Clavin Clapbacks dissects Trump’s Greenland strategy—countering China’s Arctic dominance and securing rare earth minerals like dysprosium for U.S. military tech—while mocking Europe’s "decadent" reliance on failed policies like wind energy (UK prices up 139%) and leftist funding of protests, including $2M from Soros’ Open Society to train ICE disruptors. Contrasting Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina with Weimar Germany’s collapse, they argue cultural narratives must reflect reality, not radical fantasies, and urge listeners to embrace conservative classical schools over homeschooling for balanced values. A conflicted mother and a blue-state exile seek advice on family and freedom, while Clapbacks promotes Daily Wire Plus and warns of "clavenlessness" for non-members. [Automatically generated summary]
In a tense confrontation reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis, except without Cuba or the missiles, or really the crisis, the United States has narrowly avoided a harrowing war with Denmark.
The crisis, or whatever, began when Donald Trump demanded Denmark hand Greenland over to the U.S. and issued a saber-rattling threat in which the sabers were made entirely of Legos just to add insult to injury.
Trump said, quote, Since you lousy Danes have repeatedly refused to give me the Nobel Peace Prize, I see no reason why I should continue to be peaceful if I don't get a prize for it.
And the Nobel Prize I received from that kooky Venezuelan dame with the name like a Spanish dance number doesn't count because people just laugh when they see it.
So I'm sending it back and taking Greenland instead, unquote.
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that the Nobel Peace Prize is given in Norway, not Denmark, Trump became so enraged he appointed Rubio the King of France, so he'd have his head cut off.
When he found out the French no longer cut people's heads off, he appointed Rubio the First Lady of France and leaked the news to Candace Owens.
Panicked by the threat of invasion, the Danish prime minister, whose name no one can pronounce and who might even be a chick for all I know, ordered four brigades of the 101st Hans Christian Andersen Division to sail to Greenland on one of those cute little sailboats like the one in the Little Mermaid.
This increased the tension because despite its small size, the Danish military is renowned for its tough training, though it's mostly in folk dancing.
Meanwhile, the administration got to work preparing for war by testing out various battle cries like, damn you Danes, no one can even understand what you're saying.
And give us Greenland, Denmark, and none of your sneaky Danish tricks.
And in America, we eat Danish for breakfast, so ha ha ha.
The administration even prepared a new aggressive Greenland national anthem more suitable for an American colony with rousing lyrics like, oh Greenland, it's the nicest place you've ever seen, land, where no one's a wimp and we're proud of our shrimp.
Oh Greenland, our home, sweet home.
Unquote.
The news of the impending American attacks so upset global elites at their annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, that they were forced to suspend their usual business of trying to impose obnoxious, useless, and oppressive ideas on people who'd rather pinch their elite noses and twist them like Mo used to do to the other two stooges than listen to a word these privileged melonheads have to say.
Instead, European leaders and other obscure non-entities took to the stage to make angry speeches as a way of passing their last remaining moments in power before they're tossed into the dustbin of history.
The Prime Minister of Canada, for instance, I can't bother to find out his name, so just make one up yourself, told the gathering, quote, there has been such a rupture in the world order that we're barely able to debank the working-class citizens who protest our policies or arrest anyone who uses Grok to make hilarious pictures of us naked or persecute the saints who pray silently near abortion clinics.
If Donald Trump does not restore this world order immediately, Europe will be forced to ally itself with China.
After all, China is a one-party nation with no free speech and a small minority of white people, so it's basically a European nation already.
Unquote.
Donald Trump conceded the Canadian's point and issued a new statement saying, I war on Denmark declare.
Found out it was the world order.
The world order the Canadian Premier was complaining about, not the word order.
Sorry.
Who writes this stuff?
This is like by a mentally ill person and not a word order.
And Trump issued another declaration saying, oh, it's screw.
Oh, God.
As the hour of decision drew ever closer, audiences around the world sat tensely before their televisions, mostly watching what's in the box.
Fortunately, at the last minute, Trump decided to make a deal when he realized a war with Denmark might last longer than he thought and interrupt a full half of the AFC championship game instead of just the first 10 minutes.
I used to be Andrew Klavan, and this once was The Andrew Klavan Show.
Laughing Through Decisions00:04:18
All right, we are back, just laughing our way through everything, laughing our way through laughing.
That was almost funnier than the actual events.
All right, now, let me share some good news if I can hold myself together long enough.
I was just absolutely shocked this week when I learned that the Kingdom of Cain, Finding God in the Literature of Darkness, of the nonfiction book that you guys brilliantly put on the New York Times bestseller list, has been nominated for an Edgar Award.
This is the Mystery Writers of America.
It is the Oscar of crime writing, and it was nominated, obviously, in the nonfiction criticism category.
It's my sixth nomination.
I've won it twice, but I truly, I mean, I've told this story a million times, but when I realized that I was, let's say, drifting into ideas that were not necessarily going to be very popular with the literary establishment, I actually looked in a mirror and asked myself whether I was comfortable with the fact that I was never going to win an award again.
And I was comfortable with it, but it hasn't been pleasant.
And I was just absolutely shocked to get this nomination to a very prestigious award from an organization I've been a member of since I was 15 years old when I lied about my age to get in.
So The Kingdom of Cain is now an Edgar nominee.
And I said to one friend of mine, I said, I don't have much chance of winning.
And he said, well, you have more chance of winning than you do of having been nominated.
So that is actually true.
Actually, I'm truly honored and actually a little moved by it.
It took me really by surprise.
Also, I just want to give a quick plug to Stage Right.
This is the only conservative theater in America.
It's having its annual festival.
These are the guys who staged my play, The Uncanny.
It's in Dublin, Ohio, which is a really nice town.
I mean, I'd never heard of it before, but it was near Columbus, Ohio.
So if you're anywhere there, they are having their annual festival.
You can get tickets at StageRT.
It's StageRight, but stageRT.org, stageRT.org.
And if you go on there, you can actually watch a film of my play.
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Journeys in the Social Imaginary00:16:01
Exclusions do apply.
Chapter one, journeys in the social imaginary.
