Ben Shapiro’s Slay-Me Barrett episode skewers Democrat senators—Maisie Hirono’s "sexual assault" question, Corey Booker’s gladiator skirt hypocrisy—as "toxic idiocy," contrasting their attacks with Trump’s rise as a backlash to decades of progressive overreach. Barrett’s originalist testimony, mocked by CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin as anti-abortion, is framed as a bulwark against judicial activism, while Hunter Biden’s Burisma emails are dismissed as censored by Facebook’s left-wing bias. Mailbag letters expose cultural fractures: Ricardo’s plea for chaste partners, James’ transgender friend dilemma, and Sheila’s mother’s Trump-hating zealotry, all tied to Shapiro’s moral and political worldview—where secularism fuels promiscuity, integrity demands boundaries, and ambiguity in art is just lazy storytelling. [Automatically generated summary]
The ongoing confirmation hearings of smoking hot judge Amy Coney Barrett are raising some very important constitutional questions.
For instance, exactly how stupid do you have to be to become a Democrat senator?
The question arose after the cutie pie and also judge endured somewhere between 9 and 1100 hours of questioning until she could no longer tell the difference between the hearing and raising her seven children, except that in the hearing, the older children seemed to have left the room.
In what seemed to be a contest for stupidest senator, or a game show called Be the Stupidest Senator, or maybe a TV talent competition called America's Got Really Stupid Senators, questions ranged in intelligence from, will you recuse yourself from any case in which you're likely to give a ruling I don't like, to glagog bagugu daga magadag, or something that made approximately the same amount of sense.
Vying for the title of absolutely stupidest possible senator was stupid senator Maisie Hirono.
Hirono, you'll remember, once told men to shut up so as not to interrupt her while she was viciously slandering Brett Kavanaugh.
But today she appeared even stupider as she tried to declare Judge Barrett bigoted against gay people because she used the term sexual preference in describing people with a sexual preference.
Hirono also asked the smoking hot judge if she had ever sexually assaulted someone, and Barrett said she had not, which was not strictly true, since technically she has, but only in my dreams.
But just as you thought no stupid senator could ever possibly be as stupid as that stupid senator, hold the phone, there was Corey Booker, who asked the mother of two black children.
And as God is my witness, I'm not making this up.
Here's an actual quote.
You've already spoken to issues of racism and how you deplore it, but you condemn white supremacy, correct?
To soften the blow of his stupidity, Senator Spartacus did ask the question while barechested and wearing a leather gladiator skirt, but that was just his preference.
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You don't deserve to know, but I'm not going to tell you after the election either.
Did I remember to mention how stupid our Democrat senators were in the opening when they were questioning Amy Coney Barrett?
I've heard a lot of talk about how embarrassed Americans are supposed to be in front of the elite sophisticates of Europe when they're forced to deal with that animal, Donald Trump.
I've never been embarrassed by Donald Trump, even though I find him a large and eccentric American character who does a lot of things I don't particularly like.
But I am embarrassed by our Democrat senators because they are the stupidest and meanest bunch of clowns and animals I have ever seen gathered together in one place.
To subject a woman of accomplishment, intelligence, and decency like Barrett to the toxic idiocy of those hearings yesterday is a genuine American disgrace.
And even if Barrett weren't accomplished, and even if she weren't intelligent, even if she were just decent, just a normal, decent woman, it would still be a disgrace.
It would be perfectly fair for a Democrat to respond to me by saying, well, Donald Trump acts as badly as they do.
And in fact, the other day, Mitt Romney in one of his pompous exercises and virtue signaling self-congratulations denounced the, quote, vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass that American politics has become.
And he singled the president out for his special scolding.
This is Mitt Romney, who the Democrats accused of causing a woman's cancer back when he was running for president.
I see this all the exact way, different, the exact other way around.
The Democrats have behaved like this for a long time.
They have been mean and ugly for decades before Trump finally showed up and gave it back to them.
They called anyone who disagreed with them racist, which is one of the worst things you can say about an American.
They felt absolutely justified in rioting and shouting people down on college campuses when they had ideas they disagreed with.
They ran people out of jobs and awards and colleges for nothing other than being conservative.
Trump is the answer to decades of their crappy behavior.
He's the chosen form of their destroyer.
He's them, just brought back to life against them.
Now, you might say, well, we're the good guys.
We conservatives are the good guys.
We should behave better than they do.
And I agree, we are the good guys and we should behave better.
But as much as I deplore rudeness and meanness and ugliness on either side, I will not forget they started it.
And I hope Trump finishes it come election day.
Supreme Court Controversies00:13:54
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While we're on the subject of Democrat stupidity, I have to give the stupid Democrat crown to Sheldon Whitehouse.
