Ask Charlie Anything 78: How Did Charlie's Parents Instill Conservative Values? What Happens if Joe Biden Is Impeached? How to Start Home Schooling and MUCH MORE
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00:02:25.000Thank you for your service to our great country.
00:02:28.000Look, the problem with what's happening in Afghanistan is the way we got out with no conditions at all whatsoever.
00:02:38.000And the strategy of the current government and the regime of the United States is somehow putting forward a moral equivalent of the Taliban who kill Christians and rip out their tongues, subjugate women, marry teenagers with any of our other allies or partners around the world.
00:03:01.000This was done because Joe Biden wanted to say on September 11th that he ended the war.
00:03:06.000Now, that sounds good, but anyone who has ever been in consequential decision making knows that you do not start with this desired object of the photo op and work backwards.
00:03:18.000You see, Joe Biden had photo op foreign policy.
00:03:22.000He wanted to be able to have a photo op at 9-11 and hang a wreath there and say, I ended the war.
00:03:31.000The point is that he started with what he thought was the political win and then tried to craft the circumstances on the ground to fit that political win.
00:03:41.000And in reality, it should be the exact opposite.
00:03:43.000You see, what's happening on the ground?
00:03:45.000And so now I'm watching video of people wearing American fatigues and uniforms with our weapons that are Taliban with our night vision goggles walking through airports, walking down the street.
00:03:59.000And we gave these weapons voluntarily.
00:04:12.000But what a disaster and a humiliation for what just happened in Afghanistan of so many Americans that sacrificed so much.
00:04:21.000And then we hand over weapons and money, $85 billion in weapons to the Taliban who killed Americans and that we were at war with for many years.
00:05:15.000When that month was up, he put the brakes on and said, oh, no, we can't do any of that because of COVID.
00:05:22.000And I just wanted to get your take on that.
00:05:24.000Well, first, thank you so much for your call and thank you for that verse.
00:05:28.000And so, look, I use the model for the pastors of how you should run a church.
00:05:34.000Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Joe Pettick, Pastor Juergen, Pastor Frank Ramseur from Chattanooga, Ken Graves, Pastor Cody from Grand Rapids.
00:05:46.000These are amazing pastors that have been engaged in the community and they have been feeding the hungry.
00:05:55.000They have been tenderly looking after the disadvantaged in their community while also proclaiming moral truth from the scriptures and not allowing secular narratives to seep into the church and also saying to their congregation, here is what is right and here's what is wrong.
00:06:09.000It says in the scriptures to love what is good and hate what is evil.
00:06:14.000You see, Friedrich Nietzsche, who basically was the beginning of the postmodern movement, he wrote a book called Beyond Good and Evil.
00:06:26.000He was a German who literally lost his mind later in life.
00:06:30.000If you do not know who Friedrich Nietzsche is, do not send your child to college because your child will know who Nietzsche is.
00:06:37.000Now, Nietzsche wasn't wrong about everything.
00:06:39.000Some of his conclusions were horrific.
00:06:42.000But where Nietzsche went terribly wrong was where he said, he famously, he didn't proclaim this, but he stated in one of his writings, it was actually a fictional narrative, that God is dead.
00:06:55.000That's where that phrase came from, from Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:06:58.000Now, he wasn't actually celebrating it.
00:07:00.000Actually, a lot of people think that Nietzsche wanted God to be dead.
00:07:03.000He said, the West is not going to know what to do with itself as soon as it removes God and it removes the purpose that it gives for people's existence.
00:07:12.000And so he said, therefore, we need to replace that with the idea of creating the Superman.
00:07:18.000The idea of the Superman came from Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:07:21.000It's called the Ãœbermensch, Das Ãœbermensch in German.
00:07:25.000And he had this belief that we cannot know objectively what is good or what is evil.
00:07:30.000That's what he wrote in the book, Beyond Good and Evil.
00:07:33.000And so if pastors are silent and churches are not involved in that, who is going to be proclaiming what is good and evil?
