The Charlie Kirk Show - April 12, 2021


Ask Charlie Anything 58: Two Reason Why I Have Hope


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Two reasons why I m optimistic about the future of this country: Why I think we re going to win the next election, and What s going to happen in 2020, and why it s a good idea to have a Women s Leadership Summit.

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:00.000 Today on the Charlie Kirk show, it's Ask Me Anything Monday.
00:00:03.000 I give you two specific reasons why I'm optimistic and hopeful.
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00:01:07.000 And our mission is really simple.
00:01:09.000 We believe our country is in the wrong trajectory.
00:01:11.000 We want to change her trajectory by reaching young people with the truth, all people with the truth, with two podcasts a day, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, giving 300 speeches a year.
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00:01:25.000 And if you guys feel moved by that, and this podcast has impacted your life in any way, and you say, you know what, Charlie, I hear you.
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00:01:36.000 In fact, I learned so much from our listeners.
00:01:38.000 We have this monthly Zoom call, and I feel like it's a learning lesson for me.
00:01:42.000 These people come up with these amazing ideas.
00:01:45.000 They say, Charlie, how long until we have woke passports?
00:01:48.000 I said, that's an amazing idea.
00:01:51.000 I said, that's so true.
00:01:52.000 This other guy came up with an idea.
00:01:54.000 He said, the Major League Baseball will call.
00:01:57.000 He said, don't you have to provide an ID.
00:01:58.000 I learned Anthony from New York.
00:02:00.000 He's a great guy.
00:02:01.000 I see all of his emails.
00:02:02.000 By the way, I read all your emails.
00:02:03.000 I don't respond to them all, and I'm touched by them.
00:02:06.000 And so anyway, if you guys want to get in on that monthly call, it's a lot of fun.
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00:02:13.000 I am moved and I am blessed by all of you that get behind us and do that at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:02:21.000 And as always, Turning Point USA, maybe you want to go to our young women's leadership summit, tpusa.com/slash ywls.
00:02:27.000 Two reasons why I'm optimistic.
00:02:29.000 I get specific.
00:02:30.000 Was America's founding like every other country?
00:02:33.000 Why won't Joe Biden do a State of the Union address?
00:02:35.000 And should we keep on spending four and eight or sending four and aid around the planet?
00:02:38.000 That and so much more. 0.84
00:02:39.000 Buckle up.
00:02:40.000 Here we go.
00:02:41.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:04:13.000 Hey, everybody, happy Monday.
00:04:15.000 Big week ahead.
00:04:17.000 Also, I want to share some news.
00:04:19.000 We are now live every single day on WABC in New York City, 77 on your radio dials.
00:04:27.000 It was a home of Rush Limbaugh for quite some time.
00:04:30.000 AM 77.
00:04:31.000 It's a huge honor.
00:04:33.000 And so we still deliver this podcast content for you two times a day.
00:04:38.000 On top of that, I'm also doing two hours of radio every single day.
00:04:43.000 And so if you guys are in major cities across the country, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York, ever in the car, you might be able to catch me on radio as well.
00:04:52.000 But the podcast is the best.
00:04:53.000 And so I want to just share that news with you.
00:04:57.000 And for all of you that support us at charliekirk.com slash support.
00:05:00.000 That's why I am up very late right now on Sunday evening getting the AMA done for Monday morning to make sure that you have your questions answered.
00:05:11.000 This weekend, I got some pretty bad news.
00:05:14.000 Sunday afternoon, a dear friend of mine and mentor, someone who was a very generous donor to Turning Point USA, had given millions of dollars to our cause.
00:05:24.000 But more than that, he was such a clear thinker and he was sharp.
00:05:29.000 He was tough, loved his country, but someone that I truly adored and someone we got along so well.
00:05:35.000 Tom Patrick, he passed away this past weekend.
00:05:39.000 So that's been tough to deal with.
00:05:40.000 I know a lot of you are dealing in many different seasons of loss.
00:05:44.000 Tom was fighting with a lung condition for a couple years and he fought very, very hard.
00:05:50.000 He actually helped run Merrill Lynch back in its heyday in Chicago and New York, did some of the great merger and acquisition deals.
