00:00:26.000Hey everybody, there's a cultural blitzkrieg happening in our country right now.
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00:03:11.000Scott Hennan, who helps run the radio network in North Dakota, The Flag, was a phenomenal host, and we had a great time.
00:03:22.000We were also at, we broadcasted our show actually a couple days ago from University of Mary.
00:03:27.000We had an incredible attendance at the Bell, standing room only, probably the largest political event in Bismarck of the year.
00:03:38.000For North Dakota, to have nearly a thousand people, I've been told that's a very big deal.
00:03:43.000We were talking about a lot of different things, and one of the topics that came across was why is it that Republican governors and Republican leaders are not honoring their commitment to their voters?
00:03:58.000And so I was made aware by some of the activists from the North Dakota conservative advocates that there were a couple bills in front of the North Dakota legislature.
00:04:08.000I commented on one of them, which was a bill that would not allow the governor of North Dakota to issue a mask mandate.
00:04:17.000I calmly asked the governor in front of all of the activists, the grassroots of North Dakota, to sign this bill to limit government's emergency powers.
00:05:14.000Saying that if you are a man who all of a sudden has a gender change, you are not allowed to compete in female sports.
00:05:26.000Well, last evening, late last evening, as soon as I had left the state of North Dakota and our event had ended and the potential for national criticism might have passed, Governor Bergham vetoed that bill.
00:05:43.000The governor of North Dakota has made a public signal to all of you that he does not believe that women's sports are worthy of protection.
00:05:56.000Governor Bergham has basically said he does not think men and women exist.
00:06:14.000I'm going to dive into this in great detail because the people of North Dakota, I connected with you on such a personal level in the last couple of days.
00:07:11.000He vetoed this bill because he says, quote, to date, there has not been a single recorded incident of a transgender girl attempting to play in a North Dakota girls' team.
00:07:54.000And I went on Scott Hennon's radio show in North Dakota, and I said that if they welcome Amazon into their state, they are going to control public policy decisions, and this is one example of that.
00:08:05.000For example, Governor Bergham says, Well, there's no examples of this, right?
00:08:10.000Well, just neighboring North Dakota is the Big Sky Conference.
00:08:16.000Did you know that the female athlete of the week from the Big Sky Conference not too long ago was a man who thought he was a woman?
00:08:30.000This person is named June Eastwood, formerly known as Jonathan Eastwood, transitioned and starts to beat all of these women in women's sports.
00:08:44.000And then, of course, was named the Big Sky Conference Athlete of the Week.
00:08:49.000So, Governor Bergham obviously is not aware that there are opportunistic men that have gender dysphoria and mental issues that are changing their gender to go destroy women's sports.
00:09:02.000He does not believe women are necessary of protecting.
00:09:07.000He doesn't believe that they are worthy of protection.
00:09:12.000Instead, Governor Bergham believes that he wants to pander to the corporate class.
00:09:18.000What a just gross statement, quite honestly.
00:09:21.000This bill would unnecessarily inject the state into a local issue by creating a ban with a myriad of unforeseen consequences.
00:09:30.000He's talking like a corporate libertarian.
00:09:33.000You see, we as conservatives believe in the natural law, the laws of nature and nature is God, as the Declaration of Independence clearly says.
00:09:40.000If the state is good for anything, it's good for protecting the chemical castration of children, Governor Asa Hutchinson, or enforcing biological gender standards for women and for men.
00:09:54.000But there's something a lot deeper going on here that everyone is missing.
00:09:58.000The state legislatures keep on putting these bills on these governors' desks.
00:10:03.000You see, the state legislatures are the closest to their voters.
00:10:07.000These state legislatures aren't just cooking these things up and they're failing in committee.
00:10:13.000They are enthusiastically getting voted on.
00:10:16.000In fact, in the North Dakota state legislature house, this passed 69 to 25 in the House of Representatives, in the House of Representatives, or the state house, I should say, House Bill 1298, North Dakota.
00:10:31.000So the state legislative house, they're listening to their constituents.
