The Charlie Kirk Show - December 16, 2021


Schiff, Meadows, and America’s Slow March Towards Totalitarianism


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What is going on with the January 6th committee in regards to changing text messages? That and so much more with Sean Davis from The Federalist and 10 Steps that might show that we re headed towards something unspeakable. We go word for word through the 10 steps that occur before a genocide occurs. It s provocative, intentionally.

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00:00:01.000 What is going on with the January 6th committee in regards to changing text messages?
00:00:06.000 That and so much more with Sean Davis from the Federalist and 10 steps that might show that we're headed towards something unspeakable.
00:00:14.000 We go word for word of the 10 steps that occur before a genocide occurs.
00:00:18.000 It's very provocative, intentionally so here on the Charlie Kirk show.
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00:02:40.000 What would the playbook be if you were trying to eliminate a large portion of the population?
00:02:46.000 What's so incredible to me is how close we are in historical terms, meaning not so far away from the intentional attempt to eliminate entire races of people.
00:03:04.000 This is not just done by the National Socialist Workers' Party in the 1930s and 1940s in Germany, despicably and evil.
00:03:11.000 But it was also attempted to be done by Mao Se Tong and Joseph Stalin.
00:03:16.000 If the 20th century told us anything, it told us a couple things.
00:03:19.000 As Alexander Solshenitsyn famously wrote in the Gulag Archipelago, he said that all of this was thanks to ideology.
00:03:26.000 Now, Alexander Solshenitsyn reflected in the Gulag Archipelago, which I encourage you to read.
00:03:32.000 He went into a deep reflection saying, What did I personally do that might have contributed to this great evil?
00:03:39.000 It's very profound.
00:03:42.000 And actually, that book was largely responsible for the downfall of the Soviet Union.
00:03:48.000 There's another great book by Victor Frankl, which is called Man's Search for Meaning.
00:03:55.000 By writing that book, he ended up starting a whole new psychological kind of school of thought called logotherapy, the will to meaning.
00:04:08.000 Because you have the will to power, the will to pleasure.
00:04:10.000 He says that we as humans have a moral obligation to have a will to meaning.
00:04:15.000 Viktor Frankl famously said in Man's Search for Meaning, there are only two types of people, the decent and the indecent.
00:04:23.000 We are so close to the committed and attempted elimination of entire groups of people.
00:04:31.000 Why is it that anytime anyone says that the government might be trying to do that again, they're called a conspiracy theorist and you're not even allowed to talk about it?
00:04:41.000 It's a very serious question because we still have living members today that survived concentration camps, that survived the attempted elimination of kulaks in the Soviet Union.
00:04:57.000 One of our good friends here is Joseph Bondarenko, who spent 23 hours in a Soviet jail for 10 years straight for preaching the gospel.
00:05:10.000 I know him.
00:05:11.000 It's a real thing.
00:05:14.000 He tells me what's happening in America is identical to what he lived through in the Soviet Union.
00:05:19.000 Same thing.
00:05:22.000 And I think part of it is that the American ruling class, they actually do want the re-implementation of this sort of authoritarianism and elimination.
00:05:37.000 There's an article by Gregory H. Stanton called 10 Stages of Genocide.
00:05:45.000 Now, let me be very clear.
00:05:46.000 I am not saying right now what we're living through is genocide or attempted genocide.
00:05:50.000 Instead, I'm connecting these 10 things, and I want you to ask yourself, does any of this sound familiar?
00:05:57.000 This is from AmericanThinker.com by J.B. Shirk.
00:06:01.000 Number one, classification.
00:06:03.000 Governments dividing people into us versus them.
00:06:06.000 Yeah, that wouldn't happen, obviously.
00:06:08.000 It's not like we have vaccinated and unvaccinated restaurants.
00:06:11.000 It's not like we have black and white playgrounds.
00:06:14.000 And just so you know, Denver public schools have playgrounds where only black kids are allowed to play. 0.98
00:06:19.000 White families are not welcome. 1.00
00:06:21.000 Number two, symbolization. 0.78
00:06:23.000 Government starting to force unclean people to wear symbolic articles of clothing so they can clearly stand out from everyone else.
00:06:32.000 For example, unvaccinated people having to wear masks.
00:06:36.000 Number three, discrimination.
