Andrew Clavin brands modern liberalism a "mental illness," comparing its denial of objective truth—from transgender ideology to welfare failures—to Maoist-inspired groups like Antifa, which he calls revolutionary Bolsheviks using urban guerrilla tactics. He cites Bill Barr’s warnings about Antifa’s violence and accuses media (NYT, Google) of suppressing conservative voices while amplifying leftist narratives, calling it "psyops for psychos." Clavin contrasts Trump’s unfiltered truth-telling with liberal figures like Pelosi and Biden, whose cognitive decline and racial insensitivity go unchecked due to ideological loyalty. The episode ties cultural collapse—from Cardi B’s WAP to defund-the-police movements—to Marxist roots, arguing conservatives must resist leftist "racist" labeling of factual dissent, even if it risks backlash. [Automatically generated summary]
The mostly peaceful violence in Portland continues, as Joe Biden voters and other Democrats continue to mostly not riot, leaving the city mostly not in flames.
The protesters, who are mostly idealistic young people, except during those few hours when they're destructive thugs, mostly did not assault unarmed elderly people, leaving most of the local elderly not terrorized or covered in paint.
Most of the time, the mobs of usually not rampaging mass marauders were mostly not shining lasers into the eyes of policemen in attempts to blind them.
And they could very often be seen not setting local stores on fire, as when they were trying to destroy government buildings, which they were mostly not doing either.
Around the country, journalists were mostly not reporting on what the mostly peaceful rioters were mostly not doing.
And in fact, the journalists themselves spend only about a third of the day at work, and so are mostly not spreading disinformation like hideous bottom-feeding swamp creatures who have somehow evolved the capacity to lie with completely straight faces.
Unless, of course, they also lie to their friends and families, in which case they're mostly not mostly not hideous bottom-feeding swamp creatures, but mostly are, which would mostly not surprise me.
For example, the New York Times, a former newspaper, mostly didn't report the mostly peaceful havoc being mostly not wreaked by the mostly peaceful Democrat thugs and other Joe Biden voters in Seattle.
But then suddenly the New York Times did report the mostly peaceful destruction that left most of the city not in shambles.
So that many times readers said, whoa, I've been mostly lied to, and I'm now mostly ignorant about what's mostly going on because I've mostly been reading the New York Times and now mostly feel like a schnook.
The mostly peaceful riots will mostly not spread into residential areas so that residents will mostly not be terrorized in their homes.
So that's mostly great, unless the person terrorized happens to be you.
Conservatism's Hoorah Hymn00:03:35
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All right, we are back from vacation, still laughing our way through the fall of the republic, which has gone on without me somehow.
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On the seventh day, God said, let there be Clavin.
Allow his head to shine the light and disperse the darkness that has fallen onto our world.
That actually is a biblical quote, just for those of you who don't read the Bible and can therefore be gulled.
It's always good to get some time off and get some perspective, especially in a difficult moment like this.
It's nice to back off a little bit and see what's going on.
And one of the things I was thinking about is the fact that liberalism and conservatism mean different things at different times.
In the 18th and 19th century, in Europe, conservatism often took the form of preserving inherited aristocratic hierarchies, while liberalism meant giving ordinary people more rights and more chances to raise their status.
It was largely a kind of class clash.
But that was never really true in America.
Here, conservatism has mostly been a defense of individual and localized liberty and property rights, while liberalism has often been a search for ways to protect the underclasses and give them a leg up.
That's a perfectly fair conflict to have in ongoing democratic politics.
Individual freedom is the greatest political good there is, but like everything people do, it sometimes needs to be limited to protect those who don't have the wherewithal to thrive from those who don't have the moral sense not to abuse them.
None of this is true today, however.
Today, conservatism is a mishmash of constitutional proceduralism, libertarianism, Christian moralism, and capitalist enthusiasm, sometimes to the point of extremism.
Liberalism, on the other hand, is a mental illness.
It's not even liberalism anymore because there's nothing liberal about it.
It's leftism, and it now bears absolutely no relation to reality.
In fact, it's a complete denial of reality, which is the definition of mental illness.
The ideas that come out of their mouths, socialism is great, rioting is peaceful, criminality is the fault of the police, women are men, minority activism is somehow more democratic than protecting majority rights.
You really can't name a leftist issue that describes reality realistically.
Personally, I think the reason for this is the total and universal failure of Marxism every place.
Liberalism hooked its wagon to that star and so became leftism and so sucked up and wasted the lives of generations of people.
