Andrew Clavin argues America’s collapse stems from leftist media bias, academic indoctrination, and Hollywood’s moral decay, framing Trump’s 2016 win as a bulwark against globalist elites despite his flaws. He dismisses Biden’s polling lead as unreliable, citing verbal gaffes like "Covfefe" and Hunter Biden’s China ties as proof of systemic corruption, while mocking media distractions—from pandemic lockdowns to policing debates—over substantive issues like welfare reform or fiscal responsibility. The election, he claims, pits freedom against authoritarianism, with leftist policies like Kamala Harris’s "equity" agenda mirroring communist redistribution, while Trump’s unfiltered rhetoric exposed an empire of lies stifling civil discourse. [Automatically generated summary]
As Election Day finally arrives, Americans look forward once again to the majestic panorama of American democracy, in which men and women gather peacefully to choose their leaders while Black Lives Matter and Antifa burn their cities to the ground all around them.
With our culture so divided between those conservatives who wish to protect our constitutional norms and processes and those inhuman homunculi hiding behind masks while they terrorize citizens, destroy property and loot goods before voting for Joe Biden, we here at the Daily Wire would like to begin a deep and profound examination of the causes of our division.
But who has time for that?
So instead, let's just speculate recklessly on what has so divided Americans from Democrats.
Some people feel the increasing leftist bias of every elite communications outlet has deepened the natural hostility between Republicans and violent buffoons, and that the professors in our academies are know-nothing nincumpoops who spread the toxin of socialism to young people left ignorant by lower schools run by rabid radicals more bent on teaching genderless perversity than history, science, and math,
so that they turn out brainless journalists who not only magnify anonymous lies against patriots, but cover up any truth that may reveal the left to be the mean, ugly, dishonest pile of steaming horse manure that has transformed our entertainers into humorless propaganda spewing zombies,
cursing the very society that has elevated them to the highest levels on the basis of good looks and a dash of talent so small it would be totally invisible if we weren't drawn to stare at the pornographic self-displays that have corrupted our youth and degraded our national conversation until we're no longer able to fulfill the basic duties of a free society, but are tempted to languish in mind-numbing hedonism while a small band of over-credentialed morons turn our cities into gigantic trash heaps of homelessness and poverty.
And some people think there's some other problem.
I'm not sure what.
Maybe video games.
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Today, we got a lot of comments, a lot of comments on Jack Dorsey of Twitter and the way, especially the way he looks, because he's got that like madman beard.
He's got the spike in his face.
The guy looks like he is not the person who you want to have governing your free speech rights on Twitter or anywhere else, or maybe not the guy you want walking around free.
Necropolis TC writes, Dorsey looks like he was in the hole with Saddam Hussein, which maybe he was, I'm not sure.
It is quite, you know, it is telling.
Those beards, I'm telling you, I've commented on this privately myself.
Whenever I see a guy wearing one of those long gray beards and he turns out not to be Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I worry that something he's gone over the edge.
So I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but I voted for him with a shrug of tragic resignation.
I thought a battle between him and Hillary Clinton was like one of those old Japanese monster movies, Mothra versus Godzilla.
You're sort of rooting for one monster over the other, but either way, Tokyo gets destroyed.
But it turned out I was wrong, happily wrong.
Trump has done a very, very good job.
He allowed all of his personal flaws, his rudeness, his ignorance, his moral corner cutting, to be contained within the structures of our constitutional system.
No matter what they say, he has not been a lawless guy.
He has actually obeyed the courts and obeyed the rules.
His virtues, his fix-it practicality, his contrarian common sense, his visceral love of America and its freedom, all of his virtues were turned to the tasks of protecting our values and our freedoms.
And I think he did a really fine job.
He curtailed the reach of government by cutting regulations and appointing constitutionalist judges.
He beat back the globalizing rush of the elites, which would transfer power from the people's representatives here to unaccountable world organizations.
He has refused the panicked calls to abandon federalism and create new bureaucratic structures to handle a pandemic better handled by each state.
He has defended the rights to speak, the right to worship, the right to bear arms.
He has returned sanity to our foreign policy.
Meanwhile, the left has become what they accuse everyone else of being.
They're authoritarians, they're racists, their cities are awash in homelessness, poverty, crime, and mass violence.
And yet, on no evidence whatsoever, they believe so completely that they deserve power, they can't imagine a scenario in which their defeat is legal and legitimate.
