The Charlie Kirk Show - March 21, 2022


Ask Charlie Anything 98: Is Lia Thomas a Cheat? Exporting American Values? And MORE

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Leah Thomas was the number one women s swimmer in the country in the early 20th century, but did she cheat on her husband, Tonya Harding? Is she a cheater? What is Putin fighting for in Ukraine beyond land, glory, and treasure? There s a deeper war at play here that is worthy of exploring, and so much more.

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00:02:24.000 Robert from Gardnerville, Nevada.
00:02:26.000 Charlie, I love your show and listen every day.
00:02:28.000 Thank you.
00:02:28.000 I saw that you called Leah Thomas a narcissistic cheater.
00:02:32.000 I did.
00:02:33.000 I agreed she is cheating, but shouldn't we have compassion on our tone and the way we talk about her?
00:02:38.000 Well, I would say talk about him.
00:02:40.000 Keep up all the great work.
00:02:41.000 So I'll be very honest.
00:02:43.000 Saying narcissistic cheater is the nice version of what I would like to say to this particular individual.
00:02:50.000 Let me first focus on the cheater aspect and how I think we should talk about cheaters.
00:02:55.000 Cheating is a form of theft.
00:02:56.000 It is stealing something that is not yours.
00:02:58.000 This is a question of justice.
00:03:01.000 Within who we are as human beings, we don't like to see things taken from others.
00:03:05.000 This is also one of the Ten Commandments.
00:03:08.000 Do not take from others.
00:03:09.000 It is not yours. 0.63
00:03:10.000 Stealing is morally wrong.
00:03:13.000 We also do not like when the strong crush the weak.
00:03:16.000 This is the reason why we oppose Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine.
00:03:21.000 We do not like when stronger nations, stronger people, take advantage against people that are not able to defend themselves.
00:03:27.000 This is also why we support laws against pedophilia, adults taking advantage of children.
00:03:34.000 It's immoral.
00:03:36.000 And for all those reasons, and we shouldn't have to overcomplicate this.
00:03:39.000 We shouldn't have to go on a long speech about this.
00:03:42.000 Leah Thomas, or whatever Leah's real name is, which someone emailed it to me actually this morning, I'll use it, is a cheater. 0.97
00:03:51.000 It's no different than someone who might win a championship and doing it unethically.
00:03:58.000 Thomas's real name is William Thomas.
00:04:01.000 To give you an idea, William Thomas was the 462nd best swimmer in men's swimming.
00:04:10.000 Now, Leah Thomas is the number one swimmer in women's swimming.
00:04:15.000 Goes from 462 to number one.
00:04:19.000 So how should we treat cheaters?
00:04:22.000 Well, many people don't know about the story of Tonya Harding.
00:04:26.000 Tonya Harding was a figure skater, a good one, but she needed an extra boost. 1.00
00:04:32.000 She needed an extra advantage to take down her rival, Nancy Kerrigan. 1.00
00:04:39.000 Tonya Harding hired her ex-husband to orchestrate a physical attack on her rival. 1.00
00:04:46.000 A 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. 0.88
00:04:59.000 The skater was then seriously injured and unable to compete in the upcoming event.
00:05:04.000 Tonya 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.
00:05:17.000 So William Thomas is doing the exact same thing that Tonya Harding did.
00:05:23.000 By 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.
00:05:44.000 How should we view Lance Armstrong?
00:05:47.000 Lance Armstrong was the child, was the poster child, I should say, of the post office.
00:05:53.000 That should have really tipped us off.
00:05:57.000 Livestrong was his entire shtick.
00:06:02.000 One of the most celebrated athletes in history after overcoming cancer, he won seven Tour de Frances.
00:06:09.000 It 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.
00:06:18.000 He was stripped from the record books, including seven Tour de France wins, a bronze medal he won at the 2000 Olympics.
00:06:24.000 No one had gone from hero to villain so quickly in the world of sports.
00:06:29.000 So how we view Lance Armstrong and Tonya Harding is exactly how we should view Thomas.
00:06:35.000 If Thomas was not pretending to be a man, Thomas would be hiring people to assault competitors with police batons.
