Ben Shapiro stands up for Canada

I think Trump is going to quietly back off on this with respect to Canada. The unintended consequences have already started, even though the tariffs haven't fully yet.

Two great observations from Ben Shapiro

Courtesy of Dave Rubin, two observations from Ben Shapiro, and the second one is just as impactful as the first:

The state of the race today.

A good summary from Ben Shapiro on the presidency, the senate, the Democrat reaction, and more.

Unseemly conservative split

Unseemly.  Steven Crowder's disagreement with Daily Wire / Ben Shapiro is a business and/or strategic difference on conservative approach to the culture war.  Only they know, and they probably see it differently as to on what it is they disagree. So why are conservatives taking sides and piling on?  That's not helpful to the conservative cause.

For example, Mark Dice posted the following:

Steven Crowder has revealed himself to be one of the biggest frauds in conservative media. Bigger than most Conservative Inc. clowns, all while claiming to oppose them, which is a whole new level of grift. People need to know that he only decided to “expose” the Daily Wire as being Conservative Inc. *after* they turned down his request for $30 million a year (120 million for four which was his counter to their initial 50 million for four).

But he's making it seem like *he* walked away from "50 million dollars." NO. They rebuffed his counter demand of $120 million and cut off all further negotiations with him cuz he wanted too much money and they realized he's a primadonna.

So now he’s grifting, hoping to get people to buy memberships for his mug club so *he* can “reveal” that *they’re* only about money.

How does that help?  This is a specific disagreement, there's no need to take sides. Enjoy them both, or either one you prefer, or neither, and remain silent about their dispute.  DO NOT pile on for either side.  It will eventually sort itself out.  Taking sides, is making rifts where no larger rifts are needed.

Russell Brand defends himself

Russell Brand, having talked to the likes of Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan has awakened (not become 'woke') in the sense of being Red-pilled.  Because of that, he's under attack from the mainstream media (aka the woke leftists).  Here he spends some time defending himself.

This is important because it's working the way conservatives want, not the way the leftists, mainstream media, elites and woke want.  I watch a fair number of reaction videos for entertainment and I find the trend there interestingly similar. A lot of younger people, and a lot of African American people have gone from reacting to music, to movies (to avoid copyright strikes) to now reacting to the likes of Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.  And they are awakening to reality.  They are inadvertently red-pilling themselves. It's a similar trajectory to Russell Brand's journey/awakening.

It's funny how truth eventually works it's way out of the fog of lies.

SCOTUS killed the unlawful vaccine mandate

 In case you missed it, Ben Shapiro and others at The Daily Wire gleefully (and rightfully so)  summarize:

Ben Shapiro makes a good point

" Low key amazing":

Ben Shapiro talks with Bishop Robert Barron

 Rational discourse, how to arrive at God, and the Catholic church of today. 

Hillary Clinton

Where has Hillary Clinton been? Pretending she is the president. Ben Shapiro breaks down her comments on the Ukraine scandal.

Is James Allsup Alt-Right?

I'm going through my YouTube related videos and one from James Allsup shows up.  I've heard of James Allsup but I don't think I have knowingly watched any of his YouTube videos.  So I do a Google search and Wikipedia and I see terms like Alt-right, Far Right, white supremacist, etc.  That's scary but I'm aware enough to know that just because the left labels someone a certain way that does not make it true.  In fact, most often it's a lie.

I mean come on, they labelled Ben Shapiro alt right at one point.  He's not.  He's an exceptionally gifted speaker, thinker and debater and they hate that,  so they have tried to vilify him and others like him.

I have seen articles about James Allsup vs. Ben Shapiro, I have seen articles about Allsup deleting content to scrub his past.  Again, these are secondary sources.  So I decided to watch a James Allsup video for myself.  I watched this one about Google being sued for anti-conservative, anti-white bias.

There's nothing overtly bad about this video, in fact he raises a lot of good points.

I'm hardly an expert on James Allsup at this point, so I will be doing more personal research and deciding for myslef. However, if you have an opinion and you are a conservative, tell me what you think in the comments below. If you are a liberal and reading this, I'm sorry but I'm not interested in your opinion: your side has committed so much slander on people like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and others that are legitimate thought leaders, that they have disqualified your opinions for me. You should be mad at your own shrill, slanderous loudmouths for doing that.

Daily Wire Backstage discussion

Had to share this discussion from last week:

A couple more Mueller statement reactions

Newt Gingrich:



Ben Shapiro (the short version):

A great discussion with Ben Shapiro

Back in February Ben Shapiro met with The Roommates Podcast and had a great discussion:

Ben Shapiro's take on the pending midterms

I agree completely with Ben - this is not a going to be blue wave midterm election.

White Privilege Debunked

A few well spoken videos deconstructing the myth of white privilege. First a video I stumbled upon by Brandon Tatum, it's brilliant.

And Ben Shapiro speaks to it brilliantly as he always does.

Conservative Insurgent Thursday - Episode #2

Insurgent: noun a rebel or revolutionary.

