The Charlie Kirk Show - The Most Comprehensive Argument Why Juneteenth Should NOT be a Federal Holiday

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00:00:26.000 Hey, everybody, Juneteenth should not be a federal holiday.

00:00:30.000 Explain why.

00:00:31.000 In this comprehensive episode, we go through the history of Juneteenth.

00:00:35.000 We go through the history of July 4th.

00:00:37.000 Why do we consider July 4th to be our founding?

00:00:40.000 Who first said that?

00:00:42.000 Should we have a competitor to July 4th?

00:00:44.000 By the end of the episode, I hope to convince you.

00:00:46.000 Maybe not, but maybe I'll expand your horizons to think about something differently because not enough people are making this argument.

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00:04:27.000 Is it a big deal when someone goes into a Walgreens and steals, I don't know, some toothpaste?

00:04:33.000 Should that be criminalized?

00:04:37.000 Are minor offenses something that we should consider a concern?

00:04:44.000 Well, those of us that know the way society works, we know that small crimes are big crimes.

00:04:50.000 We know that graffiti on a window will soon lead to things that are even greater than that.

00:04:56.000 But just talking about the crime in and of itself, raiding and looting a store.

00:05:04.000 This is happening now at a rapid pace across the country.

00:05:08.000 Petty theft has now been decriminalized in San Francisco.

00:05:12.000 Anything under $950 is not going to be prosecuted.

00:05:15.000 This happened in Walgreens yesterday, and 17 stores have closed so far due to shoplifting.

00:05:21.000 And so here's a very simple question: What is going to prevent these entire stores from being stolen up to $900 every single day if they're not going to be prosecuted?

00:05:30.000 And the answer is nothing.

00:05:32.000 It kind of goes back to this idea that is in Elvis Huxley's Brave New World.

00:05:36.000 Everybody belongs to everybody.

00:05:39.000 Who's to say that when you do not have private property, can you be free?

00:05:45.000 And of course you can.

00:05:47.000 Mayor Rudy Giuliani cleaned up New York because the small crimes were the big crimes.

00:05:52.000 The small things were the big things.

00:05:54.000 But I have just as much disgust for someone that goes into a Walgreens with a massive shopping bag or a garbage bag and fills up with a bunch of deodorant and toothpaste as someone that goes into a bank.

00:06:08.000 You are morally equivalent in my eyes.

00:06:11.000 So let's play a clip here of what's happening.

00:06:14.000 You could see it yourself.

00:06:15.000 Cut 73, a shoplifter in San Francisco loaded up a bag on a bike and just run out of the store as the security guard.

00:06:22.000 They just watch and they record it on their phone.

00:06:25.000 This person will never be held accountable.

00:06:27.000 But I guess for whatever criminal network he's going to, they're going to have a lot of shampoo.

00:06:31.000 Play tape.

00:06:34.000 There he is.

00:06:36.000 Security guard just watching it.

00:06:39.000 Filling it up.

00:06:41.000 You see, if I saw that guy, I would just totally wouldn't put up with that.

00:06:47.000 That's it.

00:06:48.000 Total and complete anarchy.

00:06:51.000 Shopping bag full of stuff.

00:06:52.000 See you later.

00:06:54.000 Welcome to San Francisco.

00:06:57.000 And some people say, well, what's possibly wrong with this?

00:07:00.000 Well, private property in every regard deserves to be protected.

00:07:03.000 And yeah, Walgreens, the big corporation, of course, they can take the hit and they've gone super woke, so I don't really care.

00:07:08.000 But all of a sudden, all the small stores are getting hit and they're closing down.

00:07:12.000 And they can't afford to continue to restock their inventory with no such payment in return.

00:07:19.000 In Chicago, police are no longer chasing criminals on foot.

00:07:23.000 Chicago has an increase in crime that they have not seen over the last decade.

00:07:27.000 We have gone through the Chicago crime statistics and they are horrifying.

00:07:31.000 Now, some people say the looting of these stores is reparations.

00:07:35.000 Looting is reparations.

00:07:37.000 And by the way, many of your children are learning this in college and in high school.

00:07:41.000 Just this week in Chicago, 12 people have been shot and killed, 60 people shot and wounded, 72 total shot, and 12 total homicides.

00:07:50.000 And of course, the very people that are implementing these rules and these laws in San Francisco, they don't actually want to live under them.

00:07:58.000 And in the Chicago Tribune, published this.

00:08:03.000 Reparations are not about economic stability, not a looted pair of $120 Nikes.

