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Michelle Obama blames white people for the fact that black people can't swim.
In an interview promoting her new book called I Forgot What, that's not the title of the book, I just forgot what the title is, the wife of the president who ruined our health care system spoke in that condescending, sassy black woman tone of voice that makes all of us love sassy black women so very, very much.
She said, quote, let me explain something to white people.
Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern.
So when we're straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.
That's why so many of us can't swim.
And we run away from the water because we're trying to keep our hair straight for y'all.
It is exhausting and it is so expensive and it takes up so much time.
Unquote.
Now, I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, oh, Clavin, you jocular junkie of jovial jokery, where do you come up with these fantastically fanciful satire ideas?
Just the notion that a woman with degrees from both Princeton and Harvard would talk to her fellow grown-ups in that condescending, sassy black woman tone that just makes you want to plant a foot of whatever color right in her sassy black buttock and watch her go sailing through the air like a Cameron Dicker field goal attempt from 60 yards out is totally unbelievable in itself.
But when you add to that this ridiculous concept that an unfathomably privileged woman with a net worth of approximately 100 gazillion simoleons would go on TV with her straightened hair that no white man gives a twitch of a rat's ass about and tell people that the reason she can't swim is because white people give a twitch of a rat's ass about her hair.
Well, sure, it's hilarious, but just so totally unreal.
But no, I am not making this up.
The wife of the president who reintroduced racial hatred into an American culture that had all but abandoned it has a new book out called I Don't Care What It Is.
That's not the title of the book, I just don't care what it is.
And she promoted the book by claiming that her obsession with how white people see her is the fault of white people who mostly don't see her at all.
Now, this might actually be a good sales strategy.
Michelle Obama's of bitter, entitled, totally unearned self-satisfaction is very popular with liberal women for some reason.
And I'm sure whatever nonsense she spews out will be greeted by those women as a thoroughly welcome change from the nonsense they're spewing out in a tone of bitter entitled totally unearned self-satisfaction.
In fact, the same audience also enjoys Michelle's nasty remarks about her husband, the former president, who would have gotten away with giving the terrorist nation of Iran a nuclear weapon if Donald Trump hadn't bombed the living Barak out of their nuclear facilities.
For instance, Michelle said there was an entire decade of her marriage in which she, quote, couldn't stand her husband, which may account for the fact that the former president, who managed to lose the war in Iraq after George W. Bush won the war in Iraq, formed a suspiciously close relationship with his male chef until the chef mysteriously drowned in a pond on Martha's Vineyard, probably because he was so worried about getting his hair wet, he forgot how to swim.
Either that or it was because he threatened to tell.
But probably it was his hair.
Now, just to be clear, it really is a problem that black people don't learn how to swim.
Black kids drown at around three times the rate of white kids, and it may be because white people don't like curly hair.
Or it may be because too many black kids don't have fathers, so there's no one to throw them into the water and listen to their mothers scream, oh my God, he'll drown.
And what about his hair?
While the kid happily paddles back and forth, not worrying about his hair because he has a father.
But sure, maybe it's because white people.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavan, and this is The Andrew Klavan Show.
Why Black Kids Don't Learn to Swim00:06:41
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So I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving.
Mine was lovely.
You know, we wanted to try something totally original and different.
So we gathered the family together and ate huge amounts of turkey and pecan pie.
So it was just a totally, you know, fresh, original experience of Thanksgiving.
I also want publicly to say thank you again to Eric Metaxas, who runs the wonderful institution Socrates in the City, where he brings intellectuals and artists and me sometimes to talk about the truth and God and all kinds of things.
And he honored me at his Christmas gala with the Oz Guinness Founders Award.
And I actually, at the gala, got to see Eric and James O'Keefe, so help me this is true, sing a duet Christmas rock song, which I'll never be able to unhear.
So, and it now is Christmas.
It's now the Christmas season.
So it's time to buy After That the Dark.
If you haven't already, if you don't, of course, you will get coal in your stocking.
Those are the choices.
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And they've called it the darkest and most suspenseful entry in this excellent series.
You can have this novel to give or keep or whatever you want, or you can get coal.
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Today's comment is from Suzanne Lechtman, 6824, the 6,824th Suzanne Lechman, if you can believe that.
She says, I hate, hate, hate, hate the Trump happiness montage.
I turn off the sound and turn the phone off upside down.
It is truly annoying.
Stop already.
I could begin to hate you.
And Suzanne, I have to tell you, I'm completely with you on this.
You know, I think the joke has been absolutely destroyed.
It's been run into the ground.
It's just, we're all tired.
We're all just sick and tired of it.
Here's the thing, though, I do have to point this out.
You remember Sebastian Gorka, who is now the senior director of counterterrorism?
He called me over the holidays.
This is absolutely true.
Sebastian now spends his days making sure that Islamic terrorists who have killed Americans will be interrupted in their happy, go-lucky, careless lives by being blown off the face of the earth.
This is what he does, and he loves it.
He loves his work.
He walks around with this big grin on his face because he's just blown up some guy in some foreign hellhole.
And he told me on the phone, he said, you know, he has that James Bond villain voice.
You know, he says, I love the Trump happiness montage.
Never stop playing it.
You know, so basically, I have to choose between you hating me and this lunatic Hungarian with the keys to the drone cabinet who could turn me into a red mist if I stop playing the montage.
And after considering those two alternatives, my answer to you is 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 healthcare 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.
So let's get to today's episode, The Empire of Lies Strikes Back, and chapter one, a great big steaming pile of journalism.
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Minnesota Border Crisis00:15:59
So you should know that this is the season of the year when the news tends to dry up.
I mean, it's Christmas, obviously, and people are starting to think about going home, and they really don't do much.
