The Charlie Kirk Show - July 06, 2020


Ask Charlie Anything 24: How and Why You Can Fight Back, Presidential Hunger Games? Should Trump Get a Dog? Presidential Trivia, the Declaration of Independence Analysis and Mores


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In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie answers the question, "What can I do?" and gives his marching orders to those of you who are saying, "I'm losing my country. What do I do?".

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:09.000 Today I answer your questions directly that you emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:14.000 We get into quite a lot.
00:00:16.000 Best and worst presidents.
00:00:17.000 What does July 4th independence actually mean?
00:00:20.000 Also, I answer the question, Charlie, what can I do?
00:00:22.000 What can I do?
00:00:23.000 What should I do?
00:00:24.000 We answer that question directly and more applicably than any other show.
00:00:29.000 I think out there right now.
00:00:31.000 You are going to have marching orders by the end of this show because those of you that are saying, Charlie, I'm losing my country.
00:00:36.000 What do I do?
00:00:37.000 We're going to tell you exactly what to do.
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00:01:33.000 And also we have the interview with Christy Noam that happened on Friday.
00:01:36.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:01:37.000 Really important episode, Marching Orders for Freedom.
00:01:40.000 They're coming up soon.
00:01:41.000 Here we go.
00:01:42.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:54.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:02:15.000 Hey, everybody.
00:02:15.000 Welcome to this Ask Me Anything.
00:02:17.000 Hope you had a great Independence Day weekend celebrating the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:02:24.000 I am answering your questions that you have emailed me, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:29.000 And if I select your question, you get a signed copy of the New York Times bestseller, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:02:37.000 So the first question I want to answer is not a specific question I got from anybody.
00:02:42.000 It's actually just more of a general question I've been getting from probably thousands and thousands and thousands of people.
00:02:49.000 We get so many emails at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:02:52.000 I read every single one of them.
00:02:53.000 I respond to as many as I possibly can.
00:02:56.000 But a common question that I get is, Charlie, what can I do?
00:03:01.000 I go to a very liberal school.
00:03:04.000 I go to a very broken church.
00:03:07.000 I am in a workplace that is detrimental to conservative values and to myself.
00:03:15.000 And I feel alone and I feel afraid.
00:03:17.000 There is a boss.
00:03:18.000 There is a person in power that seems to be abusing it.
00:03:22.000 I'm being forced to do something that is against my value system, that is against my moral code, that is against my ethics.
00:03:30.000 But I'm really afraid I'm going to lose my job.
00:03:32.000 I'm afraid I'm going to be kicked out of the social circle.
00:03:34.000 I get this question all the time.
00:03:35.000 They say, Charlie, I want to fight, but what can I do?
00:03:39.000 Or what should I do?
00:03:41.000 Now, on previous episodes of the Charlie Kirk show, I've said not everyone should get involved in the fight.
00:03:47.000 Some people should help the fighters.
00:03:48.000 Some people should be very calculating as to how they get involved in this struggle, really, of good versus evil in our country, and this struggle of reason versus indecency and reason versus the left.
00:04:05.000 The more I read about how the most destructive and disastrous societies came to power in the 20th century, which I'll talk about in my next question.
00:04:18.000 The more I'm convinced that good people don't have a choice whether or not to fight.
00:04:24.000 Now, everyone can fight in different ways.
00:04:26.000 Some people can do it extremely publicly.
00:04:29.000 Some people can do it more privately.
00:04:32.000 However, I am more convinced than ever before that if you're listening to this podcast and you are battling leftist totalitarianism in corporate life, in family life, in church life, you have a moral obligation to do something.
00:04:52.000 Here's my rule: every person should confront creeping tyranny no matter where it occurs.
00:05:01.000 So, a lot of people have also emailed me.
00:05:04.000 They say, Charlie, how do I know whether or not I'm in an unhealthy business relationship or religious environment?
00:05:12.000 How do I know if I'm around this kind of creeping tyranny?
00:05:15.000 I get this question also a lot.
00:05:17.000 Here's a very good question: Is your job or profession causing you to be weaker?
00:05:24.000 Does it force you to go on your knees for something that you don't believe in?
00:05:29.000 Does it force you to apologize for something you didn't do?
00:05:34.000 Are you in a pathological work environment where something is so broken and so backwards that you are always walking around in fear to be who you really are?
00:05:46.000 People say, well, Charlie, what can I do to fight to save the country?
00:05:50.000 Spot and identify every example of tyranny and totalitarian behavior in your life and confront every single aspect of it.
00:06:03.000 Now, you might say, well, Charlie, what do you mean tyranny?
00:06:05.000 I live in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
00:06:09.000 There's no Joseph Stalin there.
00:06:10.000 Well, of course, that's an example of a tyrant.
00:06:14.000 But let me define tyranny in a more micro sense.
00:06:18.000 Tyranny is the use of power to harm or exploit the innocent.
00:06:26.000 That's a very simple definition of tyranny.
00:06:28.000 So think about it. 0.92
00:06:30.000 Using your position as head of cultural diversity at a university and forcing people that are of white skin color to atone for something they did not do wrong. 0.74
00:06:42.000 Being a pastor and shepherding your flock or directing your congregation to support causes and movements that are against the Christian faith. 0.77
00:06:54.000 A general rule is that problems that are not confronted multiply.
00:07:00.000 If you think you can allow your boss or your best friend or the head of your fraternity or the head of your sorority or your professor or God forbid, even your parents to indulge and advance creeping leftist totalitarianism and somehow you don't have anything to say about it and you're just okay with it,
00:07:26.000 then in most circumstances, you are equally complicit to what they're trying to do.
00:07:34.000 Now, mind you, most of the people that are engaging in this form of totalitarianism, and you all know exactly what I'm talking about here.
00:07:42.000 And for some of the older listeners, you might say, oh, I'm not really into this.
00:07:46.000 Oh, wait, not so fast.
00:07:49.000 Do you have someone in your social circle that is preying on the innocent because they don't agree with them? 0.71
00:07:56.000 Do you have someone in your neighborhood, maybe it might be in a Bible study, that is forcing other people to think the way they do and wear the BLM ink shirts, BLM Inc.
00:08:10.000 If you don't know what that means, then I encourage you to go back in the Charlie Kirk Show archives.
00:08:16.000 Hit subscribe and check out that episode.
00:08:20.000 If you do not fix your sphere around you, you are tolerating tyranny.
00:08:28.000 Now, mind you, a lot of people say, well, Charlie, I don't really know what to do.
00:08:32.000 How do I confront it?
00:08:33.000 How do I do this?
00:08:34.000 What if I lose my job?
00:08:37.000 Well, first of all, if you are unwilling to lose your job or to leave your church, you are not in a healthy relationship.