00:08:10.000 That when you loot and you steal, it's really about giving black people what they want and what they deserve. 0.59

00:08:15.000 Because someone they were related to 100 years ago was a slave. 0.98

00:08:18.000 No, not even 100 years ago, 150 years ago.

00:08:21.000 Therefore, they deserve new Nikes.

00:08:24.000 Not about making good choices.

00:08:26.000 Remember, this is the true struggle that's happening in the country.

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00:08:44.000 Is it the country that's the problem, or are you the problem?

00:08:48.000 And so petty crime is now becoming big crime.

00:08:50.000 Rapes are up, murders are up, kidnapping's up, arson's up, and there is flight out of San Francisco.

00:08:58.000 Russell Kirk famously said that order signifies harmony.

00:09:03.000 There are two aspects or types of order, the inner order of the soul and the outer order of the commonwealth.

00:09:11.000 Plato talked this in his Plato's Republic.

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00:10:40.000 You might not have noticed this, but the United States Congress has finally found something they can agree on.

00:10:47.000 United States Congress, of course, can't agree on whether or not the Constitution is a document worthy of honoring.

00:10:53.000 They can't agree on whether or not they should curb inflation.

00:10:57.000 They can't address the crisis on the southern border.

00:11:00.000 They can't try to bring back manufacturing Jobs to our country.

00:11:03.000 But the one thing that Congress has decided to agree on, and every single senator voted in favor of this, was to create a new federal holiday.

00:11:15.000 14 members of the House of Representatives deserve credit for voting against this, and that is to create a new federal holiday called Juneteenth.

00:11:25.000 Now, you might not have heard this before.

00:11:27.000 Juneteenth, according to its most generous reading, and I'm going to tell you what this is really all about, is about on June 19th, allegedly, this is the way the story goes, 1865, June 19th, 1865, soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas with the news that the Civil War had ended and that the enslaved were now free.

00:11:53.000 And this, according to BLM Incorporated and many of their alleged historians, like this guy or woman, I don't know, Penil E. Joseph, who wrote The Sword and the Shield, The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and is the director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Policy.

00:12:15.000 He says, having Juneteenth as a national holiday offers possibilities Americans can't ignore.

00:12:23.000 And so they want to create a new July 4th, and they've done it.

00:12:27.000 The House and the Senate have passed this with almost no opposition.

00:12:30.000 And Joe Biden is now going to create a new Black Independence Day.

00:12:36.000 That's right, circled on your calendars from now for the rest of your life.

00:12:40.000 There will be a new Independence Day before July 4th.

00:12:44.000 And it's not going to have the American flag, no.

00:12:47.000 You see, if you look at the symbols behind Juneteenth, it is the African flag, something that's called the Pan-African flag.

00:12:55.000 You might not have heard this before because you grew up in America where the American flag actually mattered.

00:13:00.000 But now in the new world, after George Floyd or BLM Incorporated or whatever, we now have to say, we're going to preempt this. 0.77

00:13:10.000 On Juneteenth, we are now going to have a pan-African Black Independence Day. 0.54

00:13:17.000 And in Congress, in front of the picture of George Washington, we have members of Congress that are not singing the U.S. National Anthem.

00:13:26.000 They're not saying God bless America. 0.67

00:13:29.000 No, they're singing the black national anthem.

00:13:32.000 You haven't heard about this?

00:13:32.000 We have a black national anthem now.

00:13:34.000 Play tape. 0.99

00:13:57.000 That is now the new black national anthem. 1.00

00:13:59.000 You better learn it or else you're a racist. 0.98

00:14:01.000 Forget Francis Scott Key, America the Beautiful.

00:14:04.000 No, no, no.

00:14:05.000 We must now go sing whatever that is.

00:14:08.000 So here's a really interesting question.

00:14:11.000 When did Abraham Lincoln think America was founded?

00:14:15.000 Why do we celebrate July 4th?

00:14:17.000 What's the significance of that?

00:14:19.000 Well, for those of us that grew up in the 90s, it's just always been the holiday where we say this was America's founding.

00:14:24.000 But was it?

00:14:27.000 Why do we say that that was America's founding?

00:14:29.000 What's the reason for that?

00:14:30.000 There's so many other dates, by the way, we could choose.

00:14:33.000 Why was America not founded on September 17th, 1787?

00:14:38.000 Which was, of course, the ratification of the United States Constitution, the end of the Constitutional Convention that ended a bitter summer of fights where the Republic could have broke apart.

00:14:46.000 Why was America not founded in December of 1791 when the Bill of Rights was officially ratified, pushed by George Mason and all the other member states?

00:14:55.000 Why?

