The Charlie Kirk Show - July 31, 2020


Barack Obama: America's Worst President


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An important episode is here where we challenge President Barack Obama and his sinister worldview. Buckle up, everybody! President Obama is back, and we give a detailed and evidence-based cross-examination of one of the worst presidents in American history.

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00:02:52.000 President Barack Obama.
00:02:55.000 I'm not going to say his name that often.
00:02:56.000 I think we're going to be saying it more and more heading into this election.
00:03:01.000 It's interesting.
00:03:02.000 I 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.
00:03:09.000 And a lot of you did not have a lot of political awareness while President Obama was running the country into the ground. 0.95
00:03:18.000 So it's very helpful sometimes to go back and remind people that President Barack Obama is a pathological liar. 0.90
00:03:25.000 He rarely said a good thing about the United States of America. 0.93
00:03:29.000 He was a vessel for Marxist takeover at every single entry point of the federal government.
00:03:37.000 And 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.
00:03:48.000 President Barack Obama is remembered with rose-colored glasses by the radical left and the activist media.
00:03:55.000 They act as if he was this incredibly successful president who bridged America together.
00:04:01.000 And then they blame Donald Trump for all the divisions that President Barack Obama himself actually was the one that made happen.
00:04:09.000 So President Obama was trending on Twitter recently when he spoke at Representative John Lewis's funeral.
00:04:17.000 So let's talk about John Lewis.
00:04:19.000 We haven't yet had a chance to talk about it here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:04:22.000 It's very important to distinguish between the accomplishments of John Lewis of the civil rights era and then John Lewis of the Trump era.
00:04:31.000 It's two distinctly different buckets of processing his legacy.
00:04:36.000 Now, 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.
00:04:53.000 Now, the media thinks that you're not allowed to say anything like this whatsoever.
00:04:57.000 And I'm not saying that John Lewis is a bad person.
00:05:00.000 I'm not saying that he was always doing bad things.
00:05:03.000 I'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.
00:05:14.000 Let's start with the good stuff. 0.61
00:05:15.000 John Lewis heroically stood up to the racist Jim Crow Democrat South. 0.51
00:05:21.000 He 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.
00:05:37.000 This 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. 0.99
00:05:52.000 This was a good thing. 0.86
00:05:54.000 Prior 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. 0.82
00:06:08.000 These were racist laws passed by race-obsessed Democrats.
00:06:13.000 The Democrats were obsessed about race back in the 1960s, and the Democrats are still obsessed about race to this day.
00:06:19.000 So 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.
00:06:29.000 Now, what I'm about to talk about right here is considered to be ideological contraband.
00:06:36.000 Not allowed to say this, but I am anyway.
00:06:38.000 John Lewis had called Trump an illegitimate president ahead of his 2017 inauguration.
00:06:45.000 John Lewis was a hero for what he did in the 1960s. 0.99
00:06:49.000 He's a fool for saying Donald Trump was an illegitimate president. 0.98
00:06:53.000 Here's a clip from John Lewis with George Stephanopoulos in January of 2018 calling Trump a racist. 1.00
00:06:59.000 Play tape.
00:07:00.000 Do you think President Trump is a racist? 0.99
00:07:02.000 I think he is a racist. 0.90
00:07:05.000 Here's another clip of him calling Trump a racist in a House floor speech July of last year. 0.96
00:07:10.000 Play tape.
00:07:11.000 I know racism when I see it.
00:07:15.000 I know racism when I feel it.
00:07:20.000 And at the highest level of government, there's no room for racism.
00:07:27.000 And 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.
00:07:44.000 Look, here's an uncomfortable truth for you.
00:07:48.000 Funerals in the Trump era are used as nonstop commercial-free Lecture campaigns to try to destroy Donald Trump's favorability in the public eye.
00:07:58.000 It's just true.
00:08:00.000 Funerals 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.
00:08:18.000 I think that's perfectly fine.
00:08:19.000 However, 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.
00:08:47.000 It might have been a little buried in some of their comments.
