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At the beginning of every year, journalists and other flagrant abusers of God's precious gift of life make lists of predictions about what will happen in the year to come.
Turning their corruption-riddled minds to politics and culture and other topics they know absolutely nothing about, journalists forecast absurd scenarios that would confirm them in all the boneheaded prejudices that made their reporting such utterly useless crap fountains in the year that just ended.
But unlike journalists, we at the Daily Wire are committed to telling the truth.
And the truth is, we have no freaking clue what's going to happen in the next 10 minutes, let alone the months ahead.
The future's not ours to see, as Doris Day said shortly after she let out an ear-piercing scream that startled the assassin so that he only wounded the ambassador, leaving Jimmy Stewart free to find his kidnapped son and knock the kidnapper down a flight of stairs to his death.
A conclusion that makes absolutely no sense if you stop and think about it for even a minute.
Where was I?
Oh, yeah.
Since predicting the future is very popular, and since no one knows the future, the Daily Wire has developed a system for forecasting the events of the year that is far more scientifically consistent than any other.
Namely, we just make things up and hope we get lucky and can create the illusion that we're much smarter than we are.
So here are my predictions for 2026.
In early March, a tarantula the size of the Chrysler Building will descend on New York City and begin to devour the inhabitants, who will find this a welcome relief from the policies of Zorhan Mamdani.
President Donald Trump will rush to the scene, armed only with an emerald-encrusted titanium sword he borrowed from Glenn Beck's collection of titanium swords encrusted with various precious gems.
Trump will single-handedly slay the spider, whereupon Democrats will condemn this violation of the arachnid rights guaranteed in our Constitution, and will spend the rest of the month having cocktails and photo ops with sad-looking tarantulas around the country before heading to local hospitals to be treated for bites.
The View will dedicate an entire show to the long history of anti-tarantula bias until a guest tarantula crawls over Sonny Hostin's hand, causing her to let out a high-pitched shriek that goes on for 10 uninterrupted minutes before anyone realizes this is not just her usual commentary.
At CBS News, meanwhile, editor-in-chief Barry Weiss will come under fire when she pounds a tarantula to death with a high-heeled shoe before anyone has time to explain to her that it was on its way to be interviewed for 60 minutes.
And Candace Owens will announce that a spider the size of the Chrysler Building could only have been created by God, proving once again that a Jew is to blame.
In the culture, Netflix chief of content, Bella Bajaria, will proclaim that all married couples in Netflix movies must be mixed race, and all children must be homosexual, unless they're transgender, in which case they can be heterosexual because that would be homosexual.
When Netflix's audience share sinks to 0%, Mrs. Bajaria will tell interviewers, our pictures are still big.
It's the audience that got small, and then descend a long staircase declaring, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille, before being carted off to a mental institution or to become head of Warner Brothers, depending on how the deal turns out.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walsh will step down, resting on his accomplishments of watching Minneapolis burn to the ground while Somalians bilked American taxpayers out of billions of Somoleans.
Or possibly Somoleans built us out of Somalians.
Either way, they should both go back where they came from.
Finally, Democrats will take back the House in the midterms and immediately move to impeach Trump for flagrantly causing world peace and American prosperity.
Republicans will keep the Senate, but Chuck Schumer will reassure journalists that government is still big.
It's the people who got small, and then descend a staircase declaring, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille, before he's devoured by a gigantic tarantula.
All right, that last part is just a personal daydream of mine.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Klavan, and this is The Andrew Klavan Show.
All right, Happy New Year.
I am glad that that news-heavy 2025 is over and things have calmed down.
We're going to talk about all the things, how Marco Rubio became the king of Venezuela and why Tim Walsh, we're going to explain why Tim Walsh is the greatest governor since Vlad the Impaler, I think, and also why Ben Shapiro keeps going around making trouble for perfectly innocent people who want nothing more but to kill all the Jews.
I have some very blunt stuff to say about that, so you want to stay tuned for that.
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But if you're, you know, even if you're just lying in a gutter having a drunken dream that you're watching the show, just scroll it on the side of the gutter.
And since we're already in the gutter ourselves, we will pick it up there and read whatever you have to say.
Today's comment comes from Revels End, and our revels now are ended.
And he says, he's talking about the Christmas special on Charles Dickens, a Christmas Carol.
He says, I thought this was some of Clavin's very best work.
That is actually true.
You're actually correct in thinking that.
It was a great show.
And if you haven't watched it yet, you should.
He says, it's exactly what I needed this Christmas until I heard the Trump happiness montage.
And then I recognized that it was a masterpiece.
All of that, we fact-checked all of those comments, that comment, and they're completely true.
You really should listen to it.
It was a good show.
And we will continue to celebrate that show and even this show.
And as we move on to today's episode, it's crazy out there.
There's a famous quote, which is sometimes attributed to Goethe, a great writer and polymath.
He knew just about everything.
There's a version that comes from George Orwell.
I'm not sure where the original quote comes from, but the general idea is this.
The hardest thing to see is what's right in front of your eyes.
So that was part of what I was talking about on the Christmas special about Christmas Carol.
I pointed out that in the Christmas Carol, all the spirits actually do to transform Scrooge is they show him things.
And if he's willing to look at them, they change him.
And he sees things honestly.
And when he sees them, they change.
He realizes his philosophy is wrong and has to change the way he lives.
Now, I'm sure you've noticed this, that most political commentary, and this is on the right and the left, most political commentary is geared toward confirming you in your prejudices.
And this is partly because people don't want to lose you as an audience, but also because it keeps you coming back, right?
It's like a drug.
When you hear somebody confirm your prejudices, you just feel great.
You know, you feel, ah, yeah, I knew I was right.
And now this guy says it too.
And I'm going to just keep listening to his show.
And that keeps you from seeing things clearly because sometimes your prejudices are wrong.
This is true of all of us.
But that's why the audience wants this.
It's certainty.
It feels good.
And it keeps you from ever having to see the world in a different way.
And one of the things I hope is different about this show is because I'm primarily a novelist, my first instinct is always to try to see things truly so I can write them truly.
That's what novelists try to do.
They try to see the world clearly so they can write about stories about the way the world really is, even if they're fantasy stories or supernatural stories.
They're about the world as it is.
And so my ability to see things truly, even though it may disappoint me in my prejudices and my hopes, that's what makes me such an amazingly great novelist.
But it also does something else, which is something I hope all of you are looking for, is it makes me a free man.