I spent part of this week in New York.
I was meeting with colleagues and friends.
It was kind of work, a lot of it worked stuff.
I had one great meeting with the editor of, who will be publishing the graphic novel of my novel, Werewolf Cop, which is all finished.
My part of it is finished, but it probably won't come out until next year.
So that was nice.
But anyway, one day I had lunch with a good friend, a very successful conservative thinker, a brilliant guy.
And then I had dinner with a friend who was, I won't call him a leftist, but he was more to the center.
And it was really interesting comparing the things that they were thinking about.
My conservative friend, who, as I say, is, you know, a brilliant, he's brilliant.
He's a calm guy.
He doesn't get upset.
But he was really concerned, like deeply concerned about the left.
He thought they've been threatening to jail their political opponents.
He was talking about Hakeem Jeffries, who recently said this about when the Democrats get back in power.
This is cut one.
First of all, there's accountability for the corruption and the chaos that Donald Trump has unleashed on the American people from the very beginning of his presidency on January 20th that should be tied directly to the Supreme Court and the six right-wing justices who basically gave Donald Trump without justification blanket immunity.
And he's been out of control ever since.
So that's problem number one.
Problem number two, of course, is the fact that there are so many different corrupt sycophants within the Trump administration, including but not limited to within the Department of Justice.
Now, these people don't have immunity.
And the reality is the statute of limitations is five years, and there will be accountability with the next administration, if not before, when Democrats take back control of the House of Representatives.
So that's a startling statement.
That is basically the minority leader in the House threatening to arrest members of DOJ and the administration, which is what happens in banana republics.
And Trump was not given absolute immunity by the Supreme Court.
That's ridiculous.
He was given immunity as the president to do the things that presidents have to do.
If that were not true, then Barack Obama would be in prison for murder.
But you can't do those things.
You have to let the president have some leeway.
So my friend, as I say, we were having lunch and he was talking about this and he was really worked up about it.
He's not a hysterical guy, but he was very worked up about it.
Talking about the protesters in Minnesota, talking about how they surround innocent people in their cars and demand, terrorize them into making political statements that they might not agree with, just like the Black Lives Matter people did.
They invaded a church, the city's church in St. Paul.
Here's a scene of that.
I mean, it was horrific.
They came pouring in during a service.
The children were crying.
Mothers were grabbing their kids in terror and running for the door.
And here's one guy who calls himself Dewoke Farmer.
What he was screaming as this was going on is cut two.
As you can see, all these pretend Christians, all these comfortable white people who are living lavish, comfortable lives while children are dragged into concentration camps.
You're living real life, nice lives with your lattes, doing absolutely nothing for your Latino and Somali brothers and sisters.
You come here to a man wearing a suit is a preacher.
Did Jesus wear a suit?
Did Jesus profit off the words?
No!
Jesus would die with innocence.
You do not touch me.
Touch me again and see what happens.
Touch me again and see what happens.
So he's threatening people.
The guy's trying to throw him out of his church.
I think that was one of the clergymen there.
Two people have been, as of this broadcast, two people have been arrested and charged under the FACE Act, which is interesting because most of us want to see the FACE Act repealed.
That forbids interrupting services in a holy place where people worship God or in a leftist holy place where they worship death, namely an abortion clinic.
This is some of the ways they've terrorized abortion protesters using the FACE Act, but now they're using it to arrest these people.
And they say there'll be more arrests.
Here's Harmeet Dillon, the assistant AG for civil rights.
She said this is cut three.
The Attorney General has been on this from the moment it happened.
There are already two prosecutors from my office on their way to Minneapolis, and they'll be there this morning.
We have an FBI team assembled and local prosecutors as well.
This is going to get the highest attention from the Department of Justice because there is no more sacred right in our Constitution than the right to assemble and pray to God.
And there are federal laws that protect that right.
And what happened here was a shameful exercise of virtue signaling, disruption, fear, terror.
You can see children in this video being ushered out the back by their terrorized mothers.
And this is illegal.
And I want to add that the Biden administration prosecuted people peacefully praying outside abortion clinics for much, much less.
That's absolutely true.
And so, as I say, my friend is really upset about this.
And, you know, added to the trouble that's actually happening is the way the media depicts them, as always, is peaceful, mostly peaceful protesters.
And it has a thought process behind it, which Rachel Maddow, to my surprise, openly described to Jimmy Kimmel.
Here is Maddow talking to Kimmel cut for.
I know you highlight these peaceful protests on your show regularly.
Do you think they do any good?
Do you think that anything comes from them?
Yes.
You do.
Yes, I do.
I mean, in political science terms, there's what's called the 3.5% rule, which is that if you look at authoritarian regimes of various kinds all over the world over the last like century,
once you have 3.5% of a population protesting nonviolently against a dictator or an authoritarian, that is essentially an unstoppable force that they can't oppose and that precludes them from consolidating dictatorial power.
3.5%.
3.5%.
It's not that much larger a number than what we're already seeing in the streets against Trump.
So that's, first of all, the repeated idea that these are peaceful protests.
I mean, you've seen them throwing fireworks, rocks, snow, ice at ICE, at genuine ICE law enforcement officers.
There's nothing peaceful about these protests, really.
And when you surround a car and make the driver get out and run for his life, that's not peaceful protests.
When you charge into a church, I mean, there's nothing about that.
You know, you don't have free speech, the power to have free speech anywhere you want, obviously.
You know, it's like you don't get to walk into somebody's home and start screaming and say, well, it's free speech.
No, because you don't belong in the person's home, right?
And you don't belong in a church during services either.
Now, the whole thing about this, and the reason it is upsetting, and the reason my friend was upset about it in part, is that it's all created stuff.
Barton Swam, one of the best writers in the news business, and I think he's at the Wall Street Journal.
He was talking about how Tim Walsh, the governor of Minnesota, was urging people to record ICE operations on their phone.
And this is what he said.
He said, ordinary people don't do that, nor do they park their cars to obstruct law enforcement operations or gather outside hotels in the wee hours to chant and bang drums because those hotels rented rooms to ICE agents.
