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00:04:20.000There's so much happening here, and there's actually some really good news.
00:04:23.000There's a piece here about how Democrats are worrying the United States Senate will become a graveyard for the Biden agenda, which was the big reason for why we wanted Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to win in Georgia so that we could stop the Biden agenda.
00:06:06.000So in the news cycle that we are in, actually the better way to say it is the way that we are doing news in America today, it is short bursts of information almost for an increasingly attention deficit population that really doesn't care about the depth, the nuance, the detail, or the evidence behind a story.
00:06:31.000You see, the story of the nursing homes is actually a very complicated story.
00:06:36.000The nursing home story is one that we warned about on this program and the great one Mark Levin warned about back in March.
00:06:46.000I remember listening to the Mark Levin radio program and a woman called into the Great Ones radio show and said, Mark, I work for a nursing home association and Andrew Cuomo is now ordering Chinese coronavirus infected patients to be put into nursing homes.
00:07:06.000At the time, Andrew Cuomo was doing his multi-hour slow daily briefings.
00:07:17.000Mark Levin asked the caller, this can't possibly be true.
00:07:20.000And Janice Dean, who works for Fox News, claims that both of her parents were killed as a result of this policy.
00:07:29.000So this was a scandal that we knew was occurring.
00:07:34.000Now, putting Chinese coronavirus infected patients into nursing homes is bad enough.
00:07:41.000But Andrew Cuomo decided to do something worse than that.
00:07:47.000He doubled down on the policy, lied about it ever happening, and then covered it up.
00:07:55.000You see, early on in the virus, it's understandable that mistakes are going to be made.
00:08:00.000Some Republican governors made some mistakes.
00:09:05.000So I want to focus in on this very important point that Laura emailed us about.
00:09:13.000Because the way that our media operates now, you would think that the more scandals, the more negative news, the worse for the principal or the worse of the subject that is going through it.
00:09:25.000When in reality, it turns to be the exact opposite.
00:09:29.000In reality, it looks as if you're able to almost fatigue the population by stringing out the scandal, distracting from the scandal by having other more clickbaity style news items still about you that are still embarrassing pop up, and then the page can be metaphorically turned and people lose interest.
00:10:00.000You see, unfortunately, the way that many of these investigations work, unfortunately, the way that our system is functioning, if the people lose interest, and most importantly, and it's not a good thing, if the New York Times, the Washington Post loses interest, then the story basically disappears.
00:10:22.000So what is getting more press attention right now?
00:10:26.000The fact that Andrew Cuomo is a sexually deviant pig?
00:10:32.000Or the fact that Andrew Cuomo put infected patients in nursing homes, resulting in anywhere between tens of thousands of deaths, we don't know the number.
00:10:44.000Lied about it, covered it up, then wrote a book about it and won an Emmy while calling the virus the European virus and endlessly lecturing other states.
00:10:58.000Now, Democrats right now are looking for a new strategy, and the only playbook that they know where this works is the Governor Ralph Northern scandal.
00:11:11.000Because usually the traditional playbook for Democrats is distracting from scandals by blaming Trump.
00:11:20.000So I was on Fox News yesterday with Leslie Marshall, and Leslie Marshall, instead of answering the question about Andrew Cuomo being a pig, she says, well, Donald Trump did much worse stuff.
00:11:32.000Donald Trump is sipping Diet Cokes at Mar-a-Lago, Poolside, after he got done golfing.
00:11:52.000So, they can't necessarily blame Trump, but they'll still try to have a couple people on cable news say that as a way to try to create a smokescreen, if you will, cover fire.
00:12:04.000A sleight of hand is basically what goes on.
00:12:09.000But you must understand that there is a playbook on how to deal with Me Too.
00:12:17.000There is a playbook on how to survive accusations, either racial accusations or MeToo accusations.
00:12:30.000There is no playbook on how to survive infants being relaxed and possibly terminated, or nursing homes being the center of an entire political scandal.
00:12:53.000So, what we're seeing here is a counterintuitive press strategy, one that Cuomo's actually a little bit happy about.