00:14:56.000 July 4th, 1776.

00:14:58.000 What happened on that day?

00:15:00.000 Well, first, it's actually more important to realize what happened in that year.

00:15:05.000 You see, Abraham Lincoln was actually the first American president that made a point of this.

00:15:14.000 Other American presidents like Quincy Adams, Monroe, and Madison, they mentioned it, but there was an attachment for Madison for the Constitution.

00:15:23.000 Obviously, he was the father of the Constitution.

00:15:25.000 Lincoln was the first generation not to actually be directly connected to that founding generation.

00:15:32.000 Think of it as almost the greatest generation and their grandkids.

00:15:36.000 Abraham Lincoln was truly that next generation.

00:15:40.000 After Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson.

00:15:46.000 So Abraham Lincoln, at one of the most famous speeches ever given, he decided to say something that wasn't actually very obvious.

00:15:55.000 And you've probably heard it said 50 times in your school.

00:15:59.000 Fourscore and seven years ago.

00:16:01.000 Hold on a second.

00:16:02.000 Do you notice that he mentions a year, not a date?

00:16:07.000 He was actually talking about the totality of the year 1776.

00:16:12.000 Not necessarily just July 4th.

00:16:14.000 This is a very important point.

00:16:16.000 What else happened that year?

00:16:18.000 Well, Common Sense by Thomas Paine was written that year.

00:16:20.000 Pretty important.

00:16:23.000 Of course, the Declaration of Independence was signed and written by Thomas Jefferson.

00:16:29.000 Wealth of Nations was written by Adam Smith.

00:16:33.000 Also, George Mason's Virginia Bill of Rights was passed in 1776.

00:16:38.000 Vermont also abolished slavery soon after that.

00:16:41.000 That was a big year.

00:16:43.000 That's what Abraham Lincoln was getting at.

00:16:45.000 And if you read deeper into the 272 words of the Gettysburg Address, he says, fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

00:17:02.000 Let's stop there.

00:17:04.000 You know what Abraham Lincoln was doing?

00:17:06.000 He was creating a thread.

00:17:08.000 Abraham Lincoln was making an overarching historical, moral, and philosophical argument that what came before us was something that we should actually try to attain.

00:17:16.000 What Abraham Lincoln was saying was, hey, that year in 1776, most specifically, July 4th, the day that it all culminated on, that's not a day that we should gloss over.

00:17:26.000 Let's also talk about the context.

00:17:28.000 What was Abraham Lincoln looking at when he gave this speech?

00:17:32.000 What was Abraham Lincoln doing when this speech was given?

00:17:35.000 He was looking at brutal carnage.

00:17:37.000 That's what.

00:17:39.000 This is a speech that he thought would be in the dustbin of history.

00:17:42.000 In fact, Abraham Lincoln was given the shortest amount of time to speak out of all the speakers in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

00:17:48.000 He thought no one would want to hear from them.

00:17:50.000 Little did he know these 272 words would change the trajectory of human history.

00:17:55.000 And he ends here in the speech of the 272 words, that we were here highly resolved that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.

00:18:12.000 What Abraham Lincoln was saying was that in this declaration, it talked about divine truth.

00:18:20.000 When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another and to assume among the powers of the earth in the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature is God.

00:18:31.000 That's what Abraham Lincoln was going for.

00:18:33.000 He said, that's what we have to aim at.

00:18:35.000 That's the nation our founders gave us.

00:18:37.000 That's the nation that the generation before us gave us.

00:18:40.000 Entitle them a decent and respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 0.85

00:18:49.000 Do you notice what's not mentioned in that paragraph? 0.54

00:18:52.000 Skin color.

00:18:54.000 Do you mention what's not mentioned in the Gettysburg Address?

00:18:58.000 Skin color.

00:19:00.000 The idea was that we're going to care about character, spirit, your spirit, and your soul, not how you look.

00:19:07.000 So, what Juneteenth is all about, that every Republican decided to vote for in the Senate, it's a direct affront to the righteous and moral idea that we were founded on July 4th, 1776.

00:19:19.000 We are now going to have competing Independence Days for the rest of your life.

00:19:24.000 That's right. 0.82

00:19:24.000 You are now going to have an African, a pan-African Juneteenth, quote, freedom day. 0.82

00:19:30.000 And by the way, I'm all for celebrating the liberation of slaves, but why don't we do it correctly?

00:19:36.000 Why don't we celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation signed by a Republican president?

00:19:41.000 Why don't we have a federal holiday on September 22nd to commemorate Abraham Lincoln, which was the true courageous act that actually ended up being the end result?

