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You know, I'm delighted Donald Trump won the election and all, but I am very disappointed in those of you who are taking a cruel pleasure in watching journalists and other Democrats suffering in their defeat with the rude and crushing realization that their status as elites was an illusion that hid not only their incompetence,
but also their cynical indifference to the American values that had given them everything they had, and reeling with their sudden understanding that their old depravity-infested power centers of Hollywood and the news media have become obsolete and irrelevant because we've learned to expose the lies with which they hid the failures of their philosophy as we've learned to withstand the bullying insults with which they expressed their disdain for the people they were supposed to serve,
even as they thwarted our attempts to preserve our traditional freedoms and the prosperity that arose from them, and which these so-called elites pillaged for the purpose of seducing the poor into dependency while deluding themselves with an ephemeral vision of their own virtue,
even as they crippled the aspirations of those self-reliant All-Americans who strove to better themselves and their families through their own hard work and responsible behavior, only to find their children corrupted by the filth-drenched perverts who had infiltrated their schools and to have their religious and patriotic values undermined by sniggering academics who swathed themselves in spurious credentials and self-respect while teaching a specious political and social theology that has immiserated decent men and women wherever it has appeared.
We'll see you next time.
This is not the time to mock them as they squeal in anguish right there on our television screens, which for so long they've monopolized in order to have their second-rate comedians deride the wisdom we inherited from our noble forefathers, while the unimpeded powerful metaphorically ground their ideological jackboots into our faces by censoring our beliefs as misinformation, arresting our leaders for invented crimes, and using the power of the tax code and legal system to try to terrorize us into silence.
This is not the moment to laugh with delight or even chuckle with suppressed joy or dance around in circles with our hands hilariously waving about in the air as we sing the hokey pokey or Havana Guilla or some other celebratory tune more suited to a wedding or a birth or really any festivity in which normal citizens gather to revel in the sheer joy of living.
Just because a motley collection of privileged, power-hungry, self-satisfied and incompetent human abominations who mistake their advanced degrees for common sense and their swaggering arrogance for moral superiority have finally been handed the swift kick in the asses they have so richly earned with their persistent corruption, debauchery, and wickedness.
No, no, my friends.
Remember the biblical virtues, which led the living incarnation of holy forgiveness and love to stand in the temple of his people before the leaders of his time and say only this.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with health care and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
Yay!
You say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
We're gonna win more!
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Just a great, great victory.
And I have stuff to say about it.
You have not heard yet that I think will make you even happier about it than you are right now.
Just a great job and congratulations to President-elect Trump, all the other politicians who won Senator Cruz, especially.
Great job to Harmon Dillon and all the other lawyers and poll workers who shored up the damage that was done to the system during the pandemic.
And great, great job to the Daily Wire.
I love this place.
I got to tell you, I am truly, I mean it.
I'm truly proud to be here with Ben and Jeremy and Walsh.
It almost makes up for the shame of working with.
No, no, Knowles was absolutely terrific too.
And it was just a pleasure to talk to Dennis Brager and Jordan Peterson, great guys.
Megan Kelly Jordan had the funniest line of the night when he told Ben, you're terrifying when you're happy.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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Our flag is still there.
So, listen, I've been telling you for weeks that my feeling was that Trump would win a bigger victory than anybody said.
And I said I thought he'd win both the electoral and popular vote and that it might be over on the night, on the Tuesday night.
I went into Wednesday morning, but still.
And I said there might be sporadic violence, but not much.
And all of those things turned out to be the case.
And I want to talk about why that feeling was right, because that's the important thing.
It's not because I'm wise.
It's not because I'm so smart.
You know, that's a kind of a big lie of the commentary business that people think like, oh, I got it right.
So I must be a really smart guy.
I must be a really smart observer.
I read the numbers right and all this.
It's a big lie of the political commentary business that if someone gets the future right, that speaks to his being wise.
I am wise, but that's not why.
I'm wise because I love things of greater value more than I love things of lesser value.
And I live in that love, even when there are temptations and aggravations that try to drive me away.
That's why I'm wise.
And if you do that, you will be wise.
And I want to warn you, by the way, you don't get anything for being wise.
You only get joy and peace.
You don't get any more money and you sure don't get any more friends.
You get fewer friends.
Younger people still won't listen to you because they're not wise.
And they're not supposed to be wise.
So that's all right.
But you will have peace and joy, which is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
But you're not wise for guessing the future because no one knows what the future is at any given moment.
So the next time you're going to be wrong.
That's why all these pollsters who get elevated because they got one election right or even two elections right, you know, they shouldn't elevate them and you shouldn't trust them too much because they can still get it wrong because no one knows the future.
But, but since I was right, my feeling about what would happen was right because it wasn't just a vibe.
It was a guess based on my cultural observations.
And that suggests that my cultural observations were accurate.
And if that's true, and it is because my cultural observations are always accurate, this is a much, much, much bigger victory than it seems.
Because a political victory only lasts for a couple of hours.
I mean, we'll be back in the fight momentarily, and there'll be aggravations and there'll be struggles, there'll be losses, there'll be wins.
But this is a cultural victory.
It is the sign and symbol and apotheosis of the cultural fight we've been in and the cultural victory.
And if we follow up on that, it will be a generational victory.
And I think there's a good, good chance of it.
So if you're celebrating, celebrate harder, because in ways we do not even fully understand and won't understand for years, the day is ours.
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Chapter one, but first, a word from our schadenfreude.
Now, this is a broad cultural victory and the sign of a greater victory than I think we can see, but it's also a political victory, which means we beat our opponents.
Now, in a sporting event, you have to be magnanimous when you beat your opponent.
There's no reason not to be.