00:08:45.000 You're in a hostage negotiation.
00:08:47.000 Now, I know that's a lot easier said than done, especially in an environment with 25 million people out of work.
00:08:54.000 I completely recognize that.
00:08:56.000 And you have a mortgage and you have bills and you have credit card payments due.
00:09:00.000 I understand that completely.
00:09:03.000 And maybe the leftist totalitarians, maybe they chose this moment of corporate tyranny over employees intentionally because of how much economic despair and uncertainty there is.
00:09:16.000 Maybe they knew people would not be pushing back in their work environments because they knew people needed their job now than almost ever before.
00:09:23.000 Because of the mounting personal debt, wages that are not going up, because of the economic uncertainty that we're living through.
00:09:33.000 Maybe the leftist totalitarians and the tyrants within the cultural Marxists, maybe they recognize that this moment was the moment to punish people because they won't fight back because they have too much to lose.
00:09:49.000 Standing for truth and fighting for that truth is not a futile cause.
00:09:55.000 If you're able to get your words right and you're just able to engage in the fight a little bit, it's not futile.
00:10:04.000 Is there not a price to the tyranny that you must continue to endure? 0.71
00:10:09.000 Is it worth you having to go to a Wendy's or a Burger King where you might work and have all of your coworkers make you take a knee for BLM Inc.?
00:10:19.000 You wouldn't believe the emails we get at freedom at charliekirk.com of young people that are being attacked and ridiculed.
00:10:26.000 And the messages that I get of people that say they're sick to their stomach, they're borderline depressed.
00:10:31.000 And if it wasn't for this podcast, they wouldn't really have the words or the tools or the perspective to be able to fight back.
00:10:42.000 And here's the other interesting part: that if you are able to stand up against that sort of tyrannical behavior, you'll actually become tougher because of it.
00:10:57.000 Instead of trying to avoid the problem, confronting the problem head on, you'll actually get metaphorically stronger shoulders.
00:11:06.000 You'll be able to hold a bigger burden.
00:11:10.000 You'll be able to endure more in the future.
00:11:12.000 You'll become a stronger person.
00:11:16.000 And if you're afraid of the cost of what would happen if you stand for what is right and good in the world, you've already lost.
00:11:24.000 If you fear the downside, then the advancement of truth, then it's at that point the bad guys have already won.
00:11:31.000 And I recognize it's very hard for the single mothers that are listening to this podcast right and they say, Charlie, what do you want me to do?
00:11:38.000 Take my kids out of daycare and because they're being taught this nonsense, I need this, I need that, I get it.
00:11:45.000 But how will you ever get good at defending your values if you don't start right now?
00:11:53.000 What is the level or the line of tyranny that you're willing to endure?
00:11:59.000 And I encourage a lot of you here, I get some messages.
00:12:02.000 Charlie, how do I change my pastor?
00:12:05.000 He's taking a knee for BLM Inc. and not for Jesus Christ.
00:12:10.000 There's nothing wrong with leaving.
00:12:12.000 There's nothing wrong with exiting.
00:12:15.000 Stand for truth.
00:12:16.000 Speak your words.
00:12:18.000 Hopefully you get your words right.
00:12:20.000 Hopefully we can help you here on this podcast.
00:12:22.000 And we've just done probably 25 podcasts in the last month that are directly related to this issue.
00:12:28.000 And I hope that we can help bless you that way.
00:12:30.000 Charlie, my kid's in a school I don't like.
00:12:32.000 What do I do?
00:12:33.000 Leave.
00:12:36.000 Fight.
00:12:37.000 Stand.
00:12:39.000 And if they don't take it seriously, leave.
00:12:41.000 Depart.
00:12:42.000 First of all, that might have a bigger impact than you would realize with the people around you.
00:12:48.000 You vote with your feet, you vote with your money, you vote with your values.
00:12:53.000 And exiting from tyranny is actually biblical.
00:12:57.000 It's a story that is built within the archetypes of Western society.
00:13:02.000 We all know the story of Exodus in Egypt, of Moses, where God delivered God's chosen people from the tyranny of the Pharaoh.
00:13:12.000 We also know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, which I think is widely misinterpreted as something that it's not, where it focuses on, let's just say, some forms of moral indecency, which is, of course, part of the story.
00:13:28.000 But I think the bigger part of the story is if you're going to leave, don't look back.
00:13:34.000 If you know the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, you know exactly what I'm talking about. 0.80
00:13:37.000 Lot's wife, of course, turned back and turned into a pillar of salt. 0.56
00:13:44.000 Be bold enough to be able to leave the church or leave your profession or even leave your university.
00:13:51.000 Now, I'm not saying leave without standing for truth first.
00:13:57.000 But if you think there's no way I can leave this, there's no way, then you are going to have to be subjected to that tyranny, to that totalitarianism on a daily basis.
00:14:11.000 Always confront tyranny wherever it rears its sinister and malevolent head.
00:14:20.000 When sensible people say nothing, when horrendous things are happening, totalitarianism is the result.
00:14:33.000 Now remember, these are weak and corrupt people that are doing this.
00:14:40.000 Immanuel Kant came up with the idea of the categorical imperative.
00:14:48.000 He was trying to come up with a moral and ethical system to replace religion.
00:14:54.000 He was not against religion.
00:14:56.000 He was actually fascinated by religion and Kant's ethics.
00:15:00.000 So Immanuel Kant wrote many books, but the one that's probably the most famous is The Critique of Pure Reason.
00:15:07.000 And through his writings, he also wrote Universal Natural History, The Metaphysics of Morals, The Critique of Judgment, Religion Within the Bounds of Bare Reason, all these written between 1755 and 1793.
00:15:23.000 I mean, the guy was totally brilliant and one of the hardest reads you could possibly go through.
00:15:28.000 He had a huge influence on ethics and political theory and postmodern aesthetics, you name it.
00:15:35.000 And so Immanuel Kant, I mean, boy, I could spend five hours on this, and I'm still even wrestling with some of the stuff that he talked about, which was around Enlightenment philosophy and foundationalism.
00:15:48.000 And anyway, the thing that he's most known for that I can apply to this is as he was trying to replace religion, and I don't think he succeeded, but I think he did contribute to the liberation of the Western mind, which I, of course, do support, was this idea of the categorical imperative.
00:16:13.000 Now, this is a multi-hour explanation done in probably 30 seconds, but the categorical imperative is easiest boiled down to Spock and Star Trek, where Kant's categorical imperative was played out in Spock where I can't dare do a bad thing because if I do that bad thing, what if the rest of the world also did that bad thing and therefore I can't tolerate or see myself also doing that bad thing?
00:16:43.000 That's Kant's categorical imperative.
00:16:44.000 In some ways, it's very similar to Christ's ethic of do unto others how you would want to see things done unto yourself.