And those people simply cannot admit that they were wrong and changed their minds.
So they've decided to detach from reality itself.
There is still room in a healthy country for two sides, on the left and the right, but we no longer have a left.
We have a sickness, an inability to admit the failure of a philosophy that has led to a nationwide state of delusion, and the elites demand that we all join in the delusive dance.
Detaching From Reality00:15:16
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So thinking about all this stuff, I'm out like, you know, paddling out in the ocean.
We were kayaking and hiking.
I'm thinking about all this stuff.
And when I first started speaking politically, what inspired me, what moved me to speak out and basically put myself in the position of being canceled from almost everything that I was doing for a living, was the failure of the culture to respond sanely to the threat of Islamism.
It was right after 9-11.
I was watching, it wasn't the shock of 9-11.
We were all shocked by 9-11.
It was the shock of watching comedians like David Letterman come on TV and say with a straight face, why do they hate us?
And I thought, who cares?
They're Nazis.
Who cares whether Nazis hate us?
Of course the Nazis should hate us.
We should be happy when communists and Nazis hate us.
That's when we should wake up in the morning and go, hey, it's great to be an American.
Nazis hate us, communists hate us.
We're doing great.
But instead, these guys with this sick, horrible philosophy of radical Islamism who were willing to kill 3,000 innocents for no possible reason at all, who wanted to impose their oppression on women, who wanted to impose their oppression on everybody who didn't, other Christians, anybody who doesn't agree with them, somehow we were supposed to feel responsible for this.
And I thought, what could mean, you know, I had a leftist friend in New York.
He had a Muslim wife, one of the smartest men I ever met, but just far, far to the left.
And he called me up and he said it was so touching after 9-11.
He was living in Brooklyn and he said the NYPD went out and protected mosques, you know, just the same as they protected everyone else.
And I thought, who has lived in New York as I have, who doesn't know the NYPD protects people without fear or favor?
I mean, the way they protect black, they spend most of their lives protecting people in black neighborhoods.
And then this suspicion, this leftist suspicion that somehow that's not being done.
He was moved by this because he didn't know what was happening because the culture, the culture had convinced him not to see what he saw with his own eyes, but had convinced him that a theory, a failed Marxist theory, had to be kept in his imagination like a lens over the entire world of reality that he saw.
And that's when I began to talk about the culture, because only culture can explain how smart leftists became so detached from reality.
Now, since then, the right has gotten a little bit better.
We've started to fight back, but it's a countercultural on-the-ground movement.
It's a grassroots movement where we fight on Twitter and we fight on YouTube and we fight in all the places we can.
And they fight back because they, they have been taken over by the culture, the corporations.
They have their own reasons for believing in Marxism that they know doesn't work, but they know will protect them from competition.
And that's the thing.
It's gotten worse on the left as reality keeps intruding and they have to keep silencing it more and more.
And that's always what happens to leftism because it doesn't work.
All right, let's take a closer look at some of this.
You know, there's always a lot of hyperbole in democratic countries.
This is obviously a democratic republic.
People like to say it's not a democracy, it's a republic.
That's absolutely true, but it's a democratic republic.
Why is there so much hyperbole?
Why are politicians always screaming about things that seem pretty simple and don't seem trying to get us into a panic, trying to make us afraid?
Why are they, when this Chinese flu started, why is the New York Times just a fear sheet now?
It's just like, be afraid, stay in your house, put on a mask, put stuff things in your nose, put things in your eyes or else you'll see it.
You know, why does it become that hyperbolic?
Well, the reason is that in a democratic republic, the people are a power center.
But they're not the only power center.
There are other power centers, right?
There's corporations, big corporations are power centers.
Political parties are power centers.
Movements are power centers, all kinds of power centers.
Usually, in a democracy, we are dealing with very, very simple problems with very obvious solutions that are made complicated by the fact that powerful people don't want them solved.
Perfect example, illegal immigration.
You can't have open borders.
If you have open borders, you don't have a country.
Borders define your country.
You have to patrol your borders.
You have to decide who comes in and who doesn't come in.
How many immigrants you need, how many you want, what kind you want.
That's obvious.
That's true.
Everybody knows this is the truth.
The problem is, so there's a left and right argument to be had, right?
There's a left, we want more people to come in.
We want to be more culturally diverse.
We want to open up our borders and allow people more freedom.
And there's a right-wing idea saying, no, what we've got is good here.
