00:00:43.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:58.000I'm very excited to talk to you about a new book that is coming out this month from my dear friend, a great American, and one of my top mentors, Jim Holden.
00:01:06.000He's a best-selling author, a member of the Turning Point Endowment, and a very clear thinker.
00:01:12.000Selling in an Anxious World is Jim's fifth book on selling strategies and best practices.
00:01:18.000This time, Jim brings together research science and observation to identify the leading cause of declining business-to-business sales, also known as corporate culture.
00:01:28.000I had the great honor of contributing to a chapter of Selling in an Anxious World through my work with Turning Point.
00:01:34.000I'm in a unique position to observe academic culture within our colleges and relate it to the corporate world, particularly its impact on company culture.
00:01:42.000In today's world, good company culture requires vigilant protection, which is why this book is so timely and a must-read for business people, sellers, patriots, and Christians.
00:01:52.000Selling in an Anxious World combines research from extensive deal reviews, examples from Jim's personal life, and Bible references to shine a light on culture, presenting an unconventional guide to solving an unconventional problem.
00:02:05.000You'll get quick access to whatever topics are important to you through chapter summaries and reference guides.
00:02:11.000Jim Holden's book is not like any other business book out there.
00:03:10.000Is a question that I think he needs to answer.
00:03:13.000He doesn't answer questions at all from the press.
00:03:15.000Is unity whereas we are going to understand that people have differences of opinions but still come together on shared values?
00:03:22.000Or is it the Soviet style of unity where it's more unity is the absence of opposition?
00:03:29.000And I am very skeptical when Joe Biden comes out with very little to any crowd, 25,000 troops in DC and says democracy won.
00:03:42.000Something about that feels a little bit, let's say, not exactly normal.
00:03:47.000I understand it's a pandemic and I understand stuff happened in the Capitol, but just the imagery of it and the visual was not like any other inauguration we've ever seen.
00:03:54.000And so there's a lot I want to unpack from that speech.
00:03:57.000I'm an American first before I'm a conservative.
00:04:00.000I'm a Christian first and an American.
00:05:23.000I don't want to, you know, misstate it.
00:05:26.000Yeah, struggle against what he called extremism several times in that speech.
00:05:30.000And I think you hit the nail right on the head, Charlie, in that this was a very contradictory set of words presented to the American people.
00:05:36.000We heard a lot about unity in bringing the country together, but a sentence later, we would be hearing about extremism, white supremacy, racism that is allegedly raging through the nation right now and must be addressed with basically regulating this new domestic terrorism.
00:05:52.000And so that is going to be a primary focus of his administration, which runs a little bit contrary to the idea of unifying the country.
00:06:01.000And I guess his counter argument would be these are such terrible and extreme voices and forces.
00:06:08.000However, that's not the way any of the media or any of the coverage has been carrying it.
00:06:13.000In fact, even the Washington Post yesterday, I remember, I think I sent this yesterday in one of our kind of show prep areas, and it said, quote, federal prosecutors in Washington have charged more than 100 defendants in the past 13 days.
00:06:27.000But arrests this weekend of several people with alleged ties to extremist groups, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and 3%ers, have offered evidence that the riots were not entirely an impulsive outburst of violence, but an event instigated or exploited by organized groups.
00:06:41.000Hours of video on social media poured over show investigators have focused on individuals in military-style gear moving together.
00:06:47.000And so this seems to be something that is focused much more on extremist groups that really are not really rooted in political ideology at all whatsoever.
00:06:56.000And so look, there is a moment right now where Joe Biden can push back against the most radical forces of the Democrat Party.
00:07:04.000I'm incredibly skeptical that he's going to do that.
00:07:07.000There will be a moment, and he didn't mention this at all in his speech, of any of the positives of the Trump administration.
00:07:13.000I don't think he mentioned Trump at all or the administration prior.
00:07:16.000It's kind of just the abolition of history that came before us.
00:07:21.000And the tone and the tenor of the speech, I think, was intentional because that's what the country is desiring.
00:07:28.000Is that actually what is going to happen?
00:08:07.000Instead, the two major themes were definitely on the virus, and the second was on the threat of domestic terrorism.