Everyone who disagrees with them is hateful.
Every political loss they suffer is due to some flaw in the system that must be fixed right away.
What's more, they personally behave like trash.
Their journalists lie and cover up.
Their activists are violent.
Their women sit in cars and film themselves screaming like banshees.
Their men renounce their manhood, which may account for their women.
I will be voting for Donald Trump again tomorrow, but this time I'm going to vote for him with exuberance and possibly joy.
If the Republic is in the late stages of its life, it's not the fault of his faults.
And if it lives another generation, it may well be by virtue of his virtues.
I don't know if Trump can pull off another miraculous victory.
It would be miraculous.
But this time I will be rooting for him all the way.
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Having said all that, having said all that, I want to pause here.
There's not much in the news, but waiting now and anxiety.
And so I want to pause here and take a look at the bigger picture.
And I want to be honest.
And right now, the data, the polls, the things that we, the way we research these things go heavily against Trump.
There are signs that the gap is narrowing, but really the polls show him losing.
And not only him losing, but losing the Senate as well, so that they will have for the next two years, the Democrats will have control of the government, which could be a really bad thing.
Henry Olson, the guy you guys hate, but I bring him on because I feel like he's a very sober, honest reader of polls.
He writes, former Vice President Joe Biden will win comfortably unless we experience the greatest polling failure in modern history.
And I want to address that for a minute.
We might.
We might actually experience the greatest polling failure in modern history.
And if that's true, if Trump wins, I don't think it's because the polls have been dishonest.
I don't think that they were trying to sell us something.
I think it's because the pollsters have no idea what's going on and no way to measure it.
Remember, polling was never a science.
It's never been a science.
It's always been the kind of like attempt to sort of get the feel of the land.
And even if Trump loses, even if he loses, it may be true that the polls simply do not reflect what's going on.
And I think that that is really a situation that all of us are in.
And I've had some ideas about why all of us are in that situation, why all of us are kind of dealing with an election.
You know, you like Trump, you hate Trump, you like Biden, you hate Biden and all those things.
But really, really, we're dealing with something so much deeper than that.
And we're not talking about it at all.
You and I have been talking about it.
I've been talking about it.
But I don't think most of the country is talking about the things that are really on the line.
We're constantly distracted by the issue of the moment, the panic of the moment.
So I called this show, I named the title of this episode, Khafifi versus Barakataka Kare, because Joe Biden has been going around as he's trying to step up his campaigning.
He's getting exhausted and absolute gibberish is coming out of his mouth.
So these are some of the things he said recently is cut eight.
I'll need an effective strategy to mobilize true and international depression.
Barack and I think it's a right for people that bad at Kempcare.
He's a blithering idiot.
The guy is just a blithering idiot.
And Trump, you know, you all remember, we all remember Khafifi Trump quoting, typing, tweeting Khaifi in one of his tweets, and all of us kind of staring at this thing.
It must have been some spell check error or something like that.
And I used that as a joke for the longest time.
I just kept doing it.
But then I got bored.
So Knowles, you know, he was in need of materials.
So he took it.
But it was really funny.
It's funny.
But at the same time, it actually is kind of an accurate representation of what this election has been about.
Now, you and I have translated all of this into ideas.
What are we fighting for?
What do we believe?
Donald Trump has picked up on some of that.
He really has.
But most of the conversation in the press, most of the conversation among our poo-bahs and experts has been about nothing.
It's been about nonsense.
And I really want to talk a little bit about how that works and how it makes it so easy for us, our freedoms and our democracy, our republic, to slip away piecemeal instead of actually having a kind of Lord of the Rings battle over the things that actually matter.
So let's just take a look at some of this a lot.
I've talked a lot about how Trump has been a necessary figure, that he has been a guy, that his rudeness, his thick skin, his indifference to the norms of governance and being presidential were all necessary to fight back against the empire of lies.
The empire of lies had essentially replaced our standards of good behavior and politeness with standards of leftism.
So if you said, you know, I don't actually think the welfare system is very, you're a racist.
You became evil.
It wasn't that they disagreed.
It wasn't like we had an argument about that.
You became a racist.
If you said, you know, I'm sorry, but I think the problem in poor black neighborhoods is not the police, but the criminals, you know, you're a race.
So they just replaced our system of debate with essentially corralling us within certain ideas, or you were penalized.
