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00:02:26.000Senator Mitch McConnell yesterday came out and said that he wanted to congratulate Joe Biden.
00:02:33.000And we made the point here on this program.
00:02:36.000Why would you congratulate someone when they definitely have done not just something suspicious, but do you congratulate someone after they rob a bank?
00:02:47.000Do you congratulate somebody after they do something morally suspicious?
00:02:55.000And so going out of his way to congratulate former Vice President Joe Biden is a great way to lose the Georgia Senate runoffs.
00:03:07.000Now, I was not alone in this criticism.
00:03:10.000Independent of any coordination, Mark Levin, Dr. Gorka, and many others came out and really let Senator Mitch McConnell have it.
00:03:19.000And what we have right now is the need for a constitutional reset.
00:03:23.000In a lot of different ways, the great reset that is being pushed by the Davos crew and the Davos Klan is really going to be threatening to our country and our sovereignty.
00:03:36.000What we need, though, is a constitutional reset.
00:03:40.000Not enough people in our country understand why the Constitution was written, its value in our country, what it exactly is supposed to do.
00:03:49.000You see, the Constitution is the greatest firewall against tyranny, against demagoguing politicians and populism gone wrong.
00:04:00.000There's populism that we support here on the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:04:03.000But what happens when an angry mob in the inner cities of our country in particular want power at all costs?
00:04:11.000This is one of my biggest complaints with how the activist media has been covering what's happening in our country.
00:04:18.000You see, the activist media say frequently that we are a democracy.
00:04:30.000Well, democracy, in its purest form, means that all of us would vote on every single bill, every single issue in Washington, D.C.
00:04:41.000We would be the people actually voting on legislative measures.
00:04:48.000It would require massive amounts of voter participation.
00:04:54.000However, a constitutional republic is, especially through a representative democracy, is where we send people in our place to go represent us in Washington, D.C.
00:05:05.000We sent people in our place to go to Washington, D.C.
00:05:09.000And despite how much conspiring or planning they do, they cannot take away our God-granted natural rights.
00:05:20.000They can't take away our right to freedom of assembly, our Second Amendment rights, our rights to privacy.
00:05:26.000You see, no matter how hard they try, they can't take away the Bill of Rights, even if they have 51 votes, if they have 58 votes.
00:05:34.000Now, if they have two-thirds of votes, they could add constitutional amendments.
00:05:38.000However, the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, have never been challenged or tried.
00:05:44.000They've been added to, enhanced, and clarified.
00:05:48.000But despite how, no matter how hard the politicians, under the guise of democracy, no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to take away those natural God-granted rights.
00:06:01.000That's what makes a republic different than a democracy.
00:06:05.000And that distinction is more than semantics.
00:06:07.000That distinction is civilizational altering.
00:06:10.000That distinction is whether or not we are going to continue to have a country that is based on the rule of law, private property rights, debate, discourse.
00:06:21.000What measures does the Constitution still give us to clarify the fraud that happened in early November?
00:06:30.000What measures do we have left to be able to make sense of all this?
00:06:35.000Hunter Biden, hydroxychloroquine, and heinous voter fraud.
00:06:46.000Hunter Biden, hydroxychloroquine, and heinous voter fraud.
00:06:55.000Well, those three things were the test case, if you will, for the censors, for the tech companies, and the data companies to silence and stifle dissenting and disagreeable opinions.
00:07:14.000The Chinese coronavirus outbreak has impacted everybody.
00:07:17.000I lost a dear friend who had the Chinese coronavirus.
00:07:25.000Back in March and April, many of us did not know what we were dealing with.
00:07:30.000I remember in early March speaking to a good friend of mine from Dallas who called me and he said, Charlie, I think that there is an anti-malarial medication that very well could solve a lot of these problems: hydroxychloroquine.
00:07:47.000As this gained in popularity, the president talked about it.
00:07:50.000There was a sudden rush to try and disqualify hydroxychloroquine.
00:08:01.000And despite this, Dr. Zelenko, who is from New York, talked about how he gave hydroxychloroquine to his senior citizen patients, many of them, and almost all of them were able to beat the Chinese coronavirus.
00:08:19.000Now, hydroxychloroquine is typically used to fight lupus amongst other health complications.
