WEBVTT - Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, The Journey Refuses to End 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:10.719 Whats been in my Shapiro's did we do that already? 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:13.880 Do not enough? If we did not enough? If we did, 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.680 this is behind the bastards. And you know what that 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:24.160 introduction means. It's another reading Ben Shapiro's marvelous book Episode Baby, 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.520 the episodes that everybody loves except the people who hate them. 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:32.400 The talented Mr Shapiro, The talented Mr Shapiro talking about 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.440 Benny's book True Allegiance, which I think I can say 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:40.600 is like if the Koran and the Bible had a baby, 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:44.560 and then that baby fell off of a ski lift 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:47.440 and hit its head on a pile of rocks several times. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.159 And then that baby tried to join the military but 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.760 was told no because it had too much of a 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.360 history of severe head injuries. And then that baby tried 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.880 to write a screenplay about joining the military, but then 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.520 that screenplay was turned down being terrible. And then that 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.040 baby became a right wing grifter for I don't know, 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.319 twenty something years and then wrote a fiction book, It 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:11.600 would be True Allegiance. That is Ben Shapiro's background. Is 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.280 That is Ben Shapiro's back, that's his origin story. Ski 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.679 lift accident survivor Ben Shapiro every word. That's why he 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.679 cares about that, and that's why he stopped growing. Okay, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.920 I think we've all established you can't be Shapira, but 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:35.520 I didn't, but I did. It's fine, it's where we are. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.560 Is the is the he's a result of starting to 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.679 be a conservative pund at age sixteen. Yeah. Perhaps the 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.360 only things I mean, I'm just gonna say it. The 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.200 only thing sixteen year old should be allowed to do 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.400 is join the Marine Corps and drink alcohol. That just 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:57.160 those two. We shouldn't even let him go to school. Yeah, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.960 no school and nothing like that. Just drunk and trunk. 0:02:00.440 --> 0:02:04.760 We don't need shrunken, drunken teenage marines. Yeah you want 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:11.840 Tom wasted. Uh. So we're back. We're back talking Benny 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:16.040 Shaps in his book. We ended with uh with combat 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.000 General Bret Hawthorne talking to his friend, the token Muslim 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.040 who isn't a terrorist and I think the only Muslim 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:29.320 who's not a terrorist that we meet. Um. And now 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.000 we're moving to a President Prescott chapter. So when we 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.280 last left President yeah, he just had his nine eleven moment, 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:44.000 cruelly wearing a windbreaker. Uh in a disaster site. Yeah, 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:47.400 now all right, you have got to be kidding me 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.160 with this, Mark Prescott said, his eyes bulged, his face 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.360 had turned beat red. I'm trying to hold the country 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.840 together and you're out there fucking supporting the enemy by 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.320 targeting Muslims. How am I supposed to counter the act? 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:01.079 He's oh good, he's talking to Brett Hawthorne. So, if 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.320 you remember earlier in the book, Brett Hawthorne made people, 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.160 forced people to illegally use racial profiling, which did not 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.960 work or return any usable intelligence. And now the president 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.360 is angry because that has been released to the media. Yeah, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:19.359 it's weirdly presented as an argument for racial profiling while 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.600 being being an example of why it's bad. Yeah, I'm 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.800 not weird for Ben though, Oh no, not weird, completely 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.960 consistent with his inconsistent Yeah, yeah, not writing and thinking 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.000 part for the course on this book. In this book, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.079 I'm sure this will change. But one of the things 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.800 that I find so fun about President Prescott is that 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.120 he's written like a like an over the top movie villain, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.160 like a sniveling, like selfish coward, but all of the 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:46.280 actual things he does as president are perfectly reasonable. It's like, oh, 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.240 you want to have it. You have a job's program, 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.160 you call him a national guard to deal with a 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:56.760 nuclear attack, like the evil President Prescott, that guy angry 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:02.920 at jobs program, yelling at an active duty general for 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.720 forcing police to racially profile people for no effective purpose, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.280 like a dictator, disgusting, making it a forty hour work week, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:19.360 refusing to invade Mexico. The