00:07:40.000You're going to all of a sudden trust the CDC?
00:07:43.000You see, if you trust scientists to give you the idea of morality, you will end up with eugenics.
00:07:49.000You see, science is a helpful tool to be able to understand how to navigate the natural world.
00:07:56.000Science is unhelpful when it comes to what to do with the tools in the natural world.
00:08:19.000That is why there are ethics boards that govern doctors to say, you know what, you're actually not allowed to turn away smokers.
00:08:26.000Even though you might not like the decisions they're making, you have to accept everybody.
00:08:30.000But doctors, because we've designed our entire current political system and medical establishment around this idea of yielding to the credentialocracy, the credentialocracy, or if you have a credential, you're somehow more self-you're more important than just anybody else.
00:08:48.000It lends itself to this idea that we are now allowed to be the moral referees of the entire society.
00:08:57.000So, the significance of that is without the church, without the word, or without scriptures saying what is good and what is evil, saying, you know what?
00:09:09.000No, no one should be turned away from a doctor's office.
00:09:12.000That is the first principle, by the way, of if you go to a hospital, do you go to a doctor's office?
00:09:17.000They know that and they repeat it time and time again.
00:09:21.000We're seeing that change because not only have we engaged in a hyper-scientific way of governing ourselves, we have now embraced scientific morality, which is if you don't take the medicine we like, we're not going to treat you.
00:09:35.000That if you don't, if you don't make the lifestyle choices that we choose, you're not going to have your life saved.
00:09:41.000Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the original architects of Obamacare, he argued for this.
00:09:46.000He argued that we need to have death panels to determine whether or not you made good decisions in your life.
00:09:53.000And if you made good decisions, then we might give you some care.
00:09:56.000And if not, we're going to kind of put you out to pasture.
00:09:58.000Cass Sunstein wrote this in the book called Nudge, famous Harvard Malthusian philosopher and professor who was embraced by the Obama regime.
00:10:26.000We are just weeks away from yet another American travesty, one that could lead our country even further down the road to tyranny.
00:10:34.000I'm talking, of course, about court packing, the far left's radical plan to rig our entire federal judiciary system by adding four liberal justices to the Supreme Court and completely destroying the constitutional rule of law in our country as we know it.
00:10:48.000Thankfully, my friends at First Liberty Institute, a national nonprofit law firm, are taking a stand.
00:10:56.000They've written a letter telling the Biden Commission to reject this brazen court packing scheme.
00:11:01.000And now prominent leaders plus over 100,000 patriots like you have joined their coalition.
00:11:07.000Franklin Graham, former Attorney General Ed Meese, Dr. Dobson, plus organizations like the American Policy Association, Concerned Women for America, are all on board.
00:12:04.000My parents are phenomenal and they were never propagandists and they were never pushing a specific political agenda, but there were a couple things that were always reinforced with how we talked about politics and matters of the eternal, which is always questioning, but saying that we are thankful to be American.
00:12:32.000One of the first things my parents taught me was geography, understanding our physical place in the world.
00:12:51.000What are the capitals across the world?
00:12:52.000Those things are very important for people to know.
00:12:56.000Number two, my parents would always tell me that America is the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, a nation that has embraced self-government, that understands natural rights, that has the independent judiciary, and then appreciating the history behind it.
00:13:10.000But anytime that I would kind of spout out anything that would be conservative, my parents would say, well, why do you believe that?
00:13:19.000And then finally, I grew up in a country, I grew up in a culture that embraced and loved entrepreneurship, starting something from nothing, that knew that risk-taking should be rewarded and the creation of new things is what keeps a society vibrant.
00:13:37.000It keeps a society ambitious in a good way and keeps a society full of life with vitality.
00:13:45.000This is something that we have lost, I think, in some cities across the country in recent years.
00:13:51.000And so, but the thing that I tell parents all the time, and that's why we've partnered with Hillsdale, charlieforhillsdale.com, charlieforhillsdale.com, is you need to know your stuff so that you can teach your children.
