Andrew Klavan skewers Disney’s China deal—filming Mulan amid Uyghur atrocities while ignoring Georgia’s religious laws—calling it "financial cowardice," then pivots to cops quitting Democrat-run cities like Rochester and Chicago, where crime surges despite Trump’s police funding boosts. He mocks leftist "reimagine policing" as fantasy, blaming systemic failures, not officers, for violence, while dismissing BLM riots as Marxist chaos. Listener questions reveal his hardline stance: fight diversity training legally, laugh off socialist revolution fears (Europe tried in 1846), and defend Jane Austen’s "virtue over feminism." The episode ends with a warning—leftist policies fracture society, and conservatives must outmaneuver them with pragmatism. [Automatically generated summary]
Disney is under fire for filming its new live-action version of Mulan in a Chinese city where Muslim minorities are held in prison camps.
Mulan tells the legendary story of a young girl who becomes a famous warrior instead of being killed in the first 15 minutes of any sword battle as she would have been in real life.
The Disney filming of Mulan in a city and country that is violating the most basic rights of its citizens is in direct contrast to Disney's threat to boycott the state of Georgia if Georgia passed a law guaranteeing religious freedom.
When asked to explain why Disney filmed in a Chinese city that puts religious minorities in camps but refused to film in an American state if it guaranteed religious freedom, Disney spokesman Janus Smugg said, quote, that's a very complicated question.
No, I'm kidding.
The answer is money.
The long green, the almighty dollar, the big somoleon, the smackaroo, the cheddar, the Benjamins, the dough, the bread, the cashierone.
You see, if we bend over backwards or even forwards for the Chinese tyrants who forcibly sterilize women, torture and murder dissidents and intern minorities, our films will be made available to a massive Chinese audience who can fill our pockets with great jingling piles of sweet, sweet ducats, which we can then use to buy big houses, big cars, private jets, and underage girls.
Or this being Hollywood boys, all of which is much better than having small houses and small cars and having to fly commercial without the 15-year-olds.
This makes it very important to us that we bring our family-friendly fare with its terrific values and inspiring storylines to the murderous Chinese.
Whereas if we boycott the crackers in Georgia, we'll look woke for the journos and it will barely cost us a sue.
I hope this clarifies the subtle reasoning behind our decision.
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Disney has already announced their delightful new animated feature, Mao, about an adorable talking panda who slaughters 100 million people.
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So yesterday, I started out talking about the fact that Marxism sucks and that people sell you sucky Marxism by trying to convince you that poverty, slavery, homelessness, and rolling blackouts are all virtuous products of caring, fairness, and equality instead of absolute disasters of bad policy that solve not one single problem.
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The other day, I saw this hilarious video by a gay conservative rocker named Ricky Rebel.
It showed how Black Lives Matter thugs resorted to riot and violence, whereas Trump supporters fought back with a campy song.
So it made me laugh immoderately to see the mostly peaceful BLM riot met with a mostly straight musical number from the MAGA crowd.
It was a reminder that freedom is fun and weird and includes anyone who can take responsibility for himself.
I think we'd get a lot more fun, a lot quicker, if we didn't resist change so automatically as conservatives.
Gays were excluded.
Now they're not.
Now they can be on our side.
The right should have seen this coming and gotten out in front of it.
The left identifies problems in order to expand government.
That's why they do it.
But that doesn't mean the problems they identify don't exist.
Some of them do.
Free global markets that destroy communities, debt that prevents people from getting married, inequality that puts inordinate burdens on children.
These are real issues.
And if we don't offer the most free market libertarian solutions we can think of, the left will get there first with their enslaving advance of government.
For me, conservatism means progress in keeping with our traditions.
It's not an attempt to free society forever in an imagined golden past.
So let me just remark a little bit more about this incredible story about the Disney Corporation.