00:10:42.000But Governor Bergham is deciding that the 69 members of the House who represent their voters and the 27 members of the Senate, that he knows better than them.
00:10:55.000Governor Bergham is just the latest in this trend of corporate Republicans who are perfectly fine witnessing and overseeing the moral decline of America as long as they keep on getting invited to cocktail parties with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.
00:11:17.000These are corporate lobbyists that are indifferent to the most important issues of our time, such as what is a man and what is a woman.
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00:12:52.000So the governor of North Dakota, Doug Bergnam, vetoed a bill that was enthusiastically passed by the North Dakota House and the North Dakota Senate.
00:13:03.000The ACLU, which is an anti-American organization within our own country, refuses to hold the Biden administration accountable, says, quote, it was thrilled with Governor Bergham's decision to veto this bill.
00:13:16.000If the ACLU is ever thrilled with what you've done when it comes to these issues, you're probably not a Republican.
00:13:24.000So the ACLU says, quote, nobody wins when politicians try to meddle in people's lives like this.
00:13:30.000Nobody wins when we try to codify discrimination like this.
00:13:35.000We should remove the age requirement for high school sports.
00:13:38.000We should allow 35-year-old people to go play high school sports.
00:13:43.000If there is no prerequisite to have standards for athletic competition, we should allow people that used to be varsity athletes that want to go relive their glory days to go play high school football, to go play high school basketball, to be able to go back into swim meets.
00:13:59.000If there is this idea of standards, then why have any standards at all whatsoever?
00:14:04.000For example, the organization is the North Dakota High School Association.
00:14:40.000And so when it comes, I want all of you in North Dakota and across the country to remember when female sports in North Dakota is destroyed, remember this moment when the ACLU gives a standing ovation to Governor Bergham because he's like, well, we don't want to inject the state into these form of standards.
00:14:58.000Now, here's the, I shouldn't have to do this part of the segment, but let me just do this part of the segment for the slower people that work in Governor Bergham's office.
00:15:11.000This is a very, I know this is a very obvious thing, but let me just go through this.
00:15:16.000Women, again, this is a study, study done by the Journal of Applied Psychophysiology.
00:15:21.000Did you know that women exhibit about 40% less upper body strength and 33% less lower body strength than men?
00:15:27.000I know this is a shocking thing for most people.
00:15:30.000A 2006 study in the same journal revealed that men had stronger grips than women.
00:15:35.000In general, men are also faster than women.
00:15:37.000The fastest woman in the world, Florence Griffith Griffith Jr., ran the 100-meter dash in 10.49 seconds.
00:15:44.000And in 1988, that record remains unbroken.
00:15:47.000Yet her fastest time wouldn't have even qualified her for the men's 2016 Olympic competition.
00:15:51.000I know this is a shocking thing for people, but men are faster and stronger and have more muscle mass than women.
00:15:57.000Literally have the numbers to support that.
00:16:01.000And so should there be standards for anything?
00:16:04.000And how are we able to find these standards?
00:16:07.000Well, this idea and this excuse that we're getting from these Republican governors like Governor Bergham and Asa Hutchinson, who's just completely worthless, by the way, Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas, is, well, we don't like using state power for this stuff.
00:16:52.000There's a reason why the state legislative houses keep putting these bills on these governors' desks.
00:16:58.000It's because they actually have to go home and walk through the grocery stores and walk through the communities that they serve where these governors are escorted in private chauffeured vehicles and they have no idea the wants, needs, and concerns of the states they actually represent.
00:17:14.000Becoming a governor in America seems as if it's just basically being a spokesperson for the United States Chamber of Commerce.
00:17:22.000All they care about is job development.
00:17:24.000And there's a really interesting moment here where you have a collision course between the state legislative houses and the governor's mansions.
00:17:32.000What's going on is the state legislative and state senate houses, houses of power, they're the ones that listen to their voters because if they don't, they're not going to be there any longer.
00:17:42.000Where these governors, they listen to their donors.
00:17:45.000These governors, like Governor Bergham, is in a love affair with Amazon, who just built a massive facility in Fargo, North Dakota.
