Andrew Clavin dissects Georgia’s 6th District upset, where Karen Handel crushed John Osoff despite $25M Democratic spending and Hollywood endorsements like Jane Fonda, framing it as voter rejection of Trump opposition and media hysteria over Russia collusion. He mocks left-wing "science"—from Tata Hazumi’s Why White People Can’t Dance to climate fearmongering—while defending comic books’ artistic value but criticizing their cinematic dominance for distorting cultural narratives. Clavin argues biological sex is immutable, dismisses Confederate monument removals as Soviet-style revisionism, and warns transgender ideology risks blurring human identity amid tech-driven "post-human" futures, urging honesty in belief while rejecting moral relativism. [Automatically generated summary]
Leftists frequently accuse us right-wingers of not believing in science.
You rotten conservatives with your silly, fantastical God, they say.
You don't understand that a simple series of natural laws that came out of nowhere not only caused a universe without cause, but created a mind that could understand that universe even though its randomness renders it incomprehensible.
Because this is only one of an infinite number of imaginary universes we made up to explain all this away.
You backward conservative troglodytes, they say, you think a formless blob of cells in a woman's womb is a separate person when it hasn't even come through the magic vagina yet, where special humanity dust is sprinkled on it and it suddenly develops the right not to be torn to pieces.
You Trump-loving jackasses, they continue.
You don't even accept the absolute fact that our computer models can predict the future of a climate far too complex for your right-wing computers.
And so we know with absolute certainty that the whole world is going to die seven years ago if you don't give us all the money and power.
Well, thanks for your input, left-wingers.
And just to show how open-minded we are, let's take a look at some more left-wing science.
Here, for instance, is a wonderful blog called The Selfish Activist, where body-centered therapist Tata Hazumi tries to teach what he calls white-bodied people how to be allies to other-bodied people.
And if body-centered therapy is not an example of left-wing science, I don't know what is.
Right now on Hazumi's blog, there's a post entitled, Why White People Can't Dance.
The scientific Hazumi says, Quote, and yep, these quotes are real: colonization and westernization have profoundly impacted the way we move our bodies.
Just think about even this little fact.
Most non-European people didn't wear pants before colonization.
They wore robes and skirts, no matter the gender.
We also generally didn't sit on chairs.
We squatted or sat on the ground.
Many of our cultures didn't glorify tight, muscular abs.
We didn't march like rigid European soldiers did.
We walked using a slight skating motion from side to side and a subtle ripple up the spine.
Unquote.
Now I know you'd think Hazumi would be grateful that white people came along and taught these flabby, chairless, rippling, skirt-wearing savages some sense.
But no, he goes on to say, quote, I understand now that whiteness is an energetic imbalance caused by a loss of spinal fluidity and awareness of the lower body.
Emotional energy becomes concentrated in the upper body, particularly gathering in the mind.
The white body is in freeze.
It is ungrounded and cannot feel the earth.
We see this pained energy of whiteness play out in our society through violence towards sexuality, emotional vulnerability, and ecology, amongst other things.
Unquote.
So you see, left-wingers, the truth is, writing like this makes me love your left-wing science.
The new Norm McDonald comedy special is also pretty funny.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Show.
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Russia Story Debunked00:15:47
So some of you may have noticed there was a minor election, a special election in Georgia.
Here is how CNN was reporting the Georgia 6th District vote just a few days ago, about June 10th.
Democrat John Osoff has a seven percentage point edge over Republican Karen Handel among likely voters in a closely watched special election for a Georgia House seat.
A new poll released Friday shows.
Ossoff leads Handel 51% to 44% among likely voters in an Atlanta Journal Constitution poll.
This is one of two polls that had him 7% ahead.
The poll shows Osov is picking off 13% of Republicans and 50% of Independents in a district that's historically has been reliably read.
Newt Gingrich and more recently new Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price represented it, but Handel, the Republican candidate, is drawing virtually no Democratic support.
Here, that is what they said the results were going to be.
Here are the real results.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with health care and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
Yay!
You say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
We're going to win more.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
This is special.
These were special elections to replace guys who had gone into the Trump administration in Georgia.
