Ep 546 | When They Try to Shut You Up, Double Down | Guest: Andrew Klavan
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In this episode, we are joined by Andrew Clavin, host of the daily wire show at The Daily Wire, to discuss the January 6th riots, the creation of a domestic terrorism unit in the Justice Department, and the use of domestic terrorism as a political weapon.
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clavin he is the host of the andrew clavin show at the daily wire and he is a prolific author he
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is such an interesting insightful thinker and he is going to give us his commentary his analysis
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about quite a few things that are going on one thing that we are going to talk about is that the
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justice department under joe biden just announced that they are going to start a launch a domestic
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terrorism department in the justice department and the reason why this is a little concerning
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is because this is the same justice department that basically agreed with this idea that parents who
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complain at school board meetings are domestic terrorists and of course they are doing this in
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light of january 6th that we um the day that we have heard from people like kamala harris is the day
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that will live in infamy right along with pearl harbor and 9 11 wow we are going to get andrew clavin's
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insight on all of that um and then we're going to talk about several other things that are going on
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you're really really going to enjoy this conversation so without further ado here is our
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friends andrew clavin andrew thank you so much for joining us uh first i want to get your reaction
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to a headline that i just saw on twitter it's an ap headline that says that the justice department is
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creating a unit focused on domestic terrorism this is seemingly something that they're um that
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they're doing to commemorate the anniversary of january 6th the worst day in american history at
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least since 9 11 if not worse than that day um tell me your reaction to this maybe your reaction
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to also some of the uh headlines surrounding january 6th this year and where you think this is headed
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well i mean in one sense it would be hilarious if it weren't frightening another sense frightening if it
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weren't hilarious uh you know january 6th i i said from the beginning i think it was a bad thing i think
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trump handled it badly uh and i'm not making any excuses for him he should have gotten off his butt and
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got out there and stopped it uh right away you don't overturn an election without proof that there is
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that the election has been stolen however however the people who incited the george floyd riots george
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floyd a career criminal who probably died of a fentanyl overdose whether or not the policing in
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that case was good or bad it was bad but still this to elevate this career criminal and make it seem as
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if that were an example of the uh countrywide racism in police forces which is nonsense to incite riots
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to stand by while those riots took place to then go on the news and tell us that the riots were mostly
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peaceful those riots caused 20 times more damage more violence uh and more lasting uh um damage to
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the society than january 6th a bunch of clowns who got over their skis a little bit uh in the middle of
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a protest for them to talk about january 6th as if it were a unique example of political violence after
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having caused and covered up the political violence of the summer of blm riots is obscene and to use
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that to try and um identify those of us who disagree with them basically the entire republican party or
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those who show up at school board meetings in defense of their children's education to identify
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them as terrorists and to use the force of the law against them is really really dangerous i mean i'm not
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the first person to understand that almost everything the left charges the right with is what
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they do uh they for four years we heard about what an authoritarian trump is uh and now they've got the
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fbi investigating parents uh who show up at school board meetings to protest bad teaching and basically
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people who think that the election was rigged you know which which listen the election may or may not
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have been stolen but it was certainly rigged i mean it's rigged when you uh knock the hunter biden news
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off all social media when you ban discussing what the election was rigged or not uh so you know
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this is really dangerous stuff the only thing about it is i don't think it's going to sell
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and that's the only reason i'm not really frightened by it the american people remain a very uh sensible
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and common sense people despite what you see about the people on social media uh even most democrats
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i'm talking about like 67 of democrats feel that the january 6 riot was a protest that got out of
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control uh i think 85 percent of republicans i'm talking off the top of my head but it's something like
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that 85 percent of republicans feel it was a protest that got out of control i think that's accurate
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uh and i think the attempt to turn all people who stand against their socialist plans into terrorists
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is obscene there's so much in in what you just said that i want to unpack one thing that
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you said that we've talked about a lot is the projection that we often see from the left
