Andrew Clavin’s You’re Fired mocks Nancy Pelosi’s rambling speeches and Jim Acosta’s "literally Hitler" question, framing media bias as a partisan attack on Trump while ignoring Obama’s similar controversies. He praises Trump’s firing of Sessions for replacing him with Whitaker, who could cripple Mueller’s probe, and slams universities for indoctrinating students into anti-free-speech fragility. The episode also targets Ilhan Omar’s alleged fraud and anti-Semitism, dismissing intersectional politics as divisive, then pivots to WWI’s devastation—linking its legacy to modern anti-patriotism—before ending with a rant against media hypocrisy and a Daily Wire subscription pitch. [Automatically generated summary]
With America heading for divided government again, both parties are beginning to talk about a revived spirit of bipartisanship between the newly strengthened Republican Senate and the ravening hordes of brain-eating anti-American zombies who will soon be roaming the halls of the House looking for institutions and traditions to destroy and devour.
Possible Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, struck a tone of reconciliation in her election night speech to a mob of Tyrolean peasants who were carrying torches and screaming, bring us the orange monster.
Pelosi told them, quote, tomorrow will be a new day in America, Wednesday, in fact, and the next day will be Thursday.
After that, it's anyone's guess, but I can confidently declare, where am I?
And would someone please remind me what my last name is so I can pick up my social security check, unquote.
Soon-to-be head of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff joined in the goodwill effort, announcing to reporters, quote, I look forward to working with the perfidious nest of traitorous Russian vipers who have infiltrated this administration, unquote.
Schiff then tore off his full face mask and revealed that he was actually the late Senator Joseph McCarthy and was promptly reburied with a steak through his heart and a clove of garlic stuffed in his mouth as it should have been months ago.
Even formerly hostile reporters like CNN's Jim Acosta seem to be mitigating their tone.
At a press conference after the vote, Acosta politely asked the president, quote, excuse me, Mr. President, aren't you literally Hitler?
And don't you think that everyone should look at me because I'm Jim Acosta, unquote.
President Trump himself made an effort by reaching across the aisle, then climbing to the top of a gas storage tank where he shouted, quote, you'll never take me alive, G-Men, look ma, top of the world.
After which he fired his Tommy gun into the gas tank and blew himself and the press corps to Kingdom Come, then went out and played a round of golf.
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Hey, we're having a tragedy here in California, not far from us and certainly not far from where I used to live in Ventura County, Thousand Oaks, a guy, another lunatic, another lunatic who the cops knew about couldn't get committed.
They couldn't put him away.
And this is the problem we keep having.
After all, California has the harshest gun laws in the country, so it's not about the gun laws.
He walked in and opened fire on a bunch of college kids at a bar, killed.
I think the last estimate I saw was 12 or 13 people died.
And a police officer, a sheriff's department sergeant, Ron Helles, engaged the suspect along with a California Highway Patrol officer.
And according to the LA Times, Hellis was shot multiple times and died at a local hospital.
You know, this is the thing that really has come home to me.
Last night, Knowles and I were over at Loyola Merrymount.
You can actually watch this online.
We had a wonderful, wonderful time.
But the last couple of speeches I've been at, I've been followed around by armed guards, and there have been armed police officers.
I think there was security there last night.
I'm not sure they were police officers.
It's not a good feeling, to tell you the truth, to have police officers or armed men follow you around when you're just going onto a college campus to talk about ideas, which is what they should be doing on a college campus.
But it does bring home to me every time I see it what a remarkable place this is where the police show up to ensure your free speech.
You know, this is not true virtually anywhere else.
And even in England, right, the second freest country in the world, maybe along with Israel, the police can come, the police send out these warnings.
Watch what you say, watch what you say, don't insult the Muslims, don't insult, you know, don't say anything blasphemous about the prophet, you know, and all this.
And you can be arrested in Britain for speaking.
Whereas here, the police show up to protect you.
They show up to protect free speech.
This is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
You know, this is a remarkable thing.
So last night at this Loyola Marymount speech, Knowles and I are there.
And you know, Knowles and I are the two nicest people in the country, right?
I don't think there's maybe, maybe, you know, I don't know, Julie Andrews, is she still in the country?
But after that, it's me and Knowles.
And these protesters show up and they gagged themselves.
They had duct tape over their mouth.
And Knowles actually said to him, who gagged you?
Oh, you, you gagged you.
You know, you were doing this to yourself.
And one of the things we learned in this last election was that educated white people don't like Trump.
And maybe they don't like Republicans in general.
