Ep. 1268’s host dissects Trump’s State of the Union as a battle for American values, exposing leftist hypocrisy—from ignoring Sage Blair’s forced gender transition to demonizing Olympic athletes while whitewashing China’s Uyghur abuses. Mocking "Wolfgang Startle," he frames the era as a clash between authoritarian socialism and fascist rhetoric, dismissing Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens as antisemitic purveyors of distorted scripture. The episode pivots to Catholic sexuality doctrine, rejecting its procreation-only stance while defending Keats’ "negative capability" in art—portraying characters without moral judgment, even amid polarizing themes like rape. Concludes with a defiant tease for Season Two’s unrestricted content, blending celebrity games and unfiltered debates. [Automatically generated summary]
You know, between the rapid pace of news events these days and the ubiquitous proliferation of media outlets, it's very easy to get so overwhelmed with information that you lose your focus and let your mind drift to meaningless side issues, like whether if you continually rewind the housemaid so you can watch the Sidney Sweeney sex scene over and over, it will somehow show up on the feed so your wife will find out when she goes to watch one of those movies she likes where none of the women even takes her shirt off.
So what the hell's the point?
I'm sorry, what was I talking about?
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
You can lose your focus and not even realize that you don't understand the issues in play.
So now and again we here at the Daily Wire like to take a moment to try to explain to you some of the important subjects that we ourselves know absolutely nothing about.
For instance, President Trump says the economy is doing great, but polls show that many people disagree.
So today we want to try to unpack the principles of economics so you can answer basic questions like who's right, who's wrong, how the hell should I know?
And why can't you people just leave me alone?
Economics is a science like pinball or craps.
The word comes from the Greek root omics, meaning something you read in the newspaper that is so ridiculous it makes you laugh.
That's the same root that gives us words like comics and New York Times opinionomics.
Now here at the Andrew Clavin Show, we know that some people in our audience are functionally illiterate, but the rest of our audience can only aspire to being functionally illiterate.
So in order to explain the principles of economics in the simplest possible way, we're going to take you through an ordinary day in the life of an economist.
Ordinary economist Wolfgang Startle wakes up a little after 6 a.m.
He opens the shades in time to see the sun cresting the eastern horizon.
Oh my god, says Wolfgang Startle.
What the hell is that?
That's the sun coming up in the morning, says Mrs. Startle.
Wow, says Wolfgang.
That's surprising.
Yesterday I predicted that artificial intelligence would cause the moon to turn to blood while the sun refused to shine.
So this development is very unexpected.
Soon after, Mrs. Startle puts breakfast on the table.
Whoa, cries Wolfgang Startle.
Are those fried eggs?
I did not see that coming.
But I make you fried eggs every morning, says Mrs. Startle.
Yes, says Wolfgang.
But last week I predicted that Donald Trump's tariffs would drive the price of eggs up way beyond what we can afford, so this is completely unexpected.
An hour later, Wolfgang Startle arrives at work at the Wall Street Journal, where he's greeted by his editor, Hyman Panick.
I'm sorry, Wolfgang Panic says, I'm going to have to let you go because every single prediction you make turns out to be wrong.
Well, this comes totally out of the blue for me, says Wolfgang Startle.
I predicted that Trump's anti-immigration policies would cause a minor rise in unemployment for some reason, but now my unemployment is unexpectedly at 100%.
And just wait till you see how startled Wolfgang Startle is when he gets home because he did not predict that Mrs. Startle would unexpectedly run off with the guy who writes the horoscope pages for the New York Post after she discovered that his predictions were more accurate than Wolfgang's, so he still has a job.
I hope this glimpse into the daily life of an economist has given you a better sense of whether you should believe Donald Trump when he says the economy is great or your wife when she tells you she had to sell the kids for rent money.
The important thing to remember is whether you vote for Trump's Republicans or for the people who want to reduce the America they despise to dust while destroying every vestige of our prosperity and freedom, you can never be totally sure about the future unless you read the horoscope page in the New York Post.
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Let us get directly to today's episode, Stand Up.
So for the past several weeks, we've been talking about this great transition.
And it's a period that we're in, when the baby boomers are dying off and new technology is coming in and everything is going to change.
And the question is whether a new generation that's been schooled in ignorance and to hate liberty and freedom by our corrupt leftist academies and the news media and the entertainment industry, are they going to have what it takes to move into a future that bears some resemblance to our founding values?
That's basically Edmund Burke's definition of conservatism is that things change, you know, nothing stays the same, but you change in keeping with your traditions, right?
And our traditions are traditions of ordered liberty.
So we don't know whether that's going to happen or whether America is going to surrender itself to one of the twin authoritarian ideas, one is leftism, socialism, communism, whatever they call it.
It's all the same thing that's represented by the Democrat Party or fascism, which is represented by hateful, despicable little crapmongers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
And we don't know if it's going to go that way or if it's going to stay America, which is what we're hoping, or at least I'm hoping.
So there were a lot of developments this week that spoke into this essential question.
And one of them was the state of the union, which I'll talk about it, I hope, in a different way than everybody's been talking about it because I saw it differently.
And I think that there was an agenda underlying the state of the union, Donald Trump's State of the Union, because very quickly, he got into the speech, the longest state of the union ever made, but very quickly he said this is a cut one.
winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it please please please mr. president we can't take it anymore I feel pretty oh so pretty I feel pretty and witty and gay.
You're going to win big.
You're going to win bigger than ever.
Now, listen, I understand that Trump's speechwriters are pressed for time and they have to get their material from somewhere.
And just because I stopped playing the Trump happiness montage doesn't mean they can just plagiarize my work, right?
And I, you know, I just started to phase out this running gag.
We're all getting tired of it.