They're both trying to do the same thing and you won today and they may win another time.
And even in politics, I think you should be magnanimous, but not so magnanimous that you can't enjoy the suffering of the insufferable.
And I want to take a moment here, just between us, to indulge our lower instincts and watch our opponents writhing in anguish as they so richly deserve.
I'm not going to go on and play these individuals doing this performative misery on TikTok or wherever, looking in their phones and crying because of all this stuff.
I want to take a look at the powerful people because the things that they say, the things that they complain about, are actually important.
They're actually telling us something about what they hate and what we love and what the victory consists of.
So let's start with the commentariat.
And these are just samples, but I picked them because they represent comments I heard elsewhere as I was going through all the, I was kind of, you know, glancing through, surfing the commentary.
And these are representative comments.
We'll start with Morning Joe.
Here's Mika Brzezinski talking about a text she got from a congressman that really got, for her, got to the point of everything.
This is cut two.
I just got a text from a member of Congress saying, you know, something else we need to look at is how people are turning to social media, podcasts, and other non-traditional sources for their news and also news stations that aren't news.
And I canvassed in all of the battlegrounds.
I was shocked by the amount of misinformations voters were truly repeating back to me.
Truly shocked.
I do believe this is what caused the collapse of the Democrats nationwide.
You cannot win when people believe lies.
I'm sorry.
No, no.
No!
No!
You Well, we may throw in a couple of those performative screams because it's hard to tell the difference.
You know, they kind of blend in with one another.
So what Mika and the congressmen are complaining about is they have lost the cultural dominance that got them here and kept them in place.
And they don't, and they think the voice of the people must be silenced.
And if you replace the word lies with opinions we disagree with, they're absolutely right.
That is what cost them everything.
That is what caused the collapse, as she said.
And they will try to silence us.
And it may be a fight.
It may be a real scrabbling, clawing, biting fight, but we're going to win.
I'm telling you, we're going to win.
It might be hard.
Even if we had lost the election, we would win.
They would try it, but we would win.
So the thing that drove this home, that drove home the cluelessness of that kind of thought from the commentariat was this other thing that Joe Scarborough said when he was trying to, you know, why did we lose?
It was all about the inflation, he said.
This is Joe Scarborough Cup 3.
A few weeks ago, three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, oh, my God, Trump's going to win.
I go, why is that?
He goes, I just, I went to the grocery store.
Butter's over $3.
I kind of laughed and I said, I said, well, that's kind of reductive, isn't it?
Said it to myself, to him.
I smiled and I said, good point.
But it actually, everything we're hearing after the election is.
I'm just the seven.
What's that?
The seven dollars.
What's in?
Butter is $7?
Yeah.
What?
Is it framed in gold?
I can't believe this country did this again.
Why did I let myself have hoop?
I'm not sure which of those were Joe Scarborough, but I think it was the one talking about butter.
And what I loved was he doesn't know the price of butter.
It's $7.
Because after this, it's $7.
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What?
Is it framed in gold?
No, it's framed in the Inflation Reduction Act.
That's what it's framed in all this government spending.
And the fact that he doesn't know that that's the price of butter is why he has lost his power because it was all about them.
It was all about the elites.
And it didn't even occur to him to go out and find out.
You know, as they were telling us how great the economy was, it didn't even occur to him to do what Selena Zito does over at the New York Post and go talk to people and ask them, how's it going?
What's happening?
It doesn't occur to him because they're not there for them.
They're there for themselves.
Now, here's the view.
I always love the view.
They all came in dressed in black.
I thought that may have been just because they're witches, but they were all in black mourning.
And here was their take on what had to be done.
This cut four.
Teach children tolerance, teach them to think critically.
Well, it would help if we could regulate social media because one of the biggest offenders is DC and Congress have not been able to do one thing in regard to the rogue corporations.
going to get any better with elon musk in the administration i'm sorry that's just cruel Mix those two up, but I can't help myself.
So I'm a low, low person.
This reminds me, listening to The View talk about how we have to regulate this social media because they're saying things that we disagree with.
I mean, The View is an opinion show.
They're saying things that we disagree with.
It reminds me of people in the movie business when sound came in.
You know, what's the sound fad?
What is this?
You can go all the way back.
It's like the Reformation when they suddenly start printing unapproved translations of the Bible.
Can we set those people on fire, please?
Could you burn the people who are doing that?
Or Plato when he said that writing was a bad innovation because it separated you from the person speaking.
Too late, ladies.
Too late.
And I'm telling you, I think in America, your attempts to silence people.
Oh, and I love the fact that it's all Elon Musk's fault.
Like the only guy who's doing the kind of science and the kind of innovation, the kind of invention that made this country great, guys like Edison and Henry Ford and people like that.
It's Elon Musk is right in there, like Steve Jobs.
He's the problem.
He's the problem because he wants to let people speak.
So just one last commentary at example, because I have to add this from James Carville.
The beauty of its self-ignorance is self-blindness.
It's cut five.
Right now today, it's hard.
I'll be honest with you.
And the hardest thing is that I look across this country and tens of millions of people fell for this.
And it's just, it's depressing.
I'm not sure where Carvel ended and that one began, but there's a little bit of a blending there, I think.
Again, the self-blindness.
Here is a guy, James Carville, who helped put an alleged rapist in office, a credibly alleged rapist in office by mocking his victims as trailer trash.
And he doesn't like Donald Trump, poor baby.
And he's depressed because somebody else got one by him using techniques, actually techniques much less egregious than his.
And all of this was even funnier.
I went over to CNN and Anderson Cooper brought on a climate expert, the CNN climate expert, to lecture how Trump should be more panicked about the climate because everything the expert said was false about stronger storms and all that and more frequent storms.
