The left finds a target rich environment in corporate cowards. The woke scolds come for Dave, Chappelle and Brexit's fate remains unclear. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show we have an enormous amount to get to today and will get to all of it will just move straight through it. We begin today with the new crusade by the left, so the left is attempting to use pressure politics in virtually every area of american life. We're going to talk about how it is that the left uses these pressures politics in areas of american life to make american life a lot worse, because normally, if you're going to use pressure politics, you use it in. You know politics right it politically. It going you're going to pressure your senator pressure. Your con horsemen are going to organize phone banking or going to nominate somebody to primary somebody or against somebody, but we are now moving into an era where so many people in Erica now believe the government is ineffective and ineffectual, but instead they're going to go to the commanding heights of our culture and our business and they

going to try to use those commanding heights against their fellow citizens. Now, that's not illegal. Obviously that doesn't violate prescriptions, unlimited government, but it does change the natural tone and tenor of how it is to live as an American if you are simply going after the commanding heights of Hollywood and using it to cram down cultural stereotypes about people, you don't like that does have an impact on american life. If you are going to the commanding heights of corporate America and demanding that corporate America do your political bending, that does have an impact on how we live now again. There's a difference between the government doing something like that and a corporation doing something like that. We'll talk about that difference and white actually opens up some market opportunities for conservatives, as corporations make themselves less compared live on the american stage in order to cater to the whims of the far left is very short sighted corporate policy, but nonetheless it does polarize us

in here to four unseen ways in America. Okay, so we begin today with the failure of political blackmail, so political pressure politics have been used. Obviously, throughout the history of the United States, you try to pressure. Your senator and the newest go hold for the left is to try and push Mitch Mcconnell. Maybe they can shame Mitch Mcconnell into passing some sort of gun control legislation. Now, there's a solution to this for folks on the left, you could elect him dirty and you could just elected a majority of democratic senators. In fact, you had a majority of democratic senators, all the way up through two thousand and fourteen, and you could elect a democratic house which you already have. You could elect a democratic president. In fact, you had all three of those branches. He had the Congress and you had Senate and you had the presidency from two thousand and nine all the way through two thousand and eleven early, two thousand and eleven and you didn't do anything on gun control. So now you see the press trying to push Mitch Mcconnell into doing something and they're trying to use President Trump's vagary on gun control as sort of the lever

or to get Mcconnell to do something. So you get the Washington Post Editorial Board. Writing a full page editorial, extraordinarily long editorial today, trying to push Mitch Mcconnell, suggesting that it's Mitch Mcconnell's fault, that mass shootings are taking place, which is a rather large absurdity, considering again that mass shootings have been taking place in the United States for decades. At this point, Columbine happened. Nineteen nineties Mitch, Mcconnell was not the Senate Party leader when a bevy of mass shootings happened in two thousand nine two thousand and ten and Mitch. Mcconnell is not solely responsible for for the gun control policy. In the United States we had an assault weapons banned in the United States. The same assault weapons ban Democrats are now pushing from one thousand nine hundred and ninety four through two thousand and four and accomplished precisely nothing so for all of the talk about Mitch. Mcconnell it ain't about Mitch Mcconnell, but this is normal pressure, politics, okay, this is just the way politics works and there's nothing particularly wrong. With this I mean the people are pushing the agenda. Have the wrong agenda they're, pushing policy that is impractical, but this is sort of

normal politics as politics, I guess, is supposed to work. So the Washington Post writes an editorial. I get entitled how many more names will be added to the list before Mitch, Mcconnell acts on guns and they just list a bunch of people who were killed Saturday in Midland and Odessa. They said, add those seven individuals randomly slaughtered Saturday by a shooter in the West, Texas Cities of Midland and Odessa, so that all of those last two America's done insanity and then pose this question personal again there wrong on the politics there there's no such thing as chronicled gun insanity there, just insane people with guns or evil people with guns me owning a gun is not insane. You law, biting citizen, owning a gun to defend yourself is not insane. It's not gonna insanity. Again, a gun is just a tool to suggest that it's a part of America's corner gun insanity is to create the me asthmatic, evil that descends on America randomly when that is not in fact the case, but that's not where the editor Royal Board is going. Obviously they say, let's pose this question, what if there was

mass shooting in the United States not once or twice or four or six times monthly, but every all day, a big one, the kind of electric social media and squats for days on page one? Would that be enough to move Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell from his in it's inertia on gun safety? Would any volume of bloodshed convinced the Kentucky Republican? That Congress faces a moral imperative to act? Thirty eight people were pain in three such shootings in August and still Senate Republicans and President Trump refused to act again. This is the old democratic saw, which is that if you don't agree with them on policy, it's because you don't care if people get shot and that's a lie and it's nasty, but it is normal politics if you're directing it at an elected senator and then they just list off all of the people who are who have been killed in a variety of mass shootings. They don't seem to care about all the people getting killed in Chicago, because that is Democrat govern. They say. The list below far from comprehensive is true check in part because it is so far from inevitable. No no single law would end gun violence, but there are reasonable obvious measures that would help, for example, banned the sale

