Ep. 1236 – A Matter of Life and Death ties Trump’s hypothetical Iran strike to a biblical "life vs. death" choice, dismissing media leaks like CNN’s Natasha Bertrand as politically biased while praising the administration’s internal report. The segment frames Europe’s decline—symbolized by 28 Days Later—as a rejection of nationalism and traditional values, blaming pacifism, socialism, and figures like Zoram Mamdani for undermining freedom. Post-Roe abortion rates hit a 10-year high via medication, with 350,000+ "rescued" babies at Pre-Born Network clinics, while the show promotes Daily Wire Plus as conservative media’s antidote to leftist narratives. Clavin Clapbacks reframes a veteran’s bitterness as a failure to trust God’s plan, urging sacrifice and faith over societal control. [Automatically generated summary]
Why The New York Times Can't Understand Men00:04:39
The New York Times, a former newspaper, recently ran a story with this headline, quote, Men, where have you gone?
Please come back, unquote.
The sub-headline was, quote, so many men have retreated from intimacy, hiding behind firewalls, filters, and curated personas, dabbling and scrolling.
We miss you, unquote.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, oh, Clavin, you smoking hot hunk of hilarity.
A joke is a joke, but do you really expect us to believe that that was a headline in the same former newspaper that has spent the last 40 years denigrating men and marriage and promoting a sexual culture of such degrading perversion that it could only be intended to cause even a fully operational male to recoil horrified from sexual communion,
as if he were Ben Affleck and the moment he suddenly realized he had left the really nice Jennifer for the Jennifer with the admittedly spectacular body, but with the kind of personality that could make even a fully operational male recoil horrified from sexual communion as if he'd spent the last 40 years reading the New York Times.
Okay, sure, even I've forgotten where that sentence began, but the point is, no, I'm not making this up.
This article, wondering why men had retreated from intimacy into a world of solitary stimulation utterly devoid of emotional content, was written by Rachel Drucker, a woman who spent part of her career working for Playboy and its affiliated hardcore porn outlets enticing men to retreat from intimacy into a world of solitary stimulation utterly devoid of emotional content.
She writes, quote, and this is a real quote, I'm still not even making stuff up yet.
I remember when part of heterosexual male culture involved showing up with a woman to signal something, status, success, desirability.
Women were once signifiers of value, even to other men.
That dynamic has quietly collapsed, unquote.
So, baffled by this mystery, the New York Times did what they usually do in such circumstances.
They sent their reporters to find out what men think by interviewing women.
For instance, they spoke with Karen Screamy Hateface, president of the Society for Haritans Who Are Intolerably Loud, or S-H-R-I-L.
Ms. Screamy Hateface said, quote, I can't for the life of me figure out why I can't get a date with one of these toxic snakes.
I've got the pink hat, all the right tattoos, and plenty of insight on how to make men be better than they are.
What do these bastards want from me?
Tenderness?
Unquote.
The Times also interviewed the holder of the Guinness Book World Record for Highest Body Count, Karen Spikenose, who told them, quote, frankly, I think most men are just too sexually insecure.
They're always afraid I'm going to compare them to all the men I slept with yesterday.
But really, I'm the sort of girl who usually takes each man separately.
It's more time-consuming, but I feel it makes for a more intimate seven minutes, unquote.
And they interviewed divorce attorney Karen Crotchfangs, who told us, quote, I just think men don't know what they really want.
They say they want a feminine girl like me who gets all made up for a date and wears pretty dresses and lets them pay for dinner.
But then the minute they see my penis, they run for the hills, sometimes without even finishing their drink.
⁇ In the end, however, despite its considerable reportorial power, the New York Times somehow could not solve the mystery of why men no longer feel that women add value to their lives.
Now, part of our job here at the Daily Wire is to bring you the kind of material that outlets like the New York Times simply can't provide, like journalism.
So we immediately sent our reporters out into the field.
And when they didn't come back from the field, but simply went prancing off across the grass, picking flowers and weaving garlands of daisies for one another's heads, we sent out some more reporters to interview a prominent man on why he had retreated from intimacy.
Unfortunately, the man just kept sobbing violently and crying out, what was I thinking?
I could have had the nice Jennifer.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavan, and this is The Andrew Klavan Show.
All right, we are back, laughing our way through the best presidency ever.
I have to tell you, just totally by coincidence, my son, Spencer Clavin, no relation, we write this substack together, the newjerusalam.substack.com.
A Matter of Life and Death00:05:30
And every month or so, we do an essay.
And he does the essay on Monday.
It'll show up.
He does this month's essay.
And it's about this exact same article.
We weren't even talking to each other about it.
And we were both looking at the same articles.
So you might want to check that out on Monday at the newjerusalem.substack.com.
And no matter where you are listening to this, if you're watching it on YouTube or on Daily Wire Plus, or just in your own dreams, you're having nightmares about it, you might want to leave a comment there in your nightmares.
And if they are nightmarish enough and racist and sexist and all the other things that we do here, we'll read it on the air.
Today's comment is from Curtis Budden5802.
He says, my daughter arrived three weeks early just so that she could listen to this episode.
Perfectly rational girl.
Although she does cry a lot and is entirely dependent on other people, so she may be a leftist.
Yeah, a lot of times infants are leftists, but then they grow out of it.
All right, let us get to today's episode, A Matter of Life and Death.
My title today comes from the Bible, and it comes from what I think is one of the most touching and moving passages in the Bible.
That's one of the greatest pieces of writing in all of human history.
I've edited it for time, so go read the original, which is in Deuteronomy chapter 30.
And just a little bit of it goes like this.
The Lord will again take delight in prospering you as he took delight in your fathers when you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you.
Neither is it far off.
It's not in heaven that you should say, who will ascend to heaven for us and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it.
Neither is it beyond the sea that you should say, who will go over the sea for us and bring it to us that we may hear it and do it.
But the word is very near you.
It's in your mouth and in your heart so that you can do it.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore, choose life that you and your offspring may live.
Now, what I find so touching about this, actually two things that I find incredibly touching about this.
One is the pleading tone of it.
I mean, this is the king of the universe speaking to a bunch of primitive tribesmen, and he's not threatening them with punishment.
