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Healing a Diseased Imagination00:11:29
Here at The Andrew Clavin Show, we don't usually bother with celebrity news because I like to think my audience is too smart and sophisticated for that.
But of course, that's ridiculous.
I mean, look at you.
So today we're going to catch up on the shenanigans of the famous, rich, and powerful because it's degrading and wastes precious moments of our lives.
And that's what The Andrew Clavin Show is all about.
So let's get started.
According to the Daily Mail, Byron Nome, the husband of former DHS Secretary Christy Nome, has been secretly Posting pictures of himself online wearing women's hot pink underwear and enormous fake breasts.
Christy Nome said she was absolutely devastated to discover her husband was a Democrat, but she did feel that this might explain how she could sleep with Corey Lewandowski and consider it an upgrade.
President Trump said he felt sorry for the Nome family, although he congratulated Byron on having such a nice rack.
Champion Philanderer Tiger Woods, while apparently under the influence of drugs and alcohol, rolled his car over after clipping a truck.
Woods told police his life was full of so much sex and success and money that only abusing substances could keep him from sinking into despair.
He was charged with three counts of driving while being an ungrateful schmuck.
Shapely, semi attractive Australian actress Millie Alcock has been cast to star in the $300 million DC studio film Supergirl.
Alcock told Vanity Fair that the role, Definitely made me aware that simply existing as a woman in that space is something that people comment on.
We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women's bodies." The comment won Alcock the coveted Rachel Zegler Award, a bronze statuette of a mouth without a brain attached, that is given to the shapely, semi-attractive actress most likely to tank a studio's investment while under the delusion that people want to hear her opinions.
Medical experts say this delusion is often brought on by men telling women they are interested in their opinions and women thinking that means men are interested in their opinions.
Robert De Niro, Bruce Springsteen, and Jane Fonda were among the thousands of doddering old white people who shuffled out to the latest No Kings rallies, which must have been held to celebrate the fact that we had no kings because otherwise they just don't make any sense.
De Niro and Springsteen got together to reminisce about how they made millions of dollars by simply saying a meaningless phrase over and over again, like you talking to me or born in the USA.
Springsteen said he could not believe that boomers had been gullible enough to pay them for doing something so monotonous.
but it gave him hope that boomers might also be stupid enough to take the No Kings rallies seriously.
Black gay transgender actor Billy Porter was also at a No Kings rally where he complained that black gay transgender actors are having a hard time finding work because Donald Trump.
Personally, I find this story kind of confusing.
I mean, if you're transgender and gay, isn't that the same as being straight?
Like, Billy Porter is a man who thinks he's a woman, but he's gay, so he's a woman attracted to other women, so he's really just a man who's attracted to women.
In which case, it seems possible the reason Billy Porter can't find work isn't because Donald Trump, but because Billy Porter is an irritating no talent.
Finally, Lindsey Graham and the rest of the Senate got to go on vacation to rest up after grueling weeks of doing absolutely nothing.
Graham was later photographed wandering around Disney World's Fantasyland with a little mermaid bubble wand.
Lest anyone get the impression Graham is a sad old queen who wanders around Fantasyland with a bubble wand, the senator immediately issued a macho photograph of himself firing a shotgun.
The little mermaid's slug-riddled body was subsequently found in a pool of her own bubbles.
Fantasyland police are still searching for Graham and in fact for the rest of the Senate, hoping to bring them back to Washington, D.C., where they can pass intelligent, useful legislation.
Because this is Fantasyland.
Trigger warning, I'm Andrew Clavin and this is The Andrew Clavin Show.
What is wrong with our elites?
What is wrong with fame?
Can they not truly not behave themselves?
If you get so much money and privilege and success in your life, can you really not just behave like a human being?
Donald Trump was at the Supreme Court this week because they were arguing about the fact that he wants to rescind or at least modify birthright citizenship.
And actually, his argument for this is actually pretty good, although I don't know how you'd go about doing it, but his argument was pretty good about this.
But I think we should be more worried about moron citizenship.
I think the people.
Who are morons should be forced to leave the country.
I think if you are an actress who is paid millions and millions of dollars to front a blockbuster film in which all you have to do is get into a tight, skin tight uniform and pretend to fly, I think you should and you have to express your opinions.
I think you're a moron and you have to leave the country.
I think people who think the moon landing was faked have to leave the country.
This is what I should do.
I should show up at your house.
I think communism would work next time.
You should not have more on citizenship.
As I was coming to work, so help me, I saw Tucker Carlson say that officials in Washington are terrified of crossing Israel.
They're physically terrified that Israel will hurt them.
Because what would little America do if great, big, mighty Israel hurt one of our officials for political reasons?
I can't imagine how we would ever retaliate.
I'm sorry, Tucker Carlson loses his citizenship.
Next time he says, I'm an American, ha ha ha ha.
I should just come in, lift it.
He should be sent to one of those countries in Africa that have click language.
So it takes him at least five years to learn how to talk again.
And then he can start to go, and the people around him can go, this man is a moron.
I'm sorry.
I've gone off on an unplanned tangent.
I will return now before I get angry click letters.
I don't even know how you would write click letters, but I don't want to get them.
All right.
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Not a stupid one like these comments.
If you are watching on YouTube or Daily Wire Plus, wherever you're watching, if you're just dreaming the show in your mind, leave a comment in your mind, in your dreams.
We can get there.
We have that power.
We will come into your dreams and take your comment.
And if it is as stupid as what I've just been saying, we will read it on the air because how will you tell the difference?
This comment is from Brian Roth, 9209.
He says, The street interviews are scary.
This is a clip we showed of.
People saying that they would be happier with radical Muslims than facing Donald Trump.
He says, so many utter morons in our society, and the really scary part is that they can vote.
The lesbian saying she'd be friends with radical Islamists over a Trump supporter is just an epic level of stupidity and ignorance.
That's kind of the theme of the show today.