00:16:51.000 It's awfully harmonic and similar.
00:16:55.000 But let's play out Kant's categorical imperative where you wouldn't want to see anyone not do where you wouldn't want to see anyone do what you yourself would not do yourself in the sphere of influence.
00:17:09.000 For example, it's very easy to play Monday morning quarterback with some of the great tragedies of the last couple hundred years. 0.75
00:17:15.000 Oh, I wouldn't have been involved in Stalin's Soviet Russia.
00:17:20.000 I wouldn't have been involved in Mao's China.
00:17:24.000 First of all, if you say that so confidently, you don't know the darkness that every single human being possesses.
00:17:32.000 And we'll get into that later in this program.
00:17:35.000 Secondly, you understand how that kind of totalitarianism and tyranny begins.
00:17:40.000 It's by people not standing for truth in the micro sense.
00:17:45.000 Is people not calling out the corporate tyranny that we're seeing at Starbucks, calling out the corporate tyranny that we're seeing from Airbnb in the personal sense, not the macro sense.
00:18:00.000 You see, you understand when Stalin overtook Russia and when Mao overtook China through the Cultural Revolution, it was not an insignificant takeover.
00:18:13.000 It wasn't just a political system takeover.
00:18:16.000 Every single level of every single form of society had the ethos that they were trying to put forward governmentally.
00:18:26.000 Every single facet, corner, and square inch of those societies were tyrannical.
00:18:34.000 Two out of five Soviet families were informants for the Soviet government.
00:18:40.000 Two out of five.
00:18:42.000 You didn't know who you could trust. 0.94
00:18:46.000 It was in every single organism throughout the Soviet Union, which is why it was so incredible that it was able to crumble and fall without a shot being fired. 0.87
00:18:59.000 And this kind of goes to the second question. 0.87
00:19:01.000 I was going to kind of ask a question, but I might as well tie this all together.
00:19:07.000 The second question was: Charlie, what can we learn from the 20th century?
00:19:11.000 You talk about it a lot.
00:19:12.000 And so I'm going to kind of connect the two and thank you.
00:19:14.000 That is Sophie from Philadelphia, Sophie from Philadelphia.
00:19:17.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:19:19.000 Congratulations.
00:19:19.000 But let's tie these two together.
00:19:21.000 Because people wrongly say that the tragedy of the 20th century was all about government obedience.
00:19:28.000 Look at how persuasive the USSR was.
00:19:32.000 Look how persuasive Benito Mussolini was.
00:19:34.000 Look at how persuasive Mao was.
00:19:37.000 Look how persuasive the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany was.
00:19:42.000 It was all about obedience, was it?
00:19:46.000 Was it government's ability to hypnotize and control its citizens?
00:19:51.000 Or was it something more personal than that?
00:19:54.000 Was it obedience or was it individual evil?
00:19:59.000 Was it people not standing up to the small forms of tyranny early on?
00:20:04.000 Was it people saying, no, I'm not going to participate in the singling out of people based on their skin color?
00:20:12.000 That's evil and that's a bad idea.
00:20:15.000 I'm not going to be forced.
00:20:17.000 I'm not going to be forced to say something that I don't believe in.
00:20:23.000 I'm not going to be forced to protest or help destroy a religious institution.
00:20:28.000 That, of course, we saw throughout the 1930s and 1940s in Germany and in the Soviet Union and all throughout Mao's China, especially in the Cultural Revolution in the 60s and 70s.
00:20:41.000 So if you kind of connect the two in the tragedy of the 20th century, over 120 million people slaughtered and murdered that we know of.
00:20:48.000 And you can look at different numbers.
00:20:49.000 Some people say it's 80 million.
00:20:50.000 Some people say it's 100 million.
00:20:52.000 Some people say it's 150 million.
00:20:54.000 But if you count the famine, the starvation, the breadlines, the intentional murdering, the gulags, I think it's easily 120, 130, 150 million.
00:21:04.000 As Joseph Stalin used to say, though, that one death is a tragedy, a million is just a statistic. 0.96
00:21:09.000 Boy, you got to be a sick and twisted human being to believe something like that. 0.85
00:21:14.000 But was it tyrannical, top-down government edicts that hypnotized the people? 0.99
00:21:20.000 Or was it small forms of micro-tyranny that bubbled up from the bottom that allowed these tyrants to take hold?
00:21:29.000 I think it's a little bit mixture of both.
00:21:31.000 I think you obviously have very persuasive leaders. 0.99
00:21:35.000 But I think to just say that it was only because of how stupid the people were that they followed, I think that's completely incorrect. 0.96
00:21:44.000 I think we are seeing now, and I'm not trying to equate the horrors of the 20th century than what we're seeing now, but I am saying that if we do nothing, who's to say we won't repeat it? 0.99
00:21:55.000 And this sort of instantaneous dismissiveness that is around especially suburban America, I find to be unbelievably repulsive.
00:22:04.000 Oh, that's never going to be us, Charlie.
00:22:05.000 Stop this hyperbole.
00:22:07.000 Stop this historical misinterpretation.
00:22:10.000 Stop this malpractice of looking backwards.
00:22:15.000 We're never going to be the USSR.
00:22:17.000 We're never going to be Benito Mussolini's Italy.
00:22:20.000 I hope you're right.
00:22:22.000 I pray you're right. 0.98
00:22:25.000 But this revisionist history, that somehow we as human beings are so much better than they were in the 1940s, that we are not taking the same sort of sequential steps that were taking just 80 or 90 years ago that resulted in the most horrific mass casualty toll in human history is stunningly idiotic to me. 0.97
00:22:54.000 So people say, well, what do I do? 0.95
00:22:56.000 Take a piece of paper and list every form of tyranny in your life.
00:23:00.000 What is tyranny?
00:23:02.000 Let me restate the definition.
00:23:05.000 The use of power to harm and exploit the innocent.
00:23:09.000 Where do you see in your life someone that is probably actually very weak and corrupt inside using a piece of power that they may have earned or given to them or they forced their way into to exploit people that did nothing wrong or just based on their immutable characteristics?
00:23:27.000 If you somehow think that the fight against authoritarianism and tyranny is a light switch that you can turn on and turn off and that, oh yeah, I'll let the local pastor kind of do his thing.
00:23:40.000 But don't worry, when the mayor starts to tell me to do something, I'll fight back.
00:23:45.000 Oh, really?
00:23:48.000 How many Christians and conservatives sat idly by when we couldn't go to Easter Sunday because unconstitutional edicts given to us by mayors, local city council, state reps, and governors?
00:23:59.000 Quite a lot, actually.
00:24:01.000 We were happy to abdicate our religious liberty and freedom.
00:24:06.000 The trend that I'm seeing right now is that we have grown so cushioned by our Western lifestyle that we value the comfort that we currently have right now over the potential fear of widespread leftist tyranny.
