00:01:09.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:57.000In fact, I believe there was somebody who said, I can't remember her name.
00:02:01.000It was Gloria Steinman or someone that said that COVID was God's gift to the left.
00:02:07.000That the fact people are dying, it's a gift that they have it.
00:02:10.000So then they'll be able to destroy Donald Trump.
00:02:13.000So we're starting to see negative economic growth.
00:02:15.000The economy is now shrinking, despite the ingenuity of the American entrepreneur.
00:02:22.000It turns out when you create six to seven trillion dollars out of thin air, pump it into the economy, things aren't going to work out rather well.
00:02:56.000So we locked down our country unnecessarily, never should have occurred while we had a booming economy.
00:03:02.000So a good rule in economics is state intervention, especially dramatic state intervention, has unintended consequences.
00:03:14.000So economics is the study of incentives.
00:03:17.000We're constantly studying what drives one person to behave a certain way.
00:03:21.000So those of us that believe in markets and we believe the greatest way to flourish is through markets, not through central control, not through Marxist or socialist economic planning, but instead through the protection of private property rights and through the proper elevation of the individual entrepreneurs and taking risks in a market.
00:03:39.000That's the best way to organize society.
00:03:41.000And if you were to have government intervention, the local is preferred to the federal.
00:03:49.000And so when we shut down the entire country, we immediately subsidized the technology companies without realizing it.
00:03:56.000It was a massive subsidy for people that did not have to meet in person to be able to sell their product.
00:04:01.000It was also a handout and a subsidy to the major big box stores, Walmart, to use an example.
00:04:08.000So we locked down the country unnecessarily when we could have never, we should never have done that.
00:04:12.000And even if we locked down for two weeks reopening, we would have survived it rather quickly.
00:04:16.000So we locked down the country and immediately the impulse of all of Washington, D.C., Connor, if you could get the vote tally for me, I don't think it received one opposition vote, not a single opposition vote.
00:04:28.000It was a unanimous consent in the United States Senate.
00:04:32.000And it was Jane Fonda who called coronavirus God's gift to the left.
00:04:35.000So back when the stimulus package was being debated, the stimulus package had multiple aspects to it.
00:04:41.000There was the PPP provision, which was free money for businesses that continues to stay open.
00:04:46.000There is a constitutional argument that if you make people, if you lock down the country and they can't do business, it's almost like the confiscation of property.
00:04:54.000But then there was the paying for people to stay at home and do nothing, the stimulus checks.
00:04:58.000And then there was the just general graft, the $75 million to NPR, the $50 million to the Kennedy Center, just the just completely inexplicable intervention of cheap money into the economy.
00:05:16.000Basically what we saw in a short period of time was one state intervention after the other.
00:05:22.000And this is another rule of economics, which is when you massively intervene with the state, it almost necessitates another state intervention, unless you're willing to pay the price of that intervention.
00:05:36.000Which is when the government all of a sudden says that we're going to lock down the country, well, then you must all of a sudden now have a stimulus package to compensate for the damage of locking down the country.
00:05:46.000So then you have the stimulus package and they say, well, we need another recovery package because the growth is not what we want it to be.
00:05:52.000So we kept on passing these stimulus bills, one after the other, after the other, $1.2 trillion, $2 trillion.
00:05:57.000We then bailed out blue states and blue state pension funds that were broken and corrupt for all of that.
00:06:03.000And we were warning this entire time, like bad equation of being non-productive and locking down a society, paying people not to work while simultaneously inflating the money supply in an unprecedented way that will only result in a massive spike of inflation.
00:06:18.000And so in the last year, you then see the reopening of the country as Omicron came and people became more comfortable to leave their homes.
00:06:26.000And you started to see the reopening of the country with all these dollar bills.
00:06:30.000And so the only way that this could have worked out, the only way was that if they would have timed it perfectly, that the amount of dollar bills they would have created would have correlated perfectly with the amount of economic growth.
00:06:42.000And therefore, if growth would have outpaced inflation, it wouldn't have been felt as bad.
00:06:46.000Now, of course, we're dealing with central planners who will mess up everything.
00:06:49.000It's inevitable that they were not going to be able to do this correctly and they would not be able to do this precisely.
