Trump vs. The Failed Elite dissects Kamala Harris’s policy failures—ignoring Afghanistan’s withdrawal fallout, skipping Arlington funerals for 13 Marines—while exposing mainstream media (ABC, NBC, CBS) as a biased "elite communication arm." It contrasts Trump’s direct press engagement with conservative capitulation, like McConnell’s selective courage or Romney’s 2012 retreat, and warns of leftist redefinition of democracy, family, and free speech. The episode urges grassroots media resistance to Hollywood’s dominance, from YouTube films to Telegram’s censorship battles, framing cultural and moral shifts as essential to conservative survival. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, I was so impressed with the Democrat National Convention, I've decided to change the format of this show to make it more like the DNC.
So for instance, before I begin today, I'd like to acknowledge that the land I'm podcasting from is the traditional home of the Cherokee or the Chickasaw, the Chickamauga, the Chick-fil-A, or whatever the hell these primitives call themselves while they sat around half-naked in ridiculous little conical tents, smoking pipes full of God knows what, before the Europeans came and brought air conditioning and civilization and things like that.
And I want to honor with gratitude the land itself, which, okay, doesn't really make a whole lot of sense since it was just a bunch of dirt before we built stuff on it like Yankee Stadium and super highways and other things the Indians didn't think of because, let's face it, they never even invented the wheel.
They just sat around most days wondering why it was so hard to get the wagons to move until they finally went back to smoking their pipes because really, who needs wheels when you're stoned out of your mind?
Still, we honor the land because we want to sound as spiritual as the Democrats at their convention, or in fact, as spiritual as any bunch of unintelligible paganized atheists gleefully returning to the bloody practice of human sacrifice or women's health care or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
So we honor the land and all those who lived upon the land until one day they looked up and saw ships that had crossed the entire Atlantic Ocean while they were sitting around smoking and wondering why their wheelless wagons were just gathering dust like a pile of useless two by fours.
Or who even knows?
Maybe one of them tried to say something like, hey, wait, if we put some big circular objects underneath these wagons, we could roll them somewhere.
But he probably got the old arrow right in the forehead because the rest of the tribe was like, hey, keep it down.
We're smoking here and watching those beautiful ships coming this way.
What they probably thought was another planet since they didn't even know there were other continents.
And meanwhile, the Europeans were zipping around from one continent to another until they could take over that Indian land and, thank God, start building something useful on it.
Now, some of you may be thinking, well, wait, you say Europeans took the land from the Cherokees, but didn't the Cherokees take it from the Chickasaws, who took it from the Chick-fil-As, who took it from the Dixie Chicks, so that basically the whole history of the continent was just a bunch of half-naked chicks fighting, like at that bar I sometimes go to with the mud pit and the wet t-shirts.
Man, I love that place.
Anyway, all these half-naked chick tribes were busy killing one another until suddenly they looked up and there were the Europeans.
And it was like, boom, how do you like my AR-15 fire stick, Indian man?
And the Indians were like, holy crap, we should have invented the wheel.
Then we could have rolled our wagons to the gun store and bought some of those fire sticks so we could wipe out these Europe guys like we did with the chickadees and the chick magnets or whoever it was we were killing when those ships arrived from another planet.
But all the same, I want to acknowledge them because they were people too, almost.
And just like the Democrats at their convention, I want to give them the sense that I care about their suffering without actually caring about their suffering, or indeed without actually doing anything except what I'm doing right now, which doesn't cost me a thin dime, but makes me feel great about myself.
So that's my Democrat-style land acknowledgement.
And if it's cynicism and insincerity makes you feel hypocritical, you can always comfort yourself by using your iPhone to order overnight delivery of a laptop from Amazon and kick back and enjoy the wonderful fruits of European expansion.
Then, just like the Democrats, we can all finally stop blaming ourselves for settler imperialism and get back to blaming the Jews.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavan, and this is The Andrew Klavan Show.
Failure to Acknowledge Failure00:10:35
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This is the one, this is the turning point in the Cameron Winter story.
This is where he is kind of racing with a killer to find his old flame, and he's going through this period of American dissolution and political turmoil as he seeks to find out what happened to the girl he loved when he was a kid.
Last week's interview, you want to take a look at that with Mike Duran getting a lot of great reaction.
Mike talks about the Mideast with complete sincerity without any BS and it's really different kind of interview.
And this week's will be with Sebastian Gorka on the state of MAGA.
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Let's get to today's episode, Trump versus a Failed Elite.
So this is a weekly show, not a daily show.
So I'd like to take a different, a wider look at the whole culture, the politics of the day in the context of the culture.
And I don't want to get too bogged down in the news of the moment.
So let me just go through what I'm seeing right now politically, and then we'll get to sort of a bigger picture.
Right now, this is after the DNC.
Kamala got Kamala, Kamala, whatever her name is, got a minor bump after the election.
And the polls now show her and Trump running neck and neck, which is a major, major failure, in my opinion, on the part of corporate media, because the corporate media, once again, absolutely shamed and embarrassed themselves by drooling over and going into ecstasies over the convention and Kamala, the greatest speech I've ever heard and the joy, just the joy, the fabulous joy of joy that was coming, not just joy, but joyful joy was coming out.
And people were like, not really.
And so most of the time, these bumps fade.
We'll see what happens now.
We've got a couple of weeks coming, and then we've got the, obviously, the debate, and that's going to be a big deal.
And of course, Kamala gave an interview to Dana Bash.
Now, the interesting thing about this, now, Danabash is a complete partisan, but I have to say, both in the debate between Biden and Trump and in this interview with Kamala Harris, she asked the right questions.
I thought I didn't think she did a bad job.
She didn't do follow-up.
She didn't press her on anything really, but that's kind of typical of cable news.
So I'm not going to, I'm going to give her a B mind.
She didn't do a bad job.
But the thing is, Kamala Harris is a pure invention of technology, right?
She has no actual existence.
She's just, she is not, she couldn't even do an interview without Tim Walt sitting beside her, her emotional support vice president she brought along.
And she's still trying to negotiate that she can bring a cheat sheet to the debate.
This is not a confident, decisive person who knows who she is, who knows what she thinks.
This is, like Joe Biden, the front of a leftist system.