military grade assault weapons. Again they say: that's reasonable and obvious really have an impact on mass shootings in the United States are needed. Civilian there, a blade on the nation, their ready availability and national disgrace, eliminate ing them would slow the growth of this list. It would save lives again. You can't just assert this sort of stuff. You actually have to explain why and then they just list off a bunch of names and the names themselves are supposed to be proof that the policy is somehow workable, which of course, is very silly. Ok, but again, this is normal political pressure, an it's not working, it's not working, and so many in the media have now up their game when it comes to normal political pressure. Many on the left have up their game when it comes to normal political pressure. It's not just pressuring Mitch Mcconnell to do what you want. It turns into concerted

attacks on people in deeply unfair ways. So here is an example. Yesterday, yesterday there was a an article from Bloomberg that resulted in a Texas conservative in Leaf Olsen leaving the Department of Labor. Why exactly was he forced to leave the department of Labor because he posted a couple of times on Facebook, making fun of the all right and mocking anti Semitism and Bloomberg took that out of context to suggest that he was all right and supported Anti Semitism I'll get to that story in just one? Second, first, let's talk about safety for just a minute, so I'm somebody who requires an enormous amount of safety precautions. Unfortunately, I get an enormous number of death threats. I have stockers, there are lots of people, but there are very, very wild, and this means that I'm always concerned about what's going on at my house- and this is why I rely on ring rings. Mish is to make neighborhood safer. You might already know about their smart video doorbells cameras that protect millions of people everywhere ring helps you stay connected,

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three of a dancing, controversial conservative in faith based causes in court, has resigned after revelations that he wrote a two thousand and sixteen facebook post suggesting the jewish controlled media protects their own, and now it sounds pretty bad. Doesn't it except for it's, obviously what he is saying. He is obviously marking all of the people on the alt right who were suggesting this two thousand and sixteen at Paul Ryan. The speaker of the house, was going to lose his congressional primary to Paul Nehlen, an open white supremacist, and he wrote this marking. This mocking ridiculous facebook post making fun of the all right. May he wrote establishment insider rhino corporate tool. Paul Ryan was finally brought to heel in tonight's primary election by an uprising of the conservative masses of real America eager for an authentic voice in Washington. Instead of the same tired, globalist, open borders, pep they've been pushing on us since the elites abandoned the people that I just suffered a massive historic emasculating. Seventy point victory. Let's see it

in his Georgetown Cocktail Party puppet masters tried to walk that one off. Obviously he is mocking people who said the Paul Nehlen was going to beat Paul Ryan, and then somebody wrote back to him as a as a humorous reply he's a neocon too. You know and leave no he's, not Neil Control Upper EAST side, sinus real golf on Saturday. If you know what I mean right, meaning in a again, this is all making fun of white supremacists and the all right, all of it all of it. Okay, so Bloomberg reported this as though making fun of the all right now and take some of his was actually anti semitic. So they can get this guy fired. The guy did end up resign. Okay, so this is the shift normal political hits going out of your way to deliberately read something wrong in order to target somebody. So that's bad enough and then it goes even further, and that is the maligning of people you disagree with, not just by taking them out of context, but literally calling them them. So this is what's happening in San Francisco. Within the forty eight hours, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared

the NRA a domestic terrorist org station, an organization that is a lobbying organization on behalf of american citizens who wish to protect their second amendment rights is now a domestic terrorist organization. So what is that? Presumably? Can an NRA members home you can surveil an NRA member. I mean, I really wonder why so many gun owners are uneasy about red flag laws. When you have the San Francisco legislative body passing are solution. Officially, labeling, the NRA. A domestic terrorist organization, is the equivalent of bling Emily's list, a domestic terrorist organization on the right district to supervisor Catherine's. The funny district includes the Marina and Presidio wrote. The declaration state sing that their NRA quote, spreads propaganda that misinforms and aims to deceive the public about the day pictures of gun violence, in other words, they exercise their first amendment rights. Therefore, there are terrorist organization. They say that the NRA quote: musters its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and insight, gun owners to acts of violence.

There's no evidence that the NRA insights, gun owners to acts of violence, that's absurd and, yes, they do promote gun ownership. So do I I'm not a terrorist. If San Francisco is now in the business of labeling people, terrorists who disagree with them now we're getting into the realm of the dangerous you move from normal political manipulation that is bad stuff. The Mitch Mcconnell stuff, abnormal political manipulation, members of the media, attacking people for precisely the opposite of what they're saying openly. Labeling everybody to open labeling everybody who you don't like some sort of terrorist. The declaration according to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, reads: quote: all trees have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large capacity magazines, thanks in large to the National Rifle Association's influence, how delightful hello, okay! So all of this is incredibly divisive and