And I think this is an obvious attempt by the administration to get me to play the Trump happiness montage 2.0 over and over again.
And I just want to tell you right up front, this is something that I will never do.
We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.
Please, please, please, Mr. President, we can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
You're going to win big.
You're going to win bigger than ever.
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Chapter One, Clocking It.
Now, the coverage of this speech speaks into our moment and the fact that the right goes into raptures, greatest speech ever.
What a wonderful speech.
And the left complains, oh, it's racist, it's this, and it's evil.
It's whole lies, lies, lies.
And it's like they don't have free will anymore.
Like our commentators don't have free will.
They're just cogs in this great political machine.
And the thing I saw differently, I watched it.
I thought, you know, the State of the Union is always a boring speech.
This went on forever.
There was one segment of the speech that lit up.
And I was watching it.
And I actually sat up on the sofa.
I was like, wow, you know, that's something.
And it was a long passage in there.
Most of it was Trump introducing people.
It was very theatrical, you know, this hero and that hero.
But there was this one point when he saw, you know, and they predicted, obviously, because it was written into the speech, they predicted that the left was not going to stand up for no matter what hero they introduced, the Democrats were not going to stand up.
And so he put them in a position where he could play off that.
And that was when he said this is a cut to.
So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
And this is, I mean, this is right at the core of what he's doing because he's lost some points of popularity because of the deportation, the rough housing in Minnesota.
But at the same time, it is simply true that the left, the Democrats, are no longer working for America.
I've said this a hundred times.
They do not work for us.
They don't imagine themselves to be working for us.
At no time does any reporter ever say to them, how does this help the American people?
You know, how does it help the people who are born here, who love this country, who are Americans, not the people who are trying to get in, not the gangsters that we're deporting?
How are you doing this for the people?
And then he went after the other thing that he knows is a weak spot of them.
He told this story about a girl named Sage Blair from Virginia.
This is cut three.
Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.
Hard to believe, isn't it?
Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland.
A left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.
Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.
Sage and Michelle, please stand up.
You know, I mean, it's a horror movie story as a story out of a horror movie.
And she's this adorable young lady and she clocked it.
I have to look up what this is, where she taps her index finger on her thumb, which means apparently, I see this and I approve of what he's saying.
And yes, this is something that, you know, I just like groking something.
I clocked it.
And she's now at a Christian school, so we take it that she has been, in fact, you know, rescued from whatever confusion she was going on that they played off of in this despicable way.
And when the Democrats, again, refuse to stand up for this girl rescued from something that, you know, Hollywood couldn't make up just to terrify you.
This is Trump's response to that, cut four.
Nobody stands up.
These people are crazy.
I'm telling you.
They're crazy.
So, you know, nobody remembers what is said at the State of the Union, but they remember what they see.
They remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up her paper.
And they will remember this because not only does the left now stand against America, they do not imagine themselves working for America.
They imagine themselves working for a higher purpose, the leftist socialist purpose.
That is what they're working for, to make the world different.
And since socialism doesn't work, they have to change the world.
And to change the world, they have to be at war with our founding values, which are values of liberty and the European and Christian Enlightenment that created them.
And essentially, you know, they are attacking the Western view of creation itself.
And their attacks on those values, see, are normalized instantaneously by the communication outlets that the left controls, the academy, the media, the entertainment industry.
And so Trump is using those to turn this around.
And it's instantaneous, right?
It goes from, oh, gay people should be allowed to have relationships without getting arrested.
And most Americans think, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
And it goes right from that to bake a cake for a gay wedding or lose your business, no matter what your religion is.
Screw your religion.
Screw your religion.
Our homosexuality is more important than your religion.
It goes from stop treating black people badly.
And people go, yeah, well, that's about time for that.
To if you don't have the right percentage of blacks, you have to hire people for their skin color to make up for the past and give money for things that you never did to make reparations to people who never suffered them.
you know, women deserve human rights to women are exactly the same as men and any discrepancy has to be erased.
And they're so much the same as men that men can be women by putting, they're essentially, I mean, they're really, they're against create, they were against creation at this time.
And it.
And it's like he is showing this to you because the press won't show it to you because they normalize the things that they're saying.
It's always backed up by the full force of the academy and the media so that instantaneously they say, oh, men can become women.
And if you don't believe that, you're hateful.
The press picks it up immediately just by the language they use.
It's gender-affirming care instead of butchery, you know, instead of a horror movie, which is what it is.
It's instantaneous.
Oh, you have to capitalize blacks, not whites, but you have to capitalize blacks.
You know, immediately, it's not global warming because obviously it's cold outside, so it's climate change, so you'll still believe in the panic.
And the people who vote for Democrats are not these people.
And so they can't understand that that's what they're voting for.
Because what the Democrats keep doing is they keep finding a Barack Obama who has buried his voting record or an Abigail Spanberger in Virginia who made the answering speech, which I was happy she was doing that because it meant for five minutes she wasn't raising my taxes, which is all she's done.
She pretends to be moderate, and then what is she against?
What leftist thing is she against?
Nothing.
And finally, so he's putting all this on the air so you can see it because no one's going to remember a word he said.
They're only going to remember what they saw.
And he engineered what they saw.
It was an act.
It was his genius.
It was really a brilliant Trumpian thing to do.
And finally, there was this moment when he denounced the fraud that's been committed by unassimilated Somalians in Minnesota.
This is billions of dollars of our money stolen.
And the terrorists supporting congressmen, the congresswomen from the state of Jihad, Ilan Omar and Rashida Talib, start screaming obscenities at him as he said to them, well, this is what he says, cut five.
And you should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
And you should be ashamed of yourself.
I mean, it was really powerful.
