The Charlie Kirk Show - July 01, 2022


America's National Pride Problem


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A new poll shows that Americans are less proud of their country than they were in 2011, and that most Americans are not proud of where they are right now. Are you proud of the country you're living in or do you feel disenchanted with it?

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, I'm proud to be an American.
00:00:02.000 I know you are probably as well, but are you proud of where America is right now?
00:00:06.000 Very different question.
00:00:08.000 Email me your thoughts to this question, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:11.000 I'm sure you're proud to be an American.
00:00:13.000 Love to hear about that.
00:00:14.000 But are you proud of where the country is?
00:00:16.000 How we're doing?
00:00:17.000 First time in my lifetime, I say no.
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00:02:29.000 We're going to talk about being proud of being an American.
00:02:34.000 You just spent an entire month focused on pride Lgbtqi, A plus pride. 0.98
00:02:42.000 We were told that we must not just tolerate, not just accept, not just celebrate, but we must participate in these mass prides of drag queens and children, exploitation and all this nonsense. 0.78
00:02:56.000 You must participate.
00:02:58.000 Where's your flag?
00:02:58.000 Where's your ribbon?
00:03:00.000 As they would say in Seinfeld, just come on, put the ribbon on, and there's a new poll out that we're going to kind of focus on for a little bit, and I I have a take on this that I never thought I would have.
00:03:11.000 National pride is down, with majorities of Republicans and independents.
00:03:14.000 I'm reading from Foxnews.com and nearly half of Democrats feeling dissatisfied with their country, according to the latest FOX NEWS survey.
00:03:21.000 The poll released thursday asked registered voters, are you proud of the country today?
00:03:27.000 Just 39 percent said yes.
00:03:32.000 That is down 12 points from june of 2017 and down 30 points since june of 2011.
00:03:39.000 While the question has only been asked four times, this marks a majority feeling disappointed in their country.
00:03:47.000 56 percent are not proud, up from 48 percent in 2017 and 28 percent in 2011.
00:03:55.000 Independents and Republicans reversed their positions since 2017.
00:03:59.000 While formerly not proud, Democrats are now on the fence.
00:04:03.000 In 2017, Republicans by a 31-point margin and Independents by four points were proud.
00:04:09.000 Today, both Americans feel disenchanted with the country.
00:04:13.000 Republicans by 24 points and Independents by 35.
00:04:17.000 Democrats were 17% more likely to be disappointed in the country in 2017.
00:04:21.000 Well, now they're split.
00:04:22.000 46% are proud and 48% are not.
00:04:26.000 Men also reversed their positions.
00:04:29.000 They were more likely to be proud in 2017 by 22 points, whereas now they're not proud by 14 points.
00:04:35.000 Women were dissatisfied in 2017 and remain so today, but by a much wider margin.
00:04:41.000 They were not proud by nine points five years ago versus 21 points today.
00:04:44.000 Oh, women are getting less thankful towards America. 1.00
00:04:47.000 It's interesting, because women have actually succeeded more than men over the last decade.
00:04:51.000 More job promotions, more college degrees, more diplomas, more wealth increases, more cats, more dogs, less marriages, less children, and you're less happy with your country.
00:04:59.000 It's interesting.
00:05:00.000 Hispanic voters have actually become less proud of America.
00:05:05.000 In June of 2017, 57% were proud, and now 35% are proud.
00:05:13.000 Whereas once being proud of America was treated as a prerequisite for being patriotic, that has too succumbed by partisanship.
00:05:20.000 It seems for many pride and patriotism are no longer about democratic freedoms, but about the person in the White House, says the low IQ pollster Chris Anderson, who never has an independent thought in his mind.
00:05:32.000 This is a very important point.
00:05:34.000 Republicans, conservatives, and free thinkers are not any less proud of the country because of Joe Biden.
00:05:45.000 And I think we have to make a differentiation here.
00:05:48.000 There's a difference between being proud of America and where it is and proud of being an American and the journey and the story and the history, the tradition, the culture, the background, the heroism and the courage.
00:06:02.000 Big difference.
00:06:04.000 I have and will remain to be a proud American, literally wearing an America shirt.
00:06:11.000 I have an American flag behind me.
00:06:14.000 But I am not proud of where the country is right now.
00:06:17.000 No decent person could be happy with where America is right now.
00:06:23.000 You look at where America is and the trajectory that it's headed.
00:06:28.000 What exactly are you happy with?
00:06:30.000 The NASDAQ and the Dow down 30% since the beginning of the year?