whole thing about Mexico that 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.640 the whole plot of this is that the American needs 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.719 to invade Mexico after they get nuked by Iran. God, 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:29.080 it's so forgettable, it really is. I've lost the thread 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.720 several times, Like that's like potentially, like oh that's like 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.000 that's a story. Yeah, Like I don't know what that's about, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.800 but okay, but like it's so forgettable, it's gone fair 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.440 already forget This year's pokes a lot of holes in 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:46.680 my brain. So informated. But this is not memorable enough 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.440 to latch on. No, So the only thing that's memorable 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.240 are the characters themselves. Like combat General Brett Hawthorne, who 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.080 has this chapter opens, is sitting on the couch watching 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.480 the prejudent president rage at him. Oh good, we've got 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.960 a real classic Ben Shapiro sentence here, all right, let's 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:08.000 get let's let's get so many Sophie. On the way 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.120 to the hotel, comma, the secret service agents had been 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:15.440 utterly silent, um semi colon. They refused to answer any 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.080 of his questions. Comma give him any information at all. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:25.200 Periods on the way to the hotel, comma, the secret 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.920 service agents had been utter least silent, semi colon. They 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.320 refused to answer any of his questions common give him, 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.960 comma give him any information at all. So that's not 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.880 even a full sentence. There's on the way to the hotel. 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.640 You don't need a comma there no on the way 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.800 to the hotel. Hey, I'm sorry, I don't need to 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.800 it's in all of the like it's it's basically two 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.040 incomplete sentences that he'd stitched together into one. Still not 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.279 a grammatically correct sentence, and the only thing he's getting 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.680 across on the way to the hotel. The secret service 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.960 agent said nothing bam like that. That's the point. You 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:08.680 don't and I mean, the last bit doesn't conclude. That's 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.640 the kind of comma use that you're supposed to have 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:19.039 exercised around grade three, fourth grade. You know, I think 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:21.720 when you're doing your little grammar workbooks. I mean, I 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.880 think the conclusion put a line through it is that 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:30.640 we need to criminalize comma usage, band the comma to 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:35.040 absolutely clear. He's like, I know that semi colon's exist, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.720 therefore I'm going to replace periods with the semi Cohen's. 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:43.800 Like anyway, it is. It is fun that Ben has 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.760 the same attitude towards ending his sentences that the United 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.680 States has towards ending the war in Afghanistan, which is 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:56.719 never do it telling. So the Secret Service doesn't answer 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.719 his questions, but Brett figures out they must have picked 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.479 up Hassan. How else could they have found him at 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.599 Omari's who's that like, guy, who's the big Muslim? He 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:08.960 liked leading care Right, the anti Islamophobia charity, but in 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:14.360 this they're working with the terrorists. Uh yeah, you can't 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.760 trust charity. You can't trust it. Not a Muslim charity. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.520 Prescott continued to yell. I elevated you, I made you, 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:24.960 I saved you, and this is how you reward me. 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.800 Brett could feel the anger building. He flexed his fist, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.640 then let it go, an old trick Ellen had taught 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.000 him to take his mind off his temper. It wasn't working. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.720 Tell me, I expect an answer. What were you thinking? 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:38.360 I gave you back your life, no, Brett said, softly, dangerously, 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.000 I signaled you. I told you to hit the building. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.920 Prescott scoffed, disbelieving. You can't be serious. You wanted me 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.680 to start a war with Iran, after Iraq, after Afghanistan. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.720 We just finished pulling the troops out. For God's sake, 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.240 we got you, didn't we That wasn't the goddamn point. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:56.239 So again, this guy's the bad guy for not wanting 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.880 to start a new war. Can't believe him. I don't 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.239 think you need to add the word disbelieving after using 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:08.120 the verb scoffed. Yes, yes you could. That's another classic 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.440 thing that you should get over in seventh grade creative writing. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.440 Is like, Okay, he's scoffed because he doesn't believe them. 