Andrew Clavin dissects Pelosi’s impeachment farce, mocking her poetic incoherence while contrasting Trump’s $200B China trade deal—criticized by Schumer and Sanders—with Democratic economic failures. He dismisses Lev Parnas’ testimony as politically weaponized, framing cancel culture as modern oppression akin to Regency England’s censorship, citing cases like Chadwick Moore’s Facebook ban and Wilson Gavin’s suicide. Clavin ties cultural battles (e.g., Joker Oscar backlash) to Trump’s 30% Black voter support threat, warning leftist tactics stifle dissent, and promotes Another Kingdom as a counter-narrative to progressive dogma. [Automatically generated summary]
President Trump has signed a preliminary trade deal with China, causing economic experts who said such a deal was impossible to quit their economic expert jobs and go into other professions like doing street mime for spare change and scooping ice cream at Coldstones, where they get to break into song every time someone leaves a tip.
Trump signed the deal in a public ceremony with Chinese Vice Premier Liu Hee, saying he thought Liu He was, quote, a great little yellow guy, despite that squinty-eyed look they all have that makes them seem kind of shifty till you get to know them.
Unquote.
In the deal, the Chinese agree to buy over $200 billion in U.S. goods, including $435 million cheap plastic dolls made in China.
They'll also provide protection for U.S. intellectual property by sending us 330 million baggies containing plastic mustaches and rubber noses that intellectual property can wear as a disguise so it can escape from China without being stolen.
China has also agreed to purchase $32 billion in U.S. agricultural goods, including 675 million orders of take-out cashew chicken, though Trump said he would throw in the fortune cookies for free.
In return, President Trump has promised to stop saying the word China in that sharp, derogatory way he has and will quit rolling his eyes whenever Chinese negotiators pretend to agree to things.
Also, no more Hong Kong jokes.
Senator Chuck Schumer said he was unhappy with the China deal.
Sobbing loudly, Senator Schumer told his therapist, quote, President Trump is supposed to be a great deal maker, but he caved in the minute the Chinese gave him everything he wanted.
He has repeatedly promised to lower taxes, cut regulations, and negotiate new trade deals.
And while, yes, he's done all those things, he still hasn't dropped by my house for bagels like he said he would, unquote.
Bernie Sanders also attacked the deal, saying it would only serve 4% of the population, namely people who live in the United States.
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Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin, and this is the Andrew Clavin Shop.
I'm the hunky-dunky deal.
Life is tickety-boom.
Years are winging, also singing hunky-dunkity.
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You know, yesterday I was reading the polls.
I'm watching the news, and I started reading the polls.
And I have to be honest at this point, I don't know anymore whether to trust the polls.
In all honesty, I didn't trust them when Barack Obama ran for re-election and the polls kept saying Obama was going to win.
I could not believe anyone would give that hapless schmuck a second term after all the lies he told and the mess he'd made of everything.
And I was wrong.
The polls were right, and that made me distrust myself and regard the polls more cautiously.
I give them a little bit more respect than I used to do.
But I have to be, when I look at the polls now, I am struck silly with disbelief.
IDB has blithering Joe Biden beating Trump in a general election by two points.
Communist Bernie Sanders is supposed to beat him by one point.
Quinnipiak has Trump's disapproval at 52% and his approval at 43%.
And Rasmawsen says 55% of those polled feel the country is on the wrong track, while only 40% say we're headed in the right direction.
Now, listen, I acknowledge, you have heard me say this a million times.
I acknowledge Donald Trump can be an off-putting character.
He's brash and he's rude and he's got a dodgy past, and a lot of women, especially, don't like him.
But his policies have set the economy on fire.
Working people of all kinds have seen their wages rise for the first time in a decade.
Black unemployment is lower than it's been since records started being kept in 1972.
That's for black men, I think.
Illegal immigration, way down.
There have been no new wars.
Iran's chief killer of Americans is dust.
The terrorist nation of Iran is clearly quaking in its boots.
Trump is negotiating new trade deals the experts said were impossible.
Our allies may snark at us behind our backs, but they're also falling in line with Trump because what Trump does works.
And meanwhile, the Democrats have wasted their time impeaching Trump over nothing after their last two nothings turned out to be nothing.
Every city the Democrats run is becoming a hellhole.
Every state they run is emptying out as people run for their lives to the better run red states.
The Democrats' two top presidential candidates are, to put it bluntly, a communist and an idiot.