00:07:07.000So we had the worst possible combination of a scenario.
00:07:10.000Locking down America shouldn't have happened, creating all the thin air, money out of thin air shouldn't have happened, doing it again, and then not having pro-growth policies in addition to all those things has created what is now the worst of all scenarios.
00:07:23.000So it goes from a sugar high to a crash.
00:07:26.000And if you remember when you were young, when you go eat a bunch of ice cream or you eat a bunch of Twizzlers and you're on that high, you feel like you could do anything, you could run around.
00:07:34.000And when you crash, oh boy, do you crash.
00:07:36.000If you have a bunch of sugar on an empty stomach, you feel as if you could just do anything you want, and then you just hit a wall and you like need a nap, you collapse, you get very crabby.
00:07:45.000That analogy, that metaphor is perfect to what we are about to experience in our country.
00:07:52.000Have you all of a sudden been offered a job 20 or 30% more than you're earning?
00:07:57.000Have you all of a sudden seen like, wow, I'm earning more money, but I'm actually not richer because prices are going up everywhere.
00:08:03.000But at least you were able to stay afloat.
00:08:04.000What's about to happen is the next worst chapter of all of this, which is the pullback, which is all of a sudden, if you're now realizing, wait a second, I was earning $60,000 last year, but now I'm earning $67,000.
00:08:19.000But it used to cost me $50,000 to live my life, but now it costs me $60,000 to live my life.
00:08:39.000And yes, Netflix has gone woke in all of this, but I guarantee you out of the 200,000 people that have decided to cancel their subscription with Netflix, not all of them have a political problem with Netflix.
00:08:48.000A lot of them have a financial problem with Netflix.
00:08:51.000A lot of the people that have canceled Netflix are like, it's actually not worth the, what is it, $15, $25, $30 a month?
00:08:57.000I don't know how much Netflix costs anymore.
00:09:46.000And so, but what we're about to experience, though, is people that believe that their dollar is getting cheaper and that it's not worth continually to engage in the economy because they feel as if that sort of Damocles is going to fall at any time.
00:10:03.000This time, it seems like it's by design.
00:10:15.000I pray for all of you that will be losing your jobs.
00:10:17.000What you're going to see, what you're going to see is that these companies that have just hired dramatically are then going to have to scale down.
00:10:23.000For those of you that are employers and have to deal with kind of the smug, snarky attitude of people that are showing up late and you're like, I got no leverage because I can't find anyone to work.
00:10:31.000The only benefit of a recession, which is hard to even believe there would be one, the only benefit is that employers are now going to kind of get some of their leverage back because everyone's going to be begging for a job soon.
00:11:18.000We're committed to securing the clean energy supply chains needed to reduce our reliance on unabated fossil fuels and increase our energy independence.
00:11:30.000Saying that we are committed to making it harder and more expensive.
00:11:35.000Now you might say, well, Charlie, that's not what's being said.
00:12:35.000So understand that this is a recession of design.
00:12:39.000Yes, Republicans shouldn't have voted on that stimulus bill.
00:12:42.000Yes, we should not have locked down the country.
00:12:44.000But even so, the American economy is so resilient that after all of that, when we get into a recession, we still have to ask the question, why?
00:12:51.000It's because of the green energy ideologues, thanks to colleges that have persuaded people that climate change is some sort of existential threat to humanity, which it isn't.
00:13:00.000We have the energy secretary laughing off the fact that energy independence and jobs, like that's hilarious.
00:13:08.000Let me ask this question because having been the former chief executive of your state, would you say that line five plays a massive economic impact on the state of Michigan?
00:13:21.000I'm not going to respond to that one because you're not going to respond to that question.
00:13:24.000I'm not going to get into that because it's incorporated.
00:13:28.000When I talk to people in the state of Michigan, the state of Ohio, they say it does have a major economic impact, but you're not going to respond to it.
00:13:36.000Yeah, it's just, again, I'm not going to get into that.
00:13:42.000Obviously, she'll go sit on some board of some green energy company.
00:13:46.000What's amazing with all of this, though, is that the push towards green energy had an unintended consequence.