00:05:58.000 He taught me more about politics, real politics, than almost anyone else.
00:06:03.000 He was so wise.
00:06:05.000 He was able to ask the correct questions and he trained me from a young age.
00:06:10.000 And so miss you a lot, Tom.
00:06:12.000 But he has a great grandson, someone who's very special, and just wanted to share that with you.
00:06:18.000 And it's been tough.
00:06:19.000 So if I'm a little meandering here or whatever, that would be why.
00:06:24.000 But this one's for you, Tom.
00:06:26.000 All right, first question.
00:06:27.000 Blake, hey, Charlie, love the show and what you're doing for the country.
00:06:29.000 My question is about the State of the Union address, or in this case, the traditional address to the joint session of Congress for a first-year president.
00:06:36.000 How are Joe Biden and his handlers getting away with avoiding it?
00:06:39.000 Where is the media and their push for transparency and accountability?
00:06:43.000 Is there any reason not to believe that they are avoiding it because Joe Biden is incapable of presenting a coherent thought?
00:06:49.000 Thank you for your thought or your insights.
00:06:52.000 Blake Hendersonville, North Carolina.
00:06:53.000 Well, congratulations, Blake.
00:06:54.000 You win a signed copy of the MAGA Doctrine.
00:06:57.000 And thank you for sending in your question.
00:07:00.000 You didn't show that you were subscribed to the Charlie Kirk show, but I'll let this one pass.
00:07:04.000 So, Blake, it's a terrific question.
00:07:06.000 And Joe Biden is not constitutionally bound to give a State of the Union address until next year.
00:07:14.000 Whether or not he gives a State of the Union address remains whether or not the House will invite him.
00:07:20.000 Technically, the House of Representatives invites the President to give an address, and then the President accepts to go address a joint session of Congress.
00:07:28.000 However, President Trump gave a joint session of Congress address back early in his presidency that was just called an address to Congress.
00:07:35.000 This is part of a growing theme that Joe Biden is willing to break the customs and the traditions that predated him if he is not totally pressured to do so.
00:07:47.000 There is no push for transparency.
00:07:49.000 There is no media that is actually asking tough questions of Joe Biden.
00:07:55.000 In fact, it's the exact opposite.
00:07:57.000 We have a media that is acting like the communications arm of the White House.
00:08:01.000 We have a media that is not investigating Joe Biden or investigating anyone in the White House.
00:08:05.000 Instead, we have a media that is basically publishing the press releases of Gen Saki and Joe Biden.
00:08:12.000 Now, what's the significance of this?
00:08:14.000 It's annoying, it's frustrating, but it's also really bad for the country.
00:08:18.000 If a media is not asking the correct questions, if the media is not putting together freedom of information requests, if a media is not seeing where the money is coming from, then corruption and tyranny will run wild.
00:08:34.000 Thomas Jefferson famously said, if I had to choose between a government without newspapers and a newspaper without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter.
00:08:44.000 Meaning that Thomas Jefferson would much rather have newspapers without a government to cover than a government without newspapers.
00:08:52.000 Now, some would say, oh, well, we still have newspapers.
00:08:54.000 No, what Thomas Jefferson's really saying is a press that holds the government accountable.
00:09:01.000 A press that asks the questions, a press that gets in front of a president and says, so why haven't you visited the southern border?
00:09:08.000 How many people are crossing every day?
00:09:10.000 Do you know those numbers?
00:09:11.000 What about the terrorists that have actually crossed into our country?
00:09:14.000 Why are people from Yemen and Armenia coming into America?
00:09:18.000 Why do you keep on hiring lobbyists even though you said you wouldn't?
00:09:22.000 Why are you pushing multi-trillion dollar infrastructure packages when we're on pace to borrow $5 trillion this year?
00:09:29.000 Are you worried about inflation?
00:09:31.000 Why do you put Kamala Harris in charge of the southern border?
00:09:34.000 Have you talked to your son about the federal investigation he's under?
00:09:37.000 Have you talked to the current attorney general under that criminal federal investigation or about that criminal federal investigation?
00:09:43.000 What's Merrick Garland's stance on that?
00:09:45.000 Are you going to pack the courts?
