After Charlie Kirk s murder, his wife Erica publicly forgave the man who killed her husband. But did she forgive him? Or did she embrace the killer of her husband, Charlie Kirk, in order to make peace with him?
00:03:34.000But really what I'm interested in is what feels like a radical revival of our entire revival of our culture, a new set of values.
00:03:47.000they're not even new values things are changing so quickly that it's impacted my grammar get rumble premium if you want it if you're watching us anywhere other than rumble right now come and join us on rumble we're going to first of all look at i suppose the strongest evidence that something significant is happening is that charlie cook's memorial is being attended by the most important political and media figures of contemporary u.s culture i would say would you that's
00:04:17.000one did you if someone had told you prior to charlie kirk's murder that his memorial would be an enormous stadium filling event would you have been surprised by that i reckon i would have been surprised that's just on the sort of material plane but
00:04:35.000then I've not watched uh Erica Kirk's speech yet, and uh my understanding is that she's um forgiven the young man, and I'd like to start there because everything is changing so quickly I think we must focus on the eternal.
00:04:54.000Remember, eternity is not a really long temporal duration, eternity is the quality of timelessness, and you know it in yourself, you know when you are graced by eternity, you probably feel it mostly as love.
00:05:07.000I reckon let me know in the comments and chat if you agree with that.
00:05:10.000But when is someone is able to forgive the killer of someone very very close to them under such uh difficult circumstances, then you know that they are embracing in eternity.
00:05:26.000And have a look at the rumble comments right now, and you'll see that some people are even in this moment sort of just caught in pirouettes of demonic idiocy.
00:05:38.000What I mean by pirouette of demonic idiocy in this instance just sort of spamming, so extraordinary.
00:05:45.000Let's focus on the eternal and you need help, and it's available.
00:05:55.000My husband Charlie wanted to save young man, just like the one who took his life.
00:07:29.000When people are frightened, and I understand that a lot of people are, about the prospect of what they would term Christian nationalism, I think that's the term that I've heard used a lot prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, people you talk a lot about the Christian right.
00:07:45.000This you know, and when I was a person that was a member of a different cultural groups and had a kind of different profession, different income, different life entirely, what I thought Christian right might mean is using the teachings of Christ to uh uh underwrite bigotry and exclusivity.
00:08:06.000But even if such a thing exists, the message of Christ is all powerful.
00:08:14.000And even if there is such a thing of using Christ's teaching, message and sacrifice to legitimise a particular political perspective and to govern and legislate and control in a particular way, even if that does exist, even if that's not imaginary, not just a phantom.
00:08:37.000When Erica Kirk within a you know, just over a week after her husband's murder, has the recourse and the instruction and the guidance and the fortitude that faith provides and is able to say publicly,
00:08:56.000I forgive my husband's killer, that shows you there's a deep power in Christianity, but also there is a doctrine that even if people were to try to use Christianity manipulatively people say, Oh, you became Christian because you've been accused of all these terrible things.
00:09:35.000Nations come and go, flags fade, rulers die.
00:09:40.000The king of eternity and the sacrifice that was made that you may participate in eternity is the promise and covenant that you need if you find yourself speaking unexpectedly in the mad tangle and tidal waves of grief after the murder of your husband.
00:10:04.000I would imagine, like anyone who's grieving and unexpected death, Erica Kirk's gonna have a long and challenging journey ahead of her.
00:10:13.000We've all got long and challenging journeys ahead of us, haven't we?
00:10:15.000she'll be making that journey hand in hand with Christ it's a powerful powerful message So for all of the people that are concerned that Charlie Kirk's death and the subsequent phenomenology or phenomenon, the phenomena that follow Charlie Kirk's death, the way that it's become portrayed in media, the way that it's created certain commentary and certain positions and stances,
00:10:45.000the fact that Trump is there and Trump speaks at this memorial.
00:10:48.000We'll look at that in a moment, and whatever people might utilize it for, and any event that happens these days gets used by someone.