This guy is genuinely a weasly little guy.
Now I just want to remind you who he is, because remember, there was a gun case out of New York where New York City passed a law that made it impossible for you to carry your legal gun out of town to go to a shooting range or your second home before it reached the Supreme Court.
The city changed the law, but not entirely.
It still burdened gun carriers and they asked the Supreme Court to make a judgment.
This guy, White House, wrote a letter to an amicus brief.
He added an amicus brief, which is when you have an interest in a case, but you're not part of the case, saying the Supreme Court is not well.
Perhaps the court can heal itself before the public demands it be restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.
This is like, you know, nice Supreme Court you have here.
Too bad if anything happened to it.
It worked.
John Roberts was intimidated by this and they refused to hear the case.
So now he is part of all these organizations that go after the court.
So now he goes after Amy Coney Barrett with this insane dark money scheme.
And he's got the, you know, blackboards and the drawings and all this stuff, like the guy in that movie Conspiracy Theory with Mel Gibson.
He's like tying everything together.
Here's a cut of cut 18.
In all cases, there's big anonymous money behind various lanes of activity.
One lane of activity is through the conduit of the Federalist Society.
It's managed by a guy, was managed by a guy named Leonard Leo, and it's taken over the selection of judicial nominees.
All the same funders over and over again.
Bringing the cases and providing this orchestrated, orchestrated chorus of Amiki.
Then the same group also funds the Federalist Society over here.
It was an 80 to 0 5 to 4 partisan route ransacking.
The look on Lindsey Graham's face is just like, he's, why didn't I go into an honest business?
That's the look on Lindsey Graham's face.
He goes after, oh, the Koch money.
Remember Harry Reid with the Koch money?
You know, Koch, this is the thing.
The Koch brothers were, I think, the 10th largest donor in politics, right?
They were number 10 in the list of the richest donors in politics.
The top nine were donating to Barack Obama.
So this whole idea of the dark money of the Koch brothers and all this, Ted Cruz, thankfully, was there and just unloaded on White House, who, of course, is flooded with money.
Dark money just means that it means that they are not required to disclose their donors.
They're under certain regulations where they don't have to disclose their donors.
And Cruz pointed out that White House is flooded with that kind of money.
It's Cut 19.
The senator from Rhode Island talked about big corporate powers without acknowledging that the contributions from the Fortune 500 in this presidential election overwhelmingly favor Joe Biden and the Democrats.
So all of the great umbrage about the corporate interest are spending dark money is wildly in conflict with the actual facts that the corporate interests that are spending dark money are funding the Democrats.
This is key.
This is key because I talk to Democrats.
I talk to liberals all the time and they're always going after, oh, the dark money.
And they did it after the Hillary Clinton Trump election when Clinton was spending twice as much money as Trump was.
It is just amazing.
So Ted Cruz won the exchange, but White House won the stupidest senator award, and it really was a competition.
So it was very tight.
So I have to give my congratulations to Senator Whitehouse from Rhode Island.
What's going on here, okay, because a lot of people were watching this and thinking it's so stupid.
It's so ugly.
It's so nasty and low.
What are they doing?
And what they're doing is they're not attacking her.
They're not attacking her religion.
They're not attacking her children.
The election is simply too close for them to cavanaugh her.
They can't cavanawhh her.
So what they're doing is they're trying to frighten people about what she might do.
And of course, the press is picking this up.
And she has been great.
She has been actually, my son, Spencer Clavin, no relation, He has actually framed the meme calling her the slay queen.
I've been calling her Slayme Barrett, but he's calling her the sleigh queen.
He's very, very proud.
This is now a meme.
I mean, I'm proud of him because he has a PhD and he has his wonderful podcast, The Young Heretics.
He's proud because he's spreading a meme, but she was slaying them.
She's just trying to explain to them, this is actually very telling.
She's trying to explain to them what originalism is, what it means to interpret the law as it was written and as it was intended at the time.
It doesn't mean you don't apply it to things that didn't happen at the time, like the fact that we now have Twitter and we have to discuss free speech in terms of Twitter, in terms of Facebook, which we will in a few minutes.
She's just saying that you have to create, you have to read the law as it's written.
This is cut six, where she talks about she doesn't want politics.
Her opinions, her feelings don't matter because they're not going to affect her judgment of what the law says.
This is cut six.
Part of the rationale for courts adhering to the rule of law and for judges taking great care to avoid imposing their policy preferences is that it's inconsistent with democracy.
Nobody wants to live in accord with the law of Amy.
I'm sure you my children don't even want to do that.
So I can't, as a judge, get up on the bench and say, you're going to live by my policy preferences because I have life tenure and you can't kick me out if you don't like them.
