The Charlie Kirk Show - December 31, 2023


The Gods of the Copybook Headings with Glenn Beck


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Learn English with Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck is a conservative commentator, pundit, and political commentator. He has been in the public eye for over 20 years and is a regular contributor on Fox News and CNN. He is also the founder of Turning Point USA, a youth organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college campuses across the country.

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00:02:31.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:03:13.000 Glenn Beck, how are you?
00:03:14.000 Amazing speech.
00:03:15.000 Oh, thank you.
00:03:16.000 Thank you.
00:03:17.000 For the audience that didn't catch it, try to capture some of the essence.
00:03:20.000 What was, you know, you delivered a message of hope.
00:03:23.000 You recited the declaration and had the audience do the same.
00:03:28.000 The spirit of it was we have to be for something, not just against.
00:03:35.000 And we cannot fight for the America that we love if we don't know the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:03:43.000 It is our mission statement.
00:03:46.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:03:48.000 And the Constitution is our owner's manual.
00:03:53.000 And like guys usually do, never read the instructions, never read the owner's manual.
00:04:00.000 And I think we're treating Washington, D.C. a little like the Apple store.
00:04:05.000 It's not working.
00:04:07.000 Can you fix this?
00:04:08.000 And we just go to the guys with the little name tags and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we'll fix that.
00:04:14.000 And we'll charge you $1,000 for a new one.
00:04:18.000 I mean, because we don't know even really most people, the three branches of government or who the Senate is supposed to serve, why we have only two years for the Congress.
00:04:32.000 Why are they re-elected so fast?
00:04:34.000 These were all things that were put there for a reason.
00:04:38.000 And because we failed to recognize that we needed to know those things and needed to watch those people, it has slowly morphed into something that it was never intended to be.
00:04:54.000 I'm going to ask you a wonky question.
00:04:55.000 But our audience is going to love it.
00:04:56.000 Direct election of senators.
00:04:58.000 Was that one of the death blows that was kind of a educate our audience on that?
00:05:03.000 So the Congress is elected for two years because they're the only ones that are supposed to have their hands on the purse strings.
00:05:14.000 They're the only ones that can enact taxes.
00:05:18.000 They're the only ones that can take the money from you and spend the money.
00:05:22.000 Everything is supposed to, that doesn't happen anymore.
00:05:25.000 Everything is supposed to happen.
00:05:26.000 And the reason why they have two years is because you want to vote them out.
00:05:31.000 If they're raising your taxes, you want it to stop.
00:05:35.000 Get out.
00:05:36.000 Then that was to protect the people.
00:05:40.000 The Senate was intended to protect the states.
00:05:45.000 So they were not supposed to answer to, you know, why do I care about Chuck Schumer in New York?
00:05:52.000 Or Corey Baker or Elizabeth Warren.
00:05:54.000 Any of them.
00:05:55.000 Why do I care about them?
00:05:56.000 It was supposed to be an anti-popularity contest.
00:05:58.000 Exactly right.
00:05:59.000 And they were actually chosen by the state legislatures.
00:06:04.000 And their job was don't do anything.
00:06:08.000 Don't allow them to do anything that is not in the best interest of our state.
00:06:13.000 Okay.
00:06:14.000 So you'll see already the whole legislative branch is made to stop things from happening.
00:06:25.000 Stop, slow it down.
00:06:27.000 The president's job is supposed to be the weakest of the three branches.
00:06:33.000 His veto is not because I don't like it, but because it's unconstitutional.
00:06:40.000 He's supposed to look at those things and say, this is not constitutional.
00:06:43.000 I veto it.
00:06:45.000 That's not what the veto means now.
00:06:48.000 And the last step, you would think, would be Supreme Court.
00:06:54.000 But that's not because that's the tyranny of the minority.
00:06:57.000 And they also write laws now, which is. 0.71
00:06:59.000 Correct.
00:07:00.000 The only reason why we have Obamacare is John Roberts saying, you got to write it this way, and we're going to interpret it this way.