      "an attack by armed insurgents"

synonyms: rebel, revolutionary, revolutionist, mutineer, insurrectionist, agitator, subversive, renegade, incendiary

Last week the inaugural episode of Conservative Insurgent Thursday I profiled Milo Yiannopolous.  As I mentioned, he has not only alienated most of the Left, he has also managed to alienate some on the right.  Most notable among them is Ben Shapiro.  Ben Shapiro's acutely incisive ability to talk intelligently, backed by an armada of factual information (which he seems to so easily pull from his memory with amazing accuracy) enables him to debate and engage with others with the forceful ability to convince or halt opposing viewpoint in their tracks.

Ben thinks and talks with such rapid fire precision that you have to imagine his thought process must run at about Mach 6.

Who is Ben Shapiro?

Ben Shapiro is not only an author, journalist, radio talk show host and frequent guest on mainstream media, he's also a lawyer.  He's just 34 years old, and recently at that.  Ben was born in Los Angeles in 1984 to Jewish parents who immigrated from Russia.  He graduated UCLA at age 20 (where at age 17 he was the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in America).  By 2007 he had graduated Harvard Law School.

Background: 

Ben is quite young and as a result a lot of his background involves things that are still active, and in many cases he is still actively involved in them.  Ben published his first book in 2004. His fifth book was published in 2013. From 2012 through 2016 he worked for Breitbart.  He founded the conservative website The Daily Wire in 2015.  He also co-founded Truth Revolt, a conservative version of the liberal Media Matters.  Ben is Jewish.

Notable achievements:

In addition to all of the items listed in his background, Ben has frequented the university campus speech tour which has highlighted the duplicitous nature of the vocal left.  Despite Ben's unoffensive, factual approach to discussion, his speeches and Q&A sessions have required him to hire security and caused riots when he tried to speak at U.C. Berkeley, not because of any sort of insensitivity or racially insensitive remarks, but just because he was espousing, and making the case for conservative ideas.  That's all.  Ben, unlike Milo is no bomb thrower, he is a fact thrower.

Why we need him:

In contrast to the bombastic and sarcastic approach taken by Milo, Ben's fact-based, logic-driven approach to advocating for conservatism makes his points almost impossible to dispute.  In some cases, completely impossible.  Ben provides a roadmap for conservatives with respect to how to approach a debate; preparation, keen observation, consistency of approach and logical rigor with respect to issues.  We can all learn from him, and we should.

Ben advocates for a conservative approach to problems, and his ideological purity often puts him at odds with the likes of Breitbart, president Trump and of course his arch-rival/nemesis Milo.  That's not a bad thing; there is still plenty of common ground between them, and the president while assuming the current mantle of conservatism, is not always right, nor always it's best face.  The right is supposed to be a big tent party and a party of ideas.  Keeping everyone in lockstep as the Democrats do, is ultimately unhealthy.  Currently Ben serves as a reality check for conservatives who blindly follow the president regardless of his positions or approach. If we are to really self assess, we would not always blindly advocate for the president's positions or actions.  We should not do that, or at a minimum we should assess the rationale for doing so, as well as the cost/benefits of taking such positions.

Additionally Ben touches on varied topics like metaphysics and in such forays, gets us to think about them and to think about political and social issues in those contexts as well.

Highlight Reel:

I've included a couple here, because no single 'highlight reel' does Shapiro justice.






Social Media:

Facebook
Twitter
YouTube

Others:
-His own website (The Daily Wire)

Double standards on the right? I'm okay with it.

Al Franken has to go. Senator Cornyn as well.  Matt Lauer?  Good riddance. Roy Moore, may not be as pure as the wind driven snow, but SO WHAT?  I personally have stopped caring and I'm going full Alinsky on the left. 

Let's get one thing straight, sexual harassment is a bad thing. No one in their right mind will dispute that. But the left has for decades deliberately applied double standards (Alinsky-style) to conservatives and the right has been suckered by it no matter which side of the aisle the issue occurred. Now that the left is awakening to their own duplicitous evilness, we're supposed to stand up alongside them and arm in arm agree with everything they want to do now?

How well has that worked in the past for conservatives? Instead of arranging a circular firing squad we should stand back and let them implode and apply double standards ourselves. 

Dinesh D'Souza explains my thinking more eloquently.  Not that I couldn't do it myself given time to prepare it.

Ben Shaprio, brilliant as he is, fell prey to the old Democrat trick that has had a great track record for them in the past. Dinesh D'Souza isn't falling prey to the double standard. And he might have some solid ground behind him.

To sum up - push back, hard.  And when they don't push back on the left when arguing among themselves, push forward, harder.

Helpful Hints: Ben Shapiro on how to engage the Left

Worth learning.

Ben Shapiro slam dunks the epi-pen argument

In my last post I focused on the argument style suggested in a video to try to help put forth conservative arguments in a way that is on the offensive without being aggressive.  Here, conservative stalwart Ben Shapiro discusses the EpiPen discussion on health care in a way that is factual but puts empathy at the forefront, and he does so very effectively.

It's a different style as he is answering a question rather than asking it, per the previously mentioned video, but equally effective; rather than focusing on a solution, he ties it very specifically back to the urgency and immediacy of the issue with respect to those affected by the pricing issue.

Saturday Learning Series - Ben Shapiro, University of Wisconsin

The entire lecture of Ben Shapiro at University of Wisconsin. in 2016