00:01:29.000When you guys send me your questions in freedom at charliekirk.com, I have an opportunity to look through them the entire week and then answer them on air.
00:01:50.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:04:22.000Well, many people don't know about the story of Tonya Harding.
00:04:26.000Tonya Harding was a figure skater, a good one, but she needed an extra boost.
00:04:32.000She needed an extra advantage to take down her rival, Nancy Kerrigan.
00:04:39.000Tonya Harding hired her ex-husband to orchestrate a physical attack on her rival.
00:04:46.000A man was paid to go find Kerrigan and assault her by hitting her in the right knee with a police baton so terribly that Kerrigan would be unable to compete.
00:04:59.000The skater was then seriously injured and unable to compete in the upcoming event.
00:05:04.000Tonya Harding then ended up winning the national championship, but had to vacate the title in June of 1994 when she was also banned for life from competing in the sport after her involvement in the attack was revealed.
00:05:17.000So William Thomas is doing the exact same thing that Tonya Harding did.
00:05:23.000By exact same, of course, Leah Thomas, William Thomas, is not going around and bashing people's knees with a police baton, but Thomas is using a structural advantage in a way of cutting a corner by having higher levels of testosterone as being, because Thomas is a biological man.
00:06:02.000One of the most celebrated athletes in history after overcoming cancer, he won seven Tour de Frances.
00:06:09.000It all came crashing down, of course, when we found out he was not just a cheater, but he was a sophisticated cheater, using performance-enhancing drugs throughout all of his career.
00:06:18.000He was stripped from the record books, including seven Tour de France wins, a bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympics.
00:06:24.000No one had gone from hero to villain so quickly in the world of sports.
00:06:29.000So how we view Lance Armstrong and Tonya Harding is exactly how we should view Thomas.
00:06:35.000If Thomas was not pretending to be a man, Thomas would be hiring people to assault competitors with police batons.
00:06:45.000If Thomas was not pretending to be a woman, I should say, not pretending to be man, pretending to be a woman, Thomas would be using performance-enhancing drugs.
00:07:55.000It means the world to be here, be with two of my best friends and teammates, and be able to compete.
00:08:03.000So, Thomas won the national championship and disenfranchised other female swimmers that do not have the biological advantage that Thomas has.
00:08:12.000What's so amazing is how everyone is just putting up with this: the people in the stands, the bystanders, because they don't want to be called bad names.
00:08:22.000You see, the tyranny of name-calling creates this paralysis effect.
00:08:29.000Cut 104, 11-time NCAA All-American swimming champion Jerry Chanteau described the toll that University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Leah Thomas's dominance of women's swimming is having on its competitors, Play Cut 104.
00:08:41.000What I felt watching this morning and this evening was genuine just devastation and sadness for the women that are being asked to show up at the Women's NCAA Division I swimming and diving championships and to then,
00:09:07.000under the best of circumstances, perform their best, go best times.
00:09:12.000And now you need to do it against a male body.
00:09:16.000You need to do it and exit the pool silently and gracefully.
00:09:22.000You see, I wish they wouldn't have done it silently and gracefully.
00:09:24.000I wish the other women would have gone up and said, You're a cheater.
00:10:36.000I watched them get out and cry with their coaches and their parents because of the emotional and psychological turmoil that is taking on these women.
00:11:14.000I don't know why people are, but actually, I do.
00:11:17.000We just lived two years of mass injustice while people allow children to get vaccinated against their will unnecessarily, masks on children unnecessarily, lockdown.
00:11:26.000That very same country that allows widespread injustice and makes sense why they would allow this thief, this robber baron, to destroy female sports.
00:13:19.000So let me build out this argument for you, which I think is a word of caution when it comes to foreign affairs and the current regime.
00:13:29.000So when we get involved in countries diplomatically, when we get involved financially, we are told that we are bringing American ideas and Western values into these nations.
00:13:43.000But what does the regime mean by American values?
00:13:47.000You see, we might be saying the same thing technically, but we're actually talking about two completely different things.
00:13:55.000So whether it's our friend in Alabama who just asked the question, or a welder in Nebraska, or a mom in Wyoming, their definition of what they would expect to be American values is actually completely different than what is happening.
00:14:13.000So when the regime says that we want to try and displace a dictator, what do they actually want to replace it with?
00:14:21.000Or what are they trying to put forward?
00:14:23.000So many Americans, when they hear, yes, we are going to be sending American values, they probably expect that we're going to be sending Washington, Lincoln, the Declaration, Thomas Jefferson, the Constitution, free market economics, a respect for private property, checks and balances, separation of powers, an independent judiciary, and consent of the governed.
