00:00:00.000Hey everybody, today in the Charlie Kirk show, we talk about some cultural stories this hour and I ask the question, are we winning, losing, or have lost the culture war?
00:00:11.000We explore that throughout this episode.
00:00:13.000I want your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:15.000It's an important and provocative question that the race lady from MSNBC asks.
00:01:09.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:29.000Look, there's little things that happen that sometimes add up to bigger things.
00:01:35.000And I'm sure you share the anger, the disgust, the frustration, the feeling, quite honestly, of collective humiliation that so many of us felt these last couple days as our greatest enemy, the Chinese Communist Party, trolled us in real time by floating a balloon across America.
00:01:54.000And we reluctantly seem to shoot it down once it's over the water after it's taken imagery of all of our key military installations.
00:02:12.000But let's put the balloon story kind of on the shelf for a second.
00:02:18.000Why is it also normal for us just to allow thousands of illegals to come into our country every single day, carrying fentanyl, many of them, that will then kill our own citizens?
00:02:28.000Over 100,000 drug overdoses every single year, 30 to 40,000 of them attributable to Chinese-laced fentanyl.
00:02:35.000Millions of people are able to come across the southern border, either by running past border patrol or just walking up and saying the right magic words and abra cadabra, they are allowed to come into the country.
00:02:47.000Why is it normal that San Francisco is allowed to let criminals just loot stores whenever they want?
00:02:55.000Why do we let rioters run wild in dozens of cities to burn down Wendy's in the honor of George Floyd or whatever their kind of reverent symbol is?
00:03:25.000To do something like to enforce a border or to arrest a shoplifter or to shoot down an invading balloon, you have to believe in an objective moral order.
00:03:38.000You have to believe that civilization is superior to barbarism.
00:03:43.000You have to believe that laws are superior to chaos.
00:03:49.000You have to believe that when laws are followed, human beings flourish, and when they are broken, you should be punished.
00:03:56.000You have to believe in the goodness of the society and the need to preserve that society, and if necessary, by force, a small but strong government.
00:04:07.000But that sense of civilizational right and wrong has been destroyed.
00:04:12.000We have a moral order where when somebody robs a store or trespasses a border, the first action of those in power is to look at how society is to blame.
00:05:12.000This is Sam Smith, who is an A-list artist.
00:05:17.000This is performing at the Grammys on Primetime Television, dressed as Satan with the horns, with, let's just say, provocatively dressed people around him dancing in very strange ways, obvious satanic imagery.
00:05:43.000And so who do we blame for our problems?
00:05:45.000Well, in the current state of affairs, we blame the most functional, the most moral people for problems and punish them instead of actual wrongdoers.
00:05:54.000As Sam Francis wrote in the 1990s, a phrase that I repeat, quite often, we are living in anarcho-tyranny.
00:06:03.000One of the first things that Lucifer ever did was try to get man to question what God told him or her.
00:06:13.000It was actually Eve where that dialogue happened.
00:06:15.000To question what is right or wrong, to question the distinction between adult and child.
00:06:22.000So when we look at the balloon story, the border story, the indoctrination of kids, we look at the chemical castration, almost all of it comes back to a cultural pathogen.
00:06:33.000And the race lady on MSNBC had a very interesting monologue that I want to ponder with you.
00:06:40.000And I want your honest thoughts, not hopium.
00:06:54.000She said she enjoyed the Grammys, but that's not exactly why I'm playing this tape.
00:06:58.000That's perverted and wrong and creepy and weird and also really disturbing.
00:07:02.000But she says something else that I think is actually interesting.
00:07:06.000So put aside the fact that Joy Reed is cheerleading for Luciferianism and listen to her contention where she says, we have won the culture war.
00:07:18.000It's a little bit long of a clip, but I want you to listen to it.
00:07:23.000I hadn't watched in years, but I actually really enjoyed it.
00:07:27.000Although I'm not sure everybody else did.
00:07:29.000It was, to put it mildly, a celebration of the very thing the American right has turned into its latest anti-wokeness boogeyman, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:07:40.000The show opened with Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny singing 99% in Spanish.
00:07:46.000Then host Trevor Noah walked and talked through a room that was diversity, equity, and inclusion in human form.
00:07:52.000We saw the first trans artist win a Grammy, Kim Petrus, who has a hit song with Sam Smith, the British singer who came out in 2019 as non-binary.
00:08:02.000Lizzo performed with her amazing choir of many-sized singers.
00:08:07.000Record of the Year went to Harry Stiles, a British male singer who frequently puts on dresses to pose in magazines and is a sex symbol to women and men because of it.
00:08:16.000And there was a 15-minute epic tribute to the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.