Tom Price obviously became the Health and Human Secretary, Human Services guy, and so they had to replace him.
And they just poured all this money.
All the Democrats, Hollywood, California was throwing money at this thing.
It was the most expensive, turned out to be the most expensive race for Congress by like 100%.
It was like twice as expensive as the last one.
They were just trying to show that they were trying to show that people hated Trump so much and their hatred of Trump that they've been touting through their media.
The Democrats have been touting through their mainstream media who just had just destroyed Trump's support.
And this was a place where Trump narrowly won.
See, that was the big thing.
Even though Republican congressmen have won this place by 20%, Newt Kingrich, you know, and Tom Price won it by double digits.
Trump only won by 1.5%, under 2%.
And so they thought, well, this is our chance.
This is our chance.
They went in.
Here is CNN reporting the results.
All right.
I don't want to drink, you know, Democrat tears, but they just taste so good.
I can't help it.
I can't help it.
Oh, Lord.
You know, I mean, this is the thing.
I mean, it just goes, it's the same thing over and over and over again.
There have now been, I think, four of these special elections.
They have lost every one of them.
Everyone before it took place was going to be a referendum on Donald Trump.
And then afterwards, well, it didn't mean anything.
It doesn't show anything.
You know, this is not, you know, we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves and think this is predictive of 2018.
2018 is too far away for anything to be predictive of it, one way or the other.
This is not something, this is the midterm elections.
We don't know what those are going to be like.
But was this a referendum on Donald Trump?
You know, before we talk about it and before we listen to the experts and before we listen to, you know, the pundits and all the people talking about what it means, let's listen to the voters, okay?
Because here is Karen Handel during her victory speech thanking Trump, who showed up and gave her support on Twitter as well.
And a special thanks to the president of the United States of America, the great vice president, Mike Pence.
If she hadn't interrupted them to go on to Mike Pence, they'd have been chanting till today.
You know, they'd have chanted all night Trump, Trump, Trump.
And all the reporters on the ground said when they talked to the voters, the voters said, hell yes, this is about Donald Trump.
You can't come into our district and start pouring all this money in from outside Hollywood.
Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Fonda, this is from Variety.
Jane Fonda, Jessica Lang, Sean Daniel, Connie Britton, Sam Watterson, and Kyra Sedgwick are among those who have donated to Democrat John Osoff's campaign.
And I'm sure each and every one of them knows the issues in Georgia really, really well.
No, they don't.
They don't know the issues in America.
They just know the way they look in the mirror and how wonderful they are for supporting their left-wing causes.
Alyssa Milano actually traveled there.
She's the lady from, who is it?
Who's the boss?
I think she was in.
She actually traveled there and visited voters and all this stuff.
So Hollywood was all in.
The media was all in.
The reactions, before we talk about what we think it means, the reactions from the left, some of them were utterly amazing.
My favorite is from feminist Jill Filipovic, I guess her name is pronounced.
She has written a book.
I can't remember the title of it, but she has written a book which apparently claims that the female orgasm is a right, that women have a right to an orgasm which should be guaranteed by the government.
I heard that, and I have to admit that I thought to myself, well, back in the day, I'd have guaranteed you an orgasm for free.
But that's such an awful, disgusting, low thing to say that I would never say that out loud.
Jill Filipovic tweets, at what point is this not a failure of Democrats, but toxic, vindictive voters willing to elect hateful bigots?
It's the voters' fault they lost.
It's the voters.
It's the deplorables.
It's the deplorables' fault.
I know it's more convenient to blame the party for just not convincing people, but what kind of people vote for candidates like Handel and Trump?
This is the way they think.
They hate you so much that they think it's your fault their candidates lose.
Oh, I'm telling you, they make it so much fun.
They make it so much fun to beat them.
It's wonderful.
But I think really, really, the guys who have to take a look at themselves are the media, the news media.
I mean, this Russia, if you had to look back over the first months of the Trump presidency, I don't have the figures in front of me, but it just seems, as a guy who follows the news, what was the story covered most?
If you've just had a percentage of what story, what story, what story covered most, it's the Trump collusion with Russia.