00:14:03.000You have to know the difference between Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison.
00:14:08.000Instead of spending three hours Netflix binging whatever latest show there is, spend an hour and go through two Hillsdale courses on the Federalist Papers.
00:14:22.000And then you'll be able to challenge your children when they come back from a government school with some sort of line of propaganda about how the founders were all racist.
00:14:36.000Article 6 of the Northwest Ordinance was abolish slavery in the new territories, the first act of Congress that was passed unanimously by slaveholding states and free states.
00:14:44.000That's not a country that's founded on slavery.
00:14:46.000That's a country that's founded in the new territories of abolishing slavery.
00:14:51.000When was the first ever anti-slavery convention ever held?
00:14:56.000Chairman Benjamin Franklin, before the Declaration was even signed.
00:15:00.000First state to abolish slavery, Vermont in 1776.
00:15:04.000Nine out of 13 of all the states had independently abolished slavery in their states before the ratification of the Constitution on September 17th, 1787.
00:15:13.000Know your stuff to pass it on to your children because they are being propagandized by things they're seeing on TikTok, on Instagram, on social media.
00:15:22.000If you're a parent listening right now, it is incumbent on you to be the teacher, the explainer, and the defender of values that you hold near and dear.
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00:18:12.000We here on the Charlie Kirk Show want to give the muscular class a voice.
00:18:59.000So, there's like seemingly endless amount of morals and issues to defend anymore.
00:19:04.000And I truly admire your ability to defend, you know, viewpoints and have that civil discourse.
00:19:10.000And I'm sincerely curious what your top books or tips are to help people like me to, you know, fine-tune our skills of persuasion or, you know, debate.
00:19:24.000So let me just kind of go through a couple tips and pointers.
00:19:28.000First of all, everyone needs to try and read more and consume information through television less.
00:19:36.000I think reading the news actually allows you to process the information without being manipulated by how they want you to see the other sensory imagery.
00:19:48.000It's very important when you're talking to people on the left to make sure that your heart rate remains lower than theirs.
00:19:55.000Your style of how you debate actually sometimes matter more than the substance of how you debate.
00:20:28.000And what it is, it's a historical narrative told very matter of factly of America since the 1960s on how the civil rights regime that implemented the laws and the customs of the 1960s literally transformed the entire paradigm in a way that we never would have expected.
00:20:46.000And it's been so obvious in front of us as conservatives.
00:20:50.000And Christopher Caldwell is unafraid to talk about it.
00:20:53.000A couple other books that I really enjoy.
00:20:55.000I plug his book all the time, Bishal Mengel Waldi, the book that built your world.
00:20:59.000I'm rereading dystopian fiction because it's so uplifting.
00:21:03.000It's the opposite of uplifting, but it's actually very instructive of how these people operate.
00:21:07.000Arthur Kessler's Darkness at Noon, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's 1984, C.S. Lewis and his book, Abolition of Man, Mere Christianity is actually very uplifting and a phenomenal book.
00:21:21.000I also reread Edmund Burke's Reflections on a French Revolution and also anything by Russell Kirk.
00:21:27.000The conservative mind by Russell Kirk is phenomenal.
00:21:29.000I encourage everyone to read The Conservative Mind or The Roots of American Order by Russell Kirk.
00:21:48.000So I have a question about like with everything going on with the whole mess of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
00:21:54.000Will Biden be impeached, which I don't think will be likely, but if he is, how long do you think Kamala would stay in office, assuming she takes over?
00:22:06.000So I don't think that Biden is going to resign until the 50% mark of his presidency comes up, where then the replacement, it does not count as a full term.
00:22:19.000I think they're going to try to get him to 2023, January 22nd, 21st, 2023, I think is the date they have circled on their calendar.
00:22:28.000If they can get him to that date, then all of a sudden the replacement does not have to actually serve an entire, it does not count as a term.