The theme of the show is morons in America and why they are morons and why we can't deport them.
Let us get directly into today's episode, America Moons.
The world.
I gave a speech.
You would think that they would, just judging from the beginning of the show, you would think that they wouldn't allow me to go to Harvard, but I actually gave a speech at Harvard this week, which is something I rarely do.
Thank you to YAF for inviting me.
I always love going there, but I don't really do speeches anymore.
I stopped doing them because I just don't like red meat talk.
I don't like to talk red meat politics, and that's usually what people want to hear.
So, I went and gave this very esoteric speech about the deformity of the American imagination.
And I think that's kind of, it's not the same, I don't want to say the same things I said there, but I do want to talk about the deformity of the American imagination.
The imagination is, by my definition, the sixth sense by which we can see an image of the invisible world.
I mean, the world of values, where things are not just things, but they are representative of values.
Be evil, they might be masculine, they might be feminine, they might be healthy or sick.
And the way you test your imagination is accurate is by reading books so that you have a store of wisdom that you can compare to your imaginative view of the world and by observing creation, by looking at the world around you.
And what happens when you put your ideas or when your ideas are put into practice?
If you got an idea out of the Bible, so that's part of your imagination, or you got an idea out of Karl Marx and you put that idea into action.
And you've suddenly realized that you've murdered a million people and brought an economy down or a nation has fallen apart.
Maybe you're reading the Bible incorrectly, and maybe Karl Marx is a jackass.
I mean, you have to test your imagination against the world.
So you have to put work into keeping a healthy imagination so that you're seeing the world rightly, the invisible world, the world of values.
And you're not just seeing what you want to see or what somebody told you you should see or what you were raised to see.
So today, this week, and for a long time, several weeks at least, the imaginative image of America.
That people seem to have, or at least our elites and the media seem to have, and the reality of America seem to me so incredibly different that I really just think our imagination as a nation is diseased and needs healing.
To put it succinctly in the famous words of the hilarious wanker Louis C.K., everything's amazing and nobody is happy.
And that is what I want to talk about today.
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We used to just eat food.
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Here's the reality we've all been told since we were kids to eat our fruits and vegetables, but nobody really explained that what you're actually after in those foods are the phytonutrients.
That's because most people can't pronounce phytonutrients, but those are the natural compounds your body uses to adjust, repair, and respond every single day.
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Chapter one, the moon and the war.
Before I get started on this, I just this minute learned that Pam Bondi has been fired, which I actually think is a positive development, and I hope they elevate somebody who is a little bit more on point.
I'm glad to see that Trump is still paying attention here at home.
But otherwise, this week included this.
This is cut one.
And here we go 10, 9, 8, 7.
RS 25 engines lit. 4, 3, 2, 1.
Booster ignition and lift off.
The crew of Artemis 2 now bound for the moon.
Humanity's next great voyage begins.
Good roll pitch.
Roger, roll pitch.
Houston now controlling the flight of Integrity on the Artemis 2 mission around the moon.
Integrity AMT high.
On time, passing 30 seconds into the flights.
Integrity passes the alternate vehicle.
Target milestone.
Mission Control Houston, seeing good performance on four main engines.
Space Launch System Core Stage.
Integrity, three miles in altitude.
Traveling more than 1,200 miles per hour.
1,200 miles.
All right, I'm not going to wax sentimental about the space program.
I'm just going to sit here and weep quietly for about two minutes.
That was Artemis 2, obviously taking off.
Four incredibly brave astronauts sitting on a controlled explosion, thrown out into an airless vacuum where they are just kept alive by the wit and imagination of human beings, building a place where they can live in that place.
They're going to orbit the moon.
They're going to go further into space than humans have ever gone before because they're going behind the moon.
And who knows what's there?
Probably the man in the moon.
They are going to, and they.
Plan is this is the start of a new space program that in two years, in 2028, we're going to.
This is more than 50 years since Candace Owens pretended we didn't land on the moon.
This is more than 50 years since we've been back there.
And they're going to build, we're going to build whatever we build, an American station there, hopefully before the Chinese build their station, which they are racing to do.
And then we'll all be there and we can have the first nuclear war on the moon.
It'll be great.
So this is just an amazing thing.
50 years without extending our reach into space.
Because from the moon, I assume we're going to plan to go into Mars.
I assume we're going to colonize.
If we can learn how to terraform Mars, I suppose we'll colonize Mars.
I think this is the beginning of what the guy said.
I mean, that may have been a little melodramatic, but I think it's what he says mankind's next mission is to colonize the planet so that we don't have all our eggs in the Earth's basket.
So human consciousness, which is the most advanced thing that we know of in life, doesn't disappear.
When the government does stuff, it does it badly.
And NASA, because we were desperate to beat the Soviets to the moon, sucked all of the space technology out of the atmosphere, right?
Everybody went to NASA.
That was where the space program was going.
And for a while, it was great.
And we were proud of that.
But as politicians started, it's not NASA's fault, but as politicians began to make decisions, they made decisions like, wow, maybe if I use this useless welfare program, people will vote for me.
I mean, that's basically it.
And as you remember, Obama wanted NASA to make Muslims feel good.
That was their thing.
They built this space station, which I'm sorry.
I'm sure there was some purpose to it.
But basically, I thought it was a useless thing that was just demonstrating some globalist photo ops.
It was setting up some globalist photo ops.
But now, because there's competition with China and because the government has access to private innovation from guys like Elon Musk and SpaceX, we are on the move again to ultimately colonize Mars, I hope, and save the human race, which I just think. is great.
And so everybody, you looked out the window, everybody was dancing in the streets.
People were shaking hands with perfect strangers, kissing girls that they'd never met before.
No, nobody cares.
Nobody is even paying attention to it.
It got a couple of cutesy headlines when it actually happened.
But it is an amazing, amazing thing.
And this is part of what is going on is amazing things are happening, but they're not happening right away.
And gas is more expensive than it was four weeks ago.