It's got to be.
It has got to be.
They have piped this by.
And by the way, I won't make a prediction, but it wouldn't surprise me if in the next day or two or even today, there's some kind of leak from new leak from the intelligence community, some new blockbuster thing, some new tremendous revelation about Trump and Russia that's going to come out that'll peter away, but it'll take this off the front pages because that's the whole point of this stuff is to take, you know, only have negative news about Trump.
But this is a rebuke to the media.
It is a rebuke to a media that has told this false nonsense story.
I mean, this is a story, you know, you keep hearing them, you know, like, how do we know that Trump didn't collude with Russia?
You know, for all I know, Trump shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
But there's no evidence.
There is no evidence.
There never was any evidence.
It was always a fantasy, and they keep playing this fantasy.
And this is Georgia saying, kiss our grits.
We are not buying into that fantasy.
It really is a failure of Hollywood, a failure of the Democrats, and a failure of the mainstream media.
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So let's think about this Russia story and the Democrats and the and the media.
Okay, where does it put them?
Let's just take a look at Ted Cruz.
I mean, here's Ted Cruz, a guy who is, if he's not a conservative hero, if he is not a stalwart, real conservative, true conservative, I don't know who is.
So let's hear him talk about the Russia story.
This is cut five, and we know that he's not the only one saying this.
Everybody is saying this, including, pardon me, Democrat representatives.
Everybody is talking about this.
Listen, this is all a political circus at this point.
Democrats and sadly much of the liberal media are using this as an excuse just to attack the president.
They want this president to fail.
They want the administration to fail.
And I think that's really unfortunate.
I got to tell you, there's an amazing divide.
When you're in Washington, D.C., the only question any reporter ever wants to ask you about is about Russia, is about enrichment, is about attacking the president.
When I go home to Texas, I travel the state.
I answer questions from people across the state.
Nobody asks about that.
They ask about Obamacare.
Are you going to repeal this disastrous law so my premiums go down so I can afford health care?
They ask about tax reform.
I'd like taxes to be simpler.
Ideally, what I'd like to see is a simple flat tax, and we abolish the IRS.
People outside of Washington are interested in real policies that are going to produce jobs, raise wages.
They're not interested in the nonsense in the attack game and the personal destruction that consumes Washington.
See, when I said Ted Cruz, the Democrats are saying this too, I didn't mean that they're saying that the Russian story is false.
But what they are saying is they go home and talk to their constituents, and their constituents don't care.
Nobody cares because they get it.
You know, we get it.
We see through it.
You just cannot create a world of illusion and have everybody buy into it.
It just doesn't work.
Even David Brooks, the fake conservative from Knucklehead Row on the New York Times, a former newspaper, he writes op-eds and they always touted him as a conservative.
He was never a conservative.
He's conservative in the sense that he believes in dressing well and speaking politely.
I mean, that's what makes David Brooks a conservative.
But he hates Donald Trump, and he was on with Chuck Todd on Meet the Press, and he just started to say, and he wrote a column about it too.
He started to say, you know what?
This story is no story.
I'm actually getting more uncomfortable with this whole deal, thinking that maybe we're getting a little ahead of ourselves.
And I'm bothered by the lack of emerging evidence about underlying the underlying crime, that there was actually collusion or coordination between the Trump White House.
And so what's happened is we've surrounded the president with this legal minefield, and Donald Trump, being Donald Trump, steps all over the legal minefield and blows him up six ways from Sunday.
But it's become an investigation about itself.
And, you know, I've lived through white water, I lived through a lot of these, and there's a lot of shady behavior that don't rise to the Watergate level.
And I'm just afraid we're being swallowed up by the politics of scandal when there's less and less evidence that they actually colluded.
And maybe that'll come out, but so far it hasn't, and it bothers me.
You know, remember Trump tweeted out, and I talked about this even before Trump tweeted it out, that there was no collusion.
They started this investigation, and now they're accusing me of obstructing the investigation into something I didn't do in the first place.
So people see through that stuff, you know?
I mean, look, even when, remember Clinton cheating on his wife in the Oval Office, lied about it under oath.
