I think the reason the public went nuts for the eclipse was because it was one of the few rare events that wasn't divisive, something everyone could enjoy, no matter what your ideology is. Of course, some people would claim it was racist, yaddah yaddah.
When will Americans understand that Afghanistan is not in the Middle East and is not a desert? Some parts are pretty dry but it looks more like (northern) Nevada and Colorado than Irak!
Also remember, historically it takes about 20yrs to defeat an insurgency. Plus when we defeated Germany, Japan and Italy in WWII..we set up bases and continue to stay there
Those countries actually had civil societies, a central government, a history of some liberalism, and cultural attitudes. Afghanistan has never none of that. I don't think it'll work.
I really want to know what it looks underneath his hat. I know it's probably nothing unusual. But yaknow............maybe there's something cool under it.
Ty Vm You gotta kill a couple of people. Then you have to star in big movie successes such as "Good Will Hunting" and play in a couple of movies with the same name that progressively get worse as each one goes by. And lastly, You got to punch a midget on a full moon of the first day of July. Get back to me when you're done. I'll see what I can do.
"We clearly not the best grammar." LMAO thank you! I completely agree. DJ Khaled annoys me so much. "Apparently Rihanna also has a thing in her songs now where she just repeats one word one thousand times" That isn't anything new, Ben. That's been her style for over 10 years. People always hate on me when I bring this up, then I show them examples like Shut Up and Drive, Don't Stop the Music, Disturbia, and probably the most repetitive of her old songs, Umbrella, and they agree with me, but say it's okay because she's a "great artist"
I loved the bit around 24:30! This nonsense of "nation building" always drove me nuts. Let people build their own nations. It's not like anyone is ever thankful when we try to do that for them anyway. Humanitarian assistance during a crisis is one thing. But extended attempts at nation building among people who are either ungrateful or outright hateful to us is a waste of time, money, and most importantly, lives. Newsflash, world: Fix your own miserable countries. We've got enough on our hands right now in fixing our own.
There are so many layers to this conflict it has become so difficult to find a solution. I really think one of the most important things the United States can do is become completely energy independent from the Middle East. Cutting all ties between the Middle East and the United States economically will significantly untie our hands when it comes to the Middle East as a whole.
An adult telling another adult don't look at the sun is like telling a 20 year cigarette smoker that smokings bad, or look both ways before crossing the street. Everyone has glaced at the sun for a second, calm down mom I'll be ok! Anyone who has experienced welders flash understands exactly what I'm talking about, you might wake up with crust fuseing your eye lids shut and hazy sensitive vison for a few days which is awful and certainly not good, but it's not like, glace at the sun and 3 days later poof your blind! Lol
Its amazing to me how many people seem to think the US South invented slavery. Slavery is literally as old as mankind. There is not a single population that I know of that did not have some slavery in its past. Slavery exists even today. America did not invent slavery, we OVERCAME slavery. To me the monuments of the Civil war do not celebrate slavery nor do they indicate a desired to return to slavery. To me the flags and statues of the old South represent many things. One of those things is our incredible ability to overcome the evil institution of Slavery, reunite with dignity, and work together to become the greatest nation the world has ever known. That is the lesson the statues and flags inspire me to share with our children.
Having done the first "surge" and now moving into the second "surge", how much longer do we think the U.S. military can sustain this type of operations tempo? Seriously. We all appreciate you , the American people, mostly viewing us as heroes. But the family's destroyed, the lack of families able to be created due to continuous deployments, the continuous spill of American blood for a region of the world you can't win by traditional tactics? Most Americans view the deployment to Afghanistan and the death toll roll up as another car crash it seems. Some of the younger generations say "they volunteered; not my problem". Give "The Starfish and the Spider" by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom a read for centralized and decentralized groups and how they basically work. Terrorism is a starfish.. more troops unfortunately aren't going to fix this one. Ben Shapiro; thanks for being here. Good stuff, and please keep it going.
This will sound horrible. But I wonder if it would be wiser to completely pull out. This way when we are attacked again, we will have justifications to go in 100%.