00:06:34.000 Hyperinflation?
00:06:35.000 The lying of the elites?
00:06:37.000 We're going to explore this question.
00:06:39.000 I want to ask you the question.
00:06:40.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:06:42.000 Are you proud of where the country is right now?
00:06:43.000 We're going to explore this from a couple different dimensions.
00:06:46.000 You can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:06:49.000 Are you proud of where the country is?
00:06:52.000 So the poll from Fox News shows that only 39%, it's an important distinction.
00:06:58.000 It says, are you proud of the country today?
00:07:01.000 My answer would be no.
00:07:02.000 It doesn't say, are you proud to be an American?
00:07:04.000 Of course I am.
00:07:05.000 Are you proud of what America stands for?
00:07:07.000 Of course I am.
00:07:08.000 But are you proud of the country today?
00:07:11.000 39% say yes.
00:07:12.000 11 years ago, 69% of people said yes.
00:07:16.000 What the heck happened over the last decade?
00:07:20.000 One decade, 11 years of leadership of a generation that had waited so long to come into power and 30-point dip in whether or not people are proud of where their country is.
00:07:34.000 We're going to go through this.
00:07:35.000 It's reckless deficit spending, inflating the currency, adventurous foreign wars, the lies and the deceit of our politicians and leaders in Washington, D.C., the disgust that we have for the American ruling class.
00:07:50.000 One decade, 30 points down.
00:07:52.000 I believe, as I would love to hear your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com, I believe it's intentional.
00:07:59.000 I believe they want you to feel this way.
00:08:03.000 I believe they are trying to metaphorically waterboard you to make it feel as if we have zero parts of America to be proud of.
00:08:12.000 We have a 30-day pride month of LGBTQIA rainbow stuff, followed by a three-day weekend for American pride.
00:08:20.000 Are you proud after the Afghanistan debacle, one of the most humiliating defeats in American military history, where 13 Marines were bombed by a terrorist?
00:08:31.000 And then what does Joe Biden do in response?
00:08:33.000 He carpet bombs an innocent family just because he wanted to look good, and there was zero reason to do that, just a random drone strike.
00:08:40.000 I think 10 people died in that.
00:08:42.000 Are you proud of our open border where 5,000 people come into our country every single day?
00:08:48.000 Are you proud of the fact that we now have to vaccinate six months-year-old with an experimental gene therapy, even though we're the only country that's doing that in the world?
00:08:56.000 By the way, there could be anywhere between 7,000 to 8,000 people crossing into our border every single day.
00:09:03.000 3 million a year, according to Chad Wolf.
00:09:06.000 Now, I'm proud of the Declaration.
00:09:08.000 I'm proud of the Constitution.
00:09:10.000 I'm proud of D-Day.
00:09:12.000 I'm proud of taking down the Soviet Union without having to fire a shot. 0.99
00:09:16.000 I'm proud of the American economic prowess.
00:09:18.000 I'm proud of the faith of America.
00:09:20.000 I'm proud of the American people.
00:09:22.000 I'm thankful for those things.
00:09:26.000 But where are we today?
00:09:28.000 And here's the one thing I just want to make sure we're all clear about: we can be thankful and we should.
00:09:33.000 And we can be respectful and we should.
00:09:36.000 And we should be filled with gratitude to the Lord that we get to live in this country, a country that still has a little flicker of self-government, that still has a little bit of crumbs of checks and balances, that we still have a court that somewhat still operates.
00:09:51.000 But we need to be honest with ourselves.
00:09:54.000 We need to be honest with where we are as a country.
00:09:57.000 We need to be honest with where we are as a nation.
00:10:00.000 Are you proud of America right now?
00:10:02.000 That's a different question.
00:10:03.000 Am I proud of being an American?
00:10:04.000 Of course I am.
00:10:06.000 Am I proud of where America is right now?
00:10:08.000 No.
00:10:08.000 Two different questions.
00:10:10.000 Don't conflate the two.
00:10:11.000 It has nothing to do with Joe Biden, this Chris Anderson guy, Democrat pollster.
00:10:16.000 He says, well, Republicans don't like America if a Democrat's in office.
00:10:19.000 That's not true.
00:10:22.000 What is true is the state of the nation.
00:10:25.000 Show me one metric that is going well right now.
00:10:28.000 Suicides are up.
00:10:29.000 Alcoholism is up.
00:10:30.000 Drug addiction is up.
00:10:31.000 Violent crime is up.
00:10:33.000 Border crossings are up.
00:10:34.000 The entire market is down.
00:10:35.000 The recession is down.
