The Andrew Tate Reckoning Is Here

I'm going to name a bunch of things that used to get you kicked out of polite society. Being a pornographer, hitting a 15-year-old girl with a belt on camera in essentially a sexual fetish video, bragging about teaching men to pimp pose, suckering women into posing nude on camera for your own financial gain, running a grift business where you convince ignorant young men that if they post videos of you shirtless in your Romanian warehouse with fancy cars, smoking cigars, with a bunch of clout-chasing women in the background, they will get rich. Teaching those same young men that all women are trash and whores. You know, people who did such things, things like this, used to be unwelcome. Unwelcome to dinner. Unwelcome at church. Unwelcome in the halls of power. And unwelcomed by important and influential voices shaping our politics and our culture. No longer. But here is the thing. Sin has consequences. Always and forever. On Saturday morning, Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan were arrested in Miami for extradition to the UK on 38 new criminal charges, bringing the total charges against them to 59 criminal charges, including child and extreme pornography, rape and sexual assault. I'll explain all the details why this is happening and what comes next. But far more importantly, I want to talk about why these two obvious scumbags and grifters were welcomed into polite society, championed as heroes and as truth tellers, because a society that embraces sin destroys itself. We'll get to all that in a moment and much more. This is The Ben Shapiro Show. Sin has consequences. I know it's not cool to point out that sin actually exists and that it actually has real world consequences. So here's the good news. I don't give a damn about being cool. I mean, look at me. I've never been cool and I don't care. I have never cared. I will never care because the truth is still the truth and reality is still reality. And sin always has and always will have consequences. Engaging in sin is like jumping off a 100 story building. The first 99 stories, super fun. And then that last story, your face meets the concrete. Yesterday, pornographer, grifter, alleged rapist and admitted pimp Andrew Tate and his idiot brother Tristan were arrested in Miami for extradition to the UK. Their faces finally hit the concrete. So who are the Tates? We've done a few episodes on them. So if you listen to the show regularly, you know some of this. The Tate brothers are two failed kickboxers whose scam originated originally as a webcam operation in Romania where they essentially dragged more than 75 women into webcam pornography. And they made a lot of money from it. But in 2016, after getting kicked off Big Brother UK, it's a British reality TV show for repeatedly hitting a woman with a belt. Andrew Tate formed ties with the likes of Alex Jones and then glommed onto pro-Trump anti-woke messaging with a slew of transgressive political talking points. And this is where his big fame and fortune came in. The next part is important because even if you've never heard of the Tates, your kids definitely, definitely have. Since 2016, TikTok has been the primary drive of Andrew Tate's reach. You know, like Communist Chinese Party TikTok. Videos tagged with Andrew Tate have amassed over 13 billion views. On YouTube, even though the Tates have been banned from the platform officially, clip channels dedicated to reposting the Tates content have accumulated some 230 million views. On X, Tate's account regularly achieved millions of impressions. By 2019, Andrew Tate had expanded his red pill brand, and the manosphere became a part of our cultural conversation. The manosphere was a bunch of essentially men explaining that the only way to truly be a man was to treat women like trash, work out a lot, walk around shirtless, and violate all of society's taboos. Keep in mind, a lot of Tate's reach, not entirely organic. It's a sort of reposting echo chamber. They actually scaled their following with something called Hustlers University, where they charged you 50 bucks a month to learn crypto secrets. Well, then the Tates would pay you to carpet bomb TikTok with their most repugnant clips. And it worked. Billions of views. He was, Andrew Tate, the most Googled person on earth in 2022. Nearly 11 million followers on X, even after YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram all kicked him off their platforms. By 2022, Andrew Tate's banning turned him into a cause celeb for supposed right-wing free speech advocates. Because Tate reframed his deplatforming as the political suppression of traditional masculinity. And the right bit and bit really, really hard on this stuff. As we will get to, a lot of right-wing influencers bit onto this grift and decided that actually, yes, Andrew Tate was a victim of the matrix, as he loves to call anybody who doesn't like him. Well, eventually, Romanian