00:19:50.000 Juneteenth is merely the end of what Abraham Lincoln started on September 22nd.

00:19:56.000 So why that day?

00:19:57.000 Why June 19th?

00:19:59.000 Oh, it's before July 4th.

00:20:00.000 That's why. 0.68

00:20:02.000 So that your summer celebration starts with a BLM Incorporated, hyper-racialized day off. 0.57

00:20:10.000 So what was the movement that actually began in 1776?

00:20:13.000 Did you know by the time of the Constitutional Convention?

00:20:17.000 This is a very interesting fact to share your friends.

00:20:19.000 You see, the way Juneteenth is now going to be taught, because Republicans decided not to fight against this, did you know that nine states by the time the Constitution was ratified by 1787 abolished slavery?

00:20:32.000 Do you know that?

00:20:33.000 You know the Northwest Ordinance in Article 6 that says the Northwest Territories will be free territories.

00:20:38.000 That's why the dividing line, the Ohio River, was always the definition of free and slave state.

00:20:44.000 You know, the first ever anti-slavery convention was held in 1775 in Philadelphia?

00:20:50.000 Thomas Jefferson's original handwriting in the Declaration of Independence blamed King George for bringing the evil of slavery to the United States.

00:20:58.000 Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is not just bad for slaves, it was bad for slaveholders too.

00:21:07.000 Before Juneteenth, which has now become a federal holiday, as Joe Biden puts it forward, the most patriotic day of the year was July 4th.

00:21:16.000 Now it has a new competitor.

00:21:17.000 And here's how this is going to end.

00:21:19.000 And Republicans have no depth, no sophistication, no understanding of how this works. 0.83

00:21:24.000 They're going to say, well, if you support July 4th, you're a white supremacist. 0.81

00:21:27.000 That's the white supremacist day.

00:21:28.000 The real day is Juneteenth.

00:21:31.000 You're going to start seeing these African flags all over the country.

00:21:35.000 They're already in Chicago City Hall, by the way, the pan-African flag.

00:21:41.000 Lord Falkland famously said that if things are not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change them.

00:21:48.000 What does this accomplish or achieve?

00:21:50.000 To have a competitor against the moral, beautiful holiday of the unifying July 4th?

00:21:56.000 Somehow July 4th now needs a competitor?

00:21:58.000 Somehow July 4th, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. said very clearly that the Civil Rights Act is us cashing on the promissory notes of the promise made that day?

00:22:09.000 Or how about Frederick Douglass, the former slave himself, that said that the truths of the founding enshrined in the Declaration are eternal truths for no matter what skin color you are, including slaves?

00:22:21.000 Is that something we should forget?

00:22:23.000 So now we get a day off to hear how racist we are.

00:22:27.000 Thank you, Republicans.

00:22:30.000 Some people are saying, well, Charlie, what's wrong with having another national holiday that honors the liberation of slaves?

00:22:37.000 Of course, I'm for that conceptually, obviously.

00:22:40.000 That's not what this is about.

00:22:42.000 And I could prove it to you.

00:22:44.000 This person, Penil E. Joseph, whoever this is, writes very clearly that, no, no, no, it's not about the freeing of slaves.

00:22:52.000 Really, what this is about is about racial identity politics.

00:22:56.000 Let me make sure I get the exact.

00:22:58.000 Oh, yeah.

00:23:00.000 Scores of corporations, including the NFL, designated the date paid holiday as the nation scrambled to respond to monumental calls for racial justice.

00:23:07.000 Last year's Juneteenth celebrations drew the nation closer to the promise of multiracial democracy that first dawned in 1865.

00:23:15.000 Wait, we don't have multiracial democratic institutions?

00:23:18.000 So this whole thing is about trying to push us towards what exactly?

00:23:23.000 Just one year later, troubling signs of racial backlash abound.

00:23:26.000 No, no, it doesn't.

00:23:27.000 What are you talking about?

00:23:28.000 It's a complete and total lie.

00:23:30.000 White empathy over the deaths of innocent black Americans at the hands of police, recognition of the 1921 massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and celebrations Juneteenth have curdled this resentment.

00:23:40.000 First of all, we've been through the Tulsa thing.

00:23:42.000 It's way more complicated than they ever thought to believe.

00:23:45.000 This was a mob gone wrong, and there was a lot of back and forth.

00:23:52.000 Juneteenth commemorates June 19th, 1965, the announcement of the end of slavery by a union major general in Texas.

00:23:59.000 Long celebrated in black communities from coast to coast, it has been a Texas state holiday since 1980 and is a strong lone star state tradition.