He's telling them what the results of their choices will be, and he's begging them, he's begging them to take the good choice.
Choose life, please, you know?
And anyone who is a father knows that in the end, you know, you can discipline your kids, you can force them to do things when they're little, but in the end, they grow up and they're on their own and you can only beg them and pray that they will accept whatever wisdom you have.
And that's one of the things I find so touching about this is that even God, because he's committed, so committed to our freedom, can only plead with us to listen to what he's saying.
And then the second thing that I find incredibly touching about this passage is the realism of it.
I'm sure you have noticed this in life if you have ever tried to talk a friend or a loved one out of doing the thing that hurts him most and how incredibly difficult it is, how people cling to the thing that's destroying them.
So you say to them, you know, stop smoking dope all the time.
It's ruining your life.
You know, how you view small-minded, you know, they get, so I wrote this passage, and I'm sorry to read a passage of my writing after the Bible.
I can't compare it to the two, but it is, it just shows, it's just to show you the realism of the Bible, how it translates into everyday life.
I wrote this novel, I think, in 2009, Empire of Lies.
And in it, the protagonist is talking about friends who have headed down what he calls the road to disaster.
And he says, sometimes it even happened that these friends would come to my wife, Kathy, and me and ask us for advice.
We are heading down the road to disaster, they would say.
What can we do to avoid the disaster at the end?
And Kathy and I would answer, stop.
Stop going down that road.
Stop cheating on your wife or spending too much money or neglecting your children or drinking.
Turn around and go back and go down another road instead.
And every time, every single time, they would say to us, oh, no, oh, no, we can't do that.
We have many good and sound and necessary reasons why we must go down the road to disaster.
Therefore, give us some other advice.
Give us some advice that will make the road to disaster end somewhere other than in the disaster to which it inevitably leads.
So today, I think it's really clear we have this amazing chance to return to some of the founding principles through which God blessed our fathers in the land that he had given them.
Now, I have my own personal, maybe superstitious, maybe completely wrong opinion that we've been given the second chance because we repealed Roe versus Wade, a court, high court decision that stripped a class of persons of their humanity, which we had done in slavery days as well.
I don't speak for God.
That's just my personal opinion.
But whatever it is, we have this chance.
And on the left and on the right, there are voices calling us to not take the chance, but stick to the road of disaster, to choose death rather than life.
And so I want to look at what that looks like in our little history and the stuff that's been happening just this week.
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Chapter 1, Sympathy for the Devil.
So Trump gave the order to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, as I told you last week when I was giving you this week's news last week.
I told you he's make the exact right choice at the exact right time because his motive was 100% correct to rid a bunch of apocalyptic Looney Toon people of nuclear weapons.
I mean, that was a good motive.
And so that's positive.
But also his political and his personal interests are all bound up in being a peacemaker and bringing peace to the world because he knows that's good for business.
He knows it's good for our country.
It's good for the world.
And that was going to keep him from acting hastily, from being drawn in to war to commit an act of violence before it was time or when it wasn't necessary or just because we could help somebody out and we didn't need to or put us in danger.
So I really had a lot of trust in him for this because of that reason.
His personal and political interests were bound up with not doing what was the right, what he knew to be the right thing to do.
So he wouldn't do it hastily.
And of course, you know, because you heard he would do the right thing here, it turned out to be true.
If I had told you he was going to do the wrong thing, he would have been forced to do the wrong thing because I project my mind into the future.
So before it happened, they were saying, oh, the left was saying on the news, you know, oh, they don't really have the capacity.
Some of the right-wingers too were saying on the news, they don't really have the capacity for nuclear weapons.
And then the minute it happens, I mean, look, this raid was just brilliant.
I mean, the stuff we've seen from it already, it was like apparently in the planning stages for 15 years.
There were these couple of analysts, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Kane, Dan Raisin Kane, as they call him.
You know, these two guys were just dreaming about this, thinking about this for 15 years, how to do this.
And it was an unbelievable piece of business.
Apparently, they were fueled repeatedly on the way, which only our people and I think the Israelis can do at that level.
They dropped these bunker buster bombs, these huge bombs, down an air shaft.
I mean, you've got to be a pretty good, have pretty good aim to do that.
It was amazing stuff.
I mean, my wife, my wife said to me, if they had to refuel in mid-air so many times, how did they keep from putting the credit card in the pump the wrong way?
So they had to go see the attendant in the mini-mart, you know, because women don't really understand aerial warfare.
I explained to them that these guys are trained so well that they get that credit card in the pump the right way every single time.
So anyway, it was obviously like this incredibly great assault on these horrible weapons held by horrible people or potential weapons held by the worst people on earth, these crazy, crazy Nazi Islamists.
And so immediately the press turns against it.
And it was done at just the right moment, just to help You know, finish the work that Israel had been doing so brilliantly, fighting them on the ground and fighting them in the air.
And so immediately, the press starts to denigrate it.
Just like remember when the head of the FBI, the then head of the FBI, said, oh, Trump wasn't really shot.
He was hit by shrapnel, as if shrapnel couldn't blow your head off.
So this is Natasha Bertrand on CNN.
She immediately comes out with this report, and the rest of the press immediately picks it up.
This is cut four.
Based on a battle damage assessment that was carried out by U.S. Central Command, essentially looking at the images and looking at what was actually damaged, the Defense Intelligence Agency has assessed that the core components of Iran's nuclear program are largely intact and that Iran's nuclear program has essentially only been set back by months.
So she did say up front that this is a preliminary report.
She did emphasize that, but she didn't point out that it was a low confidence report.
And the fact that it had been leaked, why does anybody ever leak anything out of the Trump administration?
There's only one reason, and that's to attack Donald Trump.
But this is the same woman.
Bertrand is the same woman who was hired and promoted at CNN after she peddled both the Russian collusion hoax and the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation hoax and a lot of other hoaxes as well.
In fact, here's White House smokeshow Carolyn Levitt talking about her Cup 13.
Bertrand pushed the suckers and losers hoax.
She also pushed the fine people hoax, which was taking the president's words purposely out of context.
And then last October, and I believe this is notable, Natasha Bertrand published an article in Politico from the intelligence agency.
