The Charlie Kirk Show - July 31, 2023


Ask Charlie Anything 154: America After 9-11? Best Bible Verse for Today?


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In this episode of Ask Me Anything, host Alex Blumberg answers your questions about the Bush/Cheney administration and the post-9/after 9/11 policies and actions. He also talks about George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's "No-win" policies and why they failed us.

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00:01:25.000 One of the most insightful aspects of George Orwell's 1984, which should be thoroughly studied and read by all patriotic citizens, is this idea that an illegitimate regime needs to be perpetually at war.
00:01:36.000 You need an enemy.
00:01:38.000 And after 9-11, it was easy to hate the Taliban, hate Saddam Hussein, hate ISIS. 0.99
00:01:45.000 Well, ISIS didn't exist, hate the radical extremist Muslims in the Middle East. 0.93
00:01:50.000 But of course, there's a supply and demand problem. 0.50
00:01:53.000 It's easy to spin people up against an enemy.
00:01:57.000 And sometimes those enemies are legitimate. 0.90
00:01:59.000 I'm glad we went to war against the Nazis. 0.99
00:02:01.000 I'm glad we went to war against the Japanese. 0.95
00:02:05.000 I'm glad we went to war against the British in the Revolutionary War. 0.99
00:02:10.000 But sometimes we pick and choose wars that are bad choices.
00:02:14.000 9-11 and our reaction to 9-11 is one of the main reasons we're living through the garbage of what we're living through.
00:02:24.000 For example, we could have reacted from 9-11 and we could have said we're going to close down our borders.
00:02:29.000 We're going to build a southern border wall.
00:02:31.000 There was such a political mandate for whatever the regime wanted after 9-11.
00:02:36.000 They could have done anything.
00:02:37.000 You know what they could have said?
00:02:38.000 They could have said, as a lesson from this, we're going to balance our budget and keep inflation in place because they might take down our towers, but if they destroy our economy, that will be the true gut punch to our republic.
00:02:49.000 They could have said we're going to have a national infrastructure works project to just appease some of the Democrats, right, and union workers.
00:02:56.000 They could have said that we need to have stricter immigration and have reform of who comes in this country because remember, 9-11 was as much an immigration failure, even more so than it was an intelligence failure.
00:03:10.000 Bush and Cheney had an unprecedented mandate.
00:03:12.000 Now, for some of the, let's say, more speculative people in our audience, they believed that Bush and Cheney knew 9-11 was going to happen.
00:03:20.000 I'm not going to go there, guys, okay?
00:03:21.000 I know I'm going to get the emails not doing that today.
00:03:24.000 I actually think that's a rather inconsequential element to this discussion. 0.82
00:03:28.000 But instead, we did, in my opinion, one of the dumbest things we could do. 0.66
00:03:33.000 We decided to break, invade, and clumsily engage in a no-win war in two areas of sand and death: hell holes, Afghanistan, and Iraq. 0.88
00:03:46.000 No-win wars.
00:03:49.000 Instead of reinvesting in the country and realizing that, boy, this is terrible what happened, we got involved in quagmires.
00:03:57.000 And we soon realized Bob Mueller changed the FBI from an intelligence, I'm sorry, from a law enforcement agency to an intelligence agency.
00:04:04.000 We started DHS, we started TSA, we started all these different agencies.
00:04:10.000 And at the time, their focus was on radical Islamic terrorism.
00:04:14.000 Great.
00:04:16.000 But then a supply and demand problem set in.
00:04:20.000 We ran out of radical Islamic terrorists to spy on.
00:04:24.000 And so then we expanded it a little bit further.
00:04:25.000 And in the movie Snowden, I think it's one of the most powerful parts of the movie where it showed that the National Security Agency, the NSA, they needed to hit quotas.
00:04:36.000 They wanted to get bonuses based on how many terrorists they could find.
00:04:39.000 So they started to expand their idea of a terrorist.
