00:01:01.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:34.000Well, i've left, in that i'm here in the free state of Florida and you're well, you're not going to believe this.
00:01:38.000So last night I went to a place where a stranger, a complete stranger.
00:01:44.000I sat down at a table and a stranger this woman just approached the table with a little notepad.
00:01:49.000She asked me what I wanted to eat and then I told her and then about 15 minutes later, she came back with that food and I ate it and paid for it and left.
00:01:58.000You understand that you can't do that in California.
00:02:02.000I went to a restaurant Charlie, are you following me here?
00:02:41.000You know, the funny thing about about the Daily WIRE guys going is that I had Michael Knows and his wife over for dinner and we had dinner and I kept saying to him you know, I was like Michael, you know we should stay, because there's something to be said about staying and fight.
00:03:26.000So if everything is closed down and you can't go anywhere and you got to put masks to go to the store and just every restaurant's destroyed and you walk down just the main boulevards and every restaurant is boarded up and there's just nothing there.
00:03:40.000Well, then at some point you're like, well, at the human level, forget the money.
00:03:45.000So I'm kidding when I talked to you about going to a restaurant last night, but it's like just in the half a day that I've been in Florida, just to see people outside, and you forget what it's like to see someone smile.
00:03:57.000Like we're literally losing where you just see people's eyes.
00:04:32.000Where we're seeing the tech giants just be more emboldened than ever before.
00:04:36.000A lot of people almost dehumanized what you just mentioned.
00:04:39.000And before we get into all that, I do want to say, because I want to mention this, you deserve a lot of credit and you deserve to be complimented the way you came out in favor of President Trump.
00:04:47.000I know you received, I'm sure, a lot of backlash for that.
00:05:18.000And I kept saying, listen, I'm not there yet.
00:05:20.000And I'm still, because my feeling was for years in this, there is a goodness to liberalism that I know is worth saving.
00:05:27.000And I know you believe that even as a conservative, I don't think it can be saved anymore.
00:05:32.000And, you know, you just sat down with James and he details this at a highly academic level.
00:05:38.000But I think in essence, what really has happened in the world is that we have seen the complete and utter collapse of liberalism.
00:05:45.000There are no liberals left because anyone that has any liberal thoughts, whatever that might be, so someone who maybe wants a little more public education than you want, or maybe someone is, as I would still describe myself, by the way, begrudgingly pro-choice, which I know is a huge no-no for the conservatives.
00:06:00.000But by the way, Rudy Giuliani feels the same way.
00:06:02.000So conservatives have shown themselves to be a wide political tent.
00:06:06.000If you're a liberal in any sense, you're a conservative.
00:06:09.000And you're also gay, just for our listeners.
00:06:26.000And we support you no matter you have an alternate lifestyle, whatever.
00:06:31.000But the point is that defending liberalism is now a conservative position.
00:06:37.000And that doesn't mean that conservatives have to get on board all the excesses of liberalism because what we're seeing with the woke left are just the excesses of liberalism.
00:06:45.000Liberals have no defense and they have let the parasite in.
00:06:50.000And basically what you're watching is you're watching an alien movie.
00:06:54.000They've let the alien in and it's just, it has taken over the body and it's going to burst forth and eat everybody.
00:07:00.000So the idea of the moderate Democrat or something like that, no, if you're a moderate Democrat, you're a conservative now.
00:07:05.000You want to save America, you're a conservative now.
00:07:07.000So I have no problem saying that I'm a conservative at this point.
00:07:16.000But it's also kind of what do these terms actually even mean anymore.
00:07:20.000And basically, if you love this country and you love what it stands for, you want to see it have better days, and you're not in the business of perpetually bashing on our history and you like the freedom of speech thing.
00:07:38.000Well, look, I'm trying to conserve the fact that I think America is the greatest country in the history of the world that has given more freedoms to more people than any other country.
00:08:02.000First off, I don't even think it's true, but it's also who cares?
00:08:04.000We have something worth conserving here.
00:08:06.000And if you want to conserve that tradition of freedom, if you want to preserve free markets, the ability to go to work and earn a living and understand the history of America, that's a complex history, but a really beautiful history.
00:08:19.000If you want to do any of those things, you are now a conservative.
00:08:22.000So in essence, I would say it's everyone versus the woesters.