00:13:51.000The unintended consequence is making Elon Musk really rich.
00:13:54.000So then he buys Twitter, but they don't want that to happen.
00:13:56.000So the left really can't get their game together.
00:13:58.000It's like this relentless push towards electric cars.
00:14:02.000Well, it's made Elon Musk the richest person on the planet.
00:14:05.000In fact, they loved Elon Musk until they hate him because he's no longer useful to them.
00:14:11.000In fact, he's an opponent to them, a creature of their own making, a billionaire of their own desire to try to make green energy the dominant energy policy of America.
00:14:25.000Cut 78, Fox report on the economy shrinking for the first time since the pandemic hit, play cut 78.
00:14:31.000Markets opening after an alarming new GDP number and the U.S. economy shrinking for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
00:14:38.000GDP contracting by 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022.
00:15:05.000Now, of course, Democrats are now going to use this and parlay this into a way to try to blame corporations because they're doing too much profit gathering.
00:15:15.000We also need to push back against the giant corporations that have decided not only are they going to pass along costs, they're going to take a big dollop of extra profits.
00:15:26.000And those are things that get our economy.
00:15:30.000I think the way to describe it is they get it out of whack.
00:15:45.000I would vote against it if I was given an opportunity, but I'm not going to go advocate for American corporations that were just giving all this money to BLM.
00:16:09.000It's a beautiful document, and so do I.
00:16:11.000And it's the same with Hillsdale College, the best liberal arts college in America.
00:16:16.000Hillsdale's mission is pursuing truth and defending liberty.
00:16:19.000It gives its undergraduate and graduate students the best education and is working to make this education available to all, from offering free online courses to helping support K through 12 schools.
00:16:30.000But today I want to tell you about Hillsdale's amazing free monthly digest of liberty.
00:17:49.000As Christians, I encourage us to pursue whatever is true.
00:17:53.000And I think these five books will bless you about what really drives the tyrant, what happens when the tyrant meets technology, and how technology brings out the worst impulses of our human condition.
00:18:05.000So the five books, of course, the first is George Orwell's 1984.
00:18:09.000The second is C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters.
00:18:12.000You can read that alongside Mere Christianity, which was actually first delivered as radio broadcast during the German Blitz in the early 1940s, late 1930s through the British Broadcast Corporation.
00:18:26.000The third is Elvis Huxley's Brave New World, which is a terrific book and addresses a lot of what we're living through when pleasure becomes the ultimate goal of a society.
00:18:36.000The fourth book is a lesser known one by Winston Churchill and his only novel.
00:20:20.000Hillsong obviously has had its problems.
00:20:22.000I know a lot of people that have been through there, some wonderful people that have worked for Hillsong in the last couple of years, but it's a largely just a propaganda piece trying to indict all of Western Christianity.
00:20:38.000What is this new one now that you might, your kids might stumble across?
00:20:41.000It is glorifying, glamorizing, platforming kids that become drag celebrities.
00:20:52.000Kids that become drag queens, or they go through drag contests, basically, which is pseudo-transgenderism, but that is now platformed at Discovery Plus as like the coolest thing ever.
00:21:07.000I really wonder at Discovery Plus, how many people, and this is a legitimate question.
00:21:12.000How many people in Oklahoma would be more likely to get a Discovery Plus subscription after they're about to hear this trailer?
00:24:16.000Look, here's what you got to do: you have to find the person that has been putting these terrible ideas into their life, and you say, No, you're not trans.
00:24:27.000If your child comes forward with a mental delusion, you as a parent have a moral obligation to correct that delusion.
00:24:53.000You must get them into alignment what's best for them.
00:24:56.000You could do so lovingly and compassionately.
00:24:59.000But this idea that an eight-year-old, you know, is thinking that they should take puberty blockers.
00:25:07.000And look, you should validate them and love the child.
00:25:10.000You're not going to resolve it in one talk, but find out if there are external factors implicating impacting that, then identify them and try to neutralize them.
00:25:20.000And also, don't I wouldn't turn them into the, you know, I wouldn't get angry at them, but I would address it very, very seriously.
00:25:31.000Introduced order and natural law into the understanding of the world.