They impeached him, and the people just swept the Republicans out of office because they said, you know, we get it.
He cheated on his wife.
He lied about it.
People lie when they cheated on their wife.
We get it.
We get it.
You know, what makes people think they're not going to do the same thing?
They're relying on Republicans to have some kind of higher moral standing, but they're wrong.
And it's not that we don't.
Republicans actually do have slightly better values about this stuff, but the story doesn't exist.
You can't accuse a guy of obstructing justice when he gets in the way of an investigation into something he didn't do.
He never did it.
It didn't exist.
It's just absolutely amazing.
But listen, Chuck Todd, then after he talks to David Brooks, he has Mark Warner on, the Virginia Democrat.
And listen to Warner's response to Brooks.
What do you say to David Brooks and others that are starting to question whether there's any there there?
What I would say is, let's take this in order.
First of all, we absolutely know that the Russians tried to intervene in our election system.
They hacked into the DNC.
They also used weaponized information.
Everyone from all the intelligence community, virtually every senator, Democrat and Republican, agree with this, with that fact.
The only person who, frankly, seems to still reject that notion is the president himself, who calls this fake news or witch hunt.
He's just factually wrong.
The second piece is we are still at the relatively early stages.
I'm not going to give a percentage, as we start to deal with those affiliates of the Trump campaign who at least have been rumored or talked about having contacts with the Russians.
So poor Mark Warner is a rat caught in a maze and he's caught in a hall of mirrors that was created by the media.
He can't get out.
He cannot get out.
These guys cannot just go to the media and say, dump the story.
We don't care anymore.
You know, Donald Trump was trolling them after this Georgia race.
He tweeted out, Democrats would do much better as a party if they got together with Republicans on health care, tax cuts, security.
Obstruction doesn't work, right?
You know, he's basically saying to them, this strategy is failing you, and it is failing them.
There's no question in my mind that this election is just showing the failure of that.
It doesn't mean that Trump doesn't have to do a good job.
It doesn't mean that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell don't have to get their cats in a row and get some health care stuff out there, get some tax reform out there.
All that stuff has to happen.
But just meanwhile, the strategy of the Democrats of going after them.
And by the way, this speaks to us too.
This speaks to all of the people like my friend John Nolte who gets so angry at CNN as if they had some immense power.
It's irritating.
It is incredibly irritating to be lied about on ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times every day.
It is incredibly irritating.
But you come under the illusion, the illusion, that everybody is fooled, that this hall of mirrors that they've got guys like Mark Warner caught in, guys like Adam Schiffer caught in, they can't get out of this hall of mirrors that the press has created, it gives you the impression that the rest of us are caught in it, that the voters are caught in it.
Irritating Media Narratives00:13:28
It ain't so.
It obviously isn't so.
They don't see it.
You know, Camille Paglia, she's a liberal, feminist, lesbian, kind of a very brilliant sort of literary theorist, a little bit, for me, off the charts in terms of some of the stuff she says, very Freudian.
Anyway, but she has been attacking her own party.
She says she's going to vote Democratic.
She's going to continue to vote Democratic.
But she went off, Hannity had her on, and she went off on the press.
This is the second cut, cut to Hannity asks her about this whole story.
What do you make of all of the violent rhetoric?
I mean, for example, I...
It's obscene.
It's outrageous, okay?
It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood, okay?
There's no journalism left.
What's happened to the New York Times?
What's happened to the major networks?
It's an outrage.
I am a professor of media studies in addition to Professor of Humanities.
And I think it's absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism right now.
It's going to take decades to recover from this atrocity that's going on, where the news media have turned themselves over into the most childish, fraternity kind of buffoonish behavior.
You know, you know, it's interesting.
She's such an intelligent woman.
It's funny that it has never occurred to her that this is all of a piece, that she keeps voting for these people and the failure of the news media, the failure of feminism, the anti-male hatred that she constantly is talking about.
They're just all of a piece with left-wing philosophy that maybe she should change sides.
That idea has not occurred to her because I am sure, like most Democrats, like most leftists, it's not so much that she believes leftism is right.