So you know that the person making the decision at 2 o'clock in the morning or at 12 noon is not going to be Kamala Harris.
It's going to be the same Obama-led cabal of leftists who think they got everything right and don't. care about the fact that everything keeps going wrong.
And this is kind of what I want to talk about today, is the failure to acknowledge failure is something that is haunting this country.
And it is the reason Donald Trump exists.
And it is the reason the same guy who back in the day when I lived in New York City after the city had tried and failed to build a skating rink in Central Park, couldn't do it, couldn't do it, went on for years.
Trump did it in six months.
And this is the kind of guy he is, just a fix-it guy.
He's not a ideologue.
He's not a guy who really has a sort of system of thought that he's following through.
This is broken.
Let me fix it.
The reason that is happening is the failure to acknowledge knowledge failure.
In this interview, you know, people are going to say this was an absolute disaster, this interview.
It's only a disaster if you didn't know who Kamala Harris was.
You can tell it's a disaster that they're not calling for more interviews.
She's not going to do it more.
You can tell it's a disaster because even on the left's media, which is all the media, nobody is defending it.
Nobody's saying she was great.
But she couldn't acknowledge her failure on the border.
Here she is with Dana Bash, Cut 17.
During the Biden-Harris administration, there were record numbers of illegal border crossings.
Why did the Biden-Harris administration wait three and a half years to implement sweeping asylum restrictions?
Well, first of all, the root causes work that I did as vice president that I was asked to do by the president has actually resulted in a number of benefits, including historic investments by American businesses in that region.
The number of immigrants coming from that region has actually reduced.
Yeah, for the election, but we know it's going to open up right after the election.
She's now saying she's going to build a wall.
It's going to be a paper wall, and possibly it's to keep Americans inside, not to keep people from coming in.
She couldn't acknowledge the failure of the economy.
This is Cut 14.
Hundreds of people a day were dying because of COVID.
The economy had crashed.
In large part, all of that because of mismanagement by Donald Trump of that crisis.
When we came in, our highest priority was to do what we could to rescue America.
And today, we know that we have inflation at under 3%.
A lot of our policies have led to the reality that America recovered faster than any wealthy nation around the world.
But you are right.
Prices, in particular for groceries, are still too high.
The American people know it.
I know it.
Which is why my agenda includes what we need to do to bring down the price of groceries.
For example, dealing with an issue like price gouging.
So price gouging doesn't send up the price of groceries.
Government spending does.
That was another thing she couldn't acknowledge, the Green New Deal, whereas they called it the Inflation Reduction Act.
Hilarious that she actually said we dealt with the Green New Deal through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Look, this interview is not going to end her.
The people who are voting for her, a lot of them are just voting for a sentient human being as opposed to Joe Biden, who is not Donald Trump.
They hate Donald Trump.
A lot of NPCs out there, we know that, non-playable characters who are just going to vote the way their parents voted and don't really think about politics very much.
But an administration that has fired no one after the disaster in Afghanistan, after the inflation, and this is the other thing.
Kamala says she's gotten inflation down to 3%.
That's higher than the under 2% under Trump.
That's one thing.
And the other thing is the prices haven't come back down from the fact that they've sometimes doubled or sometimes gone up 50%.
So after that inflation, they haven't fired anybody for that.
They haven't fired anybody after the destruction of our cities by illegal immigration after the spike in crime and addiction.
No one's fired.
No one is responsible.
And on the right, in the GOP, a party that put up John McCain and Mitt Romney and then says, why did Trump steal our party away, is not paying attention.
It is not being realistic.
This kind of Ayn Rand crap we pushed of this valueless capitalism where everybody's supposed to be reduced to a sort of grateful working man who's thank you, thank you, Mr. Galt, for building a business and all this stuff.
The left and the GOP right and the political class in general hate, they hate guys like Elon Musk, not just because he loves free speech and he permits free speech, but they hate Musk because of one thing.
When Musk fails, his rocket explodes.
His rocket explodes and he has to go on and say, say, my rocket exploded.
Now we learned what to do.
We're going to change it the next time out.
Not the political class.
They don't change anything.
They don't fire anything.
They don't come up with any new ideas.
They don't recognize the things that are happening to ordinary people.
So now let's do that.
Let's find out how we got here.
Let's take a step back and look at the bigger picture into how we got to a moment that actually is a crisis.
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Chapter one, Trump versus leftist.
Leftism's Feminist Agenda00:12:36
Leftism is a failure everywhere and is certainly a failure here.
But how do we get to the fact to the point where the left not only gets all their programs through, but they define everything?
And the one thing that the left does is it takes advantage of a natural weakness of conservatives, which is this.
The left identifies problems.
Conservatives are constantly trying to conserve the good we have.
That's why we're called conservatives.
We want to conserve the good things we have, which is an honorable, noble goal, but it makes us reluctant to admit that there is a problem.
So when the left identifies a problem and defines the problem, they then get to say, oh, and we have the solution.
And everything becomes leftism.
So no matter what they do, their solution is always the same.
It's always more government control, more top-down America, which is exactly the opposite of America was supposed to be.
So that every cause they have, whether it's feminism or environmentalism or gay rights or anti-racism, becomes Edgar the bugman in Men in Black.
Remember the guy who's a bug, but he's still dressed up in the skin of the farmer.
And that is what all of these causes become.
So you get into the position where you can't say, as I often say, I'm an anti-feminist because people think you mean that women should be crushed or have no rights or anything like that, which is not at all what I mean.
What I mean is I am against feminism because feminism is an Edgar the bugman of socialism always.
You know, this started, Betty Ferdinand, this wave of feminism, they're always saying the second wave of whatever.
But Betty Friedan started this.
She was a communist sympathizing activist.
She worked for a communist-led trade union as a reporter, and she kept that quiet.
She kind of posed as the sort of ordinary housewife.
In 1963, she wrote the feminine mystique.
Let me read you what the feminine mystique said about the average housewife.
Now, remember, this is when I'm growing up.
I'm growing up in the suburbs, kind of situation comedy, 1950s, 1960s suburbs, where the women are at home, and that's why kids could run free because at every kitchen window, there was a woman watching out for you and calling your mom if you were doing something you shouldn't have been doing.
