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00:01:20.000We did not change the set, but I am joined here by Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, and Lomez, Jonathan Kieperman on my right here in D.C.
00:01:31.000And then Blake Neff is joining us from Phoenix.
00:02:17.000We were actually just talking about how our flights got delayed because of the air traffic controller holds or whatever because there's less air traffic controllers in the air.
00:02:26.000There's a lot going on that is really important.
00:02:31.000But there was a moment last night at the Patriot Awards where Erica Kirk received the first ever Charlie Kirk Legacy Award.
00:02:40.000And I think this is one of the she's just been so courageous.
00:02:45.000You guys, I don't have to tell you about all the distractions and all of the conspiracies and all of the things that could distract and really derail a lesser human, but she's just really been so strong and so gracious and so, I don't know, steady in the midst of this unbelievable situation that nobody should ever have to be in.
00:03:04.000I'm curious about your guys' POV just from the outside watching as, you know, she's done her first interview now.
00:03:09.000She's accepting awards and she's doing a phenomenal job in my opinion.
00:03:14.000Yeah, I mean, I can remember going back to September 10th and, you know, experiencing this with my own wife, who I love, I love you, wherever you are.
00:03:24.000However, I couldn't imagine her just stepping into a role like this and just sort of like seamlessly filling into the enormous shoes of Charlie and not just getting up on stage and just mouthing the right words, but really embodying Charlie's spirit in a way that's almost uncanny, like his ability to bring people together, this sort of just strength of purpose that comes with everything she does.
00:03:51.000And so it's been a really sort of remarkable thing to observe from the outside.
00:03:55.000And I think, you know, of course, this is a testament to Charlie as well.
00:03:57.000He obviously has really good taste, and he picked a winner.
00:04:01.000Well, Sean, I'm going to get to you and Blake here, but 409 is basically Jesse Waters, who got the first exclusive interview with her saying the same thing, 409.
00:04:12.000You know, the famous quote behind every great man is a great woman.
00:04:16.000We're now realizing how great Charlie was by seeing how great Erica is.
00:04:22.000Erica has been able to take hope from grief.
00:04:42.000Yeah, I've been thinking a lot about this since September 10th, and I've always wondered watching people be martyred overseas when you see people, they've got the bags over their head, they're lined up, and you wonder how do they have the strength to go through what they know they're about to go through.
00:05:00.000And I'm convinced it's grace from the Holy Spirit in the moment that he knows we need it.
00:05:05.000I watch Erica, and I think to myself, there's no way she does this without the Holy Spirit.
00:05:10.000She has been given so much grace and so much courage, not to take anything away from her personally, but there's no way any of us could manage that on our own.
00:05:19.000There's no way any human on their own power could handle that grief and that burden.
00:05:23.000And to go out there and see her do it, I think it's just absolutely amazing.
00:05:28.000Let's go ahead and play a clip then from Erica at this event.
00:05:36.000This whole nation feels the spiritual warfare.
00:05:40.000But Charlie would say that's how you know you're over the mark when you feel it, when the enemy is there.
00:05:48.000That's how you know you're doing the Lord's work.
00:05:50.000And that's how you know you're defending truth.
00:05:53.000And that was his true barometer was when he would feel that spiritual warfare.
00:05:59.000And I watched him pour every ounce of himself into the students, into raising up the most courageous generation and inspiring so many people to stand firm in faith and to love this country.
00:06:20.000Yeah, I mean, that really is, you know, when you talk about spiritual warfare, you know, I was talking about Lomez, Jonathan Kieperman.
00:06:29.000We still haven't settled on how we're going to.
00:06:42.000I think a lot of people in our audience feel it.
00:06:44.000If you just log on to social media for like two seconds, you'll see it.
00:06:50.000You know, there is a churning happening right now.
00:06:54.000And it's impossible to know where it's going to settle out.
00:06:58.000But I think we felt it before Charlie was assassinated.
