The Charlie Kirk Show - July 13, 2020


Ask Charlie Anything 25: The Unbelievable Response to Our Cancel Culture Episode; Charlie’s Favorite State; Republicans Are On the Wrong Side of THIS Issue; and Making Our Kids Love America Again


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I answer your questions about what are Republicans wrong about? What is my favorite state? How do we get our kids to love America again? And I also do some follow-up from our very popular episode on Friday.

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00:00:08.000 Hey, everybody, I'm back.
00:00:10.000 Glad to be here.
00:00:11.000 I answer your questions about what are Republicans wrong about?
00:00:14.000 What is my favorite state?
00:00:16.000 How do we get our kids to love America again?
00:00:18.000 And I also do some follow-up from our very popular episode on Friday.
00:00:22.000 I want to thank those of you that have been emailing me over the weekend.
00:00:25.000 I'm catching up on all those emails.
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00:00:50.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:50.000 Big show in store.
00:00:52.000 Here we go.
00:00:53.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:01:03.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:01:04.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:01:05.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
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00:01:26.000 Hey, everybody.
00:01:27.000 It is great to be back in the saddle.
00:01:29.000 I had a good couple days in the backcountry of the wilderness of our country.
00:01:34.000 For those of you that are just looking for a fun summer vacation or just if you want some time away from the chaotic world that we live in, I highly recommend just turning off your phone, going into the backcountry of Wyoming or Montana, Idaho for a weekend.
00:01:50.000 It is so unbelievably fulfilling to look at the natural beauty that God gave our country that he created so perfectly.
00:02:00.000 The roaring rivers, the snow-camped mountains, the fresh air.
00:02:05.000 It's incredible.
00:02:06.000 So I'm back and ready more so than ever before to be able to share some thoughts with you guys.
00:02:11.000 And of course, today is Monday.
00:02:13.000 That means that we are doing an Ask Me Anything episode.
00:02:16.000 I am answering your questions.
00:02:18.000 Those of you that emailed me, freedom at CharlieKirk.com, freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:02:23.000 I'm answering your questions right here.
00:02:26.000 And the winners, by the way, those questions that I select win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine, M-A-G-A doctrine.
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00:02:41.000 So I want to start with kind of a follow-up from our very popular and successful episode on Friday, The Human Cost of Cancel Culture.
00:02:49.000 We got an incredible, overwhelming support from this episode.
00:02:54.000 I must have received hundreds of emails from people, some of which were people that were struggling intimately with depression, some people contemplating suicide.
00:03:04.000 And the response we got were people that were saying thank you.
00:03:08.000 Here's one email that we got.
00:03:10.000 We're going to keep their name anonymous.
00:03:11.000 Charlie, I've listened to yesterday's podcast over and over.
00:03:14.000 I've typed this email a dozen times.
00:03:16.000 I need help.
00:03:17.000 I'm struggling with depression.
00:03:18.000 I do not believe that I would ever end my life, but I've struggled with that thought every day.
00:03:23.000 I needed to hear your message.
00:03:24.000 I needed a friend.
00:03:25.000 Thank you.
00:03:26.000 Well, look, the Charlie Kirk Show, and for those that support us at charliekirk.com/slash support, you allow us to do the amount of episodes that we do with our production team and the output that we have on this podcast is the best of any podcast in the political space.
00:03:41.000 However, we don't just talk about politics.
00:03:44.000 This is not just the news of the day podcast.
00:03:46.000 Sometimes I speak directly to you about cultural, psychological, religious, and spiritual issues.
00:03:52.000 And on Friday, it was really weighing on me having a friend who just recently committed suicide to share with our audience the reality and the weight that comes with mental health issues, possibly depression, and really the message of every single person's life matters, that your life matters.
00:04:17.000 That if you apply yourself and you straighten out your life and you aim on something that matters, your life has meaning.
00:04:25.000 So let's talk about that a little bit more concretely, because I got a lot of emails.
00:04:28.000 They say, Charlie, what do I do?
00:04:30.000 Well, take out a piece of paper and write uninterrupted for 15 minutes what an ideal and realistic life would look like for you that would bring you some form of fulfillment and happiness a couple years from now.
00:04:43.000 Just map it out.
00:04:44.000 Write it out.
00:04:44.000 It doesn't have to be perfect.
00:04:46.000 It's not going to be published in the New York Times, God forbid.
00:04:50.000 It's not going to be published in The Washington Post.
00:04:52.000 Just write it out.
00:04:54.000 I see myself becoming an owner of a restaurant in a community that I really love, married to someone that I adore with a couple kids.
00:05:04.000 Great, perfect.
00:05:06.000 Then get even more detailed than that.
00:05:08.000 Talk about the type of food that you really want to consume, how you want to look like, all of it.