00:13:01.000He'd much rather be attacked for saying things to women than possibly killing thousands of elderly people.
00:13:10.000You see, the Democrats are going to the only playbook they know on how to protect and potentially bail out an embattled governor.
00:13:23.000You see, corrupt Democrat governors, it's not anything new.
00:13:29.000I grew up in Illinois, where we have term limits in Illinois.
00:13:33.000It's one term in office, one term in jail.
00:13:39.000I remember Governor Rod Blogoevich, who I actually was pleased to see pardoned just because he's so entertaining to see on television.
00:13:47.000And he had some very good things to say about Donald Trump.
00:13:49.000And I do believe he was over-prosecuted by the Obama machine.
00:14:03.000Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign as governor of the state of New York.
00:14:12.000Now, for those of you that are just getting involved in politics, you missed the joy of watching the Elliott Spitzer story unfold.
00:14:27.000It was one of the most entertaining, hard-to-believe political scandals in American history.
00:14:37.000So, Elliot Spitzer was a very popular governor of New York.
00:14:47.000And it came out that Elliot Spitzer, during a six-month span, had at least seven or eight liaisons with women from an agency and paid them more than $15,000.
00:15:05.000According to published reports, investigators allege that Spitzer paid up to $80,000 for prostitutes over a period of several years while he was attorney general and later as governor.
00:15:18.000Spitzer first drew attention of federal investigators when his bank reported suspicious money transfers under the anti-laundering provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act and the Patriot Act.
00:15:31.000Elliot Spitzer was forced to resign after that.
00:15:46.000Anthony Weiner had his scandal with Chuma Abedin and Hillary Clinton, and then he had an attempted comeback where he was actually leading in the polls to become mayor of New York until it came out that he was not, let's just say he's not correcting his behavior.
00:16:14.000The issue of politicians under scandal is nothing new.
00:16:22.000Where the Democrats are nervous, and they should be, is that if a real investigation, especially from the media, was done into the nursing homes, into what happened in New York, Andrew Cuomo and the Cuomo political machine would be ruined.
00:16:43.000I want you to imagine if the New York Times did one-tenth the amount of reporting into the nursing home scandal of Andrew Cuomo that they did around Donald Trump's visits to Bedminster and Mar-a-Lago, which actually impacted the future of our republic, the livelihood of the citizens of our country.
00:17:09.000And so if you look up Andrew Cuomo online, you don't see anything to do with the nursing homes.
00:17:31.000Instead, it's all about the Me Too scandal, which I'm not saying it's not legitimate, but it's not overly shocking.
00:17:47.000And of course, the groups that all push the Me Too movement, Planned Parenthood, Women's March, National Abortion Rights, Action League, American Association, University of Women, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, all silent on Governor Cuomo's allegations.
00:18:02.000But the playbook that Cuomo is now using is a sleight of hand that he learned from Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, where you distract from the legitimate scandal that is in policy that has real implications, and you go to something that makes for good headlines for the tabloids.
00:18:30.000This is a pattern from the Democrats to distract away from policy, from the consequences of their ideas, and instead focus on either identity politics, mass movements, or issues that really don't have anything to do with the livelihood of the citizens that they are sworn to protect and serve.
00:18:59.000And so, Andrew Cuomo, of course, comes from the Cuomo political family.
00:19:06.000His father, Mario Cuomo, very questionably corrupt man.
00:19:14.000Do you know that Andrew Cuomo ran the Department for Housing and Urban Development while his father was governor of New York?
00:19:24.000I wonder if there were any favorable housing contracts that were given New York or New York City when that arrangement was made.
00:19:32.000But that's literally before I was born that was happening.
00:19:38.000You see, the Democrat strategy Is not just to deflect, but try and run out the clock on the attention span of the news media and with it the American populace.
00:20:03.000The thing that we as conservatives do not do a good job of is Solinsky's rule: keep the pressure on.
00:20:14.000If you don't know who Solinsky is, Solinsky was a community organizer, wrote rules for radicals.
00:20:22.000It is, I believe, 13 rules for radicals, some of which include find a tactic your people enjoy doing, find an effective tactic, accuse the enemy of what you yourself are actually doing, keep the pressure on, amongst many other rules.
