All righty. So, it's time to jump into the vaunted Ben Shapiro show mailbag. In order for you to have your question to answer, by the way, you do have to be a member. So this is just another reason to become a daily wire plus member today. You get 30% off on our president's day sale. So now's an excellent time to go and do that. Okay, Nathan asks, hey Ben, you like in Fanny Willis's ambition to convict Trump to making a wish with the monkey's paw. For those who missed it, the monkey's paw is a short story by an English author named W.W. Jacobs, very, very famous short story in which people find essentially an amulet. When you wish on it, you get your wish, but in the worst possible way. And that is what I say politics is. People wish for a thing, and then they get it, and then they get the results of that thing. So if you're Hillary Clinton and you wish to be a presidential candidate against Donald Trump, you get it and then he beats you. If you're Barack Obama and you wish to be the president

of the United States, a transformative figure who will be who will transition America into the

future, the future is Donald Trump. If you are Donald Trump and you wish to be

beloved and universally adored and you want nothing but attention, you will get that attention,

but it may not result in you retaining the presidency in 2020. In other words, politics has a way

of carmically ensuring that people kind of get what they deserve after a certain period of time.

So Nathan is asking about Fannie Willis, quote, while things may not be going ideally for her, I'm not convinced to result in terrible consequences. I engaged in a discussion with fellow DWC viewers. The consensus seems to be she will emerge unharmed or perhaps even secure a lucrative role should the Democrats triumph in November. Is Fannie immune to the terrible consequences of the metaphorical monkey's paw. So she might survive and she might get a lucrative role at the DNC. She will

never be governor of Georgia. She will never be a senator from Georgia. She has thoroughly

corrupted the view of herself. She's going to end up like Stacey Abrams out in the

wilderness somewhere. People will pretend that they like her, but they actually understand

that she's terrible at her job, that she has humiliated herself. And here's the thing. When people actually are rewarded for their bad behavior, they keep doing it. And then sooner or later that bad behavior brings them down. So perhaps that is the unspoken part of the monkey's paw of American politics, is that very often people are actually rewarded for their bad behavior.

They continue and up the ante and then eventually the monkeys' paw gets them.

Aeton says, hey, Ben, I've been hearing many conspiracy theories that Joe Biden won't be the nominee and that they will use his health to force him to step down and have either Newsom or Michelle Obama as the candidate.

The idea is that the swap would be so close to the election, there would be no debates of Trump. Thoughts and thoughts on Michelle Obama. So, no, they can't just swap out a candidate that way. There, in fact, is no actual procedure for swapping out a candidate post the nomination. So probably the ballot would remain the same. It's already been printed everywhere and Kamala Harris would just be the person at the top of the ballot.

So Newsomer, Michelle couldn't just be swapped in in, say, September. As far as the debates, there will be no debates. Biden is not going to debate Trump. He's just going to turn him down. He's going to say, why should I debate him? He didn't debate to Sanchez. plus he January 6th and he's a traitor and Putin plant and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

As far as Michelle Obama, contemporaneous reports... He's January 6th and he's a traitor and Putin plant and all the rest of this kind of stuff.

As far as Michelle Obama, contemporaneous reports suggest, Michelle Obama has no interest in being a presidential candidate because she'll get torn apart, which is true.

She's also very likely to be elected, but she would certainly be savaged.

Is she up for that?

She has a really, really nice life.

Mark says, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine and now the Israel conflict, I'm quickly learning more about the past of these two regions and conflicts. I'd like to learn more about, learn more on a global geopolitical scale. Is there a recommended book that covers geopolitics of regions throughout history? I've read guns, germs, and steel. I'm currently reading another one of your recommendations. Paul Johnson's A History of the American People.

Would like a more global view of geopolitics.

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