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00:02:05.000The Pelicans and the Jazz, they took a knee in solidarity, the whole team, during the national anthem, during the first official game of the NBA season's restart in the Walt Disney World's bubble environment.
00:02:18.000Adam Silver, who I don't think possesses an anatomical backbone, said, quote, I respect our team's unified act of peaceful protest for social justice and under these unique circumstances will not enforce our long-standing rule, requiring standing, during the playing of the national anthem.
00:02:36.000Now, this comes after, on opening day, all the players on the Yankees and the Nationals took a knee before the national anthem.
00:02:44.000So they all did that to show their solidarity with BLM Inc.
00:02:47.000Interestingly enough, none of the players for the National Basketball Association took a knee for the one million Uyghur Muslims that are soon to be executed by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:03:15.000Why don't you give $380 million of your $400 million to BLM Inc.?
00:03:19.000I don't think you'll do that anytime soon.
00:03:22.000In fact, he's actually proofed that black people are not oppressed in America.
00:03:27.000So now what we have is a very dangerous combination in our country.
00:03:33.000It's a combination of our ruling class and our elites that don't stand for the national anthem but kneel for the national anthem.
00:03:39.000Jackie Robinson stood for the national anthem.
00:03:41.000Jackie Robinson was an American patriot who was legitimately discriminated against, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
00:03:50.000And he had more respect for the country than our current black athletes do that are earning more money and they have not faced any sort of discrimination institutionally.
00:03:59.000They might have had discrimination against them on a personal level.
00:04:43.000Actually, I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
00:04:45.000I'm just saying don't say diversity is your strength.
00:04:47.000If diversity is your strength, then have affirmative action where you must have a certain amount of white people in the National Basketball Association.
00:05:16.000And so these black athletes that quite honestly are privileged brats.
00:05:22.000They are privileged brats, part of the ruling class, that are perfectly fine with China's human rights abuses, that dare not talk about black-on-black crime in Chicago or anywhere across the country.
00:05:33.000They dare not talk about how in Chicago there have been 405 people shot and killed, 1,895 shot and wounded, 2,300 total shot, and 444 total homicides, almost all of which are black people killing other black people, not white people walking down the streets and killing other black people.
00:05:54.000It is so statistically improbable for a black, innocent individual to be killed by a police officer that we actually can name them all in 15 seconds or less.
00:06:05.000Because even according to the Washington Post, there were 15 of them last year.
00:06:10.000Now, mind you, I was listening to a radio program, something recently, and they said, yeah, according to the Washington Post, and of course, I cite that all the time.
00:06:18.000I said, just for next year, for this year that we're in 2020, can we have some institution besides the Washington Post compile the list?
00:06:26.000Why do I have to keep on referencing the Washington Post?
00:06:28.000Wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of impartial, non-Jeff Bezos-funded, non-CCP-aligned organization that actually looked at how many black individuals that were unarmed were killed by police officers?
00:06:40.000And this is a really extraordinary moment.
00:06:42.000Only in America would you have multi-millionaire black athletes that know nothing about the country they live in be able to amass millions of dollars of wealth because they happen to be very talented at putting a certain object through a circle, putting a circle through a circle.
00:07:01.000I will not watch the National Basketball Association or Major League Baseball anymore.
00:07:05.000They're done, and I hope they're done for you too, because they hate America and they honor the hatred of America, and I hope they go bankrupt.
00:07:12.000And that's just the way it is, and it saddens me to say that.
00:07:15.000But it's a really amazing thing that in America, you're able to amass millions of dollars of wealth to then protest the very country that gave you that wealth around an injustice that quite honestly does not exist institutionally or systemically.
00:07:30.000And this goes to show some of the cultural issues we have in our country because we have so much abundance.
00:07:37.000We have so much wealth that we have created that our ruling class elites, well, they have really no understanding of how wealth is created, especially LeBron James.
00:08:07.000Now I am more and more convinced that LeBron James got lost on the way up on some sort of long trip to Shanghai, ended up in Cleveland, said, I might as well go back.
00:08:18.000I am never going to compliment LeBron James again because he is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Xi Jinping.
00:08:25.000And not even a very intelligent mouthpiece at that.
00:08:28.000And so LeBron James is worth probably $500, $600 million.
00:08:33.000And he's a talented athlete and plays basketball quite fine.
00:08:37.000All of a sudden, we're supposed to look at him at the arbiter of racial justice in our country.