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obviously not the entirety of the left but at least the activist left the political left that we see
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on twitter and in congress calling trump and everyone who supports trump in particular white
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evangelical christians of course i check those those boxes and when i see articles saying that
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january 6th is the terrorism of white evangelical christians and the evangelical fascist christian
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nationalist state is imminent as they have been saying for the past 50 years in intelligentsia by
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the way um i just have i have to stop for a second and consider how it is possible for someone to live in a
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world where they think that is reality when all of the threats of authoritarianism at least right now
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are coming from the left when all of the institutions in the united states and maybe globally are dominated
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by left-wing ideology when you see the countries that look more like police states right now because of
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uh you know covet restrictions places like canada and australia that are limiting things like free
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speech the freedom to work and provide for your family freedom of uh freedom of worship these are not
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right-wing conservative nations and governments that are limiting these things or conservative
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institutions and businesses that are limiting freedom of expression these are all left-wing
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institutions the right are not the people trying to limit someone's freedom to provide for their
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family based on their medical decisions that is a decidedly uh left-wing action that is currently being
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taken the authoritarian call is coming from inside the house when it comes to the left
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yes yes yes i i agree with you there were a bunch of fools that did a lot of foolish and in some
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cases violent things on january 6th i feel no affiliation or need to justify those people but when we're
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talking about institutional power and the actual ability to be able to um enact any kind of tyranny
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you are looking at an exclusively left-wing authority um that allows that allows the institutions of the
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people in power to be able to limit people's freedoms don't you think don't you think that this is all
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just exclusively projection from the left who's complaining about christian nationalism fascism
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tyranny coming from the right it's a trick you can pull when you own the media which essentially they do
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if you get a hundred people together who espouse a philosophy 10 of those people are going to be
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extremists where are our extremists our extremists are on the comment sections of our websites they're on
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twitter making a lot of noise you know they they show up whenever they call for a meeting of some
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you know white supremacist hyper right-wing clowns 10 people show up i mean they and even they can't
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even gather a quorum uh to get a good uh you know hate rally going however where are the left's
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extremists they're in congress right now they're in the white house oddly enough because biden is just
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a make-believe uh leftist but that's still he's doing that they they are in the academy
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they're on television they're in uh the businesses they're running businesses the businesses have
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become woke our corporations have become woke they're knocking people off the biggest platforms
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in the world twitter facebook google is woke so that's where their radicals are and our radicals
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are basically expelled from the center of the movement so what they do is they use their cameras
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to focus on those few radicals that we have that most of us don't even like or want to be part of
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uh and and then they sort of say to us well we're not radicals the radicals are over there and
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it's it is insane because you know when you have a group that calls itself the resistance that agrees
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with universities that agrees with businesses you know that agrees with uh hollywood what are they
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resisting they're resisting the people and that is the real problem that we have is the notion that
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the individual man and woman has a right to his own life to his own thoughts to his own ideas to his
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own worship that's what we're defending and you know what the funny thing about that is that is
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the only radical idea in political history there's only one new idea in political history and that's
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the idea that the individual has a right to his own life that has never existed before it developed over
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long years of warfare and bloodshed and stupidity and bigotry out of that foment uh of european madness
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came this incredibly great idea that's the idea they're at war with and all of their um panic their
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climate panic their race panic uh all of that panic is just directed toward getting rid of that radical
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idea the idea that each person goes his own way and the thing is as edmund burke pointed out when you
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allow people to be free some bad things are going to happen and he said it's worth it to have those bad
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things happen and keep the freedom than it is to have a perfect state dominated from on high and that's
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that is how that is what they argue against because you're going to get some clown who goes on youtube and