And what happens at this time of the year, there's not a lot of news except for tragedies, things that you, you know, disasters that you can't, you know, predict.
So, they try and keep you on your toes by throwing kind of meaningless stories at you and hoping you'll get upset and angry about them.
And so you'll keep reading while you really should just be sitting around thinking about the birth of Christ.
And this means that journalism, it's just kind of open season on BS.
I mean, this is what they do.
And I think because the left feels slightly emboldened by the Zoran Mamdami win in New York and the governor's races in Jersey and Virginia, the empire of lies that is our legacy media, this incredibly corrupt institution now that doesn't believe in telling the truth, it actually believes in telling the big truth, the moral truth, what they somehow have come into contact with.
I don't know where they found it under a rock where they live, maybe.
But, you know, they're upset that they've been rendered impotent, but now they think, oh, wait, we won some elections, so maybe people are still listening to us.
And so they just flooded the holiday with lies.
I mean, they just flooded that, just one after another.
And so the New York Times ran this piece on Trump is getting old.
The headline: shorter days, signs of fatigue.
Trump faces realities of aging in office.
President Trump has always used his stamina and energy as a political strength, but that image is getting harder for him to sustain.
Does anybody think he's running short on energy?
I mean, the people in the administration who are like 25 years old are exhausted running after him.
But on the other hand, if you can't trust the New York Times, a former newspaper reporting on a president's health, who can you trust?
These are the people, after all, who ran this story in June of 2024.
How misleading videos are trailing Biden as his debattles age doubts.
And then it lists a flurry of recent clips, many of them edited or lacking context, laid bare a major challenge for the president as he tries to persuade voters he has the energy for a second term.
And then it goes through all these clips that are just, you know, him wandering away from meetings and him not knowing where he is.
And at the end, they say a New York Times review of these videos found that some scenes were cut short and taken out of context, while other clips were cropped in a way that omitted crucial details when compared with additional footage.
I think the crucial details were the fact that Biden had Parkinson's dementia and had been out of commission for about two years by that time.
So Trump responded to them.
And Trump sounds like he's listening to my show because he brought out the thing that I keep talking about: the fact that every time he does something great, the issue vanishes.
You know, solve the Mideaster war in Gaza, vanishes off the front page, close the border vanishes off the front page.
And then they start filling the pages with anticipated problems that don't exist and might never exist.
So here he is responding about his health cut, too.
They don't talk about it.
You'd think they'd say, well, Trump said a great job in the border.
Country is being destroyed by the border, but you always find something new like, is he in good health?
Biden was great, but is Trump in good health?
I sit here, I sit here, I do news four news conferences a day.
I ask questions from very intelligent lunatics, you people.
I give the right answers.
There's never a scandal, there's never a problem.
I give you answers that solve your little problems.
You go back and you can't find anything, but you do.
You do stories about.
Biden was in wonderful health.
The guy couldn't do a news conference for eight months.
If I go one day I had one day where I didn't do a news conference there's something wrong with the president.
You people are crazy.
I'll let you know when there's something wrong.
There will be someday.
That's going to happen to all of us.
But right now I think i'm sharper than I was 25 years ago.
But who the hell does it?
Still the funniest president ever.
Then there was the story about the Tennessee special election was going to be neck and neck and it was not.
I mean there were some warning signs in there, for Republicans, no doubt, but still, um Matt Van Eps won against the crazy.
I should call her the craziest left-wing woman who ever ran for Congress.
But Congress is now filled with crazy women.
It's like it's where they go when they you know, because they can't live life.
So they go to Congress and make trouble there.
Then there was the attempt to portray the clown who uh shot two national guardsmen and uh in who were patrolling Dc.
And he was just a poor man frustrated by lack of work, instead of what he what he was, which is a radicalized Islamist from Afghanistan.
And Trump says he's placing new restrictions on 19 nations, including Afghanistan and Somalia, and so he should, uh.
Then there are the sins of omit.
I mean, it's just one after another.
These, these lies just point and then and some of them are lies of omission, like the fact that no one was covering this Minnesota scam are just amazing.
Until the great Chris Ruffo and Brian Thorpe over at CITY Journal ran a story.
This is the Somalis who were uh setting up false charities and then going to Minnesota and saying oh, here is our receipts for all these children we fed and they stole billions of dollars.
I mean seriously, they were stealing all this money and even when the Times was forced by Chris to to actually run a story on it, which is the only reason it's gotten out to the world in general.
Um, even when they did that, they kind of emphasized, well, this was just a few of the Somalians, but the fact is many, many of these people were uh, approached to be part of this and many of them said no, but they didn't report it to anybody.
They didn't report it and, in fact, the government didn't report it because they were so afraid of being called racist, right.
So it's really, I mean, it really is an amazing hit on Minnesota as run by our old friend Tim Walz, the homosexual serial killer in his spare time.
Um, but uh, it just, it's just incredible.
So here's Trump now talking about the Somalians, which did make news because the mainstream media was shocked as cut three.
I don't want them in our country.
I'll be honest with you.
Okay, somebody would say oh, that's not politically correct, I don't care, I don't want them in our country.
Their country is no good for a reason.
Their country stinks, and we don't want them in our country.
I could say that about other countries, too.
I could say it about other countries, too.
We don't want them to help.
We have to rebuild our country.
You know, our country's at a tipping point.
We could go bad.
We're at a tipping point.
I don't know if people mind me saying that, but I'm saying that we could go one way or the other.
And we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country.
Elon Omar is garbage.
She's garbage.
Her friends are garbage.
These aren't people that work.
These aren't people that say, let's go.
Come on, let's make this place great.
These are people that do nothing but complain.
