So you've read the headlines today
A brand spanking new study has found that
doing away with traditional marriage
laws has supposedly reduce I'd rates
among gay teenagers by whopping 14
percent in states that have embraced
same-sex marriage here are just some of
the glowing headlines PBS Newshour
same-sex marriage laws link to fewer
youth suicide attempts new study says
Washington Post legalizing same-sex
marriage was associated with fewer youth
suicide attempts new study finds the
Guardian dropping teenage suicide
attempts link to legalization of
same-sex marriage USA Today study teen
suicide attempts fell as same-sex
marriage was legalized these headlines
which are just a tiny sampling of the
blanket media coverage this study has
received obviously suggest that if
conservatives would just drop their
gol-darned old-fashioned opposition to
same-sex marriage kids would stop
killing themselves the study printed in
JAMA Pediatrics concludes that same-sex
marriage policies quote would be
associated with more than a hundred and
thirty-four thousand fewer adolescents
attempting suicide every year there's
only one problem the study really does
not prove that the study shows a basic
correlation between loosening same-sex
marriage law and suicide rate but it
does not show that same-sex marriage
policies reduced adolescent suicide
attempts as the study's conclusion state
in fact the study itself acknowledges
quote our analysis that does not allow
us to understand the mechanisms through
which implementation of same-sex
marriage policies reduce the adolescent
suicide attempts in other words they say
they know same-sex marriage policies
impacted suicide attempts but they have
no idea how well then they also failed
to rule out some of the most basic
confounds for any sociological study
like this association socioeconomic
status and students themselves
is it possible the students are
committing suicide at a lower rate
because their parents are making more
money for example is it possible that
socioeconomic status also has an
outsized impact on particular groups or
how about the social acceptance of gays
and lesbians without the legislative
question the study admits openly they
couldn't check either of those compounds
that they said quote we also could not
control for unmeasured individual-level
characteristics including socioeconomic
status or four unmeasured state
characteristics that may change over
time such as refill religious
affiliation or acceptance of religious
minorities in sexual minorities also the
study fails to explain why non-lgbt
students would see their suicide rates
decline in states that approach same-sex
marriage how exactly is that supposed to
work some street kid doesn't kill
self because same-sex marriages gotta
prove the research data shows
variability in suicide rates in states
over time as well why would the suicide
rate dropped precipitously between 2005
in 2007 among states that only legalize
same-sex marriage in 2013 2014 the study
doesn't explain the study also averages
out state data rather than showing a
serious trend common to all state that
means a serious decline in suicide rate
in Hawaii could wash out an increase in
suicide rates in delaware look at the
charts the pretty messy and there's a
reason for that
the study says quote the analyses on the
association between implementation of
same-sex marriage policies and
adolescent suicide attempts among those
identifying a sexual minorities should
be interpreted with caution given the
limited data availability on sexual
orientation yet their conclusions are
bold basically provide evidence that
implementation of same-sex marriage
policies reduced adolescent suicide
attempts as countries around the world
consider enabling a restrictive same-sex
marriage we provide evidence that
implementing same-sex marriage policies
was associated with improve population
health policy makers should consider the
mental health consequences of same-sex
marriage policies so much for caution
here's the bottom line the study says
correlation not causation it openly
ignores basic data that would be
necessary in order to rule out
confounding factors and also averages
data in order to draw conclusions that
truly our state specific study
acknowledges its limitations then draws
extraordinarily strong conclusions and
of course the media runs with it
this is how cautious science because it
becomes utterly unconscious conventional
wisdom maybe same-sex marriage lowers
suicide rates maybe it doesn't this
study doesn't prove it one way or
another but don't let the media tell you
that i'm ben shapiro this is the bench
pero show
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ok so let's begin with what's going on
at CPAC aside from somebody apparently
killing themselves and Richard Spencer
being thrown out of the preceding so
CPAC is always kind of zoo I've been to
CPAC a bunch of times it's always a lot
of fun and this year it should be
particularly fun because it's Trump
you're right it'sit's Trump your 0 so
that means that everybody is very
excited as well they should be there is
a republican president there's a
republican house there's a Republican
Senate there should be a lot of talk
about policy there should be a lot of
talk about conservatism it is called
after all the Conservative Political
Action Conference except that Kellyanne
Conway just showed up there like a few
minutes ago
and apparently she said this evening
first public appearance in weeks
she said that I think by tomorrow this
will be T pack she's asked how is Trump
affected the conservative movement
should i think by tomorrow this will be
T pack meeting the Trump political
action conference and then she added
that conservatism was quote sclerotic
and dusty sclerotic and dusty so let's
start with that
no Conservative Political Action
Conference should probably be
advertising from one of its lead
speakers that the founding ideology and
founding idea upon which is basically
erotic industy the hero worship for