00:07:01.000And then as soon as Charlie was assassinated, it's like there was this moment of unity and sort of beauty, really.
00:07:08.000And I think I think in the last couple of weeks, people have really come to come to see that we are in a time of churning and testing, both as a movement and as a country.
00:07:16.000Well, I think for me anyway, in Charlie's absence, it was only in the last couple of months that I came to realize just what a sort of central figure of gravity he was holding this whole coalition together.
00:07:30.000And in his absence, you know, you do see sort of the barbarians at the gate.
00:07:34.000You see people and forces sort of coming into this coalition and using sort of the vacuum that was created by Charlie's untimely death to fill it with, you know, different kinds of ideas and different sort of self-interested agendas that could derail what was a really strong thing and what still is,
00:07:55.000but is going to require, I think, everybody to sort of take a cue from Erica and try to embody this unifying spirit that Charlie had.
00:08:06.000And so I think that's the task before us here.
00:08:08.000You know, Blake, I think this is a good time to actually throw to you because you've been sounding off.
00:08:11.000I've been looking at your Twitter, actually.
00:08:14.000And you have really emerged, in my opinion, and I don't mean to make you embarrassed here, but as a voice of common sense and a strong, forceful voice.
00:08:32.000Well, I knew how great you would be at it.
00:08:35.000I mean, honestly, you are a lot of things, Blake, but you have a moral clarity that is profound.
00:08:41.000So final thoughts to you in this segment.
00:08:44.000It's just, yeah, it's been a very trying time for a lot of people.
00:08:47.000It would be trying no matter what happened, but just it really makes you appreciate how many different things can stress you out through a difficult moment because you have the obvious loss of Charlie, and then you have, you know, then you have, you have the good problems.
00:09:06.000Like, how do you manage the outpouring of support and love?
00:09:09.000How do you make sure that what happened to him is, you know, you know, the surge of spiritual energy, make sure that's not wasted.
00:09:15.000Make sure his martyrdom is not, you know, is not just this tragedy with no upside to it.
00:09:22.000But then, you know, the follow-ons, you know, that you have the vicious people who try to come at whatever the big topic is.
00:09:28.000You have the kind of oddballs who just invent bizarre things and then get obsessed with them and harass you.
00:09:34.000And you have to really maintain, we have to work on maintaining your composure through difficult periods.
00:09:39.000And I think all of us have learned how to do that, but it's a real challenge.
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00:11:17.000And I think this is, I think, like in the long run, this is actually, I think, you know, yes, I said something on Twitter yesterday that what God has unleashed, man cannot stop.
00:11:30.000And that doesn't matter if it's people that we perceive as conservatives or liberals or whatever.
00:11:35.000I really believe that what God has unleashed in Charlie's assassination, his martyrdom, that man cannot stop.
00:12:11.000Yeah, yeah, no, I'm jacked up for the fight, man.
00:12:13.000And I don't think I've ever felt more energized than in the wake of Charlie being killed because never before has it been so clear what the stakes are.
00:12:25.000And here's the thing: here's the thing that should encourage everyone: we are going to win.
00:12:30.000And we are going to win because we are behind a God who doesn't lose.
00:12:34.000So when you know that, when you know that you're on God's side, that his army's going to win, that the debt's been paid, that death has been destroyed forever, why on earth would you not be totally jacked up and encouraged?
00:12:45.000Like, it's worth remembering what discouragement is.
00:13:36.000She's a very symbolic figure of a lot of trends in American life, and we should see her off properly.
00:13:42.000So, you know, first of all, she's leaving office at 85 years old.
00:13:46.000So she perfectly represents gerontocracy.
00:13:48.000She's been, let me check how long she's been a representative from California since 1987, which I have bad news is nearly 40 years ago for all of you who are around my age.
00:13:59.000And she first became Speaker of the House back in 2007, nearly 20 years ago, had two separate stints at it.
00:14:08.000And beyond that, she represents a lot of things.