All these blue suburban districts where there were educated people went even more blue and they became even more Democrat.
And people are saying, as they always say, oh, Democrats are losing the educated suburbanites.
They've got to learn how to talk to them.
Well, yes, they have to learn how to talk to them.
But the other side of this is we have to stop educating people to be idiots.
We have to stop educating people and indoctrinating them.
I mean, after Knowles and I talked, and you guys listen to us, right?
You know what we talk like.
After we talked, these people had to go off to a safe space and be reoriented.
They had to basically be re-brainwashed in case we said anything that might have been too convincing or too truthful.
They had to be told back, you know, talked back.
And we were told later, you know, they were silent and polite at our meeting.
I will give them that.
But before we were given audio and video of them screaming obscenities at the organizers, and we know that they took, pardon me, they took our words out of context.
At one point, I said to people, look, you know, I'm kind of a libertarian about the way you live your lives.
I said, I'm too old and rich to care what you do.
And they translated that into, I was too old and rich to care about the problems of black people or something like this.
And this is what they were telling them and echoing back to make sure we didn't get any new ideas into their head.
So it's really, it's only partly about Republicans learning to speak to educated people.
It is also about what education is doing to people in this country.
It's teaching them to be smaller-minded.
And I think one of the things that organizations, Republican on-campus organizations should be doing is they should be actively going before the administration and saying, look, you have got to start hiring some conservative teachers.
We should be able to organize debates between professors who are on this campus.
We have got to turn this educational system around.
It is fine for there to be left-wing teachers, but there should be right-wing teachers too.
It is just absolutely disgusting.
And they are teaching these people basically to hate free speech.
They are teaching them that free speech is the problem.
Free speech is the danger.
The reason these people were wearing gags is our very presence, the very presence of Michael Knowles, the evil Michael Knowles, and I admit he is evil, but the evil Michael Knowles and the evil Andrew Clavin, and I'm a lovely guy, the very presence was gagging them, was somehow silencing them, was somehow harming them.
And that kind of fragility is, you know, it's just a terrible, terrible thing.
And it is what is causing this stuff we are seeing now, which is absolutely horrifying.
Last night, a mob, a mob showed up at Tucker Carlson's house and was screaming at him.
Here's just a little clip of it.
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So Tucker's kids are in there and his wife is in there and they're screaming, we know where you sleep.
And even worse, Matthew Iglesias is tweeting out.
He's tweeting out, oh, you know, what about the people who are afraid of ICE?
You know, I have no feelings for Tucker Carlson's wife.
You know, his victims are afraid.
Well, Tucker doesn't have any victims.
He just has viewers.
And there's a little knob, a little button on your remote control.
You can just turn Tucker off like that if that's what you want to do.
You know, Tucker is expressing opinions.
And if you are so damaged by his opinions, I like Aglesius said, I know people who have to hide away from ICE because they broke the law.
I know people who have to hide away from the police because they've committed crimes.
It's like my feelings don't extend quite that far.
All Tucker is doing is expressing opinions.
And his opinions are not egregious.
He's kind of a libertarian conservative, more or less.
He's expressing opinions, and they feel that they can respond to opinions with what is essentially acts of violence.
Hours after this mob showed up at the home of Tucker Carlson, an affiliated Twitter account published his home address and the home address of his brother, along with the addresses of Ann Coulter, the Daily Callers Neil Patel and Sean Hannity.
That Twitter feed that is doxing these people has not been taken down.
But what has been taken down is Michael Knowles was suspended.
A couple of other, you know, a lot of other conservative sites have been suspended.
But you can say anything you want if you're a leftist about Jews.
You can say anything you want.
You can reveal these things if you're, you know, this is the way that educated people are now being educated into small mindedness and stupidity.
So if the small, if the educated people are turning against Republicans, it may not be the fault of Republicans.
It may be the fault of the educations, you know, of the education.
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So two people got the boot from Donald Trump yesterday.
One of them, Jeff Sessions.
Jeff Sessions was, you know, what can you say about Jeff Sessions?
He was the attorney general.
He was one of Trump's earliest supporters.
And then he recused himself from the Russia investigation leading to the appointment of the special prosecutor, special counsel, Robert Mueller, and this investigation has gone on and on.
You know, I hate to keep pointing out how incredibly right I am.
I always hate to point out how incredibly right because I don't want you to get it in your head that I am always right, even though that's the case.
You know, I don't, because it makes other people look bad.
But really, when they appointed this special counsel, you know, the two times, actually there have been more than that, but two of the times people have come after me for what I said was one of them was when Ted Cruz went to the convention and dissed Donald Trump at the convention.