This is the way Betty Friedan wrote about the average housewife of that era.
I am convinced there is something about the housewife state itself that is dangerous.
In a sense, that is not as far-fetched as it sounds.
The women who adjust as housewives, who grow up wanting to be just, just a housewife, are in as much danger as the millions who walk to their own death in the concentration camps and the millions more who refuse to believe that the concentration camps existed.
She went on to call the American home comfortable concentration camps.
So if you were in the Holocaust, if you were one of those people starved to being a corpse and then marched into a gas chamber and choked to death, strangled to death, you were just, it was just like being Donna Reed in the Donna Reed show.
It was just like being a housewife in America.
That's what she sold people.
That's what she told people.
Now, conservatives who looked at the fact that we were now the richest, best country that had ever existed on the face of the planet and that people were living lives that were rightly called the American dream, they were absolutely outraged, right?
How could you say this?
We want to keep this in style.
But in fact, women were dissatisfied, as I've said this before, but let me say it one more time, that industry and technology had stripped women of the economic relevance that they had had.
If you go back and look at the Bible, you know, evangelicals are always saying, I want to find a project.
Proverbs 31 woman.
A Proverbs 31 woman is not just taking care of the kids in the home.
She is also an economic engine.
She trades land.
She runs an orchard.
She makes clothes.
Making clothes was one of the big industries that women had, the cottage industries.
Women were called the distaff, which was a little tool they used for making yarn, right?
They were called the distaff because they were the engines who made clothes.
Think about living without clothes, not so easy.
It's a major industry.
So there was a problem, but because the communists, essentially, in the person of Betty Ferdinand, identified the problem, feminism simply became an Edgar the bug for her attempt to destroy the family, which is part of the Marxist plan and always has been.
It's always been, we've got to get women out of the home.
I think it was Engels who said this, we've got to get women out of the home so that we can get them into the workforce, which meant the conservatives were caught flat-footed because they didn't define the problem.
Now, the other day, the Wall Street Journal, which months ago was a good paper and now has become a very bad paper in the news side, the other day they ran a story saying moms can now work at home, but there's a catch.
They still have to do most of the mom work.
And I thought, that's not a bug.
That's a feature, right?
Computers have made it so that home industries can come back.
But still, most women like making homes and like raising children.
And of course, that is the urgent work that people do.
And the fact that we don't respect it is why our birth rate is falling off.
You know, there's a country, Mongolia.
Nobody knows about Mongolia.
It's a landlocked country right near China.
A website called More Births that is obviously a pro-natal website says that the Mongolian leaders for the last 68, 70 years have given the order of maternal glory to mothers.
This raised the status of motherhood and has helped to forge a remarkably pro-natal culture.
Mongolia's pro-motherhood culture stands out on a fertility map.
You can see it's like two and three times the birth rate of all the countries around it.
And it's not like a primitive country.
Its incomes are comparable to its neighbors.
It's urbanized.
It's a Buddhist country, which is religion, kind of a non-religion religion, but it's still a belief system.
The president comes and gives you an award if you're a mother of four.
Whereas we talk about being just a mom, just a housewife.
I've heard women say this again and again.
I'm just a stay-at-home mom, which of course is the central job of humankind.
It is the job around which every other job is built.
So we have this catastrophic decline in marriage and birth rates.
Women are unhappy.
They're increasing.
Every metric shows them not just more unhappy than they were, but more unhappy than men are, which didn't used to be the case.
And they can't imagine that the reason is feminism, because feminism sounds great.
It doesn't sound like what it is, which is communism.
That's the problem.
It's Edgar the Bug.
And it doesn't sound like that.
It looks like a person, but it's really a bug.
Now, this has weakened the family.
It has made marriage much more difficult.
Women can't find men.
Now, let me tell you what the left does in this situation.
Do they admit failure?
Do they say, oh, we shouldn't have turned feminism into leftism?
Maybe we misdefined the problem.
No, they don't do that at all.
What they tell you is that reality itself has changed.
And they believe in this.
They believe that reality is a narrative.
They don't think reality is reality.
They think it's something that we make up and we can change it.
We change the narrative.
Reality changes.
And that's why you get these incredibly hilarious articles like this one in the Washington Post by Catherine Rampell.
Doug Emhoff, M. Hoff, who is obviously Kamala Harris's husband, modern-day sex symbol.
I'm not making this up, so help me.
Doug M. Hoff, modern day sex symbol.
M. Hoff is secure enough with his own masculinity to sometimes prioritize his wife's ambitions over his own.
What a hunk.
And this is, I'm reading this off the page.
Move over, Ryan Gosling.
The modern female fantasy is embodied by the man who might soon become our first first gentleman.
Well, obviously, he must have some sex appeal because the babysitters, his ex-wife's babysitter thought so, and he got her pregnant and paid for her abortion.
What a hunk.
They're going to tell you what the modern female fantasy is.
Meanwhile, this troll interviewer at the DNC walked up to a Democrat woman and asked her this.
This is cut two.
Who are the cuties in the Democratic Party that are speaking?
Oh, I don't know.
Talk to anyone who lives in D.C.
It's hard to find a cute sister.
Oh my God, Sean's fired.
No, that's, I mean, that's the tea.
Ask anyone who lives in D.C., any who works in Democratic politics.
It's hard to find the cute ones.
The Republican eyes are hotter.
Yeah, but they're evil.
So like, I don't know.
I don't know.
We kind of love evil.
Oh, my God.
You are so bad.
See, why are they evil?
They're evil because the left has defined the problem.
If you're against their idea of civil rights, you're against civil rights.
If you're against their idea of feminism, you're against feminism.
And it is always just socialism in disguise.
Another example, environmentalism.
This was my favorite part of the Kamala interview on CNN last night, where she said, we solved the Green New Deal with our Inflation Reduction Act.
And I thought, well, then why did you call it the Inflation Reduction Act?
Why, in fact, at the DNC was climate change, this existential emergency that's going to kill us all in exactly eight years ago.
Why suddenly was it not mentioned at all almost at the DNC?
It's because it is not a real thing the way they have sold it to us.
We all want to see the environment taken care of.
We all want the air to stay clean.
If there's a problem with emissions, we want to control the emissions.