We want to very tightly control who comes in so we don't ruin what's going on.
The reason they want to come in is because things are good here.
We don't want too many people coming on.
Right and left argument, perfectly good way to get to a compromise.
But the thing is, there are lots of people on both the left and the right who don't want the problem solved.
The left doesn't want the problem solved because open borders help destroy the country.
Open borders also give them more power because new arrivals tend to be gulled by the left because the left uses identity politics to suck them in.
The right wants to close the borders because they think like, oh no, if our demographics get out of control.
The Wall Street Journal is very open border immigration.
Why?
Because rich people, and that's who the Wall Street Journal represents.
It's a great paper.
I love the paper, but it represents a certain class of rich people.
They thrive off the low-income immigrants who come in and can be hired for below the minimum wage, who support businesses that don't want to pay the minimum wage, that don't want to be tied up in a kind of union controversy.
So they're rich, powerful people who don't want the problem solved.
So in order to move the people, this power center of the people, behind your point of view, you have to scare them.
The left will tell you you're a fascist if you don't want to open the border to everybody.
The right will tell you, like, oh my God, you know, once these Mexicans swarm in, we'll all be living in Mexico.
You know, it's that they have to frighten you to move this power center in the direction of where they want to go.
So different levels of people, different levels of people are operating for different motives.
And that's what we're seeing here as our country, our cities, our Democrat-run cities, are going up in smoke.
There are the level of the rioters.
There's the level of the people organizing the rioters.
There's the level of the press supporting the rioters and the level of the Democrat Party also supporting the rioters.
And they all have different motives.
There were riots in the Portland violence has once again been declared a riot.
Remember this trope that was going around?
Oh, it was the federal agents that Trump sent in.
It was the federal agents that Trump sent in that caused the violence.
The federal agents are gone.
The violence has gotten worse.
Once again, they've declared a riot.
Riots in Chicago last night, terrible chaos.
On Sunday afternoon, that shopping center they have, it's called something like the Miraculous Mile or something like this.
There was a shooting, the Magnificent Mile, it's called.
There was a shooting in Englewood.
There were complaints of a man with a gun.
The suspect, the cops came for the suspect.
The suspect opened fire.
The cops returned fire.
It was a running gun battle.
The suspect was killed.
He was black.
Black people rioted.
So you tell me.
You tell me what the reasons are.
The cops are just supposed to stand there.
Maybe they should paint targets on their uniforms and make it easier.
It's kind of racist of them not to let the guy shoot, you know, aim properly when he shoots at them.
But they shot, they fired back.
It was clearly a clean killing.
It was clearly something that had to be done.
And the terrorists went off and started rioting.
Now, so there are all these people.
There's looters.
Looters are just lawless people who seize the chance to loot stuff.
They go in and they rob the stores.
That's what happened on the Magnificent Mile.
They had to raise the bridges and close off the tunnels to keep them contained.
But then there are the movement people, the Antifa and the Black Lives Matter Marxist movements.
Bill Barr was on the Mark Levin show the other day, and he was talking about this.
He's got an honest guy, a very good observer of legal issues, obviously, the Attorney General.
Let's play Cut Eight.
He's talking about Antifa here.
They are a revolutionary group that is interested in some form of socialism, communism.
They're essentially Bolsheviks.
Their tactics are fascistic.
And your description of them is consistent, what I've seen.
And then he goes on to talk about the fact that this is part of essentially a Maoist playbook, because you remember it was Mao who had the cultural revolution where the young people rose up, beat up their teachers, terrorized the adults, and basically forced them to bow and scrape before their youthful, idealistic communism, destroying the Chinese culture up to the time.
And Bill Barr says this is part of what's happening now, cut nine.
It's a form of sort of, it's a new form of urban guerrilla warfare.
You know, Mao used to speak, Mao Tze Tung used to speak about the guerrilla being like fish swimming in the ocean, the way the guerrilla moves through the people.
The guerrilla hides out among the people as a fish in the ocean.
And what they do is they are essentially shielding themselves or shrouding themselves in First Amendment activity.
They go into the demonstrations which are exercising First Amendment activity and they insinuate themselves in there to shield themselves.
That's where they swim.
And what they do is they hijack these demonstrations and they provoke violence.
So he's talking about the different levels of protesters.
There are young people out there who are idealistic.
They're protesting.
They don't really know what they're thinking.
Well, they do.
That's not fair.
