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00:01:58.000No phone, no contact with the outside world.
00:02:01.000And boy, are we going to talk about that.
00:02:03.000And when I mean no contact, I mean no newspaper, no phone, no computer.
00:02:09.000In fact, my entire bearing of whatever was happening in the world was overhearing conversations at the very nice resort that we were at in an undisclosed location, of course.
00:02:20.000And people were just saying, Israel, gas prices, pipeline hacking.
00:02:27.000And I just tried to zone out of all of it.
00:02:37.000I have a lot of things I want to share with that because we use that term Orwellian so often.
00:02:42.000I think people really don't understand what it actually means because I think people read 1984 in some high school literature class and then they just think they really understand what Orwell was trying to warn us about.
00:02:55.000So I did a lot of thinking, a lot of writing, a lot of things I want to explore and share with you today.
00:03:05.000And so with no phone and no smooth screens to distract me, no digital pacifiers to placate me, I realized how much beautiful idle time we as human beings have.
00:03:21.000For example, you're sitting waiting for food and maybe your wife went to the restroom or maybe she's going to the front desk to get something.
00:03:56.000And so I did a lot of people watching while I was on my honeymoon.
00:04:03.000And every single person that I saw at the resort, in one way or the other, was a slave to their device.
00:04:13.000We are at a brilliantly beautiful resort.
00:04:18.000The sunsets were beyond anything you can imagine, the beaches, the natural beauty.
00:04:24.000And yet we were 30 seconds away from the climax of the sunset in one of the most beautiful resorts on the planet.
00:04:32.000And I looked to my right and I looked to my left, and people were looking at their phones, texting friends halfway around the world, bringing their friends with them to that moment.
00:04:47.000And so this was the first time in quite honestly a decade I had been anywhere without my phone for an extended period of time.
00:04:56.000And so I started to just write notes of how people were interacting with each other.
00:04:59.000It was almost, in some ways, it became a sociological experiment that Erica and I discussed.
00:05:09.000What I realized is that this technology was not just accelerating or amplifying pre-existing trends.
00:05:20.000No, it was creating new behaviors altogether.
00:05:27.000When you are in paradise, the most beautiful place a person can be.
00:05:33.000And the dozens of people that are also there alongside, they are staring down to their phone.
00:05:40.000In the ancient times, or even 100 years ago, we used to look up to the heavens or the cosmos for direction, and now our necks are fixated down for the next dopamine rush that these gadgets and these devices are pushing towards us.
00:06:01.000It was so refreshing and relaxing and freeing and liberating to be able to sit in front of this beauty without the digital pacifier or the dopamine machine, as I mentioned.
00:06:17.000So I just asked the question: I said, if all the smartphones on this continent vanished, would America be a happier, more gentle, and less alienated society?
00:06:31.000So that was the first observation was the phones, was how we are no longer enjoying the natural world around us.
00:06:41.000People were not even having conversations with their wife or their husband.
00:06:46.000In fact, Erica and I one evening were just watching, and one couple spent 95% of their meal texting on social media, Snapchatting, and interacting back and forth with people that were not there.
00:07:01.000And I thought to myself, outside of the nice cool breeze and the food, why not just sit at separate tables?
00:07:14.000Instead, it was just merely a collaborative work group while they were exploring social media together.
00:07:24.000And people did not even realize they were impacting their own humanity while they were doing that.
00:07:33.000The second thing that was really interesting to see was in an all-outdoor resort, how people still clung to their masks.
00:07:43.000I heard through one way or the other that the mask issue was a big issue last week.
00:07:48.000And now, as I start to get back into this news cycle, you know, I kind of feel like I woke up from a coma after nine days.
00:07:54.000I'm asking all these very logical and rational questions.
00:07:57.000You see, I was not in the simulation the last couple weeks.
00:08:01.000So now, as I get back into the simulation, I start to ask very logical and rational questions.
00:08:07.000And I start to see that we're all playing a rigged game.
00:08:12.000That the way the news cycle is designed, the way that we talk about these issues, is all within a comfortable, prearranged corporate media framework that is designed to keep you obedient and America unfree.