They complain.
And from where they came from, they got nothing.
I'm going to talk more about the complaining in a little while.
But, you know, that was very harsh, harsh, but fair.
And really, they destroyed Minnesota.
They're destroying parts of Michigan.
This is all the Obama invasion and the Obama, the Biden invasion of all these people being flown out in secret while they sat there with their faces hanging out and told us that the border was secure.
So there are other false stories and the media has run wrong about everything.
But the big thing that's going on is trying to bring down Pete Hegseth, who is now, he has his new title, God of War or something like that.
And the Democrats, this is how this worked.
I mean, it's really sinister.
And it really is going on.
It's not a conspiracy theory.
It may be a conspiracy of interests rather than people getting together and timing these things.
But I think there's some timing going on as well.
The Democrats put out a video telling soldiers to disobey illegal orders, which is the official policy of the military.
It's one of the first things they teach you when you get to basic training.
You don't have to obey illegal orders.
So what illegal orders are they even talking about?
And then almost as if the media and the Democrats were coordinating together, the Washington Post ran a story that Hegseth ordered two guys in the water, you know, they blew up this drug smuggler boat and two guys were clinging to the side and they were blown up.
And this was Hegseth giving the order, just kill everybody.
That's what they said.
He said, kill everybody.
So here's Hegseth being asked, did he personally see the survivors in the water?
This is cut four.
I see only what I have come to destroy.
No, sorry, that was Kratos, the other god of war.
Here's Pete Hegseth.
I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because the thing was on fire.
It was exploded and fire is smoke.
You can't see anything.
You got digital.
This is called the fog of war.
This is what you and the press don't understand.
You sit in your air-conditioned offices or up on Capitol Hill and you nitpick and you plant fake stories in the Washington Post about kill everybody phrases on anonymous sources not based in anything, not based in any truth at all.
And then you want to throw up really irresponsible terms about American heroes, about the judgment that they made.
I wrote a whole book on this topic because of what politicians and the press does to warfighters.
President Trump has empowered commanders, commanders to do what is necessary, which is dark and difficult things in the dead of night on behalf of the American people.
We support them and we will stop the poisoning of the American people.
That is why.
That's the kind of thing that makes them so desperate to bring this guy down.
The other story on him is that a Pentagon inspector general found that, remember that thing with the, he was on the signal app and he was having a conversation with Vance and others on the Houthis attacking the Houthis were attacking our shipping.
And the Inspector General said, well, that could have been dangerous.
That could have been a breach of security, but he didn't break any rules.
And so they think, oh, we have to have another, you know, form a panel and have an investigation.
And there are a lot of people who don't like Hagseth, and they're after him.
I think some of them on the Republican side.
And there is one group that I'm actually disturbed by who are commenting about this.
And this is kind of the group of responsible conservatives, guys like Charlie Cook and Andy McCarthy at NRO.
Now, these are top-notch people.
I mean it.
These are really good people.
And it's no fair saying, oh, they once said this or they said that or they're, you know, anti-Trump.
Andy McCarthy just calls balls and strikes.
He really just is an even-handed guy.
Charlie Cook, excellent, excellent guy.
And these are people who are complaining that these drug guys are criminals and should be arrested, not terrorists who should be killed, although Trump has designated the cartels as terrorist organizations.
And so they're saying he doesn't have congressional authorization to make war and to attack them.
But I want to show you a clip from an old movie.
And this is a movie that has stuck with me since I first saw it back in the 1980s, okay?
This is a film called 10 Till Midnight.
It stars Charles Bronson.
And you may know Charles Bronson, tough guy actor who was famously in Deathwish, in which his family is wiped out and he goes on a crusade to kill bad guys in a city of New York riddled with crime as it was.
So now he's kind of bringing that character back in this other film called 10 Till Midnight.
And this is about, I think, 1983.
And the crime, you know, is just horrible.
It is absolutely horrible in New York.
You can barely walk around.
This is before Giuliani saved the city.
And you can't go out.
I lived there during this period.
And you can't go out for a pack of gum without risking your life.
It was really, really bad.
And it's all because of liberal judges and liberal justices, and all because of Supreme Court things making sure that the criminals were treated rightly and we got their due process rights.
But they made it so good for the criminals that they made it bad for the victims and the criminals ran wild.
So this is the final moment in this movie.
It's about a guy who goes around.
He's a rapist and he kills women and he's a horrible, horrible human being.
And finally, Charles Bronson, who's the cop who's tracking him, finally catches him.
And this is what the killer says to Charles Bronson and how Charles Bronson responds as it cuts six.
I'm sick.
You can't punish me for being.
All you can do is lock me up, but not forever.
One day I'll get out.
One day I'll get out.
That's the law.
And I'll be back.
I'll be back.
You'll hear from me.
You know.
No, we won't.
It's a great scene.
He shoots him in the head, and that's the end of the movie.
He just walks away as a cop shoots a guy in custody.
He's in custody.
The cops have got him.
And he shoots him in the head.
Now, this is what I want to say to principled people, truly principled people like Charlie and Andy over at NRO.
And again, these are not people I take lightly, and they're right on certain points of the law.
But I want them to remember the words of James Madison in Federalist No. 45, the Federalist Papers No. 45.
He said, the public good, listen to these words carefully, the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, meaning most of the people, the normal people who do the living and dying and working and paying in this country, the real welfare of the great body of the people is the supreme object to be pursued.
He's talking about government.
He says that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object, the real welfare of the great body of the people.
Were the plan of the convention adverse to the public happiness, my voice would be reject the plan.
Were the union itself inconsistent with the public happiness, it would be abolish the union.