authorities raided the Tates compound. They'd moved to Romania, essentially, to try to escape the law. And they'd taken an industrial warehouse and made it over and turned it into sort of their playboy compound. While that compound was raided, they were arrested and charged in 2023 and 2024 with human trafficking, sexual abuse, money laundering, and forming an organized criminal group. Those charges contained allegations going back to 2017. The Tates subsequently converted to Islam. And again, right-wing influencers like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens flew to Romania that same year and interviewed him at length, talking about his various virtues and soft peddling his criminal charges. More charges rained down on the Tates from the UK in 2024 and 2025. So over the weekend on Saturday, the Tates were arrested in Miami and then they were extradited to the UK. Here's the video of Andrew Tate being arrested, apparently wearing one of Marie Schrader's shirts and maybe her Capri pants from Breaking Bad. And his brother dressed in a suit at least three sizes too small and a Borsalino hat. Not sure what he was going for there. Maybe they committed a crime of fashion. In any case, they were arrested according to CBS News by US Marshals in the Southern District of Florida. The DOJ said these arrests were made in accordance with the treaties and law enforcement agreements governing Justice Department extradition. They're being extradited to the UK. The Crown Prosecution Service, an organization that prosecutes criminal cases in England, said four more victims of the brothers had come forward announcing further charges of rape, sex trafficking, assault, and child and extreme pornography. The UK police put out a press release outlining some 59 charges between the two brothers. Those additional charges included seven rape, three sexual trafficking, three assault, and 19 extreme or additional or child pornography charges for Andrew. For Tristan, one sexual assault, two rape and three sexual trafficking charges. Those offenses were alleged to have taken place between 2010 and 2017. Some irony to this because you'll recall that last year, the Tates showed up in Florida and essentially dared Governor Ron DeSantis to arrest them. Andrew Tate put out a tweet saying, your wife will never win governor unless you arrest me, Governor DeSantis. You've proven to be a communist who attacks American citizens for zero. When Americans who are unfairly imprisoned abroad return home, you betray them. You better nail me now. Let's go arrest me. Well, he wasn't actually arrested by the state authorities, but he was arrested by the federal authorities. Naturally, the Tate brothers lawyer, a person named Joseph McBride put out a statement that was not legal in essence. It was mainly a political rip on the UK. The world knows Andrew and Tristan Tate are innocent. Does the world know that? I don't know. The enemies know it best of all, the enemies. That is exactly why they've been attacked. The matrix. Last night, the UK, a corrupt and fallen nation that jails its own citizens for tweets while ignoring rape gangs, it found too inconvenient to prosecute, conjured up a wave of charges against the Tate brothers. This is not law enforcement. This is a political hit ordered by a dying empire that fears two free men with a microphone more than it fears actual criminals walking its streets. They're confident that once a competent judge sees the facts and once the DOJ confronts this egregious abuse of its own authority, Andrew and Tristan Tate will walk free. America does not do Britain's political dirty work. Not here. Never. America is watching. The world is watching and we will win. Okay. Well, I have a basic rule. I don't like when men rape women. I know these are very, very difficult. I also don't like when men engage in pornography. I don't like it. When men run alleged sex trafficking rings, grifts that target vulnerable young men and treat them as morons to be milked for cash and preying on their vulnerability to teach them that the best way to get ahead in the world is to treat women like garbage and simultaneously spread Andrew Tate clips. I think all that stuff is bad. I also think that if you are very concerned, as I am, about Muslim men raping white women in Britain, which is a very, very big thing that happened in Rotherham for years. We've covered it extensively on the show. You should probably also be against allegations of Muslim men raping white women in Britain, even if they're called the Tates. And so pretty much all of these sorts of activities were known for years in advance. About a month and a half ago, we did a show where we went through in some detail, a piece by Heidi Blake, which is a truly incredible piece of reporting by Heidi Blake over at the New Yorker Magazine called the Andrew Tate's Empire of Abuse. And as she documents in that extraordinarily lengthy piece, the Tates moved