then we get to the final step so that one is bad, because that is an actual board of government labeling fellow citizens, terrorists on the basis of their belief system, which is really nasty, and let us not forget that the entire left has suggested that if you use inflammatory language about the positions of people on the left that you're inciting violence against them. So if you say that Ilhan Omar is a bad person, an anti semite, she says or inciting violence against her. If you suggest that retreated to leaves belief system is wrong and nasty violence against her in some sort of way. If you label nobody in the United States who supports the second amendment of terrorist, apparently that's totally okay in San Francisco, if you label the NRA, which is again a law abiding. First, amendment exercising organization, a terrorist organization: that's totally fine, not inciting violence in any way. So all of that is that, but here's the thing all of that is also unsuccessful. The fact is, no matter how much

the San Francisco Board of Supervisors yells at the N R, a that is not going to be an effective pressure tactic, because the NRA is the NRA. The fact is that Bloomberg could have reported this about leave Olson and, if Leaf Olson and the Trump Administration had just stood strong and fought back, they really couldn't have gotten anything done at Olson shouldn't have resign. The fact is that in Washington those can write as many editorials as it could possibly want about Senate Majority leader Mitch, Mcconnell and he's not going to do their bidding. He is not and to care he's not going to do their bidding because those are not his constituents. None of the people who write for the Washington Post Editorial Board our our voters in his state of Kentucky. So this has pushed the left to a new form of power politics, and that is the exercise of power politics in the corporate sphere. Now there times when the exercise of power politics in the corporate sphere is actually good or justified right. So let's take an example. So back in the nineteen sixties and nineteen fifties, there were segregated businesses and private

people decided to boycott those businesses in order to end segregation. So, for example, the Woolworth's counter in the early nineteen sixties, the Woolworth lunch counter was segregated and a bunch of civil rights activists. Young black students for the most part went into a Woolworth's and sat down at the counter and then refused at the counter, and this was such a national scandal. The war worth actually voluntarily desegregated its counters because they didn't want the blowback. I know those those people were acting in courageous ways. I don't have a problem with that and, as a general rule, it is quite possible that you can pressure a corporation to quote unquote, do the right thing. But what we have now seen is that that tactic has been expanded beyond its use in specific situations to simply castigate. Anybody who disagrees with you on matters of politics and to change corporate policy from above and to change corporate policy from above from the commanding heights of business.

And this has grown beyond specific instances of fighting against discrimination and into we need to get our political preference is done by any means necessary, including activating corporate bosses, to do our bidding for us. Today's example comes courtesy of Walmart will explain why this is actually quite divisive and polarizing and why the end result is not going to be exactly what the left things that is we'll get to that in just one. Second, first, let's be real about this you're, not getting enough sleep, I'm not getting enough sleep nobody's getting enough sleep. It's a pressure filled time. A lot of people are worried about the economy. A lot of people are staying up, nights worried about the future politics and all the rest. Well, that means that when you do lie down- and you do want to be on the best mattress upon which you can sleep- and this is where he looks- sleep comes in- my helix- sleep mattress is tailored for me and stay there. For my wife, we took this two minutes, sleep quiz from helix sleep. They tailor to mattress exactly to our specifications and then they sent it to us in the mail and wrapped it we put it on the bed. It was good to go. It's super easy and the mattress is incredibly comfortable, no matter how you sleep on the side

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with me. That is their prerogative. It's America! They can do what they want. Facebook can disagree with me on policy. That is their prerogative. Wal Mart can disagree with me on policy. That is their prerogative, I'm not calling for the relation of WAL Mart or Facebook or any of these other corporations. I am saying that the lefts use of corporations as a cudgel is dangerous for the nature of american political discourse, and this is what the left is increasingly doing. Now it started off in the realm of secondary boycotts, so you saw the left do this originally with rush Limbaugh and they did it with Sean Hannity and they did it with Tucker Carlson didn't with Laura Ingraham that tried to do with my show what they do is they go to corporations and they try to save those corporations. How dare you sponsor and subsidized speech with which we disagree, doesn't matter that you run your advertising on a wide variety of political shows. If you sponsor Ben Shapiro's program, then

things that you must endorse everything Ben Shapiro says now, of course, that isn't true, but the goal is to remove the profit incentive for programs like mine by going after advertisers. Now. All of this is nonsense right. The fact is that those who claim they're going to boycott. You know the coffee makers who are on Sean Hannity show are totally full of crap. They were never going to boycott those companies. The people who sound off from media matters. They really are not wielding enormous amounts of power. They can create a problem for your a chart for your pr department for like three days and that's it. But a lot of corporations started caving to this sort of stuff when they went after rush Limbaugh's advertisers when they went after Sean's, advertisers or Tucker's, they didn't create all sorts of problems, and the left saw that this was successful. So I have decided that they're going to rely on corporate cowardice in order for them to put their agenda now on a broader level, not just by going out for advertisers on programs like this one which, by the way, is why you should subscribe to the programs. You like you, can subscribe to this program over a daily way.