And if a pro-American word ever came into their brains, it would die of loneliness.
Now, obviously, I'm biased.
I love America.
I'm in favor of freedom.
I believe in the founding principles.
I believe in constitutional governance.
Maybe I'm missing something here.
But if the polls are right and Americans are really finding the choice between Trump and the Democrats this difficult, then we have to ask ourselves two big questions.
How much are their opinions shaped by a media that hates the founding ideas of this nation?
And how much can that fantasy be dented by reality?
Do the people's feelings care at all about the facts?
That's the question before us.
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I got to play you two of the funniest clips I have heard yesterday.
You know, the impeachment trial has now started in the Senate.
They're going through some of the preliminaries.
But first, they stop to have a huge bipartisan vote approving Trump's new NAFTA deal.
So that's going to go to the president.
Huge bipartisan victory after a huge victory with the Chinese yesterday.
So the Democrats are desperate to make this seem important.
Nobody cares about this impeachment, and they think everybody's going to be glued to the television set watching this battle over what Trump said to Ukraine.
So Nancy Pelosi signs this thing, and you know how prayerful and serious she was.
She was grinning.
She's handing out the pens because she's signed the impeachment.
So Pelosi tries to point out that this is historic.
Listen, you've got to listen carefully to this.
Listen carefully to Nancy Pelosi's statement.
This is cut number one.
This is a very important day for us.
And as you know, I reference temporal markers that our founders and our poets and others have used over time to place us in time, to emphasize the importance of time, because everything is about time, how we use it, how we mark it.
And today is an important day because today is the day that we name the managers, we go to the floor to pass the resolution to transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
And later in the day, when we have our engrossment, that we march those articles of impeachment to the United States Senate.
As I've said, it's always been our founders when they started.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary when.
Abraham Lincoln forced scorn seven years ago.
Thomas Paine, now are the time.
These are the times that try men's souls.
The times have found us.
Again and again, even our poets, Longfellow, remember, listen, my children, and you will hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere on the 18th of April in 75.
Harlem is now alive.
It remembers that famous day in the year.
It's always about marking history using time.
As I've said, it's always been our founders when they started.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary when.
Abraham Lincoln forced.
Are you drunk?
What on earth?
She has lost her marbles.
What on earth are people talking about?
Later in the show, I will play you the press trying to build this up.
But this is the fantasy that they're selling, and the press is selling it too.
Like I said, later in the show, I'll play you the press trying to sell this as a big historic, reverential, religious.
It's a religious moment.
It's a religious moment.
It's unbelievable stuff.
And this has got to be the fantasy that people are living in to think that things are going badly because they don't like Donald Trump.
And like I said, I understand you don't like Donald Trump.
I don't always like Donald Trump.
That's not the point.
The point is the guy is there.
This is what we're going to be talking about.
The guy is there to do a job.
It is just the presidency.
He is not the king.
He is not the guy on the coins.
He's not anything but the guy, the executive of the company of America.
That's his job.
And if he isn't doing a great job, I've never seen a great job done.
So it's fantasy versus reality.
That is the fight we're in.
And if you want to see what the Democrats, meanwhile, are talking about, I'll get back to the impeachment thing.
I'll talk more about this in a minute.
But Trump yesterday, right, is signing the China trade deal.
Let's just take that clip of him talking about the trade deal as he signed it with the vice premier from China.
Okay, let's play that.
I want to thank President Xi, a very, very good friend of mine.
We're representing different countries.
He's representing China.
I'm representing the U.S.
But we've developed an incredible relationship.
But I want to thank him for his cooperation and partnership throughout this very complex process.
Our negotiations were tough, honest, open, and respectful, leading us to this really incredible breakthrough.
Most people thought this could never happen.
Should have happened 25 years ago, by the way, but that's okay.
Mr. Humblebrag.
Wait, we got to, he'll be bragging.
He doesn't have to be Humblebrag.
You know, even the Wall Street Journal, which has just hated Trump using these tariffs as a weapon, even they admitted this was a breakthrough.
It does give China has agreed to increase its imports of U.S. goods by $200 billion over the next two years.
And that's something you can measure, right?
That's something the Chinese can't really cheat on because you can measure whether they're importing 200 billion of goods.
And also, it gives them a way of prosecuting them when they steal our ideas, when they steal our property.
And a lot of people are saying the Wall Street Journal is grumpy about this because they hate the fact that he did this.