00:14:47.000That's probably what you're expecting.
00:14:50.000Now, some nations are not prepared for that.
00:14:53.000But even if they weren't prepared, that is not what our regime is doing when they involve themselves in these countries.
00:15:02.000For example, when the Ukrainian government that was pro-Russian back in 2014 and 15 was displaced, and the kind of reign that was put in, which now extends to today, Zelensky is more recent than that, but he's part of that kind of Western interference in Ukraine.
00:15:20.000Were we putting forward an agenda rooted in Western values?
00:15:28.000No, you see, we're not exporting the ideas of Washington and Lincoln and self-government and enlightenment ideas.
00:15:34.000Instead, the regime is exporting ideas like the 1619 project, LGBT radicalism, planned parenthood practices, massive drug legalization, and transgender swimmers.
00:15:53.000You see, we need to be very careful because what I believe is American values and what you believe is American values, I'd love the world to try to embrace it, albeit not every country is ready for it.
00:16:04.000That's the second part of this, which I'll get into in a little bit.
00:16:08.000But let's just focus right here, which is they manipulate that term because they know that you love America even though they don't.
00:17:06.000So, James Rita, we mentioned Black Lives Matter.
00:17:10.000James, apparently embassies have decided that they quite like Black Lives Matter, U.S. embassies under Joe Biden.
00:17:17.000Well, not just, you know, U.S. embassies.
00:17:19.000This isn't the embassies and ambassadors going off their own bat.
00:17:23.000No, this is Anthony Blicken, the U.S. Secretary of State, saying we encourage people to fly the Black Lives Matter flag from U.S. embassies.
00:17:32.000Please go and fly this Marxist flag from your embassy so that everybody in the world can see you virtue signal.
00:17:40.000So that's what they mean by imposing these values on other countries.
00:17:46.000We're going to go fly Black Lives Matter flags.
00:17:48.000We're going to fly gay pride flags, which they do every June outside of embassies.
00:17:52.000So while you might think, yes, we need to spread the eternal principles of the Declaration, that's not what the regime is doing.
00:18:01.000They're spreading the values of Planned Parenthood, BLM, LGBTQ radicalism into these countries.
00:18:11.000The American values they're sending are the ones that we're trying to defeat here domestically.
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00:20:52.000Okay, I want to further, I want to build out this point a little bit more.
00:20:54.000Someone asked us right here, it was Paul from Minnesota, Charlie, what are Vladimir Putin's intentions?
00:21:10.000Vladimir Putin is evil in what he is doing.
00:21:13.000We have gone through that in great detail, our perspective of the scum that is Vladimir Putin.
00:21:20.000It's important to understand the geopolitics of this and some of the philosophical, let's say, worldview differences that Putin is using to persuade the Russian people to get involved in this fight and to fight in Ukraine.
00:21:38.000So, one of them is these kind of two different blends or flavors of totalitarianism.
00:21:46.000You see, so Putin and his regime is very socially conservative.
00:21:56.000They do not have much patience for homosexuality.
00:22:13.000It's been used many times in the last 100 years, but it's unique right now.
00:22:17.000There's not a lot left on the planet with the kind of power that Putin has.
00:22:21.000Putin, though, looks at himself as trying to crush a different type of tyranny and totalitarianism.
00:22:29.000Putin, as he's justifying it to the people in his own country and justifying it to himself, is he is basically waging war, not just against Zelensky, not just to denazify Ukraine, which is obviously garbage.
00:22:43.000Not that there's not Nazis, but that's not why Putin's doing this.
00:22:46.000Not to reclaim the lands, not to try to be the male version of Catherine the Great.
00:22:50.000No, instead, what it really is about at a deeper, more fundamental level, and you can see this in some of his dialogue he's doing recently, Putin is really upset and angered by the West's imposition of this radical gender ideology, the kind of widespread abortion policy.
00:23:13.000And so, when he sees videos like this, it gives him a rallying cry for his own domestic support.
00:23:22.000I think it's repulsive what Putin is doing, obviously.
00:23:24.000But it's important that you understand the context of this and how he views his struggle and how the people of Russia view the crusade in Ukraine, which is they think they're fighting against the West's degeneracy.
00:23:39.000They think they're fighting against the West's love of money, love of sexual impulse, the West's moral crimes against humanity.
00:23:50.000So they see videos like this and they start to see this kind of imposition of what they call degenerative Western NATO values.