And some people, you know, it's one thing for me to talk about this on the Daily Wire where they're going to let me say pretty much anything I want.
It's another thing for a guy who's got three kids and he's going to work and if he says the wrong thing, he could lose his job.
And that's essentially what they have been constructing all this time.
It's really been brilliant.
And so we needed a guy like Donald Trump who doesn't care, who doesn't care that they call him racist, doesn't care that they say, you know, they throw all these rocks and brick bats at him.
And he fights back.
And everybody said the same thing.
You know, the Never Trumpers made fun of us when we said, well, at least he fights back, but at least he fought back.
That's a really important thing.
But it's not a good thing that we need Donald Trump, okay?
This is nothing to do with Trump personally.
It's not a good thing that we need a man like that.
It is a better thing when our country is in a situation where we can address things in a statesmanlike way.
It's not a good thing that they're boarding up buildings in cities because they're afraid that the election outcome is going to cause people to burn things down.
These are not good things, right?
These are things that we don't want to have happening.
We want to be able to talk to our fellow Americans on the left in a statesmanlike way and debate principles and talk about the things that matter, but it has become virtually impossible.
I mean, even things that the right is doing, and this is one that I think is especially bad, like the debt, right?
The left wants to tax us and tax us and tax us in order to spend and spend and spend because every penny they spend buys them power.
It doesn't buy you better health care.
It buys you worse health care.
In fact, it doesn't buy you a safety net.
It doesn't buy you anything.
It buys them power.
That's why they want it.
But we want to cut taxes, right?
But not cut spending.
We never cut the spending.
We never go because people like their free stuff.
People like free stuff better than they like freedom, right?
So we do these things and we don't discuss when somebody comes forward, a Paul Ryan, anybody like that, and starts to talk about the debt and starts to talk about the need to reform entitlement, we chase them out of town.
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We chase them out of town.
The right chases him out of town because we're not talking about the things that matter.
And in the meantime, of course, our system of information has broken down, not a little bit, but entirely.
I mean, we had three years of the Russian collusion story.
Think about that for a minute.
I mean, I know our news cycle is so bad, so intense, so crazy that we can't even remember what it was like to have this story in the paper every day about whether Trump was a Russian spy and guys like John Brennan, you know, the former head of the CIA sitting there on TV going, yes, I think the likelihood, the likelihood is that this was a Russian, he's a Russian asset, you know, Adam Schiff literally talking about this stuff.
And it was all fantasy.
It was all garbage.
It was all McCarthyite lies and the leaks of people inside the government trying to destroy Donald Trump and opo research by Hillary Clinton elevated to information by James Comey's incompetence and his stupidity.
I don't even think Comey can be called a conspirator.
We had years of that, three years of that, and now we've got a story that is obviously a legitimate story about Joe Biden's family.
And this story has gotten worse and worse and worse.
This story now is really what looks like Joe Biden was taking Joe Biden's family was taking money from a Russian company that was synonymous with the Russian government and not just synonymous with the Russian government.
I'm sorry, the Chinese government, the Chinese government, not just synonymous with the Chinese government, but an actual agent of the Chinese Communist Party being used to move into countries, loan the money, give the money for infrastructure projects, and then use that money as a way of pushing Chinese power into these places in the West.
And Hunter Biden and Jim Biden, Joe Biden's brother, were clearly taking cash from these guys who were being spied on by our guys.
The FBI was actually had FISA warrants out against these guys because they thought, oh, this is a Chinese infiltration system.
This is a Chinese op that's going on infiltrating the West, and it has to be looked at.
And that's what brought the company down.
That's what brought that Chinese company down is that they were exposed by our intelligence people.
And that's what brought the company down and left Hunter and Jim Biden kind of sitting there in a panic.
Are we going to be caught up on this?
And now it looks like there was some investigation into the Biden family.
And the notion that Joe Biden knew nothing about this, the notion that he knew nothing about this is ridiculous.
And Trump is selling this.
This is Cut Dust Six.
For decades, Joe Biden let other countries rip you off, rip off our country, and cheat America blind.
And there was a group, they were just, they would let him do anything.
Biden has been there for five decades, and the only people who benefited from his policies were himself and his family, frankly.
He shows up every four years and then goes back to Washington and caters to special interests.
But my only interest is you.
So Victor Davis Hansen has a piece in American Greatness, which is a magazine, a journal dedicated to bringing an intellectual framework to what Trump is doing.