When you are confirmed in your prejudices, it's just like any other drug.
And you ultimately become dependent on the supplier.
And that means the supplier can manipulate you to do what he wants in the case of political commentaries to get you to keep coming back and listening to your prejudices being confirmed.
But if you see things truly, you become your own man, or you become your own man's woman and can have his children, which is even more important.
But in any case, when you see the world truly, you can make informed decisions, have informed opinions, and match them with your goals and desires and decide whether, you know, everything comes at a price.
No matter what you do in life, you're going to pay a price for it.
You can decide, do I want to take this risk?
Do I want to pay that price?
Is this worth it?
Do I want to push this person out of my life even though I like them, but after they're doing something terribly wrong?
All those things you can decide if you see the world clearly.
So in order to see the world clearly, you have to know three things, especially in politics, but this is also, this is true about in anything.
You have to figure out what are the principles in play.
What is good and bad?
What represents good and bad in this situation, right?
And then you have to figure out what you want, right?
What is the good that you are looking for?
You're looking for, you have some idea that something would be good and something would be bad.
And it might be different than other people of goodwill.
There are other people that I like who I think are actually good people who have a different value set.
Normally, what it is is they put certain values higher than I would put them and certain values lower than I would put them.
So you have to decide what you want to come out of this situation.
And then you have to figure out the hardest thing of all, which what is the essential nature of the world?
What is the part of the world that's not going to change according to your will?
It's going to be the way it is today.
It was that way yesterday.
It's going to be that way tomorrow and 100 years hence.
And you're just going to have to accept that as part of the deal in what you're trying to accomplish.
So let's take those three principles and let's take a look at the news.
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Judicious Force for Hemisphere Security00:15:00
Chapter one, fracas and caracas.
This is a perfect example that what's going on in Venezuela is a perfect example of, you know, you wake up one morning, I think it was Saturday morning, and this shocking thing has happened.
I mean, I was totally startled by it, even though they'd been warning they were going to do something for a long time, but it just happened suddenly and it was over by the time we heard about it.
And this, you know, murderous scumbag who has installed himself as the quote-unquote president of Venezuela is suddenly in custody with his wife.
And one of the most amazing military maneuvers ever, they moved in there.
Special forces moved in there.
The guy is in Maduros, is in a military facility.
The Argentinas, it's not like they don't have weapons.
The Venezuelans, sorry, it's not like they don't have weapons.
They have really good weapons and they have lots of trained security people, Cuban security people who are well known for being tough guys.
And they went in there and plucked him out without a single casualty on our side.
An amazing, amazing thing.
And he was indicted before as a narco-terrorist, and so he was brought back under arrest in New York.
Now, the minute I heard this, and I'm sure many of you thought the same thing, you knew exactly what everybody was going to say.
You knew everybody was going to go to his corner and fall into clichéd lines with what he was trying, not just what he believed, but what he was trying to sell.
And this is, it's just a shame that this is the way our commentary has gone.
There's no nuance.
There's no debate.
There's no debate in good faith of two people talking.
They just scream at each other because they're in completely different places and none of them is going to budge.
But you knew that, for instance, the Democrats were going to make these mule noises.
First, they would have to admit that Maduros was bad.
I mean, even they, who celebrate gangsters, celebrate drug deals, rapists, they don't care.
As long as they can attack Trump, if Trump arrests a rapist and deports him, it's like, oh, what about his due process?
My feeling is, goodbye, rapists, so long.
But you knew that that was going to happen.
And just to show you how absolutely hypocritical and disgusting it was, let me go to Chuck Schumer because there is just no one emptier.
There is no person emptier than Chuck Schumer.
One of these days, so help me, he's just going to disappear.
He's going to be so empty, he's going to collapse in on himself.
So he's going to say, you know, yes, the military is good.
Maduros is bad.
But now, before I play what he said, let me play what he said five years ago when Trump first left office and was talking about Maduro.
Here's what Chuck said in the past is cut one.
And the president brags about his Venezuela policy?
Give us a break.
He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime.
The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.
So he's attacking Trump for not getting rid of Maduro.
Now he's gotten rid of Maduro, and here's what he says now, cut two.
Whenever our country has gotten involved in this kind of regime change and nation building, American families pay the price in blood and in treasure.
That's what happened in Iraq, for instance.
The American people did not sign up for this kind of military adventurism when they voted for Donald Trump.
They wanted a president focused on America first, focused on lowering the cost of living, lowering health care costs, lowering grocery prices.
So all the things that the Democrats made happen, the inflation and the health care going down the drain with Obamacare.
So he was hired.
He was elected to take care of that.
And I love when Chuck Schumer talks about America first.
I think somebody should lean over and just show him where America is on a map since he's only doesn't look at anything but himself and a microphone.
So you know what the Democrats are going to say right off the bat, and you know what the news media is going to do.
Well, yes, Maduro was a problem, but that problem's over now.
So let's look at what's the terrible thing that's going to happen next.
This is the absolute playbook for Donald Trump coverage.
The minute he solves a problem, that problem is over.
But oh, the terrible thing that's going to happen next.
I was shocked when I picked up the Wall Street Journal the other day and there was a story saying, it turns out that tariffs don't cause inflation.
If I could just bring in the papers where they reported for months on the terrible inflation that was coming, it was like listening to a building full of cats burning down.
That's what it was like.
Oh, my God.
Like I'm trying to refraction.
Suddenly, no.
And so there's a little article saying, no, we were wrong about that after months of absolute hysteria, but it's still bad.
And the next thing is going to be bad.
So it's always with Trump.
The thing that he solved is now forgotten, but the next thing is going to be terrible.
Every single time, this is what they do.
So then, of course, on the Trump side, it's going to be that kind of belligerent, yeah, now let's onto Greenland.
Let's take over.
He took over, you know, Venezuela.
Now we're going into Greenland and Canada's next.
You know, that kind of crazy talk because it's a drug.
It is a drug.
I'll just play this one hilarious exchange.
And I love Stephen Miller.
I think Stephen Miller is a real character, but really funny and eloquent and has been a great defender of Trump's policies.
But here he is with Jake Tapper, who is now blaming the Trump administration for not replacing the Maduro regime, right?
He's now saying, well, he got rid of Maduro, but now where are the elections?
Where are the next people?
Where's the resistance being installed?
So this is the exchange between Tapper, who is just another empty shell, and Miller, who is hilarious, is cut three.