00:07:06.000 And we nationalize gay marriage, too. 1.00
00:07:07.000 Correct.
00:07:08.000 Obergefell.
00:07:09.000 Correct.
00:07:09.000 So the Supreme Court, you're not supposed to have nine people deciding.
00:07:14.000 We're all excited when they decide our way.
00:07:17.000 The left is excited when they decide their way.
00:07:19.000 We shouldn't be excited.
00:07:20.000 Those are nine people.
00:07:21.000 Do you know where the original Supreme Court courtroom was?
00:07:26.000 Actually, I don't.
00:07:27.000 In the basement of the Capitol.
00:07:29.000 Where they belong.
00:07:30.000 They never designed the Capitol to have the courtroom in there.
00:07:33.000 They were such a small part of our government that they were like, yeah, find a space in the basement. 0.52
00:07:40.000 And that's where they were until FDR.
00:07:43.000 He built the grand building and made them into something that they're not supposed to be. 0.80
00:07:49.000 Those are tyrants of the minority, the smallest minority, nine people.
00:07:55.000 The intelligentsia.
00:07:57.000 So there's so much there I want to unpack, Glenn.
00:07:59.000 So the direct election of centers is interesting to me for a variety of reasons.
00:08:02.000 And I think you can be a really important voice here because you are, I would say, cautious about embracing populism.
00:08:10.000 Is that fair to say?
00:08:12.000 Yeah.
00:08:12.000 There's a lot of populist elements in the conservative movement, of which I embrace and I love.
00:08:18.000 But then, you know, the voice of Glenn Beck that I was trained on 10 years ago, talk radio, kind of measures that.
00:08:24.000 Yeah, so what's nothing inherently wrong with populism?
00:08:29.000 There's not.
00:08:30.000 As long as you define it.
00:08:31.000 I'm sorry, just for our audience.
00:08:33.000 Define it?
00:08:34.000 Is it the will of the majority?
00:08:36.000 Yeah, the will of the majority.
00:08:38.000 What's popular?
00:08:39.000 Let's go this way.
00:08:40.000 Got it.
00:08:40.000 That's as long as you have a government that has the checks and balances that our founders put in there to slow it down.
00:08:50.000 You run to the Patriot Act.
00:08:52.000 Oh, my gosh, they attacked the World Trade Center.
00:08:55.000 We were all devastated by it.
00:08:57.000 And even I was duped for a week on the Patriot Act.
00:09:02.000 What the?
00:09:03.000 What the bad idea.
00:09:06.000 But it was very popular.
00:09:08.000 That's why they give them the names, the Patriot Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, which has nothing to do with that, because it will appeal to the popular voice.
00:09:21.000 It will appeal to the people.
00:09:23.000 No.
00:09:25.000 Government is not supposed to act on whims and on the popularity of something.
00:09:32.000 They are supposed to be much more measured.
00:09:35.000 We can do things.
00:09:36.000 You know, we forget our rights.
00:09:39.000 All of the rights that are at the government, they belong to us.
00:09:43.000 They're ours.
00:09:44.000 We loaned them to them.
00:09:46.000 They think that they're all their rights and they'll pick and choose which ones you get to exercise.
00:09:52.000 That's a bastardization of the entire system.
00:09:55.000 So populism is a catch-all term, right?
00:10:00.000 Critics, some conservative critics would say, this is dangerous.
00:10:05.000 You're doing just the left-wing thing.
00:10:07.000 Explain populism.
00:10:09.000 What's your definition of populism?
00:10:10.000 Well, I mean, I'm being devil's advocate.
00:10:11.000 But they would say MAGAism, right?
00:10:13.000 Pandering to the needs, wants, and concerns of the masses, overly pandering.
00:10:20.000 He's not pandering.
00:10:21.000 No, I mean, let me just say something about that kind of thing.
00:10:24.000 Of course, I'm a big Trump guy.
00:10:26.000 I know, I know.
