The Charlie Kirk Show - Is Cuba's Anti-Communist Rebellion Coming to a City Near You?

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00:00:28.000 What is going on in Cuba and how does it apply to us in America?

00:00:32.000 We go through the history of Cuba and how it connects to a deeper trend that I think is coming to a city near you.

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00:04:51.000 You know, over the weekend, I was thinking about what are the major stories happening right now in America?

00:04:57.000 What are the things that we're going to have to explore with our audience together?

00:05:01.000 Now, if you would have told me five days ago, I would be leading our Monday morning program talking about Cuba or anything Cuban, I thought I would be talking about the Cuban sandwich I had in the Denver International Airport, which was actually very delicious.

00:05:16.000 I don't know if anyone, it's one of the most underrated lunch items.

00:05:22.000 Have you had one, Mr. Gordon?

00:05:23.000 It's terrific.

00:05:26.000 A good Cuban, it has ham, pork, and a pickle.

00:05:29.000 It's terrific. 1.00

00:05:30.000 You've got to give it to the Cubans.

00:05:31.000 I didn't think that all of a sudden I would be leading our Monday morning program talking about Cuba.

00:05:36.000 I feel as if that's kind of been done.

00:05:39.000 You know, we on this program have said many times: you want to see the difference between the styles of government.

00:05:45.000 The boats only go one way.

00:05:46.000 People from Miami, Florida are not going to Havana.

00:05:49.000 People from Havana are always trying to go to Miami, Florida.

00:05:52.000 In Cuba, they have banned the use of civilian ownership of boats because they are afraid that citizens will flee.

00:05:59.000 They do not allow citizens to travel to America for extended periods of time.

00:06:04.000 If they travel to America, they almost always keep a family member back in Cuba to almost metaphorically hold them hostage to try to have them come back to Cuba.

00:06:14.000 So I didn't really anticipate much coverage around Cuba.

00:06:18.000 And then yesterday I started to see video after video of the Cuban people, surprisingly and literally out of nowhere, start to rise up against the totalitarian regime that has been controlling the Cuban people.

00:06:37.000 So a little history about Cuba.

00:06:39.000 It's an island nation of about 11.3 million people.

00:06:42.000 In 1902, Cuba officially was given their independence after the Spanish-American War and three and a half years of American rule.

00:06:52.000 If you want to read some very interesting war commentary, go read Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughnecks in Cuba in the late 1890s.

00:07:03.000 Just terrific, terrific military commentary written by the people on the front lines there.

00:07:09.000 Cuba was given independence or they gained independence in 1902.

00:07:13.000 What followed was a quasi-dictatorship until the 26th of July movement happened in July in 1953.

00:07:27.000 In 1953, Fidel and Raul Castro partnered with the anti-gay activist Che Guevara, and they staged a revolution, a successful revolution.

00:07:43.000 Now, the preconditions for that revolution were hyperinflation, food shortages, famine, the inability for people to move up, and they capitalized on that sort of those economic conditions, the deterioration of the middle class in Cuba, to seize power.

00:08:02.000 Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, and Raul formed a new communist style of government.

00:08:08.000 It was a successful revolution.

00:08:11.000 It was a six-year revolution, though.

00:08:13.000 This was not like the Russian Revolution where it was, you blinked, you went away for 10 days in the hills and you came back.

00:08:19.000 Next thing you know, Vladimir Lenin's in charge.

00:08:22.000 The Russian Revolution was quick and it was bloody, but completely different than the long March Cuban Revolution.

00:08:33.000 From there, Fidel Castro decided to pledge his allegiance to Moscow, to the international communist ambitions and aims.

00:08:41.000 All of a sudden, weaponry, technology, and resources flowed into Cuba from the Soviet Union.

00:08:48.000 This is what created the Cuban Missile Crisis. 0.71

00:08:51.000 This is what spurred on the Bay of Pigs. 0.53

00:08:54.000 And throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Cuba became the closest thing to Soviet presence in America that we could think of.