They hate the fact that he has frightened the markets with his tariff fights.
And I get it.
They're there to defend Wall Street.
But still, they said, well, what he should have done is he should have stuck with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and gotten all the countries together to fight with China.
But does anybody believe they would have done that?
I mean, it's only the U.S. that ever does anything, and it's only Trump who has the guts to do it.
So this is what Trump is doing.
And I have to play, because I played, made fun of Nancy Pelosi.
I do have to make a little bit of fun of Trump promoting himself.
Do we have the cut of him saying how great he is?
Yeah, this is cut number nine.
It wouldn't be Trump without a little bit of trumpiness.
Where's Rupert?
Is Rupert not here?
I can't believe Rupert's not here.
Is he the greatest?
But he was going to get 40 billion for his thing.
He sold all the stuff he didn't want, and he kept the best stuff.
So Rupert's doing right.
Yeah?
Rupert's fantastic.
And the great Lou Dobbs, you know, at first he said he's the best since Reagan.
Then he got to know me more and more.
And he said he's even better than Reagan.
But Lou Dobbs, he said, he's the greatest of them all.
I said, does that include Washington and Lincoln?
And he said, yes.
Now, I don't know if he was for real, but that's okay.
But the great, he is the great Lou Dobbs.
Thank you very much.
I'm Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
I'll bet he approves that message.
You got to love him, but some people don't love him.
And this is the thing that bothers people.
You know, this is the funny thing.
It's the brashness.
It's the insulting people.
It's the past coming up to bite them in the neck and all this stuff.
What are the Democrats arguing about?
What are the Democrats arguing about?
They're arguing about whether Bernie Sanders said a woman in a private conversation two years ago said a woman couldn't win the presidency.
So they had this fight where Bernie said, no, I didn't say it.
Warren said, you did say it during the debates.
And afterwards, they got together and Warren refused to shake Sanders' hands.
They refused to shake hands.
And now CNN has released the audio of what they were saying.
This is the real deal.
This is the audio of what they were saying to each other.
Here it is.
I think you called me a liar on national TV.
I think you called me a liar on national TV.
Let's not do it right now.
You want to have that discussion?
We'll have that.
Any questions?
You called me a lot.
You told me.
All right, let's not do it right now.
I don't want to get milk.
I just want to say hi, Bernie.
Yeah, good.
Okay.
You lied!
You're a f ⁇ ing liar!
Shut up!
I like a married couple.
We'll talk about it later.
We'll talk about it when we get home.
We're not going to have this conversation at the party.
It's wonderful.
So that's what they're arguing about, whether Bernie, and, you know, personally, I don't actually believe Bernie said this.
And who would believe Elizabeth Warren about anything?
I don't believe Elizabeth Warren when she offers her husband a beer.
Hi, honey, you're home.
I am going to have a beer.
Would you like a beer?
I don't even believe her when she says that.
Look at her cheekbones.
Exactly.
Look at her cheekbones.
So this is the way the left thinks, right?
Matthew Dowd, ABC, this is ABC, of course, where they, which one did they do?
Oh, yeah, they dumped the Jeffrey Epstein story, and they're led by George Stephanopoulos, who, of course, covered up for Bill Clinton.
This is ABC, the masters of morality.
Matthew Dowd, ABC's chief political analyst, tweets out, you know, one clear way to demonstrate that you believe a woman can and should be president?
Don't try to defeat a woman running for president.
It's as if these politicians running for office aren't supposed to run for office.
My favorite was people tweeting out, you know, we have to believe, haven't we learned from the Me Too movement that we have to believe all women?
Well, if that's what you learned, you learned stupid stuff.
Because, you know, women, this is going to come as a big shock to the left.
Women are human beings.
Human beings lie.
I mean, this is the thing.
Everybody lies.
All sides lie.
There's no guardian against being a liar.
It is just amazing how stupid and simplistic they are.
But they're selling this stuff.
because it sells the fantasy.
Michael Moore, you know, and I play Michael Moore because Michael Moore has a certain stream of honesty beneath all the deception.
His films are completely deceptive about socialism and communism and all this stuff.
But he does try to look at the world honestly in terms of his side winning.
And this is what Moore said about this.
The focus has to be about Trump.
It has to be about the system that gave us Trump to make sure that doesn't happen again.
And the fact that we would be talking about this.
And I've known Bernie since the 80s.