00:05:14.000 And then you kind of have an end point.
00:05:17.000 And if that gives you meaning, good, that's part of it.
00:05:19.000 Now all of a sudden you have something that's attainable.
00:05:21.000 Aim towards that.
00:05:23.000 I'm a big believer that sacrificing something today to know that you might benefit tomorrow is something that is one of the biggest breakthroughs in human history that we take for granted.
00:05:35.000 You see, this is articulated in the Bible many times in Christ being the ultimate sacrifice, sacrificing one day so that we can have eternal life and accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
00:05:46.000 But this was talked about in the Old Testament, of course, most famously with Abraham and Isaac, where God was trying Abraham to possibly have to sacrifice his son, which was anyone who has children, and I do not yet have children, know that that sort of story is just so difficult to read to know that God might ask you to sacrifice your child.
00:06:10.000 And of course, the correct reading of that is God never intended to have that child be sacrificed.
00:06:16.000 Instead, he was testing and pushing Abraham to see how much faith he actually had.
00:06:22.000 And Abraham passed the test and God provided a sacrifice.
00:06:25.000 But this idea of sacrificing today so that you might have a better life tomorrow is not something that animals do consciously.
00:06:33.000 They don't.
00:06:33.000 It's what separates us from the beasts of the animal kingdom.
00:06:36.000 It's what separates us from insects, what separates us from every other living creature on the face of the earth.
00:06:44.000 And that's a very positive thing.
00:06:46.000 It shows that you can straighten out your life.
00:06:49.000 You can aim on something that has meaning.
00:06:52.000 And maybe you can sacrifice something the next couple of months.
00:06:55.000 Maybe you should not drink anymore from now to the end of the year.
00:06:59.000 Can you do that?
00:07:00.000 Maybe you need to wake up 30 minutes earlier and go for a walk to clear your head and burn those extra calories.
00:07:07.000 Maybe you have to sacrifice or forego a favorite meal or a favorite dish.
00:07:13.000 Sacrificing something for a greater purpose will give your life fulfillment and meaning.
00:07:19.000 Now, sacrificing does not mean you do it out of self-hatred or self-loathing.
00:07:24.000 It doesn't mean that you stop eating your favorite food because you hate yourself.
00:07:27.000 In fact, it's the exact opposite.
00:07:29.000 You will find more fulfillment and meaning by restraining yourself instead of indulging yourself.
00:07:35.000 And that's not to say at certain times you can enjoy life's beauties and treasures.
00:07:41.000 But you probably know that if you get stone cold drunk every single night, it loses its meaning pretty quickly.
00:07:48.000 It's no longer that special.
00:07:50.000 Fact, you probably feel pretty awful.
00:07:52.000 You probably feel bitter.
00:07:53.000 You probably feel terrible.
00:07:55.000 There's a reason for this is because your body and your life is not set up to be constantly indulging itself.
00:08:02.000 And I talk to so many young people and young men in particular that have been sold a repeated pattern of lies by the secular humanist radical left that all you have to do is basically be a hedonist and pursue your own self-pleasure whenever you want, how you see fit, and that will make you happy.
00:08:23.000 In fact, it's going to make you miserable, inevitably miserable.
00:08:28.000 And so maybe you find one or two things that you need to stop doing today.
00:08:33.000 And the incredible irony of it is stopping doing something that you might actually enjoy will give you far more fulfillment and enjoyment than actually doing that thing because you're doing it for a very specific purpose.
00:08:48.000 And that's why you must start with mapping out your meaning.
00:08:51.000 That's why you must start with articulating very specifically and in high amounts of detail where you want to go with your life, the type of person that you want to be, the type of spouse maybe you want to be, the type of boss you want to be, the type of person in the world that you want to aspire to.
00:09:10.000 That is admirable.
00:09:11.000 And that is actually fulfilling.
00:09:13.000 That is the hero's journey.
00:09:14.000 As I mentioned on Friday, I'm not going to sugarcoat it ever.
00:09:18.000 Life is really brutal.
00:09:20.000 Life is suffering.
00:09:22.000 Life is really hard.
00:09:23.000 I encourage you to listen to our previous episode of the throwback episode of my conversation with Jordan Peterson.
00:09:28.000 He talks about this in such great detail.
00:09:30.000 The issue at times with Jordan Peterson is he doesn't totally connect in a full circle loop the need to commit your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.
00:09:40.000 He gets very close to that, though.
00:09:42.000 He does a better job defending the Bible than most Christians do, but he defends it archetypically and psychologically. 0.82
00:09:49.000 This is part of what we talk about at the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty at Liberty University. 0.93
00:09:54.000 And if any of you are interested to go to Liberty and you guys want more information, you guys can always email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:10:01.000 I'd be happy to connect you with the right people at Liberty.