00:10:26.000 And Trump, he's done great things.
00:10:29.000 He's done other things.
00:10:31.000 Policies, I think he's pretty good and strong.
00:10:34.000 You know, the way he just brings it on himself all the time is just so frustrating.
00:10:41.000 However, with that being said, he's not pandering.
00:10:44.000 You know what people like about Donald Trump?
00:10:46.000 That he actually cares about them.
00:10:50.000 Yeah.
00:10:51.000 All over the world, I talked about this in the speech.
00:10:54.000 All over the world, farmers are standing up and they're saying, what are you doing to me?
00:10:59.000 You're killing me.
00:11:00.000 You're putting me out of business.
00:11:01.000 And then you're taking my farm from me.
00:11:04.000 Yes.
00:11:05.000 For what?
00:11:05.000 For something that I don't believe in.
00:11:07.000 None of the farmers believe in.
00:11:09.000 The vast majority says they don't want.
00:11:11.000 They'd rather have food than 100 years down the road or if that even happens, that we might have half a degree temperature raise.
00:11:24.000 Nobody's listening to them.
00:11:26.000 So Donald Trump, every time they punish him, the average person feels like he's the only guy that I may not agree with everything he does, but he's the only guy that is actually answering to me.
00:11:42.000 He listens.
00:11:43.000 He listens.
00:11:44.000 If that's populism, then I'm all in.
00:11:46.000 And what I'm getting at is, is there any fear that you have that we might get William Jennings Bryan-esque, you know, what they would consider populism of the early 20th century, which you've written extensively about.
00:12:00.000 Is that a concern you have that this metamorphosizing?
00:12:03.000 It is why I put my speech together the way I did.
00:12:06.000 I figured.
00:12:07.000 I wanted to make sure that we're anchored to the principles of the nation.
00:12:13.000 You know, if you are anchored, look, my first citizenship, I will not lose my first citizenship to save my second.
00:12:13.000 Yes.
00:12:23.000 Okay?
00:12:24.000 My first citizenship is the kingdom of God.
00:12:27.000 It's eternal.
00:12:28.000 That's the only one I really truly care about.
00:12:31.000 Now, as long as that's safe and fine, and I don't do anything to lose that citizenship, I'll fight for my second citizenship in the way my first citizenship allows me to do.
00:12:44.000 You know what I mean?
00:12:46.000 But we have to be very, very careful that we don't lose our first citizenship fighting for the.
00:12:54.000 Where I get nervous is.
00:12:55.000 Yeah, tell me where you get nervous.
00:12:56.000 That's what I want.
00:12:57.000 Yeah, I want you to be the kind of voice in the room.
00:13:00.000 Maybe we shouldn't do that.
00:13:02.000 I have been waiting a long time for Martin Luther King.
00:13:06.000 I have been waiting a long time for somebody to preach values and principles and how to stand up with no anger.
00:13:16.000 It's really hard to do.
00:13:19.000 It was easy when I was saying it early, early on, 2008, 10, 11, 12, 15.
00:13:26.000 And people would say to me, what are you doing?
00:13:27.000 Why are you even talking about this?
00:13:29.000 Why is Martin Luther King important?
00:13:32.000 Because you're going to get to a place to where you are so angry.
00:13:36.000 You just want to strike out.
00:13:39.000 That destroys all of us.
00:13:43.000 January 6th.
00:13:45.000 Did we strike out?
00:13:47.000 Or did they make it look like we struck out?
00:13:50.000 I don't know.
00:13:51.000 Does it matter if it happens again?
00:13:55.000 It could all be FBI agents.
00:13:58.000 You know, let's say the election goes, you know, however, goes awry, okay?
00:14:03.000 One way or another.
00:14:04.000 And they're all dressed in FBI uniforms, okay?
00:14:07.000 And we've got there.
00:14:08.000 We see them with their badges and their walkie-talkies.
00:14:11.000 And they go into the Capitol and everybody says they just did it again.
00:14:17.000 They'll hang anything on us.