00:08:49.000 George H.W. Bush, too, when he passed away, was used as a way to attack Donald Trump.
00:08:55.000 Now, 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.
00:09:04.000 I'm originally from the suburbs of Chicago.
00:09:06.000 And so I'm going to say this as delicately as I can.
00:09:11.000 You like that, team?
00:09:12.000 That's good, delicately.
00:09:14.000 President Obama starts to incorporate some urban slang.
00:09:18.000 It'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.
00:09:44.000 Anyway, President Obama used a lot of scripture.
00:09:47.000 He constantly quotes scripture.
00:09:50.000 I'm a Bible-believing Christian.
00:09:52.000 I do find it perplexing that President Barack Obama, being the planned parenthood sycophant, continually uses scripture.
00:10:00.000 And then President Barack Obama shamefully advocated for vote by mail in this year's presidential election.
00:10:06.000 So check out some of these media headlines that were fawning over former President Barack Obama's speech.
00:10:11.000 The Miami Herald, at Lewis' funeral, Obama calls for renewing the Voting Rights Act.
00:10:16.000 Bloomberg said, at John Lewis' funeral, Obama calls for renewing Voting Rights Act, The Hill.
00:10:22.000 Obama calls filibuster Jim Crow relic, back's new Voting Rights Act bill.
00:10:28.000 Now, again, the left, they're phenomenal marketers.
00:10:30.000 Who could be against the Voting Rights Act?
00:10:32.000 Well, the media is painting this, the activist media is painting this, as the civil rights issue of our time.
00:10:40.000 It isn't.
00:10:41.000 Vote 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.
00:10:51.000 We've had Tom Fitton on our program previously that has talked about this extensively.
00:10:56.000 And go back in the archives of the Charlie Kirk show to go listen to Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch talk about this very topic.
00:11:01.000 The media is playing into this.
00:11:03.000 NPR, National Public Radio, just sent out a push notification on Apple News.
00:11:09.000 And 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.
00:11:23.000 I want to know who is in charge of this.
00:11:25.000 So here's what NPR.
00:11:26.000 I didn't subscribe to this, but NPR just sends it on my phone on Apple News.
00:11:29.000 More than half of young voters say they don't have the resources or knowledge to vote by mail in November.
00:11:35.000 A new poll finds.
00:11:36.000 Well, how about the young people show up to go vote because they're not at risk to die of the virus?
00:11:40.000 How about that?
00:11:41.000 I mean, what a deceiving headline.
00:11:43.000 Resources to go vote by mail.
00:11:45.000 We have created such soft young people.
00:11:47.000 It is just unbelievable.
00:11:49.000 They're focusing intensely on trying to get vote by mail.
00:11:52.000 It makes a lot of sense because the Democrats, I don't think, can win a fair election right now.
00:11:55.000 The Democrats need to cheat their way to victory.
00:11:57.000 They need to find the right amount of dead voters, harvest the right amount of ballots.
00:12:01.000 I 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.
00:12:08.000 They didn't fill them out, but they tried to return them.
00:12:10.000 And 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.
00:12:19.000 Just don't turn them in.
00:12:20.000 Happens all the time, is what they said.
00:12:22.000 It is outrageous.
00:12:24.000 It is criminal to our voting process.
00:12:26.000 And the Democrats say, well, we're big proponents of democracy, even though we are a republic, not a democracy.
00:12:32.000 But if they really believe that, wouldn't they want the most secure elections possible?
00:12:38.000 President 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.
00:12:49.000 The Senate filibuster is a procedural tactic that requires 60 votes for legislation to proceed.
00:12:56.000 Here's what President Obama said: once we pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, we should keep on marching. 0.74
00:13:05.000 And 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.
00:13:16.000 What? 0.52
00:13:17.000 So before I explain the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, let's discuss the filibuster.
00:13:22.000 Getting rid of it is called the, quote, nuclear option.
00:13:26.000 That should say something.
00:13:27.000 Obama is still very upset that the Republican filibusters really stopped much of his radical policy agenda during his presidency.