00:08:17.000He did not lay out any form of specific agenda items at all, whatsoever.
00:08:22.000Where most times that is something that usually presidents will do in their inaugural address.
00:08:28.000And so the question is: which Joe Biden is going to be?
00:08:31.000Is it going to be the Joe Biden who says, I'm going to be a president for all Americans?
00:08:34.000Or is it going to be the Joe Biden that operates like Barack Obama and when he sent the IRS after conservative groups, when he did gun running with Fast and Furious, when he tried to give amnesty to millions of people, which Joe Biden has already signaled what he's going to do?
00:08:48.000And so it'd be one thing if Joe Biden gave a fiery grassroots progressive speech today.
00:09:35.000Now, we are going to watch very closely and carefully as Joe Biden lays out his policy agenda, as his rhetoric starts to become clear and his administration takes form.
00:09:47.000Obviously, I'm unbelievably skeptical that anything he will do will actually benefit our country, not to mention the suspicious Chinese ties that he has.
00:10:39.000And also, it seems the only two things that they really mentioned in their agenda speech, if you could call it that, was fighting domestic terrorism alongside kind of getting the virus under control.
00:10:54.000I mean, it was kind of a depressing speech in more ways than one.
00:10:59.000And so that's the moment that we're in.
00:11:02.000And so in the next couple of hours, President Biden has pledged to sign a variety of executive actions.
00:11:10.000One of the first things he is planning to do is to sign an executive action saying no new wall on the southern border, which runs contrary to the idea of being a president for all Americans.
00:11:22.000They call illegal entry into the United States regional migration.
00:11:31.000He is also planning to sign a variety of executive orders to get us back, I think, into the Paris Climate Accord, Trans-Pacific Partnership.
00:11:39.000And his administration is already negotiating on behalf of our country with the largest state sponsor of terror, Iran.
00:11:48.000We're also expected to rejoin the World Health Organization sometime within the next few days and move towards 100% renewable energy and net zero emissions by 2050, reversing the travel ban instated by President Trump and canceling the permit for the Keystone pipeline, just to name a few.
00:12:04.000So let's go to some clips from President Biden's speech.
00:12:31.000How do you define political extremists?
00:12:34.000Labels like that can easily be thrown on people like Isabel and I. In fact, they're thrown on our students all the time at Turning Point USA, wrongly and baselessly, because they are inherently subjective terms.
00:12:47.000And I agree, white supremacy is disgusting and awful.
00:12:50.000Define it for me, Joe, because it's not as simple as you might think.
00:12:56.000Glenn Greenwald understands this, and he said on Tucker Carlson, this very well might be the gateway to a new security state.
00:13:04.000Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lightly.
00:13:10.000I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.
00:13:29.000What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.
00:13:42.000They're saying they want a new law similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.
00:13:54.000A domestic surveillance state and security state, some of which these proposals have already been put forward.
00:14:00.000We got an email at freedom at charliekirk.com from Keith.
00:14:02.000Charlie, I always value your opinion, but I'm sorry, you're naive if you think Joe Biden will succeed or ever do anything good for the country.
00:14:08.000He has over 40 years of being a self-centered politician.
00:14:11.000You know darn well he's going to do because he's not even hiding it.
00:14:14.000Look, I agree, I'm inherently skeptical of this entire operation, not operation, the presidency.
00:14:22.000However, I am not going to do what the liberals did, which is instantaneously bias myself from day one when a new president comes into office.
00:14:41.000And because I was there at the inauguration four years ago for President Trump, and we were so excited and we wanted it to be a moment where President Trump had an opportunity to govern.
00:14:55.000They launched a coup from inside our government.
00:14:57.000And even on inauguration day, there were plans to entrap Michael Flynn.
00:15:02.000So in the midst of the inauguration, there were already plans well underway.
00:15:06.000And we thought that was disgusting and detestable.
00:15:08.000And so we're not going to do that, obviously.
00:15:11.000But we are now going to just give a moment.
00:15:13.000And the moment might be a couple hours until Joe Biden proves exactly the radical agenda he's going to do.