00:10:36.000 Now, I'm not here saying that we should be pessimistic.
00:10:39.000 I think our best days are ahead.
00:10:41.000 But man, when I see the U.S. Navy putting forward that commercial about how to use proper pronouns, when I see drag queen operations at an Air Force base, when I see critical race theory being taught at West Point, I get very angry.
00:10:54.000 And I'm ashamed that that's happening in America.
00:10:57.000 I know many people feel the exact same way.
00:11:00.000 So we're going to take a poll.
00:11:01.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:11:03.000 Are you proud of the country today?
00:11:04.000 I want to hear it.
00:11:05.000 Maybe I'm on an island.
00:11:06.000 Maybe you're totally happy with how things are going.
00:11:08.000 Maybe say, oh, Charlie, despite all the inflation, despite all this, I've never been prouder to be an American.
00:11:14.000 I want to hear that.
00:11:16.000 I want to interface with you and see if there's a massive gap that I'm missing.
00:11:20.000 But when I see people that are allies of President Trump get their apartments raided, moms and dads get called domestic terrorists by our government, the Department of Justice, when I see assassination attempts against Brett Kavanaugh, nonstop illegal protests outside of the Supreme Court justices' homes, when I see people like Sussman walk free and Peter Strzok and James Comey and Lisa Page do whatever they want with no justice, Hillary Clinton cackles her way all the way to the bank.
00:11:49.000 When I see a show trial when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghelaine, well, Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself, and Ghelaine Maxwell with the show trial, and yet we're raiding Trump allies' apartments, and I see the following: this is the new Navy logo they had on social media: Gay Pride Rainbow.
00:12:04.000 That's the United States Navy.
00:12:06.000 This is some new person that's working in the Department of Energy, a man who thinks he's a woman, flamboyantly showing off the new shoes.
00:12:15.000 The rear admiral that has a gay flag during Pride Month, being, and they're wondering why U.S. military enrollment is going down to record low levels post-Vietnam, the lowest it has since the 1970s.
00:12:29.000 I'm so thankful I get to live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:12:33.000 I'm afraid we're losing it.
00:12:35.000 Am I proud of where America is today?
00:12:38.000 Tough.
00:12:40.000 It's tough to be.
00:12:41.000 Where we allow the chemical castration of children, we teach pornographic curriculum to children, where you have the rear admiral of the Navy or whatever say that, you know, yeah, the hormone blocking therapy is perfectly, perfectly fine.
00:12:56.000 It's actually, it's life-saving.
00:12:59.000 No, I am mad.
00:13:01.000 I'm mad where America is.
00:13:02.000 And that's the first time in my life, even last July 4th, I was like, we'll see.
00:13:06.000 I think America's more resilient than this.
00:13:08.000 I'm frustrated, irritated, upset, and motivated for action.
00:13:14.000 So am I happy where the country is right now?
00:13:17.000 Not even close.
00:13:21.000 Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:13:26.000 We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:13:30.000 But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:13:32.000 How about good and evil?
00:13:33.000 Right and wrong, prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
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00:14:57.000 Emails are flooding in.
00:14:58.000 It seems as if I've struck a chord and that we're largely in agreement.
00:15:02.000 You know, I think of my grandfather who served in World War II in the Army Air Corps.
00:15:07.000 I think of his generation, what they did, what they sacrificed, and how we messed it up.
00:15:12.000 Man, did we mess this up?
00:15:15.000 I think of that generation, the greatest generation, that went to war against evil in two theaters.
00:15:22.000 And what's interesting is that we have been told that tolerance is this amazing virtue.
00:15:29.000 No, you shouldn't tolerate things that are untrue, that are bad for children, that are bad for your country, that are immoral or evil.
00:15:37.000 You shouldn't.
00:15:38.000 And the greatest generation knew that.
00:15:39.000 They had no tolerance for that nonsense.
00:15:42.000 We're being told that tolerance is what makes us strong.
00:15:45.000 Actually, it doesn't.
00:15:47.000 Tolerance of the wrong thing can destroy you.
00:15:53.000 Sandy writes us, no, I'm not proud of America right now.
00:15:55.000 In fact, I'm embarrassed, afraid, worried, and disappointed all the politicians who let this decline socially and economically.
00:16:00.000 We need a MAGA great reset quickly.
00:16:03.000 Carol, I'm disgusted with what's being done to a great America, our great America.
00:16:07.000 Man, do I agree?
00:16:08.000 The immoral citizens and government.
00:16:09.000 Let me just stop.