And that's what everybody is talking about.
So Trump gave a speech trying to tell people that it was a good thing.
that what was happening in Iran was a good thing.
And he told us how things are shaping up in the war.
This is cut two.
This is part of that.
We are systematically dismantling the regime's ability to threaten America or project power outside of their borders.
That means eliminating Iran's Navy, which is now absolutely destroyed, hurting their Air Force and their missile program at levels never seen before, and annihilating their defense industrial base.
We've done all of it.
Their Navy is gone.
Their Air Force is gone.
Their missiles are just about used up or beaten.
Taken together, these actions will cripple Iran military, crush their ability to support terrorist proxies, and deny them the ability to build a nuclear bomb.
Then he went on to say, I thought rather daringly that the people who need oil from the Strait of Hormuz should go in and take it, should go take the Strait of Hormuz and make sure that their oil is flowing because we don't need it.
We have so much because Trump's drill baby drill policies that will sell them oil, or if they need oil through the Strait of Hormuz, they can get it there themselves.
And he said basically that he feels that this is coming to an end and it will end soon.
This is how he put that, just cut three.
Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives shortly, very shortly.
We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks.
We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages where they belong.
In the meantime, discussions are ongoing.
Regime change was not our goal.
We never said regime change, but regime change has occurred because of all of their original Leaders' death.
They're all dead.
The new group is less radical and much more reasonable.
Yet, if during this period of time no deal is made, we have our eyes on key targets.
If there is no deal, we are going to hit each and every one of their electric generating plants very hard and probably simultaneously.
Now, obviously, the reason I'm putting this up there is because the reports in every news venue have been.
Relentlessly negative, relentlessly negative.
Four weeks, the gas prices have gone up.
I don't belittle that.
I know if you're a working guy and you got to get to someplace and you have to pay gas, I do not belittle the fact that it's gone up almost at least in my neighborhood, at least a dollar, maybe more a gallon.
That is no small amount.
It is very difficult.
Trump promises those prices are going to drop when the war is over in a couple of weeks.
But still, I understand that it is a problem.
I understand that it's scary.
I understand that terrible things can happen.
Anybody who's sitting there telling you with a smile on your face, the war is all going to go great and everything's going to be fine.
That is ridiculous.
But I want to read you something from my current favorite columnist, Barton Swain, in the Wall Street Journal.
I noticed him years ago, just how good he is, and he's moved up very quickly to have his own column there.
And he's talking about the toxic defeatism in the press, which he says partly comes from Trump hatred, but he also says this.
And this is important because of the Groypers who think we're being manipulated by Israel, which is nonsense, and the left who thinks we should be supporting Hamas, which is also nonsense.
He says the smallness and lockstep defeatism of so much commentary on the war also stems from the normal human tendency to interpret today's big things as another version of yesterday's big things.
A lazy, cyclical view of events sets in.
The Iran war is like the Iraq war, which was a version of the Vietnam war.
All sooner or later end in chaos and failure.
But in fact, he goes on to say, things are very different.
The overthrow of Saddam Hussein, an attempt to replace his regime with a democratic government, failed to remake the Middle East in the way its planners hoped, but the removal of Iraq as a global mischief maker set in motion a longer and wider remaking in which the Arab Gulf states moved closer to the U.S. and Israel to thwart the remaining menace, Iran.
Since then, circumstances across the region incline slowly.
In a promising direction.
Saudi Arabia, under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has undertaken the risky work of westernizing the kingdom and abandoning the cynical policy of funding radical madrasas abroad to buy off the Islamists.
The regime of another implacable enemy of the West in Syria unexpectedly collapsed, an event made possible by Israel's degradation of its guarantor, Iran.
No one knows which course Syria will choose, but for the first time in a half century, its government appears to want amicable. relations with the U.S. and Israel.
Lebanon, also for the first time in decades, makes progress and riddles itself of Hezbollah, which we know is also Iran.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, breaking the taboo against so much as acknowledging Israel's legitimacy, gestures toward a settlement with the Jewish state for the purpose of disarming Hezbollah.
Again, Iran.
Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain grow daily more committed to the work of defanging or toppling Iran on and on.
It's notable, he says, that the foreign policy mandarins In the U.S. and Europe, either opposed or scorned each of the big events that made possible this moment of hope.
It is a moment of hope.
That is exactly right.
This is a moment when things are getting better in the Middle East, which is one of the hinge areas of the world.
I mean, it's not just a place we can ignore.
It's a place that if we don't go in, the Russians go in, the Chinese go in, that oil supply is important.
We need to know that it's protected.
We need to know that that territory is protected.
It's not. only about our friends in Israel, it is also about goods and services and the territory itself.
I mean, we do not want to turn that place over to the tyrants in Russia and in China.
It's not, you know, I feel that so much commentary is stupid.
It's black and white.
And I think that it makes people stupid and it pollutes your imagination of what is going on.
Look, Trump, you know, some people just love Trump and some people hate Trump.
Trump can be a troublesome figure.
He's unkind.
He's rude.
He can be bullying.
He can estrange our allies.
He doesn't always know what he's doing.
He talks too damn much.
And I'm sorry that that is who he is.
But where we were before was in this smothering bubble of establishment think and Permanent government think that was built for an era where there was no competition, where basically Ronald Reagan, our last troublesome president, had brought down the Soviet Union with the help of Britain, with the help of the Pope in Rome.
And we were basically there was no one to challenge us, so we could be stupid, we could be wasteful, we could spend our money on projects that helped politicians but didn't help anybody else.
It was a recipe for decline.
Once that bubble was in place, as I always tell you, any system is going to profit.
And so the people who are profiting off that system, namely the PALs, namely the deep state, were going to fight like hell to keep that system in place.
They basically made us afraid to talk.
They made us think that we were being rude if we spoke the truth about racial differences, about cultural differences.
They made us think we were wicked if we showed that there are values in the world and maybe the values of an Islamist and the values of a deep Christian are not the same values.