00:13:38.000 And I don't remember him saying that it was a Jim Crow era relic when he filibustered against Justice Alito's appointment.
00:13:47.000 Barack 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.
00:14:01.000 This is what Vox is saying.
00:14:02.000 Vox is full of incredibly overeducated, high IQ Marxists that hate America.
00:14:09.000 The filibuster is a historical accident that became a tool of white supremacy.
00:14:14.000 So what is their rationale?
00:14:16.000 And there is some truth to this.
00:14:17.000 Look, 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.
00:14:24.000 They wanted the United States Senate to be a place where it would slow down the process where the House works in a hurry.
00:14:30.000 The Senate is much more intentional with how they go about legislation.
00:14:34.000 But just labeling the filibuster as racist as they have with everything else is a symptom of a sloppy mind, is what it is.
00:14:42.000 It is a symptom of a sloppy mind and incorrect thinking.
00:14:47.000 So as Vox says, from 1875 until 1957, Congress did not enact a single civil rights bill, even as Jim Crow flourished in the South.
00:14:57.000 Now, this is very deceiving.
00:14:59.000 Vox is kind of correct about how the filibuster was used as a way to block civil rights legislation, but why are they wrong here?
00:15:09.000 They're wrong because women's suffrage passed between 1875 and 1957.
00:15:14.000 So now, according to Vox, I guess women's right to vote isn't a civil rights issue.
00:15:20.000 Either that or they just are only talking about racial civil rights issues.
00:15:24.000 So Vox swings and misses here on their headline.
00:15:27.000 And 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.
00:15:42.000 Thomas Jefferson argued that the United States Senate should be a majoritarian body.
00:15:48.000 Now, mind you, Obama and the Democrats are setting the table for after that they think they are going to win in November.
00:15:54.000 This is all plainly political.
00:15:56.000 They are planting the seeds now, so if they win the Senate, this won't be a surprise anymore.
00:16:03.000 So look, this entire focus on trying to get rid of the filibuster is incredibly political.
00:16:10.000 I am going to say here, though, that the Republicans don't have the best case here.
00:16:13.000 They don't.
00:16:14.000 The Republicans do not have a great case as to why they shouldn't abolish the filibuster now and just start passing common sense legislation.
00:16:23.000 You might say, Charlie, what are you talking about?
00:16:25.000 Look, one of the most important things the United States Senate can do and should do is confirm justices to the United States Supreme Court.
00:16:35.000 Mitch McConnell made the decision to confirm Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court without a 60-vote threshold.
00:16:44.000 He decided to do it without the filibuster.
00:16:46.000 Now, mind you, the filibuster is typically used as a way to block any amendments to continuing resolutions or to try to have clean bills.
00:16:56.000 I get that.
00:16:57.000 But 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.
00:17:16.000 The 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.
00:17:27.000 Just to be totally fair about the argument that they're making.
00:17:30.000 President Obama is misrepresenting it.
00:17:32.000 Vox has decided that women's suffrage was not a civil rights issue.
00:17:36.000 Okay.
00:17:37.000 And they're also misrepresenting it.
00:17:39.000 But there's more nuance here than just saying that the Democrats are completely philosophically wrong here.
00:17:45.000 I think they're generally wrong, but there is some merit to their argument.
00:17:48.000 And you don't hear me say that very often.
00:17:51.000 So 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.
00:18:04.000 Now, mind you, McConnell, as I said, got rid of the filibuster for SCODIS appointments, but refused to do for legislation or other judicial appointments.
00:18:13.000 Now, maybe we should have.
00:18:15.000 I just think here's what's going to happen.
00:18:16.000 If 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.
00:18:26.000 I don't.
00:18:27.000 I 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.
00:18:36.000 And 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.
00:18:51.000 So maybe the Republicans should have gone all in.
00:18:52.000 It's maybe the point.
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00:20:50.000 So what is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act? 1.00
00:20:54.000 Before I get into this, I just want to say that Democrats treat black people like they're really stupid. 0.99
00:21:03.000 Democrats 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. 0.99
00:21:19.000 And so there were two decisions: Shelby versus Holder in 2013 and Abbott versus Perez in 2018, which they say gutted the Supreme Court decisions.