Dot com, they've, decided they're, going to go after corporations more broadly and use those corporations to cram down policy that affects the entire country again legal. But it is a sign of corporate cowardice that so many corporate ceos are falling for this. So corporate ceos do control an enormous amount of american life says they employ literally millions of people. I've been a big defender of Walmart over the years and the left has been Jack in Walmart, saying they pay insufficient wages, which is not statistically true. The left has been attacking Walmart saying they want to tax amount of business. That's Bernie Sanders is proposal. I've been over here, defending Walmart right, but Walmart does control an enormous amount of America's industry. Obviously- and this is true for a wide variety of corporations, so if he left cannot capture government, if they cannot get elected to positions of power, instead they figure they will capture the board rooms by threatening action against ceos by threatening action again corporations by threatening to make a pr stink if they do not get what they want now all it would take is corporations to just not not gonna do it.

We were, you know, we're here to do we're here to sell product, that's what we do and if you don't like those product, that's on you, man, if you don't like the products that we sell, your fear you you can feel free to shop elsewhere, but now because of the media pressure because of the left to pressure political pressure, the three of legislation from the government. What you're starting to see is corporations seeking safety behind the shield of other government regulation or positive pr from the press. That is what they're doing now. That is a business driven decision in the short term in the long term, it's bad business decision and it's bad for the culture. So, in the short term, that decision is driven by a desire to avoid scrutiny. I desire to avoid political blowback in the long term, you're removing faith in our corporate institutions, which are not

nine to do good and they're designed to provide product they're designed to provide you products and services you're the one who's supposed to do good, but the products and services. It's not up to a paternalistic ceo to decide exactly which products you should consume. It is up to you to decide which products you should consume it it and, and again this is different from what we're it's counter boycotts, which were designed to stymie actual discriminatory policy by corporations that I think is morally justifiable. I think that if you are going after Walmart and suggest, Walmart cannot distribute or sell ammunition, because it makes you mad I'm having a hard time understanding what that has to do with them discriminating against black people, that's comparable in any way, for example. So why is this relevant? Well because, on Tuesday Walmart announced that after its current inventory is depleted, it will cave to the demands of far left the mist and stop selling handgun ammunition and ammunition commonly used in other popular something

matic firearms. Now again, let me reiterate: this is their decision. They can do this legally. They I'm not calling for regulation of Walmart, I'm not calling for a boycott of WAL Mart. I am suggesting that WAL Mart is making a corporate driven decision that is driven by PR. It is not driven by good business and it's not gonna, be good for the call watcher in the long run. Wal Mart also stated it was requesting that customers shoe carrying guns openly in there, roughly four thousand seven hundred stores, as well as its SAM's club stores in states that permit open carry according to CNN. This is daily wire reporting. Walmart CEO Doug Mcmillon issued a memo employees on Tuesday, in which you start by citing the mass shooting in El Paso in Dayton in August, as well as further shoot in Midland and Odessa Texas. He continued quote: we've listening to a lot of people inside and outside our company, as we think about the role we can play in helping to make the country feel safer. It is clear to us that the status quo is unacceptable. Mcmillan noted that Walmart had already ceased selling a AR fifteens raising the age of limit to purchase a firearm or ammo to twenty one required a green

light. On the background check for purchase instead of the absence of red light, which is required by federal law among other steps, then he wrote today we're sharing the decisions we've made that go further after selling through current inventory commitments, we'll just continue sales of short barrel rifle ammunition such as the two hundred and twenty three caliber, and the five hundred and fifty six caliber that commonly used in some hunting rifles can also be used in large capacity clips military style weapons. No, no definition of what a military style weapon is here he says, we'll sell through discontinue handgun ammunition, will continue. Handgun sales in Alaska marking our complete exit from handguns Mcmillan acknowledged that the stores would still offer long tailed deer rifles and shotguns cited incidents where individual they have entered Walmart stores. Attempting to make a statement and test our response and then says we are respectfully requesting that customers, no law, we're openly carry firearms into our stores or SAM's clubs in states were open. Siri is permitted unless they're off prize law enforcement officers Mcmillan.

He was sending letters to the White House and congressional leadership, encouraging them to implement stronger background x and the removal of weapons from those who have been determined to pose an imminent danger. He concluded. The status quo is unacceptable. Okay, so this is corporations that are now being activated in political ways: Don Bartlett who's, the Walmart executive, VP of corporate affairs, told reporters quote. We feel we are striking a responsible balance between the interests of law, abiding citizens who are exercising legal rights and the safety concerns of our associates and customers. Again. This is their prerogative. However, it is important to note a couple of things: one they will not escape. He woke scold. The left will come after anyway, two they are doing heavy damage to our culture in a general way, which I will explain in just one. Second, first, let's talk about the underwear. The currently grace is here to fast, but I can tell you the underwear that currently graces this magnificent illness is Tommy, John Underwear. It is truly comfortable, it is durable. It really is

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It's been coming for Walmart, so this is Walmart trying to buy off in the short term all of the Democrats to basically stop criticizing them and leave them alone. They don't want the p r hit of continuing to sell guns, and that is again they're Prague it. But it is short sighted because it ain't gonna, stop you keep getting that alligator, it will eat you hey, you will be eaten okay. So that is point number one point number two: if you continue along these lines, where major corporations are expected to insert themselves in hot button political debates and then take sides in hot button debates, the predictable and more than that, where the policies that they crammed down from above on customers, our policy is that favor, one political side, what you will end up with is an entire other side of the industry, so for every Walmart that fails to sell ammunition as they used to there will be another store that crops up. That sells them, and this is why, again, I'm not going to pretend that government regulation and