With our help and leadership, that country will become more prosperous than it has ever been in its whole history.
Venezuela's.
The woman running Venezuela right now is part of the Maduro regime.
There will be conversations, Jake, about all of these guideposts along the way.
The reason why I was giving you that speech, which I know you didn't want to hear, is because you're approaching this from the wrong frame.
This neoliberal frame that the United States' job is to go around the world and demanding immediate elections be held everywhere, immediately, all the time, right away, to create these vacuums.
That's not what I think, but you invaded the country.
You invited the country and we seized the leader of Venezuela.
Damn straight, we did.
And I'm saying the thing is that we're not going to let Tim Pot communist dictators send rapists into our country, send drugs into our country, send weapons into our country.
Okay.
And we're not going to let a country fall into the hands of our adversaries.
So, you know, I basically agree with that, but it is also, you know, it's a fair question.
I have to say, it's a fair question.
What happens next?
It's just that the way Tapper puts it, it's like we were supposed to go in there and install a democracy, which was the George W. Bush policy.
And George W. Bush, you know, when 9-11 happened, George W. Bush was not wrong to look at these disastrous hellholes in the Middle East and say they're breeding terrorists and sending them to kill us, because that's exactly what was happening.
What he was wrong about was to say, oh, we're going to go in there and transform them into democracies.
What he should have done, what he should have done was punish the leaders of the country.
So they knew, you know what, we better bring these terrorists under control because we don't have the power.
We simply do not have the power to transform Middle Eastern hellholes into modern democracies.
It's not something we can do without a tremendous expense of treasure and blood and time and things that the American people just don't have the energy for or the will for or the time to do or want to do or feel it's worth doing.
So that was the mistake.
And so this is a lot different than that.
And what will happen next is a question.
It's a definite question.
I think to say it in the terms that Tapper was putting it, like some kind of accusation that we didn't install a democracy overnight is absurd.
It's just absurd.
And so Miller is at his best when he's dealing with absurd, absurd journalists.
We asked him to come on here once, and he said, no, he only goes on when he can scream at people like that.
So, and then there are the crazies, like we now have to include Tucker Carlson among the crazies.
You know, I can just say Tucker is going to clutch his heart, you know, like he did when we attacked Iran.
Oh, oh, you know, the Jews have sent us, oh, the Jews have sent us into Venezuela again.
And why?
Because they want to install gay marriage.
Here's just a clip of Tucker just to remind you how lunatic this guy's gone, cut for.
We can safely discount democracy as a reason for effecting regime change in Venezuela.
We're not going to go kill Nicolas Maduro because we don't like the way he's treating his people.
It's possible we're mad that he doesn't allow gay marriage.
That is a distinct possibility, but no one will say that out loud.
Yeah, no one will say that out loud because we don't want to seem like we're nuts.
That's why.
That's why, you know, you know what else I won't say out loud?
I won't say out loud that my wife has turned into an alien because she hasn't.
That's why I won't say that out loud.
And then, so anyway, I'm just pointing out how predictable and boring all this is and how hard it is to actually have an opinion or hear two people of goodwill kind of debate something out, work something out, when everybody goes into their corner.
And the worst of this, of course, is the media because their job is to do this and they don't.
They don't do it.
They just lie and they just take the side of Democrats and anything they can do to make the deep state look good is what they do.
Their real client, the real client of the media is not necessarily the Democrats.
It's the unelected bureaucracy that can tell people what to do and can't be stopped.
And that's what they have in Europe.
That's why they're so offended that the Trump administration has cocked an eye at Europe and said, what are you guys doing over there?
Because that's what they think this country should be.
They think it should be a country where we vote, but nothing ever changes.
You vote in the people who promise that they're going to close the borders, but the borders never close.
That's what they're looking for in America.
And then, of course, there's Trump.
And Trump is kind of a wildcard because Trump says all kinds of things that are not meant to be taken seriously by anybody but our adversaries.
So, you know, yeah, you know, maybe I'll go invade Cuba next.
Well, maybe he will.
But I think what's more important is he wants Cuba to sit up and go like, uh-huh.
You know, what?
He wants them to be afraid and he wants them to be afraid.
And as far as I'm concerned, the more they're afraid, the crazier he sounds, the safer we are.
And I think that's fine with me.
But the press loves to report it as if this is definitely what's going to happen next.
We're invading, you know, our soldiers are on the march to Greenland as I speak.
So I was listening to all this and I thought, well, let me step back here because I want to see this in my own way.
And, you know, I think Trump is doing a really good job.
So it's likely I'm going to be in favor of Trump.
But I think Trump does bad things.
I tell you when I think he's made a mistake.
And I thought, what's the principle?
Well, the principle is America should be safe at home and in our hemisphere.
We should be safe at home.
I agree basically with what they're now calling the Donro doctrine, which I think is very funny.
I agree that this is our hemisphere.
We're the cops.
We should keep it safe.
This is a place, you know, we don't have to change regimes.
We don't have to change cultures, but we do have to make sure that, for instance, Iran and China are and Cuba are sending their security forces into Venezuela.
We need them gone.
We need them gone.
We don't need them setting up forces that can stop us from doing what we want.
People are saying, well, this is a war for oil.
You know, our oil, our oil companies were there and were thrown out when they nationalized the oil system, which is kind of like stealing.
So I'm not too worried about that.
Plus they're selling the oil to people who shouldn't have it, like China and Iran.
So looking at these things, I think, you know, I'm actually pretty happy about this.
I mean, the principle is that America should be safe at home.
The thing I want is the judicious use of force to keep us safe without endless wars and nation building.
I do not want to build nations.
I do not want to change cultures.
I was really happy when they put out their national security program.
The Trump administration put out a national security program and said, you know what?
We can't change these cultures.
Muslim culture is going to be Muslim cultures.
You know, oppressive cultures may just be oppressive cultures.
The people in Venezuela voted these clowns in.
They didn't vote Maduro in, actually.
They voted in the opposition, but they have voted in these communists.
And one of the reasons they vote in communists is because the poor are mistreated in these countries.
And even though Venezuela used to be one of the fourth, it used to be the fourth richest country, I think, in the world until the communists took it over and made it into a place where people had to eat cats.
You know, I think that people vote for this stuff and the poor vote for it.
And people, you know, we see it in New York.
People are voting for stuff they're going to be very sorry about later on.
And then it's going to be very hard to get rid of.
