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I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro show.

Man, a lot of various and sundry topics to get to today. If that teaser didn't get you,

wait until you hear the bizarre news that I've got for the rest of the show. Before we get to any of that, let me remind you that we now have $1.2 trillion added to our national debt as of fiscal year 2018. Economists say that by the end of next year, we will be spending more on the interest of our national debt than we spend on Medicare by 2023, more than we spend on the military. As balloon payments become due, you need to ask yourself what the impact on the U.S. dollar is going to be.

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which has now announced its person of the year. And predictably enough, in a time when the media

really loves them some media, the persons of

the year are all journalists, because there's nothing that really attracts Americans to journalists

as much as journalists patting themselves on the back. The journalists have actually run out of

enough hands to pat themselves on the back. So who exactly is being honored? They call them

the guardians and the war on truth. Obviously, President

Trump being the war on truth and these people being the guardians of the truth. Because if there's

one group of people, you can trust to tell you the truth without partisan rancor or fear. It's

those journalists, all those journalists who agree on everything. Those are the people

who we should certainly trust with all of your fact-based needs.

So there are a bunch of different folks who are photographed for the cover of Time magazine.

Jamal Khashagi was made the person of the year on the cover of Time magazine.

Now, Jamal Khashagi, you'll recall, was the Saudi citizen who was here on a visa, and then he went to Turkey and went to

the Saudi consulate for a marriage document and was promptly murdered by the members of the

Saudi consulate and then chopped up and sent in a bag back to Saudi Arabia. This all went wrong.

It was very bad for the Trump administration, which of course has been very close with the Saudi Arabian government, particularly the new leader of Saudi Arabia,

Muhammad bin Salman. That's the reason the Time magazine selected, Jamal Khashagi, who in reality

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