00:09:46.000 Do you think D.C. and Puerto Rico should be a state?
00:09:49.000 These questions and so many more would be asked hourly by the press in front of Donald Trump's White House.
00:09:57.000 Instead, we get questions such as, so tell us about the restaurant that Kamala Harris visited recently.
00:10:04.000 You know, we joke around and say it's a lapdog media, but it's actually very dangerous because the theft and the plunder of our country is happening now in plain sight, and the media is covering for it.
00:10:14.000 The media is not covering any of the actual crises that's happening in America.
00:10:19.000 Small business is declining, the mental health issues happening in our country.
00:10:23.000 Instead, the activist press is enjoying the fact that they won.
00:10:29.000 They have a certain worldview, and they are happy.
00:10:32.000 They are pleased.
00:10:33.000 They are content that they no longer have to cover this government.
00:10:37.000 As Thomas Jefferson, again, said, if I had to choose between a government without newspapers, which is basically what we have, we have a government where no one is holding them accountable.
00:10:44.000 Now, we have this program.
00:10:47.000 We have Fox News.
00:10:48.000 We have Tucker Carlson.
00:10:49.000 We have a couple other very courageous people out there, but we do not have institutions.
00:10:55.000 The Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today.
00:10:59.000 Now, what conservatives should have done a couple decades ago is conservatives should have bought a bunch of newspapers and made sure they did not have an aggressive leftward tilt.
00:11:10.000 There's a great story that actually came out this weekend, and I've been predicting this for quite some time.
00:11:16.000 And I'm not the only one that has been saying this, but it's very important, which is, why buy a yacht when you can buy a newspaper in the New York Times?
00:11:24.000 And my fiancé who's listening to me say these words is smiling because I've been warning against this for quite some time, that buying media companies is the new purchase of the ruling class.
00:11:35.000 Ah, I don't need a yacht or another private jet or another 20,000 square foot home in Aspen, Colorado.
00:11:41.000 No, no, no.
00:11:42.000 I'm going to go buy the New York Times.
00:11:43.000 Think about how helpful that is for a rich person.
00:11:46.000 And someone like Jeff Bezos, you already have six mansions.
00:11:50.000 You already have private security everywhere you go.
00:11:52.000 You fly private.
00:11:53.000 You eat the best of the food.
00:11:54.000 Everything you can imagine is yours.
00:11:57.000 But the one thing that might keep you up at night is a bad news story.
00:11:59.000 The one thing that might keep you up at night is a journalist, a muckraker, someone diving deep into your story.
00:12:05.000 So why not go buy a newspaper?
00:12:07.000 Why not go buy a media institution?
00:12:10.000 Why not go buy a channel of communication?
00:12:13.000 That's why the Washington Post, where it says democracy dies in darkness, they're not looking into Jeff Bezos.
00:12:18.000 In fact, we now have a media that is for sale, which is so hilarious to me because the Democrats and the socialists of the Democrats, they always used to warn endlessly about powerful people influencing our media, which is why they wanted to build national public radio, NPR, taxpayer-funded, government-subsidized media communication.
00:12:40.000 Same with PBS, public broadcasting stations.
00:12:43.000 Well, we now know the tilt that they have.
00:12:45.000 They are more liberal than the New York Times because the people that were staffed by it are no different than the people that staff our universities.
00:12:53.000 And so to go back to the question of, is this just another example of a lack of transparency?
00:12:58.000 Absolutely it is.
00:13:00.000 Joe Biden has done one press conference, one press conference since he has become president.
00:13:06.000 They are trying to run the country in the shadows.
00:13:09.000 Their new strategy is to put a blumbering, incoherent man in front of a cameras once a quarter or once or twice a year and hope that Americans want to go back to sleep.
00:13:23.000 And I understand a lot of you listening to this, and maybe not if you're listening to this, but a lot of your friends are exhausted.
00:13:31.000 They say, I'm done.
00:13:33.000 Enough of this politics stuff.
00:13:35.000 The noise, the division, the confusion.
00:13:41.000 You understand that's all a strategy, right?
00:13:43.000 You understand the Democrats are using that.
00:13:46.000 The left, the Bidenites.
00:13:48.000 I've never heard anyone say it, call them the Bidenites.
