00:00:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:32.000Well, there's one more interesting piece of that clip right after it cut there, which is where Elon actually signals to Bob Iger, who is in the audience, because Bob Iger also spoke at this deal book summit with the New York Times.
00:02:44.000So after he had just said that very explicit statement to these advertisers, which was a strong and powerful statement to essentially draw a line in the concrete and say, I'm not being blackmailed here, which is exactly what a person in his position should do.
00:03:00.000He then took it a step farther to actually signal exactly who he was talking about.
00:03:04.000And I thought that it was a wonderful display of the type of resilience that we need in this moment.
00:03:10.000I actually reflect back, Charlie, on different quotes of significance throughout history.
00:03:14.000I think about Patrick Henry and give me liberty or give me death.
00:03:18.000And I think that Elon's first statement you played of there are far too many folks in society today that are concerned with the appearance of doing good while they're actually doing evil.
00:03:29.000That's one of those quotes that I think will be talked about for generations to come because it perfectly summarizes exactly what we're witnessing here.
00:03:35.000Disney Corporation is concerned with lecturing you about the perception of doing good, while in reality, they're more concerned with indoctrinating you and your kids, distorting your family values, and creating perversion out of what was once a good thing.
00:04:08.000And I want to now play CUT 118 about the advertising boycott, PlayCut 118.
00:04:14.000Actually, what this advertising boycott is going to do, it's going to kill a company.
00:04:23.000And do you think that the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company?
00:04:29.000And we will document it in great detail.
00:04:31.000But they're going to say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and that they were inappropriate things and that they didn't feel comfortable on the platform, right?
00:04:42.000And let's see how Earth responds to that.
00:04:46.000He's very big on Earth versus other planets.
00:04:48.000And yet these other companies, they are fine advertising on meta, where Instagram Reel videos show salacious content to the Wall Street Journal test accounts set to follow young gymnasts and other teenagers, including risky footage of children overtly sexual adult videos.
00:05:08.000But IBM, Apple, State Farm, Comcast, Home Depot, Disney, Paramount Pictures, McDonald's, they're cool with children being sexualized.
00:05:19.000Well, and Charlie, Elon called them out on that.
00:05:21.000Just a few days ago, Elon actually tweeted and basically said, hey, meta advertisers, either on Facebook or on Instagram, what say you now?
00:05:31.000Because as a reminder, the advertisers that boycotted X, many of the companies you just mentioned, did so because they believed that Elon posted an anti-Semitic tweet.
00:05:42.000There was an account that tweeted a very simple statement.
00:05:45.000Essentially said that the Jewish community has been voting for their own demise.
00:05:49.000By the way, since 1968, 71% of the Jewish community has voted Democrat in all of these elections.
00:05:56.000So that tweet wasn't inherently wrong.
00:06:15.000Not only do those advertisers that you mentioned turn a blind eye to the disgusting perverted actions happening on these other platforms like Meta, like Instagram, but they also have partnered with anti-Semitic organizations that are actually anti-Semitic.
00:06:32.000For example, Apple and Amazon, big proponents of the BLM movement.
00:06:37.000And we just learned a few weeks ago that multiple BLM chapters around this country have revealed their anti-Semitic nature and have said very openly that they're pro-Hamas.
00:06:46.000So the doublespeak, the talking out of both sides of the mouth is really dangerous.
00:06:50.000And Charlie, there was a day when journalists would call this out.
00:06:53.000Journalists used to, in a proper country, cheer on Elon's comments.
00:06:58.000They'd say that's the exact type of speaking truth to power that we need because these institutions are corrupt.
00:07:04.000But instead, journalism now has been co-opted by the very corporate entities, heavily subsidized by the government, by the way, that they used to be responsible for calling out.
00:07:14.000So when Amazon owns the Washington Post and when Time magazine is owned by Mark Benioff, who owns Salesforce, you have this shift of the corporatization of journalism that is incredibly detrimental because people like Elon should be speaking way more often and way more open.
00:07:30.000Andrew Ross Sorkin with the New York Times, who said to Elon in the clip you just described, well, Elon, isn't that bad for business?
