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00:01:07.000Okay, I want to tell you about a conversation I had yesterday.
00:01:10.000We are barnstorming the country to raise capital for both Turning Point USA and our strictly educational efforts of high school chapters, college chapters, Turning Point Academy, and also for Turning Point Action, our 501c4 efforts, of voter registration, chasing ballots, our political efforts.
00:01:44.000And I was in Aspen, Colorado recently, and there were some people that did not see the world the way we do.
00:01:50.000I could tell you that story at a different time, but I want to cue into a very interesting conversation I had last evening and then tie it to some recent events.
00:01:58.000And this was with a very respectful gentleman, a former colonel in the United States Army, very smart, very successful.
00:02:07.000However, we had a little bit of a disagreement towards the end of the evening.
00:02:11.000And that disagreement is what makes life fun.
00:02:13.000And he said, look, I don't like Trump's personality.
00:03:08.000Where does it come from where you have a belief system that what is so obviously and evidently happening in real time will not happen?
00:03:18.000And it comes from an attachment to a memory of a country that no longer exists.
00:03:24.000And I know that's a rather provocative thing to say, but it is true.
00:03:28.000In 1980s or 1990s or early 2000s America, that would not happen.
00:03:34.000You do not go after leading presidential candidates and raid their home.
00:03:38.000The left and the regime have moved so rapidly to change the country using its old institutions made into skin suits.
00:03:47.000America was this amazing country for years and years, and we are still remarkable in so many ways.
00:03:52.000Our institutions are no longer remarkable.
00:03:55.000And what I gathered by having this conversation, again, this is not a criticism of this gentleman.
00:04:00.000It was fair, and I think he would categorize it the same way, is that he believed in our institutions so much, and I can't blame him because for most of his life, these institutions were legitimate.
00:04:13.000For most of his life in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, he remembers a country where the institutions were not completely captured, were not completely radicalized.
00:04:24.000And so I asked him privately, I said, well, what about Steve Bannon, who's facing years in pretrial detention with J6 defendants and Douglas Mackey and James O'Keefe raided?
00:04:47.000I see it differently as we now remember, it's about two days after, but we're in the same week, the one-year anniversary of Donald J. Trump's home being raided by the FBI.
00:05:00.000I look at the raid of Mar-a-Lago as the test.
00:05:05.000When they raided Mar-a-Lago, it felt like this, and we said it at the time, a legal Pearl Harbor, a shock and all.
00:05:10.000The federal government is going after a former president.
00:05:13.000Dan Bongino, great American, good friend, goes on Fox News at the time and swears.
00:05:19.000And he says, this is some third world.
00:05:37.000And I don't know why we didn't do it, but why we didn't make it a bigger issue in the midterm election is a mystery to me, that they just can raid a former president's home and go through Melania's closet for documents.
00:05:49.000And from that point forward, the bad guys, they were executing a plan.
00:05:54.000This was not some sort of build the plane while we're taking off operation.
00:05:57.000This was not some sort of, oh, I don't know what we're going to do.
00:05:59.000No, this was a well-orchestrated plan that was probably concocted a year beforehand at either the Aspen Institute or Sun Valley or Silicon Valley, whatever, some combination of.
00:06:09.000If Donald Trump is going to be gearing up for the presidency, raid the home, go after documents, Jack Smith, all out, right?
00:06:17.000Alvin Bragg played a big role in this and moving the Overton window.
00:06:20.000Who's going to be the first person to indict, have the crazy person in New York indict on ridiculous, drummed up charges, the Stormy Daniels, but it moves the PR Overton window.
00:06:28.000So everything after that feels normalized, right?
00:06:31.000Part of moving the acceptable opinion is to normalize the otherwise radical.
00:06:36.000We have to remember for decades we had judges who were really smart, but were also pretty principled a lot of the time.
00:06:41.000Now we pick judges based on their skin color, like Katanji Brown Jackson, who's a moron who can't tell you what a woman is.
00:06:50.000We have Kamala Harris brag that because of their race, they will run against Trump.
00:06:54.000We have Joy Reed alluding to the demographic reality reckoning.
00:06:59.000I don't think we ever played that tape.
00:07:01.000I do want to play it that Donald Trump is going to face.
00:07:04.000And then I drilled deeper into this conversation with this gentleman, this veteran, a very honorable man, who we just have disagreement.
00:07:13.000He said, Charlie, if they put Donald J. Trump in prison, this country will go to civil war.
00:07:19.000And I said, hold on, let's just calm down here.
00:07:22.000I said, first of all, I agree with you.
00:07:23.000The bad guys would love nothing more than that sort of chatter to continue.
00:07:26.000They want a January 6, 2.0 Intel agency concocted false flag operation to try to have a Patriot Act over the entire country.
00:07:34.000And I don't like that reasoning because it's just so, okay, we don't get what we want and the country is going to erupt into a volcanic explosion.
00:09:29.000There's something here that is very deep and profound, which is I'm afraid that a mass, massive portion of the country is living in denial, that somehow this is all going to sort itself out back to the yearning of a decent or better or serene America.
00:09:47.000I got to tell you, that really bothers me because that is not reality.
00:11:00.000So I'm afraid that part of the country is living in active denial.
00:11:08.000But I received a really insightful email from one of our fans here, Shiloh, who made a really good point, which is it's one thing if you have people living in denial.
00:11:22.000It's even worse if you have people that have accepted it.
00:11:29.000But what if you have people that have accepted the status quo that they're just going to throw us in prison and there is nothing we can do?