So when that guy in that movie is shouting, it's the law, it's the law, it's the law, they can't punish me, and Charles Bronson blows his brains out, the audience is with him 100%.
Now, I'm not a vigilante, obviously.
I don't like violence.
I don't like people taking the law into their own hands.
But when you have an entire 50% of the people, let alone the government, attacking the police, attacking the law, telling us that the law, the people who protect us are no good, telling us they should be defended.
You know, there was a hearing on Capitol Hill the other day.
It was called the War on Badges hearing.
And one of the guys who testified was this guy, the National Sheriffs Association CEO, Jonathan Thompson.
And he didn't say this in the hearing, although he said something very similar.
He said it, I believe, on Fox.
It's got seven.
20 officers are being attacked needlessly, ambushed, and ultimately dying.
You know, one headline, 38 deaths so far this year from ambushes and shootings on officers of the law.
And that's just absurd.
It's crazy and it's wrong.
What's driving it?
Rhetoric.
No two ways about it.
What we're finding is that we have so many leaders in our country who are using words like Nazi, Gestapo, the enemy.
That is the type of rhetoric that is tantamount to saying fire in a crowded theater in my mind, and it's got to stop.
Now, he says it's both sides, but it's not.
Let's face it, it's the Democrats who are doing this.
When one side is calling to defund the police and calling the police Nazis and calling ICE agents Nazis for enforcing the law that ICE agents are in fact there to enforce, when criminals like George Floyd are honored, remember George Floyd, he's changed the world, and a thug like Lawrence Reed is arrested 72 times before he sets a woman on fire while no one moves to help her.
Rebellion Against Civilization00:08:51
And when heroes like Daniel Penny are arrested for fighting back and when 20 million illegals are allowed to invade and then every gangster who is deported is wept over for the violation of his civil rights.
I have to go and have a margarita with this gangster who beats his wife and traffics in human beings because he's not being treated exactly right.
I'm sorry, but principal people of NRO, and I love them to death, but them sitting around arguing over the fine points of the Constitution, it's just not going to cut it.
And I'm not talking about what I want or how I think the country should be run.
I'm just talking about reality.
I'm just talking about the reality is reality.
And when the real welfare of the great body of the people, as Madison said, is no longer being served by the law, people are going to reject that kind of law.
There's a lot of Charles Bronsons going to rise up and say to hell with the law.
And that's just the truth.
And Pete Hegseth is fighting back.
This is why they hate him so much.
He's fighting back against a crippling regime of rules of engagement that have kept our soldiers from being as lethal as we need them to be, right?
And they hesitate before they shoot.
You know, you remember all these rules that they had during the Wars on Terror, like Alan West.
I remember the first time I ever heard of Alan West, I was in a green room in Atlanta visiting from England, and I sat next to his brother and I said, why are you here?
And he said, well, my brother has been accused of abusing a terrorist to get information about an assassination attempt on his men.
And I said, he's charged with something.
He should be given a medal for that.
Kid Brother said, yeah, that's what I think too.
Kratos, Eggseth, the god of war, is rewriting those rules.
And as much as I want this to be a country of laws, you know, there's a little bit of Charles Bronson in every man.
And right now, I think there's a lot more than a little when the people looking on at what is happening in the country.
You cannot have one side being forced to, you know, be very delicate about the laws while the other side is saying, oh, you know, 20 million people came in.
You can't throw them out.
They're here now.
And each one of them has to tell his story in a court of law before we hurl them back out.
So, you know, are we breaking the rules to preserve the rights and happiness of the great body of the people?
Or are we doing it for a small illegal minority in order to undermine the society itself?
That's the real question.
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Chapter two, satanic baby killing is healthy.
The great poet John Milton, one of the greatest of all English poets, he wrote the epic masterpiece, Paradise Lost, about the fall of man.
And he wrote it to prove, maybe to himself, he had been a supporter of the revolution that ended with King Charles being beheaded.
And he wanted to prove that it was different to revolt against the king than it was to revolt against God, which is what Satan does.
And he explains that when, you know, that because men are free and they serve God, a bad king can be overthrown.
But you can't overthrow God because God is the source of all goodness.
So when you overthrow God, everything you do becomes hell.
And that's the story of Paradise Lost and what happens to Satan.
And later on, the Romantics reclaimed Satan as the great rebel, the great rebel against society, which includes the presumption that society is somehow wrong, right?
It includes society is inherently systemically wrong.
Okay, so this title, Satanic Baby Killing is Healthy, is a joke about Cosmopolitan UK, which ran these several covers showing morbidly obese women with the headline, this is healthy.
These are women who are going to die young because they're so fat, and the headline was, this is healthy.
So now Cosmopolitan runs this story, the satanic abortion clinic that's pissed off pretty much everyone and might beat the bands anyway.
At first glance, the Satanic Temple's new telehealth venture, named after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr.'s mom, seems like a social experiment in trolling.
But as Cosmo reports, the fully credentialed clinic is serving real patients and has a real chance of breaking the religious rights grip on abortion law.
So I'm not sure I see the but in that sentence.
The satanic people are trying to get rid of religious people trying to stop the killing of babies has been the story since the Bible.
That is mostly the story of the Old Testament is God saying to his chosen people, don't kill babies like everybody else.
And they keep saying, well, we want to kind of be like everybody else.
We don't want to stand out because then people will hate the Jews.
And God says, I know people are going to hate the Jews, but stop killing babies.
And the Hebrews go, people hate the Jews.
Yeah, stop killing babies.
And that is what's happening now is God is telling us, stop killing babies.
And we're going like, well, you know, it's a woman's healthcare.
It's a woman's healthcare.
So this is a satanic abortion clinic.
And Cosmopolitan is glorifying it.