You know, Helen Raleigh, writing in the Federalists, says, not only did they film the new live-action Mulan in a place, an area where Muslim minorities are oppressed, not only did they do it, they thanked the members of the Communist Party in one of those special thanks credits that they have at the end of films.
They thank members of the Communist Party.
And according to Helen Raleigh and the Federalist, they actually had the script vetted.
They shared the script with Chinese authorities while consulting with local advisors.
And because of this, they changed the emphasis of the original animated Mulan, which was about a young girl reaching self-realization by pretending that she could fight with a sword.
They changed that message into a message of loyalty, family loyalty, loyalty to the state, which of course is what the Chinese love.
The Chinese love loyalty.
So here are people kowtowing to this slave state, these tyrants, these imperialist tyrants, these tyrants who, even as we speak, are crushing the people of Hong Kong in their efforts to become, to remain a democratic and free people, who are in fact enslaving and interning these Muslim minorities.
And these are the same guys who just announced that the Oscar Academy is now going to require inclusion in films before they can name them best films.
So now the best film won't be the best film.
It'll be the best film with a lot of different colored faces in it.
These are the same guys who are lecturing us on morality.
It never occurs to them to think, hey, you know what?
Maybe we suck.
And this is why when these attacks on Trump come and the attacks on Trump for being what he sometimes is, which is sometimes borish, sometimes rude, it really kind of bounces off me because even though I disapprove of that in Trump, I don't think I'm listening to the most saintly people in the world.
And really what we should be paying attention to is policy and ideas, not personalities, because all these personalities have a lot to be desired.
All right.
So, you know, some ideas, this is the thing.
You listen to people and people strut around and they pretend that they have something to say and they pretend that they're noble or virtuous.
And it really does.
Every time I see these rioters, every time I see these BLM or Tifa fascist rioters tormenting people in restaurants or attacking people, I always think to myself, well, why do they consider themselves virtuous?
I mean, why don't they understand that they could be the bad guys?
And why do they think that they're in some position of higher virtuous vision that they can impose on others?
What have they created?
What have they done?
You can look at George Washington, one of the greatest men in all of history.
You can look at George Washington and say, well, you know, he owned slaves.
He had a blind spot about his slaves.
He truly did.
So he, you know, he was not a virtuous person, as virtuous as we'd like to think.
But he did great things.
I mean, he did great things with his life.
What have these people done?
Namely nothing.
They've done nothing.
And you look at the ideas.
So then you say, okay, so you're just as bad as everybody else.
Of course you are.
We all are.
We're all about the same, virtue-wise, unless we're truly evil.
So why is it that I should listen to your ideas?
What is it about your ideas?
And some ideas are so bad, you have to wonder what's behind them.
You can't really think that someone thinks it's going to be good for civilization to defund the police, to attack the police, to look at crime in a neighborhood and say, well, this is the fault of the police.
That can't be right.
That can't be a good idea.
And so you have to say, well, what is it?
What are you really opposed to?
And really, what they're opposed to is they're opposed to Western civilization.
They are.
I mean, this is not like me attacking them, saying secretly they're opposed to Western civilization.
They openly are opposed to Western civilization.
And the question is always, what do they plan to replace it with?
And when we look at the places they take over and see the graffiti, the rape, the abuse, the tyranny, we understand this is what it is.
And so now the police are starting to strike back.
And suddenly the left has a case of those goodbye blues.
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The chief of the Rochester, New York Police Department and two of his deputies, basically the entire command structure of the Rochester, New York Police Department, has resigned.
This comes after days of protest and mounting criticism over the death of Daniel Prud, a black man who was high on PCP and they had to restrain him.
He was again resisting arrest.
And the thing that is stuck in everybody's minds is that they put a mesh hood over his head.
And this is something we should talk about.
A lot of people, as a kid, I was in a lot of fist fights.
And that doesn't make me an expert on violence.
There are people who obviously have lived very violent lives.
I'm not one of them.
But as a kid, I was in a lot of fist fights.