00:07:37.000I actually think history is going to say that you killed the company.
00:07:40.000It's like journalists today are living in a different world.
00:07:43.000The average person sees what Elon's doing and is saying, finally, somebody's speaking for us.
00:07:48.000But journalists live in their own bubble.
00:07:51.000It shows the departure of our two worlds.
00:07:53.000And ultimately, at the end of the day, I agree with Elon.
00:07:56.000History will look favorably upon his statements.
00:07:58.000Yeah, and it's, I mean, praise God for what Elon is doing here.
00:08:02.000It's remarkable from the purchasing of X, not caring about all the chatter.
00:08:06.000And the users of X are increasing, actually.
00:08:09.000We're seeing the amount of people that are using it is really incredible.
00:08:13.000And we need to support X now more than ever before.
00:08:16.000And I've said it once, and I'll say it again.
00:08:18.000The 2024 election will be fairer because of the liberated Twitter.
00:08:25.000I'm telling you, it is going to be a different election.
00:08:46.000Well, Bob, you know, has basically admitted in recent documentation that Disney has actually lost market share as a result of their prioritization of woke politics.
00:08:56.000So Disney's turned into an activist organization, which is why it's no surprise that they pulled their ads from the X platform.
00:09:06.000But I hope that Americans will wake up and realize that Disney has become an activist organization because the risk that we run is that the most dominant house of children's educational content.
00:09:18.000And I say educational because so many young lives are actually shaped and formed by the content they're seeing out of Disney.
00:09:27.000So it is educational in nature, but it's a matter of what are they teaching.
00:09:31.000If they've become a weaponized organization against the classical traditional American family values that have built a functioning society, that's a very detrimental position to be in.
00:09:40.000And so out of all the companies that Elon could have called out, I'm really glad they called out Disney.
00:09:45.000I'm glad Elon said directly to Bob, hi, Bob.
00:09:48.000I'm talking to you here because him more than anybody needed to hear this.
00:09:53.000There's also rumors, Charlie, that Bob will probably resign in the next year or two as a result of his poor management at the CEO level of guiding Disney in this woke direction because they've taken a total hit.
00:10:04.000Look at the movies this summer when Sound of Freedom is beating Indiana Jones with less than a tenth of the budget.
00:10:11.000Well, the lesson is the American people are no longer buying what Disney and similar corporations are selling.
00:10:17.000The last thing I'll mention is that in response to Disney's corrupted actions and them pulling their ads out of X, we've seen a revolt against Disney Plus.
00:10:26.000Today on Twitter on X, you're seeing trending stories of consumers that were once subscribers to Disney Plus pulling their subscriptions, and I'm here for it.
00:10:35.000Yeah, all things Disney must be boycotted.
00:10:37.000The hardest Disney boycott for me is ESPN, I'll admit.
00:10:43.000Are you prepared for the unthinkable ahead?
00:12:02.000Well, Charlie, all the dates you just mentioned were fantastic for us, but the best one actually was Small Business Saturday, which happened kind of packaged within Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
00:12:12.000Small Business Saturday for us was a great opportunity to showcase the American-owned and operated businesses that make our country so special.
00:12:20.000Today, you are witnessing the corporate entities of our country that are in bed with a bureaucratic regime gobble up so many small enterprises that make our country and communities special.
00:12:33.000And then you look at companies like Blackstone, which is large-scale private equity that's literally built to do that exact same thing.
00:12:39.000Public Square is an antidote to that sort of society.
00:12:43.000I do not want to live in a country where every single company or every product that we buy from is owned by the same five entities that all have heavy lobbying power with the government and are essentially in bed with the regime.
00:12:54.000Instead, I want a decentralized network of economic heroes in our local communities that make our country strong.
00:13:02.000Public Square is over 99% made up of small businesses.
00:13:05.000So when you look at our over 70,000 vendors that are offering millions of products, you know with blessed assurance that you're supporting the small business economy at publicsquare.com.
00:13:14.000So we're starting our 12 days of Christmas next week.