00:14:20.000 So two reasons, two things I'm worried about.
00:14:24.000 One, that we are disciplined, that we know what we fight for, not against.
00:14:31.000 We fight for something.
00:14:33.000 That's why the Declaration of Independence was so unique.
00:14:38.000 It didn't start with, you know what, King, you did this and this and this, and I've had enough of that.
00:14:43.000 They get there.
00:14:44.000 Right, they do get there.
00:14:45.000 They're a universal claim.
00:14:46.000 Correct.
00:14:47.000 An eternal claim.
00:14:48.000 I went in the course of humanity.
00:14:48.000 Yes.
00:14:49.000 And that has to happen first, okay?
00:14:52.000 It's a prerequisite to the complaints.
00:14:52.000 Instead of.
00:14:54.000 Exactly right.
00:14:58.000 And the end, by the way, is universal, too.
00:15:00.000 It's a prayer to Jesus.
00:15:01.000 The Supreme Judge of the World, which is Jesus.
00:15:03.000 It's a firm reliance.
00:15:04.000 God starts eternal and ends eternal.
00:15:06.000 And the beginning is specific. 0.99
00:15:07.000 Bride, you know, broad, narrow, broad. 1.00
00:15:07.000 Correct. 1.00
00:15:10.000 And the other thing I am concerned about is Alexander Dugan.
00:15:16.000 Most people don't pay attention to Alexander Dugan.
00:15:18.000 Treasury Secretary or something?
00:15:19.000 Oh, Alexander Dugan.
00:15:21.000 I'm surprised you don't know.
00:15:23.000 Alexander Dugan is called Putin's brain.
00:15:27.000 Oh.
00:15:28.000 He's the guy who's brokered the deal with Iran. 0.85
00:15:32.000 He's the guy who had the Crimea plan. 0.96
00:15:36.000 That's his plan. 0.76
00:15:37.000 He's the guy who is leading the charge of bricks And also saying the West is perverting everything of God.
00:15:51.000 Now, he's not a man of God.
00:15:53.000 Putin's not a man of God.
00:15:54.000 Okay? 0.97
00:15:55.000 It's evil.
00:15:56.000 If you read any of his books, you should read the fourth political theory, I think.
00:16:03.000 You will read some of his books because they're written for Russia, but he translates and rewrites for America, too, and the West.
00:16:11.000 And you'll read like the first chapter, and you'll be like, this guy gets it.
00:16:16.000 He's right.
00:16:18.000 But you have to understand, he is a guy who believes in anarchy and literally the apocalypse.
00:16:27.000 He says we have to go back before the Enlightenment, okay?
00:16:34.000 That it's the Enlightenment that caused all of this trouble.
00:16:38.000 When we had the churches in charge, everything was fine and we were doing the work of Jesus.
00:16:43.000 He doesn't believe in Jesus.
00:16:45.000 He's just a political machine.
00:16:47.000 But he is capturing a large part of the Eastern bloc.
00:16:56.000 Now he's starting to capture Iran.
00:16:59.000 So this is interesting.
00:17:00.000 Yes, he's also in our churches here in America.
00:17:04.000 So not being familiar with him, but that sentiment.
00:17:07.000 Let me play devil's advocate because I don't know him, but I know it's...
00:17:11.000 Glenn, it's hard to disagree. 1.00
00:17:12.000 We have Democrat staffers filming gay sex in our capital. 1.00
00:17:17.000 That's modernity. 1.00
00:17:18.000 I know.
00:17:18.000 Doesn't it feel right to say, let's go back?
00:17:21.000 I'm playing somewhat devil's advocate, right?
00:17:23.000 Right.
00:17:24.000 And I understand that sentiment, right?
00:17:27.000 I'm absolutely the debauchery, the dejection.
00:17:30.000 That's why I say it's clever, right? 0.97
00:17:32.000 You'll read the first chapter and you go, damn right, damn right. 0.71
00:17:37.000 But the devil is in the details, okay? 0.95
00:17:41.000 And that's why I'm concerned about populism.