The reason why the eclipse is amazing is due to the fact that we would never have discovered the corona, solar flares, and many other things. The fact that we are not only in the perfect "Goldilocks" zone for life, but also have one of the best spots in the universe for scientific discover speaks to the glory of God's design.
Now that Bannon is gone Trump will be a one term president mark my words. Trump will stop his campaign promises slowly and start working for the establishment.
Lol I love you Ben, however, in reference to the dj part at the end, djs typically record their names on to their beats so that their brand is identified whenever an artist is using their beat, it's referred to as "tagging". As for all the extra stuff he says lol.... no excuse
The problem with increasing the tensions between India and Pakistan is they already dislike each other, have contentions on where the border between them lies(they both claim Kashmir), and they both have nuclear weapons.
Ok, I think I know what's going on. Think of Afghanistan as target practice. A good place to practice military tactics and a good place to test out new weapons. They even have moving targets. Practice is what you want when you prepare for the "big one".
"F flat major" Ben Shapiro, You made me and other musicians the world over cringe. Lol. There is not "F flat". If you flatten an "F" a half step, you end up at "E". Haha
Hey Ben, if you haven't ever read it "The Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon is worth a look. Written in 1930. It's a odd look at mankind over the course of 2 billion years into the future. An almost cultural anthropology feel, this guy predicts a lot of Sci-fi ideas.
Whereas Steven Crowder and co. almost suffered heat stroke making that video destroying the Leftist Tears tumblr, Ben simply destroy them with a one-word retort: Who?
ben you should know the bible tells how this bloodline out there will never know peace, and will always be fighting etc. we should be rescuing ppl who wanna get out.
Evan Samuel ehhh... You're kinda right kinda not. I'm not being argumentative but he said it's partly successful because it's downscaled a lot since 9/11. Sure, there still are terror attacks but none of them come close to what 9/11 was. I see where you're coming from, though.
Using phrases like "we conquered the country [Afghanistan]" does not educate your viewers, nor does it help reassure Afghanis that the US is there to help them. It is the language of Imperialism.
You're ignoring the chilling effect that communism had on Afghanistan. A lot of spectators felt that it could have been in the same economic position as Iran today, if only communism had not completely degenerated the politics in the country in the name of a foreign interest: the Soviets. Different countries react differently to communism but Afghanistan took it as a real shock. The Soviets sealed the deal by invading in 1979 for a whole decade of guerrilla fighting, to try and get a grip on the horrific ideology they'd poisoned the country with. Of course, they'd potentially (like Iran) pose an existential threat to Israel right now if they'd gotten off the ground. Or would they? IMO only as much as e.g. Syria or Iraq do. Israel isn't really threatened by these countries, the only threat is that Israel doesn't get everything it wants in the middle east on the American tax dollar.
Afghanistan had a pragmatic (possibly constitutional, not sure) monarchy which worked pretty well until marxists overthrew it. The people quickly figured out what had been lost and most people were in support of the king for the longest time. The people lived as tribes but they only became guerrilla fighters when the soviets invaded and forced their hand. A DECADE of fighting and opposition to Soviet rule turned them into insurgents, very much fuelled by America. It's cheeky that Americans don't accept the role they played as well.
Level up is an RPG term. Not Mario. Clearly not a gamer. But did you really have to s*** on gamers as a group by inferring it's only for little kids? Not cool. RPG especially tend to be aimed at a more mature audience...
wrong!! the sun doesn't eclipse the moon every month. The moon doesn't orbit around the equator like most of the planets around the sun. So eclipses are relatively rare (next one in about 6 years). Eclipses are also useful for astronomers to study the corona of the sun.
Its friggin HILARIOUS when Ben says that he admired Trump for changing his mind. Why did Trump change his mind? Because he realised what kind of a mess Afghanistan is, and how hard it is to be the President of the US. Nobody knew it would be this difficult, right? Well, all grown ups do.
I subscribed as I got sick of the adds although at least he's doing them himself. I respect that. Good that Trump is going to untie the generals hands.
Shots fired. Shots. Fired.
StevenCrowder Who are you?
StevenCrowder my favorite thing about this comment is that it only has 3 likes 😂😂😂😂😂 "who"
Who are you?
Who? That shook my soul.
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Gotta love Ben's attempt at humor!
