The Long Fight for Culture

Well, folks, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I always try to be honest with you. and the truth is, something terrible has happened Elon Musk has become a trillionaire So now Everything is ruined It seems like only a week ago when Musk was just worth nine hundred billion dollars and life was great in this country. I had a beautiful wife, a couple of wonderful kids. Now I look at my family and sure, I still love them and all, but not like I'd love a trillion dollars. I mean, that's a lot of money But I don't have it. And Elon Musk does. so Everything is ruined It's just like they said on the socialist website Left Voice A trillionaire Elon Musk is a morbid symptom of capitalism. That's right. Capitalism simply is not fair. After all, the Soviet Union had socialism for seventy years and ended up with nothing Musk shows up in a capitalist country with two thousand dollars in his pocket just thirty seven years ago, and now he's a trillionaire Everything is rued Alexandria Ccasio Cortez was obviously right too, when she said You can't earn that much money just by creating Tesla with its new energy storage systems and Starlink, with its worldwide network of satellite connections or Neuralink, which gives paralyzed people the ability to use computers with their minds and SpaceX with its rocket ships that go into space and then come down and land safely on a platform the size of an inner tube So they can be used again and ultimately take mankind to Mars earn that much money just by doing those things. Musk must have cheated his employees by forcing them to work for low wages and stock options that have now made four and a half thousand of those employees millionaires themselves And okay, that might make them happy now, but wait till they find out, they only have a lousy million bucks. while Musk is a trillionaire. Everything's ruined. To give credit where credit is due A lot of politicians did try to stop this from happening Senator Elizabeth Warren did a tribal dance to the great sppirit of suun and Sky who lives on Mackinack Island Warren asked the greatreat Spirit of Sun and Sky to stop the fork tongued white man from taking all that money, like the whites took the land that belonged tolizabeth Warren's Native American ancestors Unfortunately, the great spirit of sun and sky just looked down from Mackinac Island and said, told that white girl she could dance Then he handed out cards, good for a free gin and tonic at his new Sun and Sky casino on Mackinack Island and before we knew it Musk was a trillionaire, Everything was wrong And just think what good we could have done with all that money if Musk hadn't taken it There are almost eight hundred thousand homeless people in America If Musk just divided his wealth among them, each and every homeless person could be smoking meth through a rolled hundred thousand dollars bill and talking to Venutians using a helmet made out of genuine tin foil Even if Mus just gave Eough money to help one location That would be something. for instance There' seventy thousand homeless people in the tent cities of Los Angeles alone If Musk just gave one billion dollars to the public officials there, I bet within a month there would be some very happy public officials driving their Ferrararsis past the th cities of Los Angeles Instead Elon Musk is a trillionaire and Everything is ruined Let's face it. A trillion dollars in the hands of one individual just gives that individual too much power With that much money, Elon Musk could come over my house and order me to do whatever he wanted, and I would have to do it. Unless I didn't want to, then I wouldn't have to do it. Still, it would be really annoying to have Elon Musk coming to my house shouting orders at me all the time, but thatll is his problem That's the bad news Everything is ruined The good news is, we're going to Mars Tgger Moning, I'm Andrew Claan and this is the Andrew Clavin Sh All right, the vast right wing conspiracy known as Cleavanon takes up where it left off before I went on vacation And my new Cameron Winter Mystery is coming out. It's not coming out til fall, but it is available now for preordder. And as you know, preordder is very helpful of trying to get the book on bestestsellerlist. 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You should buy every possible cameron Winter book. It is, I promise you But go and buy it. is the best it is at least one of the best series out there, and I think you will really love it All right, let's get to this week's episode, Why is Everyone So Miserable One of the great things about going on vacation, especially if you leave the country is you get to see things from the outside, you get a little bit of distance. And we were in Tuscany. we took some stop offffs in Florence and Rome. Florence is in Tuscany, and then we went to Rome. But we were also just walking around the hilltowns. And a lot of these were scenes from our honeymoon forty six years ago just a few weeks ago. And for some reason, Ellen just trailed after me going, What was I thinking? What was I thinking? I don't know what she meant by that But anyway, I'll talk about some of what I saw later in the show, but my big takeaway from getting away from America and occasionally reading news stories just to keep up and social media posts Think is my sl Why is everyone angry. whyy is everyone so unhappy? You know? I mean, I don't know if it's just social media and the news media. And I'm certainly not making fun of people who have real problems. I know people have problems also. This may not be the best of times Ands it's certainly not the worst of times by any measure. You know, we look back on, you my parents' generation which went through World War I and the depression and all this is nothing like that. I mean the depression we had in two thousand eight, you know barely scratched the surface. There were no breadlines or anything like that So what is going on? you know, what accounts for all the cranking and crying? 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I'm watching all the debate about the possible deal to get us out of this Iran war and the closed strait of Hormz And it actually points to something about why we're so miserable, but I have to get around to it first. They've signed this memorandum of agreement. I'm sure you're following all this. It's the books and the War is fourteen points And I want you to notice right away that the people with the The most simplistic opinions are the first out of the box. For the simple reason that they have ideologies, they don't really even have to look at the deal. So the people who want out of Iran think it's a great deal, the people who hate Trump, think it's a surrender, know all the stupidest points of view. and of course, the Trump administration trying to sell to us is the most simic one of the most simplistic points of view ose ideas all come out first right away. and a lot of people I think we know, they kind of pick up their opinions like you pick up your dry cleaning, you know, they kind of drive by, they look at the paper when a thing happens, first happens. and that's their opinion. So this is very powerful. So a lot of people have