So there's no way he said anything like the way it's been reported.
So, I mean, to be honest, the night that that happened, my first thought was they will mark this day, January 13th, as the day Donald Trump was re-elected.
Because once again, the Democrats, the liberals, the left couldn't get it together, couldn't figure out and said, much so happy to get right in there and fight each other like this.
And I'm like, when are we ever going to learn that this is on us?
This is not on the Russians.
It's not on the Republicans.
It's on the Democratic Party for not getting its act together, not using its head.
And he's right to blame Elizabeth Warren, too, because Elizabeth Warren is desperate because her polls are tanking and her polls are tanking because she came out and told the truth about what it was going to cost to put her policies into place.
That's a mistake that Bernie Sanders has never made.
Now, if you want to know what underlies this, what underlies this whole kind of conversation, we will turn to the spokesplace of the left, New York Times, the op-ed page, or as we like to call it, Knucklehead Row.
Charles Blow, one of the chief knuckleheads on Knucklehead Row, one of the most aptly named columnists because his columns do, in fact, blow.
He has a column called To Beat Trump, put ideals before ideas.
Now think about this for a minute.
You are electing politicians.
You are electing people to run the country, which is an objective job.
It's something you do.
But he wants you to put ideals before ideas.
And the subhead is, voters in this presidential election are more concerned with the candidates' values than their proposals.
So in other words, what he wants you to do is he wants you to see Donald Trump and all the bad things about Donald Trump and all the things you don't like about Donald Trump.
And he doesn't want you to think about the policies.
But of course, you know, I get that.
There is a certain level of wickedness and evil that would triumph over even a person's policies.
If they started to find bodies in the Rose Garden, you'd start to say, yeah, well, but that would have been Hillary Clinton's presidency.
But if they did, you would start to say, yeah, it doesn't matter what his policies are.
We got to get him out of there.
But what has Trump done?
Said something to the president of the Ukraine.
That is the fantasy they're selling.
They're selling the fantasy that because he's a big mouth and he is, because he can be rude and brash and he can, because he hasn't always lived the way, you know, a Christian minister should live, that we should ignore the fact that his policies are successful.
And he says, Charles Blow says the moderate candidates pitch a path to victory to win back white people in the Midwest by being just milquetoast enough not to offend them and to cause them no guilt or consternation about having supported a racist, sexist, transphobe who lies about everything and honors nothing.
But we are selling values.
And that is the idea that we are selling the good things.
We're selling the good things of this world.
So let's take a look at the impeachment.
Let's take a look at what's happening in this impeachment.
There's a tremendous coincidence that just as the Democrats got ready to send the articles of impeachment over to the Senate, suddenly new information comes out.
And this is the stuff from Lev Parnas, who is an associate of Rudy Giuliani's.
He is under indictment for, what is he under indictment for?
Federal prosecutors allege that Lev Parnas and Igar Fruman were engaged in political activities in the U.S. on behalf of one or more Ukrainian government officials, including a lobbying campaign targeted at a Republican congressman to remove the U.S. ambassador in Kiev.
So anyway, they found all these documents, these notes that he made, saying we've got to get them to announce, we've got to get Ukraine to announce they're going to investigate Donald Trump.
And he goes on with Rachel Maddow and says Trump knew all about it.
What do you think is the main inaccuracy or the main lie that's being told that you feel like you can correct?
That the president didn't know what was going on.
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President Trump knew exactly what was going on.
He was aware of all of my movements.
I wouldn't do anything without the consent of Rudy Giuliani or the president.
Now, I have to be honest about this and say that I've never cared about this story.
And I know now it's the impeachment.
We've got to cover it.
We've got to talk about it.
I have never cared about this.
We heard about Trump colluding with Russia.
Turned out Hillary Clinton colluded with Russia to get this information, the steel dossier, on Trump.
We heard about Trump obstructing justice.
Turned out he cooperated with every possible investigation.
The Mueller investigation, he was sending over millions and millions of documents.
He was yelling about it.
You know, he was saying, who will rid me of this troublesome investigation?
But he was not obstructing it at all.
They went with Stormy Daniels.
They went with anything they could find.
They finally stumbled on these four sentences in this conversation.
And the fact that Rudy Giuliani, who, you know, and it's sad because Rudy Giuliani used to be one of the great politicians in this country.
He cleaned, almost single-handedly, cleaned up New York from the cesspit it was.
And it really was a cesspit.