00:21:30.000 First of all, those decisions allowed you to have voter ID in certain states.
00:21:34.000 So 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.
00:21:45.000 That 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.
00:22:01.000 And Section 4, which contains the coverage formula that determines which jurisdictions are subjected to pre-clearance based on their histories of discrimination in voting.
00:22:10.000 Abbott versus Perez, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Samuel Alito, a great Supreme Court justice, God bless him.
00:22:17.000 The court upheld the current redistricting maps as valid districts outside of one district.
00:22:22.000 Texas 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.
00:22:35.000 So here's something that maybe somebody out there can explain to me.
00:22:38.000 And by the way, if you're a Democrat listening to this program, God bless you.
00:22:41.000 Thank you for listening.
00:22:42.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:22:45.000 If you have any questions or comments, concerns, feedback, or constructive criticism, you can go to freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:22:51.000 Maybe a Democrat can explain this to me. 0.54
00:22:54.000 There's a whole argument out there that we should give reparations to black people, and those are the descendants of slaves.
00:23:02.000 How are you supposed to prove that you're a descendant of a slave without being able to prove your family's lineage or genealogy?
00:23:09.000 Wouldn't that require some form of identification?
00:23:12.000 If 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?
00:23:25.000 There'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.
00:23:36.000 Now, people say, well, Charlie, none of those things are rights.
00:23:39.000 They aren't rights.
00:23:39.000 You're exactly right.
00:23:41.000 That'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.
00:23:51.000 James 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.
00:24:03.000 And in that particular state, they do not require an ID to prove who you are to be able to vote.
00:24:08.000 So he says, I'm Eric Holder.
00:24:11.000 And they gave him a ballot.
00:24:12.000 Now, James didn't end up voting because that would have been a federal crime.
00:24:15.000 He filmed the whole thing.
00:24:16.000 He ended up going away, but he was just showing that you can actually get the ballot by pretending to be someone who you really aren't.
00:24:23.000 You know, in Illinois, it's really interesting, the state I'm from in Illinois, where you vote early and vote often.
00:24:30.000 And I don't, but the Democrats do.
00:24:33.000 And even the dead people get a vote. 0.50
00:24:36.000 So it's dead people voting rights. 0.67
00:24:38.000 I guess that should be a new Democrat political campaign.
00:24:42.000 It's really a puzzling thing.
00:24:44.000 You walk up to go vote and you have your ID ready because it's just you feel it's so important.
00:24:52.000 I mean, you think to yourself, I go to TSA, I go to get a prescription at the local pharmacy.
00:24:58.000 I'm going to have to show who I am.
00:25:00.000 So you go and you show your ID, and the person, when you go vote in Illinois, of where I do not vote anymore, I now vote in Florida.
00:25:06.000 When you go and show up and vote, they say, we don't need the ID.
00:25:11.000 Now, in Illinois, they do make you sign, and your signature has to correlate with the signature that you used to register.
00:25:21.000 However, the signature is literally right in front of you, so you could just copy it right next to it.
00:25:26.000 Just literally, can you copy this?
00:25:28.000 So it's just ripe for voter fraud. 0.63
00:25:30.000 And so I think it's incredibly insulting to black people when you say voter ID is racist.
00:25:39.000 I think it's insulting for all people.
00:25:41.000 It just is.
00:25:43.000 If 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?
00:25:52.000 And show me one person who is not able to identify themselves in the modern era today.
00:25:56.000 I just, I have no tolerance at all whatsoever for this argument.
00:26:02.000 So 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.
00:26:13.000 Now, why is Barack Obama talking about all these things?
00:26:17.000 Remember, the left is obsessed with power.
00:26:20.000 We 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.
00:26:27.000 We are, the thing that drives us is not power.
00:26:31.000 It is the liberty of human beings and decent and stable and peaceable lives.
00:26:35.000 Whereas the left, they want power.
