Reviewing Ben Shapiro's Garbage Novel
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2019
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Ben Shapiro writes bad books, but only one is clearly mark as fiction. This disturbing vision presents a world filled with terrorism, liberals, and people of colour, wrapped in the sickly package of spotty prose and confused plotting. Characters vanish from the plot without a trace, narrative threads go nowhere, and the basic facts of each character’s history change from chapter to chapter.
At first I was wondering why this book didn’t have a copy editor, but by the end I was convinced there was no editor at all. Or if this editor existed, instead of working on improving this book, they must have turned to drinking and fallen into a deep depression to think that their life had come to this point.
Everyone and anyone who helped perpetrate this fiasco of a novel should be ashamed of themselves.
All that said, it made me laugh.
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"Don't give your characters silly names like Mark Marksen"
...I feel a little hurt...
Lmao
Av for den, mand.
Soren is a villain name, so you're like a double villian, which is cool.
Mark is like an accountant name so it's like a double accountant.
No need to worry, you're good.
Centhar
Wait but wouldn’t the two names cancel out and he would just be a neutral person?
@@neoir8514 foiled by simple math yet again, 😂
Guys this novel isn't racist, the main character has a black friend
LOL.
It definitely gives off "But my sister's boyfriend is black" vibes.
@@wolfenstarnice4821 "my favorite porn star is black" vibes
@@creeeamy7133 "I'm not xenophobic nor homophobic, I jacked off to latina lesbian porn once" vibes
All of these things will be true for someone. This person exists.
I'm actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn't call "Tyrone Watermelon"
😭
JK Rowling "niggy wiggy" behavior
If JK Rowling wrote this
No, he’s just JIM CRAWford. 😐 Good God…
@@theresacohol2017oh my god you're right that flew over my head
Ben: “Hollywood rejected me because I’m conservative.”
Apparently he’s just a bad writer.
Those are synonyms in my eyes.
@@teallineart8805 I think they have more of a subset-relation. Like not all bad writers are conservative but all conservatives are bad writers
@@teallineart8805 From what i've seen, i wouldn't say that
@@pedroian5964 What do you mean?
@@teallineart8805 Don't know how to explain this without sounding like a Racism apologist
Can we just appreciate the fact that kid the cop murders is named Kendrick Malone a lazy mishmash of 2 rappers names
And this from Ben "rap isn't music" Shapiro 😂
The Menagerie
Wait, did he really say that? He can’t be that stupid right?
The only two rappers Ben knows
@@adeer87 yes, he said his dad who went to music school says so, because rap is only rhythm,no harmony or melody
One of whom is white.
The best part is Ben dunking on muslims for their uncultured distaste for western music as if he himself hasn't gone on several anti-rap rants
"This isn't music!"
- Old men, always. And griftcons everywhere.
mike there's a best part?
MAKE SENSE, MAN!
you are right but the average Muslim doesn't hate western music, even billie eilish and justin bieber have fanboys here. i swear he has never talked to a middle easterner.
@@MahaHMA apparently he hasn't ever talked to a black person either
Ah but you see, rap isn't western music because of...uh...black people.
Black man from Detroit here... I believe the first and last person I have ever heard use the word "honky" was my late grandmother.
Im not from Detroit but im black and my great grandfather didn't even say honky his ass just said the white man.
Oh crap for real?
The last person I heard say honky was a White person saying that Black people are using that word
F
Really late here but yeah, I've only ever herd honkey used by white people, like myself, making fun of themselves lol.
Let me remind you, a Harvard educated, grown man, managed to turn out a book worse than your average wattpad fanfic
I would rather hear a fangirl getting sold off to One Direction than read any of this garbage
Fuck....you are right.
It's not where you graduated that makes you a great book author, it's an innate talent on how you absorb and use the knowledge gathered to craft stories.
Hey, don’t bash fanfic writers. Some of them are hella good.
@@HiBuddyyyyyy That is true. Enjoy a lotta fanfiction. But usually AO3.....Wattpad can be a bit off putting but I think thats an age thing and I have read the ocassional good fanfic there.
Then I was diffusing a bomb and my partner was like "cut the black wire" but I was too paralyzed by my political correctness and the bomb blew up and I died
Cut the non-white wire.
The wire of color**
Cut the African American wire!
Cut the wire that has the color hexadecimal value of 0,0,0
cut the melanin-rich wire
If I didn't already know who Ben was, I would swear this was a brilliant parody of conservativism.
It really does read like that, I use to watch him back in the day but I stopped caring so much about politics and starting caring about my hobbies. It was a good change lol
It’s so bad I honestly can’t imagine he’s not trolling.
@Ryan McClean: That really is what it reads like cause it's so on the nose that if anyone acted it out as a skit the intent would seem like a clear parody and comedic.
Has Ben just been playing the long con this whole time?!
If Ben Shapiro came out tomorrow and admitted he was really a deep plant fake conservative al-a Steven Colbert. it would make sense and also I wouldn't know if it was true or not.
It's a typical example of "Poe's Law"
Gee, for someone that's supposedly critical about identity pollitics, every single character in his novel can be reduced to their race, religion and pollitical affiliation to know if they're good or bad.
exactly lmao
Identity politics is only bad when the other side does it, according to the right.
It's almost as if far-right talking points are complete and utter hypocritical bullshit, isn't it?
Identity politics are baad, bro - when they're not white supremacist identy politics, that is!
@@henrygvidonas9573 fuck the far right and far left
Lets all play minecraft
@@benitoperez8884 Mussolini's name was Benito. I'm telling you because I've known a couple of Hispanics with that name that had no idea. By the way, yeah we should all play minecraft.
"His only crime was murdering an unarmed 8 year-old."
Ben showing his bullshit.
Implying that it would be ok if the child was armed
@@bt3743 Shapiro definitely needs to be treated like a King. Rodney King.
@@Skaramine Read what he said about Travyon Martin.
@@rickardkaufman3988 oh, I know about that too.
