The Charlie Kirk Show - March 20, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 139: What is "Woke?" Sue the Sac Bee? Why is the Trans Issue So Critical?

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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show and Ask Me Anything podcast, host Charlie Kirk answers a question from a listener and takes calls from listeners about a variety of topics, including Ukraine, the Ukraine crisis, and much more.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk Show and Ask Me Anything episode, what is the woke?
00:00:04.000 I also take a couple calls from you about many different topics, Ukraine and others as well.
00:00:10.000 Email me your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
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00:00:30.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:31.000 Here we go.
00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:34.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:36.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:39.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:42.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:43.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:44.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:46.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:51.000 Turning point USA. 0.65
00:00:53.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:02.000 That's why we are here.
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00:01:16.000 Okay, so I want to play some pieces of tape.
00:01:18.000 We've got a lot of questions here.
00:01:20.000 Someone says here, Charlie, my question is: do you think that someone is trying to destroy this country because I do?
00:01:25.000 We're being lied to about the border, being lied to about COVID, or being lied to about inflation, or being lied to about these banks.
00:01:31.000 We're being lied to about gender mutilation, being lied to about the border.
00:01:34.000 I don't know if I've already said that, but we're being lied to about everything that this administration I'll be listening to you for an answer.
00:01:39.000 Yes, I do believe that there is an intentional effort to destroy the country.
00:01:44.000 They want a different country than what we are living in, a different America than what we experience.
00:01:53.000 They want a postmodern, post-structuralist country with a completely different approach.
00:02:00.000 They want to try to remove and vanquish the promise of the American founding.
00:02:06.000 The promise of the American founding is very simple: that all men are created equal, that there is a creator and you are not him, that power must be separate.
00:02:13.000 Separation of powers, consent to the governed, having an independent judiciary, and that if you work hard, you're going to be rewarded.
00:02:20.000 And that your immutable characteristics should not define you.
00:02:24.000 Your agency, your action, your decisions, your merit, your character.
00:02:31.000 That's how we should design a society.
00:02:34.000 That's the promise of America.
00:02:35.000 It's also a country that is not a colony, that we should make decisions to serve our homeland over that abroad.
00:02:42.000 We call that America first. 0.61
00:02:43.000 It's very simple.
00:02:44.000 Unfortunately, our leaders don't understand that.
00:02:46.000 So, yes, I do think we're living through an intentional downfall of America.
00:02:51.000 Donald Trump made some headlines, and Joe Scarborough went through it.
00:02:55.000 Do we have the full clip here with Trump saying this?
00:02:58.000 But we'll play the Scarborough response first.
00:03:01.000 This is Joe Scarborough on the Trump video on what is actually destroying America.
00:03:06.000 Trump loves America so much that he's willing to speak openly about the insidious forces that are at work within.
00:03:12.000 Play Cut 84 of a small piece of Donald Trump's talk and Joe Scarborough responding.
00:03:19.000 PlayCut 84.
00:03:21.000 But the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. 0.84
00:03:26.000 It's probably more than anything else, ourselves and some of the horrible USA-hating people that represent us.
00:03:36.000 It's the Marxists who would have us become a godless nation worshiping at the altar of race.
00:03:45.000 You know what's boring to me?
00:03:46.000 What's boring to me is the hatred for America. 0.95
00:03:50.000 The hatred from America that you hear spewing from Donald Trump's mouth.
00:03:54.000 Donald Trump hated America before he became president of the United States.
00:03:58.000 He didn't say he hated America.
00:04:00.000 He said the biggest threat to the country that we love are people that hate America, Joe Scarborough.
00:04:06.000 He said that it's ourselves.
00:04:07.000 It is the America-hating Marxists within our own country.
00:04:13.000 And he's exactly right.
00:04:14.000 Donald Trump is exactly correct.
00:04:17.000 The Marxists in America are a bigger threat than Vladimir Putin.
00:04:23.000 Let me say that again.
00:04:24.000 The Marxists in America are a bigger threat to our nation, bigger threat to our republic, a bigger threat to our future than the Kremlin.
00:04:35.000 I don't like Vladimir Putin.