This is the stuff that's going on.
Activists, says Barton Swam in the Wall Street Journal, activists do these things.
A revealing detail, which I credit the Washington Free Beacon for finding, the Sunrise Movement, a group founded to stage disruptive climate protests, wants a piece of the anti-ICE action.
Sunrise is training activists to plague hotels and car rental companies that do business with ICE.
Open Society Foundations, which is George Soros' organization, has given Sunrise $2 million since 2019.
The Ford Foundation has given it $700,000 over the past two years.
The MacArthur Foundation, $250,000 in 2024.
So these organizations, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, which gives the genius grants to people who aren't geniuses, which is generous, I guess, but these are people training these people to disrupt things, to cause trouble, to be activists.
And another detail, says Barton Swam, this one from Carl Sinsmeister's new book, Sweet Charity, which defends the virtues of charitable giving and deplores its politicization by lefty foundations and billionaires.
He says, the No Kings protests, remember, those are the anti-Trump protests orchestrated by left-wing nonprofits in dozens of cities during the fall of 2025, were heavily funded by a variety of activist philanthropies.
Mr. Sinsmeister tallies 203 separate nonprofit protest sponsors.
The campus protests 2023 were similarly orchestrated by a latticework of anti-Zionist organizations, many larded with money from left-wing foundations, Open Society, George Soros again, Kayfon Tidings, and others.
And some of these foundations, some of these charities were funded by American tax dollars.
This is the tax dollars that went to the NGOs that Elon Musk and Doge were working so hard to cut out, that these were your money was being sent to these horrible people to teach other people to do horrible things.
So, you know, this is not something that necessarily is ordinary people protesting because they feel so bad about.
You know, these are things that are being funded.
It's a constructed attempt at revolution, as I talked about last week.
So my friend was really concerned about these matters.
We had lunch.
We talked about this.
And then I had dinner with, as I say, he's a more liberal friend, but not a leftist.
I'd call him a sort of McCain Republican, probably.
He voted for Trump twice, the second two times, but he still reads the New York Times and thinks that's the news.
And he was in a panic about Donald Trump.
And again, he voted for Trump two times, but he felt that Trump has now revealed himself to be a Hitlerian fascist.
know comparing Trump to Hitler.
But he says the ICE raids are horrific to him.
He feels that this is, you know, he feels that it's basically training our minds to accept authoritarianism and oppression.
And before we make fun of him, we should add that 58% of Americans and 66% of independents, the people who decide elections, disapproved of Trump's handling of immigration in a recent survey.
But this friend truly, he absolutely believes this.
He's not a crazy man.
He believes that the midterm elections will be canceled.
Trump will cancel the midterm elections.
And basically the end of America as we know it has come.
And when I tell you he's convinced, I mean, there was no arguing him out of it.
I didn't really try.
I just said to him, well, I hope you will notice if the midterms take place that you were wrong.
You know, that's all I could say about it.
But I did due diligence and I checked the story.
He says Trump has said himself that he's going to cancel the election.
So I checked the story and it's based on a Reuters interview with Trump where he talked about the fact that Trump derangement syndrome might stop him from winning in the midterms.
And he said, quote, it's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms, Trump said.
And Reuters says he boasted that he had accomplished so much that, quote, when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.
Clearly a Trump witticism, but there it was.
He said, when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.
Now, another time he said this, or something like it, he was on a call with congressional Republicans.
And here, I just wanted to play this so you see how things are translated.
And I'll add a little something at the end.
But here's a left-wing podcaster playing a clip of Trump on a call with congressional Republicans and the podcaster claiming that this is Trump saying he will cancel the midterms.
Now, this was today during a conference call with congressional Republicans where Donald Trump was going over strategies for the upcoming midterms and what the Republicans should focus on and not focus on.
And then at one point lamented that they even have to run against Democrats at all, saying this.
Did the worst job.
They had the worst policy.
And we have to even run against these people.
Now, I won't say cancel the election.
They should cancel the election because they're fake.
Right.
I won't say cancel the election that they should cancel the election.
I'm just saying it.
And that right there, we are well past the point of suggesting that Donald Trump won't do something.
Now, you may have noticed that there was a rough cut in there, and that's his rough cut, not mine.
Here's what Trump actually says.
He says, I won't say cancel the elections because the fake news will say he wants the elections canceled.
He's a dictator.
They always call me a dictator.
In other words, he won't make the joke, let's cancel the elections, because the left will pretend to take it seriously, which is what they do.
And sometimes maybe they're not pretending.
Maybe they are absolutely afraid that he is going to cancel elections.
But this is the way my middle-of-the-road friend hears it, and he is just horrified.
He thinks that this is the end of the road.
So this was the imagination, let's say, of two different honest Americans that we're either on the brink of leftist revolution or we're on the brink of Hitlerian fascism.
And I have to say that, you know, I'm an optimistic person by nature, but I don't feel that way.
I do feel we're in a very specific period.
But here's the thing.
I'm always kidding Ben when he says facts don't care about your feelings.
I'm always saying yes, but feelings are a fact because people, including Ben, because including everyone, all of us, almost always act on their feelings while believing that they're acting on pure reason.
Some of us are more reasonable than others, but still, feelings always play a part in what we do.
We feel our way through life.
And the same thing is true about the imagination, right?
I'm always talking about the imaginary, the social imaginary versus reality, but people do act on their imagination.
And my point is we have to try to separate the imaginary from the real and act on reality because that works out better.
I think that I think it was Ayn Rand who said you can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
And if you look, it really is interesting.
If you look at revolutionary moments, like the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the revolution that brought Hitler to power in Germany, which was more, you know, an electoral revolution, but still a revolution in China.
All these revolutions that went terribly wrong, because almost all revolutions do end in oppression and violence.
But they were all attempts to impose an imaginary vision on a real world.
You know, they were all like Hitler had a theory the Jews were to blame for everything, and he wanted to impose that idea.
The Chinese had this idea that a Marxist revolution would solve all their problems.
They had plenty of problems.