You know, Barton Swame, a Wall Street Journal writer, very intelligent guy, he writes a piece today about how there's a level of these people, not the Maoist organizers, not the movement people, not the people who seize control of the protests.
But there are also these levels of young people who have been corrupted in their minds by our educational system.
And he talks about what racial justice means to them.
And he says, racial justice, according to the nation's cultural arbiters over the past several decades, remember this has been going on since the 60s, consists largely in following two rules.
First, adherence to the doctrine that racial equity requires more and greater expansions of the welfare state and civil rights law and all the welfare and all those things that go into the great society that has really destroyed the lives of black people.
The second rule dates from the mid-1970s, around 1990.
It crystallized into political correctness, which has now hardened into canceled culture.
If you express any sentiment at all that can be construed as racist in any way, even if nothing else in your behavior would suggest retrogressive opinions, you can expect a variety of social punishments.
Now, those two things, in my mind, are connected because the first thing isn't true.
It isn't true that a greater welfare state is going to help with racial equity.
That's not true.
You have to have cancel culture to silence people who say it's not true.
So anybody who says anything that's not in the party line.
And the reason, of course, for this is this welfare state is a huge patronage boon for leftists.
It's a huge patronage boon.
It's a used money boon.
It's a huge way of funneling money into buying votes.
So they don't want it destroyed.
So you have to be silenced if you disagree with this.
So basically what we're dealing with is psyops for psychos.
They're running, these people have gone insane because Marxism has failed, and they want to make sure that you go insane too.
So it's a psycho-sciop.
So he goes on to say, he says, young radicals are not stupid.
Surveying the current state of the races in America, they conclude with ample justification that this orthodoxy must have been a fraud all along.
And so they think, in other words, they see that the welfare state has not improved people's lives.
And he goes on to say, they realize that politicians, journalists, intellectuals, and celebrities who've done most to influence thinking on race in America were happy with the status quo the whole time.
They just wanted powerful white liberals, just wanted to feel better about themselves.
And there's also a lot of money involved, as I say.
So they realize this has failed, but they don't realize there's another way.
He says they haven't heard of Patrick Moynihan, who pointed out that poverty among black Americans was the result not of an insufficiently generous welfare system, but of the black family's dissolution.
They don't know about Irving Kristol and James Q. Wilson, and they certainly don't know about Thomas Sowell and his economic doctrines.
They don't know we're here.
This is an argument.
What you're seeing is an argument between leftism and liberalism.
That's the fight that's actually being had because they don't know we're here because we have been so effectively silenced and we have bowed to that.
We have kow-towed to that because we haven't invaded the culture and taken it back.
We're trying.
We've started, but it's late in the day.
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Why They Project False Consciousness00:10:03
It's K-L-A-V-A-N.
I know you forgot from the last time I told you.
So because of these two factors, the fact that the welfare state hasn't worked and the fact that in order to keep people from realizing the welfare state doesn't work, you have to have cancel culture.
You have to be able to cancel people who start to say, you know, there's other issues here besides whether we're throwing money at these problems.
All of the violence in this country is on the left.
I mean, all of the violence, because they are the ones who have gone and saying, we keep hearing about this dark right-wing threat, and no question there's a crazy right-winger here and there who's going to go off and hurt somebody.
There's no doubt about that.
That's true of all ideologies everywhere.
But look around the country.
Look back to the 60s, which is what this reminds me of.
It's all on the left.
And so you have this, the fact that reality is right in front of us.
The reality that Marxism has failed.
The reality, not just Marxism, but the welfare state doesn't improve racial equity.
It doesn't do it.
And then you have this other side con that's going on that's powerful people saying, gee, we can't let the welfare state go because this is how I give jobs to my friends.
This is how I get money to buy votes.
This is what keeps this entire trillion dollar industry in place.
We can't let people know that this is actually part of the problem.
We have to silence anybody who starts to come up with this.
And we have to teach the young people that anyone who says it is hateful.
That's why they're not arguing with us.
They don't know we're here.
They don't know what the arguments on the other side is.
Why do you think they riot when I show up?
Look, who's the nicest person you know?
Me, right?
When I show up at campuses, they riot.
I mean, that's insane.
That's insane.
A lovely, lovely person like myself.
And, you know, obviously Shapiro, they go nuts.
It's like, that's why, because they have been taught you must not hear this other point of view.
And, you know, because they're young people, I say this sometimes when I give speeches.