And, you know, even Hakeem Jeffries, the Speaker of the House, told them to either don't come, you know, or if you come, stay silent and behave yourself.
But they can't.
They can't do it because they are serving a higher power, namely Marxist socialism, and they are compelled to do this.
And Tlaib and Ilan Omar are terrorists.
They're terrorist supporting congresswomen, and they absolutely support the death to America chance in Iran, and they have absolutely no business being here.
And the thing is, the media, pay attention to this.
Pay attention if you're watching the news, reading the paper, whatever you do occasionally, how they normalize these two arguments.
This is not the argument that Americans should be having.
It is one thing to say the government needs to take care of the poor more and to say, no, the government should leave the poor alone because the free market will serve them better.
That's an argument.
If one argument is the government should be smaller and the other is the United States of America should no longer exist because it's on stolen ground, because it's inherently racist, because it was built on killing Indians and holding slaves and everything about it is bad, right?
If that's the argument, that argument does not deserve the same coverage, the same respect.
You know, I will listen to an argument, oh, you know, you should go into this business and have that career, or you should go into this business and have this career.
I will not listen to an argument, oh, you should blow your brains out.
Those are not the same things.
And that's what essentially they're saying.
America is bad and should blow your brains out.
And, you know, Trump has changed this game.
And he has used the new media that you're listening to right now to help him change the game.
But he's not debating the Democrats as if their position were legitimate.
He is simply exposing them for what they are.
And this has never happened to them before because they've been behind the shield of the news media, which has protected them from this.
And everything, you know, now that you see it, you can't unsee it.
Like, they never use American principles to serve America.
They say, oh, you have to have due process.
And you go, okay, yeah, you can't deport this gangster who's come in and raped and killed people because that's not due process.
But they don't have due process for the January 6th protesters.
They can hold them in prison forever because that was just beyond the pale of due process.
It's, you know, oh, if you set a flag on fire, an American flag on fire, that's free expression.
But if you paint over a gay flag, a rainbow flag that somebody painted on your taxpayer-funded roads without your permission, then you go to prison.
It's always using these things, using the ideas of America against America, which is classic radical techniques.
And, you know, it's like they believe in the rule of law.
Nobody's above the law, unless you happen to have broken into the country illegally or are throwing things at the police, right?
So it's like they only use these things.
They never support American principles except when they're using those principles against Americans' existence.
And this is, you know, it's just normalized instantaneously by this enormously powerful media, some of whom don't even necessarily support it, but think, like the people who led Hitler into the government, they think that they can negotiate with it.
They think they can play around with it and let it go because they're benefiting over the system as it is in place.
Remember, there's always, if there is a system in place, the people who are rich are always benefiting off that system or powerful or doing well are always benefiting off that system.
And the system has been one of decline.
It has been the system of, oh, look, Europe is dying and we should die too.
We should be more like Europe and we should die too.
And that has served people perfectly well.
There are people who are doing perfectly well in this era of decline and they don't want to see a change.
They don't want, you know, you read the Wall Street Journal.
They don't want the border shut.
They cannot distinguish between illegal immigration and legal immigration.
They're not making the case, yes, shut down illegal immigration because it's illegal, but change the law to be more generous.
That's an argument.
The law that the idea that the border should be open and anyone can come in is not an argument.
It should not be normalized.
And so all Trump is doing is he is reminding you, you know, the poll show that people are unhappy with the economy.
He made a big speech about how the economy is getting better.
That speech is going to have no effect whatsoever because people are not complaining about charts and numbers.
They're complaining about their home and they're still suffering because of Biden's inflation and because of Biden's policies that stopped us from drilling oil and stopped us from doing the things that we need to do to keep this a free market.
And it started paying off people on the Green New Deal that they passed under the name of, I can't even remember, the Anti-Inflation Act, the End Inflation Act.
All of that stuff basically made America grind to a halt.
People are still suffering from it.
Trump has not made a show of addressing it.
And he believes he's addressed it and he believes he's addressing it.
No, that is not going to change anybody's mind until their state at home changes.
So he is trying to take us out of this idea of normalcy where the Democrats want America to decline into nothingness in a year, but oh no, the Republicans say, make it two years.
That's where we're conservatives, make it two years.
That's the Mitt Romney of it all, the Bushes of it all, the John McCain of it all, these people who nobody wanted in power because they did not represent keeping America alive and great.
And that's why Make America Great Again resonates.
If, if Trump can change that as the normal narrative, which I think he made a great step toward doing during his State of the Union, if he can make the normal narrative, no, we're a great country, we're a free country, we deserve to be here, we are a great moral force in the world and always have been, even in periods when we were doing things that we now look back on and think were wrong.
If he can make that case, then he will truly be able to say this.
We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.
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Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Please, please, please, Mr. President, we can't take it anymore.
I feel pretty.
Oh, so pretty.
I feel pretty and witty and gay.
You're going to win big.
You're going to win bigger than ever.
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Chapter two, put out no flags.
There was an article in an Australian think tank called the Lowy Institute.
It's apparently one of their biggest and most important think tanks that I'd never heard of before, but it caught my eye because it's the only article I've seen that says what I've been saying on this show since Trump was re-elected.
It says it's basically a foreign policy think tank.
And they say, Donald Trump's behavior during this presidential term reveals a surprisingly deep strategic logic.
They wouldn't have been surprised, of course, if they were listening to the show, but we just take that as given.
The core goal remains to restore absolute American superiority over China and Russia.
But Trump wants to avoid confronting these major rivals directly.
He is rather working to isolate Beijing and Moscow from their international partners and deprive them of any major means of external support.
At the same time, Trump is building a program of sustained economic, technological, and other sanctions to markedly weaken the Chinese and Russian economies over the longer term.
