#845 - Ben Shapiro - Has America Completely Lost Its Mind?

I will say it is kind of weird that Donald Trump has been subjected to more assassination attempts in the past 8 weeks than Kamala Harris has to one-on-one interviews. I didn't see that one coming.

The the first prescription for somebody who is suffering from some sort of depression should be, like, get off your ass and go do something.

If you're not pushing yourself and working to better yourself, again, you wish that you could grow without the pain, but I don't necessarily think that that's the case. I think that you require that in order to grow as a human being.

The outside world does not exist while you're with your family, 'cus your kids don't care. Your kids don't give a shit.

The original assassination attempt, the fact that he missed Trump is a miracle of God. Truly, like God's hand came down, like, redirected that bullet—because there is no way you must that shot. He had a scope on a rifle. Like, there's no way you missed that shot. He is extremely close with a long gun.

If I were to put together a list of the top ten threats to the United States, you know, I think that the idea that Kamala Harris, like, the top threat to the United States, like in the top 10, I think her policies are bad for the United States; that's not quite the same thing as an existential threat to the United States in the near-term. I think her ideology, if applied over the long-term, would be horrible for the United States—truly horrible, for the United States.

When you're single, you're sort of variance between happiness and unhappiness is on a scale of 0 to 10 ... Then you get married, and with you and your spouse, it goes all the way now to probably negative 20 and positive 20.

That sort of meme that Elon likes to tweet out where it shows how he was sort of in the center, and then the entire center just moved to the left, and so he ended up on the right, I think that that's fairly realistic about how far the left has moved.

The solution to the social fabric problem between people in different parts of the country and have different values is not to get everybody in a room and pretend that they all agree; the answer is actually probably to leave people alone, so they don't have to deal with each other as much.

The radical increase in political temperature is not a one-sided thing on the part of Donald Trump. The left has radically increased the temperature in terms of political rhetoric ... When you keep turning up the heat on a pot of water, it boils over sometimes.

And my dad said, 'Well, success is a combination of inherent ability and effort, and so you're going to have to outwork them.'

The best thing that you can do is work really, really hard and assume you're not the smartest person in the room.

I think it's very often good not to fit in. I think that it cultivates your sense of individuality and your sense that you got to push through.

I'm personally invested in this election. I want Trump to win, obviously.

In 2020, the promise that Joe Biden was inherently making was 'I'm dead, and I am not going to radically shake things up. It's basically going to be stasis. Things will go back to normal. Return to normalcy.' And then it turns out that he was dead, but also he wasn't going to return us to normal...