So I want judicious use of force to keep us safe in our hemisphere without endless war and nation building.
And what's the nature of the world?
The nature of the world is you cannot change other people's countries without massive generational effort, which we can't afford and don't really want to do.
I would love it if every place in South America was a democracy, if they were run by people like us with values like us.
That's just not going to happen.
We don't have the capacity or the interest or the long term or the money to make that happen.
And I think we have to just admit that.
We're not going to just go on invading countries until they collapse.
What we're going to do is we're going to do stuff like this until people are afraid of us and then tell them to just get in line and stop sending drugs and gangsters into our country.
So looking at that, I feel really positive about what the administration has done so far.
And I admit that the press has a right to say, well, what happens next?
And what are they planning?
And trying to find out what they're planning.
That is part of their job.
I just wish they would do it for both sides.
I just wish they would do it when the Democrats do these incredible, terrible, incredibly terrible things they did.
And, you know, this thing about they should have spoken to Congress because it's war and Congress has the power to declare war.
In the 60s and 70s, and nobody's made this argument as I'm speaking, but I have a feeling by the time the show goes on, somebody will have made it because they sounded like they were sort of edging toward it.
It was one of the first things I thought about when this happened is in the 60s and 70s, Congress passed laws that ultimately created the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, and their job is to police for drugs overseas as well as in America.
There are an international force that goes in and arrests people who are sending drugs to our country, who are criminals in our country, even if they're not in our country when they bust them.
They are under the DOJ, the Department of Justice, which is in the executive branch run by the president.
Congress's Drug Enforcement Mandate00:02:51
The president, I think, had full authority to pull off what I think was like a 90-minute enterprise.
It's not a war.
There's no way you can say it's a war.
It's a police action.
And he had every right to do it without telling Congress.
And I think he was right to do it so it didn't leak.
And I believe that the New York Times and the Washington Post had inklings it was going to happen and kept their mouths shut.
So good for them.
I think they deserve praise for that.
And so, you know, and we did it to Noriega in Panama.
We arrested him and all of his complaints about it went to the court and he demanded his rights and the courts continually said that we were right to do it.
We were within our rights to do it.
I don't see why that's not true now.
And I don't see why the Democrats can't pull themselves.
How are you supposed to run a government?
We have a Congress that is essentially useless at this point because there's no talking because everybody is doing what I'm talking about.
They're all just retreating into their corners and saying what they're going to say because it's a drug for their base.
They are manipulating their base.
Vote for me and I will say the things that keep you believing what you're already believing without saying, you know what, it may be time to change your mind.
And they're playing to that base, which is not the majority of the Democrat Party.
I don't believe.
They now say that something like 66% of Democrats look kindly on socialism.
So maybe it is the majority of their party.
But I think, look, you know, at some point, if you're going to be a leader in a republic, you have to stand up and say, you know what, this was a good thing he did.
And yeah, there could be problems up ahead, but this is the right thing to do.
They threw out our oil companies.
We have a right to some of that oil.
And I think that we can't replace Maduro with a democracy, but at least we can get rid of him and make the rest of them afraid, which is what's happening now.
And Rubio has been great so far.
I think Trump is terrifying Cuba and a lot of our other enemies.
And of course, I'm always happy to see the Kratos, the god of war, Pete Hegseth, who had this to say.
I see only what I have come to destroy.
So looking at all this, I love Pete Hegseth.
He said, Kratos, I see correctly what I have come to destroy.
So I think this is all good.
In fact, I think it's so good right this minute.
And like I said, could be problems up ahead, but right this minute, I think he did a great job.
I think Trump did a great job.
I think everything about it is right, including leaving the people in power and power, but intimidating them to do the kinds of things we want.
And maybe, maybe there'll be an election later on, but we don't know that.
I thought it was so good that this morning I actually asked my, I talked to my wife.
My wife is not a political person.
She's into things like being kind to people and helping people.
I don't know what the hell she's doing, but she's not a political person.
And so I'm not going to ask her about political things.
But I said to her, she listens to my show and I said, you think I keep feeling it's time to ditch the Trump happiness montage.
And it's a new year.
Officers Enforcing Protest00:13:28
It's time to get rid of it.
But I was so happy with what Trump was doing.
And she said to me, I think you're kind of stuck with it for now, at least.
You have to really, you can't really get rid of it.
So in my mind, I know on the right wing, people are always saying women have to submit to their husbands in the Bible and all this.
We have a different arrangement in my house.
My wife treats me like a king.
I treat my wife like a goddess.
I worship the ground she walks on.
She's the best person on the planet.
I love her to death.
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Chapter 2, Minnesota on Ice.
So Governor Tim Wals, I mean, there's so much news.
I'm not going to be able to get to even half of the news this week, but Governor Tim Wals of Minnesota announced he would not run for reelection, basically taken out by this incredible story of bribery, the Somalian, the Somalians sealing the Somalians in Minnesota, which is now, I mean, they're holding hearings on it that are just, you can't believe the stuff they're saying.
It was clear that the government knew this was going on and didn't do anything about it.
I assume that's the polite assumption is they didn't do anything about it because they wanted the votes of the, you know, the community.
But it's also entirely possible that Tim Walsh is just retiring because he made so much money in bribes.
But I don't know.
You know, he said, you know, Walsh said he just wants to live the quiet, go back to his first love of being a homosexual serial killer, which he's so obviously.
So I just look at the way he walks.
I mean, he talks.
He's like, obviously one of those guys, like, I'm a football coach.
Do you like football, little boy?
Come with me.
Obviously, I'm being satirical.
He's probably not a serial killer.
But he oversaw a state where Minneapolis was burned down because George Floyd, a drug addict who once stuck a gun in a woman's stomach while his accomplice robbed her, you know, I mean, a bad guy and who died in police custody while resisting arrest.
They turned this guy into a saint.
They put the police officer in whose custody he died in prison for murder.
He'll probably never get out.
And it's just despicable.
And the fact that they burned down Minneapolis while Walls' wife enjoyed the smell of burning rubber.
I guess, you know, when you're married to a woman married to Tim Walsh, you have to get some pleasure somewhere.
But I think he's just awful.
And now, what's happening there now is disgusting.
But I think I want to take a look at it because it is tragic.
It's not something that makes you happy to see it.
It's kind of awful to see it.
But they have been encouraging people to basically block ICE as it goes in there trying to deport terrible people who are here illegally.