It just isn't happening.
So the thing that's funny about that is not that he shouldn't be on CNN expressing his opinion.
It's he's their expert.
They have an expert who's going to tell you the truth and he's not telling you the truth.
And there's no one there to say, oh, you know, the facts actually are against that.
And that is, in fact, the whole problem with not just the news media for its effect on us, but the news media for its effect on them.
They literally do not know there are two sides to every story and they've got the wrong one on top of that.
I just have to add to this, Nicole Hannah Jones, who I think is just a terrible, terrible person.
She blames this whole thing on anti-blackness.
The woman is strangling on race hate.
This is the author of the 1619 project she's being taught in schools.
That, I believe, is going to come to an end.
We cannot allow the schools to keep doing this.
When, you know, Joy Bayard or whoever it was says, we've got to teach the children to be tolerant.
That's not what you guys are teaching them.
And I hope we can disassemble the school system and put it back together.
All right.
So those are the commentaries.
and a couple of Paul's.
Here's AOC, which I just think was wonderful, cut six.
We find ourselves, I believe, in a time where there are, let's say, peers in history of mass movements of people that mobilize to protect one another in times of fascism and authoritarianism.
And this is the era that we are poised to enter.
This man's user president.
So I was watching that AOC clip and I was thinking, I'm glad I'm past the age where I have to pretend a woman is making sense just because she has a nice figure.
You know, I remember what that was like, but you don't have to do that anymore.
So the one thing that I think is wonderful about this, and this is something I'm telling to my liberal friends, my Democrat friends, what I'm telling them is this.
Write down your fears.
Write down the things that you're worried about will happen.
You know, be specific.
What do you think Trump is going to do that you think is going to be so awful?
And observe not what the press says he's doing, not what the press says he said or when he says kind of wild, egregious things, which he sometimes does.
Actually pay attention to what is actually happening to you.
Because when somebody calls somebody Hitler, you know, there have to be dead bodies.
There have to be mass murders for somebody to be anything like Hitler.
And they keep telling you that's going to happen, but it keeps not happening.
And so if there are those things, I'll come on and say, huh, they had a point.
But if there aren't those things, you have to change your mind and start thinking about the fact that you're being lied to all the time.
So in the immortal words of Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, don't believe me, just watch.
Pay attention.
Pay attention.
That's what I'm telling my Democratic friends because this is what they keep telling us.
Here is Focahontas, Elizabeth Warren, cut seven.
I will not ask you to look for any silver linings.
I will not ask you to feel anything but grief right now.
Donald Trump won the election and the consequences will be real and devastating.
But I'm reminding myself and you that on the road ahead, there will still be opportunities to fight back.
I can't tell you that we will win all of those fights.
I can't tell you that we will win most or even any of them.
But when we arrive at each of those moments, we will face a choice to give up or to press forward.
The far right wants us to feel powerless.
I am feral today.
If you see me keep walking, do not make eye contact.
Do not square up at me.
Don't act like you know me.
One of those was Elizabeth Warren.
I'm not sure which.
But, you know, she says we want them to feel powerless.
And that's really not true.
We want them to be powerless.
It's much different.
And when you talk about the way they fight, this is another thing I wish my Democrat friends would pay attention to.
The way they fight has been disgusting.
And now, listen to what's happening.
NBC is reporting that the Justice Department is evaluating how to wind down the two federal criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump before he takes office to comply with long-standing department policy that a sitting president can't be prosecuted.
There's some talk Judge Juan Merchant from New York may toss that absurd conviction in the charge Trump with something or other.
And here's a stripper case.
I have no idea what they convicted him of, but it was something.
And that may go by the boards.
My favorite exchange was this, because if you're talking about the left fighting back, the way they've been fighting back is by trying to jail their political opponents.
And they have.
Steve Bannon and others, Navarro, they put people in prison for disagreeing with them.
Essentially that.
and all the people on the January 6th kerfuffle.
So my favorite exchange on this regard was this, just in terms of leftist tears, was Letitia James, the AG in New York.
She got right back on her horse.
She took Focahontas' advice.
And this is, you know, she's going to go right back into the fight, finding something with which to charge her political enemies.
This is cut eight.
We did not expect this result, but we are prepared to respond to this result.
And my office has been preparing for several months because we've been here before.
We faced this challenge before.
And we use the rule of law to fight back.
And we are prepared to fight back once again.
That's not the rule of law, going out and finding something to charge.
But my favorite thing about this was the response from Trump's lawyer, Mike Davis, who could wind up being the new AG.
I kind of doubt it, but he might.
And this was his response to that.
This is Cut 17.
Let me just say this to Big Tish James, the New York Attorney General.
I dare you.
I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump and his second term, because listen here, sweetheart, we're not messing around this time, and we will put your fat ass in prison for conspiracy against rights.
I'm sorry.
I love it, you know.
And I'm going to be honest.
I don't want vengeance.
I don't want vengeance.
I don't even want justice.
I don't want complete justice.
We just watched a political party get creamed because they followed what they wanted instead of the needs of the people, which is bringing down prices and ending wars that we shouldn't be in.
And you can always convince yourself that your sense of justice and your sense of anger is the same as the will of the people, but they're just not.
I know it would be satisfying to put a lot of people in jail, but I don't think that's what's going to happen.
I think with malice toward none, charity toward all, we need to bring down the apparatus with which they've been oppressing us.
And I believe Trump is going to do that, but I'll get back to that.
And finally, as celebrities, I just want to do one celebrity, Stephen Colbert, you know, and this is important because of what he says.
This is how he opened his show after the election, cut nine.