00:04:36.000 I don't like Russia.
00:04:37.000 There's a lot of things I don't like in the world.
00:04:40.000 You have to be honest about the threat to your civilization.
00:04:43.000 Donald Trump loves America so much, he's willing to speak openly and honestly about the threats in front of us.
00:04:50.000 Marxist university professors are doing more damage to the future of America than some Russian agent in the Kremlin.
00:05:00.000 Lincoln once said the only danger that America really needed to fear would come from within.
00:05:05.000 Quote, if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
00:05:10.000 As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
00:05:16.000 And it pains me to say that America is committing a slow-motion suicide.
00:05:20.000 We are doing this to ourselves.
00:05:23.000 And that is exactly what Donald Trump pinpointed in the video.
00:05:26.000 Why did Scarborough get so upset about that?
00:05:29.000 Well, he misrepresented what he said.
00:05:30.000 He gets upset because as a neoliberal, which MSNBC is one of the neoliberal networks, you're always supposed to make the threats the focus abroad.
00:05:42.000 If there is one thing that ties the neoliberals together, it is ignore the homeland, obsess about the foreign, ignore the immediate, obsess about the abstract.
00:05:53.000 100,000 people dying of drug overdoses?
00:05:56.000 Come on, that's not a big deal.
00:05:58.000 The bigger deal is Zelensky and Putin.
00:06:01.000 That could be a big deal for you.
00:06:03.000 I don't certainly understand how you could believe that in pro-American way.
00:06:08.000 Adam Kinzinger responded to Donald Trump's video and he said, Donald Trump is blame America first.
00:06:15.000 No, no, no.
00:06:16.000 The Marxists are the ones trying to bring down America.
00:06:19.000 If you're not honest about the cancerous tumor that is in your body, then how are you ever supposed to remove it?
00:06:26.000 If you're not honest about the virus of the pathogen of the woke, then how are you supposed to ever push back against it?
00:06:33.000 Donald Trump loves America so much, he's willing to tell the hard, plain spoken truth and then actually willing to do something about it.
00:06:43.000 And the willing to do something about it is critical.
00:06:45.000 He's willing to put his wealth at risk.
00:06:47.000 He's willing to put his reputation at risk.
00:06:49.000 They're talking about multiple indictments that might come next week.
00:06:53.000 No coincidence that they're trying to do this is Donald Trump is gaining support, gaining in strength.
00:06:58.000 How many people running for the presidency are willing to actually say that the Marxists in America are a bigger threat than the Russian Kremlin?
00:07:07.000 I say it all the time, but I'll say it again.
00:07:09.000 The Marxist professors pose a bigger threat to the American homeland and to liberty and to freedom than Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin.
00:07:18.000 I'm not saying that the Kremlin is no threat.
00:07:21.000 I'm not saying it's a zero threat, but if you had to rank it, which one matters more than anything else, then you have a hierarchy.
00:07:28.000 And then you have to prioritize the more immediate threat.
00:07:32.000 The analogy that is commonly used, and it's a perfect one, it's like you're trying to rearrange the messy deck chairs on the Titanic.
00:07:41.000 You have a much bigger issue going on here, a lot bigger.
00:07:45.000 By the way, just as we're talking about Donald Trump, show me a man without any wounds and I'll show you a man I do not trust.
00:07:51.000 Of course, Donald Trump has faults.
00:07:53.000 Everybody has faults.
00:07:54.000 But do we spend an equal amount of time talking about his virtues, talking about his attributes, talking about his courage, talking about his dedication, his work ethic, his perseverance, his endurance?
00:08:06.000 Right now, Donald Trump is better reflecting the conservative base than any time I have seen him since 2015 and 2016.
00:08:15.000 Donald Trump's videos, his statements, his tweets, well, his whatever, his social media postings, Donald Trump's rallies.
00:08:23.000 Whoever is advising him is doing a fabulous job of listening to what the base wants and hitting it perfectly.
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00:12:13.000 Let's go to Michael from Texas.
00:12:14.000 Has a question about Ukraine.
00:12:15.000 Michael, how are you doing?