Trump is is obviously over-the-top I've
been saying this for a long time
colonies praise money's right celebrate
money's right put on the magic hat when
he's right when he's wrong say that he's
wrong but your philosophy should be what
guides you not your adherence to truck
prism and getting a lot of flak this
morning's I made the same point about
tucker carlson tucker carlson over Fox
News whose show is really very
entertaining because he basically has on
some idiot from the left every so often
and then he hammers them into the ground
and it's really entertaining stuff and
he does the tucker carlson patented the
news face while he's down split screen
he's really good at it and he's very
talented hosting obviously getting huge
ratings one of the things that the
Tucker Carlson says in this Atlantic
interview is that he has no set ideology
and it's important to note about Tucker
that when he started out early on as the
Atlantic reports on CNN's crossfire
who's basically a mainline partisan
conservative and then after he left CNN
2005 and libertarian and now he's going
for populace and so Carlson was asked
about this here's what he said he said
I'm not much of an economic conservative
I'm not conservative at all on foreign
policy and then he says he was asking
why did you shift all your positions he
says if your politics don't change when
circumstances do you're an idiot your
reactionary this is my views are not
super interesting i have a feeling that
you know some of Tucker's use I'm sure
shifted because the political ground map
change because of Trump isn't because of
this nationalist populism this idea that
your reactionary if you stick to your
principles but you're not a reactionary
if you ship them in reaction to events
is definitionally wrong reactionary
means they're reacting to events by
shifting your principals in your
philosophies now listen Tucker can do
whatever he want but it is dangerous for
the movement as a whole to simply shift
its philosophy based around whatever
Trump wants that day or what
for events happen that day that's not a
philosophy that's not that's worth
upholding that's not a set of values
that's worth upholding and so I think
that we ought to be careful before we
fall into the idolatrous trap of turning
CPAC into T pack of recognizing that
Trump is only important insofar as the
advances conservative principles when he
breaks the most conservative principles
you shouldn't be celebrating tpac right
if trip back and see back on the same
thing let's just call it back 22 ft back
is something different than CPAC then
maybe that ought to be called out a
little bit so that's preliminary notes
on on CPAC it looks like it's gonna be a
fantastic event looks like a lot of fun
stuff is going to be happening there
despite a lot of the confusion that
surrounded it because of everything that
happened with Milo apparently Richard
Spencer showed up and he was immediately
tossed out that is a good idea and it is
very funny a lot of people have been
talking this morning about the idea that
if you don't let certain people speaking
your event is called no platform and no
no platforming is when there's a state
group that refuses that discriminates on
the basis of viewpoint that would be no
platform it's also no platforming if you
have a group that is dedicated to free
speech like say a university that says
in its mission statement that we're
dedicated to free speech and they're
banning certain people that would be no
platforming it's not know platforming
for conservative group to not have
Bernie Sanders of the keynote speaker in
fact it's the opposite of no platforming
ok no platforming is but if you think
that no platforming means that you have
a right to sit in my chair and take over
my show for example where you have a
right to take over seatbacks main stage
where you have a right to take over a
historically black university and you're
David Duke right you don't have a right
to do that doesn't mean that once you're
invited you should be tossed out if
somebody invites you then that is no
platforming to disinvite them but it is
really really really silly to make the
contention that you have a right to
someone else's distribution mechanism
for your message that's actually the
Fairness Doctrine right that's something
that conservatives oppose the left has
been saying for years the talk radio
should be hit with the fairness doctrine
because it's alright winners and the
right has been saying no these are all
private companies they should be allowed
to say into what they want
you can't hold both ideas in your mind
at once because they don't match
ok so no platforming is a bad thing if
you actually define it the way it's
supposed to be defined if you find a
platforming as everybody should be
allowed to take over any stage that they
wanted any time
that's just silly that's just silly and
it's actually indicative of your opinion
violation of rights record violating
right so long as somebody saying
something that you want them to say okay
all of that said the the big issue of
the day is actually not happening at
CPAC around the country CPAC is not it
doesn't really make a blip around the
country
what does make a blip is all these town
hall uprising so that there's a lot of
talk about paid protesters supposedly
going into town hall meetings and
ripping on Republican Congress people
trying to intimidate them into leaving
obamacare in place among the people
pushing these things is michael moore
here's Michael Moore talking about the
wonders of these counter-protests you
could see just watching the footage
there that these know but it's big paid
if they are there because they love this
country and they're coming up and you
know what you're just seeing really the
first week of these formats was crazy to
me I mean when you look at you know we
were going back and looking at footage
we're talking about this today the big
town hall thing was all guests in 2009
because but that was that was the August
recess and that's when those townhomes