00:16:10.000 This is what makes me so angry, is how much I love the country and how hard this is to see.
00:16:16.000 And don't get me wrong, I'm going to celebrate July 4th, largely celebrating the founding fathers and the sacrifices of generations prior.
00:16:23.000 I'm not going to celebrate much that's happening right now. 0.87
00:16:26.000 Well, we got fat, happy, apathetic, lazy. 0.83
00:16:30.000 Not all of us.
00:16:31.000 I know many of you worked hard and many of you do amazing stuff and you worked for the reversal of Roe.
00:16:35.000 We're going to talk that in a second.
00:16:36.000 That's a great victory in the midst of all this, but that's a lagging indicator, not a current or a leading indicator.
00:16:43.000 But it's because we love the country so much, I think that we're so irritated.
00:16:48.000 I think back to July 4th, five or six years ago.
00:16:50.000 It's the greatest day of the year.
00:16:53.000 You felt like you were part of something bigger than yourself.
00:16:56.000 You felt like finally everyone could put on the same jersey.
00:17:00.000 It wasn't about racial politics or George Floyd or LGBTQ.
00:17:04.000 And they would have military flyovers and you'd have this kind of sense of euphoria, like, yeah, that's our team.
00:17:11.000 We are the greatest nation.
00:17:14.000 We're strong.
00:17:15.000 We could take on evil.
00:17:17.000 We can defend ourselves.
00:17:19.000 The parades I went to growing up is the best of our society. 0.95
00:17:24.000 Now, these parades are filled with transgender youth support nonsense. 1.00
00:17:28.000 It's just, are you serious? 0.75
00:17:31.000 And we have a Juneteenth a couple weeks before as a direct competitor against July 4th.
00:17:36.000 And people are openly saying on cable television, well, 4th of July is not even worth celebrating.
00:17:43.000 Cut 119, Eddie Gloud Jr. on MSNBC.
00:17:47.000 4th of July has always been an incredibly vexed holiday for me, given the tradition of which I come, whatever that means.
00:17:53.000 People like this have been slowly but deliberately eroding the fabric of America.
00:17:59.000 Where finally, they've taken over so many institutions, they've weakened us to such a great extent.
00:18:03.000 We look at this Independence Day weekend, we look around and say, man, yes, I'm thankful.
00:18:10.000 Thank you, Lord, I get to live in America, but what the heck have we done to this place?
00:18:16.000 Play Cut 119.
00:18:18.000 I wanted to ask you, Eddie, we're coming up, obviously, on the 4th of July weekend yesterday on Twitter.
00:18:24.000 I said, despite all of our failings, despite all of our shortcomings, why are you proud, even with all of our flaws, why are you proud to be an American?
00:18:34.000 I'm curious, what are your thoughts going into this 4th of July weekend on pride and being an American?
00:18:42.000 You know, 4th of July has always been an incredibly vexed holiday for me, given the tradition out of which I come.
00:18:50.000 It's framed by Juneteenth, the way in which we struggle with the legacies of slavery. 0.97
00:18:55.000 What a loser. 0.99
00:18:56.000 Seriously. 0.99
00:18:57.000 Learn something, anything about history.
00:19:00.000 Open a book, any book, that wasn't written in the last 20 years about American history.
00:19:04.000 That every founder knew what they were doing was wrong.
00:19:08.000 That 60% of the colonies had independently abolished slavery right after the American founding.
00:19:14.000 That the first anti-slavery convention was hosted by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 in Philadelphia right before 1776.
00:19:20.000 That Thomas Jefferson admonished King George for bringing the sentence slavery to America and blamed him for that.
00:19:28.000 People like him, and he's not alone, there's millions.
00:19:31.000 They've been wearing us down, infiltrating our military, infiltrating our corporations.
00:19:35.000 And so this is important.
00:19:36.000 Someone just said, Charlie, I love the country, but I hate the government.
00:19:40.000 It's more than the government, everybody.
00:19:41.000 I'm ashamed of Netflix.
00:19:43.000 I'm ashamed of Disney.
00:19:44.000 I'm ashamed of the military.
00:19:45.000 I guess the military is part of the government.
00:19:47.000 I'm ashamed of the cultural institutions.
00:19:49.000 I'm ashamed of Hollywood.
00:19:50.000 I have nothing in common with any of these people.
00:19:53.000 And that's not the country I grew up in.
00:19:56.000 It used to be that the really weird psychos would not celebrate July 4th, but even kind of like Leonardo DiCaprio and those people would be like, okay, July 4th, fine.