And people who have never been anywhere near a fist fight really don't understand what violence looks like and why it looks different in different ways.
So for instance, the police a lot of times will rat pack a guy.
They will pile on him, which is actually a safer way of bringing him down than going after him one-on-one with a weapon where you really have to hurt the guy in order to bring him down.
So they swamp the guy and they put a mesh hood over his head.
And the reason they do that is he's high, he's crazy, and it keeps him from spitting and biting so the guys don't get AIDS, they don't get any kind of the disease that he might be transmitting.
So that's why they put it on.
But later he died, an autopsy said he died of acute, he died of asphyxiation in a setting of physical restraint.
He was in the hospital, it was like seven days later, and acute PCP intoxication.
So we have to think that the PCPs had something to do with it.
So now, of course, they come out and they're attacking the police chief.
They're attacking the police and there are all these demonstrations.
And the chief of police, Laurent Singletary, finally came out and said he'd had it.
Okay.
And he said, you know, he said, as a man of integrity, this is his resignation letter.
I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character.
You know, he doesn't need this.
Why does he need to be attacked?
You know, he's giving his life to service, to helping people, and he's being dragged down into the mud.
The police union said what is clear is that the problems of leadership go directly to the mayor's office.
And the mayor, whose name, she has like a great name, it's like lovely, what is it?
Mayor Lovely Warren, lovely Mayor Lovely Warren.
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She came out and she was obviously in shock.
She came out and made this statement.
I want to assure our Rochester community that the Rochester Police Department will continue to serve and protect our residents and our neighborhoods.
Chief Singletary will remain in charge of the department through the end of the month.
And I know that he and the officers will fulfill their duties.
We have spoken about maintaining our restraint regarding the ongoing protests and ask all involved to remain peaceful.
While the timing and tenor of these resignations is difficult, we have faced tough times before.
I truly believe that we will get through this.
So that, you know, that means nothing.
We've faced tough times before.
This is bad policy, again.
This is people putting a moral frame on bad policy.
She mishandled her police department.
She didn't support her police department.
This is a problem we're having in a lot of these Democrat cities.
In Dallas, the police chief, you Renee Hall, submitted her resignation letter.
This is after she was attacked because she took strong measures against George Floyd protesters in Dallas.
And so she resigned.
And again, you know, Renee Hall is a black woman.
Chief Singletary is a black man.
This is like really gutting police departments of people who were very committed to reforming the police.
These are not guys, you know, these are not the old police, you know, bring you into the back room and slap you around till they get a confession.
That stuff is gone and it's gone in a lot of these cities.
A lot of these cities have modernized.
A lot of these cities have made sure that their police department looks like the population of their city.
A lot of reform has gone on.
But while that reform is going on, tougher police measures were taken in order to bring down crime.
And it worked, which made black lives not only better, it kept black people alive.
A lot of the victims of crime are black.
A lot of the perpetrators of crime are black.
And they kept black people alive by increasing the efficiency of their policing, by making sure that policing was not just directed at the worst offenders, but also directed at people who just bring the neighborhood down.
They call it broken window policing, who break windows, who have graffiti.
And a lot of these neighborhoods fall apart very quickly once they know that nobody's watching, nobody's patrolling.
And so this was this stuff that they call mass incarceration.
Mass incarceration is a typical leftist phrase made to make something good sound bad, like objectifying women, which just means men like women.
Men like to look at women, which is a good thing because otherwise none of us would be here, right?
So when they say, you know, racial profiling, that's just using good police work to identify criminals before they commit crimes.
When they say mass incarceration, that's just good policing, making sure that what they call quality of life crimes are taken care of.
Now, all these guys are finding that the top people, these politicians, these weasley politicians, are pulling their support from guys who are out there on the front lines, risking their life every day.
Here's a guy in, this guy is from Indiana.
This is Sheriff Dave Wedding from Indiana, Vanderburg County.
I think that's the largest county in Indiana.
It's where Evanstown is, just saying he's left, he was a Democrat, no more.