00:06:38.000 Governments use laws and cultural power to deny civil rights to certain people.
00:06:44.000 Don't like your job?
00:06:46.000 Don't want to take the vaccine?
00:06:48.000 We're going to fire you from your job.
00:06:50.000 How about number four, dehumanization?
00:06:52.000 Governments subtly deny the humanity of discriminated groups by comparing them to animals, vermin, insects, and diseases.
00:07:00.000 For example, David Frum yesterday saying that we must quietly triage the unvaccinated and let them die in hospitals. 1.00
00:07:07.000 Number five, organization.
00:07:09.000 The state bureaucracy begins actively designing killing plans for the undesirables.
00:07:15.000 Now you might say, well, Charlie, that isn't happening.
00:07:17.000 Well, then how do you explain the permanent internment of people that went into the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th and took selfies, and they're not allowed to leave the Washington, D.C. pit of hell jail that could be closely associated with Gitmo.
00:07:33.000 Number six, polarization.
00:07:34.000 Propaganda is utilized to amplify differences between us versus them.
00:07:40.000 Vaccinated versus unvaccinated. 1.00
00:07:42.000 White people are racist. 1.00
00:07:45.000 Preparation. 1.00
00:07:46.000 The victims of future mass killings are identified, separated, and forced to wear distinguishing symbols.
00:07:52.000 You mean like the FBI going and putting threat assessment tags on moms and dads that show up to school board meetings?
00:07:59.000 Number eight, persecution.
00:08:01.000 Governments begin forcing members of victim groups into special camps.
00:08:05.000 You mean like Australian Canada building internment camps?
00:08:09.000 Number nine, extermination.
00:08:11.000 The massacre begins and government actors justify their mass murder as necessary. 0.99
00:08:14.000 Extermination of non-humans who deserve to be killed. 1.00
00:08:19.000 Now, of course, we don't, it's not like we have writers of The Atlantic who say that we should quietly triage unvaccinated people in hospitals. 0.82
00:08:26.000 Number 10, denial.
00:08:27.000 The brainwashed perpetrators of the genocide deny having committed any crimes, blaming their victims for their own murders. 0.98
00:08:37.000 Yeah, I've heard a couple people say the unvaccinated people deserve to die.
00:08:41.000 Auschwitz survivor, Marion Tersky, she was in Auschwitz against that existential evil. 0.56
00:08:50.000 She survived the attempted extermination of her race, her view, her religion.
00:08:59.000 What does she have to say?
00:09:01.000 Play Cut 43.
00:09:03.000 One day, in those early 1930s, you can read an inscription on the benches.
00:09:09.000 Jews must not sit on these benches. 1.00
00:09:12.000 You could say, it's unpleasant, it's not fair, it's not right. 0.85
00:09:16.000 But after all, there are so many benches around.
00:09:19.000 You can sit somewhere else.
00:09:20.000 Of course you can.
00:09:21.000 And then you read, we only sell bread and food to Jews after 5 p.m.
00:09:28.000 Right?
00:09:29.000 Less choice.
00:09:30.000 This makes your life harder.
00:09:31.000 But after all, after 5 p.m., you can still do your shopping.
00:09:36.000 And that's how it is done, step by step.
00:09:39.000 Slowly.
00:09:40.000 And they become acquainted with that thought, familiar with the idea that they are different people, that they are alien people, that they are the people that carry germs that cause pandemics.
00:09:56.000 And this now is a horror.
00:09:59.000 What came later was something that developed immediately.
00:10:02.000 Jews could not get jobs, they could not emigrate. 0.73
00:10:05.000 And then, quickly, Jews would be sent to ghettos, to Kaunas, to Riga, to my ghetto.
00:10:12.000 Now, I apologize.
00:10:13.000 I was up very early this morning.
00:10:14.000 It's a man, not a woman, so I apologize.
00:10:16.000 We do believe in the differences of genders.
00:10:19.000 Movement of people.
00:10:21.000 Now, of course, in Ă¼sterreich, Vienna, Austria, Ă–sterreich, if you leave your home, you're breaking the law.
00:10:32.000 Can we get that clip of those two girls that selfie I sent the other day? 0.89
00:10:35.000 You know what I'm talking about?
00:10:36.000 I've been to Vienna.
00:10:37.000 I know exactly where they are.
00:10:39.000 That is the capital.