happen people get yelled at and just be
there was a bill that was about to be
passed in the organization
this is only a month it writes right
this is way you know and all this makes
the Tea Party look like preschool
I mean seriously it makes do that silly
i mean it i love the left claiming the
tea party was bad but what's happening
now is good
listen everybody has the right to
protest but the fact that the media
continually downgrade and I know that
there is a reporter from political i
think was downgrading the tea party
claiming that was all fake but this is
all real no no now i will say it's a
mistake for right-wingers to immediately
assume that all of this is think that
it's all astroturf there's this tendency
on both sides to do this that the tea
party was astroturf by the Koch brothers
and that all these protests are
astroturf by other groups if there's
evidence that then show me the evidence
of that let's not just throw out the
idea that it's all astroturf without a
lot of evidence of that I haven't seen
tons of evidence of that I've seen some
evidence that some people are astroturf
but the idea that everybody in all of
these rooms astroturf I don't think
that's right it's difficult to mobilize
now many people on the basis of paying
them five bucks an hour
Sean Spicer it basically said this
though he came out he said a lot of this
is just manufactured I think there's a
hybrid there i think some people are
clearly upset but there is a bit of of
professional protester manufactured base
in there but they're obviously there are
people that are upset but I also think
that when you look at some of these
districts and some of these things that
is
it is it is not a representation of a
member's district or an instant it is a
loud group small group of people
disrupting something in many cases for
media attention
no offense it's just I think that's that
necessarily just because they're loud
doesn't necessarily mean that there are
many and I think in a lot of cases
that's that's what you're seeing and
there's truth to it there's truth to
some of that just because of the group
is very loud doesn't mean they're a lot
of me all right is very loud doesn't
mean they're huge huge force but it's a
political mistake for spokespeople for
presidents to go out there and say that
when you can see a protest on TV it's
all fake tall astroturf that makes it
look like a denial of reality i said
that by the way way back when okay
Robert Gibbs was the press secretary
under Barack Obama and here's what he
said about town hall protests directed
against President Obama's Obamacare is
it your contention is the White House
contention that the anger that some
members of Congress are experiencing a
town hall meetings especially over
health care reform is manufactured
because i think some of it is yes in
fact I think you had groups today the
Conservatives for patients rights that
have bragged about organizing and
manufacturing that anger
ok so again it was bad when Gibbs says
that i'm not big family Spicer says just
politically speaking it's not smart
especially not smart to place directly
into the hands of the protesters so for
example here's one woman who comes out
at one of these town hall event and she
says look I'm not a paid protester I'm
here just to talk to you
Thank You senator cotton for being here
today
first of all I'm very story bill and i
am not a paid protester
americanized rest that point is made
yeah I don't really care
anybody here is paid or not your
Arkansas and I'm glad to hear from you
I know said I know I know there's been
there's been some talk about that media
some politicians have said that I just
want to say thank you to everyone for
coming out tonight whether you agree
with me or disagree with me
this is part of what our country phone
back ok so you know good response here
by Senator cotton much better response
than the sponge you got from from Sean
Spicer but it does put people in an
awkward position when you say everybody
here is Payton somebody gets up and says
I'm not paid so these town hall event I
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ok so back to the town hall event so
these town hall events have basically
become away for
left to put sympathetic faces on TV to
talk about how terrible would be if they
repeal Obamacare so here's an example of
this it woman gets up and she's asking
Tom cotton about her husband and I just
want to play this because I think that's
indicative of what exactly the media are
trying to do and sort of narratives that
come into play here we're going to
Medicare my way not your way my way I've
got a husband dying and we can't afford
let me tell you something if you can get
us better coverage than this
go4it limited in what we have plus a lot
of benefits that we need we have
twenty-nine dollars per month for my
husband can you be thanked
can you with all a congestive heart fair
that open heart surgery season is yes
we're try twenty-nine dollars per month
and he's a hard worker now starting that
dog for me
ok so the reason that I play this is
because i think this is what the media
are looking for what they're looking for
is exactly this they're looking for
women to get up there and say my
husband's dying keep Obamacare and
obviously your heart goes out to the
woman whose husband has a serious health
problem obviously obviously but to
pretend that she has extra moral
authority because she's experiencing
tragedy it's just not true and something
left likes to play but only selectively
so after 911 they said that the people
who did the widows and 911 the Jersey
Girls they call them they said that they
had impeccable moral authority because
they have spouses who died on 911
therefore they should be making policy
for the whole country and you heard this
from maureen dowd what there's a what
when I think is code pink when cindy
sheehan who had a son who died in iraq
when she started talking Marines out
immediately called said shit absolute
authority not just moral authority
godlike moral authority to determine
