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00:02:40.000Remembering the great Rush Limbaugh, phenomenal piece of television that was on last night where Mark Levin and Sean Hannity remembered the legacy of Rush Limbaugh and what he did for our country.
00:02:55.000And so I want to get into some of the news here.
00:02:57.000I was flipping through politico.com as I tend to do just to kind of get an idea of what's happening, what are people talking about.
00:03:06.000And one of the stories that just kept popping up, which was one that went very viral last week, I have not yet commented on it, is the cruise goes to Cancun, Cruise to Cancun story, where Ted Cruz took a flight down to Mexico to accompany his daughters in the midst of the ice storm in Texas.
00:03:24.000Now, let me first say that optically this was terrible.
00:03:28.000And I think that Senator Cruz knows this.
00:03:30.000But in reality, it wasn't as bad as it actually looked.
00:03:34.000The governor of Texas should stay in the state of Texas.
00:03:40.000The question is, should Senator Ted Cruz have stayed in Texas?
00:03:49.000But the reaction to what Ted Cruz did was way beyond what actually happened.
00:03:59.000In many different points of crisis, there is a demand from the citizens, which are co-rulers of a state, if you go back to the original Greek term, to have their leaders at least suffer alongside of them.
00:04:31.000Because if all of a sudden we are now dealing in a framework where plane rides and trips are something that deserves massive media pressure and scrutiny, well, then I just have a couple of other plane rides that I'm very curious about, three in particular.
00:04:53.000Now, this is a plane story where it actually never took off.
00:05:00.000It was actually a meeting that happened in an airplane in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:05:07.000So if the media and the Democrats and the activist class, they are so worried about Senator Ted Cruz going to Cancun, when in reality, there's really nothing he could have done differently in Cancun versus Texas, it just looks bad.
00:05:23.000Yet they were completely silent when Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch, the then Attorney General of the United States, on a tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona, and then Hillary Clinton was acquitted on all accounts in regards to the emails.
00:05:43.000How about when Hunter Biden flew with his father, who was then Vice President of the United States, to China on Air Force 2 and then secured multi-billions of dollars in investment funds, something that he was not even close to being qualified for?
00:06:01.000What demanded more reaction from the media?
00:06:04.000Hunter Biden selling out our country alongside his father, who's now president of the United States?
00:06:09.000Or Ted Cruz in a momentary era of judgment going on a vacation with his daughters in the midst of an ice storm in Texas?
00:06:18.000Which demanded more outrage and backlash?
00:06:21.000Or how about when Joe Biden was vice president and a plane filled with $500 million, oh, I think it was a billion dollars in cash, $1 billion in cash was sent to Iran, cash, part of the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal.
00:06:44.000But instead, I see story after story after story of people saying that Senator Ted Cruz is under immense political pressure.
00:06:53.000In fact, the New York Times went as far to say they went as far to get the text messages from the parent teacher organization, the local community group.
00:07:05.000The New York Times reported on the text messages of what these moms were saying.
00:07:10.000Now, I want you to imagine if you're a suburban mom in the Galleria area of West Houston and you get invited to go to the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun, and you just so happen to be on a text chain with Heidi Cruz.
00:07:25.000You then leak those text messages to the New York Times.
00:07:29.000These people will stop at nothing to accomplish their goals.
00:07:32.000And so the New York Times reported on the discussions and the chats of the text messages of whether or not Ted Cruz was telling the truth when he said he wanted to actually go plan a vacation for his children.
00:07:45.000Did the New York Times open up an entire investigative effort to try to look at the text messages into what Hunter Biden said before he went to China?
00:07:55.000You might remember, or maybe you don't, because we weren't even allowed to talk about it on social media right before the election, that Hunter Biden's laptop was literally handed to the media.
00:08:07.000And the media was not just uninterested in it.
00:08:10.000The media didn't want to not just cover it.
00:08:13.000Instead, they said, if you cover this story, you lose access to your social media accounts.
00:08:20.000If you cover the story, you'll get locked out of Twitter.
00:08:24.000The most interfered with election in American history, the 2020 election.
00:08:30.000Just from big tech and social media, not to mention the signature verification, the shenanigans, the tomfoolery, we've gone through all of that and will continue to keep the pressure on that because we deserve answers for what happened in Georgia with the weak Republican governor Brian Kemp, where Brian Kemp argues that everything in Georgia was executed perfectly and properly.
