00:00:34.000And so maybe you are a young woman and you want to come to our young women's leadership summit and see Candace Owens and Kaylee Mackinen more.
00:00:44.000That's tpusa.com slash ywls to come to our young women's leadership summit.
00:00:49.000Or maybe you want to come to our student action summit in Tampa, Florida, where we now have President Donald Trump confirmed in Tampa, Florida in late July.
00:01:34.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:42.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:47.000He's just about the same type of conservative as Bill Crystal.
00:02:50.000That should tell you everything you need to know.
00:02:52.000Dear Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Barrett, Gorsuch Kavanaugh, and Thomas, as you'll no doubt agree, Roe versus Wade was an ill-judged decision when it was handed down January 22nd, 1973.
00:03:03.000It continues by saying, Roe versus Wade diminished the standing on the court by turning it into an even more political branch of government.
00:03:13.000America is a different place with most of its population born after Roe was decided.
00:03:18.000After a decision to overturn Roe, which the court seemed poised to do, according to the leak of a draft of a majority opinion by Justice Samuel Lito, would do more to replicate gross damage than to reverse it.
00:03:29.000He says it would be a radical, not conservative choice.
00:03:33.000So Brett Stevens, who I assume is very highly educated, I would like him to tell me what is the definition of radical.
00:03:41.000It means to the root, to the core, to the basis.
00:03:45.000Brett Stevens asks the question in the New York Times.
00:03:51.000It is, above all, the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respect for the law and institutions established to uphold it.
00:04:06.000And especially when those changes are instigated from above with neither Democrat consent nor broad consensus.
00:04:13.000Okay, that is not what a conservative is, okay?
00:04:16.000If there is an immoral or destructive law, a conservative has a moral obligation to try to repeal it and get rid of it quickly.
00:04:25.000A conservative is the defender, not of the, not of the orthodoxy of the time.
00:04:31.000A conservative is a defender of what is beautiful, good, and true.
00:04:36.000So let me just ask Brett Stevens, was abolishing slavery conservative?
00:04:42.000Because according to his argument, he says, look, a conservative believes that abrupt and profound changes to established laws are utterly destructive.
00:04:51.000Well, I'm sorry to say that abolishing slavery, according to Brett Stevens, would have been utterly destructive.
00:04:57.000Yes, big changes in favor of humanity can be very radical.
00:05:31.000So this idea, really the argument that Brett Stevens is making, and this is a, again, he's just kind of going through the motions of whatever the New York Times wants him to do, is that he says, look, if you want to change things and make them better, there's no way you could be a conservative.
00:05:52.000So we as conservatives believe that some things should not be abruptly changed, like gender norms, like the nuclear family, like homeschooling, like going to church, because those things are beautiful, true, and good.
00:06:06.000And so then becomes the most important question, what is beautiful, true, and good?
00:07:00.000It is above all the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respect for the law.
00:07:07.000Was the American founding conservative?
00:07:10.000Now, hilariously, Edmund Burke, the first conservative, was a British member of parliament and his counterpart, William Pitt, who actually, they were not in favor, but they were sympathetic to the American revolutionary cause.
00:07:35.000Brett Stevens continues, the fact that he continues by saying, Roe versus Wade and Planned Parent of V. Casey says this, quote, as conservatives, you are philosophically bound to give considerable weight to judicial precedence.
00:07:50.000No, not if the precedent is bad, particularly when they have been ratified and refined, as Roe was by the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision over a long period of time.
00:08:02.000Now, he knows nothing about the actual decision.
00:08:05.000The deciding vote was by Anthony Kennedy, who literally wrote in his decision that anyone can define their own meaning.
00:08:13.000There's a famous phrase in the Anthony Kennedy decision there.
00:08:17.000It was something like, you are the master of your own morality or something, or abstract morality or something like that.
00:08:25.000The fact that Planned Parenthood v. Casey somehow somewhat altered the original scheme of Roe, a point that Justice Alito makes much of his draft opinion, doesn't change the fact the court broadly upheld the right to an abortion.