very simplistic idea about what's going on. And you most normal people are not paying that much attention There's one thing I can tell you about this deal. I've read it this memorandum that they've signed. there's There one thing I can tell you about it with absolute certainty and that is anyone who tells you anything about it with absolute certainty does not know what he's talking about because we don't know that much about it actually means. So let's just take a few on the extreme ends. Here's Mark Lein, who's a hardliner, wants to destroy all the bad guys in Iran.'s cut one. We know the enemy' going to cheat. We know they're going to steal, We know they're going to deceive. How do we know that? Because they've been doing it for fifty years. They haven't complied with a single deal they have ever signed with us with the UN and the IAEA with Europe or with anybody else. Why is that Because that is their seventh century Fundamentalist Islamist ideology. So you know, all of that is true. M Mark is a good guy and he's a very smart guy I've read his books I don't like the screaming, you style, but that's just me. But I've read his books. He's a highly intelligent man, and I'm really disgusted by the subtle anti Semitism where somehow it's evil for him to take this point of view and care very deeply about what's happening in the Middle East. It's not evil at all. I don't see why everybody else can have identity politics, but not him. And justust because he's right about the Iranian regime, there's no question about that doesn't mean there are plenty of evil regimes in the world, including China's. That doesn't mean America wants to spend all his blood and treasure taking them all out. Then there's JD Vance, who of course was part of the negotiating team and has been leading the kind of sell this deal to people. And I don't think he's covered himself with glory very much. technique that I really dislike. here's just an example of one of the things he says. he's talking about John Put Haris, who's another Jewish commentator very strong against Iran and wants to see the regime destroyed Kut to. right now Right now, we need everybody who recognizes that this is a good deal for the American people and that we don't want, like John Pul Rwardz is saying, hundreds of thousands of ground troops in Iran, make your voice heard. This is where you've got to participate in the process. disagree when you disagree, agree when you agree. I don't like this idea of the president did something I like. like. So I'm out. So first of all I don't think John P Hartts has ever said anything about sending hundreds of thousands of troops into you know, he wants to keep bombing the place. but I is not suggested an invasion that I've ever heard. You know, Vance keeps doing this. He keeps putting these strawmen out there and a lot of them Jewish and then shooting those strawmen down. But that doesn't mean that this is a good deal or this is a good way to end the war. And it's just very bad. He's done some better interviews than this because I think he's getting better as he goes along on Meghgan. that was Meghgan Kelly you heard, who has been kind of towing unfortunately the you know, Tucker Carlson antiemite line, even though I don't think she is an actual antisemite Let's I was a big supporter of JD Vance, but I have to tell you, like I'm a little worried about the guy. I'm very worried about the guy. you know in politics You have to strike a balance between winning and principle If you don't win, your principles are impotent if You win, but you have no principles, your victory is meaningless, right? So you know he's a guy who's just a little bit too hard to pin down, a little bit too easy to turn around. And then of course, there is the Donald, President the Donald. And like all of us, Trump's, Trump's best trait and his worst trait are the same trait. And that is the gigantic hole in his face under his nose. His mouth, the stuff that comes out of his big mouth, you, without his big mouth, why you say it's his best trait? Without his big mouth, we would never have broken the cultural stranglehold that the left had on this country's political discourse, I mean, PC and woke and cancel culture. He crushed it with his lips. He didn't even need his teeth. He just like talked it down, he talked it into dust He has to say everything that's on his mind and because he's a constant negotiator, he is always projecting into the deal while the media takes everything he says as his policy and then holds it against him. So, you know, if he says, you know, I don't care about the midterms, then later on it turns out he does care about the midterms. We think he's a hypocrite. No. he was just telling Uh you know Iran that he wasn't going to be pressured. He had this one moment when he said, I don't care about American finances. Now he's saying something different. This is cut four. Now he's saying why he had to sign this agreement. This is cut for. The alternative would be a worldwide depression You know, the stupid people want to have a worldwide depression can do that Theyre stupid people So you can only go so far dririve somebody into the ground and A lot of bad things happen. Number one, the straight would never open because They don't like floating billion dollar ships up and down a strait when their're rockets flying over them and mines all over the place. So The strait would never be open. It wouldn't be open for a long time. So you know, before he said we were in control of the strait, he said we want unconditional surrender. We want the end of their nuclear program. We want regime change You know, and then people say, well, you didn't get any of your goals. Those were never his goals. Those were things he said because that was the negotiation that he felt he was in. Now that he says there would have been an economic downturn, a worldwide economic crash Now you hear the left, especially like place like the New York Times saying, we came at them with all of our war machine, but they defeated us with their economic power of controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Now that to me is garbage because once they pulled that trigger, every minute they were doing that, they got weaker Act. It was strong. It might have really damaged the economy over time, but they were finding new ways to ship their oil over land. they were finding new ways to ship their oil around. We were sneaking ships out, eventually they would have lost that. and eventually if Trump had decided to go in and take over Card Island and he could have just taken the straight away from it He obviously decided not to. And And the other thing about Trump is that he is constantly the man, right? In his mind, it's not about what's on this paper because you know, the paper is not binding in any way shape or form. It's just a kind of plan for what they're going to negotiate over the next sixty days and T Tump' point of view is if they mess with me, I will come back againain, here's what he said about that this Tump number five. It's not final. It's a memorandum of understanding. and if I don't like it We'll go back to shooting at them, dropping bombs on their head. do ex wor I don't like it, if