00:12:17.000 I am so happy to talk with you because I'm with a live chat.
00:12:22.000 And this Ukraine business, I think it's just a distraction from Trump because Trump is not part of the swamp, you know, and they've got to find something to distract us from what's going on over here.
00:12:36.000 I hear you. 0.99
00:12:37.000 A lot of it has to do with just taking our mind off of what's going on here so we don't notice that we have an imbecile in office and a vice president who's out to lunch. 0.98
00:12:48.000 Let me ask you: how do you feel about Republicans that have now spent $200 billion to Ukraine? 0.98
00:12:56.000 What is your opinion of Republicans that do that?
00:13:00.000 It pisses me off. 0.97
00:13:01.000 If I can't say that word on it, yeah, it pisses me off because they're just as bad as Democrats. 0.60
00:13:09.000 You take money from lobbyists and they say they're going to do this and do that.
00:13:14.000 They have all these congressional meetings and what do you call it?
00:13:22.000 Investigations, and nothing gets done.
00:13:25.000 Nothing.
00:13:26.000 So what makes them any different from Democrats?
00:13:29.000 They talk a lot, but they don't do anything.
00:13:32.000 And I'm really getting sick of it.
00:13:34.000 And I certainly don't want to go to Ukraine and fight another person's war again.
00:13:41.000 It's tiring.
00:13:43.000 It's tiring.
00:13:45.000 It's depressing because the sentiment you're articulating is the conservative base.
00:13:50.000 And yet, your leaders and your representatives continue to spend $200 billion.
00:13:55.000 And so you're in Texas, is that right?
00:13:58.000 That's correct.
00:13:59.000 And you know what, Charlie?
00:14:00.000 I'll tell you about our current military.
00:14:02.000 I spent 20 years in special operations, and I've seen a lot over my time.
00:14:10.000 And what I've seen is our leaders become so woke, it is disgusting.
00:14:15.000 I would never serve in today's army.
00:14:18.000 I'd probably end up in stockade because I would not follow the orders that they would give me.
00:14:24.000 It's just so horrible what's going on with our military, our Republican Party.
00:14:31.000 I'm disappointed.
00:14:33.000 And I've been a Republican my whole life.
00:14:34.000 I'm disappointed.
00:14:35.000 They don't listen to their voters.
00:14:36.000 They have contempt for you.
00:14:37.000 Michael, God bless you.
00:14:38.000 Thank you for your service.
00:14:39.000 Appreciate it.
00:14:39.000 I do have one more question, Charlie.
00:14:41.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com or give us a ring.
00:14:44.000 We're going to take some calls.
00:14:45.000 It's a lot of fun.
00:14:46.000 I love hearing from you.
00:14:48.000 And the sentiment is directly what I expect that Washington, D.C. Republicans don't care that their voters think it's a mistake to spend $200 billion.
00:14:59.000 Okay, I wanted to find woke.
00:15:01.000 There was, I want to play this piece of tape.
00:15:02.000 She's a sweet person, Bethany Mandel.
00:15:05.000 She should have been more prepared for this.
00:15:07.000 And look, it's hard.
00:15:08.000 You get put on the spot unless you host a radio program or a TV show.
00:15:12.000 It's difficult to always, you know, have an answer.
00:15:15.000 I mean, I think if she was asked to answer that as an op-ed, she would have done it, but she just kind of got a little twisted.
00:15:22.000 Cut 92, Bethany Mandel got asked a question by Brianna Joy, who I've debated actually.
00:15:27.000 You guys should find that debate at Turning Point USA's YouTube.
00:15:30.000 Play cut 92.
00:15:32.000 She gets asked the question of what is woke.
00:15:35.000 Would you mind defining Woke?
00:15:36.000 Because it's come up a couple of times.
00:15:37.000 I just want to make sure we're on the same page.
00:15:40.000 So, I mean, woke is sort of the idea that I This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.
00:15:55.000 I mean, woke is something that's very hard to define, and we've spent an entire chapter defining it.