00:20:05.000 Now it's this incessant insurgency.
00:20:08.000 Like, no, we're above it.
00:20:10.000 Do you know the carbon emissions that happen when you have a burger? 0.98
00:20:14.000 Like, shut up, like for a day. 0.79
00:20:15.000 Can we have a weekend, please, without you lecturing us? 0.97
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00:22:25.000 Donna says, thanks for all you do, Charlie.
00:22:27.000 In response to your question, I love our history.
00:22:28.000 I love my country.
00:22:29.000 Boy, do I love our history.
00:22:30.000 We don't teach it to our children.
00:22:32.000 We teach the opposite of our history.
00:22:33.000 I love our country.
00:22:34.000 I love the Constitution.
00:22:36.000 So do I.
00:22:37.000 And all the great people and all the great things that we have achieved.
00:22:39.000 However, the past two years, I wake up anxious, nauseated, and angry about what happened yesterday.
00:22:44.000 And what I'm going to hear this day about the decline, destruction, and hatred of America by our present evil administrative state.
00:22:50.000 That was beautifully put.
00:22:52.000 Everyone I know of all races, religion, and beliefs are mildly very depressed, discouraged, and some don't even realize why.
00:23:00.000 We are losing everything.
00:23:02.000 The body knows before the brain.
00:23:04.000 Boy, is that smart.
00:23:06.000 God bless America with prayers and love of God and our country, family, and friends.
00:23:10.000 Donna, we have the smartest listeners and viewers.
00:23:13.000 Thank you.
00:23:14.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:23:15.000 Please keep on sending them in.
00:23:17.000 A country that masks children, that shut down schools, a country that mandated vaccines, a country that kicks out active duty personnel because they don't take the experimental gene therapy.
00:23:28.000 A country that targets moms and dads that show up at school board meetings and calls them domestic terrorists.
00:23:33.000 A country that tolerates the intolerable.
00:23:42.000 Yeah, I'm mad.
00:23:43.000 And it's hard to watch every single day.
00:23:46.000 I know it's hard for you because you feel helpless.
00:23:48.000 That's not my message.
00:23:50.000 Nor is my message one of pessimism.
00:23:52.000 What we're doing today is a temperature check.
00:23:54.000 What do you believe about where America is right now?
00:23:58.000 And the poll speaks for itself.
00:24:01.000 The poll is shocking.
00:24:02.000 Are you proud of the country today?
00:24:05.000 June 2011, 69% said yes.
00:24:07.000 June 2022, 39% said yes.
00:24:11.000 We have political prisoners in solitary confinement because they went into the Capitol Rotunda and took a selfie.
00:24:17.000 Yet we have BLM rioters that never saw an indictment, let alone a day in prison when they burned down our entire country. 0.98
00:24:24.000 We were told America was systemically racist from within because of George Floyd.
00:24:29.000 We burnt down entire cities, civilizations, tried to lock up an innocent kid because of that Kyle Rittenhouse, never got an apology, never got recourse from the government for any of that.
00:24:40.000 Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, an American hero, had two years of his life stolen from him and his fortune and his savings nearly robbed of him by a government that could just do this for fun and play with house money.
00:24:53.000 And so it's not just the government.
00:24:54.000 It's the entire culture that operates around it.
00:24:56.000 It's the New York Times that defends it on a daily basis.
00:25:00.000 It's the paraliberal groups on the left that articulate this.
00:25:06.000 It's critical race theory.
00:25:07.000 It's the transgender agenda. 0.95
00:25:09.000 It's the hormone blocker agenda. 0.88
00:25:10.000 It's the puberty blocker agenda.
00:25:12.000 And you look at this and you say, what on earth?
00:25:14.000 And so this July 4th, typically it's a celebration of the country.
00:25:18.000 And I think for a lot of you, you'll be in the same position as me, where you're going to be kind of looking backwards more than where you are today.
00:25:27.000 Not that you aren't thankful to live in America.
00:25:29.000 Not that you aren't thankful for the blessings that you have.
00:25:31.000 And you say, man, it could be worse.
00:25:34.000 I mean, every morning I force myself, it's like going to 38-degree water.
00:25:38.000 I force myself to list off what I'm thankful for.
00:25:40.000 I go through my gratitude journal when you're in pain.
00:25:43.000 It's a good lesson for life to actually, when you're going through something you don't want to go through, to say, I'm thankful for my wife.
00:25:48.000 I'm thankful for the country.
00:25:50.000 I'm thankful for our history.
00:25:51.000 I'm thankful that our problems are not as great as they are in other countries.