00:13:16.000We've got lots of exciting deals for consumers that make this parallel economy accessible and affordable, especially in trying economic times.
00:13:38.000If you're a small business owner, there's nowhere better to be than publicsquare.com because it's free to join.
00:13:44.000You sign up, try it out, and you'll notice that there's a wave of traffic that's present from this parallel economy consumer base that you're not finding in other places.
00:13:53.000You have small businesses that come to us often and they share the same story, which is that they've been trying and trying with advertiser dollars spent at Meta and Google and Facebook, but it's just not working.
00:14:04.000Those dollars do not provide any sort of truly significant or differentiated impact over competitors.
00:14:13.000It's a whole nother thing when you're able to actually target communities that trust you.
00:14:17.000And when you're able to base your transactions on a shared trust and values alignment, when consumers are knowing that they're able to put some purpose behind their purchase and support the types of communities and businesses that make our country strong, that's not only a liberating thing, Charlie, that's very lucrative.
00:14:32.000There's economic firepower in this consumer base.
00:14:34.000There's a data point I like to share often.
00:14:36.000If you just look at Trump voters from 2020 election, that makes up $7 trillion of GDP.
00:14:43.0007 trillion of GDP is represented by Trump voters in 2020.
00:14:47.000That's the third largest economy in the world by GDP.
00:14:51.000And yet no major corporate entities in our country are even trying to talk to that cohort.
00:14:55.000So if you're a small business, you can join Public Square, align your values with our consumers, and then consumers and all their economic firepower will know that this is a differentiated business that I should feel proud to support.
00:15:07.000Yeah, if you go to publicsquare.com, you look at all the different Christmas gifts you guys might want to get from ammunition to leather goods to also, you know, luggage.
00:15:19.000It's the place to go through, download the app, super easy.
00:15:22.000Also, I think we're going to have your wife on to talk about Every Life.
00:16:14.000It's a great opportunity for parents to put their values where their purchases are and support the family unit with the purchase of goods that they need on a day-to-day basis.
00:16:22.000So it's never been a better time in the baby care industry.
00:16:25.000Never in a million years, Charlie, did I think we would be starting a diaper brand or that I would talk about diapers as much as I do today, but the country needed it.
00:16:51.000America's colleges and universities today are less concerned with critical thinking than with indoctrination.
00:16:56.000It is no wonder why so many young Americans embrace cancel culture, deny free speech to conservatives, and even celebrate terrorism.
00:17:03.000But I'm happy to report there is one college where students debate ideas openly and honestly, where they pursue truth together with their professors, and where America's great heritage of liberty is studied and revered.
00:17:15.000As stated in Hillsdale's founding document in 1844, Hillsdale's original mission was to offer the kind of serious liberal arts education needed to preserve the blessings of civil and religious liberty across the land.
00:17:26.000And this mission continues to guide Hillsdale College today.
00:17:29.000You can learn more at my favorite college's website, charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:17:33.000There you will find a short video that's just over a minute long showing how Hillsdale's work, not only on its Michigan campus, not only in Washington, D.C. campus, but across the nation is effective in defending American liberty.
00:17:46.000Take some time to watch today at charlieforhillsdale.com.
00:18:04.000Yeah, look, man, I think people are very activated.
00:18:07.000I think we're seeing a lot of independents and people who are Republicans but haven't shown up at a caucus.
00:18:12.000Those are most of the people coming to my events.
00:18:14.000And so a lot of them don't show up in the polls, which if they come out, and they tell me they are, I think it's going to be a major surprise that we deliver here.
00:18:24.000There's one issue, Charlie, that's on everybody's minds here, especially in the northern and western parts of the state that literally nobody else is talking about, including in the national media, including even the Republican Party, because the Republican Party is responsible for it, is they're building this carbon capture pipeline that they're using eminent domain to seize the land of innocent farmers.
00:18:46.000Actually, it was an event just earlier today in rural Iowa, where I am now.
00:18:50.000And it's amazing how we're literally allowing the seizure of land of farmers using eminent domain to build a pipeline to send carbon dioxide in the name of the climate change agenda.
00:19:34.000So you got the globalist climate religion.