00:11:39.000I'm afraid that there is a portion of the American population of people that find it comforting to think that America is just ruled by this temporary hostile takeover.
00:11:52.000Here are some few signs that someone you might know might be using denial as a defense mechanism.
00:12:29.000This is a man who served his country, who's a patriot, who then now, in his later years of life, has to acknowledge that the country he loves, the country he sacrificed for, the country he served, is gone.
00:13:35.000Unfortunately, built into that is there is this resistance, this reluctance to bear the idea that there are tens of millions of people, entire cities even, that embrace this extremely toxic stuff.
00:13:53.000A worldview that will obliterate and blow up the entire country.
00:13:57.000And in order to do so, it would require admitting that the country has changed.
00:14:05.000And a huge portion of the new country hates the one that he so heroically fought for.
00:14:12.000So, in order to treat denialism, you have to confront the truth and ask why you're so afraid of the truth.
00:14:48.000And quite honestly, that's 100% true for America today.
00:14:54.000It is 100% true that I think a majority of Americans are not spiritually strong enough, mentally strong enough, emotionally strong enough to carry the burden that the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world has been taken over hostile by toxic, venomous forces.
00:15:16.000That is a very heavy burden to carry around.
00:15:20.000It's unbelievably depressing at times.
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00:16:47.000So, as you know, I wrote the book, The College Scam, which, by the way, is very well received amongst many of you in the muscular class, small business class.
00:16:58.000Where I get the biggest pushback on the contention that college is a scam is from people that are in the ruling class.
00:17:08.000Angelo Codeville, may he rest in peace, wrote one of the most important books of the last 20 years.
00:17:16.000It's an unbelievably profound analysis, and he saw this so ahead of time called The Ruling Class, where he said that there is a permanent philosopher king, untouchable class, basically a secret society-type knowledge society.
00:17:30.000If you haven't gone to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, or founded a billion-dollar tech company, or if you're not a trans activist, you're not allowed to be in the club.
00:18:22.000I recently learned that at the Coronado military installation, where they're doing flight simulators and all sorts of different military exercises, that the person in charge of that is more worried about what pronouns are being used direct from someone there.
00:18:39.000They're super worried about what pronouns are being used in their military exercises.
00:18:45.000In fact, three people got disciplined because they used the wrong pronouns during a military exercise.
00:19:23.000What is going on in America for anyone that dares notice or speak about it is a historic anti-institutional revolt.
00:19:35.000That's really what the MAGA movement is all about.
00:19:38.000And quite honestly, that's what Bernie Sanders tried to launch from the Marxist left, and he was stunted by Joe Biden and the architects of the 2020, the 2020 election.
00:23:00.000You guys want to believe, wishful thinking, that the institutions, that the checks and balances, that the elites, they're still there, that somebody is going to rise up and they're going to do something.
00:23:11.000And that, as I heard recently, Charlie, come on, cooler heads will prevail.
00:23:58.000If you guys are a sunshine patriot or whatever, get out of the way.
00:24:03.000But if you're at a place where deep down you feel the prodding of the Holy Spirit, or the prodding is something like, boy, I've been living in denial.
00:24:41.000This is an all-out changing of the fabric of the country.
00:24:46.000From Douglas Mackey to the electoral alternate electors in Michigan that are facing 40 to 50 years in prison to going after Steve Mannon, Dinesh D'Souza, James O'Keefe, going after the NRA.
00:25:01.000This is an all-out changing of the country itself.
00:25:05.000This is not just about a single person because that's what I hear.
00:25:08.000They say, oh, Charlie, they're going to calm down once Donald Trump gets out of the way.
00:25:13.000I hope you, after spending time amongst the ruling class last couple of days, some people believe, not all of them, there's some great ones, really smart, but there are some people that have told me, Charlie, all of this will calm down.
00:25:41.000They hate Donald Trump because what he represents.
00:25:43.000So if you dare represent anything even adjacent or remotely close to the Donald Trump, J Trump agenda, populism, nationalism, strong America, secure the southern border, end these silly, endless foreign wars, they're going to use the same playbook against you.
00:25:57.000The first step is recognizing and realizing really what you have.
00:26:10.000We are heading for the Brazilification of America, as Lee Fong said yesterday in our program.
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00:28:08.000So people say, well, then, Charlie, what do we do?
00:28:10.000First of all, it is an attitude shift, it's a mindset shift.
00:28:12.000And by the way, if you agree with what I'm saying and you're not living in a place of denial, then just full disclosure, you're going to then, quote unquote, eat from the tree of good and evil, the knowledge of good and evil.
00:28:26.000Once you get out of that blissful place, you have to then realize you're responsible for yourself.
00:28:37.000When you say that ignorance is bliss, yeah, a lot of people live in bliss.
00:28:40.000One of the reasons I believe this firmly is why the elites are pushing drugs on the American population is they're trying to medically prevent a revolt against the institutions, medically.
00:28:54.000More people on weed, more people doing drugs, more people addicted to porn, get more kids to become trans, lower the testosterone rates.
00:29:01.000They're trying to prevent anyone from saying, why are you doing this?
00:31:56.000You're trying to tell me Hunter Biden didn't commit crimes in some sort of local county in Arkansas that you could at least investigate him, subpoena him?
00:32:05.000No, it's because on the Republican side, that would be considered to be against the gentleman rules of conduct.
00:32:11.000AKA, I'm too afraid, I'm too weak, head in the sand, denial.