00:04:42.000 And there's this incredibly powerful part of the movie Snowden, where they find some guy who's like loosely affiliated with a cousin of a Pakistani in London.
00:04:53.000 And he has a daughter he's sending to an American school.
00:04:57.000 And he may have met with somebody who may have also done a wire transfer with somebody that once visited with someone near a terrorist in Dubai.
00:05:07.000 And on all of that, the NSA said, yeah, I can go look at all of the private messages, the direct messages, you know, the emails.
00:05:13.000 And so then that net started to get further because they had to hit quotas, had to hit quotas, had to hit quotas.
00:05:19.000 We have this $200 billion budget.
00:05:21.000 We have to find terrorists.
00:05:23.000 We have to find terrorists to defend the homeland.
00:05:25.000 But were you really defending the homeland?
00:05:27.000 And yeah, in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, it was still centered on radical Islamic terrorists.
00:05:33.000 But around 2013 or 14, as the new era of indoctrinated millennials, the Obama-era progressives started to take leadership positions in the FBI and the DHS, all of a sudden, the radical Islamic terrorism kind of stopped being an emphasis.
00:05:51.000 2013, 14, and 15 rolled around.
00:05:57.000 That guy went down the golden escalator.
00:05:59.000 And the press immediately went into full freakout mode and said, oh my goodness, this is going to be right-wing white supremacist, domestic violent extremism.
00:06:10.000 And this massive beast that was created post-9-11, that was supposed to keep us safe, went through a metamorphosis, went through a transformation.
00:06:25.000 What was once designed to keep us safe from another 9-11 is now publicly being positioned as a secret police, a Gestapo for the Democrat Party.
00:06:39.000 I'm going to place some pieces of tape to confirm all this, that our reaction to 9-11 has created the tyranny that we are now living through.
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00:09:57.000 Mary McFord says that the First Amendment is being weaponized by extremist Republicans.
00:10:05.000 It is not enough that they're indicting Donald Trump, that they're indicting the maintenance man, that they've indicted Steve Bannon, that they've come after Dinesh D'Souza, they raid James O'Keefe's apartment, they come after Rudy Giuliani.
00:10:16.000 That's not enough.
00:10:18.000 They think they're going to have a serious problem until they can change the First Amendment.
00:10:27.000 You know, it's an interesting thing.
00:10:30.000 Thank goodness we are not a democracy.
00:10:35.000 I'd say, well, that's a provocative thing to say.
00:10:37.000 Well, I'm going to prove it to you.
00:10:39.000 Sometimes the heated passions of the people can be very bad for natural rights.
00:10:46.000 According to a new poll, a 70%, 70% of Democrats believe that the government should censor misinformation, what they deem as misinformation.
00:11:06.000 It's not even in quotes, misinformation.
00:11:11.000 70% of Democrats and Democrat-leading independents support speech limits.
00:11:16.000 They're done hearing about right-wingers having a right to speak.
00:11:21.000 They just want to take over the country and revolutionize it, and they see speech as a threat.
00:11:28.000 Speech as, honestly, it's not even a threat.
00:11:30.000 I think Blake would agree with this.
00:11:32.000 They look at it as an annoyance more than a threat.
00:11:36.000 It's almost an irritation for them.
00:11:39.000 Why do I have to keep on putting up with these people complaining and asking questions?
00:11:45.000 They just pay their talented communicators like Walsh and Shapiro and Owens and Kirk.
00:11:50.000 That's not that they have good ideas, it's just that they're sophists.
00:11:56.000 The way they justify the suppression of speech is that their ideas are bad, but they're beautifully presented using sophistry.
00:12:04.000 Sophists were the people in the streets, I think I believe ancient Greece, that presented bad ideas rather convincingly.
00:12:12.000 That's how they teach speech in the university.
00:12:15.000 Not that everyone has a moral right to speech, not that the best ideas are going to win.
00:12:20.000 And the Democrats love censorship so much, they did it at a censorship hearing.
00:12:24.000 I'll play those tapes in a second.
