00:00:00.000Hey, everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:00:02.000Disney continues to be in the top of our mind.
00:00:04.000And also, what is going on with the Biden's seizure of crypto assets and what do they want to do when it comes to a national digital currency?
00:00:12.000We have an expert on this, Ben Weingarten, to dive into it.
00:01:43.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:19.000Disney is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, $250 billion company.
00:02:24.000They control, run, and operate the most influential amusement park where people come from all over the world and the country in a time they'll never forget to be able to ride roller coasters and go through amusement park and all that stuff.
00:02:41.000And Disney World is an objectively well-run operation.
00:02:45.000But now Disney is making some serious changes.
00:02:49.000And it's all because of Ron DeSantis in a good way, by the way.
00:02:52.000Ron DeSantis signed this bill in Florida, which was a parental rights bill, an anti-grooming bill that many of the activist groups are super concerned about that five-year-olds won't be able to learn about this stuff.
00:03:06.000And Disney is over the top compensating for this.
00:03:11.000I mean, it's so shockingly and stunningly.
00:03:14.000It should be a last and final warning for every family out there and every parent out there.
00:03:21.000You better stop your Disney Plus subscription.
00:03:24.000You better stop your Hulu subscription.
00:03:26.000This is not okay, what Disney is doing.
00:03:29.000What exactly is Disney doing, you might ask?
00:03:33.000Let's go through some examples, and then I'm going to play some tape here that came out, which is just so extraordinary.
00:03:38.000So when you go to one of Disney's parks, Disneyland or Disney World, they will no longer use boys and girls at any park greetings to promote inclusivity because not everyone is a boy or girl and they don't want to alienate the trans people.
00:03:55.000Disney, as a matter of policy, will now say they will no longer use boys and girls.
00:04:00.000Quote, Disney parks are axing gendered language, such as boys and girls and ladies and gentlemen in their park greetings to promote gender inclusivity.
00:04:10.000Disney's diversity and inclusion manager, Vivian Ware, was heard speaking about the changes in a video conference call recorded by Christopher Ruffo.
00:04:19.000We've provided training for all of our cast members in relation to that.
00:04:23.000So now they know to say hello, everyone.
00:04:24.000Or hello, friends, instead of hello, boys and girls.
00:04:28.000You see, gender is tyrannical, according to Disney.
00:04:33.000Breaking today, also, Disney has made an announcement, and they said by the end of this year, half of all of the characters in Disney movies will be lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, or queer.
00:04:48.000Now, of course, Disney is not an adult-driven company.
00:04:55.000They do some adult programming, but the main profit center for Disney is content for three-year-olds to 13-year-olds.
00:05:07.000And yet, Disney finds it appropriate that they want half of all their characters to be gay, bisexual, trans, half by the end of this year.
00:05:20.000So there is a video obtained that shows how Disney really feels about you and feels about this situation.
00:05:28.000Cut 48, Disney corporate president Carrie Burke says, quote, as the mother of one transgender child and one pansexual child, she supports many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and wants them to be in leading roles.
00:05:46.000I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually, one transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader.
00:06:00.000And that was the thing that really got me because I have heard so much from so many of my colleagues over the course of the last couple of weeks.
00:06:08.000We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories, and yet we don't have enough leads.
00:06:20.000How do these parents sleep at night, actually?
00:06:24.000I don't even know if I live in the same civilization as these people.
00:06:27.000Corporate president Carrie Burke, we need more leading roles of trans and LGBTQ characters.
00:06:35.000Isn't it interesting how we went from gay marriage being the law of the land, which we thought would end this discussion?
00:06:43.000Then we went to gender, which we thought would end the discussion, to now we're talking more about lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans issues than we even were during the time when gay marriage was not even legal.
00:06:58.000The more legislative wins the trans lobby gets, the more we actually end up talking about it.
00:07:04.000Maybe it's because it's not about liberty or equality, but maybe it's about conformity.
00:07:10.000Maybe it's about making you submit to their way of life.
00:07:15.000Cut 49, this tape is circulating virally.
00:07:18.000Christopher Ruffo obtained video from Inside Disney's all-hands meeting about the Florida parental rights bill, in which executive Latoya Raveno says her team has implemented a, quote, not at all secret gay agenda and is regularly adding queerness to children's programming.
00:07:35.000Final warning, parents, if your child or grandchild is consuming Disney content, they will be the recipient of a not-at-all secret gay agenda.
00:07:48.000Meredith Roberts and like the our leadership over there has been so welcoming to like my like not at all secret gay agenda.