She doesn't want to turn the court into a legislature.
She wants the court to be a court, which means there's written law.
She interprets the written law to read as close as she can figure it out to how it's written.
It's not the law of Amy.
It's the law passed by the people who theoretically are responsible for our vote.
Now, I just want to show you how this translates, right?
You put words into the Democrat media machine and then out comes nonsense.
You know, you put truth into the Democrat media machine, out comes lies.
It's really a wonderful process.
We now turn to CNN, where their crack legal expert or crack legal expert, I can't remember, Jeffrey Toobin, is asked by Allison Camarotta to explain Amy Coney Barrett's opening statement about her originalism.
And so Allison Camarada reads the statement and then Toobin, crack legal expert, explains it to us.
The policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches, elected by and accountable to the people.
The public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try.
When you parse that, does that spell doom for the Affordable Care Act?
Well, I think more specifically, it spells doom for Roe v. Wade because it really suggests that issues like abortion, like gay rights, should be decided by the political branches of governments, the ones directly accountable to the people.
It is, the code there is don't expect the courts to enforce rights.
If there are rights to be enforced, it should be the political branches of government to do it.
So it's really more about social issues than about the Affordable Care Act in particular.
So when she says she's not going to use the court to make legislation, that's code for she's not going to use the court to make legislation.
These rights to an abortion, these rights to gay marriage, they're not in the Constitution.
The court made them up.
The court made them up and basically said they made them up.
They say, you know, it's in the shadow of the emanation of the umber of the what, you know, they basically say this, and now the court is supposed to support the, the court is not supposed to maintain the rights it made up.
And what Amy Coney Barrett is saying is no, the court just interprets the law.
That doesn't mean she's going to overturn Roe v. Wade.
I don't think, actually, I think that's going to happen, though I think it should happen.
It doesn't mean she's going to do that.
And it certainly doesn't mean Obenfella, I think, is the one that's so recent and so bad.
It's such a bad decision.
It makes absolutely no constitutional sense whatsoever.
That's the one that might be overturned.
But at the same time, so many people have now gotten married, so many gay people have now gotten married.
It's a very hard thing for the court to do, and they usually don't do things that actually throw everything into chaos.
So let's just hear one more time from Amy Coney Barrett.
So at least we had some common sense on the show, just talking about the fact that it's not her job.
It's her job to interpret the Constitution, not her job to update it.
It's Cut Seven.
You said you're an originalist.
Is that true?
What does that mean in English?
Okay, so in English, that means that I interpret the Constitution as a law, that I interpret its text as text, and I understand it to have the meaning that it had at the time people ratified it.
That meaning doesn't change over time, and it's not up to me to update it or infuse my own policy views into it.
So now they want to know, all they want to know, because they feel the left feels that the Supreme Court is the House of Lords.
It's supposed to rule over us with Democrat policies and install Democrat policies.
That's all it's there to do.
It's not there to decide the law.
We don't need no law.
We don't need no stinking law.
We are legislators.
We don't need no stinking law.
So they ask her about specific cases.
And here's what she says.
This is Cut 13.
A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.
Sorry, that was the wrong judge.
That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivering what is now called the Ginsburg rule, which is that judges are not supposed to, when they're up to become justices on the Supreme Court, are not supposed to rule from the Senate hearing floor.
They're supposed to rule only when they have specific cases argued before them.
That has all gone by the boards.
Never mind her.
It was her dying wish, by the way, that they maintain the Ginsburg rule.
I mean, it probably wasn't, but they're making up her dying wish.
Why can't we?
So now that's all gone by the board.
We're going to ask her about Roe v. Wade.
That's the scare tactic.
Roe v. Wade, and you're going to lose your health care.
Here's Dianne Feinstein's cut 14.
Do you agree with Justice Scalia's view that Roe was wrongly decided?
Senator, I completely understand why you are asking the question, but again, I can't pre-commit or say, yes, I'm going in with some agenda because I'm not.
Do you agree with Justice Scalia's view that Roe can and should be overturned by the Supreme Court?
Well, I think my answer is the same because, you know, that's a case that's litigated.
I want to plague two quick cuts.
All this stuff is hypocrisy, but hypocrisy is typical in politics.
Everybody does it.
This is the stuff that drives me crazy.
And this is the stuff I want to talk about in just a sec.
Two quick cuts, all right?
She was asked about her reaction to the death of George Floyd.
And of course, she has these two black children from Haiti.
This is her response, Cut 10.
I was there, and my 17-year-old daughter, Vivian, who's adopted from Haiti.
All of this was erupting.
It was very difficult for her.
We wept together in my room.
And then it was also difficult for my daughter, Juliet, who's 10.
