00:02:06.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:35.000And I was always thinking about this last year, and we're going to go through some of the highlights, the lowlights, the wins, the losses, the lessons.
00:02:43.000But as always, preparing, I was like, oh boy, you know, we're going to go through all the different news stories and the stuff that defined this year politically and culturally.
00:02:52.000And I said, this year feels as if we're in a TV show where we just lived through the episode where it's obviously building.
00:03:48.000But sometimes the big movie industry or TV industry, they do these filler episodes where they stretch out over three or four different episodes, something that could take one episode to try to get to the final point of the story.
00:04:08.000They have to get all the chess pieces in place.
00:04:11.000They have to get everybody on the right island, you know, in the right place and all the armies assembled when you know, okay, it's going down in that next episode.
00:04:22.000All of a sudden, the forces that will are going to hit.
00:04:26.000And I feel as if 2023 has been a chess piece setting type of year.
00:09:24.000And you're about to enter season four of the Biden regime.
00:09:29.000And if you all of a sudden think that the confusion and the fog is just going to be lifted, think of all the different stuff that we have to solve.
00:09:41.000We have nine different fronts that we're fighting on right now.
00:09:44.000They're going to try to take out Elon and the fight for internet freedom.
00:09:46.000By the way, what a winner he is of 2023.
00:09:50.000What's going to happen with Hunter Biden?
00:09:53.000You got people calling for Biden's resignation.
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00:12:16.000There are a lot of highlights this last year, and certainly some lowlights.
00:12:21.000It doesn't even come close when you think about the Donald Trump indictment story.
00:12:28.000The mugshot is just a symbol for an event that stretched over half of a year.
00:12:33.000The unprecedented lawfare attack on Donald Trump to try and keep him from having a second term without having a fair election.
00:12:40.000And we did a, I think, a complete job yesterday of summarizing Norm Eisen and all that stuff.
00:12:48.000Alvin Bragg with the falsified business records and Stormy Daniels and the civil case in New York and Big Fanny Willis and the Mar-a-Lago case.
00:12:58.000And then they're trying to kick him off the ballot.
00:13:06.000And a lot of us were taken by surprise.
00:13:09.000A lot of us were taken by surprise, not myself, but many people in the audience, because we would say, oh, they won't abuse and profane the instruments of justice for political purposes.
00:16:24.000Largely, Republicans have just been overseeing the regime, protecting the regime, if you will.
00:16:31.000One of the great disappointments is seeing that the Republican Party has become this controlled opposition uniparty.
00:16:41.000And we aim to fix and try to change a lot of that, but there's no sugarcoating it.
00:16:46.0002023 was a year where congressional Republicans could have stepped up and done something, stepped up and governed, stepped up and cut some of the spending, and they didn't.
00:19:42.000I don't want people to be misled, but it's still, it's popular.
00:19:45.000I mean, the show's doing very, very well, but we do better when other people, and we also do, it's true.
00:19:50.000We have an amazing lineup of episodes.
00:19:51.000We have Tucker Carlson, we have Steve Bannon, we have Vivek Ramaswamy, and it's just the RFK, by the way, the RFK Jr. program has just been going totally viral and more and more coming.
00:20:05.000But it feels as if we've been living through the setup, the prelude, living through what is coming or the setup of what might come next.
00:20:16.000We look back at this last year, Republicans have accomplished nothing.
00:20:39.000I don't see how a few people, maybe it's five, maybe it's 20, sit because they want a gavel that they can't earn by the conference of themselves.
00:21:03.000Now, when we look back at 2023, we did a lot of thinking about this.
00:21:10.000You didn't know at the time how significant it would be.
00:21:13.000But the horrific tragedy on October 7th really was, for Israel, a Pearl Harbor 9-11 event and still is impacting our domestic politics and impacting our culture war.
00:21:30.000It was forced upon us in the most brutal and savage way.
00:21:34.000But though Israel didn't start this war, Israel will finish it.
00:21:38.000Hamas will understand that by attacking us, they've made a mistake of historic proportions.
00:21:45.000We will exact a price that will be remembered by them and Israel's other enemies for decades to come.
00:21:53.000The savage attacks that Hamas perpetrated against innocent Israelis are mind-boggling.
00:21:59.000Slaughtering families in their homes, massacring hundreds of young people at an outdoor festival, kidnapping scores of women, children, and elderly, even Holocaust survivals.
00:22:10.000Hamas terrorists bound, burned, and executed children.
00:22:17.000Now, many of our amazing listeners who are Jewish have said, quote, one person just emailed us, the worst anti-Semitism in America in their lifetime.
00:22:25.000And these pro-Hamas protesters have been very organized, very orchestrated, and hyper-aggressive.
00:22:53.000And if I were to credit this program as to a similar but different foreign conflict where we helped move public opinion on, and I just want to thank you, the audience, and to delight in our ability to move the Overton window, it's the Ukraine issue.
00:23:12.000The Ukraine issue in my career has been one of the most 180 public opinion issues that I have experienced for quite some time.
00:23:23.000From day one, we were not buying what the regime was selling.
00:23:27.000From day one, and there were very few of us.
00:23:31.000There was Tucker, there was Pesobic, there was this program and Bannon.
00:23:35.000But boy, the emails that we received, some were nasty, but the vast majority disagreed with our position on Ukraine from the beginning.
00:23:46.000And now I would say it's 99 to 1 in agreement with our position on Ukraine.
00:23:53.000This year, support for the war in Ukraine, according to public opinion polls, has cratered nearly 30 or 40 points.
00:24:06.000In 2023, we put the warmongers completely on defense, and they're not used to it.
00:24:11.000They're used to getting whatever money they want, whatever funding they want.