The 8 year old part is disturbing on another level. As a reader, it’s information not available prior to the shooting, but the cop is still looking at an 8 year old. Ben wants his cake and to eat it to, having the cop be tragic while civil rights groups are monstrous hypocrites. All while ignoring that his own character is jumpy enough to shoot a child. Someone who would very clearly look like a child. In the moment we don’t know their age, but it’s left ambiguous enough that the reader doesn’t put down the book and call out how stupid it is. Ben tries to frame it in his own narrative that the cop had no way to tell if the person he was talking to was a child. In that case, is this the kind of person who should have been given a gun in the first place? Shapiro tried to make it a set up but he just make his own character (a pretty blatant stand in for all police shootings) an unobservant and jumpy idiot
I'm actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn't call "Jim Crowford"
@philmastro "I’m actually surprised the black civil rights leader isn’t call "Jim Crowford""
But imagine if he did.
@@1MSubsNovideos he would've played it off like everybody was getting offended and "the left ruins all the cultural references i make"
Oh come on, that's too obvious. The first draft was probably along the lines of "Jim CrAwford" or "Corin Capernicus" lol.
Tolerant inquisitor
Let’s say, hypothetically, for the sake of the argument, I named the black civil rights leader “Jim Crowford.” Now, remember, this is all hypothetical. Now, for the sake of the argument, you’re okay with this. Now, we’ve already established that you’re okay with the black civil rights leader being named “Jim Crowford”...
This comment section made my day ❤️
I wish this was written in the 90s so the 8 year old black kid could be named Snoop Cube Shakur.
this comment deserves many likes
@@johncardono8056 thanks sir! I agree! And so would Snoop Cube Shakur!
Omg I'm dying
Fantastic!
😂😂😂😂
Jim Crawford is a black civil rights leader.
Jim Crawford
Jim Craw
Jim Crow
Great writing, Ben.
Holy shit!
That's fucked up.
The only type of black people who Ben Shapiro don't have a problem with would be black Republicans like his Daily Wire colleague Candace Owens.
Ben is so spiteful toward black people it's ridiculous
"Youngest general in American history at 41"
Wow, that's not even close to true....one of America's very first generals, Nathanael Greene was all of 32 when made Brigadier General, while Benedict Arnold was 35
Lafayette was made a Major General at 19
Winfield Scott made the rank at 28
George McClellan was 35
Ulysses S Grant was 39
I could keep naming dozens, if not a hundred or more, men who became generals before hitting 40 years old, but I don't think that's terribly necessary after naming merely half a dozen of the most famous in American history...
@Maxx Rice No because it would upset his, very, carefully (un)balanced world view😀
Lafayette was that young? Heard he had a pirate fleet at that time?
@@theparijat1000 Yep, General at 19
All I can figure is that Ben means the very specific rank of "General", which is symbolized by four silver stars and is thus often called "4 star general".
But having a 41 year old as a 4 star general because he's a killing machine is absolute nonsense. That's not how the Army promotes officers.
@@TheDarthbinky Maybe at some future point it will. Rules change. Maybe Ben is a visionary about the future Army. You never know.🤔 Or maybe he's too lazy to do a simple google search.
In the book, Ben proposes an alternate universe where Iraq DID have weapons of mass destruction, but hid them in Iran. This completely ignores that Iraq and Iran have been enemies for centuries
They sound simioar, so they should be pals, right?
-probably Ben Shapiro's train of thought
Genius move on Iraq's part. The last place people would think to look.
What's 3 million dead between friends
The Middle East is just one monolithic nation to these people, populated exclusively by terrorists whose only ideology is "Death to America!"
"Hey, it's me. Normally, go f-ck yourself, but could you hold onto this for a few minutes?"
"She felt tears well up in her own eyes."
As opposed to feeling them well up in someone else's eyes.
She felt tears well down in her own toes.
My very specific and not terribly useful mutant power is to feel when someone nearby has tears welling up in their eyes.
@Maurits I don't think it's an adult centric mistake it's pretty much a universal mistake, but it is funny how we make those writing mistakes often.
whose tears though?
To be fair it is entirely possible that as a character in a Shapiro book she can actually feel the tears of the person being forced to read.
the creeping realization that "kendrick malone" is just tamir rice
"by an 8-year-old"
"a toy gun and not a real one"
like by the time the realization hit i was like you CANNOT be fucking justifying the murder of tamir rice rn but then again it's ben shapiro so no surprise there
He defended George Zimmerman, So its not out of character for the scumbag
Holy shit, I didn't even make the connection, but you're totally right. Ben was always really obviously racist, but anyone that read those passages of his book that still defend him are racist too. There's no justification.
I was talking about the protests in Cleveland following the death of Tamir Rice and remarked that it would not be surprising if a movie on the events in Cleveland was made and titled "Ohio on Fire." I came up with the title on the fly and modeled it after the title of the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning." The latter was a movie on the murder of three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June of 1964.
The weird part is, from the description of the scene, he didn't even do a good job of ATTEMPTING to justify it. He made the cop look like he was crazy paranoid. Then expects the reader to side with him. What
@@rickpgriffinexactly! He wants us to feel empathy before we know all the facts. He drops the 8 year old bombshell after the shooting to make us picture a late teen at worst, because he knows the readers would call him out on his bullshit if he gave context and set up the scene properly. It’s like if theirs a bar fight in a movie and suddenly the main character is in court for punching an 8 year old, who’s height, age and pitch of voice were never mentioned. Ben knows his own scene is unbelievable so he deprives the reader of information before he makes them feel sorry for the cop. He wants you to FEEL for him before you have the FACTS.bear in mind this book is aimed at people who already like Ben Shapiro and he’s still trying to deceive them to get them on his side. He knows his position is indefensible and carry’s on anyway
You forgot the part where he makes every protagonist big and tall, like how Ben isn't, but every antagonist is short with very little facial hair, like how Ben is.
"suddenly, O'sullivan's head filled with a sudden clarity" - when you suddenly overuse suddenly suddenly it's suddenly less well written
J W He’s a pretend academic, of course he cannot write for shit.
Lol I got a headache reading that
_Suddenly, pineapples!_
Shows you what a “Harvard” education can get you right?
*S U D D E N L Y*
Gotta love that his black stereotypes are from some 70s blaxploitation film lmao
Would not be surprised if the first time Ben ever saw a black person was when he saw his first hippity hop music video
ben has little to no interaction with blacks folks, so he bases his black characters off of stereotypes.
This is Ben Shapiro's Jackie Brown.
Those 70s blacksploitation film producers put way more creative effort into making original characters that Ben Shapiro's effort in this abortion of a novel.