00:08:55.000He could learn something in regards to courage from Governor Ron DeSantis.
00:09:00.000And so the chattering class, the pundits on the media, have put more pressure on Ted Cruz with his trip to Cancun than Joe Biden eliminating the Keystone XL pipeline.
00:09:16.000The media has made a bigger story out of Ted Cruz accompanying his daughters to go to Mexico, which again was probably an error in judgment.
00:09:33.000A national scandal is Joe Biden signing the most radical transgender executive orders in the history of our country.
00:09:44.000Do you notice how little press coverage of the White House there is?
00:09:49.000Can you name one White House staffer outside of Ron Clain?
00:09:55.000By this moment, in the White House of the Trump presidency, there were infographics created from the New York Times, the Washington Post of every single person working in the White House, every relationship they ever had.
00:10:07.000I guess the TJ Stucklow, Ducklow, the guy that just resigned, that would be one exception to that.
00:10:16.000Now, this White House has an alliance with the activist media to not be covered at all whatsoever under any circumstances.
00:10:26.000Not what policies they're pushing, not what ideas they're advancing, not what treaties they're trying to negotiate, nothing.
00:10:34.000Instead, the position of the media is to care more about a U.S. senator who goes to Mexico with his daughters to Texas than what's happening with Hunter Biden, what's happening with Iran, and Iran is now on the doorstep of getting a nuclear weapon.
00:10:58.000This was considered to be the number one story in our country over the last week.
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00:12:51.000Trump went to help out the recovery effort, and he was attacked either in Puerto Rico or in Houston for throwing paper towels like he was shooting basketball hoop.
00:13:04.000And he was attacked for that, for trying to help.
00:13:53.000The real reason is because they want to destroy private property as we know it.
00:13:59.000And a core component to free market, free enterprise capitalism, is private property ownership.
00:14:08.000And a key component to that is the private ownership of minerals.
00:14:14.000You see, we are one of the few countries in the world where the government does not own the rights to fossil fuels or mineral development.
00:14:26.000The Democrats have been eyeing this for quite some time.
00:14:29.000You see, the Democrats, if they cared about the environment, if Joe Biden cared about the environment, he would want pipelines.
00:14:35.000Instead, in a very energy inefficient, potentially environmentally cataclysmic way, he wants the oil to now be transported on rail cars.
00:14:46.000It's basically a handout to Warren Buffett and the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad.
00:14:52.000Pipelines were a technological advancement.
00:14:55.000They're economically friendly and moves faster, cleaner, and better than if you were just to transport it via truck or via rail.
00:15:06.000But no, they don't want it to be transported at all.
00:15:09.000It is an agenda to deteriorate and destroy the idea of private property in our country.
00:15:17.000They know that if they can abolish fossil fuel extraction, what else are they able to go after?
00:15:21.000And they use emotional arguments to win over potential converts on this issue.
00:15:31.000They blame everything on a changing environment based solely on carbon emissions because of fossil fuels.
00:15:41.000Never talking about the three most important questions when it comes to climate change, when it comes to global warming, which is what it was called when I was young.
00:15:52.000When I was in second or third grade, we watched a movie called Inconvenient Truth.
00:15:55.000It might have been a little bit after that, 0506, by Al Gore, that warned that by 2020, the world would be over.
00:16:03.000Well, there's more polar bars than ever before.
00:16:05.000There's more green on our planet than ever before.
00:16:08.000And there is zero scientific-based evidence that can directly correlate human activity and carbon-based emissions with rising global temperatures.
00:16:18.000There's speculation, and there's plenty of scientists that dissent.
00:16:23.000And this goes into a much deeper and more nuanced point that our leaders in the Republican Party as well, by the way, refuse to tackle and refuse to talk about.
00:16:38.000Is science the blind acceptance of what a certain group of people tell you?
00:16:44.000Or is science what Aristotle and Plato and to a lesser extent Socrates believed, the constant questioning of what you are being told and using reason, logic, analysis to come at an objective conclusion, not a subjective conclusion.
00:17:04.000The state of Illinois has now embraced and passed through the Illinois State Board of Education the most radical educational standards in the entire country.
00:17:14.000This makes California's measures when it comes to education look mainstream.
00:17:21.000It is proposed amendments that have now been passed purely on party lines in the state of Illinois to not just impact the curriculum, but impact what the teachers must do with the students.