Maybe one is better than the other.
Took a wrecking ball to break that bubble, and that was Donald Trump.
You know, all the people who said, Oh, we would have done it anyway.
No, you would not have.
And the Bushes were going to help out.
They were not.
They were slowing down the decline, but they were not in the way of the decline.
Trump has possibly stopped that decline.
There are days in politics when a scalpel is needed.
He hasn't got that in his toolkit.
He's a wrecking ball.
And we needed a wrecking ball, and eventually we're going to need somebody to come in with a scalpel to repair some of the things he's done.
But he is setting us up for a new era of competition.
Of exploration, of imperial outreach throughout the world, but also beyond the world, beyond the planet Earth.
It's coming.
I'm not going to see a lot of this stuff, but you guys are, and it's going to be an era of adventure and expansion and empire building.
You know, the young people sitting around thinking that they're tough guys because they hate Jews and say bigoted things and it's not allowed, but they're going to do it anyway, they're going to have to stop, get out of their mothers' basements, stop posting on X and stop smoking whatever they're smoking and build.
Help build this empire of space.
This is an amazing thing that is happening here.
Trump is setting up a world in which we can compete with China and not just be swept away by a bunch of bribed politicians.
He is setting up a world in which we can go into space and lay down markers there and build things there and hopefully maybe get beyond nation against nation and hopefully all work together.
And the thing is, it's going to be hard.
This is what John F. Kennedy said back in my day before they blew his head off.
We want to do these things.
because they're hard, because good things are always hard.
You know the expression, you probably have heard the Latin tag somewhere, ad astra per aspera, through hardship to the stars.
Who you are, your mindset, you, whoever you are, your mindset, especially if you're a younger person, is going to matter.
It's going to make all the difference.
I talked recently on a show, on one of these shows, about the fragmentation of the podcast sphere and how we were breaking apart and losing this wonderful new power we had to express ourselves in spite of what The government and the powerful wanted us to say.
Fighting Climate Despair00:11:51
But now it's time to cut out of your imagination, not to censor them, but to cut out of your mind those American voices who are negative, who are despairing, who are cynical, who think everything is a conspiracy because that's not true either.
And it's time to listen to American voices who are realistic and incisive, but who live by the advice that the angels give every time they appear in the Bible.
Don't be afraid.
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Chapter two, Boomers and Bad Ideas.
So another thing that happened this week was the No Kings Rallies, which is just, I mean, just the name is stupid.
I heard they actually had a massive No Kings rally in Britain where they have a king.
They don't want him to leave.
I mean, you know, they're just, they don't, nobody, none of these people knows what he's talking about.
And I was making fun of boomers at these things because so many of these people are just older people who are reliving the wonderful 60s of their youth and going out and marching.
And obviously, I am a boomer.
As I have said frequently, I wish that my generation could die without taking me with them.
But what you saw was a lot of, well, some real radicalism.
There were some actual communists out there who believed that communism this time is just going to be great.
But there were also a lot of people who were cosplaying communism.
I saw one piece of video of guys with communist flags chanting for a communist revolution in Times Square while in the background, On this huge video screen that they have in Times Square, there were scenes from the new Super Mario movie.
Super Mario, one of the greatest creations of capitalism in the world.
I was thinking, here are these idiots with these communist flags, an idea that destroys freedom everywhere, that destroys an economy everywhere.
And in the back is Super Mario.
I was going, Mario, this is great.
I want the Mario guys.
This is much better.
But still, Jesse Waters, who always does really good man on the street people, I don't know the name of his man on the street guy, I'm sorry.
I hate to steal his stuff, but I don't have the wherewithal to send people out onto the street, and he does.
So here's from Jesse Waters.
Here is his man on the street interview with a bunch of people at the No Kings rally in New York.
What is one action that Donald Trump took that is impossible to do under the Constitution, but he did it anyway?
I can't name specific laws.
I'm sorry.
I lost a lot of thought on that.
You're a reporter, so why don't you do your homework?
Don't ask me.
Went to war.
Legally, he could do that.
He can?
Putting ice in our cities.
Legally, he could put ice in cities.
I don't really give a about legally.
Rename the Kennedy Center.
Which amendment under the Constitution is he prohibited to renaming the Kennedy Center?
I refer you to the New York Times two days ago.
They had a list of 30 items.
And you read it.
I read it, absolutely.
So, what is one thing from that list?
One thing from that list is I'm blanking.
One thing, I looked at this guy, and I grew up in and around New York, and I know these people, and he's an old, he looks like he's about my age.
They think the New York Times is the news.
I read the New York Times every morning for my sins.
It's a sacrifice I make for you.
I read the New York Times every morning.
It is not the news.
It is a hate letter written by a bunch of sophomoric leftists.
And it's amazing.
And they have incredible reportorial power.
This is the thing that I keep saying to the right you got to get some reporters.
We have lots of opinions.
But what the left has is they have the ability to translate their opinions into reportage.
So they can give you a lot of facts that make you think that their opinions, the way they're slanting it, are real.
And these people think that the New York Times is giving them a true picture of the world and it is distorting their imagination.
Now, look, some of this silliness is endemic to America.
When people are free, they act like people, and people can be really silly and stupid and they don't know what they're talking about.
They get very passionate about things.
The reason I was making fun of boomers of my own generation is not that they're old, because it's no sin being old.
I can trust me on that.
It's not.
I have enough sins without that.
The problem is they are being manipulated by old, outdated ideas.
These marshes were funded by billions of dollars.
I heard $3 billion, which is a lot of money, from communist organizations, from George Soros organizations.
These people are useful idiots.
They're bringing them out.
I'm not saying they don't believe what they believe.
I'm just saying they're being brought out by a bunch of people who don't believe what they believe but want to destroy the country that these people have been living in very pleasantly for the last 70 years, right?
And that's what these are.
They are ways of manipulating people.