And if you ask me, they can deport anybody who's here illegally because they're here illegally.
That's what that means.
And ICE is there to enforce our immigration laws.
That is their job.
So that is their legitimate action that they take when they go to work.
That's what they go to work to do.
And he has been encouraging people to interfere with them.
And there have been, this was a small demonstration that was going on in Minneapolis against ICE.
And a woman named Renee Goode was killed by an ICE agent while they were the protests.
Now, there are all these videos of this woman's death.
Obviously, people are all over with videos.
And the people were protesting, and it was not a peaceful protest.
The people were throwing snowballs, ice balls.
They broke a window of an ICE vehicle.
They're getting in the officers' ways.
It's not a peaceful protest.
So as much as you want to pay lip service to people's right to protest, which I very much support, it was not the kind of protest that you can support.
And one ICE, one vehicle, ICE vehicle got stuck in the snow.
And this woman, Renee Goods, seems to have blocked the vehicle with her vehicle.
The officers ordered her out of the car.
She stepped on the gas and one ICE officer shot her through the front of the windshield because he was in the way.
And apparently he was hit.
I couldn't quite see that on the video, but they say he was actually hit.
He had previously been dragged by a protester's migrants vehicle in another place and had gone into the hospital.
And I'm appalled.
I mean, this state is now run by the worst people in the country.
I mean, it's like people are complaining about the Somalians.
I don't think the Somalians are anywhere near as bad as the people in government in Minneapolis and in Minnesota in general.
I mean, here is the mayor, Jacob Frey, immediately after this event, having looked at one video, and there are a lot and lots of videos from different angles from which the whole thing looks different.
Here is the mayor, Jacob Frey, and here's what he says, cut seven.
They are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense.
Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly.
That is this was an agent recklessly using power that resulted in somebody dying, getting killed.
To ICE, get the f ⁇ out of Minneapolis.
We do not want you here.
Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite.
People are being hurt.
Families are being ripped apart.
Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized.
And now somebody is dead.
Wow, you know, talk about calming, you know, the troubled waters.
What a terrible thing.
It's just terrible.
I'm sorry.
You know, that guy should be impeached.
He should be thrown out of office.
And as bad as that was, nowhere near as bad as Tim Walz, who took time off from whatever he does in his spare time.
You know, I don't want to speculate, but he took time off to say he alerted the National Guard in case they needed them to attack the ICE officers.
Now, he actually said this.
I mean, he didn't quite come out and say it, but he definitely implied it.
And I think it's illegal even to say that, but it's certainly to do it, to try and call out the National Guard against federal officers is essentially an act of civil war.
I mean, that is an act of civil war.
I'm not sure he can't be arrested just for calling on it, for implying it, but I think if he ever did it, he would be carted off.
That is an act of civil war.
And, you know, if he thinks that ICE, remember, ICE, these people didn't make the laws.
The ICE agents don't make the laws.
They're enforcing federal law.
They are immigration, federal immigration officers enforcing federal law that was made by Republicans and Democrats and has not been changed by Republicans or Democrats.
That's what they're doing.
They're enforcing the law.
And a lot of these people, you know, these, you know, I believe, well, let me put it this way.
What are the principles here?
ICE has a right and duty to enforce the laws that they are deputized to enforce, right?
That is what they're there for.
They are there to enforce immigration laws.
Citizens have the right to protest, peaceful protest, but they have no right to interfere with ICE agents, and they have certainly no right to endanger them in any way.
That is absolutely off the table.
So when it comes to what I want, I admit I'm radical about this.
I want all illegals gone.
And that's not because I'm hard of heart.
It's because I think that the Democrats did a horrible, horrible thing to this country, letting 20 million illegals in.
And I think they should all be gone.
Now, the nature, when we talk about the nature of reality, remember that's the third principle.
The nature of reality is they're not going to deport them all.
They're going to deport the worst of them.
They're going to encourage others to deport.
I would like to see them really crack down on people who hire them.
I would like to see it really difficult for illegals to make a living.
I'm sorry.
I know some of them are good people.
It has nothing to do with that, but they're here illegally.
And I do not understand at what point your niceness trumps the law.
All we hear from these clowns on the left is rule of law, rule of law.
Whenever Trump does anything, all we heard of January 6th is insurrection.
Now they've got a governor actually calling the National Guard out on federal officers, people breaking the law, interfering with law officers, legitimately enforcing the law.
I don't get it.
So if the principle is, you know, I think it's a good thing that there are videos, by the way.
I think it's a really good thing that plenty of people are taking videos.
That, since the news media is useless to us, I think it's great that people are being citizen journalists.
But I think it's absurd that everyone suddenly turns into CSI.
You know, everyone is like, well, you know, I can see that the wheels are turned this way and the guy stepped in front of the car and did he really have to do that?
No, the principle is if that officer is made to feel endangered, legitimately endangered, while he is legitimately enforcing the laws, he is legitimately hired to enforce.
I'm sorry, the person has sacrificed their rights.
That person has sacrificed their rights.
I don't take pleasure in watching a citizen get killed by law enforcement.
I think it's a horrible, horrible thing to have happen.
And I'm sure the ICE agent himself is not well pleased about it.
But, you know, there's no argument here.
Did he act too fast?
Did he, you know, did he step in front of the car?
She stepped on the gas with the guy in front of his car and he fired on her to protect himself.
You know, I don't understand even what the controversy is.
Now, the FBI will investigate this.
The mayor is saying, we're going to investigate this.
Yeah, not investigating anything.
The federal officers acting within their duties are immune to local prosecution.
They have to be prosecuted at the federal level because that would be the law that they've broken.
So they're not going to investigate anything in Minnesota.
All they can possibly do is stir up more hatred, more violence.
I'm so sorry that these people are being elected, but I obviously, you know, these are the people they want.
But, you know, the principle here, as far as I can see, is our law officers have to be able to enforce the laws they are hired to enforce and to go home and feel that they can go home to their families in one piece.
You know, I mean, that seems to me simple.
And if the guy, I saw where the guy was standing in the video, I don't care where the wheels were.
I don't care if he made a mistake stepping out in front of the car.
I don't care.
If you have said, I'm not getting out of the car, though, the officers ordered me to, and you stepped on the gas, you know, you can write articles saying this woman mother loved her and her kids are sad and I'm sad.
You know, I'm sorry this happened.
But no, law enforcement has to be able to do their job and go home safely.