It doesn't occur to them that the person teaching them that is controlling their minds, obviously, controlling their minds.
Obviously, this is a problem with the media.
That's where the psychosyops take place.
Bill Barr had more to say on that.
Let's play Cut 10.
You know, they are projecting a narrative.
When the word narrative came into currency, I knew we were in trouble because the word narrative really suggests that there's no objective truth.
There's no real story of what happened.
It's just everyone has their own narrative.
And you get to then the press can justify presenting a story that doesn't really correspond to objective truth, but that it's our narrative.
We have a narrative, you have a narrative.
You know, why did that philosophy, and that is the philosophy on the left, there were whole, you know, books written about it.
There is no truth.
There's just not.
Why did that come about?
And it did come about.
It did come about at the same time it was becoming clear that Marxism was a failure.
In fact, it actually starts with Marxist ideas about false consciousness.
And why did they have to have Marxist ideas about false consciousness?
Because a system that had a bourgeoisie, a system that allowed people to move from being a peasant into the bourgeoisie, made people happy.
And people were happy.
And people were going, hey, this is good.
This is good.
Because Marx didn't like this system, he had to convince people: no, no, you're not really happy.
That smile on your face, the fact that you wake up singing, the fact that your wife is like singing in the shower, that you're richer than you've ever been, that you're living in houses that are like that people would have killed for 100 years ago, that you're just a working class guy, and yet you have a house and a lawn and you have barbecues and things like that.
No, I know that you think that makes you happy because you're smiling all the time and your wife is singing and your kids are running around laughing.
No, my friend.
That is false consciousness.
And from this idea of false consciousness, that you are being brainwashed into supporting a system that essentially oppresses you comes all the rest of this.
The system of gender oppresses you.
They're just brainwashed into thinking you're a woman.
That baby coming out of you, no, no, no, that doesn't make you a woman.
Don't be silly.
Anybody, a man can have a baby.
A woman can have a penis.
It's all just false consciousness.
The whole world, there is no reality.
That is mental illness.
That theory is a mental illness.
And it not only is mental illness in itself, it produces mental illness in others.
When you teach it to people, it drives them crazy because it's very, very hard.
It's very, very hard to make the opposing argument that there is a moral reality.
It's the argument Socrates made.
It's the argument Jesus made.
It's the argument that our entire culture is based on.
But if you don't happen to be Socrates and you don't happen to be Jesus and you're not being taught what Socrates said and you're not being taught what Jesus said, you're not going to know what the argument is.
And that's what they depend on, your ignorance.
That's why they know it.
So a lot of the people in the news media don't even know they're running a psyops.
They're part of the psychopaths.
They're in the psyops themselves.
You know, Ms. Brian Stelter, and people get offended that I call him a woman, but it's really just science.
I mean, Brian Stelter missed a deadline to go to bed early and have a good cry.
And then he shared that fact.
There are only two kinds of people on earth, men and women.
Men don't do that.
So it's just science when I call him Ms. Brian Stelter.
But he had this panel on.
It's kind of glorious.
It's a glorious panel in which he says, you know, the way the right attacks Joe Biden, there's nothing on the left like that where the left attacks Trump.
That doesn't happen.
It's Cut 19.
Aaron, your view of this, you know, when you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?
There really isn't.
The CNA saying that.
There's nobody attacking Trump.
Trump, the guy walks on water to the press.
Are you kidding me?
When Donald Trump walks into a room, the press just fall silent with admiration and love, you know?
It's like these are guys who for three years ran this psyops on Russian, the Russian collusion hoax.
They ran this on us and have never apologized and don't cover the exposure of the hoax, which is now slowly coming to light and really showing just how corrupt the Obama administration was and how corrupt the FBI at its leadership level was under the Obama administration and even the CIA.
Yeah, we just don't cover that.
That's not part of the narrative, so we cut it out.
Same thing with Heather McDonald, our favorite reporter who knows more about the police and the way they interact with minority cultures than anybody else in America.
That's why she's never on the mainstream.
They never interviewed on mainstream media.
She actually put up on YouTube, I think it was, she put up her speech about the fact that the facts just show these facts, these irrefutable facts just show that the police are not operating out of bigotry.
They're not operating out of bigotry.
They're dealing with high crime cultures, some of which are in the black communities, especially in urban areas.
And what happened?
Google essentially disappeared what she had to say.
This is Heather talking to Tucker Carlson, CUP 13.