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says ugly things in the name of conservatism because you're going to get that all conservatives should
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now be tarred with the same brush whereas on their side they will not let you say what you're not
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supposed to say and yet ali where is the racism coming from i mean i'm like you i'm a i'm a follower
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of jesus christ there is no room for racism in my philosophy there is no room for racism in love your
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neighbor there's no room for for racism in man and woman was created in god's image that erases all
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possibility of of uh exceeding to racism but where is the racism who talks about the whiteness who talks
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about you know systemic racism that means we have to segregate black people out of colleges and have
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them have graduation ceremonies all to themselves who talks about that stuff it's all on the left all
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of it and and i think it they have befouled themselves and they've befouled the country and now the question
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is can we marshal a mainstream version of our ideology that will recall the american people to themselves
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into their founding documents into their founding principles because it all comes down to politics
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in the end it's can we win uh in a fair contest and i think we're going to find out in a couple of months
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there are a lot of people and this is what i kind of worry about because
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we've been talking we as in conservatives have been talking about how uh democrats are hurting their
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chances for 2022 with all of the panic that you just described most people don't even buy into a lot of the panic
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even a progressive who cares about the climate and who thinks white supremacy is some big threat in the united
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states i really don't think they're buying a lot of what the democrats in power are trying to sell with the
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whole our democracy is on the brink and it's because of these uh conservatives that really have no
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institutional power i just don't think most people feel that which is why in my opinion they're trying
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to push this radical voting legislation to take a lot of power away from the states um so that they can
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ensure um that they win elections a lot of conservatives though are saying because they just didn't have
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faith in the last election that it doesn't matter that the midterms don't matter that what's the point
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of voting what's the point of elections when you know things are going to be rigged you mentioned the
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difference between rigged and stolen and i think that i think that's a very important distinction
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there was a big time magazine article basically saying that the election was rigged and what is
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meant by that is that they were all of these um uh people organizations who are very influential who
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controlled the flow of information to ensure that there was a very low probability of trump winning
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that is an accepted acknowledged fact that's not a conspiracy theory so whether or not a conservative
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thinks that it was rigged or whether you know they think it was stolen there's a lot of people that
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don't have trust in the election process so i guess my question is for you like what would be your
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message to conservatives who they have the same hope that you do that we um can convince people of the
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winning message of individualism and go back to you know the vision of the founders and all of that stuff
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um but they mistrust our our process in general and they think that it is hopeless to try to get
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involved to try to even win elections and they just kind of want to sit on their hands as a lot of
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people in georgia did with the senate elections last year um what's i guess what's your message to
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them should they have any hope should they still try to get involved if they think it's all just going
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to be rigged from here on out absolutely i'm in virginia and we just took back the state uh because a
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guy ran a campaign geared toward the state without dissing uh the the trump people but also including
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other people uh from who might be more toward the center the big question that the right has to ask
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itself and it really does have to ask itself this and it has to ask it in public and it has to ask it
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of its loudest uh most belligerent members do we believe the american experiment still exists i very
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strongly do i very strongly believe that the american systems are are are strong uh they're vital
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they can still work if that's true then we have to acknowledge certain things about the american
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system the american system involves talking to the other side it involves compromise it involves
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argumentation it involves making arguments it does not involve charging into you know the capital and
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and shouting at people it involves bringing proof before uh courts it believes it uh involves in
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obeying the law uh and changing the law uh by by legal means that is the american system that is the
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system we were given that is the constitution the the problem with the left is they keep talking about
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the constitution but every time they lose they want to change it so you know they they want to
