The Charlie Kirk Show - November 22, 2023


Thanksgiving, Enemy of Marxism


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In this episode, I talk about why Thanksgiving and Marxism are incompatible, and why it s one of the best ways to start the holiday season with a thankful and grateful heart. I also talk about my Thanksgiving message and why you should get your tickets to Amfest!

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.
00:00:01.000 My Thanksgiving message: why Thanksgiving and Marxism are incompatible.
00:00:05.000 I think you'll really like this episode.
00:00:07.000 We talk about a lot of different topics, and it's a great intro to Thanksgiving.
00:00:11.000 So listen to it, text it to your friends, and subscribe.
00:00:15.000 Get involved with Turning PointUSA today at tpusa.com.
00:00:18.000 That is tpusa.com.
00:00:20.000 As always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:24.000 Okay, I want to encourage you guys: you have got to get your tickets today to Amfest.
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00:02:43.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:02:45.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:02:47.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:02:51.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:02:54.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:02:55.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:02:56.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:02:58.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:03:04.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:13.000 That's why we are here.
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00:03:25.000 Tons of stories to cover.
00:03:27.000 Lots happening.
00:03:28.000 But I want to lead with Thanksgiving.
00:03:32.000 It's one of my favorite days of the year.
00:03:33.000 It is uniquely American.
00:03:36.000 No other country has a national holiday, national day of rest, where they just stop and they say, today we are going to prioritize gratitude.
00:03:48.000 You cannot have a country, a religion, a faith without rituals.
00:03:55.000 Rituals are necessary.
00:03:57.000 One of the things I'm most afraid of is that in America we have lost our rituals.
00:04:03.000 July 4th parades, kids acting in plays about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
00:04:10.000 Rituals will lead to the ethical.
00:04:13.000 It will lead to the holy.
00:04:15.000 One of the main reasons, one of the reasons why the Jewish people have lasted so resiliently over 3,000 years of persecution is they have some incredibly strict rules about ritual.
00:04:31.000 The Shabbat, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Pasach, and so on and so forth.
00:04:37.000 The ritual of Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to something greater than you.
00:04:44.000 America was founded by a group of men who believed that there was a God and it was not them.
00:04:52.000 55 out of 56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing church-attending Christians.
00:04:58.000 They believe in ethical monotheism.
00:05:00.000 So Thanksgiving fit naturally.
00:05:03.000 Regardless of your theology, even regardless if you are Jewish or Christian, you cannot do any sort of overview of the scriptures without encountering a repeated declaration that you should give thanks.
00:05:15.000 Ephesians 5:20, always give thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of Lord Jesus Christ.
00:05:21.000 1 Samuel 12, 24, be sure to fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart.
00:05:26.000 Consider what great things he has done for you.
00:05:29.000 1 Thessalonians 5, 18, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
00:05:36.000 Psalm 118, 24, this is the day the Lord has made.
00:05:39.000 Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
00:05:42.000 Psalm 107, 1, oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
00:05:48.000 This country was founded, this civilization was founded on several values.
00:05:54.000 One of them was gratitude.
00:05:57.000 You cannot be happy unless you have gratitude.
00:06:01.000 It's impossible.
00:06:03.000 It is an iron-clad law of life.
00:06:08.000 You cannot have joy if you are not thankful.
00:06:11.000 One of the main reasons that we are seeing the collapse of the West is we have sent generations of our young people, and now we're at two or three generations with Gen Z to go wildly into debt to get degrees in ingratitude. 0.88
00:06:33.000 Now, it doesn't say Carol Jones degree in gratitude, but that's basically what it is.
00:06:40.000 You're studying North African lesbian poetry.
00:06:43.000 They're not telling you how great America is, how great the West is.
00:06:48.000 You are not leaving with a sense of awe, wonder, and appreciation for what has been given to you.
00:06:56.000 No, they create activists.
00:06:58.000 At the root of the anti-Israel protests and the Jew hatred, at the root of the anti-West Western rancor is a lack of appreciation.
00:07:07.000 So tomorrow, Thanksgiving, there are two ways to handle this amazing holiday.
00:07:16.000 With bitterness or with gratitude.
00:07:21.000 The way that you handle Thanksgiving will largely instruct your politics and the rest of your life.