And I said that was both a moral error and a political error.
And everybody said, oh, no, no, no, you're wrong.
The wonderful Ted Cruz, how could he be wrong?
And I said, look, I love him, but he made a mistake.
He paid part of what happened to him with Beto O'Rourke in Texas was him paying for that mistake.
That was a mistake.
You don't, you know, you've got to be loyal to your party.
You don't have to support Donald Trump, but you don't show up in his house at his convention and diss him.
That's bad politics.
And it's actually not the right thing to do.
And Cruz paid for that in Texas, losing some points and coming too darn close to losing to Beto O'Rourke.
The other thing was this appointment of Robert Mueller that they allowed a special counsel to be appointed.
I told you it was going to go on and on.
He was never going to stop.
We don't even know anymore what his brief is.
It started out, it was Russian collusion, but then, what's his name, Rod Rosenstein, the deputy AG, he rewrote the brief for the special counsel, and that's never been made public.
We don't even know what it is.
So Sessions recused himself, and Trump has been furious about it ever since.
And here's the thing.
There's no getting around this.
Trump has treated him appallingly.
This is one of the things about Donald Trump that I just think is an all negative.
Jeff Sessions is a good guy.
Everybody knows it.
Everybody knows he's a man of straight up integrity.
He was one of Trump's first supporters.
If he didn't, if he was angry at him, you call him in the office and say, I'm really ticked off about this.
You don't go on Twitter and say he's disgraceful.
You don't insult him again and again and again.
You don't humiliate him.
It is the wrong, it's just the wrong thing to do.
And I know a lot of you are full on Trumpsters.
And listen, I've talked about what a great job I think he's doing.
I think Trump is doing a great job, but you do not treat a man of respect like Jeff Sessions like that.
That said, that said, Sessions, I believe, made a mistake.
He thought he was doing the right thing.
He thought he was doing the principal thing, but he is living in a world where those rules no longer apply.
Eric, what's his name?
The last, the Obama AG, Holder, thank you, Eric Holder, whose name I always, I black out his name.
I black out his name because I think it was so bad.
He said, I'm Obama's wingman.
I got to be there for my boy.
That's what he said.
I'm Obama's wingman.
And nobody said a word, not a word, okay?
Jeff Sessions, you know, he didn't have to be his wingman.
He could have lived by a higher principle.
That was fine.
But you don't step down when a guy is being attacked the way Donald Trump has been attacked with this phony, baloney, Russian collusion thing.
It has been a phony baloney thing since the start.
It would have been far, far more honest to have a special counsel, as Trey Gowdy's been calling for, investigate the way this investigation got started, the way this whole Russian collusion thing got started, Hillary Clinton's role in it, John Brennan's role in it.
That would be worth investigating.
I don't even want a special counsel.
I think the special counsel rule ought to go by the boards.
I think they ought to get rid of it.
I don't even want it for that.
Jeff Sessions made a mistake, but it was a mistake of principle.
It was a mistake of decency.
Trump had every reason to be frustrated and annoyed with him, but he should not have dragged him through the mud in public.
So the minute the election is over, the midterms are over, he fires him.
The same day, I mean, while he's saying, I'm going to take a look and make decisions down the line, he fired him.
That was the right thing to do.
He asked for his resignation, to be fair.
That was the right thing to do.
Why?
Because remember, James Comey.
He came in, he hugged James Comey, and then when he fired him, it was, oh my goodness, obstruction of justice.
They're playing it that way anyway.
They're going to play this as if he was doing something evil anyway.
He was not, you know, he wouldn't put Rod Rosenstein, the deputy AG, who would naturally be the guy to replace Jeff Sessions.
He didn't let him replace him.
Why not?
Because Rod Rosenstein is reputed to have been sitting around going, oh, we got to tape, you know, I'm going to go wire myself and prove that the Trump is not fit for office and we'll get rid of him that way.
Maybe he was joking.
Maybe he never said it.
We don't even know.
But Rod Rosenstein and the president have not been getting along.
Rod Rosenstein has not shown up to be questioned by Congress as he was supposed to be.
He did the right thing.
And instead, he appointed Matthew Whitaker, who was the, he was the chief of staff, I think.
And so he's made a little noise because he, before he was in the Justice Department, while he was still on his own as a lawyer, he went on TV numerous times and he's a Trump loyalist and he dissed the Mueller investigation.
Here's just a clip.
So I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment and that attorney general doesn't fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a fall.