00:08:36.000We never have helped the, this is what's so ridiculous, is that we nationalized abortion, Brett Stevens.
00:08:41.000So Brett Stevens, wouldn't the conservative thing, because you living in New York and being a Biden conservative are such an authority on this, wouldn't the conservative thing actually bringing back to the states, which this reversing of Roe versus Wade would actually do?
00:08:55.000Wouldn't that be the conservative thing?
00:08:58.000Brett Stevens writes, again, the conviction that abrupt and profound changes to established laws and common expectations are utterly destructive to respective law would be challenging the Holocaust, be conservative.
00:09:09.000No, we're not supposed to challenge laws.
00:09:14.000Anthony Kennedy wrote, quote, at the heart of liberty is the right to define one owns concept of existence, of meaning of the universe, and the mystery of human life.
00:09:41.000Those return to the old, often unsafe, illegal abortions and abortions in Mexico, the entrenchment of pro-life majorities in blue states, and the likely consolidation of pro-choice majorities in purple states, driven by voters newly anxious over their reproductive rights.
00:09:56.000Oh, wait, so blue states will become bluer and red states will become redder and children's lives will be saved?
00:10:04.000Americans are almost evenly divided on their personal views of abortion, but only 19% think illegal abortion should be illegal under all circumstances.
00:10:12.000It shouldn't be hard to imagine how Americans will react to the court conspicuously providing aid and comfort to the 19%.
00:10:18.000That's not what they're doing, Brett Stevens.
00:12:15.000Norma from Queens says, Charlie, I heard that we're going to face, I heard you say we're going to face confrontation and chaos like we haven't seen since Floyda Palooza once Roe is overturned.
00:12:25.000What are some of your ways to respond to an argument to the left?
00:12:28.000The left likes to use to justify killing children.
00:12:35.000Let's go to Cut 65, Chuck Schumer, about the outrage about the upcoming repealing of Roe versus Wade, which again just sends it back down to the states.
00:12:44.000There will be plenty of babies still murdered in New York City.
00:13:02.000We're not talking about anything inconsequential.
00:13:05.000We're talking about women's health, a women's right to choose, and the millions and millions and millions of American women who have felt the need to have an abortion.
00:13:15.000Just about every one of us knows someone in that situation.
00:13:18.000Yeah, actually, I don't, Chuck Schumer.
00:13:21.000But again, the one thing that really wakes him up and really fires him up is this issue.
00:13:26.000Okay, so I'm going to kind of pepper in some clips throughout all of this and kind of talk about this.
00:13:35.000The first of which is this, which is there's some talking points about Roe v. Wade.
00:13:41.000And again, I'm not really on social media.
00:13:43.000I'm told that there's just an enormous amount of chatter happening on social media about these issues.
00:13:49.000And we've had the great Lila Rose on here, Seth Gruber, Kristen Hawkins, who has one of the best pro-life videos I've seen in a long time.
00:15:01.000I said, do you believe in the moral principle, in the moral principle of creating law that says that the strong have a moral obligation not to crush the weak or that the strong need to prevent the weak from being crushed?
00:15:16.000And if you say no, then you're a eugenicist, which actually is where the abortion movement came from, or you're a Darwinist.
00:15:24.000So you believe that the survival of the fittest.
00:15:26.000I believe that there is a moral obligation that all human beings created in the image of God, image bearers, should have the protection of the strong of the older and the bigger.
00:15:38.000That's baked into all of our laws, by the way.
00:15:41.000Our laws are already codified with a moral code.
00:15:43.000One of my favorites is they say, Charlie, you can't legislate morality.
00:15:47.000That's all you do, is your legislating morality.
00:15:51.000Of course, to some good or what you think is good.
00:15:54.000Aristotle wrote that in the ethics, that all human behavior points towards some good, whether it be anti-murder laws, anti-theft laws, or arson, or a good example is, I mean, just to kind of take a sidestep that's seemingly unrelated.
00:16:08.000Why is it that you must slow down in a school zone?
00:16:12.000Why are you not able to go 75 miles an hour when passing an elementary school?