00:20:39.000The left is very good at keeping the pressure on.
00:20:42.000I mean, how long did they focus on Trump's tax returns?
00:20:54.000Whereas we as conservatives, mainly because the conservative movement actually believes in Judeo-Christian values, we offer grace and we kind of move on.
00:21:21.000But the Governor Ralph Northam scandal in Virginia never got settled.
00:21:30.000Remember when Governor Ralph Northam came out and said, you see, when a baby is born, we are going to relax that baby, and then we're going to give it to the mother, and a decision will be made on how to proceed.
00:21:45.000He, of course, is explaining in great detail infanticide, the murder of children.
00:21:54.000You might remember this tape, and regardless of her views on abortion, I am pro-life.
00:22:12.000The infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired.
00:22:18.000And then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.
00:22:22.000Delivered, made comfortable, and then a decision would be made whether or not to murder the child or keep the child alive.
00:22:31.000This was the number one news story in the country.
00:22:37.000That news story was one that the Democrats and the left were very scared about because the reality of abortion was then front and center of every single political discussion in America.
00:22:54.000So what ended up happening, and I'm not saying the Democrats wanted it this way, but it ended up working accidentally, was that Governor Ralph Northam and his racist past came center, front and center, where we still have never received an answer of whether or not Ralph Northam was in the KKK hood or wearing blackface.
00:23:46.000They are trying the same playbook now for Andrew Cuomo.
00:23:49.000But instead of delivering a baby, relaxing the baby, and then ending the baby's life, it's the most vulnerable elderly among us that were put in harm's way with infected Chinese coronavirus patients, and then Cuomo lied about it.
00:24:14.000This should be one of the biggest political scandals in modern American history.
00:24:27.000Letitia James, who's a very ambitious Attorney General in New York, is doing this, I believe, purely and solely for her own political future and political purposes, but at least she's doing it.
00:24:37.000She issued the report which showed that Andrew Cuomo enacted this policy and then played games of the numbers on how it actually unfolded.
00:24:50.000Now, will Cuomo face a political consequence?
00:25:37.000He's a 63-year-old ruling class member who runs the second largest state in the country.
00:25:44.000He has a reputation of being a pig and a deviant towards women.
00:25:54.000The real story is how he used his moral high ground, his absolute authority as governor to infect and potentially kill thousands of his own citizens and then cover it up and then lie about it.
00:26:17.000There's a lot of energy in the Democrat base, especially from Alexandria Acasio-Cortez, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, but more specifically in New York, kind of the AOC crew to get rid of Andrew Cuomo.
00:26:33.000Cuomo and his multi-decade political machine is now in total and complete jeopardy.
00:26:42.000Chris Cuomo has admitted he's not going to cover this at all.
00:26:46.000Chris Cuomo went on television and said, of course, I know it's happening with my brother.
00:28:11.000That's actually a really important point.
00:28:14.000Since we do not have any form of an honest press in our country, a follow-up question would say, well, Mr. Cuomo, let me tell you why that matters.
00:28:24.000Because in densely populated nursing homes of people over the age of 80 with comorbidities, if you were putting infected patients into those environments, it matters a lot.
00:28:37.000Whereas in hospitals, they're far more equipped to handle people that are currently fighting upper respiratory illnesses or diseases than a nursing home.
00:28:50.000Wouldn't you agree at that, Mr. Cuomo?
00:28:54.000The point is not some sort of clerical error.
00:28:59.000The point is, did Andrew Cuomo willingly put infected patients into a nursing home environment?
00:29:10.000And then why did he lie about it and celebrate his handling of it?
00:29:16.000So this is going to be a very interesting testing moment for the Democrats.
00:29:22.000The Democrats are in control of the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:29:26.000Republicans have the data to prove that their handling of the Chinese coronavirus was not a little bit better, but dramatically better than every single Democrat.
00:29:40.000The only Democrat in the country that I say handled it better than most is Jared Polis in Colorado.