they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs right smack in the middle of their head Okay, because they've misbehaved for forty seven years All right. So my position on this whole thing has not changed ever. You know, I've started talking about this. I think it was on friendriendly fire Because I thought it was a good thing to do. I thought it was a brave thing to do to go in and really cripple Iran and stop them from building nuclear weapons, which Trump is right about. We can't let they're an evil regime. And this is another thing Vvance is doing that I don't like. He's starting to talk about them likeike they're normal. I'll leave that when I see it. But they're an evil regime. He went in, he really bombed the hell out of them, really hit them hard And I think that was good. But I said at the very beginning, this is a war with a timer on it. And what is the timer? okay? The timer is this. the Venn diagram of our interests and Israel, which is now our best ally. Israel is now our most loyal, our most competent ally because Europe is in shambles. mean you know it used to be the UK, but now it's barely a free nation anymore. Israel is our best ally and our interests on the Venn diagram, very much those circles are almost on top of each other, almost But there is one big difference right at this moment. Iran is an existential threat to the Israeli people. and we have to make sure that they don't get destroyed. It would be a disaster Here right now, the existential threat to us is the Democrat socialists of America because they are moving in for the kill. This is real. You know, Socialism would be the death of the American way and we would never get it back. I mean the real socialism. Trump's approval rating is in the toilet. It's down to around forty one percent because of high gas prices, because of war in the Middle East, which everyone's kind of wary of. We have twenty years of meaningless war in Afghanistan and a humiliating surrender. You know We just don't want to see it anymore. peopleople are tired of it. And I said this at the very beginning. and this is just a general sense that Bidenfation It was so bad and Biden's economy and Biden's America was so bad, we expected Trump to come back and fix that. And we want to see him doing it. Now he's done a lot of good economic things for this country. You know, I'm not denying it. I'm just saying we want to see our president toy engaged with what's going on here. House of representives was always going to be hard to keep in the midterms. That was just the map and the fact that the incumbent loses the midterms But now Yumy The Senate is under threat. It's seriously under threat. and it's not under threat by JFK Democrats. I'm a JFK Democrat. you know strong military, low taxes, modest moves to help civil rights along every now and again. We are under threat by anti American socialists, not just the Nazi up in Maine, but James Talorico, Alexander Vinman, you remember him? He's the guy betrayed his country, in my opinion, by listening in on a conversation between Trump and Ukraine when Trump said they ought to investigate Joe Biden, which they should have done since Joe Biden's son was on the take in Ukraine. So it was perfectly normal that he did that. And he testified and that was a big, you know, in the administration, he's fighting the president of the United Web is fighting the president of the United States. These are really bad people and young people are flocking to them. Soammanani is mayor of New York. There's a mayor of Seattle, in Washington. They haven't decided the count of the votes as I'm speaking yet, but it looks like we could have a socialist mayor in Washington. and the DSA is highly motivated highly funded, They're training their candidates, they're training them to speak well, they're training them to hide their radicalism. and they're laying the groundwork for an AOC presidency in twenty twenty eight. And if you do not believe that can happen, you are wrong. I don't think Gavin Newsom has a chance of even being the candidate, but AOC does and she is a tyrant. She is a fascist Leist fascist, but that's nothinghing says you can't be a leftist fascist For us, it's more important for Trump to turn around get his popularity rating back up because that's going to have a big effect on who shows up and how much power he has as he speaks to the voters and see if he can save the Senate and possibly limit the damage in the House When you look at this deal, you just have to watch TV and you'll see this As I say, Magus Stalars read the deal, the same words that I'm reading and they say it's great. and strong Israel backers look at it and say it's an utter disaster What I say is that it's nothing. It's a ceasefire. It's a ceasefire to buy time to restore the economy and Trump's popularity and strengthen the GOP for the midterms. It was always going to happen. I said it at the very beginning, it was always going to happen. So what's the difference now? Did we lose? I mean, this is the nonsense thing. We lost the war. They're worse now than they ever were. No here is something Trp Vance said in his best interview with Ross Dalthat at the New York Times, the one sane man at the New York Times. And here is something he said, which I think is fair. This is cut six. What we're doing here is we're taking the Iranians at a position of maximum weakness and cutting off their ability to rebuild to get back to the place that they were When Obama cut the JCPOA, Their conventional military is largely destroyed. Their nuclear program is destroyed. I mean, they have no capacity right now to enrich uranium, to stockpile uranium. The facilities that they built have now been buried under rubble. It would take them How months even to dig that out independent of the deal itself what is your administration's estimate of how long it would take Iran to reconstitute things based on What's been done to them in the last two years? It's a very hard question to answer. and obviously, it gets a little bit into classified information, but you know, it's depended a little bit also on how much money they have build an underground nuclear facility with all of the centrifuges and all the capacity to enrich uranium and all the ability to turn enriched uranium into a nuclear weapon, it would cost a lot of money. And so without access to money, many, many years, decades, possibly. So I't suugar coat this. When you read the deal, When you read the memorandum, it seems to offer Iran a lot of money. It takes sanctions off their oil shipments, so they'll be able to sell it for millions and millions of dollars they can make a lot of money to help them build up again and build back all the evil stuff that they do, supporting Hmamas, supporting Hezbollah, all of that stuff and The things that we expect from them are a little foggier as you read it, so it doesn't look weak But I maintain that all this is is a delaying tactic. It's a ceasefire. and what happens now, what happens next depends on who uses this time the best, us or them, whether we use it to tamp them down and make sure they know we will come back and blow them to kingdom come and to make sure that DSA does not take over too much of the American government and