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00:03:02.000I get a lot of emails from you guys at freedom at charliekirk.com and we have a lot of 14, 15, and 16 year olds that listen to this program.
00:03:09.000And a lot of you did not have a lot of political awareness while President Obama was running the country into the ground.
00:03:18.000So it's very helpful sometimes to go back and remind people that President Barack Obama is a pathological liar.
00:03:25.000He rarely said a good thing about the United States of America.
00:03:29.000He was a vessel for Marxist takeover at every single entry point of the federal government.
00:03:37.000And President Barack Obama divided America racially and culturally more so than any other president in my lifetime and probably any other president since Woodrow Wilson.
00:03:48.000President Barack Obama is remembered with rose-colored glasses by the radical left and the activist media.
00:03:55.000They act as if he was this incredibly successful president who bridged America together.
00:04:01.000And then they blame Donald Trump for all the divisions that President Barack Obama himself actually was the one that made happen.
00:04:09.000So President Obama was trending on Twitter recently when he spoke at Representative John Lewis's funeral.
00:04:19.000We haven't yet had a chance to talk about it here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:04:22.000It's very important to distinguish between the accomplishments of John Lewis of the civil rights era and then John Lewis of the Trump era.
00:04:31.000It's two distinctly different buckets of processing his legacy.
00:04:36.000Now, mind you, the activist media prohibits what I'm about to say because I'm about to say something that complements what John Lewis did as a young man and then criticizes what he did in his later years and then also adds some context to how he was used by the Democrat Party.
00:04:53.000Now, the media thinks that you're not allowed to say anything like this whatsoever.
00:04:57.000And I'm not saying that John Lewis is a bad person.
00:05:00.000I'm not saying that he was always doing bad things.
00:05:03.000I'm saying that you have to look at things with a lot more nuance, especially when you look at how John Lewis deceived people in the last couple years.
00:05:15.000John Lewis heroically stood up to the racist Jim Crow Democrat South.
00:05:21.000He was beaten and bloodied in the famous march from Selma to Montgomery, which occurred on March 7th, 1965, when peaceful marchers were met by Alabama state troopers who attacked them with nightsticks, tear gas, and whips after they refused to turn back.
00:05:37.000This event led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was signed into law reluctantly by the racist Democrat Lyndon Baines Johnson, passed almost unanimously by the Republicans in the House and the Senate, and reluctantly by Democrats.
00:05:54.000Prior to that, blacks attempting to vote often were told by election officials that they had gotten the date, time, or polling place wrong, that they possessed insufficient literacy skills, or they had filled out an application incorrectly.
00:06:08.000These were racist laws passed by race-obsessed Democrats.
00:06:13.000The Democrats were obsessed about race back in the 1960s, and the Democrats are still obsessed about race to this day.
00:06:19.000So while we honor what John Lewis was part of in 1965, we cannot divorce from some of the slanderous things he said about President Donald Trump.
00:06:29.000Now, what I'm about to talk about right here is considered to be ideological contraband.
00:06:36.000Not allowed to say this, but I am anyway.
00:06:38.000John Lewis had called Trump an illegitimate president ahead of his 2017 inauguration.
00:06:45.000John Lewis was a hero for what he did in the 1960s.
00:06:49.000He's a fool for saying Donald Trump was an illegitimate president.
00:06:53.000Here's a clip from John Lewis with George Stephanopoulos in January of 2018 calling Trump a racist.
00:07:20.000And at the highest level of government, there's no room for racism.
00:07:27.000And again, since John Lewis marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, something that Jesse Jackson did, and he was actually there when Martin Luther King was shot, we can't ignore how Obama shamelessly used his death to advocate for partisanship.
00:07:44.000Look, here's an uncomfortable truth for you.
00:07:48.000Funerals in the Trump era are used as nonstop commercial-free Lecture campaigns to try to destroy Donald Trump's favorability in the public eye.
00:08:00.000Funerals should be about remembering someone's legacy, the impact they had on the world, and trying to continue to speak truthfully into their family members and give them some peace of how they can live better lives because of how that human being impacted the world.
00:08:19.000However, this funeral for John Lewis was no different than also the funeral for John McCain or George Floyd that lasted a couple days, uninterrupted, on cable television, where there were many speakers that used their platforms to attack Donald Trump and his current presidency, either outwardly or a little less than on the surface.
00:08:47.000It might have been a little buried in some of their comments.