00:24:11.000 Is that really what they're celebrating?

00:24:13.000 Because he goes on to say here, historically, must be contextualized.

00:24:17.000 History also offers us a guidepost to understand our present, but it rarely repeats itself, especially on racial matters.

00:24:24.000 Echoes previous instances of patterns of anti-black sentiment.

00:24:28.000 U.S. history holds a chilling warning about restricting votes.

00:24:31.000 Oh, I see what this is all about.

00:24:32.000 Got it.

00:24:32.000 HR1.

00:24:34.000 So then he goes on to this long essay that really Juneteenth is the beginning of racial reconciliation.

00:24:41.000 That's why we have to have Juneteenth, according to this person.

00:24:44.000 The system of punishment that imprisoned black women and men can be replaced with innovative social policies and investments that produce thriving neighborhoods. 1.00

00:24:51.000 Well, maybe blacks should get married before they have kids and graduate high school. 0.99

00:24:57.000 And as Candace Owens says, they're in jail because they commit more crimes. 1.00

00:25:01.000 And it's true.

00:25:03.000 In fact, there's an under-incarceration problem if you look at the actual statistics.

00:25:08.000 The backlash we have witnessed since last year is old as the Republic.

00:25:11.000 And Juneteenth, 2021 will be celebrated against this bittersweet backdrop.

00:25:16.000 Yet just because we have been here before does not mean that we must stay.

00:25:20.000 Juneteenth still offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a process that can last.

00:25:28.000 Can I say that again?

00:25:29.000 They are saying this is why they want Juneteenth.

00:25:33.000 Juneteenth offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a transformative process that can last.

00:25:43.000 You hear that?

00:25:44.000 Juneteenth is now a federal holiday so that we can transformationally change America.

00:25:49.000 That's what they're saying.

00:25:51.000 When they tell you who they are, believe them.

00:25:55.000 We know how they operate.

00:25:57.000 They try to get entire months dedicated to the drag queen story hour agenda, which is what we have right now, the whole month of June.

00:26:04.000 And Juneteenth is not about liberty or liberation in their eyes. 0.94

00:26:08.000 In the ideal, of course it is.

00:26:10.000 That's not what this is about.

00:26:11.000 If it was, we would actually celebrate Emancipation Proclamation.

00:26:14.000 We know that they try to sneak something in and then pervert it and use it to their own political impulse.

00:26:20.000 That's exactly what they're doing with it right here.

00:26:24.000 And now we are going to have a federal competitor, that's right, against July 4th.

00:26:29.000 And there will be essays and movements saying that July 4th is nothing more than a celebration of the white supremacist colonialist tradition that existed.

00:26:38.000 The true Independence Day is a pan-African Independence Day.

00:26:45.000 Don't believe me, just type into your Google images Juneteenth. 0.81

00:26:48.000 Every single image is an African flag. 0.51

00:26:52.000 Not an American flag. 0.96

00:26:54.000 Not one.

00:26:54.000 In fact, 54th image is an American flag.

00:26:59.000 It's a pan-African flag.

00:27:01.000 Symbols matter.

00:27:02.000 Tradition and history matters.

00:27:05.000 Our nation was founded in a culmination in 1776 of decades of courageous Protestant ministers that dared talk about the truth that you're made in the image of God.

00:27:18.000 Nine states by the Constitutional Convention had abolished slavery well before Juneteenth.

00:27:24.000 Abraham Lincoln recognized the true founding of our country July 4th, 1776.

00:27:29.000 But now in this new postmodern woke agenda, it's not enough to say that all men are created equal. 0.54

00:27:35.000 No, now you must have a racial independence day, a black independence day.

00:27:41.000 Do you think that's actually going to heal the country and harmonize us? 0.82

00:27:44.000 Or do you think maybe they might be using this to further sow division?

00:27:47.000 I'll let you decide.

00:27:48.000 Now, some people say, Charlie, how could you possibly be against emancipation?

00:27:53.000 You see, that's a really sloppy argument.

00:27:57.000 You think that I don't oppose it?

00:27:58.000 I think I oppose it being a federal holiday because I'm some sort of like anti-emancipationist, like an anti-abolitionist?

00:28:04.000 Of course not.

00:28:06.000 I'm against it for a lot of different reasons.

00:28:08.000 I'm happy to detail it.

00:28:10.000 Number one, I think the wise, clairvoyant, and correct observation that Abraham Lincoln made, that our founding was in 1776, he said that at the Gettysburg Address, that's a big deal.