It's called Donald Trump Counterrevolutionary.
And he says, until Donald Trump's arrival, this VDH, until Donald Trump's arrival, the globalist revolution was almost solidified and institutionalized with the United States increasingly its greatest and most woke advocate.
We know its bipartisan establishment contours.
Here it is.
China would inherit the world in 20 or 30 years.
The self-appointed task of American elites, many of whom had already been enriched and compromised by Chinese partners and joint ventures, was to facilitate this all-in-the-family transition in the manner of the imperial British handoff of hegemony to the United States in the late 1940s.
Our best and brightest, like the Biden family, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Bill Gates, or Mark Zuckerberg would enlighten us about the real China so we yokels would not fall into Neanderthal bitterness as they managed our foreordained decline.
We would usher China into the world community, grimacing at, but overlooking the destruction it wrought on the global commercial order and the American interior.
We would politely forget about Hong Kong.
We've already politely forgotten about Hong Kong.
Taiwan, Tibet, and the Uyghurs.
Hollywood would nod as it put out more lucrative comic book and cartoonish films for the Chinese markets, albeit with mandated lighter-skinned actors.
The NBA would nod twice and trash a democratic United States while praising genocidal China, becoming richer and more esteemed abroad to make up for becoming boring and poorer at home.
The universities would nod three times and see a crime not in Chinese espionage and security breaches, but in the reporting of them as crimes.
So our revolutionary role would be to play stuffy and snooty Athenian philosophers to the new muscular Roman legions of China.
Given our elites, superior morality, genius, and sense of self, we would gently chide and cajole our Chinese masters into becoming enlightened world overseers and democrats.
All the easier the richer and more affluent Chinese became.
For now, says Victor Davis Hansen, Trump has stopped that revolution.
And, you know, I'm not even sure that Trump would have seen it that clearly, but in some sense, that's true.
A globalized world is going to be a Chinese world.
And this is the problem.
You know, I believe in cultural imperialism.
I believe that if we are going to become a globalized world, it's got to be our world because freedom, because freedom.
And that is the thing that we're not talking about.
We're never talking about at all.
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Sometimes people are fooled.
You know, let's take another example, another example of this.
On Thursday, last Thursday, an Islamist killed three people, decapitating one at the basilica, nearly decapitating one at the Basilica of Notre Dame in Nice while yelling Allahu Akbar.
Two weeks ago, a teacher was beheaded after he showed controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in his class.
The Associated Press decided this was the time, I'm reading this from newsbusters, this was the time to ask why France was causing this, why France was causing this.
Their original AP Explains article was headlined, Why Does France Incite Anger in the Muslim World?
They changed this a little later to why France sparks so much anger in the Muslim world.
Here's just a touch of the story.
Many countries, especially in the Democratic West, champion freedom of expression and allow publications that lampoon Islam's profit.
So why is France singled out for protests and calls for boycotts across the Muslim world and so often the target of deadly violence from the extremist margins?
This is like saying to a woman, why are you the person?
What did you do to get raped?
You know, why are you the person who got raped?
What were you doing wrong?
Its brutal colonial past, we say of the French, to ZP of the French, staunch secular policies, and tough-talking president who seems insensitive toward the Muslim faith all play a role.
There's an op-ed like this in the New York Times, a former newspaper, is France fueling Muslim terrorism by trying to prevent it.
By Vincent Geyser, he's a political scientist.
We have to listen to the science, as we know.
He says, in addition to security and counterterrorism measures, the French government responded to the killing of the teacher, Mr. Patit, by vigorously reaffirming the right of free speech, including the right to satirize and blaspheme, allow blasphemy in France now, as well as the central role of France's version of secularism known as la cité in all state institutions, especially public schools.
If anything, he says, it is the French government's rhetoric that could end up convincing some Muslims that they are indeed different from other French people.
It's the French's fault.
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And as always with these guys, they strip, they strip minorities of agency.
They strip the killers of agency.
They will not acknowledge that the killers have ideas, that just like us, they are acting on their ideas.
And I'm not trying to tar all Islamic people with the same brush.
I'm truly not.
Even though I disagree with their ideas, not all Islamic ideas are violent, but there is a large portion of Islam that has been taken over by these people and is violent and does want to oppress people and will respond to what they see as blasphemy with horrific violence.