00:12:25.000 But here it is: Mary McFord, MSNBC, the First Amendment is being weaponized by extremist Republicans.
00:12:31.000 AKA, we're allowed to speak.
00:12:33.000 The Democrat Party does not believe in speech.
00:12:36.000 It's an annoyance for them.
00:12:40.000 Play cut 57.
00:12:41.000 The First Amendment does not protect violence or incitement to imminent violence, but the line about where that is and when a threat becomes that type of incitement to imminent violence or violence itself is something that the courts have struggled with over time.
00:12:57.000 And I think that that's been essentially weaponized by extremists to really push that envelope.
00:13:04.000 So here's their argument.
00:13:05.000 They say democracy is good because the people can choose what is true and false.
00:13:11.000 But sometimes the people pick the wrong idea because of misinformation.
00:13:17.000 So we need to get rid of that misinformation.
00:13:19.000 It's the only explanation of why we lose.
00:13:22.000 That is perfectly put together, Blake.
00:13:24.000 That is perfect.
00:13:26.000 You see, they scrap for reasons why they're not in total power.
00:13:28.000 Why don't we control the governor's mansion in Texas?
00:13:31.000 Our ideas are so good as left-wingers. 1.00
00:13:34.000 It's because of that pesky free speech.
00:13:37.000 They think free speech is the right of everyone to speak in support of Democrats.
00:13:42.000 They think free speech is that you can yell as loud as you want in support of the Democrat regime, but not RFK.
00:13:51.000 They do not believe that freedom of speech is freedom of ideas.
00:13:55.000 They believe that it's the freedom to agree.
00:13:59.000 It's unbelievable.
00:14:02.000 RFK Jr. gets this, understands that the Democrat Party have become hordes of mini Joseph Stalins.
00:14:10.000 Play cut six.
00:14:12.000 And it's inevitable that if you do start censoring speech, because government abuses every power that it's given.
00:14:18.000 And if government suddenly has the capacity to censor its critics, it has a license for any entropy.
00:14:25.000 Boy, he's talking like a libertarian, not like a liberal.
00:14:28.000 I mean, I disagree with libertarianism on some stuff, but that one-liner, government abuses every power you give it, hard to disagree with that, especially what we're living through.
00:14:39.000 Freedom of speech is the most basic test of a society's self-confidence.
00:14:45.000 Scared tyrants fear speech.
00:14:49.000 Maniacal neurotic tyrants who are unpopular must be able to shut up the opposition, put political dissidents in prison, put their opposition leaders in prison.
00:15:00.000 And this is the whole ballgame.
00:15:02.000 This is why they need another January 6th for their power.
00:15:07.000 MSNBC guest Paul Rykoff, he acknowledges what I have built up in this portion of the programming.
00:15:16.000 After 9-11, we created the Department of Homeland Security.
00:15:18.000 There was the Patriot Act.
00:15:20.000 We now need the same thing against right-wingers. 0.60
00:15:23.000 Play cut 58.
00:15:24.000 I mean, we're in a battle for hearts and minds.
00:15:27.000 And there are people who are on the fence.
00:15:29.000 You've got to have leaders and messages and messengers and programs that get to those people, that bring them over into community organizing and into nonprofit organizations and away from the Patriot Front and the Oath Keepers.
00:15:41.000 And I think the parallels at 9-11 are important.
00:15:43.000 We've talked about this before.
00:15:45.000 After 9-11, the laws didn't work.
00:15:48.000 Like they made massive changes to respond to a new threat.
00:15:51.000 And I think we have to face the fact that many of our structures, laws, and policies may not work.
00:15:56.000 After 9-11, we created the Department of Homeland Security.
00:15:59.000 There was the Patriot Act.
00:16:00.000 There was massive change in our entire society to face the number one threat, or at least what was communicated as the number one threat.
00:16:07.000 I think we need the same kind of tectonic shift.
00:16:09.000 It's got to be much more than see something, say something, but maybe our laws need to change.
00:16:14.000 Maybe our laws need to change.