She just believes rightism is evil.
And once you, that's the, as somebody who crossed over, that's the hurdle you have to jump before you can get the point that this is the left.
These people that she hates are the left.
But that's her reaction to the press.
That is a left-winger's reaction to the press, a left-winger's reaction.
So what do you think our voters are thinking?
What do you think moderate voters are thinking?
How do you think they feel about being lied about?
Yeah, we have to fight back.
We have to get the truth out.
We have to wrong foot the media wherever we can.
But we don't have to get so swept up in their fantasy that we think everybody's buying it because clearly they're not.
Clearly, they're not buying it.
And that brings me back.
I want to come back and end before we get to the mailbag.
I want to end back with Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz is on the Fox Morning Show, and they asked him about how Trump is doing.
And listen to what Cruz says.
This is cut three.
I think on policy and substance, the new president and the new administration have done very well.
I think if you look at the cabinet that's been appointed, this is probably the most conservative cabinet we've seen in decades.
If you look at the executive actions, they've been quite strong, whether freezing the hiring of new civilian, non-military employees, whether putting in place a moratorium on regulations, whether stopping taxpayer funding for overseas abortion, or whether pulling out of the disastrous job-killing Paris climate agreement.
All of those were strong decisions with a mandate from the people.
And the single biggest and most important thing the president has done is appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
And the best thing Senate Republicans have done is confirming Justice Gorsuch.
See, this is Cruz the dude.
This gives me a lot of respect for Cruz because Trump treated him badly, unforgivably, during the election.
He said terrible things about his wife.
He called him names.
He did all the stuff that turned a lot of us off Trump during the campaign.
Cruz did what a guy has to do, a man has to do for his country.
He had the SADS, he had the Angries, he left it behind.
He went through that.
He fought back.
He lost the election.
And now he is trying to be as supportive as he can.
He is working on the health care bill, trying to bring senators from all different sides together so he can get some consensus before bringing the bill out.
The Democrats I love are screaming about the health care bill.
We haven't been able to read it, and it's bad for the American people.
I think, well, only one of those can be true, right?
You know, if you haven't been able to read it, how do you know it's not great for the American people?
Why not just give it the benefit of the doubt?
But anyway, Cruz is saying something about Trump that I think is true.
Trump has flaws as a man.
I've said it before.
He's a loudmouth.
I wish he would stock up the government and make sure that the government has enough people in it to run the way he wants it to run.
But let us take for a moment, I know this is sinful and basically lightning hits you when you do this, but let's take for a moment the best view of this without becoming Trump mad, everything that he does is right.
That's not the question.
The guy is a neophyte.
He's a neophyte who is in an office in now the highest office in the land.
I've said this repeatedly.
He's a man who does learn stuff and he has become a better person in office.
He is not the man he was.
He does not do the stuff he did on the campaign trail.
He has gotten more sensible.
He has gotten more controlled.
He's gotten more disciplined.
Not disciplined enough?
Okay, I buy it.
Not disciplined enough, but still more disciplined.
Let him learn.
Let him climb.
Let him get better.
If the press would, you know, some people say, well, all his wounds are self-inflicted.
But that's like, you know, the savages come in and the invaders come in and they burn your building and they steal your women and they kill your men and it's a self-inflicted wound because you didn't fight them off.
I mean, the guy has made plenty of mistakes and I've scored him for it, but, you know, he is under constant assault by this massive media machine that the left has created.
And under those conditions, he has managed to do all those things that Cruz talked about.
And hopefully, they'll start to pass some legislation.
Hopefully, you know, Paul Ryan is saying they will get tax reform done.
They're talking about the health care thing.
Let's see if they get it done.
You know, I just think if we give him some time and give him the benefit of the doubt, we'll have time to judge him.
There'll be time to judge Trump for good or bad.
You don't have to lose all your values.
You don't have to get hysterical.
You don't have to start shutting down William Shakespeare and starting to act like the left, which has lost everything.
You don't have to, you know, take over the strategy of the losers, you know, which is just a panic move all the way.
You know, give him time because this is a really, really interesting situation, and he may rise up and be a much, much better man than he looked like during the campaign.