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.280 You don't have to tell us. That's like saying he 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:25.480 uh he said, speakingly, Yeah, he spoke wordingly. Yeah. So 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.720 they argue about this for a while at Prescott's like, 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:30.000 you know, I could kick you out of the military. Yeada, YadA, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.079 been or not been? Brett says, go ahead, I'd love 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.400 to tell the press just why you did. Because you 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.920 couldn't keep this country safe. You weren't willing to make 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:46.600 the tough choices like invading a rod keep the country safe. Yeah, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:51.640 by escalating military action. So the president threatens that if 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.319 he doesn't keep his mouth shut, he'll have federal charges 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:59.000 drawn up against him for violating Uh that a mom 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:03.160 who's a terrorist civil rights um has been thinks civil 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.600 rights are a bad thing. As a general, will I think, 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.160 yeah and yeah. The Brett yeah tells him like, hey, 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:13.719 Mr President, you know, if you'd listen to me, all 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.480 of those people who who were blown up in America 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.080 would be alive today. Um. Prescott reached down to the 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.200 coffee table and picked up the remote control. He flipped 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.560 the channel to CNN, where the anchors continue to gush 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.160 over Prescott's big speech. General, he said, I can afford 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.920 a few public relation hits right now, rally around the 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.000 flag effect and all that you'll be seen as an 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.160 ungrateful rube looking to hit back at the man who 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.080 saved you. Your time is over, General, get out of 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:45.080 my sight. So yeah, tough but fair, tough but fair. Um, 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.600 I do love that after a nuclear attack on the 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.240 United States. CNN is talking about the President's speech and 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:55.199 and nothing else, like no, it's no, it's it's tan 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:59.600 suit right, Yeah, they'd be talking about radiation probably, so 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:07.000 are you kidding? Rachel Maddow would latch onto that. Um, 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.280 so Prescott woke from it. So I guess Prescott has 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.880 a nap after meeting with the General and he wakes 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:17.000 up to see Prescott woke from his nap an hour 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:26.400 later to Tommy Bradley's face written across it was panic. Yeah, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.480 It's it's just panic was written across his face or 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.520 something like that. Don't why why are you always so 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:39.240 indirect Ben, like exactly right? Yeah, Mr President? Panic? Sorry 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:43.120 it's yeah yeah. So okay. So the President gets the 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.960 news that Reverend Jim Crawford is assassinated. Uh, and they're 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.200 blaming it on the white supremacist of white supremacist group 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.640 with ties to terrorist Mama who solo dad? Are are 0:10:54.600 --> 0:11:04.760 are Clive and Bundy but Latino woman? Um Above the 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.360 chiron ran the footage of the continuing riots in the 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.880 streets of Detroit. Then the anchors cut to some strong 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.800 john young black man named Leavon Williams they built him 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:19.000 as protest leader. Yeah, yeah, here we go. He's calling 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:24.240 people to rise up, YadA YadA, forth so forth. Yeah. 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.959 Uh so we have been writing what he thinks, CNN says. 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.600 Law enforcement sources tell us that Solidad Ramirez, the fugitive 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.319 wanted and wanted in connection with the bombing of government 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:37.720 offices in Sacramento, California, earlier this year, was spotted during 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.440 the chaos and the aftermath of the Crawford assassination, entering 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.199 the police station. Sergeant Ricky O'Sullivan, who had just been 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.680 cleared in Malone's killing, is missing as well. And yeah, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:49.400 like law enforcement is not going to tie that to anyway. 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.440 It's whatever Ben needs this to work. She was seen 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.200 walking into a law enforcement office but is also missing. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.680 She was seen breaking into a police station to free 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.000 the cop who killed the dead eyed black boy. I 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.319 know there's a lot of threads here. Yeah, Okay, this 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:11.440 all checks out. Yeah yeah, so the c the whole 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:15.040 reason for this extended digression where he attacks CNN is 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.280 because the CNN anchor says, everybody's waiting to hear what 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:23.119 the president is going to say. Um so, uh. Prescott 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.240 talks with his assistant about like, all right, what are 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.319 we gonna what are we gonna say? Uh? Seems to 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.760 me you've got two choices. One is to allocate resources 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:32.120 from New York to these various cities. We've got governors 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.080 beginning to call asking for help from the FEDS. They 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.880 want some of the Guard members we've brought back here 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.480 in their states. President Prescott shook his head. No bad imagery. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.679 You remember, Ferguson, you put guns on the street. You 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:43.560 might as well tell the media you're a racist looking 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:48.439 for street warfare. Next option we parlay with whom Bradley 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.240 pointed at the TV we're seeing in flat Okay, so 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:56.400 now now, now, now the black terrorist is going because 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.920 it's just like a like process like okay, I see 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.920 what he's trying. Here we go. You know, I'm I'm 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:08.200 sure we've discussed when this book was written. Um, I'm 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.440 shocked it's as recent as Ferguson, Like this feels like 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.800 the work of someone you know, a first draft you 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:22.679 wrote in college. No, No, this is post Ferguson. And 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:25.840 he's been a professional writer for a decade or more 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.079 when he writes this book, and clearly has not had 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.199 professional editors for most of that time. Um, it is 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.800 fun to me that that the Prescott's like, Okay, we 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.160 should talk to this leave On guy and his assistance, Like, well, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.760 the FBI knows that he's got connections to organized crime, 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:41.960 and the President's like, yeah, so did Big Jim. That 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.079 didn't stop anybody from like sainting him, which is just like, yeah, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.760 of course, all of the civil rights leaders in Ben's 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.439 world are connected directly to organized crime, just like all 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:55.360 of the Muslim community leaders are connected to a terrorism. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.960 But the terror the actual terrorists who blow up a 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.760 government building are Ben's heroes, although would tell you that 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.200 the Oklahoma City bombing was of course, had nothing to 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:10.200 do with conservatism. Um, it's very good fun fun. In 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:15.000 another classic Shapiro moment, even though this is President Prescott's chapter, 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:16.920 we're now with Levi on we have a we have 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.840 a couple of couple of spaces in between paragraphs, and 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:26.240 we're we're back with lev Only overnight, Levin had become 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.800 de facto mayor of the city without the force of 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.080 National Guard to back them. The local police had fallen 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.000 into a standoff position with the protesters, but Mayor Burns 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.160 refused to authorize action to push Levan and his men 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.120 out of the building, believing that such action would be 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:43.480 too provocative. So Levan's got runners going between different positions 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.760 in the city, YadA YadA. He's he's without National Guards soldiers. 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:51.080 Obviously they can't put down these protests. The poor, disarmed 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:56.400 cops have no ability to two do anything. Um. I 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.760 guess they're occupying the police station now, which is would 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:05.280 be dy rad um. Yeah. Levin didn't know the exact 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.560 extent of his power yet. Of course, Mayor Burns said 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.680 that eventually things would be put back under control. He 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.480 put in a request to the governor, and the governor 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.880 had put in a request to the fence. But soon 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.280 enough things would calm down. In the meantime, he urged 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.880 patience and restraint. Lev On, on the other hand, called 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.480 for action. He humored every reporter, gave a quote to 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.400 every journalist. He trotted out Kendrick Malone's mother as often 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.000 as possible, making his own case for authority bulletproof on 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.640 the back of her grief. Levan's long term plan, he 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.240 told the media, was justice. He didn't define it and 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:33.840 they didn't have to know. He meant to run for 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.280 office on the back of his organized resistance. It had 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.240 worked for Mary and Barry Big Jim had said it 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:42.920 would work for Levan Williams. All that changed At four am. Ah, 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.640 he gets a call from the president. Um. Yeah, so 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.080 let's see what the okay. The President's assistant is like, Oh, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.560 we just want to tell you how much we admire you. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.960 Thank you for tamping down the violence. Levon grins because, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.400 of course the violence is all his fault, um, not 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:04.680 the coops killed people. Uh Um. Okay, Mr Bradley, I 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.800 really appreciate the sentiment. What can I do for you? Well, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.200 leave On It's like this, we couldn't admire your stand 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.720 on social justice more particularly in the wake of this 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.000 tragedy with Jim Crawford. I know you and he were 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.160 close friends. The President wants to ask you for a favor. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:23.920 Please keep your followers from committing acts of violence. That's 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.680 how this works. Yeah, and leave On reasonably says, I 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.960 can't control what everybody does. It's a passionate time. Um, 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.760 and they're like, yeah, just do your best. And he says, 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.840 in order for me to keep my credibility with my people, 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.239 they're going to need the President to say something in solidarity. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.960 They're going to need to know that he endorses our 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.200 movement for justice. They turned out for him at the 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.120 polls and they know he's with them, but they need 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:44.720 some sort of sign. They're going to need him to 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.080 pledge to stop police brutality against our people. They're going 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.520 to need his promise to reopen the Ricky oh Sullivan case. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.040 Bradley coughed, we could do most of that leave on, 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.800 but that last one that's out of our hands. We 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:56.200 don't control the d o J. Well, then we might 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:57.880 have a conflict here. I've got a lot of very 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.000 angry people, and they're very angry for a reason. You 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.000 do control the d o J. Like that is the 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:10.600 executive anyway, whatever you you appoint the attorney, generally you 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.399 have some power in this. Yeah, there's some there's some 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.719 there's some power going on there. Yeah. Uh So the 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.560 President tells tells Levan that he has another idea that 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.080 might serve both of our interests, but he's going to 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.480 have to trust the President, and Levin asks how long 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.240 and he says, not too long, you'll see something in 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:30.359 the news. Um. So they asked him to hold off 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.639 for forty eight hours and then they're gonna they're gonna 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.360 give him a sign. So, uh, I guess we'll see 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:42.680 what that is not in the next chapter because it's 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.879 And we're back to El Paso and Ellen who has 0:17:46.040 --> 0:17:52.639 has been Shapiro the General's wife who has been, but 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:57.640 unlike Ben's wife, she loves her husband. Should we take 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.679 a break before we go into this chapter? Appate? You 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:08.600 know who does love their husbands bombs? Yes, Raytheon loves 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.639 husbands and wives. That's why it shows up at so 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:18.320 many weddings. Love school buses too. Okay, this is dard. 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.720 What about what about hospitals? So such a Raytheon could 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:36.560 not support hospitals more. Anyway, here's some ads, and we're back. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:41.080 So we're in El Paso with Allen um oh, and 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:48.600 they're invading Mexico. Okay, alright, alright, oh boy. First paragraph 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:52.679 the Apache attack. Helicopters veered low over sad Guarez and 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.080 fired and fired directed rockets at a small duplex on 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.680 the outskirts of the city. It went up in flames. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.680 Governor Davis watched the real time broadcast, yelping is the 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.880 duplex disappeared in a puff of smoke and fire. There 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.520 goes one of the bastards. He smiled. That bastard was 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.560 one of the leaders of the Warez cartel, just hanging 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:13.840 out in the duplex across the border. Yeah. So it 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.480 starts with the Governor of Texas sending an Apache Tech 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:25.160 helicopters to bomba city in Mexico. Jesus. Uh, that's very fun. Um. Yeah, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.720 so Texas National Guard attacks helicopters just start strafing vehicles 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:36.160 and built bombing buildings. Um, that's cool, very cool. Yeah 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:42.280 yeah yeah, about time. The night was so yeah he 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:46.400 he the governor invades Mexico. Uh, and it goes great. 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:48.840 The night was quiet, quietest it had been for months, 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.199 by which I mean nothing happens on the border. The 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.399 next day, though, residents of El Paso woke to a 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.960 terrifying site, a National guardsman hanging dead from a billboard 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.960 in the center of town. Painted in broad black letter 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.000 were the words plata oplomo, silver or lead. In other words, 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.680 pay us or die. Governor Davis wasn't in the mood 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.639 to pay. It's also weird to send a message to 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:16.119 the National Guards. What for what? Yeah? For what what 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.600 are you talking about? You want to not be invaded 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:22.400 by the national The governor wasn't in the mood to pay. Well, 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.040 this seems like a threat against the entire United States. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.280 I don't know. There's a lot that's complicated here that 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.480 doesn't track. Yeah, it makes no sense because nothing Ben 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:36.080 says does. Um. Yeah, so that governor orders a full 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:40.440 scale investigation. I think we know who did it, but okay, 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.520 um yeah. And it turns out now there's rumors of 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.480 a drug cartel in the city. Rumors of a drug 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:52.080 cartel in El Paso. Huh that's shocking. Um yeah, so 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.000 uh clearly, and for whatever reason, Ellen is the one 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:58.879 heading up the investigation. Who is I think his his 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:03.600 public affairs officer is now controlling a military investigation of 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:07.960 the cartel murdering a soldier in El Paso. Ellen acted swiftly, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.160 placing National Guard troops in the local police centers, increasing 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.960 security along the border. How is that hurt? How does 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.399 she have that authority? Because you didn't want to introduce 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:23.800 a new character, Yeah, we have established what she does. Yeah, 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.000 she's like public relations for the governor. Yeah, that's not 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:34.280 what this I guess now she runs the next feminist. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:37.280 She's a feminist. She could do whatever she wants. She's 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.359 one of those classic pr ladies slash commander of the 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:48.040 National Guards police operations. She's a multi hyen. Yeah. For 0:21:48.119 --> 0:21:50.480 ten hours, the border patrol had caught two men attempting 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.399 to flee into Mexico. After questioning, Ellen had them detained 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.399 and definitely pending further investigation into their activities the night 0:21:56.440 --> 0:21:59.200 of the hanging, and she redoubled eplements to the border 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:01.919 to stop any further infiltrations and deter any attempts by 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:05.520 collaborators to escape into Mexico. Sounds out of her pay grade. 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:09.000 It really does. Sounds out of the governor's pay grade. 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.880 To be honest, this is not really governor ship. All 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:15.399 of it was good policy, none of it made for 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.600 good pictures on the front pages around the country, and 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.080 Ellen was stunned by the magnitude of the coverage. The 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.560 media coverage exploded with protest on the other side of 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:25.000 the real Grand nothing but women and children. As the 0:22:25.000 --> 0:22:27.119 sun came up, at least a hundred women stood carrying 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.720 toddlers and babies, waving their hands and screaming for the 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.600 National Guard to let them cross. The National guardsmen stood 0:22:32.640 --> 0:22:35.080 their ground. They didn't point their weapons Ellen and Davis 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.480 had agreed there would be no such activity, both for 0:22:37.520 --> 0:22:40.199 both moral and media reasons, but they looked threatening enough 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:44.720 in their uniforms. Young strong, square Jawed. I hate this 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:49.439 book so much. It's so bad. It's very bad. And also, like, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.000 have you seen National Guards soldiers been. They're they're just 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:55.959 like dudes and ladies. Like they're half of them are 0:22:55.960 --> 0:23:00.000 middle aged. It's like their weekend job. They're not. Yeah, 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:05.480 jaws as far as I can see. Yeah, Like it's 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.360 very funny. It's very funny that, like the good policy 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:12.040 is confronting people trying to cross a border to see 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:15.960 their families with a line of soldiers and that that's 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:23.280 that's the heroism is having the soldiers is on its way. Yeah. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.280 And of course when this happens, this completely predictable protests 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:31.399 from shutting down all border pro traffic and invading Mexico. 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.560 When that happens, the media gets involved, but obviously not 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:38.399 because it's a meaningful story. One of the biggest media 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:41.119 magnates in Mexico owned several major media outlets in the 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:43.960 United States. Ellen wasn't surprised at the number of cameras 0:23:44.000 --> 0:23:46.679 showing up. Obviously this was a big story. Still, she 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:49.760 resented the intrusion. There's been zero cameras for the murdered 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:52.280 National guardsmen, but get a few dozen women crying on 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:53.879 the border with their kids, and the media had a 0:23:53.920 --> 0:23:56.280 field day. I don't believe there were zero cameras for 0:23:56.320 --> 0:23:59.040 a murdered National guards but executed by a cartel after 0:23:59.040 --> 0:24:03.080 an invasion of Mexico. Go. She complains that someone's tipped 0:24:03.119 --> 0:24:06.280 off the cameras. Um, and that's the reason they're reporting 0:24:06.280 --> 0:24:11.640 on the invasion of Mexico and the human to It's logical, right, 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:14.000 what are the reasons would there be to report on that. 0:24:15.440 --> 0:24:17.720