00:09:05.000 90 miles off the coast of Florida, we had a Soviet proxy state near us. 0.86

00:09:10.000 In the 70s and 80s, it became more and more clear that the beautiful nation of Cuba was being dominated and controlled by the totalitarian dictatorship of the Castros. 0.79

00:09:23.000 What happened is the people of Cuba remained permanently poor and the Castros got infinitely wealthy and rich. 0.85

00:09:31.000 See, I go back into these archives in my head.

00:09:34.000 I believe Barbara Walters went and interviewed Fidel Castro in the 1990s.

00:09:38.000 And that is one of the most interesting interviews you'll ever see into the life, into the language, and into the philosophy of a third world dictator.

00:09:48.000 So all of the Cuban Revolution happened in July of 1953.

00:09:53.000 So what makes Cuba different than America?

00:09:55.000 Cuba does not have a constitutional style government like we do.

00:09:59.000 Their government does not exist to protect natural rights.

00:10:03.000 Freedom of speech and assembly is not something that's protected by the Cuban government.

00:10:07.000 Private property is barely tolerated.

00:10:11.000 You can have limited forms of property.

00:10:13.000 I'll give you one example.

00:10:15.000 You are allowed, if the government gives you a license, to own a restaurant, but you're not allowed to own more than one restaurant because that wouldn't be fair.

00:10:24.000 So what does that mean?

00:10:25.000 That means the best restaurateurs, that means the best entrepreneurs have to limit themselves to just a single restaurant.

00:10:33.000 And if that restaurant gets too popular, you might be forced to limit your hours.

00:10:37.000 Now, the Chinese coronavirus has been raging throughout the world over the last year and a half, potentially even longer than that.

00:10:46.000 And countries that were already on economic fragile footing are now going to experience revolutionary type energy from their citizens.

00:10:57.000 And we're seeing this actually happen right now in South Africa.

00:11:00.000 We're seeing this happen in a lot of countries that are now right on the edge of upheaval.

00:11:07.000 You can only lock down your citizens so long and restrict production and inflate your currency before normal people start to rise up.

00:11:17.000 So I want to play you some tape here of the Cuban people walking through the streets, yelling and screaming, saying that they want liberty and they want freedom.

00:11:30.000 Play tape.

00:11:41.000 That is just a nine-second clip right there of the Cuban people saying liberty in Spanish. 1.00

00:11:47.000 I wish many Americans wanted liberty as bad as the Cuban people do. 0.59

00:11:57.000 I wish that the upper middle class white liberals in Malibu, San Francisco, in Brooklyn, I wish they wanted liberty and they desired it as much as the Cuban people do. 0.93

00:12:13.000 Now, the Cubans, as they come to America, become the most conservative.

00:12:18.000 They become the most family-centered people in the entire country. 0.79

00:12:22.000 There's a reason why the Biden administration, they want a million Hondurans and El Salvadorians to come to America, but they don't like it when all of a sudden Cubans come to America. 0.78

00:12:32.000 It's interesting that they say they're for open borders, which of course we oppose. 0.93

00:12:37.000 But if you dare say, well, why don't we put, why not another 10,000 Cubans coming to Florida? 0.97

00:12:43.000 No, they don't want that. 0.92

00:12:44.000 Or how about Hungarians or Poles or Ukrainians or Latvians or Estonians or Serbians?

00:12:52.000 No, you see, Democrats do not want people that have lived under communism to come to America.

00:12:59.000 They don't like that.

00:13:00.000 Instead, they would much rather have people that are desiring this promise of a utopia for free stuff and don't quite understand the real life totalitarian implications of these sort of ideas.

00:13:14.000 And in the next segment, I'm going to dive into why this is happening in Cuba, the implications it has for us in America, and how this could be a canary in the coal mine, a precursor, or a tremor of things to come as normal people start to rise up against authoritarianism.

