00:00:26.000Hey everybody, what's the difference between a leader and a manager?
00:00:29.000We go through some of the governors in America that are doing the right thing and that for whatever reason are not standing with courage.
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00:01:50.000Leader versus manager, where is the courage?
00:01:52.000The good governors, the bad governors, and dare I say the dumb ones.
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00:02:18.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:44.000I don't think she said anything about the wonderful troops who gave the ultimate sacrifice.
00:03:48.000And we as conservatives must never forget the three-tied knot of our existence.
00:03:52.000Those that came before us, worrying about the present and those that have yet to be born.
00:03:57.000We want to conserve things that work, that matter, that are beautiful, and that are true.
00:04:02.000So why is it that so many of you feel as if we keep on electing Republicans, and in certain states, the states are getting less free and more collectivistic.
00:04:17.000Well, it's because for governors in particular, we have been electing managers as governors, not leaders as governors.
00:04:25.000There's a difference between management and leadership.
00:04:29.000Management is simply thinking that you can keep on running the state better.
00:04:32.000I'm going to make sure the state budget is passed.
00:04:38.000I'm going to make sure that the workers are continually moving forward.
00:04:43.000And I'm not going to do anything big or decisive.
00:05:39.000Who wouldn't want to replace error with truth?
00:05:43.000A fool commits themselves to abstraction and ideology despite voters demanding a different course.
00:05:53.000A man who received a lot of criticism from me and from this program that I think has actually corrected course in the last couple of weeks is Governor Greg Abbott.
00:06:03.000Now, Governor Greg Abbott, I thought, mishandled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns.
00:07:06.000They're good at making sure what was happening before continues to happen and they hit certain corporate desired benchmarks.
00:07:14.000You see, leadership is being able to navigate the uncertain, being able to defend those that can't defend themselves, pick tough fights and win those fights.
00:07:28.000Leadership is being able to profile people, understand their strengths and their weaknesses, organize them effectively, and persevere through difficulty.
00:07:44.000Leadership requires a commitment to honesty and integrity.
00:07:49.000So let me just tell you a little, I'm going to get to Texas, but I want to tell you what management looks like, not leadership.
00:07:54.000Over this last weekend, of course, while all of you were celebrating Memorial Day and getting a much-deserved day off, Governor Doug Ducey on Friday vetoed 22 bills while the audit is happening in Arizona.
00:08:09.000Republican Governor Doug Ducey, he vetoed a bill that would have prohibited critical race theory from government workers, that would have prohibited mass mailing of ballots to voters who did not request them.
00:09:20.000No, your voters are actually very concerned about their children not loving America.
00:09:25.000They're concerned about the racist critical race theory of organizing people based on skin color, not on character.
00:09:32.000Senate Bill 1074 targeted critical race theory and would have prohibited any training for government employees involving racism and sexism.
00:09:40.000That, quote, prevents any form of blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity, or sex.
00:09:46.000What constituency Governor Ducey is serving here, I don't know.
00:10:40.000You've rarely seen this kind of focus and commitment.
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00:11:11.000A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
00:11:19.000He does not set out to be a leader, but he becomes one by the equality of his actions and the integrity of his intent.
00:11:28.000General Douglas MacArthur, who famously said, I shall return to the Philippines, and he made good on that promise.
00:11:33.000A great man, if only we taught our children great men.
00:11:37.000Now instead, we teach them stuff that will be so horrifying to you, and we are going to get into that.
00:11:43.000So we know what's happening in Arizona.
00:11:44.000We have a corporate type, a manager, who, again, I've met Governor Ducey.
00:11:48.000I'm not going to say that he's a bad person.
00:11:51.000He is not what Douglas MacArthur would say, is a leader.
00:11:56.000One of my favorite quotes on leadership is from Abraham Lincoln.
00:12:01.000Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
00:12:08.000Very similar to the Aristotle quote of power shows the man.
00:12:12.000So Governor Ducey has a lot of power in Arizona.
00:12:15.000We're learning a lot about him, that he does not care about critical race theory.
00:12:19.000He thinks it's perfectly fine that children learn the most racist ideology that is currently in America.
00:12:27.000He thinks it's fine government workers learn critical race theory.