I gave a speech last week on policing that used federal data, the gold standard, to disprove the lie that police are engaged in wanton racist violence against black men, as Joe Biden and the writers maintain.
No sooner had I finished the speech than Google wiped it off the web on the ground that it violated its community guidelines for keeping YouTube a safe space for all.
My host, the Center of the American Experiment, appealed the decision.
YouTube grudgingly put it back on, but with age restrictions, meaning that your child can't watch the speech unless you sneak them in behind you.
You know, really, that really is amazing.
And again, I don't know whether Google knows they're doing it.
They're so immersed in this culture.
Their argument is with liberals.
They're not arguing with Heather McDonald's.
They have just demonized her out of existence.
And so when she speaks the simple truth to them, it doesn't get through because that's the way the truth, that's the way mentally ill people react to the truth.
If you've ever tried to talk to a truly mentally ill person who's living under a delusion, the one thing you can't confront them with is the truth because it'll drive them nuts.
That's what makes them violent.
It's really difficult.
I've had this situation.
I've worked, I've volunteered in homeless centers where people got violent, if people got threatening and they were schizophrenic, you had to basically indulge their delusion because if you confronted them with the truth, with the fact that the things that they were afraid of, Martians or whatever it was, weren't happening, that would drive them crazy.
And that's what you see.
And that's what you see with Donald Trump.
This gives Donald Trump a tremendous power to speak the truth, as he did here.
This is Cut 12.
Many of these people wanted to fund the police department.
At a minimum, they're going to stop money from going to the police department.
But in many cases, they actually wanted to fund completely the police department.
No city, no town, and no suburb would be safe.
Your suburbs would be a disaster.
Your cities, your towns would be a disaster.
They want every city to be a Portland or to be a Chicago, which is totally out of control.
And we're waiting for the mayor.
We've sent people in to help them from an intelligence standpoint, but we're waiting for them to call the governor, the mayor.
We could do a very good job in Chicago.
Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
This country.
You know, you've heard me talk about this beautiful scene in Huckleberry Finn, one of the central scenes in American literature, where Huck Finn decides that he's going to go to hell rather than turn over his friend, the escaped slave Jim.
And it's not that he disbelieves the church and the society and all the experts and all the elites who have told him that it's evil to escape with a piece of property, namely this human being.
It's not that he doesn't believe them.
He's just a boy.
He thinks that the authorities are right.
It's that he trusts his own heart to do the right thing.
And ultimately, if you keep calling the truth racist, and he says, all right, then I'll go to hell.
If you keep calling the truth racist, ultimately, the Huck Finns of this world, the Americans of this world, the true Americans, are going to say, all right, then, I'll be racist because it's worth it.
It's worth it to speak the bloody truth.
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You want to see how completely politicians, you know, like Brian Stelter doesn't know that he's living in a psyop because he's like a psyop guy in a psyop world.
He doesn't understand that he's living in a psychological operation.
But I'm not sure.
I'm not sure even Nancy Pelosi knows.
She was on with Judy Woodruff.
You know, there's this brouhaha going on over some executive orders that Trump put out after the Democrats basically held him hostage to give new relief to Chinese flu shutdown victims.
I'm not going to go into all that today, but Judy Woodruff was talking to Nancy Pelosi.
I just want you to listen.
Judy Woodruff is one of the most reliably left-wing reporters there are.
She's mostly on NPR.
Yeah, she's on NPR.
She's National Public Television.
And she is very reliably left-wing, so left-wing, she doesn't know she's left-wing, but she dared to ask Nancy Pelosi a question about this.
Listen to Pelosi's reaction.
The other point Republicans are making is they are now showing flexibility in money for state and local governments.
This is, again, a difference.
Democrats want more money.
Republicans want a lot less.
They are saying they're willing to show flexibility.
And they're also saying a lot of the money that was passed in the spring, Madam Speaker, has not even been spent yet.
Well, if you want to be an advocate for them, if you want to be an advocate for them, I'm playing devil's advocate here.
I'm going to ask you for your position.
That's us, you know, the devil.
She's advocating.
You know, she's asking a simple question.
She is pose.
It is her job.
It was her job in the days when she had a job in journalism.
It was her job to pose to the left the questions from the right and to pose to the right the question from the left.
I was a journalist.
I did this all the time.
You know, they called it, they told the two quotes and write it up, you know, three quotes and write it up.
It was one quote getting the facts, one quote getting the reaction from the left, and one quote getting the reaction from the right.