Walmart doing this are then they're not obviously made that distinction several times here. But what you are going to end up inevitably- and this is the direction we're moving in the country- is separate stores for conservatives and liberals is separate tv channels for conservatives and liberals separate everything for conservatives and liberals all the common spaces we once used to inhabit will go away because, once you accept it's corporations to become the leading political players because they have enormous power to shape american life, you should not be surprised when other corporations form to fight back against. All of that, the former WAL Mart CEO. Heat Bill Simon, he said yesterday, but in the end the only thing that will solve the problem is gun control in DC, and this is why, when people say that big business is republican or bis bit, big businesses can sort of it's not true. Big business is profit taking Hey when that means sometimes is their rent seeking from DC, and so they don't want to have to take a position. This and so they're going to call in Washington DC to change policy just so the they

and actually have to make decisions about any of this or leave it to the customers to make decisions about any of this. Here's bill, Simon former Walmart CEO, when you do see a major retailer like Walmart, take a move like this, though, do you think it does add pressure to lawmakers to try and come to the table and have discussions? I think that's the only thing that's going to going to going to solve the problem. We have. We have a conscious that has to be dealt with and it has to be dealt with by sitting down petitions to retailers gosh. Maybe they make some people feel good 'cause. They feel like. I need to take action, but they won't solve the problem. Okay, no, that's true, but didn't stop Walmart from quote unquote, trying to solve the problem by inserting itself into the issue. I said this so that we we should be the normal answer of ceos. Now I understand that what the left has been trying to do is suggest the capitalism is itself the problem. There's this real push over the New York Times, a bunch of other major publications, suggesting the capitalist in free markets themselves are the problems and that we need a new type of capitalism. A quote unquote, responsible capitalism. What they mean by that is they want

retailers not to give customers choice. You won't related retailers to act as sort of indian angels toward the american public not to stop selling products that inevitably do damage to people like cigarettes, for example, but products that can be used for good or could be used for ill. They want the corporations to decide well, they're, not going to like it if the shoes on the other foot right, I mean if the corporations decide the other way to ban a bunch of products the left loves, then all of a sudden will be well. How could these corporations be cramming down their politics on us, but when it comes to them cramming down their politics using the commanding heights of the economy, then they are not only find with that. They are very much in favor of it. I get. The predictable result is going to be a massive large scale, division in american life, and it's not going to stop at Walmart so Andrew Ross Sorkin, who writes for the New York Times and also as a commentator on C N b c. He has a column in which he praises Walmart's, CEO for in

injecting themselves into this gun debate, and then he suggests that this should happen with all businesses ready, midday, Tuesday, Doug, Mcmillon, Mart's chief executive sent me a surprise. Email assured a series of policies. The company was about to make public about combating gun violence since the mass shooting that killed twenty two people and one of his El Paso stores. Last month, Mister Mcmillan's email was reply of sorts to an open letter. I had written to him, along with the outcry he heard from scores of Americans, calling on him to use his leverage as leader of the country's largest retailer, to create a model for more resp, cancel, gun selling practices now Macmillan and Walmart not breaking the law. In the first place right, they were abiding by the law, but the idea was that they were supposed to do more. They were supposed to be our leaders, the corporation, it's always amusing, to hear folks on the left, who constantly ripping on big business and corporations, talk about these people being on moral leaders, weird how that more really quickly right. Elizabeth Warren moves from corporations are the evil scourge of our society to, but they really should be sitting gun policy shouldn't they it's pretty amusing about face.

But Ross Sorkin wants more, not just from Walmart until now, many top executives in corporate America, with some notable exceptions, refused to acknowledge the rules they could play in curbing the epidemic of gun violence. They invariably pointed politicians in Washington as the ones who respond simple for solving the crisis, for example. Now, in this example is amazing example is this: for example, L Kelly, the chief executive of visa, whose network has been used repeatedly to carry out mass murders. Really these has been used repeatedly to carry out mass murders. How where people like slicing each other's throats with the actual credit cards, because Visa did not engage in illegal transactions? I'm not sure how you blame them for mass murder is Al Kelly. The chief executive of visa has ducked any attempt to uh discuss what his company could do to help Mr Kelly likes to say, as he did earlier this summer, we are in the business of

militating legal commerce. That's what we do. Our job is not to set or interpret but to follow the law. This is the proper answer. This is what the economy is set up to. Do. This is what free markets are supposed to do. Give you the choice as to the products and service. Is you wish to come soon? Make you the consumer responsible for where you shop, make you the consumer responsible for the kind of products that you decide to buy in instead, what many on the left would like to do is lobby the heads of these corporations to set policy for you. And they want to do so, not at the behest of the consumer to the was not vast. Consumer outcry against Walmart stock was not dropping a instead. What they would like to do is create manufactured media controversy and then suggest that the c e o should step in where the political bosses have failed to act. So these are the new pressure tactics right then it basically, you use a form of corporate blackmail to go after corporate figures and then use them to culturally cram down what you could not achieve politically. As I say,