00:08:22.000So, yeah, the culture wars are over and the left won like total defeat.
00:08:28.000I can only imagine the heads exploding in red states.
00:08:32.000They are not just losing, they literally cannot win.
00:08:55.000Of course, she skipped over the Luciferian components of Sam Smith.
00:09:00.000And I say, boy, I yearn for a society that would appreciate Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, the symphony, the opera, understand Shakespeare and the Bible, and not honor trans singers and try to make a music ceremony into a political super PAC organizer.
00:09:26.000But is it true, as Joy Reed says, it's over.
00:09:29.000Joy Reed might as well be George W. Bush on an aircraft carrier with the mission accomplished banner behind her.
00:12:38.000It's got zero wisdom, hyperaggression, all the modern talking points.
00:12:44.000And then Joy Reed said something so interesting, as if she's trying to act smart and philosophical.
00:12:51.000She should just stick to the white people are racist thing.
00:12:54.000Because what she said is so easily disproven.
00:13:01.000Once people get a taste of modernity, they don't willingly go back.
00:13:07.000You're trying to tell me that once people get a taste of eight-year-olds being exposed to child pornography, they don't want to willingly go back.
00:13:16.000The evidence actually shows the opposite, Joy Reed.
00:13:19.000You're trying to tell me that when seven-year-olds get chemically castrated, that's immensely popular with people?
00:13:27.000Or modernity of widespread crime or open borders, nothing suggests that that is necessarily popular with the vast majority of people.
00:13:36.000But for Joy Reed, it doesn't mean anything because she gets to pretend like she's some sort of oppressed minority group when in reality she gets to live a rather, I hate to use this word, but she gets to live an upper middle class privileged lifestyle.
00:13:53.000She doesn't actually have to live the consequence of all the horrendous ideas.
00:13:57.000Look, here's the thing, is that we are the recipients.
00:14:00.000We have inherited an extraordinary civilization called the West.
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00:14:25.000And modernity is an arson on the structure of the West.
00:15:19.000He was saying, okay, just so you know, the value of God in the West is dead, but that what comes next, of course, is the isms, the Nazism, the communism, the Marxism, the totalitarianism.
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00:17:58.000People are saying, Charlie, I think that the left has won.
00:18:05.000It seems to be a mixture of both, but it is interesting because they are proclaiming victory, which again, just as a kind of interesting historical comparison, it feels very similar to Bush saying, mission accomplished, Play Cut 47.
00:18:23.000Any outlaw regime that has ties to terrorist groups and seeks or possesses weapons of mass destruction is a grave danger to the civilized world and will be confronted.
00:18:41.000We've begun the search for hidden chemical and biological weapons and already know of hundreds of sites that will be investigated.
00:18:52.000First of all, I haven't listened to this tape until right now.
00:18:54.000We listened to it together for the first time, long time.
00:18:57.000Did you hear what he said with connections to terrorist groups?
00:19:00.000How's that any different than Joe Biden talking about American conservatives right now?
00:19:03.000That is also a very deep topic that we can explore.
00:19:07.000That the very same language, tactics, security state operations that they used against al-Qaeda, ISIS, to a lesser extent, Saddam Hussein, and the Taliban, Patriot Act, NSA, FISA courts.
00:19:20.000They're using all that permanent infrastructure to go after American conservatives.
00:19:24.000The stuff that Lady Graham told us to do, the stuff that George W. Bush told us to do, all of that anti-terror infrastructure is now being used against the American right.
00:19:33.000They just kind of, they've poured it all into that.
00:19:37.000So the language, of course, is parallel.
00:19:39.000As George W. Bush says, we're going after the terrorists.
00:20:45.000So they're just chanting trans lives matter, trans lives matter in the Oklahoma Capitol.
00:20:51.000Now, that actually plays into Joy Reed's point, which is you're winning the culture war if you're allowed to then do the same thing the opposition does and not be held accountable.
00:21:04.000The trans people are able to storm capitals with no arrests or recourse or any issues.
00:21:13.000Meanwhile, there are people going to jail for months and years for very similar behavior, January 6th Capitol.
00:21:22.000I'm not talking about the violent stuff, which obviously we've never supported and never will.
00:21:26.000I'm talking about peacefully entering into the Capitol, which they are now charging people, not just charging people, convicting people of illegal trespassing.
00:21:36.000Now, remember that George W. Bush clip I just played about calling the other side terrorists?
00:21:39.000Just listen to how similar Maxine Waters sounded to George W. Bush talking about Saddam, Hussein, and now.
00:22:18.000That's the same language as George W. Bush used on a foreign aircraft, on an aircraft carrier in foreign waters, talking about the enemies in Iraq.
