Monday, July 13, 2015

Ann Sits Down with Ben Shapiro

    On Monday, July 13, 2015, Ann went to an ¡Adios America! event in Garden Grove, CA at around 7:30pm-9pm. The video is available on Youtube or C-SPAN (computer generated transcript included). The C-SPAN video is 69 minutes long and embedded below. Ann is only on from minutes 0:09-1:09.



    Here are some quotes:
"Shapiro: Speaking of Donald Trump, obviously... he's had a big jump in the polls... You don't back Donald Trump for president.

Ann: Oh, I totally do.

Shapiro: Oh, really? [Surprised.]

Ann: Yeah [nodding].

Shapiro: Okay [grinning and nodding]." [Quote found in minutes 11-12.]

    On losing elections because of immigrants voting Democrat:
"I think probably some of you were as surprised as I was, the day, at 3am, election night. 'Huh, I thought [Romney] was gonna win that.' Well, get used to saying that a lot more. 'Huh, I thought we were gonna win that election. What happened to that state?'" [Quote found in minute 14.]

    On liberals calling immigration limits or deportations "racist" or "xenophobic."
"There has to be a restriction at some point. They're xenophobic the same way... any country is... [Shapiro says there are 7 billion people in the world.] They'd all like to live here and collect welfare in America and... have a nice life here... We're not taking them all, so at some point liberals are cutting them off too." [Quote found in minute 22.]


    If you do not have time to watch the full hour, here is what they talked about:

Hour 0:

Minutes 9-10: Ann wants to make interesting titles for Thomas Sowell's books.
Minute 10: Democrats, businesses, Republicans, and the media are all in favor of immigration.
Minute 11: The media determines the conversation, but now Donald Trump is bringing the topic up.
Minute 12: Trump read ¡Adios America! and it will help his campaign if other people read it too.
Minutes 13-15: Why immigration is the most important policy/topic.
Minute 16: America's immigration policy is bringing in peasant cultures.
Minutes 17-18: The middle class, blacks, and Hispanics are paying the cost that comes with immigration: hospitals, roads, schools, etc.
Minutes 18-19: America is becoming Brazil in terms of income inequality. Stopping immigration will cause wages to rise naturally.
Minutes 19-20: Is Ann's stance racist?
Minutes 20-21: Immigrants get affirmative action for absolutely no reason.
Minute 21: Jesse Jackson and Cesar Chavez opposed immigration.
Minute 22: All people (even liberals) are xenophobic to some point.
Minute 23: Immigration should be cut off to help the people here now.
Minutes 23-24: Should we pass amnesty in order to attract Hispanics?
Minute 25: Proposition 187 and Pete Wilson.
Minute 26: Hispanic groups do not like each other.
Minute 27: Any immigrant makes America less free. White immigrants are a problem too, like Piers Morgan, or even New York immigrants to Vermont making it Democrat.
Minutes 28-30: The government provides almost no statistics on immigrants in prison.
Minutes 30-33: Democrats say Americans commit more crime than immigrants, but the studies they cite do not even say that, or the studies are behind internet paywalls.
Minute 34: Immigration should be used to benefit Americans, not foreigners.
Minutes 35-36: $20 billion is sucked out of the economy every year by immigrants sending money home. Carlos Slim.
Minutes 36-38: The difference between pre-1970 immigrants and post-1970 immigrants.
Minutes 38-39: Legal immigrants are bad too.
Minute 39: The H1B visa program is fraud.
Minutes 39-41: Lakireddy Bali Reddy.
Minute 41: H1B visas are indentured servitude.
Minutes 42-44: If we stop letting cheap labor immigrate to America, will American companies leave for cheap labor in other countries? Ann admits she does not know the answer to the question, but Americans are not getting the jobs now anyway, so let's just try it.
Minutes 44-46: The media hides the immigration status of criminals or does not reveal their ethnicity at all.
Minute 47: Why are Republicans so blind to the truth on the topic of immigration?
Minute 48: So many times the media reports horrible immigrant crimes, but makes it sound like all-American teenagers are the criminals.
Minutes 49-50: There was a rape in Texas and it wasn't revealed to be an illegal until the media used his ethnicity as a reason he shouldn't be executed.
Minute 51: Immigration is the most important topic.
Minutes 51-52: Trump, in spite of being a novelty candidate, may need to be the nominee because he is the only one staunchly against immigration.
Minute 53: Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio will ruin America with amnesty, but Hillary Clinton wants to ruin America in lots of ways.
Minute 54: How Congress can stop immigration even if Clinton, Rubio, or Bush win.
Minutes 54-55: The 2014 election wave was because of amnesty.
Minute 56: The trade deal allows free movement of goods and people.
Minutes 56-57: Take out John Boehner or another establishment Republican so the others will fight amnesty.
Minute 57: Dave Brat was fantastic.
Minute 58: This problem will not just go away.
Minute 59: The whole country will be California and no Republican will every be POTUS again.

Hour 1:

Minute 0: America's middle class is one reason it is so great.
Minute 1: The rich want immigration.
Minutes 1-2: What do Californians do at this point? [Long pause.] Ann guesses California is just a warning to the rest of America.
Minute 2: We need a triple-layer fence.
Minute 3: Israel should be moved to the southern border of America.
Minutes 3-4: El Chapo.
Minutes 4-5: The 14th Amendment is not about gays or anchor babies.
Minute 6: The anchor baby policy should be retroactive. [Crowd claps.]
Minutes 7-8: We need an immigration moratorium to shut down the immigrants' rights groups.
Minute 8: Ann can pick who is allowed into America.
Minute 9: Close.

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