00:16:00.000 It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally reimagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression. 0.99
00:16:12.000 What bothers me about this clip, and it's painful to watch, is it makes us conservatives look stupid. 1.00
00:16:17.000 Okay. 0.99
00:16:17.000 It makes as if we don't know what we're talking about because we say woke all the time. 0.99
00:16:20.000 So we're going to dive into actually what woke is.
00:16:22.000 Here's the best definition.
00:16:22.000 Call everything systemically unjust until you control it.
00:16:25.000 That's woke.
00:16:26.000 Where does woke come from?
00:16:28.000 Woke comes from a particular activist who is wearing stay woke, get woke t-shirt colloquially that was spread on Twitter.
00:16:35.000 What was that guy's name?
00:16:36.000 Del Rey or something, where you have now been awoken to all the systemic injustice.
00:16:41.000 Almost as if now you have the glasses and you can see the fault lines.
00:16:45.000 You can see the fissures.
00:16:46.000 You have awakened to the injustices.
00:16:50.000 Before you were asleep and now you are awake.
00:16:52.000 That is what the idea of woke means.
00:16:54.000 But wokeism is tyrannical Marxism by another name.
00:16:58.000 That's what it is.
00:16:59.000 It is prioritizing race over merit.
00:17:01.000 It is prioritizing characteristics that mean nothing.
00:17:03.000 It is a full-throated, negative campaign against the founding of America.
00:17:10.000 Wokeism is a campaign and crusade against people that they think are oppressors and turning people to believe they're victims and then have the victims victimize others.
00:17:22.000 So the woke is a catch-all term that I heard an activist, a plumber tell me the best.
00:17:29.000 He said, Charlie, you know what woke is?
00:17:31.000 Idea is so insane, you have to go to a college campus to believe it.
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00:18:53.000 Okay, just a little more on the woke.
00:18:54.000 Look, I could go on at length about One Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse.
00:18:58.000 Could go at length about the philosophical roots.
00:19:02.000 Our team doesn't think it's that helpful.
00:19:04.000 It really is kind of post-60s radical feminism and post-structuralism and post-modernism.
00:19:10.000 The term woke is kind of a grab bag.
00:19:13.000 It's a grab bag of activist causes, issues, slogans, symbols, and demands with a couple through lines, which is if you are in the frontrunner of the oppression Olympics, you're able to then become a oppressor.
00:19:29.000 So the oppressed are allowed to become oppressor under the kind of woke regime.
00:19:33.000 Also, free speech is not a value that is allowed under kind of the woke world.
00:19:40.000 And it's not just issues.
00:19:41.000 I want to make that very clear.
00:19:42.000 It's also how you approach them.
00:19:44.000 And it's also the process of which you think.
00:19:47.000 And so it's kind of a whole of life strategy.
00:19:50.000 But there is not kind of a core canon of woke theology, which is why I think that clip was, you know, hard to watch, but she's a sweet person.
00:19:59.000 I feel sorry for her because, again, not everyone is able to just respond instantaneously.
00:20:05.000 And the reason that there's not a core canon is because it's constantly changing, right?
00:20:11.000 It's very immaterial.
00:20:12.000 It cares a lot about how you think and especially emotionalism and how people feel.
00:20:18.000 And that's why it polices speech so unbelievably hard and not just speech right now.
00:20:22.000 They do things like dig up your statements from 10 years ago to find the thought crime.
00:20:27.000 But yes, there are some serious academic traditions that play into this.
00:20:32.000 Critical race theory.
00:20:33.000 You could go read critical race theory by Stefanik and Delgado, intro to critical race theory written in 92 or 94.
00:20:39.000 You can read Derek Bell.
00:20:41.000 You can read Marcuse and Foucault.
00:20:44.000 So no speech, no absolute truth, definitely a preference on this kind of critical race theory.
00:20:50.000 Queer theory is also a big player in it, but it is fluid by design.
00:20:55.000 I mean, look at how Antifa went from George Floyd to defending drag queen shows for kids.
00:21:02.000 How does that happen?
00:21:03.000 It goes from one thing to the other.