00:07:26.000 Tomorrow is a litmus test.
00:07:29.000 And mind you, for most of America, 80 to 90% of people, most American history, would treat tomorrow the same.
00:07:37.000 This never used to be a political holiday.
00:07:40.000 Now they might pretend to be, oh, yeah, you know, Thanksgiving.
00:07:45.000 But eventually it kind of falls apart because a left-winger at Thanksgiving will say, yeah, I'm thankful.
00:07:52.000 But who are you thankful to?
00:07:54.000 Yourself?
00:07:56.000 Mother Earth, without a belief in the Almighty, who are you thankful to?
00:08:01.000 A transcendent.
00:08:03.000 Now, maybe you're thankful to your parents or generations before, but there's a reason why so many kids come home from college and Thanksgiving is a place of turmoil and division and a schism.
00:08:19.000 Because the premise of Thanksgiving is that you actually have a pretty awesome life.
00:08:24.000 And even if you don't, you should still give thanks under all circumstances.
00:08:30.000 And the philosophical foundation found in colleges is the opposite.
00:08:36.000 I'm going to complain.
00:08:39.000 The basis of the woke is complaining.
00:08:44.000 And that is nothing new.
00:08:46.000 All throughout the book of Numbers, which is actually in the wilderness, is the actual title of the book.
00:08:53.000 God's chosen people, the Hebrews, are complaining relentlessly. 0.98
00:08:57.000 Send us back to Egypt. 0.97
00:08:58.000 We want cucumbers and melons and leeks.
00:09:02.000 Who is this Moses guy? 0.97
00:09:03.000 We want to go back to slavery because at least we had meat.
00:09:08.000 It might not feel like Thanksgiving is a political holiday, and I don't want it to be a political holiday, nor should you.
00:09:16.000 But unfortunately, it's become one of the most political of all things because it's a test.
00:09:22.000 If you have a big family dinner tomorrow, and the person who says, Thank you, Lord, for this country, yes, we have problems, but thank you that I get to live in this beautiful place.
00:09:32.000 To the 19-year-old nephew that you have, who smugly and arrogantly says, But what about the injustice?
00:09:41.000 How could I have a good Thanksgiving when the people of Gaza are living in an open-air prison? 1.00
00:09:47.000 That is a learned behavior.
00:09:50.000 Don't be shocked when the ritual of saying thanks is put in jeopardy when you have sent tens of millions or most prized possession, our young people, to indoctrination camps and they have graduated with mountains of debt and degrees in ingratitude.
00:10:10.000 They become expert complainers.
00:10:12.000 Everything could be near perfect, everything.
00:10:16.000 And they'll find something wrong.
00:10:18.000 Their identity becomes that it's not good enough.
00:10:23.000 Instead of saying, hey, 19-year-old nephew, why don't you get your act together?
00:10:28.000 Now, mind you, I'm going to talk about how it's also an opportunity for you to deprogram at the Thanksgiving table.
00:10:34.000 We'll talk about that in a second.
00:10:35.000 The left is defined by complaining about everything.
00:10:42.000 The weather, climate change.
00:10:46.000 I'm not paid enough.
00:10:47.000 Patriarchy. 0.93
00:10:49.000 They weaponize the rumblings and the murmurs and the discontent for their power.
00:10:58.000 They mobilize the grievances.
00:11:01.000 And tomorrow has always been and should continue to be a hedge against it.
00:11:07.000 And here is how you handle it.
00:11:10.000 Forget all the politics.
00:11:11.000 As soon as one of those left-wing radicals at the Thanksgiving table tomorrow, an uncle and aunt, start complaining about our democracy, you say, that's not what this day is about.
00:11:23.000 Only gratitude at this table.
00:11:26.000 Only.
00:11:27.000 You have 364 other days to complain.
00:11:32.000 Tomorrow is not even a day for us as conservatives say, oh, what about men and female sports? 0.94
00:11:37.000 Tomorrow's a day to say, I'm thankful we can still talk about it.
00:11:41.000 I'm thankful that X is Liberated by Elon Musk.
00:11:44.000 A day of remembrance that things are still filled with blessings despite all the difficulty.
00:11:52.000 That's what Thanksgiving is about, and it is an antidote to Marxism.