00:28:24.000 And celebrating the ideal of July 4th has always been us continued to be an aspirational nation, a nation that always wants to better our conduct, better our laws in the framework of the moonshot that all men are created equal.

00:28:40.000 And it says it very clearly in the Declaration, that we hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:28:46.000 Now, what's the meaning of that?

00:28:51.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.

00:28:53.000 That means that a king does not have to tell us this.

00:28:55.000 Every human being has the agency and the ability to recognize that you have a right to your life, your consciousness to be able to assume property, and liberty, which means the pursuit of virtue.

00:29:07.000 That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, straight out of John Locke.

00:29:19.000 That to secure these rights, which means to protect them, governments are instituted among men, meaning that governments do not pre-exist men.

00:29:28.000 You see, what Thomas Jefferson is doing here is making a more practical argument of John Locke's natural rights social compact doctrine.

00:29:41.000 That government did not come before man.

00:29:44.000 Men create government.

00:29:46.000 It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.

00:29:53.000 That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to then, them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.

00:30:14.000 Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.

00:30:24.000 And accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to the right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

00:30:36.000 And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullers and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteent?

00:30:45.000 Why do they want this so badly?

00:30:47.000 Why are they lobbying for it?

00:30:48.000 Well, for a very simple reason.

00:30:51.000 For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day around racial identity politics.

00:30:57.000 BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.

00:31:01.000 You see, under the disguise that it's all about emancipation, which it isn't, they are now going to use this as a gateway to teach you false history and to pause the nation, to have all the cars stop in the streets and say, now we need to talk about our racial past. 0.98

00:31:23.000 Yeah, let's talk about our racial past. 0.83

00:31:25.000 Happy to.

00:31:26.000 Happy to talk about how we were the first nation to abolish the importation of slaves in 1807.

00:31:33.000 In fact, we were so bold about it, we put it in the United States Constitution.

00:31:36.000 Let's talk about that.

00:31:38.000 If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate March of 1807?

00:31:42.000 Find the date, Connor.

00:31:43.000 March of 1807.

00:31:44.000 We want to celebrate a holiday.

00:31:46.000 Why don't we celebrate the first nation to ever bar the importation of slaves?

00:31:50.000 If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate the day that Vermont abolished slavery?

00:31:54.000 That was a big deal.

00:31:55.000 If we want to celebrate a holiday, why don't we celebrate the nine states that abolished slavery ahead of the Constitutional Convention?

00:32:08.000 You see, on its surface, March 2nd, 1807, that's a big deal.

00:32:12.000 Why don't we make March 2nd, 1807 a federal holiday?

00:32:16.000 And quite honestly, Juneteent is a day of when the news reached Texas and kind of a big party broke out.

00:32:22.000 I'm all for that.

00:32:23.000 I'm for celebrating emancipation.

00:32:25.000 God bless that.

00:32:26.000 Seriously, it's a moral good.

00:32:28.000 But that's not what this is about.

00:32:29.000 We know that.

00:32:30.000 And if I have to overexplain this to you, then you don't know the left.

00:32:33.000 You don't know these people.

00:32:35.000 Now they have the black national anthem.

00:32:37.000 They're going to have a black independence day. 0.82

00:32:39.000 And I think the best argument for this, this is a preemptive kind of cutting in line against July 4th. 0.87

00:32:45.000 You see, July 4th was always, by definition, a colorless holiday.

00:32:50.000 The only colors that mattered on July 4th were red, white, and blue. 0.53

00:32:53.000 It didn't matter if you were black or if you were Asian or Hispanic. 0.83

00:32:57.000 Play Cut 70. 0.85

00:32:58.000 We must also recognize that freedom has been illusory for far too many American residents, including black people.

00:33:07.000 So we must embrace all American history.

00:33:10.000 And today, on Juneteenth, we will be raising another flag, the Juneteenth flag.

00:33:17.000 You hear that?

00:33:18.000 So they're going to be not raising the American flag, the Juneteenth flag.

00:33:21.000 If you've already seen the Pan-African flag, it is a green, black, and red flag.

00:33:26.000 Do you think that actually helps heal our divides?

00:33:30.000 Do you think that having a new national federal holiday competing with the colorless holiday of July 4th being racially driven, you heard it from Lori Lightfoot's own mouth.

00:33:42.000 We need Juneteenth because the system has been so terrible to black people and therefore systemic racism.

00:33:48.000 And there is no systemic racism in America.

00:33:50.000 I said this to a reporter recently and the silence on the phone was deafening.

00:33:55.000 She was like, well, what do you mean?