So he's talking about squeezing Mueller out and Chuck Schumer, of course, I think three people were killed because they were standing between Chuck Schumer and a microphone.
Chuck Schumer immediately races to the microphone with this total load of palaver.
Protecting Mueller and his investigation is paramount.
It would create a constitutional crisis if this were a prelude to ending or greatly limiting the Mueller investigation.
And I hope President Trump and those he listens to will refrain from that.
I find the timing very suspect, number one, but number two, our paramount view is that any attorney general, whether this one or another one, should not be able to interfere with the Mueller investigation in any way.
They should not be able to end it.
They should not be able to limit it.
They should not be able to interfere with Mueller going forward and doing what he thinks is the right thing.
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And that will help guide us as we go through this process.
This is nonsense.
The Justice Department is part of the executive branch.
They can do a lot of different things.
Nobody's going to stop Mueller from that.
I don't think anybody, Whitaker or anybody that Trump appoints going forward, he'll probably wait until he has the greater majority in the Senate.
I don't think anybody's going to stop the Mueller investigation.
The Mueller investigation has gone so far that it's about time for him to report.
They keep saying, and now is the time.
Mueller did the right thing, by the way, by not saying anything around the election.
If James Comey had been that smart, Hillary Clinton would probably be president today.
But Mueller has done the right thing in terms of that.
But I just think, I think that Trump did the right thing.
I think he hated the guy.
He was frustrated with him.
He waited until after the election.
This is when the shake-ups always happen after the midterms.
He waited.
He said goodbye.
Thank you very much for your service and all this stuff.
So the way I feel about this, I feel like Sessions was ill-treated, but he also did the wrong thing.
And now he has to go.
And that's the way it should be.
What I basically hope he does is goes back and runs for the Senate, get his seat back, because we lost that over the Roy Moore kerfuffle, and it would be nice to get it back.
The other guy who got Trump's boot in his backside was our old friend Jim.
Look at me.
I'm Jim Acosta.
So I have to talk about this because there's a couple of different things that are going on here.
You know, let's play again this confrontation.
We cut it back a little bit.
We played the whole thing last time.
But here is Acosta asking what he thinks is an interesting question.
I wanted to challenge you on one of the statements that you made in the tail end of the campaign in the midterms.
Here we go.
Well, if you don't mind, Mr. President, that this caravan was an invasion.
As you know, I consider it to be an invasion.
As you know, Mr. President, the caravan was not an invasion.
It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the U.S. Thank you for telling me.
Why did you characterize it as such?
Because I consider it an invasion.
You and I have a difference of opinion.
If I may ask one other question, Mr. President, if I may ask one other question, are you worried?
That's enough.
That's enough.
I'm going to ask one of the other folks.
That's enough.
Pardon me, ma'am.
Ms. President.
President, that's enough.
Ms. President, I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them.
You are a rude, terrible person.
You shouldn't be working for CNN.
So that's an extraordinary confrontation between the press.
Obviously, these are extraordinary times.
Let's start with this, the idea that he laid hands on the young woman, the aide, who was reaching for the microphone to take it away because the president of the United States had told Acosta that he was done.
He had had his question.
Trump answered the question, and it was done.
Sarah Sanders tweeted out this conduct.
So basically his hard pass, his hard White House pass.
He's been denied access to the White House.
It's been suspended.
I don't know for how long, but he was punished for his behavior.
And Sarah Sanders tweeted out this conduct is absolutely unacceptable.
It is also completely disrespectful to the reporters' colleagues not to allow them an opportunity to ask a question.
President Trump has given the press more access than any president in history.
That is true.
And she also said that it was wrong for him to lay hands on this young woman.
It was wrong for him to lay hands on this woman.
So now a debate starts up.
Did he lay hands on this woman?
And the White House tweeted out a slowed-down version close-up of him brushing her arm away.
Now, and he said, pardon me, ma'am, afterwards.
Now, I don't know what's in Jim Acosta's mind, and I'm not going to beat the drum about, I mean, he didn't assault her, obviously, but he did chop her hand away.
It looks to me, I've now watched this thing maybe 15 times, it looks to me pretty clearly that he chops her hand away.
Now, maybe he did it by accident, maybe he did it by reflex.
And also, you know, she's a big girl in a big girl's profession.
You know, this is part of the game, you know, like he didn't like punch her, he didn't shove her, he didn't do anything like this.
So, you know, Acosta is a buffoon, and he's kind of a thug.
I mean, he is kind of a jerk.
And what he did to her was part of his jerkiness.
But I'm not going to like accuse him of assaulting a female.