all of that is perfectly legal. Is it good for the country? No, it's not good for the country. Why well imagine a world in which visa sets policy for exactly who they will do business with world in which visa says we're just not going to process your transaction. All the credit card companies left gets what it wants. All the credit card companies say we're not going to process your transactions if they're, not transactions with which we agree. That's going to get into some really dicey territory incredibly quickly, because, let's say, for example, that you want to give charity to your synagogue or your church and your synagogue or your church does not perform same sex marriages, for example, and Visa says: okay. Well, we are not going to allow you to give charity using our credit card, because we disagree with your church's policies. Okay, is that a good thing or bad thing thing you have to separate? Yet what you will end up with is separate chains of commerce, politically speaking, the biggest problem

country right now. Everyone talks about it is political polarization, but the left solution for political polarization is to not let you engage in any business in any unless you agree with them, and they just want Walmart to stop selling ammo. What they want is for everyone stop so limo and everyone to stop selling guns. Well, it's not going to have, and instead what you're gonna have happen. Is people who set up entire chains of commerce that are based outside of the common system? We currently hold I'll, tell you what will happen. People like me will set up a conservative credit card that is designed and oriented so that conservatives can patronize conservative businesses and get points back to conservative causes and we'll do this not because we want to, but out of necessity. Well, you will end up with: is not people failing to buy guns, you'll have people buying guns in cash which actually makes it a lot harder for people to track the transactions. So, if you're on the left- and you like- gun control that ain't smart, where you're gonna end up with, is a world in which we have entirely separate spheres of life

based on your political orientation, because we forced corporations into taking sides. That is where we're going, and that is the future that a lot on the left once are. They they're very excited that corporate ceos are now getting involved in these fights now in the long term. What's going to happen is that these corporations are going to cut themselves off from half the amount public, because there will be a reaction and the reaction will be: I'm not gonna shop there anymore to half of it in the in the moment, they're figuring conservatives will be sanguine about all of this and they continue to shop at Walmart, and that's probably true, but here's the reality. If they had not stopped selling ammo left us would have continued shopping at Walmart. They like to bitch and moan about WAL Mart, but then they go and shop there every day, but the corporations in injecting themselves into these sorts of scenarios are going to create an alternative line of commerce and that's not actually. It may be fine on a free market level. Again free markets work, but it ain't going to be great on on a cultural level, for people to shop separately

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What we're going to end up with is a cultural polarization and the ceos think that they can buy off the left and they are so wrong here they are so MSNBC yesterday was cheering WAL Mart's decision. It's a big victory. I mean imagine eight a supposedly first amendment press organization sharing a corporate decision to crackdown, basically on some of its own consumers. Here is MSNBC during this. This is on massive move. If you consider what an enormous retailer WAL Mart is, would an enormous employer, it is, and we we can sit here in a newsroom and say this is a very clear cut issue. It's not a clear cut issue of gun. Culture is a really important part of America, so right, walmarts he's more of America than any other business without a doubt so to see Doug Mcmillon the current ceo sort of stand up and step up at a time like this. This is a massive move only to match. It did so they're so happy about this they're so happy about this. You know pressuring corporations and

doing their bidding. This is what the left would like to do an again. They can do this because, if you're a corporate boss, what you want is no controversy. That's really what you want is no controversy and you want to piss off the the number of people know. What they mistake is that everybody in the media who talks, has any real impact on who shops at Walmart. If that were the case, Walmart would have been bankrupt fifteen years ago, but ceos are risk averse and they figure. The easiest way to avoid risk is how much money did you make off selling ammo? Maybe a few one million bucks a year? How what's the risk of the media coming down on us? Maybe a few million bucks here, what they don't under and is that when you shape the overall culture, so that people feel alienated from your business because they feel like you're taking sides, your long term risk is actually pretty significant, and if you think that the Democrats are going to layoff, you are totally wrong. So, let's take an example. Facebook has been attempting to make nice with a lot of folks on the democratic side of the aisle, a helping Senator RON Wyden suggested today that he wants to send Mark Zuckerberg to prison. He said he wants to

send Mark Zuckerberg to prison for what what what exactly with the crime be it unclear is just knows he doesn't like Mark Zuckerberg. Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly lied to the american people about privacy. I think you ought to be held personally accountable, which is everything from financial finds two, and let me underline this: the possibility of a prison term. Okay, if corporate ceos believe that there will not be a push by members of the Democratic Party to jail ceos who do not do what they want them to do, they're wrong. Okay, the far left is not going to stop with over so happy the Walmart stopped telling M O. Do you really think that that's the only problem left house with WAL Mart, because if so you haven't been watching very closely? And now this is all infected the cultural sphere, so the left it there. There are several major institutions in american life where there are commanding heights now again for the ninth time they show there is a difference between the government, which is an elected body with delegated powers,