00:24:22.000 Now, that's not everyone.
00:24:26.000 But if you're afraid to leave the college that you're in or get a bad grade from your professor or get kicked out of your job or have your kids no longer go to the socially acceptable middle school in the North Shore of Chicago or in the Beverly Hills or in Highland Park, Texas, you guys know the type of neighborhoods I'm talking about, then the tyrants have won.
00:24:48.000 And understand that if you study 20th century history, as I kind of connected these two questions together, you know that the most disastrous, dangerous movements don't actually start because of a charismatic, anti-social maniac like Fidel Castro or Benito Mussolini.
00:25:11.000 They take advantage of a society that was afraid of the micro-tyrants on every single corner. 0.78
00:25:17.000 They take advantage of a society that had millions and millions of instances of people being oppressed, and they became the ultimate oppressor over that entire society.
00:25:29.000 See, a society that has courageous people standing up against that sort of exploitation at every corner makes it nearly impossible for politicians to do the same. 0.52
00:25:39.000 The reason why BLM Inc. has been able to be so successful in the last couple weeks is we've allowed this kind of creeping autocracy or reign of terror.
00:25:50.000 Quite honestly, it's a form of fascism or despotism or absolutism at the grocery store, at the soccer match, at the National Basketball Association, at the National Football League, in the Boy Scouts of America, in our local churches, in our food banks. 0.63
00:26:09.000 It's ubiquitous almost.
00:26:10.000 It's everywhere.
00:26:11.000 And the more you tolerate it or the more you reward it with your dollars, or the more you just say, I can keep my head down, it doesn't impact me.
00:26:21.000 I'm not saying pick every single fight because that would be foolish and you wouldn't win it.
00:26:26.000 But pick the one of something you know, a person that you know, a sphere of influence that you have.
00:26:33.000 You might sit on the board of a school.
00:26:36.000 You might be a school board member.
00:26:39.000 You might be best friends of the restaurateur that just put up a BLM Inc. poster.
00:26:44.000 And you go in and you look at that person that you might have known for 10 years, knowing that that friendship might end today.
00:26:52.000 But do you value that friendship that might be a facade?
00:26:55.000 Or do you value the truth more?
00:26:56.000 And do you know where your lack of standing up against that tyranny leads?
00:27:02.000 And you look that restaurateur in the eyes and you say, I've known you for a decade.
00:27:08.000 Let me first try to tell you what BLM Inc. stands for.
00:27:11.000 One, two, three.
00:27:13.000 We've been through this on our program many times.
00:27:16.000 Happy to do it more, but I think we've done it better than almost any other podcast out there, to be perfectly honest, and we've been rewarded by the amount of downloads and subscribers.
00:27:26.000 So thank you.
00:27:27.000 And if the restaurateur says, you don't know what you're talking about, if he dares says you're a racist, then you look that person in the eyes and you say, I will never eat here again.
00:27:40.000 I will not reward my dollars when you advance something that is sinister behind a movement that is around destroying the nuclear family, abolishing police, and abolishing prisons, we're done.
00:27:53.000 And you walk out and you never look back.
00:27:57.000 This is unbelievably hard.
00:27:59.000 And now I'm not saying you should blow up every relationship.
00:28:02.000 I'm not saying you should be indecent.
00:28:04.000 I've never said that.
00:28:05.000 If just one person listening to this podcast did this today or tomorrow, the world would be a better place.
00:28:14.000 If every person listening to this podcast, which is a significant amount of people, thank you guys for awarding our podcast and for subscribing.
00:28:22.000 The numbers have been unbelievable.
00:28:24.000 If every single person listening to this podcast confronted that form of despotism right now, America would be saved in a week.
00:28:35.000 It doesn't take millions and millions and millions of people to do this.
00:28:38.000 It doesn't take 15 million people.
00:28:41.000 If half a million people did this, the country would be saved.
00:28:45.000 Because the shock waves in a community, because what happens is as soon as you stand up to that bully, as soon as you stand up to that virtue-signaling social media sanctimonious activist, as soon as you do, it shocks them to the core.
00:29:04.000 They'll tell, oh, you won't believe what happened.
00:29:06.000 Sally Sue told me that she won't shop here if I won't take it down because she said this.
00:29:10.000 And other people will start to think, well, I know Sally Sue. 0.96
00:29:13.000 She's pretty smart. 0.97
00:29:15.000 Wow. 1.00
00:29:15.000 And of course, a couple of people will say, yeah, screw that person. 1.00
00:29:19.000 But this is how movements are started through singular people that act courageously in a singular moment, not thinking that it's going to necessarily change the entire planet, but you know that is the correct thing to do.
00:29:32.000 And you know that it is the moral and righteous thing to do.
00:29:36.000 That's how countries are saved.
00:29:38.000 I think that we as conservatives view everything from me.
00:29:42.000 Well, we just have to get the right people elected and then I can go back to my life and I can kind of keep my head down.
00:29:47.000 Not everyone thinks that.
00:29:50.000 But before you go vote and campaign for Donald Trump, stand against the giants of despotism and Marxist tyranny in your local community.
00:30:00.000 And you know exactly what I mean.
00:30:02.000 Because I get the messages from all of you and I appreciate you.
00:30:05.000 Our civilization will fall if we think that the fight for individual freedom and liberty in our country is a spectator sport.
00:30:12.000 You send in your money and you don't do what is right or what is needed.
00:30:17.000 The good news is that this whole thing could get turned around in an afternoon.
00:30:22.000 I encourage you guys to share this question and the way I've answered it with some of your friends because I think that it's lost on a lot of people that this is involved in every single decision that you make.
00:30:33.000 The restaurants that you go to, the dry cleaners you tend to, the neighbors you interact with, the way you educate your kids, where you go to church.
00:30:43.000 There is no place where the left has not touched in society.
00:30:47.000 And there's no place that you should not courageously stand for truth and be prepared to leave that environment if it so warrants that decision.
00:30:57.000 So what do I do?
00:31:00.000 You don't tolerate tyranny anywhere because problems that are not confronted multiply.
00:31:06.000 If you don't stand and fight now, you're allowing the weak and the corrupt to win.
00:31:11.000 Fix the sphere around you.
00:31:13.000 Do not tolerate authoritarianism and the exploitation of the innocent.
00:31:19.000 Let's get to the next question.
00:31:20.000 This one is from Clarence.
00:31:22.000 Clarence wins a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:31:24.000 A little bit more lighthearted question.
00:31:26.000 If all 45 U.S. presidents were made to compete in the Hunger Games-style competition, who do you think would emerge victorious?
00:31:33.000 Well, okay, this is a more light-hearted question.
00:31:35.000 Obviously, it's not even close, by the way.