And you got those reactions by posing the opposite questions to the guy.
So the left-wing guy, you told them what the right was saying, the right-wing guy, you told them what the left was saying, and they had to argue their point of view.
It was like a debate on paper, right?
That's the way journalism used to work.
Nancy Pelosi is so shocked that Judy Woodruff would ask if she basically feels she's being an advocate.
And they have done this, again, by demonizing the right so badly that they don't even think that they're responsible to the arguments of the right.
And as long as they can keep the left in that mindset, they can keep the left insane, which is what it is, because it's not that we're on the right or right about everything.
So many, we have a very big tent right now, and it is, as I said at the beginning, kind of a mishmash of different points of view.
You know, we've got the people, I guess I would fall under the heading of constitutional proceduralism.
I want to preserve the Constitution.
You've got people who are, you know, libertarians, people who are Christians who believe that there should be more Christianity, even in government.
You've got all kinds of people on the right.
Not on the left.
On the left, you have basically the far left and liberals who think they're still in a party that supports them.
Really, if they wanted to be a liberal now, you would become a Republican.
Really, if you want to, really, truly, if you wanted to be a liberal now, you would become a Republican because we're the only people who still believe in free speech, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court being untampered with.
All of those things are beliefs on the right.
If you want to preserve the country at all, you would be on the right.
But the left is in its own world.
The left is in its own world.
They created that world.
They took over the culture.
We haven't yet managed to take that culture back.
I hope we will.
There's a million reasons why we haven't.
There's a million reasons why we don't try harder, why we don't try, especially at the top level where the money is, because there's plenty of people who could be put into that army if there only come some billionaire generals to lead the way to create venues for us.
There'd be more and more of us.
But we haven't got that support.
So we're fighting this kind of revolutionary war battle where we're popping up from trees and fighting at the empire of lies.
You know, we're fighting against the empire of lies by popping from trees with our flintlocks and taking pot shots at them until Jack at Twitter silences us.
And then we have to find some other way to get some other tree to hide behind and shoot at these people as they go marching through this world.
But they've created a world for themselves that's detached from reality, a world in which they openly say there's no reality.
There's only the narrative.
They are openly insane.
They just are so insane, they don't know they're insane.
They don't know that their very philosophy is insane.
And one of the ways you see this, of course, is in the treatment of Joe Biden.
Let's go back to Ms. Stelter talking about Joe Biden.
There was a picture of him played on Fox of Biden riding a bicycle.
I guess they let him out of his basement long enough to get some exercises, cut 18.
Look at what Fox News saw on Saturday at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
This is Joe Biden out there on a vigorous bike ride.
Not wearing a helmet, but definitely wearing a mask, by the way.
Fox's narrative and talk radio's narrative for months has been that Joe Biden is falling apart.
You just heard a bunch of people say it, falling apart.
And there he is riding a bike out for a bike ride.
And Fox, of all networks, is the one that showed it happen.
He can be president.
He can ride a bike.
He can move his feet like this in a circle.
And that's what is that not the after that?
After that, why have a debate?
Why have debates?
If the guy can move his feet in a circle like a hamster, he certainly, a hamster could be president.
Why not Joe Biden?
Meanwhile, the GOP has put out an ad, which is something I've been talking about for a long time.
They finally put it out into an ad.
Good for them.
You know how often I've said to you, if you just go back and look on YouTube, at the old Joe Biden, he's not the same guy.
If you could just go back a few years, so they put out this ad.
This is Cut Three.
They put out this ad showing him as he was before and then showing him as he is now.
You ask anybody in there whether or not the economic and foreign policy of this administration has made them better off in the last eight years.
And in addition to that, in addition to that, we have to make sure that we are in a position that we are.
We can insure every single solitary kid.
We can provide catastrophic health insurance right off the bat.
We can do that for the cost of just one thing.
The tax cut for people in the top 1%.
And with, I don't know.
You got to give them to the people who are going to spend the money.
You got to deal with making sure American companies can be competitive, have a healthcare plan that doesn't put them at a disadvantage when they compete overseas.
You know, there's a during World War II, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing that, you know, was totally different than the, he called the, you know.
I mean, that's harsh, but fair.
It really is fair.
I've done it myself, just going through YouTube and looking at the videos.
It's interesting, too, that he was more conservative when he was more sane, but of course, that goes without saying.
He was on CBS with Errol Barnett, who asked him if he'd taken a cognitive test.