I had to try to explain some of this to them.
I mean, my children, to this point in their lives, have had the benefit of growing up in a cocoon where they have not yet experienced hatred or violence.
And for Vivian, you know, to understand that there would be a risk to her brother or the son she might have one day of that kind of brutality has been an ongoing conversation.
It's a difficult one for us, like it is for Americans all over the country.
Okay, now here's Corey Booker, Spartacus, asking this question.
I want to just ask you very simply.
I imagine you'll give me a very short, resolute answer.
Explaining The Bombshell00:04:09
But you condemn white supremacy, correct?
Yes.
Thank you.
I'm glad to see that you said that.
I wish our president would say that so resolutely and unequivocally as well.
Okay, so it's just a way of attacking Trump.
But it's also disgusting.
It's mean.
It's nasty.
It's ugly.
And we're used to it.
This is the thing.
Why does she even have to talk about race?
Why does she even have to talk about race?
Is there any clue, any hint that she has ever done a racist thing in her life?
Why are they allowed to do that?
They are allowed to do it because they are entitled.
This is an entitled group of people, and the meanness and the ugliness is only for them.
When Donald Trump gives it back to them, suddenly, oh my God, the state of our discourse has sunk through the bottom of the floor.
Suddenly, our discourse is now suddenly uncivil.
It's now uncivil because it's Donald Trump doing it instead of them.
But we're used to them doing it.
We're used to the poison they spew and the things they do to people and the way they treat people.
We just let it pass because they're entitled.
But when we do it back, suddenly it's so very wrong.
And you want to see, I mean, you want to see this in action.
There is a story in the New York Post today, and it's a legit story.
I mean, it's a legit news story because of the way they got it.
Hunter Biden, it's kind of what they call a bombshell, right?
It's a bombshell.
It's the beginning of the end.
The walls are closing in.
But here it is.
Hunter Biden introduced his father, then Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company according to emails obtained by the Post.
It's by Emma Joe Morris.
So you remember this whole story.
You remember Joe Biden saying, I got this guy fired.
I got this prosecutor fired.
I threatened to withhold aid and he was fired and all this.
But now we find out a never-before-revealed meeting is mentioned in a message of appreciation that Vadim Pozarsky, an advisor to the board of Burisma, where Hunter Biden worked, right, allegedly sent Hunter Biden this email on April 17th, 2015, about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board at a reported salary of up to $50,000 a month, which is about what I make, right?
Dear Hunter, this is the email from this guy from thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spend some time together.
It's really an honor and pleasure.
An earlier email from May 2014 also shows Posarski reportedly Burisma's number three exec asking Hunter for advice on how you could use your influence on the company's behalf.
Now, well, remember, Joe Biden has said this about Hunter Biden's dealings with this company and other companies.
I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period.
Now, that was obvious.
That's obviously a lie.
I mean, you discuss things with your sons and relatives and their business, so that's obviously untrue.
But all the same, now we kind of know it's untrue.
Now, I just want to point out that the provenance of this story, right, is a laptop that was, the laptop was abandoned at a Delaware computer repair store.
The guy at the repair store notified the FBI and the FBI seized it on December 17th, 2019, which was the day before Nancy Pelosi held the vote to impeach the president.
Someone from the store had contacted the FBI about the laptop, but they also made a copy of the drive and gave that to Robert Costello, an attorney for Rudy Giuliani.
And Giuliani has just released the information to the New York Post.
Why did the FBI never make the information public?
We don't know for sure.
Maybe the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will get to the bottom of it.
They seem to be investigating this now.
Now, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, you remember the press when Donald Trump Jr. had a meeting with a Russian who said she had opposition research against Hillary Clinton.
The meeting turned out to be nothing.
But you remember that condemned Donald Trump because he went to the meeting and then walked out of it and didn't care about it.
Entitlements Unveiled00:07:59
This is supposed to be completely off limits.
Andy Stone, the policy communications manager at Facebook, right?
This is the guy who decides what goes on Facebook.
He says, while I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want to be clear that this story is eligible to be fact-checked by Facebook's third-party fact-checking partners, who include the Southern Poverty Law Center, as I recall, a completely left-wing hit organization.
In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
Facebook, this massive monopoly, this massive information monopoly, is censoring this story to keep it from getting out.
It is a total, even Maggie Haberman tweeted, by the way, the FBI has this laptop, has this information, and she was attacked by her followers on Twitter saying we shouldn't be spreading this around.
She said, look, this is what's going on.
She was remembering for a moment that she is a reporter.
This is the thing, the entitlement, the entitlement to the only, even the ways they describe reality.
Here's another example of this, another example of this stupid senator, Maisie Hirono.
And she had just driven in from Hawaii, and boy, was her car wet.