The Russians wanted to replace the oppressive Tsar, even though the Tsar was growing more and more, less and less oppressive as time went on, but still they felt the socialist revolution was going to bring peace and equality and all this stuff.
And the thing about liberty and democratic elections and limited government is that it imposes the imagination of the people, which is usually more realistic than the imagination of elites and academics and intellectuals and Davos people, right?
And that's one of the many reasons why free nations are ultimately over the long term more successful and powerful than authoritarian nations.
Common Sense Reigns00:14:29
It happens again and again because, you know, this is why Trump's combination of common sense and populism and political savvy and instinct have been so incredibly successful.
No matter what you think of him as a person or what you think of his methods, he has been incredibly successful in real life because he basically deals with reality.
He has common sense.
And in fact, right now, with the mainstream media utterly corrupt and social media undependable and AI threatening to obscure reality altogether, the fight to know what's real is the fight we're in.
It's the fight that's going to make the difference between what we have now and something better we might have and a revolution that's going to lead to tyranny.
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Chapter 2, It Isn't Easy Being Greenland.
So this is what was at once so hilarious, why I was cracking up during the opening.
It was so hilarious about this thing in Davos and this crisis over Greenland, is that so much of it was taking place in the imagination and Trump was manipulating that imagination on behalf of reality.
And I'm going to admit to you, when Trump gets very, really bullying like he was, and that's his way of making a deal and all this stuff, and it frequently works out great.
I still get really uncomfortable because I'm a polite person who believes in politeness and believes you can do a lot of stuff while remaining polite.
But this is the way he operates.
And it is amazing how often he gets what he needs or wants.
And let me show you some reporting.
Trump says he now has a framework of a deal on Greenland that will get everybody what they want.
It's going to get us what we want.
And it's going to get, he says NATO's going to be happy with it.
And he says, therefore, he was threatening invasion, which I don't think that would be literally against the law to invade a NATO country because we have a treaty with them and treaties are law.
They are, in fact, American law.
But he now says he's not going to invade.
And he's removing the tariff threats against those who oppose the U.S. taking over Greenland.
So it seems like a total win for everyone.
And yet all the reporting continues to be as if Trump were just acting completely irrationally, that he was somebody like an op-ed writer I really respect, a columnist I really respect, called him the mad king, you know.
And it was like these demands for U.S. ownership of Greenland made absolutely no sense.
It was just insane what he was doing.
But in fact, they made perfect sense.
They made perfect sense for two reasons.
One is the Chinese Navy is getting huge and they're moving into the Arctic Ocean, which borders on Greenland.
And then they're moving through the seas, the sea lanes that move down into the Atlantic.
And the only people who can stop them are us, which is spelled U.S.
Those are the only people who actually will be able to challenge them in the Arctic Ocean.
And this was actually admitted by the NATO Secretary General, Mark Ruta, who has become unpopular for saying nice things about Trump.
He's very diplomatic.
You're never quite sure what he's saying.
But he has been saying nice things about Trump.
And he was speaking to the last American journalist, Brett Baer, and saying basically that Trump is right, that these waters need to be protected and only the U.S. can do it.
Here's Cut 6.
Yes, Greenland.
But of course, it is not only Greenland.
It is the whole Arctic.
And as you know, there are eight countries in the Arctic, Russia, which obviously is not a NATO, and seven other countries, including the United States and Canada, but also five countries in Europe who are in that Arctic region.
How can we collectively make sure that we defend that Arctic region, therefore implementing his vision of that necessity?
And he's totally right there, because we know that the region is opening up more and more.
The sea lanes are opening up more and more for the Russians and the Chinese and other adversaries to be active there, which is potentially a threat.
So, you know, that's one reason we have to be at least a big presence in Greenland.
And the second reason was explained on X by Josh Wolf of Lux Capital, that Greenland is basically a block of ice with two important rock formations in it to the south, where they contain these rare earth elements.
Like they have names I've never heard of, like dysprosium, terbium.
But without these things, you cannot make all the things we need in order to kill Chinese people.
You can't make the actuators on F-35s, you can't, the fighter planes, you can't make the things that guide munitions.
They need them in the sonar of Virginia-class submarines and every kind of electrical motor now.
You know, in the old days, you know, you used to have, you know, if you think about an actuator, you used to have a hydraulics.
When I learned to fly a plane, those little planes, they still operate on hydraulics, which is a way of using liquid to convert energy into motion so you can control your flaps and all that stuff.
But now we do it through the magic of computers, and you use an actuator and all these things need these hard, these rare earth minerals.
And the Chinese almost have a monopoly on them.
And that can't be.
We cannot, you know, you can't tell me about fairness.
You can't tell me about niceness.
You can't even tell me about legality.
It cannot be.
The Chinese have all the rare earth elements so that if we have a war, they have to sell us the weapons.
If we have a war with China, we say, could you please sell us the weapons so we can defeat you in this war?
That can't happen.
It cannot happen.
So Trump is not being crazy.
He may be being rude.
He may be being bullying, but this is not why they hate him.
They don't hate him for wanting Greenland.
They don't hate him for wanting to defend the West from the Russian and the Chinese.
Even they must understand that this is his technique.
He threatens to do 1,000%.
He's going to invade.
Everyone becomes hysterical.
Trump is insane.
Who knows what he'll do?
And the Europeans start saying crazy stuff like, oh, well, in that case, we're going to deal with China.
They actually were saying this.
I'm thinking, that's like saying, if Aslan is mean to us, we're going to play with the other lion.
If Aslan, the Christ figure from the C.S. Lewis stories, if he's going to be mean, we're going to just go get eaten alive by a regular lion.
But the Europeans, they know all this, and that's not what they hate about Trump.
What they hate about Trump is that they have used the social imaginary, their imaginations.
They are decadent, by which I mean Europe is decaying, and it's decaying very rapidly.
And it has been decaying ever since they gave up all their empires after World War II.
And they gave up all their designs on power and basically handed everything over to us.
But in order to maintain their dignity, they had this imaginary world where we were these big, galumping fools.
Okay, they had the weapons, but they had the programs.
They had the universal health care.
They had the socialist things that help everybody out.