00:31:37.000 It'd be Teddy Roosevelt versus Andrew Jackson, and I don't know who would win that.
00:31:40.000 Andrew Jackson, of course, was a war hero from the Battle of New Orleans.
00:31:43.000 Teddy Roosevelt, a lifelong outdoorsman, who, interestingly enough, Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for ending the Russia-Japanese war.
00:31:52.000 I was just in Mount Rushmore and learned quite a lot about Teddy Roosevelt.
00:31:56.000 And he was a different type of president, technically a Republican president.
00:31:59.000 In some ways, he was very progressive.
00:32:00.000 In some ways, he was very nationalistic.
00:32:02.000 In other ways, he was very conservative.
00:32:04.000 He was a trust buster.
00:32:06.000 Some of that was an overreach of power.
00:32:08.000 Some of it was very positive.
00:32:09.000 I'm happy to do a podcast analyzing that in a future episode.
00:32:12.000 But he loved his country.
00:32:14.000 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was 41 years old when he was elected.
00:32:19.000 I think the guy that has the least chance of doing well is probably John Quincy Adams, not exactly the biggest person ever to serve in the White House.
00:32:29.000 Or I think George Washington would do pretty well.
00:32:32.000 Gerald Ford was a football player for the University of Michigan, if you want a nice fun fact.
00:32:36.000 Actually, JFK was 43, not 41.
00:32:38.000 Gerald Ford, nice fun fact.
00:32:40.000 Who is the only president ever to be elected to either vice president or president of the United States?
00:32:45.000 Gerald Ford played football at the University of Michigan.
00:32:48.000 And who is Gerald Ford's chief of staff?
00:32:51.000 Dick Cheney, youngest chief of staff in U.S. history, before he went out to Wyoming to go run for Congress and eventually, of course, got selected as Vice President of the United States for George W. Bush.
00:33:04.000 I love presidential history.
00:33:07.000 Franklin Delano Roosevelt probably wouldn't do too well.
00:33:11.000 He had a health condition if it was hunger games.
00:33:13.000 Again, this is obviously a light-hearted hypothetical for the Huffington Post that is listening to this, trying to see if I'm trying to talk about something that is less than politically correct.
00:33:22.000 But I think it's kind of fun to go through political history.
00:33:27.000 I think people say, Charlie, who was the best president?
00:33:30.000 Who was the worst president?
00:33:33.000 It's difficult because you have to look at every single president during the time that they served.
00:33:38.000 You have to look at every single president in context.
00:33:40.000 You have to look at every single president of where they came from and what they were dealing with.
00:33:46.000 Some of the best presidents, of course, I think Abraham Lincoln was a terrific president.
00:33:50.000 There is an anti-Lincoln movement in some of the more libertarian circles in the country who think that we should have let the South secede, who thought that it was horrible that he suspended habeas corpus.
00:34:02.000 Obviously, not a fan of the suspension of habeas corpus, but all things being equal, I think that Abraham Lincoln, the protector and the preserver of the Union, was something that was extraordinary and something that we should understand.
00:34:16.000 And the fact that they're taking down statues of Abraham Lincoln in Boston, Massachusetts, you like that Boston accent, I think was absolutely outrageous, uncalled for.
00:34:27.000 And so I encourage all of you guys to really study presidential history.
00:34:31.000 We've gotten some great feedback when we kind of go through the great presidents and going all the way from Washington Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, who I believe was the shortest serving president in American history.
00:34:48.000 John Tyler, Polk Taylor, Fillmore.
00:34:50.000 Do you know what Fillmore was known for?
00:34:53.000 Installing indoor plumbing into the White House.
00:34:56.000 That was, I think, his crowning achievement.
00:34:58.000 Pierce Buchanan, Lincoln, of course, kept the Union together.
00:35:02.000 Johnson, then Grant.
00:35:04.000 Grant was actually an awful president. 0.66
00:35:05.000 He was a terrific general, horrendous president.
00:35:09.000 Then Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland, of course, Cleveland being the only president in U.S. history who served two non-consecutive terms.
00:35:22.000 McKinley, William McKinley.
00:35:24.000 So here's an interesting fun fact.
00:35:25.000 What do William McKinley and Donald Trump have in common?
00:35:32.000 Anyone?
00:35:33.000 They both do not have a presidential dog.
00:35:36.000 I'm actually a huge advocate of Donald Trump getting a dog.
00:35:39.000 I think that it would help with his popularity.
00:35:42.000 Some people love their dogs more than they even like the people in their life.
00:35:45.000 So William McKinley and Donald Trump both have that in common.
00:35:49.000 Followed by Teddy Roosevelt Taft, the largest president, Woodrow Wilson, who was a total disaster.
00:35:54.000 Woodrow Wilson was probably one of the worst presidents in American history, if not the worst president.
00:35:58.000 Came from Princeton University, then governor of New Jersey, eventually became president of the United States.
00:36:04.000 That's what happens when you make a professor president.
00:36:07.000 We have the income tax, the Federal Reserve Act, and also we got rid of the direct election of senators.
00:36:11.000 He tried the League of Nations.
00:36:13.000 It failed horribly.
00:36:14.000 He was the first president in American history, Woodrow Wilson, who thought the founders were totally wrong.
00:36:20.000 Go figure that.
00:36:21.000 Then Harding Coolidge, love Calvin Coolidge, probably one of the best presidents in American history.
00:36:25.000 Silent Cowell talked about shrinking the size and force and power of the federal government.
00:36:31.000 And then we had Herbert Hoover followed by FDR.
00:36:34.000 FDR was the only president to defy George Washington's precedent of only serving two terms.
00:36:41.000 FDR served three full terms, elected to a fourth, died in the fourth, and Truman took over.
00:36:46.000 Followed by Eisenhower.
00:36:47.000 I love Dwight D. Eisenhower.
00:36:48.000 I think that some of it, of course, was big government Republicanism, but he was a great president for a perfect time, serving two terms post-World War II, really putting the nation through a healing moment.
00:37:00.000 We had the federal interstate because of him.
00:37:02.000 He desegregated a lot of the country, sometimes through force.
00:37:06.000 Then, of course, we have JFK, Lyndon Baines Johnson, one of the worst presidents in American history, Richard Nixon.
00:37:12.000 Look, I was treated very nicely at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library.
00:37:14.000 In fact, you can go back in the archives and listen to my speech there.
00:37:17.000 I do not think he was a good president.
00:37:18.000 Followed by Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, and then the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
00:37:24.000 So here's a little bit of fun trivia.
00:37:26.000 If you guys might have heard this before, but it's absolutely incredible.
00:37:30.000 And you could tell your friends this.
00:37:31.000 You heard it on the Charlie Kirk show, and you guys can spread it appropriately.