She said that John Ratcliffe was speaking without any evidence when he said Iran was attempting to undermine President Trump's presidential campaign.
And then we, of course, found out that was absolutely true.
In fact, the Biden administration declassed an Intel report, which said they had high confidence that Iran had done exactly what Ratcliffe alleged.
They did run an influence campaign to hurt President Trump's candidacy.
In fact, we know the Iranians tried to take President Trump's life.
So, I mean, people are saying, oh, Donald Trump is angry about this, as if he's thin-skinned.
But no, this is the way the deep state attacks him.
They use leaks with a willing press that happily echoes them.
And so every other assessment, including Iran's, but Israel's, the CIA's, you know, they all say that the strike was an enormous success, did absolute terrible damage to their nuclear program, which was in fact operational.
We got, we here at the Andrew Claven Show, got a final in-house assessment, you know, a kind of video that they send to the president to tell us how it went.
And we're going to leak it to you now as cut one.
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 going to wait more.
So that's a pretty positive report.
I mean, you can't really get any better than that.
And, you know, the sec after Secretary of Defense Pete Heckset, he got it right.
He went after the press face to face, went right at him.
And what he said is so obviously true, I just don't think it can be denied.
It's cut 11.
Because you, and I mean, specifically you, the press, specifically you, the press corps, because you cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump because you want him not to be successful so bad.
You have to cheer against the efficacy of these strikes.
You have to hope maybe they weren't effective.
Maybe the way the Trump administration has represented them isn't true.
So let's take half truths, spun information, leaked information, and then spin it.
Spin it in every way we can to try to cause doubt and manipulate the public mind over whether or not our brave pilots were successful.
It's just true.
It's true.
And they hate Trump for a reason, because he will not join their lie.
He will not kowtow to their lie.
The lie that their policies work, the lie that their policies for black people and minorities have not made those people's lives much, much, much worse.
The lies that the government can do things that independent people are supposed to do, the lies that they, the elite, can govern us better than we can govern ourselves.
And they've been living on that lie for 60 years and perpetrating that lie through the press.
And now the press is exposed as he pulls their, you know, he's basically the little kid who says the empire, the empire, the emperor isn't wearing any clothes.
You know, they just can't stand it.
And they hate him so much for that that they want him to fail, even if that means America fails as well.
Then on the right, you have Dave Smith and Candace Owens and Ian Carroll, these guys who are now saying either it's going to be World War III or that we've now been drawn into war by Israel.
We're a client state of Israel.
I think Candace said that.
We're a client state of Israel, which is funny because then Trump imposed a ceasefire on these guys, which is not that good for Israel.
It's good for the United States for there to be a ceasefire.
But I think the best thing for Israel would be to go in and mop these guys up.
But, you know, obviously it's utterly ridiculous.
Candace is now saying that people who criticize her are being paid by rabbis in Israel.
That is what she actually said.
And I just want to say, if that's true, I'd like to give them my address because I'm getting bumped for this.
I'm just doing this as a public service.
But the guy, you know, I keep going after Tucker because I think he has a quality that could be better than this.
He's the guy who said it was going to be World War III if we did his cut five.
A war with Iran is a world war.
This is not 2002.
Iran is now part of a coalition that includes the biggest economies in the world and the largest militaries in the world.
So a war with Iran means a war in effect or, you know, by proxy, but still a war with Russia, China, Turkey, and a lot of the rest of the world.
So that's a world war.
It's not just as simple as we're going to take out their nuclear facilities.
Okay.
See, and again, the problem is factually untrue.
Those countries do have an alliance, but it's an economic alliance, not like NATO.
It's not like they have to go to war with the other.
And so far, nothing.
And I mean, they've made some noise about it, but I think Russia is too busy and China.
This is the last thing China wants.
And like, you know, Iran then responds with this, you know, after he tells us it's going to be a world war.
Iran responded with one of those performative launches they do where they send a couple of missiles at a U.S. air base in Qatar to save face.
And then Tucker responded with a performative launch to save face.
Here's his overdone reaction, Cut 6.
Breaking news.
What now?
Well, this is just sad on every level.
Explosions have been heard over Doha Qatar after Iran launched a missile attack on the U.S. base there.
Western officials told Axios that Iran had fired six missiles toward at least one U.S. base in that Gulf country.
That base exists to protect Israel, by the way.
I know we're constantly, Barry Weiss is constantly attacking Qatar.
Qatar has done more to defend Israel.
But anyway, hosting this base, which they don't need at all.
It's the richest country in the world.
They don't need to do it.
They're doing it to be nice.
Anyway, sorry.
It's just, this is so distressing.
Have Americans been killed?
Officials said earlier that the base located just outside Doha was facing a credible threat.
Trump officials are convening in D.C., the base's home to CENTCOM's HQ.
British military personnel also serve their own nation.
Many planes have been moved out recently, satellite imagery shows.
So that's all we know.
It's so distressing.
So distressing.
And, you know, Qatar, there's just such a evil Barry Weiss, a Jewish Barry Weiss is so mean to Qatar.
You know, Tucker's always being accused of being funded by Qatar.
I know nothing about that.
I have no information about that.
But Qatar is a major funder of terrorism throughout the world and funders of other things as well.
And that doesn't mean, you know, I didn't think Trump should have taken that plane from them.
But, you know, that doesn't mean necessarily mean you're serving them.
Or even if he is, even if Tucker is getting money from them, that doesn't mean you're serving them.
But that's just ridiculous.
Again, just factually ridiculous.
So the left hates Trump because he won't kowtow to their fantasy world and the fantasy world that they want to work in, work, live in.
And the right is mad because he won't kowtow to their identitarian fantasy where America can just pull in like, you know, like a turtle into its shell and do nothing.
And the world is just going to sit and wait on us and nothing bad is going to happen.
And their identitarianism against the Jews.
I mean, their hatred of the Jews.
And again, the problem is not that their predictions are wrong.
This was a risky thing.
Trump took a risk.
It could have resulted in worse war.
It might still result in some bad things.
Everyone is wrong sometimes and no one knows the future.
The problem is that their philosophy has put them on the side of bad guys, the bad guys, the people who rape and oppress women and hang gays from cranes and don't give anybody freedom of religion or anything.