00:10:40.000 That is the center of Vienna.
00:10:42.000 Vienna used to actually be a neat place.
00:10:44.000 It's kind of the intersection of where East met West.
00:10:47.000 It's the farthest west, the Turks got actually. 1.00
00:10:49.000 That's why Vienna has such good coffee.
00:10:52.000 Separate conversation for a different time.
00:10:55.000 Are we now marching in that direction?
00:10:57.000 And I know a lot of you right now are going to be like, oh, Charlie, genocide will never happen here.
00:11:01.000 That'll never happen here.
00:11:02.000 I want you to go look in the eyes of Joseph Bondaranko, KGB most wanted, pastor who spent nearly a decade in prison for preaching the gospel, who looks me in the eyes and looks our team in the eyes, trembling with fear, saying, what is happening in America is what I lived through.
00:11:19.000 They nearly killed my entire family.
00:11:20.000 You guys have no idea what you're doing.
00:11:24.000 And so maybe check your American privilege and realize the rest of the world has lived in fear of genocide, calamity, and destruction.
00:11:32.000 And it might be coming here.
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00:12:39.000 If you are in Vienna right now, Vienna used to be a really nice place.
00:12:45.000 I was there a couple years ago.
00:12:46.000 Can't remember when I was in Vienna.
00:12:48.000 Actually, you know what?
00:12:49.000 I was in Vienna right before the virus.
00:12:54.000 I was in Austria and wasn't there for very long.
00:13:00.000 Went to Salzburg, which is really nice, the home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
00:13:06.000 He was born in Salzburg.
00:13:08.000 Spent some time in Vienna.
00:13:09.000 And it was so interesting.
00:13:10.000 As we were in Salzburg in Vienna, the news of the virus was starting to circulate.
00:13:15.000 And I'll never forget, I was with my then-girlfriend, now wife Erica, walking the streets of Vienna.
00:13:22.000 And for the first time, I saw a group of people wearing masks.
00:13:28.000 And I said, what is that all about?
00:13:31.000 Little did I know that would be a harbinger of things to come.
00:13:34.000 Now, you would think Austria, Germany, those that region of the world would be a little bit sensitive.
00:13:45.000 Let's just say the wound would be a little tender around locking people in their homes.
00:13:51.000 Let's just say that they haven't even let 100 years pass until they get right back in the muscle memory of trying to tyrannize their own citizenry.
00:14:04.000 So if you were to go to Vienna right now and you'd want to leave the home, your home, you're breaking the law.
00:14:12.000 Watch this clip of two young girls in Vienna doing just that.
00:14:17.000 Play tape.
00:14:19.000 So Reyes and I are out in beautiful Vienna, and it's actually a crime for us to be outside now because today is the first day that the nationwide lockdown has ended, but it has transformed into a lockdown solidity for the unvaccinated. 0.99
00:14:34.000 So for us to be outside right now is breaking the law because we're not vaccinated.
00:14:39.000 So just standing here breathing in 2021 as an unvaccinated person is a crime in Vienna.
00:14:47.000 In Germany, they are thinking about outlawing Telegram, a messaging service, because it's spreading disinformation.
00:14:58.000 Now, we must understand that this is an international effort to quash dissent.
00:15:07.000 But the really interesting thing, and you see this in what they're trying to do with the January 6th Committee, we're going to be joined by Sean Davis from the Federalist in the next segment to help us walk through that.
00:15:18.000 Is that if you are unsuccessful in quashing dissent, if you are unsuccessful in thwarting a movement of people, it only grows.
00:15:34.000 And so the Democrats attempt right now to try and chill political speech, which is what they did, by the way, through the National School Board Association of America letter.
00:15:44.000 You see, this is happening at every turn, not just in Austria, not just in Australia, COVID concentration camps, which they have in Australia, not just in Austria where you can't leave your home.
00:15:54.000 In Santa Cruz, California, a recent measure has just been said that if you have a visitor in your home, everyone must wear a mask.
00:16:03.000 Could you imagine being a person that reads that from the Santa Cruz government and says, yeah, that's reasonable.
00:16:08.000 It's like, yeah, I think that makes sense.
00:16:12.000 Yeah, sure.
00:16:16.000 The attempt by the regime to crush you is going to fail.