But, you know, Holman Jenkins Jr., who in a real world, in a world of honesty, would win the Pulitzer Prize for every column he writes.
You know, I mean, I said to a friend, an old friend the other day, I said, I hope I love life and I hope it's going to be many, many years before we meet in that far country where Holman Jenkins Jr. will win the Pulitzer Prize every day.
He follows the green energy stories very closely and reads the footnotes on the UN reports and so forth.
And he talks about the fact that these green energy subsidies, which is what the Inflation Reduction Act is, it's a bunch of subsidies, government subsidies to green energy.
companies.
They increase fossil fuel use.
This is not Holman Jenkins making this up.
This is an article in Science.
It's all the facts.
When Washington spends hundreds of billions to lure some drivers to use EVs, it ends up making gasoline cheaper, right?
Because there's more gasoline, more people using EVs.
So it's more available to other consumers around the world to use who don't want EVs because nobody does because the plug runs out.
The 2023 data have arrived.
He says fossil fuel use, emissions, and green energy all have grown right alongside each other as economics predicted.
Global emissions finally broke the 40 gigaton threshold, having doubled since 1984.
So the Inflation Reduction Act not only didn't reduce inflation, it didn't reduce the use of carbon fuel.
So if you want to cut carbon, obviously you impose a carbon tax.
That's how you get rid of things.
The Democrats do it by taxing innovation and energy and work.
And so you get less of those.
They do it by taxing motherhood and fatherhood and marriage.
So you get less of that.
But if you want to get rid of carbon, you tax carbon.
Here are some other things they've done.
Racism, eternally part of human life, right?
This is part of our tribal nature, where our history, how our history formed us.
It's not solved by government action, except to level the playing field so that each person can have a shot.
That's the way you treat each person the same.
If you treat each person the same, then the government at least is not racism.
Racism is going to be what it is.
They've used that civil rights to gut the Constitution.
I mean, this in the book, what was it, the Age of Entitlement, was he showed you how civil rights law has become a second constitution at war with our original Constitution.
It has gotten rid of our ability to associate with whom we please, to hire whom we please, to treat people the same.
And in fact, the Great Society, which was meant to be a new socialist program for a prosperous America, has gutted and destroyed black culture so that the blacks have become dependent on government largesse, which they weren't before the great society.
Before the great society, they were moving up in the world.
So we know this wasn't slavery.
It's not the effects of slavery.
It's the effect of Democrat policies.
Do they admit failure?
No.
Gay rights, same thing.
I personally think it's better for gay people to have a means of establishing a recognized legal relationship instead of creating a culture where they go to bathhouses and sleep with 17 people a night and spread AIDS.
But, you know, I understand the religious objection.
That for me is for each person to figure out for himself.
But for society, I think it's better that people be allowed to have a relationship that is within the confines of not being promiscuous, of loyalty and fidelity.
Two Crises: Information and Health00:03:00
But while right-wingers were fighting that, leftists hijacked it to use gay people to destroy the family by denying the existence of women.
All you got to do is put on a skirt and you're a woman, butchering and corrupting children, selling them, giving porn, putting cartoon porn into schoolhouses and then calling it book banning when we try and get it out.
You know, one thing that is a constant in life is change.
And Edmund Burke brilliantly said the question is not whether you're going to change, but it's whether you're going to change in keeping with your traditions.
So what conservatives do is they want to keep things the same.
They want to conserve them.
Democrats use that to declare a crisis and define the problem in their terms.
Here's the thing.
There is a crisis.
The crisis is not Donald Trump.
He's not a Hitler.
He's not an authoritarian, but he's a symptom of these crises.
There are two crises, in fact, and many in the GOP don't want to realize what it is because part of it is them.
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Chapter two, Trump versus the information crisis.
Now, we've got two crises in place.
One is the crisis in information.
And I've talked about this a lot.
This is really important.
We've been swamped with information and the corporate mainstream, the networks, ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, the New York Times, are now the communication arm of a failed elite, right?
Last Person Left00:03:22
So they have this elite who don't want to give up power.
These people now represent that elite.
And the people who have flooded our cities with homeless people and illegals and they've broken our borders.
They've lost every war that they fight.
They've driven us into debt.
They allowed entitlements to go unreformed.
They've lured poor people into dysfunction and dependency.
And in order to stay in power, they have to continually suggest that they, the problem, are the solution.
So Kamala Harris, a new way forward, the same way forward as the last four years and the last eight years of Obama before Donald Trump.
So this week was the third week of Joe Biden's disastrous surrender in Afghanistan.
And you remember that Kamala Harris said she was often the last person in the room.
Here she is talking to Dana Bash earlier, not the last week's interview.
This cut six.
Biden always said that he wants you to be the last person in the room, particularly for big decisions, just as he was for President Obama.
He just made a really big decision.
Afghanistan.
Yes.
Were you the last person in the room?
Yes.
And you feel comfortable?
I do.
She's comfortable.
She's comfortable.
You know, that's not a problem.
So Donald Trump went to Arlington National Cemetery to honor the 13 Marines who were murdered by a terrorist bombing because of the way this retreat was done.
They could have left a few people there to keep the peace.
They could have held on to the Bagram airbase so people didn't have to go out to the outside airbase where I almost went when I was there.
I almost left Bagram to go to that airbase, but they told me I would be beheaded if I did.
So I thought that was a good argument for me to stay in Bagram and wait an extra day to catch a plane home.
It was obvious to give away our position.
That's what got our people killed.
So Donald Trump went to honor those 13 Marines.
He was invited by the families, by the family of the dead.
Harris was invited.
She was told three times to go.
Trump had a hard time getting his photographer in.
There was a little bit of a dust up about getting his photographer in.
Now the press is trying to turn this into a scandal, which to me is so shameful.
I would just stutter if I tried to talk about it.
They have said, oh, this is a terrible scandal.
That's what they focused on, not the fact that Joe Biden couldn't be bothered to go there.
Kamala Harris, never mind Biden since he's obviously half dead, but Kamala Harris could not be bothered to go and honor these people who died because of her incompetence.
She was the last person in the room advising Biden, who was telling the military they didn't know what they were doing.
He knew best.
That's how we got there.
We have to remember that.
He kept telling the military, no, no, we can do it my way.