She goes after Amy Coney Barrett for what's obviously nothing.
Amy Coney Barrett had used the word sexual preference.
This is cut to.
Not once, but twice.
You use the term sexual preference to describe those in the LGBTQ community.
And let me make clear, sexual preference is an offensive and outdated term.
It is used by anti-LGBTQ activists to suggest that sexual orientation is a choice.
It is not.
Sexual orientation is a key part of a person's identity, that sexual orientation is both a normal expression of human sexuality and immutable.
Now, stupid Senator Maisie Hirono is welcome to her stupid opinion, but that's not science what she's talking about.
It's just her point of view.
But she is allowed to define reality in such a way that she can accuse this woman again with absolutely 0% evidence of any bigotry against gay people or anybody else.
She is allowed to do that.
And even we don't know.
Even the conservatives hardly notice it.
We hardly understand this happening.
And when they attack Trump, we go like, yeah, Trump is kind of rude.
But no more wicked and toxic, even less than what she's doing right there.
Now, Webster's dictionary, overnight, the minute this came out of Maisie Hirono's mouth, they go into their definitions and they take the word preference, which at one point had their definition of preference in this regard in regard to sexuality.
Their definition of preference was an orientation or a sexual preference.
Today, they change that, the definition of the word.
They change the definition of the word in Webster's dictionary to say, oh, that's an offensive term.
That's an offensive term.
The left feels entitled to reality itself.
They feel entitled to the meaning of words.
They feel entitled to define what's offensive, what's right, what's wrong.
And listen, there may be people, I've heard there are people actually, I've heard there are people who use the word sexual preference because they mean it to say that you have a choice whether you're gay or not.
We don't really know very much about this yet.
We don't really know where homosexuality comes from, what causes it, how it fits into personality.
Really, the science is, as they say, unsettled.
But you're entitled to your opinions.
You're entitled to your opinions as long as you're a Democrat and your opinions are the same as the Democrats.
Even the word, the meaning of the word, is changed overnight in Webster's dictionary because, and this is why the Democrats behave the way they behave.
This is why they behave in the entitled way that they behave.
This is why Donald Trump is such a shock to their system because he behaves the way they behave.
And that's why they don't understand why we go like, yeah, well, he's rude, and we don't like being rude.
We're conservatives.
We believe in being polite, and Donald Trump is rude.
And they don't understand why we're not reeling back because he is the shape of their destroyer.
They invented him.
Nancy Pelosi, on with Wolf Blitzer.
They're having this, I haven't covered this very much, but they're obviously having this argument over the stimulus relief package, right?
And the House is constantly coming up with these humongous stimulus relief packages with all kinds of pork in them.
This is what they do before, and the Senate is now trying to get out a smaller relief package just to get paychecks to people who have been hurt by the government shutdowns.
And listen, we don't have the money for this.
We don't.
But at the same time, these people didn't do anything wrong.
These businesses didn't do anything wrong.
Their businesses were shut down by stupid government, right?
That's by an overlong shutdown enforced by the government, which we now know was a bad thing, was worse than the disease it was trying to protect.
So Nancy Pelosi is on with Wolf Blitzer, and he starts to say, well, why are you holding this up?
Why are you holding it up?
And here's her response.
This is Cut 23.
Excuse me for interrupting.
Madam Speaker, but they really need the money right now.
And even members of the United States.
I understand that.
But even members of your own question.
Even members of your own caucus, Madam Speaker, want to accept this deal.
$1.8 trillion.
So what do you say to Rokana?
What I say to you is, I don't know why you're always an apologist.
And many of your colleagues apologist for the Republican position.
Rocana, that's nice.
That isn't what we're going to do.
CNN is apologizing, as an apologist for the Republican position.
Now, what in normal, in normal journalistic world, what you do is you confront each politician with the opinions of the other side, right?
You ask Nancy Pelosi, how does she respond to Republicans and people, as he said, in her own party who are saying, pass this bill, people need the money.
How do you respond to that?
That makes him to her a Republican apologist because she expects a free ride.
She is entitled to a free ride.
When you own, that's the way life is when you own the industry, when you own the communication industry.
This got worse and worse, just to play it, just let's play Cut 25.
Do you have any idea of how uniquely short they're concerned?
That's why it's so important right now.
Yesterday I spoke to Andrew Yang, who says the same thing.
It's not everything you want.
There's a lot there.
Honest to God, you really, I can't get over it.
I didn't come over here to have you.
So you're the apologist for the Obama.
Excuse me.
God forbid.
Madam Speaker, God forbid.
I'm not an apologist.
I'm asking you serious questions because so many people are investing right now.
Let me ask you this.