00:10:54.000I mean look, doesn't free market capitalism kind of demand that doesn't it demand that if there's a kind of a train wreck that the people capitalise on, if there's a murder, people to capitalize on it, if there's a d as some kind of uh toxicity and f anything.
00:11:12.000There's nothing so beautiful or ugly that it can't be exploited in the kind of systems that appear to abide these days.
00:11:21.000But I feel that there's a this is a powerful time of fracture fissure and and change and radical change.
00:11:29.000I I don't know what's happening anymore.
00:11:32.000I don't know what's happening anymore, but fortunately I don't need to know.
00:11:34.000Uh like none of us are that important.
00:11:40.000None of us are that important, but all of us are really, really important as well.
00:11:44.000Okay, let's have a look at um let's have a look firstly, having seen this beautiful example of forgiveness from a grieving widow under extraordinary pressure.
00:11:54.000Let's have a look at some of the other moments from Charlie Kirk's memorial, and look how that's likely to feed into a culture that's still alive, burning with conflict.
00:12:06.000Some people appearing to think that the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is more significant than the murder of Charlie Kirk.
00:12:12.000And in a way, from their perspective, of course, they're right, because the murder of Charlie Kirk in the culture is an object, and the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel is an object.
00:12:23.000So the fact that one of those objects has a real murder in it, and one of them is just about a TV show and the kind of evidence of a culture changing direction, that's kind of irrelevant.
00:12:57.000But now Erica can talk to me and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent.
00:13:07.000Charlie's angry, looking down, he's angry at me now.
00:13:12.000He wasn't interested in demonizing anyone, he was interested in persuading everyone to the ideas and now um well this is Trump.
00:13:24.000He's a person that's incapable of being inauthentic.
00:13:27.000I would say, even though of course he's detractors Think of him primarily as a deceiver.
00:13:33.000I think that's just another example of him being honest and authentic.
00:13:36.000And I reckon a lot of people are not thinking, yeah, we must forgive and be loving to Charlie Kirk's killer or even people that post stuff that's disrespectful.
00:13:46.000Now, at this moment is uh Tucker Carlson who compares uh Charlie Kirk to Christ, and in a way that might seem hyperbolic, I've not watched it yet, or grandiose, but in a way, all Christians are called to model ourselves on Christ and to identify his attributes,
00:14:10.000recognise the impossibility of achieving that standard without grace, and yet walking towards it.
00:14:19.000Ultimately, he was a Christian evangelist.
00:14:22.000And it actually reminds me of my favourite story ever.
00:14:26.000So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers, they hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop.
00:14:50.000And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp-lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about the interesting detail the Hummus.
00:15:00.000Tucker Carlson to add what the snacks are in that scenario.
00:15:04.000And of course, the execution of Christ was a political act, but also necessary in the realms of divinity that most of us are aware of and feel and intuit and sometimes even receive, but can't comprehend because it's beyond the rational and reasonable mind.
00:15:26.000And if there is a revival happening right now, what we're being invited to do is access and appreciate that what we've been living in up to now, both individually and collectively, is broken and cannot work for us.
00:15:42.000Whether you're, as we'll see later, Mark Ruffalo, outraged by Jimmy Kimmel's cancellation, or if you're Donald Trump, unable to resist the urge to be bombastic about your political opponents.
00:15:57.000And remember, Donald Trump's got very particular gig.
00:15:59.000He's president of the United States of America, oppositionism, necessary, look at the culture that he lives in.
00:16:04.000Mark Ruffalo, still probably a deeply idealistic person.
00:16:09.000I'm not saying idealistic as in naive.
00:16:11.000People think that all the time that I'm naive.
00:16:12.000Like if I have a chat with the lad Nick Fuentes, oh, it's naive.
00:16:20.000I've seen things, I've been through things now.
00:16:23.000I've had a lot of naivety wrung out of me.
00:16:25.000I'm not claiming to be smart, but I don't think I'm naive anymore.
00:16:28.000But what I feel is that if you're looking at the events of today, from a political perspective, you are going to miss what's really happening.