It is.
They're saying, you know, beneath the outlandish branding lies a sincere mission.
The new Mexico-based telehealth practice, a legitimate medical entity run by an accredited clinical team, offers abortion care to patients within state lines.
And the staff are also Satanists.
They're members of the Satanic Temple.
They're not also Satanists.
Satanism and abortion go together.
And he says that the text says, never mind that Satans don't actually worship the devil.
There are no ritual sacrifices or quests for supernatural powers at TST.
There are no ritual sacrifices.
He says, in reality, Satanism is a non-theistic faith in which TST's roughly 1.5 million global members view Satan more like a mascot, one depicted not as a dark, omniscient deity, but as a literary character, a venerable symbol of rebellion.
This is what the Romantics said of Satan in John Milton.
But again, it presumes that the society is corrupt, more corrupt than any other society, so evil that even evil is a legitimate rebellion.
So, you know, it says the Satanic Temple is also known for its guerrilla street theater.
At one 2016 demonstration, temple members wearing adult diapers and baby masks disrupted a Christian-led anti-abortion protest with a BDSM, that is sadomasochistic stunt that involved flogging one another with whips, which one TST member said was a commentary on the Christian rights fetishization of the fetal image.
Well, you know, it actually is a commentary because if sex is not about love and creation, it ultimately becomes about fetishism.
It becomes about domination and submission because those are the things that it's called supernormal stimulus because there's an element of conquest and submission in sex.
The male sort of taking the woman.
We all say, I've had this conquest.
Those are things that men say and women say, oh, I just, you know, my knees went weak and all this stuff.
But if you take that out and play it out to its extreme, which is what supernormal stimulus is, you get S and M. That's what you get.
And instead of a woman being carted off, carried off by the man she loves, like in a romantic novel, you get kind of six, what is it, 50 shades of gray, where he's actually beating her for sexual pleasure.
And so in other words, when you remove the natural meaning of sex, this is what you end up in.
So there's abortion and abortion being satanic fits right in.
Removing Natural Meaning00:11:10
It fits right in.
If you remove God's purposes, the telos of our actions, you will wind up with just pleasure and sex and hurting each other and using each other as objects.
That's basically what you get.
And this is not just about Satan.
This is what I'm talking about when you rebel against, not against the king because the king is corrupt, but when you rebel against the entire civilization, against society, against human nature itself, you are rebelling against God and everywhere you go will turn into hell.
And that's the kind of thing I think we're seeing.
And look, I'm not going to call the news media and journalists satanic for tying themselves in knots to protect criminals and terrorists and cartels.
It's just like Bob Dylan said, you've got to serve somebody.
This is about Bob Dylan's song.
You got to serve somebody.
It might be the devil and it might be the Lord, but you've got to serve somebody.
And if you don't believe in the Lord, that kind of limits your choices.
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Chapter three, Wicked Movies.
Now, as you know, I feel that everything that is going on in a society expresses itself in the culture and sometimes the movies, sometimes novels, but you can find what's going on there.
And so let's go to the movies to show you what I'm talking about, about this kind of just attempt to put the rights of criminals and terrorists and punks and drug cartels above, put the, you know, the kind of this kind of picky version of the law that leaves the rest of us exposed to danger is essentially a complete repudiation of human good.
That's what it is.
It's a repudiation of human good.
It sounds, it's dressed up as if they care about civil rights.
And I do care about due process.
I truly do.
But after a while, when you're so picky about the due process that's protecting murderers and drug dealers and cartel people, and you're not careful at all about the things that are protecting, you know, the people who try to protect us, the people who stand up for themselves in self-defense, all of those people and the president of the United States who's trying to bring crime down and you put him second to these criminals, I think that you have lost your way.
So, you know, I want to point out something.
I didn't go to see the new wicked sequel because I didn't like the first one.
But Shapiro loved the first wicked film.
And, you know, did that make me question his sexuality?
Of course it did.
But still, he knows a lot about musicals.
And I'll take his word for the fact that the occasional, you know, sort of straight man might have wanted to watch that film.
But I want to point something out.
Taking a classic and causing it to say the opposite of what it was designed to say is not an act of pastiche.
Pastiche is a form where you build a work of art from borrowing from other works of art.
So you see a lot of this, Jane Austen and Fight Zombies or something like that.
That's pastiche.
But this is different.
This is vandalism.
It's taking the work of art and forcing it to say exactly the opposite of what it says.
And I'm not saying it should be banned.
I'm not saying artists shouldn't do whatever they want to do, but it should be disdained and it should be held in suspicion because what made the classic classic is partly the ideas that filled it and powered it and inspired the writer, the creator, to make that work of art.
So if you do a pastiche that develops the character, it gives a point of view, you know, like Tom Stopper, the late, great, truly the last, except for me, of course, truly the last great writer who died over the holiday.
Just really sad for me because I just love his work.
But he wrote a piece called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.
That's pastiche.
That's fine.
But if you take something like The Wizard of Oz and say The Wicked Witch is actually good, which is even the name of the sequel, Wicked for Good, I think, you know, then you're saying, again, you're doing this satanic thing where you're taking Milton Satan, who was supposed to have rebelled against God so that everything he touches is hell, wherever I turn is hell.
Then you are actually doing something that is in fact wicked.
So listen to the lyrics here of this famous song from Wicked, just a little bit of it called Defying Gravity, is cut eight.
I'm through with playing by rules of someone else's game.
Too late for second guessing.
Too late to go back to sleep.
It's time to trust my instincts.
Close my eyes.
And leave.
It's time to try defying gravity.
I think I'll try defying gravity.
And you can't pull me down.
Can't I make you understand?
You're having delusions of grand joy through accepting limps.