The evidence for the strategic approach is fairly clear from the patterns of the administration's behavior.
This is what I've been telling you from the beginning, that he is building the America of the future.
He's building the America after he's gone that can sustain the obvious struggle that is coming with Russia and China and incidentally, Iran.
And the article goes on to talk about how you can see this in the way he handled Gaza, the way he handles Syria, the way he handled Venezuela and the rest of the Western hemisphere, that he's taking back that hemisphere as our fort, our place that we live, that is going to remain safe, even though the Chinese have infiltrated Cuba and Venezuela and all these other places.
And so the way that Trump is doing this, he's trying to secure our future.
But again, remember that the decline is a system and every system has its beneficiaries.
And the people who are trading in stock markets and have good jobs and doing all this stuff, they're benefiting from this decline and they get nervous.
It's not that they necessarily are bad people who want American decline.
It's that they see disaster and any change that comes to them.
And that's why you get the Wall Street Journal panicking over tariffs, even though the tariff system seems to have worked out really well to help our trade along.
And in the member block, I'm going to talk about the Supreme Court decision on tariffs because I think that's really important, says a lot about what we're talking about.
So if you don't think that we are under attack, that in other words, you have on the one side people who are saying, no, no, Donald Trump, don't do this because we like the system that was in place before.
That is one thing.
But then you have these people who are a force, a force of destruction on the left.
And if you don't believe me about how bad they are, you just have to watch their reactions to the Olympics.
We won some gold at the Olympics.
There's that great hockey game.
It was the first time we won gold since the Miracle on Ice where we defeated the Russians.
That was a huge, huge moment during the Cold War.
And we attacked the Canadians who are not as bad as the Russians, but are pretty bad.
And here's the Huffington Post reacting to this.
This is an article that the Huffington Post put out before the hockey game, but they reprinted it after the hockey game to make sure that we got it.
There's a name for the discomfort you're feeling watching the Olympics right now.
If waving the American flag or chanting USA turns you off right now, you're not alone.
While President Donald Trump's deportation agenda separates families and federal agents detain five-year-olds, which is a lie, and kill unarmed civilians, American athletes are winning medals on behalf of the nation at the Olympics right now.
This whiplash between pride for the United States competitors and national shame for the federal government is common.
Even U.S. Olympians competing in the 2026 Milan-Cortina Games in Italy feel ambivalent about representing the stars and strikes.
So they're referencing Hunter Hess, who is a skier, and he said, you know, I don't like what's going on in America, so it's with mixed feelings that I represent America.
So every reporter has to ask each American, they don't ask this of anybody else, but they ask, I'll show you how they don't.
They ask each guy, how do you feel about representing America?
And the minute the hockey player, Jack Hughes, he's the kid who got his teeth knocked out in the game, he said this, cut six.
This is all about our country right now.
I love the USA.
I love my teammates.
It's unbelievable.
The U.S. and Hockey Brotherhood is so strong.
And we have so much support from X-Players.
I'm so proud to be American today.
So we know exactly what that means.
It means, Jack Hughes, you are now a target.
You are now a target like Sidney Sweeney became a target, like anybody who will not come out and condemn the United States of America.
Because remember, what they pretend is that they're going after each individual injustice.
They are not.
They're going after the entire founding, the entire idea of the founding.
That is why they put out the project that says from the New York Times is now infiltrated like a poison into our schools that says, no, no, America was founded when we started the slave trade.
And that's why we fought the revolution.
Lies, again, lies.
But still, this is what they do.
And here's the New York Times.
So you knew that they were going to find something to make it, quote, controversial that the hockey team had won.
And they found it in this moment when Donald Trump called the guys in their locker room.
Kash Patel was very sweet, was holding the phone, and he was talking to him.
And he made a joke about, oh, well, you know, we have to invite the women too because they won too.
And the hockey guys are cheering for the women because they've been very supportive of the women.
He's making a joke in a locker room with other guys.
I know that women never make jokes about men.
They only speak about men, you know, respectfully.
But in locker rooms, I hate to break this to you.
Sometimes men make jokes about women.
And it's not that they're not loving jokes, but they are jokes.
So the New York Times says this: the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team won gold and then lost the room because no one knows what's going on in the room like the New York Times.
I mean, really, they are absolutely the barometer, the thermometer that tells us the temperature in the room.
Here's what they say: In the immediate aftermath of their victory, the team took a customary congratulatory call from President Donald Trump, and some players, some players, laughed at a misogynistic joke about the gold-winning women's hockey team that many Americans wouldn't find funny.
I think most Americans found it funny.
I found it silly, you know, whatever.
After a wild night of parting, some members of the team announced plans to step in the House chamber, a stage upon which symbolism is never neutral, and make an appearance at Trump's State of the Union.
In normal times, this would be an obligatory celebration for a championship team, but this isn't a neutral climate.
This isn't a neutral president.
And in a nation this polarized, the proximity carries weight whether the players are being intentional or merely naive.
They're naive to celebrate their win by visiting the White House and visiting the president.
This is disgusting, by the way.
Even I would tell people during the administration of Barack Obama, a man I despised and thought was incredibly sinister.
I would have taken his call.
I would have called him sir.
I would have shaken his hand.
I would have respected him because he was elected by my fellow Americans.
And that means he's the president of the United States.
And this treatment is because they don't, they only accept an America that is committed to its own destruction.
And then you have this woman, Eileen Gu, who's a Chinese American.
I think that's how it is.
Gu?
Yeah.
She's a Chinese American who receives all the benefits of American citizenship and then skis for China and takes millions of dollars.
And she was treated as if she were a star.
Nobody asked her about the swallowing of Hong Kong.