If you watch the show regularly, I'm guessing you're not doing great.
Yeah, me neither.
You know, today, some people said to me, sorry, you have to do a show tonight, which is nice of them to say, but I don't have to do a show.
I get to do a show tonight.
I'm so grateful to be with all of these talented people.
Those people over here, those people that you'll never see, with the audience and the Ed Sullivan, with you people at home, because especially at times like this, what do we most want to be?
Not alone.
Colbert.
So he says, we don't want to be alone.
But you know, he, CBS, NBC, ABC, have left one half of the country alone.
And the logic of that just escapes me.
Those are the public airwaves, public airwaves, and yet they have populated them with comedians who only make jokes about us.
They only ridicule us.
And that is the opposite of what those guys are for.
Now, I'm not against a comedian who has a side.
I'm not against Stephen Colbert having a stand-up show that he does where he attacks only conservatives.
But that spot, that Johnny Carson spot, that Jay Leno spot, that David Leonardman spot is not to be used for only ridiculing one side of the country.
That is where we gather together at the end of the day to be amused, to laugh at the other guys, but also to laugh at ourselves.
You can't laugh at yourself if you're not laughing at the other guys as well.
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It's a crime what they do.
It really is.
It's not obviously a literal crime, but they should really, it just exposes the self-blindness and arrogance and complete indifference to the people that has brought them to this pass.
So finally, just while we're doing celebrities, I have to end with Robert De Niro getting news of the relation of the election results as Cut 11.
Drum won, and we couldn't do nothing about it.
And that's it.
It's sad.
It's sad.
All right.
Let's take a look at why I think this is such a major victory by talking about the meaning of the political victory.
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Chapter 2, The Delightful Fall of the GOP.
So if you were watching our coverage on election night, which was great, it went on forever, but it was great.
Ben and I got into an argument on the show.
And I know this upsets people sometimes when Ben and I do this, but we've been doing this since the company started.
It's kind of, you know, we sometimes argued so loudly that the women in the company would get upset and like call you at home.
Are you all right?
And all this stuff.
And we, this is our love language.
It's just the way we talk to one another when we're discussing these things.
And it's because there's a reason for it.
It's because we both have, first of all, we both like to argue.
And it's because we both have almost identical views of what reality is.
Slightly, we have slightly different values, but they've actually come moved closer together over the years.
But we've come to our views of what reality is in completely different ways.
You know how Ben works.
He compiles facts.
He looks at polls.
He looks at numbers and he tries to glean what's happening from them.
I have a novelist's perception of the culture and I imbibe the culture and I understand it and I see into it because that's what novelists do.
That is the way novelists work.
And I can learn as much from reading novels and watching TV as he can read, as he can find out from reading numbers and polls and looking at policy and things like that.
And I think it looks like necromancy to him.
He doesn't really, you know, it's kind of startling when I turn out to be right often, which if you've got, like, you go back and look at backstages and see what I say is about to happen, like at a debate or something like that.
It's kind of been amazing.
It's all from kind of cultural observation.
And because of this, Ben and Jeremy have more respect for the GOP of Bush, McCain, and Romney than I have, because I have none.
And I have respect for the people.
I like the people.
And some of the policies were fine.
And I supported the better policies.
You know, Ben is always saying, well, you supported this at the time.
I support the better policy over the worst.
You only get two choices.
It's always a binary choice.
So I support the better one at the time.
And sometimes I'm wrong.
And sometimes, you know, time reveals that my choice was not good, even though it was still the better one.
But for me, what we're fighting for is the social imaginary.
This is a phrase I only recently learned because it comes from Jean-Paul Sartre, a philosopher I despise.
But it just, it's what we sometimes call the culture, but it's so much more of that.
I've used kind of more clumsy terms like the intellectual atmosphere and all this stuff.
But it's everything that we see.
It's everything that we assume to be true.
It's everything that we know is an absolute moral fact of life.
And sometimes it's wrong.
The social imaginary is good when it supports good things in keeping with reality.
And good and bad are real things outside of ourselves.
This is one of the big mistakes that the leftist philosophers make.
They're not inventions of our own.
The imaginary is our reflection of something that is outside ourselves.
This is the problem they have.
They think if they change the social imaginary, reality changes, but only your perception of reality changes.
And if your perception is wrong, you have gone off the rails.
Bush, McCain, and Romney surrendered to the left's social imaginary.
And this is why I don't really care whether they were right about this or wrong about this.
Of course it matters.
Of course policy matters.
This is what politics is all about.
But I am looking at the culture, which I know is going to determine the future.
It's going to determine the future 20 years from now.
It's going to be the reason why a guy like Barack Obama gets elected when he's obviously wrong because he embodied, he knew how to embody the social imaginary.
That was the only reason why.
And even after his policies had failed, even after people had shown they hated his policies by voting every other Democrat in the country out of office, they still re-elected him because he embodied the social imaginary of the good.
And to me, it is everything.
And this is why I opened my mouth and destroyed my Hollywood career, because if you lose the social imaginary, it doesn't matter what elections you win.
And, you know, the social imaginary determines what you think.
It determines how you think about it.
It determines how you discuss it, the words you feel you can use.
It determines the Overton window.
And Bush apologized for being, both Bushes apologized for being a Reagan-like conservative.
The first George Bush by saying he was going to be a kinder, gentler conservative.
And the Bush W saying he was going to have compassionate conservatism.
And, you know, when we were arguing about this, Ben said, well, that's just affect.
No, no, it's not.
It is actually determining, it shows you where you are in the social imaginary and what you are doing to it, which in this case was accepting it.
McCain pandered to the New York Times, which is the author of the leftist social imaginary, Mitt Romney, stood down rather than running over Obama because he was paralyzed by the social imaginary.