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I fucking love this stupid mug war XD
I am more interested in the Crowder / Shapiro Mug war than any actual war.
That Steven Crowder roast! The Mug Club vs. Tumbler meme is developing.
"Nothing says sexy to me quite like a washing machine."
boss friggin intro, mr shapiro!!!!!!!!!!
what i love about the right, is that we still have a sense of humor.
Stevens mug must be pretty good. You dropped it and it didn't even break!! 😂😂😂
Lmao! "Tell him not to cut taxes and he will destroy the IRS". That was awesome lol
I also don't care for that song lol
I think the reason the public went nuts for the eclipse was because it was one of the few rare events that wasn't divisive, something everyone could enjoy, no matter what your ideology is.
Of course, some people would claim it was racist, yaddah yaddah.
When will Americans understand that Afghanistan is not in the Middle East and is not a desert?
Some parts are pretty dry but it looks more like (northern) Nevada and Colorado than Irak!
Also remember, historically it takes about 20yrs to defeat an insurgency. Plus when we defeated Germany, Japan and Italy in WWII..we set up bases and continue to stay there
Those countries actually had civil societies, a
central government, a history of some liberalism, and cultural attitudes. Afghanistan
has never none of that. I don't think it'll work.
"Attack we will" Amen, Trump
I really want to know what it looks underneath his hat. I know it's probably nothing unusual. But yaknow............maybe there's something cool under it.
How does one join F.A.G. Matt Damon?
Ty Vm You gotta kill a couple of people. Then you have to star in big movie successes such as "Good Will Hunting" and play in a couple of movies with the same name that progressively get worse as each one goes by. And lastly,
You got to punch a midget on a full moon of the first day of July.
Get back to me when you're done. I'll see what I can do.
Matt Damon theres a bald spot under his hat
Gold. Lots of goooooold.
There's a penny in there
Ben Shapiro, thx for the truth bomb on the Boston free speech rally. DrV.A Shiva Ayyadurai had a great speech!
"We clearly not the best grammar." LMAO thank you! I completely agree. DJ Khaled annoys me so much.
"Apparently Rihanna also has a thing in her songs now where she just repeats one word one thousand times" That isn't anything new, Ben. That's been her style for over 10 years. People always hate on me when I bring this up, then I show them examples like Shut Up and Drive, Don't Stop the Music, Disturbia, and probably the most repetitive of her old songs, Umbrella, and they agree with me, but say it's okay because she's a "great artist"
I laughed so hard at the Mug Club thing, that was hilarious, Steven is going to come down on you so hard. LOLz
Awesome opener, laughed hard.
Am i the only one who went, "ZIIIPPP... REEEEEEECROOOOOOODER!!!!" at 0:58?
Matthew R. Terry No, you were not
48:00 "Doesn't he have a Beard?" That was Golden
"hand etched by blind nuns who stared at the eclipse" - Ha!
Ben, Tucker is sincere. He quickly changed his mind and said supporting Iraq was a huge mistake.
You are correct Ben...we have all the clocks, but the afghans have all the time in the world.
I loved the bit around 24:30! This nonsense of "nation building" always drove me nuts. Let people build their own nations. It's not like anyone is ever thankful when we try to do that for them anyway.
Humanitarian assistance during a crisis is one thing. But extended attempts at nation building among people who are either ungrateful or outright hateful to us is a waste of time, money, and most importantly, lives.
Newsflash, world: Fix your own miserable countries. We've got enough on our hands right now in fixing our own.
Bahahahahhahahaha.... you're joke was hilarious... I mean the attempt itself..
There are so many layers to this conflict it has become so difficult to find a solution. I really think one of the most important things the United States can do is become completely energy independent from the Middle East. Cutting all ties between the Middle East and the United States economically will significantly untie our hands when it comes to the Middle East as a whole.
Shapiro for President
hahah the start was funny as fuck, should do more comedy Ben you would take over!
That cold open though.