Nobody asked her about the imprisonment of the Uyghurs.
Nobody asked her about the jellying of democracy advocate Jimmy Lyle, the way they use social media to spy on all their citizens.
None of those atrocities are there because China has a right to exist.
There's only two countries on earth that the left doesn't feel should exist.
One is Israel and the other is America.
And this woman, I have to tell you, I find her incredibly.
Let me just show you the way.
I could show you any number of clips, but I just want to show you one in which she was in the kind of question she was asked.
She's a very beautiful woman.
She's a skier, and she's obviously an athlete, very articulate.
And here's the way somebody interviewed her.
The question somebody asked her: this cut eight.
This isn't supposed to be a rude question, but do you think before you speak, because you answer questions so quickly and so comprehensively, whether it's about geopolitics or your sport or aerodynamics?
Like, can you take us into your brain?
So this was her response.
This is cut nine.
It's so interesting.
You can control what you think.
Like, you can control how you think, and therefore you can control who you are.
And especially as a young person, like I'm 22, so with neuroplasticity on my side, I can literally become exactly who I want to be.
How cool is that?
Like, how empowering is that, right?
And so the fact is, I get to become every day the kind of person that me at age eight would revere.
Like, I would be obsessed with me today.
Are you kidding?
I would love me.
And I think that's the biggest flex of all time.
So This Chinese trader who's like giving up her, you know, taking up all these things.
By the way, if you read Peter Schweitzer's new book, you will see the Chinese are implanting these people in our country using our loose immigration standards.
And they'll come and have, they'll send women over to have these children.
And then they're basically putting Chinese people in our country.
She's fine.
She's a hero.
She's an idol.
But the hockey team that goes and visits the president and shows up at the State of the Union, they're doing something wrong.
How much do you have to hate your country before you compare it badly to China?
How much do you have to hate your country?
So a fair media would simply not treat the opinions of people who hate and want to destroy this country the same as people who want to change it or use laws to make it more fair or adjust it here or there and move forward, as Burke said, in the course of our traditions, move forward in the pattern of our traditions.
They would not, they could treat those arguments the same, but they would not treat it as the same.
Those people who want America to die.
And if you think a Chinese athlete, an American scheme for China is a hero, but a hockey player who goes and visits the White House happily is a bad guy, you're one of those people.
You should not be making decisions about how things are covered or how things are spoken about in this country.
And this is what Trump is trying to change.
And he's using visuals to do it and uses the state of the union.
And on the day we change that impression, Donald Trump will be able to say this.
We're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Please, please, please, Mr. President, we can't take it anymore.
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Chapter three, Wrong on the Right.
Tucker And Candace00:06:58
So I have to address like two very ugly incidents that happened on, I guess it's the right, although I don't see what they believe in that's conservatives, Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.
And Candace, I'm not even, you know, I don't even criticize Candace anymore because I think that she has reached the stage where the stuff that she's saying is so grotesque and wicked that you can't really criticize it because if anybody's taking it seriously, they've already caught the virus.
And so she's put out this series of specials where she's going to accuse Erica Kirk of all kinds of things.
And I'm not even going to watch it because I'm not going to comment on it.
My response to Candace is essentially this, Cut 11.
But the power of Christ compels you.
The power of Christ compels you.
The power of Christ compels you.
And if that doesn't work, I think we're just going to have to let her go.
Because I just, I don't want to dignify what she's saying anymore.
It's just so filled with hatred and so and it's Jew hatred specifically, but it's also hatred of the truth and the hatred of anything that looks good.
I mean, so it's weird.
It's weird.
But Tucker is more deliberate.
He's more consciously wicked and he's more deceptive.
And the way he distorts things is more artful.
And he did this interview with Mike Huckabee, a guy I've met who is a very gracious, intelligent, and faithful man.
And I met him in his element where he was, you know, he has a studio outside of Nashville.
And the people loved him.
The people who worked for him loved him, which is always very telling.
And the people who work for you love you.
That's a very important thing.
So, you know, Tucker's going on and on.
And everything he says, every word out of his mouth, especially the ones where he goes, of course, of course.
You know, obviously, obviously, is a distortion, every word.
And he was accusing Mike Huckabee, who's our ambassador to Israel now, obviously, he was accusing him of supporting the killing of children because A, children died in the war on Gaza, and B, they put children in the way and armed them as well so that they get killed.
And then they say, oh, they're killing our children, boohoo.
But he ignores the children who were intentionally killed because they were Jews on October 7th, 2023.
He ignores this completely.
He never talks about it at all.
They killed 1,200 people, among them 47 Americans, by the way.
And he says, he says, I would never, Tucker says, I would never kill a child, even if that child was pointing a machine gun at my family.
You know, it's like, well, then you're a jerk.
You're a piece of garbage.
You know, it's all this posing, this virtuous posing.
It's absolutely despicable.
But at some point, Huckabee finally said to him, you know, they arm these kids, they turn them into terrorists, they put them, they move them into places they know will be bombed because they are, they hide behind children because they know that they are terrorist outposts.
And so they move children in there so they can claim that the children are being killed.
And then Huckabee says, which is quite true, the ratio of non-combatants to combatants that has been in Gaza, in the Gaza war, is, I think, the best that there has ever been.
They killed less, fewer non-combatants than in other wars because more non-combatants get killed in war than combatants.
That's just the truth.
And he said it was even better record than America.
This is Tucker's response, Cut 12.
Your dig at the United States is very revealing.
Why is it revealing?
Because your priorities are very clear.
No, no, no, no.
Yes, they are.
No, yes, they are.
And as an American, permit me a moment of outrage.
Because I said many civilians have been killed.
And you said right in the middle of your elaborate defense of the IDF's killing of civilians, including children, you said they do a better job than the United States does.