00:11:57.000 And I'll say this before I talk about Marxism: gratitude and Marxism are incompatible.
00:12:02.000 You cannot be a Marxist and be a thankful person, and you can't be a thankful person and be a Marxist.
00:12:07.000 Period.
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00:13:09.000 At the root of Marxism is the following quote: the ruthless criticism of all that exists.
00:13:15.000 It is not complicated to get a bunch of young people to do that, to complain.
00:13:21.000 I don't like that.
00:13:22.000 Give me more money.
00:13:23.000 I don't want to work.
00:13:24.000 Forgive my loans.
00:13:24.000 Give me weed.
00:13:25.000 Give me alcohol.
00:13:27.000 It takes no talent to criticize.
00:13:30.000 In fact, it is tempting to constantly criticize.
00:13:35.000 If you produce more than you criticize, you are a conservative.
00:13:39.000 If you criticize more than you produce, you are a left-winger.
00:13:42.000 I came up with that myself, by the way.
00:13:44.000 That video has gone viral.
00:13:46.000 And Thanksgiving is a day that we have passed down through generations that is not on its surface political, but it is incredibly political in today's America.
00:13:58.000 How you handle tomorrow tells me everything about your worldview.
00:14:03.000 Now, somebody might say, but Charlie, I am not in a good place in my life.
00:14:08.000 What do I have to be thankful for?
00:14:10.000 Wrong mentality.
00:14:12.000 There is always something you can be thankful for.
00:14:15.000 Victor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning, is a beautiful example of that.
00:14:20.000 If you are having a more difficult life than Victor Frankl, please email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:14:26.000 Losing your wife at a concentration camp and every one of your blood relatives and having to serve in a concentration camp for multiple years and almost dying.
00:14:35.000 If you're having a more tough time than Victor Frankl, I want to hear about it.
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00:14:41.000 You can find meaning in your suffering.
00:14:44.000 And it is a mindset shift.
00:14:46.000 The West was built on people that found meaning through their suffering.
00:14:50.000 The American pilgrims believed that suffering was actually God's plan.
00:14:55.000 They were Calvinists.
00:14:57.000 And so they said, boy, this is tough, but it's God's plan for us, for his glory, for his good.
00:15:03.000 You also live a happier life this way.
00:15:05.000 I get asked frequently, well, why, Charlie, is the next generation so suicidal and so alcohol-addicted and so drug-addicted?
00:15:12.000 And they are so sad.
00:15:17.000 There's many reasons, but the simple one is they're the least grateful generation ever.
00:15:24.000 And I'm not even talking about the God question, which is the obvious one.
00:15:28.000 If you don't believe in God, then how could you ever get to gratitude?
00:15:32.000 But tomorrow is a day that was designed, whether intentionally or unintentionally, I'm not going to get into it, to understand that thankfulness and gratitude is a discipline.
00:15:44.000 No matter your circumstances, you have to become good at it.
00:15:49.000 You have to have a gratitude journal.
00:15:52.000 And by the way, we all fall short of this standard, myself included.
00:15:56.000 There's study after study in clinical data that shows that you could put a person in Phoenix, Arizona.
00:16:05.000 It's a great study where they did this.
00:16:06.000 They put two people in Phoenix, Arizona in the middle of July, and they replicated this study time and time again.
00:16:13.000 And it's 115 degrees.
00:16:16.000 And they come back and they ask, what did you think of the weather in Phoenix?
00:16:21.000 And a majority respondent said it was too hot.
00:16:23.000 It was awful.
00:16:24.000 The other person said, I'm so glad it was sunny the whole time.
00:16:27.000 Same circumstance.
00:16:29.000 Completely different takeaway.
00:16:33.000 You get to choose how you analyze it.
00:16:35.000 It's 115, but it's also sunny.
00:16:35.000 Yeah, it's hot.
00:16:37.000 It's not humid.
00:16:39.000 And I'm thankful that I get to see the sun.
00:16:41.000 And maybe where you live in, I don't know, Ann Arbor, Michigan, it's cloudy all the time.
00:16:46.000 That's a mindset shift.
00:16:48.000 We train the youth of America to see, instead of the beautiful grandeur, this tapestry of blessing that has been given to us, they find the little dot that is maybe wrong or imprecise and they make it their identity.