00:19:36.000The U.S. government under Republican and Democrat administrations alike has bent the knee to say they're going to shower taxpayer money onto people who capture carbon dioxide out of various manufacturers like ethanol producers.
00:19:49.000So now what these people are doing is they're building this pipeline that runs across Iowa and then South Dakota to bury it in the ground in North Dakota.
00:20:18.000So the Republicans, Democrats and Republicans both, but Republicans in Iowa say, no, that's okay.
00:20:24.000We support eminent domain to build that pipeline across your land anyway.
00:20:30.000And so that's kind of an illegal use of your property rights.
00:20:34.000And so if they're going to use eminent domain, that can only be used for an emergency.
00:20:38.000So if they're saying removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is an emergency, well, next they'll use eminent domain to take your gas stove, put $50 check in your mailbox and call it a day.
00:20:49.000And so anyway, these are issues, Charlie, that I think we need to do better as a Republican party to pay attention to because everybody in the Republican establishment is actually voting for these subsidies.
00:20:59.000A lot of the Republican establishment in Iowa is standing up against it.
00:21:03.000Every state force and, you know, I think one of the people I'd give credit to is likes of Steve King or others who have been pushing this issue.
00:21:10.000I'm the only presidential candidate talking about it, but in any case, I'm seeing a lot of grassroots energy when I'm talking about the kinds of issues that no other Republican I asked the crowds here is, why am I the only candidate who's able to oppose the climate change agenda?
00:21:30.000If you believe that climate change is an existential threat to humanity, of course, then you'll be able to use private property confiscation tactics.
00:21:41.000Vivek, you made national headlines at the debate calling for Rana's resignation.
00:21:46.000You have a website that is trying to gather momentum.
00:21:50.000Talk about the response you've received from the grassroots, but also ruling class Republicans since you've done this.
00:21:56.000Well, I think Ronna McDaniel has been an utter failure.
00:21:58.000Just look at the track record: 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, all disasters.
00:22:04.000So I launched firerana.com just for people not to get donations or anything else.
00:22:09.000Just to put your name down there, firerana.com, and actually send a signal to the Republican establishment.
00:22:15.000It's now clear to me that this would be a landslide in voting against Rana if this were up to the actual Republican primary voters.
00:22:22.000But the Republican establishment does not approve of my message.
00:22:26.000In fact, Rona McDaniel has said, including after the last debate, that I won't get another cent of funding from the RNC because I called out her failures and her hypocrisies.
00:23:49.000And the grassroots is calling for Rana to go immediately.
00:23:54.000And the cabal of the RNC is protecting her without any form of accountability, despite the repeated losing and losing and losing and losing.
00:24:05.000So, Vivek, I want to ask you, there's several issues happening in DC right now, including this FISA Section 702 renewal.
00:24:14.000FISA has been abused to spy on Tucker Carlson, to spy on Donald Trump, to spy on school board members, to spy on all sorts of different people.
00:24:36.000I mean, this is, and I'll remind the left, Charlie, this has been used to spy on people on the left as well in the aftermath of 9-11 for people who were political dissenters against the Iraq war or otherwise.
00:25:03.000Why do you think that Mike Johnson and Republicans are so eager to give a 12-year renewal on 702?
00:25:10.000You know, I think that much of Congress is actually captured by the deep state.
00:25:14.000I don't mean to be conspiratorial on this.
00:25:16.000This is, we don't call it the deep state, call it the three-letter agencies, the administrative state, the shadow government.
00:25:21.000The fact is, the people who we elect to run the government, they are not the ones who actually run the government a very long time.
00:25:29.000It's the people in the administrative state that are calling the shots from our budget all the way to especially issues relating to national security.
00:25:36.000And so I think that they have a lot of leverage.
00:25:38.000And I'll just leave it at that over the people who are actually in Congress.
00:25:42.000And I think that that's something that turns people who we elect into puppets.
00:25:48.000The real, everybody talks about in Congress.
00:25:50.000I'm in what we need are term limits in the federal bureaucracy limits for anybody who's in the federal bureaucracy.