When was the last time you're going to be able to do that?
Let me respond to you.
Just amazing stuff.
The entitlement is what gets me.
The entitlement, we get to call people racist, but you don't get to respond as rudely.
We get to call people anti-gay bigots.
You should be excoriated by the press, but you can't even ask us a question.
The entitlement is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
It's a wonderful thing to own the communications industry.
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Ricky's Struggle00:14:55
I can't make excuses for these people anymore.
You should have used ZipRecruiter.
All right, from Ricardo.
Dear Lord Clavin, my name is Ricky.
And unlike Michael Knowles, I'm a real Sicilian.
I'm a young man in my mid-20s.
I'm struggling to find a partner, future wife.
Due to the great differences between my ideals and the ideals of most of the women my age in places like Sicily or Italy, where the left has monopolized the culture for decades, people are completely absorbed by the idea that sex is nothing but a bodily function and promiscuity is completely fine, both for men and women.
Some people may see me as a bigot for saying this, but I find very upsetting the idea of dating a woman who I know has already slept with five or six other men before turning 25.
What is even worse is that I personally know many young women who've had their lives completely wrecked by their bad sexual decisions, but still refuse to abandon the dogma that sex is nothing but a bodily function, therefore carrying their lives to higher and higher standards of misery and loneliness.
Am I wrong for desiring a woman who has a deep sense of respect for her body and believes that sex is a sacred part of life?
Ciao Andrea Amoti Il Tuo Sho.
I have no idea what that means.
All right.
No, you're not a bigot, but the standard has to be, you know, men and women are different when it comes to sex.
And it's not bigoted to say that, and it's not bigoted to say that the experience of most women in sexual relations is different than the experience of men, especially in casual, there's no such thing as casual sex, but especially in casual sex.
But what you're talking about is morality.
You are talking about the morality of treating your body like meat instead of treating your body as if it were the word that expresses you, the word that expresses your soul.
Your body is the language in which your soul speaks into the world.
And if you treat it that way, you will be happy.
And if you don't treat it that way, and in as much as you don't treat it that way, you will be miserable.
That is a basic, hard, and fast rule of life.
So you want a woman who is either a virgin or at least chaste in some way and discreet.
My question to you is, how are you living?
What life are you living?
Because if you're not living that life, you ain't going to meet that girl.
And if you're not living essentially a woman who feels that way, the only women, the only people, never mind women, the only people who are going to feel that way are really people who have at least some religious feeling, some sense that they are more than just a body, that they are not just a meat puppet, that they are not just an object in space, that they are in fact the expression of a living and maybe even immortal soul.
So if you're not in that congregation, if you're not in that community, how do you expect to meet that woman?
I'm not saying you're not.
I don't know.
But if you are in that community, you're much more likely to be meeting those women.
You're not going to change the world.
You're not going to change all the women in the world who feel that promiscuity is a good thing, even when they know it's not.
They continue to feel it is because they feel it makes them strong or equal because they've been brainwashed to think that.
You're not going to change that.
You're not going to change that.
If you want to find the women who don't feel that way, you have to live the life of people who don't feel that way, part of which is living in a church and in a church community.
You're much more likely to find women who treat their bodies with respect.
And you're much more likely to find women who treat their bodies with respect if you treat your body with respect and if you treat women's bodies with respect.
So all I'm saying is, look, you're not going to change the world.
You're going to have to go to the places where these women live, and you're going to have to live in those places as if you belong there, and you're going to have to belong there.
Once you do that, I think your problem may be a lot closer to being solved.
From James, hi, Andrew, I have a friend who I've been very close to since college.
We've talked several days a week since I left college five years ago.
During the course of that time, he has decided that he's a woman.
My approach to this so far has been to completely ignore it and continue on as normal.
But the other day, I struggled to say his new female name, and he chewed me out, saying he would seriously have to reevaluate our relationship if I couldn't call him by what was now his legal name.
He says he doesn't mind that, but he has a very serious problem with changing the gender of pronouns.
It goes completely against my religious understanding of human nature to say that a human can change their sex.
I just won't know what to do if he asks me to do that.
I value this person's friendship enormously.
I don't have very many friends, and it would genuinely pain me to lose this one.
So you can't have both, right?
You can't basically stick to your guns and stick to your beliefs and keep this guy as a friend if he's going to be offended to the point of breaking off the friendship.
So you're going to have to choose which you want.
You're going to have to choose whether you want to have integrity and stick to your beliefs and speak as you wish to speak and speak in such a way that it expresses the truth as you understand it, or you can have this guy as a friend.
That seems to me what you're describing.
Maybe it's wrong.
You can find out whether it's wrong or not.
And I can't tell you what to do, right?
This is a decision you have to make because you can't have both.