to Romania from the UK in 2015 after three British women accused Tate of rape and strangulation. And according to the piece, court records show the local police sat on at least two reports indicating that the Tates were coercing Romanian women into sex work. Andrew openly discussed bribing law enforcement officials in war room chats and bragged on social media about his connections. Everyone wants to be friends with the pimp, he wrote in a since deleted tweet. Tate's representatives claimed, of course, that he was acting. This is the last repository of all scumbags. Oh, I was just joking. I was just joking. Tate would have sex with women on webcam for a price. One of those webcam girls alleged that Tate raped her multiple times and strangled her and another woman multiple times as well. Another woman who the article calls Hannah Price showed UK police a series of messages from Tate discussing the alleged assaults. I love raping you, he had written to her. Monsters are monsters. There is tape of Tate holding a belt and whipping a woman who he treated as his girlfriend and also his procurer for years as she lay in the fetal position sobbing. And he said, bitch, look at the camera. And he yanked her head back by the hair. This is what happens when you don't effing listen. Tate said that that belt video was made in 2012 at the start of his relationship with her. That was the year that she turned 15. So I assume that when we're talking about child and extreme pornography, some of it has to do with that video. Now in his personal life and beyond obviously exploitation of women, it turns out that Tate is a tremendous scumbag. Apparently, according to the article, Andrew has said that both he and Tristan have double digit children. He says, I'm the big gorilla. I take the fertile females and I impregnate them. Mothers were moved to their own apartments where they kept working on camera because that is what a protective and good father would do is he would use the mother of his children to pose naked for other men so he can make money off of them. The brothers sometimes visited. Andrew has described meeting out harsh discipline, quote, my kids obey me like effing soldiers. On his orders, his five-year-old son would sit for hours in silence, doesn't effing move, doesn't say an effing word because he's scared for his effing life. He also ran a scam called Hustlers University. He originally ran an online network that was called The War Room, in which for a fee of about 8,000 bucks a year, 8,000 bucks a year, he promised to free the modern man from socially induced incarceration. It's a cult. Members learned how to recruit women into sexual slavery in a series of tutorials. Tate called his PhD pimping Poe's degree. He used one woman as a teaching case reporting on her subjugation over the secure messaging app Telegram. He said, I've done this with over 100 girls. I almost sound evil, but I'm not. I'm a shepherd leading the sheep. Apparently each brother had a personal harem. Tate called the women his wives and ordered them to address him as king. He also launched something called Hustlers University, which is this affiliate marketing program that essentially was a giant clip factory for him. More than 160,000 students enrolled to pay him 49.99 a month to teach them how to get rich. And by get rich, he means post a variety of clips for him. As far as that webcam business, he essentially would have sex with women and then convince them that the best way to demonstrate that they loved him was to go on camera nude. He says that he was making millions of dollars from these women. They bought fancy cars. At the peak of the webcam business, the brothers reported they had 75 women working for them. Andrew said more than 30 women had his name tattooed on their skin. And he bragged about the fact that when he moved to Romania, part of the goal was to avoid the law. So here's the big question in all of this. Why did they get away with all of this for so long? Why were so many people into this sort of stuff? And the answer is really quite obvious, but it's something we seem to have forgotten. The Tates are sinful people. And sin is fun. Sin is fun. I know this is somehow taboo to say this. Sin has always been fun. That is the draw of sin. And this is true in every biblical text. If it weren't fun, people wouldn't do it. If it weren't transgressive, people would not do it. The sin of eating the apple was the transgressiveness. Sin is fun. This is why it's very funny in politics. Sometimes you'll say, oh, this person is succeeding in spite of their sin. Maybe they're succeeding because of their sin, because people are drawn to sin. People, in fact, are both good and bad. And the draw towards sin is an incredibly strong draw. And we have to acknowledge the reality about male nature. Andrew Tate is, for an enormous number of men, an embodiment of what the worst part of men wish that they could get away