What I've witnessed across the United States, it's shocking.
As a law enforcement leader, I can't imagine 101 days of rioting and it's condoned by the Democrat leadership.
It's unbelievable that they can do that to our law enforcement profession.
As a sheriff, I could not imagine putting my deputies on the front lines of these riots night after night with no relief in sight.
And if you're a parent of a law enforcement officer that's going out there subjected to these riots, I think they would be appalled as well.
So, I mean, this is happening around the country.
A lot of, you know, listen, being a cop is a tough job.
And cops complain a lot.
They definitely do.
They have a sense of, you know, the thin blue line that we are these guys.
They have a sense this is the job, they call it.
And they complain a lot because they feel hard done by.
But right now, they're hard done by.
And Donald Trump is making it a political issue.
This is Cut 11.
You know, Republican cities and towns are doing great.
We're doing great.
And we don't have crime and we don't have this violence.
Chicago over the weekend, many people killed, many people shot.
Shot.
They're actually shot and killed.
New York, the same thing.
New York's gone through the roof.
They're up 300% in certain categories.
And you say, what's happening?
And we want to send them in so badly.
And this is because, you know, they're saying, oh, well, this is Trump's America.
But no, it's really not, because this happened during Reagan's term, too.
You know, cities that had been governed for decades and decades and decades by Democrats were falling apart while Reagan was bringing the country back.
And that's the truth of what happened then.
And that's the truth of what's happening now.
And you can tell it's starting to play in the polls.
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So you know that this, you know, Trump is playing this for politics, but it's good politics because he's right.
You know, when you play something for politics, you may be cynical about it, it doesn't matter, but if you're right, you're right.
And the people do hear that.
And you can tell this is telling on people in the polls.
This narrative that the polls haven't moved, that the polls aren't moving, is just not so.
They are getting closer.
This race is much closer.
In Florida, they're saying it's neck and neck.
They're saying Trump is gaining with Hispanics, which is really, really interesting.
They say he's gaining with blacks, but nobody knows by how much.
Nobody really knows.
These polls, it's really tough to poll people.
And we just don't know.
Maybe every poll is exactly accurate.
Sometimes a lot of times after the election, the pollsters come out and say, well, we got everything wrong, but we were really right.
You know, we got everything wrong, but it was really right.
So the last election, they said, well, we got the numbers right, but there are different places and we missed by a few thousand.
And, you know, and then Trump was the biggest, you know, the biggest comeback ever, the biggest turnaround and surprise ever.
And the polls were like, well, basically we got it right, except for getting it wrong.
Except for the getting it wrong.
It was like a mostly right, mostly right poll.
So it's very hard to tell where we are right now, but the polls are in motion.
And you can tell by the fact that suddenly, suddenly, remember the Democrat convention crickets when it came to talking about this crime and these riots and all this stuff.
Just absolutely nothing.
Now suddenly it's a problem.
Now suddenly they're treading water and turning around.
And Biden made my favorite comment of all when he was asked about defunding the police.
This is Joe Biden cut nine.
If you watch the ads, I'm sure you've seen them, although a lot of Pennsylvanians are seeing them because there's a lot of ads out there right now.
They would say that you want to defund the police and it seems to be trying to frighten some folks.
Can you set the record straight on that?
I not only don't want to defund the police, I'm the one calling for $300 million more for local police, for community policing.
I also think we should add social workers and psychologists, help police on 911 calls.
The only person calling to fund the police is Donald Trump.
Look at his budget.
He calls for cutting police funding for local, state, and local help by $400 million.
Once again, he's pathological.
Yeah, it's Donald Trump.
It's Donald Trump who doesn't support the police.
That's it.
That's it.
Donald, yeah, yeah.
That guy who used to lie on SNL was just like, you know, yeah, that's it.
It's Donald Trump who doesn't want to.
Even Al Sharpton Jr., the worst person in the country.