00:16:17.000It's because there's a moral claim that the children that will be crossing on the sidewalk matter.
00:16:25.000Why do buses have to stop before they cross a railroad or a rail track?
00:17:42.000It's a new credit card built for conservatives.
00:17:44.000I'm moving all my credit card activity under COIN.
00:17:47.000And 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.
00:17:54.000Every time you use the Coin card, they contribute to conservative charities that support your values.
00:18:34.000So I'm just going to summarize her question like that.
00:18:37.000There's a new story out that pairs nicely with Ramona's question.
00:18:40.000Remote learning, according to freebeacon.com, had an even worse effect on U.S. students' education than was previously known.
00:18:47.000K-12 students who attended school from home in the 2021 school year lost 50% of their typical math curriculum learning, according to a Harvard study.
00:18:58.000Quote, Emily Oster from Brown University said, It's pretty clear that remote school was not good for learning.
00:19:03.000Oh, who would have possibly been able to predict this?
00:19:07.000Deborah Burks, the scarf woman, did so much damage to our country.
00:19:11.000Children are at a low risk of severe illness from death from COVID-19 in school transmissions is also extremely rare.
00:19:19.000Quote, in places where schools reopened that summer and fall, the spread of COVID was not noticeably worse than in places where schools remain closed.
00:19:27.000Schools also reopen in parts of Europe without seeming to spark outbreaks.
00:19:34.000While grandparents were able to still go golf outside and see their property values increase, their grandkids had masks on being abused in schools.
00:19:44.000Now, I'm not blaming the grandparents.
00:19:46.000But there were plenty of people that receptogenarians and octogenarians that were perfectly fine with locking down the country, while their kids and their grandkids and grandkids in particular have been totally and completely and permanently damaged by the lockdown agenda.
00:20:04.000This is from 2020, just a little flashback, and our leaders did very little to fix this.
00:20:10.000Young girl explaining how she couldn't live like this anymore.
00:20:13.000Masks not seeing friends and family, not going to school, and it, of course, created the most suicidal, depressed, alcohol-addicted generation in history.
00:22:44.000And we had a mental health crisis before COVID, but with, and Dr. Ng will talk about this far better than I do, but within, but for two years of disruption, two years of looking at the screens, two years of not having a normal kind of routine and rhythm, recovery is really tough.
00:23:28.000It was because of our reaction to COVID.
00:23:31.000The damage that this will have done to this generation, it will, I'm not sure if we'll ever find out for the next five to 10 years.
00:23:38.000We will have a generation just totally controlled by the pharmaceutical companies for antidepressants, for anxiety disorders, social anxiety disorders, and for what?
00:25:21.000Americans, they don't feel good about it, right?
00:25:24.000You're looking at the Easter feeling and they don't feel good about it.
00:25:27.000Can you tell the American people that we're not headed for a recession?
00:25:33.000I can tell the American people that we are much better positioned when it comes to that recession question than pretty much any other advanced economy I've seen.
00:25:42.000But probably more importantly, you can't rule it out is what I'm saying.
00:26:08.000It wasn't an asteroid that came out of nowhere.
00:26:11.000It was a self-inflicted economic set of conditions.
00:26:14.000The economic misery that you're living through, the declining of your purchasing power, the inflation of your rent, the inflation of your grocery bill, and weakening of your wage power was done by your leaders to ourselves.
00:26:30.000It was a self-inflicted set of economic catastrophes.
00:27:29.000So they're going to make it more expensive now to be able to get to borrow money.
00:27:33.000So when it's more expensive of our money, people will borrow less.
00:27:36.000And that will be a tightening of the belt, but I think it's way too little, way too late.
00:27:42.000We decided to indulge in these artificially low interest rates, and we got the sugar high of high stocks, high real estate, incredible wealth and income inequality.
00:27:57.000I do agree with this numbskull, Jared Bernstein.
00:28:01.000I think America is better positioned, not because of you, but because of the four years of harvest we got under Donald Trump of the incredible pro-growth policies that got us close to it.
00:28:10.000But we're heading towards a very dangerous set of economic conditions.