whether they use it to strengthen themselves and reunite themselves to the people the people in the Gulf that they were fighting with and terrorizing. The real question to me right now, the real question that we should be asking ourselves is why is America so miserable Trump has to turn away from what he's doing T stop the DSA, to stop socialists. Why are young people flocking to socialists when we know with a hundred percent certainty that socialism is poisoned. It is death to the economy. it is death to freedom. It is death to every. No country has ever become socialists without dying away. And the only time it ever works is in tiny little places where everybody is the same race and everybody has the same values Then you can share out, then you have this ultimate trust and you can share out, you know you can hold your politicians to account. In a country this size, it would be a disaster There is reason for this. There's a reason young people are so miserable. You know, ever since FDR, we're talking about back in the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties We have been increasingly trained to think that government could solve our problems. This was not true in America, in old America. This When you look back on the golden days of America, this was not true We look for big programs, big solutions, big four thousand page bills that no one can read and knows what's in them. So the Supreme Court can't even rule on them wisely and we give them over to these unelected agencies to run our lives. You know, Obamacare, the green new deal. Obamacare is a zombie bill. It doesn't look anything like it looked like originally. The green N deal, which was set to us as a as an inflation fighter These are things that we were told that government could do. Remember George W. Bush said this, when people are suffering government's not got to move It doesn't, it really doesn't. None of these things makes things better. None of them makes things better. Big government, more and more government plans only add to the power of greedy little men and crazy little women who is what you have in our government, greedy men and crazy little women who have no capability to solve or improve anything except their own state of power and of wealth that leadership And finally, as it always does, as the government got bigger and bigger, as it reached more and more aspects of our life, as it had more and more control over every little thing we didvernment. failed at unprecedented levels. Our elites failed. Our media failed. They lied to us. Tulsa Gabbard just released a list of bioabs that we were funding you know for you advanced weaponry, essentially, Anthony Fauci said it wasn't being done. He lied. Senator Ron Johnson has released a report showing that the Biden health officials purposely turned a blind eye toward COVID nineteen vaccine safety signals Threats of sudden cardiac death, pulmonary infarction, cerebral artery occlusion, basal ganglia stroke, all this stuff was they knew about and they hid it. Our leadership has betrayed us at every level So Instead of saying, Oh, government should be small and these guys betray us, the young people think, no, now we need a government of good people. The good people are going to come in and they're going to do it right. And we are not explaining this to them. When you compare the young, eager, dynamic socialist candidates are out there to the silver haired drab, old fashioned GOP candidates. The young people look at this and say, this is the future, this is the hope, where the government's going to come and save us. 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I'm not going to read you the details The details are more horrible than I could have imagined and I am a professional at imagining horrible things. That's what I do for a living. could not have imagined some of the things that they were doing to children in these stories. And this is I'll just redo a very brief summary that's not as upsetting. It says the scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that at the very least, two hundred fifty thousand young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma. true number is probably higher perpetrators bear primary responsibility, yet the institutional failures that enabled them for decades must also be confronted in court records and official inquiries around eighty seven percent of those convicted in these group based child sexual exploitation cases bore distinctively Muslim names. And a lot of them weren't convicted, a lot of them weren't arrested people who complained were arrested some of the cops were also immigrants and Muslims as well. The report is headed by a quote from Albert Einstein says the world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it And that is true. There's always evil. There's always going to be evil doesn't know there's hell to pay. Then it's not going to go away. It's going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. And so what we have in England is we have an ideology based on a mistake. What was the mistake? It was the welfare state. It was the idea that the government was going to take care of you. That was the England for heroes that was going to come after the war to end all wars, World War one, and then World War two, they were going to give us a socialist government carry your health care The health carere in England is about one hundred years behind the times. It's going to take care of everything you do.hing you know notothing is going to be on your own. And England is one of the more capitalist countries in Europe, but it still has got this and you can't support that without bringing people in. You can't keep paying people you know, as sooner or later as Margaret Thatcher said, you run out of other people's The philosophies that go behind covering up these kind of crimes. You know, I would like to see every one of the perpetrators of this, I think we all would We'd like to see every one of them hanged from a lamp post, not you know, hanged in the public square every one of them got away and we could jail the officials who didn't do anything about them That would be better. It would be better because then the officials would know you had better do something about this next time and then the guys who do this stuff will pay. far Look, the people who did it are demons from hell, but I'm far, far ang about angrier at the people who did nothing about it. And it's the same here. It's not at the level it is in Britain, but it's the same here that Carmelo Anthony case. He was convicted of murdering his fellow teenager Austin Metcalf. This is the kid. They were at a track meet High school track meet in Texas. It was raining. Carmelo Anthony, Black kid used the tent from another high school. Austin Metcalf asked him to leave. Carmelo Anthony. There was some kind of scuffle we don't know that much about, but Carmelo Anthony took out a knife and stabbed him to death. He murdered a seventeen year old over an argument. and Austin Metccaalf was white, Carmelo Anthony, the killer Back He was convicted after the jury deliberated for three hours, sentenced to thirty five years in prison people, especially black people saw the color of Anthony's