It's going to be fine.
And then he came out with that kind of bewildered look on his face and said, well, it fell apart much faster than I thought it was going to.
They're now telling us that the scandal is that Donald Trump brought in a photographer to Arlington National Cemetery.
Here was JD Vance responding to that.
It's cut seven.
To have those 13 Americans lose their lives and not fire a single person is disgraceful.
Kamala Harris is disgraceful.
We're going to talk about a story out of those 13 brave, innocent Americans who lost their lives.
It's that Kamala Harris is so asleep at the wheel that she won't even do an investigation into what happened.
And she wants to yell at Donald Trump because he showed up.
She can go to hell.
So powerful stuff.
Crisis Of Information00:15:23
And he's right.
He's just right.
I'm sorry.
People keep picking up JD Vance because he's saying what is obviously true.
But the DNC, the tiny bump after the DNC, just goes to show that people see this, right?
They understand this.
The press has lost all credibility.
Only Democrats trust the press, and they trust it because it's reporting back to themselves, back to them.
It's just a mirror for their opinions.
So it's a failure per se for a media, a news media in a country this size to be trusted only by one party.
That tells you right away that they're not doing their job since all politics can be a little dirty.
So now this means they have to move on because all of this stuff, you know, they call it progressivism because just like emphysema, it progresses.
Now we have to move up to actual censorship.
So this guy, Pavel Durov, he was a Russian-born guy.
He's an entrepreneur.
He founded a libertarian online communications tool called Telegram.
Now, Telegram has been used by dissidents in countries, but it's also because he doesn't police it very much.
It's also used by bad guys.
He lands his plane in France.
He's arrested.
He's charged with complicity in crimes such as enabling the distribution of child sexual abuse material, drug trafficking and fraud, and refusing to cooperate with law enforcement.
Paris prosecutor Laura Bacal, I'm not sure how to pronounce that, said Telegram had popped up repeatedly in investigations into, listen to this, child pornography, drug trafficking, and inciting racial hatred online since the app's launch in 2013.
Okay, now this is like arresting the phone company because mobsters call each other to conspire over the phone.
There are some arguments to be made about how social media is a new thing.
So there can be arguments about how it should be regulated.
However, however, note that the prosecutor linked inciting racial hatred with actual crimes.
And the reason I say inciting racial hatred is not a crime, because it simply means violating the civil rights that has been defined by the left and is therefore an Edgar the Bug. therefore just a suit for socialism.
It's just hiding socialism.
So whenever you say, you know what, maybe you shouldn't let people into my country who are going to destroy our culture entirely.
Maybe you shouldn't let them come in illegally and start to form.
Now they're starting to form criminal mobs that are terrorizing cities like Amsterdam.
They're all over the place and they have to try them in special places so they don't get shot, so the court officers don't get shot.
When you say that, suddenly you're inciting racial hatred.
When they start to talk about hate speech, you know they're just talking about disagreement.
And the one thing we can say for sure about the French, okay, they can make any argument they want.
We're stopping child pornography.
We're doing this.
We're doing that.
Well, the one thing we can say for sure is they are not taking care of free speech.
This is basically the Reformation.
This is like the church had a monopoly on information about religion.
The Protestants came along and wanted information.
Instead of saying, okay, like maybe there's room for discussion, maybe we have to allow all kinds of people to have to discuss their inner lives and discuss their faith.
Instead of that, you get hundreds of years of all-out war, inquisition, torture, killing Jews.
That essentially is the Democrat program going forward.
It didn't work then.
It's not going to work now.
The question is how much damage is going to be done.
Mark Zuckerberg, he sent a mea culpa letter to Jim Jordan at the House, who has been investigating attempts by the government to censor through private corporations, which is against the Constitution, according to the Supreme Court.
Zuckerberg writes, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions.
We should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction, and we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
Now, Zuck, in my opinion, is a bit of a sociopath.
This is his basic routine.
I'm so sorry.
We need to do better.
We'll do better next time.
And then he just goes on doing whatever it is he's going to do.
He plays to whoever he thinks the power is.
Now he may think that Donald Trump has a chance of winning.
He wants to make sure he's not on his bad side.
He was careful.
Philip Hamburger, a free speech advocate, pointed this out in the Wall Street Journal.
He was careful not to say that he took anything down because of the pressure, because that would be violating the First Amendment and make him liable to lawsuits.
So he didn't say that.
But it does show you, right, that this is going on and they've been lying about it.
Here's Homeland Security head.
This is a two-year-old clip.
The head of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, being questioned by Josh Hawley about whether this is going on.
This is cut four.
We have example after example of this administration coordinated apparently according to a federal court by your agency pressuring, coercing social media companies to engage in censorship.
Is that constitutional?
That is unequivocally false.
It's what the emails show.
It is unequivocally false, Senator.
You are not pressuring the big tech companies to take down accounts.
You are not meeting with them to ask them to censor on your behalf.
That is correct.
We are not.
Mr. Secretary, it has been established for years in this country, as you very well know because you're a lawyer, that the federal government may not use private third parties to engage in activities that are unconstitutional.
That's exactly what you and this administration are doing.
You are leveraging private companies to carry out censorship on your behalf.
It's dystopian, but worse than that, it's unconstitutional.
It's also false.
It's also false.
He lied three times in that one clip.
That one clip wasn't even a minute long and he lied three times.
Was he fired?
Of course he was fired.
No, of course not.
Nobody is fired in this administration because nobody fails.
Nothing ever went wrong.
Leftism has been great.
We went to being one of the richest countries in the world in the 50s and 60s and 70s, and now we're in debt up to our ears, but nothing, nothing has gone wrong, and no one is to blame.
And by the way, when it comes to censoring things, let's not forget that Tim Walz is on board 100%.
Here's a clip of him before he was the vice presidential candidate.
It's cut five.
I think we need to push back on this.
There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.
Actually, there is.
Hate speech is what the First Amendment is there to protect because all speech is hateful.
All truth speech is hateful to somebody.
The GOP never, ever, ever dealt with this, never dealt with this.
It took Donald Trump with his borish, loudmouth to come along and tell the press that they were the enemy of the people, which they are.