00:06:45.000 If 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. 0.69
00:06:54.000 I mean this seriously.
00:06:55.000 How is this any different?
00:06:57.000 Using performance-enhancing drugs versus using a performance enhancement that you have, being a biological man, competing against women? 0.70
00:07:05.000 How are those two things any morally different?
00:07:09.000 Well, Thomas is now a national champion.
00:07:12.000 Female sports is on the way to being completely and totally destroyed.
00:07:18.000 The strong are supposed to protect the weaker.
00:07:23.000 Women are stronger than men in a lot of different things. 0.57
00:07:27.000 But in sports, men have a biological advantage.
00:07:32.000 Cut 103, Thomas, speaks about winning the NCAA Women's Championship, Play Cut 103.
00:07:39.000 Leah, how did that performance measure up to your expectations coming into this meet tonight?
00:07:44.000 I didn't have a whole lot of expectations for this meeting.
00:07:47.000 I was just happy to be here trying to race and compete as best as I could.
00:07:52.000 What did that race mean to you?
00:07:55.000 It means the world to be here, be with two of my best friends and teammates, and be able to compete.
00:08:03.000 So, Thomas won the national championship and disenfranchised other female swimmers that do not have the biological advantage that Thomas has. 1.00
00:08:12.000 What'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.
00:08:22.000 You see, the tyranny of name-calling creates this paralysis effect.
00:08:29.000 Cut 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.
00:08:41.000 What 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,
00:09:07.000 under the best of circumstances, perform their best, go best times.
00:09:12.000 And now you need to do it against a male body. 1.00
00:09:16.000 You need to do it and exit the pool silently and gracefully.
00:09:22.000 You see, I wish they wouldn't have done it silently and gracefully. 0.99
00:09:24.000 I wish the other women would have gone up and said, You're a cheater. 1.00
00:09:26.000 How dare you? 1.00
00:09:27.000 I wish they would have chewed this mentally disturbed individual out. 1.00
00:09:31.000 I wish they would have put everything on the line and say, What's wrong with you? 0.99
00:09:35.000 Like, you have you no shame? 1.00
00:09:38.000 You're a sick individual. 1.00
00:09:40.000 You're a cheater. 1.00
00:09:42.000 We shouldn't put up with cheating in our country. 0.97
00:09:44.000 It's theft.
00:09:45.000 We don't put up with, well, actually, I guess we do actually put up with robberies now.
00:09:50.000 The same country that puts up with massive looting is going to put up with Leah Thomas or William Thomas or whatever.
00:09:58.000 It's like, if it's okay to steal things, I guess it's fine to steal national championships.
00:10:03.000 We're on YouTube, so I have to be careful the way I say this.
00:10:06.000 If it's okay to interfere with elections and have immoral behavior there, it's fine.
00:10:15.000 I know I have to keep on reiterating this.
00:10:17.000 I'm not attacking Thomas because he needs to go see a therapist.
00:10:23.000 I'm attacking them or Thomas because they're cheating.
00:10:27.000 They're stealing something. 0.99
00:10:31.000 Thomas is a thief. 0.97
00:10:34.000 Play Cut 105. 0.95
00:10:36.000 I 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. 1.00
00:10:47.000 And that is what needs to be said.
00:10:50.000 That is what people need to hear.
00:10:52.000 It is more than just the sport.
00:10:54.000 It is more than losing the titles, which they are certainly losing.
00:10:57.000 This is not about hate.
00:11:00.000 This is about protecting women in all aspects now and in the future.
00:11:10.000 It's hard to believe.
00:11:13.000 I would not put up with it.
00:11:14.000 I don't know why people are, but actually, I do.
00:11:17.000 We just lived two years of mass injustice while people allow children to get vaccinated against their will unnecessarily, masks on children unnecessarily, lockdown.
00:11:26.000 That very same country that allows widespread injustice and makes sense why they would allow this thief, this robber baron, to destroy female sports. 1.00
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00:12:59.000 Mark from Alabama.
00:13:01.000 Charlie, I think it's time that we continue to spread American values across the world.
00:13:08.000 How could you possibly be opposed to that?
00:13:11.000 America is the greatest nation ever to exist, and it is a moral good to spread our ideas everywhere.