skin and supported him with over something like six hundred thousand dollars in donations for his defense. and after he was sentenced Congresswoman from Texas, Jasmine Crockett Made this remark is cut seven. Thty five years For a kid who had decided to go under a tent that was not his team's tent as it was raining and simply didn't want to be put out in the rain by some random kid that he didn't know who was larger than him Listen, a lot of people don't know what it is to live as a black person in this country, but just like you can give the benefit of the doubt to so many police officers when they go out and they shoot some black unarmed person, even though they are trained. The fact that there was little to no mercy seen or humanity seeing When this black boy say that I was scared? Oh Well, if he was scared, that's all right, then. I mean, look. thirty five years, I think was pretty lenient, frankly, what I would have given him, but still still that woman is in government. That woman is in government. So you know she's not doing anything about black crime. if she's going to defend a murderer, a murder, she's defending a murderer for no reason except for the color of his skin And you know, it's the same thing with these anti IC prosecutors. They just chargeed fifteen people with conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers during the IC riots in Minnesota Here's one of them.ere's he's anntifa. His name is Kyle Wagner. Here is one of the guys who is charged. This is the guy. He says he's Antifa. Go ahead. My name is Kyle. I'm Antifa. It's time to shoot up boot on the ground not talking about peaceful protests anymore. We're not talking about having polite conversations anymore. This is not a. joke There's nothing fun to chant about it. Get your Guns and stop these So he seems nice and yet and yet State police have not come out to help IC. local police have not come out to help Iice in many states. In any state where there is a Democrat socialist in power like New York, they're saying they're not going to cooperate with ICE. federal officers empowered to enforce federal law that has been broken. Most of the people, a lot of the people they're sending out are criminals shouldn't be here in the first place What are we talking about? okay? So now what is the right do with this information I can tell you, they live off your anger, they feed off your anger. We're all angry They feed off your anger and they don't even have to say They don't even have to say bigoted things. They don't even have to say all Muslims are bad It's just not true It's just not true. It's not a fact. It's not a fact that all Muslims are evil people. You're a patriotic Muslim who wants to pray to your God in that way. I have nothing to say to you. You and I can be perfectly good friends. That's not the problem. The problem is there is a strain of Islam and it seems to be quite dominant, just like the strain of radicalism on the left that causes causes people to get violent, especially when they're too many of them in any one place. and that is something we have to deal with. We have to talk about that It is not that black people are bad. It is true that impoverished Back people have been degraded by the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party is a cancer on the lives of black people. Treat to say to a black guy, you're not guilty of murder because you're black. That is degrading. That is making a person worse, making a race worse than it has to be. If you hold people to the standards, all the same standards, If everybody is held to the same standard People will rise to that standard. If you say, oh, well, you're bllack, you get to commit murder and we don't care. That's where people will go. The Democrat Party is a cancer on the lives of black people and it has been for sixty years All right wingers have to do is they have to come out and say, ah, they lie. They covered up the rapes, the Muslim rapes. Ah they're supporting the murder. They know what's going to happen in her brain. They know the brain mine too. you know, the brain goes to the bigotry, it goes to the tribalism The truth is the truth is the problem is the ideology, the ideology. All of these things, all of these events that I'm talking about, the rapes in England, the murder, the defense of a murderer here, the defense of people throwing things at federal officers here, all of them have the same thing in common. It's not the evil, There's always evil. It's the people in authority who have an ideology that supplants morality with the ideology. It's not it's that their morality grows out of their ideology. Everybody has a philosophy of life and outlook of life, but their morality grows out of their ideology instead of their ideology growing out of morality. And the reason for that is that They the law of man for the laws of God. That's basically what it is. If my classically trained PhD son were here, he would say, they put Nomos, the laws of man before oh boy, it's Themis, I think her name was, who's the goddess of justice. They put the laws of man before the goddess of justice Sultzonson talked about this in the Gulaga archipelago. He said ideology, that is what gives evil doing its long sought justification and gives the evild doer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others's eyes so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. That's how communists end up killing people to make a perfect world. You got to break some eggs to make the omelette of a perfect world. Ideology replaces the laws of God with the laws of man It is the instantiation of original sin. It is the return of original sin. They will be like Godds knowing good and evil. They won't be God. They'll be like gods knowing good and evil on their own. And you would think that young people would look at the things that are happening in the country and say, okay, you know, we need to get less government. That would be the smart thing to say, but why don't they say it? Because we're too busy jinning up anger against against Muslims, against you know whoever we're picking out. It's the ideology. It is always about the ideology because if you change the ideology, you can change the people. The problem with the Muls in Iran It's not the color of their skin, it's the ideology. It's the ideology. That is what we're fighting. And if you don't teach young people that, then they have no mission, they have no purpose. And the thing about socialists, the thing about socialism is it makes you think you're doing something just by sitting there. You're just sitting there, but the government you're voting for the right person. That's why they get so angry at us when we tell them they're wrong That's why they want to cancel us and silence us and censor us when we tell them they're wrong because their virtue is tied up in it. It gives young people a sense of virtue, which young people need. They need a sense of virtue and mission. We have to start to explain to them why government has to be small. That means explaining to them what people are, what happens to people when you give them power. When you say to somebody Oh, now you have the power to distribute Elon Musk's money You have the power to distribute