Give him a chance.
The mailbag.
Woohoo!
Kaffevi!
Kafi!
I love that.
Every time Lindsay comes to town, we should re-record this.
From Matthew, who the hell do you think, sorry, who the hell do you think you are to say if someone is moral or not based off of untested, superstitious, biblical stories that hold no scientific validity?
I just read that in the tone it sounded like I was in.
You know, this is a really interesting question.
The reason I took this question is actually an interesting question.
First of all, I love the fact, I'm going to assume this guy is to the left.
I love the fact that the Bible on which our entire society is based, on which our entire moral system is based, a moral system that has led us to greater and greater freedoms, that has led us to more and more inclusivity, that has led us to the Constitution that created, that showed the way through the dark ages after the fall of Rome to greater and greater civilization, to the greatest art that's ever been made.
The Bible is untested, but a computer model showing that the world is going to be destroyed in seven years if we keep driving our cars, that's science.
The Bible is untested, but computer models are science.
I love that assumption.
That's terrific.
But the other thing is, when have you ever heard me denounce somebody in biblical terms?
I mean, maybe I have.
I would.
I certainly would do.
But I want to know what this guy feels so guilty about.
What do you, Matthew, Matthew, what's bothering you, Baal, pal?
I mean, what is it you think you heard me said that made you feel so bad?
You know, maybe you should examine yourself and check why you are attacking an innocent, lovable guy like myself and the Bible, which would lead you to greater truth than you've ever seen before.
From Jeff, dear Mr. Clavin, that's a little different than who the hell do you think you are.
Dear Mr. Clavin, I absolutely love your show, but I'm surprised by your disdain for all things related to comic books.
Okay, this is good.
I want to deal with this.
I am not sure if you dislike the art, the reflection of culture, or the writing.
To what degree have you explored the genre?
I believe you would enjoy the character of Constantine from DC Comics.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant.
Thank you, Jeff.
You know, that's not a fair representation of what I've said.
I have said repeatedly that I've seen comics that I like.
I've read comics.
I occasionally still will read a comic book.
I've gone to the movies.
I've enjoyed some of them.
I thought this Logan was a terrific one.
All I have objected to is their taking over of our mental storytelling, their colonization of the movies.
The fact that every big movie, every single summer, is dominated by the Marvel universe and the DC universe.
And my slight suspicion, I have to, as I've said, that maybe a grown man shouldn't know more about the Marvel universe than he knows about ancient Greece.
You know, maybe a grown man should know more about Shakespeare than he knows about the DC universe.
I mean, it always bothers me when I hear a grown, you know, it doesn't bother me in a deep way.
But it always kind of just pings a little bit off something in me when I hear a grown person talking about the DC universe with the expertise of a guy, you know, who really has delved deeply into it.
At some point, you know, you put aside childish things.
That said, so it's really, it's not the art form.
It's not the genre.
I'm in favor of comics.
I think they can be really interesting.
You know, I think some of the movies have been really interesting and good.
It's their domination.
It's their taking over of the national narrative and of what was once a great American art form, the movies, and is now kind of fading away under this swarm, just this swarm swamp flood of comic book movies.
That said, that said, there is something else that disturbs me about comic books that is not a reflection on their quality or their moral standing, is that I strongly suspect that by becoming over-involved in comic books, we are preparing ourselves for a post-human world or an advanced human world.
I think this world is coming.
When I go off sometimes on transgenderism or something like that, it's never because some people feel outside, feel uncomfortable with their gender.
I have no problem with that, and I understand it, and I understand it can be painful, and people shouldn't be bullied and all that stuff.
What I always object to is people insisting that I lie because they think it'll make them feel better.
First of all, that doesn't work.
It doesn't make them feel better.
But secondly, I don't think you should insist that I lie.
When you say that when you're a man and you say, now I'm a woman because I had an operation or I wear a dress or I wear falsies or I had breast implants, when you say now I'm a woman, that's not true.
You're not.
You're still a man.
Your DNA all says you're a man.
Every cell in your body says you're a man.
You are a person with a problem or a person with a condition, let's call it.