00:10:04.000 It's one of the few colleges I actually put my name behind.
00:10:06.000 And you guys know what I feel about higher education and the damage that they are doing to our country.
00:10:11.000 And so if you're listening to this, you say, Charlie, I don't know where I'm going and why I'm heading in that direction.
00:10:18.000 That's okay.
00:10:20.000 Map out specifically what might give you fulfillment and meaning.
00:10:23.000 There's something out there.
00:10:24.000 Guarantee it.
00:10:26.000 Something that you want to aim towards.
00:10:27.000 Straighten yourself out.
00:10:28.000 Then aim towards it.
00:10:29.000 Then endure the daily grind.
00:10:31.000 But at least you have that thing that you're going towards.
00:10:34.000 You have that aim.
00:10:35.000 It might be a human being you want to grow closer to.
00:10:37.000 It might be a home that you might want to acquire.
00:10:40.000 My opinion is the less materialistic, the better.
00:10:43.000 The more relational, probably the better.
00:10:46.000 The more spiritual, even better than that.
00:10:48.000 I want to grow closer to God.
00:10:50.000 I want to understand the scriptures even better.
00:10:53.000 That is an incredible ideal to attain.
00:10:57.000 That's an incredible ideal to strive for and to aim for.
00:11:01.000 Now, I will say, the amount of emails that I got on that specific podcast, it troubles me because I see how many people are dealing with these issues, but it also gives me a great deal of fulfillment for me because I know that I'm helping other people.
00:11:19.000 And so that's my final piece of advice for you: is that if you're looking for something fulfilling, stop thinking so much about making yourself fulfilled and make somebody else fulfilled.
00:11:29.000 The most fulfilling thing I have felt in the last couple weeks, and honestly, the last couple months, that I have felt is when I get messages from other people that say I helped them live a better life, that I helped straighten out their path, that I helped answer some questions for them.
00:11:48.000 So look to other people for a place that you might be able to lean into them.
00:11:52.000 I can tell you personally, that's why I do what I do here on the podcast.
00:11:56.000 That's why we produce so much content, as I know that someone out there in this beautiful country, in this beautiful world that God gave us, needs to hear what I'm saying today.
00:12:05.000 That's what keeps me going.
00:12:06.000 That's what makes us do 12, 13, 14 episodes a week.
00:12:09.000 And I think I actually have a moral prerogative to try and make the best possible arguments for truth every single day.
00:12:18.000 So I want to thank you guys again for that warm response we got from that episode Friday.
00:12:22.000 If you haven't checked it out, I encourage you to do so and also apply some of these pieces of feedback and advice that I give here, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:12:32.000 Let's get to the next question.
00:12:34.000 Hey, Charlie, I heard you in South Dakota and Wyoming through your podcast.
00:12:37.000 What is your favorite state?
00:12:39.000 Sally Sue from Michigan.
00:12:40.000 Well, I hate to bash on your own state, Sally, Sally Sue from Michigan.
00:12:46.000 Michigan is not my favorite state, but I do love Michigan in the summer.
00:12:49.000 Some of my favorite memories are with friends up near the Lake Potoski region, Lake Walloon, actually, the Potoski region in northern Michigan.
00:12:58.000 I do love Michigan.
00:12:59.000 I love the state of Michigan.
00:13:00.000 I do not like the governor of Michigan.
00:13:02.000 She has totally and completely tried to destroy that state, and she is unconstitutional through and through.
00:13:08.000 I am in no way, shape, or form supportive of Governor Gretchen Whitmer, but I do love the people of Michigan.
00:13:14.000 God bless Michigan.
00:13:15.000 I have to say, my favorite state in the summer is probably either Wyoming or Montana.
00:13:21.000 I love where I get to live and where I get to travel from.
00:13:24.000 I do like being from Chicago, and I don't live there anymore, but it is a, let's just say, a difficult place to be at times, politically and otherwise.
00:13:32.000 But great people, my family's from there, and I'll always appreciate what Chicago did for me, which really created a strong work ethic in me.
00:13:39.000 I love the state of Arizona.
00:13:40.000 I love everything about Arizona.
00:13:42.000 I love the mountains.
00:13:43.000 I even love the heat at times.
00:13:44.000 It does get a little bit old.
00:13:45.000 I have to say, right now, when it's 110, 115 degrees.
00:13:48.000 But for the rest of the year, outside of the weather, I love the culture.
00:13:52.000 I love that we have our headquarters at Turning Point USA, TPUSA.com, and Phoenix, Arizona.
00:13:57.000 My least favorite states, boy, I do like parts of California.
00:14:01.000 Not too much of a fan of some of the politics there.