00:14:11.000She represents the total political invincibility of the urban Democrat machine.
00:14:18.000She represented San Francisco itself, which has become this unlivable, you know, homeless-infested, drug-infested, feces-encrusted disaster, yet can never seemingly really change and still costs a gazillion dollars.
00:14:32.000It's sort of this disaster piece of a city.
00:14:38.000You know, a lot of people have been pointing towards her stock returns that she, I think she beat the market by about 600% in her investments over the years.
00:14:46.000And it's sort of like no one ever really stops that from happening.
00:14:51.000No one seems to be interested in banning that.
00:14:54.000It's almost like a giant shrug from the American governing class that she's able to do that.
00:15:00.000And also just what she represents more broadly for the Democrats.
00:15:05.000She's kind of this like this fossil from the 60s.
00:15:09.000We literally have photos of her hanging out with John F. Kennedy.
00:15:13.000And she oversaw this total transformation of America that, as we're going to see when we show that British veteran up ahead, like this transformation of the West, this transformation of America that almost everyone recognizes is in a negative direction, where they had this incredibly world historically successful country and society, and they sort of gave it away for stock market returns and cheap trinkets and ethnic food.
00:15:43.000While I agree with everything Blake says, I also have a kind of grudging respect for her because she also represents a kind of administrative vigor and competence that I think is at least something that we could try to emulate.
00:15:59.000I mean, she kept together this like coalition of the fringes for years.
00:16:03.000And, you know, I think what comes next for the Democrats is far worse than anything Nancy Pelosi did.
00:16:09.000I say the same thing about Gavin Newsom, which people get so mad at me.
00:16:13.000I'm like, I'm like, listen, as somebody who's lived in California, Gavin Newsom is like a puppy dog compared to what's waiting in the wings.
00:16:23.000So there was a clip here that is going viral.
00:16:27.000And Blake is, I know, excited to chime in on this as well back in Phoenix.
00:16:32.000So there's a hundred-year-old military veteran from the UK.
00:16:37.000And this clip was posted eight hours ago on Good Morning Britain.
00:16:42.000And basically, you know, we talked about Nancy Pelosi.
00:16:46.000She was born 15 years after this gentleman was born.
00:16:51.000So the crossover has been, you know, extreme.
00:16:54.000And we talk about how we have squandered so much of what we, the war bounty after World War II, defeated fascism, and then only to give it away, as Blake said, for, you know, cheap trinkets and ethnic food and, you know, a GDP and a skyrocketing deficit and debt.
00:17:14.000And so, and this is a, this is a, a theme that we've seen across the West as we've become more unchurched, as we've become more multicultural, as we've seen our own culture degrade and corrode and the cultural cohesion really strained to the max.
00:17:28.000And so this powerful clip from this, this 100-year-old gentleman, you could tell he's not saying this in a mean spirit.
00:17:33.000And I think that's what makes it so striking.
00:17:43.000The sacrifice wasn't worth the result that it is now.
00:17:48.000What we fought for, what we fought for, was our freedom.
00:17:52.000We fought that even now is darn sight worse than what it was when I fought for it.
00:18:00.000Oh, Alec, I'm sorry you feel like that because I want you to know that all the generations that have come since, including me and my children, are so grateful for your bravery and all that for service personnel.
00:18:14.000And it's our job now, isn't it, to make it the country that you fought for.
00:18:45.000There was a book, it probably came out like 30 years ago or so when there were more veterans still alive in Britain.
00:18:51.000And it was a similar thing, asking them how they felt about British society.
00:18:57.000And it came out over and over again that they said it just felt like the sacrifices weren't worth it because when they thought of the country they had fought for, they fought for, you know, they thought they were fighting for Christian civilization, for the English people, for Britain as this free society that gave us all those constitutional liberties we care about as a British-descended country.
00:19:20.000Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the nature of parliament and all of that.
00:19:25.000And then they just saw it get thrown away.