00:08:28.000And so, I guess, one of the big issues and stories in the last week was this mask issue: this issue that the CDC now says that you're allowed to walk around without a mask if you're vaccinated or something like that.
00:08:42.000And so, as I watched other people in outdoor resorts cling to their masks, I wondered: are they doing this because they actually think it's going to keep them safe?
00:08:55.000Or are they doing this because they've been told to do this?
00:09:01.000And finally, I observed in kind of my people watching experiment, which, by the way, is what people used to do before these smooth screens designed by the Menlo Park masters in the Silicon Valley oligarchs infiltrated our planet when we decided it would be a good idea to give every single breathing human a device so complex, hardwired for your addiction.
00:09:30.000Before that, people used to talk to each other.
00:09:36.000Not with the people they came with, not with others.
00:09:40.000The binds that tied us together as a human species were evaporating in real time.
00:09:48.000And if the conservative movement is going to be good for anything, if the conservative movement is going to have any sort of success in the future, I'm not talking about winning elections.
00:10:25.000Is that something worth preserving and protecting?
00:10:30.000Is the conservative movement going to be focused on things that are eternal and lasting and things that matter, or just things that give you a thrill or give you a short pleasure kick?
00:10:44.000The conservative movement's going to be worth anything.
00:10:48.000It's not just going to have a conversation about these issues, it's going to seek to solve them, address them, and actually preserve our precious humanity before it disappears for good.
00:11:04.000Is it time to stop renting and buy your first home?
00:11:08.000Owning your home is an investment in your future.
00:11:10.000And with today's low rates, now is the time to do it.
00:11:13.000Often with mortgage payment, it's the same as rent.
00:11:15.000So why pay for someone else's mortgage payment?
00:11:17.000Going through the mortgage process for the first time means you're going to have lots of questions.
00:12:31.000Wait, so you can hack the colonial pipeline and then extort for $5 million while our government calls them hackers and not terrorists, which they obviously are.
00:12:44.000But somehow our voting system is completely fine.
00:12:53.000There's also a lot happening in Israel, which happens to be an issue I care a lot about and I know a lot about just because I've visited there so many times.
00:13:01.000And I more so than a lot of kind of American social justice activists.
00:13:06.000I actually appreciate the nuance and the history of what's been happening in Israel over the last couple decades in particular.
00:13:16.000But before I get into any of that, I kind of want to reinforce something that I was saying, which is that the conservative movement has an opportunity.
00:13:30.000We are going through what I call a slow-motion revolution.
00:13:35.000This revolution is not happening overnight.
00:13:38.000It's not always happening in the streets, but it's happening in slow micro doses.
00:13:47.000Now, at times, the collectivists, the totalitarians, the authoritarians, they overdo the dosage.
00:14:20.000Now, by the way, a lot of this language might sound like news speak.
00:14:24.000It's because I actually spent three full days studying 1984, not just reading it.
00:14:29.000And both sides like to have a claim to 1984.
00:14:33.000The liberals like to say that Republicans are engaged in Orwellian type behavior because they don't want Liz Cheney to be in leadership of their party, which is a very bizarre, unfounded accusation.
00:14:47.000And then conservatives at times use 1984 and George Orwell and Orwellian references to worry about big tech tyranny and surveillance and just general political totalitarianism.
00:15:03.000But I think there's a truth behind 1984 that a lot of people are missing.
00:15:10.000But the conservative movement right now has this great opportunity because there's so much happening that's affecting people's lives, things that matter, families, childhood development, the spirit and the soul of who we are.
00:15:28.000And as soon as conservatives start to actually talk about these things, people are going to listen outside of just the prearranged goalposts of the current political debate.
00:15:38.000For example, can somebody in the leadership of the Republican Party come out and say that it's a bad thing, but seven-year-olds are spending eight hours plus in front of the smooth screens of what I call them.
00:15:58.000Is that a healthy thing for the next generation, for us trying to pass down our values?
00:16:05.000Maybe instead of trying to investigate what they call the greatest threat on democracy in the history of the planet, which is already being done by the Justice Department and every other federal agency, why don't our leaders investigate what the long-term effects to neuroscience and biochemistry that technology is having on six, seven, and eight-year-olds?