I think we've gotten too far with this stuff.
And again, again, when you're working in the bigs, things get a little bit rough.
But he was totally out of line.
To me, though, to me, the important thing is he was not practicing journalism.
Donald Trump in that exchange is 100% in the right.
The question, I said this yesterday, but it's worth repeating because I want to show you something, two other things, two amazing other things.
The question that he asked, they keep saying, well, the president has to be ready for hard questions.
He didn't ask a hard question.
He said, you say it's an invasion.
I say it's not.
And Trump quite rightly said, we have a difference of opinion.
What is the importance of Jim Acosta's opinion?
He's a reporter.
His opinion matters exactly 0%.
And this is, in essence, the entire problem, that Jim Acosta thinks his job is to correct the president's opinion with his own.
That's not journalism.
It's not even smart.
He's not some kind of expert.
He's not dealing, he's not saying, well, there was this and you didn't call it an invasion then or is that?
All he's doing is saying, you're wrong and I'm right because I'm Jim Acosta.
So look at me.
The thing is, I'm absolutely certain that Acosta is basing his journalistic career.
He thinks that he is going to be Sam Donaldson or Dan Rather.
And the thing about Sam Donelson and Dan Rather, Dan Rather, first of all, ended his career in disgrace when it was shown that he was peddling fake documents in an attempt to get George W. Bush on nothing, on some stupid little violation of regulations when he was in the National Guard that would have meant nothing.
It was years and years and years ago.
It just would have been completely unimportant.
And yet he so hated him.
He so hated him, he disgraced himself, ended his professional career.
And you can have Robert Redford play him in the movies all you want.
He still is a bad journalist who disgraced himself.
And Donaldson, too, was an opinion journalist as well.
And when he went after Nixon, he was doing it for his opinion too.
So in other words, in other words, Jim Acosta is a bad version of bad journalism that the left has been elevating all this time.
And if you want to see, I mean, here is Jake Tapper, you know, yesterday, I think it was, I praised Jake Tapper for asking tough questions.
Maybe it was the day before.
But Tapper is, the two of them preening in this moment.
And I'm going to show you something after this that just puts everything they say in this to shame.
But let's play this first.
But President Trump did something that I've never seen an American president do, which is go on a personal rant against you for the questions you were attempting to ask.
Well, Jake, when they go low, we keep doing our jobs.
I mean, that's the way I look at it.
And, you know, I had a question to ask.
And if we had played the tape a little bit before that exchange, you would have seen the question that I was asking, which was essentially about this lie that he told before the midterm elections, that this caravan of migrants moving from Central America to the U.S. border with Mexico is somehow an invasion when it's not.
They're still hundreds of miles away and they pose nothing of a threat to the United States.
But the president used that language, obviously, as we've talked about so many times, to galvanize his base.
He just didn't like hearing that question.
He didn't like being challenged on that point.
And he certainly doesn't like being called out for his falsehoods.
Not a falsehood.
It's a different characterization.
There's no falsehood involved.
And this thing that they've come up with is still hundreds of miles away.
It's still hundreds.
I mean, look, at this point, the caravan is all broken up and kind of disappeared and dissipated.
But to say that it's hundred miles away, that means nothing.
To say it's not a threat, on what basis are you saying that?
Or what basis are you saying that thousands of people, at one point it was close to 15,000 people, marching this way is not a threat?
You know, they're hundreds of miles.
This is like when Alexander the Great invaded Greece, they were going, well, you know, maybe he won't come this way.
Maybe he won't come down and attack.
You know, it's like, what are you talking about?
What are you talking about?
They're hundreds of miles away.
If the army, if a foreign invasion force was hundreds of miles away rolling in this direction, would that not be a threat?
Jim Acosta is entitled to his opinion.
I just don't want to hear it, and I don't know why we should.
I don't know why we should.
And Jake Tapper, his dainty shock, his dainty shock that a reporter should get the boot the way Acosta got the boot is not in keeping with the reaction of the press corps to Barack Obama.
Remember Saint Barack Obama, the savior of our nation, who treated someone shouting rude questions at him like this, had him thrown out.
But the incredible part of this video, the incredible part, and you have to listen to the end, is the reaction of the press corps.
What you hear in the background is the press corps reacting to President Barack Obama throwing out a rude question.
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Yeah, hold on a second.
I'll...
Okay, you know what?
No, no, no, no, Hey.
Yeah, listen.
You're in my house.
You don't smoke.
You don't smoke.
Come on.
It's not.
You know what?
It's not respectful when you get invited to somebody.