00:37:34.000 So Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the second and third presidents of the United States.
00:37:39.000 They hated each other, and they eventually became close friends later in life, but they were once political enemies.
00:37:44.000 So get this.
00:37:45.000 They both died on the same day, July 4th, 1826, exactly 50 years since they approved the Declaration of Independence.
00:37:53.000 And then John Quincy Adams wrote an incredible note where he said, a coincidence so wonderful that it gives confidence that the patriotic efforts of these men were having directed and furnishes a new hope that the prosperity of these states is under the special protection of a kind providence.
00:38:10.000 Basically saying there's no way that this was a coincidence that two of our founding fathers died 50 years from the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
00:38:17.000 50 years, they both died on the same day.
00:38:20.000 What are the chances of that?
00:38:21.000 I want some statistician to come on and just tell me it's a coincidence.
00:38:24.000 I don't think so.
00:38:25.000 He also told Congress on December 5th, and they died on the same day on July 4th, which was the founding of our country, the birth certificate.
00:38:33.000 Since your last meeting at this place, the 50th anniversary of the day when our independence was declared, were by one summons at the distance of 700 miles from each other, called before the judge of all to account for the deeds done on this earth.
00:38:45.000 Jefferson described Adams as, quote, the pillar of the Declaration's support on the floor of Congress, its ablest advocate and defender.
00:38:54.000 So there's some fun presidential analysis and history for you.
00:38:59.000 I don't have enough faith to believe that's a coincidence, but if you think that's a coincidence, then you have more faith than I do that there is not a divine being in this world that might have just allowed the United States of America to exist.
00:39:13.000 This one is from John in Georgia.
00:39:15.000 Hey, Charlie, a lot of my friends over July 4th weekend have been talking very negatively about the Declaration of Independence.
00:39:21.000 Can you go through it and tell me why I should be proud of it?
00:39:24.000 Thanks so much.
00:39:24.000 Well, you get a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:39:27.000 I think it's so important for us to go through this.
00:39:27.000 Congratulations.
00:39:30.000 I'm not going to go through the entire document, but let me go through kind of what is the most famous parts, if you will, up into let's just say the first couple paragraphs.
00:39:39.000 So we all know the beginning, but let's talk about what the significance of this is.
00:39:43.000 Let's go a level deeper.
00:39:45.000 So, Thomas Jefferson and company, it wasn't just Thomas Jefferson, he was the primary author of the Declaration.
00:39:50.000 So, before we get into the actual Declaration, we have to understand the kind of landscape that they were entering into.
00:39:56.000 Unlike the 1619 Project and other conservatives that say we are 400 years old, which is complete nonsense, July 4th, 1776, was the creation of something new.
00:40:06.000 We have to understand our founders were building something from the bottom up.
00:40:09.000 They were inspired by something that came before them, but British colonial slave trade rule is what they were rebelling against.
00:40:18.000 British colonial slave trade authoritarian tyranny was part of the reason they had a declaration of independence.
00:40:27.000 They were declaring that they were sovereign away from the colonies.
00:40:33.000 And so, you have to imagine King George getting this note.
00:40:37.000 He probably regretted having all those Scots and Irishmen leave, let's just say, then the kingdom of Britain to go to the United States of America because you have to understand a pretext to this, and this is why I'm so proud of my Scottish heritage.
00:40:51.000 Kirk means church, and I'm almost 80% Scottish.
00:40:54.000 I got my genealogy test back.
00:40:57.000 And everyone should be proud of where they're from.
00:40:58.000 This idea that you have to apologize for your history and your heritage is just nonsense.
00:41:02.000 But I'm very proud of my Scottish heritage because we've always been rebels.
00:41:06.000 We've always been fighting against tyranny since the 1300s, since the Roman rule.
00:41:11.000 We've been fighting against tyranny.
00:41:13.000 But William Wallace, in the movie Braveheart, you have seen this many times.
00:41:17.000 He helped lead the rebellion, which he actually never saw the successful fruits of that rebellion against which was then the absolute superpower of the time, and it was in the United States of America, the Kingdom of Britain.
00:41:31.000 But understand, the founding of America were the very same people that rebelled against Britain in Scotland and some of the Irishmen and the idea of Scots-Irish.
00:41:40.000 A lot of Scots-Irish started this country.
00:41:42.000 And I'm Scots-Irish.
00:41:44.000 They came to America in the early 1600s.
00:41:46.000 I can trace my bloodline coming back to the United States of America to Alphonsus Kirk, coming back in year 1623.
00:41:52.000 Our family's been incredible with documentation.
00:41:55.000 We can even trace our bloodline back to the Maxwell clan, which fought in the Scottish War of Independence in the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Sterling Bridge, where the Scots did beat the British in that fight.
00:42:05.000 They lost the Battle of Falkirk, and that's actually the inspiration of the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty at Liberty University.
00:42:10.000 However, you have to understand before that this declaration was written to the King George, there were other declarations: the Magna Carta, which recognized human rights, which came before the Declaration of Independence, the writings of John Locke that came before the Declaration.
00:42:25.000 And John Locke really pushed the boundaries of this idea of natural rights.
00:42:29.000 John Locke was inspired by the teachings of the Bible.
00:42:32.000 We've gone through extensively in previous AMAs and previous podcasts who John Locke was and his contribution to the founding of our country.
00:42:40.000 But it's very fair to say, without John Locke, the founding fathers would not have had the intellectual depth or the backdrop to be able to articulate what is in the Declaration.
00:42:51.000 But understand, the very same people that founded the religious colonies, the Pilgrims, if you will, throughout the 1640s and the 1680s, they were, in a lot of ways, they were forced to participate in British colonial slave trade rule.
00:43:07.000 And this idea that America was founded on slavery, I talked about this, and it's one of my favorite factoids to dive into.
00:43:13.000 Slavery was beginning to be abolished, inspired by the Declaration of Independence.
00:43:18.000 In 1777, Vermont, which was a religious colony in the northeast of our country, abolished slavery in 1777 as inspired by the Declaration of Independence.
00:43:28.000 So understand that there's a very significant historical backdrop to the founding of America.
00:43:33.000 It wasn't just they just woke up one day and they said, oh, this sounds like a great idea.
00:43:36.000 It was hundreds of years of the struggle of tyranny versus free people.
00:43:40.000 Like, can we start something new that is, in some ways, a meritocracy where we recognize natural rights?
00:43:46.000 What does that country look like?
00:43:47.000 Is it worth putting your life on the line?
00:43:50.000 Is it worth sacrificing everything?
00:43:52.000 And the Declaration was the answer to that.
00:43:54.000 Yes.
00:43:55.000 It was worth sacrificing everything.