00:17:45.000 Let me ask you: who were the first, who, what books did they burn in Germany first?
00:17:52.000 What books did they burn in Germany first?
00:17:54.000 Most people don't know this, so don't feel bad if we don't know.
00:17:58.000 So the first transgender surgery happened in 1926 in Weimar Republic.
00:18:07.000 If you look at the Weimar Republic, they are the United States of America today.
00:18:13.000 They had all kinds of books about transgenderism.
00:18:18.000 This guy had to have so many surgeries by 1929 when the doctor stuffed a uterus in the man because he's a woman, okay?
00:18:29.000 It killed him.
00:18:31.000 But they were preaching exactly the same thing in the Weimar Republic, which is why people easily say, but it's an absolute lie. 0.94
00:18:43.000 It was a Christian thing. 0.78
00:18:45.000 Hitler was a Christian. 0.98
00:18:47.000 That's Christianity. 1.00
00:18:48.000 No, it's not. 1.00
00:18:49.000 No, it's not. 0.72
00:18:50.000 But when Hitler came out, the churches, which had already been lost, they were dead inside. 0.63
00:18:59.000 The churches were so upset of what was going on, they saw this little man as a way to get those books.
00:19:09.000 They were in the schools.
00:19:10.000 They were in the universities.
00:19:12.000 So the brown shirts, the first book burnings were from the University of Sexology, okay, that was preaching homosexuality, transgenderism, gender fluidity, all of that stuff.
00:19:25.000 Those books were found in our children's libraries in the schools, if you were a German, okay? 0.74
00:19:32.000 Exactly the same thing. 0.92
00:19:35.000 And the churches were like, turn the other way.
00:19:38.000 It's okay.
00:19:39.000 It's okay because we're going after this.
00:19:41.000 This is against God's word, against, and they lost.
00:19:46.000 They lost themselves in it.
00:19:48.000 So the devil's in the details.
00:19:52.000 Yes, you feel that way.
00:19:53.000 Yes, I wanted out of my schools.
00:19:56.000 I wanted, I want, I'm not a book burner myself.
00:20:01.000 I thought we all learned that lesson in the past, but I am for a return to, as I called in my speech, the simple laws of God.
00:20:15.000 You know, if I'm a big fan of Rudyard Kipling, the gods of the copybook headings.
00:20:21.000 Are you familiar with it?
00:20:22.000 Not very.
00:20:23.000 So he talks about copybook headings used to be, and we did, well, I did them in my age.
00:20:30.000 When you were in grade school and you were first learning to write, it would say, water will wet, fire will burn.
00:20:38.000 And it was printed up at the top at the copyhead.
00:20:40.000 And then you would copy that.
00:20:43.000 And those things were never controversial.
00:20:45.000 It was water is wet.
00:20:47.000 Okay?
00:20:48.000 Everybody can agree on that.
00:20:50.000 Rudyard Kipling went through this back in the 19 teens.
00:20:54.000 And by 1920, after World War I, he was like, we're in trouble.
00:20:59.000 And it's because we abandoned the things we know to be true, always universally true.
00:21:09.000 Water will wet, fire will burn.
00:21:12.000 And he talks in this poem, it's a fantastic poem.
00:21:16.000 I wish I had my iPad with me.
00:21:19.000 He talks about how it is you're conned.
00:21:25.000 You're conned into all these beautiful things that pigs have wings and wishes are horses, and the gods of the market will give it all to you.
00:21:36.000 And then they'll promise you all kinds of things, like perpetual peace.
00:21:40.000 But once you give them your arms, they sell you bound and gagged to your enemy.
00:21:49.000 But in the end, when the gods of the markets withdraw, and as it says, the smooth-tongue wizards withdraw, the gods of the market with terror and fire return.
00:22:08.000 And explain it one more time.
00:22:10.000 As it was in the beginning, it will be again in the future.
00:22:14.000 And it sets itself right.