I love watching ben shapiro, but every time I do I keep thinking of him saying "anudda shoah"
An adult telling another adult don't look at the sun is like telling a 20 year cigarette smoker that smokings bad, or look both ways before crossing the street. Everyone has glaced at the sun for a second, calm down mom I'll be ok! Anyone who has experienced welders flash understands exactly what I'm talking about, you might wake up with crust fuseing your eye lids shut and hazy sensitive vison for a few days which is awful and certainly not good, but it's not like, glace at the sun and 3 days later poof your blind! Lol
Its amazing to me how many people seem to think the US South invented slavery. Slavery is literally as old as mankind. There is not a single population that I know of that did not have some slavery in its past. Slavery exists even today. America did not invent slavery, we OVERCAME slavery. To me the monuments of the Civil war do not celebrate slavery nor do they indicate a desired to return to slavery. To me the flags and statues of the old South represent many things. One of those things is our incredible ability to overcome the evil institution of Slavery, reunite with dignity, and work together to become the greatest nation the world has ever known. That is the lesson the statues and flags inspire me to share with our children.
Having done the first "surge" and now moving into the second "surge", how much longer do we think the U.S. military can sustain this type of operations tempo? Seriously. We all appreciate you , the American people, mostly viewing us as heroes. But the family's destroyed, the lack of families able to be created due to continuous deployments, the continuous spill of American blood for a region of the world you can't win by traditional tactics? Most Americans view the deployment to Afghanistan and the death toll roll up as another car crash it seems. Some of the younger generations say "they volunteered; not my problem". Give "The Starfish and the Spider" by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom a read for centralized and decentralized groups and how they basically work. Terrorism is a starfish.. more troops unfortunately aren't going to fix this one. Ben Shapiro; thanks for being here. Good stuff, and please keep it going.
We clearly not the the best grammar.....
LOLOL
This is a beautiful man.
How can one be so intelligent? 😣
I wanna see a Harris, Shapiro debate. I dunno what they would debate on though...
Total eclipses: You either get it or you don't. Shapiro doesn't get it lol.
Always love your conservative views Ben #MAGA
This will sound horrible. But I wonder if it would be wiser to completely pull out. This way when we are attacked again, we will have justifications to go in 100%.
Interesting. Specifically about Afghanistan.
ben shapiro thug life, where you at?
I'd pay 3 percent of my income to make sure Afghanistan was stabilized.
Ben Shapiro welcome to the Trump Train.
Good changing rules of engagement just hope overdoing it doesn't .becomes common practice
Ben has the same view on popular music as me, finally someone understands lmao XD
Haha! That immediate pop shot!
MINOR KEY!!!!
The reason why the eclipse is amazing is due to the fact that we would never have discovered the corona, solar flares, and many other things. The fact that we are not only in the perfect "Goldilocks" zone for life, but also have one of the best spots in the universe for scientific discover speaks to the glory of God's design.
To be fair... Loads of people would look at the sun. Or anything really, when others tell you not to do it!
Now that Bannon is gone Trump will be a one term president mark my words. Trump will stop his campaign promises slowly and start working for the establishment.
I want to see Shapiro debate Ron Paul
We the best podcast!
Lol I love you Ben, however, in reference to the dj part at the end, djs typically record their names on to their beats so that their brand is identified whenever an artist is using their beat, it's referred to as "tagging". As for all the extra stuff he says lol.... no excuse
Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahaa @ the intro
The problem in Afghanistan is worst now.
I don't think Ben understands that a timeout is literally a punishment for a set amount of time...
we have the mug wars going on
major key refers to keys to success. I too initially thought it was music theory. that's what happens when you give him too much credit.
The problem with increasing the tensions between India and Pakistan is they already dislike each other, have contentions on where the border between them lies(they both claim Kashmir), and they both have nuclear weapons.
savage intro
He took the dj Khalid thing way too far 😂
shots fired... let the great mug/tumbler war begin
*"BUT MUH WIFE IS A DOCTOR!"*
Bannon's out, and there he is : George W Bush 2.0
Awww dont pick on SC. He is one of the few that keep us sane
That Rihanna song's has the guitar rift from Santana.
Been might want to leave the skits to Crowder
Ok, I think I know what's going on. Think of Afghanistan as target practice. A good place to practice military tactics and a good place to test out new weapons. They even have moving targets. Practice is what you want when you prepare for the "big one".