00:17:07.000 Thanksgiving started as a way to say, thank you, Lord, for the provision.
00:17:13.000 And it has been passed down as this incredibly beautiful institution that's focused on family, time off, and it leads into the Christmas season.
00:17:26.000 But I've always loved Thanksgiving.
00:17:28.000 And now I take a step back and now I know why I love Thanksgiving and why the people that are trying to destroy our country, I'm not going to say they're trying to get rid of Thanksgiving, but they don't honor it as the ritual towards the holy.
00:17:40.000 Of course they don't.
00:17:42.000 There is more rancor amongst the radical left around Juneteenth, because that's rooted in complaining than the spirit of Thanksgiving.
00:17:53.000 They might obviously practice Thanksgiving, okay, day off, whatever, but the spirit of Thanksgiving.
00:17:57.000 How many people tomorrow that are mainstream Democrats will go out of their way to say, wow, look at the blessing.
00:18:10.000 Of course not.
00:18:12.000 That makes them less powerful.
00:18:14.000 If they tell their base, hey, guys, we actually have it pretty good, then why should they get more power?
00:18:20.000 Tyrants will never, ever tell the population they're trying to master, hey, things are actually great.
00:18:27.000 Instead, they'll say, things are miserable, so give me more power.
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00:21:25.000 I think parents are starting to wake up that when you send your kids to college, that it's not just the ideas that they learn, but it is the process of which they interpret the world.
00:21:38.000 And that's very important.
00:21:39.000 I've been trying to make this point, and honestly, I've made it rather clumsily over the last 11 years, but I'm getting better and better at articulating this, which is some parents will say, but Charlie, you know, who cares if they will read, you know, Rousseau and they read the Communist Manifesto.
00:21:56.000 I want them to be open to all sorts of ideas.
00:21:58.000 That's fair.
00:21:59.000 That's totally, and I totally agree, by the way.
00:22:01.000 That's not what we're getting at, though.
00:22:03.000 What we're getting at is the actual process of how they interpret and how they process, how they bring in information.
00:22:11.000 So, whether you know it or not, there are different ways of thinking.
00:22:16.000 And we take it for granted.
00:22:18.000 So, I'll give you a great example: how I read scripture.
00:22:22.000 When I read scripture and I find something that I don't understand, or I see something that I personally don't like, I believe that I'm the one that's wrong, and scripture is right, and I need to figure out why.
00:22:39.000 So, that's a system of thinking, and it's come over a long period of time.
00:22:45.000 And it's, of course, it's still with inquiry, but the benefit is on scripture, not on me.
00:22:53.000 When young people go to university, they view the world whether they realize it or not.
00:23:00.000 Even if they come from a conservative upbringing, it wears them down because of the homework and the books and the lectures and the videos.
00:23:08.000 Where instead of looking at the world as an abundance of opportunity, at a place of potential prosperity, rooted, of course, in a gratitude, thankful posture, they look at it as a place of exploitation, thievery, stealing.
00:23:25.000 And so, the methodology of how they actually see the world and the formula of how they process information changes without parents even realizing it.
00:23:37.000 So, it's not just the books you consume, it's not just what the professors are saying.
00:23:42.000 They are reworking the actual neural pathways of how an entire generation will read the newspaper.
00:23:50.000 Jordan Peterson said this better than I can, quite honestly, with Bill Maher the other day.
00:23:56.000 Listen to this cut 27. 0.92
00:23:58.000 I mean, part of the reason that you see all this foolishness on university campuses, too, is because people have bought this idiot meta-Marxism, which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power. 0.84
00:24:10.000 And that is, we can put that squarely at the feet of the universities. 0.89
00:24:14.000 Once you get that, which you can get in about two minutes, if you sit in the course that teaches that sort of thing, you have a lens to moralize about the whole world through.
00:24:21.000 And then you see the situation is that the leftists have already decided the Palestinians are the victims.
00:24:27.000 And as you pointed out, if you're a victim, then you're morally righteous.
00:24:31.000 And even more conveniently, if you stand for the victim, then you're morally righteous regardless of what you do with your own life.
00:24:38.000 So the bad guys will call this cognitive bias, but it's actually really a good way to interpret it.
00:24:45.000 So if you have a group of people and there's a you know, clinic, there's clinical data after clinical data that shows this.