And the ideas in people's heads, the imagination they have of what's going to work in the world, of how the world works, that you can change people's nature, that you can change the nature of human societies in such a way that all of the problems that they see and the injustices that they see will go away.
Those are things that were planted there, what is it, 70, 60 years ago, 60 years ago when this stuff started to spread, when my generation broke out from under the generation that was called the greatest generation.
They had saved the world, they had beaten the Depression, they had beaten the Nazis, they had beaten Japan, and they basically, I think, made a lot of people feel that they wanted to be heroes without getting shot at.
They wanted to be heroes, they wanted to play at being heroes, but they didn't want to actually do the things that heroes do.
They went out into the streets and protested in a world where they weren't going to be hurt.
And that's what these people are doing now.
They keep pretending.
They say, We're not afraid of Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is afraid of us.
He's not afraid of them.
They're not afraid of him because this is America.
They can march all they want because we have no kings.
We have no kings.
There was an article by a friend of mine, Brenda Schaffer, in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week, who was talking about the effect of climate change.
And I will relate this back to what I was saying.
But she says, For years, the world's top policymakers heralded the move from fossil fuels to renewable energy as a Inevitability.
Despite trillions of dollars in renewable technology investments, fossil fuels accounted for 87% of global energy consumption in 2024, almost unchanged from the 1970s.
Global oil, natural gas, and coal demand reached record levels in 2025.
Under the illusion of an imminent energy transition, Western governments and institutions stopped investing in fossil fuels.
The message was clear investment in oil, gas, and coal was no longer welcome.
These policies have inflicted devastating consequences, particularly in Africa, where large volumes of oil and gas in multiple fields were discovered in the 2010s.
The U.S. retreated from its traditional role of ensuring freedom of navigation on the world's seas, a core tenet of global energy security.
The Biden administration's withdrawal from its global maritime security responsibilities set the stage for the current challenge in the Strait of Hormuz.
What would have happened if we had helped the Africans start to Uncover their natural oil.
What would have happened?
Well, they would have been richer.
There would have maybe gotten better health care, better civilizations, more education, and people would have been able to trade with the Africans instead of trading with Russia and Iran.
It would have been a wonderful thing.
The most dangerous threat facing our nation as we go into this new world is not China and it's not Russia.
It is the imagination of our elites.
They are Absolutely lost in a world that has no relation, an imaginative world that has no relation to the world that we live in.
They are lost in old ideas.
I mean, Karl Marx was a Victorian.
It's like it's time to move past Victorian ideas or at least go back to the Victorian ideas that worked, like colonization.
You're not going to change people's sexuality.
You're not going to free them from the wonderful misery of male-female relations, which have always been.
The source of most of our happiness in life, but also the source of most of our troubles, as that's the way things go.
Again, it's never a question of absolutes.
It's never a question of one side is absolutely right and the other side is absolutely wrong.
A social safety net may be a necessity.
I think it is a necessity because I think people panic in bad times and they need to know that they'll be taken care of so they don't destroy freedom and hand our country over to fascists and communists.
That's why we have a lot of these social safety nets.
But you have to understand that a social safety net is.
Temptation to the powerful because it gives them the power to redistribute wealth, which they should not have.
The more power they have to redistribute wealth, the more power they have.
The more power they have, the more they're going to end up like all those people I was talking about at the beginning of the show who act so badly because they have power and they basically are protected from consequences.
Respect for the environment, same thing.
It's different than climate change, right?
You have respect for the environment, but you've got to realize that once people start screaming about climate panic, it is to collect graft to give to their friends, to give them.
More power.
Power is always the thing.
And again, I'm all for being kind to people who have sexual problems and are sexually deviant.
I am all for letting them live their lives and have the lives that they want to have.
But we should be actively promoting the male female relationship of marriage that gives us life and most of our happiness.
I mean, babies and marriage are where most people get most of their joy in life.
This failed imagination of the 60s.
Defending True Free Speech00:10:58
This idealism, it's idealism.
It's this idea that we shape the world, that we make the world what it is instead of the world being what it is and us learning how to live with it.
That's what killed space travel.
It was idealism that we could do something better on Earth than we are capable of doing and will ever be capable of doing.
That's what allowed Iran to arm and get so powerful because we thought, oh, if we just treat them nicely, they'll become part of the community of nations without realizing they have a philosophy of their own and there is no community of nations.
That was why Obama was wrong twice.
And that's what caused the butchery of children.
for transgender purposes, which is an atrocity on the level of the Nazis, because we thought we could change the essential facts of life.
Idealism, what happens in people's imaginations, right, is what happens in the world.
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Chapter 3, Freedom Rings.
Also this week, with the other good news of shooting, going off to the moon and the fact that the war in Iran is going so well and hopefully will be over in a couple of weeks, three great developments in the area of free speech.
This is another thing.
If you look out the window, you'll see people celebrating, shaking each other's hands, kissing girls.
You won't, but you can imagine you would.
First of all, three cheers for the Daily Wire.
During the Biden administration, we sued the government twice, and the second time we sued the State Department.
because the State Department had gone full out in funding entities whose purpose was to label conservative speech as misinformation, unreliable hate speech.
And then they used those labels to get conservatives knocked off social media.
This was their entire plan.
We did it openly.
They said they were going to do it.
And social media was our whole model.
That was how we built this company.
And that was how a lot of new media built this company.
So they essentially were silencing Conservative speech until Elon Musk took over Twitter.
With our friends at The Federalist and under our founder and then CEO Jeremy Boring, who is frequently blamed for my jokingly nicknaming him the God King, which I think is much better than me being blamed for it, but still.
But with his leadership, we sued the State Department and we won an injunction.
It's not a money victory, but the injunction forces the government to admit they were wrong and to cease funding organizations that seek to censor American speech, which is against the Constitution, according to the Supreme Court.
The State Department can't use tech to censor speech, and they have to receive training in free speech, and they have to report to us every year showing that they are obeying this directive.