00:08:25.000But the woekers have basically captured the institutions.
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00:10:37.000You can literally find videos of me six years ago before anyone was really talking about this.
00:10:41.000I kept saying, you know, guys, I'm not really on board the Trump thing, but I'm pretty sure he's not Hitler, right?
00:10:46.000And I'm pretty sure his supporters aren't Nazis.
00:10:48.000But the more that you do that, the more that you call Trump Hitler, you call his supporters Nazis, it's not what you're doing to them.
00:10:55.000It's what you're doing to yourself because ultimately you're painting yourself into an intellectual corner.
00:11:00.000You call everybody, everyone who disagrees with you is the worst thing in the world, right?
00:11:03.000Well, now you may find out that maybe they're not.
00:11:06.000Maybe Donald Trump a year ago, basically right now, was giving a State of the Union speech where he was talking about all-time low black unemployment, all-time low Latino unemployment, all these things.
00:11:15.000The Congressional Black caucus sat there like this.
00:11:30.000So what they do is they can never acknowledge that they might have made a mistake.
00:11:35.000And by the way, they also know, well, wait a minute, if I've used these horrible tactics on other people, I know what's going to happen when I walk.
00:11:42.000So meaning that they'll use that same stuff on me.
00:11:44.000And that's what keeps people so many, I would say, politically closeted, which in many ways is what my book was about, because people are afraid if you've tried to destroy all these people's careers, you've tried to decimate people's lives and just ruin everything.
00:12:00.000And then you end up holding yourself hostage.
00:12:02.000So I would say wokeism is sort of like if you picture 20 people in a circle and everyone's got a gun and everyone's just waiting to who's going to shoot first.
00:12:13.000I mean, I would say the 15-year-olds, the kids that are getting infected with this, they don't really know, but it's our job to hopefully wake them up.
00:12:37.000It's not as if the presidential election, if you believe the results, which I've made my position perfectly clear that I believe there was very much, there was fraud all up and down.
00:12:49.000But if you believe the results, in no way was this a referendum saying that they were in support of wokeness.
00:14:04.000Because you were one of the people trying to drag me on the Trump thing.
00:14:08.000If I have one regret, I would say in the last year, I didn't publicly say I was supporting Trump until I did the Kyle Kashuv podcast, the first episode of the Kyle Kashuv podcast.
00:14:33.000It's come with the cost in terms of my family.
00:14:35.000It's come with the cost in terms of my friends.
00:14:37.000I have no doubt that it's closed business opportunities and I live in a crazy town where people give me the evil eye and all that stuff.
00:14:42.000But if anything, I regret not doing it earlier because I do view Trump, for whatever reason, for whatever bizarre, biblical, sci-fi, strange reason, Trump was the last guy that was going to save us.
00:14:56.000And unfortunately, if he's done, if this really is the end of it, and I'm not quite sure of that, and I still think he may have some tricks, and I'm probably a little closer to you on the bullish side of it.
00:15:05.000See um, but if he's done, I think we there are going to be an awful lot of people that will go.
00:15:11.000Man, I really dropped the ball because this guy was not perfect and he's orange and he speaks funny and his hair and blah blah, blah.
00:15:18.000But this guy, he loved this country and he just wanted people to succeed and everything else, and we are going to usher in something in the name of of diversity and equity, something that is so profoundly Anti-american.
00:15:30.000And uh hey, I tried, you tried and we'll see.
00:15:33.000You have been warning against many of the problems we're living through right now and the one that I think you've been the most articulate uh, and probably you were the i'm trying to.
00:15:56.000Well, because I, I was a creature of the internet right, like I was.
00:15:59.000You know everyone and their brother has a podcast now, no offense, you know, Charlie Kirk Show is pretty fantastic, but you know there are more podcasts than people.
00:16:06.000At this point like, I don't know who's even listening to all these podcasts, but I was one of the first people in on this thing and and doing long form and no sense.
00:16:47.000And they just changed it back, so think about it.
00:16:49.000Two weeks before, they said, okay, now you're gonna have to press tweet twice.
00:16:52.000Now, I know that sort of sounds like nothing, but it's not.
00:16:55.000They did something to fundamentally change the speed that we can get information twice right, so you had to press retweet twice to retweet okay, so it sounds a little stupid to be talking about it, but but it's an important little thing.