00:25:37.000NBC says, How to talk to trans youth and their families from 2018.
00:27:14.000I do think that they're going to continue to dangle the indictment of Hunter Biden as a way to try to entice them, entice Biden to do what they want him to do against his wishes.
00:27:28.000I think they're going to hold him hostage, blackmail him, basically, to do whatever they possibly can to push back against any sort of inclinations that Biden might have to go to the middle.
00:27:40.000They're going to say, hey, if you step out of line, Hunter could get 10 years, 20 years in prison.
00:28:14.000Western values can be applied anywhere, but not always successfully.
00:28:18.000And we certainly have seen that in Middle Eastern countries and in African countries, is that you need the proper cultural prerequisites to be able to embrace self-government and liberty.
00:28:28.000And I think this is underestimated in the teachings of neoliberals who think that you could just kind of turn on a switch and all of a sudden the country can become embracing of self-government and checks and balances, separation of powers.
00:28:41.000The part of history we don't talk about is the colonial Christian heritage of America that was the slow yet steady buildup going into the 1760s and 1770s that encouraged preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew, to name a few, to then be able to spark the light of the Reformation, not the Reformation, the awakening that led to the founding fathers writing the Declaration of Independence and separating from Great Britain.
00:29:07.000So we're more than an idea because there was this historical buildup.
00:29:49.000It's a new credit card built for conservatives.
00:29:51.000I'm moving all my credit card activity under COIN.
00:29:54.000And the Coin credit card is an unlimited cashback visa credit card that is just like every other credit card you've ever owned with one huge exception.
00:30:01.000Every time you use the coin card, they contribute to conservative charities that support your values.
00:30:40.000An elite private school in my community, and they're being done by organizations like NIIS, the National Association of Independent Schools.
00:30:47.000Are private Christian schools like this still a viable alternative to public schools?
00:30:50.000Or is homeschooling really the only option?
00:30:53.000So look, there's actually some people that are doing this to expose this.
00:30:58.000There's a website called educationveritas.org.
00:31:02.000That Veritas means truth in Latin, which is all about education, not indoctrination.
00:31:07.000Now, Westminster in Georgia is a great example of a macro trend that is happening, which is once great private schools that have become completely and totally woke.
00:31:18.000There's another website you could go to for those of you that are familiar with this, or just to see kind of how bad these private schools have become, wokeminster.com.
00:32:20.000Look, kindergartners, they have a heart for justice.
00:32:23.000Who taught them that heart for justice exactly?
00:32:26.000Who taught them what was right and what was wrong?
00:32:28.000You heard there, that's from the National American, that's from the National Association of Independent Schools, NAIS, which very well might be over your school, like Wokeminster or Westminster in Atlanta, saying that kindergartners are natural social justice warriors.
00:32:46.000They're naturally inclined towards being a social justice activist.
00:32:52.000Cut 115, introduction for the Randolph Center, co-founder of, I don't even know what that stands for, POCC, and NAIS's current director of equity and inclusion programming, PlayCut 115.
00:33:04.000Many years as head of the NAIS Office of Diversity and Inclusion, Randolph was co-founder of the People of Color Conference, which we are now attending, as well as the Student Diversity Leadership Conference.
00:33:18.000And then the personal thing for me is he's a former Black Panther.
00:33:25.000And I think you need a little bit of that attitude to do this kind of work.
00:33:30.000So former Black Panther is now in charge of education, curriculum, and diversity training for private schools across the country.
00:33:39.000So again, the website is educationveritas.org.
00:33:42.000I've got to know the people behind it.
00:33:57.000There's some good faith-based schools.
00:33:58.000But just be very careful, parents, before you put your name and your trust and your children into the firing line of some of these schools.
00:34:33.000Education properly done is having a desired outcome, an appreciation of beauty and truth, beauty, that which is perfected in beating, truth, which is something that is true at all times, not just temporarily true, and getting children to go on that journey to get their working boots on and to find out what that means.
00:34:53.000Through reading the Western canon, doing a little bit of study and scholarship of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, and things that were written a long time ago that have stood the test of time.
00:35:03.000Probably more important than learning about how kindergartners can be social justice activists.