00:16:39.000We are witnessing the end of a particular paradigm.
00:17:05.000Yeah, his murder is the happens at a point when Germany has just industrialized its war machine and colonialism is beginning to creak and falter, and we have the first world war and the second world war, and many historians would say that those wars are of the same war, essentially, with a brief intermission, and we have the 20th century clash of ideologies, the fascism and the communism, the two ideologies that are born of industrialization.
00:17:35.000Now we're going to see the birth of the philosophies and theologies born of mass communication through total technology, through immersive and ubiquitous technology, the kind of technology you're watching right now, and the reason that Charlie Kirk's death is ultimately significant is in a sense he's uh I pray he's a Christian martyr.
00:17:57.000I pray that's true, but I uh but culturally what's happened Is the first uh lightning rod of a new form of communication has you know been assassinated politically for what reason and by whom we still don't entirely understand and certainly there does seem to be a good degree of utility when diagnosing the killer.
00:18:18.000Some people, this guy was a trans activist, some people have you know more complex views on the murder.
00:18:26.000But I think that even that pales into insignificance when you look at the spiritual world, when you consider as best as we can within our limitations what might be meant by do not conform to other pat to the patterns of this world, what might be meant by my ways are not your ways.
00:18:43.000Let's uh continue with uh with Tucker Carlson's eulogy.
00:18:49.000About this guy telling the truth about us, we must make him stop talking.
00:18:55.000And there's always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, I've got an idea, why don't we just kill him?
00:19:16.000Um that's uh I would um that's one aspect of the murder of Christ and of Charlie Kirk, political expedience, political expedience.
00:19:32.000Let's see what um uh Bobby uh Secretary Kennedy says about it.
00:19:36.000And Charlie understood the great paradox, and it's only by surrender to God that God's power can flow into our lives and make us effective human beings.
00:19:47.000Charlie or Christ died at 33 years old.
00:19:53.000But he changed the trajectory of history.
00:21:32.000Let's see let's see what um let's have a look at that.
00:21:36.000I suppose what I'm encouraged by is if you like me feel that no political or material ideology is likely to deliver anything but further conflict and further exploitation, you might be heartened by the re-emergence of the principles of the holy one.
00:21:56.000Some people will of course be concerned that Christianity can be exploited and might even argue has been exploited pretty much since its inception, certainly since it was adopted as the state religion of the Roman Empire.
00:22:14.000But part of faith, as some of the speakers at Charlie Kirk's memorial alluded to, is recognizing your individual fallibility, and it's only in him that there is any grace and power, but that you are a participant potentially in his Grace by surrender and repentance, as has also been mentioned there.
00:22:34.000Let's um let's have a look at um Steve Bannon talking about muscular Christianity, and I suppose m my encouragement comes from who's where's authority coming from, if not from God.
00:22:44.000If uh authority is derived from reason, if authority is derived from reason, I have noticed, and I wonder if you have that reason divorced from divine authority tends towards selfishness and exploitation.
00:22:56.000Have you noticed, for example, lately that political sides appear to alter their position on our thanks crowder?
00:23:04.000We're just talking about uh Charlie Kirk's memorial, if you're joining us from Mug Club, and have you noticed the tendency of political parties to alter their position on, for example, something like free speech or political violence or war, depending on whether or not they're in power.
00:23:20.000And that makes me feel that it's not a principle at all.
00:23:24.000But that ain't the case when it comes to Christ and Christianity.
00:23:28.000With if if someone is purporting to govern from a Christian perspective, then you've got the artifacts in front of you with which to take them on.
00:23:40.000If someone says, Well, this is what we're we're running this country as a Christian nation.
00:23:46.000Well, then we can hey Ellie Upton, hello all of you joining us from Mud Club.
00:23:52.000If uh you're purporting to run a nation or your family or your own moral and spiritual life as a Christian, then um there's pretty clear guidance on what you're supposed to be doing and what you're not supposed to be doing.
