without revelation. Doesn't work that way if we want to make the natural law case that human morality springs up in human hearts, you can do that and you can then stay revelation is less important, but if you're going to die

nature and natural morality, then it's very difficult to nine revelation is the source of morality. So that is that's my answer on that. As far as why do we not have an epidemic of crime among atheist, because atheist were raised in judeo christian value system and still believe in the fundamentals of their value system, even if they don't believe in the God that provided them as far as natural law, The idea that the human mind reflects God's mind on morality. I think, obviously there are certain basic things that most human societies have in common. Like don't murder, I think that the UK have taken what part of the things that I actually mentioned this earlier in the show, without even reading this letter basic takes on things like don't kill people that I think is pretty well embedded in the human code, but don't kill. People versus war is an interesting distinction because a lot

societies have discovered, don't kill people, but there are also very few societies that have discovered that don't kill people applies to everyone, everyone who's not actively attacking you. I Zic says hi Ben I'm uncertain of my stance on law enforcement. What are your thoughts on balancing the power of law enforcement and the protection of civil rights Could all problems be solved simply by getting rid of bad laws? For example, the war on drugs? Could privatization play a role, so I think that you should not put a law on the books unless you want it enforced. I think that law enforcement is there to protect your rights if they're not protecting their rights and they've obviously exceeded their their mandate says, then why is. Largest. Cities in history are typically the most evil, blatantly sinful and invest Sodom and Gomorrah Rome LAS Vegas New York, thanks for

hey dude rule, I wouldn't exactly compare Sodom and Gomorrah to New York. Las Vegas is a better argument, but I think the answer is that when you stack a lot of people in a very small amount of space, then there's a lot of conflicts that inherently rises up and there's two ways of dealing with conflict. One is with tyranny and the other the other with libertinism. When you have people who are separated and there in family units and there's not a lot of people right around them, you have to focus in on. How do you make your family good, right and there's less friction from the people right around you but think of living in apt? I live in a house now, but we lived in a condo for awhile, there's, obviously more conflict with the person on the other side of the wall. The condo. Then there is what the person on the other side of my wall in my house there's more separation, that conflict means we have to come up with a basic agreement that agreements either going to be that we abide by assert set of rules together or an that can very quickly devolve into tyranny, because we all want to control each others. Behavior or Ekans evolve into you do everyone on your side of the wall, I'll do whatever I want on my side of the wall. Never the TWAIN shall meet, but then, when you piss me off I'll kill you

and very often that's how it ends in big cities. People are people as much as we like to talk about. People need other people. We do, but too much of other people will make you crazy. Michael says: what does Ben Shapiro have to stop himself from buying if he finds himself with some extra cash, or do you just stockpile it like Scrooge, Mcduck and swim in it with the leftist here's mug in hand? So I do in fact,

of Scrooge Mcduck Money Bin, I do enjoy swimming around in it and just bathing in my cash, my oodles of cash. But what do I have to stop myself from buying? So I don't know I mean books typically, but I don't stop myself from buying books, because it's part of my ongoing quest to learn things. I buy lots and lots of books. I have piles of books around my house. I have a pile right. Next to my bed drive my wife insane. I've got a pile of books next to my bed, that's gotta, be forty books high and I'm gradually going through it, and then there's that mean have you seen that name of the guy who is walking with a girl and then he turns around and looks at the other girl right. There's this mean that's going around online, now, very famous, so I thought the best version of that was guy walking next to the girl and the girl's girlfriend and the girlfriend was book on my bedside stand and then the one who he's checking out is new book that just came out and that sort of my problem is that I have a bunch of books that I have to read and been sitting there for months, and then I see a new book that came out and I want to read it so books is the big one. The other thing is at some point. I want to buy myself a really nice violin.