00:16:27.000 We have covered in great detail the top-down revolution happening in America: of the powerful trying to crush the weak, of the rich trying to crush the poor, of the informed, I want to say the informed, the intelligentsia trying to crush the muscular class.
00:16:43.000 But they're doing so clumsily, inaccurately, not precisely.
00:16:49.000 They're doing so belligerently.
00:16:52.000 And as a byproduct of that, this will be a failed attempt to keep you in your box.
00:16:59.000 This will be a failed attempt to try and shut you up.
00:17:07.000 What the rulers are underestimating is they are underestimating people's desire right now to push back against these totalitarian governments.
00:17:17.000 Now, I'm going to stop short of saying people's desire to be free because there's plenty of people that are perfectly fine being locked in Vienna, Austria, and they don't want to leave their home.
00:17:29.000 But there's more and more people that are growing fed up with it, that are seeing the moving of the goalposts, and that want to do something about it.
00:17:39.000 The regime is about to have the greatest, most epic, public swing and amiss of any organized power structure in modern political history.
00:17:53.000 They're trying to shut you up, and the opposite is happening.
00:17:57.000 We're speaking louder than ever.
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00:19:05.000 There has been an extraordinary amount of drama in the last couple of days around the January 6th committee, the Mark Meadows news, the Bannon news.
00:19:14.000 But breaking the last 24 hours has just been a very confusing development of Mark Meadows handing over text messages and then being found in contempt of Congress despite handing over text messages.
00:19:30.000 And the Federalist is on top of it.
00:19:33.000 One of my favorite websites on the planet, Sean Davis, joins us right now by phone.
00:19:39.000 Sean, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:19:41.000 Thanks for having me.
00:19:42.000 It's great to talk to you.
00:19:43.000 Yes, you're doing amazing work.
00:19:44.000 And so I'll be very honest with our audience.
00:19:46.000 I've not been covering this the last 24 hours as much.
00:19:49.000 I've been so into vaccine stuff.
00:19:51.000 I'm kind of on a periphery.
00:19:53.000 So why don't you tell me and tell our audience what's the recent update here?
00:19:56.000 You have a new story on thefederalist.com.
00:19:59.000 During January 6th hearing, Schiff doctored text messages between Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan.
00:20:05.000 Tell us about it.
00:20:06.000 Right.
00:20:07.000 So on Monday night during one of these, you know, very dramatic primetime hearings that Adam Schiff and his colleagues love to do, Schiff purported to read and show on screen a whole bunch of text messages that he had obtained from lawmakers who were texting with Meadows on January 5th and January 6th.
00:20:25.000 And according to Schiff, this shows that they're all traitors and treasonous and shouldn't be in Congress and blah, blah, blah.
00:20:31.000 It's just what Schiff does.
00:20:33.000 But what we learned is that one text in particular was not at all what Schiff and the January 6th committee purported it to be.
00:20:42.000 In fact, we were able to review the full text chain, the full text message that Schiff had allegedly read and show that Schiff had doctored the text.
00:20:52.000 He had cut out multiple paragraphs of this particular text from Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows.
00:20:58.000 He had completely eliminated one sentence from a key paragraph, added punctuation where there was none.
00:21:07.000 But the most interesting thing isn't how he doctored this text message to have it say something it didn't.
00:21:14.000 It was that Jim Jordan didn't even write this particular text message that Schiff was going on about.
00:21:21.000 What Jordan had done was forwarded a text, a three-paragraph summary from a lawyer who was summarizing his own four-page legal memorandum on all the electoral vote, Electoral College certification stuff that was happening in the House.
00:21:37.000 So not only did Schiff doctor this thing, he attributed to Jordan something he didn't even write.
00:21:42.000 Jordan was just forwarding to Meadows this summary written by an attorney of that attorney's own lengthy legal memorandum.
00:21:51.000 And it just goes to show what an absolute farce Adam Schiff is.
00:21:55.000 We know he's a joke, but what a farce this January 6th committee is.
00:21:58.000 Well, I want to get into that.
00:21:59.000 I want to play the tape here.
00:22:00.000 Let's go to Cut 61, which details exactly what you're talking about.
00:22:03.000 Play Cut 61.
00:22:05.000 This one reads, on January 6th, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as president of the Senate should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.
00:22:22.000 You can see why this is so critical to ask Mr. Meadows about.