00:24:05.000Talking about muscular Christianity, and I uh I wonder if any adjective in front of Christianity mm potentially is a problem because uh it's it's all contained within the word.
00:24:17.000The whole service was muscular Christianity.
00:24:20.000This is why I put out the New York Times and MSNBC are gonna lead tomorrow, because you know they're melting down.
00:24:27.000Muscular, you know, a form of muscular Christianity, Christian nationalism was put forward here in the in the uh in the uh memorial service for a slain American martyr.
00:24:40.000And they're gonna freak out because you had the st director of national intelligence, you had the head of the personnel office and the president, Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Vice President of the United States, President of the United States, and not just Charlie's team and the widow.
00:24:57.000I mean the most powerful people in the United States government in the world.
00:25:03.000We've never had this, even in the 19th century.
00:25:06.000So is this gonna be a period of radical change?
00:25:10.000Even when it comes to something that one might regard objectively, uh, or hope to regard objectively at least, like Charlie Kirk's murder, there will be many, many appraisals and perspectives and attempts to exploit and utilize the death politically, financially.
00:25:27.000And even in terms of you know something like muscular Christianity, but we will know the presence of Christ because what we will feel will be peace.
00:25:37.000If you're not feeling peace, then it's not Jesus.
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00:30:08.000But we're talking about this political violence thing.
00:30:11.000We have got to get back to the decency.
00:30:14.000You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things and although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news.
00:30:32.000We covered that at the time, thinking that Tim Waltz was perhaps irresponsible, or at least it was an ill-judged joke, because you know, with a couple of assassination attempts on Trump.
00:30:43.000And now, of course, in the meanwhile, Charlie Kirk has been shot, and Tim Waltz's comments look even more ill-advised.
00:30:51.000And I suppose the combatative component of contemporary rhetoric is what we're sort of trying to address now.
00:30:57.000That so many people have said so many ferocious and appalling things about one another and about each other's political ideology that it's become normalized and it's of course oozed into real life now.
00:31:09.000People spend so much of their time, all of us do it, I'm trying to do it less, staring at some screen, escalating the scale and intensity of their invective in order to attract more attention without recognising that there are real repercussions.
00:31:24.000Do you remember when your great Carl Sagan said that every single TV broadcast ever made is emanating outward into the infinite even now, indeed, isn't that the premise of Galaxy Quest that an extraterrestrial nation encounter the broadcasts of a 1980s Star Trek style TV show and think that it's a kind of reality that they've encountered?
00:31:45.000They refer to these Star Trek style TV shows as historical documents.
00:31:51.000Tim Waltz don't mean it, I don't suppose, when he says, Oh, I hope I wake up one day and scroll on my phone and he's dead.
00:31:56.000And I don't imagine that I don't really did did Crowder and excuse me, not Stephen Crowder, thank you, Mug Club, for the you know, for the raid.
00:32:05.000Did Colbert mean it when he was endorsing vaccines?
00:32:09.000That he thought about it long and hard when he danced about like that.
00:32:12.000Did Jimmy Kimmel mean it when he said, if you haven't had the shot, you know, rest in peace, wheezy?
00:32:20.000And I reckon he probably made that joke after he'd been in intensive care with his son, and I I know what that's like.
00:32:26.000I know what that's like to be in intensive care with your uh young child after heart surgery.
00:32:32.000So all of us are entering into these sort of ridiculous spaces of rhetoric.
00:32:36.000You know, people are doing it in the comments now, people are doing it all over X, all over YouTube, like sort of just reaching for the most incendiary and darkest remark that you can sling into the apparent infinite there.
00:32:49.000Well, it turns out that there are consequences.
00:32:52.000Those consequences might be that your show gets cancelled, or that sh that might be that you get shot.
00:32:58.000Charlie Clerk called an African American customer service agent a moronic black woman.
00:33:03.000Well, yeah, maybe he did, but uh does he deserve to get shot?
00:33:06.000I mean, I've just watched his widow forgiving someone for killing her husband.
00:33:11.000Without forgiveness, we're all in serious trouble.