00:14:04.000 New York is really hard for me.
00:14:05.000 I do not like New York City anymore.
00:14:07.000 It is basically impossible to be able to exist in New York City.
00:14:12.000 New York City has become a place of widespread lawlessness, just blatant criminality, and a lack for the rule of law, a lack of regard for the rule of law.
00:14:22.000 It's something that I just, I cannot tolerate being in New York City very much any longer.
00:14:28.000 And I used to love New York.
00:14:29.000 I used to love to go to New York.
00:14:30.000 I used to love the magic.
00:14:31.000 I used to love the energy.
00:14:32.000 It's not what it used to be at all.
00:14:35.000 New York City has been handed over to the most radical Marxist elements of our entire society.
00:14:40.000 And I think that that is something that we honestly have to point out and say, look at this beautiful city that was completely and totally destroyed by radical left-wing Democrats.
00:14:50.000 And so, favorite states, I do love South Dakota.
00:14:52.000 I think Governor Christy Noam is doing such a great job.
00:14:55.000 I encourage you to check out that previous episode that we had with Governor Christy Noam.
00:14:59.000 It was terrific.
00:15:00.000 She did a great job articulating exactly what she is doing in the great state of South Dakota.
00:15:05.000 And I encourage you guys to go back in the archives just about a week and check out that conversation.
00:15:08.000 So I love all of America, but there's certain states certain times of year that are just exceptional.
00:15:14.000 And especially that Idaho, Wyoming, Montana region, this time of year, can't be beat.
00:15:19.000 But the rest of the year, I like Arizona, love Florida.
00:15:21.000 And I think Governor Ron DeSantis is doing such a terrific job.
00:15:25.000 Let's get to the next question.
00:15:26.000 This is from Teresa in Mississippi.
00:15:29.000 Congratulations, Teresa.
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00:15:34.000 Freedom at CharlieKirk.com, Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
00:15:36.000 And if you guys want to get in a random drawing for the MAGA doctrine, we are mailing out another 65 MAGA doctrines tomorrow because I'm back in the office.
00:15:44.000 I've been traveling so much.
00:15:45.000 You guys can subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show, give five stars, leave us a review, screenshot it, and email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:15:57.000 So make sure to do that.
00:15:58.000 Okay, here's the next question from Teresa in Mississippi.
00:16:01.000 Charlie, I was listening to your Think Big podcast.
00:16:04.000 I was very impressed with how you were talking about making our kids love America again.
00:16:09.000 I think the president has been listening, and he seems to be saying it recently.
00:16:13.000 Thanks so much.
00:16:14.000 Love the show.
00:16:15.000 Well, look, I appreciate the praise.
00:16:16.000 The president did kind of take a very similar tact in recent days.
00:16:20.000 He did tweet out right before the weekend.
00:16:23.000 And as I was without cell service for many, let's just say many, many hours, I came back and I was very pleasantly surprised to see the president tweet out that he wanted to potentially revoke the tax-exempt status for universities because of the left-wing indoctrination that they are doing towards our students.
00:16:40.000 I was thrilled to hear that.
00:16:42.000 And he said this at the Mount Rushmore speech about how we are indoctrinating our kids, not educating our kids.
00:16:48.000 Play tape.
00:16:50.000 The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal Democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions.
00:17:11.000 Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains.
00:17:29.000 The radical view of American history is a web of lies.
00:17:36.000 All perspective is removed.
00:17:40.000 Every virtue is obscured.
00:17:43.000 Every motive is twisted.
00:17:45.000 Every fact is distorted.
00:17:48.000 And every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.
00:17:58.000 This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore.
00:18:07.000 They defile the memory of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt.
00:18:13.000 Today, we will set history and history's records straight.
00:18:20.000 And Kaylee McEnany said a very similar thing where she said, we are going to teach our kids the history of America again.
00:18:27.000 The White House, again, I'm not really big into the taking credit thing.
00:18:31.000 I think that it's kind of overdone when people go on TV and said, yes, this was all because of me.
00:18:35.000 I'm not going to say that.
00:18:36.000 I am going to say that we probably played a role into it because I sent our podcast around.
00:18:40.000 I wrote about it on AmericanGreatnessamGreatness.com.
00:18:44.000 And I sent it to probably every single human being that I knew that worked in the White House and in the United States Senate about how we need to get our kids to love America again.
00:18:52.000 Play tape of Kayleigh McEnany.
00:18:54.000 This message is now more important and more timely than ever. 0.63
00:18:58.000 Radical left-wing mobs seek to tear down our monuments and our memorials.
00:19:03.000 Everyone from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass and even Gandhi.
00:19:09.000 Misguided movements such as Defund the Police seek to leave our communities more vulnerable than ever.
00:19:15.000 Case in point, this weekend alone.