00:22:17.000 All we have to do is set ourselves back to the basics.
00:22:23.000 And it's the basics in America is not a church state.
00:22:29.000 Okay.
00:22:30.000 It is a state.
00:22:32.000 Our founder said this system is wholly inadequate for a religious or immoral society.
00:22:38.000 Well, that's us.
00:22:40.000 We've got to encourage each other.
00:22:44.000 And if the government does anything, encourage by releasing all of their charitable stuff that they do, please relieve us of all your charity, the United States government, and what you're doing around the world.
00:23:00.000 That's not charity.
00:23:01.000 That's a horror show. 0.76
00:23:02.000 What you're doing, enslaving people here in America, is a horror show.
00:23:06.000 Give it back to the people so we have a chance to serve God by serving others.
00:23:14.000 What you're hitting on, and it's going to come to a head on the right.
00:23:19.000 It might not come to a head in 2024, is that I would say that a majority of, not a majority, but a growing group of people, they're not huge fans of modernity.
00:23:29.000 So they would agree with the Alexander Gibbon.
00:23:35.000 But what would your defense of modernity be?
00:23:38.000 Because we have more people killing themselves, more divorces, more degenerate.
00:23:42.000 How are you defining modernity?
00:23:45.000 Post-Machiavelli?
00:23:48.000 I would say it's post-modernism.
00:23:51.000 Okay.
00:23:51.000 That's what's killing us.
00:23:52.000 That's fair.
00:23:53.000 So post-Derrida.
00:23:54.000 Yeah.
00:23:55.000 So it's a rejection.
00:23:57.000 Yes.
00:23:58.000 It's the rejection of tradition.
00:24:02.000 And it's not even tradition.
00:24:04.000 It is.
00:24:06.000 It's a brave new world, is what it is.
00:24:07.000 Yes.
00:24:08.000 There are water will wet, fire will burn.
00:24:13.000 It's what C.S. Lewis warned against, right?
00:24:16.000 But what I'm getting at is I'm seeing this bubble up, and I see it both ways, to be honest, Glenn, right?
00:24:22.000 Because I love some fruits of modernity, right?
00:24:25.000 I mean, come on.
00:24:26.000 I love antibiotics, right?
00:24:28.000 I love the ability to be in air conditioning.
00:24:30.000 But I don't love the fact that we have more people killing themselves than ever before.
00:24:34.000 So what you're saying...
00:24:35.000 Because that is not modernity.
00:24:38.000 That is postmodernism.
00:24:40.000 There is no reason to live.
00:24:42.000 1960s.
00:24:43.000 Yes, there's no reason to live.
00:24:45.000 It's all horrible.
00:24:46.000 You're going to die in a fiery side.
00:24:47.000 Nihil is nihilistic. 0.92
00:24:49.000 Yeah, nihilistic.
00:24:49.000 Fatalistic.
00:24:50.000 There is no God.
00:24:51.000 There is nothing. 1.00
00:24:52.000 K-mu, right? 1.00
00:24:53.000 Yes, exactly.
00:24:54.000 That you can survive in a very modern futuristic world.
00:25:02.000 You cannot survive in an amoral world that teaches lies.
00:25:08.000 Yeah.
00:25:10.000 Do you see this debate starting to rage a little bit more in churches and on the right?
00:25:15.000 So you see what I'm seeing, right?
00:25:16.000 Oh, yeah.
00:25:17.000 And I know you're more of a fan of it.
00:25:20.000 Oh, without a doubt.
00:25:21.000 Yeah.
00:25:23.000 It is of grave concern to me.
00:25:25.000 Yeah.
00:25:25.000 And by a fan, I just, I am, I see post-1960s neoliberalism, and I agree with you, has done great destroy.
00:25:38.000 I never lived before that, right?
00:25:39.000 Yeah.
00:25:40.000 It's the progressive movement.
00:25:42.000 But I guess the question is, is it, does liberalism consume itself?