Ever since he was a teenager in the damn 90s he's acted like a 60 year old inept bitter nark so I'm not surprised he looked at Dolemite as a documentary.
Using “honky” as the insult for white people demonstrates that Ben Shapiro is a psychological anachronism.
It's because he heard that insult from a song called "thrift shop", so he assumed it was current
I can confidently say my fanfic about a drug addicted Yoda is objectively better than this, dialogue-wise.
Don’t be shy, drop the link
"ketamine, i must get"
Well, the exploration of realistic implications from drug abuse is infinitely more engaging than self-congratulatory super conservative schlock.
I need to know where I can find your fanfic about Yoda being a drug addict
"Luke, to complete your training, the cocaine cave you must enter. Take the cocaine from the beast within, yes?"
It sounds like he came up with the plot while playing with his action figures.
_[Ben is playing with his dolls in his office when Mor opens the door]_
Mor: "Ben?"
Ben: "WHAT?"
_[Ben gathers up his dolls instantly]_
Mor: "Honey, dinner's ready."
Ben [whining]: "KNOCK on my door! KNOCK next time!"
Mor: "Sorry, hon."
Ben: "Did you see anything?"
Mor: "No, hon. I didn't see you playing with your dolls again."
Ben: "GOOD!"
gspendlove 😂😂😂 you gotta add: “The regressive intolerant left knocked at my door again”
@@gspendlove Fun fact; Mor means mom in Danish, which is why your reply really confused me until I found it was the name of his wife.
@Kevin McDougall speaking of his sister, she must be unfortunate as fuck to be related to him
No, he read a Tom Clancy book and went "Hey, I can do that!". No you can't Ben
"Kendrick Malone"
I'm fuckind dead. Other scrapped names that Ben probably thought of :
"Denzel Mane"
"Kanye Brown"
"Travis Cole"
I guess that's how his mind works.
Lmao
Diddy Cents
Joseph Ancion I wonder if he knows Post Malone is white. That’s what makes the name even better
Danny Gibbs, Andre Bronson, Open Mike Kelly.
LeBrown Black
This book gives me strong “Trigger Warning” vibes. I’m surprised Ben didn’t bless us with frequent descriptions of how big Bret is.
Ahahahahahahaha, I love that Jenny Nicholson video.
Funny enough, Ben would later distribute a film based on the premise of "Trigger Warning" called Run Hide Fight. Jose did a whole video on that.
Brets needs an education
@@rickardkaufman3988 eh, I think Trigger Warning and Run, Hide, Fight are pretty different. the only connecting thread is that it's an action story set around a school shooting. if it really was inspired by Trigger Warning, it would have to be loosely.
I was a little bit uncomfortable by the homoerotic descriptions of Brett Hawthorne and I was understandably disgusted by "Run Hide Fight" as it seemed like Ben took bits and pieces of school shootings from the 1990's and blended them into a shitty film. I only said "school shootings from the 1990's" because a lot of school safety experts say that schools in the United States are safer now than they were in the 1990's; the decade most associated with high-profile violent school shootings. While I hope it never happens; it would be interesting if Ben Shapiro wrote a sequel to "True Allegiance" and set the sequel in Northern Ireland during The Troubles as we could finally get a glimpse of what are Ben's views on Northern Ireland. For those who are not familiar with The Troubles; they are defined as a thirty-year period of violence, terror and despair in the British Isles. The Troubles are generally considered to have started in 1968 with the Battle of the Bogside and ended with the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The parties involved in The Troubles were the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as well as the Republic of Ireland, the Irish Republican Army, the Protestant communities in the British Isles, the police forces of Northern Ireland, and the British Army. Ben would probably depict the Catholic population of Northern Ireland as IRA sympathizers and violent murderous thugs who take pleasure in committing acts of violence on the Protestant communities in the British Isles by bombing, beating, stabbing or shooting Protestants as well as police officers in Northern Ireland and British soldiers coupled with burning or bombing Protestant homes and businesses. Ben would probably depict the Protestant communities of Northern Ireland as well as the police forces of Northern Ireland and the soldiers of the British Army as good hardworking people who were desperate to stop the violence in Northern Ireland by any means necessary.
This is like if Tom Clancy went off his meds, called Ben up in the middle of the night, and dictated a novel to him, except Ben's signal was spotty and he just filled in the blanks however he wanted when the call dropped out.
Clancy could write a better story than this and he's dead.
@@samuelstensgaard4828 He's certainly doing good at post-mortem coding, for all the games he puts out.
@@grfrjiglstan Tom Clancy best game developer!
@@grfrjiglstan LOL
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." ― _Dorothy Parker_
Thank you, I was thinking of that.
"Dorothy Parker" calls to mind a stern British woman and that makes this even funnier
Can I have a t-shirt with this emblazoned on it? I'm okay with or without the book's image with it.
With the ongoing toilet paper shortage True Alleigance will be an adequate substitute.
I don't have a strong opinion against Ben Shapiro, but that was fucking hilarious XXX DDD
*very seriously to my dog*
_"Take a bullet for you, babe"_
Funny how it's closer to good writing when saying it to a dog than when saying it to a person.
Dont know how your dog can hear anything over all the whistling coming from this book.
Same. To my dog. And also to yours
Welcome back, Mr. Wick.
How dare you make me laugh about this shitty book.
In all honesty thank you it’s the only good thing about this
"She felt tears welling in her own eyes."
HOW MANY EYES DOES THIS WOMAN CARRY AROUND?!?!?!?!?!
Too fucking many
and how many times do the severed eyes have to start randomly crying to make the fact that the tears are welling up in *her* eyes notable?
“Would you like to see my bag of eyes?”
@@ComedicLetter LMAO
You KNOW this guy got bullied relentlessly in school... and instead of developing **empathy** like most of us do, he went in the complete opposite direction...
So basically Porky Minch?
If ever there were a better anti bullying message then "Ben Shapiro was bullied and look how he turned out" then i haven't heard it
@@autobotstarscream765 Ahit, man, the memories...
Seriously, the “cool kids’ philosopher?”
Ben Shapiro is a 37 year old millionaire who by any financial measure is immensely successful and there’s a 63% chance he is currently jammed in a locker somewhere with a wedgie.
I guarantee you the black character was modeled after a real life guy Ben lost a debate to in college, and he consoled himself by believing that he’d grow up to become a drug dealer
Lost a debate? Probably lost a girlfriend.