00:19:18.000 This July 4th, the president said, our movement is based on lifting all citizens to reach their fullest God-given potential.
00:19:25.000 Never forget, we are one family and one nation.
00:19:30.000 We will teach our children to cherish and adore their country so they can build its future.
00:19:36.000 This vision is not a culture war, as the media seeks to falsely proclaim.
00:19:40.000 It's an embrace of our American family, our values, our freedom, and our future.
00:19:46.000 So, look, I think that there is a lot to be said about, look, again, I didn't come up with the idea of educating our kids, but I was one of the pioneers of trying to say that we have to label and message our outreach as educating the next generation around the ideas of American history, first principles, and what matters most in America.
00:20:08.000 I think there's nothing wrong with saying that.
00:20:09.000 I think that we as Americans need to get serious about educating the next generation about why they should love America.
00:20:19.000 We have a country where a majority of young people are being taught a negative perspective on American history.
00:20:25.000 Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, the founders and framers of our country, are being portrayed as evil, bigoted, and backwards.
00:20:34.000 And they should be portrayed as heroic individuals that, of course, were not perfect human beings.
00:20:41.000 And they were a symptom of the times.
00:20:43.000 They did not invent some of the practices that they engaged in.
00:20:47.000 They were not the inventors of slavery.
00:20:50.000 Some of them engaged in slavery.
00:20:52.000 Some of them regretted engaging in slavery towards the later years in their life.
00:20:56.000 In fact, one year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, Vermont began to abolish slavery in 1777.
00:21:04.000 So it was because of our founding fathers that states began to abolish slavery, not in spite of it.
00:21:11.000 It wasn't America's founded in 1776, and then we start to have more states embrace slavery.
00:21:17.000 This is what's so wrong about the 1619 project that if you're listening to this podcast, many of your kids, if you're a parent listening to this podcast, I should say, many of your kids are probably learning from the New York Times propaganda project, the 1619 project, that makes the argument that our country was founded in the year 1619.
00:21:40.000 That our country was founded not in 1776, but instead we were founded the first year slaves came to America.
00:21:48.000 This framing of American history, and even some conservative organizations that run some of the biggest think tanks in all of Washington, D.C., that run some of the biggest conservative think tanks in Washington, D.C., have acknowledged and have said in public pieces that America is 400 years old. 0.55
00:22:06.000 That America is 400 years old.
00:22:07.000 This is nonsense.
00:22:08.000 We had a very unique, significant, and declarative founding in the year 1776.
00:22:17.000 Anyone who says that we were founded 400 years ago when slaves started to come to America does not understand what America is.
00:22:24.000 America was a rebellion against tyranny and a creation of something new, not a continuation of bad or medieval or English colonial practices previously.
00:22:35.000 America is not a colonialist country.
00:22:38.000 America did its best to expand always by purchasing land or by negotiating with Indigenous people.
00:22:45.000 Of course, we made our missteps throughout history there, but large in part, we were actually far more humane to Indigenous people and Native Americans than a lot of American history would tell you that they teach in our schools.
00:22:57.000 Of course, there were people that stepped outside of the bounds and did not act completely properly.
00:23:02.000 And we should recognize that.
00:23:04.000 We should teach the totality of American history.
00:23:06.000 I'm not saying we should teach American history without the flaws, but you shouldn't teach American history without the brilliance and the heroism either.
00:23:17.000 That's where I get so frustrated.
00:23:18.000 That's where I get compelled to action to do even more podcasts and speak on more campuses and grow Turning Point USA more than ever before because you do not have a country.
00:23:28.000 You cannot have a country if you have an entire generation of young people that think the country they're growing up in is an awful brutal place.
00:23:38.000 You might be able to survive another 5, 10, 15, maybe 20 years because of the amount of success we've had, but eventually, those scales will tip.
00:23:46.000 Eventually, those young people will become lawmakers.
00:23:48.000 They'll become CEOs.
00:23:49.000 They'll become decision makers.
00:23:51.000 They will become influential in American society. 0.87
00:23:54.000 And you'll have more people like Alexandria Acasio-Cortez or Elon Omar, where she says we want to dismantle the entire system. 0.76
00:24:01.000 We want to blow everything up. 0.99
00:24:02.000 Let's actually play that tape.
00:24:03.000 We said it previously. 1.00
00:24:04.000 She wants to dismantle the entire system.
00:24:06.000 I'm paraphrasing.
00:24:07.000 I don't have the exact wordage in front of me, but she says the essence of it.
00:24:10.000 Play tape.
00:24:11.000 As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality.
00:24:26.000 So we cannot stop at the criminal justice system.
00:24:30.000 We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.