00:25:55.000 But what makes you angry is that, yes, other countries might have greater problems than us.
00:26:00.000 Hunger and starvation in African countries, lack of toilets in India.
00:26:05.000 But what they don't have that we have is that we had it great and we messed it up.
00:26:13.000 That's different.
00:26:15.000 For example, India is an interesting country.
00:26:18.000 Never been there.
00:26:19.000 I would never say India was a great country. 1.00
00:26:22.000 They've had problems.
00:26:23.000 Caste system, hyper-racism, lack of representative government, hyper-corruption. 0.97
00:26:30.000 I want the best for India.
00:26:32.000 I think India can be a good country and a great country one day.
00:26:35.000 But for India, there's not this motivation or this anger because they don't have the kinetic memory of what used to exist.
00:26:43.000 It's more forward thinking, what we can do and we can get out of this.
00:26:46.000 For us, it's we're deciding to go down the slide.
00:26:50.000 We're deciding to retreat.
00:26:52.000 And that's the other thing as we're here on Independence Day weekend and we say to ourselves, are you proud of America right now?
00:26:58.000 We're doing it to ourselves.
00:27:03.000 It's self-inflicted.
00:27:07.000 And for those of us that did not build the country, I did not build America.
00:27:11.000 Some of you are old enough where you could say, you know what?
00:27:12.000 I did build modern America and God bless you.
00:27:14.000 We've World War II veterans and Vietnam veterans.
00:27:17.000 You guys did help build America.
00:27:20.000 I didn't.
00:27:21.000 I'm an inheritor of this.
00:27:23.000 28 years old.
00:27:24.000 So I'm not taking credit for any of it.
00:27:26.000 And so I look around, I say, my goodness, as someone who's receiving this, we are shattering it intentionally from within.
00:27:35.000 And I believe firmly that the agenda of the opposition is to get us to feel this way.
00:27:41.000 And so the question is: do we force ourselves to feel differently, or are we honest enough to say that we are not going to be delusional that somehow we're in this wonderful place?
00:27:51.000 Now, I'm not saying that our best days can't be ahead.
00:27:53.000 I'm not saying you should be unhappy, by the way.
00:27:55.000 That's a totally different happiness, it is a choice.
00:27:59.000 That happiness is a mode of action, that your attitude has to be one of positivity and problem solving.
00:28:05.000 But instead, don't tell me it's sunny in 85 degrees when there's a blizzard.
00:28:13.000 You can't live under this mass paralysis of delusion.
00:28:16.000 It's unhealthy for you, it's unhealthy for the country, and it makes us less likely to reclaim it and get back where we are.
00:28:21.000 Do I think inevitably we are going to win?
00:28:23.000 Yes, I think people are rising up.
00:28:25.000 Do I think citizens are trying to take back power?
00:28:27.000 Yes.
00:28:29.000 But I also want to say, I think the American people, this is what drives me so crazy about this: the American people are not lost.
00:28:39.000 Patriotic, God-loving Americans, you haven't changed.
00:28:42.000 In fact, you've become tougher and stronger.
00:28:46.000 And so there's this disconnect.
00:28:47.000 It's not as if the people have totally basically surrendered responsibility.
00:28:54.000 It's our institutions.
00:28:56.000 It's our leaders.
00:28:57.000 It's our elites.
00:28:58.000 It's the narratives.
00:29:00.000 It's the government.
00:29:01.000 It's the CDC.
00:29:02.000 It's Johnson Johnson.
00:29:02.000 It's Pfizer.
00:29:03.000 It's Disney.
00:29:05.000 It's Netflix.
00:29:06.000 It's Google.
00:29:07.000 It's Facebook.
00:29:08.000 And so the people are looking up and you say, we pay our taxes.
00:29:12.000 We make sure our kids go to sleep on time.
00:29:14.000 We protect our family against threats.
00:29:16.000 We do our job.
00:29:19.000 And you punish us.
00:29:22.000 You carpet bomb us with this trans agenda. 0.99
00:29:25.000 You indoctrinate our kids to hate themselves and hate America. 0.84
00:29:30.000 And so I will always be proud to be an American.
00:29:35.000 But the honest temperature check is: man, we are in trouble.
00:29:41.000 And it's difficult for me to say this.
00:29:43.000 I don't say this with glee because my whole shtick is about how beautiful of a place this is, about how exceptional self-government is.
00:29:53.000 This idea that the few will rule the many or the many will rule the few, which is it?
00:29:59.000 And we're becoming closer and closer to this oligopoly, this oligarchy, where the few do rule the many.