what policy should be and what policy
would be but when it come to Pat Smith
and michelle malkin makes this point is
right when it comes to Pat Smith the
mother of sean smith who was killed in
Benghazi she comes as my son was killed
in Benghazi and that's a problem and the
entire media ignores her where the more
authority go it's just going to jump out
right no moral authority it's been
debunked and the reason for that is
because the left likes to use tragedy as
a club with which to beat its enemies
but it will not allow there to be a
common rule about tragedy you know why
because tragedy can't be a common rule
because the vast majority of people in
life have experienced some form of
tragedy or another and it doesn't make
them experts on the topic
it doesn't mean that they should
actually do create the create the the
policy in fact there's a good case to be
made that if you've experienced tragedy
on a particular score you should be the
person who is least likely to make a
policy then the the logic being that if
your doctor and your son comes into the
waiting room with it with a cancerous
tumor you shouldn't be the one to
operate on you're too close to the
situation your empathy is skewing how
you're actually going to treat the
situation that's why we all take
doctor's advice rather than researching
it on our own and then just determining
that we're going to do XYZ like we do
our own research for them that we
combine that empathy with actual
expertise and expert advice is not a
professor Paul bloom at Yale University
he's an entire book on the fact that
empathy makes for bad policy he says
emotional empathy is a different matter
when it comes to guiding our moral
judgments and political decisions
recent research in neuroscience and
psychology shows that empathy makes us
biased tribal and often cruel y because
we have empathy for this lady right here
maybe you're being cruel to the millions
of people who are forced to buy health
insurance that they can't afford or
forced off of health insurance that they
could afford it is what Bernie Sanders
said the other day says you know what
what good is it to have the right to my
health care if you can't afford it and
the answer is number one it is the
market system that makes health care
affordable but number two it's a lot
worse to me to have a system where you
can afford healthcare not allowed to get
it because of Bernie Sanders that seems
worse to me what professor bloom says
empathy is activated when you think
about a specific individual the
so-called identifiable victim effect but
it fails to take broader considerations
into account which is why people give
tons of money when they see a wounded
baby seal during a hurricane but they
won't give any money to hundreds of
thousands of people being slaughtered in
Syria because one is an identifiable
victim and the other is not an
identifiable victim
the point being here when you foreign
policy for millions of people's for
millions of people then it is imperative
that you put your empathy to the side so
you can make good policy doesn't mean
shouldn't be empathetic doesn't mean you
shouldn't feel for this lady but this
idea that the left keeps trying out
victims and then we're supposed to make
policy based on the fact that certain
policies have certain effect but the
statistical impact is is either small or
or is balanced out by other factors
that's really a bad way to make policy
but this is what the left is trying out
clip 16 we get this from another woman
she does the same sort of thing
my family has been in the Ozarks with
the eighteen-hundreds we are
historically Republican family for a
farming family where an NRA family were
an army family aside from inheriting
their patriotism and their work ethic I
unfortunately inherited a incurable
genetic connective tissue disorder i
qualify for Medicare but unfortunately
it's useful for me since only two of my
doctors who are the only doctors and
over 500 mile radius who are familiar
with my condition accept Medicare
without the coverage for pre-existing
conditions i will die will you commit to
replacements in the same way that you
have committed to the repeal
obviously the zoo and standing ovation
for the question not even for the answer
righteous for the question and again the
idea is that her suffering confers a
certain level of value to her opinion
again you have to feel awful for this
person you have to feel terrible for
this person and I promise you that if
she started a charity fund people would
raise tons of money for her because
again that identifiable victim effect
means that our empathy for her means
that would help profit shifting a bit
crafty broad public policy around one
person and their suffering in the
tragedy is just not it's just not good
public policy just isn't it just isn't
so it's also worthwhile noting by the
way that all these republicans have
already said that they want pre-existing
conditions to be covered which is
something with which I disagree because
that doesn't actually that doesn't
actually look like insurance anymore but
you know that's because i'm talking
about public policy not having to win
reelection when you've got the sort of
sympathetic stories being trotted out on
routine basis
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already so I want to talk a little bit
more about these protests because again
i think that they are going to be the
front page of every newspaper it's what
everybody in the in the bottom left is
focused on but what the other thing that
people are going to be focused on is the
Democrats trying to come up with a new
strategy and there's a real gap in the
Democratic Party between people who
think they're gonna win just by bashing
on Trump and people who think they're
going to win by recasting themselves as
a party that actually cares about
working people i think the people back
on track for gonna win I'll give you an
example keith Ellison they had last
night a big debate on CNN all the people
who are running for the head of the DNC