00:16:17.000 This new tectonic shift.
00:16:22.000 Speech de-radicalizes a country.
00:16:25.000 Speech allows us to agree more than we disagree.
00:16:29.000 Speech lowers the temperature in the room.
00:16:32.000 Speech allows good ideas to be introduced.
00:16:34.000 Speech creates nuance.
00:16:39.000 Why is the country so divided?
00:16:41.000 I get asked all the time.
00:16:42.000 Because we can't speak.
00:16:44.000 And the left does not want to have speech.
00:16:47.000 They do not have the self-confidence to endure different ideas.
00:16:51.000 When I go to a college campus, I say anybody who disagrees with me can go to the front of the line.
00:16:56.000 That's an open invitation.
00:16:59.000 If you think you are a talented communicator, if you think your ideas are so good, come to a college campus and ask me a question.
00:17:05.000 Let's have a conversation.
00:17:07.000 Matt Walsh does the same thing. 0.99
00:17:09.000 Candace Owens does the same thing.
00:17:10.000 Ben Shapiro does the same thing.
00:17:13.000 I don't know many, if any, leftists, when they get an opportunity to be in front of an open mic, they invite the disagreement.
00:17:23.000 They welcome it.
00:17:24.000 They demand the disagreement.
00:17:28.000 I enjoy it because it makes me challenge my own beliefs.
00:17:34.000 It either makes my beliefs stronger or I can reconsider them.
00:17:37.000 It makes me a stronger communicator, a deeper thinker.
00:17:40.000 It makes me a better radio host.
00:17:42.000 It makes me a better leader of Turning Point USA.
00:17:45.000 Having your ideas challenged is also fun.
00:17:50.000 Makes you sharper.
00:17:51.000 This is why conservatives on campus and our Turning Point USA students, high school, and college leaders are the best because they're constantly having to defend their positions every single day.
00:18:01.000 So they have a choice: give up, give in to the left, and become a leftist, or they just start listening to podcasts and watching YouTube videos and listening and reading books.
00:18:10.000 And eventually, they become a force to be reckoned with.
00:18:12.000 They ask better questions.
00:18:13.000 The liberals are just berating them.
00:18:15.000 Well, what about this?
00:18:15.000 And what about this?
00:18:17.000 And boom, Liberals never have to defend their positions.
00:18:21.000 And when they do, they want to shut you up.
00:18:24.000 When they do, they have to use force.
00:18:27.000 There's two ways to govern people.
00:18:28.000 You can govern people using force or speech.
00:18:31.000 Force or speech.
00:18:32.000 The founding fathers knew this.
00:18:33.000 They chose speech.
00:18:35.000 The current Democrat Party, the current regime, and Uniparty Republicans, they want to use force.
00:18:40.000 Robert Kennedy Jr. understands this.
00:18:43.000 He might be America's last liberal.
00:18:44.000 Play cut 143.
00:18:46.000 These are defamations and malignancies that are used to censor me to prevent people from listening to the actual things that I'm saying.
00:18:56.000 Trusting the experts is not a function of science.
00:19:01.000 It's not a function of democracy.
00:19:04.000 It's a function of religion and totalitarianism, and it does not make for a healthier population.
00:19:10.000 RFK knows this.
00:19:11.000 And boy, if we can get him on our show, I would love that.
00:19:14.000 We've been working hard on it.
00:19:15.000 I've been texting with him.
00:19:17.000 I want him to explain to me how he plans to challenge the Soviet totalitarianism of the Democrat Party.
00:19:27.000 I want a Democrat Party that is not in the mold of Mao.
00:19:34.000 I would love an anti-war classical Democrat Party working on normal issues, maybe a little bit like Joe Manchin in Kirsten Cinema.
00:19:44.000 The Democrat Party becoming the party of Mao is bad for everybody.
00:19:49.000 It's even bad for rank and file Democrats.
00:19:51.000 But I mean, they're voting themselves into their own oblivion.