00:08:49.000George H.W. Bush, too, when he passed away, was used as a way to attack Donald Trump.
00:08:55.000Now, Barack Obama, look, I've been following President Obama since he was a state senator in the state of Illinois, because that's my home state.
00:09:04.000I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago.
00:09:06.000And so I'm going to say this as delicately as I can.
00:09:14.000President Obama starts to incorporate some urban slang.
00:09:18.000It's almost like when Alexandria Casio-Cotez, the clueless socialist who represents New York, it's like when she spoke in front of black audiences at Al Sharpton's race-baiting National Action Network summit, when Alexandria Casio-Cotez started to talk in, let's just say, black slang, and that's not my term, that is Candace Owens' term, who called her out for it.
00:09:44.000Anyway, President Obama used a lot of scripture.
00:10:41.000Vote by mail might be the single most important issue heading to November, but because the Democrats plan to use it to corrupt the voting process.
00:10:51.000We've had Tom Fitton on our program previously that has talked about this extensively.
00:10:56.000And go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show to go listen to Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch talk about this very topic.
00:11:03.000NPR, National Public Radio, just sent out a push notification on Apple News.
00:11:09.000And we can get deeper into this, but the Republicans on the hearing against big tech, they did such a poor job in some ways because I would love to know who exactly, I want to know the human being's name of who's in charge of what gets a push notification on Apple News and what doesn't.
00:11:23.000I want to know who is in charge of this.
00:11:49.000They're focusing intensely on trying to get vote by mail.
00:11:52.000It makes a lot of sense because the Democrats, I don't think, can win a fair election right now.
00:11:55.000The Democrats need to cheat their way to victory.
00:11:57.000They need to find the right amount of dead voters, harvest the right amount of ballots.
00:12:01.000I know somebody in the state of Arizona that had multiple ballots sent to their home, multiple, and they tried to return them and there was no way to do it.
00:12:08.000They didn't fill them out, but they tried to return them.
00:12:10.000And no one really, the state election commission or whatever, the board, County of Supervisors, what do they call it in Arizona, was basically like, oh, yeah, this happens all the time.
00:12:26.000And the Democrats say, well, we're big proponents of democracy, even though we are a republic, not a democracy.
00:12:32.000But if they really believe that, wouldn't they want the most secure elections possible?
00:12:38.000President Barack Obama also called the Senate filibuster rule a Jim Crow relic and said it should be ended to pass legislation that would restore a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
00:12:49.000The Senate filibuster is a procedural tactic that requires 60 votes for legislation to proceed.
00:12:56.000Here's what President Obama said: once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, we should keep on marching.
00:13:05.000And if this all takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic in order to secure the God-given rights of every American, then that's what we should do.
00:13:27.000Obama is still very upset that the Republican filibusters really stopped much of his radical policy agenda during his presidency.
00:13:38.000And I don't remember him saying that it was a Jim Crow era relic when he filibustered against Justice Alito's appointment.
00:13:47.000Barack Obama joined a filibuster to try to block Samuel Alito from joining the United States Supreme Court January 30th, 2006, when he was a senator for the state of Illinois.
00:14:17.000Look, I think the filibuster is actually necessary to be a deliberative body, which is what the Founding Fathers wanted the United States Senate to be.
00:14:24.000They wanted the United States Senate to be a place where it would slow down the process where the House works in a hurry.
00:14:30.000The Senate is much more intentional with how they go about legislation.
00:14:34.000But just labeling the filibuster as racist as they have with everything else is a symptom of a sloppy mind, is what it is.
00:14:42.000It is a symptom of a sloppy mind and incorrect thinking.
00:14:47.000So as Vox says, from 1875 until 1957, Congress did not enact a single civil rights bill, even as Jim Crow flourished in the South.
00:14:59.000Vox is kind of correct about how the filibuster was used as a way to block civil rights legislation, but why are they wrong here?
00:15:09.000They're wrong because women's suffrage passed between 1875 and 1957.
00:15:14.000So now, according to Vox, I guess women's right to vote isn't a civil rights issue.
00:15:20.000Either that or they just are only talking about racial civil rights issues.
00:15:24.000So Vox swings and misses here on their headline.
00:15:27.000And again, I'm actually giving them a little bit more rope because there was a discussion amongst the American founders of whether it should be a pluralistic body, which just means you have to have more votes than the other person, or whether it should be a supermajority body, 60, 65 votes.
00:15:42.000Thomas Jefferson argued that the United States Senate should be a majoritarian body.