I lived there when it was.
You could not go outside after dark.
It was dangerous everywhere you went.
People were afraid.
You couldn't go in the park.
Now you walk in Central Park at night and there are people, you know, it reminds me of that old song, Autumn in New York, you know, lovers who bless the dark on benches in Central Park.
That's happening again.
Just like it used to back in the 30s and 40s.
All of that was Rudy Giuliani and of course his triumphant handling of the tragedy and atrocity of the World Trade Center being brought down, his heroic handling of that.
The guy was a great, great mayor.
Now he seems to have gone off the deep end a little bit and some of the stuff that comes out of his mouth, you don't know what he's going to say next.
Here is White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham talking about Lev Parnas and basically dismissing everything he says.
The president has said he did not know him.
And I've got to say, you know, just to say Rudy told me these things doesn't mean that it has anything to do with the president.
And it certainly doesn't mean that the president was directing him to do anything.
You know, we stand by exactly what we've been saying.
The president did nothing wrong.
The phone calls, the transcripts, say everything there is to it.
This is a man who's under indictment and who's actually out on bail.
This is a man who owns a company called Fraud Inc.
So I think that's something that people should be thinking about.
You know, we're not too concerned about it.
Once again, we know that everything in the Senate's going to be fair.
It's unfortunate that he's now making a media tour out with a lot of the outlets that are, you know, against the president.
I think that shows exactly what he's doing.
Well, it shows he's probably trying to stay out of jail, too.
But, you know, just remember, just to be fair, Trump has surrounded himself with these guys, this Michael Cohn, Roy Cohen, all these pseudo-tough guys from New York who say they're willing to do anything.
And then the minute the feds break down their door, they suddenly start gabbing and talking about it.
He has surrounded himself with these guys throughout his life and then dumped them when they were no longer useful to him.
And it has not, it's not a good look for him.
And there was a hilarious interview with Eric Bowling.
One of the things that was found in these papers were these charges that Marie Ivanovich, one of the Ukrainian ambassadors who claimed she was unfairly fired, she says that she was being trailed by Trump's agents, this guy, Robert Hyde.
So Eric Bowling called him up, called Robert Hyde up, and asked him whether he was following him.
And here's what Hyde said.
Did you have eyes on Maria Jovanovich?
Absolutely not.
Are you kidding me?
I'm a little landscape Kinetica.
Excuse my language.
Come on.
You know me, Eric.
No, I do.
I do.
I've known.
I believe I was in Ecuador while we were WhatsApping each other.
That's why we were using WhatsApp.
I mean, I'd like to see the full text come out because there was some real colorful stuff set by Parnas.
These guys, and just to be fair here, you know, it is true that Trump surrounded himself with these guys, and a lot of them are sleazy.
But the whole fantasy here is that Trump is sleazy, but the Democrats are clean.
You know, the Democrats who've been covering up for Jeffrey Epstein, who've been, you know, covering up for Harvey Weinstein, the Democrats who kill stories about these people, the Democrats who elevated Michael Avenatti, who got, and now Michael Avenatti is being sent back to jail.
He is being sent back to jail in the middle when he was arrested in the middle of being cashiered by the Bar Association.
He's now been jailed in California.
Let's just go back and remember how the media treated Avenatti when he was representing Stormy Daniels, a stripper who had a consensual affair or says she had a consensual affair with Trump.
And that was supposed to be this big deal.
Let's not forget that the sleaziness is on both sides.
He's Donald Trump's worst nightmare, Michael Avenatti.
Joining us once again is Michael Avenatti.
Let's bring in Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti.
Michael Avenatti, thank you very much.
He's out there saving the country.
John Meacham says he may be the savior of the Republic.
You are something of a folk hero now.
I owe Michael Avenatti an apology.
I've been saying enough already, Michael.
I've seen you everywhere.
What do you love to say?
I was wrong, brother.
You have a lot to say.
I am just dying to hear what you think.
These people all like you.
I'm the only person right here Donald Trump fears more than Robert Miller.
We think you guys are the tip of the spear that's going to take down Donald Trump.
Michael Avenatti is a beast.
Okay, that's true.
He's a beast.
He's a beast.
I hand it to her.
And I hand it to Michael Avenatti.
But he has a bigger calling here.
That being a lawyer is minimal compared to what he's doing.
No one has talked tougher directly to Donald Trump on TV than Michael Avenatti.