And that's why I was the first person at the Daily Wire to support Trump, because I understood earlier than other people that the social imaginary had become a prison for people like us.
And we couldn't beat it with policy.
We couldn't beat it with votes.
We couldn't beat it with tax cuts.
We had to beat it by breaking down the walls.
And Trump had the boldness to break the prison walls and the sure courage to take the consequences.
And if you don't fight back against that, I'm telling you the tax cuts, elections, and policy, none of it matters.
The policy victories you win can be huge or huge, as we say.
But if you surrender the social imaginary, everything is gone.
And, you know, obviously all these things are intertangled.
It's not like policy becomes irrelevant.
It's not like polls are irrelevant.
It's simply a different way of understanding the world.
And it's an important way because it moves everything in the future.
And conservatives are bad about talking about it because they're always in a panic about the next election.
You know, I'm not a political person.
I said, this is not a political thing.
This is a cultural thing.
And it's not about making more movies like Star Wars or whatever.
It's not about this movie or that.
It's about whether you can think and believe and say what you see with your own eyes and what you know with your heart to be the truth instead of what they are telling you is true and what they believe to be the truth.
And the View and Morning Joe and CNN, they want to censor us because we've taken away from them the monopoly on the imagination.
That is what they're fighting for.
They don't know it, but I know it and I'm telling you now you know it.
It's the imagination.
And, you know, we are winning.
And this election shows that we are winning that fight.
And, you know, conservatives always like to be afraid.
They enjoy being afraid and saying, oh, if we do this, it won't matter because they'll do that.
Well, yes, that's always going to go on.
But so how do I know that we're winning?
How do I know that this is going to be in the future?
It's because it's the men.
It's the men who are leading the way.
Now, the left says, oh, well, it's just men.
They're misogynists.
But you know how that nice Andrew Clavin is always trying to tell you that the future is always male?
There's a reason for this.
I'm not just, I don't say it because I dislike women.
Obviously, the opposite is true.
Women create the future, but men are the future.
Men make the future.
And you can always tell where the future is going to be, even if it's lousy by where the men are.
And I'll tell you something else that the social imaginary has hidden from us and has taken away from us.
And it is the truth that it is shrouded in a lie.
Now, the left doesn't realize this.
Men and women are one flesh.
They are meant to be one flesh.
That's why that Kamala ad, in which the wives lie to their husband about who they voted for, that's why that was so offensive, because it said that their politics, their vote, their power, their social imaginary was more important than the reality that social imaginary is supposed to reflect, that men and women are one flesh.
We are not enemies.
We're not here to abuse.
The men are not here.
This is why I'm always at Andrew Tate and why I get so annoyed when people write to me and say, hey, says some good things.
Andrew Tate says no good things, 0% good things from Andrew Tate.
We are not here to abuse our women.
We're not here to use their traits in order to dominate and control them or pimp them or hurt them or make it so their selves are just a shadow of what they should be.
Men and women are not enemies and we are not friends.
We are husbands and wives.
We are one flesh that makes a new world.
And that's the very core of every society.
You know that ad, every kiss begins with K?
Well, every myth begins with Mr. and Mythis.
It begins with Adam and Eve, begins with the first woman and the first man, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh.
And that's what society is or should be based on.
And so men are seeing a new imaginary.
They recognize it faster because they are more in tune with the future than women generally are because women have more important things to do than what men are doing.
They saw that the new imaginary from Trump was in keeping with reality, the reality that was already in their heart that they had been beaten into being afraid of saying he said it for them.
That makes because it's in keeping with reality and with moral reality, that new imaginary is benevolent, you know?
And women will follow.
Women will follow, not because they're handmaids, but because we are one flesh and men have a talent for doing this.
They go to the next big thing.
When movies become irrelevant, women start directing movies.
Men are already playing video games.
When video games are taken over by women, you will know that men are somewhere else.
And that is where the next thing is going to be.
It's their job.
It's the men's job to lead the way, but we're one flesh.
We don't drag the women after us.
We go together because we are one flesh.
You know, we have all these sayings on the right.
You know, we've got to take back the culture and politics is downstream from culture.
And, you know, the old ones like from the poet Shelley, poets of the unacknowledged legislators of the world, from James Joyce, the author, forges the uncreated conscience of the race.
And it's true, you know, a political movement that does not support the arts will die.
But the way all of us live are part of that.
I'm an artist.
I want to leave a vision that remains when I'm gone.
But that's what being a parent is too.
That's what being a mom is too.
It's creating the future.
And the social imaginary is how that happens in the bigger society.
The old GOP was swept away because they conceded to the left and they needed to be swept away.
And Bush and McCain Romney, again, not bad people, not necessarily all their ideas or policies were bad, but they screwed that part up.
And on that, everything else depends.
And what's kind of sweet that Ben and Jeremy don't notice this is because they're so much a part of it.
Their brilliance in building this company and succeeding at breaking through all the things that came against us is just a part of what is happening.
You know, the last text I got on election night was from my wife, who I had sent somewhere else because I was afraid there might be some violence and I didn't want to leave her alone while there was violence while I was in Nashville.
And she sent me this text that said, Donald Trump has been re-elected and you helped and now I'm going to sleep.
And when she says that I helped, you know, my wife kind of likes me and she thinks that I'm the only person who works at the Daily Wire.
But I think she meant all the people.
And I'm thrilled to have been a part of this.
But this is a victory.
We have taken a piece of the high ground.
It's the fight over.
It'll never be over.
But this is a big, big victory.
And when you win the social imaginary, you win the future.
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Chapter three, cometh the man.