Violent, is not very good. My violin is like I got it for my grand father is probably work, maybe six or seven gram, but a really nice violin costs a minimum of twenty five ground. Probably- and so I am definitely stocking up for that Emmanuel says: do you think Republicans will ever win statewide elected office in California again when we doomed to sink further and further into the abyss of left? The answer is yes. I do think that Republicans will win again through one of two things. One things get so bad that republicans are just the default position and people react people wise up. Second, all of the leftist eventually leave California after running the state. Republicans re occupy the state one hundred years and it becomes red again right. This is my theory of population movement. Is that Republicans come conservatives can make a place. Awesome left his follow, make the play. Scrap conservatives leave the place devolve further into

Let's just leave conservatives reoccupied make a good okay night Karen says: hey man, my parents got a pet hamster this. We can into Mister Shapiro in your honor. I am deeply honored. Do you think there's a chance that Republicans completely abandon trump, so you can go to go on to create his own political party and they can get some things done in Washington. Thanks for doing what you do well, I don't think that Republicans will abandon from. I think from a Ben and Republicans. I think Trump may get so frustrated that he decided screw you I'm forming my own little coalition, so some people on the left and some people in the Republican Party and tries to get things done. The problem is that people who love him from the Republican Party are not even close to the people who are sort of ok with him on the left. The people- ok with him on the left, like big government People who are ok with him on the right are typically very much in favor of his regulatory cuts, for example. So there's not a lot of common ground there. Ok, so here are a couple of live questions. What is your favorite Monty Python, skit or movie so

my my favorite Monty Python Movie is holy GRAIL, obviously, on dead ends. At my favorites get in that movie, I is still the doc skit the witch in the docks get meals, as would you consider being a a by product of free will from God. Another terms we have gay people of religion never existed in science is only foundation would be considered counterproductive to the species. Well, I mean I don't know, that's a weird way. To put it, I would suggest that all sexual activity has a voluntary component. I don't know that all sexual drive has a voluntary component. Your temptation is your temptation. I think there are environmental impacts on your temptation. I mean every study ever done has suggested this, but I think that the notion that it is pure science that, if it weren't for, if it weren't for our capacity to choose, would there be homosexuality. Sure I mean bonobos have homosexuality. So the idea that that only heterosexuality it can be found in nature is not true would have.

You should select against it. Yes, evolution would clearly select against it would remain. A very, very small contingent of the population. Mitchell says Then I've notice, our generation just wants to fight, to make everything fair. Why do most young people think life is going to be fair? How do we convince them? It's never going to be fair. Over here is how we deserve, and it's not fair, but both of these statements are stupid. No one deserve Anything life will never be fair Mitch. I agree with you. One of my pet peeves is the idea that life is fair. It's because in America we want people to have a fair shot, that having a fair shot does not mean fairness of outcome and it's very easy to mix up the two. We tend to look at two people who have an unequal outcome, and then we say society must have screwed them. That's not right. It's a quite possible! they made decisions in their life that were bad or they started from different places in society. Didn't do anything to them. Okay, Zachary say as a Christian, I'm interested in learning more about Judaism. How welcome

is the synagogues Christians? Well, you can show up. I mean like no one's going to throw you out. We don't do conversions, so it's difficult to convert to Judaism. We actually disk edge conversions, mainly because you're, taking on an enormous number of commandments that you actually don't need to do to get into Heaven. But if your interest learning about Judaism there a lot of books on it, the synagogue probably would be the best place. To start is the truth, because we mumble a lot to ourselves for two hours. Basically, that's what an orthodox service looks like there's some singing, but there's a lot of mumbling and does so if you're, not in sconce. In that, then it probably does not it. It's not like it's. It's not really go for a great time in the synagogue, but if you're looking to learn about Judaism, I would start with the old testament, read the old testament. It's amazing how many people who believe in the old testament haven't actually read the thing. Let's see someone says: do you watch

Rick and Morty? I don't even know what Rick and Morty is so I will have to check it out. Mathis is giving me a skeptical look. Mathis is my adopted son dictates that I must actually check it out. So I will now check out. Rick and Morty that has now become an obligation upon me will find out how that goes. Ok, so, finally, we have reached the bottom of the mailbag. There are no more questions to be asked this week, but if you wish to subscribe the next week, you too can be part of the mailbag and have all of your life questions answered. We back in on Monday, try not to screw things up. He did ok last weekend, it wasn't so bad last weekend, please try not to screw things up so much this weekend, I'm Ben Shapiro! This is the Ben Shapiro, show