00:21:04.000 I think that's such an important point that Antifa was able to pivot from protesting anti-racism to now the biggest thing that Antifa gets fired up about is any comment about the trans community, any comment about the, let's just say, idea that there are only two sexes.
00:21:27.000 And it's immaterial in the way that woke politics are overwhelmingly concerned with the linguistic, symbolic, and emotional, to honestly the detriment of the material, the economic, and the real.
00:21:40.000 That's from Freddie DeBoer, really smart person, who's actually a liberal anti-wokey.
00:21:47.000 There's a great book that James Lindsay wrote with Helen Pluckrose called Cynical Theories.
00:21:51.000 It does a really good job of articulating this.
00:21:54.000 My only complaint, and I told James this and he laughed, is that it's written too much from a left-wing perspective.
00:21:58.000 It's like liberals criticizing the woke left. 0.98
00:22:01.000 This is so silly. 0.97
00:22:04.000 It also has Marxist elements to it. 0.90
00:22:06.000 And so if I had James Lindsay on here, he'd say, Charlie, you cannot forget the most obvious, and that's what I wish I was, I wish Bethany Mandel in that clip would have just said, it's Marxism under a different name.
00:22:18.000 That would have been an appropriate answer.
00:22:19.000 That would have been excusable, right?
00:22:21.000 And it is.
00:22:21.000 It is Marxist power dynamics because it's Marxist power dynamics repurposed and repackaged.
00:22:31.000 Okay, so I'm going to get to another call here, David from South Dakota, who has comments about suing the B and might mention how he's going to become a supporter.
00:22:41.000 David, how you doing?
00:22:43.000 Oh, I'm doing great.
00:22:45.000 What's on your mind?
00:22:47.000 Well, I was watching Flax Point last night and I saw what the Sacramento B said about you.
00:22:53.000 And I just wanted to encourage you to sue the Sacramento B because that's the only thing they understand.
00:22:57.000 They only understand power.
00:22:59.000 That's right.
00:23:00.000 Yeah, they throw out the lie.
00:23:00.000 Yep.
00:23:03.000 And then that's all a lot of people over here.
00:23:04.000 I mean, there's people that still believe in the Russian collusion line, you know?
00:23:07.000 That's right.
00:23:08.000 And yeah, they'll start swearing at you for defending you, calling you names, you know.
00:23:15.000 And, you know, I was telling the guy that answered the phone, I told him that, you know, my wife and I, we were already planning on, you know, starting to donate.
00:23:24.000 We donate to Prager.
00:23:26.000 We donate to Lance Walmart.
00:23:29.000 He's pretty involved in the culture issues and stuff.
00:23:32.000 And we're already planning on donating to you because you're involved in the colleges.
00:23:36.000 I'm actually 62, but I understand that, you know, we basically have these, you know, 40%, I think, of professors.
00:23:43.000 Last time I could find information, they hide it from you, consider themselves to be Marxists, you know, which is communism.
00:23:50.000 People always say Marxism, but they don't want to talk about communism.
00:23:53.000 But anyhow, so we see that you're getting involved in the colleges while you've been involved in the colleges.
00:23:59.000 And, you know, we got a whole, we have a couple generations that are brainwashed.
00:24:03.000 So we're going to be starting to send you some money every month.
00:24:07.000 Thank you.
00:24:08.000 We really appreciate what you're doing and wanted to encourage you to sue the Sacramento Bees as much money as you can get out of them.
00:24:15.000 God bless you.
00:24:16.000 I know you're using it for a good cause.
00:24:17.000 Thank you.
00:24:18.000 We're going to do our best.
00:24:19.000 And McClatchy, who owns the Sacramento Bee, they got plenty of money.
00:24:23.000 And the chancellor of the university earns $800,000 a year.
00:24:26.000 And I think the University of California system has some resources there.
00:24:31.000 So we're going to play offense.
00:24:33.000 God bless you.
00:24:34.000 Thank you.
00:24:34.000 And I love South Dakota, one of my favorite places on the planet.
00:24:36.000 Thank you.
00:24:38.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:24:40.000 Also get your call in.
00:24:41.000 And by the way, I want to make clear, it's not about the money.