And if you make that a question and you get hurt or killed, it's a sad story, but that's the end of the story.
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So this is a tough subject, but I really feel like I have to cover it because I feel it's news and I feel it is part of what is happening at this moment when MAGA, I don't, it's in danger of fracturing.
And it's tough to talk about because it involves my friends and my colleagues and people I respect and like.
But I've been totally straight with you about this from the very beginning.
When Candace Owens left the Daily Wire, I told you that day, the day that it became public knowledge, that I agreed with Jeremy Boring, the founder of the Daily Wire.
I agreed that she was flirting with Jew hatred.
And I don't think the Daily Wire, where I work, I don't want a place that I work paying people to say the kinds of things that she was then only implying, but now is actually saying.
When Tucker Carlson went off the rails, I was reluctant to say anything about it because I admired his work at Fox.
But now I think he has left the right and veered into anti-Americanism and also Jew hatred.
And here's the thing.
The principle that I'm working on is that the true danger to our country right now is we're facing a violent anti-American left with no respect for law and a hatred of the founding of this country.
And when I say that, I mean the Democrat Party.
And I'm sorry, I know there are lots and lots of good people who vote for Democrats because they don't really realize what's happened to the party.
But I think at the top of the party and the energy of the party and the engine of the party is a violent, anti-American faction that does not care about the rule of law.
And, you know, under the Biden administration, we nearly lost this country.
You know, I don't, I hate to talk like this because you sound like, you know, you're late night on some radio show.
But they were investigating people for going to Latin Mass.
They were investigating parents as terrorists were trying to get pornography out of their elementary schools.
They were censoring people online.
They were colluding and pressuring social media to take people's opinions offline.
And the press was with them all the way, lying to us every step of the way.
I mean, that was a really bad moment.
It was not funny, you know, what happened then and during the pandemic when churches were closed and things like this.
And Trump, I think, a flawed guy, a big guy.
So he has big flaws and he has big merits.
But I think he is doing a good job of sort of reversing that trend and getting us back toward common sense.
And I hope we won't need wild men like Trump after Trump has finished doing what he's doing.
Because the big principle, as I say, is the dangerous from the left.
What I want, second part of seeing things clearly, what I want is American freedom.
I want people, you know, freedom doesn't mean walking down the street, you get to walk down the street naked because we live in a society and that's offensive and dangerous and provocative, but it does mean you get to live the life you want to live, you know, make your living, keep your living, keep the money that you make, and say whatever you want to say and say, express your opinions, even if I hate them, right?
And the nature of reality, talking about one of the principles that helps you to see things clearly, is that we need everyone who is on the side of freedom to stay together to bring that freedom about.
And I would include people who are on the left of me, you know, who believe in things I don't believe in, as long as they believe in the founding.
I think that is the real dividing line.
If they believe in the ideas of the founding and the purposes of the founding, I can live with them.
I don't think the left believes in that anymore.
I don't think Tucker Carlson believes in it.
I don't think Nick Fuentes believes in it.
I don't know what Candace believes.
I can't understand anything she's saying anymore.
But still, I can't fight with people who aren't directly hurting the cause.
So during the break, Ben Shapiro, who's been absolutely upright here, by the way, he has invited Tucker on his show to debate.
Tucker never showed up.
He's tried to make peace behind the scenes, but eventually he kind of had it with all of this and all of the Jew hatred, especially, which I, for obvious reasons, hits him particularly hard.
And he made two speeches, and it took genuine courage for Ben to do this.
I mean, no one can ever fault Ben on that score.
He went on, because to go on stage live and say these things is tougher.
You know, I've gotten into a lot of, I had a lot of problems saying them on this show, and I have said them live, but I haven't gone into big venues like Ben went in.
So I have to praise him both on his courage and on his, as always with Ben, I always agree with Ben on the facts.
And sometimes our values are out of alignment, but it's mostly, as I said before, he puts certain values ahead of mine and I put certain values ahead of his.
So the first speech he made was to the Heritage Foundation, where Kevin Roberts said he was going to stand by Tucker Carlson.
The Heritage Foundation has been the flagship of American think tanks.
I started out when I started out.
They were the first people to support me, the first think tank to support me, maybe with the Manhattan Institute at the same time.
And Kevin Roberts said he was going to stand by Tucker Carlson.
And Ben just went, he didn't yell at Kevin Roberts, he just went and made a speech.
And here is basically what he said.
Here's the core of his speech, cut eight.
A country without borders is not a country.
America, for example, is a country.
It is a country with certain ideals embodied in the Declaration of Independence, with certain governmental structures embodied in the Constitution of the United States, with a certain culture rooted in Judeo-Christian thinking and sprinkling from Anglo-American traditions.
If America does not protect its borders, America ends.
A country without a border is no country at all.
If we take in millions of people out of sympathy and those people fail to assimilate to our values, then we lose our character as a country.
And if we choose, as our leaders, those who would effectuate and champion this sort of perverse policy, we betray ourselves and our country.
Now, let's discuss the conservative movement.
The conservative movement also requires a border.
A conservative movement without a border is no conservative movement.
So that's obviously true.
Obviously, also all metaphors are flawed.
No metaphor is perfect.
A country's borders are more definite than a philosophy's borders.
Philosophy includes a lot of people.
You have a big tent.
And some of us, a lot of people, we all disagree in the conservative movement with what exactly conservatism is.
But we know that it's not Tucker Carlson saying Maduro is a great guy because he has no gay marriage in his country.
That's not what conservatism is, because any tyrant can bring about good ends.
And tyrannies, there usually is no crime on the streets because you get killed if you commit a crime.
But that just means the criminals are all in the government.
So, you know, saying stuff like that is not conservatism.
American conservatism is about the founding.
It's about the Constitution and the Declaration and the principles therein and the purposes they're in.
And that is what American conservatives are trying to defend.
That blood and soil stuff, you know, there are conservatives in America who believe in that, but that is not the core of American conservatism.
And I don't even believe in it really very much at all.
So that speech was great.
And I told Ben that.
I thought it was just absolutely great.
It was a surgical strike.
And he did it with Kevin standing there, but he didn't attack Kevin personally.
And I also thought that was right.
And then he went to TPUSA, which of course is that big kind of rally.
And this, again, very gutsy move, what he did.
And I would never say anything to you that I haven't already said to Ben.
And I said this to him before he made the speech, that I thought he should stick to going after Tucker and Candace and Fuentes if he wanted to.