You're not going to get a good response from me by interrupting me like this.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
No, Shame on you.
You shouldn't be doing this.
Can we escort this person out?
Are you freaking kidding me?
Members of the press, this is why we hate you.
We hate you because you lie.
We hate you because you lie.
You lied to us for eight years.
You treated this guy, Obama, like he was heaven sent.
Look, I think he was an incompetent and a leftist.
And I think both those things are bad for a president.
I've always said I don't think he was evil.
I think he was ignorant.
I think he was one of those guys who don't know, who doesn't know what he doesn't know.
And I think his policy, he ran dishonestly.
He ran as a centrist and he became a leftist.
He basically tried to intersectionalize the country.
I think he has failed.
I think it's amazing the way Donald Trump has erased his memory.
You know, we can barely remember what he stood for or what he did.
It's almost all gone except for this awful wreckage of Obamacare that keeps dragging us down.
It's like a can tied to a dog's tail.
But this, this is why we hate you.
It's not because of what you do to Trump.
If you had done it to Obama too, we might still think, oh, you're rude, but at least you'd be treating everybody the same way.
You are liars.
And when Trump says you're the enemy of the people, that, okay, that may be over the top, but you're certainly the enemy of the president.
You are certainly the enemy of conservatives.
You're certainly the enemy of traditional Americanism.
And you're certainly the enemy of the Republican Party.
And everything Trump is doing, the best thing he's doing is attacking you because you deserve it for that.
What you did with Obama.
It's not what you do to Trump.
You know, torment the president all you want.
You know, what do they say?
You know, make the afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
Fine, but you didn't do it.
Eight years, you didn't do it.
And now you're saying, oh, can we be journalists again?
No, no, you can't.
Now you're just partisans.
Now you're just commentators and you're liars.
And that's why we hate you.
And you deserve it.
You've earned it.
You went out and you got it yourself.
Good for you.
And you're still doing it.
And I'll talk about that in just a minute.
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So they're still doing this.
This is the other part of this.
You know, two Muslim women won elections as congresswomen.
And this is how NBC, from our pals at Newsbusters, this is how NBC and CBS reported their election.
Take a look.
In Minnesota, 36-year-old Yilhan Omar became the first ever Somali American elected to Congress.
Here in Minnesota, it's a cold state, but the people have warm hearts.
And we don't just welcome immigrants, but we send them to Washington.
My mom.
She was born in Somalia.
She and her family fled the violence of civil war when she was eight.
After years in a refugee camp in Kenya, she immigrated here when she was 12, learning English in three months.
That's the America I'm going to go fight for.
Identity Politics Dissected00:06:07
Mastering politics in the years that followed.
This is Casey Hunt on Capitol Hill, where history is about to be made.
The newest Congress featuring more than 100 women.
A new record, among them the first Muslim women, Michigan's Rashida Talib and Minnesota's Ilhan Omar.
So what this points out is the incredible emptiness of the press's intersectional identity politics.
Let's call it identity politics.
This identity politics, you know, this is the thing.
They don't even know it's a point of view anymore.
Just like Jim Acosta can't tell the difference between his opinion and a fact.
He can't tell the difference.
I mean, they can't tell the difference.
They don't even know that that reporting was bad reporting because it's historic.
It's historic.
And of course, it's never historic when the right does it.
It's not historic that a Cuban American is a senator in Texas.
That's not historic.
I think a South Korean, the first South Korean, was elected.
That's not historic because it's a Republican.
The fact that they treat Ruth Vader Ginsburg like the first female justice, Supreme Court justice, that, you know, that's another thing.
Ruth Vader Ginsburg fell and hurt herself, broke her ribs.
When a woman that old takes a fall, that's a bad thing.
That is a bad sign.
And I wish her well.
I hope she comes back and heals.
If she doesn't, that's going to be the next big story for sure.
There's going to be a great big fight.
But I hope she does heal and she's fine.
I know when old people fall, that is really, really difficult.
But they treat her like she's the first female Supreme Court justice.
And of course, she's not Sandra Day O'Connor, but she was a Republican.
So it's only historic when the left does it.
But of course, the historicity of it, the historicness of it, ignores the fact of who these two women are.
These are two virulent anti-Semites.
And the first one, Elon Omar, has been very credibly accused of having married her own brother in 2009 as a way of gaming the immigration system, as possible immigration fraud.
And she may even have committed student loan fraud as well.
She says that she married the guy, but the allegation that he is her brother is absurd and offensive, she says.
But there is evidence that this is true.
There is a lot of student enrollment records and other evidence supporting the fact that she may have married her own brother to game the immigration system.