00:13:50.000 I guess that's what they are.
00:13:51.000 The Bidenites.
00:13:52.000 Erica likes it.
00:13:54.000 The Bidenites.
00:13:57.000 You know why they're doing this?
00:14:01.000 They are trying to waterboard an entire civilization.
00:14:06.000 Now, waterboarding is a graphic example, but it's a true one.
00:14:10.000 Waterboarding is what was very controversial back in the early 2000s after 9-11, where we used to put terrorists' head underwater to try to get information out of them until they cried mercy.
00:14:22.000 They cried, uncle.
00:14:23.000 They said, no more.
00:14:24.000 They said, I'm done.
00:14:26.000 What is it going to take?
00:14:28.000 There's so much noise, and Joe Biden's trying to create the noise through the activist press and the confusion and the media.
00:14:36.000 He wants people to disengage.
00:14:38.000 He wants you not to care.
00:14:41.000 And the press is helping him.
00:14:43.000 If people actually knew what was happening in our government right now, it would make the BLM Incorporated protests look like a ripple. 0.54
00:14:55.000 But people are enjoying not caring.
00:14:59.000 People are enjoying their vacation.
00:15:01.000 They're enjoying their lack of responsibility because no one's demanding it.
00:15:06.000 So everywhere I go across the country, I had a great speech this last weekend at Dream City Church, and we were in Vegas last week.
00:15:12.000 We were in San Jose last week.
00:15:13.000 Thank you for those of you that came out and supported us and came out.
00:15:17.000 We had 1,500 people in Silicon Valley.
00:15:20.000 I encourage you to listen to that episode yesterday.
00:15:23.000 And if you want more episodes like that, please consider supporting us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:15:28.000 My main message is not just don't give up.
00:15:30.000 That sounds very cliche.
00:15:34.000 Instead, it's they want you to give up.
00:15:37.000 See, that's a different message.
00:15:39.000 The message is they're counting on it.
00:15:41.000 They are doing communication strategies.
00:15:43.000 They are implementing certain things in our media to try to say, you done?
00:15:49.000 Can you tap out?
00:15:51.000 Their fundamental transformation and takeover is only complete when you give up.
00:15:56.000 So, the question about the State of the Union is a really good one.
00:15:58.000 The deeper point, though, is that there's no pressure on him because the media has decided they enjoy what's happening.
00:16:04.000 Now, the question is, and the reason I brought up the billionaires purchasing media is: is this profitable?
00:16:11.000 The answer is no, unless they're subsidized by the ruling class.
00:16:13.000 See, The Washington Post, they don't care about profits.
00:16:16.000 They have the richest man on the planet that will cover their $20 million shortfall every single year.
00:16:22.000 They have the richest man on the planet worth $15 million for a couple reporters to go investigate Trump, but of course, not investigating Amazon.
00:16:30.000 Isn't that interesting?
00:16:31.000 When was the last time there was a real expose done on Jeff Bezos?
00:16:35.000 I'm talking about a serious piece of journalism.
00:16:38.000 When was the last time there was a real piece of journalism done on Google?
00:16:44.000 A real piece of journalism.
00:16:46.000 I'm not talking about a press release or, no, I'm talking about talking to former employees.
00:16:50.000 I'm talking about getting in the weeds of Google's monopolistic ambitions and aims.
00:16:55.000 When's the last time that was done for Microsoft? 0.90
00:16:58.000 No, because the ruling class purchases the media in a variety of ways. 0.73
00:17:03.000 They either own them or Google spends millions of dollars of advertising with these companies.
00:17:09.000 So they go to the New York Times and they'll sit down with their ad department and they'll say, hey, we're going to go purchase $15 million of ads a year in the New York Times.
00:17:16.000 And they'll walk down the street and say hi to the editor in a wink and a nod.
00:17:19.000 And he'll tell his investigative reporters to instead go after Mike Lindell than Google.
00:17:24.000 Let me ask you a question: who's a bigger threat to Western civilization?
00:17:28.000 Mike Lindell or Google?
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00:17:39.000 The point is that the New York Times has convinced you that Mike Lindell is a bigger threat than Google.
00:17:45.000 Maybe Mike Lindell should start buying advertisements in the New York Times.