00:29:48.000He didn't do well, but he opened up his businesses earlier, and he actually handled it better than Governor Sisilak in Nevada.
00:29:59.000But who has been under more pressure from the activist press?
00:30:11.000Ron DeSantis came under more scrutiny for drinking a beer without a mask on during the Super Bowl than Andrew Cuomo did for putting infected Chinese coronavirus patients into nursing homes.
00:30:25.000Florida is the second oldest state in the country with a more densely urban population than New York.
00:31:04.000The French Revolution mob can remove Robespierre.
00:31:11.000They can use the guillotine that he created against him.
00:31:19.000Look, big tech has come after conservatives like we've never seen before.
00:31:24.000My entire CPAC speech, which many of you were very kind In praising, so thank you for that, was all about big tech.
00:31:34.000Now, look, every device, whether you're on your phone, laptop, or television, has a unique string of numbers called an IP address.
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00:32:42.000You know, I get a lot of emails and a lot of questions where people say, Where did all these ideas come from?
00:32:51.000Why is it that our corporations are embracing critical race theory?
00:32:56.000Why is it that our politicians are saying that we must eradicate whiteness?
00:33:04.000How is it possible that Coca-Cola, a publicly traded company, sponsored Robin DiAngelo to come say that we must eradicate whiteness in our country?
00:33:20.000And being white, according to Coca-Cola, is being arrogant, divisive, and oppressive.
00:33:29.000The answer is that what happens on college campuses does not stay on college campuses.
00:33:35.000We talk about this all the time at Turning Point USA.
00:33:39.000That one of the greatest failures of conservatives over the last couple decades has been the education of our children and the lackluster involvement from conservatives and yes, Christians in the building of institutions, specifically higher education.
00:33:58.000So, since we've been talking so much about New York, I want to talk about the State University of New Jersey.
00:34:04.000You might say, What is the State University of New Jersey?
00:34:19.000She is given a mantle of credibility to publish articles, to write journals, to lecture, to teach potential teachers.
00:34:32.000This woman, Brittany Cooper, is teaching teachers.
00:34:36.000Brittany Cooper is an associate professor of Africana and women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
00:34:42.000Much of her research and writing centers around the intersections of race, feminism, and gender.
00:34:48.000Cooper's work has led to a couple of very bizarre opinions.
00:34:51.000Now, by the way, I am reading from professorwatchlist.org, which is a project of TurningpointUSA, TPUSA.com.
00:35:00.000And if you have questions about any professors that might be teaching your children from schools you went to, go to professorwatchlist.org.
00:35:07.000This is what Brittany Cooper is teaching her students, teaching potential teachers.
00:35:16.000She claims that American Christians worship a God of quote white supremacy and patriarchy.
00:35:21.000She chooses to worship Jesus, but says that he, quote, was a queer and quote, married a prostitute.
00:35:30.000There is no evidence at all that Jesus ever married anyone.
00:35:37.000I think she's talking about Mary Magdalene.
00:35:39.000I'm guessing that's what she's talking about, right, Connor?
00:35:43.000She says that white families like Mitt Romney's can't properly raise black children.
00:35:48.000Yeah, so this is a really interesting argument.
00:35:50.000We heard this from Ibram X. Kendi and some of these other fools that are educating your children and the students of America, where it's, hey, white people, stop adopting black kids.
00:36:02.000Oh, sorry if a white family wants to be helpful to Western civilization for trying to extend a hand.
00:36:10.000So she believes that is white colonialization.
00:36:16.000She says that the founding principle of our nation is that black people are inhuman.
00:36:21.000Therefore, riots are really just resistance against an unjust system.
00:36:24.000Of course, someone should tell Brittany Cooper that in the original draft of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson argued against slavery.
00:36:32.000Someone should tell Brittany Cooper that Francis Scott Key, who wrote the national anthem, was not just an abolitionist, but an anti-slavery lawyer and activist.
00:36:41.000Someone should tell Brittany Cooper that John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States and son of John Adams, was a fierce anti-slavery advocate whose father was a founding father.