00:22:38.000So that replacement could serve another full two terms.
00:22:42.000So do I think Biden is going to resign or be impeached?
00:22:45.000No, but I do think that every Republican needs to call for the impeachment of Joe Biden and at the very least call for mass oversight of the arming of the Taliban, of the lying to the American people, of the betrayal to our veterans, of the giving up of Bagram Air Base, of the killing of 13 Marines.
00:23:04.000You know, Biden says, you know, it's very orderly the way that we came out of Afghanistan.
00:23:32.000The bottom line is there is no evacuation from the end of a war that you can run without the kinds of complexities, challenges, threats we faced.
00:23:47.000People jumping out off airplanes, Black Hawk helicopters flying around that used to be ours, people getting their tongues cut off, little children getting massacred in the streets, hellfire missiles going on civilians, 13 Marines being dead.
00:24:02.000That's just the way we do things in D.C.
00:24:04.000This management of the lowering of expectations by our ruling class goes to show exactly what that leaked phone call revealed.
00:24:15.000And that leaked phone call revealed that Joe Biden cares more about the perception than the reality when something's happening.
00:24:24.000Joe Biden wanted Ghani to pull a stunt and trick the world than actually have the ability to do what he said he was going to do.
00:24:32.000That's how the Washington, D.C. credentialocracy, credentialocracy, ruling class operates.
00:24:40.000Let's go to line two, Chris from Jacksonville, Florida.
00:24:50.000And so the question or the comment that I guess I have is, you know, in July, you know, with the 4th of July, you know, I just felt compelled to start an American History Month on a local kind of discourse.
00:25:03.000And just because I felt left out of all the history months.
00:25:07.000So kind of, I don't know if, you know, you want to touch on that.
00:25:10.000Maybe your take on, you know, trying to nationalize that as an American History Month, you know, just to kind of bring everybody together rather than divide us by individuality of, you know, individual heritage.
00:25:34.000We have all these different social awareness causes.
00:25:36.000And what used to be kind of an American Pride Month used to be July 4th, which was the founding of our nation, really July 2nd, but July 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, the founding of our nation, which of course now has a competitor with Juneteenth.
00:25:48.000We went all in on that particular issue.
00:25:50.000And we were vindicated as people were canceling the July 4th parade and were highlighting kind of a black power parade.
00:25:57.000Can't wait for that new cycle to come back again.
00:26:01.000As we said, we now have a summertime competitor against July 4th, the Independence Day that Abraham Lincoln himself said four scoring seven years ago.
00:26:22.000The Declaration of Independence is a moral document that makes a moral claim that when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve ties with that of another.
00:26:30.000It goes on to say that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:26:43.000And I want to just say that I wish we had a country that could unite on universal American principles, but we have now gone into sectarianism, identitarianism, which does not take a lot of sophistication.
00:26:59.000The American founding took sophistication.
00:27:02.000The founding fathers were so clairvoyant and wise because they understood what was necessary to build a government on natural law.
00:27:13.000It takes no sophistication to build a government based on how you look.
00:27:44.000This is why you got and get involved with TurningpointUSA, TPUSA.com.
00:27:48.000And also, thank you for listening and for following us.
00:27:51.000Look, here's what I will say: is that there are a lot of liberals that are young, and there are a lot of students that are that have been propagandized by the mainstream activist system.
00:28:05.000However, with the doubling of a homeschooling population that we have pinpointed, with the amount of courageous conservatives that are younger that are starting to speak out, I believe we have more than a fighting chance.
00:28:18.000I believe that Generation Z is on pace to be the most conservative generation in American history.
00:28:24.000Now, one of the biggest obstacles we have is our government-run education system, the government-run education system in colleges, in K-12, and also the mainstream propaganda that you are seeing through digital and social media.
00:28:38.000But this is what I tell young people all the time.
00:28:43.000No more blaming your parents and the baby boomers for handing you something that is less than desirable.
00:28:49.000No more just sitting idly by and saying, you know, my parents screwed this up.