00:09:15.000I said, look, the left has decided to politicize everything.
00:09:17.000I think this is a very important takeaway.
00:09:19.000If the left has decided to politicize everything and the left has decided to make it seem as if we live in an awful country, then I'm going to start politicizing everything.
00:09:28.000I'm going to start to all of a sudden watch things that align with my values.
00:09:32.000I'm going to start to spend my time that harmonize with my worldview.
00:09:36.000And yes, I do enjoy baseball, but I turned on baseball when it first started.
00:09:41.000It started in an empty stadium, and I saw Dr. Fauci from the mound.
00:09:47.000He tried to throw an opening pitch, which looked something more similar to a sprinkler in a random direction.
00:09:55.000The ball just kind of just dribbled away.
00:09:58.000I think he almost made it a fourth of the way to home plate.
00:10:09.000I'm not going to support an institution or a league that does not believe America is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:10:15.000And so then some of the counterargument is, well, Charlie, they might believe that, but they're just protesting an injustice.
00:10:22.000This is narcissism and groupthink and social pressure.
00:10:25.000If they were really protesting an injustice, two thoughts.
00:10:29.000If they were really protesting injustice, it wouldn't be innocent black men being killed by police officers, which happens with incredible statistical improbability.
00:10:37.000Those people, if they did commit murder, go to jail.
00:10:51.000Second thing is, really, during the national anthem, the song that has given more people hope and unity around the greatest country ever to grace this planet.
00:11:00.000That's the moment where we honor our veterans, take off our hats, put our hands over our heart as a remembrance of the blood that was spilled so that we could have a free republic.
00:11:10.000That's the moment when you want to go be, look how good of a person I am.
00:11:14.000Let me go take a knee because our country is so systemically unequal, because our country is so incredibly racist, which is a lie.
00:11:27.000I wouldn't because I would, my grandfather, who fought in World War II, my seventh generation removed uncle, who fought in the United States Civil War for the Union cause, my family who fought in the Revolutionary War, Abner Abbey, who's actually buried in Boston, Massachusetts, and I'm a son of the American Revolution.
00:11:47.000My family who came to America in 1620, I'm going to take a knee for the sacrifices and the institutions that they built.
00:11:54.000Like, no, I'm going to be quiet for 90 seconds because maybe I'm not the most important person on the planet.
00:11:59.000Maybe there were countless people, some of whom in my bloodline, some people who were not, that actually gave significant generational sacrifices so that we could have a civil society and live stable and peaceful lives, similar to that of which is articulated in 1 Timothy, where Paul's letter to Timothy says, pray for your leaders.
00:12:16.000I'm paraphrasing here, pray for your leaders so that you may live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:12:22.000That was really what the pilgrims wanted.
00:12:27.000And so when you have these apparatchiks and these spoiled brats that work professionally, where they are treated as celebrities everywhere they go, they have a very specific talent, of which I do not say they shouldn't be compensated for.
00:12:56.000And so people say, well, Charlie, what's a good way to protest that?
00:12:58.000How about any other moment besides the national anthem?
00:13:01.000And you better have a pretty good reason why you're protesting that and not the other stuff that might be just as equal, if not a greater injustice happening in this country.
00:13:09.000So when we get into this as a country, people come after me, they say, oh, Charlie, you're anti-free speech.
00:13:14.000Well, I say, no, actually, I think that people do have a right to be a fool.
00:13:17.000Unlike some people that say, well, they don't actually have a contractual right to be able to protest.
00:13:22.000I mean, you might be right under employment contract law, but do I think that it is the wrong thing to prohibit them from doing it?
00:13:41.000What I don't support, though, is people being fools without me being able to have a right to speak against them, which is exactly what is happening here.
00:13:50.000We an entire WNBA, the Women's National Basketball Association, not just protest the national anthem, they walked off the entire court completely during the national anthem, as if we don't even want to live in this country anymore.
00:14:03.000Well, look, here's how you know you live in a great country.
00:14:05.000America is the only country in the history of the world where even those who say they hate it refuse to leave.
00:14:12.000How many of those self-righteous narcissistic brats that play for the new Orleans Pelicans, how many of them want to go play one season in China?
00:14:25.000So the WNBA players for the New York Liberty and Seattle Storm walked off the court during the national anthem of the league's season opener this weekend.
00:14:33.000Now, let's just ask ourselves how we got here.
00:14:39.000There was an evil cop who killed a person that he knew, which we do not know whether it was racially motivated or not, in the streets of Minneapolis.