00:17:48.000 They'd stop going after him.
00:17:50.000 I don't think they'd accept his dollars, though.
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00:19:13.000 Hey, Charlie, Eric here from Pennsylvania.
00:19:16.000 My professor is telling me there is nothing unique about the American founding.
00:19:22.000 In essence, can you help explain to me why America's founding was different and the unique approach it had?
00:19:28.000 Thanks so much.
00:19:29.000 Well, Eric, you did everything right.
00:19:30.000 You went a signed copy of the MAGA doctrine.
00:19:33.000 I was just listening to some comments from Thomas West from Hillsdale College.
00:19:38.000 Terrific.
00:19:39.000 And we spend two hours a day, phones off, just studying and learning.
00:19:43.000 So I'm able to clarify the news of the day for all of you and answer your questions about this.
00:19:47.000 So it's actually very opportune that this question came across, and I selected it basically and mainly and partially for that reason, I should say.
00:19:58.000 America's founding was different because it was liberty-seeking people deciding to push back against tyranny, comfort, safetyism to go to something uncertain.
00:20:11.000 The American Revolution was not about tea.
00:20:13.000 It was not even about taxes.
00:20:15.000 It was about consent.
00:20:18.000 The American Revolution was about consent.
00:20:20.000 The American Revolution was a moral claim that you can't rule me without my permission.
00:20:26.000 You understand most of the rest of the world has no grasp of that whatsoever.
00:20:31.000 The American Revolution and the Constitution that followed it was about making it hard and nearly impossible to take people's rights away.
00:20:41.000 Your right to life, your right to liberty, and your right to own property.
00:20:44.000 We talk about it as the pursuit of happiness.
00:20:46.000 You go back to John Locke.
00:20:47.000 It was the right to property.
00:20:50.000 You go deep into the U.S. Constitution.
00:20:52.000 It's a beautiful document.
00:20:53.000 What is beautiful?
00:20:55.000 That which is perfected in being.
00:20:57.000 That's what beauty is.
00:20:59.000 We're going to do an entire podcast on beauty soon.
00:21:02.000 Because I don't think we talk about that enough.
00:21:04.000 In a world where you say there's no difference than right and wrong, then is there anything between beauty and something that isn't beautiful?
00:21:10.000 Some would call it ugly.
00:21:11.000 I don't love that word.
00:21:13.000 But that which is not beautiful.
00:21:15.000 And I don't mean beauty in the terms of what we talk about on movies or Netflix.
00:21:20.000 No, I'm talking about a beautiful piece of music, a beautiful piece of art.
00:21:25.000 Anyway, we'll get into that in a future podcast.
00:21:28.000 But the Constitution is a beautiful document.
00:21:30.000 And in the Constitution, it clearly says that if you are to be deprived of your money, your property, or your freedom, the government must make the case against you.
00:21:40.000 That's the presumption of innocence.
00:21:42.000 You're free.
00:21:43.000 Now, if you screw it up, there's a way that we could take it away from you.
00:21:46.000 You're free.
00:21:47.000 And if you start to take other people's liberty away from them, and that's basically what a crime is.
00:21:52.000 Here's a good question to ask your fifth grader.
00:21:54.000 What's a crime?
00:21:56.000 They'd say, well, it's doing something wrong.
00:21:58.000 That's not always a crime.
00:22:00.000 For example, lying is not a crime.
00:22:03.000 What's a crime?
00:22:05.000 Taking someone else's natural rights away.
00:22:09.000 Someone's property away.
00:22:11.000 Carjacking, that's their property.
00:22:12.000 That's a natural right. 0.99
00:22:13.000 Your right to own property.
00:22:14.000 The ultimate unthinkable is taking someone's life away.
00:22:20.000 How about someone's liberty away?
00:22:22.000 You go break someone's leg, that's illegal.
00:22:25.000 There's other types of crime as well.
00:22:27.000 Lying to a federal agent is illegal, and it should be.
00:22:31.000 But there are things that are wrong that are not illegal, nor should they ever become illegal.