00:15:48.000Now, mind you, Obama and the Democrats are setting the table for after that they think they are going to win in November.
00:16:14.000The Republicans do not have a great case as to why they shouldn't abolish the filibuster now and just start passing common sense legislation.
00:16:23.000You might say, Charlie, what are you talking about?
00:16:25.000Look, one of the most important things the United States Senate can do and should do is confirm justices to the United States Supreme Court.
00:16:35.000Mitch McConnell made the decision to confirm Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court without a 60-vote threshold.
00:16:44.000He decided to do it without the filibuster.
00:16:46.000Now, mind you, the filibuster is typically used as a way to block any amendments to continuing resolutions or to try to have clean bills.
00:16:57.000But if the Republicans were willing to follow Harry Reid's precedent where he actually blew up the filibuster for a couple circuit court judges back in 2014, and then the Republicans continued that tradition, just to be fair, just to be consistent here and not just to be nakedly partisan.
00:17:16.000The Republicans do not have the best argument if the Democrats take over the Senate and then they start to use the same tactics that Republicans used to get Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.
00:17:27.000Just to be totally fair about the argument that they're making.
00:17:30.000President Obama is misrepresenting it.
00:17:32.000Vox has decided that women's suffrage was not a civil rights issue.
00:17:39.000But there's more nuance here than just saying that the Democrats are completely philosophically wrong here.
00:17:45.000I think they're generally wrong, but there is some merit to their argument.
00:17:48.000And you don't hear me say that very often.
00:17:51.000So the Democrats think they're going to win back the House and the Senate and the White House, and that they're going to get rid of the Senate 60-vote rule, effectively getting rid of the filibuster, which has been a protection against the tyranny of the simple majority.
00:18:04.000Now, mind you, McConnell, as I said, got rid of the filibuster for SCODIS appointments, but refused to do for legislation or other judicial appointments.
00:18:15.000I just think here's what's going to happen.
00:18:16.000If the Democrats win back the Senate, which I do think is unlikely, but if the Democrats win back the Senate and they get rid of the filibuster, I don't think Republicans have a great argument to complain.
00:18:27.000I just think that they have continued this tradition of going down the pathway of just being a majoritarian body, especially when it comes to Supreme Court appointments.
00:18:36.000And if they cry foul, I don't think that it's actually a great argument because they themselves already used a majoritarian exercise to try and confirm one of the most important parts of a lifelong appointment in our government.
00:18:51.000So maybe the Republicans should have gone all in.
00:18:53.000And I could have made the argument that Mitch McConnell should have saw how things were going to go, how Democrats were going to get rid of the filibuster, and they should have used the 51 or 50 with a tie when the vice president is the tie vote threshold as a reason to go pass really bold and ambitious legislation.
00:19:11.000And then they could have probably stayed in power and was more likely to keep the United States Senate.
00:20:46.000When you do, you'll save 50% off your first month.
00:20:50.000So what is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act?
00:20:54.000Before I get into this, I just want to say that Democrats treat black people like they're really stupid.
00:21:03.000Democrats treat black people as if they have no agency to be able to identify themselves or be able to operate without some sort of Democrat puppet master controlling every micro decision in their life.
00:21:19.000And so there were two decisions: Shelby versus Holder in 2013 and Abbott versus Perez in 2018, which they say gutted the Supreme Court decisions.
00:21:30.000First of all, those decisions allowed you to have voter ID in certain states.
00:21:34.000So Shelby County versus Holder, who was the Attorney General of the United States before Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder ran guns to the Mexican cartels so that Americans could be killed.
00:21:45.000That was a U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal pre-clearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices.
00:22:01.000And Section 4, which contains the coverage formula that determines which jurisdictions are subjected to pre-clearance based on their histories of discrimination in voting.
00:22:10.000Abbott versus Perez, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, a great Supreme Court justice, God bless him.
00:22:17.000The court upheld the current redistricting maps as valid districts outside of one district.
00:22:22.000Texas House District 90 near Fort Worth, which the court found was an impermissible racial gerrymander, remanding the case to lower courts to correct the redistricting to eliminate the racial gerrymandering.
00:22:35.000So here's something that maybe somebody out there can explain to me.
00:22:38.000And by the way, if you're a Democrat listening to this program, God bless you.
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00:22:51.000Maybe a Democrat can explain this to me.
00:22:54.000There's a whole argument out there that we should give reparations to black people, and those are the descendants of slaves.