00:08:29.000No pharmaceutical company would get rich off of the production of hydroxychloroquine.
00:08:36.000As soon as people, such as myself and others, started talking about the positives of hydroxychloroquine, we were met with an unprecedented full court press from the activist media,
00:08:51.000from the so-called experts, from the tech companies, from the social media companies that were taking down accounts, suppressing conversation that were demeaning anyone who dare disagree that mandatory vaccinations were the only path forward.
00:09:16.000Back on March 29th, 2022, remember when the Novartis CEO said the malarial drug hydroxychloroquine is the biggest hope against the coronavirus?
00:09:28.000The Lancet Journal then came out with a piece of propaganda alongside the American Medical Association.
00:09:35.000They came out and they said that hydroxychloroquine is unsafe and unproven.
00:09:41.000A group of very brave scientists came out and they started to find issues with this report.
00:09:48.000They started to see that it was done through almost fake studies, unsubstantiated.
00:09:53.000However, the activist media, Dr. Fauci, the FDA, and the people in charge that are supposed to keep you safe and healthy were lying to you, probably because there was no money to be made when it came to hydroxychloroquine.
00:10:11.000Now, I never got off the hydroxychloroquine issue.
00:10:15.000In fact, I personally take hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic.
00:10:21.000I believe hydroxychloroquine can work for some people.
00:10:27.000And what does the FDA say about hydroxychloroquine?
00:10:31.000Well, the Food and Drug Administration has come out and they say the following, that hydroxychloroquine is not safe.
00:10:40.000The Food and Drug Administration came out and they said they cautioned against the use of hydroxychloroquine.
00:10:48.000And cautioned is different than making it illegal or saying do not use it.
00:10:52.000They were playing a word game at best, saying that hydroxychloroquine or chloroquin for COVID-19 outside of a hospital setting or a clinical trial could have some risk of heart rhythm problems.
00:11:09.000Now, this is in direct defiance with what previous guidelines have said in regards to hydroxychloroquine.
00:11:17.000And WebMD.com shows that the Lancet retracted their hydroxychloroquine study.
00:11:23.000And the American Medical Association did as well.
00:11:26.000The American Medical Association actually voted on hydroxychloroquine prevention order and keeps it in place.
00:11:34.000So how many people have actually died because of these politically motivated hacks?
00:11:42.000This is not scientific, what I'm about to say, but it is true.
00:11:48.000Every person that I have given hydroxychloroquine to that have asked for it, or I referred it to them, I was not necessarily the one that gave it to them, but I was the one that strongly urged them to go find it through a medical professional had a complete and total turnaround.
00:12:05.000One of our colleagues at Turning Point Action, many of you have seen him on the live stream.
00:12:11.000I won't say his name, but a family member of his was struggling with the Chinese coronavirus.
00:13:09.000It's because hydroxychloroquine might have actually been able to solve this more so and quicker than mandatory lockdowns.
00:13:18.000Now, I say this as not a scientist and not an epidemiologist, but the scientists and the epidemiologists have been wrong about everything.
00:13:30.000Dr. Fauci has been wrong about everything.
00:13:34.000Dr. Fauci in late July, he said, all valid scientific data shows hydroxychloroquine isn't effective in treating coronavirus.
00:13:42.000So very similar to how Joe Biden leans on the fake reporting saying, well, it's been debunked that my son is under investigation.
00:13:51.000Dr. Fauci used the fake studies in regards to the Chinese coronavirus and hydroxychloroquine as a crudgel to lean against to say hydroxychloroquine does not work.
00:14:06.000Fauci said the public has got to follow the science.
00:14:10.000Remember, Dr. Fauci never criticized the BLM Incorporated protests.
00:14:14.000He never criticized any of the rioting or the looting or the Los Angeles Lakers celebration after the NBA finals or the Joe Biden celebration of people in the streets.
00:14:24.000Dr. Fauci didn't wear his mask properly at the Washington Nationals game.
00:14:28.000It's okay to protest, but it's not okay to go see your dying grandmother.
00:14:32.000You know how many people I know that have not been able to say goodbye to loved ones?
00:14:36.000Even people that had the Chinese coronavirus were not allowed to go in to go see their loved ones, meaning they already were immune to getting it again.