00:22:36.000 That would be probably an over-enforcement of the security state, mostly from peer-to-peer type stuff. 0.94
00:22:43.000 For example, if you were at a dinner party and all of a sudden you started acting like a jerk, started making a lot of noise or talking too much, that's not illegal, but it's not necessarily right. 0.97
00:22:53.000 So that's a big difference. 0.98
00:22:54.000 Now, let me be very clear.
00:22:56.000 Every single one of our laws is that which is wrong, but also a crime is that which is taking people's natural rights away.
00:23:03.000 That is such a clear way to articulate it.
00:23:07.000 That's not an exhaustive definition, but that was how the founding fathers viewed law enforcement.
00:23:13.000 The founding fathers viewed law enforcement and laws as equal protection and due process.
00:23:20.000 What is equal protection?
00:23:22.000 What comes from a biblical principle that neither slave nor Greek nor Jew, we are all one in Jesus Christ, that the poor man has the same rights in front of a judge and a jury as someone who is wealthy.
00:23:34.000 And due process.
00:23:35.000 What is due process?
00:23:36.000 Due process is a deliberate Where you cannot be deprived of your money, your property, your freedom without that system finding you necessary to be deprived of that.
00:23:48.000 So the founding fathers created a system.
00:23:51.000 And actually, I'm going to get to the title of this episode of the two things that give me hope right now.
00:24:00.000 There's all this depression.
00:24:01.000 And it's, by the way, I have more than two things, but I want to focus on these two things.
00:24:05.000 I like lists, by the way.
00:24:07.000 If you notice, our episodes have four of this and three of that.
00:24:10.000 Someone asked me, Charlie, why do you like lists?
00:24:12.000 I say, I am doing a hat tip to the first ever listicle maker, God, the Ten Commandments.
00:24:18.000 Is that not a listical?
00:24:21.000 I like lists.
00:24:22.000 They're easy to remember.
00:24:22.000 You can go through them.
00:24:24.000 Anyway, two things that give me hope.
00:24:27.000 I'm going to get to that in a second.
00:24:29.000 But the Constitution is a document that is supposed to allow your natural rights.
00:24:34.000 There was a renaissance of natural rights in the 1710s in our country, mainly thanks to John Locke, where people who were Protestant Christians, Bible believers, and there were others that were not, of course, but that was the main belief system in the country, started to ask really good questions.
00:24:51.000 Who am I?
00:24:51.000 Why am I here?
00:24:52.000 Who's in charge?
00:24:53.000 Can I do whatever I want to do?
00:24:55.000 Why can't I steal my neighbor's stuff?
00:24:57.000 How do we exercise our own system of government?
00:24:59.000 And the founding fathers wrestled with this.
00:25:02.000 And Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfield and the founding pastors of our country, which, by the way, is a term we should talk about more.
00:25:08.000 There should be the founding fathers and the founding pastors.
00:25:11.000 The founding pastors of our country started to wrestle with these questions and instruct their citizenry to demand more.
00:25:19.000 Once you started to demand more, this idea of a nation came and they said, wait a second, we're more than just a bunch of colonies that are here to go make King George rich.
00:25:28.000 We are freedom-loving, independent people.
00:25:31.000 We can handle liberty.
00:25:32.000 And that's the thing that's tough.
00:25:33.000 I talked about this at Dream City Church, and not everyone can handle liberty.
00:25:38.000 It's really hard for a society to handle liberty.
00:25:43.000 You need education.
00:25:44.000 You need values.
00:25:45.000 You need ethics.
00:25:45.000 You need a church that is functioning.
00:25:48.000 You need entrepreneurs.
00:25:49.000 You need politicians that aren't corrupt.
00:25:52.000 You hopefully have some form of local government.
00:25:53.000 And the fact that America's lasted this long is pretty incredible.
00:25:57.000 Liberty is tough.
00:25:59.000 That's why I'm going to get to the point of why I'm optimistic.
00:26:02.000 I'll get to that in a second.
00:26:03.000 But was America's founding just like every other country?
00:26:06.000 America is exceptional.
00:26:08.000 In this podcast, I would not do it enough justice to say we're the first country ever to be founded on freedom and a declaration thereof.
00:26:16.000 The declaration is written like a legal document, submitted to King George.
00:26:19.000 It very well could have been our death certificate, but it was our birth certificate.