Cause someone says they're so.
So she's saying the same thing as the sister in Frozen.
No rules for me.
You only think I'm wicked because I'm breaking the rules of society.
But the rules of society are all just hypocrisy and evil and they serve the powerful.
And so in breaking the rules of society, but that's not who the wicked witch is in The Wizard of Oz.
And so he's taking a classic work, one of the greatest movies ever made, The Wizard of Oz, and a fine children's novel as well.
And he's taking the intentions of that book and he's turning them on his head, which is in fact a kind of vandalism.
And it's the same thing as when you take the culture and the society and the conventions and the traditions of your society and turn them on their head.
So the important thing is that the drug dealer, the wife-beating gangster who is human trafficking, he should not be deported because you didn't quite do it right.
And that's, I'm going to go down and have a margarita with him and comfort him and comfort his family.
Instead of thinking, this guy is crap.
Just like Trump said, he's garbage.
He's got to be thrown out.
That's the first priority.
And sure, we want due process for ourselves, but the guy is garbage.
He's got to go.
And that's not what they're saying.
What they're saying is our society is so bad.
Human nature is so bad.
Humanity is so bad because all America is a free country where human beings do the good and bad things that people do.
You know, if you think that is so bad, you are in fact against the common good.
You're against the common good, which is very much like Satan in Paradise Lost.
And I'm not saying all Democrats are satanic, but let's face it, that's what they are.
So as a result of this, as a result of this idea passing through the arts, the arts have become garbage, almost all of them, almost everything.
We've gone through five years of just trash.
And as a result, you get films, and the people are so talented.
Don't get me wrong.
These people in Hollywood and the people who write, they're so talented, but they are caught, captured, imprisoned within these ideas that go against everything that art and human nature is about.
So you get films like Nosferatu, which is a gorgeous and talented remake that falls apart because it can't include the God who makes vampire stories make sense.
You take God out of a vampire story and it just becomes an S ⁇ M story of a guy who has power over women.
You get Frankenstein, which is a gorgeous and talented remake that falls apart because he can't stick to Mary Shelley's superior plot and its theme of rebellion against God and womanhood.
And you can't tell that story.
It's all about Del Toro's sexual problems with his mother.
And then you get Running Man, which I saw just before Thanksgiving, a gorgeous and talented remake that falls apart.
I mean, it started out over the first 45 minutes, you know, because an action movie is really just a kind of machine for entertaining you.
It's not a deep thing.
But the first 45 minutes, I was thinking, this is a masterclass on how to build one of these machines.
And then it falls apart because the guy can't point out what's ailing society because the New York Times will pan the movie if he does.
So it's all about, I hate reality TV and I hate corporations and I hate pollution and I hate scarves because if you paid a lot of money for a scarf, somebody else is poor.
It's just all nonsense.
I have to tell you, I saw this movie and I forgot about it like as I was walking out to validate my parking ticket in the lobby.
I thought, what was I watching again?
It was so bad.
But all these people are so talented, you know, and it's just a shame to watch that kind of all come apart.
And so this is why, you know, this kind of political stupidity, this wokeness, this sense of, God, this self-entitlement, this self-aggrandizement, that you finally have woken up to the true morality that no one has ever seen in all of history except Satan, right?
That that's going to kill the movies.
I mean, it's just terror.
It's killed the arts almost entirely.
And I think that moment is breaking.
That's why I hope some conservatives start to get into the culture.
I hope some people with money start to get in the culture.
I hope some of them send that money to me.
But I also think that they should just start making stuff that basically says you guys are wrong.
And just like Donald Trump has demonstrated and taught us, tell the New York Times to go get stuffed.
And if you don't sell as many copies of your book because the New York Times doesn't like you, fine.
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But that will be the beginning.
And it will be the kind of Greenwich village of our arts that brings the arts back online with the people of God, the people who believe in human nature, who believe that we're sinful, but there is a good way, that we can know the good, that we can at least see the light of the good through the fog of sin.
And, you know, as long as you have these rules for making movies, no womenly women, no womanly women, no manly men, no freedom, no inequality, which is what happens when you have freedom.
Only the dead are equal.
You have no stories.
You have no stories.
And ultimately, you'll have no country.
And ultimately, you will have no life.
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Final chapter, A Distant Mirror.
Some of you may recognize that as a title of a book by the historian Barbara Tuchman.
She wrote a book during the Carter administration when things were really bad.
And I don't know if she was thinking of Carter or maybe she was thinking of Nixon and Watergate, who knows?
But she tells the story of the chaos of the 14th century in Europe and said it was a mirror of our times, which it wasn't, but it was a good selling point.
But I'm talking about the distant mirror of England.
As you know, I lived in England for many years, and I noticed that it often walks in step with America.
They feel that that's because they're following America, and in some ways that's true.
But it's also just a kind of natural link between our two countries.
You know, they are the mother country, and we are the child of the British.
Our system is a British system.
And, you know, so you get, for instance, when we had Reagan, they had Thatcher.
When we had Bush, they had Major.
When we had Clinton, they had Blair.
You know, this is just a sort of parallelism.
And what you have now informally Great Britain is the death of a country, the death of one of the greatest countries that has ever existed on the planet.
Maybe one of the greatest cultures, certainly one of the greatest cultures that has ever existed on the planet.
Culture, I will say, in memory that will be almost as great as ancient Greece, and it's just collapsing.
The breakdown of freedom, which is engineered by the left, but collaborated in by the right because they were paralyzed with fear of being called racist and of standing against the socialism that is very popular, especially through its healthcare system, which has devoured all their wealth and devoured their advance and their scientific advances and made all the people equal, which is the same as being dead.