And that's from the old British expression, cometh the hour, cometh the man.
And Trump is obviously the man of the hour and came in our hour of need.
And that is a wonderful sign for us that maybe God has forgiven us for some of the things that we've done.
And we certainly need forgiveness for some of the things we've done, especially the murdered babies.
I want to tell you, here's the prediction I'm going to make, based on the same kinds of observations that made me call the election correctly.
I think this administration is going to be great.
I mean, just absolutely great.
And obviously, no one knows events.
So there could be a nuclear war, and then I would have to say, oh, well, I didn't know the future.
But all things considered, the signs from this moment are that it's going to be fantastic.
Part of the advantage, Trump has a lot of advantages, that because he lost the last election, however you think he lost it, he skipped COVID, COVID's over.
Because he skipped the last election, he has had time to learn and think about what he does, which is something Trump does.
He has an absolute genius for looking at problems and solving them through common sense.
And he has, I think, a kind of instinctive thing too.
One of the reasons Trump is the man of the hour, because he, too, is kind of a performer and an artist of sorts.
And he sees things and he kind of figures out how to put them together, kind of like a guy who can solve a Rubik Cube.
But he also has this kind of good fortune that the problem we have is structural.
The left has done so much structural damage to this country because I think there should be a left, or at least a Democrat Party.
I think we should fight back and forth and argue and compromise.
I think that's part of being an American.
I don't think it's all on one side.
I have my beliefs and I think they're right.
I think the country would be better if we only followed my beliefs and my policies.
But still, we live in a big country with lots of people, and I think there should be a left.
It's just a bad, we have a bad left.
We have a dishonest, Marxist, lying, stupid, misguided left.
And because we have left them in power so long, and because the social imaginary has caused us to be weak in our arguments and caused people like Mitt Romney and the Bushes and McCain to accede to their structure, what needs to be fixed are the structures.
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And Trump has apparently set himself that project.
Here he is talking about the reform, some of the reforms he's looking forward to.
This is Cut 18.
Here's my plan to dismantle the deep state and reclaim our democracy from Washington corruption once and for all, and corruption it is.
First, I will immediately reissue my 2020 executive order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats, and I will wield that power very aggressively.
Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus, and there are plenty of them.
The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, or the left's political enemies, which they're doing now at a level that nobody can believe even possible.
It's just amazing.
It's just amazing that people who used the liberals who used to fear the CIA and the FBI have mobilized them.
This is a lot of Obama's doing, but still it is happening and it needs to be cleaned up.
And if Trump can do it, he will be, if he only does that, truly, if he only does that, he will have done a monumental thing.
If he's talking about, he goes on in that clip, he goes on about talking about moving agencies around, cutting agencies down, moving them out of DC so that they're in contact with real Americans and all this.
And he remembers that, remember, he neglected to toss Comey out of office when he should have.
And Comey went on a vendetta against him.
And then by the time he actually fired him, they were appointing special counsels to investigate him.
I do not think he's going to let that happen again.
I don't think he's going to have an AG who stands down when they come after him.
I think he's not going to make those kinds of mistakes again, and that's good.
And he's going to push back on the social nonsense, which is a product.
I mean, if transgenderism is not the perfect example of the social imaginary and their control of it, I don't know what it is.
For every single century of human existence, there have been men and women.
Every story about mankind's beginning begins with a man and a woman.
They are both people that we need to build societies because they have babies, but also because they represent the yin and the yang of life.
That too is a representative, symbolic of something that is real in the spiritual world.
We think it's all within us.
We think femininity is just in women and masculinity is just in men.
But no, it is a reflection of something that is actually in the spiritual universe that isn't totally real.
And when we live by it, we're happy.
And when we don't, we're sad.
And here is what Trump said about gender confusions, CUT 19.
The left-wing gender insanity being pushed in our children is an act of child abuse.
Very simple.
Here's my plan to stop the chemical, physical, and emotional mutilation of our youth.
On day one, I will revoke Joe Biden's cruel policies on so-called gender-affirming care.
Ridiculous.
I will sign a new executive order instructing every federal agency to cease all programs that promote the concept of sex and gender transition at any age.
I will then ask Congress to permanently stop federal taxpayer dollars from being used to promote or pay for these procedures and pass a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation in all 50 states.
It'll go very quickly.
What you just heard was the sound of the social imaginary shattering.
It will be rebuilt, hopefully, in the image of mankind and in the image of God.
It is a great thing.
I think this is going to be a terrific administration.
And it's a wonderful thing that JD Vance is in there so he can follow it up with a new younger generation building a new imaginary that is the right one, one in keeping with God's law and man's.
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KLA VAM final chapter.
What now?
You know, as just before the election, just before I went into the Daily Wire to do this long, long show, I went down to the hotel cafe to buy myself some coffee and whatever it was, a bagel or a muffin.
And while I was standing there, there was musak going on, and they started to play this very beautiful piece of music.
I don't even know what it was.
And suddenly I stopped and like I closed my eyes and I thought, oh yeah, this is what I care about.
This is what I love, the principle of beauty in all things.
This is what I think everything else is for.
I enjoy politics because I enjoy watching human nature and I think politics is an expression of human nature, but politics has a purpose and the purpose is you.
The purpose is leaving you in a good position to do the things that you love.
And so let me, I know this is a little bit, you know, maybe forward.
You know, you haven't asked my advice, but I'm going to give you it, give it to you anyway, that this is a time to not start to think about the next fight, but to stop, to stop, to put down the media, go out with your wife or husband, go out with the people you love and take a walk and discuss the things you love, because this is where all the joy comes from.
All your joy comes from love.
None of it.
You will never get true joy from politics.