They are acting on their ideas.
And that's the thing that nobody seems to discuss.
That we have now built a media dedicated not only to not discussing it, but to avoiding those kinds of ideas.
Last week, I'm going to talk, this is a personal experience, but an interesting one.
I went to a town hall with my friend Jesse Lee Peterson, who I love.
I think Jesse Lee Peterson is a great guy, one of the few people I look at who may be one level up from me in being willing to say whatever he thinks.
I mean, I pretty much tell you whatever I think.
I will not censor myself.
He's like another level.
He truly does not care what people say about him, and he will do whatever he has to do.
So it was a panel of four people with Jesse moderating over at Bond, which is just, he just does terrific work.
And you can see this.
You can go on and watch this panel.
So there was a guy there who calls himself Destiny.
His first name was Steve.
And he was a left-wing talker, a left-wing guy on YouTube.
He had a show on YouTube, and he calls himself Destiny for some reason.
And there was another guy named Joe Collins, who is running against Maxine Waters here in LA at the 43rd congressional district.
And a lot of the town hall was Joe and this guy, Destiny, really getting into it.
They obviously got on each other's nerves and they were screaming at each other.
There's no place for me to speak because they were just yelling at one another.
But I did notice that the way that, and by the way, I want to make it clear that I had a lot of respect for this guy, Destiny, for showing up.
This was a very, very right-wing crowd.
I mean, Jesse Lee brings in a very white, right-wing crowd.
And Destiny showed up.
You know, he showed up and he took the booze and he took the people yelling at him and they took the mockery and the nasty questions and he stood up to it all and he was relatively, I mean, I won't call him, I won't call him amiable, but he was at least relatively civilized.
And I really respected him for that.
So this is not a personal attack on him.
He has the right to his opinions.
But there was a different way that he argued from the way that other people argued.
In the times when I had conflicts with him, debates with him, I would bring up issues that concerned me, and he would respond with talking points and debating tricks.
And this is one of the reasons I don't like to debate.
I don't like to debate because I'm not in a conversation to win.
That's not why I have conversations with anybody.
I'm in a conversation to hear.
I'm in a conversation to respond.
I'm in a conversation to find a way to find some principles that we can agree on.
But here's just an example.
When we were talking about George Floyd, I said, you know, is it a good thing?
Can it be a good thing to hagiographize, to make an angel, a saint, out of a guy like George Floyd who held a gun to a pregnant woman while his friend's home invaded her house, who was a criminal?
He was a criminal.
I mean, let us putting aside whether it was good policing when he got killed, because I don't think it was.
I mean, the trial hasn't been held yet, so I'm not sure, but I don't think it was good policing.
The police that I've talked to say it wasn't good policing.
So, but is it a good thing to hagiographize, to make a saint out of this criminal in neighborhoods where there's a lot of young people with no fathers and all?
And Destiny's response was, oh, because he's a criminal, he deserves to be killed by the police?
You know, after that, where does the conversation go?
Where does the conversation go after that?
You can't, you know, there's no, that's a talking point.
That's not an idea.
It is an idea that maybe it's a bad idea to hagiographize criminals.
It's not an idea like, oh, then he deserves to get killed by the police, because nobody said that.
Nobody said that.
Same thing happened when Joe, this guy, Joe Collins, this guy was, Joe Collins was a very, very impressive guy.
He was a Navy veteran of the Iraq War.
He had come back to his neighborhood, which has been run by Maxine Waters.
She's been there for, I don't know, 15, 20 years.
She's been in government for over 40 years.
She's done nothing.
She hasn't made the lives of black people any better.
And you've seen her.
She's 80 years old.
She's crazy as a bat.
She's like an absolute nutcase.
And for the first time, she's on the run.
It looks like Joe may have a shot at bringing her down.
He may have a shot at winning in L.A. because he knows this neighborhood.
And he says, look, he's a Republican.
He's for Trump.
But if Biden gets elected, he will work with Biden to get what this neighborhood needs.
So he and Destiny got in an argument.
They got in a lot of arguments.
And at one point, somebody called in and asked for a definition of per capita.
And Joe kind of bobbled the ball.
He didn't really define it clearly and he didn't define it right.
And all the comments from the left were, how on earth, how on earth can we have a congressman, a congressman?
As if that were a really elevated position, which is not, by the way.
How can we have a congressman who doesn't know what per capita means?