So immigration is still high in the country.
It's getting a little bit lower, but it doesn't matter because all of the talented Britons are leaving to find work elsewhere because the immigrants have made life a living hell and the government has made life a living hell by censoring people and by oppressing people.
And now there's a law being they're trying to pass.
The Justice Secretary David Lamy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape, murder, manslaughter, and other cases passing a public interest test.
And of course they want to get rid of a jury trial because without a jury, you're charged by the powers that be and tried by the powers that be, right?
Unless you get a rogue judge who doesn't care who's in parliament, which you're not going to get, and doesn't subscribe to the ascribe to the socialist rules, you are going to be convicted.
So Daniel Penny, the guy who protected people in the subway from the crazy, violent madman and was put on trial in George Soros's New York, he got off because he got a jury trial.
And so did Kyle Rittenhouse, the guy who shot people at the Kenosha, Wisconsin riots, which was part of the George Floyd-type riots, ginned up over this false narrative that the U.S. and police agencies were systemically racist.
So when something is systemically racist, even if you're not racist, you are racist for being part of that system.
That's the whole point of it.
It's kind of like the media is actually like that.
It's systemically corrupt now.
So if you are part of the mainstream media, you will become corrupt just by being in it.
So that means that any war on the powers that be, if it's systemically racist, is a war on racism, right?
So now what you have is you have more people being arrested for tweet crimes than being arrested for street crimes, more tweet crimes than street crimes.
You know, here's a story of a British guy who posted a photo of himself holding a shotgun while he was in Florida.
He was on holiday in Florida.
He returned home.
The British police arrested him overnight for violating the Public Order Act after he shared a photo of himself posing with a legally possessed shotgun at a Florida shooting range.
He was arrested, locked in a cell overnight, interrogated and lectured that we must understand how posts make people feel.
So Theodore Dalrymple writes about this in City Journal, a wonderful article in his column called O to Be in England, I think.
He talks about a woman who was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a mean tweet about immigrants, while the government has reportedly released 26,000 prisoners early in the first few months of its mandate, including many long-term offenders.
Those sentenced to 14 years, almost by definition, for serious violent crimes will henceforth only serve five and a half years, which is only a little more than twice as long as this woman got for a mean tweet.
And a lot of people, thousands of people, are being arrested and harassed for these tweets.
So this is what Dalrymple says about this, and it's really interesting to me.
He says, one of the great founding texts of Western liberalism, you'll all know, is John Stuart Mill's book, On Liberty.
It's a very little book, but very, very influential.
And he said it was twisted by the enemies of freedom to justify the opposite of freedom.
Mill wrote this, the object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties or the moral coercion of public opinion.
This is the only reason you're allowed to force people, according to On Liberty, to do what you want them to do.
That principle is that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, is in interfering with the liberty or action of any of their number is self-protection.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others.
We all feel this.
We've all had this inculcated in us, that yes, you know, you can't arrest somebody if he hurts somebody.
But if you want more power, if you think the government, if you think that freedom and human nature is inherently bad, freedom is bad because it lets little people go around doing things that you think you should be in control of, then you have to start to expand the definition of what it means to hurt people.
So it's no longer hurting people.
It's just offending them.
And so what happened, Dalrymple goes on and says in 1993, there was a case where a black man was murdered by five white thugs.
They never proved, just like with George Floyd, they never proved there was any racism involved, but the victim was black and the thugs were white.
And the thugs were acquitted.
So a big investigation was held and it produced the McPherson Report.
And the McPherson report came out and said, we must protect people from racist incidents.
And a racist incident is any incident which is perceived to be racist by the victim or any other person.
I accuse you of racism.
How can you defend yourself if I'm the judge of what is racist?
How can you defend yourself?
You can't.
So you are now living in Orwell's Britain.
You are now unfree.
And the reason I mention all this is because we saw during the pandemic when they inspired these riots over George Floyd, a punk, a drug-taking thug who was resisting arrest and died probably of the overdose.
And now the cop who was arresting him and may have misbehaved somewhat, I'm not sure about that.
It's very hard to tell.
But he's now been put in prison for murder.
I mean, that is turning the world on its head.
And this is the thing that Satan does in Paradise Lost is in rebelling against God, he turns the world on his head.
And when the Romantics said, oh, he's really the hero, not all of them, but some of them said he's really the hero.
What they were saying was that society was so bad and there should be no restrictions on human beings and therefore any act of rebellion is a good.
That's what they were saying about this.
And this is what our left is saying now.
And, you know, I want the rule of law established because without law, you're lost.
I want this to be a nation of laws.
But if the rule of law is only used to destroy what Madison called the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, then the law ultimately will not stand or the society will not stand.
One or the other.
Either you're going to have to break the law to hold the society together or the society is going to come down.
You know, our thinkers and our journalists and our artists and our philosophers have been selling this routine really for hundreds of years, but in this country, it's been for the last, say, 70 years.
They've been selling this philosophy that this society is rife with evil, with sexism, with racism, with warmongering, with, you know, capitalism, which they hate.
All of these things.
And yet you look around and say, well, what society do you think is better?
And they've decided it's basically Gazans.
It's basically Iran.
It's basically terrorists because they're the freedom fighters.
They're the anti-colonialists.
It is a complete turnaround.
And we see it in our culture.
We see it in our journalism.
And we see it in our politics.
And Donald Trump right this minute is fighting it with all his might and fighting it because he's got this kind of weird glitch in his head where he doesn't care what they say about him, which is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
And fighting also because he had got this little army of rebel media like the Daily Wire and other places that is standing behind him and exposing the shenanigans of his opponents.
But he's not going to be around forever.
He may lose his majority in the midterms, in which case it's going to be very hard to get some of this stuff done.