00:23:59.000And it gives Putin more of a totalitarian grip on his population, basically saying, you see, that's why we need to stay in control so that all this craziness doesn't come here to Russia.
00:24:11.000So Secretary Blinken has issued authorization and has essentially told our embassies around the world that they are free to do as they see fit.
00:24:22.000And so if an embassy wishes to fly the rainbow flag during Pride Month, they are, of course, welcome to do that.
00:24:30.000This was Voice of America News saying that, look, if embassies want to fly the gay pride flag, you guys are more than willing to do it.
00:24:36.000In fact, NATO, as soon as Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, they post a picture, NATO holding a rainbow flag, basically saying our acceptance of gay and lesbians is our strength.
00:24:52.000That only makes Putin stronger, more stronger domestically.
00:25:44.000Quote, Putin says, I want ordinary citizens of the Western states to hear me too.
00:25:50.000They are now trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of the hostile actions of Russia, that from your wallet you need to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat.
00:25:59.000Okay, that's not the quote I was looking for.
00:26:01.000But the other one is this, is when he was speaking to a discussion club in the Black Sea of Sochi, Putin stressed that his country should adhere to his own, quote, spiritual values and historical traditions while steering clear of quote socio-cultural disturbances.
00:26:17.000He said, quote, some Westerners believe that the aggressive deletion of whole pages of their own history, reverse discrimination against the majority in the interest of minorities, he's obviously attacking critical race theory, constitute movement towards public renewal.
00:26:32.000Putin says, quote, it's in their right, but we're also asking them to steer clear of our home.
00:26:38.000So Putin is saying to his leaders and to say to his people, like, look, if you guys in the West want to destroy yourself, if you guys in the West want to commit cultural suicide, whatever, we have a different way to do it.
00:26:49.000Yeah, the different way they do it in Russia is totalitarian.
00:26:53.000There's two different types of totalitarianism, believe it or not, that are kind of now being like buttressed against each other.
00:27:03.000Putin said, quote, in 2019, he told the Financial Times of London newspaper that liberalism has become obsolete.
00:27:10.000He said children are, quote, taught that a boy can become a girl and vice versa is monstrous and Putin says is on the verge of a crime against humanity.
00:27:20.000Vladimir Putin also suggested that transgender rights supporters were demanding an end to basic things such as mother, mother, father, family, or gender differences.
00:27:30.000So you have NATO, which is more like NAWO, which is like the North Atlantic woke organization, going up against a totalitarian despot.
00:27:40.000And so you have these kind of two different types of totalitarian impulses going against one another.
00:27:47.000Because let's be honest, it's not the kind of small L liberals.
00:27:52.000It's not the kind of Enlightenment thinkers that are running NATO.
00:27:55.000No, these people are like Harvard educated, Brown educated, woke totalitarians.
00:28:04.000And neither is acceptable, by the way.
00:28:07.000Putin believes the response to what is happening in the West is more restrictions, more control.
00:28:15.000In fact, to a place that is so, let's say, authoritarian that freedom of speech is no longer a value, freedom of assembly is no longer a value.
00:28:24.000We don't hold that view as conservatives, obviously.
00:28:26.000We believe in the blending of antiquity and the best of the Enlightenment and modernity with the respect for individual rights.
00:28:34.000There's reports that Russians have jailed many people for being gay, which is repulsive and disgusting.
00:28:40.000Putin rules a country, this is from the Washington Post, where a number of credible reports of the torture and imprisonment of gay men.
00:28:46.000In 2013, he signed a, quote, anti-gay propaganda law that Human Rights Watch said prompted increased hostility towards LGBT communities and made it harder for children to access the information about non-traditional relations.
00:28:57.000The effect had particularly been profound in schools, where some Russian teachers characterized LGBTQ people as, quote, as a symptom of perversion imported from the Western Europe or North America.
00:29:07.000Now, that's the important thing, right?
00:29:08.000So Russian teachers are saying that the kind of the homosexual movement, that this degenerative stuff is from the West.
00:29:18.000And so basically, one of the ways that Putin is convincing this war to continue is, of course, the ethno-nationalist impulse, which is repulsive.
00:29:26.000But it's also an equally repulsive thing where he's saying, like, look, we are now going to fight these Western values in Ukraine.
00:29:35.000And one of the things that has really probably motivated Russians to support this war is Putin has been saying, hey, look, Ukraine, who we think we are one people, Ukraine, where we look at them as our fellow countrymen, Ukraine, we all used to be part of the Soviet Union.