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pack the supreme court when they lose the majority they want to uh censor free speech when they lose
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the argument they they just want to you know they want to get rid of the electoral college when they
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lose an election but but what i what i'm saying what i think we should be saying is no this system
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this system has worked for a long time longer than any constitutional republican history uh and there's no
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reason it can't continue if we basically uh subscribe to what it is what we can't have was we can't have
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a battle where one side is using a machine gun and the other side is you know boxing to the marcus
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of queensberry rules that's why i was not uh that's why i voted for trump twice i i thought he was a
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loud mouth but i thought yes we have to have something we have to have a bull who goes into the china shop
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and breaks the piety so we can fight back against these people because they will do anything to win
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you know the the thing that really turned a corner for me was the uh me too movement uh and especially as it
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applied to the supreme to brett kavanaugh brett kavanaugh was accused by a woman who could not
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even prove that she had ever met brett kavanaugh that that he had done something untoward in his
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teenage years and all of us all of us have done things that are untoward our teenage years it should
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not basically keep you off the supreme court i'm sorry it just shouldn't i think what what he was
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accused of if they could have proved it would have been bad but i still don't think it should have
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kept him off the supreme court joe biden was accused of throwing a woman up against the wall
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in his adulthood and penetrating her with his fingers now when brett kavanaugh when the charges
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were made against brett kavanaugh it was a story that went on and on and on women on the left were
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writing editorials that essentially said well i was molested so therefore brett kavanaugh is guilty
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i mean insane stuff but it was on in big columns on the new york and it worked on people that kind of
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that kind of emotional argumentation especially for women can make you feel like well if i don't
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oppose this nomination then i am basically condoning the abuse that happened to another woman it's crazy
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so uh joe biden is accused of a much worse crime by somebody who definitely knew him and who reported
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the crime at the time 20 days of silence after which the new york times runs a single column inside
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page on easter sunday saying that there's nothing to this and when dean beckay was asked about it the
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editor in the new york times he said well kavanaugh was up for a an important position on the supreme
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court joe biden was only running for president so we didn't we didn't cover that story so it was all
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a lie it was all a lot the racism the systemic racism all a lot it's it's just a lot and so we have
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to stop fighting as if uh they have anything to say as if you know their accusations have to be
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answered ted cruz learned this the other day on january 6th and i love ted cruz i think ted cruz
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has been a fighter for freedom i think he's a legitimately good senator but when you come out
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and say well it was a terrorist attack no it wasn't a terrorist attack and we don't have to give them
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anything uh they are liars uh they're manipulators they want nothing but power so we do have to fight
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back um at a very powerful level but but we have to fight back with faith in the american system
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in virginia we won an election uh that was that basically we stole we took a blue state away from
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them we didn't steal it we elected a blue state away from uh and we can do that again in a lot of
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other states there's no reason to think we can't we have to stop this steal from within the federal
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government as they try to seize control over our election laws but i don't think they're going to
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get away with it and and i think we should definitely have faith in the system and show up
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if you're just a big mouth on twitter pounding your fist into your palm but you don't show up to
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vote you're nothing you're nothing but you're not part of the system at all yeah and you know what
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maybe maybe there is a reason for some people in some places to not have faith in their election
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process maybe there are some corrupt places like you said the possibility is there but you are
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guaranteeing a loss if you don't show up maybe you'll show up and you'll still lose maybe the system
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will be rigged but you're definitely going to lose we're definitely going to lose um if you don't
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show up one thing that i've noticed you talk about not even giving an inch and man when you talked about
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how things changed for you during the kavanaugh saga me too like and no pun intended me too um that
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is that is exactly when it happened to me that oh we're not on we're not playing by the same rules
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like this is not this is not a fair game this is not a fair debate and maybe it had been like that for a
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while and i just didn't really recognize it but it was during the kavanaugh saga and i remember