@@Montesama314
Or maybe even both (and then some more).
LMAO
@@Montesama314 Hah. Thats funny- assuming Ben Shapiro ever had a girlfriend in high school. Idk how he found his wife
@@Montesama314 Or she was already dating the black guy and refused to dump said black guy on the spot on favor of dumping Ben.
In the sequel the protagonist is Kendrick Malone's older brother Kodak Yatchy.
Objection! Ben would not make a black character a protagonist, because then he would have to make them sympathetic and observe another point of view.
@@fruitygarlic3601 Objection! Protagonists aren't necesarily heroes. He could make his black protagonist the villain of the story!
@@thegrayghost1786 you people are pathetic lol
Let's not joke about something as terrible as there being a sequel.
@@ComradeCorwin this comment is severely underrated
No wonder Hollywood didn't want to accept any of Ben Shapiro's scripts. He can't right good stories, and probably about half of them are just propaganda of glorify bigotry and murdering innocent people. This book's story structure is like one of Onision's books.
Well, Onision's early work anyway. Even this book is better than Reaper's Creek, though.
It would probably work as a satirical comedy
When even your TV executive mom can't get you a foot in the door through her contacts, you should realise your writing is complete trash. We're in an era when television networks are so desperate for "content" to cram between blocks of ads, they will buy any old shit from anybody.
Yes I'm surprised more people don't talk about this. It's gotta keep him up at night, and be a source of his hateful nature, amongst others.
Not even nepotism could get him work as a writer, he's that shitty. Plus, when you write "dramedies" from the view of an uptight bigot with no irony, it's a toss. Frankly, I feel bad for the assistants that had to read it.
Oh my God, you just made me realize that Ben Shapiro is like an evil version of me.
As an iranian, this makes me so mad. We had an 8 year long with iraq, our government is famously bad and cruel to sunni minorities. They're not on good terms.
it doesn't surprise me that Shapiro is unaware of the Iran-Iraq war, in his mind the mid east is Israel and people waiting to be conquered by Israel...
And I'm Russian. I don't want to even imagine what is said about us in this book :)
From what I know, you guys are both Shia majority and you still hate each other.
Bro I’m Mexican and I’m just. very afraid to think about how we’re portrayed in this book
I thought Iraq was also Shiite majority, one of only 3 countries in the world.
Iraq and Iran are still enemies, yeah, but I thought both were Shiite.
"He could feel the threat before he felt it." Yeah Ben definitely didn't use an editor on this book.
Explains how the "cop murders 8 year old but is the good guy" plot got all the way through the publishment
I can't decide if there was no editing because Ben Shapiro is a petulant prick who'd raise hell if you touched any of his divinely inspired prose or if the publisher knew it was gonna sell and be reviewed based on name recognition anyway so why bother with editing.
Now imagine that spoken in a quick chipmunk voice.
"The liberal media wants you to think that editors make writing better. But if that's true, why don't the editors write their own book and wait for it to become the best-seller of all time?"
@@Tamlinearthly Editors are correctors, not writers. They supervise and advise.
Did he really tried to justify a murder of a 8 year old?
Ben, get help.
Well, this is the same guy who said Travyon Martin shouldn't have used his self-defense when he got murdered and called him a criminal so....
pro life, of course!
@@deanmoriarty6015 ...unless it's not Judeo- Christian and not inside the womb.
my question is also that even if that murder was somehow planned, that in no way makes the events changed morally speaking. a cop still shot an eight year old unprovoked. he wasnt told to and if it hadnt been planned under shapiros logic it probably would have happened anyway considering there was a cop walking around ready to murder kids
2 minutes to midnight to kill the baby in the womb
my creative writing professor told us that anyone can be a successful writer...it’s gonna be hard to tell him that he was absolutely wrong
Ben Shapiro is not just anyone. He's a special someone.🤣
Well, depends what he meant by "successful"
Shapiro is arguably a successful writer
He succeeded in publishing a book… somehow
Maybe he meant it in a Ratatouille “Anyone Can Cook” sorta way…
@@SharkyMcSnarkface Never let Ben cook again.
The "take a bullet for you babe" line sent shivers of pure cringe and embarrassment up and down my spine.
It would make Tom Clancy cringe.
Ben Shapiros book but replace all the ones liners to "ok now this is epic"
Nick Penner was about to like the comment but I don’t want to disturb the balance
Should this be 77 likes or 777 likes?
I’m surprised the little pimple didn’t name his black character Tyrone,to his extremely little credit.
Damnnnnn.....😏😏
He still named him a stereotypical "black" name
We know it crossed his mind
What’s wrong with Tyrone I have a friend named Tyrone
and it should have been Chad Hawthorne. Ben really dropped the ball
So weird how these fascist fanfics have the main cast unquestioningly develop terrorist cells in America.
Turner Diaries did it too-weird.
As someone who lives near Detroit and does a lot of volunteer work there, I find Ben's depiction of the city... annoying. Detroit has had a bad reputation ever since the riots of '67, but today its primary issue is underfunding. After those riots, everyone rich enough left. Those who left were nearly all white, of course. That left us with a poor, black population in a city that those outside of the city didn't really care to fund. Today, 80.95% of Detroit is black. It also has an amazingly unique culture, with great food, great music, and especially great museums. For those who are homeless, poor, or struggling in some of the not-so-nice-neighborhoods, the thriving charity organizations in the area (many of which are Christian, which Ben might like) are there to help where public funding doesn't. There are shelters for people to sleep in, soup kitchens to eat in (with very good food*), and youth centers where kids in the area could spend their free time in a safe environment. Generally, it's a beautiful city full of absolutely amazing people. Representations like Ben's not only shows it as crime-filled city full of crazy people, but also misrepresents the protests, many of which were peaceful aside from the demonstrations of the police. www.clickondetroit.com/news/michigan/2020/06/01/3-days-of-protests-in-michigan-heres-what-happened/
*I know this because I've worked at a few of them before. I remember one had a full drum set and some other musical instruments with which a very talented band would entertain their fellow guests.
Ben is not a Christian, he is a cultist
A lot of people tend to believe that the 1967 riots in Detroit was the catalyst for the decline of Detroit; but it was more of an accelerant than a catalyst. The real catalyst for the decline of Detroit can be traced to 1944 as that year the city's mayor Edward Jeffries lobbied Congress for Federal funding to build expressways leading out of Detroit to the suburbs.