00:24:51.000 And by the way, it's proved, you guys could do it right now.
00:24:53.000 So if you're watching the Charlie Kirk show, you close your eyes for five minutes, and I want you only to think about the color green.
00:24:58.000 Only think about the color green, only think about the color green, only think about the color green.
00:25:01.000 And open your eyes.
00:25:02.000 What are you immediately?
00:25:03.000 You're going to notice the rumble thing right behind me, right behind me.
00:25:07.000 Because you've been trained, or at least you primed your brain to be obsessed with color green, color green, color green, color green.
00:25:14.000 And then boom, you open your eyes, your eyes go immediately to this right here, this rumble thing behind me.
00:25:19.000 So you largely in life, you notice what you are primed to notice.
00:25:25.000 Another example, you know, walking around Phoenix, Arizona, Tony Robbins, I really like him.
00:25:31.000 I noticed about two years ago, he was selling this hat with a four-leaf clothing that said, get lucky.
00:25:38.000 I saw that on his website.
00:25:39.000 All of a sudden, I start walking around Phoenix and I see everybody wearing that hat.
00:25:45.000 Now, was there a massive increase in people wearing that hat just because I noticed that the hat was for sale?
00:25:51.000 Or was the hat always there?
00:25:53.000 I just happened to then notice it.
00:25:56.000 Another example: you buy a new car or you're aware of buying a new car and you start driving around and everyone is driving those cars.
00:26:05.000 Was there a sudden increase in the purchase of that car?
00:26:07.000 Or are you now noticing that car more?
00:26:10.000 You get the point.
00:26:11.000 It's proven in psychology.
00:26:12.000 It's proven in many ways.
00:26:13.000 It's just with your own reason you could do it.
00:26:15.000 That is how you train a young student to view the world.
00:26:20.000 They close their eyes, say, find the injustice, And they open their eyes and instead of looking at all of the blessing and the beauty and the grandeur and the improbability of what we've been able to do in the West and the fact that we're not tearing each other apart every single day, even though we're close to it, they've been conditioned to see the world in a specific way.
00:26:43.000 Thanksgiving is a single day that pushes back against that.
00:26:48.000 Thanksgiving instead tries to ritualize a single day that you will view the world through a grateful mindset.
00:26:59.000 So if you train, incentivize, and then test millions of college students to see the world through oppressor-oppressed dynamics, that's not a joyful way to live.
00:27:12.000 This happens every single year.
00:27:14.000 We could play tons of these clips.
00:27:18.000 But Thanksgiving is now being pushed for cancellation.
00:27:21.000 And I'm not going to exaggerate.
00:27:22.000 This is not a majority of opinion.
00:27:25.000 It's a fringe.
00:27:26.000 But make no mistake, this is mainline academic thinking on most universities.
00:27:31.000 This is American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes on his push to cancel Thanksgiving.
00:27:38.000 Play cut three.
00:27:39.000 Chase Iron Eyes is a member of the Oguagua.
00:27:42.000 Let me hear it from you, Chase.
00:27:44.000 You know, every year we go through these rituals.
00:27:48.000 These are rituals, these holidays.
00:27:50.000 And in America, there is a settler, a European foreigner, alien settler cultural mythology.
00:27:59.000 When we hijack the truth and we put in its place something that is more palatable, something that eases our guilty settler conscience, it sets us up for conflict.
00:28:17.000 American Indian activist Chase Iron Eyes continues by saying, we are consciously deconstructing our Euro-hetero-Christian programming.
00:28:26.000 Now, I wouldn't expect CNN to push back and say, hey, Chase Ironize, the part of the white European Christian programming you want to get rid of, is that, I don't know, common law?
00:28:36.000 Innocent until proven guilty?
00:28:38.000 Private property rights?
00:28:39.000 Charity?
00:28:40.000 Not cutting people's scalps off of rival tribes?
00:28:44.000 Not worshiping the earth?
00:28:46.000 What was the morality of the American Indians when the Europeans came?
00:28:52.000 What was the worldview when it came to the defense of the innocent?
00:28:56.000 Benevolency.
00:28:58.000 What was the metaphysics of the American Indians?
00:29:01.000 It was earth worship.