And you can go on YouTube and look at this thing and you will see comment after comment from the left.
You thought they didn't know what per capita means.
So this is a guy who fought in the Iraq war, coming back to his neighborhood, which is run by Maxine Waters, who has done zippity-doo-dah for the people of her community, right?
She's done literally nothing for them.
And he has fresh ideas and he has new ideas and he's obviously a cool dude with a very intelligent guy.
And the question is, does he know, can he define per capita under pressure?
There are a lot of words I know the meaning of that under pressure, I'm not sure I would be able to define.
Is that really the question?
Is that really the question?
And isn't that the way that Trump has been covered all this time?
Isn't it how he's been covered all this time?
And isn't it a distraction from the ideas that we're fighting over?
This is the point I'm making.
When somebody says, oh, you know, just because he's a criminal, does that mean the police had the right to kill him?
He is distracting from something.
He is distracting from the question of whether a problem in our communities, in our black communities or any communities, is the police or whether it's criminals.
And if it's criminals, how did it get to be that?
What is the problem there?
Are we not going to talk about that?
Are we not going to have that debate at all?
I mean, there are two sides, two groups of people.
They believe different things.
Are we not even going to be debating that?
Are we really going to be debating Kofifi versus Kabak the Bequer?
You know, I mean, that's really what we're going to be talking about.
This is the thing with the way they cover the pandemic and why the pandemic is such a source of hostility and division because those people who should be educating us, A, are stupid, B, are doing a bad job, and C, are using talking quizzes.
Here's Joe Biden talking about the virus.
This is cut one.
His chief of staff last week said, we're going to do nothing about the virus.
It's here.
Our front eye workers is giving all of their pets to this virus.
Everything defeated it.
Many of them have died.
But we have a president who's given up.
I'll never get up to all of America.
We've got a problem where the virus surrender.
We're going to beat this virus.
We're going to get out of control.
This is not our president.
The truth is to beat the virus.
We first got to beat Donald Trump.
He's the virus.
He's the virus.
Trump is the virus.
And if you think that's anomalous, it's not.
It's their argument.
It's their argument that somehow Donald Trump is to blame for what has happened because of this disease.
Same thing is happening in Europe.
Europe is doing worse.
Germany, which we were being told, oh, their lockdown and their tracing was so great.
Now Angela Merkel says we can't trace people anymore.
There's just too many cases.
You know, how is it all Donald Trump's fault?
He's the virus.
Destiny was saying this to me too when I would say, you know, I like some of the things that Trump did.
He would say, 200,000 people are dead.
Yeah, but we don't even know those numbers.
Even those numbers are completely meaningless because of the way this has been misreported in order to make it a talking point instead of discussing ideas.
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Let me give you another example of how we use words to avoid honest discussion, okay?
A lot of talk about whether lockdowns work.
Do they work?
Do lockdowns work?
You know, does it work when we lock?
I mean, all over Europe, they're locking things down.
England just announced another lockdown for a month.
Do they work?
What does the word work mean?
Does it mean it stops the spread of a virus that it's a nasty disease?
It's not, you know, it's not like just the flu.
I mean, there's a lot of long-term effects and it's a real thing.
You know, I'm not saying that, but it's probably not going to kill you.
It might kill me, but it's not going to kill you.
So when you say it works, if it slows the spread of the disease, but destroys the economy, destroys the dreams of people, destroys the businesses of people, causes people to kill themselves using drugs and alcohol, causes people to lose their sense of community, to lose their sense of nationhood, to lose their sense of the idea that we're all in this together, that it matters that you spend your Thanksgiving with the people you love, that it matters that you celebrate Christmas,
that it matters that you go to church and worship God.
All of these things matter too.
And when you say, does it work, what you're really asking is, does it work for these elites who make their living like me on a computer?
It works for those elites in that they can still see people, they can still talk, a little inconvenient, there's some inconveniences.
I can't go to the movies, you know, there's nothing at the theater.
A little bit inconvenient, but not really inconvenient like it is if you have a business where you have to stand behind a counter and sell people things, or a business where you show up and you go and fix things for people, or a business that depends on people coming together, like running a movie theater, then it's not working.
It's not working.
And, you know, the fear-mongering, I mean, obviously I've talked about this over and over again, the fear-mongering at the New York Times, a former newspaper, and CNN, a cesspit of stupidity and lies, is insane.