00:29:51.000Now Ukraine is becoming more like Paris and we hate Paris.
00:29:56.000So a lot of this happening right now, the deeper game at play here is social policy.
00:30:08.000The only person I only hear talking about it is that we need to now impose this kind of radical woke nonsense in more countries.
00:30:19.000Now, I'm not saying that we provoked this, but by implementing some of the BLM flags over embassies and the gay pride flags over embassies and kind of our evangelistic fervor to push forth these ideas, you can't help but wonder, did this help actually Vladimir Putin get more powerful?
00:30:38.000Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:30:42.000But I hope that background and context was helpful, especially when it comes to what's happening in Ukraine.
00:30:47.000It's a whole different kind of chapter in this story that I think most people overlooked, have been overlooking.
00:31:13.000There are increasing reports that COVID cases are on the rise in Europe, politico.
00:31:19.000Europe's COVID spike, has Biden officials concerned, could lead to the return of masks.
00:31:24.000The surge in COVID-19 cases in Europe, in particular the United Kingdom, is prompting urgent conversations among senior Biden health aides about the potential U.S. experience, United States experiencing another wave this spring.
00:31:36.000After all these vaccines, all the boosters, Omicron, we're still not done.
00:31:40.000While cases in the United States are at an eight-month low, the exponential growth in infections seen in several European countries is the latest evidence that COVID-19 remains a persistent threat and has the potential to upend White House's hopes of moving past the pandemic.
00:31:56.000Anthony Fauci said, quote, you've got to be at least prepared that we may see something similar here with some differences because there's always some differences.
00:32:06.000In China, they are locking down again and quarantining.
00:32:10.000Austria just reintroduced mandatory mask mandates in most indoor settings starting next week, just two weeks after the requirement was abolished.
00:32:28.000And we might have to have some of our experts again just to kind of refresh our memory of what we've been through, what you can do about it, how you can prophylactically help yourself, all these sorts of things.
00:32:36.000We might have to kind of shake off the dust and get back into the posture we've been in the last two years, but we are not out of the woods yet, everybody.
00:33:41.000He sits on the Turning Point USA Advisory Board.
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00:33:50.000It's a very important point that in Ukraine, Putin is using kind of an international culture war, if you will, to kind of rally the troops.
00:33:59.000Putin spoke to 100,000 people at a rally just a couple hours ago to widespread support.
00:34:07.000Wonder how many people are being paid to be there.
00:35:14.000Say hello to the Russia gold and Chinese petroyuan.
00:35:19.000There's a long time coming, but finally some linaments of the multipolar world, new foundations are being revealed.
00:35:25.000On Friday, after a video conference meeting, the Eurasian Economic Union and China agreed to design the mechanism for an independent international monetary and financial system.
00:35:35.000The AEAEU consists of Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Armenia in establishing free trade deals with Eurasian nations and progressively interconnecting them with the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
00:35:47.000For all practical purposes, the idea comes from Sergei Gizilov, Russia's foremost and independent economist, a former advisor to Putin and Minister of Integration and Macroeconomics.
00:35:58.000Translation, as China is as much of a power in the Eurasian sector as Russia, they need to coordinate their strategies to bypass the U.S. unipolar system.
00:36:07.000Yes, getting off the petrodollar would crash the American dollar as we know it and would bypass all the success that we have been able to have as a nation.
00:36:33.000In 1974, it's important to remember Washington and Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, struck a deal by which Saudi Arabia could buy U.S. Treasury bills before they were auctioned.
00:36:41.000In return, Saudi Arabia would sell its oil in dollars, not only enlarging the currency's liquidity, but also using those dollars to buy U.S. debt and products.
00:36:51.000Saudi Arabia is now thinking not doing this anymore because of the JCPOA number two, otherwise known as the Iran deal.
00:36:58.000Now, guess who's negotiating the Iran deal for us?
00:37:01.000This is what's so disingenuous about this.
00:38:10.000What would that mean for Saudi Arabia?
00:38:13.000Well, Saudi Arabia is going to be like, all right, if you guys aren't going to have our back, we're not going to sell oil to you anymore in dollars.
00:38:18.000We're not going to pre-purchase dollars and sell oil to you.
00:38:21.000Saudi Arabia hates the Iranians and the feeling is mutual.
00:38:26.000So as Biden continues to pander to the Iranians, Obama's love of the Iranian regime is bizarre and was never properly explained, I think.
00:38:38.000All roads go through Iran right now, which, by the way, the government of Iran is only the way it is because we meddled and interfered with their democratic elections.