And if, you know, there's just no question if they stopped fighting, there would be peace.
And if Israel stopped fighting, there'd be genocide.
And, you know, people say, oh, people call me anti-Semitic just because I criticize Israel.
No, I call you a fool because you side with evil and death, right?
It's like, it's not that Israel never does wrong.
That would make them unique in the annals of human history.
It's that the Islamists are wrong.
Everything they believe is wrong.
Israel is a free country where everyone has equal rights like America.
It's right to be that way.
It is good to be that way.
It's moral to be that way.
And the thing about it is, and the reason it is, is because freedom is life.
When God says choose life, he's talking about freedom.
You know, when the Jews went to their prophet and said, we want a king, God said to the prophet, well, don't worry, they're not rejecting you, the prophet.
They're rejecting me, their king, God.
You know, that's the problem.
God wants us to be free.
And, you know, here's one I always disagree with Knowles.
Knowles is always saying we're free to do the right thing.
No, we're free to choose the right thing, which means, unfortunately, that we're also can choose the wrong thing.
But freedom is what God wants for you because freedom, the freedom of choice is life.
That is what life is.
It is choosing the right way.
And it means war.
Life means war.
I am not in favor of war.
I think war should be avoided whenever you can avoid it.
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It should be avoided in every possible way you can avoid it.
But life means war.
People who are free have to fight wars because other people want to enslave them.
They want to impose their imaginations on the world so they can believe their imaginations are the truth instead of the truth, right?
Freedom and the systems of freedom like capitalism and democratic elections and free speech, these are hard because people want you to obey their fantasies and they want to take them away.
And you have to fight wars.
You know, Trump took a risk and it seems to be working out well.
And I think I really hope it's going to improve the Middle East and improve all of our lives.
But even if he had been, if he had failed, he would have been working in the interest of good over evil.
And that's the thing of freedom over slavery, of life over death.
And that is always, always the choice we should be making.
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Chapter two, Daddy Goes to NATO.
So Donald Trump went to NATO at The Hague, and I went to see 28 years later.
And these two things are connected.
28 years later is obviously the second sequel to Danny Boyle and Alex Garland's non-zombie zombie franchise where zombies take over Britain.
And it's a bad movie, but it's an amazing movie.
It's a bad movie because it's sloppy.
It's lazily directed and written.
I don't even like these kinds of movies, these zombie-type movies, but I went because I like Danny Boyle and I like Alex Garland's writing very much, but I thought it was bad.
It was lazily written and lazily put together as a film.
But it's amazing for reasons that I'm not hearing anybody talk about.
And I think that nobody wants to say it out loud.
So of course, I have to.
So here's Boyle and Garland in a kind of promotional video describing what they were doing when they made this movie.
And just to bring you up to date, this rage virus has taken over Britain and it's now in quarantine.
So it's only the people, the only people dealing with this are the remaining survivors in Britain.
And then the rest of the world is kind of just patrolling to make sure nobody goes on and catches this, what they call the rage virus.
And here is Boyle and Garland talking about how they put together the sequel, Boyle First and then Garland Cut 14.
In 28 years later, we tried imagining how a world would rebuild itself after an apocalypse.
Initial conversations were often about imagining what does 28 years later mean.
If the infection is still on Britain, what does the infection look like?
How does the rest of the world respond to that?
So I don't have time to analyze the whole picture because I want to talk about other things.
But this is a world in which the British have been reduced to medieval villagers.
And they are truly, they are back in medieval Britain.
There are no black faces in this movie except for one zombie, the big zombie.
It looks like he's a brown guy.
There are no women warriors because the way they're fighting, they have to pull these bows while they're running.
0% of women could do that.
So they just don't.
There are no women warriors.
The women are back, you know, keeping the home fires burning while the men go out and fight these things.
And they've returned to nationalism.
So they keep cutting away from the fights with the zombies, which are mostly arrow, you know, bow and arrow fights.
They keep cutting away to movies, war movies of Britain, especially Lawrence Olivier's Henry V movie, which is obviously Shakespeare's play about the great, greatest hero king, Henry V and his great battle at Agincourt against the French, where just a few Britons beat a massive French army with their bows and arrows.
And he's a great nationalist hero.
And so they've gone back to their British roots.
And you can't help but think that the zombies are, you know, if they're not the Muslims, they're all the people who have come in, all the migrants who have come in and all the people who are furious at them.
But I don't know if they are.
I think they're just the migrants that have been reduced to the white British.
And their flag is the cross, the English flag, not the British flag, which is just a cross, a red cross on a white background.
There's one representative of high culture and tolerance who is Ray Fiennes.
And he's, you know, mourning the deaths of both the zombies and the regular people.
But he's living in a temple of death.
He's the representative of British high culture.
He quotes Shakespeare.
He speaks Latin.
He has tolerance for all mankind.
But he is living in a temple of death.
Basically, all he represents now is death.
And in the end, and this is a slight spoiler, but I'll keep it as vague as I can.
The soccer yobs, the Tommy Robinsons become the ultimate warriors against this threat.
It is a, I'm not saying, by the way, that Danny Boyle is saying, yes, this is the way it should be.
He's saying this is what will happen if there is nothing left to do but fight.
I think that's what he's saying.
He's not recommending anything.
He's simply giving you a vision of what that apocalyptic world looks like.
And nobody's talking about this because nobody wants to say, yeah, the zombies are the Muslims in England who are raping women while the authorities look away, which is how the thing starts.
It starts with children watching teletubbies, this complete fantasy of a peaceful, loving world until the monsters come in and devour everybody while the priest just sits there sort of crazily helpless.
So, you know, after the disaster of the 30 years' war between World War I and World War II, Europe died.
And I have put this forward a lot of times and people don't like to hear it, especially Europeans, but also people in the State Department.
They think, well, no, don't say that.
But Europe had the greatest culture that had ever existed on earth between 1500 and 1914.
30 years, it died, and they chose to let it die.
They went into this stupid war, World War I, for no reason, and then just let Hitler rise up while they just sort of twiddled their thumbs and said, well, we don't want any more of that war stuff.
And then the fact that they murdered the Jews tells you who they were rejecting when they chose death.
The big Jew, Jesus, is that they were rejecting that religion.