It's insane.
When you ask, does it work?
My question is, can a nation full of cowards work?
Can a nation full of groveling, cowering, mask-wearing children work?
Is that going to work?
What kind of nation is that going to be?
I mean, isn't that paving the way for this kind of globalized Chinese world that Victor Davis Hansen is talking about and that elites were sort of moving toward?
Here's Joe Biden saying, oh, you know, it's going to be, masks are going to be mandated now, Cut 14.
We're going to act to get COVID under control.
On day one of my presidency, I'll put in action a plan I've been thinking about, talking about for months already laid out.
A national mandate.
Mask wearing, social distancing, testing, tracing, all things.
As President Obama just said, it should have and could have put in place months and months ago.
First of all, it's probably unconstitutional.
He probably hasn't got a right to impose a federal mask mandate.
But here, conversely, I was watching the Trump rally yesterday, and I saw this moment, which made me laugh out loud.
this is cut five.
Don't tell anybody, but let me wait till a little bit after the election.
You got to love Donald Trump.
He's got like absolutely no screen on his mouth.
They're shouting, if you couldn't hear it, fire Fauci, fire Fauci.
And he says, don't tell anybody.
We'll wait till after the election.
But why fire Fauci?
Because Fauci has been a minister of fear.
Fauci has been a minister of shut down this, shut down that.
And that would be fine.
That would be fine if he were treated like an advisor to the president and one of the opinions that Donald Trump had to listen to.
But the press elevated him because they're selling fear, because they're selling cowardice, because they're selling globalization, they are elevating him to this, you know, to the level of a sage.
The New York Times calls him science.
Whenever Trump disagrees with him, they say, Trump disagrees with science.
Fauci is science.
And, you know, he's one guy.
He's a guy, the guy in Sweden, who's him, in Sweden, disagrees with him entirely.
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There are different opinions.
And Trump has to ask himself the question, does this work for everybody?
How does this work for people who make their living going out into the world?
How does it work for people who need to get their education, for people who need to send their children back to school?
How is this working for everybody?
And these are the issues when you see those two issues.
Biden saying, everybody's going to wear a mask.
I'm going to make everybody wear a mask.
And then you see people fire Fauci, fire Fauci.
They're not talking about masks and Fauci.
This is the point I'm trying to get across.
They're not talking about masks, about masks and Fauci.
That's not what they're talking about.
They're talking about freedom and fear.
That's what they're talking about.
They're talking about freedom and fear.
How do we go forward?
You could, look, a reasonable person, two reasonable people, left and right, two reasonable people could sit down and say, one could say, look, here's the science.
We think that some social distancing and masks would help.
We think maybe we should shut down the economy.
And the other person says, well, look, if you shut down the economy, there's going to be all kinds of ancillary losses.
People are going to die for all kinds of reasons.
And masks, it's offensive for the governor of Michigan to suddenly become Uber Sturm Führer Gretchen and tell everybody what to do.
You could have that discussion.
You could say, well, all right, can we get to a place where we can be a little safer but remain free?
Can we get to a place where we can be free, but also be a little bit more responsible to one another?
You know, those are arguments you can have.
We're not having those arguments.
And the thing is, it's one thing in a political rally where they're screaming and yelling, but it's another thing when the press, when the communications industry doesn't want to talk about the ideas.
Kamala Harris yesterday released this video, I think it was yesterday, released this video that is really quite amazing, describing the difference between equality and equity.
This is cut nine.
So there's a big difference between equality and equity.
Equality suggests, oh, everyone should get the same amount.
The problem with that, not everybody's starting out from the same place.
So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you're still going to be that far back behind me.
It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be on equal footing and then compete on equal footing.
Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.
That's also called communism.
That's called communism.
Because if we're competing, even if we compete from a standing start, which will never happen, that's never going to happen.
Because how are you going to get that start without like robbing everybody's money and giving it to other people, which is communism?
Even if we compete from a standing start, if I go into playing basketball and LeBron James goes into basketball, we are not going to end up in the same place.
He has LeBron privilege.
He has talent that I wasn't born with.
Good for him.
And our work ethic.
We both share a work ethic, but I could work all day long.
I still won't be LeBron.
And so this is, she's actually selling communism.
And it matters.
I'll tell you why it matters.
Here's a Biden staffer introducing Kamala Harris the other day as cut two.