00:23:02.000How are you supposed to prove that you're a descendant of a slave without being able to prove your family's lineage or genealogy?
00:23:09.000Wouldn't that require some form of identification?
00:23:12.000If you had to prove your bloodline was a slave family seven generations ago, and you can get all that paperwork together, wouldn't it be pretty reasonable to say that you could get your identification together to prove who you are today?
00:23:25.000There's a whole list of things that require an ID: boarding an airplane, renting a movie, being able to buy a firearm, drive a car.
00:23:36.000Now, people say, well, Charlie, none of those things are rights.
00:23:41.000That's an even more important reason to require one vote, one person, and make sure the person actually voting is who you say you are.
00:23:51.000James O'Keefe from Project Veritas, a couple years ago when Eric Holder was the Attorney General of the United States, I think he got in trouble for this one, but he went to Eric Holder's voting location.
00:24:03.000And in that particular state, they do not require an ID to prove who you are to be able to vote.
00:25:43.000If voting is so important as the Democrats say that it is, then wouldn't that be important enough to go find some form of identification for yourself?
00:25:52.000And show me one person who is not able to identify themselves in the modern era today.
00:25:56.000I just, I have no tolerance at all whatsoever for this argument.
00:26:02.000So Obama also endorsed other Democrat reforms, including an end to partisan gerrymandering, extending statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and making Election Day a national holiday.
00:26:13.000Now, why is Barack Obama talking about all these things?
00:26:17.000Remember, the left is obsessed with power.
00:26:20.000We as conservatives, we as Christians, we as decent and reasonable people, and you might not be any of those things, but thank you for listening.
00:26:27.000We are, the thing that drives us is not power.
00:26:31.000It is the liberty of human beings and decent and stable and peaceable lives.
00:26:37.000Well, what would granting statehood to D.C., Puerto Rico, and making election a national holiday do?
00:26:43.000Well, for one, if D.C. was a state, that would be two more United States senators.
00:26:49.000So they'd have 102 senators, Puerto Rico, 104 senators, and Election Day a national holiday.
00:26:54.000Even though we have voting month, where you have early voting all over battleground states and where I grew up and states that I've visited, they have voting booths that are so abundant that are around every single corner starting in early October.
00:27:08.000Not to mention you could vote absentee, vote by mail.
00:27:13.000Everything that President Barack Hussein Obama was arguing for was trying to make it easier for Democrats to be able to win national elections.
00:27:36.000There are those in power doing their darndest to discourage people from voting by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws.
00:27:46.000Even under moaning, the Postal Service in an election is going to be dependent on mail-in ballots.
00:27:53.000Now, look, President Barack Hussein Obama, he's referencing that Trump has opposed moves in Congress to help the financially struggling U.S. Postal Service handle the sharp uptick in mail voting.
00:28:05.000He's opposing this because the Democrats have proven to misuse things like ballot harvesting and poorly maintained voter rolls to win elections.
00:28:14.000For Obama to compare the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with opposing nationwide vote by mail is a disgusting, repulsive, and shameful lie.
00:28:25.000He is using John Lewis's civil rights legacy and marches of Martin Luther King Jr. to advance a purely partisan aim and a corrupt one.
00:28:36.000And I can guarantee you that if Donald Trump was so openly partisan during a eulogy to a civil rights icon or any eulogy for that matter, the headlines I would be reading would be a lot different than what I said earlier.
00:28:51.000Quote, George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.
00:29:02.000So first of all, George Wallace was a Democrat.
00:29:07.000George Wallace was a Dixiecrat Democrat who actually ran for the presidency unsuccessfully.
00:29:13.000And his most famous quote was segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
00:29:21.000Sounds like the Democrats today, actually.
00:29:23.000Democrats want black segregation in college campuses where they want black-only math classes.0.70
00:29:28.000Democrats want segregation of black people to have separate but better treatment.
00:29:36.000I guess that spirit of the Democrat Party hasn't lost them.
00:29:47.000We've talked about how Orwellian this was.
00:29:49.000And we talked about before our book of the week last week from our friends at thinker.org, T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie, with 1984 by Orwell.
00:29:59.000Our friends at thinker.org/slash Charlie, they actually have a really good summary on George Orwell's 1984, and we talk about what Orwellian thinking is.
00:30:07.000And we're actually going to have our book of the week coming up in just a couple of seconds here.