And they just decided we're not doing this anymore.
We're choosing not to be alive anymore.
We're going to give up all our colonies.
We're going to stop fighting wars.
We're going to rely on the Americans to fight wars.
We're going to pretend to be part of NATO, but we're not putting any money in there.
And they let the Americans fight the wars.
And we'll take the money that we saved by not having to fight wars.
And we'll have a great health care system.
And we'll laugh at the Americans for not having as good a welfare system as us because they have to pay to protect us.
That's death.
That is saying we are not no longer participating in our own defense.
We are regressing to children.
We're going, you know, well, I'll talk about socialism in a minute, but socialism is a form of death and a form of authoritarianism.
And so Trump goes off to NATO to try and convince them to come back to life, to join the living, to choose life by defending themselves like men.
That is what he goes back to do.
And everybody's making fun of the head of NATO, Mark Root of the Netherlands.
Trump got ticked off when Israel and Iran violated the ceasefire.
And he said they've been fighting so long, they don't know what the F they're doing.
And he cursed on Mike.
And when he was asked about that, he said sometimes when kids are fighting, you have to let them fight for a while and then tell them to stop.
And Root said, sometimes daddy has to use harsh language.
And everybody made fun of him, calling Trump daddy as if they were in a gay leather bar.
And I just want to say that it's fine to make fun of powerful people, but I don't think that he wants to be in a sadomasochistic homosexual relationship with Trump.
I have no proof of that except for the fact that he called him daddy.
So I guess I have a little proof.
But other than that, I have nothing to say about it.
But Trump scored a big win.
He got them to put in some more money into NATO to pay for more defense because daddy is begging Europe to come back to life.
And the thing about life is life is not peaceful.
Death is peaceful.
When you're just lying there, it's peaceful.
And again, I want to emphasize this.
I hate war.
I love peace, but pacifism is not a moral point of view.
And that's what it comes down to.
That's what it comes down to.
That's what I'm hitting Tucker for.
That's what I'm hitting CNN and the rest of the news media for is what they're doing is not moral.
They are not saying moral things.
They are not siding with the people who are moral.
Israel is a moral country because it's free and equal.
That's what makes it a moral country.
It's not a good country because it's filled with people.
No country that has people in it is going to be a good country, but you can have a moral system.
And that's what they have.
Pacifism is not a moral point of view.
It means that if you want to go on living, someone else has to fight your battles for you.
You know, morality, real morality, has to refer to reality.
And in reality, because freedom is life, people are going to try and take your freedom away.
You can't be a pacifist or you will lose your life.
So Trump is trying to revive Europe by getting them to commit to their own defense.
And we should want that because the signs of Europeans choosing death were peace and socialism.
That was the other sign of their choosing death.
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Islamist Threat00:11:44
So the Germans tried to destroy Europe twice, once by marching through World War I and then once in World War II.
But it was only when the Angela Merkel let the refugees come pouring and they finally succeeded.
And they, you know, they brought in the Jew-hating Islamists who knocked down, who attacked our world's trade center and is now taking over virtually Britain.
And, you know, it's always that Jew hatred is always showing up.
When something is dying, when a Western civilization is dying, the Jew hatred is there.
When a country is collapsing, Jew hatred.
You always see it.
It's the devil's flagpole.
It is begging you to do the opposite of what God wants you to do.
It's begging you to choose death.
It's just a sign.
I'm just saying it comes along with the territory.
Why?
Because the Jews brought God into the world.
Or let's put it another way, God came into the world through the Jews.
So they just, the Democrats had a primary, and it was one of those ranked voting primaries, which are very bad because the bottom, because if you don't get 50% of the vote, you get the second votes of the bottom tier.
So you're getting the most radical people.
You're giving them the most power.
And they always say it's for moderate candidates, but it's not.
It always promotes the most left-wing person.
This guy, Zoram Mamdani, who is a Jew-hating socialist Muslim.
That's who he is.
His father is a Columbia professor of anti-colonialism.
He's post-colonialism.
And I'm very in favor of colonialism.
I think we should have a lot more of it.
But he works at Columbia University, and the young people and college graduates showed up to vote for him, showing that Columbia University should be disassembled brick by brick.
The professors, especially the professors who are post-colonial, should be assembled naked, whipped through the streets, tarred and feathered, and then hurled into the Hudson, and then have rotten vegetables thrown at them as they go out.
At least metaphorically, that should happen, at least.
But anyways, just to give you a taste of this guy, he's a total nutcase.
One of the things he has done, globalize the intifada is one thing he has said.
He said, well, it's just a struggle.
The intifada is just a struggle.
It's not.
It's an act of terrorism meant on wiping out the West.
That's what it is.
So globalize that.
He wants to globalize that.
And he wants to, at one point, now he says, of course, he denies all this, but at one point he said he wants to defund the police.
And he said he wanted to defund the police because violence is just a construct.
Here he is, cut 12.
So violence is an artificial construction.
We have to be very clear what is happening here with these district attorneys.
That is violence.
Violence is an artificial construction, but what district attorneys enforce the law by putting people in prison, that's the real violence.
See, it's just an artificial.
But then when he was called out for supporting globalized intifada, suddenly he's the poor Muslim victim.
This is what he says, cut seven.
I get messages that say the only good Muslim is a dead Muslim.
I get threats on my life on the people that I love.
And I try not to talk about it because the function of racism, as Tony Morrison said, is distraction.
My focus has always been on making this a city that's affordable, on making this a city that every New Yorker sees themselves in.
And it takes a toll.
It takes a toll.
Why?
Why is he crying?
Because he was threatened with violence.
Violence is an artificial construct.
If they say they're going to kill the people he loves and all the only good Muslim is deadline, it's just a, you know, it's just an artificial construct.
It's just violence.
It's just violence.
You know, it's not, it's not real violence because it's why I choose what violence is.
We get to define violence just like we get to define men and women.
He doesn't want to die because violence is real.
Violence is a real thing.
He just wants New York to die because it's free and because it, you know, he's talking about socialism.
He's saying we're going to have government-run grocery stores.
That's going to work out great.
He's going to have limited rents.
He's going to have rent control.
So landlords' properties can't make them any money.