00:24:15.000One of the massive wins of the narrative war in 2023, thanks to Elon Musk, thanks to his ability to liberate Twitter, was on Ukraine.
00:24:26.000It is an unpopular, very difficult argument to make to say that while we do not have a southern border, while we are being invaded of the population of Wyoming since Halloween, that we need to go spend $200 billion on a border dispute thousands of miles away.
00:24:46.000It does not compute, nor should it, with the everyday average American.
00:24:54.000And we have been relentless on this topic.
00:24:59.000And when I say 99%, I mean 99% of you, the audience.
00:25:03.000I mean of the Charlie Kirk show, of the emails we receive.
00:25:06.000Now, of the country, a majority are definitely in our camp.
00:25:11.000But 99% of you in our audience are in complete harmony, complete agreement with no more money to Ukraine, try to broker peace, and why don't we secure our own border?
00:26:06.000Now you don't need all the territory to defeat Putin.
00:26:10.000And the saddest part of the entire Ukrainian conflict is how we used the poor Ukrainian people, the everyday man of Ukraine, as a human shield to get mowed down by Russian military so that we could protect this abstract idea of NATO while Zelensky gets rich,
00:26:36.000while the oligarchs of Ukraine suspiciously are able to take in all of this money and make it disappear.
00:26:44.000And we do not have an accounting for this money.
00:27:22.000We have no idea where this money is going.
00:27:27.000But you, the audience, are playing a huge role.
00:27:29.000Are on the leading edge, the tip of the spear, to move public opinion and move the Overton window.
00:27:35.000And you have what started as a very slim, like a significant minority, that doesn't make any sense, but a minority has grown and grown and grown now into the vast majority opinion with energy and velocity.
00:27:57.000I have not seen public opinion move so quickly on such a top priority regime, except for another issue, which if you were to say there was another narrative win in 2023, I'll tell you what it is.
00:28:10.000Public opinion moved on two major issues positively in 2023.
00:28:15.000One on Ukraine, and the second one, I think we played a big role in.
00:28:23.000Christmas and big family feasts are upon us, but in Washington, there's no bigger turkey than Senate Bill 1339.
00:28:29.0001339 is Bernie's latest attempt to sneak in a backdoor takeover of more of our health care.
00:28:34.000It'll handcuff the pharmacy benefit managers who are currently saving millions of Americans an average of $1,040 a year.
00:28:40.000Bernie is hoping that thousands of your fellow Americans are already going to lowermydrugprices.com to stand up against S-1339, that you'll be too busy making holiday plans or getting ready for a year-end vacation.
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00:29:12.000Remember, we have the momentum, but we need your help today.
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00:29:22.000You know, our social media platforms, praise God, have grown significantly this year, and specifically on one topic.
00:29:29.000And I want to first give credit where credit is due.
00:29:38.000And we are thankful for his leadership on it.
00:29:40.000And honestly, I followed his lead in some ways.
00:29:42.000I'd watch his videos and listen to his podcast.
00:29:44.000Like, this guy really understands this topic.
00:29:45.000It's not that I was ever not convinced of the severity of it, but he was so sharp in his commentary, so convinced it was civilizational ending, it caught my attention.
00:29:54.000And then, of course, his movie, What is a Woman? Excellent.
00:29:56.000And Libs of TikTok deserves a lot of credit as well.
00:30:01.000And if you were to look at public opinion polls, if you were to look at political issues, a year and a half to two years ago, when Twitter was not liberated, the trans issue was an issue that a vast majority of Americans either were indifferent about, live and let live, who cares?
00:30:20.000And holy crow, this last year, praise God, has been one of the most dramatic awakenings I have ever seen in my 11-year career on what was considered to be a fringe issue that polite society was afraid to touch, and it moved quickly.
00:30:41.000And I will tell you three stories, actually four.
00:30:44.000Two people came up to me privately at Amfest, someone that you might know, by the way, and confided in me that his son has been captured by teachers and is now taking transition therapy, asking me what to do.
00:30:58.000Another young woman came up to me and said that her daughter, same thing in college.
00:31:30.000You do not have five or six people independently come up to you in grocery stores, gyms, and tell you that their close inner circle is quote unquote butchering themselves, transitioning.
00:31:43.000So just as a pause, as a timeout, I will be proven right by this.
00:32:59.000And by the way, it's also where we have received the most punishment from YouTube.
00:33:03.000We're currently under a strike from YouTube because we spread trans hate because we say that trans people have are suffering from a mental delusion, which of course they are, obviously.
00:33:13.000They think that there's something they're not and they think that if they chop off their parts, they become that thing, which is not true.
00:33:22.000That is what it's at the fundamental part of trans.
00:33:24.000That's why we believe it comes from an unclean spirit because it is at war with God's natural design.
00:33:29.000It's trying to convince children, especially, that they can take a bunch of drugs, chop off their parts, and they magically become something else.
00:33:36.000It's a false promise, false hope, and it is a pharmacological, surgical, quote-unquote, solution, butchery to a mental problem, what should be solved with counseling, watchful waiting, as Dr. Miriam Grossman beautifully articulates in her book, Lost in Trans Nation, which should be solved with prayer, camaraderie, fellowship, which should be solved, by the way, actually diagnosing the underlying problems, which is usually kids with autism Asperger's on the spectrum.
00:34:03.000We go and say, hey, let's go have you get a mastectomy or let's have you go take testosterone.
00:34:08.000This is child butchery, but praise God, Elon Musk deserves a lot of credit for this.
00:34:12.000By the way, Elon Musk's, one of his 11 kids that we know of, is trans.
00:34:18.000He hasn't, he's been really polite about it, but he, to his credit, promoted What is a Woman to the top of Twitter and overruled all of the Twitter audi left-wing people?