00:25:47.000 That is a question.
00:25:50.000 No, it'll consume everything else, and then it will consume itself.
00:25:55.000 Okay.
00:26:00.000 The problem to me came when we made science our God.
00:26:07.000 Okay.
00:26:08.000 When Darwin's for that.
00:26:10.000 Yeah, I know.
00:26:11.000 When Darwin came out and said, in the descent of man, and even in his first book, there are favored races.
00:26:21.000 Yeah.
00:26:21.000 That was the title of Origin of Species, the full title.
00:26:24.000 Yeah.
00:26:24.000 Which is the survival of faith of the favored races.
00:26:27.000 Yeah, it gets conveniently edited.
00:26:28.000 Right.
00:26:29.000 Once you have that confirming the worst dark parts of man's heart, oh, yeah, I am superior.
00:26:39.000 Okay.
00:26:39.000 Once you have that scientific codification of the dark hearts of man, you can go anywhere.
00:26:48.000 Nietzsche, when he said God is dead, he was warning.
00:26:51.000 Yeah, he was lamenting.
00:26:52.000 Yeah, he was like, be careful.
00:26:55.000 Who is your God going to be?
00:26:56.000 But let me play that out a little bit.
00:26:58.000 Was Nietzsche warning that modernity was about to.
00:27:01.000 That's what some people...
00:27:02.000 That's what Jordan Peterson would say, right?
00:27:04.000 He would say that Nietzsche was saying, whoa, you guys have no idea.
00:27:07.000 But you would say, whoa, no, we got to get back to the founding, right?
00:27:10.000 Because we're not Germans.
00:27:11.000 Laws and nature of nature is God.
00:27:13.000 Right.
00:27:13.000 No, that's.
00:27:14.000 We're not.
00:27:16.000 If we go back and we start, If our churches play a role in everyone's life and heart, and it's helping change the hearts of people, and we are honoring our first citizenship, our second citizenship in America will be fixed.
00:27:40.000 Okay?
00:27:41.000 Because we will, it lines perfectly with our Declaration of Independence.
00:27:46.000 Tell me something more God-inspired or God-like than we believe all men are created.
00:27:53.000 What I think you're doing is you're also providing a solution for the right to say, focus on the promise of the Declaration of the Constitution.
00:28:01.000 Focus first.
00:28:02.000 That should be the telos, right?
00:28:04.000 That should be the destination for all of us.
00:28:06.000 First, focus on God, on forgiveness, on humility.
00:28:12.000 Okay?
00:28:13.000 We cannot have God in our life if we are not humble.
00:28:17.000 I pray all the time, Lord, humble me.
00:28:21.000 Humble me.
00:28:22.000 Now, I've said that before, and he comes out with it.
00:28:25.000 That's one prayer he answers every time with a giant hammer.
00:28:29.000 So, you know, I usually pray, Lord, humble me, humble our country.
00:28:34.000 I mean, not in the worst sort of way.
00:28:36.000 Can you gently do it?
00:28:38.000 He's tried.
00:28:39.000 He's tried.
00:28:40.000 We cannot fix anything without being humbled.
00:28:45.000 So we have five minutes.
00:28:47.000 I'm going to kind of get to something.
00:28:48.000 I see my friend Michael O'Fallon here, and he knows that we debate this.
00:28:52.000 Christian nationalism.
00:28:54.000 Is that what we're kind of dancing around here?
00:28:55.000 This kind of.
00:28:56.000 I'm not dancing around.
00:28:57.000 No, no, no.
00:28:57.000 Yep.
00:28:58.000 No, no, no.
00:28:58.000 But I know, but how should we think about that term?
00:29:01.000 Should we Christian nationalism? 0.89
00:29:04.000 Because that's their new play, as you will.
00:29:05.000 Yeah, I know.
00:29:06.000 So Christian nationalism, I think, is a play by them and not necessarily a play by those regular people.