They can't make any money on their properties.
There are going to be buses that are going to be free.
And he's going to pay for this by taxing the rich.
So great clip from CNN.
A famous lawyer, Arthur Adala, is saying that Mamdani is going to bring back the bad old days when I lived in New York, which was the 70s and 80s when crime was rampant, homelessness was rampant.
You couldn't go out at night.
It was really, really awful.
It was just a terrible, terrible place.
And then Giuliani, that great villain, came in, the greatest mayor New York ever had, cleaned the place up every single day, just like Trump.
They yelled at him, they screamed at him.
And I know now he's a little kooky, but at that time, he just cleaned that city up amazingly.
He was a great federal prosecutor, and he was a great, great mayor who cleaned that city up and turned it into the greatest city on the planet, the safest, most bustling, most brilliant, most glamorous city on the planet.
It is now sinking back with the help of the New York Times, who helped repeal a lot of the actions that Giuliani took and with Mayor de Blasio.
And so Adela says Mamdani is going to bring back that horrible pre-Giuliani New York.
And MSNBC's Joy Reed challenges him on that.
She is, that woman talked about somebody who needs to be in a padded cell, but Joy Reed challenges him.
Here's the clip, cut eight.
What is your evidence that Mamdani would return New York City to the 1970s hellhole Times Square?
What is your evidence?
It's very simple.
So he wants to raise taxes on people who make the most money.
What eventually is going to happen is you're going to lose that tax base.
Once you lose that tax base, our bonds will get degraded.
Now the city budget will not be substantial enough to subsidize not only the cops, but the fire department, the sanitation department.
Once you start losing Wall Street and people who pay $11,000, $12,000 a month to live on the island.
Okay, so you're done.
So that's right.
And of course, he taxed the rich.
The rich don't have to.
What are you going to do?
Build a Berlin Wall around New York?
The rich don't have to stay in New York.
They can leave.
So Zamdani says, well, I'll tax them in other states.
Illegal.
It's illegal for him to raise the taxes.
He has to get the governor's approval to raise taxes as high as he wants to raise them.
Grocery shelves won't be stocked as in every government-run grocery store ever on any planet.
The grocery, the shelves will be empty.
The homeless will come back because the landlords will say, oh, I can't get enough rent to make a profit.
So I'm just going to leave these apartments empty.
So you'll have all these empty apartments.
People will be out on the street.
There won't be enough houses for everybody.
The city will die and it will happen really, really fast.
But, but conservatives love to make the argument that socialism doesn't work because it's true and it's visceral.
But do you ever notice that the left pretends that capitalism doesn't work, but it so obviously does?
The argument they make is that it's immoral because it's unequal, because it's unfair.
And that there's truth to that, right?
I mean, the capitalism, the people who work hard and have good ideas, they get richer than people who sit around and wait for somebody to save them and somebody to do stuff for them.
But we forget the fact with socialism, we should make that argument too.
Socialism is wrong.
It is inherently wrong.
It is inherently immoral because it's inherently authoritarian.
I never hear, except on this show, I never hear conservatives making this argument, not just that it doesn't work.
We always love to say that.
But if the government control, if you use your time to make money, time is money, and the government controls your money, it controls your time.
Your life is made of time.
The government controls your life.
At what point does the government get the right to steal your money?
At what point do you get so big that somehow stealing stops being stealing and starts to be taxation?
I mean, look, there are projects that we need the government to do, like paying for the police and let's see, paying for the police and paying for the world police, namely the army.
And, you know, those are things we need them to do.
So we pay taxes for that.
But the government should not have the right to take my money and give it to someone else.
That's charity.
I should give to charity.
You should be able to shame me for not giving to charity.
But I don't see why the government should do that.
They don't do anything else right.
And it's wrong.
It's wrong to do it.
It's stealing.
And it's just authoritarian.
It has to be authoritarian.
And the thing is, you know, like I said, freedom is life.
And if your money goes to the government, you are not free.
If your time belongs to the government, you are not free.
If the government decides what you're going to invest your money in, who you're going to give your money to, you are not free.
And you're right.
They're right.
It's not equal.
Capitalism is not equal.
Only the dead are equal.
Only the dead are peaceful.
Only the dead are equal.
It's only the dead who have no problems in the world, right?
What we should be teaching children who fall for this and for Bernie and for AOC who are supporting this Jew-hating socialist Muslim is that, yes, life is hard and unfair.
That means you have to work hard.
Death is easy.
Life is hard and it's unfair.
That means you have to work.
And everything that's good in life is hard.
Every single thing that's good in life is hard.
Love is hard.
Work is hard.
You know, survival is hard.
All of these things are hard.
And only the fact that other people do these things for us, that we have a military that's a volunteer military, that we, you know, that the police patrol the streets.
I mean, I think about this all the time.
I read and write for a living.
It's a beautiful way to make my living.
But every day I think about the fact that I can do this because Pete Hegseth and his warriors are patrolling the skies and the borders.
And if they don't do that, I can't do what I do because people will kill you.
Only death is easy.
Life is hard and it's unfair.
And yet, and yet, if you want joy, you have to choose life.
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And Rusty Reno is about my age.
He's a little younger than I am.
Runs Away From Fascism00:11:23
But he looked horrified because people my age just think of Europe as almost part of the United States, where we come from.
You know, we should be connected to them.
And yet I can't help thinking that either they are going to come back to life and defend themselves and be part of the world and start to be responsible for paying for the medicines that we create here because we pay for our medicines instead of having single-payer healthcare.
Are they going to come back or are they going to drag us down into the socialism, which is death?
Socialism is a form of death, and so is fascism.
These are things that are the end of freedom.
Are we going to let them drag us down into that world?
And he looked horrified.
And last week I interviewed Joram Hazzoni and I wanted to ask him the same question, but we ran out of time, which is unfortunate.
But I think about the death of Europe a lot and what we can learn from it, because in the year 1900, Europe was the pinnacle of human society.
No human society had ever done as much as what Europe had done if it looked at as a single culture.
There's no other society that can compare the Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Mozart and Bach and the philosophers and just all of the science, the incredible science that came out of the British century.
I picked 1900 because I think that was the Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, I believe, but it was when they had the great exhibition and they just showed all these accomplishments.