And I just really have to credit the Daily Wire for this, for taking this kind of action.
And I also want to credit all the Groypers and bots and Jew haters who sit in their mother's basement and attack the Daily Wire while doing nothing themselves because they make us laugh derisively, and we all need to laugh.
A second victory, the Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1.
The one, of course, was Katanji Brown Jackson, who is a flaming idiot.
That woman is a flaming idiot.
She is a DEI hire.
I don't even like to say it, but it's just true.
When you act in a racist way, you get racist results, and Katanji Brown Jackson is a fool.
But anyway, it was an 8 to 1 decision.
So the rest of the liberals, who are actually, they're too left for me, but at least they play by the rules of the Constitution, they basically struck down a ban, I believe it was in Colorado, on so called conversion therapy, which is where therapies.
Therapists treat kids with the aim of teaching them not to live out their deviant desires, the LGBTQ or trans desires.
Now, you can have any feeling you want about this.
Some people just say it doesn't work.
Some people say there are abuses.
I think there provably have been abuses in this things like giving kids electric shocks every time they have a desire they're not supposed to have.
There have been abuses.
But it's crazy to me that the state should think that it has the right to stop Christians, a Christian kid or a Christian adult who comes to you and says, You know, I have these feelings that I'm gay or I'm whatever, and I don't want them.
I don't want to live that life, and maybe a therapist can help them not live that life.
I don't know if they can make the desires go away, but maybe you can help them live that out.
And Gorsuch wrote a great opinion.
And I just want to read you just a little bit of this opinion.
He says, We do not doubt that the question, how best to help minors struggling with issues of gender identity or sexual orientation, is presently a subject of fierce public debate.
But Colorado's law addressing conversion therapy does not just ban.
Physical interventions.
In cases like this, it censors speech based on viewpoint.
Colorado may regard its policies as essential to public health and safety.
Certainly, censorious governments throughout history have believed the same.
The First Amendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.
It reflects instead a judgment that every American possesses an inalienable right to think and speak freely and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means.
Of discovering truth.
How great a country is this?
What a great country, right?
I mean, thank you, England, for giving us these ideas.
We hope you rediscover them yourselves.
This is an amazing country.
I mean, that Louis C.K. routine about everything is amazing and nobody's happy comes into my mind all the time because when I read this, I thought nobody's ever lived like this.
No one has ever lived with this level of freedom before.
It is a beautiful thing.
And with judges who are on the left as well as the right, Supporting that decision, supporting that we do not want the government telling us what to think or what to believe, even if the biggest elites and idiots like Katanji Brown Jackson, even if they believe we should not be able to think those things.
So it's a great country, I'm sure.
Look out your window.
You'll see people walking down the street, whistling.
They're whistling.
They're thinking, I live in this wonderful country.
It's unique.
They're shaking each other's hands, kissing women, throwing confetti.
Some of them are just pulling confetti out of their pockets and throwing it in the air as they walk down the streets, but they're not.
Because everything's amazing in America, but nobody is happy.
And finally, this is a more subtle decision, but it is important.
A Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google negligent in the design of their platforms.
I'm reading this from an op ed in the New York Times.
Failing to warn, I'm sorry, in the Wall Street Journal.
They were found negligent in the design of their platforms, failing to warn about the dangers of their apps to kids and teens.
The court awarded $6 million in compensatory and punitive damages to a 20 year old woman known as Key JM who began using YouTube at age six and Instagram at nine.
Now, obviously, they're going to appeal, they're going to do everything they can not to pay a penny of this and to overturn the decision itself.
and $6 million obviously could come out of Zuckerberg's wallet.
It means nothing.
But here's what's good about this.
The decision, the lawyers for the plaintiff did not argue about the things that were said on YouTube and on Meta.
They didn't argue about the content, the words that people were saying, the films that they were putting out.
They argued about the systems that these companies used to hook young people and addict them without telling them that that's what was going on.
I believe that there is certain kinds of censorship that I actually believe in.
The Supreme Court started to use the term free expression, but that's not what the Constitution protects.
It protects free speech, it protects ideas, it protects what people say and think, and I believe in that 100 percent that the government should never be able to stop people from expressing their ideas, their beliefs, their faith, even their bigotries, even their hatred.
I'm not afraid of that.
If everybody gets to speak, I do believe the marketplace of ideas will win out.
When Hitler came to power, there were plenty of laws blocking anti Semitic speech.
That's not what we need.
We need free speech.
That's how you stop this stuff.
But I do believe that addictive algorithms can be stopped.
And I do believe that censorship online can be stopped.
And I think porn can either be censored or at least strongly blocked from getting to young people.
And I even think you can ban flag burning.
I mean, that may be free expression, but it's not free speech.
It's not saying an idea.
You can say America stinks if you want to.
That's fine, but you shouldn't be able to ban the flag.
But we cannot ban even the worst people, AOC, Tucker Carlson, they should be allowed to speak.
But the other side of that is it creates a responsibility in each and every one of us to speak back, right?
You have to speak back.
And this is the thing.
Whenever I speak to young people, someone asks, how can I protest leftism or abortion or sexual deviance or whatever?
Standing Against Stupidity00:03:37
But what they really mean is, how can I do it without suffering consequences?
And you can't.
If you want free speech, you have got to be able to stand up to The people who say stupid stuff.
And this is why I disagree with people on our side who won't condemn Tucker Carlson because they think we shouldn't be having arguments on the right.
He's not on the right.
I don't know where he is.
He's certainly not in the right.
But yes, you have to speak up against hate speech or the hateful stuff wins.
I mean, that's just the way it is.
And if people stand up and say, you know, support Hamas as they do on the left, you got to stand up against them too, even when they call you names.
Freedom is a game for heroes.
This is why people don't like it.
Freedom is a game for heroes.
It is not a game for people who want to play video games all day or smoke dope or sit around and make comments on X that they take no responsibility for.