00:12:30.000He thinks it's perfectly fine that elections do not have integrity and mail and ballots get sent all over the state of Arizona.
00:12:39.000And maybe he's afraid of the fight or maybe he doesn't want to weigh in on actual structural changes because as a corporate type, he just wants to have agreement to pacify the most angry amongst the hordes of the activists.
00:13:50.000I'm willing to give them a fair hearing.
00:13:52.000I'm not going to forget what they once did, but I will applaud people that correct.
00:13:55.000And so Governor Abbott, he is going to the mat on this.
00:14:02.000Governor Abbott has now threatened to cut off the salaries of the Democrat state legislatures who walked out of the chamber to prevent a quorum.
00:14:11.000He says, quote, no pay for those who abandon their responsibility.
00:14:14.000So Governor Abbott is trying to pass far-sweeping voter integrity reform, which would prohibit temporary polling places in a tent or other movable structures that were designed for cars, set times dictating when polling places can be open,
00:14:30.000make it a Class B misdemeanor for an election officer to knowingly refuse to accept a poll watcher for service, require a paper audit trail for votes, and require those seeking an application to vote by mail because of a disability to provide the, quote, specific grounds on which the voter is eligible for a ballot to be voted by mail on the ground of disability, would make it a state jail felony for a public official to solicit, quote, the submission of an application to vote by mail from a person who did not request an application.
00:15:01.000And perhaps the biggest objection, I'm reading from National Review, is declaring that voting on Sunday may only begin after 1 p.m., which critics contend is an attempt to limit the souls to the polls.
00:15:12.000But the bill declares the polls may remain open till 9 p.m.
00:15:16.000Now, of course, Joe Biden has said that this is a assault on democracy, but to get this done, Greg Abbott is willing to call a special session and require the Democrat state legislatures come back.
00:15:27.000So you have a manager and you have someone who wants to be a leader.
00:15:31.000Now, maybe he wants to be a leader or maybe he just wants to hold on to power.
00:15:35.000And we're going to explore that because Governor Abbott is afraid of losing re-election.
00:15:40.000Governor Ducey is acting like a philosopher king.
00:15:42.000He's acting like a 13th century autocrat because there is no election that will hold Governor Ducey accountable because he's term limited.
00:15:49.000Would be an argument against term limits.
00:15:52.000Elections are supposed to be mechanisms to hold elected officials accountable.
00:15:57.000There are four distinct aspects of the American system: it is the consent of the governed, the separation of powers, checks and balances, independent judiciary, actually, there's five, and representative government.
00:16:11.000Representative government is that we don't have a direct democracy where you just show up in a town hall meeting, everyone starts screaming, you elect people to represent your values and fight for you.
00:16:21.000Why is it that so many Republicans are afraid to fight?
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00:16:35.000What are some of your favorite memories with dad?
00:16:37.000Listening to a bike ride, camping in Yellowstone, the father-daughter dance at your wedding?
00:16:42.000Are those moments currently trapped on home movies or slides?
00:16:46.000Do you or your parents have boxes of bins of old movies or photos in storage?
00:17:26.000Only a constitutional republic would allow for the differences between states.
00:17:32.000If you read the Federalist Papers, specifically if you read Federalist 10 and Federalist 51, and Federalist 10 might be the best Federalist paper written, and the Federalist Papers, you might remember, was a series of anonymously written arguments between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, where the Federalists were written mostly by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, and the Anti-Federalists were written by Thomas Jefferson.
00:17:52.000This is when the successful, the victors of the American Revolution, were wrestling with what type of government do we want?
00:18:05.000Do we want to embrace kind of this wide-reaching confederation of states?
00:18:10.000Now, the Articles of Confederation were becoming a disaster.
00:18:14.000They were becoming a disaster because of interstate commerce, because of actual insurrections that were happening all across America because of a lack of national unity.
00:18:23.000So in the spring of 1787, there was an agreement that we need to explore these ideas.
00:18:28.000So the Federalist Papers were written anonymously, actually to a newspaper in New York.
00:18:33.000Actually, I believe it was the equivalent of the New York Post, by the way.
00:18:38.000Alexander Hamilton started the New York Post, and now they're censored by social media oligarchs.