It was the pinnacle.
14 years later, death.
And again, voluntary death.
It was an attitude that came over.
Virginia Woolf, one of the modernist writers, a writer I don't like very much, but still one of the famous modernist writers, she said on or around December 1910, which is four years before death came to Europe, on or around December 1910, human character changed.
And a lot of the things we see today happen then, the disregard for the values of the ancestors, the disregard that the mocking, you know, Lytton Strachie brought out that famous book, Eminent Victorians, where he made fun of the heroes of the Victorians and called them all, you know, hypocrites.
But you could see even before that, if you looked at paintings by like Picasso, where suddenly, you know, he's taking people apart.
Why is he doing that?
He says, well, I can, a nose goes on a face.
I put it anywhere I want.
You know, why is he doing it?
Why is everything falling apart?
Monk's paintings like The Scream, Nietzsche's basic prediction that this is what happens when God dies.
And Nietzsche was an atheist, but if he hadn't been an atheist, he still would have been describing rightly what happens when God is dead, which he said is a catastrophe.
So all of these changes came into the population, which were a yearning after death, right?
And so, and they took control after the absolute horror of World War I.
They took control of the narrative, basically.
They said, well, this was caused by nationalism.
We have to stop loving our nation.
We have to stop loving religion.
We have to stop and get rid of what Reno calls the strong gods.
It was a kind of insanity, a kind of insanity came over the populace.
They started to believe that they could live without self-defense, that they could live without creating wealth.
I mean, this is the crazy thing about socialism.
We're going to give this money to this money and that money there and that money there.
And nobody ever in socialism ever, this is an argument David Horowitz used to make.
No one ever says, where is this money going to come from?
What is going to create this money?
I mean, money is just a symbol for work.
It's just a symbol for value.
That's all it is.
So where is the value coming from if nobody's working?
If I was saying, thank you for the money, thank you for the money.
Where's it, where where's the tree that the money grows, if not on work?
And so, you know I I I I, who am a committed artist and committed to talking about the arts and and creating things that I hope are works of art uh I, I became a political commentator, not because I, you know, I always say i'm a conservative, because i'm a liberal, I want people to be free, and that only the conservatives are in favor of that.
But I, I stumbled into political commentary, not because I was so passionate about conservatism, but because I felt that the left had gone insane.
I felt that the press was just all lies, I felt it was this ocean of lies and I thought this can't be good.
This is death, it is.
And I had just lived in England and seen what a society, a passive, uh you know society, mired in socialism, mired in pacifism uh, and pass pacifism uh, what it looks like.
And I thought this, this could happen here.
You know uh, that the same things could happen here if we start to hate our country as we seemed to do after 9-11, when people started saying, oh, you know, if you wear a flag that's, i'm very uncomfortable when you wear that flag.
Why, we have to find out why these people hate us.
That was the.
That was the one phrase from David Letterman that kind of set me off when I thought, what do you mean?
Why do they hate us?
They're supposed to hate us.
They're bad guys.
We're the good guys.
The bad guys hate the good guys and want to destroy them.
So this, at the core of this, at the core of this, I cannot help feeling and in a way this is part of that movie uh, 28 years later as well is that it starts with the priest uh, the Anglican priest basically going insane and saying ah, this is a wonderful thing, but the end of the world has come, this is armageddon, and he is carried away by the rage zombies and becomes one of them as we watch him, and that's the first scene in in 28 years later,
that that basically the first thing to go uh is when the church stops being a bulwark of what?
Of values, of human values, of humanity itself.
You know the other movie I saw this week.
Uh, I mean I finished a draft of uh the new, uh the next, not the Camera Winter book that's coming out this year, but the one that's going out next year.
I finished a draft.
So I had some time finally to watch some things and catch up on the things.
I watched Accountant Two and I really liked the movie.
Movie Accountant, you know i'm a big, big fan of action movies and I love them.
Most action movies are bad, but I like them anyway.
But the Accountant the first one, with Ben Affleck uh, the man who took the wrong Jennifer uh was really original and interesting and had a lot of good stuff about the way uh, the mob uses uh banking to hide their money and all this.
And so this is Accountant Two.
It's it's nowhere near as original, nowhere near as cool, but it does have some cute scenes in it.
And it has that guy John Barenthal is that how he pronounces his last name?
Just, he adds something to every movie he's in and Ben Affleck is one of my favorite actors.
He just uh, he just really commits to a role in a way I really like.
But it starts out with the, the accountant, who is a severe autistic.
He is severely autistic and he goes to one of these speed dating things and he's arranged the questions to make all the women want him.
He's figured out the algorithm on how to make women come to see him.
So the first woman sits down with him, and here's just a little clip of that cut nine.
Hi.
I'm Anne Renee, and I just love, love, love accountants.
Well, that's a coincidence.
Yeah.
Do you believe in love at first sight?
That there's someone we're meant to be with, a soulmate?
Oh, no, that's an absurd, childish notion.
Of course, that's not real.
What do you mean you reverse engineered our algorithm?
I data mined the top online dating apps and mapped a battery of your questions against theirs.
And a built-in dating algorithm.
Oh, the question of whether or not there's such a thing as love or it's simply an electrical neurochemical process that takes place in the brain is up for debate.
So she runs away.
Why does she run away?
Obviously, we all know instantaneously.
We don't have to think about why she runs away.
We know she runs away.
But just to put it into language, he runs away because she is a person, not a series of electrochemical reactions.
She's a person who is looking to be loved by another person.
She is not an object who wants to start a chemical reaction in another object, which is basically the way we think now.
And it's the way we think now, even if we don't want to think that way, because God has gone out of our world.
And this is the thing that I believe killed Europe.
I mean, the two forces of fascism and communism that destroyed Europe are both godless, you know, creeds.
Fascism usually has some kind of pagan creed to it, but it's not God.
It's not God's God.
You know, it's not the real God, let's put it that way.
And to disbelieve in God, to disbelieve in the spiritual is to disbelieve in humanity.
If when you fall in love, there is no such thing as love, no such real thing as love, then you're just an object bumping into another object.
Everything, your joy, your grief, you know, I talked about this a little last week about this idea that somehow this is, you know, oxytocin is making you happy.