00:07:57.000And so all that like momentum that I felt like that sense of I don't have to be afraid to like let's have these two characters kiss.
00:08:06.000Let's in the background this like I was just wherever I could just basically adding queerness to like the if you see anything queer the show brought them but like I just was like no one would stop me and no one was trying to stop me.
00:08:19.000They called us bigots if we dared to say that there was a slippery slope that would accompany legalization.
00:08:27.000But now this woman on this, she's an executive producer, I believe, within the Disney leadership is chuckling, saying, we need more queerness.
00:08:44.000We need children to be exposed to two dudes kissing each other at a very young age.
00:08:50.000And what's so interesting is that it is tied to this entire conversation.
00:08:56.000And it's this, it's Christopher Caldwell.
00:08:59.000I mean, it's, I know I keep resorting back to it, but Christopher Caldwell really depicted the danger of having out of control liberation movements that are not anchored in legitimate grievance.
00:09:12.000Christopher Caldwell in the book Age of Entitlement warned us that the trajectory that we are on is the very groups that allegedly want liberation will soon become the tyrants themselves.
00:09:24.000In fact, it will happen almost immediately, almost overnight.
00:09:28.000That once the groups are formed, it's not like all of a sudden the ACLU and the LGBT groups like disassemble, like, oh, we got gay marriage done.
00:09:37.000Now we can just put our paperwork away.
00:09:39.000No, it's an entire cottage industry of outrage and hysteria.
00:10:14.000They're like, well, we want to have four-year-olds that have homosexual attractions to know that they're not alone when they're watching movies.
00:10:27.000Like, I don't think they're exactly making very deep arguments about what they're sexually attracted to, but they want to do what every tyrant wants to do and every autocrat wants to do.
00:10:40.000They want to obliterate the innocence of children.
00:10:42.000And what is so scary about removing the innocence of children is that you can't get it back.
00:10:50.000That's the moral claim of protecting children.
00:10:54.000Is because once that line is crossed, there's no undoing it.
00:10:59.000And the damage is done for the rest of the life for the child.
00:11:04.000It's hard to believe that this is Disney.
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00:13:30.000And they want to create this kind of cultural echo chamber, if you will, where you see the two dudes kissing on Disney Plus.
00:13:40.000Your teacher is talking about gay stuff all the time.
00:13:43.000And by the time you're in fourth grade, all you're thinking about is like hypersexual activity and not even sexual activity that would be in kind of the quote-unquote heteronormative way, but in kind of a way that fourth graders wouldn't otherwise really be thinking about it.
00:16:05.000Now, we believe eight-year-olds should be a captive audience to learn how to spell, to learn how to do math, to learn the basics of science and biology.
00:16:33.000You just can't talk to five-year-olds about anything you want to talk about.
00:16:38.000By the way, it would really be bad for them.
00:16:40.000It would destroy the innocence of the children.
00:16:42.000So, according to Ron Perlman and the kind of very sloppy ACLU style argument where all of a sudden they become the ambassadors of free speech, even though they hate free speech, the argument would quickly become: well, you don't want to restrict the gay teacher from telling a six-year-old all about the orgy that they went to while doing cocaine till 4 a.m.
00:17:07.000Like, is that appropriate, Ron Perlman?
00:17:24.000You can dance on your rooftop, but when you've got five or six or seven-year-olds and you're being paid by the state, actually, no, you don't have the ability to say whatever you want to say.
00:17:32.000You're there to teach, which means to lead forth.
00:17:36.000Education comes from the Latin word to lead forth.
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00:18:28.000With us right now is Ben Whitgarten, who is a fellow at the Claremont Institute and also from Real Clear Investigations with a phenomenal news story about how the federal government via the Biden regime is putting together this crypto executive order.
00:18:43.000This might be a little wonky for some people, but I want you to listen carefully because we know that there is a currency reset looming by the great reset crowd, and this all ties together with the erosion of our liberty.
00:18:53.000Ben, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:18:55.000Charlie, thanks so much for having me.
00:18:58.000Walk us through what is this executive order and how does this apply to most Americans, whether they own cryptocurrency or not?
00:19:05.000This executive order holds the potential to create the linchpin of a social credit system with American characteristics.
00:19:16.000What this order calls for, and it's important to note that the Biden administration writes in the text of the order: my administration places the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a United States CBDC, central bank digital currency.
00:19:38.000Another plank of the order is that the Biden administration seeks to build a regulatory regime around all manner of digital assets, including cryptocurrencies.