00:13:17.000 Thanks.
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00:13:19.000 So 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.
00:13:29.000 So 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.
00:13:43.000 But what does the regime mean by American values?
00:13:47.000 You see, we might be saying the same thing technically, but we're actually talking about two completely different things.
00:13:55.000 So 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.
00:14:13.000 So when the regime says that we want to try and displace a dictator, what do they actually want to replace it with?
00:14:21.000 Or what are they trying to put forward?
00:14:23.000 So 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.
00:14:47.000 That's probably what you're expecting.
00:14:50.000 Now, some nations are not prepared for that.
00:14:53.000 But even if they weren't prepared, that is not what our regime is doing when they involve themselves in these countries.
00:15:02.000 For 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.
00:15:20.000 Were we putting forward an agenda rooted in Western values?
00:15:28.000 No, you see, we're not exporting the ideas of Washington and Lincoln and self-government and enlightenment ideas.
00:15:34.000 Instead, the regime is exporting ideas like the 1619 project, LGBT radicalism, planned parenthood practices, massive drug legalization, and transgender swimmers. 0.61
00:15:53.000 You 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.
00:16:04.000 That's the second part of this, which I'll get into in a little bit.
00:16:08.000 But let's just focus right here, which is they manipulate that term because they know that you love America even though they don't.
00:16:18.000 Let me prove it to you.
00:16:20.000 Cut 111, get that ready to go, was when the State Department decided that it was time to show the world what American values was.
00:16:30.000 Now, to show American values, did we decide to do open-air readings in front of State Department embassies of the Constitution?
00:16:38.000 Did we do reenactments of the Emancipation Proclamation?
00:16:42.000 Did we show statues of Frederick Douglass and Benjamin Franklin?
00:16:47.000 Did we talk about the heroism of our founding fathers and the generations to come that sacrificed on Normandy Beach?
00:16:55.000 What was the American values that the United States State Department decided to do when it mattered most?
00:17:04.000 Hear it for yourself.
00:17:05.000 Play Cut 111.
00:17:06.000 So, James Rita, we mentioned Black Lives Matter.
00:17:10.000 James, apparently embassies have decided that they quite like Black Lives Matter, U.S. embassies under Joe Biden.
00:17:17.000 Well, not just, you know, U.S. embassies.
00:17:19.000 This isn't the embassies and ambassadors going off their own bat.
00:17:23.000 No, 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.
00:17:32.000 Please go and fly this Marxist flag from your embassy so that everybody in the world can see you virtue signal. 0.88
00:17:40.000 So that's what they mean by imposing these values on other countries.
00:17:46.000 We're going to go fly Black Lives Matter flags. 0.89
00:17:48.000 We're going to fly gay pride flags, which they do every June outside of embassies.
00:17:52.000 So while you might think, yes, we need to spread the eternal principles of the Declaration, that's not what the regime is doing.
00:18:01.000 They're spreading the values of Planned Parenthood, BLM, LGBTQ radicalism into these countries. 0.99
00:18:11.000 The American values they're sending are the ones that we're trying to defeat here domestically. 0.65
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00:20:52.000 Okay, I want to further, I want to build out this point a little bit more.
00:20:54.000 Someone asked us right here, it was Paul from Minnesota, Charlie, what are Vladimir Putin's intentions?
00:21:01.000 How does he view all of this?
00:21:02.000 Basically, it's a long meandering email.
00:21:04.000 Basically, where's his hat at? 0.95
00:21:05.000 Is he crazy? 0.99
00:21:06.000 Look, Vladimir Putin very might be crazy. 1.00
00:21:08.000 He might have lost his mind. 1.00
00:21:10.000 Vladimir Putin is evil in what he is doing. 1.00
00:21:13.000 We have gone through that in great detail, our perspective of the scum that is Vladimir Putin. 0.98
00:21:20.000 It'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. 0.82
00:21:38.000 So, one of them is these kind of two different blends or flavors of totalitarianism.
00:21:46.000 You see, so Putin and his regime is very socially conservative.