And Donald Trump is afraid to mention his name.
That's fascinating.
Our elites are sleazy.
Our leaders are sleazy.
The people telling us, preaching to us about political correctness, the people preaching to us about morals are sleazy.
It is getting very, very ancient Rome around here.
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I have to end this segment by playing, talking about impeachment, by playing this thing of the press.
They marched the articles of impeachment across the Capitol building into the Senate like a scene from Game of Thrones.
It was hilariously comic, but the press sold it with all their hearts as one of the great moments in history.
Here they are.
The history of this moment.
As a student of American history, you know, people are going to be studying this for a long time.
Just the ceremony of it, walking over, delivering the articles of impeachment.
The House Clerk right now appears to still be holding on to the articles of impeachment from what we can tell from the cameras right there.
Through the rotunda, through Statuary Hall, back to the House of Representatives.
And just thinking about the history that they're walking through.
This is history, Nia.
This is history unfolding.
There's a sacramental quality to this.
There's a ritual.
I'm so glad Chris used the word ritual because that's the word that has been stuck in my head about this all day today.
There is something almost religious to it.
And I think Pelosi's a real believer in this about ritual.
She said he's been impeached forever.
They can never erase that.
Oh, there's no.
There's a sacramental statement.
Like a priest for life.
It is a perfect statement of what she is.
I think she's very reverential.
A lot of members felt, and they told me as they were waiting, that this was an historic moment they didn't want to miss.
One of the things these senators are going to have to think about is what do they want us to think about when we look at their portrait?
Portrait, or and some of them might think there will be actual statues that we will someday walk by.
That is a lot of fake news back there.
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So when we talk about cancel culture, when we talk about political correctness, this is the point of it.
This is the point of it.
Anything that bursts the bubble of fantasy, anything that bursts the dream that the Democrats and their media are selling to you has to be condemned, not just condemned.
I mean, you have to be destroyed for even being willing to say it.
Because the one thing fantasy can't survive is the truth.
And that is the whole point of cancel culture.
It's the whole point of political correctness.
It's the whole point of silencing people.
Everything saying is shut up.
And it reveals the phoniness of the whole thing.
Because if you're a black guy and you say, you know what, I kind of like Donald Trump, a blonde from Brooklyn will show up at your house and revoke your black card.
You know, I mean, white people will come and say, you're not really black.
Straight people will tell you you're not really gay if you will not become a knee-jerk Democrat.
Anything that violates the bubble has to be stopped.
You know, I got to tell you something.
Last night, I'm sitting around, I'm reading poetry, which I frequently do.
And I talk a lot about the fact that Regency England and this moment in America are very similar.
In Regency England, there had been this revolution in France, like we had a revolution in the 60s, and everything changed, and young people thought, oh, this is it.
You know, this is heaven has come, paradise has come to earth.
It's the age of Aquarius.
And then it all fell apart.
In France, it fell apart with the terror of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, which was essentially a world war.
And thinking people said maybe the values that started the French Revolution were wrong, but if you said that, you got nailed.
I mean, Wordsworth changed his mind and people were writing poetry about what a terrible guy he was.
Well, we had the same thing.
The 60s failed.
They made things worse.
They made life for black people worse.
They made life for women worse.
Women are more unhappy since the 60s than they were before the 60s.
Unbelievable stuff.
And if you come out like me and you say, hey, you know, it mustn't have been those ideas.
Those ideas were not good ideas.
You're the bad guy.
You have to be silenced.
Last night, I'm reading Child Harold's Pilgrimage, which is a poem by Lord Byron.
I'm rereading it.
I've read it many times.
It's the poem that made Lord Byron famous.
One of the reasons it made him famous was it portrayed what came to be known as the Byronic hero, who was a guy who was tired of the sexual promiscuity in the world.
He was tired of the collapse of values that the French Revolution had caused.
And so he went on this pilgrimage wandering around the world.
And it came out in two different segments.
The first two cantos came out in one year, and the second two cantos came out after the Napoleonic Wars were over, after Waterloo was over.
And he was a much better poet by then and was really writing good stuff.
And he talks about the way of the world and how corrupt the world is.
And he talks about the fact that opinion has become king.
He says, opinion and omnipotence.
Opinion is all-powerful.
Opinion and omnipotence whose veil mantles the earth with darkness until right and wrong are accidents and men grow pale lest their own judgments should become too bright and their free thoughts be crimes and earth have too much light.