00:26:37.000 Well, what would granting statehood to D.C., Puerto Rico, and making election a national holiday do?
00:26:43.000 Well, for one, if D.C. was a state, that would be two more United States senators.
00:26:49.000 So they'd have 102 senators, Puerto Rico, 104 senators, and Election Day a national holiday.
00:26:54.000 Even 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.
00:27:08.000 Not to mention you could vote absentee, vote by mail.
00:27:10.000 Not a big fan of it.
00:27:11.000 Some people have to do it.
00:27:12.000 That's fine.
00:27:13.000 Everything that President Barack Hussein Obama was arguing for was trying to make it easier for Democrats to be able to win national elections.
00:27:24.000 That's it.
00:27:25.000 That's the key.
00:27:28.000 And so Barack Obama also went after Donald Trump incredibly unfairly, by the way.
00:27:34.000 He said this.
00:27:36.000 There 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.
00:27:46.000 Even under moaning, the Postal Service in an election is going to be dependent on mail-in ballots.
00:27:53.000 Now, 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.
00:28:05.000 He's opposing this because the Democrats have proven to misuse things like ballot harvesting and poorly maintained voter rolls to win elections.
00:28:14.000 For Obama to compare the Voting Rights Act of 1965 with opposing nationwide vote by mail is a disgusting, repulsive, and shameful lie.
00:28:25.000 He 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.
00:28:36.000 And 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.
00:28:49.000 So look what else Barack Obama said.
00:28:51.000 Quote, George Wallace may be gone, but we can witness our federal government sending agents to use tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators.
00:29:02.000 So first of all, George Wallace was a Democrat.
00:29:07.000 George Wallace was a Dixiecrat Democrat who actually ran for the presidency unsuccessfully.
00:29:13.000 And his most famous quote was segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
00:29:21.000 Sounds like the Democrats today, actually. 0.66
00:29:23.000 Democrats want black segregation in college campuses where they want black-only math classes. 0.70
00:29:28.000 Democrats want segregation of black people to have separate but better treatment. 0.53
00:29:36.000 I guess that spirit of the Democrat Party hasn't lost them.
00:29:41.000 It is so incredibly Orwellian.
00:29:45.000 We've talked about that a lot.
00:29:47.000 We've talked about how Orwellian this was.
00:29:49.000 And 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.
00:29:59.000 Our 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.
00:30:07.000 And we're actually going to have our book of the week coming up in just a couple of seconds here.
00:30:10.000 But 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.
00:30:30.000 It's not just a lie.
00:30:32.000 It is the opposite of the truth.
00:30:34.000 Tell that to Patrick Underwood or David Dorn.
00:30:38.000 Or how about I saw this unbelievably horrifying video this weekend?
00:30:42.000 And again, we are a podcast, mostly audio program.
00:30:45.000 I know we have some people listening and watching on YouTube.
00:30:47.000 Hi, how are you?
00:30:48.000 God bless you.
00:30:50.000 It's so hard to articulate this video I saw this weekend.
00:30:54.000 It 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.
00:31:04.000 And I'm going to try to recreate the video the best I can.
00:31:06.000 And she's right on the side of the street.
00:31:08.000 And it's very evident that this video was taken from either a Nest Cam or a surveillance footage or whatever it might be.
00:31:17.000 And it was a perfect view of the street.
00:31:19.000 And a car is going by very slowly.
00:31:22.000 And right outside the car, shots start getting fired.
00:31:25.000 And they start shooting the mother with the baby still in her arms and the other black people around her.
00:31:32.000 The mother gets shot.
00:31:33.000 She seeks cover.
00:31:36.000 The car continues to go down.
00:31:37.000 The two other black individuals get out of the car and continue to shoot at the mother while she has the baby in her arms. 0.89
00:31:43.000 Shoot, And then she hides behind the car. 0.99
00:31:50.000 Baby is untouched. 0.96
00:31:51.000 Thank goodness.
00:31:52.000 She has to go to the hospital.
00:31:52.000 I don't know if she survived or not.