00:17:32.000It's called culturally responsive teachers.
00:17:36.000We did a whole podcast on this, so I'm not going to spend the entire program on this.
00:17:40.000We did a whole 40-minute deep dive on it, so I encourage you guys to check out the Charlie Kirk Show podcast and look at it.
00:17:45.000But I want to read one point about this.
00:17:48.000This is going to be happening in every single school district across the country until conservatives start to take school board races seriously, mayors races seriously, which we currently do not.
00:17:58.000We don't take local government seriously.
00:18:01.000But it's going to mandate teachers and leaders to teach their students about white privilege, critical race theory, talk about, and I quote, I have to search for the word correct in this long document because I couldn't believe it as I read it.
00:18:20.000And I quote, teachers must understand that there is not one correct way of doing or understanding something, and that what is seen as correct is most often on our lived experiences.
00:18:56.000That science, math, reason, logic, they are not objective measures for a society.
00:19:06.000Trigonometry, mathematics, thermodynamics, physics, they're not objective.
00:19:13.000They're simply weapons for white supremacists.
00:19:19.000Now, that might sound outrageous to you, but it's exactly what is being taught in schools across the country.
00:19:25.000And now, by mandate, in every single school in Illinois, private and public, by the way, it's the Illinois State Board of Education, I-S-B-O-E.
00:19:35.000Understand that there's not one correct way of doing or understanding something.
00:19:53.000of the incredible thinkers, some of whom I don't necessarily agree with to the conclusions, but there's such depth and there is phenomenal knowledge included in the literature, the speeches, the lectures that so many of these people gave and wrote.
00:20:36.000It was almost a dusting off of the books of the classics, of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, where there was a yearning for truth.
00:20:50.000Now, this is directly correlated with the Protestant Reformation, where there was a reinvigoration to try to find biblical truth.
00:21:00.000And Thomas Aquinas, who was a church father of the Catholic Church, famously argued, and I'm paraphrasing, that the truth of the Lord is consistent with the truth of the physical world.
00:21:14.000So the more you pursue science, it's not going to disprove God.
00:21:18.000And so this idea of a correct way of doing something is a Western idea.
00:21:24.000That's the America I was raised in nine years ago.
00:21:27.000It's the America that won two world wars and passed the Civil Rights Act.
00:21:32.000It's the America that created the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:21:36.000But this idea that there is not one correct way of doing something, which is now not just a provocative piece of literature at Northwestern University, it's not just some lecturer that's passing through at University of Illinois.
00:21:52.000It's law that you must teach your children that there's not one correct way of doing something, that there is not a correct way to act, to speak, that there is no such thing as truth.
00:22:05.000This is now the teaching standards in the state that I grew up in, the great state of Illinois.
00:22:12.000But what's the deeper problem here, and how does it actually impact what we are dealing with in our country?
00:22:19.000Well, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Joe Biden, they have given small, I should say, short previews into this line of thinking.
00:22:58.000However, do you remember the number and the ticker number they used to have on CNN and MSNBC before Joe Biden became president?
00:23:04.000How many infections, how many intense hospitalizations, how many cases, and how many deaths?
00:23:11.000Well, now on MSNBC, do you know what number they have?
00:23:14.000How many people have been fully vaccinated?
00:23:17.000So a positive number in their framing, if you believe vaccinations are going to help you in this case, and you have the freedom to believe that, then that's what a wonderful number.
00:23:30.000A complete changing of the analysis of what's happening in our country.
00:23:36.000A number that got you to believe that we're in a crisis to a number that believed that got you to believe that we are winning this struggle, even though it's the Trump administration that did the work that got us the vaccine, Operation Warp Speed, and brought it to delivery and implementation.
00:23:55.000But when they say trust the science, they don't actually mean trust science.
00:24:02.000Do you ever notice they say trust the science, not trust science?
00:24:37.000I think this is a very, very important distinction.
00:24:42.000You see, trusting the science is basically like saying it is dogma, it is law, it is put in place.
00:24:51.000I don't trust their science because their science is using and abusing what we have grown to love as the scientific method as unquestioned fact in society, which it isn't.
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00:26:41.000There's a great story that goes back to how we discovered what is now called the heliocentric theory.
00:26:50.000Galileo challenged the dogma that existed, that was that the Earth was the center of the universe, that the sun revolved around the earth.