Well, he's not the worst person in the country.
That's unkind.
That's unkind.
He's like the second or third worst person in the country.
Even Al Sharpton Jr. suddenly has got the word from on high.
It's cut 10.
We need to reimagining how we do policing.
But when you are talking about the fact that, A, we are in the areas where that is inundated with guns, that has this serious problems of our people being given guns that can't even get a summer program, to take all policing off is something that I think a latte liberal may go for as they sit around the Hamptons discussing this as some academic problem.
But people living on the ground need proper policing.
You know what's crazy about this too?
Everybody's saying, yeah, but we do need police reform.
And I'm always happy to reform the police.
But police are a power center.
All power centers should be watched very closely.
Police have guns, they have badges.
They can come and say, come with me, and you have to go with them.
So the police have to be watched.
Not that they're not great people, most of them, but that's not the point.
Any system that has power, power corrupts, and you got to watch them.
But police over the last three decades have been a major success story, a major success story.
The problem in black neighborhoods has nothing to do with the police.
Remember, when you get to the police, by the time you get to the police, every social system has failed, including the individual, right?
By the time you're dealing with a cop, by the time you're fighting with a cop on the street and resisting arrest on the street, every social level has failed, including you, okay?
If there was supposed to be some safety net, it's failed.
If there was supposed to be something that was going to keep you off drugs and give you hope and make sure you got married and had a good, reasonable life that was not going to lead you to this moment, all of that has failed.
If there was something in you that was supposed to keep you on the beaten path, it was supposed to keep you on the straight and narrow, that's failed.
The cop is just trying to keep you from hurting other people.
That's the only thing he's doing.
He's not a sociologist.
He's not a psychologist.
If you call a sociologist when you have a rape going on, you are just going to get raped and then have somebody come up and do nothing.
So you need cops.
Cops are, cops are the long arm of the law.
Just like being a parent, I do not believe in hitting kids, but ultimately, ultimately, your power as a parent is physical.
Ultimately, you have to be the wall that keeps the kid from running into the street, even if it means grabbing him by the collar and pulling him out of the street.
And even if it does mean an occasional swat to make sure he gets the message, that's the ultimate power that people have.
It's physical.
That's who the cops are.
And basically piling everything onto them, all of the burdens of society onto them, is never going to work.
But they do that because everyone else has failed all the way down the line.
And nobody wants to say, oh, this is my fault.
No mayor wants to say, oh, it's my fault.
My policies suck.
It's always the cops because the cop is the guy who gets caught in that moment when everything has gone wrong.
So this may be hard to imagine, but let's just say you found yourself in some extraordinary circumstances where you were locked in your house, couldn't get out, couldn't go to the store, couldn't get the food you might need, like the situation you've been in for the last, oh, I don't know, six months, is it now?
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This is why, you know, this is why I love that Barack Obama and Kamala Harris did a little promotional video.
And here is what Obama had to say about Joe Biden.
Tell me about Joe and your relationship with Joe.
And what do I need to know?
Like, what's the thing about the ice cream?
He loves ice cream.
Tell me about that.
Ice cream is big.
Pasta with red sauce, he can go deep on that.
He really does like those aviator glasses.
He knows he looks good.
But look, the main thing to know about Joe is that Joe has never lost his sense of why we do this.
And we do it because of, you know, for him, memories of his family, Megan Scranton, and then the people of Delaware that he represented, the folks on the Amtrak train he met each and every day.
So he likes pasta, ice cream, aviator glasses, and he cares.
And he cares.
He's a good person.
He's a good person.
The thing is, he's not.
He's a liar.
He's always been a liar.
He's a cynical, empty guy, and now he's senile.
But he likes ice cream.
I'm sure he does like ice cream.
Who doesn't like ice cream?
This is the thing they're always selling us.
They're selling us their virtue.
They're telling us that they are better people.
They have the ability.
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
Give them the power.
They have the ability to do what needs to be done for your betterment.