00:33:13.000And indeed, the sort of presumption that everyone's entering into this conversation from a place of presumed perfection, it's a big part of the problem, isn't it?
00:33:30.000Let's have a look at the cancellation of his show there and talk about these two artifacts together.
00:33:36.000The murder of Charlie Kirk, the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, and look at what they tell you as a kind of a yardstick of where the culture's heading.
00:33:44.000And in conclusion, really, what's fascinating about Charlie Kirk is what's the what's increasingly being revealed is the figure of Christ, and when you look behind Jimmy Kimmel, there's the picture of the state that wants you dependent on it in the same way that you must be dependent on God.
00:34:01.000The state wants you to depend on it in some cases financially through this welfare, and some people require that.
00:34:07.000There was times in my life when I needed the welfare of the state, and I'm thankful that I received it.
00:34:12.000But what price are you willing to pay for that dependency if the culture also wants you dependent on it for your ideology, for your beliefs, for your faith?
00:34:20.000How far are you willing to go in your fealty to this construct, this set of relationships between government agencies that appear to be somehow permanent and abiding, regardless of what happens in elections, commercial interests that appear to be global and able to evade and avoid taxation and restriction?
00:34:42.000Is it possible that there's something far fiercer and darker than just material interests behind the state's demand for absolute power?
00:34:51.000And I'm not talking about the tyrannies of the last century, your fascisms and communisms, those words that are used to explode and generate more hatred, particularly on the social media streams that seem to be informing and infusing those that seek to take more violence into the world.
00:35:11.000I'm talking about the end of those ideas, those ideas, communism, fascism, they're peeling away now.
00:37:46.000Let me know in the comments and chat if you did when the last election cycle was taking place and the Democrats marshaled the forces of A-lister actors like Mark Ruffalo and various others.
00:37:58.000I don't know if he specifically was invited, but I remember seeing on Oprah Winfrey a bunch of real big stars, all of the kind of stars that we all love and admire if we take the culture seriously, or even if we enjoy the culture.
00:38:08.000You know, I'm not saying the culture is absolutely evil, just saying it's generated by evil.
00:38:14.000Anyway, when I watched it, superficially, you would think Trump using podcasters like you know, Charlie Kirk, God rest his soul, Joe Rogan and J.D. Vance appearing on Theo Vaughn, mostly sort of white guys, and other than Theo Vaughan, sort of middle-aged white guys, Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, middle-aged white American men.
00:38:33.000And there was this variety of sort of attractive, appealing, glamorous stars endorsing Kamala Harris on Oprah, but actually, that was the antiquated and old institutional systems of media that are falling apart that can no longer function.
00:38:50.000Remember, I used to say a lot that Joe Rogan is the new Oprah Winfrey, a star so bright that you can generate other entities, like for example, Huberman or Theo Vaughn, or all of the people, Jordan Peterson that emerged out of Joe Rogan's orbit.
00:39:07.000Oprah Winfrey was like that a couple of decades ago.
00:39:10.000Dr. Oz, Marianne Williamson, D. Pak Chopra, uh Eckhart Tull, Dr. Phil, lots of wellness type folk, Gail King, all sorts of people emerged out of the Oprah sphere.
00:39:25.000Well, now that media world has collapsed.
00:39:28.000It's still present, and people are still making money out of it, and they're still trying to reboot and remodel out of the ashes of their old and collapsing systems of power.
00:39:37.000They're trying to see if they can align with what's happening now in independent media.
00:39:42.000But as Marshall McLuhan said, the medium is the message.
00:39:46.000Old media was centralized and therefore could broker big deals with advertisers and could convey the messaging of a centralized state.
00:39:56.000And whilst, of course, it's completely possible for it to become captured by ideologies and commercial interests, indeed, many commentators say that independent media, they're all sort of mega nationalists.
00:40:08.000But don't haven't you noticed, have you noticed the endless fracturing in that space that you could have once seen Jordan Peterson, Candice Owens, Dave Rubin, Joe Rogan, all this sort of one centralized entity.