00:19:47.000So two things, regulating cryptocurrencies, which of course compete with the US dollar, and then creating a digital version of the US dollar.
00:19:57.000And it mobilizes a whole slew of federal agencies to create a CBDC.
00:20:02.000So we know what regulations of cryptocurrencies will do.
00:20:07.000Obviously, it will make it more costly to transact in them.
00:20:13.000And of course, the basis of cryptocurrencies at the outset was in large part to create a hedge against or an alternative to central bank created dollars because central banks, of course, do all sorts of things to manipulate their currencies, erode the value of the dollar in your pocket, monetize their debt.
00:20:34.000Paper currencies, of course, allow governments to act like drunken sailors.
00:20:39.000The CBDC is the antithesis basically of a cryptocurrency because it is the ultimate centralized central bank controlled currency, except because it's digital, it also creates the potential for one of the greatest surveillance tools possible in the history of mankind.
00:20:59.000In addition to being able to digitally, with the snap of a finger, devalue the currency in your pocket, set it, program it so that it can expire at a certain point in time, and therefore, of course, manipulate economic behavior, and then potentially freeze or seize the assets in one's account, potentially on the basis of political ideology.
00:21:24.000China, communist China, is the largest world power to issue a CBDC, the electronic yuan.
00:21:32.000And China has experimented with making dollars expire after a certain amount of months.
00:21:39.000And of course, will integrate this into its social credit system where if you act in ways that fail to comply with whatever the regime is mandating, if you don't cross the street in the crosswalk, they can automatically fine you, take those funds out of your account.
00:21:54.000That's like the most mundane example of the kind of tyranny that a CBDC could unleash.
00:22:00.000So tell us how this plays into the world reserve currency situation and where does that stand in your opinion?
00:22:07.000There's a lot of chatter that America might lose its status as the world reserve currency.
00:22:11.000Where do you think that entire situation plays into right now?
00:22:16.000And what you're talking about, by the way, just happened in Canada with empowering Trudeau and his tyrants to be able to seize cryptocurrency assets.
00:22:28.000Yeah, so let's start with the second one, which is one of the reasons why we should be more than skeptical of what's coming down the pike.
00:22:36.000We've seen the Biden administration in league with other world leaders, of course, and the U.S. leading this effort, given its outsized influence over the global financial system, in no small part because we hold the world's reserve currency, essentially try to cancel Russia from the global financial and economic architecture, of course, with certain carve-outs, as we all know.
00:22:56.000We saw, to your point, the Trudeau regime debank convoy participants, wrongthinkers there.
00:23:04.000And the Biden administration, just weeks before they did so, urged the Trudeau regime to use all of its powers to counteract, to counter and fight those truckers.
00:23:15.000And then if you look back to January 6th, as Tucker Carlson reported, the Biden administration, the Biden DOJ, went to Bank of America and asked to collect financial transaction information on several hundred, I guess, presumed guilty wrongthinkers who happened to be in or around Washington, D.C. on January 6th, hoovered that information up.
00:23:36.000And of course, the bank gladly handed it over.
00:23:39.000And last but not least, as I've been hammering home for since it came out last June, the Biden administration issued a national strategy for countering domestic terrorism, which codifies a war on wrongthink and calls for using the banking system to further pursue what it would call terrorists, but which, of course, obviously can classify conservatives writ large as being a terrorist threat.
00:24:02.000All of the dangers are there in terms of the weaponization of a system like this.
00:24:07.000And that's one of the reasons why this is such a pressing matter.
00:24:10.000Now, on the issue of the reserve currency more broadly, the story, the history of the U.S. dollar is of a currency that was backed by gold and then a pseudo-gold backed currency.
00:24:24.000And then as a result of reckless spending, debt and deficits, the paper dollar, which we've had since 1971.
00:24:31.000The next step in the long slide from the most sound currency in the world to a currency just as potentially weak as any other, as the Zimbabwe currency was before it went belly up, is this next step to a digital currency that can, of course, be digitally printed out of thin air and manipulated at warp speed.
00:25:14.000The oil is mainly traded in the U.S. dollar.
00:25:17.000But adversarial regimes, particularly those who are faced with sanctions or otherwise cut off from the global financial architecture, of course, are trying to create alternatives.
00:25:26.000They already transact in cryptocurrencies.
00:25:29.000They would love to have an alternative currency of the U.S. dollar on which major natural resources might be traded, because ultimately it undermines our power because the dominance of the dollar is maybe the central pillar of the U.S. being the dominant world power.