00:36:56.000In fact, he was so committed to the anti-slavery cause, after losing the presidency to Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, he entered Congress and served another nine years just for the cause of trying to abolish slavery.
00:37:11.000Someone should tell Brittany Cooper about Thaddeus Stevens, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver.
00:37:21.000She continues by saying: obesity in the black community is caused by racism.
00:37:31.000But all I have to say is Brittany Cooper looks like Stacey Abrams.
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00:39:14.000I love when I read articles when I do my show prep in the morning that say that Democrats are worried and Democrats are upset about something.
00:39:26.000Democrats worry Senate will be graveyard for Biden agenda.
00:39:32.000I'm reading from the Hill by Alexander Bolton.
00:39:35.000Liberal Democrats are growing more and more worried that the Senate will serve as a legislative graveyard for President Biden's agenda unless he and other centrists rally behind doing away with the filibuster.
00:39:48.000The tensions for now are mostly under the surface as the party approaches an initial victory under Biden, passing into law this giant $1.9 trillion Chinese coronavirus relief bill.
00:39:57.000Tomorrow or on Friday, as soon as I get an opportunity to really go through it, I will do what we have done, I think, more clearly than any other program in the last year.
00:40:55.000Focus on therapeutics, social distance.
00:41:00.000Stay at home if you need to, but do not restrict the liberties granted to us by God for a constantly moving target and objective, 15 days to slow the spread.
00:41:13.000You know, we're coming up on two years, on one year, or 15 days to slow the spread.
00:41:19.000Then it was six weeks to slow the spread.
00:41:21.000Shut down businesses, shut down churches, imprison pastors, mount unsustainable fines.
00:41:31.000Meanwhile, you allow BLM Incorporated to march through the streets.
00:41:35.000You want to stimulate the American economy?
00:41:43.000And it'd be one thing if they proposed an infrastructure package where we could touch and see and use some of the money spent.
00:41:51.000Still, it's probably a huge handout to unions.
00:41:54.000Some of those unions are very corrupt.
00:41:55.000Other unions are ones that are more of the muscular class.
00:41:59.000They've had a tough time the last couple of years, and they actually produce something of value, unlike the SEIU and AFSCAMI and a large portion of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association that are ruining children's lives by not opening schools.
00:42:17.000This relief bill will relieve the next generation of their future.
00:44:15.000Or help the muscular class in our country.
00:44:19.000The Senate is expected to pass it this week.
00:44:21.000And when it becomes law, it will serve as an unmistakable victory in Biden's first 100 days.
00:44:26.000And nothing says unmistakable victory like ruining the country.
00:44:29.000Yet this initial victory will cover up fears among Democrats that big ticket items passed in the House will die in the Senate unless the party greases the gears for change by ending the filibuster.
00:44:42.000Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is insisting the Senate won't be a graveyard.
00:44:46.000The term Mitch McConnell welcomed in describing what would happen to legislation passed by the Democrat House to the Senate if he controlled the Senate over the past two years.
00:44:55.000Schumer says, I believe, and I believe my caucus believes that we need big, bold action, and we're going to figure out the best way to get big, bold action on a whole lot of fronts.
00:45:05.000But the White House on Tuesday wanted to avoid this, where Biden didn't take questions from Democrat senators on Tuesday during a brief eight-minute call to their weekly luncheon.
00:45:17.000Wait, so Biden doesn't take questions from senators.
00:45:19.000He doesn't take questions from the press.
00:45:21.000Does Biden take questions from anybody?
00:45:23.000You see, if I was a Democrat senator like the snow woman, Amy Klobuchar, and I worked really hard to get Joe Biden elected, and he's not even going to take questions.
00:45:35.000The call ended serving as a pep rally.
00:45:40.000You finally have put together a rally.
00:45:45.000Ahead of the vote this week on the relief measure.
00:45:47.000But by taking no questions, Biden also avoided from hearing from liberal senators about the filibuster or the push on the $15 minimum wage.
00:47:14.000The piece continues by saying: Democrats expect pressure on lawmakers to repeal the filibuster to mount after the House passes H.R. 1, a sweeping campaign finance reform measure, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, both of which are expected to run into Senate filibusters.