00:41:02.000But there are even beyond pornography, child pornography, hatred, right?
00:41:06.000There are things that are disgusting and negative and awful about the technological revolution.
00:41:11.000But most of those things I think are being mobilized and utilized to legitimize the centralization of technology and communication when the tendency is towards decentralization.
00:41:21.000People worry that decentralization equates to chaos.
00:42:05.000That's what's breaking out of the Charlie Kirk scenario that's fascinating.
00:42:09.000And as you see Mark Ruffalo there sort of scrambling for the government shut down Jimmy Kimmel.
00:42:15.000He must know in himself that Jimmy Kimmel was just selling products on late night and was gonna get cancelled soon anyway, because all late-night TV is gonna get cancelled soon anyway, because not enough people are watching it because they're watching independent media, because it's easier to get stuff that you're actually interested in and is authentic and you like and you can probably trust more on independent media now on platforms like Rumble,
00:42:38.000on platforms like X, and you know, not for long, but even on platforms like YouTube, you YouTube will ultimately do deals comparable to the kind of deals that were done on your old school networks.
00:42:49.000It's already somewhat centralized because it's owned by Alphabet Google, and that's the way that it'll go.
00:42:54.000So we're in an important and interesting moment when it comes to media.
00:42:58.000As things fall apart and break apart, there will need to be a defining ideology.
00:43:03.000And if you don't have one, if you've not surrendered to Christ, if you're still trying to work things out with your own mind and your own feelings and a culture that basically wants you to sit like a blob and consume, you are going to fall apart and you are going to collapse into total despair.
00:43:20.000I'll let you down because I'm just a person and I don't know really what I'm doing.
00:43:24.000My primary interests are my wife and my children, and how I use my faith in God to not mess that up.
00:43:31.000But you know, because of I've lived in these worlds, man, I've lived in them, I've lived in that, I've lived in Hollywood, I've been on Jimmy Kimmel, I've been on all them shows, I've seen them people, some of them are like really lovely and cool and amazing people.
00:43:44.000And now I've lived in this world, I've been on Joe Rogan, I've been on Charlie Kirk, I've spoken to Jordan Peterson and Candice Simmons and everyone.
00:43:50.000And this is what I can tell you now that out of this chaos, you better find something you can rely on, and it can't be a person, and if it's a person, it's the only person that ever lived that was entirely God, entirely God and entirely human.
00:44:03.000And you can get that message a variety of places, and Charlie Kirk was one of the people that was trying to convey that message in his own imperfect way, and now he's dead, and people will use that death to expedite political messaging.
00:44:15.000Of course they will, because that's what the machine demands, but the truth of Christ will be present in it as well, as we saw in that memorial.
00:44:23.000As there are the emergence of Christ and perhaps the hastening return of Christ approaches the culture, which I ultimately think is controlled by evil.
00:44:31.000I'm not suggesting that Jimmy Kimmel is evil, he's just like a normal person, he's no different than anyone else.
00:44:37.000But that culture will start to fall apart because it's models are collapsing.
00:44:40.000Let me know if you agree with that in the comments and chat, or you lot on locals like Caso and the nerd far away, and let me know what you think, Craven One and Cheryl Lee 41, or my friends on Rumble, and just have a little look at some more of Mark Ruffalo and understand how even something insignificant, like the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, There's an anchor, there's a thread that drops down into a deeper truth.
00:45:04.000And if you can identify what it is, you will understand the culture better.
00:45:09.000Government that is now suppressing the freedom of speech.
00:45:13.000It is the United States government, not your neighbors, not someone on social media.
00:45:20.000And that's where we all have to come together.
00:45:27.000Because authoritarian regimes, fascist regimes, have to degrade our freedoms more and more over time until we're living the smallest, the most frightened, the most secretive lives.
00:45:44.000Think of yourselves living under the Taliban.
00:45:56.000And I know sweet because it's not that different from what I'm saying, actually.
00:46:01.000Except it feels like he could have said all of those things while Biden was president.