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00:15:53.000 NBC News says, we are no longer afraid.

00:15:56.000 Thousands of Cubans protest against the government.

00:16:00.000 Thousands of Cubans took to the streets on Sunday in an unusual protest in which civilians shouted slogans against the communist government, such as, we want freedom, and we are no longer afraid.

00:16:11.000 The demonstrations came at a time when Cuba faced the worst economic crisis since the fall of the Soviet Union.

00:16:17.000 And an increase in repression against political opponents and a strained health system during the critical stage of the pandemic.

00:16:26.000 So is this just a momentary flash in the pan, or is this a sign of more things to come?

00:16:33.000 Now, one of the reasons this is happening, and actually the leader of Cuba, this dictator by the name of Miguel Diaz-Canal, who has succeeded the legacy of the Castros, he blames American blockades for the reason this is happening.

00:16:58.000 Now, that's not completely untrue.

00:17:00.000 Now, they use that as a, let's say, a straw man argument.

00:17:07.000 But it's not completely untrue because one of the reasons that we have put sanctions on Cuba is to try to have this desired revolutionary effect. 0.55

00:17:16.000 The reason that we put sanctions is to punish them for their behavior.

00:17:20.000 Now, I've gone back and forth on Cuban sanctions.

00:17:22.000 I wrote a piece for Town Hall in 2014 calling for the repealing of all sanctions.

00:17:28.000 Now, I did that because I believed in neoliberal idealism.

00:17:34.000 There is a pattern in economics that is generally true, but not always true.

00:17:41.000 It was taught to me as if it was a law of economics.

00:17:44.000 And the great Milton Friedman used to say this, but I hate to say, and I wish Milton Friedman was here to defend himself, because he'd probably do a better job of defending a position that is wrong than I could even do asserting a position that is right.

00:17:57.000 One of the most gifted communicators and one of the best presenters of ideas, I think, in American history.

00:18:04.000 Where Milton Friedman convinced me back in 2013, 14, and 15 that the more you trade with a nation, the more they will embrace the ideas of private property, freedom of association, freedom of speech, and constitutional-style government.

00:18:21.000 Milton Friedman had me believing that if we traded with China enough, eventually China is going to start acting like the people of Cincinnati. 0.96

00:18:31.000 Now, that's generally true, by the way. 0.99

00:18:33.000 That is true in nations like Vietnam.

00:18:36.000 It's true in nations, for example, in the Philippines.

00:18:40.000 It's true in Thailand.

00:18:42.000 Southeast Asia is a great example of that pattern.

00:18:48.000 But it's not true in China.

00:18:50.000 It's also not true with every other country in the world.

00:18:55.000 For example, it's not true with every Middle Eastern country.

00:19:00.000 Trade can be helpful to try to break down authoritarianism.

00:19:06.000 But if you have a clever enough ruling class with the nation that you're trading with, they will use whatever economic advantage they have to only make their ruling class more powerful, like China has, and they'll use that against you.

00:19:22.000 So for Cuba, there has been people that have been saying if we trade with them, it's going to make them more Western.

00:19:30.000 It's going to make them more likely to want to embrace American ideas and values.

00:19:38.000 I remember walking through the Miami airport a couple years ago because there was a lift on the travel embargo to Havana, and I saw on an American Airlines departure, I saw Havana.

00:19:51.000 Just really kind of disoriented me.

00:19:53.000 So it might as well just say Stalingrad, right?

00:19:55.000 Like Havana?

00:19:56.000 Like non-stop flights from Miami to Havana.

00:19:58.000 I had mixed feelings about it.

00:19:59.000 The idealist in me said, oh, this is wonderful.

00:20:03.000 We're all going to live in John Lennon's world.

00:20:05.000 No more war, nothing but peace running through the meadows.

00:20:08.000 We're going to have flowers in our hair and we're all going to just love each other.