It is a game for people who are willing to sacrifice to say what they want.
And I say this as someone who has done it.
And I think that it is something for people far braver than me to be really free.
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So I began by talking about what I was talking about at Harvard, about the imagination as the sixth sense in which we form an image of the invisible world, the world of values where things are not just things, where they represent good and evil, masculinity and femininity, spiritual health and sickness and all these things.
And those values that they represent, they either exist at another level, at a spiritual invisible level in the mind of God, essentially, or they're just random ideas generated by our sexual drives or our will to power or evolution, whatever theory you go by.
Case, all of this deformity of the imagination is all real.
We can change our ideas and change the world.
We can make evil good by calling abortion women's health care.
We can turn manhood into womanhood by putting on a string of pearls or wearing a dress.
We can change anything because our ideas, our vision is not related to God's vision.
We're not made in God's image, so there's no vision for us to relate to and everything is up for grabs.
Interrogating Our Vision00:14:20
But obviously, I believe that that is not true.
I believe that the The idea that our vision of the world can be right and it can be wrong is because there is a right and wrong in the mind of our Creator.
So, at my speech, I was trying to get this across and I started talking about Shakespeare because Shakespeare knew everything.
And I was talking about Macbeth.
And Macbeth, if you've never seen it or read it, is about a Scottish prince.
He meets some satanic witches.
They tell him that he is going to become the King of Scotland.
And he goes home to his wife, and his wife says, Well, to be the King, You got to beat the king.
You got to kill the king and kill all the people between you and the throne.
And when he doesn't want to do that, when Macbeth doesn't want to do that, she turns herself into the man in the relationship.
She says to the spirits around her, she says, unsex me.
Take my tender femininity away because my husband has too much of the milk of human kindness in him.
That's where we get that phrase, and it means that Macbeth is too much of a woman.
So she reverses their sex roles and she talks him into killing his way to the throne.
A moral universe that's different than the moral universe we know.
And she invents that for him, and he lives in that universe, kills his way to the throne, and of course becomes miserable and is a tyrant, and he's attacked by rebels.
And just before he goes on to fight the rebels, which is his final battle, his wife kills herself because she's racked with guilt at what she's done.
And this is the speech, one of the most famous speeches in all of literature, in which Macbeth declares that life is meaningless.
Here's Denzel Washington as Macbeth delivering this brief speech.
This has got six.
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
Out.
Out, brief candle.
Life is but a walking shadow.
A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
So you heard that.
He says life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury.
But it signifies nothing.
That's what he's talking about.
That's what Shakespeare is talking about and Macbeth is talking about that it means nothing.
Our actions don't refer to anything else.
So if I take an action, it can't be good or bad because there is no good or bad for it to refer to.
Being a woman has no responsibility to be feminine because there is no femininity, no idea of femininity in the mind of God for it to refer to.
A woman can be any way she wants, and a man has no responsibilities as a In his manhood, because there is no idea of manhood in the mind of God.
It signifies nothing.
There's nothing for it to signify.
Now, here was a question that I asked at Harvard, and I'll ask it of you.
Do you believe that Shakespeare believed that?
When you hear that play, and I tell you the plot of that play, and I tell you the story of the play, do you say, oh, Shakespeare believed that life is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing?
Or do you say, no, wait a minute, I've got to understand the play.
Only Macbeth is saying this, but Macbeth is a character.
In a larger creation.
And that creation was made by Shakespeare, and maybe he was saying something else.
Maybe he was saying that when Lady Macbeth undoes Genesis creation by unsexing herself, by, you know, originally the woman is pulled out of Adam, Eve is pulled out of Adam, but now she pulls the woman out of herself, so she undoes creation.
When she did that and created another moral order in which Macbeth could kill his way to the throne, did she separate Macbeth from what?
He signified so that he now feels life signifies nothing because she's dead and the world that she created has vanished with her.
You interrogate the play, you ask the play because you know the play has an author.
That is the point.
You know the author has a mind, you know the mind has a vision, and you try to understand, you interrogate the creation, Shakespeare's creation, to help you know Shakespeare's vision so you can see the play rightly instead of misreading the play.
And that is exactly what you do.
When you believe in God, you interrogate the world.
That's what the Bible is.
The Bible is a.
The Old Testament is the story of a civilization from its inception to its essential end as an empire.
It rises to empire and then it dies.
That's what happens to civilizations.
It goes through an entire cycle of civilization with the people in it interrogating the events that happen to try and find out what this mind that created them, what its vision is, so we can see the world rightly.
And then we get a little help seeing the world rightly by the fact that Jesus.
Actually, he comes down and shows himself to us, which makes it a little easier for us to see the world rightly.
All of the things we're going through, all of them are connected to the fact that we have lost our ability as a civilization.
I'm not talking about individuals.
I'm talking as a civilization.
We have lost our ability to interrogate the world in search of the mind of our Creator.
And yes, do I believe the Bible is a special book that helps us?
But yes.
But you also have to interrogate, as I think St. Augustine said, you have to interrogate the book of creation.
It is made by the author.
He left his fingerprint there.
He left his thumbprint on the earth.
Find his vision by looking at it and consulting with the great books, including the Bible, and maybe especially I would say the Bible.
But you have to be doing that, and we have stopped doing it.
And that is where this incredible stupidity that has leaked into our imaginations is coming from.
And the fact that we are depressed that Donald Trump's ratings are now in the toilet, that we think that we are in the midst of a disaster when we are in the midst of a glorious new era, I believe.
or at least the possibility of a glorious new era, that we are sitting here tearing each other to shreds instead of celebrating, walking down the street, shaking each other's hands, whistling a happy tune, throwing confetti in the air, kissing women in the streets.
The fact that we are not doing that is all of it, all of it goes back to the fact that we no longer know how to interrogate creation to find out the meaning of the intentions of its creator so that we can see the world rightly.
I hear people screaming at each other, you're not a good Christian, you're not doing this, you're gay, you're doing this wrong.