Mark D q
Oh shiz ben vs steven internet drama fight.
umm... that's not why the moon looks the way the sun did yesterday >___>
Hey be nice to Crowder, xD I learned of you through him.
"F flat major" Ben Shapiro, You made me and other musicians the world over cringe. Lol. There is not "F flat". If you flatten an "F" a half step, you end up at "E". Haha
Where did anonymous go??
Oh right, they took of the mask and took up the cloth.
Hey Ben, if you haven't ever read it "The Last and First Men" by Olaf Stapledon is worth a look. Written in 1930. It's a odd look at mankind over the course of 2 billion years into the future. An almost cultural anthropology feel, this guy predicts a lot of Sci-fi ideas.
Whereas Steven Crowder and co. almost suffered heat stroke making that video destroying the Leftist Tears tumblr, Ben simply destroy them with a one-word retort: Who?
Lol Ben Shapiro. Fb major is just E major :P
ouch steven got rekt
ben you should know the bible tells how this bloodline out there will never know peace, and will always be fighting etc. we should be rescuing ppl who wanna get out.
The war on terror has been successful
- Ben Shapiro 😐😐😐whose mans is this
Evan Samuel ehhh... You're kinda right kinda not. I'm not being argumentative but he said it's partly successful because it's downscaled a lot since 9/11. Sure, there still are terror attacks but none of them come close to what 9/11 was. I see where you're coming from, though.
trump is evolving
Sorry Ben but the Crowder mug is way better.
Was it forged in Valhalla by the hammer of Thor, as the tumbler was?
Til Ben doesn't know shit about timeouts! Solid point tho.
RIP STEVEN CROWDER
Thug Life
Using phrases like "we conquered the country [Afghanistan]" does not educate your viewers, nor does it help reassure Afghanis that the US is there to help them. It is the language of Imperialism.
is the patriot food supply like mre's?
i wont mind getting one since i served in the military
Crowder is pretty funny
You're ignoring the chilling effect that communism had on Afghanistan. A lot of spectators felt that it could have been in the same economic position as Iran today, if only communism had not completely degenerated the politics in the country in the name of a foreign interest: the Soviets. Different countries react differently to communism but Afghanistan took it as a real shock. The Soviets sealed the deal by invading in 1979 for a whole decade of guerrilla fighting, to try and get a grip on the horrific ideology they'd poisoned the country with. Of course, they'd potentially (like Iran) pose an existential threat to Israel right now if they'd gotten off the ground. Or would they? IMO only as much as e.g. Syria or Iraq do. Israel isn't really threatened by these countries, the only threat is that Israel doesn't get everything it wants in the middle east on the American tax dollar.
Afghanistan had a pragmatic (possibly constitutional, not sure) monarchy which worked pretty well until marxists overthrew it. The people quickly figured out what had been lost and most people were in support of the king for the longest time. The people lived as tribes but they only became guerrilla fighters when the soviets invaded and forced their hand. A DECADE of fighting and opposition to Soviet rule turned them into insurgents, very much fuelled by America. It's cheeky that Americans don't accept the role they played as well.
BOWAHHHHAAA....... WHO?
Level up is an RPG term. Not Mario. Clearly not a gamer. But did you really have to s*** on gamers as a group by inferring it's only for little kids? Not cool. RPG especially tend to be aimed at a more mature audience...
DJ SpacEiNvadeR
To be fair, white girl is a reference to cocaine but yeah
wrong!! the sun doesn't eclipse the moon every month. The moon doesn't orbit around the equator like most of the planets around the sun. So eclipses are relatively rare (next one in about 6 years). Eclipses are also useful for astronomers to study the corona of the sun.
Ziprecruiter sucks they are shady AF
Savage.
Been luv your show but please could you slow down when speaking
Its friggin HILARIOUS when Ben says that he admired Trump for changing his mind.
Why did Trump change his mind? Because he realised what kind of a mess Afghanistan is, and how hard it is to be the President of the US. Nobody knew it would be this difficult, right? Well, all grown ups do.
so after 28:00 it's just the screenshot of subscribe?
I subscribed as I got sick of the adds although at least he's doing them himself. I respect that. Good that Trump is going to untie the generals hands.
Lol