00:24:37.000 We will have hundreds of elected officials that believe that if we are not serious about addressing root causes as to the decay and the downfall of the United States of America, the root causes are that we have not taught our young people our history properly.
00:24:52.000 We have not taught our young people to be proud of the United States of America.
00:24:56.000 Instead, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, all of them are in on it.
00:25:02.000 Some voice it more forcefully, some pretend to be moderates, but they're all different positions on a radical leftist Marxist team dedicated to the complete and total destruction of our country.
00:25:16.000 And I had a question that you guys can listen to on a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show last week where a young man said, Well, Charlie, I don't think the left wants to destroy the country.
00:25:23.000 And I think that's fine to say because he's probably talking about his friends.
00:25:28.000 And I broke it apart and I think it was a good back and forth.
00:25:31.000 But to go a level deeper, there is no way that you can support the idea that the left wants what's best for America if they want the statues to be torn down.
00:25:40.000 They don't want to teach our kids history and they want to continue the radical Marxist elements of every single aspect of American society.
00:25:49.000 Let's get to this question here.
00:25:51.000 This is Brett from Los Angeles.
00:25:53.000 Hey, Charlie, I know you say some very good things about conservatives and Republicans, but you do disagree with them sometimes.
00:25:58.000 That is true.
00:25:59.000 What is one issue that you think the Republican Party is on the wrong side of?
00:26:03.000 It's a great question.
00:26:04.000 I actually wanted to do a podcast on this, and I plan to do a podcast coming up on this.
00:26:08.000 The number one issue that I think Republicans fail on is the money in politics issue.
00:26:13.000 Now, this can be easily conflated with the Citizens United decision that said that there could be unlimited amounts of campaign contributions into federal elections.
00:26:21.000 That's not as big of an issue that I'm actually going to zero in on.
00:26:25.000 Instead, I'm talking about lobbyists directly contributing to congressional campaigns and congressional committees.
00:26:31.000 This is actually something that, believe it or not, Elon Omar, Alexandria Acasio-Cortez, Ayanna Presley, and Rashida Tlaib are on the right side of.
00:26:41.000 They have a PAC that they use, the Justice Democrats PAC.
00:26:46.000 And the disclaimer on the bottom of their email is that they do not take any money from federally registered lobbyists, that they do not take any money from any lobbyist that is registered as a FARA lobbyist, a foreign agent registration act.
00:27:01.000 I think that's what it stands for, lobbyist.
00:27:03.000 They don't take any money from fossil fuel industries or CEOs. 0.96
00:27:06.000 I think that's kind of silly, obviously.
00:27:08.000 But the point is this: if you're listening to this podcast and you're wondering why Republicans don't fight, if you're listening to this podcast and you ask yourself, why don't we have a wall?
00:27:18.000 Why has immigration not been fixed?
00:27:20.000 Why is it that we have not been able to fix some of the structural issues in our country?
00:27:24.000 Why are we borrowing a couple trillion dollars a year?
00:27:27.000 Why have we not been able to address the education system the way we need to? 0.99
00:27:33.000 Why have we not been able to bring our jobs back from China? 0.93
00:27:35.000 The answer more times than not is that your elected officials have been bought and paid for by sinister, malevolent, sometimes corporate interests, sometimes not corporate interests, but just lobbyists that are representing the worst aspects of American society. 0.64
00:27:49.000 And Republicans' reluctance and resistance to get on the right side of this issue is going to be electorally detrimental.
00:27:58.000 We already saw Congressman Matt Gates get on the right side of this at CPAC, and he's the only Republican to do so.
00:28:03.000 And I think he can go even farther, and we'll have him on our podcast to discuss this.
00:28:07.000 But he said he's not going to take any PAC money.
00:28:09.000 In fact, let's play some tape from that, from him at CPAC, where he made that announcement, play tape.
00:28:13.000 You know, in Washington, we hear a lot about fortunes, not so much about honor and sacredness.
00:28:22.000 This PAC donation process with the expectation of exchanging money for favors renders public service, what should be the noblest of professions, dangerously close to the oldest profession.
00:28:40.000 I've never turned tricks for Washington PACs, but as of this very moment, I will not pick up their money in the nightstand anymore.
00:28:54.000 I will never again accept a donation from a federal political action committee, not one red cent.
00:29:01.000 The American people are my one and only special interest.
00:29:08.000 So Congressman Gates was completely right there that you should not take any money from PACs because PACs basically have the most influence over the direct contribution to congressional candidates.
00:29:22.000 So I'm going to do an episode actually unpacking this in full, where we're just going to talk about how Republicans need to get on the right side of this.
00:29:28.000 But most establishment Republicans are perfectly happy taking money from the pharmaceutical companies, from the Chamber of Commerce, Cheap Labor Open Border Coalition, from sometimes teacher unions, from even some Republicans, some moderate Republicans, take money from organizations that are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party or not so affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.