You're saying this wrong.
You don't believe in the Trinity.
You know what?
I think there's a reason.
There's a reason God told us not to pay attention to other people's sins, but to pay attention to ourselves.
Because what you should really be saying is, am I seeing things rightly or wrongly?
And how do I know?
Because if you interpret the Bible so you end up hateful, then you know you've made a mistake.
You've taken a wrong turn.
Jesus tells you that.
He says, love God, love your neighbor.
That's what it's all hung on.
So if you make a mistake and you become a hater, if you become somebody who is constantly attacking other people for being who they were born as, Maybe you've made a mistake.
You have to be doing this all the time, and you have to be doing it especially when you are a free person.
And if you want to stay a free person, you have to be able to say what you find out loud.
Even if it means somebody says to you, you know what, you're wrong because of this and that, and you think, oh, rats, I'm wrong, right?
You have to not be afraid of that.
In fact, all in all, that's what you have to be.
You have to not be afraid.
Don't be afraid.
Speak freely, think freely, think all the time about whether your imagination is lining up with reality and this new era.
Is going to be unbelievable.
Don't be afraid.
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But please send it in.
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Dear Andrew from Anonymous, I always enjoy listening to.
To your perspective on Judaism and Christianity, given your life experience, why do you think the Jews are exempt from the most basic requirement of Christianity as I understand it, namely accepting Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior?
I get the idea that God made a covenant and he won't renege on it, but if Jesus really is God, then why are the Jews allowed to keep on as if he were not the Messiah and reject him?
Thank you for doing the hard things fighting for the arts and culture and truth and beauty.
So this is signed, but it says anonymous at the top, so I'm going to go with anonymous.
I don't say any, this is not what I say.
I believe that only Christ can save.
And I believe that if I don't accept Christ, I can't know Christ.
What I don't do is judge anything that anybody else is doing because salvation is with Christ.
All of it.
I don't get a vote.
I don't get a, no one asks my opinion.
I don't, you know, get polled.
The pollsters don't call me up.
I have no, I have zero input into who gets saved and who goes to God.
The way I read the Bible, I think there are people who serve God without knowing it.
And I think that that is going to be made good.
In the next world, but that doesn't mean that they don't accept Christ.
It simply means that Christ makes the decision.
He makes the call.
He makes the call.
And, you know, people, it's right there in the Bible.
When Jesus says, judge not, people say, well, what he meant is, what he meant was, do not judge that.
When he said, you know, remove the plank from your eye before you judge the moat in another eye, he didn't mean remove the plank from your eye and then judge the moat.
He was using Jewish irony.
He was saying, you're never going to get that plank wholly out of your eye.
So pay attention to yourself.
That's all I say.
And so sometimes I look at people and I think, you know, I don't know.
I think God is going to recognize this guy as a believer when he gets there, even if the guy didn't know he was a believer.
But what do I know?
That is what I think.
I think this idea that we have some say and have to open our mouths and talk about who's going where after life is over, I just think is a mistake.
Dear Andrew, in your interview with Mike Slater on Wednesday, you said that the only way to stop a porn addiction is to just stop.
I say this as a longtime listener and fellow Clavenon conspirator, but I found this to be simplistic and frankly insulting.
At the age of 14, I mysteriously lost my hearing in both ears, a disability that I will endure for the rest of my life.
In my isolation, I turned to porn.
I've been addicted for over 10 years.
Over the last several months, I've made great strides in overcoming it, but it's still a part of my life.
I hate it.
I despise it.
Why can't I just stop?
Porn addiction never exists in a vacuum.
It's a symptom, not a cause.
Beneath every porn addict, Is a wounded, lonely, tormented soul.
The wound must be healed or else the resulting fever will never break.
God bless you and your work, also anonymous.
Okay, first of all, I admire you for battling this and making great strides in overcoming it.
I understand how painful it is when sometimes you slip off the wagon, but I admire and respect you for doing it.
You're wrong, 100% wrong about the wound must be healed or else the resulting fever will never break.
You don't have to heal your problems to stop watching porn.
You have to stop watching porn.
And if you have to do it, you know, in some kind of, you know, I'm going to do it for 30 days and then I'm going to wank myself to death and then I'm going to do it for 40 days and then I'm going to do it for 50 days.
You know, I don't care how you do it, but you got to do it.
You got to stop.
And then that problem will be gone.
And maybe, yeah, now, you know, you know, look, when serial killers who have this compulsion to murder and torture people, when they're arrested and put in prison, they stop murdering and torturing people because they have to.
Do they go crazy?
Do they dissolve?
Do they bang their heads against the wall until they die?
No, no.
They just don't do it anymore because they can't.
You can't.
You can't do it anymore.
That's what Slater was saying.
It's off the table.
You are not allowed to do it anymore, so don't do it anymore.
The only thing stopping you is your willpower.
If you fail, the next day go back to what you were doing and do it again.
I mean, I'm sorry.
I know it's not a good answer.
It's the only answer.
You don't sit around and wait.
I've got to wait till my problems are over, till the stress is gone before I stop smoking cigarettes or stop drinking.
You've got to stop drinking, stop smoking cigarettes.
It's only making the problem worse.
Every time you do it, It's worse.
So stop.
Fight back.
You sound like you are fighting back and God bless you for it.
And I hope you make it.
I think you will.
I don't think you have to surrender.
I don't think you have to, you know, telling yourself, I have to heal my inner problems before I can give up porn is feeding the weakness.
It's feeding the weakness.
We're all weak.
We're all weak.
You know how you be strong?
You be strong by being strong.
That's it.
You be strong even though you're weak.
That's the answer.
Just like being brave.
You're brave even though you're afraid.
You know, it's like I have to solve my fear problem before I can be brave.
No, you have to be brave.
Same thing with Bourne.
I'm sorry.
I wish it were easier.
All right.
I got to stop there unless you are a member.
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Yes.
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