00:18:43.000But the Federalist papers were written, and there was this concern by the Anti-Federalists.
00:18:50.000And by the way, not everything the Anti-Federalists said were wrong.
00:18:54.000The Anti-Federalists, they get kind of swept in the dustbin of history.
00:18:58.000There was a lot they were right about.
00:18:59.000But of course, Madison and Hamilton won the debate in the Constitutional Convention through the summer of 1787 ended in September, which then, of course, started the ratification of the U.S. Constitution and with it, the Union of the United States.
00:19:13.000But within the U.S. Constitution was a recognition of sovereignty of states.
00:19:19.000And Justice Louis Brandeis, who I believe was somewhat of a liberal, he even said that a beauty of the American system was the laboratories of democracy, that Florida is going to be different than Georgia and Georgia is going to be different than New York.
00:19:33.000And so in the last year, there's been a lot of tests thrown at governors.
00:19:39.000This is the most dramatic differences of living in America since before the Civil Rights Act.
00:19:46.000I believe America is more different in the sense of the differences between states than any other time since the antebellum South.
00:19:56.000That you have a completely different way of living when you go and travel to Florida or when you go and travel to Kansas or New Jersey or Maine.
00:20:08.000In fact, I prefer that than the tyranny of the centralized power.
00:20:16.000The fact that we are able to have some form of self-government, some form of local control, I think is a very healthy thing.
00:20:23.000And I think it's actually a sustainable thing.
00:20:26.000But now as we explore management governors versus governors that are leaders, we must ask ourselves the question, why are certain governors willing to pick the tough fights?
00:20:37.000Now, Governor Abbott, he's playing hardball.
00:20:39.000Let's listen to some sound here of Governor Abbott.
00:20:43.000First, let's go to cut 11 on how Governor Abbott is trying to sign a new bill on election reform looking at mail and ballots.
00:20:51.000What this law really does, and so in Texas, every session we focus on making sure we have safe and secure elections.
00:20:58.000And this has absolutely nothing to do with the past presidential election.
00:21:02.000But one thing that we do know in Texas, and that is that mail-in ballots are rife with fraud, as well as ballot harvesting.
00:21:12.000And he continued by saying there was a voter fraud scheme in southern Texas where an Obama judge ruled that voter fraud happens in abundance.
00:21:22.000Thank you, Greg Abbott, for saying what we all know to be true.
00:21:26.000Our leaders need to defend our voters.
00:21:32.000It's a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama in Texas that made a ruling that said that ballot harvesting and mail-in ballots fraud happens in abundance in the state of Texas.
00:21:46.000Barack Obama himself, with Joe Biden as vice president, they investigated and prosecuted a ballot harvesting scheme in South Texas where they were using cocaine to buy votes.
00:21:58.000We're just trying to make sure that we crack down on voter fraud like that.
00:22:16.000They only care about the needs, wants, and interests of America, the colony, not America, the country.
00:22:24.000If you think America is just a temporary place to make a bunch of money because it has natural resources and a driven population and you're able to start businesses, but you don't actually care about the fabric of America, the through line that keeps this country our home continuing, then you're nothing more than a management class.
00:22:50.000You can go to Harvard Business School and learn how to count beans and manage personalities and drive shareholder value and execute a merger and acquisition.
00:23:06.000Mitt Romney was largely responsible for the deindustrialization of America, where he would show up at a manufacturing plant in Indiana and give out pink slips and say, guess what?
00:23:16.000These washing machines are now made in Wuhan.
00:23:21.000But a leader is someone who stands up against an injustice and decides to do something about it.
00:23:28.000To be a leader means that you must have a vision.
00:23:42.000Now, Governor Ducey might actually have been a good governor 10 years ago when you were not in a position of high stress, pressure, when people were demanding results.
00:23:53.000You see, Republican voters used to want managers.
00:23:56.000This is why Jeb Bush was actually a pretty good governor in Florida.
00:24:01.000Jeb Bush was actually a very good governor because back in 2000, because we were given a gift by our forefathers, we were able to skate by with a management class running our states.
00:24:13.000A management class that used to say, you know what?
00:24:16.000We're not going to change anything dramatically.
00:24:19.000We're just going to run the state well.