00:22:26.000 About a lawmaker suggesting that the former vice president simply throw out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional in order to overturn a presidential election and subvert the will of the American people.
00:22:42.000 So, Sean, that's the tape.
00:22:44.000 I suppose what is the most obvious question, is it legal for Schiff to do this?
00:22:52.000 I mean, is it legal for him to lie and make up stuff?
00:22:56.000 I mean, probably.
00:22:58.000 Goodness.
00:22:58.000 I feel like lying politicians is an American pastime.
00:23:02.000 But there's an interesting slate of hand he did in there.
00:23:05.000 He said that it was this lawmaker who was Jim Jordan.
00:23:08.000 Jim Jordan was purposely deliberately telling Meadows to have Pence decertify the election and not allow these votes.
00:23:18.000 That didn't happen.
00:23:19.000 Jim Jordan didn't tell Meadows to say that.
00:23:24.000 He was forwarding a three-paragraph summary of a legal memorandum from a very well-respected DC attorney.
00:23:31.000 He used to be the inspector general of the Department of Defense.
00:23:34.000 And he did this under the guise of proving that it's not just Trump who's awful and treasonous and has to go to prison, but everyone in Congress who agreed that the election had problems.
00:23:46.000 You know, they're a problem too.
00:23:48.000 And we know where this ends.
00:23:49.000 It wasn't going to end with Trump.
00:23:51.000 It won't end with people in Congress voted on by the people they represent.
00:23:57.000 It's going to end with this Congress and all their cronies and big tech and media trying to deplatform actual voters and trying to unperson actual voters who supported Trump.
00:24:06.000 That's always where this was going to end, is they don't want to give people the ability to vote for someone that the Democrat Party and the big tech oligarchs don't want you to vote for.
00:24:15.000 Yeah, and everyone who texts with Jim Jordan knows that he actually just sends like one-word texts like, yes, call me, like not three-paragraph nerdy legal texts.
00:24:24.000 So this was forwarded by somebody else and was intentionally trying to be trying to be misrepresented by this committee.
00:24:33.000 Also, we saw Liz Cheney read off text messages that Mark Meadows supplied to the committee from Donald Trump Jr., from Brian Kilmead, from Sean Hannity and Laura Ingram.
00:24:46.000 Sean, what she read in that committee, it kind of undermined their entire narrative, didn't it?
00:24:55.000 It did.
00:24:55.000 And I'll make two points here.
00:24:57.000 The first is that you had Schiff say, well, we have to talk to Meadows about this.
00:25:02.000 We have to ask him about these text messages and his refusal to come bow before them is why they have to hold him in contempt.
00:25:09.000 Well, Schiff and his staff knew who sent that text to Meadows, and they could have gone and asked him what it was about.
00:25:15.000 And they refused to do it, which proves their entire rationale for holding Meadows in contempt is a lie.
00:25:21.000 It's pure political persecution.
00:25:23.000 And when you look at the text that Cheney read of various people kind of texting Donald Trump Jr. or texting Meadows saying, hey, this writing stuff is bad.
00:25:32.000 You guys need to get on top of it and shut it down and say it's bad.
00:25:36.000 That's the opposite of what the left and the Democrats and the turncoats like Cheney and Kinfinger have claimed.
00:25:41.000 They have claimed from the beginning that Trump was all in on it and Meadows was all in on it and that the Republicans and the media were part of this plan and they were in on it.
00:25:50.000 No, you have everyone texting them saying the same things they said during all the BLM riots, which is, hey, rioting is bad.
00:25:57.000 We should do everything we can to make people not riot.
00:26:02.000 It utterly obliterates their entire case against Trump.
00:26:06.000 Right.
00:26:07.000 And this seems as if it's now becoming a broader, let's just say, committee, to put it nicely, Soviet show trial, to try and chill political speech and to try to basically persecute the non-believers. 0.62
00:26:23.000 Sean, you're a student of history.
00:26:25.000 Have we ever seen a committee like this?
00:26:28.000 People are saying it's like McCarthy.
00:26:29.000 I think it's much, much worse than that.
00:26:31.000 Private text messages by the United States Congress because we don't like your politics.
00:26:36.000 And then, so Mark Meadows, this is why I can't understand.
00:26:39.000 Mark Meadows supplies thousands of pages of information.