And she also has sent out these tweets about Jews, about the state of Israel, about how Israel, what was, let me see if I can find the tweet.
It was how Israel has blinded people to, you know, the Jews have blinded people to the truth.
The other woman, Tlaib, she has embraced a one-state solution, which means the Jewish state virtually vanishes.
She's denied the Jews their right to a sovereign nation.
She's saying separate but equal doesn't work.
She's linked to an article on Twitter with the headline, How Israel is inciting Palestinian violence.
Ha ha ha.
Tweeting support for Razmia Odeh, who faces a life sentence in Israel for murdering two American students in a 1969 supermarket bombing in Jerusalem.
This empty, racist philosophy of identity politics that does not hold people to account for the things that they do.
The same way as Andrew Gillum running in Florida, who lost in Florida for governor, was able to say, oh, you're just charging me with corruption because you're just charging me with corruption because I'm black.
Well, you know, he's being investigated by the FBI.
He said in his concession speech, I'm not going anywhere.
The FBI may disagree.
The FBI may come in and pick him up under the arms.
He may be going somewhere in a big hurry and somewhere he doesn't like very much.
This intersectional identity politics has just been, it's a racist philosophy and it has emptied the press.
It has emptied the press of any mindfulness of what people are and what they believe, which is the only important thing about people, really, especially when they're running for office.
The important thing is what do you believe?
What are you going to do?
Who are you going to vote for?
Those are the important things.
And they simply do not report on it.
Going back to this thing that Knowles and I did at Loyola Marymount last night, where they kept asking, people asked us a number of times, if you think that the Democrats are so bad for black people, how come black people keep voting for them?
And I said, listen, anybody can be corrupted.
Anybody can be bought.
I mean, anybody can be told they're special.
You know, there are two races in this country, two races, if I can call them that, two, let's call them ethnic groups, who haven't done as well as other ethnic groups.
One of the Native Americans, the Indians, and the other are blacks who haven't done as well as they should have.
Both of them have been told they're special.
Both of them have been told they have to be paid back for the sins that were committed against them historically.
Those sins are real.
Those sins are real.
You'll never hear me say those sins aren't real.
But the past is past.
And when you go back and try and fix the past, you can only make things worse.
Both of them have been isolated in their race by policy.
If people would stop isolating them, they would be set free to be Americans just like everybody else.
And they would live and rise and fall on their own actions and in their own chances.
The fact that this identity, this racist philosophy of identity politics has infested the press, as it has infested the universities, as it has infested Hollywood, is just an indication of people who cannot tell the difference between opinion and fact.
They cannot tell the difference between philosophy and fact.
They cannot tell the difference, finally, between politics and morality.
This is the emptiness.
When they say, when they say that the Republicans have failed to communicate with the educated is because the education system has been corrupted, the entire communication system of this country has been corrupted and needs to change.
11th November: End of an Era00:09:24
All right.
Stuff I like.
That was it.
I don't know.
That was from Joseph Carpenter.
It's a nice little music.
So Sunday, Monday, you know, is Veterans Day, and Sunday is the 11th, is 11, 11, 11.
It's the 11, it is the 11th month, the 11th day of the 11th month.
This is the day on which World War I ended.
And it is always, it ended, what was it?
It was the 11th hour of the 11th month of the 11th day.
That's what it was, when the treaty went into effect and the fighting stopped.
And World War I is something that, especially in this country where we only came in at the last moment and saved the day as we tended to do with Europe in the 20th century.
But it's something that people in America especially do not understand that it affects us to this day, to this day.
At the turn of the century, England especially, Europe also were the height of civilization.
They had taken civilization to a place it had never been before.
They were standing at the pinnacle, the pinnacle of human endeavor.
They really were.
And a mere 14 years later, a mere 14 years later, they had essentially wiped out their entire civilization for no reason.
I mean, it wiped out a generation of men.
Russia became the Soviet Union during World War I.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire came to an end.
The Ottoman Empire was essentially brought to the end.
It set the rise, the stage for the rise of Adolf Hitler.
And it really began the end.
It really was the end of the great civilization of Europe, which had lasted since the Renaissance at least, and had brought mankind, as I say, to a new level.
And no one to this day, no one can tell you why this war began.
Obviously, it began with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand, but why?
Why from that, this incredible domino collapse of nations so that so much was destroyed, so much good was wiped off the face of the earth.
In some way, you might think, you know, it might have been German expansionism.
The left has seized the narrative.