with. Consequence-free sexual promiscuity. Selfish consumerism. Abandoning the kids. Shacking up with all the cloud-chasing models next door. Zero job. Zero work. Zero consequences. All fun. All the time. All sin. All the time. Now, listen, everyone knows what Tate is doing is bad. But for some, the badness is actually the point because the badness demonstrates that we are free. Now, here's the thing. Being free from the consequences of sin, that used to be sort of a left-wing thing. That was the draw of the Marxists in the 20s. That was the draw of the left in the 1960s. Free love and copious drugs and zero consequences. Well, increasingly, freedom of sin has become a right-wing thing as well. So one thing that we should ask is how sin became so popular on the right. Again, the right, we're supposed to be the fuddy-duddies, right? We're the people who have systemic immunity to this stuff, right? We would go to church and we demand standards and personal behavior. And we want the 10 commandments up on classroom walls and all the rest, right? I thought that that was a conservative thing. And by the way, for saying this sort of stuff, literally my entire career, the entirety of my career, okay? I'm 42 years old. I started doing this when I was 17. I have been promoting traditional virtue since literally the day I started when I was 17 years old. Very early on in my career, I was mocked incessantly for the fact that I openly said that I was a virgin until marriage, which is a thing that I did and my wife did also. And now we are married for 18 years with five beautiful children because virtue is good and sin is bad. But people mock that sort of stuff. They mock it. You're a fuddy-duddy. You're a stick in the mud. You're uptight. Why can't you just be a little cooler? Again, I don't care about cool. I care about true. Reactionary politics is sinful because it tends to legitimize sin. Traditionally, societies construct a series of sea walls against sin. If you have a sea of sin, an ocean of sin, and it's threatening a tsunami, you have to have some sea walls. So the first sea wall was societal shame. If you're a pornographer, for example, you were not welcome in polite society. You weren't welcome at church. You weren't welcome at family dinners. You didn't get to go to the Lions Club. Nothing. Get out. We don't want you here. You're gross. Stay away from me. Stay away from my kids. Stay away from my community. The social left decided that all this was far too judgmental. It was far too hemming in. So the left in the West constructed systems designed to minimize the consequences of sin and to obliterate social standards. Hell, we created entire welfare states not to just alleviate poverty, but to sever the consequences of sin. We actually incentivized things like sexual promiscuity and drug use, sometimes by accident, sometimes even on purpose by treating these not as moral problems, but as social diseases that could be alleviated with simple cash outlays. The idea was that poverty created sin, alleviate poverty, alleviate sin, rather than the reality, which is very often in a free system, sin creates poverty because there are consequences to making bad decisions. But we decided that societal consequences were bad. So social consequences were destroyed. That wasn't enough for the left, by the way, to alleviate the consequences of sin materially, while allowing people to still sit in judgment would be to be mean and judgmental. We wouldn't want that. We have to be nice. We can't be mean. We can't be judgmental. We can't have standards. So we as a society decided that it was really important to stigmatize people with social standards. These people were prude. They were cruel. They were fuddy-duddy, sticks in the... They hated love. They hated joy. They were probably even suppressing their own perversities. The true shame had to be cast at the people who actually wanted virtue. If you stood for virtue, actually, the truth was probably you were hiding some shame of your own or you should be made to feel ashamed because you are being the worst thing of all, judgmental. Now, the right didn't sit still for this, but the blowback when it came didn't come in the form of a restoration of standards. Instead, politics being incredibly reactionary, politics is basically a pendulum that swings from side to side. The further left left mood, the further the reaction moves. And so the right didn't react by saying, no, no, no, standards, virtue, decency. The right reacted by embracing anybody who would tear down the left. No matter what it took, the reactionary right decided that it actually needed transgressive figures, people who were sinful, who wouldn't play by the old rules. The sin was now the point. After all, you could only defeat the shame using left because they created their own systems of shame, ranging from overwrought me to allegations, to political correctness. You can only defeat that stuff, not by course