defend our rights invading those rights and the cultural decay that happens when other common institutions break down. I'm talking about the ladder, not a question of regulating Walmart or regulating Hollywood, or anything like that, but when the left decides to weaponize cultural institutions that alienates a lot of people, it creates polarization. It makes it impossible for us to have conversations together. So the latest victim of this is Dave Chappelle. So I don't know if you've seen Chappelle's special but Chappelle's new special is insanely politically incorrect. I mean incredibly, so he mocks his own audience for being too woke. There's one point where he says in the middle of the special: he says: I'm gonna do an imitation and then he says duh you tweeted something bad five years ago, and now I'm gonna come after you and destroy your career. Who am I and everybody

things? Oh well, you know that's the media and that's you! That's all of you and that's right. I mean chapel is correct about this. Chapel also calls out. In specific I mean you specifically calls the LGBT Q lobbying organizations for going after comedians ever trying to destroy their careers and he specifically cites the Kevin Hart situation, eat very puleri. Isley states, the Kevin Hart, who is known for years, is basically a perfect to me. While four tweets child perfect, they talk about Kevin Hart's career, basically being destroyed, or at least significantly damage at the height of his career aspirations. How's the Oscars by the Woke schools and any talks at what it is a riff about abortion and his riff about abortion ends up being it kind of her life, and he says that he doesn't care whether a woman has an abortion. But if the woman decide if it's the woman's choice and only the woman's choice that men shouldn't have to pay for the child support, which is a very

common argument that is made by by sort of cynical pro lifers, and then he says- or maybe we have the logic of this whole thing entirely wrong. The left has gone absolutely ape bleep about this. I mean they have gone insane about this, and the critics hate this, but health partnership, L used to be the sort of consensus best commit living and they're. A lot of great comedians chapel was loved by everybody. Everybody enjoyed his routine. Now, however, he has done something something very bad and the reviewers are very, very angry about it, and such a pal must be punished. Don't you understand? The commanding heights of Hollywood must prevent the accession of people like Dave Chappelle, because Dave Chappelle has crossed many lines now. Dave Chappelle is intersectional right. He is a black man, and this means that he also makes jokes about white people, they're very, very harsh, jokes about the heroin epidemic and white folks and all the rest of this. But he is a gun toting black man who makes jokes about abortion and LGBT Queue

lobbying organizations- and this means he must be excised- that Hollywood has to be. The commanding heights of Hollywood have to be used on behalf of one particular point of view, and if they are not, then the woke schooled in the media and how it will come after them to Dave. Chapelle is now the target of these will schools, so vice reviewed ship Hell's bells special like this book now he chooses to blatantly ignore the his criticism against the style of comedy and new, loud and clear criticism from the Trans Community Paste magazine called this special boring, hypocritical and out of touch said that there is a bunch of it. Basically, he had for a long time, four send rotten tomatoes from critics. Why? Because critics are no longer reviewing the quality of an act. Instead, they are reviewing the wokeness of an act, which is how Hannah Gadsby was the least funny person who has ever lived. I mean I'm talk

about the least funny human being who has ever lived there are there there are. There are human beings who live in caves in isolation, but I've never heard Joker not properly properly socialized for more funny than Hannah Gatsby. She has one hundred percent ratings on rotten tomatoes. Dave Chappelle was at zero percent on rotten tomatoes. Why? Because he violated the rules. If I elated the rules on rotten tomatoes, it would slate right in cool candles, lit road like dropping in on a rascally uncle who doesn't know or doesn't care. How much he's disappointing you. Alison Herman of the Ringer said, sticks and stones is designed to generate inflammatory coverage. It's a symbiotic with no end in sight. It's become the last sing. A beloved Provoca tour should ever want to be predictable. They are reviewing him for his proper acquiescence.

The struggle session Maoist left views of comedy and he must be destroyed. He must be destroyed. It's it's really, it's really quite pathetic, and now the audience reviews of the of the special are very high people who like to paddle like hell and people who don't even watch repel. All that often are looking at this and going. I can't believe that you'd said that out loud, but the fact is that Hollywood will not allow this sort of thing to go forward and so pelt must be destroyed. So chapel is now on the target list. The same way that Kevin Hart was on the target list. It's the same reason why you saw in the is forty eight hours attempts by folks in Hollywood, trying out everybody in Beverly Hills, who's going to Trump fundraiser, because everyone must think alike or be excised. The commanding heights of the culture, the commanding heights of corporate America and the commanding heights of politics must all be occupied by folks who agree with the left. Now in the political realm, the Good NEWS is, we have things called elections, and so we can just say no

corporate realm. It is very difficult to convince corporate ceos that they ought to listen to their own customers, as opposed to the Woke scold check marks crowd on Twitter and in the entertainment media. That is particularly true as right now so here I must stop and say: good good on will be Goldberg will be, Goldberg actually said. The right thing yes play on the view she was talking about this push by Debra Messing and Eric Mccormack, these stars of willing grace to out all of the donors to President Trump in the Beverly Hills, area and Whoopi. Goldberg says right thing: you are, the idea of who you don't want to work with. Is your personal business? Do not encourage people to print out lists because the next live that comes out your name will be on an then people will be coming after you in this country. People can vote for. Do they want to. That is one of the great rights of this country you don't have to like it. We don't go after people because we don't like who they voted for