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actually vividly being on an airplane and trying to constantly refresh my page to watch the testimonies
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between ford and kavanaugh and when i watched i watched her testimony it was emotional it might
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have been compelling but when i watched him and i realized what was happening it just i don't know
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what happened inside me i just said okay this is this is different this is worse this is more wicked
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and more cruel than i thought it was and it changed permanently how i thought about our political
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dialogue you're absolutely right we can't give it an inch and when you talk about language i really
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liked head crews to really respect him but when he said this is um you know this was an act of
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terrorism well then you have the justice department creating a unit focused on domestic terrorism
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you're giving into their premises i think it's the same thing when conservatives say well you know
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it's absurd to say that a man can become a woman but i am going to basically use the same language
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as the left when it comes to people who identify as transgender it's only ever the right that is
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giving into the language games that is giving into the rhetorical plays that is compromising when it
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comes to that stuff um it's never the left the left is never giving a little bit uh even you know
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an inch to the right and i think that is how we slowly drift to the left because it's always the
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right that's compromising just a little bit that's right and that and that is a function of the media
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i mean the right is like an abused child uh they come out and they speak the truth and for three days
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every media outlet calls them racist bigoted whatever whatever it is they said they twist it they make
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it sound ugly and so politicians who are cowards and who are in washington dc and surrounded by this
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media bubble they think that that's what the people think they think that they are hearing the
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response of the people and they get cowed and they start to make gestures toward uh the left and that
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you're absolutely right that is how you get um you know what used to be called the greenhouse effect
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because linda greenhouse the liberal reporter on the supreme court would have this effect where she
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would move the supreme court to the left over time because they were cowed by the media you know
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there's a wonderful book by c.s lewis called that hideous strength which is a novel about a satanic
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takeover of england and the satanists have an organization and the organization is called nice
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and the left is very good they have organizations called black lives matter uh that have cost thousands
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of black lives by debilitating the police uh they have are you know they have things that they call
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tolerance which are based on shutting down uh conversation that the right has got to learn this game
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i'm talking about politics because you and i know it a lot of people on the on the right in the media
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know it but the the left right wing politicians have got to learn to play this game ron de santos
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knows how to do it the first thing you do is you attack the narrative you do not say you do not
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respond you know i've heard guys actually ask do black lives matter the response to that is black
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lives matter is a maoist terrorist organization that has cost more black lives than anybody else i
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don't care what you call it you know it's such a stupid question it's such a violently corrupt
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question we have to learn how to deal with that media and how to be bold because the people know
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this is the thing you have to have faith that a majority of the people know they are being gained
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nobody watches cnn unless he's running for a plane you know nobody watches that that network
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even on january 6th fox news outbeat the other uh news outlets in its coverage of january 6th so
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people are being gained people know they're being fooled and conservative politicians i'm speaking
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specifically about politicians because they're you know a cowardly lot by nature they have got to
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learn that the media is not the people and there is now this new media namely us they can get around
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that it was big that big media to get the word out it can be done uh and it will be done if people
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are bold and speak the truth again ron de santos really does it well and i think a lot of people
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should pay attention to him trump trump had the instinct and he had the guts and it was very impressive
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but he never had was articulate enough and he was never civilized enough uh to make it a kind of
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mainstream thing but there are politicians coming up who can't and i think this is particularly true
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when it comes to covid you talked about the right kind of being an abused child they come out and they
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say the truth and then they're called not just bigots but also conspiracy theorists i mean this has been
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true from the very beginning it's hard for me to even think of a theory that was put forward by
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the right or um not even just a theory but an accusation especially by people like uh ran paul
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who have talked about the origins of this virus who have talked about some of the corruption going on