00:26:44.000 And then they say, oh, we're going to hold you in contempt of Congress.
00:26:47.000 Talk a little bit about the unprecedented nature behind this committee.
00:26:52.000 I mean, it's shocking.
00:26:53.000 Well, first off, the committee is not even constitutionally or under the rules of the own house properly constituted.
00:27:01.000 They're not following their own rules.
00:27:03.000 They didn't follow the rules of the House.
00:27:05.000 For example, the House standing rules require any committee that issues a subpoena to run the subpoena by and inform the ranking member of the committee.
00:27:15.000 Well, on this committee, there is no ranking member because Nancy Pelosi banned the Republicans from appointing their own members to this committee.
00:27:22.000 Instead, we have Liz Cheney, who's masquerading as a Republican. 1.00
00:27:26.000 She's a Democrat appointee.
00:27:28.000 She's a vice chair.
00:27:29.000 So all the subpoenas that that committee has issued are actually invalid under the very rules of the House that Pelosi.
00:27:35.000 So let me stop.
00:27:36.000 Let me stop you. 0.95
00:27:37.000 You're the first person that I've heard that have said that.
00:27:39.000 That's really smart.
00:27:40.000 Is anyone challenging that in court?
00:27:44.000 So Mark Meadows is challenging the entire thing in court, seeking an injunction against the House and potentially even the archives from supplying these records.
00:27:54.000 And his attorney has actually made that point that in order for these to be considered valid, they had to have been issued in accordance with the rules, both of the Constitution and of the House.
00:28:05.000 And, you know, the constitutional argument we can set aside.
00:28:08.000 I think we can probably, we're probably all familiar with that.
00:28:11.000 But on the House side, the committee, number one, doesn't have a valid legislative purpose, which is required for the Supreme Court for them to be able to do these kinds of inquisitions.
00:28:22.000 That's a great, great word.
00:28:24.000 Keep going.
00:28:24.000 Oh, my gosh.
00:28:25.000 Yeah, the committee's own resolution creating it says that it can't mark up legislation.
00:28:32.000 It can't do any legislation.
00:28:34.000 It's clear that there's no valid legislative purpose.
00:28:36.000 And then you have the whole issue with due process for subpoenas, for deposition in a deposition or when there's a witness, for example.
00:28:44.000 The rules require people from the minority staff or the ranking member to be able to be present and ask questions.
00:28:51.000 This is something you see in all previous depositions and House and Senate committees.
00:28:56.000 They've not been allowing that.
00:28:57.000 This is a purely Democrat-run, Democrat-appointed inquisition that has no basis in law.
00:29:04.000 And I think Democrats are in for a world of trouble when this thing actually starts moving through the courts.
00:29:10.000 And I'm not talking about the DC district court, which will do what the Dems want, or the appellate court, which will probably do what the Dems want.
00:29:16.000 This is going to be a very, very serious issue for the Supreme Court, especially in light of how they ruled on the Trump tax returns.
00:29:23.000 No, I think you're right.
00:29:24.000 And I mean, obviously, Democrats are willing to use political power.
00:29:28.000 I don't know what they think Republicans are going to do when they get back political power.
00:29:32.000 I think they just think that Republicans are so weak they would never do this again.
00:29:36.000 This is really bad for the country, though, Sean.
00:29:38.000 In one minute, can you just talk about that if all of a sudden you say Congress can now basically get into the private communications of opposing political parties?
00:29:49.000 I mean, this is, I could use all the one word, you know, the kind of one-liners.
00:29:53.000 It's a third world country, banana republic, but it kind of really is.
00:29:58.000 It is.
00:29:58.000 And it's so, by the way, it's so much worse than just going after another party.
00:30:03.000 They are going to the phone companies and thank phone companies, give us, yeah, give us all the records of these random people, not even in Congress, not candidates, not in the White House.
00:30:13.000 Give us the records of these random people.
00:30:16.000 Give us their bank transactions, their phone conversations.
00:30:19.000 That is Soviet, okay? 0.94
00:30:21.000 That is what the Stasi did. 0.89
00:30:22.000 That's what the KGB did. 0.60
00:30:23.000 That is not what we do in America.
00:30:25.000 And these people are completely out of control and need to be held to account because this is republic-destroying kind of behavior.
00:30:32.000 Well, federalists.com, Sean Davis, you do great work.