00:17:07.000Two weeks before the election, they said, the way we trade information that we've all done for years.
00:17:11.000Now we're going to suddenly change it, and the obvious reason was, well, we know some bad stuff's coming down the pike for us and we want to make sure people can't share it as quickly.
00:17:19.000Right, they can't spread it around as quickly.
00:17:21.000Well then, they got the result that they wanted.
00:17:44.000But I think the 2021 is going to be the year of the bannings.
00:17:48.000That that's what I think will happen here, because Trump, at least, was warning them.
00:17:52.000Maybe Trump dropped the ball and should have moved on 230 faster, or maybe Congress should have gotten involved faster.
00:17:57.000I like Cruise, I like, I like Rand Paul, I like Holly, but nobody did anything.
00:18:01.000The truth is, they gave speeches and nobody did anything.
00:18:03.000And and I know you like those guys too, and if they were sitting here I would gladly say the same thing to their faces and I think they would agree I just think they would blame the legislature, which might be true, sure so probably is sure so we.
00:18:14.000That's sort of a separate issue about just how politics works, but in Essence, no one did anything.
00:18:19.000And come January 20th, if Biden is president, well, now you've got the institutional elite and the swamp has recalibrated to itself, you know, has sort of all come together again.
00:19:23.000Now, if you're there to troll me and cause havoc, well, I can boot you out, but that's not an infringement on anyone's free speech because you could still be in Charlie Kirk's locals.
00:19:33.000Just the same way that I respect anyone's ability to say what they want outside of my home, but I don't invite everybody into my home to say whatever they want.
00:23:35.000Literally, and if you think about it, when you think about what you just discussed with James, the sort of ideological rot around wokeism and how it has become a secular religion, if you thought you were fighting Hitler and Nazis, lockdown Nazi, you would do it.
00:23:49.000I mean, that's the thing that the average person, I don't think, understands.
00:23:52.000The extremes that these guys will go to to silence their opponents, I don't think we have a good grasp on how extreme it is.
00:23:59.000So is Joe Biden going to stop them from doing it?
00:24:04.000There will be no one in the political establishment that will stop them from doing it.
00:24:08.000And there will be nobody in the tech establishment.
00:24:10.000So I think everybody that isn't, I mean, this is a sales pitch for locals at some level, but it's a sales pitch for everyone to, if you have some stuff that's online, you better figure out where to put it pretty quick because it's coming.
00:24:22.000If you think your Dropbox is safe, if you think your iTunes account or any, if you think any of that stuff is safe and you've publicly posted about being anti-lockdown or pro-Trump or just anything, anything non-woke, just wait.
00:24:37.000I have a pretty good track record on calling this stuff and just wait and they'll come for you.
00:25:18.000And the thing that people have to recognize and realize, and you get this, is eventually people will say, well, why are we living in the same country with these people?
00:25:28.000Well, that's partly why I stayed in California, at least for now.
00:25:31.000If truly, if someone like me can't live in California, if that's the place where we've really gotten to, where everywhere I go now, everybody says to me, Dave, what are you doing in California?
00:25:43.000But if everyone, if that's really where we're at, that people are going to truly have to siphon off along ideological lines, well, then what is the United States of America?
00:25:54.000The beauty of this thing, because the beauty of this thing is that you have different states and different states have different policies.
00:26:04.000And if the unity thing is frayed now, where someone like me can't live in Cali, well, then what happens when Cali truly bottoms out, meaning is completely bankrupt, destroyed, crime, disease, homelessness, blah, blah, blah.
00:26:15.000Are the people of Texas going to suddenly be like, yes, we would like to bail them out?
00:26:19.000No, they're going to be at war with them.
00:28:10.000What do you see that's coming that you think everyone is missing?
00:28:15.000Well, the banning thing that I just talked about and how messy it's going to get on social media, but I really do think that we are either in the first steps or perhaps the middle and we don't know it yet of some kind of revolution.
00:29:09.000We know about media and our intellectual elite and the rest of it.
00:29:12.000And we're going to have to figure this out.
00:29:14.000I mean, this is, I don't like, you know, doing like Paul Revere, like the alarm thing, but it's like, we better figure this out fast.
00:29:22.000Because if you would have told any of us in January, hey, you know, in December, right before Christmas, you guys are going to be completely locked in your houses.