It just doesn't sound to me as if you can have both.
So you're going to have to decide which you want, your integrity, your belief system to live according to your lights, or to have this guy accept you as a friend.
You have to choose that.
And I can't tell you which to choose, right?
I can only tell you that you're going to have to choose.
I can tell you what I would do in your situation.
What I would do is I would sit down with my friend and I would say to him, listen, I love you.
I respect you, but we have a disagreement.
I disagree with you about something.
I understand that you feel a disconnect between your physical gender and your internal reality.
And I respect you for living out that truth.
And I respect that you feel that way.
And that has nothing to do with me.
And I have no opinions about it.
It is your life.
It is something that you have to come to terms with.
But I also have a life.
I also have an outlook.
And while I think that you're totally welcome to live your life any way you want, I do not believe that this transforms you from a male into a female.
I believe a male is what you were made.
I believe a male is what you will remain.
And all I ask from you is my right to live out my life with integrity while you live your life out with integrity.
I don't want to sacrifice my integrity to yours.
I think we can be friends while we have this disagreement.
I can almost guarantee you that he will tell you to screw off, but he might not.
He might actually see this.
If you say he's a thoughtful, intelligent guy, he might understand this.
If he tells you to blow up, to take a hike, I would then start to explore why you don't have very many friends.
Why is it you don't have very many friends?
And why is it you have so few close friends?
And then I start to fix that problem so that you don't have to sacrifice your integrity to this guy.
His integrity, his way of life, should not interfere with your way of life.
He's not killing people, in which case you would have to interfere with them.
He's living his life the way he wants to live it, but you have the same right that he does.
And the way you want to live your life is to express the truth as you see it.
So you got to choose.
And that's the way I would do it.
That is what I would do, and it's the way I would do it.
From Patrick, Dear Lord Clavin, whom we must all save over Knowles, I've been re-watching The Sopranos on HBO, great show.
And one of the most interesting aspects of it is its ending.
Semi-spoilers.
It ends on an ambiguous note.
Yes, it does.
The ending is so famous that I feel like you almost can't spoil it now.
But he says, many fans of the show are split.
Some love the ending because it's open to interpretation.
Others hate it because it doesn't actually resolve the story in a satisfactory way.
As a writer, what's your opinion on deliberately ending a story on an ambiguous note like the Sopranos did?
Is it a smart way to keep your audience engaged after the story is over, or is it just a cheap gimmick?
Thanks as always.
Okay, I see the issue a little differently, right?
It's not a cheap gimmick.
I mean, he's a very intelligent writer.
And it was a very intelligent ending.
I didn't like it.
And I didn't like it not because it was ambiguous.
It's okay to end a story ambiguously if the ambiguity somehow settles the story.
There are some stories that can only be settled by ambiguity.
I mean, there's a wonderful poem by Keats, which ends, was this a vision or a waking dream?
And you think like, oh, wow, that's really, you know, he's in this really, and that's a really interesting question that the poem poses.
So ambiguity is not bad in and of itself.
What I didn't like about the ending was this.
The Sopranos, in my opinion, is a story.
What's the guy's name?
David Chase.
Is that the writer's name, I think?
Is a story.
I think it's about television.
I think it's about the way television tells stories.
In movies, characters go through an arc.
In novels, they go through an arc.
They start with a problem.
I mean, in Hamlet, or Macbeth, or any story that is one story, a character goes through what is called an arc, and he usually comes out the other side changed.
It usually meets the story that challenges who he is and changes him.
That's what stories are often about.
So take, you know, The Hobbit, right?
He goes off and he fights the dragon, and that is going to be his arc, and that changes him and makes him a different person.
But in TV, TV is much more like life.
In TV, the person remains the same, but the incidents change.
And that's the way most of us will live our lives.
We change over time, maybe, some of us, but some of us don't change.
And we remain.
I know lots and lots of people who just go around the same track in their personalities over and over again.
And that's what happens in The Sopranos.
And that's where he finds the core of the Sopranos evil.
They're always confronting the moral facts of life, but they always go back to being exactly who they are.
And that is something he's telling you about the way television tells stories and the way that television tells stories reflects on life, okay?
And so that's what the ending talks about.
The ending talks about that stagnation, which has been the whole theme, in a lot of ways, the whole theme of the show, stagnation and the evil of stagnation.
And so that's what the ending speaks about to me.
But to me, a story should be about itself first, right?
It should not be about its meaning.
Its meaning should arise out of the story.
So I would have liked an ending that actually ended the story instead of commenting on the story.
That's the way I felt about the story.
So I didn't hate it.
I didn't think it was the worst thing.
I thought it was an interesting choice.
I was interested that he did it.