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in state governments and the hospital when we're talking about the efficacy of the vaccine all of
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these things that were uh said over the past couple of years by conservatives or at least by heterodox
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people who were all castigated for saying it some of them were deplatformed that means their livelihood
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was at least diminished by saying these things that are now coming out to if not true they are viable
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theories cnn one headline that i saw the other day was oh yeah like a woman's menstrual cycle could be
00:25:42.600
affected by the shot just a few months ago i was told that that is a wild conspiracy that biologically
00:25:48.840
scientifically that is just impossible when you look at the science of these vaccines and now
00:25:53.360
they're coming out and saying well yeah that's a possibility but don't worry about it so it always
00:25:57.440
shifts that's what they do with every single narrative and they'll never apologize but what i'm
00:26:02.820
seeing is a lot of conservatives people just in general self-censoring not just when it comes to this
00:26:08.580
but when it comes to other things because they don't want to be kicked off social media which i do
00:26:12.900
understand that but they also don't want to be disliked they don't want to be called a conspiracy
00:26:16.700
theorist they don't want to be lumped in with q anon especially when everyone on the right is kind
00:26:22.100
of lumped into this domestic terrorist uh you know category people who are concerned about their kids
00:26:28.340
curriculum going to school board meetings domestic terrorists and so you see people on the right just
00:26:33.200
kind of backing down they don't want to get arrested they don't want to get their kids taken away they
00:26:37.100
don't want to get deplatformed what's your message to those people who find themselves self-censoring
00:26:41.540
because of real fear of the threat of the government um you know trying to infringe upon
00:26:46.600
their rights because they've committed wrong think you know my message to those people is a very
00:26:51.940
uncomfortable message i have to tell you this um this this is a real we're really in a fight for
00:26:57.320
the country and it's it's happening hopefully and hopefully will continue to happen mostly peacefully
00:27:02.660
you know mostly we're not shooting at each other but we are doing things to one another that we should
00:27:06.700
not do silencing each other uh the platforming firing people canceling people and all this stuff
00:27:11.880
my message to people is that freedom requires courage and it requires courage from you it doesn't
00:27:17.280
require courage from heroes the other guy you know who might be in on the front line somewhere it
00:27:22.400
requires courage from you every single day and and this is a sad thing because i i grew up in america
00:27:28.800
that didn't require so much courage you know you were kind of free and people left you alone but
00:27:32.480
that's gone uh you know i have been fighting for a long time over the culture i've been telling
00:27:37.840
people that we have to change the culture and that means changing the movies uh that we make and
00:27:42.040
changing the novels people write and changing uh the the songs we sing and all this stuff and it
00:27:47.300
requires all these artists to come out and do things but the culture is not just the arts the
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culture is the way you live now and the things you say and the things that your children see you do
00:27:57.480
and see you say and hear you say and that means that you have to risk things you have to risk getting
00:28:04.040
uh thrown off social media you have to risk getting canceled sometimes you even have to risk
00:28:08.440
your job now that doesn't mean you should be stupid that doesn't mean you should charge into the can you
00:28:13.460
know stick your head in the cannon's mouth and wait for them to blow it off it simply means that when
00:28:17.540
your company comes in and tells you uh that your whiteness is a problem you need to organize with the
00:28:23.280
other people in your company and come and say you know what no it's not my my white skin is no more
00:28:28.420
problem than my friend's black skin and and if i want that out of the company you've got to get that
00:28:33.340
out of the company it is not acceptable it is not acceptable to judge people by the color of their
00:28:38.000
skin no matter what that color is and so you know this is this is the moment that we were chosen to
00:28:44.440
fight you know nobody you know it's like they say they uh like gandalf tells you in the lord of the rings
00:28:49.280
nobody wants to be chosen for this moment but this is the moment that we were chosen to fight we're
00:28:53.960
not being asked uh we're not being asked to load our flint locks and charge out into the battlefield
00:28:58.220
and that kind of rhetoric kind of hides the fact that what we are being asked to do is is very
00:29:02.840
difficult it is to live our ordinary lives with faith courage and out loud to to say to say you know
00:29:09.860
yeah you know i don't i don't actually think that you can live a life without god and and actually
00:29:14.320
know the truth about things i don't actually think uh that you can uh tell other people what to think
00:29:20.200
and silence other people i think you're wrong to do that it doesn't matter but how right you think
00:29:25.540
you are how righteous you think you are if we don't start doing that and especially on this
00:29:30.080
transgender stuff which is an absolute atrocity against women this idea that women should essentially
00:29:35.880
be erased uh from social life actual women should be erased from social life because of a few
00:29:42.280
pretenders uh a few guys who have mental problems with their gender uh should be allowed to erase
00:29:48.160
half the human race uh from their existence to take away their athletic achievements to take away
00:29:55.500
their academic achievements to take away uh their unique experience of the world uh through uh physical
00:30:02.060
the physical creation of future generations that that's that's an obscenity and when people say it
00:30:08.820
and they threaten to knock you off or call you phobic or call you hateful you've got to just stand up and
00:30:13.440
do it because we cannot let our women it's just it's a country that doesn't respect its women is a
00:30:19.460
country that has lost its way entirely and if if we who are the basically the front lines of the west
00:30:25.300
don't say no our women are uniquely women and have unique rights as women and unique responsibilities
00:30:30.680
as women if we can't say that and say listen if you have a problem with your gender that's fine i don't
00:30:35.780
want to hurt you but i'm not going to accept that a man can put on a dress and then take away a woman's
00:30:41.540
athletic ability or take away her place in a school or take away her right to be treated like a lady
00:30:47.380
it's just it's just an obscenity and these are the kinds of things that it takes courage to say
00:30:52.560
but we've got to say i'm loud and proud and a lot
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you can tell a lot about a country about how they treat um women and also children that's something