00:14:47.000A Yale epidemiology professor, Dr. Harvey Risch, said if the anti-malarial drug were used more widely in the United States, especially as a prophylactic for medical workers, anywhere from 75,000 to 100,000 Americans could be saved.
00:15:04.000It's starting on pay, it rescinded, starting on page 18 on a recent AMA memo issued on October 30th.
00:15:10.000How many hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved?
00:15:14.000You understand they're lying to you about everything that matters.
00:15:19.000And that's the through line here, is that the activist media and the data companies and the tech companies, they have now become the pseudo-Gestapo for the entire country, for the ruling class, I should say.
00:15:36.000They don't like what you have to say about hydroxychloroquine, a pill that could solve this.
00:15:55.000This is not even being done by our government.
00:15:59.000You see, we have constitutional protections against this form of interference and censorship, the First Amendment being one of them.
00:16:10.000What constitutional protections do we have against the tech companies that take down favorable news around hydroxychloroquine?
00:16:17.000I have found a creative way to actually talk about hydroxychloroquine on my Twitter account, where I don't talk about the positive results.
00:16:24.000I just talk about the fact that if I talk about the positive results, I might actually be taken down from Twitter.
00:16:29.000For example, I say, why is it that when I share the positive stories of people I know who took hydroxychloroquine and saw immediate amazing results, Twitter and the tech companies will shut me down.
00:16:39.000See, I didn't talk about the positive results.
00:16:41.000I'm asking the question that if I talk about the positive results, I might be taken down.
00:16:45.000So no different than people trying to avoid the glawt, the Soviet censors.
00:16:52.000We now must find ways to speak in code to communicate to all of you.
00:16:59.0002020 will go down as the year that the masters of the universe, the puppet masters, controlled you and controlled us.
00:17:10.000They locked down our entire country, which ended up being one of the stupidest, dumbest mistakes ever in American history.
00:17:17.000That very well might break the back of American capitalism and free markets as we know it.
00:17:21.000They massed up the entire country, put us in a perpetual state of fear.
00:17:25.000Meanwhile, a cheap, accessible option was not even allowed to be discussed.
00:17:29.000And I'm not saying everyone should go take hydroxychloroquine right now.
00:18:26.000How many tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved, not to mention the lives from the lockdown?
00:18:34.000Instead of allowing any form of conversation or discussion around this, instead of allowing people to tell their truth and their testimony, the tech companies and the data companies and the information manipulation companies, which is really what they should be called, they punished anyone that dared talk about this.
00:18:56.000And this is what I find to be so perplexing about these corporatist Republicans, I put that in quotes, who go out of their way to defend the tech companies who say, well, it's a free market.
00:19:10.000We gave them a guaranteed piece of regulation, Section 230, which is the lack of a free market that allowed them to have immunity from any form of lawsuits.
00:19:22.000We do not have a free market when it comes to tech.
00:19:28.000It is because of tech companies in particular that the hydroxychloroquine discussion ended.
00:19:36.000People were afraid from saying anything positive in regards to hydroxychloroquine.
00:19:41.000And when you talk to the tech companies about this, many of them would say, well, our position is that we are going to trust the public health experts, the public health experts that were wrong about everything.
00:19:52.000These people remain experts despite being incorrect about everything.
00:19:58.000Death rates, infection rates, lockdowns, suicides, economic costs, all of it.
00:20:04.000A Henry Ford study came out and talked positively about hydroxychloroquine.
00:20:11.000Dr. Fauci came out and he said it's flawed.
00:20:15.000Dr. Fauci is one of the most dishonest, disingenuous, probably corrupted individuals to serve in our government in recent memory.
00:20:26.000There are more people that died because of Dr. Fauci than anyone that I can think of in recent memory.
00:20:32.000However, we weren't even allowed to criticize Dr. Fauci.
00:20:35.000Dr. Fauci was posing on the front of magazines, fashion magazines, becoming an icon and somebody to look up to.
00:20:46.000Dr. Fauci would have had no trust, no following, and no credibility if we allowed freedom of speech and dialogue and discussion to occur.
00:20:59.000Instead, because we have these multi-trillion dollar companies that control everything that we say and everything we do, America is now made in their image.