00:27:05.000The earth did not revolve around the sun.
00:27:13.000This is what started the Enlightenment, by the way, amongst many other things.
00:27:16.000And Sir Isaac Newton, and I don't mean this by any way of a criticism of the Catholic Church, but the Catholic Church was threatened by this, and they were the dominant governing authority, especially when it came to education at the time.
00:27:35.000So Galileo came onto the scene and said, no, no, no, no.
00:27:39.000I can prove using science that the earth actually revolves around the sun, heliocentric theory.
00:27:50.000He was tried and imprisoned, and there is some good nuance to this.
00:27:55.000He was given, let's just say, he was basically put in exile with a lot of his students.
00:28:03.000Anyway, there's a lot of people that have sent me very interesting information because it's not as brutal as people might think.
00:28:08.000The point is, though, that he was imprisoned and criticized for speaking truth.
00:28:15.000The idea of the Enlightenment is that we must challenge what is being told to us constantly using what God gave us, reason.
00:28:26.000Thomas Aquinas argued that reason was a gift from God.
00:28:29.000It was, in fact, it was evidence that God exists, our ability to reason, our ability to make sense of a chaotic world.
00:28:40.000And so what we have now taught in our schools to kind of make this come full circle in the Illinois culturally responsive teaching and leading standards, it says teachers must understand that there is not one correct way of doing or understanding something, of which I asked the Illinois State Board of Education, does the earth revolve around the sun or does the sun revolve around the earth?
00:29:03.000Or is there not a correct way to teach that?
00:29:05.000Does force equal mass times acceleration?
00:29:11.000Is the second law of thermodynamics true, the inevitable law of decay?
00:29:14.000Or is that just not a correct way of doing things?
00:29:19.000What is happening ever so subtly is the destruction of what created the West.
00:29:27.000This blend, this intersection, this combination for good of reason and revelation put together.
00:29:44.000And also, if you're a parent listening to this on another radio station across the country, this is coming to a school right near you very, very soon.
00:29:53.000That now teachers are going to be forced to tell their students that there is not one correct way of doing something.
00:29:59.000And we've already seen this societal erosion and deterioration over the last couple of years.
00:30:06.000We've seen it in a variety of different ways.
00:30:08.000We saw it with the Smithsonian Museum, the African American History Museum, that said that talking properly, showing up on time, working hard are Eurocentric values, that they're actually racist to believe in those sorts of things.
00:30:23.000And so now it is at the fundamental level of where we teach our four, five, six, seven, eight-year-olds all the way up to 18 years old.
00:30:31.000But the Illinois culturally responsive teaching training gets worse.
00:30:36.000It requires teachers to then turn their students into activists.
00:30:45.000Now, some of you might be listening to this and might say, well, that might be a little bit of an exaggeration, Charlie.
00:30:52.000Part E of the Illinois State School Board Education Curriculum, and I quote, leveraging student activism, quote, culturally responsive teachers and leaders will support and create opportunities for student advocacy and representation in the content and classroom.
00:31:11.000A culturally responsive teacher and leader will, quote, emphasize and connect students about their identities, skin color, advocacies, and self-interest.
00:31:24.000Help students identify actions that can be taken to apply learning to develop opportunities and relationships for alliances.
00:31:36.000Give students their own space to negotiate their advocacy needs and present their perspectives.
00:31:43.000And finally, promote student advocacy in the community.
00:31:52.000So now it will be a requirement of teachers in Illinois, which again, this is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
00:32:00.000This will become an assembly line for curriculum in California, in New York.
00:32:09.000They're going to try in Arizona and Georgia if the Republican governors don't do anything, to take a fourth grader and turn them into Greta Thunberg.
00:32:20.000Give them a sign that says, all cops are racist.
00:32:25.000And now you get credit if you do that.
00:32:34.000And if you are taught that there is no correct way of doing things, if you are taught there's no such thing as absolute truth, if you are taught that there is no proper way to analyze the world, then you make perfect activists.
00:32:53.000Because the only thing that they teach you is true is your emotion, your feeling, your perspective, your story, your truth.
00:33:01.000It creates people that are more likely to want to disrupt the world around them.
00:33:06.000And the teachers are now required to do this.
00:33:09.000So instead of teaching young people that you should get married and stay loyally married to that person, to have children, to work hard, to tell the truth, we are going to teach children that the whole world is racist, bigoted, homophobic.