And, you know, because, well, I'll explain why in a minute.
But he also went after Megan Kelly, which I wouldn't, if it had been me, I wouldn't have done it.
This is the kind of thing that Ben and I disagree on all the time.
And the reason is because I believe that our problem is the anti-American left.
I think it's different to spew the kind of garbage that Candace and Tucker are spewing and Fuentes, obviously.
I think it's toxic and it weakens us.
And it's going to weaken JD Vance if he doesn't separate from him, which so far he has not done.
And I don't believe he's one of them, but I do believe he thinks he can kind of parlay this into an electoral win and then dump them later.
I think he's making a big mistake.
And I'm not sure he's going to, I thought he was for sure going to be president right now.
I'm not that sure.
So to me, you know, what Tucker is doing is everybody says, oh, Tucker interviewed Fuentes.
That's a terrible thing.
That's not the terrible thing he's doing.
It has nothing to do with it.
It's that everybody he interviews that he doesn't attack, that he agrees with, is putting forward this idiot scenario that is just completely distorted and untrue, that, you know, the Jews have taken over America and are using it to their own purposes.
One of them is destroying Christianity.
And he's basically made the argument or let people make the argument while he nodded and looked credulously on that since World War II, the Jews have all escaped to here and have taken over the country.
And he'll say things that are just untrue.
Like he'll say, I'm just giving you one example.
He'll say, ever since World War II, all we do in wars is kill Christians.
Well, who died in the Civil War?
Who died in the Revolutionary War?
Who died in World War I?
It's been Christians killing Christians all around.
It has nothing to do with Jews and it has nothing to do with what's happened after World War II.
So everything he does is distorted like that.
Every word he says, which is obviously, obviously, it's not obvious.
And as far as I'm concerned, it's not true.
And what Candace is doing at TPUSA and Erica Kirk, I think is just absolutely despicable.
I don't get it.
I don't understand what is even in her head.
And I don't understand why anybody takes it seriously, but they do.
And I think it has taken, you know, the assassination of Charlie Kirk was a horrible thing, but it was committed by a leftist and highlighted how violent the left is, much, much, much more violent than the right, which is hardly ever violent.
The left is routinely violent.
And this was one of the worst acts of leftist violence.
And instead of talking about that, we're talking about Candace Owens.
And maybe that's the whole point of it.
But those toxic actions of Candace and Tucker are different than what up until now Megan Kelly was doing and others were doing, not standing up against it.
That's different.
You know, if Megan thought she was going to make peace, she thought, you know, she was going to let legitimate questions go in.
Now she's really angry.
I think her feelings are hurt and she's really angry.
And now she's saying things that I think she's going to be sorry she said later.
And I don't mean that people are going to make her sorry.
I think she herself is going to wake up one morning and say, wait a minute, what am I saying here?
Because she's angry.
And now she's in this fight with Mark Levin.
And listen, I read Mark Levin's books and I really enjoy them.
But the guy is not exactly, you know, he's got two, he's got two places on his dial, you know, low and absolutely nuclear.
And so now he's screaming, Megan, Mark Levin is screaming at Megan Kelly.
Megan Kelly is cursing at Mark Levin.
I don't think that's a good thing.
I'm sorry.
I think that spreads the cancer.
It's like, you know, sometimes they say that when they take a biopsy, it actually makes the cancer spread.
I think it makes the cancer spread to attack people who aren't actually doing the things and saying the things and promoting the things that guys like Tucker are promoting.
I think what Tucker's promoting is toxic.
I think it's absolutely disastrous to MAGA's future.
I think it's disastrous to the conservative future and therefore disastrous to America's future.
And I think that that's the kind of thing we need to root out.
We don't need to root out everybody who doesn't root it out.
You know, that's a whole different thing.
And as I say, we nearly lost this country under Biden.
And I think we really need all hands on deck to support what he's doing, what Trump is doing when he's right.
And I would just appeal to people like, you know, I've said this before.
I've said it on the member block once, that I would appeal to everybody, including Megan, to just step back a minute, step back a minute and think, who are the enemies here?
Who is the problem here?
Because it's all on the left.
It's all this violent anti-American movement on the left.
Guys like Tucker, I don't know what his motives are.
I don't want to guess what his motives are.
All I know is that he has gone very, very far astray.
We do not need him in the movement.
It is not canceling people to say, look, you can go and say what you want.
You've got a big platform.
You're going to make all the money in the world.
God love you.
But no, you are not a conservative anymore.
If you're supporting Putin, if you're supporting Maduro, if you're supporting Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas, I'm sorry, you're not a conservative anymore.
That is not what conservatives in this country believe.
However, if you're just not saying these things, the things that I'm saying to you right now, I don't want to attack you.
Maybe you have good motives.
Maybe we all do things for self-interest sometimes.
Maybe you see things in a different way.
But that's different than actually pouring this stuff out.
I do not want this cancer to spread throughout MAGA because MAGA is the only thing we've got right now that is going to stop the left from taking this place back.
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Final chapter, the world as it is.
Seeing the world as it is is a superpower.
And seeing the world as you want it to be is the path toward stupidity, for one thing.
And it's also a path to disaster.
You know, there's a famous play about this called The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen.
I've read it before, but I just recently went and saw it again.
And Ibsen is Norwegian, and his plays don't translate well.
They kind of sound like a Woody Allen parody of his plays.
But the point of the play is a really good one.
The play is about a guy who acts as if the world were the place he wants it to be.
And so that if he behaves in an ideal way, everything will work out ideally.
So, for instance, he tells a friend about the friend's wife's past history, thinking now the friend can forgive his wife and they can live in truth and it'll be beautiful.
But of course, the friend is devastated to find out that his wife has slept with somebody else before they met, and everything just absolutely falls apart into complete tragedy because this guy acted as if the world were what it should be instead of what it is.
I cannot tell you how often I've seen people do that.
I've seen people quit their jobs because of some small, non-print, you know, small principle that was not an important principle, and then their careers are ruined and their income is cut off.
I've seen people, and listen, I've lost a lot of income over principle, but they were important principles and not just any principle.
Sometimes you got to make some compromises.
I've seen people leave their spouses because the world, the marriage was not the way they'd seen it in the movies.
The left does stuff like this all the time.
They think, oh, there should be free love.
There should be no restrictions on sex.