00:43:59.000 It was worth saying to King George, I'm basically signing my death warrant. 1.00
00:44:03.000 Kill me, kill my family. 0.99
00:44:05.000 These ideas, this ideal that I am striving towards, is worth it. 1.00
00:44:09.000 So you know this, but let's repeat it.
00:44:12.000 And some people actually forget it so often.
00:44:14.000 When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another to assume among the powers of the earth.
00:44:23.000 Now, before I go any further, understand Jefferson, the main author of this, he read the Bible every single night.
00:44:29.000 So, the beautiful poetry here, the language that we don't teach our children, it's so incredibly well written as far as the prose, the diction.
00:44:39.000 And this was not just something that they wrote on the back of a napkin.
00:44:42.000 They debated this for months and they said, Hey, young Thomas Jefferson, why don't you just take care of this?
00:44:47.000 You're a pretty smart guy.
00:44:48.000 And he was, in a lot of ways, the most intelligent linguist that the founding fathers had at their disposal.
00:44:56.000 And he got his inspiration by reading John Locke, by spending time around Patrick Henry, who I think gave one of the best speeches ever in 1775 at the Virginia House of Commons.
00:45:06.000 You guys can look it up.
00:45:07.000 It's incredible.
00:45:10.000 You can start to see the rumblings of the beginning of America.
00:45:12.000 I encourage all of you guys to check it out.
00:45:14.000 The speech by Patrick Henry is called The War Inevitable, March 23rd, 1775, where he gave it to the Virginia Assembly in 1775, similar to the Virginia House of Commons, but they didn't really have the House of Commons then.
00:45:26.000 But you can start to see where this started to pop its head up.
00:45:29.000 So, anyway, it continues: the separate and equal station.
00:45:32.000 Here's the most important line in the first part of it: to which the laws of nature and nature is God.
00:45:38.000 Whoa!
00:45:39.000 That is straight from Locke.
00:45:42.000 Locke repeated that so many different times: Laws of nature.
00:45:45.000 Who are you in the state of nature?
00:45:47.000 So, Thomas Jefferson basically did a 1776 version of copy-paste and said, I like that.
00:45:53.000 This is a biblical idea.
00:45:55.000 Anyone who tells you that the ideas in the Bible were not just instrumental, but they were imperative to the founding of the country is just wrong.
00:46:05.000 I mean, I could use a lot of different ways to fill that in.
00:46:08.000 It's wishful thinking at best, and it's trying to create America in an atheistic, humanistic image, and that's just not true.
00:46:13.000 Laws of nature and nature is God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
00:46:23.000 So, you see this first paragraph, it frames the argument.
00:46:27.000 Basically, it's saying it sometimes is moral for people to dissolve from political tyranny.
00:46:35.000 I mean, King George reads this and he's like, I know that we've been fighting the Scots for some time, but who thought it was a good idea to bring them to this new land where they could flourish infinitely?
00:46:45.000 You can just imagine because this sort of language began bubbling up in the 1300s and the 1400s with William Wallace and the rebel of the Scots.
00:46:54.000 And it was the same genealogy that came to America, which were religious-seeking, freedom-loving people.
00:46:59.000 This idea of freedom is not something that every country embraces.
00:47:03.000 This is why our military excursions and experiments in Libya and the Middle East have proven futile to try to create the next Thomas Jefferson in Libya or in Syria.
00:47:14.000 They do not have the philosophical or historical backdrop to be able to have a document like this have resonance.
00:47:21.000 Here is the most famous line, in a lot of ways, the most important line.
00:47:26.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:47:30.000 You've probably heard this by a teacher, and I hope a teacher did this justice.
00:47:35.000 Because this idea of self-evident truths, this idea of natural rights, completely blows up the idea. of medieval autocracy and tyranny.
00:47:47.000 It obliterates this idea of Rousseauan Hegelian.
00:47:52.000 Hegel didn't quite write yet, but eventually you see the American left embrace him.
00:47:56.000 But Rousseau was right near this time, Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:48:00.000 Self-evident truths?
00:48:02.000 You mean that people have rights that are natural upon birth?
00:48:06.000 That all men are created equal.
00:48:08.000 Now, we've talked about the three types of equality.
00:48:11.000 And we even talked about how the founding fathers have, they didn't even live out the three types of equality.
00:48:18.000 Equal under law, equal opportunity, equal outcome.
00:48:23.000 Please commit this to memory and write this down as a way to talk to your friends about this.
00:48:28.000 It's very simple.
00:48:30.000 And I did not come up with this analysis, but I did come up with this way of framing.
00:48:34.000 So this is a Charlie Kirk show original.
00:48:36.000 So equal under law, again, is essential and moral.
00:48:39.000 Equal opportunity, which is school choice and educational options, very noble.
00:48:44.000 Equal outcome is evil.
00:48:47.000 So we have to understand the incorrect reading of this declaration is saying, oh, well, the founders wanted equal outcomes.
00:48:54.000 No, they didn't.
00:48:55.000 They wanted equality under law.
00:48:57.000 Equality that you'll be treated the same, regardless of skin color, regardless of heritage.
00:49:02.000 Continues by saying that they're endowed by their creator, capital C.
00:49:06.000 This is a theistic document.
00:49:09.000 This is a document that recognized there is a sovereign God with certain unalienable rights.
00:49:15.000 Whoa!
00:49:16.000 You mean that people have rights just because they're born?
00:49:19.000 That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:49:22.000 Again, this is straight out of Locke.
00:49:24.000 Locke would say life, liberty, and private property.
00:49:26.000 Thomas Jefferson didn't want to be accused of 1776 plagiarism, so changed it to the pursuit of happiness.
00:49:32.000 That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.
00:49:35.000 You have to understand this is such a philosophical divergence from the tyranny of King George.
00:49:40.000 He must be reading this saying, like, who do these people think they are?
00:49:42.000 They have rights.
00:49:43.000 They're peasants in our eyes.
00:49:44.000 They're our subjects.
00:49:45.000 Declare war on them. 0.98
00:49:46.000 Wipe them out.
00:49:47.000 I mean, the divine right of kings, which is a completely philosophically and morally flawed concept, which basically argues that kings have total authority to rule people because they were put there by God.
00:49:59.000 It's not biblical.
00:49:59.000 It's not correct, but something that was very pervasive for hundreds of years throughout the Middle Ages.
00:50:05.000 It's that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:50:11.000 And it continues, and by the way, in a future episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we'll dive deeper into this, but I want to stop on that.
00:50:16.000 From the consent of the governed, meaning that you must communicate with the people that you are ruling and they put you there.
00:50:22.000 Every single free society on the planet can point to this document that we celebrate on July 4th, 1776, that you hopefully had a great time celebrating this last weekend as the reason why the world is a freer place, is a better place, is a place that recognizes natural rights, individual initiative, freedom of speech, freedom of prop, freedom to exercise your religion as you see fit without the government spying on you, without the government coming in and taking your stuff.