They are literally the enemy of the people, of the 80% of the people who don't have what they have, the elite stature, the parents who can pay for their free internships so they can get a job at the New York Times or at ABC or NBC.
They literally are the enemies of the people who are not those guys.
They can't understand why people are complaining about the economy just because food went up.
They can afford it.
Why is everybody so upset that they can't afford eggs?
The conservatives, what did they do?
They put up John McCain, who was in love with the New York Times, just wanted the New York Times to pat him and call him a rebel Republican.
Mitt Romney, who couldn't stand the idea that he might beat the first black president and stood down in the middle of his campaign.
And all of those guys, I'm sorry, at the National Review and at the Bulwark guys who were absolutely never Trump, the failed neocons who wouldn't say, you know what, we couldn't convince the people of what we were saying.
And Donald Trump is speaking to them directly.
Donald Trump has been a wrecking ball to the media.
He has forced them out into the open where they have absolutely degraded themselves, absolutely made themselves completely incredible to anyone who doesn't already agree with them.
And that's why he's here.
He is here to speak for those for whom no one speaks.
And they hate it.
This elite, this failed elite, which shut down the country over the flu, which has overridden our right to free speech and our right to worship as we please so we didn't get the snuffles.
These people who failed without ever firing anybody are the reason there's a Donald Trump.
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Chapter three, Trump versus the end of the age.
So one crisis we're facing is the crisis of information.
And the crisis of information is a crisis because this failed elite will not admit failure and will not stand down and will not change its path.
And the right, the other side, doesn't know how to deal with information, doesn't know how to deal with communicating with people and fighting back.
They're cowed by it.
I mean, Mitch McConnell is a perfect example.
Mitch McConnell suddenly became a courageous warrior for our courts when Donald Trump came into office to protect him.
He would not have developed that testicular fortitude if Donald Trump had not been president.
That's why he was there.
And for all the time, the rest of the time, he sits there and plays it cool and plays it safe and plays it to his donor base without playing to the people.
The other crisis we're facing is the death of my generation.
And I'm sad to say they probably, those bastards will take me with them.
But this is the end of the baby boomer generation, which has shaped our politics and shapes it still.
And the reason that's important is because we are the last generation who was schooled in American civics.
After that, after that, the generations to come, and remember, the leadership is going to skip a generation because we've stayed around so long and stayed in power so long.
The generation after that was schooled in ignorance by the left.
You know, our generation failed at many things.
The baby boomers failed at many things.
They failed to fight back against the civil rights law that was used to create this constitution, which is at odds with our constitution.
That stripped us of our right to free association, that stripped away the promise of equal treatment by making these protected classes, which is absurd, that defined racism as a specifically American rather than a human problem, so that made it sound like we could legislate it away by affirmative action and special treatment and now censorship.
You know, the generation to come is listening to things, and they don't have the backing, the background to understand why they're bad.
I want you to listen just to this one clip of a gay activist, Kelly Robinson.
She's head of something called like the Human Rights Commission.
She was a big speaker at the DNC.
She acts as a mouthpiece for Kamala Harris all the time because Kamala Harris can't speak for herself, obviously.
And this is her opinion of where we should go.
This is cut eight.
We can't just worry about protecting democracy in this moment.
We've got to reimagine it with people that look and love like us at the center.
And I think for us right now, it's about reimagining freedom and this American story in a way that is more revolutionary than what our founders actually put down on that little piece of paper, but instead is the type of democracy that is by and for all of the people of this country.
That's the opportunity that we have.
So I just want to pick that apart for just a second, all right?
First of all, that little piece of paper, we all remember Ben Shapiro saying to Piers Morgan, that little piece of paper, that little book, is the founding laws of our country.
You know, special counsel Jack Smith, who's a bent copper, just filed a revised indictment that accuses Donald Trump of trying to undo the 2020 election.
And remember, that case was thrown out after the Supreme Court's decision that the president enjoyed a certain amount of immunity.
Well, they've just rewritten it to get around that.
The DOJ has had a long-standing policy of not doing anything that was going to affect an election.
That policy is out the window because they are now corrupt and they're waging lawfare against Donald Trump.
And whenever anybody accuses them of waging lawfare, they say no one is above the law.
That little piece of paper is the law that no one is above, and it is the law that they are completely ignoring and would completely like to overturn.
And the other thing she said is she wants to put people who live, who look and love like us at the center.
Is that where they belong?
Because I don't think so.
I mean, I just, I am very tolerant of people's piccadillos and the things that they do in their private lives.
It's really none of my business.
And I actually want people to be happy.
And I know that many people cannot be happy without following a path to personal happiness and sexual happiness and romantic happiness that some of us don't like and that the Bible declaims against.
Okay, I understand that.
I don't think that's the business of the state.
I think the state should stay out of it and leave them a path to a free life.
But the center of the country is the mom and pop family.
The center of any country, any society, of any civilization is going to be a mother and father family.
That's why civilizations are built.
They are built to distribute women, essentially, who remember one man can populate the world, but it takes a lot of women to do the work.
And that is why, that's how civilizations are built.
How are we going to arrange what is going to be at the center?
It's always the family.
It is always a man and a woman creating children that is the generation, that is the engine of humankind.
That should be the center.
So to take that center away is to take away the center of human action and human behavior.
It's not to demonize other people.
It's not to demonize.
Sounds Speaking: Reagan's Legacy00:10:43
I'm an artist.
I'm not at the center of the people.
We don't need artists.
We need plumbers.
We need builders.
We need people who make food.
We need moms.
We need moms more than we need anything else.
Still, these other people are not necessarily bad because they're not at the center.
They are people who are a little outside.
Creation is a lot more varied than pious people like to think it is.
Now, that is something that they got to a place where they could say, we want gay life at the center of our society and we want to reimagine democracy beyond this little piece of paper, this little piece of paper that somebody just came up with somewhere.
They wore funny wigs and they wrote on brown, crinkly paper.
What have they got to do with anything?
That came about, that didn't come about overnight.
That came about over almost a century of concerted action by the left to infiltrate the bastions of culture and sell these ideas to the people until a generation grew up that is not my generation, that is a younger generation than mine, that no longer knows what they are supposed to stand for, that is different than any other country on earth, has ever been.
This is where the right fails the most.