And they would make fun of us for being so backward, so backward.
They were fighting climate change.
Trump destroys that imaginary picture of themselves.
And he goes to Davos, where they're all gathered, and he gets up and he says, you guys are destroying your economies by following this climate crisis hoax.
And the hoax is not that the climate is changing and not that there won't be effects.
The hoax is that anything we do about it is going to have any effect whatsoever, which just isn't true.
So he starts talking about this and he starts talking about windmills, which they're all using in Europe.
And here's what he says, cut seven.
I want Europe to do great.
I want UK to do great.
Sitting on one of the greatest energy sources in the world and they don't use it.
In fact, their electricity prices have soared 139%.
There are windmills all over Europe.
There are windmills all over the place.
And they are losers.
One thing I've noticed is that the more windmills a country has, the more money that country loses and the worse that country is doing.
China makes almost all of the windmills.
And yet I haven't been able to find any wind farms in China.
Did you ever think of that?
It's a good way of looking at it.
They're smart.
China's very smart.
They make them.
They sell them for a fortune.
They sell them to the stupid people that buy them.
But they don't use them themselves.
He says, you're not saints.
You're idiots.
That's what he's basically saying.
And he went on with all of it, with the immigration, you know, this, oh, we must let people into a country who want to destroy the country.
And that's what they're doing.
I lived in England for seven years, and they used to tell me, well, we have universal health care.
First of all, it was a century-old healthcare.
It was like a guy in a top hat showing up with a horse and carriage at your home.
They did come to your home to treat you, which was nice.
But I used to say, you have it because you don't spend money on defense.
We pay for your defense, and that's what you use the money for.
And you also don't get all the medicines we have, and they don't get all the advances, and they don't do the research and development that our high prices pay for.
We pay for all that.
You know, the American Cancer Society just announced that new findings show that for the first time, the five-year relative survival rate for all cancers combined reached 70% for people diagnosed between 2015 and 2021, which is mostly in the fatal cancers, the cancers where they say, sorry, you're dead.
You have this cancer.
People are surviving for five years and more, and that's not coming from Europe.
The sciences may be from Europe, but the money is coming all from us.
Their imaginary virtue by which they preserve their dignity, having no power and becoming, allowing themselves to become vassal states of the United States.
Trump is trying to set them free.
Trump is trying to set them free of being vassals of America, and he's doing it by insulting them, by getting up there and saying, you're nothing without us.
And they'll say, well, we'll close down your McDonald's.
Yeah, no, you won't.
You're not going to do that.
Because in McDonald's, then you'd have no employment.
You know, the employment is coming from us too.
I mean, we fund so much and it's time to stop, right?
And this is the thing that we have to remember, and young people have to understand this.
Government produces no wealth.
Socialism produces no wealth.
All the socialist programs in the world are funded by capitalism.
All of our welfare programs are funded by capitalism, which is the only way to actually produce wealth, that and robbing it from other people, which is why Europeans had all this war.
So the threat from Trump isn't really to Greenland.
It's to the imaginations of the Europeans.
It is the threat of reality coming and stealing their virtue away.
And this is why we need governments, by the way, run by daddy instead of mommy, because, you know, facts don't care about your feelings.
And daddies sometimes tell the truth more than mommies.
Mommies want to go with their feelings, and that feeling fuels their imaginations, and that's where they live.
And you need, this is why Trump, you know, Mark Ruta, last year at Davos, called Trump daddy.
He was talking about this as cut nine.
They called me daddy, right, last time.
Very smart man said, he's our daddy.
He's running it.
I was like running it.
I went from running it to being a terrible human being.
Now he wants Greenland, so now he's a terrible human being.
But it is just true.
We need daddy leaders in the sense of being realists, in the sense of being people who take the hard truth and don't hide behind imaginary virtue.
But let us always remember that there is only one person who can make daddy a daddy, and that's mommy.
So let's talk about why we need mommies too.
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Chapter three, greatest novel ever.
I have to talk about this because so many conservatives, I'm always complaining about how conservatives don't care about the arts.
And of course, it's not ordinary people, conservatives.
I'm not talking about those.
I'm talking about like official conservatum.
That whenever I go and try and sell one of my novels on a conservative talk show, I frequently, not whenever, but I frequently get the host, especially if he's a man, say something like, why should I read a novel?
It's not true.
But novels are the deepest truth you can get out of a book.
And I would say the deepest, some of the deepest truth you can get anywhere.
I just finished rereading what is one of the greatest novels of all time, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.
And it's a great read, by the way.
It's 800 pages, but you can burn through it.
I mean, even if you don't burn through it, it's just very involving and entertaining.
But it is just a great novel.
And I'm not going to give too much of it away, but it's almost plotless.
It's just a story of two marriages.
One is this marriage between Anna Karenina and Alexei Karenin.
And it's kind of a cold, you know, the husband is cold and withdrawn.
And Anna is this beautiful, dazzling woman, just full of warmth and unsatisfied womanhood.
And she has a child whom she loves.
And the only real plot point in the book is that she falls in love with a dashing cavalry officer and the love wrecks her family.
And that's like basically the premise of the book.
And the other marriage, which is based on Tolstoy's marriage, is between Constant Levin, a landowner who loves actually working with the peasants on his land, and his princess.
She's an actual princess he marries named Kitty.
And they have this very passionate, loving relationship.
They get into these little meaningless spats, but they always come together again.
And it's a story of how motherhood and parenthood give new depth and meaning to life and the way married love can ultimately point to God.
So when I describe it that way, you might say to yourself, wow, that sounds kind of didactic.
And in fact, Tolstoy meant it to be didactic because all of these intellectuals were attacking.
I'll read this from the introduction of the book by the translator Richard Pavir.
We're talking about the 1870s, right?
So this is late in the Victorian era.
It's really close to the turn of the century.
And Pavir says the radical intelligentsia had been attacking the institution of the family for more than a decade.
Newspapers, pamphlets, ideological novel tracts advocated sexual freedom, communal living, and the communal raising of children, questions of women's education, women's enfranchisement, the role of women in public life were hotly debated.