had a debate and keith Ellison he said
that Trump is already should already be
impeached Donald Trump I think that he
Donald Trump is already done a number of
things which legitimately raised the
question of impeachment I mean on day
one who was ok so again this is the
stuff that's going to please the base
but is it necessary to make for good
policy
no there's no evidence that this makes
for good policy or that it's gonna win
voters because you're gonna have to do
something more than shout about Trump it
didn't work in this election cycle i
don't see why would work in the next
election cycle General Greene no did the
exact same thing she's another one of
these candidates and she said that Trump
is marching toward fascism we don't have
the luxury to take a backseat as this
man is arrogantly marching us towards
fascism
ok so he's Marchesa get so that they're
all betting the Trump is actually gonna
do something really bad that they get to
hang their hat on so far he hasn't so
far he's been trunk right and that comes
with some good it comes with some bad
right good drumming a bedroom but it
comes with some both but the idea that
the American people are ready to throw
him out on his rear for doing something
that there's no poll data suggesting
that no matter how unpopular he is and
some polls have my 55 and some having
down to 39 there's a huge variability in
his popularity right now from pole to
pole the idea that people want to
impeach I don't really see the evidence
for any of that Tom Perez who sort of
the establishment insider pick at the
Democratic Party his case for being
Democratic party chair is a lot better
here's what he had to say
here here here in facts Hillary Clinton
won the democratic primary Hillary
Clinton also won the popular vote at the
same time
because of the absence of transparency
in the Democratic primary there was a
crisis of trust that ensued and what we
need in the chair of the Democratic
Party is to make sure that in fact and
in perception every single day you are
fair and neutral so when you ask the
question before about primaries you have
to let the primary process go if I were
the chair if I have the privilege of
winning for instance one of the things i
would recommend would be that we set the
primary debate scheduled long in advance
so this is this is he's correct but he's
boring and so the chances are really
good at somebody like keith Ellison who
electrified with his sort of wild
leftism he's going to win that's not a
good thing for the democratic party
which is probably a good thing for
Republicans ok we'll do some things i
like things i hate and then the mail bad
so things i like we've been doing movies
about con men the entire week and
probably the best movie about a con man
it's not really about a con it's more
about just a criminal is is movable
third man fantastic film the score is
really bad but the film itself is great
it's a it's carol reed is the director
and the and the it's Orson Welles and
Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles is an
iconic performance the whole movie is
about post-war occupied berlin and split
into all of these different sectors and
there's a and there's an American and
Harry Lime who is to his term criminal
basically he's he's been selling he's
been selling nefarious product to
various players and people are dying
because of it and his best friend is
reporter goes to goes to Berlin to check
it out and he's gone for almost the
whole movie Orson Welles and then
finally when he shows up he's so
fantastic
here's the most famous clip from the
film nobody thinks it serves
it's into it's a really good movie and
that is the best model one of the best
monologue in movie history right there
from Orson Welles because it really does
express i think a political truth too
many people are apt to fall into which
is I want what I want and I wanted what
I want it and I can still hold in my
mind the idea that i believe in God
while i do all these terrible things
because after all everybody does
terrible things don't be Harry Lime ok
he's the bad guy in the film
don't be that guy ok other things that I
like Mike Pence visited a Jewish
cemetery this is something that i think
from should've done himself if you
wanted a quiet all of the silly
anti-semitism overblown talk but Mike
Pence is jewish cemetery was vandalized
good for Mike Pence vice president the
united states goes to the cemetery and
and starts helping out at the cemetery
which is exactly what we should do
I'm Mike fans from the vice president of
the United States of America spoke words
earlier today in st. Louis it from the
heart
there's no place in America for hatred
or acts of prejudice or violence or
anti-semitism i must tell you the people
of Missouri are inspiring the nation by
your love and care for this place for
the Jewish community in Missouri and I
want to thank you for that inspiration
for showing the world what America's
really also good for my pens and by the
way that is what America is is about the
90-minute countries the greatest country
in history for Jews and and so you know
good for my clients not okay time for a
couple of things that I hate really
quickly so things that I hate there's
this mean that's going around now of
steven miller even Miller is one of
Donald Trump's policy advisors and it
shows
steven miller straightening his tie
before an interview the left is going
nuts over this okay why why is left
going nuts over him straightening his
tie or buttoning his coat because
they're suggesting that he's after
making a white power sign
ok what's the white power sign here if
you can't see it looks like he's
straightening his tie with his fingers
on one hand and straightening his in
button is cut with the other hand at the
same time that he's that he's doing this
I was not rare everybody does that you
can see his fingers are actually on his
high you can see that
what they're saying he's doing is he's
forming the letter W with his with his
fingers on his left hand and hand with