00:26:24.000 Half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were students of divinity.
00:26:29.000 Almost every single signer of the Declaration were Bible-believing men that wanted to be able to be in charge of their own life.
00:26:37.000 Self-determination is what the founding was about.
00:26:40.000 Not being controlled.
00:26:42.000 There are three types of social contract theory.
00:26:44.000 We've gone through this before, and I hope that some of you have written this down or you've taught your kids about this, or maybe I've inspired you to read more about these things.
00:26:52.000 And I try not to get too intellectual here.
00:26:54.000 Happy to if there's people that have questions about that.
00:26:56.000 If you guys ever see me at events, but I also want to keep this near the ABC so that everyone's able to digest it.
00:27:03.000 But the three types of social contract theory: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
00:27:07.000 What is social contract theory?
00:27:09.000 A partnership, an agreement that you have with your neighbor to decide what government is going to be.
00:27:14.000 So Thomas Hobbes wrote the Leviathan.
00:27:17.000 He said that human beings in the state of nature, it's nasty, brutish, and short.
00:27:23.000 He observed the English Civil War and he saw people tear each other apart.
00:27:28.000 I actually tend to agree with Thomas Hobbes' observation of human nature.
00:27:32.000 It's a biblical view of human nature.
00:27:35.000 However, Thomas Hobbes' conclusion was not so good.
00:27:39.000 He said, since human beings are so terrible with each other, they need a dictator.
00:27:46.000 Many of the 20th century leaders, Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao, they never said this publicly, but that's how they justified their power grab.
00:27:56.000 People are so bad, they need me in charge to be able to regulate their behavior.
00:28:01.000 Then Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who's closest to an American leftist that you might have living near you or teaching your children or teaching you, which is the idea of heaven on earth, utopia, a vision that we can create something beyond earth.
00:28:15.000 In fact, we can do better than the angels.
00:28:18.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the social contract theorist, he preferred the primitive over the civilized, the infant over the adult.
00:28:24.000 In fact, he preferred the adulteress over the loyal spouse.
00:28:28.000 Here's an interesting question for you.
00:28:30.000 What was the second best-selling book in Europe in the 1800s?
00:28:35.000 Number one was the Bible.
00:28:36.000 Number two, and we'll look at the title.
00:28:38.000 I don't remember the title.
00:28:39.000 It was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's romantic novel, talking glowingly about adultery. 0.50
00:28:46.000 Jean-Jacques Rousseau had such an impact on European culture that if you go to Europe, today they have an adultery culture in Europe.
00:28:55.000 They do. 0.90
00:28:56.000 It's well known. 0.99
00:28:57.000 They have a mistress culture in Europe. 1.00
00:29:00.000 It makes people in America your skin crawl. 1.00
00:29:04.000 And the book was Julie or The New Hello, which is a French book, 1761, changed Europe forever.
00:29:12.000 Okay, that was Girousau.
00:29:13.000 He hated commercial society.
00:29:14.000 That's your leftist.
00:29:15.000 Then there's Jean Locke.
00:29:16.000 John Locke was a social contract theorist who rejected all that.
00:29:20.000 He said, no, man in a state of nature deserves to be free.
00:29:23.000 A moral claim to liberty.
00:29:25.000 A moral claim to freedom, to property.
00:29:30.000 You have consciousness.
00:29:31.000 You have ambition.
00:29:32.000 You have desire.
00:29:33.000 And you're made in God's image.
00:29:35.000 Those are the three different types of social contract theorists.
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00:30:33.000 I want to get to the two reasons why I'm optimistic because Holly from Indiana and Andy from Texas and so many other people are saying, Charlie, why are you so optimistic?
00:30:43.000 Let me give you two reasons.
00:30:45.000 Two reasons.
00:30:46.000 And you can tell your friends this.
00:30:48.000 Share this episode with your friends.
00:30:49.000 We've covered a lot in a short period of time.
00:30:52.000 Two reasons why I'm optimistic.
00:30:54.000 Number one, there are differences between states right now.
00:31:00.000 Not every part of America is equally as bad.
00:31:04.000 Florida is thriving and open with a courageous governor.
00:31:08.000 New York is shuttered and closed with a corrupt governor under scandal.