00:46:08.000He could have said all those things while Obama was president.
00:46:11.000Because if you're claiming that the culture can provide protection from the kind of forces that he's describing and that he attributes to Trump and MAGA nationalist populism, say then you think that the ultimate power and authority is human power and authority.
00:46:28.000That's why I suppose they revert to pagan ideas like ecology and climate change and Gaia worship because they don't believe in the one true God.
00:46:37.000I am starting to understand everything now.
00:47:12.000Whoever you are, you might consider yourself a businessman or woman or person, or I don't know, maybe you don't have a gender or don't want one.
00:47:20.000That's not the key issue here, though.
00:47:58.000That is something Anthony Fauci has admitted.
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00:48:32.000A compound shown to support cellular energy, metabolism, and even healthy aging.
00:48:37.000You don't want to sit deteriorating in a chair, shitting yourself, drinking Starbucks.
00:49:20.000Um hey, okay, that we're gonna look a few a few, we're gonna look at a few more reactions to the Kimmel cancellation, but in a way, of course, it's inextricably and literally Linked to the Charlie Kirk assassination, in so much as the reason for Jimmy Kimmel being cancelled is because of inappropriate remarks about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:49:40.000But also, you know, they would have cancelled that show pretty soon anyway, because the economic model's changing.
00:49:46.000So they probably went like this gives us a chance to give it a bit of meaning and a bit of cultural heat and freight and heft.
00:50:27.000My view was that part of the role of the presidency is to constantly remind us of the ties that bind us together.
00:50:42.000And we we live in a big complicated, raucous, diverse nation.
00:50:54.000I've said before, I believe it is what makes us exceptional.
00:51:02.000There's never been an experiment like this, where you have people from every corner of the globe show up on in one place and say, based on these ideals, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:51:26.000That based on that and a constitution and a bill of rights and a democracy that we can somehow figure out how to get along.
00:51:39.000And maintain our private beliefs, and pray to guard in our own ways and retain aspects of the cultures that we bring from wherever it is that we're coming from,
00:52:02.000and yet still decide that uh we are all Americans who can salute that flag and believe in a certain creed and defend this country and and try to make it better for each successive generation.
00:52:47.000So this what I'm describing is not uh uh a democratic value or a Republican value, it is an American value.
00:52:56.000I think that's really interesting because w his critique there was that Trump has not used this as an opportunity to unify the nation and that a president ought to perform that function, and yet he sought actually to create division by saying there's goody Republicans and baddy Republicans.
00:53:14.000And the list of goodie Republicans that he cited, one, they were vilified at the time, George W. Bush, they absolutely detested him.
00:53:21.000But also that guy uh my humble opinion is that he was a pretty serious participant in the permanent war machine.
00:53:29.000Certainly that's how he governed that unnecessary Iraq war would be a significant piece of evidence in making that claim.
00:53:36.000And when I look at the sort of fatigued and bewildered Obama there, what I feel like is that's a person that's realizing I don't understand what's happening anymore politically.
00:53:44.000Now, I mean, you know, I put myself in that category also, but I don't feel exhausted by it because I know what the answer is.
00:53:51.000I know that I'm not a participant in that answer other than through my surrender to Jesus.
00:53:55.000But what he's recognizing is, oh my god, this is moving so quickly.
00:54:02.000People are not gonna buy social democracy, neoliberalism, a kind of that's facilitate global commerce and permanent bureaucracies while telling people that their freedom is in their uh s sexual expression and the way that they identify and that that sort of idea's kind of just died.
00:54:21.000And I reckon that it's demise has been hastened by immediate communication and the s sort of hostility generated in these spaces has created a kind of furnace in a way, and maybe what will emerge from that furnace is something that's from that furnace is something that's able to withstand heat.
00:54:38.000Therefore a little more valuable, a little more valuable.
00:54:42.000Let's have a look at some people that uh generally speaking on the left of the cultural argument, like Van Jones, Bill Ma and Raym Wilson, and talking about this very specific moment in American media and the American conversation defined by the death of one man, the cancellation of another.
