00:00:10.000And also, I get a question of Charlie, where do you get all your energy from?
00:00:12.000Well, I answered that at the end of the episode.
00:00:14.000I hope it could be helpful to some people.
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00:01:16.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:42.000I think Johnny Depp obviously seems like a Hollywood type, but it's a lesson for men in this to avoid black widow traps like Harry and Megan, etc.
00:01:50.000These women just chew up and spit out these powerful men.
00:02:39.000Well, Pat, basically, if you plan on traveling by plane, train, or automobile, at least in a public setting, well, you're going to need one of these again because starting at midnight, the mask mandate will go back into effect for those public transportation settings.
00:02:56.000What is the purpose of the mask mandate?
00:02:58.000And especially, what is the purpose of the mask mandate for children?
00:03:02.000Candace Owens made a very profound point at our campus tour together where she said, Look, when we look at China, we ask the question, why won't they rise up?
00:03:13.000Why won't they push back against the tyranny?
00:03:17.000One of the reasons is that the children of China, or even the adults now, have no memory of freedom.
00:03:44.000However, the reason they are trying to have children wear masks is they don't want them to know what it's like to not wear a mask.
00:03:50.000They want them to be more likely to listen to orders and not question authority.
00:03:55.000They want them to be less likely to be free and easier to control.
00:04:00.000And I'm sorry, that's a very cynical reading of it, but it's true.
00:04:03.000There is no other explanation as to why there would be this insistence to try to mask children.
00:04:12.000And it's amazing because the parents themselves don't actually want to wear a mask, but they're okay with children wearing masks.
00:04:19.000And so, unfortunately, yes, in California, the mask mandates are back.
00:04:25.000Now, Justin Trudeau, of course, who's the representative of the World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders Program, who is basically the archetype of the beta male technocratic dictator.
00:04:37.000Justin Trudeau is a Pete Buttigieg type, if you will.
00:04:41.000Very low testosterone, not very smart, but will do everything he is told to do in a robotic, unquestionable fashion.
00:04:50.000Program me for tyranny, and I will do it, is what Pete Buttigieg and Justin Trudeau say.
00:04:57.000Well, Justin Trudeau, we can learn a lot from Justin Trudeau because they're going to try to bring the Trudeau model to America, has said, quote, every time you wear a mask, every time you stay safe at home, you are making things better for all.
00:05:08.000You are sacrificing for the good of all.
00:05:11.000You want to know why collectivism is something that I almost immediately want to reject?
00:05:18.000Because while I do believe in the spirit of trying to do what is good for your fellow countrymen, if you want to see what actually brings out my inner libertarian, which has ever been kind of extinguished in recent years because of just some of the insanity rooted in some libertarian ideology, but if you want to know me at my most libertarian, it's when I start to hear from tyrants about the collective good.
00:05:41.000I'm like, get me my don't tread on me flag because that guy shouldn't be saying that.
00:05:46.000It is the abuse of the frame of the framing of what is good for all, play cut 76.
00:05:52.000And for the rest of your lives, you will remember this time of pandemic as a time where, yes, we gathered with families, but also where you learned that what you do as an individual matters to the entire community, the entire world.
00:06:15.000Every time you washed your hands, every time you wore a mask, every time you stayed safe and stayed home, you were making things better for your neighbors.
00:06:28.000You were sacrificing for the good of all.
00:06:31.000Now, you have to understand the moral framing that he's trying to put there.
00:06:34.000You see, the heroic thing is to stay home.
00:06:36.000The heroic thing is not to be courageous.
00:07:28.000Are you considering delaying lifting Title 42?
00:07:31.000No, what I'm considering is continuing to hear from my first of all, there's going to be an appeal by the Justice Department because as a matter of principle, we want to be able to be in a position where if in fact it is strongly concluded by the scientists that we need Title 42, that we'd be able to do that.
00:07:54.000But there has been no decision on extending Title 42.
00:07:59.000To kind of piggyback on what Joe Biden just said, first of all, Joe Biden didn't answer the question.
00:08:02.000He just all of a sudden started talking about a Department of Justice appeal on airplane mask mandates.
00:08:07.000This is going to be a difficult one for the regime.
00:08:11.000The regime is going to struggle as to what to do when it comes to these Title 42.
00:08:17.000So Title 42 is obviously a loophole, and we need to institute it.
00:08:20.000We should use unapologetically used COVID-type policies that have been instituted to protect our country from foreign invasion.
00:09:23.000Instead, the proper response is to act justly, which would be deportation.
00:09:30.000It would be happy to pay a nonstop ticket back to Honduras.
00:09:36.000But I'm not going to deteriorate the rule of law and dilute what it means to be an American just because you think you have a right to be here.
00:09:48.000Dinesh D'Souza has a real special movie coming out, everybody.
00:09:52.000In 2020, November 2020, Democrats were up to no good.