00:31:54.000 I pray she did. 0.96
00:31:55.000 And 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. 0.98
00:32:02.000 They don't care.
00:32:03.000 They only care about cops fitting a narrative that isn't true.
00:32:07.000 And 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.
00:32:16.000 He gets in and gets into the car to go seek revenge for the gang war that was just continuing.
00:32:21.000 He doesn't even care if the woman is shot, doesn't care about the kid, just drives on.
00:32:26.000 And eventually, a minute later, someone pulls up and they put her in the car and they go take her to the hospital.
00:32:32.000 And then a grandfather comes, grandfatherly type figure, and takes the baby away. 0.98
00:32:37.000 So, 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. 0.97
00:32:49.000 I mean, being killed by a white cop innocently is such a statistical impossibility, it is hard to even put into words. 0.99
00:32:55.000 I saw the college board today. 0.98
00:32:57.000 They 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. 0.98
00:33:10.000 And 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. 0.97
00:33:27.000 That would be a nice thing to see not happening, of course not, because that sort of doesn't fit the narrative.
00:33:33.000 It doesn't fit what they want.
00:33:34.000 And what they want is a complete and total deconstruction of civilized society.
00:33:40.000 And so when Barack Obama dares to say that we are using tear gas and batons against peaceful demonstrators, it's worse than a lie.
00:33:47.000 It's an untruth.
00:33:48.000 It is a projection, the likes of which it's hard to even articulate how much he is deceiving us.
00:33:56.000 When 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.
00:34:14.000 It's not just a lie.
00:34:15.000 It is the opposite of the truth.
00:34:17.000 So let's just do a refresher course on Barack Obama.
00:34:20.000 He was one of the worst presidents in American history, if not the worst president in the history of our country.
00:34:24.000 He weaponized the government against his enemies. 1.00
00:34:27.000 He's a thug. 0.96
00:34:28.000 He's a cartel leader that called himself a politician from Chicago, Illinois. 0.97
00:34:33.000 Perhaps the most well-known example of the Obama administration abusing its power was the infamous IRS scandal.
00:34:40.000 You might not remember this.
00:34:41.000 You might have slipped your memory, but he weaponized the Internal Revenue Service.
00:34:45.000 It's been proven now in declassified documents and House hearings and so much pressure by House Republicans.
00:34:50.000 And even Paul Ryan, believe it or not, way back when, was a big outspoken critic of what the Internal Revenue Service did.
00:34:58.000 Where they went after conservative and Christian nonprofits just because they dissented and disagreed with his worldview.
00:35:06.000 President Barack Obama probably trained very intently under the tutelage of the descendants of Mao's Red Guard.
00:35:17.000 I will come after you if you dare disagree with what I am doing.
00:35:21.000 President Barack Obama was the surveillor-in-chief.
00:35:25.000 According to the ACLU, there was a 64% growth in electronic spying.
00:35:29.000 He, of course, spied on James Rosen in 2010.
00:35:34.000 James Rosen was a Fox News reporter.
00:35:36.000 He spied on him, tracking his movements in and out of the State Department.
00:35:39.000 He spied on President Trump, still hasn't been held accountable for that.
00:35:43.000 He cleared out Gitmo.
00:35:44.000 Remember that beauty where he traded four terrorists, basically the terrorist dream team, the terrorist Avenger squad, sent them overseas.
00:35:54.000 And we got in return Bo Bergdahl, traitor to our country.
00:35:59.000 How about the Obamacare disaster, which destroyed our health care system in our country?
00:36:03.000 Higher prices, no transparency, and a total loss of choice.
00:36:07.000 He oversaw the worst economic recovery in American history.
00:36:12.000 He oversaw the beginning of BLM in Ferguson, Missouri, and in Baltimore.
00:36:17.000 And 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. 0.55
00:36:29.000 He attempted to limit religious freedom against the sisters of the poor.
00:36:33.000 He pushed abort of facience all throughout society, and he famously evolved on the issue of gay marriage.