00:29:49.000 You want to know why we haven't done anything against tech censorship?
00:29:52.000 It's because most of our politicians are bought and paid for by Google, Facebook, and some of these other massive social media companies spending tens of millions of dollars on public affairs every single year.
00:30:02.000 And Google in particular, they are so confident they will not be regulated by Congress because they have contributed to the correct people all throughout our government.
00:30:12.000 And that goes to another point.
00:30:14.000 I'm very firm on this.
00:30:16.000 I've talked about this in a previous episode of the Charlie Kirk show.
00:30:18.000 I'd love to have you guys email me.
00:30:20.000 I do not think that former members of Congress should ever be able to become lobbyists.
00:30:24.000 I don't think that lobbyists should be able to contribute to political campaigns.
00:30:27.000 And I don't think foreign governments should be able to hire American lobbyists.
00:30:31.000 I think all lobbying should be done between certain hours and a certain disclosed location that is made public to the American people after an allotted period of time, maybe 24 or 48 hours.
00:30:42.000 Once you see that happen, you'll start to see representatives actually do the right thing for their districts or for their states and for the country, not just the right thing for their lobbyist campaign contributors.
00:30:51.000 You want to know why Washington, D.C. will probably never hold China accountable the way they should.
00:30:57.000 It's because our representatives have been bought by companies that are reliant on the Chinese Communist Party and or on conglomerates that represent the Chinese Communist Party.
00:31:07.000 You want to know why we have not been able to cut the $500 million to Planned Parenthood that we send every single year, which Donald Trump has cut greatly.
00:31:16.000 Mostly it's because Planned Parenthood gives to both Republicans and Democrats.
00:31:20.000 Planned Parenthood, not all Republicans take the money to their credit, but plenty of Republicans have taken money from Planned Parenthood throughout the years, either directly or indirectly.
00:31:29.000 And you see this happen year over year.
00:31:31.000 And if you're frustrated and you wonder why you're losing your country, the root cause, see, everything we talk about on the Trello Kirk show is going down to root causes.
00:31:38.000 You listen to other podcasts at times and sometimes they say, oh, you know, Democrats bad, Republicans good.
00:31:44.000 Okay, I think that's an oversimplification.
00:31:45.000 I don't believe that.
00:31:46.000 I think that the major reason why our country is going in the wrong direction is Republicans have no spine.
00:31:52.000 They don't fight.
00:31:53.000 They rarely have courage.
00:31:54.000 And they're bought and paid for by the worst aspects of American society.
00:31:57.000 This whole thing of just always elevating Republicans as being the best thing ever is not correct.
00:32:01.000 Now, are they better than Democrats?
00:32:03.000 Of course they are.
00:32:04.000 But are they good for the country generally?
00:32:06.000 That's questionable.
00:32:08.000 And those are two completely distinct and different questions.
00:32:11.000 And so the issue that I think we are on the wrong side of more times than not as Republicans, every single time, basically, absent Matt Gates, is why are Republicans still taking money from lobbyists?
00:32:22.000 Better yet, why are Republicans taking money from federally registered lobbyists for foreign countries?
00:32:27.000 So if you have a federal lobbyist that is lobbying for a foreign country and that foreign country is paying the lobbyist and the lobbyist is contributing directly to someone's congressional campaign, how is that good for the republic?
00:32:42.000 How is that good for the political process?
00:32:44.000 Because if we're honest about how the process works in Washington, D.C., these politicians, they answer to their campaign contributors.
00:32:51.000 They just do.
00:32:52.000 And I know a lot of those campaign contributors that donate to some of these individuals, and a lot of them mean well.
00:32:57.000 In fact, a lot of them want what's best for America.
00:33:00.000 However, the ones that don't mean well, they give the most amount of money.
00:33:04.000 They have the best lobbyists and they push the hardest.
00:33:07.000 Those are the people that represent the pharmaceutical companies, that represent the cheap labor coalitions, that represent the military-industrial complex.
00:33:14.000 So if you want to know why Republicans haven't fought correctly, it's because we've been on the wrong side of this issue.
00:33:19.000 And I think we have to start challenging our lawmakers.
00:33:22.000 Go look up online.
00:33:22.000 If your congressperson takes money from federal registered lobbyists for companies that are, let's just say, unsavory, challenge them on that.
00:33:30.000 Write them a letter.
00:33:31.000 Say, why are you taking money from pharmaceutical companies and from lobbyists that represent them?
00:33:35.000 Why don't you represent our district?
00:33:38.000 Not all pharmaceutical companies are bad, but I'll tell you, most pharmaceutical companies are not doing the research and development that is needed.