00:50:48.000 The Bill of Rights articulated these natural rights.
00:50:52.000 And we don't teach this to our kids.
00:50:54.000 We need to get our kids to love America again.
00:50:56.000 And I encourage you to check out the sister episode that we have here on the Charlie Kirk Show where we dive into that and we dive into what the president said about Rushmore, which was absolutely terrific.
00:51:05.000 And I want to make sure I was saying something very specifically.
00:51:08.000 I sometimes speak so fast.
00:51:10.000 It's Scotch-Irish, not just Scott-Irish.
00:51:12.000 But I'm proud of my heritage of freedom fighters, always have been, always will be.
00:51:17.000 And I think no matter where you're from in the world, you should be proud of where you're from.
00:51:20.000 You should be proud of the language, proud of the culture, proud of the sacrifices people made before you so you can live in this country.
00:51:25.000 This idea that you have to apologize for your history is nonsense.
00:51:28.000 Know your history.
00:51:29.000 Know the complexities of it.
00:51:32.000 The failure to know your history, I believe, creates an immature infant society that puts us in a decline of civilization, not into the prosperity of our civilization.
00:51:43.000 Last question.
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00:52:56.000 Okay, Lori from Texas.
00:52:57.000 She says, Charlie, I love the idea that President Trump put forward in his executive order about creating a statue garden of American heroes.
00:53:03.000 What statue do you think should go in there that he may be missing?
00:53:05.000 Maybe yours.
00:53:06.000 I don't think so, but thank you so much, Lori.
00:53:08.000 That is very, very kind.
00:53:11.000 Okay, so, look, I saw the list.
00:53:13.000 It's pretty amazing.
00:53:14.000 I think Babe Ruth is in there.
00:53:15.000 Amelia Earhart, so many.
00:53:17.000 I don't know if Frederick Douglass made it in there, but Frederick Douglass is one of my favorite figures in American history.
00:53:21.000 He was an abolitionist, and he was a Republican, a black man.
00:53:24.000 He was incredible.
00:53:25.000 Thaddeus Stevens, I hope, is in there.
00:53:27.000 If he didn't make it, I sure hope he would.
00:53:29.000 One of the original abolitionists that was an incredible guy and really loved his country and fought for abolition even when it was so difficult and so hard.
00:53:38.000 Let me think who else that would be missing in the United States.
00:53:42.000 I hope Dwight D. Eisenhower would be there, one of the most complete people in our country's history.
00:53:47.000 Arnold Palmer.
00:53:48.000 I've always liked Arnold Palmer, and it's not just the drink.
00:53:50.000 He was very admirable in a variety of different ways.
00:53:53.000 Vince Lombardi.
00:53:55.000 I've always loved Vince Lombardi.
00:53:56.000 He's terrific, and he helped start the sports as we know it, the National Football League, and, of course, the merging of two leagues, the AFL and the NFL.
00:54:07.000 Alexander Graham Bell, of course, the founder of the telephone.
00:54:12.000 The great inventors, I think, throughout our country's history need to be recognized.
00:54:17.000 Jonas Sulk, who came up with the polio vaccine in the 1930s, and not Henry Ford.
00:54:24.000 I do have appreciation for the company he built, but Henry Ford had, let's just say, a questionable history in some ways that has been revealed.
00:54:31.000 I don't know if I'd do a statue to Henry Ford.
00:54:32.000 I don't think Ford should be renamed, though.
00:54:34.000 I'm not one of those.
00:54:35.000 Actually, I drive a Ford around because they didn't take government money when the Chrysler and GM did.
00:54:45.000 So I don't appreciate that as much.
00:54:47.000 No, I don't think Mr. Producer said, do you think there should be a statue to Yale?
00:54:51.000 No, I don't think there should be a statue to Yale.
00:54:53.000 Nor do I think there should be a statue to Leland Stanford. 0.84
00:54:57.000 Leland Stanford helped build the American Railroads, which was an admirable undertaking, but he did use a lot of, let's say, questionable slave labor, quasi-slave labor, Chinese labor. 0.60
00:55:09.000 Jonathan Edwards, who was a preacher of the American Revival, I think would be incredible. 0.91
00:55:14.000 Jonathan Edwards, not that Jonathan Edwards, no.
00:55:16.000 The Jonathan Edwards that was preaching the American Awakening helped really contribute to the founding of our country.
00:55:24.000 Andrew Jackson, I would hope, be there just because I'm a big Andrew Jackson fan, despite his, let's say, moral missteps.
00:55:30.000 I think he was a terrific president and generally a phenomenal president of the United States of America.
00:55:35.000 Teddy Roosevelt, but he's already got his face on Mount Rushmore, so I think he's off to a pretty good start.
00:55:39.000 I don't think he needs another statue, even though they're taking down the statue of Teddy Roosevelt at the Natural, I think it's the Natural History Museum in New York, something like that.
00:55:47.000 Billy Graham, that is a very good one.
00:55:49.000 Billy Graham should get a statue in the American Statue of Heroes.
00:55:52.000 And you just look at the heroes that built our country.
00:55:55.000 It's incredible.
00:55:55.000 Babe Ruth should be included in there.
00:55:57.000 Lou Gehrig, who gave one of the greatest speeches, I think, ever.
00:56:00.000 And I encourage all of you to listen to it.
00:56:03.000 Hank Aaron, definitely Hank Aaron should be in there.
00:56:06.000 Jackie Robinson, who is, of course, broke the color barrier.
00:56:10.000 And I think we've done a pretty good job, actually, of honoring Jackie Robinson in our country.
00:56:15.000 I think that's something that we should applaud ourselves for.
00:56:20.000 Rosa Parks, Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, just to name a few.
00:56:25.000 I think that there's so many American icons and heroes who know our history, understand it.
00:56:29.000 And I actually will have a, let's say, a more complete list on the future episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:57:15.000 God bless you.
00:57:16.000 I hope the beginning of this episode convicts you to action.
00:57:20.000 It was a longer-than-usual beginning to an Ask Me Anything, but people say, What should I do?
00:57:24.000 Stand up against tyranny.
00:57:26.000 Do it today and email me the instance that you have.
00:57:28.000 I want to profile them.
00:57:30.000 I want to celebrate the Davids against the Goliaths.
00:57:34.000 I want to celebrate the people that stand up against the authoritarians in our life that have the creeping levels of tyranny in every single sector: church, business, culture, school, family life.
00:57:48.000 Be respectful, be compassionate, be decent, ask questions, but don't give an inch.
00:57:52.000 You can change the world.
00:57:54.000 But first, you have to fight for everything that is right and good around you.
00:57:58.000 Thank you guys so much.
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00:58:01.000 God bless.