00:28:54.000What if you can be the generation that can be called one of the greatest generations in American history by stepping up with courage and leadership, focus and vision?
00:29:02.000Without a vision, the people perish is what it says in Proverbs.
00:29:10.000Well, many people in the Republican Party can't articulate it.
00:29:13.000We want a country where it's easy to have many children, where church attendance goes up, where abortion was something that we look back and say, wow, we used to do that in our country?
00:29:21.000And by the way, we're on the way to doing that.
00:29:24.000And so, Joseph, to summarize it together, it's time for our generation to be leaders, not just followers and not just complainers, not just spectators, but active participants in trying to turn our country back to a free society and one that values the family and universal and eternal moral claims.
00:29:47.000Look, when was the last time you had American meat?
00:31:41.000We have two callers on a similar topic about vaccine mandates.
00:31:45.000Conservatives need to be worried about government overreach and at times corporate overreach, especially when they are pushing into your personal medical decisions that can conflict with deeply held religious beliefs.
00:31:58.000and other beliefs that you might have with the best decision for yourself.
00:32:03.000For example, I am not taking the vaccine.
00:32:45.000Plays college hockey, mandated mega vaccine with religious and medical exemption consideration, wrote his own letter, got denied.
00:32:53.000We have a meeting with the dean tomorrow.
00:32:54.000Just kind of wondering if you had any thoughts.
00:32:56.000I have a letter from a priest, you know, about religious conviction, conscience, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:02.000Just kind of wondering any other thoughts or ideas about how to twist the dean's arm, so to speak, about providing for an exemption for him.
00:33:41.000And he's already decided he's not taking the vaccine.
00:33:43.000He'll give up hockey because he's not taking the vaccine for a number of reasons, not the least of which is abortive, you know, feces.
00:33:50.000And he's been to the pro-life march many times in D.C. He's been standing in front of an abortion mill with us praying for 12 years, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:57.000So there's no way he's getting the vaccine, but he sure at the same time, it's heartbreaking that he has to give up his sports since he's played since he was five years old.
00:34:05.000Well, and so first, I just want to say while you're still in the line here, Jeff, that you should be praising your son for his courage and his moral conviction.
00:34:16.000And there will be another place for him to play hockey.
00:34:19.000We'll help find him one if we have to.
00:34:21.000I know thousands of college athletes that are in the same position there.
00:34:24.000I'm happy to offline give you some piece of advice.
00:34:27.000So if you just email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, I'm going to connect you with someone who has actually helped navigate this.
00:34:33.000Unfortunately, you don't have a lot of legal recourse here.
00:34:36.000Conservatives need to stand up for people like Jeff and his son and say that this is an overreach of power.
00:34:44.000We as conservatives like limited government because we want people to be able to live with their own natural rights, their own conscience, their own religious liberty.
00:34:54.000That is if a corporation mandates the vaccine or if a hockey team mandates a vaccine.
00:34:59.000So this is why I am so appreciative of Governor Greg Gianforte, of Governor Greg Gianforte, who in Montana passed the law says you cannot do this.
00:35:11.000Now, if you want to take the vaccine, that is your own choice.
00:35:14.000But you are not able to use government power to go destroy some 18-year-old kid's dream of playing hockey at some school in Michigan where he's not even at serious risk of catching or dying from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:35:27.000And the vaccine is 42% effective according to Axios in the month of July, the Pfizer vaccine.
00:35:36.000And conservatives need to be willing to restrain when government gets too tyrannical.
00:35:41.000And if necessary, if a corporation gets too tyrannical to derail people's livelihood, it is wrong to say that an 18-year-old, oh, just go find another school to go play hockey to.
00:36:02.000It's an easy win for conservatives to do what they did in Montana.
00:36:07.000And I want to explore that further because I think that it's a big mistake to just kind of say to people like Jeff, oh, yeah, your kid might be pro-life and he doesn't want to take something that has aborted fetus.