Bens jewish I believe
So, as a white tourist from Europe, this is safe enough to visit? Theoretically?
Ben Shapiro: Facts don't care about your feelings.
Also Ben: Nuking a hurricane would be cool.
AAHHHAAHAHAHAH!!!!
THIS IS SO GOOD! You're amazing!
You could also say that Feelings don't care about facts some people lie to themselves Because the lie is less Painful than the truth
@@lilhuddo609 yeah of course, everything in this novel was made up by Ben Shapiro, so if anything it provides an interesting study into his phycology and how little he actually knows about the world
I mean... he's not wrong...
There are these things called "jokes."
I love how their criticize the NYT but use "NYT bestseller!" as a selling point. Hardly the worst sin, but a point I laughed at.
theUSpopulation
To be fair, you can disagree with the editorial of a newspaper and still think their stats on sales are meaningful.
@@draevonmay7704 but the NYT is fake news, haven't you heard?
if I'd had a book out and the Daily Stormer would feature me on their bestseller list (hehehe, okay, I made myself chuckle a little at that oxymoron) I sure as shit wouldn't put it up ion the cover. it's just another drop in the huge barrel that is Ben Shaprio's hypocrisy
@@draevonmay7704 I mean, At this point I've seen MANY books with the "nyt best seller" that are utterly crap reads, it's lost its meaning at this point.
Rum0r
Best Seller has never been about quality; it’s about popularity.
@@draevonmay7704 I'm gunna go out on a limb and say, if a book sells a certain amount of copies and shows up on a website when you sort by "popular" that's one of the only real criteria to say it's a "best seller"
I've seen books that have basically no fans to speak of with the "ny times best seller", I go to conventions and there's a booth with an author I've never heard of releasing a new book and it's somehow got "new York times best seller" on it as well, it's plastered on so many books as a lable of quality when all it really seems to be saying is that you got 100 downloads on the kindle store in a day because it was in the discount section.
Edit: did some research, that's almost exactly how it works, and can even just have hand picked books by a curator, Literally a few people choosing what to put on the list, or its just sell x amount of copies in a week and they can count whatever number they want as a "best seller"
A quote from an article explains it well:
"The most important bestseller list is The New York Times bestseller list, and they are the worst culprit at this curated elitism. They readily admit that their list is only reflective of books that are selling at a certain number of bookstores and online retailers around the country -- but not an actual bestseller list. You know why they have to admit this publicly? They were sued about it."
Getting a NY times best seller means literal jack shit, it's kind of funny seeing Ben put it on his book as a badge of honor.
Soledad's plotline has further convinced me that Ben Shapiro is secretly in love with AOC
Hey now, let's not accuse Shapiro of having good taste.
That said, it does seem from the lines given here like he was trying to make an AOC who could love him back.
Youre cute
Well, he has to fight Marjorie Hitler Crossfit for first dibs, then. She's so pathetically infatuated with her, AOC should get a restraining order against that creepy psycho.
Of course he is. Every night he dreams to get her feet pics.
Well, some people on the right-wing conspiracy side think that she's "a good one"... Err... A sleeper agent who has infiltrated the Democratic party and will eventually turn on them. This is mainly their way of dealing with their cognitive dissonance of AOC being both liberal and hot... 😂
Ben Shapiro making up names:
"Hmm, I need a name for a black child. Kendrick Lamar? Post Malone? Ummmm... Kendrick Malone??? Genius!
"Hmm, I need a name for a shady journalist. Hmmmmmmm, Jack Black? Jack Blat? Jack Blatch!?! Genius."
"I need a name for a black civil rights activist. Jim Crow? No, too obvious. Jim Craw, maybe? ...Wait, I know! I'll name him Jim Crawford. I am such a genius."
His “heroes” are literally cartoonish villains. A child murderer, a terrorist, and a corrupt politician? Really?
Well stereotypes but they exist in real life
@@bendover2684 what?
@@silviogrijalva8801 hello
Corrupt politicians are the norm in America
@igeto12 maybe more like the third... Trump and Hitler rank higher
As a fellow Black man, I'm just gonna state that-WHEN THE HELL DO WE SAY HONKY IN 2020s? What year was Shapiro born?
Judging by the quality of writing - 2003.
@@okhi7574 Arent we all fiction? Who am I? I am Fiction.
Pllayer064 Pllayer064 I’m ashamed that I share the same birth year as Ben “I’m not racist” Shapiro
@@okhi7574 its neofascist fiction akin to the turner diaries where again it is painfully exposed that fascists don't think of a better world, they just fantasize about a world where they get to use violence while justified and everyone else is a bad guy xD
@Mark Branham has arms! ARMS I TELLSYA!!!!
My undergraduate creative writing professor said we learn as much or more from "unsuccessful" fiction as we do from good writing. Ben woulda gave me a master class in the former.
"Suddenly, O'Sullivan's head filled with a sudden clarity."
Redundant redundancy is redundant.
Its almost like Ben is a terrible writer and a failed screenwriter
Had to be distinguished from a slow-acting clarity. Sudden realization vs the beginnings of fridge horror. /s
I realise how clunky and awkward his awkward, clunky writing is.
Redundantly so
Damn, Ben is so racist that he's even bigoted against the Irish. I mean, just look at those names.
Also, "Kendrick Malone" could not more obviously be a mashup of the only two rappers Ben knows about, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone. What makes that way funnier is that Post Malone is white
@Orion3227 I mean, the way he actually writes characters is EXTREMELY racist, but the names thing was a joke
@@whensomethingcriesagain killed off bret token black friend i knew that was coming
Orion3227 the funniest part is those aren’t the most cliche black names. Those are just two rappers’ names put together
Don't forget that the civil rights leader's name is just two syllables away from the term Jim Crow.
How is he bigoted and racist against the Irish? You've been horribly brainwashed by leftist radicalists who have told you Ben Shapiro is literal Satan, that all of his views are wrong and horrible, and that he's an idiot who should be killed. Or something like that. Idk.
Oh my God, his writing is so awful. "The gun was life." What???
"My gun throbbed with virility, I could feel pressure rising up as I fingered its trigger. Without warning, it exploded with a blast of white, hot lead."