00:15:18.000I think it's very, very important that we as conservatives, when we levy a criticism against the left, that we don't also embody that same criticism.
00:15:41.000China is very, very happy that Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, as you probably can imagine.
00:15:52.000And so I would love to have Joe Biden become this moderate.
00:15:58.000I'd love Joe Biden to stand up against the most radical forces to say, you know what, we're not going to start a new domestic security state.
00:16:06.000That not every single person that was in Washington, D.C. on January the 6th was a domestic terrorist.
00:16:12.000Maybe we are going to take a pause and try to be a president for all Americans.
00:16:16.000Nobody in his camp is talking that way.
00:16:19.000No, in fact, they're speaking the exact extreme opposite way.
00:16:22.000We're seeing people refer to all individuals who voted for President Trump as radicalized terrorists.
00:16:28.000We're being told that conservative influencers need to be reined in because it's dangerous that they have an audience that's larger than daytime CNN.
00:16:37.000Well, I can assure you, at least on this program, we do our due diligence with research and we always tell the truth, even if it's hard for people to hear.
00:16:44.000And if the truth is all of a sudden a euphemism for disinformation and misinformation, that's when we have a problem in this country.
00:17:18.000And there's Joe Manchin, soon to be the most powerful man in Washington, D.C., walking through there.
00:17:23.000What I did see, though, is kind of from an appearance, and this is just from watching a couple minutes of footage, kind of that kind of chummy, bipartisan ruling class seemed to be back in charge.
00:17:36.000They all seemed very excited to be back together again, all celebrating the inauguration of one of their old buddies.
00:17:42.000Yeah, it seemed as if Republicans and Democrats alike seemed a little bit happy that they could breathe easy, that all of a sudden the borders can remain open, the corporations will largely go unchallenged, that the trade deals will not get renegotiated, that the endless wars will remain endless, and that this kind of four years of a hiccup to their master plan is now over.
00:18:06.000Look, when running a very big business, HR issues can kill you or small business.
00:18:10.000Wrongful termination suits, minimum wage requirements, labor regulations, and more.
00:18:15.000And HR manager salaries are never cheap.
00:19:55.000That if you dare say anything outside of what the status quo decrees, then you're somehow an existential threat to the country and with it the administration.
00:20:05.000And I noticed specifically in the language of this speech several times the phrase our truth was referenced, not the truth.
00:20:12.000And that speaks so eloquently to this take from Seth Dillon.
00:20:32.000And so one of our emails here from Kevin says, though it's hard, please keep encouraging viewers to take the high road and not be vulgar like the left.
00:20:57.000We are going to continue to embody exactly what we believe, which is hopefully decency and respect.
00:21:03.000And that's the moment that we are affording the president right now, Joe Biden.
00:21:08.000And the moment he starts signing all these executive orders, then, okay, then we're going to settle in and we're going to start to go piece by piece and dissect it.
00:21:17.000But he was given an open argument, opening argument.
00:21:20.000President Trump was never even given a transition or an opening argument.
00:21:24.000When President Donald Trump gave the speech at the inauguration, that was at four years ago.
00:21:29.000The moment he came down, the coup was already in place.
00:22:05.000I understand there were mountains of shenanigans and unanswered questions and tomfoolery and nonsense that continued on while we were just told, sit down and shut up.
00:22:15.000You don't allow, you shouldn't have your questions answered.
00:22:17.000And a forum that we wanted to see that happen was interrupted, obviously, on January the 6th, tragically and really unexpectedly.
00:22:27.000We will keep the feed going in what feels just darker than usual.
00:22:32.000Maybe it's the masks, maybe it's the distancing.
00:23:28.000Unveil his immigration plan just today.
00:23:32.000Extend a student loan pause and then revoke permit for a Keystone XL pipeline, killing thousands of jobs.
00:23:39.000We also heard this morning from the Biden-Harris team that they plan to rescind Trump's 1776 commission for education today on day one as well.
00:23:47.000So I think it's safe to expect a lot more critical race theory in classrooms across America over the next four years.
00:27:34.000If you want to get involved, go to tpusa.com, turning point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Culture War.
00:27:42.000Email us your questions, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:27:45.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.