And so I can't stand the line.
But in the future, not so far away, some of this stuff is going to become possible.
It's going to become possible, for instance, to make your brain better with implants.
And you say, well, I don't want to do that, but when your kids, all the kids at school have brain implants that give them an IQ of 612, you're not going to want your kid to go in with his IQ of a mere 150 and not be able to compete.
So it's going to happen.
Things that are going to take us outside the realm of humanity as we know it are coming, and they may include gender transfers.
Who knows?
Who knows what they'll be able to do?
Who knows what kind of work on the body or transplants of the mind they'll be able to do.
And I sometimes watch these films and I worry that they are leading us to a world that is sexless, that's genderless, that is not human.
And I always wonder when I hear the left talk and they want to make the world perfect.
I think, who is it going to be perfect for?
Because you can have a perfect world or you can have a world with human beings in it, but you can't have both.
And so some of the technology that's coming down the pike, I think some of these movies are preparing us for.
They're preparing us for women who don't have children.
They're preparing us for women who can have bodies that are as strong as men's, you know, maybe.
Who knows?
I'm just saying that there's something about this comic book fascination that maybe go deeper and maybe we should be exploring that underlying issue instead of watching Wonder Woman win World War I, which is kind of a metaphor for nothing.
You know, all the feminists get all excited because suddenly Wonder Woman wins World War I.
Well, guess what?
Wonder Woman didn't win World War I. of fantasy.
So I'd just be more interested to hear what these things really mean and what maybe they're really about than I do watching the same story over and over again, a guy getting bitten by a spider and suddenly he's Spider-Man.
That is my only objection is just how much comic books have overtaken our imaginations.
Faith In History00:05:19
Ron Harpaz from Israel, he signed with his full name, so I'll give it High Supreme Overlord Clavin Esquire.
I am an atheist of Jewish origin, which I am told you know one or two things about.
I do.
I have, through listening to you, mostly outgrown my anti-theistic phase.
I'm really gratified to hear that.
My question to you is short, though I suspect not simple.
Is it better for a non-believer to honestly confess their disbelief or to dishonestly profess a belief they do not possess?
That, in fact, is a simple question.
It is much better to be an honest non-believer than a dishonest believer.
You're trying to get to the truth, and you can't get to the way, the path to the truth is through the truth, is through telling the truth and seeking the truth.
And if you are lying, I don't understand what that accomplishes.
I don't understand how God is glorified by your pretending to believe in him.
I don't understand how you are brought closer to God by pretending to believe in him.
Sometimes you have to lean into your faith if you have faith.
You have to lean into your faith even though you have doubt.
That is a different matter.
It's not ignoring your doubts to say, okay, I'm going to play to my faith instead of to my doubt.
That's one thing.
But to not believe and say you do believe is a mistake.
It's not necessarily a mistake to experiment with belief, okay?
It is not necessarily a mistake to say, let me do a mind experiment and see what it would be like if I believe and see if the world starts to make more sense, because I tell you for a fact that it will.
If you experiment with it and you think like, hey, I can always back out.
You know, I can always walk away.
If I start to become a fantasist, if I start to believe, you know, sit around and discuss how many angels dance on the heads of pins, if I start to, you know, say silly stuff that doesn't reflect reality, hey, you can always discard your faith.
But to experiment with faith is not a bad thing.
But to lie, God doesn't need you to lie.
God is the truth.
He doesn't need you to lie.
You cannot get to the truth through lies.
O Clavin, right-wing sexual icon, prince of all that is beautiful, and king of all that is baldness.
Wow, that's most of my titles.
Many people have been complaining that Confederate monuments are being taken down and moved into museums, claiming that this is erasing U.S. history.
Yet nobody is arguing that the Germans should leave up Nazi art and Nazi symbols in their original places.
He goes on at great length about this.
You know, it's a fair question given the evil of slavery, but it's really not comparable.
You know, slavery grew up out of the meeting, the confrontation of civilized men with primitive men.
And it was certainly an evil, but it was not something that was imposed on the uncivilized by the civilized.
The uncivilized people were also holding slaves.