00:19:56.000 RFK Jr. realizes and recognizes that the Democrat Party typically used to not censor people, but now the Democrat Party is the party of war, the party of perpetual domestic conflict.
00:20:11.000 And I'll explain why.
00:20:12.000 Donald Trump broke everything.
00:20:13.000 All of a sudden, all the teams are messed up.
00:20:15.000 The Democrat Party delights in the censorship of people they don't like.
00:20:21.000 PlayCut 67.
00:20:23.000 I will say, whether he's up to it or not, whether he's making his own decisions, the decisions that are coming out of the White House are bad decisions.
00:20:32.000 And, you know, the Democratic Party does not censor people in my experience.
00:20:39.000 We're not the party of war.
00:20:40.000 We're not the party of the neocons dictating foreign policy.
00:20:44.000 We're the party of the middle class, and we're the party of working people.
00:20:48.000 And that's not where the party is anymore.
00:20:52.000 Well, I mean, look, he's talking about a party that died with his uncle, unfortunately, and his father.
00:20:58.000 Because the Democrat Party has been the party of war for the last 30 or 40 years.
00:21:03.000 There is not a I would actually put them in the same category.
00:21:07.000 George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton are equally as neoconservative.
00:21:11.000 Equally.
00:21:12.000 Barack Obama was way more neoconservative than Donald Trump.
00:21:17.000 Interventions in Libya, Arab Spring, way more neoconservative.
00:21:23.000 Donald Trump started no new wars.
00:21:26.000 Even Donald Trump voicing that he wanted to get out of Afghanistan.
00:21:29.000 And, you know, people said, oh, well, at least, you know, Joe Biden got out of Afghanistan.
00:21:32.000 Yeah, and then he got us right into a proxy war in Ukraine, like simultaneously.
00:21:35.000 Boom, boom.
00:21:36.000 Within months.
00:21:37.000 Boom, boom. 0.88
00:21:38.000 Out in Afghanistan into Ukraine. 0.86
00:21:40.000 Out of Afghanistan into Ukraine.
00:21:42.000 And so I don't know what Democrat Party he's talking about.
00:21:44.000 This is kind of this mysterious ideal that is long gone.
00:21:48.000 Because the Democrat Party has been the party of censorship, and they continue to be the party of censorship.
00:21:54.000 And the Republican Party is guilty too, but boy, the Democrat Party just owns it.
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00:23:06.000 We have a question here.
00:23:07.000 Charlie, what Bible verse do you think fits what we're living through right now?
00:23:11.000 Well, there's several.
00:23:11.000 I want to point you to a verse that I really love.
00:23:13.000 It's one of the most famous verses of the Old Testament.
00:23:16.000 And as you guys know, I'm working through the Torah slowly but surely.
00:23:19.000 I started December 30th with Genesis 1-1, and I am on Numbers 25.
00:23:26.000 You might say, Charlie, it took you that long.
00:23:27.000 No, I'm going through in-depth lectures on every single chapter and verse.
00:23:34.000 Even the red heifer.
00:23:35.000 If you don't know about the red heifer, it is one of the great mysteries of the book of Numbers, which is in the wilderness, including the tonking donkey, Balaam's donkey.
00:23:45.000 Very interesting.
00:23:46.000 And Moses not getting into the promised land because he tried to strike a rock with a staff.
00:23:52.000 That's a very interesting riddle and mystery.
00:23:54.000 So I'm working through it and working through it.
00:23:56.000 You see, I got sick when I was traveling out east a couple weeks ago, and I did like 16 hours of Leviticus.
00:24:04.000 I said, you know what?
00:24:05.000 If I'm going to be bedridden, I'm not going to just go watch mindless television.
00:24:08.000 And so I was not doing well, but I did 16 hours of Leviticus.
00:24:14.000 It was incredibly fulfilling.
00:24:16.000 But I could tell you, when you're at like Leviticus 14, you say, what is being taught here?
00:24:24.000 What is the Torah, which means teacher, trying to teach me here?