correcting and saying, no, no, here's what virtue looks like. You can only course correct by being totally shameless, by being totally transgressive. And guess what? That was fun because sin is fun, because being transgressive of values is fun. And it's particularly fun when you can justify it to yourself. Hell, it's what we all want to do. No one wants to respond to transgressive evil by standing with good. Good is boring. Good is demanding. Good is dutiful. We want to engage in evil because evil is fun. Sin is fun and addictive. And once we have the excuse, it's much more fun to go all the way. This, by the way, explains that strange constellation of figures who have spent years defending and celebrating the Tates. All right, folks, in a second, we're going to get to Andrew Tate's friends on the right. As you know, in every industry, there are people who are willing to say pretty much anything and people who have been consistent in what they say. So I've been very consistent. 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I'm a huge admirer. Wow, hell, man. This is like... You're the famous one, bro. You're the famous one, not me. I've never been starstruck in my life, but here I am. Hey, Tucker Carlson. Nice to meet you. Are you American? Yes, very. What are you doing here? I got a couple of friends, you know, one flew across the world to go to jail. So much buddiness, so much love, so much happiness. Again, they're all fighting the system together. And then, of course, Tucker interviewed Tate and they talked about so many true things. Tate was such a wise man. I mean, such a wise alleged sex trafficking pornographer, such a wise man, Tucker Carlson suggested. You are naive enough to believe that there are good guys and bad guys in wars. And it's as simple as good and bad. And that the bad guys are crazy. And the good guys want freedom. They need to do a little bit more investigation into what's really happening. And when you look at the vested interest of any country or any person- Can I just ask you to pause and just comment? That's the truest thing, what you just said. That is that, and anyone who doesn't understand that should shut the up. And I mean it. And given the rapport between the two, clearly Andrew Tate should have asked Tucker to join his webcam business. In any case, Candace Owens decided also to travel over to Romania to sit with Andrew Tate and give a fawning interview in which they sympathized over the evils of the matrix. What you describe it as, the matrix, I think that actually is the right term, is that the matrix works over time to make it seem as though the people who recognize the insanity, recognize the homosexuality, recognize the pedophilia, are in fact the people that are crazy. Like it's a complete inversion of what's actually happening. And the saddest thing is that it works. I mean, she's literally sitting there with a man talking about how pedophilia is terrible and homosexuality is terrible. He would hire women to have sex with one another on camera for money and is now being alleged to have engaged in child exploitation and child pornography. So there's that as well. Of course, Andrew Tate also made himself part of this, who's sort of the founder of this so-called manosphere. And here you see people ranging from Tiny Nick Fuentes to Justin Waller and Clavicular, which is a who's who. Myron Gaines and Sunico, a who's who of low IQ, terrible people. All together, wonderful, terrible people. And of course, Tate with Carlson and Tate with Candace. This is the group. This is the club. Look at that. Oh, look at the love. Look at that. Isn't that nice? It's not a coincidence. None of this is a coincidence. It is simply not. Now, unfortunately, this bled up to certain levels of the Trump administration. According to that New Yorker article, President Trump's special presidential envoy, Rick Grinnell, accused Romania of joining a global conspiracy to silence people and politicians who weren't woke. Soon after a canceled election in Romania, Grinnell met at Mar-a-Lago with a Romanian politician named Victor Panta, who later told The Times they discussed the Tate's case. Panta said he no longer remembered this and had no involvement with the Tates. Grinnell denied aiding the Tates or speaking about their case, but he has publicly affirmed, I support the Tate brothers. There are serious allegations that the Trump administration intervened with the Romania government to allow the Tates to travel to the United States last year. Tucker, as I've mentioned, devoted hours of airtime proclaiming Tate's innocence. So did Candace. The vice president followed the Tate brothers on X. Pauline Gracia, who was one of their lawyers, is now serving as a White House liaison. He had previously tweeted that Tate was, quote, the embodiment of the ancient ideal of excellence. That was why he had been targeted by, quote, the satanic elite that attempt to systematically