Cancel culture.
It existed then just as it existed now.
Opinion and omnipotence and men grow pale because their free thoughts are crimes, right?
The whole, that's cancel culture.
You know, human nature never changes and it just comes up in different ways at different times.
If you don't think this stuff is important, you're not paying attention.
Conservatives are so stupid about this.
I'm telling you, if there were no leftists, conservatives would be the stupidest people in America.
They do not understand that this cancel culture matters.
They run for their lives.
They start to be afraid.
Listen, I'm a friend to gay people, but if you think gay being a homosexual is a sin, you should say so.
You should come out and say so.
You know, I think that this is the thing.
If you are afraid to speak, if you're afraid to speak, they've already won.
You know, there was an amazing, an amazing article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, the day before, by Phil Graham and Michael Solon, talking about the fact that it was called The Plot to Politicize Banking.
And it talks about the fact that banking was politicized when the left started to force bankers to give subprime loans to people who were their favorite targets.
They were minorities.
But the problem was the minorities couldn't pay the loans back.
So Wall Street started playing with those subprime loans and trying to get their money back for them by reselling them and reselling them.
And when home values dropped, the entire economy collapsed in the 2008 election.
That was how that happened.
It was led by Barney Frank in the Congress and Chris Dodd in the Senate.
Who did Obama have right the reform program?
Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
That's the Frank Dodd or Dodd-Frank reform.
So that's how corrupt it is.
That's how terrible it is.
Now what they're doing is they are trying to intimidate banks not to give money to things that they don't like.
So a banker from Wells Fargo goes in and Alexandria Occasional Cortex says to him, why was your bank involved in the caging of children?
Because they loaned money to one of the firms that built the federal immigration detention centers.
And the banker is terrified, right?
He doesn't want this congresswoman coming down on him.
And at the same hearing, Representative Rashida Tlaib, they're thugs.
This is truly ancient Roman stuff.
These are congresswomen acting as thugs to intimidate bankers.
And she went after a banker saying, will any of your banks make a commitment to phase out your investments in fossil fuels, right?
Which provide 90% of U.S. transportation and provide 2 million jobs in energy extraction and, by the way, keep us ahead of the Iranians because they make us energy independent.
So the bankers get terrified because they know that cancel culture will come after them.
And these congresswomen use that to terrify.
So when you see, for instance, The Joker, The Joker got a lot of Oscar nominations.
And when you see people start to react to this at BuzzFeed, Paul Bois, our own Paul Bois, writes in the Daily Wire, at BuzzFeed, Scotchie Cole argued that Joker getting nominated is especially insulting in light of the fact that women and people of color were underrepresented at the Oscars this year.
He says there are other movies and actors taking up this space, but it's more infuriating for Joker to do it because the movie posits that women and black women in particularly are holding white men back, which is absolute crap.
I mean, that's absolute, that is a misreading of the Joker.
It is really terrible.
I mean, it really is just nonsense.
But if you don't think that's important because it's just Joker and it's people saying stupid stuff, it translates into politics.
Culture is downstream.
Politics is downstream from culture.
And once you become afraid to speak, and once you become afraid of losing your job, and once you become afraid of losing your sponsors, then there's nobody to speak up for the banks when Ecasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib say, are you going to invest in people who build detention centers for immigrants?
Are you going to give loans to people who have guns, who manufacture guns?
That was another thing they went after them for.
Once you become afraid, you're putting this tremendous political power in their hands, the power of fear.
And you see this all over the place in Chadwick Moore, who is a writer for The Spectator.
He's a gay guy.
He was a former liberal.
He was red-pilled.
He has been banned from Facebook for saying that crackers are the least, what does he call them?
Rednecks are the least racist people.
He put out an article in The Spectator saying, I'm told by the media, Northern Liberals, that where I'm from is a backward land of racist bigots.
Yet every time I go home to Tennessee, I'm reminded of the opposite.
I've been to every corner of this country and still find that area of the South to be the least racist place in America banned from Facebook, taken off Facebook for saying that whites from the South are not racist people.
In fact, the opposite.
In Australia, Wilson Gavin, a 21-year-old gay Conservative student, led a protest against Drag Queen Story Hour at the Brisbane Bain Square Library in Australia.
The LGBT activist came after the kids so much that he killed himself.
He killed himself because he couldn't take the cancel culture that came down on him.
They're doing this on purpose.
It has a political motive.