00:25:45.000So dollars still dominate in terms of what transactions are transacted in.
00:25:51.000Our markets continue to be the most liquid and deepest in the world, but the dollar is only as strong at the end of the day as people believe the U.S. government is faithful to its principles and as strong as they believe our productive assets are.
00:26:08.000That is ultimately what the dollar is backed by.
00:26:10.000You know, full faith and credit of the U.S. government is one definition of it.
00:26:14.000But in reality, it's confidence in our system and our ability to be a productive people.
00:26:20.000And all of that is called into question, obviously, with the kinds of policies we're seeing right now.
00:26:24.000Yeah, I mean, it's our entire currency is built on the fact that we have aircraft carriers and most countries don't actually, when it comes down to it, we have brute force and the faith and just kind of whether or not we're able to defend ourselves.
00:26:35.000So really quickly, Ben, one thing I don't quite understand, though, and I understand enough about cryptocurrency to be dangerous more than kind of, I would say, a regular person, but by far from an expert, is how can the government actually get into the technology of crypto?
00:26:53.000But at the same time, it's transparent while also being anonymous.
00:26:56.000Transparent because there's an open ledger, but anonymous because you don't actually know who's actually owning all the crypto in real time.
00:27:02.000What is the government's plan to be able to actually seize it from a technological perspective?
00:27:08.000Well, it would seem, and the Federal Reserve has put out a primer on this earlier in the year.
00:27:14.000And it seems as if it's sort of been a choreographed effort leading up to this call for then all these various agencies to take six months and draft up a report on how we would go about executing this sort of CBDC.
00:27:26.000So, the devil will be in those details, but I think it's clear that they see a technology that allows for at the speed of light all manner of transactions.
00:27:36.000They view this as the natural off-ramp to a paper dollar that they have devalued.
00:27:41.000And so, they can use the technologies in terms of electronic payment processing and potentially making the Federal Reserve the bank of all banks that we might have accounts with, or the big banks probably will not like that.
00:27:53.000So, maybe the big banks will serve as a middleman between the Federal Reserve and us.
00:27:58.000But it's a totally open question why we would expect there to be all of those benefits that exist when it comes to cryptocurrencies of the anonymity, the digital ledger, the decentralized nature of it.
00:28:10.000This is the ultimate centralization, just leveraging the technology in terms of the electronic platforms that might be used and the surveillance of it.
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00:30:10.000I'm going to get Douglas Murray back on the program.
00:30:13.000Douglas Murray has one of the great lines to describe the American racial situation that I could think of.
00:30:19.000He says, We have a supply and demand problem when it comes to racism in America.
00:30:24.000An incredibly low supply, but a high demand to find racism because we have a media and legal apparatus that is willing.
00:30:31.000In fact, they are, they have an appetite to jump on them at every corner.
00:30:35.000Now, I've become very cynical when it comes to this topic, unfortunately, because every time I see a news headline about a racist threat or some sort of hate crime in the making, I immediately say, Are we sure that's not a hoax?
00:30:53.000I'm not saying that hate crimes don't happen.
00:30:57.000But I certainly go into kind of a default setting of like, are we sure this isn't Jesse Smellett 2.0?
00:31:04.000Well, a story that was circulating online, if you kind of watch the BLM channels, which we try to kind of keep our eyes on, was something out of Sacramento, Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
00:31:16.000News release: Rosemont High School racist graffiti investigation update.
00:31:21.000On Tuesday, the 22nd of March, at approximately 5:14, school officials at Rosemont High School, Sacramento City Unified School District in the county of Sacramento, reported racist graffiti that has been written in pencil on the wall of a hallway inside a campus building.
00:31:33.000Two Rosemont High School students were observed writing a racial obscenity.
00:32:12.000If you have Jussie Smollett and you have the situation that we had at White Bear Lake High School, Minnesota, where I think her name was Severin, a phenomenal turning point USA chapter leader of ours, who was smeared and slandered for allegedly being a racist and sending these Instagram messages, even though she didn't send them, and it was black students who sent them, and the administration wouldn't even come out and say it because they said it was racist to say that the black kids were sending the messages, even though the white girl was the one that was a victim of the black people saying the message against the black people.
00:32:36.000Same thing at this Sacramento school as well.
00:33:02.000A student at Wright State University who said who's a victim of a racist act no longer wants to be, wants this to be looked into, admits they did it themselves.
00:33:38.000Instead of actually trying to live a virtuous and authentic life, what does it say for young black girls in Sacramento that feel as if they have to go right on the side of a wall, something so heinous and so terrible?