I am so honored to introduce the next president of the United States, Senator Kamala Harris.
Next president of the United States.
Here's Mike Pence on this subject.
This is cut three.
I think you know the choice in this election has never been clear.
The stakes have never been higher.
I mean, when you look at their agenda, higher taxes, open borders, socialized medicine, abortion on demand, a Green New Deal, defunding the police.
It's clear.
Joe Biden would be nothing more than a Trojan horse for the radical left.
I mean, I saw in the newspapers that Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are already angling for cabinet positions.
Well, you know, here's the thing.
Socialism, communism, these are materialist ideas.
The idea that you are equal when you have equal amount of stuff with other people.
Our idea of freedom is a spiritual idea, that you have the same rights, you have the same responsibilities, you have the same worth in the eyes of God, and therefore should be viewed the same in the eyes of the law.
Those are spiritual ideas.
That's really the argument we're having.
What are we?
Are we made of meat?
Are we made of meat and chemicals?
Or are we something more?
There may be governments that work better than freedom.
A king might work better than freedom, but you won't be free.
Does it matter?
Do we care anymore?
Do we just want to stay safe, stay home, stay indoors, wear a mask, and be taken care of?
Or do we want to be free?
That's the conversation we're going to have to have going forward, whether Trump wins or whether he loses.
It doesn't matter.
You know, it's really interesting to me that now, suddenly, as the force of their ideas scrolls out, the left is shocked.
Leftist, Wolf Blitzer sent out a tweet.
He said, I never thought I would see so many buildings here in the nation's capital boarded up on the eve of a presidential election in anticipation of possible unrest.
And it's not just in D.C., it's happening in New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere around the country.
So sad.
Well, instead of tweeting out to me, who has opposed all this violence, why not go down the hall to his colleague, Chris Cuomo, and say, Chris, you know, when you go on the air with a tie and jacket looking like a responsible adult human being, with a camera in your face so that you actually look like a journalist, which you're not, and a microphone, and you say, where does it say that you have to be polite and peaceful to have a rally?
You're causing this.
It's your ideas that's causing this.
This isn't being caused because France is mean to Muslims.
It's being caused because you are spreading ideas to people who are only too happy to accept those ideas because they haven't got any ideas of their own.
They haven't learned anything.
They're ignorant.
They don't know how freedom works.
They don't care how freedom works.
Andrew Sullivan, a kind of, you know, he parades a conservative.
He's one of these guys, you know, conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan.
He's not a conservative.
But he saw Kamala Harris's video and he said, how can she put out a socialist video two days before the election?
I can tell you how.
It's because she's a socialist.
Suddenly, these guys are shocked.
They're shocked like they'll be shocked when the rioters turn up at their house.
And suddenly they'll say, where's the rule of law?
Where's the rule of law?
You know, they're shocked that these ideas play themselves out.
Does the New York Times think they won't be beheaded?
Does the AP think they won't be beheaded by Islamists?
Islamists would behead them in a second.
Why?
Because Islamists have an idea about God that is not our idea about God.
Okay.
The violence that happened during the Reformation between Christian and Christian was so shocking because it was a violation of Christian precepts.
And it's what led us to say government has to be secular and the sides of Christianity have to fight it out in a philosophical way, not with force of arms.
That was a change that was made to bring Christianity more in line with Christianity.
If Islam is brought more in line with the Quran, Will it look more peaceful?
Will it look like Christianity?
Or will it look like Islamism?
I don't know the answer to that, but that's a conversation that should be had.
But instead of having that, we act as if everything is economic, everything is the result of our actions, instead of understanding that everybody, everybody, in the immortal words of my friend Magnet, who wrote this wonderful book, The Dream and the Nightmare, he said, people act according to the ideas in their head.
And that is what we're arguing about today.
And that is what this election is ultimately going to be about.
I know for a lot of us, it's going to be about, oh, Donald Trump is good and Joe Biden is bad.
But in the end, after it's over, whether Trump wins or whether he loses, we are going to have to have a serious discussion, a serious discussion about where this country is going.
And do we still believe in the religious chain of ideas that brought us to this place?
Do we still believe in any of them?
Tomorrow's election day, don't sit around and complain.
Do not sit around and complain and not go out and vote.
You've got to vote.
You've got to vote if you're going to complain.
Voting buys you the right to complain.
So get out there and do it.
Put your vote out there and we will see what we will see.
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