00:30:34.000 Thank you so much for joining us.
00:30:36.000 And we'll have to keep on this story.
00:30:37.000 So thank you so much.
00:30:38.000 Talk to you soon, Sean.
00:30:39.000 Thank you, Charlie.
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00:32:27.000 In order to win against the left, we must identify the threat and then do something about it.
00:32:34.000 Ron DeSantis in Florida is one of those leaders.
00:32:38.000 Despite being in a very contentious reelection campaign, not using that as an excuse for inaction, Ron DeSantis is doing more than ever to protect his voters and his constituents in Florida from the existential threat and cancer that is known as critical race theory.
00:32:53.000 That is known also as the destruction of our history, our language, our culture, and who we are.
00:33:01.000 Florida's an interesting state.
00:33:02.000 Florida was scheduled by the Democrat elites to become a far left-wing state.
00:33:08.000 Ron DeSantis had other plans.
00:33:11.000 Ron DeSantis won against the morally troubled Andrew Gillum, and he won only, I think, by like 30,000 votes or something, right?
00:33:22.000 Connor was very narrow in 2018.
00:33:25.000 And now he's gone on to be the most effective and conservative governor in America in a state that is a 50-50 state in a lot of different ways.
00:33:34.000 Cut 49, Ron DeSantis articulates on how he does not want to let a militant form of Marxism take hold that is rooted in this destruction of American history.
00:33:45.000 And so every time I play Ron DeSantis, there's a two-part dance we do.
00:33:51.000 The compliment and then the why isn't everyone else saying this?
00:33:55.000 Play Cut 49.
00:33:57.000 You see these things throughout the country where they take down Thomas Jefferson's statute in New York City, where they take down Abraham Lincoln in Massachusetts, where they take George Washington's name off schools in California.
00:34:11.000 You know, that is an attempt to erase history.
00:34:14.000 They want to delegitimize the founding of the country and the institutions, and they basically want to replace it with a very militant form of leftism that would absolutely destroy this country if that ever took hold.
00:34:28.000 Boy, isn't that true?
00:34:30.000 He has in front of him, for those of you on radio, stop, woke, act.
00:34:34.000 That's how you play offense.
00:34:37.000 For so many Republicans, they're too busy talking about corporate taxes and mass immigration.
00:34:43.000 Ron DeSantis is willing to articulate that we got a serious threat.
00:34:50.000 He continues by going in Cut 59, calls wokeism what it is, cultural Marxism, and how he banned critical race theory from public schools.
00:34:59.000 And now he wants to use the Stop Woke Act, play cut 59.
00:35:03.000 Now, with the rise of this woke ideology, is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions.
00:35:13.000 And I view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism. 0.71
00:35:17.000 I directed the Florida Department of Education to prohibit critical race theory in our K through 12 schools.
00:35:26.000 By the way, the girl behind him is wearing a turning point USA shirt, the conservative shirt.
00:35:30.000 I've worn that on air a couple times before.
00:35:33.000 Leadership means being able to understand the issues in front of you and act on them quickly and prudently.
00:35:44.000 Leadership is being willing to do the right thing regardless of the potential cost associated alongside of that.
00:35:53.000 Ron DeSantis won by 33,000 votes in Florida.
00:35:57.000 I guarantee you he's going to win by a lot more than that against Charlie Crist, one of the most popular and effective governors in America.
00:36:05.000 But every governor needs to be doing exactly what Ron DeSantis is doing.
00:36:10.000 Because the left does not stop.
00:36:13.000 The left, they're really good at playing offense.
00:36:17.000 They're abysmal at playing defense.
00:36:21.000 You see, Ron DeSantis understands that a war is never won by constantly retreating and apologizing to the enemy.
00:36:31.000 Ron DeSantis understands that if you articulate why you believe what you believe in a way that is calm, collected, and cool, that more people can actually come into your category.
00:36:45.000 Registered Republican voters now outnumber Democrats in Florida.
00:36:50.000 Yes, there's a lot of Republicans moving into Florida, but also Ron DeSantis is moving Democrats into the Republican column because say, I like him.
00:36:59.000 He's a leader.
00:37:00.000 He articulates.
00:37:01.000 I like what he does.
00:37:03.000 That is a message for Republicans that you could be more conservative than ever and more popular than ever if you're willing to lead.
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