00:16:35.000Or maybe even 14, 15, 16-year-olds, or maybe even 30, 31, and 32-year-olds.
00:16:40.000The conservative movement should value virtue and eternal truth over thrills and pleasure.
00:16:49.000They're having more plastic than the other person.
00:16:54.000And there's a lot of these issues intersect with that.
00:16:59.000And the totalitarians, the collectivists that are now, they now basically exercise control over everything.
00:17:07.000And unfortunately, that did not change in the last 10 days.
00:17:11.000We now have the Space Command story that I want to get to, and the American Airlines story I want to get to.
00:17:18.000It really is a question of: do we have an opposition party to any of this?
00:17:24.000Or do we have a controlled opposition that merely just wants to be in power while the other side dominates?
00:17:34.000A gas station sells regular unleaded for $4 a gallon.
00:17:37.000The gas stations next door sell the exact same unleaded gas for $2 a gallon.
00:17:45.000So why are you still paying over-inflated rates for wireless with Verizon T-Mobile or ATT when you could be getting the exact same coverage as one of those big carriers with PeerTalk, except get this, it costs you less than half.
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00:18:03.000And if you go over on data, they don't charge you for it.
00:18:20.000Say Charlie Kirk, PeerTalk is simply smarter, wireless.
00:18:25.000So one of the stories that has happened in the last couple days that caught my attention is this story of how this man, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, he's a Space Force commander, removed after saying Marxism is infiltrating the United States military.
00:18:48.000Now, the reason they removed him is because they said we do not want people to be partisan.
00:18:53.000Let's go to cut 28 of Matthew Lohmeyer.
00:18:59.000He went on Sean Hannity's show and explained how he has been noticing over the last several years an increase in Marxism in the armed forces.
00:19:06.000Now, before I play this, we used to call people like this whistleblowers.
00:19:12.000We used to put people like this on the front page of our news media and celebrate them.
00:19:21.000Now they are removed for stating the obvious, for being truth tellers.
00:19:27.000How dare you stop our revolution, Matthew Lohmeyer?
00:19:34.000What happened is I began noticing some time ago, and not just in the past few months, but over the past several years, an increasing relevance of what I saw was Marxist ideology parading around by other names.
00:19:48.000The Defense Secretary in February, I think it was February 5th of this year, called for an extremism down day and issued a guidance memorandum to all service members.
00:19:58.000And in the guidance memorandum, he basically gave an injunction to every service member to combat extremist ideologies within the force where they saw them.
00:20:49.000Do you think that someone would be removed from the military if they said that they think there are white supremacists in the U.S. military?
00:20:58.000No, they would be given an MSNBC contributor role.
00:21:02.000We went through the CIA recruitment video.
00:21:06.000The U.S. Army has a new recruitment advertisement featuring lesbians at a gay wedding and an LGBTQ pride march.
00:21:37.000This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's patriot missile defense systems.
00:21:48.000It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.
00:21:53.000Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.
00:22:02.000I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.
00:22:05.000A way to prove my inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.
00:22:12.000So for those of you listening on radio that might have driven off the street and hit the side barrier of what you were listening, I completely understand.
00:22:20.000I hope that you're okay because I was listening to this.
00:22:23.000And no, you are not listening to an MTV LGBTQ advertisement.
00:22:28.000You are not listening to a Huffington Post dynamic insert advertisement.
00:22:32.000You are not listening to some sort of virtue signaling corporate propaganda that we have just grown accustomed to.
00:22:40.000You're not listening to Delta Airlines all of a sudden come on the screen and talk about how good a people they are before they're hopefully flying you safely.
00:22:49.000No, you are listening to taxpayer-funded advertisement from the United States Army.
00:22:58.000They are now pushing advertisements saying and pushing the S idea that my fight started by me being raised by two moms by a lesbian parents.
00:23:09.000That my fight continues by now being able to control the missiles.
00:23:14.000And what's really happening here, and almost everyone is missing it, is they're posturing.
00:23:22.000They're showing that the radical, radical is not even the best word for it.
00:24:27.000There were videos being sent out to every base service member that we were asked to watch in preparation for our extremism down days and discussions on race, in which we were taught that the country was evil, that it was founded in 1619 and not 1776, and that whites are inherently evil.