Now, Tolstoy believed that marriage and child rearing were a woman's essential task, which I believe as well.
I don't believe that that's the only thing you can do in your life.
I believe that it's a question of time when you do things, but I believe that child rearing and homemaking, essentially, are the things that women do that will make them happiest in life and make them the fullest adults that they can become.
And he wrote this novel to illustrate that point.
But when he started it, he wrote it in this didactic way where Anna Karenina was ugly and she was kind of garish and she was shallow, so she ran off with this man.
But he thought he was going to write the novel in two weeks, but it took him four years.
And over time, he changed Anna.
She morphed into this absolutely enchanting, beautiful woman.
And you have to think very deeply about why she commits adultery.
And it's a very different experience.
And this is why novels are so great, because now you know that this is a real person who you could like, who might be somebody you like who is doing something that is a sin.
And you could read this novel as a leftist if you were a stupid person or a leftist, but I repeat myself, and say, well, that's because marriage is so restrictive that she did it because it was oppressive to women.
She had to be free.
But if you read the novel really carefully, that's not so.
What you're reading is a person who could be a wonderful person, but she commits a sin.
And the results of that are what the story is about.
And so I wanted to point out that the arts show you these issues in complex ways, where you are compassionate to the people, where you recognize yourselves in the people who do the things that you disapprove of.
And this is why some people, if you listen to them on the conservative movement, are so irritatingly brash and sure of themselves and insulting to the people who are doing things that they disapprove of,
so that there's no way that they can bring people into the movement who don't agree with us, who think this is restrictive and restraining to say that marriage is good or that you should have children or women, you're anti-feminist for saying that women should have children.
But all I can say about this is that if we are not going to draw people onto our side, we're going to lose.
And if we don't control the art, you know, not control the arts, but if we don't participate in the arts and be a part of the arts and be a part of the culture, we cannot create that compassionate vision that brings people in.
And the stakes of the disagreement are just as high today as they were when Tolstoy was writing.
Because if you think about it, 40 years, which is not a lot of time, that's not even a lifetime, right?
40 years after Tolstoy wrote Anna Karenina, the radicals who were attacking the family, who were attacking women, you know, talking about women getting out of the home and stopping not having children and all this stuff, the radicals won.
And the result was a nation crushed under a socialist system of oppression and mass murder.
And so it turns out, as that nice Andrew Clavin is always trying to tell you, I know he's a little irritating, but homemaking and motherhood are the necessary foundations of human liberty.
And raising those things in our culture and raising our admiration and respect for those things in our culture is key to winning the battle that we are now in for the American imagination.
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Final chapter, decadence is not divine.
So I'm going to tell a story, a personal story that I've told once before, but it's been a long time, and it's such a good story that I think it's worth telling again.
When I lived in England, I had a friend and colleague, a mystery writing colleague named Sarah Caudwell.
And she was a wonderful, witty writer.
If you've never read Thus Was Adonis Murdered, it's a classic cozy mystery.
It's really good, very, very clever.
And she was, Sarah was one of the true eccentrics I have ever met.
She smoked a pipe.
She wore these goggle-thick glasses, like Coke bottle lenses, and she wore a cape.
And she sometimes was so absent-minded, she put her clothes on inside out.
And she had the voice, this voice like a British drill sergeant.
So you could never understand what she was saying.
She'd call you up and go, you know, what the hell was she talking about?
And she was a little crazy.
She was definitely a little crazy, but I loved her dearly.
I truly did.
And she was a good friend.
She died of her bad habits, the smoking and drinking.
But one of the interesting facts about her was she was the daughter of Sally Bowles.
Now, some of you may know Sally Bowles.
She's the character from Christopher Isherwood's stories about Berlin, which were the inspiration for the show Cabaret.
And Liza Minelli is in the famous film Cabaret Playing Sally Bowles, the woman who's in the cabaret.
And my story is about a London production that was on when I was there.
It was in 1998.
It's a very famous production directed by Sam Mendes in which the MC, which is the Joel Gray part in the movie, was played by an up-and-coming Alan Cumming, who was absolutely amazing.
And Sally Bowles was played by a then-young actress named Jane Horrocks, who's an excellent singer.
And she never came over to America, so most people haven't heard of her, but she had her moment on the stage in England.
She was very, very talented.
And Cumming, you know, you've seen Alan Cumming a million times.
He's now the host of a show called The Traitors, which I haven't seen.
But here's a clip from that actual show.
This was at the Don Mar warehouse that I saw.
Here's a clip from that show with Jane Horrocks as Sally Bowles.
Where do you live?
Over the club?
We could sneak upstairs, possibly.
Later on, if you like, sneak.
Max is most terribly jealous.
Oh, Max, your husband.
No, he's just the man I'm living with.
This week.
I say, am I shocking you talking like this?
I say, are you trying to shock me?
Trying to shock me.
You're quite right, you know.
That's the guy playing the American is, what was his name?
Adam Godley.
His name is, you've seen him in a lot of stuff.
Very funny comedian, really.
So she's bragging about her decadence.
And remember, that's the line from the film.
I'm not sure if it's in the play, divine decadence.
It's divine decadence.
And it's very attractive, you know, sexual freedom.
Gay people being out in the open and all kinds of, you know, S ⁇ M paraphernalia.
And it looks like personal freedom and it's very appealing.
That's why she's bragging about it.
She's tempting them with it.
But how does it end up?
This was the Weimar Republic, which was, I'm sure you know, an attempt to build a democratic government in Germany after World War I, the terrible defeat they suffered in World War I.
And it was beset, like our government that I was describing, our country as I was describing it in the first chapter.
There were communists on one side in the streets, and there was the threat of the Soviet Union looming.
Everybody could see what had happened there, which made people turn to the Nazis, which were on the other side.
I know people like to say that the Nazis were socialists because of National Socialism, but Hitler killed the socialists shortly after taking power and burned all their books and everything.
So we'll say he was a fascist in any case.
And when the Republic collapsed, when the Weimar Republic collapsed, it was the Nazis who ultimately won the day.