00:30:10.000But I mean, to say that these are peaceful demonstrators and even slightly alluding that the looting, you like that play on words, slightly alluding to the looting and the arson in Portland and Seattle is something close to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.
00:30:50.000It's so hard to articulate this video I saw this weekend.
00:30:54.000It was this young woman, mother, who had a baby in her arms, and she was hanging out with two of her friends, a black woman, right outside the street.
00:31:04.000And I'm going to try to recreate the video the best I can.
00:31:06.000And she's right on the side of the street.
00:31:08.000And it's very evident that this video was taken from either a Nest Cam or a surveillance footage or whatever it might be.
00:31:17.000And it was a perfect view of the street.
00:31:55.000And then the interesting part of the video, again, no one talks about this because the activist media doesn't care about black lives being killed.
00:32:03.000They only care about cops fitting a narrative that isn't true.
00:32:07.000And the most amazing part about the video, in my opinion, was that the next person that came in didn't even check to see if the woman who got shot was okay.
00:32:16.000He gets in and gets into the car to go seek revenge for the gang war that was just continuing.
00:32:21.000He doesn't even care if the woman is shot, doesn't care about the kid, just drives on.
00:32:26.000And eventually, a minute later, someone pulls up and they put her in the car and they go take her to the hospital.
00:32:32.000And then a grandfather comes, grandfatherly type figure, and takes the baby away.
00:32:37.000So, of course, Barack Obama doesn't mention any of that: black and black crime and how black people are much more likely to be killed by a black person by a ridiculous multiple than a white person, let alone a white cop.
00:32:49.000I mean, being killed by a white cop innocently is such a statistical impossibility, it is hard to even put into words.
00:32:57.000They came out with this ridiculous thing where they said, oh, we at college board, we are so angry, upset about all the racism in our country, and we stand up against black people innocently being killed just by the color of their skin.
00:33:10.000And it's actually, it's really interesting why the college board doesn't have any sort of movement whatsoever about we stand against black gangbangers shooting mothers with children in their arms on the side of the street.
00:33:27.000That would be a nice thing to see not happening, of course not, because that sort of doesn't fit the narrative.
00:33:48.000It is a projection, the likes of which it's hard to even articulate how much he is deceiving us.
00:33:56.000When we have seen what has happened when 150-plus businesses in downtown Minneapolis were burned down to the ground, when we have seen the looting and the arson, when we have seen 57 straight days of terrorism in the streets of Portland, and Barack Obama says that that's peaceful demonstration, it's Orwellian.
00:35:44.000Remember that beauty where he traded four terrorists, basically the terrorist dream team, the terrorist Avenger squad, sent them overseas.
00:35:54.000And we got in return Bo Bergdahl, traitor to our country.
00:35:59.000How about the Obamacare disaster, which destroyed our health care system in our country?
00:36:03.000Higher prices, no transparency, and a total loss of choice.
00:36:07.000He oversaw the worst economic recovery in American history.
00:36:12.000He oversaw the beginning of BLM in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore.
00:36:17.000And before the most recent pandemic stimulus, when adjusted for inflation, Obama, he borrowed more than any other president that preceded him post-World War II.
00:36:29.000He attempted to limit religious freedom against the sisters of the poor.
00:36:33.000He pushed abort of facience all throughout society, and he famously evolved on the issue of gay marriage.
00:36:40.000And not to mention, President Barack Obama got us two of the most radical Supreme Court justices, Elena Kagan and Justice Sotomayor.
00:36:49.000And I think this is a good time to talk about our book of the week from thinker.org.
00:37:20.000I spend three hours every single night watching lectures, thinking about big ideas.
00:37:27.000I have voluminous amounts of notebooks, and my team knows I'm always carrying my notebook around with me where I just take notes and I'm just always trying to process information and I kind of look at things to look up later and go down rabbit holes and listen to some of the great lecturers.
00:37:43.000I process information better that way.
00:37:45.000But I found Thinker, and it's amazing.
00:37:48.000They said, hey, we want to partner with you on the show and the program.
00:38:25.000I want you to grow in confidence around the great ideas that, of course, originate from the greatest book ever to exist in the history of the world, the Holy Bible, and also the thinkers that were inspired by that and built out really bold ideas, whether it be from Rene Descartes to Aquinas to Augustine to Hume to Locke.
00:38:46.000A lot of these big picture ideas can now be consumed very quickly.
00:39:16.000Thomas Sowell, black economist, grew up in Harlem, studied under Milton Friedman, the great Milton Friedman.