00:21:56.000 They do not have much patience for homosexuality. 0.57
00:22:00.000 They have restricting immigration. 0.95
00:22:03.000 Putin is an ethno-nationalist, and we find that viewpoint to be repulsive.
00:22:08.000 Putin has a unique blend of totalitarianism.
00:22:12.000 It's not that unique, actually.
00:22:13.000 It's been used many times in the last 100 years, but it's unique right now.
00:22:17.000 There's not a lot left on the planet with the kind of power that Putin has.
00:22:21.000 Putin, though, looks at himself as trying to crush a different type of tyranny and totalitarianism. 0.97
00:22:29.000 Putin, 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. 0.87
00:22:43.000 Not that there's not Nazis, but that's not why Putin's doing this. 0.62
00:22:46.000 Not to reclaim the lands, not to try to be the male version of Catherine the Great.
00:22:50.000 No, 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.
00:23:13.000 And so, when he sees videos like this, it gives him a rallying cry for his own domestic support.
00:23:20.000 And I'm not, I'm not defending.
00:23:22.000 I think it's repulsive what Putin is doing, obviously.
00:23:24.000 But 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.
00:23:39.000 They think they're fighting against the West's love of money, love of sexual impulse, the West's moral crimes against humanity.
00:23:50.000 So they see videos like this and they start to see this kind of imposition of what they call degenerative Western NATO values.
00:23:59.000 And 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.
00:24:10.000 Play cut 115.
00:24:11.000 So Secretary Blinken has issued authorization and has essentially told our embassies around the world that they are free to do as they see fit.
00:24:22.000 And so if an embassy wishes to fly the rainbow flag during Pride Month, they are, of course, welcome to do that.
00:24:30.000 This 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.
00:24:36.000 In 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.
00:24:52.000 That only makes Putin stronger, more stronger domestically.
00:24:56.000 I'm not saying you shouldn't do it.
00:24:57.000 I'm just, it's just a fact of life.
00:24:59.000 So this is a quote from Vladimir Putin.
00:25:01.000 And again, I have to repeat this.
00:25:03.000 It's almost like every five seconds I have to repeat this, but you guys can go back into the archives and I'll just say it again.
00:25:09.000 I'm not defending Putin. 1.00
00:25:10.000 I think he's a scumbag and a war criminal and all this stuff. 0.99
00:25:12.000 But if you do not understand the full context of what is really happening here, that part of this war is actually about social policy. 0.99
00:25:20.000 Part of this war of Putin invading Ukraine is actually the very same culture wars that are being discussed in school boards in America.
00:25:28.000 Very similar.
00:25:29.000 It's not all of it.
00:25:30.000 Obviously, Putin wants the land.
00:25:31.000 He wants the resources.
00:25:33.000 He wants to be able to control and conquer.
00:25:35.000 But there's a large element for Putin to remain domestically popular to try to wage war on the West's degenerative values.
00:25:42.000 Okay, quote, allegedly degenerative values.
00:25:44.000 Quote, Putin says, I want ordinary citizens of the Western states to hear me too.
00:25:50.000 They 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.
00:25:58.000 It's all a lie.
00:25:59.000 Okay, that's not the quote I was looking for.
00:26:01.000 But 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.
00:26:17.000 He 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.
00:26:32.000 Putin says, quote, it's in their right, but we're also asking them to steer clear of our home.
00:26:37.000 We have a different viewpoint.
00:26:38.000 So 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.
00:26:49.000 Yeah, the different way they do it in Russia is totalitarian.
00:26:52.000 We don't like that.
00:26:53.000 There's two different types of totalitarianism, believe it or not, that are kind of now being like buttressed against each other.
00:27:03.000 Putin said, quote, in 2019, he told the Financial Times of London newspaper that liberalism has become obsolete.
00:27:10.000 He 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.
00:27:20.000 Vladimir Putin also suggested that transgender rights supporters were demanding an end to basic things such as mother, mother, father, family, or gender differences.
00:27:30.000 So you have NATO, which is more like NAWO, which is like the North Atlantic woke organization, going up against a totalitarian despot.
00:27:40.000 And so you have these kind of two different types of totalitarian impulses going against one another.
00:27:47.000 Because let's be honest, it's not the kind of small L liberals.