00:29:21.000 Okay. 0.95
00:29:22.000 There is this Christian nationalist movement that is Alexander Dugan style, very, very dangerous kind of path. 0.90
00:29:32.000 You would say maybe more like Denine would be a philosophy? 0.97
00:29:35.000 I don't know, Denine.
00:29:36.000 Okay.
00:29:38.000 So, and that is, the line is so fine that you may, this is why I said in my speech, you know, you it's hard to know the difference between good and evil sometimes at times.
00:29:53.000 It's becoming easy in some places, but when you try to fix something, it is, it's Abraham Lincoln.
00:30:01.000 It's, you know, I'm wildly paraphrasing here, but it's pretty astonishing that both sides were praying to God to end the war in their favor.
00:30:12.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:30:13.000 Okay.
00:30:14.000 It is the understanding that God is in charge, not man.
00:30:21.000 And man screws things up every time he says, you know what, I'm going to do?
00:30:27.000 I'm going to do this.
00:30:30.000 No, no.
00:30:31.000 Our founders, this is why I'm against the calling of all the states, the Convention of States.
00:30:39.000 The Convention of States Project. 0.70
00:30:40.000 Used to be for it.
00:30:41.000 Mark Meckler.
00:30:42.000 Yeah.
00:30:42.000 Used to be for it.
00:30:43.000 I remember, yeah, you were a signatory or something.
00:30:45.000 I loved it.
00:30:46.000 So why are you a runaway convention?
00:30:46.000 Loved it.
00:30:48.000 Because I do.
00:30:49.000 I don't think we are humble enough, spiritual enough people that will listen to God.
00:30:49.000 No.
00:30:49.000 Okay.
00:30:59.000 You go ahead and fill that room full of people that are half of what the people were that put that Constitution together.
00:31:07.000 So then we got two minutes then.
00:31:09.000 Glenn, do we have the raw material then to save this?
00:31:11.000 I mean, if we don't have a people, absolutely.
00:31:14.000 The young generation, absolutely.
00:31:16.000 They're coming back to God.
00:31:18.000 They're looking at first principles.
00:31:21.000 Yes.
00:31:22.000 If we teach them and we don't let the nationalists that want to combine government, if we teach them what our founders did, they're going to be, they are the hero generation.
00:31:38.000 Okay.
00:31:39.000 I'm the last generation. 1.00
00:31:40.000 The Joshua generation. 1.00
00:31:41.000 Right. 1.00
00:31:42.000 They're the generation.
00:31:44.000 I mean, the generation of Nancy Pelosi and everybody else.
00:31:47.000 Yeah.
00:31:48.000 Let it go.
00:31:50.000 Let it go, man.
00:31:52.000 Let it go.
00:31:53.000 Okay.
00:31:54.000 You had your time.
00:31:55.000 We've seen what you've done with it.
00:31:57.000 And you've left my generation in between now where I know I'm not going to get into the future service in the last year.
00:32:05.000 It's the forgotten.
00:32:06.000 It is the most overlooked generation.
00:32:06.000 Our first generation.
00:32:08.000 Yeah.
00:32:09.000 So I'm sitting here going, well, I'm not going to get anything for it, you know.
00:32:14.000 But I know the younger generations that are behind me, they're worse.
00:32:19.000 They're worse.
00:32:21.000 Our job at my age, Generation X, we need to stand up and say, enough, enough of what you've done.
00:32:30.000 You started in the 1960s and you've screwed this thing up one way to another.
00:32:37.000 Everything you have touched has been poison. 0.97
00:32:41.000 Enough.
00:32:43.000 Let this generation, the young generation, take its place now, its rightful place to restore it.
00:32:53.000 It's beautiful.
00:32:53.000 Glenn, we are out of time.
00:32:55.000 Thank you so much for speaking to our students.
00:32:56.000 It really meant a lot to me and to us and you're excellent.
00:32:59.000 Thank you for being a great teacher.
00:33:01.000 Thank you.
00:33:01.000 God bless, Glenn.
00:33:01.000 Thank you.
00:33:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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