00:21:11.000Thank you, weak Republicans and Chamber of Commerce Republicans, that allowed these massive tech companies to shut us all up.
00:21:28.000So this entire year, 2020, is the year made by the tech companies.
00:21:35.000If the tech companies would have allowed freedom of speech and dialogue and viral content to spread that challenged the lockdown orders, that would have talked about hydroxychloroquine, that would have allowed dissenting opinion like Dr. Simone Gold and Dr. Erickson without taking down their videos, people would have resisted and rebelled in very little time, and the rulers would have had no credibility for good reason.
00:21:59.000Instead, we are now still locked down nine months later.
00:22:04.000The corporations are more wealthier than ever before.
00:22:06.000The stock prices are greater than ever.
00:22:09.000Inflation is going to destroy the middle class and benefit the ruling class.
00:22:17.0002020 is a year where normal people that were trying to improve their life or their lives or their families' lives were suppressed and misled by a selfish, evil, immoral group of people where a cheap pill very well could have saved tens of thousands of lives, hundreds of thousands of lives, where the election outcome could have been completely different if people would have just known that Joe Biden was running an international criminal enterprise.
00:22:47.000And now, imagine if we actually could have a real conversation around voter fraud.
00:23:30.000Taser products are safer and easy to use.
00:23:32.000They use an electrical charge to immobilize attackers for up to 30 seconds, allowing you time to escape and send emergency dispatch to your GPS location.
00:23:40.000Taser devices come loaded with features like laser-assisted targeting and emergency dispatch.
00:23:45.000Look, there's bad people on the loose, so go get a taser right now.
00:24:22.000The most powerful people on the planet, the people that have the most money, the most influence, the most access to capital, that control the most powerful companies, they tried to make America in their image, and they largely succeeded.
00:24:41.000It's a hard thing for us to admit that the masters of the universe, the masters of Menlo Park, if you go back in January, all the way fast forward to today, just in 2020, they pulled off a decade of transformation in 11 months.
00:24:59.000Think about where we were back in January.
00:25:01.000Critical race theory, BLM Incorporated, were considered radical movements and radical pieces of thought.
00:25:11.000At Google and at YouTube and at the masters of Menlo Park, they considered critical race theory to be a religious text.
00:25:20.000They considered Herbert Makusa and Angela Davis to be what I would view Isaiah and Elijah, prophets of what is to come, of some form of Hegelian, dystopian nightmare.
00:26:35.000He was, some would call him an empiricist.
00:26:38.000It's not a perfect categorization, but he cared about what was happening in the natural world, where Plato cared about what was happening in the clouds, the space of ideas.
00:26:47.000Aristotle cared a lot about what was actually provable and based in reason.
00:26:53.000That's why he is called just the philosopher in a lot of traditions.
00:26:57.000So when you're not able to speak, when you're not able to spread ideas, don't be surprised when your entire civilization starts to unravel.
00:27:07.000So when you're not able to say, hey, I think hydroxychloroquine might actually work, and all of a sudden your YouTube account gets shut down, your Twitter account gets shut down, your Facebook page gets shut down, you get fired like Dr. Simone Gold.
00:27:24.000These Soviet-style tactics that are used suppress speech.
00:27:30.000There was a massive PR push done by some great doctors, Dr. Erickson, Dr. Simone Gold, amongst many others, to try to just start a conversation on how hydroxychloroquine could be helpful.
00:27:44.000I am not going to say on this program that I have any sort of special medical insight into it.
00:27:48.000I will say, though, I take it as a prophylactic.
00:27:50.000People I know that have taken it have seen very positive results.
00:27:54.000Everyone should have the liberty and the capacity to see what will work for them.
00:27:59.000By the way, I listened to a good amount of Joe Rogan.
00:28:02.000I think Joe Rogan is brilliant in what he does.
00:28:05.000Isn't the whole idea behind mass drug legalization, the idea that there might be something out there that people are preventing from you using that might be good for you?
00:28:15.000Isn't that the whole reason why we have now decriminalized or legalized hallucinogenic mushrooms?
00:28:21.000Not something I necessarily support, but isn't that the whole reason why that happened in Denver and it's happening across the country, why there's this huge movement to be able to use DMT amongst other quasi-psychedelic drugs?