00:14:50.000And three cops sat around or stood around and did nothing.
00:14:53.000So we're supposed to believe that is why we have to storm off the national anthem.
00:14:58.000A specific incident of evil is all of a sudden a reason to not honor our national flag.
00:15:04.000Just to give an idea of how self-righteous and narcissistic and foolish and arrogant and dangerous this entire thing is, Frederick Douglass, a black Republican back from the 1800s, he would honor our flag.
00:15:25.000The difference between these activists is, first of all, they have incredible wealth.
00:15:29.000They actually have massive amounts of influence institutionally, and they control the culture.
00:15:37.000Unlike Martin Luther King and unlike some of these other revolutionaries, they were always coming at it from an opinion of ideological and cultural minority.
00:15:48.000They were always coming at it from a perspective of, I am Not in the predominant opinion, and I'm going to try to shape public opinion through civil disobedience or from peaceful protest.
00:16:11.000You think this is going to make America more equitable or a better place?
00:16:14.000This is being led by resentful, bitter, and arrogant people.
00:16:20.000So instead of talking about how do we create a society or a culture where we can have stronger people to endure the inevitable suffering of our life, instead they want to blame everything else around them, despite they themselves being the multi-millionaire ruling class elites that have actually showed that this country can offer opportunity for people of all colors.
00:16:42.000Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association.
00:16:44.000I encourage you right now to tweet out that you are no longer watching these athletic activities, even if you enjoy it and you like it.
00:16:52.000Some people might think that it's too extreme.
00:16:54.000Well, look, we're going to lose our country if we do not divest ourselves from the cultural institutions that, quite honestly, are arguing for the complete and total destruction of America.
00:17:03.000And some people email me at freedom at charliekirk.com and say, Charlie, you're being too alarmist.
00:17:07.000Well, excuse me, they're literally walking off the court during the national anthem.
00:17:10.000What more evidence do you need that they hate their country?
00:17:15.000That's the period of time where we actually support the values of E pluribus unim in God we trust liberty, freedom, virtue, laws of nature, and nature is God.
00:17:23.000That's the moment where we honor the sacrifice of generations before us and veterans that gave so much.
00:17:29.000What else do you need to be able to make that argument?
00:17:34.000And so I'm done watching professional sports, unfortunately, because I actually enjoy it.
00:17:38.000I'm a huge Cubs fan, but that's the way that it is.
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00:19:01.000Which requires local governments that receive federal funding to study racial bias in their housing patterns and develop plans to address it.
00:19:08.000Now, this often leads to an increase in the low-income housing the president is referencing.
00:19:12.000This rule has proven repeatedly to be a disaster.
00:19:16.000So take one example, like this from Boris Epstein, a friend of mine at Newsweek.
00:19:20.000Quote, in 2009, the Obama-Biden administration sided with a fair housing advocacy organization that was suing Westchester County, New York.
00:19:28.000The organization accused the county of making, quote, false claims that had done everything possible to, quote, affirmatively further fair housing because it did not re-examine existing race-neutral zoning laws in search of hidden racial discrimination.
00:19:40.000Up against the weight of the federal government, the county prudently settled the case, agreeing to change its zoning laws and build 750 public housing units at a taxpayer cost of $51 million, nearly as much money as the county had received from HUD in the first place.
00:19:56.000Now, armed with the settlement now, the Obama-Biden HUD turned Clinton's affirmative further housing, AFFH, cudgel into a thermonuclear bomb to drop on the suburbs.
00:20:12.000Now, despite eight separate analyses of impediments that all found no discrimination at all in Westchester County's zoning laws, bureaucrats in Washington, with nothing better to do, claimed the right to overturn some of the most fundamental, character-defining ordinances of American communities.
00:20:31.000Even basic quarter-acre single-family zoning suddenly fell into the federal agency's tentacles.
00:20:39.000The new rules promulgated as part of a, quote, grand experiment by Obama's HUD department, this is the important part, would compel suburban landlords to go to cities and recruit Section 8 recipients, then force local taxpayers to pay for thousands of units of high-rise public housing as close as possible to community assets that make their towns desirable, such as high-performing schools, public parks, and shopping centers.
00:21:07.000All of this would be done in defiance of any local zoning and regulations.
00:21:15.000And Ben Carson was quoted as saying, quote, we found it to be unworkable and ultimately a waste of time for localities to comply with, too often resulting in funds being steered away from communities that need them most.