And look at that Donald Trump.
Look how mean he is.
He's mean.
He's mean.
He says things.
He says nasty things.
He's rude.
He's borish.
They're right about that.
He sometimes is rude.
He sometimes is borish.
But they are exactly what he is.
They just disguise it more.
The whole thing about Donald Trump is he is no worse than any politician I've ever seen in terms of his personality.
He just doesn't disguise it.
Why?
Because if he weren't that crazy, if he weren't that open, if he weren't that strange, he would not be fighting the fight he's fighting.
This would have gone on forever.
This encroachment of government, this slow encroachment of government, slower under Republicans, faster under Democrats, but constant, would have gone on forever.
This globalization, this takeover of our rights, which now has emptied our institutions, would have gone on forever.
Donald Trump lants that boil.
He's the stone in their shoe.
And that's what they're going after him for.
It's always about the ideas underneath.
Character counts, but ideas count more because ideas will win the day.
If I could turn this camera around without breaking every single thing, which I can't, you would see that this little attic of mine is filled with Eero's.
It has, well, it has one Eero here.
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And I may be the most, I'm not sure I can go through with the mailbag anymore.
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I now have post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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All right, from Lisa, question for Drew, Lord of all things of wisdom.
My husband's company has imposed diversity training on all employees, and I'm sure mine will soon.
Do you have suggestions for those of us who know what dangerous nonsense this is and would like to push back?
I'm 58 and work in a very specialized technical field, so I can't just pick up and move to another company.
Should I just play along?
Well, here's what I have to say: I do not know what the law says about this, because I feel it is an imposition, and I feel that if it threatens your work, I feel that that should be illegal, but I'm not sure.
My suggestion would be this: if you can find other people who agree with you, maybe meet with them and see if you can consult a lawyer and find out what your options are.
Because corporations should not be doing this to people.
This stuff, this race training, which is absolutely leftist, absolutely Marxist, absolutely wrong.
It's absolutely wrong.
And I don't think it helps anything.
I think it divides people and makes things worse.
And I think it's anti-American, and I think it's racist.
So I think we do need to speak up about it.
Obviously, I can't say, well, you know, throw away your livelihood, you know, risk everything and ruin your lives.
But I do think it behooves us to step up.
And especially at this moment, this is the moment they're making their move.
They're doing their thing.
I think this is a moment when we have to speak up too.
So if you can take action, if you can quietly consult an attorney, if you can quietly band together with other people, don't go at it alone if you can help it, but maybe just find out what your rights are.
Find out how you can protest.
Find out if you can opt out.
See if this is something that you can fight at some level where you're not going to be automatically crushed.
It's worth doing.
It is worth doing.
Everybody, everybody is asking me the same question.
How can I speak up without consequences?
The answer is you can't.
You can't speak up without consequences.
If you love this country, now is the time when you have to speak up.
We're all facing consequences, every one of us, including me.
And I think we have to basically face those consequences or else, you know, who are we?
We're just complaining.
We're just people complaining.
I know a lot of people in Hollywood.
I do.
I know a lot of conservatives in Hollywood who come over and you know what they say to me?
They say, you should, you should tell people, you should write an article about, you should do this.
And I say, well, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
What about you?
Well, I couldn't do it.
No, then I'd never work again.
It's not that time anymore.
It's now the time where you have to do it.
It's now the time where you have to speak up.
I'm not telling you to rush into the buzzsaw again, but see, see what action you can take because I'm not a lawyer.
I don't know the answers to how much power you have in that situation.
I know it's uncomfortable.
All right, let's have a video question.
I think this is Stephen.
Is that his name?
Hey, Andrew.
My name is Stephen.
I'm upset by socialist upheaval in America today.
I'm scared some kind of socialist uprising could happen.
What I don't see is a catalyst that you normally see in those revolutions.
Like Batista's genocide in Cuba, the Tsar's negligence and ignorance in Russia, or the massive failings of the Chinese dealing with Japanese imperialism.