I mean, I could read you a dozen stories.
They blessed a Bible for, you know, this new space force that Trump has started.
They blessed a King James Bible saying, may this Bible guard and guide all those whose purpose that the final frontier being a place where God will triumph over evil.
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation condemns in as full-throated a manner as is humanly possible the shocking and repulsive display of only the most vile, exclusivist, fundamentalist Christian supremacy.
They do it on purpose.
They need you to be afraid.
Stephen King got it the other day.
Stephen King said he would only judge a book on its merits, and they beat him up until he said, well, yeah, we do have to support minorities.
But he could have just, look, I believe that minorities could be excluded so that you don't see them.
You don't see their merit.
That's true.
But ultimately, you judge the work on its merit.
And if a white guy does something better than a black guy, you give it the award to the white guy.
You know, all of this stuff, all of this stuff is especially geared to minorities.
And all of it may come a cropper in this next election because the polls are showing that 30% of blacks are supporting Trump.
If that's true, if that is true, the Democrats could be finished for a generation, not just in this next election.
And so they are desperate.
And so the hate just keeps piling on and piling on.
And conservatives who think it doesn't matter, conservatives who think they can just argue about policy and not argue about this, have lost their minds.
They don't know what they're talking about.
Let me end with a final reflection about Another Kingdom and myself.
You know, you may remember this Witcher non traversy, I should call it, where I said that I didn't believe this queen character in the Netflix show, The Witcher, who was fighting with a sword in a medieval warfare.
She wasn't in a duel.
You know, she wasn't in a duel of two people fencing and one taps the other, and that's it.
She was in the middle of a battle swinging this sword.
And I made a mistake, I have to admit, and I knew it was a mistake, even as it came out of my mouth, and I didn't stop to correct it, where I said a sword would wave something like five to ten pounds.
Swords were much lighter than that, as I knew from researching Another Kingdom.
If you don't think, this is the Witcher I'm talking about, right?
This is a Netflix TV show, where I said women would not do well in medieval battles.
They would not be able to fight in medieval battles.
Here's a message I got on my Facebook fan page from a woman named, I'm going to name her, Marina Lilith Senis Granados, saying, it's a fan page.
So she said, let Clavin know never to set foot in Costa Rica or I'll personally rid the world of his scum.
You can go on ahead and do whatever needs to be done because if he ever even gets close to our borders, he'll be going home in a body bag.
Because I thought she wants to murder me, she's threatening me with death.
That is a death threat, because I thought a character, a witcher, was unrealistic.
So with that in mind, I want to commend to you the new episode of Another Kingdom.
It comes out for subscribers tomorrow, Daily Wire subscribers.
Tomorrow it will be available to everybody Monday.
Another Kingdom has been getting the best reactions ever.
People just love it.
I have to say that I love it.
Knowles loves it.
We finished recording it, but we haven't finished releasing it yet.
And in Another Kingdom, there was a battle scene where the hero and his girl advisor, this girl Maud, who advises him, and she wants to go into battle with him.
And he says, forget it.
And she says, why?
Because I'm a girl.
And he says, yes, exactly.
Exactly that.
I need men.
This isn't a movie.
It's war.
I need big men, soldiers, centaurs, ogres, strong men who can fight other men who are also strong with big, strong arms that can wield swords all day without growing tired.
And she says, what's a movie?
And he says, it's a kind of lie in which things are the way people want them to be instead of the way they are.
This is not that.
And I want to say to conservatives, this is the stuff that I'm saying in my art.
This is the stuff that people say when they're not afraid.
When Clint Eastwood brought out his new movie, Richard Jewell, and people said this is a pro-Trump movie, conservatives didn't show up.
They didn't show up to support him.
It's a good movie, too.
It's not like it's a bad movie, which would be different.
They didn't show up to support him.
If you don't show up to support artists who have a vision of the world that has something to do with reality, you will only get art that tells the left-wing lie because the pressure is intense, the hate is intense, the cancel culture is intense, and a lot of people crack, like the kid in Australia who killed himself, like people who stand down because they're afraid.
And if you're not supporting the people who aren't afraid, what do you think's going to happen?
What do you think's going to happen when the voters are enrapped in that fantasy and in nothing else and the truth can't reach them?
Then when 2020 comes and you say, oh, but Trump was doing so well, why'd they vote him out of office?
That's why.
Because you didn't show up to defend the truth from the left-wing fantasy.
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