00:27:50.000 It's not the Bill Maher types.
00:27:52.000 It's not the kind of Enlightenment thinkers that are running NATO.
00:27:55.000 No, these people are like Harvard educated, Brown educated, woke totalitarians.
00:28:04.000 And neither is acceptable, by the way.
00:28:07.000 Putin believes the response to what is happening in the West is more restrictions, more control.
00:28:15.000 In 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.
00:28:24.000 We don't hold that view as conservatives, obviously.
00:28:26.000 We believe in the blending of antiquity and the best of the Enlightenment and modernity with the respect for individual rights. 0.97
00:28:34.000 There's reports that Russians have jailed many people for being gay, which is repulsive and disgusting. 0.68
00:28:40.000 Putin rules a country, this is from the Washington Post, where a number of credible reports of the torture and imprisonment of gay men.
00:28:46.000 In 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.
00:28:57.000 The 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.
00:29:07.000 Now, that's the important thing, right?
00:29:08.000 So Russian teachers are saying that the kind of the homosexual movement, that this degenerative stuff is from the West.
00:29:18.000 And so basically, one of the ways that Putin is convincing this war to continue is, of course, the ethno-nationalist impulse, which is repulsive.
00:29:26.000 But it's also an equally repulsive thing where he's saying, like, look, we are now going to fight these Western values in Ukraine.
00:29:35.000 And 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.
00:29:51.000 Now Ukraine is becoming more like Paris and we hate Paris. 0.99
00:29:56.000 So a lot of this happening right now, the deeper game at play here is social policy.
00:30:03.000 Isn't that interesting?
00:30:04.000 I don't hear one person on television talking about that.
00:30:06.000 Not one.
00:30:08.000 The only person I only hear talking about it is that we need to now impose this kind of radical woke nonsense in more countries.
00:30:19.000 Now, 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? 0.57
00:30:38.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:30:42.000 But I hope that background and context was helpful, especially when it comes to what's happening in Ukraine.
00:30:47.000 It's a whole different kind of chapter in this story that I think most people overlooked, have been overlooking.
00:30:53.000 Okay, Charlie, love you and Erica.
00:30:55.000 Thank you.
00:30:55.000 I love Erica too.
00:30:56.000 Love your show.
00:30:57.000 And I saw your telegram that cases are on the rise around the world, COVID cases.
00:31:01.000 But praise God, deaths are down.
00:31:03.000 I'm worried restrictions are coming back.
00:31:04.000 You said we should never allow it to happen, and I agree.
00:31:06.000 But I fear now that they've done it once, they'll do it again.
00:31:09.000 Are we heading for lockdowns in the spring, Chloe from Philly?
00:31:11.000 We very well might be.
00:31:13.000 There are increasing reports that COVID cases are on the rise in Europe, politico.
00:31:19.000 Europe's COVID spike, has Biden officials concerned, could lead to the return of masks.
00:31:24.000 The 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.
00:31:35.000 We're not done yet.
00:31:36.000 After all these vaccines, all the boosters, Omicron, we're still not done.
00:31:40.000 While 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.
00:31:56.000 Anthony 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.
00:32:03.000 We're not going to ignore it.
00:32:04.000 We've got to monitor very carefully.
00:32:06.000 In China, they are locking down again and quarantining.
00:32:10.000 Austria just reintroduced mandatory mask mandates in most indoor settings starting next week, just two weeks after the requirement was abolished.
00:32:20.000 Do not be shocked.
00:32:21.000 Do not be surprised if lockdowns are coming again soon.
00:32:25.000 We will never let this happen again.
00:32:28.000 And 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.
00:32:36.000 We 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.
00:32:43.000 Not even close.
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00:33:50.000 It'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.
00:33:59.000 Putin spoke to 100,000 people at a rally just a couple hours ago to widespread support.
00:34:07.000 Wonder how many people are being paid to be there.
00:34:10.000 You got to wonder.
00:34:12.000 I don't have a transcript of his speech.
00:34:13.000 I'm just curious always to hear what he has to say.
00:34:15.000 Everyone should be.
00:34:17.000 But part of his rallying cry leading up to this is: look at the West.