Our worst cultural problem in America is our entitlement.
Us being so sheltered and entitled makes things that are so small relative to normal socialist catalysts seem so much worse.
Do you think a socialist revolution is possible based on our cultural standings today?
Thanks for taking my question.
It's a really good question.
A lot of people are worried about this.
This is obviously the socialists think.
Yes, they're making their move.
I said this months ago.
They think this is the time.
This is the hour.
The lockdowns, the backsliding economy, all of these things, they thought they saw this was their moment.
So we have a confluence of circumstances.
I mean, if you want to look at a catalyst circumstance, I would say it's the lockdowns and the sudden grinding to a halt of the economy and the left pushing to keep the economy closed.
That, you know, 15 days to slow the spread would not have brought this on.
That was the idea.
But once Trump said we should reopen for Easter and didn't stick to that and basically just face down the New York Times and face down, that was before he kind of got a new team on his campaign and he really started to listen.
I think he got personally, this is just a guess, I think he got in close in that Washington bubble.
So it was a mistake.
The left seized on 15 days to slow the spread and turned it into, let's stop the economy until death has been cured, right?
And that's what Trump has been fighting against.
And he is with, you know, Fauci telling him he's got to do it and all these people just living off fear.
I mean, if you read the New York Times, it's just like a, it's, it's like a crazy old lady screaming, we're all going to die.
That's what the New York Times is.
And the mishandling of all that.
So that, so there is this circumstance.
This is what they've, this is the thing, the moment that they have seized.
I believe, oh, by the way, and it's exacerbated by the fact that a lot of this race theory that is just socialism in disguise has moved up into the corporate levels because they don't care.
They don't care what they're doing.
They're not going to be affected by it at all.
They're so rich they don't care what happens.
And they think it makes them look good and they think it keeps their audience happy.
We're going to find out.
We're going to find out about that.
I think they've made a mistake.
I think they missed their moment.
I think their moment might have been, if they had just kept quiet, kept the slow boil going for another 20 years, they might have pulled this off.
I think they goofed.
And I think they may get Donald Trump re-elected in a big way.
I can't promise you that.
I don't know the future any more than anyone else.
But I think this reminds me after the French Revolution became a nightmare and just led to terror and murder and World War.
After that happened and everybody was kind of shocked, there was this year, I think I want to say 1846, I believe that was the year, when suddenly there were revolutions all over Europe.
And they rose up and for a moment they looked like they were successful.
And then finally the conservatives got their act together and tamped them down.
And that's what this reminds me of.
It reminds me of a reflux of the failed revolution of the 1960s.
And it's taken conservatives a bit of a moment of shock to see if they can fight back.
A lot of people, like the last questioner, are saying, well, what do I do?
I don't want to lose my job.
I don't want to do it.
But I think eventually people will start to strike back.
I think what the cops are saying is striking back.
And if the voters come out and say, you know what, we're voting for Trump and you guys go to hell, I think that will have a big effect.
People say, well, if Trump wins, there'll be more riots.
I think there will a little bit, but then the Democrats are going to say, you know, this is killing our party.
And they'll bring it to a halt.
So that's my guess.
You know, nobody knows the future, but that is my guess.
From Taylor, a dear master of the true, the good, and the bald.
I've heard you mention on your show, Jane Austen, as a fan myself.
I want to know what your opinion is, both as a man and as a writer, of her works and writing style.
Also, can you explain how people interpret Austin's books as feminist?
When I read her books, I do not come to this conclusion.
Thank you.
Well, I've said this many times.
I think Jane Austen is the only great female novelist.
Now, when I say that, people mistake me.
I don't mean she's the only female novelist to ever have written a great novel.
Jane Eyre is a great novel.
Wuthering Heights is a great novel.
One of the best novelists working today is Donna Tart.
I don't think she's written a great novel yet, but she's certainly a very fine novelist.