00:28:34.000However, that kind of discussion is perfectly okay.
00:28:37.000Everyone wants to go live in Aldous Huxley's world?
00:28:57.000When Galileo, Galilee, came up with the heliocentric theory of the universe, and they locked him up for it, and they had the famous trial of Galileo.
00:29:07.000Now, I'm not comparing Dr. Simone Gold or Dr. Erickson, who are friends of mine, to the great discovery of Galileo.
00:29:14.000What I am saying, though, is that the attack and the criticism and the pseudo-crucifixion, I use that word intentionally, of anyone that dare talk about hydroxychloroquine resulted in more lockdowns, more fear, and eventually an entire population looking to the Leviathan for answers.
00:29:38.000So the tech companies and the data companies that punished, ridiculed, silenced anyone that talked about hydroxychloroquine did the exact same with Hunter Biden.
00:29:48.000And by the way, as I'm saying all this, our YouTube channel might just magically disappear and a bunch of agents from the Food and Drug Administration might show up and arrest me for speaking about a very cheap drug that very well might help a lot of people.
00:30:03.000That doesn't have to be a mandatory vaccination.
00:30:06.000The entire focus of this pandemic should have been no lockdowns, therapeutics, liberty, and responsibility.
00:30:12.000Instead, it was lockdowns, fear, and what can the pharmaceutical companies and politicians do for me?
00:30:18.000The exact opposite how a brave and wise civilization would handle things.
00:30:22.000Instead, it's a weak and foolish civilization.
00:30:24.000It's because we stopped actually valuing wisdom in our country.
00:30:28.000So with Hunter Biden, the New York Post comes with the laptop from hell, which was incriminating emails of Hunter Biden engaging in unspeakable personal acts, not to mention selling out our entire country across the planet, 10% for the big man.
00:30:44.000And then Tony Bobulinsky comes and verifies the authenticity of the laptop, shows his own WhatsApp messages with Hunter Biden.
00:30:52.000And if you dared mention that, you'd get locked out of your Twitter account.
00:30:55.000If you dare mention that, you could lose your entire life.
00:30:58.000We got locked out of our Twitter account a couple weeks before the election because we were talking about mail-in ballot potential fraud in Pennsylvania of a publicly available story that then got changed.
00:31:13.000So why is it all of a sudden we are where we are right now in mid-December, where the rich are more richer than they ever have been?
00:31:21.000We've created another $5 trillion out of thin air, which will mean inflation for you and your family, which is not good unless you own hundreds of thousands of acres in Idaho.
00:31:30.000You're not going to benefit from inflation, or you're a gold dealer.
00:31:36.000It happened because we were not able to speak.
00:31:40.000It happened because we were not able to have a discussion.
00:31:43.000It happened because somebody that might have a good idea or a differing idea, which you have speech for the disagreeable ideas, you have speech for the rights of the minority.
00:31:54.000That's always the idea of freedom of speech that disappeared because all of our conversations don't happen on newspapers.
00:32:02.000They don't happen outside of courtrooms like they might have in the 1950s or 60s.
00:32:57.000The Washington Post actually did a good piece of journalism.
00:33:00.000But it's very helpful because it actually talks about something that we've been curious about here.
00:33:05.000And so as we've talked about, this year is laying the groundwork for a Bolshevik revolution.
00:33:12.000When the middle class disappears, it's a tactic, it's not a mistake.
00:33:16.000Whenever the middle class disappears, it's a tactic done by the ruling class.
00:33:20.000Vladimir Lenin famously said, you crush the middle class through inflation and taxation.
00:33:26.000We have plenty of both in our country.
00:33:28.000And without even looking at the numbers that intimately, we know that the richest companies, the most valuable companies, they've had a killer year in 2020.
00:33:40.000So while bar owners, restaurants, churches all remain closed, attacked, criticized, and ridiculed, the wealthiest among us are making out like bandits.
00:33:51.000Now, I'm a free market guy, but I'm telling you right now that if you do not get this set of circumstances under control, you won't have a free market.
00:34:01.000As Tucker brilliantly said, and no one listened to him last week, not enough people listened to him, I should say last week.
00:34:08.000You don't get this under control, you're going to have a Bolshevik revolution in our country very quickly.