That's my country and my government.
It's not considered.
What flag am I wearing here?
Now, this is the Tucker Carlson who claims the demons created the atom bomb and bombed Nagasaki, hinted that they bombed Nagasaki because they were Jews trying to kill Christians.
And it's an inherently dishonest response, and he does it again and again and again.
You know, he says, oh, I'm buying a home in Qatar.
I think it was, because I'm an American and I can do anything I want.
That's why, you know, and you're supposed to go, yeah, you're an American.
Well, screw you, you know?
I mean, I'm not asking Nick Fuentes any hard questions because I'm an American.
I have free speech.
Booyah, you know.
So it's true.
In America, you have the right to be a dishonest, Jew-hating piece of garbage.
And Tucker is, you know, but it reminds me, it reminds me of the very famous remark by Samuel Johnson, who was a great British patriot who loved the British, he loved Britain, and he loved the king.
But he said, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
In other words, when you wrap yourself in the flag to protect yourself from criticism, you are a scoundrel.
And that's what he is.
And so look, this is a guy who, you know, it's kind of like in the Bible where they say all things are permissible, but not all things are helpful.
Yes, you can say anything you want as an American, but you should.
And he ends up supporting Iran.
You know, he says, what are the chances, not in this interview specifically, but he says, what are the chances Iran would actually launch a nuclear attack?
History suggests there's zero.
So in other words, we shouldn't be trying to stop them as Trump is trying to do.
We shouldn't be able to be trying to stop them from getting a nuclear weapon because they're such good guys, they would never, they'd be afraid.
They'd be too afraid to use it.
These are terrorists.
They chant death to America.
And all of these Jew haters end up being American haters as well.
And I don't care how much he waves the flag.
I don't care how much he says he's a Christian.
I don't believe he is.
I do not believe him.
And, you know, he's got this theory that the Jews took over America after World War II because they ran away from that nice Mr. Hitler who was only trying to kill them because he didn't know where to put them.
He didn't want them to starve to death painfully.
So he gassed them instead.
So they ran away from that.
And they came over here in their demon-like way and invented the atom bomb.
Because nobody can say where the atom bomb came from, because so it must have come from demons, and we know who he means the demons are.
And then, ever since then, he says, uh, all we ever do in our wars is kill Christians.
Before World War Ii, the only wars America fought, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War uh, you know World War One, we're against Christians.
I mean, Christians have been killing Christians, i'm afraid, for 2000 years.
So the fact that that the left is represented by Anti-semites like Ilon Omar and Rashida Talib and Zoram Mandani and the kids who poured out after october 7th, you know, protesting for Gaza in the, in the universities, and that the Anti-American right is represented by Tucker and Candace and these Jew hating lots, is a reminder.
As I always tell you, Anti-Semitism is the devil's flagpole and the hatred of the Jews on the right and the left is a reminder that the fight we are in is not just a fight between America and not America, the founding and not the founding, freedom and not freedom.
Supernatural Inaction Speaks00:13:56
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Final chapter, The Supernatural.
Last week, I played a clip of AOC objecting to Marco Rubio's great Munich speech, in which he touched on heavily the cultural and religious values that link us to Europe.
And here's a little bit of what she said.
There's CUP 13.
They want to take this mantle of culture.
At the end of the day, though, is you know, it is very thin.
And so the response that we have to have is, again, it's material, it's class-based, it's common interest.
So this is, you know, AOC's version of Marxism.
It's materialist.
It has to be materialist.
It is basically if you change the, you know, structure of finance and money and capitalism, you will change human nature.
There are no immaterial values.
There is no culture.
It's culture is just a reflection of financial arrangements, just like Sigmund Freud thought it was just a culture and ephemeral values was just a reflection of sexuality.
They were trying to take the things that we attribute to the spirit and make them physical.
That's what was going on in that period of intellectual history.
And one of the things that disturbs me is many people on the right think that they can fight that point of view without appealing to the supernatural, without saying, no, the world is not just material.
It is something unseen that moves among us and against us and for us.
And that's like the Ayn Rand school.
You know, she wore a dollar bill.
She was essentially the opposite of the direct opposite of Marxism.
She wore a dollar bill instead of a cross.
She was very pro-abortion.
And libertarians, a lot of them, feel like this.
And the idea of pure capitalism is also like this.
And for me, this gives the power to the Marxists because it accepts their terms of argument.
And their terms of argument are pretty well thought out.
And it gives power to people like Tucker and Candace who use God in a way in which they will one day discover God is not that pleased with.
Just my guess, I'm just saying.
So you have people on the right who can explain why free markets are good, but they can't comprehend why empty consumerism might leave young people feeling abandoned and alone and that life is meaningless.
They can't see.
You know, I have these arguments with Ben sometimes, who's a religious person, but can't see why a big box store that destroys Main Street might not be a good thing altogether, even though the goods are cheaper there.
Or companies that desert towns, and this is an argument we've been having at the Daily Wire since the first day, where I say the companies that desert towns and move to Mexico to make an extra profit and leave that town that was built around the company to die are doing something wrong, even if they're not doing something illegal that might be spiritually offensive.
And then, on the other hand, on the right, you have people who toss around words about demons and angels and things like this as if they knew what was going on.
You know, they'll say that the UFOs aren't from outer space, they're really demons, you know.
And that to me is the least likely explanation for UFOs, because if there are demons and angels, and I happen to believe there are, I think the world is much more explicable when you believe that there are powerful forces, conscious forces for good and evil outside of our ken, right?
They operate through us, right?
They operate through people and they inhabit things.
And that's why in the Bible, demons, angels most often appear in visions and dreams, and demons most often appear in possessions, right?