00:25:59.000And that's how you actually drain the swamp.
00:26:01.000Yeah, I mean, so let's connect two things together.
00:26:03.000I'm not saying they're necessarily connected, but let's emphasize this.
00:26:08.000The Department of Justice announced in early November that there was a high-end brothel network used outside of Washington, D.C., and they've intentionally not released the names of the people that got the services, just the people operating the high-end brothel network.
00:26:24.000But they said it was politicians, members of Congress, generals, defense contractors.
00:26:31.000Is it possible, Vivek Ramaswamy, that the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover continues, that there's some quiet blackmail of Congress going on to make sure that the fourth branch of government has unlimited authority to spy on American citizens?
00:26:44.000I think that there are, I mean, there's clear leverage.
00:26:46.000I mean, I'm not going to surmise what exact leverage is with that story, whether it's another one like it.
00:26:51.000But Charlie, I'll remind you, it is still literally, you asked about, does the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover survive?
00:26:57.000It's literally the J. Edgar Hoover building of the FBI, by the way, that they have leverage over for favor of a new headquarters that the FBI doesn't need.
00:27:08.000It's literally the J. Edgar Hoover building.
00:27:10.000So it's not a secret that that legacy survives.
00:27:26.000And anybody who reads that book, left or right, I think will then better understand why I believe we need to shut the FBI down.
00:27:33.000It's a detailed history of J. Edgar Hoover's legacy at the FBI.
00:27:36.000And the thing about that book is it's not just about the history of the FBI.
00:27:40.000Once you leave that about the last several decades, you actually realize that that's not a story about the past.
00:27:45.000It's as much a story about the present.
00:27:47.000But the people who we elect to run the government, they're not the ones who run the government.
00:27:52.000And if you're too busy arguing about Republicans versus Democrats in Congress, you are missing the point about the real issue in Washington, D.C.
00:28:00.000It's the unelectable and many unelected and in many cases, nonpartisan bureaucracy that's actually pulling the strip.
00:28:14.000For years, we've been talking about how our nation's public schools have been captured by progressive ideologues.
00:28:20.000They teach things that directly contradict the values of millions of Americans.
00:28:25.000That's especially true if you are a Christian family.
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00:29:50.000Ohio County records 142 child cases of white lung syndrome, which it says meets the definition of an outbreak as China and Europe grapples with crises.
00:30:03.000And so I read this, and I'll be honest, I'm a little skeptical to play into these media narratives.
00:30:14.000And an ongoing investigation is underway in Ohio of what is triggering the wave of illness.
00:30:19.000Officials do not think it is a new respiratory disease.
00:30:25.000Instead, blame a mixture of several common infections hitting all at once.
00:30:30.000Now, patients so far have been tested for mycoplasma pneumonia, a bacterial lung infection for which some antibiotics are useless, strep, and aninovirus, a normally benign respiratory infection.
00:30:49.000Or is it more bluster to try to justify lockdowns and potentially mail in ballots?
00:30:58.000Well, Dr. Malone and Dr. Paul Alexander say that this is normal season illness, that post-COVID, people have heightened awareness about pandemics and about viruses.
00:31:13.000Kids have been absent, resulting in diagnosing being pneumonia.
00:31:18.000We do know that a lot of people have been vaccinated.
00:31:21.000And according to Dr. Robert Malone, that could jeopardize your overall immune system.
00:31:26.000But I think we must be very careful before we play into these media narratives.
00:31:50.000Daily Mail, WHO demands fresh data from China amid the outbreak of white lung syndrome, as Chinese are told to wear masks and socially distance again in a chilling echo of COVID.
00:32:03.000Now, I will say just anecdotally, I've seen more people get sick in the last week with this sort of symptoms.
00:32:11.000I mean, I got sick in mid-October for like four or five days, and it was fine, you know, cough.
00:32:30.000Are we going to lock down in fear and mask, or are you going to do the things that you know will be helpful?
00:32:36.000Get your vitamin D levels up, stay active, get ample sleep, build up your immune system, eat well, limit your intake of alcohol, which does impact the immune system.