“This is the will of Zardoz. The gun is good, the penis is evil.”
@@KRJayster The MINUTE I saw that line, I knew someone would make this joke! ;)
Conservatives: Gun is love, gun is life
*> I was 8 years old*
Hard cut from the meme about child fucking (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it) to this novel including child murder (but it’s okay because the kid was asking for it).
I think my favorite part of this book is how, after the cop shot the kid, he couldn't breathe not because he realized he shot a 8 year old with a toy gun, he couldn't breath because he knew black people would be mad as hell at him. My second favorite part is how the black people from the Detroit neighborhood are described like the heartless from KH. It's so fucked up it would be good satire if written by someone smart.
Was the "I can't breathe" line a thing before George Floyd's murder? because this book was written in 2016, I believe.
Yes, it was. A Black man named Eric Garner was arrested in 2014 for selling loose cigarettes. As the NYPD tried to take him into custody, one of them put an arm around Garner’s neck and bore him to the ground. Multiple officers joined in pinning down Garner. Garner said, “I can’t breathe” about eleven times before losing consciousness. Approximately an hour later, he was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
@@mst3kharris
Oh… i didn’t know that.
14:33 2021 version: "He was getting sick of listening to the Western-style sinful music blasting over the speakers. _What,_ he asked himself, _does it mean to 'bring a bucket and a mop for that wet-ass P-word'_ ? "
This may sound a bit offensive, but now I want a cover of WAP, where instead of Cardi B or Megan Thee Stallion, it's a old Middle Eastern man, reading the lyrics (not singing them) in an almost confused manner, and the music itself stays the same 🤣
The entire music video is the same - same set and custumes, same background dancers, same moves - it's just that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are replaced by that dude
@@michellegodwin6567 YES 🤣
My Version: " _What_ , he asks himself _does it mean to 'Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-poker face'?_ "
Ben Shapiro: Abortion is murder and should not be legal under any circumstances.
Also Ben Shapiro: *Glorifies and portrays a child killer as an innocent victim in his book*
I'm not going to argue with the second as I didn't read the book, but that's definitely not his stance on abortion.
@vctjkhme I watch Ben Shapiro. He doesn't say abortion should be illegal under all circumstances. Only legal when the mothers health is at risk.
@@gus1147 so a rapped victim should also carry a child without her own wants ?? That's fucking disgusting and stupid mind to think that way
@vctjkhme You're glad that pregnant person is going to leave her child motherless?
The point is that it was her choice to make. If you want a child, keep it. If you don’t want a child, no one should force that on you, personal freedom is more important than the appearance of life within a developing mass of stem cells
I knew that Shapiro was a pretentious elitist... But I had no idea that he was a full blown racist, and barely had a middle school understanding of geopolitics and sociology.
He also doesn’t really understand the basic concept of a nuke.
@@humanrealname1226 basic concept of nuke?
Juragan Traktor He thought nuking a hurricane was a cool idea
Juragan Traktor Also the nuke in this book didn’t really make sense as explained by José.
@@shlorbleflorbnad6927 wait. I once watch a movie when some climatologist suggesting to use thermonuclear bomb to stop a hurricane. I forget the name of the movie
The only thing missing was a former athlete turned activist named LeRonn Capperford. 😂
Retired NBA legend LeBron Bryant
Don't Give him ideas
If he names this character in the same way he named the black child, the character’s name would be LeBron Bird
Ben making his black characters say Honkey repeatedly feels like he just watched an episode of Black Dynamite and assumed that that was a normal way for a group of people to speak.
😂💯🎯
For a child prodigy who graduated from Harvard shapiro seems to make some mind numbingly stupid points like how healthcare is a luxury like furniture
That's because he's a bought out asshole just like his wife by big pharma
Him and George Bush are why I put zero stock in ivy league schools
(edit) forgot about Ted Cruz
Brenton Lewis if she was as stupid as you claim how did she beat an incumbent with no connections to Washington dc
Brenton Lewis She’s definitely smarter than you.
@Brenton Lewis wow. You are very brainwashed.
The best bit about the book is when Ben has his mastermind evil black drug dealing hustler character mention how he occasionally goes to universities to debate conservatives.
That’s like Grade A projection right there.
That’s hilarious
you can just SMELL the bitterness
Lol
I guess Ben didn't pass his creative writing class at Harvard...
Also Ben needs to stop watch blacksploitation movies. We don't speak in jive anymore. Jewish people have a pretty decent history of working together with black people on civil rights issues, so I have no clue how Ben came out so racist.
7:48 "Suddenly, O'Sullivan's head filld with a sudden clarity...". Saying something sudden happened suddenly is high quality writing. Only the best writers use identical adverbs and adjectives in the same sentence together. That way you can convey the same information twice in a single sentence. Redundancy is efficient!
So the “Facts don’t care about your feelings” guy FELT so good about a review comparing his writing to his favorite author that he ignored the FACT that the review was not only calling the book awful but also wasn’t even about the book he used it as praise for.
14:40 I was born in Iran and to this day, I still ask myself what does it mean to hit me baby, one more time. It's a real philosophical quandary over there.
German here. Been wondering that myself for a long time. Drugs? Sado-masochism?
To finally solve that mystery I googled "What does hit me baby ... ", and right then autocomplete kicked in. Apparently plenty of people have been wondering that too!
Here goes. It means ... "call me". :)
Or it's supposed to mean that:
www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop-shop/6753845/hit-me-baby-one-more-time-nsync-star-meaning-revealed
*puts on brainy glasses*
It's a double meaning. The first is it referencing a shortening of the phrase "hit me up", which is slang for "call me", with the "up" dropped for the sake of the song's candice.
The second is a reference to the other slang usage of the phrase "hit me", which means "show me" or "impress me".
So in the context of the song, the singer is inviting the subject of the lyrics to call them again so said subject can show them and impress them with how they intend to demonstrate a romantic relationship.
@@FlashNeko417 The first part is right. The second meaning isn't. I have never heard anyone say "hit me" to mean "impress me". Hit me can mean call me/ speak to me, and hit me (with) something can mean show me something, but "hit me" by itself means "fuck me", ie., have sexual intercourse with me. Especially in the 90s. Hit me up/ sex me is how I always interpreted those lyrics.