And when angels do very occasionally make personal appearances, they're either indistinguishable from human beings or they're not described at all.
This is not universally true, but it's very often true.
Because the thing about the supernatural, and this is, I think, a very hard thing to explain, is the supernatural is the most natural thing in the world.
It is everything that we see.
It is everything that we live.
We've just gotten so used to it that we don't see how extraordinary it is anymore.
And so when people say the world as it is is miraculous, that sounds like a cliché, but it's a cliché because it's true.
The supernatural is the underpinning of reality.
It's very much the same.
You know, it's very hard to explain to people, especially non-Christians.
You always hear non-Christians and atheists saying, this idea of a ghost in the machine is ridiculous.
Steven Pinker is always saying this.
And he goes, Yeah, it is.
That's why Christians don't believe in it.
We don't believe that the body and the soul are the same thing.
And we don't believe that the body contains the soul.
Like there's a little ghost, Casper, the ghost inside you, animating your body.
The soul is, to use a metaphor, the soul is the word that speaks the body.
I mean, the body is the word that speaks the soul.
I got that backwards.
The body is the word that speaks the soul.
A word is not the thing.
I say computer is not the computer, but without the word, we can't communicate the thing.
And without the body, you can't communicate the soul, which is why Jesus Christ preached the resurrection of the body.
When he was resurrected, he came back with his scars on.
He ate fish.
He had a body because the body is the word that speaks the soul.
And the same thing is true of the material world in general.
Creation.
The material world is the word that speaks the spiritual world.
It wouldn't be here.
The material world would not be here without the spiritual forces that created it.
The world is right here in front of us and it speaks mystery all the time.
Not just things that scientist doesn't understand, the God of the gaps, but inherent in it, inherent in the interplay of the world with consciousness.
This is why poor Jordan Peterson got so stuck, he can't believe, because Carl Jung said, we don't know whether God is a thing out there or if it's just the way we receive the world.
But in God's creation, that's the same thing.
We were made to receive the world in a spiritual manner because there is a spiritual world for us to perceive.
Let me give you an example of something.
Just before Christmas, 1783, and you know, this is probably my favorite American story.
George Washington goes to Annapolis and resigns his commission.
He's just won the Revolutionary War and he hands his sword over to the civilian powers, right?
And George III says, if he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.
This is the man at the beginning of a new age, of a new nation that is going to be an empire.
He is giving away being an emperor in order to make people free.
He is giving away his right, the fact that they would have appointed him an emperor on the spot.
They would have made him king on the spot.
He is giving that away in order to make people free.
He's sometimes compared to Cincinnatus, who's a semi-mythical figure.
There are other people who have given away some power, who have stepped down from dictatorship and all that, and I praise them.
But no one, no one has done what George Washington did, which is essentially give away the kingdom of the new age.
He gave it away in order to make the people of America free, to ensure their freedom.
There is only one other man who has ever done that, right?
This is Lent.
This is when we remember Jesus' fast in the desert for 40 days, and we fast or deprive ourselves of things to remind ourselves of that.
And after the fast, Satan came and tempted Jesus.
And he tempted Jesus by using Bible verses, just like Tucker Carlson uses the Bible, just like Candace Owens says Christ is king.
He used the tools of the Bible and of scripture to try to tempt Jesus.
And he said to Jesus, it says in the Bible, the devil took him up on an exceedingly high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
And he said to him, all these things I will give you if you will fall down and worship me.
And Jesus said to him, away with you, Satan, for it is written, you shall worship the Lord your God and him only you shall serve.
So let me ask you this.
Do you think George Washington would have done what he did in Annapolis in the Christmas of 83 if he was not the product of a culture that worshipped this particular God?
I don't think so.
This is how invisible powers work visibly, right?
This is George Washington essentially being created before he was born.
His heart was formed in that moment before he was born, right?
It's not, demons aren't flying around in the sky getting on Air Force radar.
That is not what they are doing.
They are working to make you not see this, to tempt you in other ways.
You can feel it happen.
It doesn't come from inside you.
There is something inside you called sin that responds to it, but the force of it doesn't come from inside you.
Now, the scripture that Jesus and Satan are quoting at each other is the only scripture that existed at that time.
The only thing that Jesus accepted as holy scripture was the Old Testament.
Here is Tucker Carlson talking about the Old Testament, cut 14, after a preacher says to him, you know, Jesus wanted us to forgive.
This is Tucker on the Old Testament, cut 14.
That's not the message of the Old Testament, which I read last year and was pretty shocked by, as I think many people who read it are shocked by the violence in it and shocked by the revenge in it, the genocide in it.
So that's his idea of scripture.
That's not Jesus Christ's idea of scripture.
He quoted it all the time and used it as the truth that spoke the truth and transformed it by being present, just like if you meet me, you know more about my books than the person who wrote those books than you know by just reading the books, which are just words on a page.
So he talked, Jesus understood that all the people in the Bible are sinful because people are sinful.
They're broken.
Sin is like this blockage inside the body, okay?
It's like this blockage.
It's like a spiritual blockage inside the body that keeps you from becoming the image of God that you were born to be.
So picture this.
You're in a world of Gentiles.
The scriptures haven't spread yet.
They don't know anything about this God of the Old Testament and the way he sees us and what he thinks our future should look like.
And suddenly through Christ, God's light is shining on people who have never met this God before and it hits that block that they don't even know is there, that sinful block.
It throws a shadow.
And that, I think, is what happened to Europe.
And that, I think, is what has happened to Tucker.
And that, I think, is what has happened to Candace and to all the people on the left who are praising the terrorists who represent Iran and its mission to destroy America and to destroy freedom and destroy Christianity, which is the mission Iran is on.