00:29:02.000 It was pagan. 0.87
00:29:03.000 But he wants to deprogram that.
00:29:05.000 He wants to go back to polytheism.
00:29:08.000 Well, many gods, many moralities.
00:29:10.000 Play cut four.
00:29:11.000 You know, we have Native American Heritage Month.
00:29:14.000 That's going on right now.
00:29:15.000 And we're just now in a state where we're consciously deconstructing Euro-hetero-Christian programming.
00:29:26.000 When you look into it, I'm a lawyer and I've studied the sources of these cultural mythologies, the mythologies where one demographic is not only the settler, but the cowboys that tamed the Wild West and brought under their control and their subjugation all the beasts of the wild, not only the animals, but they're talking about us.
00:29:52.000 They're talking about the merciless Indian savages.
00:29:56.000 That is in the United States Constitution.
00:29:59.000 No, it's not in the Constitution.
00:30:00.000 It is in the Declaration of Independence, but it's not in the Constitution. 1.00
00:30:03.000 This guy's a moron. 1.00
00:30:04.000 The word savages is used in the Declaration. 1.00
00:30:06.000 It's not used in the Constitution.
00:30:08.000 But that's neither here nor there.
00:30:12.000 I'll give him a little bit of grace there.
00:30:14.000 But he says these European mythologies, he is just one example of hundreds I could play of the relentless, ruthless criticism of all that exists.
00:30:26.000 I'm going to say this gently because I do have a heart for these people.
00:30:30.000 Is why are Native American reservations so poor?
00:30:35.000 Is that the white man's fault?
00:30:38.000 Native Americans have sovereignty.
00:30:40.000 They have their own laws, their own governing boards.
00:30:44.000 They're even allowed to have gaming where on many non-tribal territory, not allowed to have.
00:30:51.000 Why do the Native American reservations remain some of the saddest places in America? 1.00
00:30:57.000 And I feel for these people.
00:30:59.000 Very high rates of alcoholism, very high rates of depression, very high rates of runaway kids, very high rates of abuse, very high unemployment rates.
00:31:09.000 Why is that?
00:31:10.000 Is it the white man's fault?
00:31:12.000 Is it Euro-mythology?
00:31:15.000 Or is it the same thing that is the connective tissue with Gaza, which is the people in charge haven't focused on the well-being and the prosperity of their people and instead have been focused on the white man?
00:31:31.000 It does not take depth to blame the white man for your troubles.
00:31:36.000 It takes maturity to say, we have work to do.
00:31:43.000 All right, everybody, the holidays and big family feasts are upon us.
00:31:46.000 But in D.C., there's no bigger turkey than Senate Bill 1339.
00:31:50.000 It's still being pushed by that radical rascal, Bernie Sanders.
00:31:54.000 Bad guy. 0.95
00:31:55.000 I don't say that lightly. 0.99
00:31:56.000 He is a bad person.
00:31:57.000 I'll tell you, he's a Marxist.
00:31:58.000 Senate Bill 1339 is Bernie's latest attempt to sneak in a backdoor takeover of more of our health care.
00:32:04.000 He falsely claims it will lower prescription drug prices.
00:32:06.000 But S1339 will actually just do the opposite.
00:32:09.000 It'll handcuff pharmacy benefit managers who are currently saving millions of dollars on an average of $1,040 a year.
00:32:15.000 Bernie is hoping that despite thousands of your fellow Americans already going to lowermydrugprices.com to stand up against S-1339, you'll be too busy making holiday plans or getting ready for a year-end vacation to stop him from a power grab on your healthcare.
00:32:30.000 So here's what's happening.
00:32:31.000 The Marxist, the commie, he's trying to put this bill in.
00:32:34.000 Listen very carefully.
00:32:36.000 I'm urging you to keep up the pressure against passage of S1339 by going to lowermydrugprices.com.
00:32:43.000 The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste says: if you don't want a socialized system that takes away your personal health care choices, increases cost, and makes you wait longer to see the doctor, go today to lower mydrugprices.com to stop the Senate from passing the Sanders bill.
00:32:56.000 Remember, we have momentum, but we need your help today.
00:32:59.000 The Charlie Kirk show brought to you in part by Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.
00:33:02.000 Again, it's Senate Bill 1339.