Like Trump was bragging, he took the cognitive test and could identify the elephant and all this.
Remember, just a few weeks ago, Biden told Doug McElway over at Fox News, he said, I've been tested and I'm constantly tested.
But now Errol Barnett asked him the question again.
Here was his response as cut seven.
Have you taken a cognitive test?
No, I haven't taken a test.
Why the hell would I take a test?
Come on, man.
That's like saying you, before you got in this program, you take a test where you're taking cocaine or not.
What do you think, huh?
Are you a joke?
What do you say to President Trump?
It's really horrible.
His laughter is awful and all this stuff.
I mean, just the way he laughs because he knows he's saying something.
Bad, I should mention that Barnett is a black guy.
I only mention that because, of course, the junkie remark, you know, if he were a right-winger, would immediately be targeted as racism.
But of course, you know, Biden is exempt from this.
But he did make this other comment with a Latina reporter at NPR where he was talking about the difference between the Latin Hispanic population as voters and blacks as cut six.
What you all know, but most people don't know, unlike the African-American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.
So all these blacks think alike, you know?
It's like they kind of look alike too, you know?
It's like, I mean, what the hell?
What the hell?
You know, Barton Swame, I was reading that piece from the Wall Street Journal earlier, Barton Swame, and he says that there are these two rules of leftism.
One, that you have to support the welfare state, a bigger and bigger and bigger welfare state.
And two, that you can be canceled for anything you say that can be taken out of context to show you're racist.
But he points out that the exception is if you support the welfare state enough, then sometimes you can say something and get away with it.
So Biden is walking on water right here because he basically is a left.
The only thing they've got against Trump, and he's very, very big now.
He's very far to the left now, the things he's actually saying.
So he gets excused for this.
They completely black this out, this comment, this ridiculous comment about blacks kind of all thinking the same while Latinos are diverse.
But, you know, this is the thing.
This is a psyop being run by people who are themselves suffering from psychosis.
It really is.
Once you can't admit when something is false, once you can't admit that you've made a mistake, that you've wasted time, that you've wasted part of your life, your only choice is to start to deny reality.
It's your only choice is to start to rewrite reality.
And that way, madness lies.
All right.
A final reflection.
I just have to bring this up.
It's kind of ridiculous.
It's this Cardi B song, WAP, which I can't even tell you what it's an acronym for.
It's so pornographic.
But I don't want to talk about that.
It's pornographic.
Obviously, it's got these filthy descriptions of sex.
It's trash in terms of artistic merit.
It has zero artistic merit.
But the reactions are so predictable that it's almost not worth talking about.
They're almost like just, you could write them before they happen.
The left starts gushing.
Oh, it's wonderful.
It's great.
It's obviously great.
And the right starts saying there was one guy, a Republican congressional candidate in California, James Bradley.
He said, I listened to it.
I wanted to pour holy water into my ears.
And then everybody screams, oh, how racist, how horrible, and all this stuff.
But you know, for me, it's just one more sign of mental illness because it's not Cardi B.
It's not one song or anything like this.
You know, a while back, I watched Robin Williams do a comedy routine in which he reduced sex to its basic physical components.
And Robin Williams was a very funny guy, and I literally laughed so hard I fell off my couch.
And not that long later, he killed himself.
And then I noticed that what he did had now become a staple for all supposedly hip comedians, was to talk about sex simply in terms of its physical reality, simply in terms of naming body parts and where body parts go and what you're doing with body parts.
And I noticed that the people who do it, almost all of them, there was that guy, Pete Davidson, remember from Saturday Night Live, who has mental, he's talked about the fact that he's mentally ill.
He has mental problems.
Louis C.K., who clearly has sexual problems.
They keep talking, this reduction of sex to its, not even to a physical experience, but to an experience almost devoid of any humanity at all, a physical experience that almost is taking place only in the parts that are being affected, only in those body parts, not like, oh, you're so beautiful.
You know, certainly not, oh, you know, I've often walked down this street before, but the pavement always stayed beneath my feet before because now I'm on the street where you live.
Never mind that kind of romanticism.
They're not even human.
They're not even human.
And part of this mental illness, part of this mental illness is the abolition of man, the absolute idea that man is matter.
That's all he is.
That's all he is is matter.
And he has no connection to his inner world.
His inner world doesn't exist at all.
That's the source of the madness.
That's the real source of the madness, because Marxism is a materialist idea and materialism has to be clung to even long after it's shown to not actually represent the human experience.
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