00:28:21.000They said it was God's gift to the left.
00:28:23.000I think it's a disaster when Americans suffer.
00:28:26.000And anyone who disagrees with that, I want the well-being of my country more than the well-being of my political party because I hope my political party hopefully will help the country.
00:28:38.000Got another question here from Carl in Tennessee.
00:28:44.000Charlie, can you explain more about the Supreme Court leak and the unprecedented nature of it?
00:28:48.000I can't think of a better person to help unpack that than Ted Cruz, play cut 74.
00:28:54.000This leak is the most egregious violation of trust at the Supreme Court in the history of our nation.
00:29:02.000It has never happened even once that a draft opinion leaks from the court before it issues in over 200 years of our nation's history.
00:29:10.000I fear for the court's ability to continue to function as it was designed to function if justices cannot circulate opinions and have deliberation and have discussions.
00:29:23.000The way the Supreme Court works, an initial opinion circulates, but there are hundreds and sometimes thousands of changes as the justices negotiate back and forth, sometimes sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, footnote by footnote.
00:29:38.000But don't expect the other Democrat senators to care.
00:29:41.000They're too busy like Chuck Schumer screaming at the top of his lungs about how this is the highest of all stakes in an attack on women's health or whatever.
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00:30:25.000Enough election fraud to change the outcome of the 2020 election.
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00:31:05.000This is what Merrick Garland is concerned about: play cut 70.
00:31:08.000I'm pleased to announce that we are launching the Justice Department's first ever Office of Environmental Justice to oversee and help guide the Justice Department's wide-ranging environmental justice efforts.
00:31:20.000You cannot make like all parts of government, it will get its own acronym, OEJ.
00:31:27.000Oh, now that it has an acronym, you know, I couldn't have figured out that myself, Merrick Garland.
00:31:32.000Thought it would have been, I thought it would have been, I don't know, DNA or side.
00:31:56.000Merrick Garland needs to be impeached and removed from office for targeting parents for his very corrupt dealings with his son-in-law, potentially being involved in critical race theory curriculum.
00:32:11.000Been a while since we've talked about that story.
00:32:13.000We're going to have to dust that off soon by how Merrick Garland is the worst attorney general in American history.
00:32:23.000I see liberals outraged over news that Donald Trump apparently wanted to blow up the drug houses of Mexican cartels when he was in office, but his Secretary of Defense shut down the idea.
00:32:33.000And why would our military leaders who are responsible for keeping us safe kill an idea that would objectively keep America safer and healthier?
00:32:42.000Okay, so look, in principle, I agree going after the Mexican drug cartels.
00:32:48.000The Mexican government wouldn't be totally supportive of that, unfortunately, because a lot of them are captured by the Mexican drug cartels.
00:32:54.000But it does beg the question: why are we more interested in fighting the borders 5,000 miles away from us in Ukraine when Mexican drug cartels are a far greater threat to the American way of life for drugs, for guns, for human trafficking?
00:33:35.000Cartels have killed more Americans, either directly or indirectly over the past 10 years than ISIS, than Russia, than any other place.
00:33:43.000Of course, we should treat them like terrorists.
00:33:45.000Seize their weapons, seize their money, and a drone or two, I don't think, would hurt if it was within the parameters of informed engagement and if it was done properly and correctly.
00:33:58.000But I guarantee you that if the American Marines, the beautiful Marines, were given a green light, 100,000 Marines, they could wipe out those coward cartels and the northern hemisphere would be a safer and better place.
00:34:14.000But the Mexican government is complicit with the Mexican drug cartels.
00:34:41.000We have an amazing podcast lined up for you that we have pre-recorded and that we have pre-taped, including on abortion and life, some of our campus speeches as well.
00:34:50.000So make sure you are subscribed to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.
00:34:53.000May 16th, I think you're going to have a whole new aesthetic here.
00:34:56.000And we have some phenomenal guests that will be coming out here.
00:35:01.000And by the way, make sure you are subscribed because some of our best content happens after I get a couple of days just to kind of think and journal and read and analyze things.