And I think that would be great in an alternate universe filled with other kinds of things besides people in this world that will destroy everyone and every relationship and every marriage and it'll make you a slave ultimately.
People think, you know, the left thinks, well, everyone should have the same amount of money.
And so they think that won't that be perfect?
But the only way for that to happen is to either hobble the talented and the ambitious and to have an authoritarian government that can take your money away and steal your money.
That's all it is.
It's just stealing.
And so that's why socialism collapses into authoritarianism, not sometimes, but every single time.
Politics is the art of the real.
And in order to do reality, you have to know what people are like and what the world is like.
I started talking about politics because I felt I have one opinion.
I had one opinion, truly, which is that people should be free.
That's the idea of the founding.
People should be free.
And as I say, that doesn't mean they can be obnoxious.
That doesn't mean they can take any drug.
It doesn't mean they can sleep with anybody and get away with it.
You know, we live in a society, but people should be free to support themselves in any way that they see fit, that they can support themselves if it's legal, to say whatever they want to say and to keep their money, to keep the fruit of their labor.
That's what freedom is.
And As I began to talk about politics, I had to think it through.
What does that mean?
And I began to realize that freedom depends on a web of circumstances.
It depends on limiting the powers of the government.
It depends on separating power centers so they are put against each other and nobody can join together against the little guy.
It depends on people acting in a moral way, in a general moral way, because moral actions make the place chaotic and dangerous, and it makes people dependent.
And freedom can't exist if everybody's dependent on the government for peace and for safety and for healthcare.
It can't exist under those circumstances.
But the fact of the world is there's going to be immoral people and there's going to be powerful people who want more power and there's going to be programs that you need even though they give people more power.
And so you have to be flexible.
You have to make allowances for disagreement.
You have to include people in your circle that you disagree with, but who at least agree on this basic principle that we're going toward freedom.
As I always say, I'm happy to talk about a welfare program as long as you're happy to talk about the temptation that welfare is to the powerful because it means they can buy votes and get more control over people.
It's hard to do all these things.
It's hard to be pleasant to people you disagree with because you need them on your side.
That's this other saying that politics makes for strange bedfellows.
And I will tell, but I will tell you this, hatred is bad politics.
It is bad, race hatred, all of this stuff.
If you feel yourself strengthened by blaming Israel for everything or by blaming blacks for everything or even by blaming Democrats for everything, because like I said, there are a lot of decent Democrats who aren't, unfortunately, at the head of the party, but they are the voters.
If you feel that hating them is going to be your way forward, you should take a look at the Bible more, not just some quote that you read somewhere or some quote that your preacher likes or something.
You should actually sit down and read it from Genesis to Revelation because it's not a story of hatred.
It's not a story of exclusion.
It's a story of forgiveness.
It's a story of love.
It's a story of revelation of the face of God in every face that you see.
Here's the thing.
Like America does have these paroxysms of hatred when this Jew hatred arises, when bigotry rises, when identitarian politics, oh, we were a white Christian nation, come around.
But ultimately, they fall away.
And if you think you're betting on the future, you're not.
You're not.
America is not.
If history is any guide, America eventually shrugs that stuff off.
This country is like the door in the movie Titanic.
Have you seen the movie Titanic at the end?
The ship is sunk and Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are clinging to a door.
It's the last thing they have floating in the ocean.
That's what America is like.
There's not going to be a global kumbaya.
Anybody who thinks globalism is going to be all peace only has to look at the United Nations to see what a corrupt, evil, hateful organization that has become because it's too many cultures and no culture gets privileges over the other.
America is the door in Titanic.
There is nothing out there but ice and sharks.
That's it.
And Leonardo DiCaprio is not going to be like in the movie where he gets off the door.
Leo is not getting off the door.
We are all here together and somehow we've got to make that work.
And we're all clinging to the door and we have to live with it.
And if we're going to preserve the freedom that makes it what it is, that keeps it afloat in the ocean, we're just going to have to work with one another and we're going to have to tell the hateful people to stand aside because it's not going to work that way.
It is just not going to work that way.
It's going to be compromise.
There's going to be people have to talk.
Our government is shut.
Our Congress is gone.
Our Congress is gone.
And Congress is hugely important to the division of power that keeps us free.
You know, I know that it's annoying because it's like, you know, wrangling cats, but still, it's incredibly important that the president has a Congress that stops him sometimes and sometimes supports him.
How can they debate each other when they just immediately go to their corners?
We're going to have to develop some flex.
And in order to have some flex, you have to have goodwill.
And in order to have goodwill, you have to understand that the world is what it is.
People are going to disagree.
Good people are going to disagree.
And you have to remember what it is you want, which is freedom.
What we want is freedom.
And freedom has never been a popular thing, right?
This is Lord Acton.
Freedom is not a popular thing.
In order to be free, we have to make alliances with people we don't always like when our interests are aligned.
That's the way it's going to be.
And so if I go after Tucker, it's because I think he is dangerous to freedom.
If I go after Fuentes and Candace, it's because I think that they are taking away from the power of our coalition, which is winning now.
You have to learn to take yes for an answer sometimes.
We are winning now, and it's fragmenting in this internal conflict that we're having.
I don't even like to talk about it because I want to be talking about what the left is doing and what we should be doing.
Instead, we are going to have to understand that when I say love is the answer, I don't mean it's a good answer.
I mean it's the only answer.
All right, I am out of time and I haven't done the clapbacks.
Well, we're going to push the clapbacks into the member block.
You should be a member, but if you're not a member, it doesn't matter now because you're about to be plunged into clavenless darkness, which is kind of like a death sentence.
I mean, it's just like nobody can stand it for long.
You just go, you go mad, you know, with all that darkness, with no light at all.
You just go insane.
You could become a member now.
Dailywire.com/slash subscribe and use code Claven and they'll give you something.
Probably, who knows what they'll give you?
Maybe a teddy bear, maybe a couple of months free.
I have no idea, but it doesn't matter because you could become a member and come to member block.
Otherwise, you're doomed.
What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
Is that who you think I was alone with?
Maradin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Talies.
You are my father.
The gods should war for my soul.
Princess Garris, savior of our people.
I know what the bull got offered you.
I was offered the same.
And there is a new pirate work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices all he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yazoo the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on an earl, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He is the only hope for men like us.
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light.
Great light, great darkness.
Such things mattered to me then.
What matters to you now, Mistress of Lies?
You, nephew.
The sword of a high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield.
So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.