00:34:41.00021 big firms that were profitable during the pandemic laid off workers anyway.
00:34:47.000Berkshire Hathaway raked in profits of $56 billion during the first six months of the pandemic, while one of its subsidiary companies laid off more than 13,000 workers.
00:34:57.000Salesforce, Cisco Systems, and PayPal cut staff even after their chief executives vowed not to.
00:35:04.000Pandemic layoffs at the largest U.S. companies, most big companies that cut jobs this year cut staff from Walmart to Salesforce, as I mentioned, Microsoft.
00:35:44.000As the Washington Post correctly reports, shoppers began splurging on cleaning supplies, hobbies, home cooking, and home improvements, driving record growth at big box stores, including Home Depot and Walmart.
00:35:55.000Now, mind you, they're not going to their local mom and pop store because you shut them down.
00:36:00.000The politicians did, and we let it happen because we weren't allowed to talk about any sort of therapeutic solutions.
00:36:06.000But the massive companies saw this as the great opening to permanently destroy the annoying little man.
00:36:17.000Even in the hardest hit sectors, such as restaurants, travel, and hospitality, the biggest companies were largely insulated from the worst of the viruses.
00:36:32.000There's the virus and our response to the virus.
00:36:35.000While independent restaurants struggle to survive, McDonald's ramped up its takeout and drive-through operations, rolling out new apps and technology catering to on-the-go orders.
00:36:46.000How about a revenue change for Home Depot?
00:37:19.000This article goes through and talks about how the most liberal, they don't say liberal, but this is my interpretation, the most liberal companies, Salesforce and Facebook and Google, they've never had profit increases like the Salesforce.
00:38:02.000A lot of you guys are emailing us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:38:05.000How do I give back this Christmas season?
00:38:08.000Look, I know it's been a tough year, but those of us that are Christians, we are called to help and to assist regardless of the circumstances around us.
00:38:17.000Whether we had a blessed year or a tough year, it's time to step up and do something.
00:38:26.000They help kids whose parents are in prison.
00:38:29.000It's not even about the fact of what their parents did.
00:38:31.000It's the fact that the kids are alone.
00:38:33.000And the kids, if they do not hear from their parents, they're more likely to also get involved in crime in the future.
00:38:40.000So let's really communicate the love of Jesus Christ with a personalized note from their dad and an access to a Bible in either Spanish or English.
00:38:48.000And that's what the Fellowship Angel Tree program does.
00:38:51.000Last year, the Angel Tree program blessed over 300,000 children of prisoners all across America.
00:38:56.000What's so cool is that if you give directly, it doesn't go to overhead or all that stuff.
00:39:00.000It goes straight to the kid, especially this Christmas season.
00:39:06.000There's a banner on the top of it, charliekirk.com, and we are getting behind it.
00:39:10.000We're donating a little bit of money from the Charlie Kirk show to Angel Tree because we really believe in what they're doing.
00:39:15.000There's an Angel Tree banner there on CharlieKirk.com.
00:39:18.000You guys can check it out and support what we are doing.
00:39:21.000And I think that's really important because for a gift of $220, you can bless 10 children of prisoners with a personalized Christmas present and a personal note from their incarcerated parent.
00:39:33.000Plus, every Angel Tree family is also given access to free, easy-to-read copy of the Bible in English or Spanish.
00:40:00.000Corporations are richer and wealthier than ever before.
00:40:03.000And a very interesting through line is that a lot of these bad ideas and a lot of these orders and these edicts all go through San Francisco.
00:40:13.000The Speaker of the House is from San Francisco.
00:40:18.000The tech companies are from San Francisco.
00:40:21.000The companies that are doing the best are from San Francisco.
00:40:24.000And San Francisco now has come out and said that they are going to rename the Abraham Lincoln High School because former President Lincoln did not demonstrate that black lives mattered to him.
00:40:36.000The San Francisco Unified School District's renaming committee decided Abraham Lincoln High School will be renamed.
00:40:42.000The children of this school district are being taught by those of you that pay tax dollars in San Francisco, and I think we do have an affiliate in San Francisco, that Abraham Lincoln was not fully on board with the BLM incorporated movement, that Abraham Lincoln wasn't woke enough for today's BLM incorporated people.