Guys I think Iranian terrorists would get it:
Terrorist 1: Mubideen Al Sharp Al-Shabum
Terrorist 2 : Frank
T1: " A Frank ! I got some primo Intel on that there U, S, of A... Over here"
T2: "Hit me with it."
T1: " heh , just like da song!?"
T2: " yeah Sharpie, you got the reference!"
Scene
Actually the song is about a girl who broke up with her boyfriend and now regrets it and wants him back. The line goes "Give me a sign, hit me baby one more time". Simply asking him to let her know he wants her back. The "hit me" just means that.
surely, if a nuclear bomb was detonated above your home, you could just sell it and move somewhere that isn't as radioactive? definitely a 'you' problem.
There's just one small problem. SELL THE HOUSES TO WHOM, BEN?! FUCKING AQUAMAN???!!!
@@noahvance6160I personally would’ve gone with “SELL TO WHOM BEN?!! THE FUCKING HULK?!” if we’re gonna play with the radiation theme
@@SiRenfield 🤣
It must have been so fucking difficult for him not to use the n-word
Ben Shapiro really has never spoken to a black person huh
Probably spoken *over* a lot of black people, though.
Revolutionary Communist screw Candace Owens, she's clearly not getting any as it is.
EVER
... Jesse Lee Peterson?
Jones I’d like to simultaneously thank you and apologize for making you read that woman’s Twitter.
How are everyone of her takes so bad?? Like some self respect please??
The fact Ben thinks being Ayn Ran is a good thing says more about how bad he is then us on the left ever could.
I would love so much to flush that antisocial personality disorder hag from the collective consciousness.
Kkpok
Using "Meet our new Ayn Rand" as a pull quote is the funniest thing Ben Shapiro has ever done. What an incredible self-own
@Madalin Grama Look around, Rapture is in ruin.
I took it more as he was really scraping the bottom of the barrel to have a good quote to put on his book cover. Either way, pretty sad.
I’m willing to bet money that Ben Shapiro included the line about what “hit me baby one more time” means, because he himself does not know
it reeks of the same confusion as his "WAP" tweets
Ben WROTE swear words? Never. I refuse to believe Ben would ever say anything other than “f-word”, “b-word”, and of course the classic “p-word”.
inb4 yeah but it wasn’t him, it was his characters /j
Dont forget D word!
"The gun was life" right before taking a CHILD'S LIFE? Is he trying to be funny?
Bad Noise bebop Blackout Network I have a lot of not so nice feelings about Shapiro now tbh
@@benkenobi_ You can say that again
This reminds me of Zardoz "the gun is good, the penis is evil"
Well in one article he wrote, he said "One US soldier is worth far more than an Afghan civilian."
He ironically supports the military when they cause "collateral damage" and the police during every police shooting, but at the same time bangs on about the 2nd amendment.
@@Indoor_Carrot Wow! What a guy
Okay, that section where the cop draws his gun reads EXACTLY like so much erotica. It was _uncanny_ how many flashbacks that gave me. You just know Ben was typing that one-handed.
Guns are often Phallic symbols in literature, even if it’s unintentional. It’s gross.
Silburific 17 yeah it was so disturbing how someone killing an 8 year old reads like a sex scene
Eugh, I hope not. I know Ben is a nut job, but getting off to killing black children is a bit much even by his standards.
Actually, a guy jacking it to killing black people sounds like something straight out of South Park.
“i’ll admit- the 13 year old boy in me gets excited!” -ben shapiro driving by a middle school
this motivated me. if ben shapiro can write a book, so can i
In Ben Shapiro's world, enviromentalists want the US to import more oil lol
Yeah and the environmentalists pay lobbyists...
neznakomets well, even good causes do pay lobbyists because that’s how politics in America works. However, it’s laughable that Ben thinks those environmental lobbyists are somehow more powerful than the billions of dollars in the oil industry, which spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on lobbying.
@@neznakomet5 nearly every conservative position is a result of lobbyists paying them, wtf is ur point here???
didn't you know the environmentalists TRUE agenda?! They just don't want the US to be energy independent!
By stopping drilling here, they give the US more pressure to import more oil from places such as Saudi Arabia, thus making the environmentalists 'useful idiots.'
Honestly that sounds more plausible than a lot of the other crap in this book. Unless it's implying the environmentalists are actively and knowingly colluding with the Saudi government, that would be unbelievable.
Like the way the police shooting was orchestrated to help left wing activists is so abhorrent. There's a much better example of a civil rights activist being duped into taking a case for someone who wasn't quite so innocent in the book Black Klansman. Ben should have done something like that if he wanted it to sound believable.
"Suddenly, his head filled with a sudden clarity."
What a lib-destroying genius.
Who needs to study a thesaurus when youve spent years studying THE BLADE?
Yeah, I don't think it counts as "owning" anyone if you infuriate them with your terrible prose.
mustve been post nut
I actually winced at that part.
The suddenness with which the clarity had suddenly suddened into his mind left with the same suddenness suddenly
Ben: abortion is murder !
Also ben: poor guy... all he did was murdering an 8 year old girl
I was literally thinking that Ben Shapiro likely said that about abortion while killing a child in his book and passing it off as okay. That guy has layers upon layers of stupidity 😂
@@Xander_P.G.Kit’s fine as long as they’re a minority
Hearing the phrase “Persian or Arab” to describe one person and the sudden switch from Iraq to Iran for the same terror group reminds me so much of my brother in law threatening to fight my stepdad the first time they met bc my SD kept referring to him as an Arab and was like “yeah I know a lot about Iraq I did one tour there” even after being told that my brother’s husband was Persian (a completely different racial group from Arabs) and from Tehran, Iran (a completely different country). Not only that but he pointed out that the two countries had been in a war that his father fought in as a child soldier, and there’d been hatred between Iran and Iraq since he was a kid. He basically explained it to everyone who wasn’t being an asshole that calling a Persian an arab or vice versa is like saying you don’t know the difference between conquistadors and Aztecs.
"meet our new Ayn Rand"
It says a lot that Shapiro thinks that's a compliment
Personally, I would take that as an insult, but to each their own, I guess
Especially when the rest of the quote is clearly trashing his work.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx and not even the work that the quote was actually directed at
@@MrRyan-wu4jx that sums up Shapiro’s whole misrepresentation schtick - even more when you realise that he’d blame the publishing house for it.