00:20:12.000 Then the other side of me said, oh my goodness, why would the dictators of Cuba want that?

00:20:18.000 They might want that because they want the cheap flow of goods so that they could keep their broken and evil totalitarian experiment going longer.

00:20:28.000 The prediction I'm going to make is that the tremors are only going to increase. 0.90

00:20:33.000 Middle-class revolutions are just starting across the world. 0.92

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00:21:21.000 Revolutions are interesting things.

00:21:23.000 They can't always be planned.

00:21:26.000 Sometimes the conditions happen organically.

00:21:29.000 And then once the movement begins, it starts to take a life of its own.

00:21:37.000 And we're starting to see almost every necessary prerequisite for massive middle-class revolutions across the world.

00:21:45.000 They're all put in place. 0.61

00:21:47.000 Distrust of the ruling class, large amounts of time cooped up at home, this downward plunder of taking from the next generation to try to protect older people.

00:21:59.000 And we're going to talk a lot about that throughout the week, actually, because that's what's happening here: this downward plunder of taking from students and young people's livelihoods, their futures, to try to protect people that do not have as much time on the clock.

00:22:16.000 And that is an upside-down, some would argue, immoral view of utilitarian ethics, which we reject here on this program.

00:22:25.000 Let me be clear.

00:22:27.000 There's massive economic uncertainty.

00:22:31.000 And so what happens is when you have all these prerequisites put in place, even the globalist central planners are not going to be able to predict and control what happens next.

00:22:44.000 What's happening right now in Cuba is the same sort of conditions that Fidel Castro was able to take advantage of in 1953 to seize power in July of 1953.

00:22:58.000 In fact, we are two weeks away from the anniversary of Fidel Castro seizing power away from Batista.

00:23:07.000 Now, many American socialists and authoritarians, they are big fans of Cuba and Castro-style communism.

00:23:18.000 I want to play some tape here of Bernie Sanders, but before I do that, I think it's a mistake just to label Cuba as communist and socialist.

00:23:29.000 I think it gets too into economic terms.

00:23:32.000 Instead, we have to take a minute or two and explain why is it that the economic principle of socialism will always end up in authoritarianism.

00:23:45.000 Why is it that the promise of egalitarianism, the abolishing of hierarchies and private property, and I will reinforce the example.

00:23:55.000 Some people would say it's somewhat of a silly example, but it's one that applies.

00:23:59.000 You're only allowed one restaurant.

00:24:02.000 That's it.

00:24:02.000 With a certain amount of seats, you can only serve food within a certain amount of hours because they don't want to have you be too successful because then you might hurt the other restaurant down the street.

00:24:13.000 Now, I want you to imagine how that would play out in America.

00:24:16.000 Instead of having Jimmy Johns, there would be one Jimmy John.

00:24:19.000 So what it does is it, by definition, restricts ambition, efficiency, risk-taking, and any form of drive for success.

00:24:29.000 If you can only have one restaurant, why wake up as early?

00:24:33.000 Why be obsessed with perfection?

00:24:36.000 Why not just serve mediocre food, which is exactly what ends up happening, by the way?

00:24:42.000 The reason why socialism or the confiscation of private property, I think socialism, to be perfectly honest, is an overused term in the conservative movement.

00:24:52.000 I think it's overused.

00:24:53.000 I think we call everything socialist even when it's not socialist.

00:24:56.000 Because sometimes it's not socialist, sometimes it's corporatist.

00:25:00.000 Sometimes it's just flat out corrupt.

00:25:02.000 A true socialist is someone who puts ideology first and is willing to destroy anything in their path.

00:25:09.000 In fact, I'm going to say something rather controversial.

00:25:11.000 At times, I would rather have a pure Bolshevik socialist than an unbelievably corrupt operator who just wants to enrich themselves and their family.

00:25:22.000 And the reason being is because I can at least predict what the socialist is going to do.

00:25:28.000 At least they have a core set of ideas.