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00:10:17.0002000 Mules is going to be a game changer.
00:10:20.0002000 Mules tells the story of the ones who tried to hijack a presidential election.
00:10:24.000You'll see actual video surveillance tape.
00:10:26.000You'll see how we track their cell phones to box after box after they got paid to carry out this illegal scheme.
00:12:24.000You believe in the unfolding of history through a combination of events towards an eventual utopia.
00:12:29.000It's taken Christian eschatological thinking and applying it to materialistic progressive political philosophy.
00:12:36.000And George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, the German historicist, heavily influenced Karl Marx and also Friedrich Nietzsche, as well as Heidegger and more.
00:12:47.000Now, the importance of Hegelian thinking is widespread.
00:12:52.000We don't have to spend too much time on that.
00:12:54.000But Hegel did argue for an eventual monarchy, but he's not alone.
00:12:58.000If you go all the way back 2,500 years prior, Plato argued for a separate type of monarchy.
00:13:04.000In fact, he argued for a type of ruler.
00:13:06.000The ideal ruler that Plato said would be a philosopher king, someone who is wise and steeped in the classic, but have all power, that the people in charge should be the ones that know best for us.
00:13:18.000Now, this was an ideal that Plato put forward, and I am not going to criticize Plato, although I do disagree with some of the stuff that he would say, because Plato basically invented philosophy as we know it.
00:13:30.000Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Aristotle, Aristotle taught Alexander the Great, and with it the canon of the Western philosophical tradition in some ways was given a start.
00:13:41.000I would say the Bible is the foundation, and the Greek classics is a good addition to that.
00:13:46.000Plato talked about many different things, talked about love, talked about romance, talked about justice a lot.
00:13:51.000But Plato, in particular, would talk about government in particular, Plato's Republic.
00:13:57.000And so there has been this repetitive theme, whether it be Hegel or Plato, of a small group of people that have absolute power, that are able to do what they want when they want to do it.
00:14:09.000Now, Plato, you have to understand, was only doing this because he thought democracy was unsustainable.
00:14:15.000Plato was actually a critic of democracy, the demos, the many, the rule of the many.
00:14:19.000He saw it go wrong many times in Athens, and he said, eventually people are just going to vote themselves stuff.
00:14:24.000And so he kind of played through, and it would be illogical, you know, unless you know better, which is if you have a bunch of smart people and they're really wise, why wouldn't we give them all power?
00:14:34.000Because they would actually make the best decisions because they know what is good, beautiful, and true.
00:14:40.000But of course, that runs contradictory to someone who came much later, Sir Lord Acton, who has a one-liner that all of you know.
00:14:47.000You just might not know it came from Lord Acton, that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
00:15:03.000An oligarchy is much more kind of, I think, a much more accurate description of where we are headed and actually where we are in our country, where we are ruled by an incestuous, unelected corporate and political elite that want to be able to call balls and strikes against everything that we do.
00:15:23.000And one of those people, kind of the oligarch-in-chief, because we could use commander-in-chief, but I prefer oligarch-in-chief, is Barack Hussein Obama.
00:15:32.000It's Barack Obama himself, play cut 91.
00:15:36.000The way I'm going to evaluate any proposal touching on social media and the internet is whether it strengthens or weakens the prospects for a healthy, inclusive democracy.
00:15:51.000Whether it encourages robust debate and respect for our differences.
00:16:56.000Obama was speaking at the Obama Foundation.
00:16:58.000I think he was speaking at Stanford, if I'm not mistaken, or somewhere in Silicon Valley.
00:17:02.000Again, kind of the masters of the universe, Philosopher King.
00:17:05.000But it definitely is in that kind of mold of the monarchy, the oligarchy, the person on Trump, the person in the clouds that can tell you what to do.
00:17:12.000And of course, that is idealistically fine.
00:17:16.000However, we all know now, obviously, if you have the power consolidated to one person, then inherently you're not going to have the check in the balance, and that power will be abused.
00:18:58.000Understand, it's not necessary for people to believe this information in order to weaken democratic institutions.
00:19:08.000You just have to flood a country's public square with enough raw sewage.
00:19:14.000You just have to raise enough questions, spread enough dirt.
00:19:18.000So Obama is now trying to compare Bannon to Putin.
00:19:24.000I'm not surprised by him trying to do that.
00:19:27.000How dishonest and deceitful and fallacious that is.
00:19:32.000Cut 93, Barack Obama continues by saying, Despite the fact that we now have essentially clinically tested vaccine on billions of people, around one in five Americans are still going to put themselves at risk rather than getting vaccinated.
00:19:44.000Let me ask you, Barack Hussein Obama: did the vaccine prevent you from getting COVID?
00:19:49.000Because if my memory serves me correctly, you've recently got COVID.
00:19:53.000So what about the vaccine prevented you from getting infected?