his right hand he or with his left hand
he whichever hand he's it with with his
right hand is forming w with his left
hand is forming a pee right for white
power
no he isn't
ok he really know number one he wouldn't
do that publicly if you were white
supremacist number two it's clearly not
what he's doing is a picture of him
straightening his tie his jacket but
everybody is so crazy looking for
conspiracy theories that they fall into
this idiotic trap ok other things so
that's been dispensed against its stupid
if you see people passing it around
because the morons
ok other things that I hate so Donald
Trump written it takes back the the
Barack Obama crammed down on transgender
bathrooms and this transgender bathroom
bill basically said that all public
facilities now have to let men who think
that women into women's locker rooms and
women's bathrooms and number one that's
not a federal issue number to the
federal government does not have the
wherewithal to redefine sex alone
non-biological lines there's nothing in
the Constitution that gives them that
power delegated to them this is a local
issue number three just as a policy
matter men should not going to women's
bathrooms and I keep hearing people say
well what's the big deal if a man who's
dressed up as a woman who's had
surgeries or any of this stuff goes into
his hormone treatment goes into a
women's bathroom looks like a woman
ok that's not what transgenderism is
transgenderism is the suggestion that I
right now could walk into women's
bathroom and then if I identify as
female and that's perfectly okay
no I should be able to walk into a
woman's bathroom identify however you
want no one cares but if you walk into a
lady's bathroom looking like a dude
then I think women have a right to feel
uncomfortable and I would feel
uncomfortable with you walking into a
bathroom after my wife if you're a
hulking six-foot-five man is not
something that makes me happy is that
crazy is that profiling no I don't think
it is and i feel that way if a straight
man a man who identified as man felt
that way and I don't see why I should
change my opinion just because the man
says that he identifies as a woman
nonetheless there's a single performance
of the inauguration who says she's very
disappointed by Trump's rollback of the
transgender student rules she tweeted
out I'm obviously disappointed in the
decision to send a transgender bathroom
mission to the states to decide hashtag
sister loves because she has a brother
who dude is transgender and
and she thinks that he's now lovin real
Donald from gave me the honor to save
the inauguration please give me and my
sister the honor to talk transgender
rights
ok why why I mean you can't listen Owen
silencing you say whatever you want to
say but the idea that this is how again
this is the empathy masquerading as
policy point just because you love
somebody doesn't mean that what they do
ought to make public policy particularly
public policy around something as
central as as sacks as what whether men
or men or women
ok few entries from the mailbag so
William rights please explain why police
firefighters and military are not
socialist programs while singles to a
single-payer system is also in your
opinion is there a difference between
socialism and democratic socialism the
police firefighters and military are not
all quite the same thing
the reason the police and firefighters
are public programs is because everyone
has an equal right everyone has equal
access i should say to the use of the
police and firefighter services when it
comes to single-payer you're telling
people that they must buy into a system
that they may never access I actually
see why people compare police and
firefighters to single-payer i think
that the distinction would be that you
actually could theoretically privatize
the police and firefighters actually
could in many areas of the country they
do privatized police and firefighters
the only reason not to do that is
because these places are really
understaffed right and then crime
actually has spillover externalities
that health doesn't if it firefighters
perfect example this if you don't have a
if you live next to somebody else's
house and their house goes on fire then
if they don't have if they have not
bought into the fire collective it could
hurt you because the fire can jump house
to house the same thing is not true with
single-payer health care if you have
cancer I'm not catching your cancer
there's a case to be made that with
communicable disease slightly different
story as far as the military the
military is a socialist program in the
truth is all of these things are
socialist programs firefighter police
military their socialist programs they
also go under designated services of
government and healthcare does not go
under designated service of government
because the private market takes care of
it also because the police are tasked
with specifically protecting you right
the government actually has certain
tasks and that task is to protect your
life liberty and property from other
people not from you from other people
and not by compelling service so that's
it that's a different thing
okay Morris rights what is the value of
the Constitution i consider myself to be
a constitutional conservative i believe
society should live by the Constitution
why is it so important the Constitution
is important because undergirding the
Constitution are certain basic values
among those values people are capable of
both good and evil you need power and
ambition to check power and ambition and
the any rights that you have as a human
being
those are not limited by the rights that
government has because government
doesn't have rights all the government
can do is stop people from violating
your rights that those are the ideas
undergirding the Constitution that's why
the Constitution is important
steven says is going to be equal to true
allegiance and if someone can be
expected i'm thinking about it really
depends on sort of the amount of time i