00:19:27.000They saw their country, you know, get rid of free enterprise and become one of the sort of most socialist, most over-regulated, and as a result, most inefficient and like low-growth countries.
00:19:38.000They massively roll back freedom of speech.
00:19:41.000You're now far more likely to get arrested for saying something offensive on the internet in Britain than you are in the People's Republic of China.
00:19:49.000You're far more likely to get in trouble for, you know, some perceived like racist offense or homophobic offense there than you are in a bunch of supposedly more authoritarian countries.
00:20:02.000And on top of that, they see their leaders just openly saying British people deserve to be replaced.
00:20:08.000That there's no such thing as an English people or a British people.
00:20:12.000And they don't have a right to have a country that is presumptively their own.
00:20:17.000And it's so depressing, frankly, that this guy had to live long enough to see it become as bad as it did.
00:20:24.000I think he's realizing, you know, he would have been luckier if he died a lot younger than he's living to be now.
00:20:31.000I think also for me, this puts into perspective what we're doing here, okay?
00:20:35.000Like we've been talking about a lot of this like petty squabbling going on on the right.
00:20:39.000And you hear someone like this and you got to take a step back and like realize these are like civilizational stakes here.
00:20:46.000And we've got to remember who the enemy is and where the real forces of sort of decay and degradation are coming from.
00:20:52.000And I hope like the lesson for me would be, okay, we owe it to people like this, the memories of people like this, to preserve this civilization they fought for.
00:21:04.000And we got to refocus on what's really important here.
00:21:07.000You know, we have like a situation in Minnesota with like this, you know, negotiating kind of like Somali and ethnic squabbling, okay, over who's going to be the mayor of Minneapolis.
00:21:19.000And you have, you know, people trying to castrate children and stuff.
00:21:23.000And you go, okay, that's where the fight is.
00:21:25.000Can we refocus on the things that matters and get away from a lot of these trivialities that frankly are just distracting us from that?
00:21:33.000I want to flag that in case people don't know what you're talking about because it's so great.
00:21:37.000You mentioned the Somali ethnic squabbles.
00:21:39.000So this is getting reported on X that allegedly a significant number of Somalis in Minneapolis did not vote for Omar Fateh, the Somali candidate for mayor, because he is apparently part of the Darud clan rather than the Hawiye clan in Somali culture.
00:21:59.000Allegedly, Ilhan Omar is also a member of the Darud clan.
00:22:05.000So the Hawiyez also don't like Ilhan Omar over that.
00:22:08.000You know, the remark I said was, you know, imagine Ben Franklin saying, you know, a nation of never-ending ethnic squabbles from the third world, if you can keep it.
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00:23:54.000You know, it is sort of like an expression that Blake uses sometimes.
00:23:57.000We talk about advanced civilizational tech, right?
00:24:00.000Like monogamy is one of these really powerful civilizational technologies that tends to make men more productive.
00:24:08.000We focus on building our families, our businesses, our home life, as opposed to, you know, warring against this warlord that's got 30 wives and we're sort of aimless and wifeless and childless.
00:24:21.000And so it tends to be this really amazing thing for society.
00:24:24.000But there's another thing about Western civilization that is so profoundly amazing, and that is that we've managed in many ways, not perfectly, obviously.
00:24:32.000The Scots and the Picts and the Welsh and the English would tell you that it's not perfect, certainly.
00:24:39.000But this binding together under constitutional systems and republics and putting sectarianism and clannish behavior behind us.
00:24:49.000And really, what's interesting, and it has to be a bigger question, because I think you have to know the root cause if you're going to solve it, is why in the West, specifically the English-speaking West, did we decide that it was not okay to be proud of ourselves, to be proud of our national identity?
00:25:11.000Because in some ways, you could define MAGA as a resurgence of national pride and people that have at least identified that they want to be proud of their own nation.
00:25:21.000I think we have lost the courage, we have lost the confidence to simply say straightforwardly, our way of life is better than other ways of life.
00:25:30.000And when people come here, they need to assimilate into our better way of life.