That's what makes you love, instead of communicating your love to your body, which is what has to be true.
It's so obviously true.
The fact that we don't see it is part of the blindness.
So if all these things are illusions, if life is just this long LSD trip in which only the chemicals that cause the hallucinations are real, but all the hallucinations, the love, the joy, the purpose that we feel, the faith that we feel, if all of that is just, you know, a delusion, what choices can we make?
We have no choices.
Everything is pre-programmed.
Everything is a chemical reaction.
And you can just, if you just know where the atoms are going to go, you can predict everything.
There is no free will.
There is no choice.
There is no freedom.
There is no life.
And I think that that is the threat that we're facing, that people want to enter the world to become the creation of their imagination instead of the creation of God's imagination, in which we are real and the world is real.
And our imaginations link to God's imagination to understand the world.
So when you have faith, you're using your imagination to see God's hand in the world, but his imagination uses an organ of perception to see reality.
When you start to use your imagination for your own selfish purposes to say, oh, I don't want to be a man anymore.
I want to be a woman, so I am a woman.
Then you have chosen death.
You have chosen to separate yourself from reality.
And the reason, why do we do that?
Why is it hard to talk your friends out of smoking dope?
Why is it hard to talk your friends out of adultery?
Why is it hard to talk them out of being lazy and sitting around watching porn or playing video games instead of going out and making something of themselves?
Why do they resist?
The answer is easy.
It's death is easy and life is hard.
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Clavin Clapbacks.
They're chanting death to America all around me, even as I say, oh, I'm an American reporting for CNN and they were happy to speak to me.
Yeah!
CNN.
Death to America and being friendly towards CNN are not, that's not a paradox.
All right, Clavin Clapbacks, Clavin Clapbacks, Clavin with a K, clapbacks with a K at dailywire.com.
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This one is from part-time philosopher.
He says, I'm a huge fan.
I never miss a show.
I'm writing about an incredible struggle I've been fighting for years.
I'm an Iraq war veteran with a wife, nine kids, and have always, from the day I got back from my one combat tour, felt very awkward when people say thank you for your service.
That discomfort expanded to despair during the COVID lockdowns.
I believe that despair was because I was willing to die to protect the society, but others were not willing to take even modest risks for that same society.
The last shooter drop was the retreat from Afghanistan.
I feel intense bitterness towards my family and towards my countrymen.
His family is liberal.
This bitterness is even worse around Memorial Day and Veterans Day.
I feel disgust and anger towards everyone in the weeks leading up to these days.
This despair is so great as to make me feel an impulse towards suicide.
My question for you is, with the intense bitterness I feel towards my family and to my fellow Americans, how do I repair my relationship with my family and stop feeling so angry around the more patriotic holidays?
Thank you for sharing your ancient and hard-earned wisdom from the part-time philosopher.
Yeah, I totally sympathize.
I completely understand what you're saying.
You know, and with July 4th coming up, I suppose this is one of those holidays.
This is going to sound like a tangent, but it's not.
You know, in the Gospels, Jesus tells a rich man to give all his money to the poor.
And later he says, the poor, you have always with you.
And so it's reasonable to ask, why does he say to the rich man, give all your money to the poor?
It's obviously not to make the poor go away.
The poor are not going to go away, even if you give all your money to them because they'll just be poor.
Again, the poor you will have always with you.
So he's telling you to do it for a different reason.
He's telling you to do it so you become the sort of person who will let your money go, who will not care more about your fellow man than about your money.
Now, the guy who gives his money away could look at the poor who just goes back to drinking or whatever he's doing that made him poor in the first place or just being lazy or just not caring or whatever it is that he does that makes him poor.
He may go back to that poverty.
And so then will the rich man become bitter saying, I gave all my money to the poor and now the poor guy's poor again?
Or will he say, ah, I have become who God wanted me to be.
And so I think that's the situation you're in.
Just like the poor, you will have always with you.
Idiots, you will also have always with you.
Fools, especially, you will always have with you.
You went to fight for the greatest nation that's ever existed because God wanted you to be a man who would do that.
And you are a man who did that and a man who now has nine children and has to show them the face of that man and why he is joyful to have become what God made him to be and why he appreciates what God made him to be, even though the world remains the world.
In the world, you will have trouble.
It is Christ who overcame the world.
Now, the thing is, we all feel like this, right?
I write something beautiful and no one likes it.
And I know it's beautiful, but I want people to like it.
And I'm disappointed in that.
We all have these problems with the world when we do what's right.
And the thing is, that's because we want to say who we are.
We want to say, I am this person.
I'm this person.
And what I do is supposed to have this outcome.
All of the outcomes are with God.
And your identity comes from God.
You are who God tells you to be.
That is where the joy is.
That is where the life is.
What you've got to do is, if you forgive me, you asked me for my advice, so I'm giving it to you.
What I think you have to do is you have to look in the mirror and say, oh, I became who God wanted me to be.
I did what God wanted me to do.
I risked my life for this great, great country, which is an idea.
It's a country that's an idea.
And it's a nation, so it's filled with fools because it's filled with people, right?
It's not about the outcomes all the time.
Obviously, outcomes are important, and the country is still here because of people like you.
But now you are that warrior, and you have a new mission, which is with these children, to show them the face of a proud man who did what God wants him to do and is surrendering his idea of what should happen to God's idea of what should happen.
And remember, outcomes are with God, and he's got them.
He's going to make them good.
It's just we don't always see it.
We're not always here to see the way he makes things good.
In my life, I can tell you, I've lived long enough to see how many things that caused me pain were used for good by God.
While I sat there helplessly and often gormlessly watching and thinking it stinks, I suddenly thought, gee, but somehow that led to something beautiful.
What you have done will lead to something beautiful if you live into it and if you are proud of the man God made you.
And you should be.
You should be proud of.
That's why people are thanking you for your service because they wish that they could be as proud of themselves as you should be of you.
And so surrender the bitterness because the bitterness is saying that you should be in charge of the outcomes.
God is in charge of the outcomes and you have done what he sent you to do.
And now your new mission is to treat your family with joy and love, even understanding that some of them are going to be fools and not give you the outcomes you want.
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