That shadow of Christian love is what I think Jew hatred is.
It is the supernatural inaction in a body that is given over to sin.
It is the shadow that the light throws, the darkness that the light throws, that people follow.
So the God who turned down power, who created the heart of George Washington 800 years before Washington was conceived, right?
This God of liberty who freed us for freedom.
This is the God who made us free.
His light shines in our darkness and the darkness strives to overcome it.
That is the battle we're in, we're always in.
And you and I, an America, of the battlefield.
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Catholic Doctrine and Moral Truth00:06:18
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You probably, if you're listening to this, you couldn't see that, but it was very funny.
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Ask anything you like.
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And you can ask about anything you want, and I will try to get to as many as I can.
This one is from James.
He says, Dear Sir Clavin, I struggle with your sexual teachings in trying to pin it down.
Sometimes I think I get it, and other times I feel like, if I may use a comparison, you are like a drunk telling me to drink because it helps you feel better.
So he's talking about the fact that I said that husbands and wives should sleep with one another, should have sex with one another, and that there have been reports that people, many marriages, the spouses only have sex once a month because they're too tired.
And I said, you should not be that tired.
You should make time, make appointments.
Never mind all your, you know, I have a headache.
I don't feel like it, whatever.
Whatever stops you, make sure you do it because I think it's important to, it is the big difference between your relationship with your spouse and other relationships.
So he says, also, shouldn't sex always be open to children, which is its true purpose.
This is from James.
So that's a Catholic doctrine.
What he means by that is every act of sex should be, you know, between people who are of childbearing years, should be available to get someone pregnant.
So in other words, you can only have sex on times when you think your wife won't get pregnant, but at least the act is still open to that.
You're not using birth control, which is what the Catholic Church is against.
And that is Catholic doctrine.
It is not a doctrine I adhere to.
I do not believe in that doctrine.
I think it's incorrect.
And the reason I think it's incorrect, but, you know, I don't want to stop you from doing it.
If you're a Catholic, be a Catholic.
You know, that's fine.
But I don't ascribe to it.
And the reason is this.
Things have a telos.
And having children is a telos of sexuality.
Becoming, making people pregnant, is women pregnant is a telos of sexuality.
But things, A, don't have only one telos, and B, there are things that are not necessarily the immediate telos of an activity that are still valid.
So if I'm walking down the street with my computer and I'm attacked by a mugger and I smack him on the head with the computer, obviously the computer is not made to smack people on the head, but that is an absolutely legitimate telos to use it for.
And one of the things that sexuality is for is to bind you to your wife in intimacy and love and pleasure.
And St. Paul, who is no big fan of sexuality, who is much less of a fan of sex than I am, he still said in order to make sure that people act within their marriage, the husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife and likewise the wife to her husband.
The wife does not have authority over her own body, but yields it to her husband in the same way the husband does not have authority over his own body, but yields it to his wife.
So put out.
That is what he's saying.
And I think that to me, the Catholic doctrine is too narrow.
And again, it's the Catholic doctrine.
So if you're a Catholic, you should follow it.
But to me, it is too narrow.
I think that sex is there for joy and intimacy and connection.
And I think over time, the delight of sex in marriage outstrips the delight of a one-night stand, which is very powerful in the moment, but ultimately empty and destructive.
So that's my response.
Lincoln says, dear Mr. Clement, you have spoken of giving your life to art and how this has affected your approach to character writing, including inhabiting your character's vices.
I assume this is related to Keat's chameleon poet.
Should the poet really have no identity and be continually filling some other body?
To what extent should he have no nature?
Should we all become chameleon poets?
Or is this a path only for artists?
Is it even possible to come out at the end as an accurate reflection of the world that is good for those of us who are not Christ?
Thank you, Lincoln.
That is a brilliant question.
A very intelligent question.
I probably don't have time to give it the answer it deserves.
But he's talking about what Keats called negative capability, which is putting aside all your thoughts and opinions and ideas and just writing what you see, just writing the world as it comes to you in your artistic vision.
And I very much believe in that.
I write people as I find them.
I do not only let my good guys believe what I believe and my bad guys believe what I think is bad to believe.
I don't do any of that.
I just simply let the story tell itself.
There are some things that I think are moral truths.
You know, I don't think I can write a guy who goes around raping people and make him, I can make him sympathetic, but I can't make him good.
You know, that's that, you're bad if you do that.
And I can't do anything about that.
However, and I believe that Christianity is very much about taking this point of view.
So you're supposed to love your enemy.
That doesn't mean your enemy stops being your enemy.
Jesus didn't say love the person you think is your enemy.
He said, love your enemy.
And some people are enemies for very good reasons.
They might be trying to kill you.
They might be trying to conquer your country.
They might be trying to steal your wife or whatever.
They may be enemies for good reasons.
In loving them, you take this kind of artistic negative capability approach to them that is very, you know, very much a tool that artists use and you love them, but you still got to stop them.
You might have to kill them.
You might have to fight them.
But you see them as full human beings who are creatures of God.
And that is a very different way to be.
And this is a mistake that people make when I say judge not.
That's what I'm talking about.
I'm talking about you don't judge the state of a person's soul in relationship to God because you don't know what it is.
That doesn't mean you can't judge whether an action is right or wrong.
You are made to judge whether actions are right or wrong.
But when Jesus sat down and ate with sinners and people complained about it, he knew what he was doing.
He was not sitting there lecturing and wagging his finger in their face.
He was simply presenting them with his love so that they could see themselves as he saw them and maybe think, you know what, I'm not giving my best to this guy who loves me this much.
That's why I think art can be an incredibly religious experience, even if you're writing the kind of things I write where there's murder and mayhem and all kinds of other things.
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