00:33:05.000 We must stop at lowermydrugprices.com.
00:33:10.000 Numbers 11.
00:33:13.000 And the people complain.
00:33:14.000 Now, remember the context.
00:33:16.000 The Jewish people were just delivered from Egypt.
00:33:18.000 They were in slavery.
00:33:19.000 They were in captivity.
00:33:21.000 Horror, brutality.
00:33:23.000 God performs 10 miracles, parts the Red Sea, so 11 miracles, and brings them, were they needed or wanted or nothing?
00:33:31.000 Quail blown off course, manna from heaven.
00:33:35.000 And just a couple chapters later, they are complaining.
00:33:39.000 The people complained in hearing of the Lord about their misfortunes.
00:33:43.000 And when the Lord heard it, his anger was kindled.
00:33:46.000 And the fire of the Lord burned among them and consumed some outlying parts of the camp.
00:33:51.000 Okay, that is one verse.
00:33:53.000 God doesn't like complaining.
00:33:55.000 When the Lord heard them complaining about their misfortunes, his anger was kindled.
00:34:02.000 Now, the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. 1.00
00:34:07.000 And the people of Israel also wept again and said, oh, that we had meat to eat.
00:34:12.000 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing.
00:34:16.000 The cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
00:34:19.000 But now our strength is dried up and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.
00:34:25.000 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing.
00:34:32.000 Bring us back to Egypt, where we were slaves, but we had better food.
00:34:38.000 They just experienced one of the greatest miracles in the entire Bible.
00:34:43.000 And they say, we want to go back to eat meat.
00:34:48.000 Remember the fish that we ate in Egypt that cost nothing.
00:34:50.000 The cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, the garlic.
00:34:53.000 But now our strength is dried up and there's nothing at all but this manna to look at.
00:34:58.000 It does not take depth to complain.
00:35:02.000 And they were not hungry, by the way, at all.
00:35:06.000 They had manna, they had quail blown off course.
00:35:09.000 They just wanted better food and they were willing to go back to slavery to be under Pharaoh.
00:35:15.000 Complaining is the normal human behavior.
00:35:20.000 Gratitude is not.
00:35:22.000 Gratitude is a discipline.
00:35:23.000 Gratitude is a practice.
00:35:26.000 Abraham Lincoln, October 3rd, 1863, a declaration of Thanksgiving just days after Gettysburg.
00:35:35.000 The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies to these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are proud to forget the source from which they come.
00:35:47.000 Others have been added, which are so extraordinary in nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart, which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
00:35:57.000 Boy, they used to be such talented writers.
00:35:59.000 In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved to all nations.
00:36:10.000 Order has been maintained and the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theater of military conflict, which, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union, needful divisions of wealth and of strength in the fields.
00:36:26.000 And it continues by saying, I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States and those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands to participate in Thanksgiving, or day of Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficient Father.
00:36:40.000 This proclamation is viewed as the beginning of the national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.
00:36:44.000 Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation, but he did not author it.
00:36:46.000 The Secretary of State William Seward penned the 1863 proclamation.
00:36:52.000 In July of 1863, the Battle of Gettysburg resulted in more than 50,000 American casualties.
00:36:56.000 Despite these losses, the United States gained a great victory during these three days.
00:37:03.000 On October 3rd, 1863, with that victory in mind, as well as its cost, he wrote this proclamation.
00:37:08.000 Even in the midst of unspeakable horror, he said we must give thanks.
00:37:13.000 This was at the peak of the worst period in American history.
00:37:17.000 And yet he looked to God Almighty.
00:37:19.000 He looked to the eternal.
00:37:22.000 Yeah, things look like they're collapsing in this country.
00:37:24.000 They're not as bad as they were during the American Civil War, not even close.
00:37:28.000 The country was actually at a civil war.
00:37:30.000 And yet he looked to God to be thankful.
00:37:34.000 I think that is a great lesson this Thanksgiving week.
00:37:38.000 Gratitude takes perspective.
00:37:40.000 It takes effort.
00:37:41.000 It takes intentionality.
00:37:43.000 It does not happen naturally.
00:37:46.000 Complaining happens naturally.
00:37:49.000 Gratitude takes work.
00:37:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:37:56.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:37:59.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:38:00.000 God bless.
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