00:24:43.000 It's not if we win, well, you know, turning point's going to be the big winner out of it and all that.
00:24:47.000 It's fine.
00:24:48.000 It's about the message.
00:24:49.000 It's about the message it sends that you cannot.
00:24:49.000 Okay.
00:24:50.000 No, that's not the thing.
00:24:51.000 That's the only thing I understand.
00:24:52.000 That's what they do. 0.92
00:24:52.000 They use lawfare against us. 0.92
00:24:54.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:24:54.000 We got to.
00:24:56.000 This is an interesting call.
00:24:57.000 I want to get to Ted from New Buffalo, Michigan.
00:25:01.000 He has some comment about the change of definition of mental illness in medical care.
00:25:06.000 Ted, thank you for calling.
00:25:07.000 Tell me about that.
00:25:09.000 Mr. Kirk, thank you for taking my call and keeping up the continued fight.
00:25:13.000 Happy St. Patrick's Day and Godspeed to all.
00:25:16.000 I would submit to you that transgender surgery is rooted in the idea that mental illness can be cured by permanently maiming the patient because the patient is IDing the malady and the doctor's not talking about mental illness. 0.94
00:25:29.000 Yeah, and so it used to be gender dysphoria and now it has, they no longer do that.
00:25:34.000 They no longer believe it could be treated clinically and it now has to be done through chemical castration and other means.
00:25:42.000 And Mr. Kirk, what's even worse is you're telling God you made a mistake.
00:25:46.000 Yeah, that's it.
00:25:47.000 He came down as Billy.
00:25:48.000 He should have been Billy Gene.
00:25:50.000 It must have been Friday at the plant.
00:25:50.000 Don't worry, God.
00:25:52.000 We got your back.
00:25:53.000 We'll correct it.
00:25:54.000 As a Greek man, I have a great level of narcissism, but it's never been that high.
00:25:59.000 No, it's there's there's two types of dangerous people in America: people that believe there is no God and people that are very angry at God.
00:26:06.000 And I'm not sure which is more dangerous.
00:26:09.000 God bless you, Ted.
00:26:10.000 Thank you so much.
00:26:10.000 Let's play Cut 91 because he's a mother of a trans youth.
00:26:19.000 We tweeted out: if you're 18 and you think you're the opposite sex, you have a mental illness. 1.00
00:26:22.000 If you're eight and you think you're the opposite sex, your mother has a mental illness. 1.00
00:26:26.000 Play cut 91. 0.98
00:26:28.000 Hi, I was once a trans youth, and now I'm a happy 22-year-old trans adult student at New College of Florida.
00:26:34.000 This is my health care, ma'am.
00:26:36.000 Okay, don't tread on it. 1.00
00:26:38.000 Senator Yarborough has militarized the Florida GOP into the genital Gestapo. 1.00
00:26:43.000 Rhonda Santis wants trans people dead. 0.99
00:26:45.000 You are committing genocide. 0.99
00:26:47.000 I grew up in Germany in the aftermath of the Nazis, and what you people are doing is no different. 0.61
00:26:54.000 This is transphobic.
00:26:55.000 It is cruel. 0.88
00:26:57.000 And you really should be ashamed.
00:26:59.000 It is cruel to prevent children from being able to be preyed on by predators.
00:27:06.000 We're talking about children here, okay?
00:27:07.000 Children.
00:27:09.000 We're talking about children.
00:27:12.000 Cut 96, Biden Assistant Secretary Levine says gender-affirming care is here to stay, and the Biden regime will use force, their popularity, well, hang on, popularity, whatever support that they have, but power to make sure that an eight-year-old can chemically mutilate themselves.
00:27:31.000 Play Cut 96.
00:27:33.000 As we look to all the different elections in 2024, I think the next two years are going to be challenging, but I am positive and optimistic and hopeful that the wheel will turn after that and that this issue won't be as politically and socially such a minefield.
00:27:51.000 In the meantime, I can say that the children that you serve, and the young people that you serve, their families and you all as their providers have supported the highest levels of the federal government.
00:28:01.000 President Biden supports you and he has articulated that support for the children and families.