don't go after them. That way, we can talk about issues and stuff, but we don't print out list. Ok good for will be Goldberg, and we need more of this from the left. Now, it's funny. Basically all of this on twitter this morning and left went nuts. How dare you? How dare you you are suggesting that this is just the government action you're trying to cram down on ceos? What you want absolute sheer horse pucky, I'm suggesting that these ceos can do precisely what they want, but there will be ramifications to it and it will not be good for the country and will Wilkinson who writes for, I believe, Huffington Post. Sometimes you said the complaint here is really the businesses cater to customers, but the hard right minority is accustomed to political institutions rig to Stein the majority opinion, and they want everything to be like that. Really is the majority opinion in the United States that Walmart should not be able to sell product? It's legal. Is that them the opinion in the United States, or is that a minority opinion in the United States that is using the power of social media and blue checkmarks in MSNBC to cram down their preferred policy on ceos again? My big concern here is that at least politics is built to

we can have conversations, and then we can decide how those conversations turn out, because we do this thing called voting, it's really great, and then we have checks and balances to prevent people from simply running roughshod over other peoples rights. But the realm of corporate America is not designed for that. The realm of Hollywood is not designed for that and when people wonder why it is that Republicans conservatives focus so much on politics. The answer is at least we have a voice there. At least we can push back there in Hollywood, which is universally staffed by Democrats is really no way to push back there. Dave Chappelle will find himself on the outs or he will change, or he will or you'll do it. Aziz. Ansari has done and say some politically incorrect things, but say them in politically correct ways. Are you either came to the right out or you will be destroyed and in corporate America as long as corporate ceos decide they're going to cower in fear at the woke left, then there's not much.

The conservatives can really do about any of that, which is why I say that corporations need to stand up on their hind legs and say our job is to provide goods and services to willing customers. If you want to change the law change law, but we're not going to change policy based on your page c preferences today, that is not what we're doing is a general rule. If they don't do that, then things will get more polarized and it will become more and more important for Republicans to keep the levers of government. You wonder why Republicans are rabid about elections these days. That would be why they feel, like the government, is the only area of life where they still got to say and they feel like if the left takes over the government going precisely the same logic that they've used with corporations and with Hollywood and they're going to cram down their opinions on everybody else, using the power of the government done this time, not just the power of the few loud speakers in the faces of abject Lee Craven Ceos, okay time for a quick thing, I like and then a quick thing that I hate so things that I like today, so

so in my spare time my copious free time, I am a fan of fantasy novel. Somebody in the office had recommended Terry good kinds, wizard's first rule. I admit it took me a little bit of time to get into it. This book, I believe, is from the early nineties. I think- and it took me- maybe one hundred and fifty two one hundred pages to get into it. I have not finished the book yet so I don't know if it ends well, but I will say that it is entertaining and it definitely carries you so. The book is wizard's, first rule by Terry Good Kind. The writing style takes a little bit to adjust to because at the beginning it's kind of awkwardly written, but then it definitely gets better and more interesting as it goes on. So, if you're into good fancy novels than try that one out wizard's first rule by Terry Good Kind, thanks to producer Anthony for that particular recommendation, okay time for a quick thing at that, I hate all righty. So today the New York Post is reporting

that represent a bill. How to Mars husband wants a divorce after this bomb shell report about her having an affair with DC political consultant TIM. My net now that in and of itself is a thing to hate whenever families break up regardless. What do you like the people involved? That is really terrible for the kids? She has three kids. That cannot be good for her. I will point out that if a republican congresswoman were involved in this sort of scandal, right now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Because they'll have a Mars, a beloved figure on the left. However, then everybody sort of ignores this or pretends that it's politically incorrect to talk about it. The fact is that it raises serious moral questions about her character: Abu she's, pregnant she's, a married woman- still she she is alleged, currently separated in March and Omar, asked her see to divorce her around that time. It because she didn't want to file the pay,

but her she refused telling her. If she wanted a divorce, you should do it herself, according to sources talking to the New York Post and then after ten minutes, wife filed bombshell, divorce papers, claiming that her spouse was having an affair with Omar Hirsi was angry and he said that he was made to look a fool and he is considering filing for divorce again. The media coverage of this I mean the New York Post, bring it I've not seen it covered in any mainstream publication. Again. Imagine this where Nikki Haley, imagine that this was Sarah Palin. I imagine the media would be covering this story incredibly incredibly differently. Okay, we'll be back here later today, with much much more. We didn't get a chance to get to brexit. We didn't get a chance to get to the developments in Hong Kong, so we'll get those those later today is why she subscribe over a daily where I come otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow and then ship here. This is the denture show and if you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to subscribe and if you want to help spread. The word. Please give us a five star review and tell your friends to some

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