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There's a lot at stake in this moment.
And that is why, you know, this is why I keep attacking people like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson on the right, because I believe that they are part of the system of saying that we are the bad guys.
We are not, if we are the bad guys, then the world looks very different than we have ever thought it does, because this country, of course, is filled with people and people are sinful and people are bad.
But if we're not the good guys, nobody is.
And so this is what I think we're going to be thinking about as the new year begins and as we start moving toward a very important midterm.
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So here's one, a really important one from Abby, and it's about my book, but still it's important on its own.
It says, Dear Master of the Claven Verse, I'm absolutely loving the Cameron Winter books.
I'm not usually a crime or mystery reader, but the series has me wondering if I've missed out on an entire genre.
However, it does sometimes take me out of the story when Winter encounters women and immediately is thinking about her sexual appeal.
I've just never read a male character written like that.
Of course, I've met men who talk like that out loud, but they're sleazeballs.
I once heard Jeremy Boring say that you are the best author in the world for writing the male mind.
So now I'm left wondering if this is how all men think, or is Cameron Winter just especially amorous?
And Abby, I get this question all the time.
I get attacked for being a sexist, and I am a sexist in the sense that I think men and women are very different and have different roles and different purposes for being.
But I feel that one of the worst things that feminism has done is it has prevented us from understanding who we are, what men and women are like.
It's prevented us from talking about it.
It's prevented us from, it's caused us to pretend that we are different.
And so the answer to your question is yes, but it is yes.
Men constantly are thinking about women's bodies.
In fact, I have said before, a woman's body is the most imagined thing in the world because women are always thinking about women's bodies too.
And as many women have explained to me, women go out and they want very much to look nice.
They want very much to be attractive, meaning to attract men, but they don't want to attract all men.
They just want to attract the man that they want to attract.
But all men are attractive, right?
So this is what they think.
And yes, men are always thinking about this.
However, why do you say that when somebody says this out loud, they're sleazeballs?
Because they are.
The guys who shout at women on the street and all they do is talk about how they look and they make suggestive remarks and all this stuff.
It's because a woman's body is so deeply imagined and so frequently imagined because, of course, of its magical powers.
First of all, it causes the life force to flow through a man when he sees it.
And it also produces life.
It is the magical power of women to produce life.
And that is a lot of what's going on is this life force carrying us through life to actually reproduce and love each other and come together.
But in that woman's body, and I know this is a metaphor.
I'm not saying there's a ghost in the machine, but in that woman's body is a human being, which is the only really good piece of advice my father ever gave me.
I won't repeat the way he said it because it was vulgar, but he basically said, don't forget that every woman's body comes with a human being attached.
And the thing is that men who are good men understand that a woman has this body, which has all these magical powers of attraction and creation, but she's also a person with individual wants and needs and problems and anxieties and desires and joys and sorrows.
And so when you fall in love with a woman and make her your wife, you are basically saying, I will get this version of a woman's body because I'm in love with the person who is in it.
And that is basically what you're saying.
And so you're in love.
You grant a woman her reality while also claiming her body for your own and having this thing that is so intensely desired by men.
But men still think this way, but they restrain themselves.
And this is a tribute to them that they restrain themselves.
It's not a bad thing that, you know, they think men always have one thing on their mind.
No, they always have that thing on their mind, but they also have good men have the love and tender care and responsibility toward the individual woman that they are talking to.
And so they restrain themselves.
And the fact that women don't know that they're restraining themselves, but think it is sleazy that they're even feeling these things, which they can't help feeling, is what causes a lot of the distortion between people and the fact that men now forget that this body that they're looking at and they're ogling in the gym also has a person inside it who suffers and has joy and is looking for love like everybody else.
And these are the things that we conquer in ourselves through love.
We don't conquer them by saying, I'm not going to think about women.
I think about women's bodies all the time.
But we conquer them through love because I love women and I love individual women and that's the way that works.
And so Cameron Winter is a man.
And so I write him as a man, but he is obviously becoming a very good man and he's looking for love and he is capable of love.
So it should be a tribute to men that this is what is given to them to do and yet they do it.
Most of them do it fairly well with love.
That should be a tribute to them.
And I want to end with this other clapback, which actually was a comment, I believe, on YouTube because it's kind of connected to this.
It's from the captain, 3594.
He says, could you ease off a little on the philosophizing about sex?
I love your commentary, but you're starting to sound like Freud reincarnated.
And the answer to that is no, I can't, because sex is the life force flowing through us.
And it is, you know, Eros is not just erotic.
It's also life.
It's life itself, this desire to come together, to love, to create.
These are the things that drive us.
And while Freud was semi-right about this, I'm actually the opposite of Freud because he thought therefore everything is symbolic of sex.
But I think sex is symbolic of something bigger than itself.
And that's the exact opposite of what he thought.
I think, you know, for instance, he thought that Freud thought that God was a projection of our fathers onto the heaven.
I think our looking up to our fathers and are so desperately wanting our fathers to be righteous and just is our projecting God onto our fathers.
And that is why I think it is incumbent upon fathers to play the role of God well, which is hard, impossible.
Let's put it bluntly.
It's impossible to do.
But the closer a man comes to that, the more of a great father he gives his son, who then becomes the image of God as well.
And so these things about sex are really important.
And I know I talk about it a lot, and I try not to talk about it too much with being creepy about it.
But I think it's just so important, so central to what is wrong with our society, a society that has stopped having babies, remember, because it has lost what sex is all, what sex is and what it isn't.
You know, it is a life force flowing through us, but it is not the meaning of all things.
It is a symbol of meaning.
And those meanings are far, far above sex and more important than that.
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