00:22:28.000The playbook is just 20 years old, just been totally flipped now on American conservatives to spy on us, infiltrate our groups, and then use terroristic type infrastructure to go after us.
00:22:40.000Cut 38, teacher suggests to students, this is your taxpayer dollars paying this teacher, that the students should pledge allegiance to the progress pride flag.
00:22:52.000I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
00:23:06.000So this teacher removed the American flag from her classroom, and all she has is the gay pride flag.
00:23:54.000It's not all one way or the other, but certainly in businesses, whether it be the national chains like Starbucks, so many of these others, they had the gay flag as if we are a conquered land.
00:24:07.000Let's play cut 42, psychologist at Boston's Children Hospital talking about caring for trans kids.
00:24:18.000You see, so much of this gets laundered through the medical industry of these mad scientists that are then going to manipulate children in their image, but it's all downstream from the winner or the loser of the cultural battle.
00:24:36.000So most of the patients that we have in the gems clinic actually know their gender, usually around the age of puberty, but a good portion of children do know as early as seemingly from the womb.
00:24:45.000And they will usually express their gender identity as very young children.
00:24:48.000Some, as soon as they can talk, they might say phrases such as, I'm a girl or I'm a boy or I'm going to be a woman or I'm going to be a mom.
00:24:58.000Kids know early and therefore we should be able to use irreversible, incredibly aggressive and intrusive surgical means and methods to change their private parts.
00:25:10.000And Joy Reid and the American left, they are celebrating by how much quote-unquote progress they have made with this.
00:25:16.000But let's connect all of this together because many of you feel that kind of national humiliation after the balloon and the border remains wide open and all these different components and things are happening.
00:25:29.000But it all comes to then people with power.
00:25:33.000You see, you're always going to have rich people.
00:26:00.000So when you start to hear all this ideology, it's very tempting to say, well, that's just this elementary school and that's just a wacko congressman.
00:26:28.000So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America?
00:26:43.000What happens in the culture wars does not stay in the culture war as it starts to infect other parts of society.
00:26:50.000There is a new scene from Disney Plus, which unfortunately, if I were to guess, many of you in this audience probably have grandkids that watch Disney Plus or your kids themselves.
00:27:07.000This is from Disney Plus, children's cartoon series called The Proud Family, louder and prouder, singing about how slaves built this country and that we're the descendants of slaves.
00:27:23.000This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country.
00:27:27.000And we, the descendants of slaves in America, have earned reparations for their suffering and continue to earn reparations every moment we spend submerged in the systemic prejudice, racism, and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.
00:28:12.000Slaves did not write the Mayflower Compact.
00:28:15.000Even though the Declaration of Independence was crucial to freeing slaves, even though the very people that they criticize, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton, Jay, Quincy Adams, all played integral parts in ending slavery, as we all have something in common.
00:28:34.000We're born into a world we did not create.
00:28:36.000But they say slaves built this country.
00:28:38.000Do you understand how sick that argument is?
00:28:49.000Slaves in a very immoral and evil fashion made a small group of people temporarily wealthy, but slavery is actually a very inefficient economic model.
00:28:58.000A country cannot get wealthy just strictly through slavery.
00:29:02.000Look at the countries right now that currently have slavery.
00:29:06.000You actually get wealthier by empowering every single person in your population to own private property, to control their own labor, to be able to trade and barter and take risks.
00:29:16.000What they're saying is that slaves, slavery is why America is wealthy.
00:29:21.000If that was the case, why was the free North far wealthier than the slave South?
00:30:10.000There are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in American history.
00:30:17.000In the Horn of Africa, in sub-Saharan Africa, in the Middle East, on our southern border, in Asia, human beings, owning human beings, tragically, has been around as long as history has been recorded.
00:30:36.000And so it does beg a question of why did we get rid of slavery?
00:30:39.000We got rid of slavery because the promise of the Bible of human equality, both Old and New Testament narratives that talk about the evils of slavery, both Exodus and many of Paul's writings of neither slave nor Greek nor Jew, we are all one in Christ Jesus.
00:30:58.000So to summarize this all together, are we winning or are we losing?
00:31:03.000I think we have to be honest, the left has temporarily taken control of some of our most critical institutions.
00:31:10.000They are temporary occupiers, and that's a very important distinction.
00:31:15.000I think they are temporarily controlling so many of our opinion-shaping institutions and power centers.
00:31:24.000But like any occupying force, it's hard to control a country where you are in where you are philosophically incongruent with the fabric of the people that you're trying to dictate towards.
00:31:38.000This is why I've said for quite some time, you must think like a dissident in your own country.
00:31:44.000They might control those institutions, but that does not mean we have to bend a knee or to agree with them.