00:25:30.000 Or someone who is inherently incredibly corrupt, they will use the levers of power to try to do things that are so unpredictably treacherous that that's an existential threat to our way of life.

00:25:45.000 But the reason why socialism and the reason why communism does not end up like the John Lennon song of no more peace and everyone running in the meadows, it's really interesting.

00:25:56.000 I was just recently in Burlington, Vermont, speaking at my friend Pastor Todd Callahan's church, great church.

00:26:03.000 We went out to eat at some restaurant.

00:26:05.000 By the way, if you want to see kind of the nuttiest group of humanity, go to Burlington, Vermont.

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00:26:15.000 Got a lot of interesting stares from people when they saw Charlie Kirk walking the streets of Burlington.

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00:26:22.000 We had two people stop their cars and literally scream at us at how much they liked the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

00:26:28.000 So that was kind of cool.

00:26:29.000 So there is a remnant of liberty in Burlington, Vermont.

00:26:34.000 So we went to this one restaurant.

00:26:36.000 It was really sweet, nice people.

00:26:38.000 And we walk in and we have this, they are equivalent of a private dining room.

00:26:41.000 Of course, they don't have air conditioning because that would be too corporate or whatever.

00:26:45.000 And so they have this massive mural, massive mural.

00:26:49.000 And I looked at the mural.

00:26:51.000 I said, this illustrates exactly what the socialists think is going to happen once they seize power.

00:26:58.000 So basically, this massive mural shows people wearing no clothes.

00:27:02.000 They're all dancing, smiling.

00:27:06.000 They don't own anything in this picture.

00:27:09.000 They have this sort of egalitarian footing at this mural with animals.

00:27:17.000 And it looks like a return to the Garden of Eden.

00:27:23.000 And it looked as if, and deep down, I realized, by the way, they have a picture of Bernie Sanders.

00:27:26.000 They literally had a painting of Bernie Sanders in the bottom left-hand corner of this mural.

00:27:31.000 It's very naturalist, right?

00:27:33.000 And in some ways, I kind of appreciate it because they don't like the pharmaceutical companies.

00:27:37.000 They don't like the war industry. 0.58

00:27:38.000 But it's so incredibly foolishly idealistic, it should be dismissed as something a sixth grader or a six-year-old would say. 0.64

00:27:46.000 That's kind of what it is. 0.91

00:27:47.000 It's the re-infantilization of America.

00:27:51.000 As Rousseau would say, he prefers the infant over the adult, the primitive over the civilized, the adulterous over the loyal spouse.

00:27:59.000 And so I looked at this mural and I realized that's what they want.

00:28:02.000 And by the way, just so you know, Burlington, Vermont is where Bernie Sanders was mayor while he did this interview I'm about to play for you.

00:28:10.000 And so I think some of these revolutionaries actually believe that they are going to enter into this new Garden of Eden.

00:28:18.000 Now, those of us that know the Bible and we know what that actually is and what it says, it is evil to think that you can usher in anything close to the utopia that God originally granted us.

00:28:32.000 In fact, it will end in the tyranny of a small group of people oppressing your rights and your freedoms.

00:28:39.000 So why does it always end in that, though?

00:28:42.000 Why is the arc of the promise of the new Garden of Eden, the promise of utopia?

00:28:49.000 Which, by the way, just so you know, the root of the word utopia means nowhere.

00:28:54.000 Utopia was a term coined by Thomas Moore, and he wrote this idea of utopia meaning nowhere.

00:29:03.000 So why is it?

00:29:05.000 Why does it end that way?

00:29:06.000 It's because human nature, deep down, especially for the sociopaths, which is 10% of all human beings, and by the way, almost all sociopaths end up in prison, just so you know, that jail is basically a home for sociopaths.

00:29:20.000 Not every person in jail is a sociopath, but one out of 10 people are going to believe that they can do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it.

00:29:27.000 They're not going to get caught.