This is the long game that we should be playing, and we never play because we always think it's an emergency.
We always think we've got to plug the dyke.
And that's what I want to close with.
Final chapter, it's still the culture stupid.
Now, the other day, it was actually yesterday as I'm talking, Trump made what I consider a huge error.
He said he might vote in Florida to allow abortion after six weeks, ruining the good work done there by DeSantis.
And he said his government, when he's elected, would pay for in vitro fertilization, which many people object to because, of course, it destroys embryos.
It destroys actual human beings.
And, you know, my reaction to that was a lot of women, you know, Tim Walsh is allowed to talk about the pain of his wife's infertility, but a lot of women have suffered through infertility not using IVF because of the way it uses too many embryos, although you can do it without doing that.
And some people have suffered through that and actually come through the other end.
And there's no reason they should be made to pay for other people's IVF.
Now, the thing with Trump is he's flailing around on this.
There's just no question about it because we have failed to build a culture of life.
Trump succeeded where no one else could have in overturning Roe v. Wade.
Nobody else wanted to catch that car.
Trump was the only dog who was willing to catch that car and he caught it.
And now he doesn't know what to do because Trump is a guy who, A, he's a New Yorker and Ted Cruz was right about him.
He has New York values.
And B, he loves to be loved and he loves to win.
And that requires doing what people want him to do.
It's one of the reasons he's always too slow to condemn the extremists who support him.
He'll condemn them eventually, but he always stops for a minute because he doesn't want to alienate people who support him.
And in this case, he's trying to win back the women who are the main strength of the Democrats.
And I think he's making a mistake.
I think he did the right thing when he said it's going to be a state issue.
But what we have to look at is our failure to, A, create that culture of life and B, get to work creating it now.
We're looking to our politicians to do what they simply cannot do and win.
Trump cannot be against abortion and win now that Roe v. Wade is gone.
And we just have to understand that about him and start to make a world in which he can be against it and win.
The left knows that culture is everything we don't.
They know that defining the rules, what I was talking about in the beginning, defining the problem is the solution for you.
Once you define civil rights or feminism or environmentalism as a left-wing problem, and with a left-wing solution, it is very, very hard to speak against it because it sounds like you're speaking against the environment.
It sounds like you're speaking against civil rights.
It sounds like you're speaking against the freedom for women when what you're really speaking against is the socialism that is buried in those clothes.
So there's a movie coming out finally.
It's been 100 years they've been making this movie of Ronald Reagan.
I actually stopped promoting it because I just thought, you're never going to make it.
This is with Dennis Quaid.
Let's take a look at the trailer for Reagan, which opens today.
It opens this Friday, cut nine.
There's nothing a retired governor can do about the Soviets, but a president, now he can do a thing or two.
Welcome to your life.
I was a lifeguard on a river.
There's no turning back.
And I learned how to read the currents.
Not just the ones on the surface, but also the ones deep underneath the water.
I am about to start the biggest war of this century, and I'm not going to fire a single shot.
You're going to blow up eight years of diplomacy.
Well, if you think that got their own ease in a while, you just wait.
Mr. Gerbatov, tear down this wall.
So I haven't seen it.
It looks good.
I hope people turn up for it.
It's been a long time in the making.
But if you don't think the left cares about the culture, they have gone to great lengths to demonize and polarize people against the people who are in this.
My friend Nick Searcy, who I work with on Gosnell, he's in it.
There was a premiere this week and Christian Toto at Hollywood and Toto, who really covers these things well.
He wrote about how the Hollywood Reporter covered the premiere.
Listen to this.
Reagan actor John Voigt, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, wore a silk tie that featured text from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Conservative actor Nick Searcy, who participated in the January insurrection and has been one of Trump's most outspoken supporters, strolled the red carpet to chat up his role in Reagan.
One of the reporters on the press line hailed from a Christian media company.
I don't know how he got in, but that's terrible that there should be somebody from a Christian media company.
Now, I'm sure you understand that when Robert De Niro shows up at a premiere for his movie, nobody gets to hear about what he said about Donald Trump.
Nobody hears about the politics of the actors who are in every other movie, only in this movie.
They mean to demonize this.
The Facebook would not run ads for it, wouldn't let them publicize this.
Dennis Quade talked about this.
Dennis Quade does a good Reagan, by the way, but they kept taking it down, saying the content in the post was in attempts to sway an election.
So they know, they know exactly what is at stake.
And this is the thing that we're facing.
And so a lot of people write to me all the time.
Can you get me into the Daily Wire?
Can you tell the Daily Wire I have a script?
Can you read my script?
Can you do this?
Can you do that?
Can you help me with this?
Let me tell you something.
There is a movie out, another movie out besides Reagan called Milk and Cereal.
And I don't know the politics of the people who did it at all.
I have no idea.
But I'm going to assume they're on the left.
This guy named Curry Barker was the main person behind it.
It cost him $800 to make.
You did not hear that wrong.
$800.
He put it up on YouTube.
It has almost half a million views.
I watched it last night to see how it is.
It is a, they call it a horror movie.
I guess it's kind of a horror movie, a crime movie, whatever you want to call it.
It's a found footage film.
He made the money back, the $800 he spent on it.
He made it back by selling the camera for $900.
It's obviously filmed with his friends.
He didn't play it.
But the acting is good.
Here's a scene.
It's about these pranksters.
They have a prank site and the pranks start to get out of hand.
You can imagine what happens.
Here's a scene.
This is Cut 12.
Well, we got to TARP.
What do you want to do?
I don't know, Milk.
What do you want to do?
I say we put him in the tarp and we bury him here and we leave them.
We got to leave him here.
Okay.
How do you want to do that?
We get the shovels.
We dig a hole as deep as it is.
What shovels do you got to shovel?
No.
We put his body on the tarp.
We'll put him in the trunk.
We take him with us.
We go.
We're going to get some shovels and then we come with us into town.
Well, what's confused?
I don't know.
I've never f ⁇ ing killed a guy in the desert.
20 years ago, I told people that this is where movies were going to get made online.
And I said, start making them.
Stop complaining.
Stop writing to me.
Stop begging for help.
You got $800.
Go find $800 and make a movie.
If you're as talented as these guys are, because the acting is good, the writing is good.