00:48:30.000I'm going to tell you even more about this because this is not being reported in a lot of the press.
00:48:33.000We've got to focus in on the process and less on the politics.
00:48:39.000We have Andy Biggs coming on exclusively on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast to talk about HR1.
00:48:43.000And I know a lot of you on radio and on the live stream are very worried for good reason about what happened in the 2020 election.
00:48:53.000I know a lot of you are worried about the ballot process, signature verifications, all the shenanigans around that.
00:49:02.000And we just had an amazing interview with Phil Klein, former attorney general of Kansas, runs the Amistad project.
00:49:10.000We talk about $400 million coming in at the last minute that was unaccounted for, the changing of election laws.
00:49:18.000There's a lot there that we have to go through.
00:49:22.000Alexandria Acasio-Cortez came out and tweeted that she's very angry.
00:49:27.000You see, this is this article I'm reading from thehill.com.
00:49:31.000Democrats worry Senate will be graveyard for Biden agenda.
00:49:34.000And most, one of the things that we're talking about here is, of course, the $15 minimum wage, which might as well be called the Black Unemployment Act.
00:49:45.000If you want to have blacks and Hispanics be disenfranchised from getting an entry into the workforce, arbitrarily raise the minimum wage.
00:49:53.000This is what happens in Seattle and Portland and New York.
00:49:55.000A raising the minimum wage only temporarily helps people that were already on their way to get promotions.
00:50:02.000It does not help middle-class workers.
00:50:05.000It does not help working families at all.
00:50:08.000Instead, if you had a payroll tax cut, that would help everyone up and down the socioeconomic ladder.
00:50:15.000So during Tuesday's conference call, Biden expressed strong support for raising the federal minimum wage, but he stopped short of endorsing scrapping the filibuster.
00:50:23.000Now, this is not going to pass in the Senate the $15 minimum wage because there's someone called a parliamentarian.
00:50:31.000So it's not a very heavily covered news story.
00:50:35.000But this person, the parliamentarian, ruled that raising the minimum wage couldn't be included under the special budgetary rules that Democrats are using to sidestep the filibuster in the Senate.
00:50:46.000That led some Democrats to call for overruling the parliamentarian, a step rejected by Biden and the Senate Democrat leaders.
00:50:55.000AOC tweeted, quote, it is utterly embarrassing that pay people enough to live is a stance that's even up for debate.
00:51:07.000Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage.
00:51:10.000McDonald's workers in Denmark are paid $22 an hour plus six weeks paid vacation.
00:51:16.000$15 an hour is a deep compromise, a big one, considering the phase-in.
00:51:49.000States and municipalities have decided to increase black unemployment by raising the minimum wage.
00:51:55.000There's a direct correlation between the arbitrary raising of minimum wage and blacks being unemployed and minorities going on government programs.
00:52:04.000Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Shelby Steele, who many of you are enjoying on our live stream, have written extensively about this.
00:52:13.000For AOC, she has a completely different philosophical worldview of what she thinks government should do.
00:52:22.000You see, to her, she believes the Danish model, which by the way, has incredibly strict immigration policies and no national military and actually a more free market environment excluding tax policy when it comes to regulatory policy.
00:52:43.000I'll get to that either in the next seminar or a different time.
00:52:46.000That Denmark and McDonald's workers are the blueprint for America.
00:53:05.000Maybe she knows her Scandinavian capitals.
00:53:07.000Maybe she knows Stockholm and Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen.
00:53:11.000Maybe she could tell you the difference between the Scandinavian countries and the Baltic states, which actually Finland, I think, is more of a Baltic.
00:53:16.000Finland could be either Scandinavian or Baltic, Estonian, Latvia, Lithuania, or Baltic state.
00:53:21.000The points are: if you would like a hamburger to cost $22, go.
00:55:34.000So I go and let somebody else handle it?
00:55:36.000Yeah, having said that, I'm going to cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation and do the budget.
00:55:45.000Remember, we did a budget last year in the spring in the heat of COVID, where it was the most intense period of my life, of this government's life, of this state's life.