program and oppress all men. You'll remember that the president's lawyer, Alina Haba, appeared on a podcast with Tate and said she was a big fan. And then she said she had his back. She then ended up walking that back. Now, is this a coincidence? It's all the same people. These are the conspiracy theorists. These are the reactionary right horseshoe theory people. These are the Jews did the pornography and did the Holocaust really happen? Simultaneously, hugging Muslim pornographers who allegedly raped white women. It's not that they are alienated. They're not loving on the Tate in spite of the sin. They're doing it because of the sin. The sin is attractive. These people love the transgressiveness. It's catnip. It's traffic. It's fun, you see, because they're transgressing. They're saying all the things you can't say. And in that box of things you can't say are things like did the Holocaust even happen? Or was World War II wrongly decided? Or was Charlie Kirk shot by Mossad? And also, aren't the Tate's victims of the Matrix? And again, the Tate's have spent several years at this point being defended by a variety of woke right influencers and Republican figures. They've been championed as important necessary voices. They've been bro-hugged by half the people in influential positions. And now I want you to take a moment to remember who defended them. It's important and who continues to defend them because those people are a threat not just to conservatism, but to virtue and decency and ultimately to a civilization built on a notion of biblical morality. It is zero coincidence that the same people who defended the Tate's also speculate about Epstein conspiracy theories. Because here's the thing. They are not opposed to sex trafficking. 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You know, over the past several years, I've gotten a rather large amount of crap for covering the evils of the tates. The usual charges, you're approved or they have so many clicks or most commonly online, shut up, Joe, right? Because that's the big one online. Because again, that's a form of transgressiveness. That's a form of we can say anything because we're violating the matrix's rules. Let's be real. The reason all of this is a problem is because if your own protection against civilizational destruction is only the law and the courts, your civilization is on its way out. Because if you think that the people who have torn away social sanction of sin and evil are going to stop when it comes to the courts, wrong you are. I bring you as case in point, Nick Fuentes. So Nick Fuentes immediately tweeted out free Andrew and Tristan Tate. Immediately. 1.8 million views on X, a repository of trash. Well, Nick Fuentes put out another tweet in which again, he said, it would be a national humiliation for the United States to allow the UK to extradite Andrew and Tristan Tate, two American citizens, over trumped up MeToo charges. He's very defensive of these particular American citizens who currently have passports in the UK and Romania, by the way. The same country that persecutes white people for speech while importing rapist migrants. Now, why you notice the actual thing happening here? Nick Fuentes is constantly claiming to hate pornography. I mean, that's when he's not, you know, having a window open with trans pornography on it. He claims to despise the Jews. Supposedly having spread a pornographic culture, despite the fact that Judaism opposes pornography and finds it a sin. But he is defending actual honest to God pornographers. So again, Nick Fuentes in no way is in favor of societal consequences for sin. His entire schtick is being transgressive. And then he hides behind, oh, I'm just joking. It's a joke. And people like it because it's fun. It is. Being transgressive is fun. Saying transgressive and taboo things is fun. The laughter mechanism in the human brain is driven by shock, by surprise. When people are transgressive, it makes you laugh. That's just how the brain works. And that's what he's doing. But of course, here, he's moving on to a deeper level. He's attacking the system, right? He's attacking the court. Notice something. He's not saying, man, the UK, they absolutely should prosecute these Muslim men for allegedly raping white women. And they should also prosecute all of the other Muslim men who have allegedly raped white women in Britain. That's what you would normally do. Like if you're critical of the UK for not prosecuting properly, Muslim grooming gangs, the way I have been for literally years, then what you would like is for all the rapists to go to all the prisons. It can be perfectly... All rapists should go to prison. Not that difficult, but that's not what Fuentes is doing. The idea is that Andrew and Tristan Tate are victims and should go free because the courts and the system are corrupt in the same way that he says the churches are corrupt and the constitution is corrupt and the free