00:55:03.000And after that, we're gonna talk about my country and free speech, which appears to we're on a very different trajectory and a pretty scary one.
00:55:11.000We'll be talking about that in a second.
00:55:12.000Let's have a look first of all at Van Jones saying he got a message from Charlie Cook.
00:55:17.000Charlie Kirk and I were not friends um at all.
00:55:21.000Uh in fact, the last week of his life, we were beefing hard, uh beefing online, beefing on air.
00:55:27.000But the day before he died, he did something that shocked me.
00:55:33.000Calling for a personal dialogue, wanting me to come on his show.
00:55:36.000He said we could be gentlemen together.
00:55:38.000He said we could uh deal with our disagreements agreeably.
00:55:44.000And in the past week and a half, just watching people talk about civil wars and censorship and all this stuff coming out of his death.
00:55:51.000I just thought it was important to let people know that don't put that on Charlie Kirk.
00:55:58.000Because the last day of his life he was reaching out to have not more censorship, more conversation, more dialogue with somebody who honestly was one of his adversaries, me.
00:56:09.000And I just want to share that with the world.
00:56:12.000And I hope that maybe it might help somebody on both sides.
00:57:47.000It's a world of counterfeits and phony fake saints and fake ideals.
00:57:54.000I remember now when I was in it, it felt so I thought it was something wrong with me because there are so many things wrong with me.
00:58:02.000I'm a drug addict, I'm crazy and everything.
00:58:04.000But when I was hosting MTV VMA awards, say, or cropping up at a kind of award ceremonies that Bill Maher describes there, I feel like a like thick and not right and nervous and fearful and had to sort of ease myself with promiscuity and hedonism and this constant escape.
00:58:21.000Why was I not feeling like, oh my god, I'm in the thing that they tell you is fantastic.
00:58:31.000And it's not just because of superficiality, and because we all know that you can't make yourself feel better by uh purchasing a new pair of sneakers or a new car, or mm by having sex with an attractive stranger, or we we know that, we know that, don't we?
00:58:49.000And yet, until very recently, that's the sort of dominant language of commercial content, glamour, dancing girls, tough looking guys, and there are still iterations and expressions of that in independent media, because these are powerful ideas that emerge, I suppose, from biology and paganism.
00:59:08.000But now I recognize the reason I don't feel very good was because it wasn't very good.
00:59:13.000It was not very good to be at the MTV VMA awards.
00:59:17.000I was at that one, I was hosting that one.
00:59:19.000Do you remember when Kanye took Taylor Swift's award?
00:59:48.000All of these new media stars, and we're now experiencing the magnitude of those stars because the death of Charlie Kirk has kind of created this extraordinary white light moment and experience.
01:00:01.000And the thing that's most encouraging is what's emerging from it is Christ and the values of Christ, forgiveness, surrender.
01:00:10.000And if you explore that further, and we will have to, what's also going to be revealed is everyone's evident imperfection and fallenness.
01:00:18.000Donald Trump, broken, fallen man, broken, fallen, needs redemption, needs the holy hand of the Savior.
01:00:25.000RFK, broke broken, fallen, needs the holy hand.
01:00:28.000Tucker, everybody, everybody, all of us together on our knees, shoulder to shoulder, bathing in the blood of Christ, the only thing that can cleanse and heal us.
01:00:38.000Nothing to be gained here except the honor of serving him.
01:01:28.000Let's have a let's have a look at what um Rain Wilson's saying.
01:01:30.000Because I the only reason is is because we're seeing people fleeing the burning wreckages, uh the burning wreckage of Hollywood and just sort of grasping through the smoke for something.
01:01:45.000Shooting someone that we disagree with, even if they're vociferous and loud and out there is so colossally wrong-headed.
01:01:56.000I spoke to a couple of uh let's say some liberal friends last night at an event, and they were like, you won't find me shedding any tears, and someone else was like, Oh well, there was a little bit of a kind of a good riddance thing, and it's like, guys, no.
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