00:36:40.000 And not to mention, President Barack Obama got us two of the most radical Supreme Court justices, Elena Kagan and Justice Sotomayor.
00:36:49.000 And I think this is a good time to talk about our book of the week from thinker.org. 0.97
00:36:54.000 It's T-H-I-N-K-R.org. 0.78
00:36:55.000 So one of the reasons I like partnering with Thinker is a lot of you email me.
00:36:59.000 They say, Charlie, what books do I read?
00:37:00.000 How do you read so much?
00:37:01.000 How do you process so much information?
00:37:03.000 Again, that is T-H-I-N-K-R.org/slash Charlie.
00:37:08.000 It's a little bit of a technical URL you have to get right.
00:37:11.000 A lot of you say, hey, Charlie, how do you get the information that you share with us?
00:37:18.000 How do you read so many books?
00:37:19.000 I do read a lot.
00:37:20.000 I spend three hours every single night watching lectures, thinking about big ideas.
00:37:27.000 I 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.
00:37:43.000 I process information better that way.
00:37:45.000 But I found Thinker, and it's amazing.
00:37:48.000 They said, hey, we want to partner with you on the show and the program.
00:37:50.000 I said, this is perfect.
00:37:51.000 Because Thinker allows you to digest big ideas and hard to consume books, sometimes in 15 or 20 minutes or less.
00:38:00.000 And so one of the books we talked about last week was The Prince by Niccolio Machiavelli.
00:38:04.000 So again, it's thinker.org/slash Charlie.
00:38:08.000 So we partner with them, and we do a book of the week that I summarize thanks to them.
00:38:13.000 And basically, you can explore big ideas.
00:38:15.000 I got some great books on there.
00:38:16.000 I got 1984 by George Orwell.
00:38:17.000 I mentioned that earlier.
00:38:19.000 And I want you guys to grow in wisdom.
00:38:22.000 I want you to grow in faith.
00:38:23.000 I want you to grow in liberty.
00:38:25.000 I 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.
00:38:46.000 A lot of these big picture ideas can now be consumed very quickly.
00:38:52.000 They have phenomenal books on there.
00:38:54.000 Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl, which, by the way, you can get the consumable version in nine minutes or less.
00:39:03.000 Nine minutes.
00:39:04.000 Man's Search for Meaning in Victor Frankl.
00:39:07.000 And so there's some terrific ones.
00:39:09.000 So the one I wanted to share with you today, I think it's a really special one, by Thomas Sowell.
00:39:13.000 If you don't know who Thomas Sowell is, you're missing out.
00:39:15.000 That's all I got to say.
00:39:16.000 Thomas Sowell, black economist, grew up in Harlem, studied under Milton Friedman, the great Milton Friedman.
00:39:23.000 And 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.
00:39:39.000 Thomas Sowell, he just turned 90.
00:39:40.000 He was on Mark Levin.
00:39:42.000 He's phenomenal.
00:39:43.000 He has written prolifically throughout his life.
00:39:46.000 And the fact that thinker.org is able to summarize Thomas Sowell in 13 minutes, they're doing a great job.
00:39:57.000 Honored to partner with them.
00:39:59.000 You could summarize Thomas Sowell in one of his books in 13 minutes.
00:40:02.000 It's amazing.
00:40:03.000 So the book that I'm choosing that I think fits perfectly into this criticism and this critique of Barack Obama is Discrimination and Disparities.
00:40:13.000 It's a great book.
00:40:14.000 And I read it many years ago.
00:40:15.000 I read it five or six years ago.
00:40:18.000 And 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.
00:40:34.000 Thomas 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.
00:40:52.000 What a great summary.
00:40:53.000 So here are some of the big takeaways.
00:40:55.000 Number one, we should not be surprised that outcomes are not randomly or perfectly proportionate.
00:41:01.000 So 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.
00:41:17.000 Thomas Sowell was a huge critic and is a huge critic of Barack Obama. 0.99
00:41:20.000 I think rightfully so.
00:41:21.000 He also says our internal sense of expected outcomes is off, which creates dissonance with reality.