00:30:05.000 We're the founding fathers.
00:30:06.000 They, for the first time ever, when the Declaration of Independence, which is what we're celebrating this weekend, they put the authority of the government outside of the government.
00:30:15.000 Are you a citizen or are you a serf or a subject or a slave?
00:30:20.000 You see, the Declaration recognized power dynamics.
00:30:23.000 That's what we celebrate this weekend.
00:30:26.000 The Declaration realized that the power needs to be in you.
00:30:30.000 And that's been robbed from us.
00:30:34.000 And so what is happening is basically we have fallen into this circumstance.
00:30:43.000 Some of us by our own creation, some of us by our apathy, or a mixture of both.
00:30:47.000 And we feel as if it's irreconcilable.
00:30:51.000 And so, yes, some of you are saying, Charlie, I'm proud we reversed Roe versus Wade.
00:30:55.000 That's a lagging indicator, though.
00:30:55.000 I am too.
00:30:58.000 It took us to win in 2016, put Supreme Court justices in, confirm them, listen to cases, find the suits up to the Supreme Court, and then rule favorably.
00:31:06.000 We're talking about where we are right now.
00:31:08.000 What is the temperature right now?
00:31:13.000 And I actually think the amount of response we're receiving at freedom at charliekirk.com and how we're interpreting this, it's actually a positive.
00:31:25.000 It means that the delusion is breaking.
00:31:27.000 It makes you wonder how far what's actually been lost.
00:31:30.000 It's just how much are we realizing it right now?
00:31:32.000 That's the question.
00:31:33.000 I'm not saying America's totally lost.
00:31:37.000 But for the people that are most likely to be proud of the American, I'm the one that flies the American flag outside of the house and marches in the parade and wears the American shirt.
00:31:46.000 And I kind of look at this and I say, the America I used to know is one thing.
00:31:50.000 So maybe I'm wearing it with a sense of nostalgia, kind of like I'm wearing a Led Zeppelin shirt from the 1970s.
00:31:59.000 And you got to wonder, like, are we going to put the band back together?
00:32:04.000 It's kind of those people that wear the 85 Bear shirts in Chicago.
00:32:06.000 The Bears aren't good anymore.
00:32:08.000 Bears are terrible.
00:32:09.000 Like, I get it.
00:32:10.000 85 Bear is terrific.
00:32:11.000 The Fridge, Jim McMahon, Walter Payton, best football team probably ever assembled.
00:32:17.000 But when I see an 85 Bear shirt, I'm like, okay, they're living in something that used to not exist.
00:32:21.000 Nostalgia to be healthy.
00:32:21.000 And that's fine.
00:32:22.000 It's important for preservation and for memories and for tradition and to be connected to something before.
00:32:27.000 I'm not saying we shouldn't celebrate it, but it also means we should be honest.
00:32:31.000 Because now when I see at least something from the government, I say, okay, well, I know what they're trying to do now.
00:32:37.000 They're trying to put forth an agenda that is completely and totally disconnected from anything that I believe and that you believe in.
00:32:43.000 And so we played the Navy recruitment video last week.
00:32:48.000 We talked about the Air Force and West Point putting in critical race theory.
00:32:52.000 Military enrollment is down, 8,000 people crossing our border every single day.
00:32:57.000 Now it can be fixed.
00:32:59.000 And all it takes is the will to fix it, first from us and then from our political leaders.
00:33:04.000 You know, it'd be interesting.
00:33:06.000 I'd say 99% of you say at freedom at charliekirk.com and please keep emailing us.
00:33:11.000 You say, I am so ashamed of where America is right now.
00:33:14.000 I'm ashamed.
00:33:15.000 I'm aghast.
00:33:16.000 I can't believe where we are.
00:33:18.000 I wonder how many Republican senators would answer that way.
00:33:22.000 How many Republican senators would say they're proud of where America is right now?
00:33:29.000 Not proud to be an American, separate question, proud of where America is right now.
00:33:36.000 And for some of you are emailing, Charlie, I will always be proud of being America, where America is no matter what.
00:33:40.000 That's a silly thing to say, man.
00:33:44.000 You should not be proud of the country if it goes completely off the rails.
00:33:47.000 You shouldn't be proud of the country that begins to do things that are completely immoral to your values and your perspectives on the world.
00:33:58.000 Yes, I'm disgusted with where America is.
00:34:00.000 I'm aghast by all this, but we still have some awesome people, man.
00:34:03.000 And you are, you watching, you listening.
00:34:06.000 The American people are the best in the world.