00:29:28.000 But there is a urge, especially amongst the sociopaths, to dominate you.

00:29:33.000 So once you create a system where the power is up for grabs for dominating, that is exactly what's going to happen.

00:29:41.000 So once you create a framework of government that can do anything, then eventually you're going to have a Napoleon, a Lenin, a Stalin, a Castro, a Mao, a Mugabe, a Pol Pat, a Mussolini, a Guevara, a Chavez.

00:30:05.000 And I could keep going, by the way, that will use that power for their own means, their own trappings, and their own luxury.

00:30:15.000 Bernie Sanders, as he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, as they were trying to usher in the new Garden of Eden, let's play cut, let's go through all of them.

00:30:26.000 Cut five.

00:30:27.000 And that's 2020.

00:30:29.000 No, the one you had right up there.

00:30:30.000 Let's just play this one and listen to it.

00:30:31.000 This is when he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont.

00:30:33.000 I'm 90% sure.

00:30:34.000 Play tape.

00:30:35.000 Siri is explaining why the Cuban people didn't rise up and help the U.S. overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

00:30:41.000 He educated the kids, gave them the health care, totally transformed the society. 0.79

00:30:45.000 So he was saying, and I know that was really short, that they have good health care, and why would they want to try to transform the society?

00:30:52.000 Play the next tape.

00:30:54.000 It's unfair to simply say everything is bad.

00:30:57.000 You know, when Fidel Kashko came into office, you know what he did?

00:31:00.000 He had a massive literacy program.

00:31:02.000 Is that a bad thing?

00:31:03.000 Even though Fidel Kashko did it?

00:31:05.000 I mean, is that a bad thing?

00:31:08.000 I mean, they can read from prison. 0.70

00:31:10.000 You know, the Soviets always, there's a joke about the Soviets.

00:31:14.000 There's no unemployment in the Soviet Union because dead people can't work.

00:31:21.000 There's no unemployment. 0.95

00:31:22.000 We're going to pay you to go dig a ditch and fill it in again.

00:31:26.000 It's the wrong metric, obviously.

00:31:30.000 Play the next tape of Bernie Sanders debating the.

00:31:33.000 I haven't heard much from Mike Bloomberg recently.

00:31:35.000 Wonder what they got on him.

00:31:36.000 Play tape.

00:31:37.000 What I said is what Barack Obama said in terms of Cuba, that Cuba made progress on education.

00:31:46.000 Yes, I think, really?

00:31:49.000 And when dictatorships, whether it is the Chinese or the Cubans, do something good, you acknowledge that.

00:31:57.000 And then cut nine, Sanders on how everyone who thought Castro is a bad guy, but just because Reagan thinks Castro is a bad guy, doesn't mean that people of their own country think that way.

00:32:06.000 This is back when he was Burlington, Vermont.

00:32:08.000 I will give Bernie Sanders credit. 0.96

00:32:09.000 He has never wavered on his strange, bizarre love affair with third world dictators. 1.00

00:32:16.000 Play tape. 0.99

00:32:17.000 You may recall way back in, what was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba.

00:32:20.000 And everybody was totally convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world.

00:32:24.000 All the Cuban people were going to rise up in rebellion against Bidel Castro.

00:32:28.000 They forgot that he educated their kids, gave them health care, totally transformed the society.

00:32:33.000 But just because Ronald Reagan dislikes these people does not mean to say that the people in their own nations feel the same way.

00:32:40.000 I was impressed by Father DeScotto because he is a very gentle, very loving man.

00:32:45.000 Guatega is an impressive guy.

00:32:48.000 Very gentle and very loving man.

00:32:50.000 You see, Sanders wants to bring back the Garden of Eden.

00:32:54.000 And little does he know, we can never reusher heaven on earth here, but we can get very close to hell.

00:33:02.000 Just visit to Havana and get a little taste of that.

00:33:05.000 There's something brewing right now in America.