You will have happiness when you win, and there'll be fights up ahead.
But the things that will make you happy are the things you love.
And that is what politics is supposed to be about.
And that's why all of this bullying and, you know, kind of domination of the social imaginary has been so harmful.
So, you know, I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.
Whatever you love, that's where you'll get your joy.
And the greater the thing you love, the greater your joy will be.
And that is why I say wisdom is loving things of more value, like truth and beauty, more than you love things of little value, like money and celebrity.
That's just the truth.
I mean, whatever it is that tempts you is probably of less value.
It's not of no value.
You'll get some pleasure out of it, but you will get the big joy from the bigger things that you love.
If you love, you know, like I love football, you get a little joy from that.
That's great.
You know, if you love your kids and your spouse, you get a lot of joy, and that is actually terrific.
And then there's God.
And I just want to close with this.
You know, we talked a lot about God on the show, the Election Day show.
And there was a lot of talk that God had protected Donald Trump from a bullet and God had written a comeback narrative and God had given our nation a chance to redeem itself and get past its sins, especially the sin of abortion.
And all of that, I think, is true because all outcomes come from God.
But the thing is, before the outcome arrives, you have no idea what it's going to be.
Not only does God make his own plans and his ways are not our ways, but he also lets us fight him.
He lets us beat him in a fight.
Ben had a hilarious line about God wants Trump to be president, but Trump is fighting back.
But God will ultimately let us have our way.
As C.S. Lewis said, he'll ultimately say, thy will be done if you don't want my will to be done.
And so our vote is real.
But, but for those who love God, everything ultimately is for the good.
We may not understand that at the time.
We may not see it.
We may not know the good when it comes, but everything is ultimately for the good.
And here is the thing.
During this election, I was perfectly calm.
First of all, because I was almost certain Trump was going to win big.
But also, I knew that if he didn't win big, it would be all right.
It would be all right.
And when I say that, I don't mean it would be all right for the country.
It would probably be crap for the country.
It was going to threaten my livelihood, probably.
They're trying to silence us.
For all I knew, if it really went extreme, it could threaten my freedom.
I mean, they were putting other people in jail.
There's no reason they couldn't have, it couldn't have been me that they fell on when I was making jokes about them.
But I knew, I knew because I believe in God, because I love God, because I follow him before I follow anything else, because I love him more than anything else, because he is greater than anything else, that I was going to go on doing exactly what I do.
I was going to go on speaking the truth and writing the truth as beautifully as I know how to do it.
And I know I would do that if my livelihood was threatened because I did it when my livelihood was virtually stripped away.
And if I lost my freedom, I think that would probably kill me at this age, but still I would go on doing it until I died.
And that gave me peace.
And I just want to say this to those people who struggle with faith and struggle with belief.
That peace already is a gift beyond any gift you can possibly get.
Never mind your life goes a little better when you follow God.
Never mind sometimes good things happen that seem to come out of the blue.
Never mind all of those things because sometimes that's not the way things work out.
But that peace that you walk around in knowing that you are going to follow God no matter what happens, no matter what they do to you, even if they crucify you, if you know that, you will be at peace.
And also, when the good things happen, the gratitude is a gift from God because you can't be grateful if you've got no one to be grateful to.
And this is one of the reasons that faith in and of itself is, first of all, counted as righteousness, but faith is also a gift in itself because you get this gift back.
When I said when you were wise, you get peace and joy, those are tremendous.
I was joking around about it because you don't get more money, you know, and you certainly don't get friends because people will get angry at you for saying the truth.
But you will get that peace and joy.
And it is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
And I want to just end by showing you the opposite of that when you follow yourself, when you elevate yourself, when you elevate the things that don't matter.
There is a lady who calls herself Dr. Arlene.
And it's a long clip, but I got to play it.
There's a lady who calls herself Dr. Arlene, and she is a consultant.
And on the night during the election, she went out to get some champagne to celebrate Kamala Harris's victory.
And like I said, she's a political observer.
She has a blog for all things political, I think it's called, all the political wisdom.
Here she is describing what happened to her during the election while the election was going on when she went out to get some champagne to celebrate Kamala's victory.
This CUP 14.
Okay, so we're closing in on almost 5 p.m. Eastern time, and I've been tracking everything that's been going on across the country today.
And my most important encounter was when I went out to get my champagne.
I was talking to the guy in the store, of course, asking him, did he vote?
And he said he did early voting.
And he asked me if I early voted.
And he asked me, you know, why I was getting the champagne.
And I said, because I'm going to be toasting Madam President tonight.
And he just looked at me with kind of like a smirk on his face.
And I said, you know, she's going to win this, right?
And he says, oh, well, it's very, very close.
And I said, no, it's not.
He says, well, what do you mean?
I said, no, it's not.
The women of America are making their voices heard.
Reproductive rights is what it all comes down to.
And the women are voting in numbers relative to men that are unbelievable.
She's won this.
And I said to him, she's going to take every one of the swing states plus Iowa.
And he said, oh, but the numbers are so close.
I said, I'm a political analyst.
I'm telling you right now, the numbers are there.
She's taking this election.
And I said to him, you realize, and he didn't tell me who he voted for, but of course I knew.
And I said, you do realize you wasted your vote, right?
And I didn't care.
I walked out with my bottle of champagne and happily walked home.
Bye-bye.
We're going to win so much.
We're going to win at every level.
We're going to win economically.
We're going to win with the economy.
We're going to win with military.
We're going to win with health care and for our veterans.
We're going to win with every single facet.
My, oh my, what a wonderful day.
We're going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning.
Yay!
You say, please, please, it's too much winning.
We can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
We have to keep winning.
We have to win more.