00:34:10.000 You care about your nation.
00:34:11.000 You fast and you pray and you act and you donate.
00:34:13.000 You care so much.
00:34:15.000 And we lost a great one.
00:34:17.000 We really did.
00:34:20.000 As I'm asking you, are you proud of the state of America with remembering a great American who had courage and leaves a legacy of action for all of us?
00:34:30.000 And it was Dr. Zelenko.
00:34:32.000 Dr. Zolenko passed away yesterday.
00:34:35.000 And Dr. Zelenko was an outspoken critic of Fauci, of the mandatory vaccine.
00:34:40.000 He was an outspoken critic of totalitarian government and started the Zolenko Protocol, which saved thousands of lives.
00:34:48.000 He was an early adopter of hydroxychloroquine mixed with zinc and vitamin D and pushed back against the medical industrial complex.
00:34:55.000 Dr. Zelenko died yesterday, not of COVID, but an unrelated health incident.
00:35:01.000 I believe in, yeah, it was cancer, but it's deeper than cancer.
00:35:05.000 It was cancer.
00:35:06.000 I want to remember Dr. Zelenko because as I am ashamed and as I am angry of where America is, there is this massive glimmer of hope of people like Dr. Zolenko who fought with everything they could and continue to fight to save the country.
00:35:22.000 Because here's the thing, everything I just went through is not a death sentence.
00:35:25.000 It's not.
00:35:27.000 It's not saying it's over.
00:35:28.000 I'm not giving a eulogy.
00:35:30.000 No, I'm giving you action steps and remembering the great ones like Dr. Zelenko, a light in the darkness.
00:35:37.000 Play cut 149 as we remember Dr. Zelenko on resisting fear of totalitarian government and bowing to God, not to man.
00:35:45.000 This is him on the Charlie Kirk show, play cut 149.
00:35:48.000 This is a war against God, God consciousness.
00:35:51.000 And that's why all totalitarian psychopaths, the first thing they want to do is remove or suppress religion or houses of worship.
00:36:00.000 And the reason is simple.
00:36:01.000 If I bow down to God, I don't bow down to them.
00:36:04.000 And so they want to take our consciousness and use fear to cause us to deviate from our faith and put our faith into them.
00:36:16.000 It's a cult to be codependent on them instead of on our Creator.
00:36:22.000 So Dr. Zelenko started out treating patients, but over time found that the CDC and FDA were suppressing early treatments.
00:36:28.000 Dr. Zelenko was one of the pioneers that had the courage and basically the clairvoyance to fight for early interventions with COVID, saving God knows how many lives away from government mandates and edicts.
00:36:42.000 He was one of the 18 members, as we call it on this show.
00:36:46.000 Dr. Zelenko, one of his final messages, denounce the false gods of technology and science and turn back to our true creator, an Orthodox Jew with eight children, play cut 151. 0.97
00:36:57.000 Until we make internal resolutions to kick the evil out from within us, we should, in my opinion, denounce the worship of false gods, the God of technology, the God of science, the God of corrupt governments, money, power, fame, and reconcile our hearts with our creator who's making us anew every instant in time.
00:37:26.000 Finally, his final words, if I have to leave the world, I accept God, and I will encourage and plead with every one of us to step up your game and stand up and resist.
00:37:36.000 A chilling final message.
00:37:39.000 As we ask ourselves the question, are you proud of America right now?
00:37:42.000 Play cut 150.
00:37:44.000 And if I have to leave the world, I accept God's will.
00:37:50.000 But I encourage and plead with everyone else to up your game and stand up and resist.
00:37:59.000 I'm not happy where America is right now.
00:38:01.000 I'm thankful to be an American.
00:38:03.000 Dr. Zelenko just gave us our marching orders.
00:38:06.000 He passed away yesterday.
00:38:08.000 He was courageous.
00:38:09.000 He shouldered the burden for us for a couple of years.
00:38:11.000 Now it's time for us to up our game.
00:38:13.000 No more complaining.
00:38:14.000 This July 4th weekend, yeah, enjoy the fireworks, enjoy the hot dogs, but put together a game plan.
00:38:19.000 Do something.
00:38:20.000 Run for office.
00:38:21.000 Hold the tyrant accountable.
00:38:23.000 Because guess what?
00:38:24.000 I'm not going to go through another July 4th like this.
00:38:26.000 I want the ones that my kids and grandkids enjoy actually say, you know what?
00:38:30.000 I'm proud of where America is today.
00:38:35.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:38:36.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:39.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:38:40.000 God bless.
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