00:41:27.000 He also said we are not discriminating enough in our definitions of discrimination.
00:41:32.000 Thomas Sowell also said some types of discrimination are ideal, but not always possible.
00:41:37.000 Others are useful, but not always accurate.
00:41:39.000 Still, others are neither useful nor accurate.
00:41:42.000 It's a really good point he makes next.
00:41:43.000 He says, some employers were actually more likely to hire young black males when they were allowed to do background checks.
00:41:51.000 Thomas 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.
00:42:03.000 Thomas 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.
00:42:12.000 You'll be able to get awesome, easy-to-understand books that you can consume in just a couple minutes.
00:42:17.000 And 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.
00:42:26.000 But 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.
00:42:37.000 If Barack Obama read and understood Thomas Sowell, he wouldn't be a leftist.
00:42:41.000 Thomas Sowell grew up in actual abject poverty.
00:42:43.000 I'm not saying Barack Obama didn't.
00:42:45.000 There is a debate over Barack Obama's upbringing.
00:42:47.000 I'm not going to get into that.
00:42:48.000 But Barack Obama did go to Harvard.
00:42:50.000 He did go to the best schools in the country.
00:42:51.000 Fine.
00:42:52.000 Okay, whatever.
00:42:53.000 Thomas Sowell talks about opportunity for all people for restoring human dignity and human flourishing.
00:42:58.000 He 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.
00:43:07.000 It's important we remember the legacy of Barack Obama.
00:43:09.000 It's one of division, destruction, disaster, chaos, and disorder.
00:43:15.000 We elect vice president, former vice president Joe Biden, who, interestingly enough, wasn't there at the funeral.
00:43:22.000 Joe Biden stayed in the basement.
00:43:24.000 Maybe 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.
00:43:31.000 Interesting.
00:43:32.000 It's also important that we remember people in their totality. 0.92
00:43:36.000 Remember them for the good they did, like marching in Selma, and the foolish things they did, like calling President Trump a racist.
00:43:43.000 I think it's perfectly fine and understandable to be nuanced and balanced in both of those things.
00:43:48.000 I also think it's really important to remember that Barack Obama is not done.
00:43:53.000 That Barack Obama, the way he was talking at this funeral, you could tell revenge was flowing through that man. 0.94
00:44:02.000 He'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. 0.94
00:44:13.000 A top focus of Barack Obama is making sure the Iranian mullahs can have swimming pools of cash. 0.96
00:44:19.000 He's very fixated on that. 0.87
00:44:22.000 Barack Obama fumes that Israel has their capital recognized as Jerusalem, the holy city of Jerusalem.
00:44:28.000 President Barack Obama is angry that the two Supreme Court justices that followed him was Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.
00:44:35.000 President Barack Obama is infuriated that his fundamental transformation was disrupted by President Trump.
00:44:42.000 Huge takeaway: President Obama isn't done. 0.99
00:44:45.000 The only way that you can defeat President Obama, because he's a narcissist, he's a sociopath and pathological leftist. 0.93
00:44:51.000 We know this back in 2016, and we also know this in a lot of the ways that we beated Barack Obama legislatively, is you must mock him. 0.98
00:45:00.000 President Obama's a wannabe dictator.
00:45:02.000 He would have been perfect marching alongside Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
00:45:07.000 He gets glamorized in the media.
00:45:09.000 Oh, Barack Obama.
00:45:10.000 He's so cool.
00:45:11.000 He's so fashionable.
00:45:12.000 Whatever.
00:45:13.000 President Barack Obama is not done.
00:45:16.000 He wants a fundamental transformation of our country.
00:45:21.000 He wants his wife to become the president of the United States one day.
00:45:27.000 I think in some ways Joe Biden is a means to an end.
00:45:31.000 I actually think they might remove Joe Biden as president very quickly if he wins.
00:45:34.000 I 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. 0.92
00:45:48.000 Barack Obama is a failure.
00:45:51.000 I have nothing good to say about him. 0.99
00:45:52.000 And that's how I'm going to end this program.
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