There are plenty of good women novels.
But when I talk about, when I use the word great, I'm talking about a handful of men and Jane Austen.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about Tolstoy.
I'm talking about Dostoevsky, Dickens, maybe Trollope.
I'm talking about the very, very top level of novelists who, when you go to them, you want to read all their work because all of it is great at some level.
And Jane Austen is one of them.
You know, feminism means nothing at this point.
I mean, it kind of has this idea that women are put upon, but they should be strong, but they should be mothers, but they should not be.
It's such a babbling fountain of discontent and stupidity that who knows why they call Jane Austen feminist.
What she is, is great.
She is a great, great novelist.
And the reason she's great, in my opinion, is because she understands the lives of women in her time with a kind of completeness that no one else writes about.
She understands, you know, a lot of times when they film her, they emphasize the romantic aspect of it because that's what brings people into movie theaters.
Or they, you know, the cute outfits.
Everybody loves those regions she dresses, including me.
They, you know, they're very lovely.
So they emphasize that.
Or they'll do one that's a little bit rad and they'll emphasize the sexuality of it or the or the economics of it.
But Jane Austen got all of that.
She understood how personality plays into things.
She understood how personality and values play into things.
She is an incredibly ethical writer.
She's a writer.
She writes about virtue.
She writes about how virtue is personified and usually in naval officers.
She writes about how virtue is personified in women, how women are dealing with a situation in which their lives depend on marriage a lot of times, and they have to work in that system of marriage.
They still have to work to have a satisfying spiritual love relationship, but also a relationship that will help them be supported and live well.
And she shows the price of selling out any part of that.
And it's just a vivid and complete picture of a civilization.
I think she is, again, just one of the greatest and earliest of the truly great British novelists.
And I think that, like all the great novelists, every one of her books is worth reading at some level, though I am partial to Pride and Prejudice and Emma and Sense and Sensibility.
I think she's just absolutely terrific.
And what is amazing about her is she hits at some level on something about love and marriage, especially for women that is primal, while at the same time putting it in this beautiful vision of her time.
She's just absolutely terrific.
Let's do one more.
From Michael, I fell in love a few years ago with the strangest woman I have ever met in my life, which is par for the course for every friend I've ever made.
Things were always rocky in our friendship, but my love for her has never diminished over the years.
I hope she will one day return to me.
She's going through a radical phase where she supports BLM and many other leftist shenanigans.
She spent so much time on Twitter and made the majority of her friends on there.
I know deep down she's a good girl and one of the sweetest people I've ever met, but she's dealing with mental health issues and she's making a terrible mistake supporting BLM.
I vowed to let her come to me because she's made it clear she doesn't want to hear from me right now and it's breaking my heart to see her go down this road and I have no mutual friends I can reach out to to help her.
She's determined to stay in the bubble.
I'm coping by focusing on myself and being the best person I can be.
Do you have any wisdom to share if the time arises that we reconnect?
What should I say to her about BLM?
You know, I actually think you're asking the wrong question here.
Why is it par for the course of every friend that you have ever made that they are strange and have mental issues?
I mean, I don't understand that.
Why are you chasing after a woman who has mental issues and doesn't share your values and is going off on a political tangent that you don't like or understand?
I don't get that.
And I think if that happens to you all the time, it's you.
It has to do with you.
And I think while you're focusing on being the best person you should be, I think you should begin to explore this.
Why is it that you're attracted to fractious people who cannot give you the satisfaction that you need in your life and the deep, rich relationship that two people who are sane can have?
And so that's what I think you should.
I think you should not be thinking about this girl.
I think you should be thinking about yourself.
If this is par for the course of every friend I have ever made, that's your line, I think that that's what you should be focused on.
And maybe you should look at your past and your life, get therapy maybe, explore why you're attracted to people who are not going to be permanent relationships, who are not going to give you the family and the love and the long-term stability that you obviously need in your life.
I got to stop there.
I'm just out of time.
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