But if it had been the socialists, they would have gone the way of the Soviet Union, which was equally oppressive and murderous.
So Sally Wolves' real name in real life was Jean West.
And after trying to become an actress, she was a far-left writer and thinker, and she was impregnated by Claude Coburn, who was a communist, a fairly famous communist writer.
He's the grandfather, if you've ever seen the actress Olivia Wilde, she was Sarah's niece.
I don't know whether they knew each other, but yeah, I think they did.
Olivia Wilde was Sarah's niece.
And so Sarah was very, very left-wing.
She came from very fine communist stock and would frequently bark at me when she realized that I was becoming a conservative.
Knock you out of your chair.
Anyway, in 1998, there was this famous production of Cabaret at the Donmar Warehouse.
And Sarah asked me to take her because she had never seen it, which was amazing.
And she had never seen it because her mother, Jean West, who was the model for Sally Bowles, hated the show.
And so in loyalty to her mother, she never went.
She had even written an article about it saying it wasn't true and it didn't describe her right.
And so she asked me if I would escort her, my wife and I would escort her to the show.
And we did, of course.
And the show was arranged so it was like you were in a cabaret.
And so you were sitting on a table just about on stage, if you were in one of the good seats.
And we took Sarah and she just wept through the entire show.
It was like watching her mother come to life.
And if you've seen the show, it's about her sexual, you know, experiments that don't really turn out very well.
And as the Nazis sort of close in on this free, you know, sexually free, radical landscape that's in the cabaret.
Life is a cabaret.
You know, start by admitting from cradle to tomb isn't that long a stay.
Life is a cabaret.
And that was that kind of nihilist attitude that they were inhabiting with great pride and dignity, right?
And just as a note, I want to just say, as a side note, Sarah buttonholed Jane Horrocks as she was coming out of the stage door at the end of the show.
And I've never forgotten how kind that actress was to my friend because no one who didn't know Sarah really well could understand a word she was saying.
You could not understand a word she was saying.
And yet Jane listened to her for what must have been 20, 30 minutes.
Whereas Alan Cumming was very nasty.
I know he was going through some terrible times back then, so I forgive him for it.
But I went over and told him how terrific I thought he was.
And he kind of sneered at me.
But he was not that way.
But Jane Horrocks was just incredibly nice.
Anyway, so I finally asked Sarah, why did your mother hate this play?
Because it's a really good play, Cabaret, really good musical, very moving and realistic and yet tuneful and all of that.
And she said because she didn't think decadence was divine.
She was just trying to make a living.
All of them, like the MC, who's obviously kind of sexually amorphous.
You can't tell what he is, but he's always making jokes about, you know, a thrupple and making jokes about homosexuality.
She said he wasn't that guy in real life.
He was just trying to eat.
He was just trying to make his way in the world.
Now, I think about that right now.
And I had lunch with a friend, a conservative friend who was afraid of the riots in Minnesota and with a less conservative friend who was afraid of Donald Trump playing the Nazi in this scenario.
And I think in our country's imaginary life, that's what's happening.
We look at each other and we say that I can't talk to the left because they're communists and they're rioting and they're, you know, these paid activists.
And of course, the left can't talk to us and doesn't want us anywhere because we're supporting Donald Trump, who's just one step away from becoming Hitler.
And most of the time, when you read about Weimar, because most books are written by people with a leftist bent, or you even see shows like I like the show Babylon Berlin, which takes place in Weimar, Germany, and they depict Weimar, the freedom of the jazz and the dancing and the sexuality and women's rights and gay rights, the freedom of that, threatened by the Nazis, while the nice socialists are just trying to make things fair.
That's basically the story that we always tell, that they tell again and again.
It's really true.
It's the way they represent that moment just before Hitler's rise to power.
But what I took away from Sarah, though she probably didn't believe this because she was such a lefty, so I'm not speaking for her.
Let me make it clear because she's not here to speak for herself, was that it was all one thing.
The sexual freedom, the new arts, the abstract arts, the communism and the Nazism were all one thing.
They were decadence.
They were the decay of a society, a society that had bet their energy on war and had lost and had nothing to replace it with.
And I've always joked that like Hitler was a very bad guy.
I shouldn't have to say that.
But the one thing I did agree with him about was that he called modern art decadent art.
I think it was decadent art.
That doesn't mean it was bad necessarily because artists represent the life, the world that they're living in, but it meant it was decadent.
It was coming out of a society in decay that was about to collapse into two world wars that would end European society and bring us the decadence that Trump is trying to awaken them from today.
Now, decadence doesn't mean decay doesn't mean you're going to decay forever.
You might not.
You might turn that decay around.
That is what Trump is trying to do.
He's doing his best to get that decayed mindset.
Oh, we can't move forward because the left is going to destroy us, or we can't move forward because the right is going to become Hitlerian instead of moving forward in freedom.
You know, in Russia, when the culture decayed, they fell to the left.
In Germany, the fall was toward fascism.
It was more to the right.
But those are both just as tyrannical.
They're both tyrannical ideas.
The idea of keeping people free is the idea of limiting the government, not making it powerful enough to redistribute wealth, not making your taxes so high that you're not keeping the fruits of your labor, and certainly not telling companies what they can do, which is the fascist way.
Fascists don't take over your companies.
They just tell them what they could do, which is one of the reasons I do get nervous when Trump takes a stake in companies, even though they arranged it so he doesn't have any power to direct them.
But the sexual immorality is part of it too.
I am anything but a prig.
I mean, I've been an artist all my life.
I've known so many people who have done so many things with their sexual lives.
It has nothing to do with what any individual person is doing.
It has to do with how the society, what the society holds in reverence.
That is what it is.
The leadership of fathers and the creative centrality of mothers and the sanctity of the home and the moral order of God are fundamental building blocks of human thriving and human freedom.
You cannot indulge in divine decadence without ultimately becoming a slave.
And to me, I think somebody says this in one of my Cameron Winter novels.
He says, if somebody's going to step on my throat, I don't care whether he uses the left boot or the right boot.
And that is the way I feel about it too.