markets are corrupt and everything is corrupt. Because here's the thing, folks, once you destroy the social stigmas, once you destroy social virtue, and once you start attacking the law, and once the law is destroyed, the only thing left is civilizational chaos, which is what Fuentes and others want. This is what the reactionaries want. They don't want the constitution upheld. They don't want virtue upheld. They don't want church upheld. They don't want any of those things. They want to tear all these things down. If that means allying with China or Russia or Iran or the Tate or every conspiracy theory or every sinner, then they will do it. That's part of the game. So what's the answer to all this sort of stuff? The answer is unsexy. The answer is difficult and annoying. We have to actually go back to social virtue. I know these are, it's boring, right? It's boring, but boring is the way. Okay, we have the opportunity when a moment of clarity arrives to go back to normal social standards of virtue. Conservatism used to be about that standard. You know, the little voice in the back of your head that we called your conscience that told you that something was a bad or an evil idea and you ought to oppose it. Conservatives, we were the people who used to remind you that one of the reasons government must be limited is because no gigantic amount of power can be trusted in the hands of people who are frail and flawed and sinful. That was us. We were the human nature people. We were the people who reminded you that people are sinful and therefore we have to have checks and balances. Therefore, we have to have restrictions on government. And also, this is why we have to have strong social institutions. This is why it was important for conservatives to be the people who said no to things. Now, conservatives were mocked for being the fuddy-duddy finger-waggers, like John Lithgow in Footloose. But the truth is, conservatives were the only ones upholding the institutions and social mechanisms that made our civilization great. So, here's the solution for conservatives. I've been giving the solution for decades. I've been saying it very loudly for months at this point. Draw some damned borders. I'll say it again. Draw some damned borders because if you do not police your gates, the barbarians will enter those gates. In fact, they're already inside. It takes generations, full-on generations to build up social systems that cherish virtue and that uphold virtue and that teach virtue. It takes actual commitment. When you have kids, you have to pass that virtue on to your kids. I have a brand new baby. It is my job to bring that child into a covenant of virtue immediately. That kid is not born in a vacuum and that kid is not meant to be some sort of free, floating, atomistic being, wilding it in the universe. That's not the way that it works. You must inculcate virtue. But systems that inculcate virtue and cherish virtue and protect virtue, it takes generations for those to be built up. Hundreds of years. But it takes only seconds for sin to tear those systems down. So, if we don't protect those systems, they just disappear. And the next thing that happens is that the civilization goes. So, what does that mean? It means conservatives need to stop allowing the grifters in the tent. Conservatives need to look at some of the people who they've allowed to become spokespeople for their movement and ask whether, indeed, people who uphold conspiratorial, pornographic trash ought to be the leaders. You can listen, again, it's a free country. You can listen to whatever. It's the obligatory thing. It's a free country. You can listen to whatever you want. You can listen to whomever you want. I'm not calling for any of those people to be legally silenced. I am saying, use your brain and use the virtuous part of your brain that your parents taught you about or that you as a parent are trying to teach your kids. Because it turns out that, yeah, it's fun. Yeah, it's fun to engage in sin. It always was and it always will be. That's why Satan has a bit of an advantage. But you don't have to do it. Sin crouches at all of our doors. But we can overcome it. But it requires an effort. And part of that effort is recognizing that in the long run, the momentary fun that you have being transgressively sinful and ripping down the systems is the thing that ends up destroying your world. And guess what? If the right disappears, if the right destroys itself, the transgressive left is ready. They're sitting right there. They're waiting and they're regaining. The response to a reactionary right is not going to be a left that wants virtue. It's going to be a left that's even more transgressive. That pendulum is going to keep swinging. What an amazing video you just watched. Wasn't that amazing? Well, you know, if you think so, head on over to dailywire.com slash subscribe to watch the full show ad free or check out this crazy story here.