00:26:41.000Average, they did a Pew Foundation did a research study, Pew Foundation, and they said that Muslim household average is 3.4 child per family.
00:26:52.000The white American has one child per family.
00:26:54.000We're already beating the march because these are wars.
00:26:58.000These are not just babies being born in hospitals.
00:27:09.000No, they come here because it is better, but that does not mean like they aspire to the culture that made it better.
00:27:17.000They also can just say, you are a giant pile of money.
00:27:21.000You are a dumb rube that I can take advantage of.
00:27:24.000And like we've seen that, for example, with the Somali community.
00:27:27.000Like they remain quite clannish in the Minneapolis area.
00:27:30.000Not just their literal clans, but like they're sort of closed off.
00:27:34.000Remember the justification for Ilhan Omar?
00:27:36.000The defense of her marrying her brother included the fact that when she first got married, she did not get married under any governmental system.
00:27:42.000It was only within their internal religious system.
00:27:46.000And they're well known for having pretty elaborate operations to skim government money in sinister ways because they don't a lot of them just don't really see it as any sort of moral offense.
00:27:58.000Like, oh, this is a giant spigot of government money and we can take it and use it for our own ends.
00:28:03.000It's like a way of making a living like any other.
00:28:06.000And yeah, there's this aspirational thing.
00:29:07.000And if you can't answer it in any sort of satisfactory way, then we've got a much bigger problem than most people are aware of or willing to admit.
00:30:27.000No, listen, I'm really excited about the show.
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00:30:36.000So, Lomez, Jonathan Kieperman, where do where have you guys released an episode yet of Rufo and Lomez?
00:30:42.000Yeah, yeah, no, I think the first one's being released today.
00:30:45.000So we've gone into the last week's news, all of, again, the psychodrama that's been going on.
00:30:50.000try to unpack some of that, talk about some of the elections, talk about the death of Dick Cheney and kind of what that means and the trajectory of the right over the last 20 years.
00:31:00.000It will be a weekly show, actually twice weekly, once Friday, once Tuesday, subscribe at YouTube, anywhere you get your podcasts, Blaze TV, Rufo and Lomez.
00:33:07.000He liked to say like, yeah, yeah, she does have great genes, doesn't she?
00:33:10.000So he would sometimes find this very amusing in a detached sort of way.
00:33:14.000So I think he'd be chuckling at how this is playing out now.
00:33:17.000And he'd be proud because it does reflect, even with the difficulties we had this week, there really is a positive vibe shift in America.
00:33:25.000Even though we had a bad midterm, it was partly because Democrats had to look around and say, we've got to give a heave-ho to a lot of this really bad cultural stuff.
00:33:34.000And we are in such a better cultural place than we were a year ago, than we were five years ago.
00:33:41.000And, you know, that's why not even a year ago, this loser from The Guardian tried to dox our friend Jonathan.
00:33:48.000Instead, revealed that he is a beautiful man.
00:33:51.000And that man is going to now start his own show.
00:34:01.000I mean, the funny thing about this to me is that the underlying controversy here is that Sidney Sweeney is like implicitly acknowledging the existence of genetics.
00:34:12.000Okay, like the left wants to sort of present this idea that it's somehow like anathema, immoral.
00:34:20.000You know, it's a betrayal of our good senses.
00:34:23.000White people aren't allowed to have that.
00:34:46.000What I love about that clip is that in just one screenshot, you don't even need to listen to it or watch it.
00:34:52.000One little snapshot of that, and you see the total destruction of the HR Karen HOA energy, the uptalking, the passive aggressiveness, the nitpicking.
00:35:07.000And then Sydney Sweeney's like, nah, I'm good.
00:35:09.000You can actually just not denounce people on command.
00:35:27.000And it's like, there is so much going on there.
00:35:30.000And it was like, Blake's other point is like he just so incisively cut through it and just rejected the premise and said, I'm not playing your games, lady.
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