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One of the first is from Andrew or Andy, who says, dearest namesake, the election results, if they hold, are indeed a breather.
However, we must know that we have not won the fight.
The fight we are in is a generational battle.
I think perhaps we must become the long game, much in the same way Christ became sin.
If we don't, this moment will be a minor blip in history.
You know, I actually disagree with that.
I mean, the thing is, the fight never ends.
The fight never ends.
And not only does the fight never end, ultimately we lose.
Why?
Because conservatism is life.
Freedom is life.
Those are the things we're fighting to preserve and life ends.
Ultimately, slavery is what everything falls into in the end.
That's the state of death.
But when you talk about equality, the only people who are equal are the dead.
And so when you have equality, everything is stagnated.
It's a flatline, right?
That's what that's what equality is.
So I used to tease Ben about this.
I used to say that he was pessimistic.
And I said, that's like being a doctor who tells his patient, well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but you only have a certain amount of time to live.
And the guy says, well, how long?
50, 60 years.
And I think the thing is, conservatives are just like doctors.
They're trying to keep you alive, keep the nation alive, keep the nation free.
Eventually we lose, but this is not that day.
And so you shouldn't have this attitude that I've got to embody the fight.
No, the fight is there to help you do the other things, the things that you love, the things that give you peace of mind, the things that give you joy.
And so if you're so obsessed with the fight that you never stop thinking about, and look, when an election is coming up and an election is this important, is as important as this one was, it's hard not to get wrapped up in it.
I got wrapped up in it.
I was getting sick of it by the time it was over.
I was ready to stop talking about it, but I knew it was the only thing anybody wanted to talk about.
So it was really, you know, consuming.
But you can't then go and just say, all right, back to the fight, unless that's your profession, unless that's your joy.
If your joy is fighting the political fight, great.
But if it's not, remember what you're doing it for.
That's why I think people should stop in the moment like this and say, okay, now what is it that I love?
Because what I love is creation, beauty, the arts.
That's what I love.
And I don't want to be on, you know, X all the time, finding out what the latest thing that that leftos leftist bastard said.
You know, I don't, that's not the life I want to lead.
I want to lead the life of appreciating the things that people before me have left behind, that people who are beauty creators are creating now.
Those are the things that give me joy.
I want to be with my wife who gives me joy and my kids and grandkids.
Those are the things that matter to me.
And if you're not doing that, then there's no reason to fight.
So constantly reminding, you know, the fight is always.
The fight is always, but fighting it all the time is not something for me is not a way that you can live.
There's another one from Gabrielle.
Gabriel says, I am dealing with extreme bitterness, depression, and a growing hatred of God for reasons outside our control and multiple rare diagnoses.
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My wife and I will not be able to have children.
Even if we adopt it, it will cost tens of thousands of dollars.
It will take multiple years.
It's not an easy, quick, or cheap solution.
Meanwhile, all of our friends seem to be on their third or fourth child, seeing my wife cry herself to sleep, seeing the contented smiles of my friends, seeing families out together having fun.
It's destroying me.
My marriage is being affected.
I feel myself crumbling.
My wife is retreating inside herself more and more every day.
Any advice is appreciated.
Okay.
So a terrible thing has happened to you.
Terrible things happen.
God doesn't send these things down.
He's not sitting there and saying, There's Gabrielle, I'm going to hit him with this.
That's not the way it works.
He has put us in a world that is broken.
We are in a world that is broken and bad things happen and we're matter and bad things happen to matter.
And a bad, bad thing has happened to you.
And I feel for you and I think it's a terrible thing.
And I congratulate you on caring about your wife and seeing her pain and hurting with her pain.
You should hurt with her pain.
She is your flesh and you should, her happiness should be your happiness and her pain should be your pain.
And so I congratulate you for the wholeness of your marriage and the wholeness of what you're afraid of losing.
However, however, now it's time to face the music.
And I'm sorry, I'm not saying this lightly.
I understand.
You know, believe me, believe me, I'm not saying this.
Oh, like get over it, you know, you know, cowboy up, but you got to cowboy up.
It's because you have no choice.
And there are things you can do.
You can adopt.
You know, there are ways to adopt that are not as hard.
Maybe your church can help you find, you know, private adoption.
Maybe you can adopt someone older.
Maybe you can adopt somebody who's not your color.
That might, that might help as well.
But even if you can't, it is time to live and it is time to encourage your wife to live and bring her out of this.
There are, you know, this letter is a very long one, and you go on talking about how conservatives are always talking about you have to have children and all this stuff.
But if you can't, you can't.
That's a tragedy.
And so you're living in a tragedy.
People have lived through tragedies.
They've lived through tragedies that are worse than that.
They've had children and lost them.
I have friends to whom this has happened.
It is the worst thing that can happen to you.
And so that's even worse.
You have to live.
That is your job.
We are wed to experience.
We're called upon to rejoice.
And you must learn to do this again.
And I do not say it lightly.
I know how hard it is.
Screw up, screw your courage to the sticking place and start to come out of this.
It's fine to be angry at God, but if you can't hate God because He didn't do this to you, if you need therapy, get therapy.
But your wife needs you to draw her back into life.
You've suffered a blow.
I get it.
Suffer.
And then find out.
Ask yourself this.
Ask yourself what God wants you to make of your suffering.
What does God want you to make of your suffering?
Surely not this.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry to be tough on you in your pain.
I understand the pain.
I'm not minimizing it one little bit, but you've got to cowboy up and start to live so your wife can live because she will follow you into life.
All right, I got to stop there, except we're going into member blocks.
So there's still so much joy to have before you are plunged into a clavenless eternity as black as anything can possibly be.