00:24:21.000School choice, keep taxes low, no transformational structural changes.
00:24:28.000And Jeb Bush is kind of built for that.
00:24:30.000Jeb Bush is a CEO type, a corporate type.
00:24:33.000But would I want Jeb Bush to lead our country into a war?
00:25:19.000And, you know, I was just in Chicago and some people that listened to my show said, Charlie, your show is sounding more and more like a Governor Ron DeSantis commercial.
00:25:49.000All the stuff you talked about, but we also banned these Zuckerbucks where Zuckerberg was spending all that money to run the elections in these areas.
00:25:55.000That is now banned in the state of Florida.
00:25:57.000Is the future of the Republican Party, America First, make America great again?
00:26:01.000Or would you add or subtract from any of that?
00:27:58.000Without a vision, the people of Arizona don't know what is right and what is wrong.
00:28:03.000Without a vision, they say, I guess Democrats are better than Republicans because we have a governor that is not able to articulate clearly what we believe and why we believe it.
00:28:13.000You know why Florida is now one of the most Republican states in the country?
00:30:07.000Well, now we're having a discussion on morality.
00:30:10.000But the way that secular humanists, the people running our society, have been doing things, we're not even allowed to have a conversation on morality.
00:30:19.000How do you know a line is crooked if you do not have a straight line to compare it to?
00:30:24.000Well, in New York City, they are truly pushing the boundaries of postmodern humanism at Columbia Grammar Squad for $55,000 a year.
00:30:37.000This is a story, and I'm reading off of CharlieKirk.com, where New York City prep parents at Columbia School show that first graders have to take a pornography class where they brought in an expert on child pornography.
00:30:56.000Fantastic curriculum, of course, $450,000 were given by hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman's Pershing Squares Foundation.
00:31:06.000Now, if my memory serves me correctly, Bill Ackman is the man who also made a ton of money off of shorting the market last spring.
00:31:15.000I think it was Bill Ackman's fund who he made multi-billions of dollars, $1.7 billion, I want to say.
00:31:21.000More than that off of a massive short of the market.
00:31:24.000He bought the VIX and then some as soon as the market was at 29,800.
00:31:32.000You see, we joke around here that I am a wealth of useless information, but it becomes seemingly less useless when it becomes useful.
00:31:40.000So then these first graders were instructed on how to, and again, I'll do a trigger warning on how to touch themselves for pleasure, six-year-olds.
00:31:50.000This is for $50,000 a year, you can get this at a New York City prep school.
00:31:56.000Fonte reassured parents that he did not use the word that we're all thinking here, and that her lessons teach kids not to touch themselves in public.
00:32:05.000Ah, not to touch themselves in public.
00:32:07.000Also, it says it teaches the kids that they must tell their parents that they must ask for consent before they get a hug.
00:32:17.000No hugging without consent is what Fonte teaches.
00:32:21.000A Dalton mother told the New York Post, quote, kids have no less than five classes on gender identity.
00:32:29.000Quote, this person should absolutely not be teaching children.
00:32:31.000Ironically, she teaches kids about consent, yet she has never gotten consent from parents about the sexually explicit and age-inappropriate material about transgenderism to first graders.
00:32:41.000We were horrified to learn this was shown to our first grade six and seven-year-old kids without our knowledge or consent.
00:32:47.000But it's so hard to fight back because you'll get canceled and your child will suffer.
00:32:49.000Well, how about not sending your kid to this school?
00:33:23.000Soon we'll be teaching three-year-olds how to touch themselves.
00:33:26.000Soon we'll be saying that kids do not have to be raised by their parents, which is, of course, a very predictable pattern that the authoritarians and the totalitarians ever use.
00:33:36.000But for $55,000 a year at the Columbia Grammar School, you can have your child learn that there is no such thing as a man and a woman, that you should be touching yourselves in private, and that your parents should not have to hug you without your consent.
00:33:53.000Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School.
00:34:03.000Education comes from the Latin word to lead forth.
00:34:07.000What are we leading our children forth into?
00:34:10.000If they are going for $55,000 a year, and until parents start to take ownership of their children and take their kids out and start to make noise and not just say, as this one parent says, well, we're going to get canceled.