00:33:45.000 They are more protecting their incumbency than ever before.
00:33:49.000 And I'm a free market guy, and I think that these pharmaceutical companies have way too much power.
00:33:53.000 I just do.
00:33:54.000 And I think that we need to get the FDA out of the way in certain cases so that you can have more competition.
00:33:59.000 And I also think that if you are marketing something that is chemically addictive to a human being, I think that you should be treated differently.
00:34:06.000 And that's basically what happens when the amount of, I think the over amount of medication that we have in our society does not make us more competitive, and it certainly does not make us more healthy.
00:34:17.000 And then you look at cheap labor, you look at the military-industrial.
00:34:20.000 This is an issue that if Republicans really want to save the country, they'll get on the right side of.
00:34:24.000 This is from Evan in Los Angeles.
00:34:26.000 Congratulations, Evan.
00:34:27.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:34:29.000 Hey, Charlie, as a conservative white man in Los Angeles, I'm always told that I can't have an opinion on something. 0.88
00:34:33.000 BLM Inc., you're white, just listen.
00:34:36.000 Abortion, you're a man, just listen. 0.93
00:34:37.000 However, why are they then allowed to tell me what I need to believe and what's wrong with my Christian faith? 1.00
00:34:43.000 They're not Christians. 0.85
00:34:44.000 So by their logic, aren't they unqualified to tell me what to believe or think? 0.96
00:34:48.000 Thanks, love the show, Evan say.
00:34:50.000 Well, Evan, the problem with your question is you assume that the left is coming from a logical position.
00:34:54.000 They're not.
00:34:55.000 The left comes from a Machiavellian amoral position more times than not, where they try to use their own wording and branding against you, but it can never be used against them.
00:35:06.000 So for BLM Inc., they are going into postmodern tribal politics that try to organize people on the color of their skin, not on the contents of their character, where they try to turn people against each other on tribal lines, where they try to turn white versus black, where they try to turn people against each other at all costs.
00:35:21.000 This is the Marxist way, tribal class warfare.
00:35:24.000 And unfortunately for them, middle class versus the rich or the poor versus the rich did not work out great.
00:35:31.000 They tried this out with Occupy Wall Street in 2011.
00:35:34.000 If you're listening to this podcast and you don't know what Occupy Wall Street is, I encourage you to look it up.
00:35:39.000 Occupy Wall Street was a movement that happened in Zuccotti Park in New York City, which was a Marxist, anti-capitalist movement post-financial crisis where they tried to turn people against each other based on wealth.
00:35:51.000 It did not work.
00:35:52.000 So now they're trying it based on race. 0.98
00:35:54.000 It's working.
00:35:56.000 Because in America, there's nothing wrong with being rich. 0.55
00:35:59.000 However, they propagandized us to believe there's something wrong with being white.
00:36:04.000 That is even more dangerous than the traditional bourgeoisie versus the proletariat struggle, oppressor versus oppressed struggle that they teach us in the typical Marxist paradigm.
00:36:14.000 So we must reject it wholeheartedly and completely.
00:36:17.000 We must repudiate these awful and backwards ideas.
00:36:20.000 And this whole idea is like, well, I have my truth.
00:36:23.000 Well, then shouldn't we as Christians have our own truth?
00:36:26.000 And why are you telling what the Bible says?
00:36:27.000 Because you probably don't know it.
00:36:28.000 But this goes back to this whole idea.
00:36:30.000 Evan, even though you are a Christian, that doesn't necessarily mean that someone who's not a Christian can't also understand Christianity.
00:36:38.000 No individual based on their own personal experience can have a better license to a macro argument.
00:36:45.000 Now, of course, you can have individual stories that do matter and they should contribute to the national conversation.
00:36:51.000 However, when you're trying to make public policy or you're trying to make big philosophical arguments, any single person, Christian, Jew, Muslim, atheist, should be able to make an argument about what Christianity actually says because the text is there for anyone's reading.
00:37:07.000 Now, trust me, that's a lot easier said than done.
00:37:10.000 You have all sorts of different denominations.
00:37:12.000 You have all sorts of different interpretations.
00:37:13.000 You have all sorts of different theological ways of interpreting the Bible.
00:37:18.000 However, the point is this, there's no such thing as my truth.
00:37:21.000 Especially there's no such thing as my truth when we talk about something as important as religion, as Christianity, as racial issues, and the Constitution.
00:37:31.000 There is just truth.
00:37:33.000 You don't get to read the United States Constitution and say, well, my truth says that this document is racist, bigoted, homophobic, should be completely obliterated and allows me, because it says for the general welfare, it means that I get a mansion.
00:37:47.000 That's an untrue reading to a universal document, and your truth is completely and totally irrelevant.
00:37:53.000 This has been great, everybody.
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