The left seized the narrative afterwards, as they are very good at doing after a war, and sold the idea that it was nationalism, that it was nationalism that was the problem.
Well, maybe, but maybe it was the way that the nations were set up so that they were being ruled by the entire all of Europe at that point was being ruled by Queen Victoria's family.
So maybe it was an internecine war.
It is really hard to know.
It is hard to know why this destruction happened.
Maybe it was just like, you know, Norman Mailer once said about cancer.
Maybe the reason they can't cure cancer is because cancer is just death and eventually death will come.
And maybe that's it.
Maybe civilizations just die and it was time for Europe to die and it did die.
What is there now is not the Europe of old.
It is not even, I don't even think it's going to survive another century in its present form.
And it also destroyed, World War I also destroyed the concept of patriotism, the sure and certain idea that you were, that sweet, you know, Dulce et decorum est propatrium, sweet and right it is to die for one's fatherland.
That was the thing that came under fire.
There was a famous poem called Dulce at Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
Many of the poems written at this time were written by gay men, which is really interesting.
So these were outsiders, people who were kind of excluded from society in some ways, who said, well, why did we wind up in these trenches?
It's not that they weren't brave.
It's not that they didn't go and fight.
He wrote the famous poem in which he talks about men being gassed.
This was the first time poison gas was used, and it was so hideous to watch people die.
He talks about a man being thrown into a wagon where he's dying.
And if he says, if in some smothering dreams, you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in and watch the white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face like a devil's sick of sin.
If you could hear at every jolt the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie, Dulce at decorum est propatria mori.
So that, you know, some of the poetry, it's a beautiful poem.
It is a fantastic poem.
So if you want to read stuff, I'm talking about stuff I like, if you want to read some wonderful stuff about World War I, it is well worth it to read the poem, poetry that came out of it.
Also the wonderful patriotic poem that came out at the very beginning, If I Should Die, Say Only This of Me, there is some corner of a foreign field that is forever England.
That was a beautiful poem, but those kinds of feelings of patriotism disappeared.
Great book to read, The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fusell, or Fusell, I think it is.
The Great War and Modern Memory is a classic.
I think it was published about 25 years ago.
It talks about the way the war infected our culture and infects our memory and our imagination still.
Thomas Mond's novel, Magic Mountain, it is not an easy novel.
It is a philosophical novel.
Depicts, it's told about a tubercular ward, a TB ward, and it's the story of a TB ward, and it basically is comparing the Europe that comes before the war as a group of sick people.
And it's a philosophical novel about the state of Europe, kind of discussing why the war came almost as a relief to people because they went off with great, great celebration, great, great patriotism, thinking they were going to a brief battle that would be over in months.
And instead, four years later, the entire civilization had been destroyed.
And of course, one of the most famous novels, All Quiet on the Western Front by Eric Maria-Romarck.
It's a spectacular novel, an anti-war novel.
And it was made into a beautiful film in the 30s that just hammers home this idea.
A young man goes off to war inspired by his professor who tells him about the iron men of valor and how you have to die for your country, you know, sweet and right it is to die for your country.
And then he comes back from the front.
and he sees the professor saying this to people again, saying this to the young men again and inspiring them to go to war.
And he wanders into the class and the professor says, how wonderful that you're here.
Now you should inspire them.
Tell them how wonderful it is to go to war.
And here's a little bit of the scene from the wonderful 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front.
If you remember some deed of heroism, some touch of nobility, tell about it.
I can't tell you anything you don't know.
We live in the trenches out there.
We fight.
We try not to be killed.
Sometimes we are.
That's all.
No.
No, Paul.
I've been there.
I know what it's like.
That's not what one dwells on, Paul.
I heard you in here reciting that same old stuff, making more iron men, more young heroes.
You still think it's beautiful and sweet to die for your country, don't you?
We used to think you knew the first bombardment taught us better.
A war so terrible, so useless, so senseless that it changed the world forever and its attitudes.
It gave power to the left.
You know, so much power that it even began the Soviet Union.
It gave power to the left in its anti-patriotism and its sense that, you know, forces beyond our control were throwing us to death.
It is a war well worth studying, and brilliant, brilliant things have been written about it and really interesting things that need to be considered because the logic of war may be relentless.
It may be that we can't avoid wars ultimately, but they can destroy everything, everything good that we have.
Thank God for the soldiers who stand on guard and hopefully prevent wars from happening with strength.
But, you know, and thank God for their courage when they do have to go and fight, just like, as I said at the beginning, just like we should thank God for the police who charge in to dangerous situations to protect not only our safety, but our rights as well.
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