00:33:57.000 I said, there's no systemic racism.

00:33:59.000 The only systemic injustice that exists in America is the fact that certain communities are deciding not to get married and we've subsidized that.

00:34:07.000 We have withdrawn the police from certain communities so certain communities are able to kill themselves and with it, many children are caught in the crossfire and we are suffering under the pain of government-run schools.

00:34:17.000 Nothing to do with skin color.

00:34:18.000 In fact, if you think it has something to do with skin color, then all of a sudden, maybe you are the racist.

00:34:26.000 One of my friends from Chicago just messaged me.

00:34:29.000 He said, Juneteenth is a globalist Marxist holiday. 1.00

00:34:33.000 It's well said. 0.91

00:34:35.000 It's all of a sudden going to open up this conversation, which is, well, if we're all caring about racial identity politics and we give BLM Incorporated their own day, which is what we've done, this might as well be called Patrice Colors Day.

00:34:48.000 fact, why don't we call it the Nicole Hanna-Jones Day?

00:34:52.000 And it's under the excuse of, oh, we're celebrating emancipation.

00:34:55.000 No one's actually talking about that.

00:34:57.000 You realize that, right?

00:34:58.000 Did Lori Lightfoot just talk about that?

00:35:00.000 Did any of these people in their long essays write about this?

00:35:04.000 And in the next segment, I'm going to go through the naivete is the best way I could put it of a person who calls herself a conservative.

00:35:12.000 She's a nice person.

00:35:13.000 I've met her.

00:35:14.000 She's pleasant.

00:35:15.000 K. Cole James.

00:35:16.000 She runs the Heritage Foundation. 0.95

00:35:18.000 And she says, Juneteenth is the perfect answer to critical race theory.

00:35:22.000 Oh, really?

00:35:23.000 The perfect answer to critical race theory is let's create a new federal holiday two and a half weeks before July 4th that basically admits we're a racist country.

00:35:32.000 Really?

00:35:34.000 And so she says this.

00:35:36.000 While some use Juneteenth to push their hate America agenda, the conservative leader pointed out Juneteenth is a day for recognizing the greatness of America.

00:35:44.000 That, though, flawed, America was built on humanity's highest ideals and endowed with the constitutional framework that allowed it to right its wrongs throughout history.

00:35:51.000 Yes, we have a date for that.

00:35:52.000 It's called July 4th.

00:35:54.000 That is the day that is the pinnacle of the celebration of our nation.

00:35:58.000 Now, I just have a really honest question.

00:36:01.000 Has there ever been anything wrong with July 4th?

00:36:02.000 It's my favorite day of the year.

00:36:04.000 I love it.

00:36:04.000 It's one of the few days that everyone seems so excited to be part of a big national family.

00:36:09.000 The people are dressing up like Thomas Jefferson.

00:36:11.000 We have readings of the Declaration of Independence.

00:36:15.000 Now we have to just go hear about how terribly racist we are?

00:36:19.000 K. Cole James says, I do believe that there is some contradiction going on in the hearts of many Americans right now in regards to those who celebrate Juneteenth while also promoting the ideas like critical race theory and the 1619 project.

00:36:30.000 Wait, so she admits that Juneteenth is being used by the critical race theorists?

00:36:34.000 That's the whole point.

00:36:35.000 Critical race theory has now been given a federal holiday.

00:36:38.000 It does not matter what actually happened on that day.

00:36:41.000 They have hijacked it.

00:36:42.000 They have owned it like they have done with all other great things.

00:36:45.000 You know what it's like saying?

00:36:46.000 It's like saying, yeah, Yale is great because it was founded as a Christian college.

00:36:49.000 Yeah, 200 years ago.

00:36:51.000 Now Yale is the most secular, humanist, anti-Christian college.

00:36:55.000 The same thing with Juneteenth. 1.00

00:36:57.000 It was a great day.

00:36:58.000 And now it's going to be used to teach your children to hate themselves and hate their country.

00:37:02.000 Flag Day was just a couple of days ago.

00:37:03.000 That is not a federal holiday.

00:37:05.000 But all of a sudden now you're going to start seeing these pan-African flags flying all over the country. 1.00

00:37:10.000 Why is that something that should bother us?

00:37:13.000 Not for racial reasons, obviously.

00:37:16.000 But should there be a flag that should have more emphasis than the American flag? 0.97

00:37:20.000 We already did that with the LGBT thing and we went after that whole thing.

00:37:24.000 I can't believe that one kind of passed by the radar screen of Media Matters.

00:37:28.000 They must have took a day off.