@@MrRyan-wu4jx a lot of people are pretty good at cutting their quotes short
This book sounds like every angry 70 year-old's daily mail letter. "The world's going to hell because i can't say the n-word and cops can't kill kids! Political correctness gone MAD I tell you!!! It's all that blasted Britney Spears' fault!!!"
Bonus point if the angry 70 year old has dementia
LeAvE bRiTnEy ALoNe!!!!111 LeAvE hEr ALoNe!!1111 sHeS a PeRsOn!!!111 LeAvE bRiTnEy ALoNe RiGhT nOw!!!!111
@@edienandy true
@@fartmaster69420 very true
@@edienandy Oh no, Andy got into the joint account again. Edie, can you make sure he takes his meds and doesn’t watch anything too exciting? Put on some Ken Burns or something.
This piece of fan fiction makes My Immortal look like Hamlet
I have literally read erotic fanfics with better writing. God damn, I can't believe there's people who think Shapiro is smart.
He may be smart - just not in literature.
What's better - that one erotica about the Coronavirus or this book?
@@infiniteworld3981definitely the COVID erotica. That author at least knew that her story was ridiculous
I’m not racist I just made all the villains in my novel people of color
Invictus Deus did you not watch the video or are you just taking the comment out of context on purpose? Or are you an idiot? Pick one.
@@a.l.michael6240 lol. this test may be to difficult for him/her.
@Invictus Deus Oh it's your dumbass. Pretending to be a minority are we?
- H.P. Lovecraft
@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 What? How did you get that out of what he said?
Some people are good at politics, but not necessarily at writing. Others are amazing writers, but wouldn't fare well as politicians.
Ben isn't that good with either
Juan Gutierrez lol
I'd beg to differ.
- Blackemperor-
Beg.
@@thebrutusmars Yes daddy.
@@Divinemakyr must be drafty down there, riding Ben's "little friend" like that.
It’s always a sign of good literature when it uses rich, overblown descriptive sentences to literally cover everything that’s happening, could happen, or could be thought to happen. “He pounded the keys on his keyboard as they throbbed with white-fire liberty. His mind suddenly [always good when that word’s used] exploded with the terrifying potential of his keyboard, of what he could literally say to thousands, shooting words like bullets against feelings as they dueled facts, knowing the feelings would lose. They always lose. Because, they’re losers. The carefully crafted keys silently flew like the guns of freedom. Shooting liberty.” I think I’ll end there.
I am shaking right now.
Is that his actual writing? Holy shit. I think my tongue went numb reading that out loud.
The second the concept of nuking New York came up in the video. I said in my head 'He is absolutely gonna nuke New York. It's a bastion of everything he hates. He would never pass up the chance to fictionally nuke it.'
Anyway, this sounds like a Turner Diaries primer. Neato.
So basically, this book is an imaginary world that American conservatives think we live in?
Ben Shapiro luvs BBC accurate and all the more horrifying for it
I really wish that the US would just split in half. The conservatives can have their 3rd world shit hole, and the NORMAL, REASONABLE folks can have a modern society that accepts the tortured, huddled masses of refugees the conservative (we'll call it the Confederacy) America would inevitably create.
Absolutely.
@@Rejoice. 1. Divisions are bad
2. Muslim refugees may be problematic
Ben Shapiro luvs BBC
Your username is incredible.
Nobody in Detroit has said the word "honky" in at least 30 years, maybe 40
Ben Shapiro hasn’t been around more than 3 black people at any given point in his life
why did he make that police officer kill an EIGHT YEAR OLD???????? if he wanted to portray police who kill Black people as innocent wouldn’t he portray his victim as someone who was actually threatening the cop’s life? is ben shapiro really saying that Black eight year olds who put their hands in their pockets are a legitimate threat??? god I can’t believe how disgusting and racist that is, especially considering that this character is obviously based off of Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin. the lives and legacy of these real, actual children who died so tragically because of racism do not deserve to be turned into a strawman plot device for shapiro’s stupid fucking book. he’s a disgusting grifter and I want to punch him in the face.
Yeah makes absolutely no sense just like the rest of his rhetoric
"The youngest general in U.S. history at 41."
*Laughs in George Armstrong Custer*
Also apparently Galusha Pennypacker
Custer is a Brevet General
Custer certainly never lived to be an old General due to his own hasty approach. I would think that Ben is about as knowledgeable about American history as the failed former president is knowledgeable about running a genuine legitimate business.
Absolutely no black child talks like a black man from a Quintan Tarentine movie
"Quintan Tarantine"
@@domscards whoops
@@domscards Quenintino Turpentine
@@LimeyLassen
Quiltino Tabernacko
Quentin and Tarantined by Written Directino
I actually had to stop watching and go for a walk when the revelation that the black 8 year old who was killed by the cop was a plant was revealed. Good lord
It hits right? It feels like something that should be a joke, like it's in some parody where the kid asks if he can come out during his funeral? The fact Ben wrote it entirely un ironically and went "ha that's what they'd have to do to beat my perfect debates"
This book feels like a boomer's version of young adult novels
As somebody who studied International Relations, hearing about a coalition involving not only China and Russia, but also Europe (with some of the US's closest allies), Canada (come on, how much closer to the US can you get?) and frigging Japan (because Japan and China always get along, right) makes my brain melt. It's beyond me how someone can call themself an intellectual and then produce such a monstrosity, that's like an elementary school level of understanding how the world works...
I can sort of see Russia and China but the rest require a lot of mental gymnastics. But ultimately this is about the conservative american mindset. Everyone who is not the proper american is an enemy. The europeans? Socialists. Canucks. North American socialists. Japan. Asians. No one is on your side because they don't fully agree with you.
Lol, i can't even imagine modern Japan taking part in a world war - where did he even get it from?
“What, he asked himself, does it mean to ‘Hit me baby, one more time’?”
~ Ben Shapiro
Strawman: the Novel
So much this 😂😂😂
CommandoDude I thought we were talking about straw men
Heyoooo
This is just The Turner Diaries with extra steps.
>Protagonist’s most noteworthy friend is named Derrick.
>This friend is black.
>Taught him “everything he knew”.
>Disappears for most of the book.
>Mostly liked doomed a few innocent people without care.
>Gets murdered.
What the Hell did Ben Shapiro mean by this?