00:20:05.000And yet, despite the fact that we've now essentially clinically tested the vaccine on billions of people worldwide, around one in five Americans is still willing to put themselves at risk and put their families at risk rather than get vaccinated.
00:20:23.000People are dying because of misinformation.
00:20:26.000People are dying because of misinformation.
00:22:33.000Increasing illegals in a census, because since we count foreigners in our census, will increase the population tabulation that heavily benefits the Democrat Party.
00:22:45.000So it's not just the votes themselves or the voters themselves or the potential voters, but it's also the census that gets done every 10 years that will tabulate the population in the favor of heavily run Democrat states in areas like New York and California.
00:23:03.000Now, what's happening on the southern border is an invasion.
00:23:06.000Meanwhile, our government is too focused sending money on Ukraine to Ukraine.
00:23:12.000Quote, Biden says the United States will send $1.3 billion in additional military and economic support to Ukraine.
00:23:18.000Meanwhile, Biden asked Congress for 9,000 fewer immigration detention beds.
00:23:24.000So we spend $1.3 billion to Ukraine, that is Thursday, and the administration plans to seek funding for 25,000 beds down from 34,000 beds that are currently funded.
00:23:34.000It has also severed a contract with the detention facility in Alabama.
00:23:40.000Now, mind you, I'm not a big fan of the detention thing.
00:23:42.000I think we should just deport people immediately because they don't want to detain them, which is in some ways a holding pattern for potential deportation.
00:23:50.000Biden wants to cut the amount of beds coming across the southern border because he just wants to release them into the interior of the United States.
00:23:58.000If they are in a quote-unquote bed, which is a filler term, but it literally is a bed, but means that they're not in the interior yet.
00:24:04.000They're in kind of a holding cell, then there's a chance they might be deported.
00:24:10.000Biden wants them released into the interior of the United States so they become reliable Democrat voters, shaking in fear that they'll be deported one day.
00:24:40.000According to a CBP record I obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, there were at least 23 known or suspected terrorists caught here at our southern border in 2021.
00:24:52.000So again, this is the FBI's terrorist screening center who puts together this database.
00:24:56.000And keep in mind, these are only the ones they know about, only the ones they caught.
00:25:01.000Terrorists coming across the southern border and no one stopping them.
00:25:08.000Okay, let's get to the next question here.
00:25:23.000Well, I've called for quite some time that the states need to organize a citizen force and to use police officers, use National Guard, use Texas Rangers or Arizona Rangers and start their own border patrol.
00:26:08.000I always laugh when people say, well, Charlie, the southern border is very, very difficult to secure.
00:26:13.000Now, the only argument that I'm sympathetic to is the Native American reservations, which I just think we should just tell them, tough luck, we're going through it.
00:27:41.000When you see a committee formed, don't expect anything profound to come out of it.
00:27:46.000It's just a generally good rule for life.
00:27:48.000If you just see a group of people sitting around, it's generally not going to produce something quick or meaningful or impactful.
00:27:58.000Instead, you can know this from a business, a small tactile group of people, such as a governor or a mayor or just two or three people alongside of it that are empowered to make decisions unilaterally, that tends to be rather effective.
00:28:13.000But this idea that a 26-border committee is somehow going to be some sort of defining thing, not buying it.
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00:29:39.000That will allow me to vote on the tender offer deal.
00:29:42.000Okay, let's get to some questions here as we close out the very eventful week that we've had.
00:29:49.000Charlie, how and where do you get all this energy to travel all over the place and do these events at the same time be married and tend to your marriage and have time to do Hillsdale courses?
00:29:56.000I'm just ashamed of myself and my time management.
00:30:12.000Just this week, I had an event every single night except Monday, crisscrossing the country, not to mention the work we do at Turning Point USA in running that and managing that.
00:30:22.000We have a great operational team, thankfully, that we've been able to put there, but also raising the money for Turning Point and our 250-plus full-time employees.
00:30:41.000And you will live a much more meaningful life if you act.
00:30:47.000You'll live a much more meaningful life if you figure out the teleological reason for existence, which is just a really fancy, unnecessarily academic way of saying the purpose.
00:31:19.000We also did the event with the great Candace Owens, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
00:31:24.000And that's coming off of last week where we did Berkeley, Boulder, and Fullerton in a 72-hour window and only missed one day of radio last week.
00:31:33.000So, you guys help make all that possible when you get behind our program and you help Turning Point USA, and you help us.
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00:32:52.000It's one of the great things that God gave us in his design is our ability to adapt to our circumstances, to our environment, to adapt to pressures, to adapt to adversity, to adapt to difficulty.
00:33:07.000And we see that in just a common sense view of look at people that work out.
00:33:12.000And by definition, your body will adapt to be able to lift more weights.
00:33:16.000And if you're sitting around all the time, your body will adapt to just being used to sitting around.