Elon Musk money. What happens to them? Elon Musk earn his m money by creating businesses, everyveryone around him gets richer, everything around him gets better. Everything around him start opens up to the future. That's what individuals do. Individuals create things. The government cannot solve anything. It can't create anything. It can't make invent anything. They gave all of our space technology to NASA They They went to the moon and then didn't do anything for forty years, right? becausecause they government. They sucked up all the talent in the room. It's only now that Elon Musk is building rockets and Jeff Bezos are building rockets that the space program has started out again. We need to explain this to people because they're miserable at the failure of the people who were supposed to lead them and they have failed them utterly and we are giving them nothing to choose instead There's some things in life that are meant to remain private, your diary, your medical records, the notes you write to yourself at one in the morning when you've actually figured out what's going on inside your terrible brain. 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I was like, What the hell? did you like to talk to each other here That is really trying. This is a high school stadium. What? Look at the amount of seats in this place Do they actually fill these stadiums? L do people actually come for the games to actually fill these out 'ause that's honestly mental. Like that is crazy. There was a ton of seats in here. If this was England, it would literally be like on a little park field with dog everywhere. As know you right now. if we head to Polay in Australia, I swear to God. I swear God, I would be there every single day. M It is so good. Gzman need to take notes Mat makes me to take notes. Like what is in this crap? frog crap. It's just incredible Absolutely incredible There really is like no other. I'm a little suspicious of these. I'm suspicious that they're putting these out there because they're trying to convince us that soccer is good Soccer is bad. soccer is boring People never score in soccer. The other day I was in the gym on the elliptical watching Fox News because I was trying to catch up, you know, with all the news since I'd been away and a man a man about my age, if it's possible this anybody else could be my age came up to me and said, No, no, you want to turn to Fox five for the World Cup I said I'm not interested in the World Cup. And so he got ono the elliptical next to me and started cheering. And you know what he was cheering? So wow, they almost scored. That's soccer, nobody ever scores. you can't use your hands. God made your hands. You know why He made your hands so you could throw a ball with them and catch a ball with them. That is why God gave you hands. It's in the Bible. It says you will catch balls. It says, you will play baseball with these hands. That's why I'm giving you hands. All right, I made that part up, but it still still is a boring, boring game. You know, the other thing about soccer By the way, and this is important. when New York a great basketball series, I hardly haveght to watch any of it because I was away. NBA played this great championship, the San Antonio sppurs against the New York Knicks who finally won Th great cities, right? New York City, our economic and cultural hub and San Antonio, where the Alamo was. These were great cities great When the USA plays Paraguay That's like a guy. Fighting a girl You know If she wins, you're disgraced. and if you win, you're a bully. you know, can' we can't win a fight. And any sport where Iran has a team is bad. I'm sorry Yet, we can learn something from these fake Europeans coming over and pretending to love our country that there is so much to love about this country. It is so free, it is so rich. it is still It's so beautiful. 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That's wildalaskan. com slash Kaven for thirty five dollars off your first order. I know what you're thinking, you're thinking, please tell me out Claven so I can get that thirty five dollars off your first order. It is K L A V A N No ease Final chapter, Madonna Country When I started doing this, you know, there were lots of conversations, How can we get the cure among right wingers and even people who didn't care about the arts, they would talk about the culture. What can we say? How can we convince people instead of just always complaining and being negative and all this stuff? And that really turned things around. I mean, the greatest model of all is people like Lila Rose in the anti abortion fight who went from You know, this is antiblical and you're a sinner and you're to actually, how do we take care of people who find themselves in trouble and talk them out of killing their babies and yet give them compassion and show them a better way? I'm sorry, I know it's soft. I know it's hard for men to do, but it's still important that we are the reasonable people because It's just, you know, if you watch an AOC, I know she's an idiot and I know she's a fascist, but she's, you know, attractive, she's young, she's vibrant. And when she runs, you know, fights against these old silver haired guys She's going win she is going to win and that's a disaster. So our mission is to teach teach the young and also Pople my a, you know, people my age down government that has failed It is individuals. this was Reagan's pitch. It was individuals who make the country great. It is the Elon Musk. You don't have to like him. You don't have to like the way he lives. It's guys like him, visionaries like him who make countries great. It is the people who get rich and maybe they're snotty, maybe they're mean to people. Maybe they're not, but they might be. They have a lot of money. Maybe they treat their employees badly They are the people who make the country great, provide jobs for everybody else, and also open the way into the future by finding ways to make profit off technology and new things You know So our mission is to teach people about this and you have to do it through the culture. Now I got a letter for the clapacks today from a guy named Paul. I just want to read you this letter. He said, Hello exxalted One, Culture is nebulous. It's a word that means different things to different people. Please state what culture means to you. You spend so much time immersed in culture, criticism and creativity that you don't consider the perspective of the guy who repairs tires for a living. He and I really need to start off with a good definition of it and why it can harm us so much and why we should care question because we talk about culture all the time. And culture is different it really means two different things and the two different definitions get mixed up Culture is the way we behave, our standards, our morals. Do we hold the door for a lady? Do we curse in front of a lady? Do wear a tie to work? Do we speak politely? Do we honor truth and morality or do we honor party and people? Those are all parts of our culture. That's why George Washington is such a great man because he shaped his personality. You all the flaws of anybody else, but he shaped his personality culture he wanted to r And the