Slavery had been something that was in civilization forever.
It grew up naturally.
It's very easy to see how good, great men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington might hold slaves and if not feel comfortable with it, at least feel that it was within the realm of normal behavior.
I do not think, and the Confederacy was more complex than their slaveholding.
It was more complex than that one issue.
It was the notion of their freedom, of keeping their culture, which you would always, I always think the left should have been in favor of that, right?
If every culture is valid, why wasn't the culture of the South valid?
So in other words, it is part of history, a natural part of history, how wonderful, how delightful it is that the logic of American freedom got us past slavery.
That is a good and great thing and a beautiful thing about our Constitution and the thought that went into it, that it led us away from evil, that it was impossible for us to maintain that evil.
We tore ourselves apart to come closer to our principles and getting rid of that evil.
But that evil, but we shouldn't erase all of history to, we shouldn't erase all of history just because we can't stand to look at that one facet of our history.
That would be foolish.
That would be Soviet rewriting the past.
And I just don't believe in that.
It is different to say that the Nazis who grew up and were the worst manifestation of the worst part of European thought and lasted for a decade and were there and were destroyed Europe and were destroyed themselves and destroyed everything.
You know, it's another thing.
You don't want to forget them, but you don't want to memorialize them.
It's very different.
The Confederacy was much more complex than the evil of slavery.
Hitler was not more complex than the evil of Hitler.
And so I just don't think the two things are comparable.
As evil as I think slavery was, I think the Confederacy was far more complicated.
It's a part of some of the nobility of guys like Robert E. Lee and people like that can be praised.
And certainly as part, a very essential part of our history, it's important and should be remembered and shouldn't be, it shouldn't be written away.
We're sensible enough to remember without going back into the worst parts of it.
I just want to read, I'm running out of time, but I want to read this from Jerowyn because he is a friend of the show.
He's always writing in and he's asked this question several times.
Sir Clavin the Gallant and strikingly handsome.
I'm going into my fourth year of college as an engineering major.
So given the amount of money I've invested, it's a bit late to completely change direction and become an English major.
Hey Jude, Don't Make It Better00:03:17
However, I feel like God has given me a gift for creative writing and I don't want that to go to waste.
My question to you is, is it possible to be a good writer as more of a hobby, secondary career, or does it need to be one's primary career for it to work?
Thanks.
A really good question.
And yes, I feel you can do it while you do something else.
Some of the greatest writers in history did it.
T.S. Eliot was a banker.
You know, there were plenty of people who had to work for a living and wrote on the side who were really terrific writers.
And William F. Buckley said that people should do other jobs.
And I have to say, I have to say for a long time, I just wrote.
I woke up every morning and wrote, now I do this show, which is something that is, you know, I write part of the show.
I write the openings of the show, but it's not writing.
But then I go home and do my work.
And I really enjoy it.
So, listen, writing is a tough profession.
Everybody wants to do it.
Everybody is, you're competing with a lot of very talented people for a very small audience.
But I do think you can do other things.
And I think it's good to do other things because it teaches you about the world in a way that if you're just a writer, you will never learn.
You know, you'll never learn.
So I'm not against that at all.
And I think being an engineer is a great thing.
I wish I was an English major and I wish I had done something a little bit more practical just to inform my writing.
It was when I became a reporter and started to learn about how the real world works.
I think that actually elevated my writing and I wish I'd learned a little bit more about it in school.
Stuff I like, great Beatles songs and why I hate them.
Here are the Beatles singing one of my least favorite of their songs, but a song that is routinely included in the best songs ever written lists, Hey Jude.
Hey Jude, don't make it better.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart.
Then you can start to make it better.
Hey Jude, don't be afraid.
You were made to go out again.
The minute you let it run to your skin, then you begin to make it better.
And anytime you feel the pain, aid you refrain.
Don't carry the world aboard.
It's boring, the lyrics are simplistic and unclear, and it goes on forever.
And McCartney said he wrote it to comfort John Lennon's son when Lennon married this woman, Yoko Ono.
she is.
Nothing can comfort a boy whose father married that woman, so the song is utterly useless.