have on my hands I'm in the middle of
writing a couple of other books as well
so I think those will probably come out
first
austin says he been in light of the
recent debates over the raising of the
federal minimum wage had begun to think
about why it is necessary in the first
place
I think the minimum wage should be
abolished by the only question is what
would happen if a business owner decided
to severely underpaid his or her
employees well you can't decide to
underpay your employees the person has
to consent so if you really like let's
put it this way if you tried to hire
people at one cent a day to work at
McDonald's no one would ever work at
McDonald's because no one can live on
one side today the whole minimum wage
discussion suggest that there is no
consent on the part of the employee when
in fact there is consent on the part of
the employee and maybe a lot of
competition for that particular slot but
that does not necessarily mean that
there's no consent is given there is
competition for every job in the
universe
alex has he been spent the last week in
London and Dublin couldn't help but
notice the cleanliness apparent safety
and lack of homelessness in the streets
granted this may have interest vision it
occurred to me our major cities may not
appear the same way to foreign visitors
following conservative principles how
can we make cities like la in San
Francisco safer and cleaner in
comparison with the socialist European
countries
well number one there is a different
population group in places like London
and Dublin and different cultures that
adhere so if you are if you're drafting
populations that come from places where
leaving trash on the street is more
common you're gonna get more people who
leave trash on the street more commonly
this is why if you actually go to a lot
of the European countries with heavy
Muslim populations from areas that are
not used to cleanliness in the streets
per se
then you might have less cleanliness in
the streets culture does have an impact
on things like litter as fact as far as
what you can do to stop this i mean
number one in force crime as
stop stop bending before crime Rudy
Giuliani I obviously did this when he
talked about broken windows theory with
the suggestion that if you in for small
crimes big crimes tend to go away a lot
faster
that is absolutely true nick says what
are your thoughts on the designated
hitter rule so i'm really i'm not a fan
of the designated hitter role the reason
i'm not a fan of the designated hitter
rule is because i don't think they
should have a player who may be the best
hitter on your team who can play the
field
it seems to me that if you're going like
you don't have a designated shooter rule
in the best in the NBA where you have
somebody who plays defense may have like
Dennis Rodman play defense and then as
he runs halfway down the court certainly
Larry Bird step said I suddenly suddenly
Jordan steps off the bench to take over
for him on office and then as soon as
they cross half-court again Dennis
Rodman goes back over there if you can't
play baseball don't play baseball I I
don't believe in the designated hitter
rule I games has been what made you want
to study law when you do when you didn't
know you when did you know you wanted to
go to law school where your specific
interest in law so ideologically very
interested in the Constitution I'll of
constitutional law I find it fascinating
that the theory of law is really
interesting to me as far as studying
like she didn't know I wanted to study
law i went to the I went to school in
political science and then I took the
LSAT and then basically i apply too much
schools when I got into Harvard I went
it wasn't like I was thinking I really
want to work with work in a corporate
law firm because I didn't it wasn't
something that I was deeply interested
in in fact I only worked at a corporate
law firm for about 10 months before i
quit and then I practiced law with a
talk radio network at the same time I
was doing some production works i could
learn the radio business that Jeff
rights
hey man I streams your lecture at UC
Santa Barbara I loved every second of it
there's a question asked about
pre-existing conditions and health
insurance and your answer was a hundred
percent logical
however my father disagrees with you I
can't seem to get the point across that
healthcare is a commodity he views it as
a moral standpoint which isn't out of
the ordinary my question is what happens
if someone gets diagnosed with cancer
for example and has refused coverage
before even after purchasing insurance
is there any perfect solution
well there is no perfect solution from
the insurance field there is a good
solution from the aspect of you have a
community comes together to help support
this person helps make sure the person
has the money for care but the idea that
you can compel somebody else to pay for
health care what that really encourages
people not to get insurance in the first
place if you're going to have insurance
companies that function they actually
have to ensure they can't just be here
coverage if you could pay in ten dollars
and get out of thousand you never bother
to sign up for health insurance in the
first place you would just wait to get
sick pay ten dollars and get a thousand
dollars out that's not an insurance
company now that's just a gumball
machine and that's not how health
insurance is going to stay solvent it's
not have health insurance is going to
work the problem with the commodity vs
right discussion is that it's seeing
things into different way
if you say that that healthcare is a
right i would say access to healthcare
certainly is right if you have the
capacity to go hire a doctor should be
able to hire a doctor you don't have the
right to go to my wife's needs to come
to our house knock on the door in the
middle of the night and tell my wife to
fix your broken leg because that's
insulating my wife that's involuntary
servitude you can't do that and what you
can do is you can go to all your friends