arts which we also call culture, but the arts, let's call them the arts play a central role in the culture that's complicated because they both reflect and effect the culture the culture creates the arts, then the arts help create the culture. So You know, I think for the last several decades, our culture has been increasingly infantile because of wealth. You know, My generation grew up with all this wealth. We didn't have to do anything for it. We basically served ourselves for you a lifetime. And people learned that, oh it's easy. Everything comes easy to you. You just kind of get out of college, go to the right college, then you get a good job, then you get a house, and everything goes right We got a lot of children who spend a lot of time playing video games and you know watching movies about superheroes until all the movies were about superheroes. Nothing wrong with a video game, notothing wrong with a movie about superheroes. But when all the movies are about superheroes, it is reflecting, it is reflecting an infantile culture. Superhero movies are inherently infantile. They're about people who don'tie, they're about people who have no flaws. They're about people who really are sexilist Mostly how could you ever get out of or into one of those suits? You know And it's not infantile to go to a superhero movie. It is infantile when every single movie is a superhero movie and people in their thirties and forties sit around discussing the finer points of Spider Man. And you know that has an effect. So the culture is created by thefantalization of people who grew up with a lot of money, and then that infantilization is passed on to new generations. Civility that you know, we have less civility in this country because of the leftft trying to defend after after the Soviet Union collapse, the lefteft started trying to defend its crappy ideasas by calling you names if you disagreed with them. So it wasn't enough that when he said, well, welfare really enslaves people to dependency, you were a racist. So you know that was their argument. And it worked. It really was bullying and there was less civ, less privacy created by the internet. And so you had reality television that reflected that reflected that less civility It reflected people's emotions being used for entertainment. It reflected a cheap, low way of being treating one another as really ugly stuff. and that made that acceptable to people. You know know Saint Augustine talks about this in the city of God. He talks about if you worship gods like the Roman gods who commit adultery and rape, then adultery and rape become acceptable, you know, and the people worship worship those gods with obscene ceremonies like temple, prostitutes and so on. and that makes it acceptable. Myths of the gos become part of that culture. Right now, I think horror movies are interesting. Nothing wrong with a horror movie. Once again, nothing wrong, but horror movie after horror movie after horror movie comes out and people go back and back and it just tells us that there's something traumatized about our culture, about our young people, that they keep going back for these shocks and scares and they'll tell you, especially young men'll say, well, atast it makes me feel something You know, that is telling you something about the culture, but it's also spreading that culture. Im in Ital with my beloved wife. We've been together fifty years a lifetime. And and'm I'm absolutely crazy about it U and I won't let her, you know, she would obviously run for her life, but I won't let her So we're in Tuscany, and we're going from town town. There are these beautiful hill towns. you you know. ninety degrees and we're walking up these hills and all this. But you go into to these museums and you see just sitting in this kind of country museum more or less ome of the greatest artwork of the Middle Ages. Outside of Tuscany, you start to see in places like Florence, which is in Tuscany, but a city in Rome, you start to see the Renaissance art, which is also beautiful And we went there to, and like I said, we're visiting places where we had gone on our honeymoon. And I was I' struck again, as I've been struck before at how many of these pictures are not about Jesus but are about the Virgin Mary. I would say if I had to guess and this is just from the evidence of my eyes, I have no way of proving this, but I would say that Second to pictures of Christ crucified Pictures of the Virgin Mary were that was the most painted subject. And I was looking at this and I was thinking, well, this is the mass media of their time And I had to think there was something healthy about the fact They were adoring peasant woman, an obscure peasant woman whose major achievement was mothering a child. I thought something there's something healthy about that. There's something good about that. It's telling us what motherhood is. It's telling us that motherhood has a special place in a society. I'm not pretending at all that The Middle Ages were a great time for women. I don't think they were a great time for anybody. But I'm not saying that women got a special respect, although they were far more respected in the West than they were in Muslim countries. but still respect that we have for women now, the rights that they have now grew out of that respect. So culture takes a long time to seep in to arts take a long time to seep into to the culture. Culture takes a long time and it requires patience. And this is something the left has and we don't. They built took over this culture by slow stages. They planned it, they wrote about it, they thought about it. Are we doing that now? I think some of us are. I think I am, but I think a lot of people just think it's now. We've got to do it now. We've got to do this thing now. We've got to show these people how awful Muslims or how awful black people are. We've gott to sell that anger because that anger will motivate people and it'll make me a lot of money and give me a bigger audience That's basically a lot of the right, what the right is doing. Instead of saying, okay What is the culture we want? What do we believe? And I think that this is really important. you know the love of Mary came naturally out of the religion because the religion was mostly a male religion. It was a very patriarchal religion. A lot of men, all the priests or men, all of that. and people just needed that feminine part of God. you know, God made man and woman in his image He He has no gender. It's not like Talerico says he's whatever it is non binary and there's six genders. No, there's two genders of human beings, but God is beyond our all of our divisions. The fight for the culture is A, it's a long time fight. It's a it's a slow twwilight struggle to take this culture back because that's where we lost the country. We lost it there. That's why these kids are flocking to socialism because they were taught it's in their brains that the government can save them. It is in their brains that their freedom is dangerous, their freedom is bad. We have to stop people from speaking. We have to stop people from, you know Michael knowows, I scream at him on not loud enough, but I screamed at him on a friendly fire the other day for saying, o, you