00:33:09.000 When I talked with Tucker Carlson on his Fox Nation show, I said there are geologically, to use a metaphor, some people said the election of Donald Trump was an earthquake.

00:33:20.000 I think that we're living through a tremor phase right now.

00:33:25.000 I think that we are living through the shock before the actual earthquake.

00:33:30.000 The people in charge are doing everything imaginable to try to provoke a massive countermove to their legacy and the power that they have over us.

00:33:47.000 Now, what do I mean by that?

00:33:49.000 What's happening in Cuba is going to start spreading across the world.

00:33:53.000 You cannot manufacture hyperinflation, attack a nation's values, destroy the health care system, and expect people to take it much longer.

00:34:04.000 What I'm seeing in Cuba gives me hope, and I just wish that some liberals in America wanted liberty and freedom as much as the people in Havana, Cuba.

00:34:15.000 And I'm talking about the people right now in Martha's Vineyard.

00:34:19.000 What we are living through, and Cuba is the canary in the coal mine. 1.00

00:34:25.000 It is a sign of things to come of people saying, I'm not going to take it any longer. 0.99

00:34:31.000 My currency is worth less 10% now than it was last year.

00:34:36.000 I can't find meaningful work.

00:34:39.000 You're attacking my values and my ability to be able to live the life as I see fit. 0.73

00:34:46.000 You are instructing my seven-year-old to hate themselves just because they are white.

00:34:51.000 I'm being put to the back of the line in racial preferences quotas as a white male.

00:34:56.000 I'm not going to take it anymore.

00:34:58.000 And Charles Murray agrees.

00:35:00.000 Charles Murray says, and he's one of the most effective and hated, by the way, social scientists.

00:35:06.000 He has a new book that has come out.

00:35:08.000 I really want to get him on my podcast because I think he's amazing.

00:35:10.000 But his book in the 1990s blew up the social scientist world because he dared talk about IQ, like the one thing you're not allowed to talk about.

00:35:17.000 There's a book called The Bell Curve.

00:35:19.000 And what Charles Murray argued, which was totally true and everyone ignored his actual argument, is that once we get away from the muscular economy and we get into the cognitive economy and we start rewarding how well you can run technology, we are going to create an economic caste system.

00:35:37.000 And once you create that economic caste system, you are going to have a permanent economic elite that are uninterested.

00:35:45.000 They have no desire to live amongst the unwashed in society.

00:35:51.000 In fact, they're going to wage a preemptive war against you.

00:35:54.000 And so we have to do everything we possibly can to cheer on the freedom fighters here in Cuba.

00:35:58.000 You know why?

00:35:59.000 It's going to make the American ruling class nervous and the international ruling class nervous.

00:36:05.000 The more people take to the streets and demand their freedom and liberty back, that is something that the masters of the universe, the mandatory vaccination crowd, the social media oligarchs, the technology worshipers, they don't really know how to micromanage that.

00:36:23.000 And when you start seeing it happen in Cuba, it can happen anywhere.

00:36:28.000 When you start seeing it happen in Havana where the price of getting in the streets is right now, let me tell you what's happening, and this will not be covered in the Western press.

00:36:36.000 There were people that were walking through the streets yesterday that are in prison today.

00:36:41.000 There were people that were walking the streets yesterday that are paying some sort of price.

00:36:46.000 Now, Cuba does not have the rule of law like we do, so they're just going to conveniently disappear into the mountains in Cuba. 0.60

00:36:53.000 We are living through the beginning stages of normal people and middle-class Americans and of all across the world start to take their power back.

00:37:04.000 And I am happy to report in the most unusual place imaginable that I think we're seeing the fault lines and the beginning stages of the evil Castro regime come to the end. 0.64

00:37:18.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:19.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:22.000 And if you want to support our program, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

00:37:26.000 God bless you guys.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 13, 2021

Is Cuba's Anti-Communist Rebellion Coming to a City Near You?

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