00:24:45.000Now, the military is refuting or challenging this claim.
00:24:49.000I tend to believe this guy, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.
00:25:05.000But the same sort of people that have now infiltrated American Airlines and Delta Airlines have infiltrated the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the highest levels of power you can imagine.
00:25:17.000Let me just be as materialistic as possible.
00:25:22.000If you control the aircraft carriers, you control the most important things.
00:25:27.000If you control the bullets and the missiles, you control the satellites and the drones.
00:25:51.000That's their utopian dream that they can create a better world where we don't have to have police and we don't have to have any sort of conflict.
00:26:02.000And there's still some of that within the activist base of the collectivist authoritarian left.
00:26:11.000Because of Donald Trump and because of how successful the conservative movement has been, the people that don't wish to create a better world, they're no longer in control.
00:26:22.000It's the people that want to be in power endlessly.
00:26:27.000And so a lot of times, conservatives ask me, Charlie, what do liberals want?
00:26:58.000It is this: the party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
00:27:03.000We're not interested in the good of others.
00:27:05.000We are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness, only power, pure power.
00:27:13.000What pure power means, you will understand presently.
00:27:16.000We are different from all other oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing.
00:27:20.000All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.
00:27:24.000The Nazis and the communists came very close to us and our methods, but never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
00:27:30.000They pretended, perhaps they even believed that they had seized their power unwillingly and for a limited time, that they just round the corner and a paradise where human beings could be free and equal.
00:28:30.000Control is their highest possible goal that they're trying to reach.
00:28:35.000It's a hard thing for a lot of Americans to believe.
00:28:39.000But now they also control the United States military.
00:28:43.000And so we're living through this slow-motion revolution.
00:28:48.000You see, those of us that believe in things that are eternal, truths that do not change, not just practical knowledge, but eternal knowledge, we're very vulnerable to these sort of infiltrations and these sort of attacks, the kind of corrosive nature of the left or of the collectivists, because we always have to be the ones that are preserving, and they're the ones that are trying to excite the masses,
00:29:16.000to allure them to embrace their ideas based on this false premise of progress, on this idea that we are going to always have a better tomorrow.
00:29:29.000And it's almost rooted in this Hegelian idea of historicism.
00:29:34.000We don't need to get too philosophical at the moment, but Hegel was a German writer who wrote a very hard book to read that I myself have not even read called The Phenomenology of Spirit.
00:29:46.000But it's this idea that history is this continuum that moves forward to its inevitable end point.
00:29:56.000That we must use whatever power we have at our disposal to try to factuate the next end point towards whatever you deem to be good.
00:30:07.000Now, the problem with that is it viewed history as this overarching trajectory that everyone plays a part in instead of something worthy of preservation and worthy of protecting.
00:30:24.000That there must always be a moment where we must change what already exists.
00:30:32.000So it's hard for us that believe in things that work and things that are eternal.
00:30:40.000We would call this common sense, but it's becoming less and less common because we are told that any sense that you might have that is common, that is rational or logical, is white, heteronormative, cisgender, Western tyrannical belief.
00:30:59.000So the fight is difficult, but it's not impossible.
00:31:02.000We're going to explore exactly how it's already being pushed back against.
00:31:07.000But I want to use the couple seconds we have remaining to tell you about something new we have at CharlieKirk.com.
00:31:13.000It's called Bycott, not Boycott, but Bycott.
00:31:17.000So you can go to CharlieKirk.com and there is a Bycott tab on it.
00:31:23.000We are creating a portal where we want the best companies that make things in America, that do things the right way to be rewarded.
00:31:31.000And we want you to refer these companies to us.
00:31:33.000So if you go to charliekirk.com slash bycott or just charliekirk.com, we have bycott on the top page, and you guys can type in the companies that you think are worthy of being listed.
00:31:46.000We are going to have a massive influx of businesses.
00:31:51.000We're going to go through them and we are going to list the top textile companies, food companies, transportation companies, local small businesses that are not pandering to this woke nonsense, that are being courageous, that are standing up against the lies that are dominating our society and are wishing to proclaim truth.