know, they're just censoring the wrong things. No, you do not want to give the power to censor to the government. You want to give it to individuals. Individuals can be silenced by their mom, you know, but you should be able to choose what you say and we'll see who wins that argument So the fight for the culture is going to be long and you know, impatience is going to hurt you, is going to not be your friend. It's threefold. You have to live the culture you want to see, like George Washington did. You have to be that guy. If you're watching porn in your spare time, you are creating a culture of porn. If there's no audience for porn, people aren't playing it, aren't making it. If you're not watching it, you become an example of how to live. That's one thing. you got to live the culture you want to see. You have to support the work that speaks into that culture. You can't leave Lila Rose out there by herself, you know, telling treating people with respect as she explains to them that a baby has the right to live. You have got to live support that work. And whether it's movies, whether it's books, whether it's know Political movements, you've got to go out there and work in them and donate to them and do that stuff. And you have to start to formulate what it is that you believe. Why do you get so angry at a rape culture? What's wrong with rape? What isn it about rape? It's just sex. It's just sex. We like sex, I like sex. Why do you not like it? Well, you don't like it because the woman has a will And she's a person. She's a human being and human beings have free will. And when you take away free will, you take away the most important thing they have got next to their lives. Okay? When people come to you and they take a baby's life instead of like sending you know casting them down to hell, explain to them what they did. You know, When you talk to them, talk to the people with respect. This is the culture we have got to create. we have got to do it. And when they come to you, when People come to you with that offer of Vote for me and I will make your life all right. Remember that pitch has been made since the Garden of Eden. There it was made by a snake. now it's made by snakes and ties and jackets. You know, it's the same offer. Nobody is going to rewrite morality. It's not going to happen. The old reality is T commandments are still in place, they still are the things. 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There is no fundamental reason that you should live. But what actually matters in life is the people that you live in the world with and the relationships you foster with them and with God. At the end of your life, you'll have nothing and die with nothing, but you will have those. As a more depressive person, I've been trying my hardest to find a reason or a hint as to why I should go on living. but I think that's all there is to it, says Tyler. Well, Tyler, I gott to disagree with you on this. I mean, I think that there is The purpose of life is difficult, but it's not it's not complicated You know and everybody knows You know, your relationships with people, you're absolutely right. Your relationships with people are primary. Your love for people. love is everything in life. loveove is what connects you to other people, connects you to the world. But you will remember that when you read the Bible, Jesus says, love your neighbor as yourself. And so everything starts with this love of self. But you don't love yourself, of course, because you know you're not what you're supposed to be. There is a self inside you, a Tyler inside you, just like there's an Andrew inside me who is not what I yet am is the seed of yourself that God planted in you from the beginning. That is the Tyl that God wants you to be. John Keith, my favorite poet, said that life is the veil of soul making. Veil is like a valley a place. It's the place where souls are made. That's why you are here. That is your purpose here. It is not to be a movie star. It's not to make a billion dollars a c trillion dollars or however much Elona Musk has. It's not to build things unless you're a builder. It's not to make money unless you're a money maker. It's not to be a writer unless you're a writer. It is to be that seed, to have that seed become the todler that you're supposed to be. It's not going to happen in this life. and if you don't believe in an afterlife, none of this makes any sense but we we all believe in an afterlife who are anybody will die for something. All of us put our life second to something. You know You've heard, I'm sure of men who throw their bodies in front of women when there's danger Most women will throw their bodies in front of a child when there's danger. When they find people who've been mass murdered, like by the Nazis, they frequently find the mothers have thrown their bodies over the children. People know that there's something more important than their life, which hints at the fact that there's something beyond life. If you find that person, you will have found that eternal you. And that is what I believe Jesus was saying when he said, If you live in a certain way, you will find your way into eternity. He didn't mean you will be rewarded by it any moreore than you' rewarded by a good body if you go to the gym. He's saying, There is something that you have been given that you can fulfill. You know who that toddler is, you know you're not that person. What do you do The Bible is full of ideas about that, about loving people, about charity, about finding the charity, about letting go of the things that are meaningless that you want so very desperately, the meaningless sex, the meaningless money, the meaningless work, fame, whatever it is, popularity that you look for to letting go of those things and finding the things that matter. And you're right about this tyitler. you know what those things are already. It's the love that you have for the people and for God know Th those are the two rules that Jesus gave us. loveove God, love your neighbor. And part of that is of course, loving your family and your wife and that love spreads out. It you know love you don't love people. you don't love mankind. Nobody loves mankind. They just pretend. you love the people around you. and you love the people who matter to you and you use that love to grow out. And in doing that You start to find that person you are meant to be, and that's your purpose here. That is your purpose. It is a mission and it's a joy. That is the other thing about it. As you grow, as you grow into that person, you will find your life goes more and more joyful. I know because I started out miserable and I have lived quite a joyful life. I'm telling you that just heading in that direction Turning your ship toward that North star will change your life and suddenly you'll get it. You'll start to get it. You'll think, o, I get it. Every day, I get closer to that thing and it's beautiful I got to stop there if you are not a member. So if you're not a member, you are about to be plunged into cleavelvenless darkness after just crawling through two weeks of cleavellessness. You just got back, you're about to be thrown in again. 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