It was his story, not mine.
But he went in a direction that I don't like as much as I like to see the characters.
I like to see a writer respect the life of his characters.
I'd like to see a writer respect the life of his characters and let them live out their lives in the story.
I don't like the postmodern trick of reminding the audience that you know you're in a story because I think that's actually less interesting, less deep than letting the story tell itself.
So that was my reaction to it.
But still, an interesting choice by a good writer, and you've got to respect that.
And I did respect it.
I just didn't like it as much as I would have liked it if the story had resolved itself.
But it wasn't the ambiguity that bothered me.
It was the choice of speaking into the meaning of the story rather than to the story itself.
All right.
From Sheila, a question for the wise and all-knowing Clavin.
My brother, my mother, I'm sorry, my mother has serious TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, staunch Never Trumper.
When she found out that I am a Trump supporter, she said that Christians that vote for Trump are like the Jews calling for Barabbas to be, I'm sorry, like the Jews calling for Barabbas to be released instead of Jesus before his crucifixion.
I don't even, I can't even parse that comparison.
But every day she bombards me with articles from former newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, so blatantly leftists.
Initially, I tried to counter her arguments with my own, sending her articles that she obviously never read or call right-wing bias.
Anyway, engaging her just made it worse, leading her to send me more and more information, quote unquote, to convert me.
I told her that I love her and that I feared for a relationship.
If she didn't stop, we should agree to disagree.
When that didn't work, I made the decision to just flat out ignore the political news that she sends me, deciding to instead only talk with her about anything else.
But the bombardment continues every day, multiple times a day, to my daily frustration.
If you were me, what would you do?
Well, I would ditch the frustration and then just do what you were doing is I would ignore everything she sends.
I'd edit it out.
I would send her a note.
Love you, but I'm deleting everything you send me about this.
I'm just not reading it.
I'm not looking at it.
You're wasting your time.
But I love you.
And, you know, I wish you respected my opinion as much as I respect yours.
You know, it would be much nicer for me if you did that, but I'm simply not discussing it with you.
Your frustration is an expression of fear.
And I don't mean that as an insult at all.
I'm just talking about this is one of the things we all deal with in dealing with our parents.
Our parents have had so much tremendous control over our lives as children, and we never stop in some part of ourselves being children, right?
That we're always afraid when they say things.
In a way, we're not afraid and aggravated when other people say things.
If I started sending you anti-Trump or anti-anything literature constantly, you would go, ah, Clavin, I hate that guy.
It's ridiculous.
I'm just not going to pay attention to him.
But you don't want to break off with your mother, A, and you're afraid of her power and influence over you.
So that's why you feel frustrated.
But she doesn't, you're a grown-up now.
She doesn't really have any power or influence over you.
You're not going to become Trump deranged.
You're not going to agree with her.
You are angry about the fact that she's disrespecting you and you don't want to express that anger because she's your mom.
And all those things are frustrating, but you're just going to have to take a deep breath.
This is her problem.
It's not your problem.
This is her problem, not yours.
What you have to do is build a fence around yourself.
You have to, what do they call it in psychology?
Boundaries.
You have to build boundaries around yourself and say, this is a place where mom can't get to.
She cannot influence my opinion.
I'm not going to allow her to disrespect me.
I'm not going to accept her disrespect.
I'm going to just edit everything out and just tell her that I'm doing it one time lovingly.
This is what's going on.
And just keep doing it.
Don't talk to her about it.
Just say, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to have to hang up if you talk about it.
And don't accept any of her emails.
Just edit it out.
It's going to go on until the election and maybe afterwards, but eventually, you know, hopefully she'll calm down when she realizes it's disrespectful.
Explain it to her once, explain it to her nicely, explain it to her lovingly that it is disrespectful for her to keep doing this to you and that you're not going to listen to it and then just don't listen to it.
The frustration and the anger, you have to psychologize out of yourself.
You have to understand why your mom doing this once you're a grown-up and she can't really influence you, why that's bothering you so much.
Because it's annoying.
I'm not saying it's not annoying.
I'm just saying, okay, moms are annoying.
Parents can be annoying.
Just edit it out of your life and let it go.
That's all you can do because otherwise, you don't want to break with her.
You don't want to start a fight.
You don't want to get on the stoop to the level that she's at.
You just want to protect yourself.
You want to build those boundaries around yourself.
Got to stop there, but I will be back tomorrow.
This is a long week for me.
I'm going to work all through Friday.
And then I won't be back until, I think it's Wednesday.
Is it Wednesday of next week?
I think I'll be back Wednesday and Thursday of next week.
It's a little weird.
I have to do some traveling, but I will be here through Friday.
Build Boundaries Around Yourself00:01:12
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