You could hear some of that as ad-libbed.
The story is good.
The story is absolutely good.
I'm not going to tell you this is the greatest movie ever made or anything or that it can compete with the production values of a Hollywood film.
It's incredibly watchable.
It's 62 minutes long.
It's exactly the right amount of time.
The future is being built now.
See, I don't want people to come back to me in 15 years when I'm like Joe Biden and I don't even know who I am and tell me, you were right.
We should have done that.
Do it now.
The future is going to be these masks that people wear, these oculuses or oculi that people wear where the story just completely surrounds them.
They're going to be made by individuals.
They're going to be made with AI.
They're going to be made with actors using voice machines to make this so they can play the women and the men.
Do it now.
Start doing it.
Don't let Mark Zuckerberg be in control of meta, this three-dimensional world.
We should all have a piece of this thing.
We should all be doing this.
And the guys like Peter Thiel, the billionaires and Elon Musk, this is the stuff they should be paying attention to.
Great that we should send rockets to Mars, but we need to send information and feeling and emotion into the world so that the new generation can understand what we were taught in school, that this country was meant to be free.
We weren't meant to solve our problems by passing laws.
We were meant to solve our problems by the way we behaved, the churches we went to, the morals we represented and the ethics we believed in.
This is what we're meant to do.
Those are cultural things.
Those are formed over slow time by the arts and by people who speak to the emotions of the people.
We've got to be doing it.
We have failed and we've got to admit our failure, move on, and learn to beat the system.
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All right, Clavin Clapbacks.
I should go back to bartending.
Yeah!
I didn't realize she knew.
That's great.
Jamie says, hello, Mr. Clavin.
As a mother of five, I have deeply appreciated the many times you have spoken about the importance of motherhood.
It is my motherly role that has me writing you today as I've been contemplating purchasing your Cameron Winter series for my son.
Let me just stop here for a minute and tell you how many letters I get, both in the clapbacks and personally, about saying, being respectful toward the role of mothers.
It is shocking to me that everybody else isn't.
That it should be me.
In other words, this should be me alone.
You should be hearing this all the time.
It should be a centerpiece of our culture.
She's writing, contemplating purchasing your Cameron Winter series for my son.
He is a voracious reader, my son, and has read every series in our house multiple times.
I'm always looking for another series for him to dive into, and I wondered if your series is age-appropriate.
He'll be 16 soon is quite mature with deepest gratitude.
You know, that's a really good question.
The Cameron Winter books are not written for children.
They are written for adults.
They deal with adult actions and ideas.
So they deal with murder and adultery and all the things that people do.
They are not written according to church morals.
The hero is not a believer and lives as he lives.
They are not explicit in any way.
There's not like graphic violence or graphic sex in it.
And I've tried one of the hardest things to wrestle with when you're writing crime novels is language.
You don't want to subject people to language that they don't want to hear on the one hand.
On the other hand, you don't want people speaking falsely.
I have gone out of my way to keep the language to a minimum.
There are, you know, the occasional four-letter words, but I've kept it pretty clean in that regard.
But they do deal with adult stories and tell adult stories.
If he hasn't read the Homelander series, which is for young adults, those are squeaky clean.
And so I don't know exactly what the culture in your household is.
The Homelander series, there are four of them.
They're squeaky clean.
People, guys, especially, have just loved them.
They've been some of my best-selling books.
And that might work.
But the Cameron Winter books are as clean as I can make them and be adult.
They have sex, they have violence, but they don't have anything really graphic and the language is kept to a minimum.
So that's where they are at.
From Landon, dear Andrew Clavin, great sage of the Daily Wire.
That is on my business card.
I write you this letter because you seem to understand this issue more than most.
There seems to be no strong mainstream conservative voices who are making nerd culture a priority.
Video games, comic books, trading cards.
The only times most right-wing personality personalities cover these stories is when there is a particularly egregious controversy, yet these industries are worth billions of dollars.
I need to know why nerd culture is the great right-wing blind spot.
Well, it's a really interesting thing about conservative culture that we honor high culture.
So we're perfectly willing to watch in Shakespeare when somebody puts a guy's eye out on the stage.
But we get very, very prissy about violence in Game of Thrones and modern stories.
And we look down on anything that is not high culture, and yet at the same time, we have no high culture.
People like me, I'm actually writing in the higher, I know I write genres, but I'm actually writing in the higher level of culture.
I'm not playing to the lowest common denominator.
I write thoughtful mysteries with serious themes.
I'm not writing, you know, beach reads.
You know, I love beach reads.
There's nothing against them.
I'm just not writing them.
And we don't support nerd culture.
And the thing about nerd culture is you never know when nerd culture is going to become centralized culture.
So for instance, comic books, when I was a kid, were comic books.
You grew out of them when you realized there was such a thing as girls.
But now, of course, they have dominated the movies for the last 10, 15, 20 years.
And so they became mainstream culture.
So it's an oversight.
And the reason for this is conservative commentators are stupid when it comes to culture.
There's no other way to say it.
They think, you know, everybody who tunes in wants to hear about the news of the moment.
What's the crisis?
Who do I hate?
How do I hate this person?
Who said something that I can really get angry about and outraged about?
And no one wants to sit back and say, you know, if you're not contemplating beauty, if you're not contemplating storytelling, if you're not contemplating the deeper strata of the human experience, you're actually not talking about the things that matter to the people who matter.
We never do it.
I try as hard as I can to do it here, but I know if I stop talking about the news of the day, people will stop listening.
So I have to do what I can.
But you're absolutely right about this.
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Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
Growing up, I never thought much about race.
Never really seemed to matter that much.
At least not to me.
Am I racist?
I would really appreciate it if you learned.
I'm trying to learn.
I'm on this journey.
I'm going to sort this out.
I need to go deeper undercover.
They don't say I'm racist.
Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
Here's my certification.
What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
Listen more for you in this field.
Is America inherently racist?
The word inherent is challenging that.
You want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument?
America is racist to its bones.
So inherently.
Yeah, this country is a piece of white folks.
Trash.
White supremacy.
White woman.
White boy.
Is there a black person around?
What's this black person right here?
Does he not exist?
Hi, Robin.
Hi.
What's your name?
I'm Matt.
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.