00:24:28.000 Especially from not just the Old Testament standpoint, but from a Christian standpoint.
00:24:32.000 Anyway, when you're sick, you should study Leviticus.
00:24:35.000 So one of my favorite verses is this, and it's so short, but it's one of the best known.
00:24:40.000 It's in the book of Exodus, Exodus 1.8.
00:24:44.000 And now there rose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph.
00:24:50.000 Pretty simple, right?
00:24:52.000 See, Charlie, that's one of the ones that applies to today.
00:24:54.000 Yeah.
00:24:55.000 Remember the end of Genesis, 50 books in the book of Genesis?
00:24:58.000 I think it's 50.
00:24:59.000 I think it's around number 50.
00:25:01.000 Joseph saved the Egyptians.
00:25:04.000 Joseph, who was thrown into a ditch, sold into slavery, ascended to become counselor of the king, saved Egypt from a drought.
00:25:12.000 Not him, God did via his dreams.
00:25:13.000 But he interpreted the dreams, told them, hey, you guys got to start, you know, store all this grain, bad things coming.
00:25:20.000 He saved Pharaoh.
00:25:21.000 Pharaoh and him were tight.
00:25:24.000 The king at the time were tight.
00:25:26.000 And of course, the books before it are like, you know, and then they're the names of the sons of Israel, da-da-da-da.
00:25:30.000 People of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly.
00:25:32.000 They multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.
00:25:33.000 So the land was filled with them.
00:25:35.000 Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph. 0.96
00:25:40.000 What if I replaced it and I said today, now there rose a president over America who did not know George Washington, who forgot why you were here, who forgot the sacrifices of generations prior.
00:25:54.000 That's what it's telling us.
00:25:56.000 The entire book of Exodus and God's deliverance of his chosen people is all set up on a king rooted in ingratitude, rooted in lack of understanding or appreciation.
00:26:12.000 Who are these Israelites?
00:26:13.000 Who are they?
00:26:15.000 Well, Joseph made sure Egypt did not die of starvation.
00:26:21.000 He says, they're multiplying by too much. 1.00
00:26:23.000 Get rid of them.
00:26:25.000 All rooted in that single verse.
00:26:29.000 And if you were to look at it through an American context today, we have teachers, professors, governors, mayors, political leaders, corporate elite.
00:26:38.000 Now there rose a CEO.
00:26:39.000 Now there rose a who did not know the prior sacrifices of what came before them.
00:26:45.000 They don't know their history.
00:26:46.000 They don't know the sacrifice.
00:26:47.000 They don't know the tradition.
00:26:50.000 And it sets up tyranny.
00:26:52.000 And that's why I love this verse.
00:26:54.000 If you forget what happens before you, you get tyranny.
00:27:00.000 God's chosen people entered into slavery, entered into bondage, entered into slavery, because that verse is Ronald Reagan's quote.
00:27:11.000 Ronald Reagan said differently that freedom is not in the bloodstream.
00:27:14.000 You must teach it from one generation.
00:27:16.000 You are one generation away from extinction.
00:27:18.000 And that verse tells you exactly that.
00:27:21.000 We know that the Jews were in slavery. 0.92
00:27:23.000 We just don't always teach how they get there.
00:27:26.000 They started as being the chosen people and having direct access to the king, but there rose a king who did not know Joseph, who did not know what the people of Israel were doing there, and it built what?
00:27:38.000 Contempt and resentment.
00:27:41.000 The Pharaoh then had contempt for the Jewish people because he did not know what Joseph did for them.
00:27:46.000 He did not know the sacrifices, the wisdom. 0.98
00:27:49.000 And he said, these people are multiplying like cockroaches. 0.98
00:27:52.000 Get rid of their firstborn. 1.00
00:27:54.000 Put them into grueling slavery. 1.00
00:27:55.000 Grind them down.
00:27:57.000 If you forget your history, if you forget the sacrifices, if you have no humility towards the past, you will live in authoritarianism.
00:28:05.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:28:12.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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