00:17:53.000And Governor Bergham, the worst thing that could happen to him is upsetting Bill Gates and the tech companies.
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00:19:02.000It'd be one thing if the state legislatures weren't moving on these issues.
00:19:08.000It'd be one thing if the state legislatures are like, we don't want to deal with it.
00:19:12.000But when you have a singular governor in the state like Arkansas and a state like North Dakota and even in Arizona, I don't understand why Governor Ducey vetoed a bill saying parents should have a right to be able to know what their children are learning in public schools when it comes to sexuality and gender fluidity and this transgender nonsense that is spreading our country.
00:19:35.000He vetoed that bill, not sure why, is that the people are with us.
00:19:40.000You see, the corporate boardrooms have run the Republican Party for years.
00:19:46.000And Governor Bergham and Governor Hutchinson are great examples of that.
00:19:51.000But now the kitchen table is going to run the Republican Party.
00:19:57.000And these governors that have been appointed and have been spokespeople for the United States Chamber of Commerce that are creatures of these tech companies, they're kind of confused why when they run to the hills in an act of absolute cowardice that they're not applauded for that.
00:20:36.000I'll let Laura Ingram tell this best play tape.
00:20:39.000What happened to you that made you feel like you were being treated unfairly?
00:20:44.000I lost out on countless opportunities to get placements, get titles, and qualify for further meets to display my talents to college coaches.
00:20:52.000Did you actually lose competitions to meets to male athletes, biological males?
00:20:58.000Every single meet that I've competed against them.
00:21:27.000The reason why the state legislatures are passing these bills, it's because decent Americans see their beloved country, they see it being ruled by an oligarchy of nihilists who want to impose a corrosive agenda on your way of life.
00:21:47.000Put simply, the American people want leaders that will act as bodyguards as a measure of defense against the cultural blitzkrieg that we're living through right now.
00:21:59.000We are living through a shock and all campaign where they are trying to make you submit, run into your bunker, and hope you do not get taken out in the collateral damage.
00:22:14.000But decent Americans, like the amazing people in North Dakota or where I was in Ohio, they turn to me because they still remember a time when Americans have something different in our spirit and they say, Charlie, we want to do something about this.
00:22:31.000We're not happy just to be called all these names and have to sit down and take it.
00:22:41.000And Americans across the country, the people, the kitchen tables, not the corporate boardrooms, they know that an American value is that how do you deal with an attack?
00:23:08.000But the governor of North Dakota and the governor of Arkansas, they're perfectly fine looking at America as a colony, not as a country.
00:23:17.000So when there is a man who decides to go compete in women's sports in North Dakota, there could have been an opportunity to protect women's sports forever.
00:23:28.000It's about America, the promise, America, the gift, slipping out of the fingers of people who have done everything they've been told to do.
00:23:39.000Out of people that go to church and raise their families.
00:24:12.000And by the way, this North Dakota governor is not alone.
00:24:15.000The governor of Kansas, a Democrat, she's unlikely to sign the Fairness in Women's Sports Act as well because she says it's anti-progressive or really regressive legislation.
00:24:28.000This word progressive, I find to be, I just chuckle when I see that.
00:24:32.000So, Governor Laura Kelly, who's a Democrat of Kansas, who never should have been elected governor of Kansas.
00:25:13.000What's important is all this plastic from China and destroying our small businesses, but at least, hey, I got to buy an extra home in Aspen, is what the ruling class says.
00:25:24.000And again, I want to just reinforce this.
00:25:28.000Here's the positive of this: the people are not going to tolerate this anymore.
00:25:34.000Does Governor Bergham realize how replaceable he is?
00:25:38.000Does A.J. Hudson realize how replaceable he is?
00:25:42.000You don't have some sort of special skill set.
00:25:44.000In fact, you've been an awful governor of North Dakota.
00:27:02.000But if any man, if any male person can call himself a woman or legally identify as female, then predatory men will do so in order to gain access to women's single-sex spaces.
00:27:15.000And this puts every woman and girl at risk.
00:27:18.000That was, I think it was on either Brett Baer or on Laura Ingram's show.