00:28:07.000 Believes it will be normalized.
00:28:10.000 The regime is saying that this type of care, which is medieval at best, is going to have the top levels of support.
00:28:22.000 This is the new fight.
00:28:24.000 Most Republicans don't have the stomach for this.
00:28:27.000 You guys better get ready.
00:28:28.000 This is as big as it gets.
00:28:30.000 This is the fight for our kids, the fight for decency, the fight to contain the social contagion.
00:28:36.000 It's the fight for our civilization.
00:28:38.000 And, you know, some Republicans say, oh, Charlie, come on.
00:28:40.000 The trans thing is a distraction. 1.00
00:28:42.000 No, you're a distraction. 0.99
00:28:43.000 The trans thing involves so many fundamental building blocks.
00:28:48.000 Language, freedom of discourse, biological reality, commitment to the truth, men and women, distinctions, differences.
00:28:56.000 It all of them kind of find its way into the trans issue.
00:29:01.000 What is a child?
00:29:02.000 Should children's innocence be protected? 0.90
00:29:05.000 Sexual predators targeting our young women.
00:29:07.000 The trans thing is not just about live and let live.
00:29:10.000 That is a weak one-liner that is said far too often.
00:29:14.000 By the way, as we've said before, it's not live and let live.
00:29:16.000 It's live and let them rule.
00:29:17.000 The trans issue is now a best way to say it.
00:29:24.000 It is a combination of multiple important other cultural issues that all kind of meet at once.
00:29:32.000 It is an intersection.
00:29:34.000 That's the word I was looking for.
00:29:36.000 And you might not have the stomach for it.
00:29:37.000 If you don't have the stomach for it, you don't have the stomach to protect kids.
00:29:40.000 You don't have the stomach to speak truth.
00:29:42.000 Oh, let's just talk about tax rates. 1.00
00:29:43.000 You're a coward. 1.00
00:29:44.000 Get out of the space. 1.00
00:29:46.000 Albo Rueda, International Woman of the Courage Award, man.
00:29:51.000 Rachel Levine, U.S. Today Woman of the Year, man.
00:29:54.000 Thomas, nominated for the 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year, man.
00:29:59.000 Faye Johnstone, Hershey's International Woman Day honoree, man.
00:30:04.000 They're just going to keep going until we stop them.
00:30:07.000 And how do we stop them?
00:30:09.000 We stop them through confronting the lies, dialogue, discussion.
00:30:14.000 They're the violent ones.
00:30:15.000 We've always been peaceful.
00:30:16.000 No matter how much they lie about us, we're the peaceful ones.
00:30:19.000 We're also not going to give an inch.
00:30:20.000 We're going to pass the laws.
00:30:21.000 We're going to shut down pediatric gender-affirming clinics across the country using laws.
00:30:26.000 What does success look like?
00:30:27.000 There should not be a pediatric gender-affirming clinic in America.
00:30:30.000 It'll take a while to get there.
00:30:31.000 But in red states, they need to be shut down one after the other, after the other, after the other.
00:30:38.000 Charlie, I know that you're studying the book of Exodus.
00:30:40.000 Any additional insights lately?
00:30:42.000 Would love to hear them.
00:30:44.000 You know, it's interesting.
00:30:46.000 Kind of, yes, I am going through the book of Exodus, and it is a fabulous book.
00:30:52.000 And it's really clear that a lot of Old Testament, I mean, a lot of Christians, Christian pastors, have not seriously studied the Old Testament.
00:31:04.000 And it just, it's been a while since I've really navigated through Exodus 2 and Exodus 3, which, of course, is the transition, as we mentioned on a previous episode.
00:31:14.000 And then there was a king who did not know Joseph, which basically is the root of ingratitude and memory, losing the memory of how things once were and what Joseph actually did for the then Pharaoh.
00:31:26.000 We did a whole kind of thing on that.
00:31:29.000 What's been really interesting is how amazing of a person that Moses is.
00:31:33.000 You can see why he was chosen.
00:31:37.000 You can see he stands up for the innocent.
00:31:41.000 And, you know, there's one piece here where a lot of traditional scholars think that Moses acted incorrectly.