00:31:13.000 The differences of states show you that we are not all subject to a centralized governing authority under Joe Biden.
00:31:22.000 That states can still have some self-determination.
00:31:25.000 That's a really good thing.
00:31:27.000 That should give you a glimmer of hope that we are not all under the edict or the centralized government authority of one man.
00:31:36.000 That the states created the federal government, that the federal government didn't create the states.
00:31:40.000 And the second reason why I am optimistic is the Constitution.
00:31:44.000 The more I study the Constitution, the more I realize how hard their revolution is going to be in just one election cycle.
00:31:50.000 The Constitution intentionally makes it hard, almost impossible, to take our God-granted rights away.
00:31:57.000 It slows everything down, as we talked about with the Joe Manchin episode a couple previously.
00:32:02.000 I encourage you to check it out.
00:32:04.000 The fact that certain states are booming and thriving, happy and prosperous with balanced budgets, and others are not, should give you hope that there is still a state-based model that is working in our country, and states still have a fair amount of power in our country.
00:32:19.000 That's a really good thing that we have not eroded all of our states' rights.
00:32:22.000 Now, anyone who talks about states' rights, immediately, the left will say, oh, you just want to go back to civil rights or the era before civil rights where it's just segregation, which is just nonsense.
00:32:33.000 There have been so many reforms that have started in the states that have been positive for our country.
00:32:39.000 So many that spread like wildfire.
00:32:42.000 That a states-based system is one of the few reasons why America has some more staying power than Belgium or France, Nicaragua, Japan, the Federation of States, the United States of America.
00:32:57.000 We cannot forget our states-based system and the Constitution.
00:33:01.000 The tyrants and the despots, the dictators and the people that wish us harm, they're going to be running into some judges appointed by President Trump that are all of a sudden going to look at the Constitution and say, you can't do that.
00:33:14.000 You're not allowed to do that.
00:33:15.000 I'm striking this down.
00:33:18.000 Our courts with the Constitution are one of the few things we have left in our country.
00:33:24.000 One of the last things that we have is a firewall and a guardian of our liberty and our self-representative government.
00:33:32.000 The Constitution was not written for the times.
00:33:35.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:33:40.000 One last question here.
00:33:41.000 Sydney from Vero Beach, we get some emails from her.
00:33:43.000 Charlie, what is the basis of providing foreign aid in light of our astronomical national debt?
00:33:48.000 There is no basis at all, except for the fact that our leaders get kickbacks and favors, both internationally and domestically, to give away your tax dollars and leverage your future children or generations' money and capital to go give it halfway around the world for people that do not share our values, that have no national security interest at all whatsoever.
00:34:09.000 There is no basis, and we should talk about that more.
00:34:12.000 That we should not give a dollar of federal aid, foreign federal aid, as long as Americans are out of work, our borders are wide open, and we can't even balance our own budget.
00:34:23.000 Email us your questions, everybody.
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00:34:30.000 Check out Turning Point USA.
00:34:32.000 As always, if you're a high school student, get involved.
00:34:34.000 If you're a college student, get involved.
00:34:35.000 If you're a parent, go to tpusa.com and look at ways that you can get involved.
00:34:40.000 We have our young women's leadership summit coming up.
00:34:42.000 We want to pack it up.
00:34:44.000 tpusa.com slash ywls.
00:34:47.000 My fiancé, soon-to-be wife, will be speaking there.
00:34:50.000 That'll be great.
00:34:52.000 tpusa.com slash ywls. 1.00
00:34:54.000 Yes, only women are allowed. 0.60
00:34:57.000 Men, you are not allowed to change your gender to go. 0.86
00:34:59.000 Sorry.
00:35:00.000 And so we have our student action summit in July, and that will be something that everyone can come to, tpusa.com.
00:35:07.000 You guys should just check it once or twice a day anyway.
00:35:09.000 We're updating it more and more often.
00:35:11.000 We have some big announcements coming there.
00:35:13.000 Love hearing from you, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:15.000 And God bless all of you that email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:19.000 God bless you guys.
00:35:20.000 Let's have a great week.
00:35:21.000 Make it a good one.
00:35:22.000 Talk to you soon.