00:27:21.000Might have been actually Fox News at night.
00:27:24.000If our leaders are not going to protect our women's sports, our female sports, then who will?
00:28:05.000I care much more about whether or not a 14-year-old girl in Bismarck, North Dakota, or a 14-year-old girl in Arkansas or in Arizona is able to play in women's sports without having their dreams and their ambitions crushed.
00:28:19.000And that's just the beginning of the problem, by the way.
00:28:22.000This goes into a whole nother issue of moral relativism.
00:28:25.000My truth: your biology is set very simply by your chromosomes.
00:28:31.000If the government cannot have very clear rules for the road on that issue, then what good is our government?
00:28:38.000And the answer is: the only good our government is is to serve the wants, interests, and needs of businesses that hate our values.
00:28:48.000And these businesses are now running our government.
00:28:51.000I want to read this quote from Governor Bergham.
00:28:56.000He says, Quote: The bill would unnecessarily inject the state into a local issue by creating a ban with a myriad of unforeseen consequences.
00:29:03.000Unforeseen consequences, you mean having women's sports the way it's been?
00:29:07.000Where are the feminists on this issue, by the way?
00:29:10.000Where is Nancy Pelosi and the people that have told us that we need massive, dramatic action to protect female sports, just protect females in our country?
00:29:28.000The corporate class, Democrats, and Governor Bergham can't.
00:29:32.000And their excuse and their indifference on this issue is very telling.
00:29:36.000It's basically they're signaling to the rest of the country: I'm either afraid to take this fight, I'm okay with this massive, corrosive deconstruction of the American promise and experiment.
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00:32:23.000Well, if anyone knows they're Plato in Plato's Republic, a philosopher king is someone where Plato argued that philosophers must become kings, or now called kings, must genuinely, genuinely, and adequately philosophize.
00:32:37.000It's this idea that I'm in a position of power and I know better than you.
00:32:45.000And what's so scary and disturbing about this trend is that there's a disconnect from the will of the people and the actions of people in charge.
00:32:55.000So this is where there's only a couple of potential outcomes.
00:33:00.000When leaders are in agreement with their voters and they do what their voters want, you have peace, you have stability.
00:33:11.000People ask me all the time, Charlie, why is there so much unrest?
00:33:18.000But a very obvious explanation is you get revolutions when the people feel like they are not being adequately represented by the people in charge.
00:33:28.000Why would you revolutionize the country if you're getting what you want out of the people in charge?
00:33:35.000If the leaders are listening to their voters and they are getting marching orders, oh, 97% of people in North Dakota think female sports shouldn't have men in them.
00:34:53.000But when I talk to the voters, when I'm in front of 800 people in Bismarck, North Dakota, when I'm in front of 1,000 people in Missouri, when I'm in front of 1,200 people in Lexington, Kentucky, when I'm in front of a packed group in Oklahoma, and the governor of Oklahoma is doing a nice job.
00:35:10.000When I'm in front of packed audiences in Nashville, Vegas, and San Jose, and I say corporations are not your friend, I get standing ovations.
00:35:19.000When I say that it's time for our leaders to do what they say they're going to do, they start applauding for two, three, four minutes.
00:35:27.000And guess you know what's even more amazing?
00:35:28.000We just had a group of our investors and donors at Turning Point USA, they get it too.
00:35:34.000The only group of people that don't get it are the top of the hierarchy of decision makers, which is the governors and the people surrounding it.
00:35:45.000Because they remember a Republican Party that was asleep.
00:35:50.000They remember a Republican Party where all you had to do was go to ribbon cuttings for Amazon and talk about cutting taxes, not even actually do it for working people, and you get reelected.
00:36:01.000That's what Republicans used to have to do.
00:36:02.000The ribbon-cutting Republicans are so confused.
00:36:07.000They're like, I thought I just had to cut a bunch of ribbons for a Chinese tech company in Wisconsin and everything's better.
00:36:12.000No, actually, we want something different.
00:36:15.000We need a bodyguard and a defender against this cultural blitzkrieg that's happening.