00:31:48.000 And that's probably the right reading when Moses killed a man who was beating up a Jew. 0.61
00:31:56.000 But he didn't go out of his way to murder him.
00:31:59.000 The verse basically says that Moses got heated in the conflict.
00:32:04.000 And then Moses stood up for a group of women that were being terrorized.
00:32:12.000 And then Moses then flocked, tended to the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law. 0.87
00:32:17.000 And then God presented himself in one of the most incredible dialogues in the entire Bible.
00:32:25.000 He said, what is your name?
00:32:27.000 What should I tell them?
00:32:28.000 Who sent me?
00:32:30.000 And God said to Moses, I am who I am.
00:32:34.000 That is what you are to tell the Israelites.
00:32:36.000 I am has sent you.
00:32:39.000 That's powerful on multiple levels.
00:32:42.000 It's powerful because it shows that there's a future, a past, and a current, that it transcends time.
00:32:47.000 And our human-sized brains can't comprehend that.
00:32:50.000 But secondly, it's powerful in the sense that when Jesus said, I am the great I am, that is hearkening directly back to what God himself called, self-identified.
00:33:04.000 I am.
00:33:07.000 I am the way.
00:33:08.000 I am the truth.
00:33:08.000 I am the life.
00:33:10.000 So I'm getting a lot out of it.
00:33:11.000 I encourage you guys to study it.
00:33:13.000 And if you guys have specific questions on that, you can email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:17.000 Charlie, I need some career advice.
00:33:19.000 Hey, Charlie, I've been looking at starting a business that is politically involved.
00:33:22.000 What I'm trying to figure out is whether or not it should be a nonprofit or a for-profit.
00:33:26.000 Any advice?
00:33:27.000 I would like to be doing live events talking policy and culture.
00:33:30.000 Yes, you should try to go to the for-profit route.
00:33:32.000 We need more patriots and more people with conservative ideas to start for-profit companies.
00:33:39.000 We do.
00:33:40.000 That are revenue generating, that are value generating, that are able to be able to be self, that are self-sufficient in nature.
00:33:48.000 It's critical.
00:33:51.000 And look, a lot of people ask me, Charlie, how do I get involved?
00:33:54.000 The best way to get involved.
00:33:57.000 The best way to get involved is not necessarily to write op-eds.
00:34:01.000 The best thing you can do for the cause is actually to be successful, start a business, be an entrepreneur, have a flourishing career.
00:34:09.000 Then all of a sudden you hold the value that we are always envious that the left holds.
00:34:13.000 Say, oh, wow, they have all this money and all this.
00:34:16.000 Why does the left have so many great institutions?
00:34:18.000 Well, they don't have great institutions.
00:34:19.000 How many?
00:34:19.000 They control so many institutions.
00:34:21.000 One reason is they have so much money.
00:34:24.000 And so I think our best and brightest, yes, can get involved in politics, but our best and brightest also need to get involved in creating value in the private sector.
00:34:36.000 It's incredibly important.
00:34:42.000 The SPLC, the ADL, the ACLU, Aspen Institute, all have a ton of money.
00:34:48.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I wish you'd stop saying that people who do not believe in God are a problem in this country.
00:34:52.000 I do not believe in God because I believe in common sense.
00:34:54.000 I hate the idea of this country becoming communist, voted Republican for 30 years.
00:34:58.000 I also believe there will never be peace on earth until people stop blaming a God for their actions.
00:35:03.000 I don't know if people blame God for their actions, but if you believed in common sense, you would believe in a God because it takes a lot more faith to be an atheist than it does to believe in a God.
00:35:12.000 But yes, if you believe there is no God, it largely then makes your actions unaccountable.
00:35:18.000 There are some good atheists, of course.
00:35:19.000 There are some people who do not believe in God that act morally and ethically like James Lindsey.
00:35:23.000 But a society that does not believe in God.
00:35:26.000 The question is: then, whom are you ever to be held accountable to?
00:35:29.000 And if that answer is nobody, well, then you're in moral and societal chaos.
00:35:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:38.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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