00:21:32.000This is why we need Trump to be re-elected, by the way, because it's not just him that we're electing, we're electing a government.
00:21:38.000So instead of investing funding into the suburbs where affluent or at least a middle-class income is the rule, as opposed to the exception, Secretary Carson is arguing that the government, if it must intervene, should go to the root of the problem and address it where it exists, instead of simply spreading the problem around.
00:21:56.000Of course, the president's critics are calling the move racist and a blatant dog whistle to white voters.
00:22:01.000All of this is, of course, is predicated on the inherently racist idea that only the people that are in so amazing.
00:22:08.000The only people that are impacted and implicated are minorities and black people.
00:22:12.000So it is the left that are the actual racist.
00:22:15.000You hear poor and think of a black person, you're the racist Democrat.
00:22:19.000You hear low income and you think that it's Hispanic, you're the racist.
00:22:22.000Oh yeah, by the way, what did Joe Biden say?
00:22:51.000He grew up, by the way, in public housing, abject poverty.
00:22:55.000The move also underscores an important point, which Ben Carson noted.
00:23:00.000The federal government has no business dictating what is best for local communities.
00:23:05.000Housing is a hyper-local issue and should be dealt with as such.
00:23:09.000Overly burdensome, government mandates like this or the countless others that Obama and Biden put in place put a massive squeeze on American towns and cities, hitting suburbs and the rural communities the hardest.
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00:24:28.000So speaking of people that want to raise your taxes, Joe Biden actually thinks that this is a good thing.
00:24:33.000In a scathing column for the New York Post last week, Betsy McCauhey wrote, quote, Biden's plan is to force suburban towns with single-family homes and minimum lot sizes to build high-density, affordable housing smack in the middle of their leafy neighborhoods.
00:24:50.000Local preferences and local control be damned.
00:24:59.000I don't think I pronounced her name correctly.
00:25:00.000Anyway, had the rule been implemented, nationwide towns everywhere would have to scrap zoning, build bigger water and sewer lines to support high-density living, expand schools and social services, and add mass transit, all pushing up local taxes.
00:25:15.000Towns that refused would lose their federal aid.
00:25:18.000The rule was one of the worst abuses of the Obama administration, and a raw power grab masquerading as racial justice.
00:25:30.000This was the modus operandi of the eight years of Obama Biden.
00:25:36.000And you can listen to our sister episode where we take on Barack Obama of why he was the worst president ever.
00:25:41.000I encourage you to listen to it and download it.
00:25:44.000But also, it's important to remember Obama's Alinskyite nature, it was well concealed and never reported on.
00:25:50.000But in the age of Trump, the left's raw power grabs are done out in the open with cries of racist filling our streets and airwaves and newspapers, despite racism playing no part in ending policies like this one.
00:26:03.000So ultimately, and despite what the left says, this move by Trump is a massive victory for American constitutional rights to local government and self-government, as well as a recognition that the federal government's duty to prevent discrimination in housing does not supersede its obligation to protect the rights of millions of Americans who abide by race-neutral zoning laws to create beautiful, vibrant, friendly suburban communities.
00:26:29.000President Trump needs to do better in suburban America.
00:26:32.000This rule will help him politically in suburban communities.
00:26:37.000Focus on this, and it will help President Trump tremendously politically.
00:26:42.000People are moving out of the cities in record numbers, and they're moving out of the cities because they do not want a gangbanger on the street to shoot their kid in the head.
00:26:49.000They're moving out of the cities because they don't want a drug addict on the side of the street.
00:26:54.000Joe Rogan has moved from California to Texas for a reason.
00:26:58.000Obama wants to destroy the suburbs as they are.
00:27:03.000He wants them to be high-traffic, high-tax, miserable places like the cities they already ruined that are under Democrat control.
00:27:12.000So I want to give you the latest update on the $1 trillion, what they call a stimulus bill, that is going through Congress.
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00:29:45.000What happened to personal responsibility and self-reliance, okay?
00:29:48.000It is not the federal government's role to go create another $4 trillion out of thin air so that you can sit on your tail and watch Hulu and Netflix.
00:30:00.000I believe that we should have reasonable interest rates.
00:30:02.000And I believe that we should get people out to work, reopen our country.
00:30:05.000Mitch McConnell admitted that there were likely at least 20 Republicans who would vote no on the trillion dollar bill due to the skyrocketing deficit.