an offer to pay my wife my wife will be
happy to do that she might be even
happier to waive the fee but that's up
to her you can't steal somebody else's
livelihood you can't steal somebody
else's autonomy because you have a
tragedy in your life healthcare is a
commodity just like everything else if
it weren't a commodity then you would be
able to get it for free without having
to pressure anybody right there is not a
commodity because you have to pay for it
it's all around you right
water is a commodity because it doesn't
just magically flow out of your tap
people actually have to work for it so
the differentiation between a commodity
and not a commodity is whether there is
a scarcity of it and somebody has to
work to bring it to you if there is a
scarcity and someone has to work to
bring it to obviously to commodity
it doesn't matter what you think of it
it's still a commodity doesn't matter
whether you think this table is a chair
it's still a table healthcare is a
commodity it is not a right you can hope
that you have a right to healthcare a
right to access to healthcare but if
you're right override someone else's
rights to freeze their services then you
are now compelling them and that's
that's you invading their rights
Spencer says they've been suppose
California's able to succeed what's the
likely outcome assuming you move where
would you go
so that California's not going to
succeed nobody's eating okay all this is
is hyper talk as far as it were and move
if this happened I probably end up
moving to texas i would imagine that
Texas seems like a wonderful state every
time I visit it it makes me happy but
one more question I'm a nun religious
bipartisan Native American from South
Florida that last lefties for leaving
trash spot they're protesting to keep
clean to go to access pipeline
having said that why don't they get to
keep their Sacred Lands unbesmirched
someone tried to tear down a church or
JCC or Western religious place when
people invoke religious sacredness and
allow such things so yes if the if the
if the Native American tribes had
actually sued in timely fashion and
their nine out of ten American tribes
Native American tribes that didn't care
or sued and were overturned if you sue
to stop the desecration of a holy site
then you'll probably one you'll probably
win number two you have to do so in a
timely fashion you don't get to wait
until the projects already been done
there is fair notice you wait until the
day before and then you show up and
change yourself to the bulldozer that's
just not fair to the developer it's not
fair to anybody else but obviously I
think that religious rights extend to
Native American burial places and I
think that's absolutely true as you want
to go back and clarify something on the
police firefighters and and military
example because i think that i wasn't if
I wasn't clear enough i want to clarify
thanks i think is a really good question
again there are certain things you have
a right to from the government
ok and that is protection of your life
that's the sole reason for having the
government is protection of your life
basically your life or liberty and your
property if the government can't protect
you and can't protect your rights in
life liberty and property the government
ought not exist there's no point to the
government at that point so does that
mean that its socialist to tax people
for the police and firefighters in the
military I don't think that its
socialist socialist i suppose in the
essence that you're telling people to
pay money into a system that they may
not get out but that's very that I think
that that's that's that's a very dicey
proposal because the fact is that you
are protected by the military just as
much as the guy next door to you are
protected by the police just as much as
the guy next door you in healthcare
that's not true you're not protected in
health care just as much of the guy next
door to you because number one you
should have the ability to go above and
beyond and number two BR pre-existing
conditions may not be your neighbors
pre-existing conditions and number three
you actually have a roll into in how
your healthcare goes over the course of
your life like people tend to ignore
this but not every disease that you get
is something that was completely
unrelated to behavior
plus if you don't think down the line
you're going to buy insurance from a
very young age as i do and the goal in
police and fire fighting military is not
to have a cheap and and and
the competition in the military is not
even a thing how could there be
competition military competition the
police room was not a thing right
competition in the healthcare Rama is if
you want cheaper faster service you have
competition in that room which is why
private markers from effectiveness
standpoint are better than a socialized
healthcare point of view from a moral
standpoint for all the reasons i just
talked about as far as confiscating the
services of someone else you have to
impress my wife into service as a doctor
in order to have healthcare be awright
you don't have to impress any policeman
into service as a policeman specifically
because what you're basically doing is
you're hiring police officers to protect
everybody equally in society that's the
only reason government exists every
government is a touch of socialism every
government aspect is a touch of
confiscating wealth in order to serve
everybody but the question is does the
government should the government exists
or not the most an anarchist you believe
the government is there to actually
protect you against other people the
role of government is to protect you
from externalities externalities like
crime externalities like fire
externalities like foreign threat i hope
that was a little bit clearer than my
original answer
okay thanks so much we will see you next
week we'll be back and we'll give you
the update on CPAC and everything else
i'm ben shapiro this is the bench pero
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