I have no more respect for the anti-Semitism pouring out of the mouths of people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens than I have for the left and their end, which also has the anti-Semitism because it's always the devil's flagbowl, right?
It always shows up where the evil is, but they hate the Israelis and they love Hamas and the terrorists, and they just want the government to have more power than it can have and human freedom survive.
And, you know, you can't impose, you can't impose a respect for motherhood and a respect for leadership fathers and a respect for home and a love of God and his moral order.
You can't impose that on an unwilling culture.
You just can't.
You have to shape the culture to be ready for it.
You have to teach them to be ready for it.
Your books have to teach it.
Books like Anna Karenna that show human beings in all their sin, that show adults, some adult, there's an adulterer character as one of the most lovable characters in the book because they're not, he wasn't, Tulsa wasn't limited by his conservative ideas.
He was inspired by them to show reality as it is.
And I have known many adulterers who are lovable people who just were doing something that was destructive.
And I think until we start to do that, until we start to take on the culture, and still we start to loosen the bindings on our minds so we realize that no idea, no idea, no politics is going to free us.
No politics is going to free us.
No pattern, no system is going to free us, that only the human heart can free us and only the human heart can free us by loving freedom, by loving motherhood, by loving fatherhood, by loving family, by loving God.
Those are things that have to be shaped.
They cannot be demanded.
They cannot be demanded.
I don't care what anybody says.
You can bring back the Catholic Church in all its glory.
It didn't work last time.
It's not going to work this time.
If we want to stay free, whatever we are, not just artists, but whether we're moms or techies or artists or blue-collar workers or white collar workers, we have to learn to speak and act and create and live in ways that nourish not only our own desires, but also our souls and also the souls of everyone around us.
That's the path to freedom.
Now it's our choice.
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What was it like, Melan, to be alone with God?
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Is that who you think I was alone with?
Marathin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesin.
You are my father.
The gods shoot 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 part work in the world.
I've seen it.
A god who sacrifices what he loves for us.
We are each given only one life, Singer.
No.
We're given another.
I learned of Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, and I think you can give him one.
Trust in Yezu.
He's 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 the high king.
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield.
So cling to the promises of a God who has abandoned you.
I cannot take up that sword again.
You know what you must do.
Great light, forgive me.
The time has come to be reborn.
Clavin Clapbacks.
There are windmills all over the place, and they are losers.
Truer words were never spoken.
Clavin Clapbacks at dailywire.com, Claven with a K, clapbacks with a K. We've been a little low the last two weeks, maybe just coming out of the holidays.
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Ask anything you want.
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We will answer them if we can.
This is from a conflicted mother.
It says, I have so appreciated your thoughts on women and the role of femininity in the world.
I have two young children of my own whom I absolutely adore, and your words have been a great encouragement to me in the season of occasional sacrifice, but mostly joy.
My question for you has to do with homeschooling.
We have an excellent classical Christian school in our area where children can learn Latin and Greek as well as be immersed in the world of the classics.
I love the idea of sending my children to a place where they can socialize with others and learn things.
I might not be able to teach as well, but I'm also torn because as you've pointed out several times, the season of motherhood is so short and I want to make the most of every moment with them.
May I ask what you and your wife decided to do with your children and why?
Would you do it all over again or would you do things differently with their schooling?
Well, we sent our kids to private school, which defined my life because I had to make the money to do it.
And it was a lot.
And I'm a writer and writers don't make a, you know, somebody said to me the other day, writers get famous, they don't get rich.
And that's one of the reasons I was working in Hollywood to put them through those schools.
And I did it because I didn't like public schools.
That was the only reason I did it.
Now, today, I would probably, if I could send them to a school like this classical Christian school, I would.
I would, you know, homeschooling, of course, would depend on my wife because she would do the lion's share of it.
And I'd want her to be happy doing that and be willing to do that.
But I would definitely look for a more conservative school and a more free-thinking school, which is the same thing.
So in your case, if you have an excellent classical Christian school and you can afford that, you know, that would be my choice.
I can't tell you what to do, obviously, with your kids, but that would be my choice because kids do need to get out and letting go is a big part of parenthood and learning to let go is a big part of parenthood.
And I think that the one thing about homeschooling that may have an effect is that it might, you know, I'm not against it, by the way.
I'm totally in favor of it.
All the homeschool kids I've met have been great.
But if I had the school, I might do it so more and more you can get back into the other world of not, you'll always be a mom, but of not being a full-time mom.
That would be my choice.
But you have to make your own.
Another one from CG.
I'm single begrudgingly, living in a very blue state, and I can't decide whether or not to move to a redder state.
On the one hand, staying means being close to my family, but also continuing to struggle financially and living in a culture that feels so at odds with my values.
On the other hand, moving would mean more financial freedom, maybe owning a home and a bit more sanity, including more opportunities to meet like-minded people.
I will stop ranting now before my governor shows up with a bottle of hair gel to shut me up, so we know where we are.
Thanks for your wisdom, O Wise Claven CG.
Listen, again, I can't tell you what to do.
You have to make your own decisions.
In your case, I would certainly move.
And I would move, first of all, because I think it's a good thing to get away from your family.
You can come back after you've made your way in the world to get back away from your family of origin.
I think you're more likely to meet somebody.
I don't know whether CG is a man or a woman, but you're more likely to meet somebody that you will be able to start your own family with, a new family with.
Making money is good.
Owning a home is good.
Being among your own kind is good.
You know, the great thing about blue states is the restaurant.
You know, in heaven, the left runs the restaurants and the theaters, and the right runs the government.
And hell, it's the other way around.
So right now you're in hell and you want to move to heaven.
That's what I would do without a question in my mind, both because breaking away from your family of origin helps you grow and because you're more likely to meet someone with whom you can start a new family.
And then you can always move back once you're successful and have the money to pay the taxes to your friend with the hair gel.
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Just saying the word will turn your brain black with incredible darkness.
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members come to member block what was it like merlin to be alone with god Is that who you think I was alone with?
Martin, I knew your father.
I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
All men know of the great Taliesi.
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 Yezu the Christ, and I have become his follower.
He's waiting on a miracle, 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.