00:34:22.000 They can't get their act together.
00:34:24.000 And I'll be very honest.
00:34:25.000 We're not making our case as the West when we have men win women's athletic championships.
00:34:31.000 It's not exactly like making ourselves look good, making ourselves look strong or decent as if we have our act together. 0.98
00:34:40.000 Makes us look like fools. 0.92
00:34:42.000 Stuff like that makes dictators and despots, makes it easier for them to create tyranny with their citizens. 0.96
00:34:49.000 Okay, Charlie, you warned about the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
00:34:53.000 You said that the petrodollar was key to this.
00:34:55.000 That's correct.
00:34:55.000 My question is twofold.
00:34:56.000 Do you think we can have multiple reserve currencies, like Chairman Powell said, too?
00:34:59.000 Does the green energy revolution the Dems want directly threaten the American reserve currency status?
00:35:04.000 It seems an obvious question.
00:35:06.000 But how come the Democrats don't talk about this? 1.00
00:35:08.000 Are they corrupt or stupid? 1.00
00:35:10.000 Both. 1.00
00:35:11.000 Okay, so here's an article right here.
00:35:12.000 Zerohedge.com.
00:35:14.000 Say hello to the Russia gold and Chinese petroyuan.
00:35:19.000 There's a long time coming, but finally some linaments of the multipolar world, new foundations are being revealed.
00:35:25.000 On 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.
00:35:35.000 The 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.
00:35:47.000 For 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.
00:35:58.000 Translation, 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.
00:36:07.000 Yes, 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.
00:36:22.000 It would be a disaster.
00:36:24.000 Okay, let's get to another question.
00:36:26.000 And then I think another part of the question was, can we have more than one preserved currency?
00:36:30.000 I think that's a terrible idea.
00:36:33.000 In 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.
00:36:41.000 In 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.
00:36:51.000 Saudi Arabia is now thinking not doing this anymore because of the JCPOA number two, otherwise known as the Iran deal.
00:36:58.000 Now, guess who's negotiating the Iran deal for us?
00:37:01.000 This is what's so disingenuous about this.
00:37:03.000 It's really interesting.
00:37:04.000 The more you look into it, almost all roads go through Iran right now.
00:37:06.000 It's very interesting.
00:37:08.000 The idea of what's happening with energy, the idea what's happening with the geopolitics of energy, Saudi Arabia, and even Russia.
00:37:16.000 So we are negotiating with Iran, which we shouldn't even be doing. 0.96
00:37:20.000 Who's the middleman?
00:37:22.000 Russia is the mediator between us and Iran in Vienna while Russia is invading Ukraine. 0.54
00:37:29.000 So if we were so upset about Russia, why are we allowing them to moderate our discussions? 0.91
00:37:33.000 Can someone ask that out of the Biden regime in a press conference?
00:37:38.000 Can someone ask the Biden regime, hey, if you don't trust Russia, if you call Putin a war criminal, fine, okay, we agree.
00:37:46.000 Why would you also sit down with Russia to have them be the middleman with Iran potentially getting a nuclear weapon?
00:37:54.000 Now, some people in America say, what's the big deal of Iran getting a nuclear weapon?
00:37:58.000 Well, first of all, they want to destroy America.
00:38:00.000 They want to destroy the West. 1.00
00:38:01.000 They want to destroy Israel, destroy all the Jews in the world. 1.00
00:38:03.000 Giving them a nuclear weapon would be one of the stupidest ideas ever. 1.00
00:38:07.000 But let's go a step deeper. 1.00
00:38:08.000 Let's just kind of take a step back.
00:38:10.000 What would that mean for Saudi Arabia?
00:38:13.000 Well, 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.
00:38:18.000 We're not going to pre-purchase dollars and sell oil to you.
00:38:21.000 Saudi Arabia hates the Iranians and the feeling is mutual. 1.00
00:38:26.000 So as Biden continues to pander to the Iranians, Obama's love of the Iranian regime is bizarre and was never properly explained, I think.
00:38:34.000 There are some theories out there.
00:38:36.000 I don't know if I believe them.
00:38:38.000 All 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.
00:38:46.000 Thanks to declassified CIA documents.
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