00:41:04.000You see, if only Tahanisi Coates would have been around in the Civil War and he would have been president, everything would have been better.
00:41:13.000If only we would have had Rachel Dolizell as president in the Civil War, everything would have been better.
00:41:20.000If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
00:41:25.000It's one of the most famous quotes in American history said by Abraham Lincoln.
00:41:30.000Abraham Lincoln might be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, president in American history.
00:41:37.000The suspension of habeas corpus, some of his handling of Native American affairs, but it's a little more nuanced than that.
00:41:44.000He did grant clemency to 264 Native Americans.
00:41:47.000He said in 1858, I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any abolitionist.
00:41:54.000Now, I confess myself as belonging to a class in a country who contemplates slavery as moral, social, and political evil.
00:42:03.000The slave breeders and slave traders are a small, odious, detested class among you, and yet politics, they dictate the course of all of you.
00:42:14.000And as you are all completely your masters, and as you are the masters of, and I won't finish the quote because it uses a word that we wouldn't use today.
00:42:23.000The quotes of Abraham Lincoln on slavery are unlimited, but his actions speak louder than that.
00:42:30.000You see, the BLM Incorporated virtue signaling movement pushed forward by the San Francisco elites, which I really believe San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Menlo Park, San Jose, that is the true capital of our country.
00:42:44.000It used to be that New York was kind of the most important city that really was the driving force of a lot of the cultural and economic change.
00:43:48.000But at the core of it, the reason things got very heated very quickly was because Abraham Lincoln believed that black people deserve citizenship and humanity.
00:44:03.000And it threatened the entire economic model of the American South.
00:44:06.000Abraham Lincoln kept us together despite the persistent attacks.
00:44:12.000There's a through line and a very interesting connection between two figures.
00:44:18.000And I believe God raises up tough but flawed men.
00:44:21.000All men are flawed in times of crisis to keep together what he considers to be moral and good.
00:44:28.000And those two men, who are the two men that are under attack by their own countries and the own ruling class, that our civilization probably would not exist in its current form without them, is Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.
00:44:39.000Churchill is being taken down left and right all throughout London.
00:45:01.000And the San Francisco Unified School District has this kind of cockiness, this pride that they're teaching their students, imparting the lack of wisdom, saying that we are better people than you.
00:46:19.000And this goes to the argument that we've been talking about here for quite some time.
00:46:23.000What country do you live in when San Francisco is now saying we rename the Abraham Lincoln school because black lives did not matter to him?
00:46:36.000They're also renaming the George Washington School in San Francisco, the Renaming Committee.
00:46:41.000This is exactly what Orwell warned us about.
00:46:43.000These totalitarians can only operate in certain ways.
00:46:47.000And one of the ways is we must destroy all that came before us.
00:46:54.000Now, they will not rename anything that comes close to the Democrat power structure.
00:46:59.000But it used to be something where we could actually agree that the great Abraham Lincoln, who waged a bloody civil war to abolish an unspeakable evil, someone that's probably worthy of naming a middle school after or a high school.
00:47:16.000Now, why are they saying this, though?
00:47:40.000This all stems from this idea that there's a messianic complex within Abraham Lincoln.
00:47:49.000It's so incredibly foolish to believe that is exactly why we frame Abraham Lincoln as a positive hero.
00:47:58.000But what they're basically saying when they level that criticism is that any action that was taken by anyone that was white at the time is not worthy of our praise.
00:48:10.000It's worthy of the deletion of our history completely and totally.
00:48:14.000So then I asked the question that I asked yesterday: what do we have in common with somebody from San Francisco?
00:48:20.000We can't agree that one of the greatest presidents in our history was actually a good president.
00:48:25.000We don't even speak the same language.
00:48:28.000Even if they speak English, they're using gender pronouns and racial sensitivity nonsense.
00:48:36.000What are the ties that bind us together?
00:48:39.000I hope that somebody can tell me what they are.
00:48:43.000If you're unable to find them and we don't have those ties that bind us together, then do you actually have a country?
00:48:50.000And when does that country all of a sudden cease to exist?