00:56:00.000And we did both and will do both here.
00:56:04.000On the pictures, Marsha, I understand the opinion and feelings of Ms. Ruhr.
01:00:03.000I thought you're not supposed to get within 25 nautical miles of each other.
01:00:10.000So that doesn't seem to be a very good defense.
01:00:12.000And yes, I know that in Italian culture, they kiss and hug a lot.
01:00:17.000I'm just merely adding some factual levity to what I think Cuomo is trying to convince people that he just does such a wonderful job with everything.
01:01:03.000That should be a no-fly zone for you, Mr. Cuomo.
01:01:06.000There's a deeper philosophical point here.
01:01:09.000Andrew Cuomo, in 2019, Andrew Cuomo created a guillotine.
01:01:21.000In 2019, Andrew Cuomo signed into law a bill which lowered the bar for proving harassment claims.
01:01:31.000The bill signed in the law in 2019 says harassment, quote, needs not to be severe or pervasive to be considered unlawful.
01:01:38.000Any action that rises above, quote, petty slights and trivial inconveniences.
01:01:45.000All of that could be a basis for a claim.
01:01:48.000So you might be saying, well, Charlie, how is that a guillotine?
01:01:55.000The French Revolution was led in part by a man by the name of Robespierre.
01:02:02.000Robespierre was part of a group called the Jacobins, a grassroots movement mostly focused in Paris and other urban centers across the beautiful country of France, inciting rage and fervor, and some would say revenge-driven action against the French ruling class.
01:02:25.000Over 10,000 people were publicly executed in show trials using the guillotine, almost the modern-day equivalent of Antifa.
01:02:42.000Robespierre was a revolutionary inspired by a French philosopher by the name of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
01:02:51.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously valued the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult, the chaotic over the orderly, the bloody over the peaceful.
01:03:01.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a French philosopher who laid the philosophical groundwork for the massive social action that resulted in the French Revolution.
01:03:12.000And eventually, after the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte took over and conquered most of Europe.
01:03:18.000Robespierre, actually, 17,000 people are estimated to be killed by the guillotines.
01:03:25.000Robespierre, not dissimilar to Julius Caesar and other leaders that want power and enable those around him or her, grew out of favor with the Jacobins.
01:03:48.000So the Jacobins said, you're next, Robespierre.
01:03:53.000The man who created the whole show, the man who put on the idea of we will no longer allow Louis the 14th, 15th, 16th?
01:07:31.000They want to be provided stuff and taken care of.
01:07:35.000They want to be beneficiaries of a welfare state.
01:07:38.000Any glimmer of people wanting to be free is because they either have responsibility, they understand what freedom is, or they have a worldview that mandates them to be active and productive, like the Christian worldview.
01:07:59.000Whereas the secular worldview does not require you to be active and productive.
01:08:04.000Instead, it would require you to be complaining and stationary.
01:08:08.000Shelby Steele said on our live stream, you might have heard it, that the challenge today is not slavery, it is freedom.
01:08:16.000When God, through Moses, brought the Israelites out of Egypt into the wilderness, they were being fed.
01:09:11.000The way that it's being portrayed, the fear-mongering around it is almost as if there was a mandate that every Texan must go into a public park and do an Andrew Cuomo impersonation and start slobbering over each other.
01:09:26.000You see, liberty means that you are in a vulnerable position by definition.
01:09:41.000It requires what knowledge of what it means to be a good person, to live a purposeful life, to have a telos, which is a Greek word for purpose, which is where we get the word telescope from.
01:09:53.000Out in the distance, where am I going?
01:09:56.000You see, for a directionless, meandering, confused generation who has no purpose, no telos, I can see why they're scared of liberty.
01:10:07.000They want to be given a government-mandated excuse to sit and do nothing, because at the very least, they don't have to make difficult choices.
01:10:19.000So, to answer your phenomenal question, Brenna, freedom is a value.
01:10:25.000It's not in the natural human condition.
01:10:27.000If you don't teach people the need to fight for freedom or what freedom actually is and why you should live a free and full life of liberty, it will disappear.