00:31:06.840
that i've learned over the past couple of years how much our society seems to really detest
00:31:11.460
children obviously go ahead go ahead no i've noticed that too i've noticed that for a long time
00:31:17.540
you know saying oh for the children the children they don't give a rat's patoot about children and
00:31:23.720
it's uh and and this the things that they're doing in our schools uh teaching them to hate themselves
00:31:30.360
for the color of their skin and then having newsmen go on the air and say no no no that's just teaching
00:31:36.200
history i'm 112 years old i was taught history of slavery when i was a little kid i was taught bad i was
00:31:43.860
taught that we did it and i was i just taught it was a stain on our country there's no problem
00:31:48.240
teaching the true history of america in this country but teaching people that they are somehow
00:31:53.460
essentially wrong because of the color of their skin that's a sin yeah you know as you're saying
00:31:58.480
that i'm realizing that this is actually consistent tactic by a lot of people who call themselves
00:32:03.040
progressives kind of collapsing two things so that you accept the bad with the good so teaching
00:32:11.280
history you collapse that with critical race theory supporting women you collapse that with
00:32:15.980
the support for abortion being inclusive you collapse that with accepting the idea that a man can become
00:32:21.680
a woman um obviously we knew that but just thinking about how they kind of they put the bad under the
00:32:30.420
under the good so that you have to accept the whole thing it's kind of like what you do with toddlers
00:32:36.180
you try to hide the vegetables and like the mac and cheese and so they'll take the whole thing
00:32:40.880
well that's kind of what progressives do for the culture they hide the bad under these really good
00:32:47.720
completely innocuous terms like black lives matter i guess it's just a form of propaganda that has
00:32:53.200
always existed and we have to be more discerning but like you said we have to be able to call it what
00:33:00.420
it is maybe it doesn't seem like a big thing to say hey a man can't become a woman or hey life inside
00:33:06.120
the womb matters or hey you know whatever controversial opinion that it is but shifting
00:33:11.760
that overton window back over saying what people on the left and in the mainstream are saying is
00:33:17.840
forbidden to say it matters it matters that is actually what can change the culture and i agree
00:33:25.780
with you all the absurdity that we see from people you know storming the capital and things like that
00:33:31.400
that's not going to be what changes things it's just not i still have faith that words that ideas
00:33:37.400
that courage that clarity can change people's minds and therefore change the culture i just still have
00:33:43.700
faith in that um last thing because you are changing the culture you've been a culture warrior for a long
00:33:49.760
time you talked about replacing bad ideas with good ideas by creating good creative content that's
00:33:56.000
something that you do very well and you recently uh wrote another book doing just that can you tell
00:34:02.460
us about that book and then it sounds like you've got another book coming down the pipeline too yeah no
00:34:07.800
you're very kind to mention i wrote this christmas mystery uh when christmas comes uh and it's still
00:34:14.580
listen it has gotten such great responses i think it's got close to 2 000 i haven't looked recently but
00:34:20.740
close to 2 000 five star reviews on amazon that's awesome and yeah and it's it even though christmas
00:34:27.920
has passed it is a very very good story and and listen i i think uh you know i i have loved being a
00:34:35.380
crime writer i've been a crime writer most of my life i've written movies i've written books uh but
00:34:39.440
this is a new thing you know the sequel is already in the works and um and a third book has just been
00:34:44.680
contracted so it's the beginning of a series uh and i'm really excited about it i'm really excited i mean
00:34:49.380
stuff has been happening in my life that it really has been gratifying i've got a book about um about
00:34:55.460
christianity and poetry uh coming out uh in april called the truth and beauty so i've got a lot of
00:35:01.740
stuff going on i i do feel i gotta tell you ali i do feel that i am waging this war a little bit
00:35:07.700
single-handedly it's not like there's no one else but it's just that i i just feel that a lot of people
00:35:12.420
don't haven't paid enough attention to the culture uh to create culture because great culture is not
00:35:18.380
going to be propaganda it is not going to be like rah rah for the republicans or rah rah for
00:35:23.300
conservatism it is simply going to be the story of what human beings are really like uh you know
00:35:28.560
conservative culture doesn't always look like conservative life it's sometimes more violent
00:35:32.460
more sexy um more uh deals more with dysfunction a conservative life is usually pretty functional
00:35:38.660
uh and non-violent and uh and and usually kind of faithful in its sexuality but stories are full of
00:35:45.120
all kinds of crazy stuff and that's how you learn about uh human nature and so i just try to write
00:35:50.260
books that are uh honest yeah great stories that are honest and and that uh is now become a radical
00:35:57.820
act you are definitely one of the few people that's creating culture to replace bad culture but i will
00:36:03.940
tell you something that my dad always says because sometimes i think you know all of us have the
00:36:08.600
tendency to feel like we're alone or are we doing enough there are so many things that we want to
00:36:12.380
respond to and do and fix and change my dad always reminds me that god can use very small things or
00:36:19.300
small efforts to do what he wants to do we are finite but he is infinite so he always reminds me
00:36:24.680
he just has fishes and loaves fishes and loaves and so god can take what seems very small and he can do
00:36:30.800
whatever he will with it and that's the comfort that i have so even if it seems like you are fighting
00:36:37.420
this battle single-handedly um god maximizes and he multiplies and i have faith that he will continue
00:36:43.780
to do that with the work that you do so thank you so much where can everyone um buy your books
00:36:49.000
yeah well their books are available wherever books are sold amazon i always you know i know people have
00:36:54.040
some problems with amazon but it's always nice to see the numbers go up on amazon because that's where
00:36:59.120
most books are sold so it is available there available barnes and noble and just about anywhere
00:37:03.400
books are sold great well thank you so much andrew for taking the time to come on thank you very much
00:37:10.620
okay guys uh we will be back here tomorrow and let me know what you guys are interested in learning more
00:37:24.360
about if we um again i'm recording this in the morning maybe by the time this comes out the supreme
00:37:29.800
court will have a decision on the osha mandate if so we will talk about that tomorrow but there's lots
00:37:36.040
of other things that we could possibly talk about so please let me know what you are just hankering to
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hear me comment on and discuss um until then have a wonderful evening and day see you guys back here tomorrow