00:48:54.000Outside of a unified currency, I have nothing in common with these self-righteous bigots that run the San Francisco Unified School District that want to take down the names of George Washington, Herbert Hoover, Thomas Edison, and yes, Abraham Lincoln High School.
00:49:10.000I have nothing in common with these people.
00:49:15.000They say to me, they say, I have nothing in common with those conservatives, those terror, those Trump people.
00:49:24.000And so now you have an entire generation that will soon demand the Lincoln Memorial gets taken down, the Washington and the Jefferson Memorial get taken down.
00:49:34.000You have an entire generation that will know nothing of the heroism of the Civil War, the moral clarity that Lincoln possessed.
00:49:42.000And really, when you think about it, it's the left that is seceding from us.
00:49:47.000Some people on the activist media say that the Trump people are going to want to secede.
00:50:31.000They are pushing for something very dark that I hope never comes.
00:50:39.000Alexandria Acasio-Cotez demands new leadership.
00:50:43.000She says Pelosi and Schumer need to go, but warns of a Democrat power vacuum.
00:50:48.000Don't worry, you're powerful enough to fill the vacuum, AOC.
00:50:50.000She has come into the scene here, and she has, I would love to see her primary, Chuck Schumer.
00:50:55.000And she says, I do think we need new leadership in the Democrat Party.
00:50:58.000I think one of the things I've struggled with, I think that a lot of people struggle with, is the internal dynamics of the House has made it such there are very little options for succession.
00:51:08.000AOC is very popular in the Democrat Party.
00:51:13.000She's popular because she talks about the number one issue in the country, even more so than Republicans talk about it, which is who is financing our elections, who is behind the decision-making process, who's actually in charge.
00:51:29.000And AOC is a fool when it comes to economics, when it comes to public policy, but she has a form of brilliance when it comes to how she presents herself to the public.
00:51:43.000She presents herself as a crusader for the little guy against the big guy.
00:51:49.000And in a year where the biggest corporations have made out like bandits, where wealth inequality is growing more than ever before, where people are waiting in food lines just to be able to survive, and the multi-trillion dollar class in San Francisco is doing better than ever before, AOC's message is about to resonate more than ever before.
00:52:10.000Now, if Republicans are smart, we actually beat her to the punch on this because her way of addressing it and analyzing it is actually widely unpopular with people.
00:52:21.000Mass redistribution, creating more money out of thin air, universal basic income, social liberalism where AOC comes out and she says sex work is real work today.
00:52:50.000She understands the needs, wants, and anxieties of working people.
00:52:57.000And she's better than most Republicans at communicating it.
00:53:00.000Now, most Republicans have done, let's just say, a dirty deal, still receiving financing from tech companies, from major corporations, so that they may remain in power.
00:53:16.000But if you don't do anything with that power, then what good is it?
00:53:20.000Remember back when the Republicans controlled Congress back in 2016?
00:53:25.000We controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:53:30.000Did we challenge any of the tech companies?
00:53:45.000And eventually, where this all leads, unless we do our job, unless we become the ambassadors of small versus big, of the many versus the few, if we do not participate in that argument,
00:54:01.000they're going to find a much more articulate, a much more mainstream, and a less socially radical AOC, Rashida Talib and Elon Omar, and they're going to win 60% to 70% of every single election.
00:54:17.000If the Democrats and AOC were not radical on social policy, on immigration, and just focused on corporate criticism and the small versus the big and the many versus the few, that's how all of a sudden you win the industrial Midwest.
00:54:34.000Whereas if you actually want to win the entire country, if Republicans actually cared about that, they'd spend less time mocking AOC because that's fine, but it's completely, it's not just useless, it's just not helpful.
00:54:50.000And we do that enough on this program, and other people do it.
00:54:52.000Instead, say, why is it she's so popular?
00:54:55.000And some people say, well, she's popular because she gives out free stuff.
00:54:58.000Like, you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:55:00.000She's popular because she offers a voice for people that have felt so disenfranchised for so long.
00:55:10.000If the Republicans continue to be the corporate Republicans and do the bidding of the Chamber of Commerce, it'll be the death of the Republican Party like it was the death of the Whigs.
00:55:19.000You double down on what Trump started, they will have the death of the Democrat Party.
00:55:24.000And they will represent an ever-unpopular socialist worldview.
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