00:39:23.000And while he was studying under Milton Friedman at the University of Chicago and the Chicago School of Economics, he became one of the most outspoken critics of collectivist socialist thinking.
00:40:03.000So the book that I'm choosing that I think fits perfectly into this criticism and this critique of Barack Obama is Discrimination and Disparities.
00:40:18.000And basically, economist Thomas Sowell, this is straight from their website, he argues that single factor explanations of disparities between individuals and groups, like race, for example, fail to take in life's complexity or basic probability into account.
00:40:34.000Thomas Sowell reviews studies across numerous disciplines to build a case that misunderstanding the causes and acting on half-baked definitions of discrimination have often led to policies that harm the very people those policies were designed to help.
00:40:53.000So here are some of the big takeaways.
00:40:55.000Number one, we should not be surprised that outcomes are not randomly or perfectly proportionate.
00:41:01.000So Thomas Sowell, being a black economist, he's able to basically cross-examine the collectivist Marxist Barack Obama and say, hey, maybe there's other reasons besides racism why the black community might have disparities in income and in wealth.
00:41:17.000Thomas Sowell was a huge critic and is a huge critic of Barack Obama.
00:41:21.000He also says our internal sense of expected outcomes is off, which creates dissonance with reality.
00:41:27.000He also said we are not discriminating enough in our definitions of discrimination.
00:41:32.000Thomas Sowell also said some types of discrimination are ideal, but not always possible.
00:41:37.000Others are useful, but not always accurate.
00:41:39.000Still, others are neither useful nor accurate.
00:41:42.000It's a really good point he makes next.
00:41:43.000He says, some employers were actually more likely to hire young black males when they were allowed to do background checks.
00:41:51.000Thomas Sowell, one of the things he talked about is how the policies that were designed to try to help black people actually hurt black people, minimum wage laws, affirmative action, required hiring practices.
00:42:03.000Thomas Sowell, in this book, and that's as big of a tease as I'll give, and it's thinker.org, but there's no E, so it's T-H-I-N-K-R.org slash Charlie.
00:42:12.000You'll be able to get awesome, easy-to-understand books that you can consume in just a couple minutes.
00:42:17.000And for you students out there, if you have some assignments for some of them, that might be a pretty easy way for you to be able to consume this information, if you might be behind on some of your assignments.
00:42:26.000But Thomas Sowell, one of the great thinkers of our time, I think he stands as a titan of reason versus the charlatan that is Barack Obama.
00:42:37.000If Barack Obama read and understood Thomas Sowell, he wouldn't be a leftist.
00:42:41.000Thomas Sowell grew up in actual abject poverty.
00:42:53.000Thomas Sowell talks about opportunity for all people for restoring human dignity and human flourishing.
00:42:58.000He does it so perfectly in this book, Discrimination and Disparities, which is our book of the week, brought to you by thinker.org slash Charlie.
00:43:07.000It's important we remember the legacy of Barack Obama.
00:43:09.000It's one of division, destruction, disaster, chaos, and disorder.
00:43:15.000We elect vice president, former vice president Joe Biden, who, interestingly enough, wasn't there at the funeral.
00:43:24.000Maybe Joe Biden and his racist policies that he talked about for decades wouldn't resonate well when you're supposed to honor a civil rights icon.
00:43:32.000It's also important that we remember people in their totality.
00:43:36.000Remember them for the good they did, like marching in Selma, and the foolish things they did, like calling President Trump a racist.
00:43:43.000I think it's perfectly fine and understandable to be nuanced and balanced in both of those things.
00:43:48.000I also think it's really important to remember that Barack Obama is not done.
00:43:53.000That Barack Obama, the way he was talking at this funeral, you could tell revenge was flowing through that man.
00:44:02.000He's angry that President Trump canceled the Iran deal because President Barack Obama stays up late at night trying to think how we can get more money to evil Iranians.
00:44:13.000A top focus of Barack Obama is making sure the Iranian mullahs can have swimming pools of cash.
00:45:16.000He wants a fundamental transformation of our country.
00:45:21.000He wants his wife to become the president of the United States one day.
00:45:27.000I think in some ways Joe Biden is a means to an end.
00:45:31.000I actually think they might remove Joe Biden as president very quickly if he wins.
00:45:34.000I think Joe Biden is the sacrificial Trojan horse that will be remembered as the Democrat that played team ball so that the radical elements could get back into power.
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