00:37:30.000 However, the symbols of the American flag are really important.

00:37:36.000 But now, because we have a new federal holiday, a new Independence Day before July 4th, that if you don't celebrate, by the way, they're going to keep a list.

00:37:43.000 If you don't send out a tweet on Juneteenth, you're a bad person.

00:37:46.000 If you don't celebrate, you're not going to get a contract.

00:37:48.000 If you don't celebrate, you're going to get fired from a job.

00:37:53.000 So what is the American flag?

00:37:55.000 The stripes represent the original 13 colonies.

00:37:59.000 And the stars obviously represent the 50 states of the Union.

00:38:03.000 The colors of the flag are very symbolic as well.

00:38:06.000 Red symbolizes hardiness and valor.

00:38:10.000 White symbolizes purity and innocence.

00:38:13.000 And the blue represents vigilance, perseverance, and justice.

00:38:17.000 Did you hear that?

00:38:19.000 Did you know that the blue in the red, white, and blue symbolizes justice?

00:38:23.000 So why do we need another Pan-African flag?

00:38:25.000 I don't know what the Pan-African flag stands for.

00:38:27.000 All I know is that it's not in the central canon of American symbols.

00:38:33.000 And symbols matter.

00:38:35.000 History matters.

00:38:36.000 Tradition matters.

00:38:36.000 Culture matters.

00:38:37.000 You know why?

00:38:38.000 When I wear this flag, this American flag, I have an unspoken connection to my ancestors that helped build this country, to the first Kirks that came to America in 1620, Alphonsus Kirkwis' name, actually.

00:38:52.000 And by the way, this doesn't make me a good person.

00:38:54.000 It doesn't make you a better person if you're connected to someone who did something good or something bad, but it does make me proud.

00:39:00.000 Alphonsus Kirk came in 1620, and in every single war, we can trace through our bloodline, someone fought for this nation.

00:39:10.000 From Abner Abbey, who fought in the Revolutionary War, daughter, son or daughter of the American Revolution, is something that my family is part of, to the American Civil War, to the War of 1812, to World War I, to my grandfather in World War II.

00:39:24.000 It was this ideal that they were fighting for.

00:39:26.000 They were fighting for the ideal that is enshrined in the United States Constitution.

00:39:30.000 They swore over this.

00:39:34.000 And July 4th, if you look at the list of federal holidays, kind of stands in its own in the summer calendar for good reason.

00:39:44.000 You see, July 4th is bookended by Memorial Day.

00:39:48.000 We remember those who died for our nation.

00:39:52.000 And then on the other side, it's Labor Day, where it's, there's a lot of history behind Labor Day.

00:39:59.000 Weather's nice, whatever.

00:40:00.000 I guess we honor.

00:40:02.000 The history of Labor Day is a lot more mixed.

00:40:04.000 Not going to get into that.

00:40:06.000 That's for a different time.

00:40:08.000 But in the entire summer calendar where people take a lot of time off, why is it that all of a sudden on July 4th, there is a unique pattern of behavior?

00:40:18.000 Why do we do parades?

00:40:19.000 You ever think about that?

00:40:21.000 What's so special about parades?

00:40:23.000 Well, parades, back before social media, is when the soldiers would either go to war or celebrate a victory of a war.

00:40:31.000 That was a parade.

00:40:32.000 They would parade before they'd go out to war, and if they won, they would parade again.

00:40:37.000 So in a couple of weeks, when you're July 4th, remember that.

00:40:40.000 Why do we do fireworks?

00:40:43.000 Well, they're fun.

00:40:44.000 They kind of play into the pyrotechnic nature of so many folks across the country.

00:40:51.000 But also, every time you hear those fireworks go off, you're supposed to remember what Francis Scott Key wrote so eloquently from the Battle of 18, the War of 1812.

00:41:02.000 You're supposed to remember the cannon fire.

00:41:04.000 You're supposed to remember the sacrifice.

00:41:06.000 You're supposed to remember on those beautiful July 4th evenings where everything just kind of stands still, that you're celebrating your nation and you're celebrating the unity and the liberty that allows you to have that, granted by God, the rockets red glare and the bombs bursting in midair.

00:41:26.000 So what is the symbol of Juneteenth? 0.95

00:41:29.000 It's an African flag.

00:41:30.000 What does that mean?

00:41:31.000 Can someone explain to me how that plays into our ideas of the American Trinity, the American Trinity, Trinity of In God We Trust and E pluribus Unum and Liberty?

00:41:40.000 That's what July 4th is all about, because that's what happened on July 4th, 1776.

00:41:45.000 How many of you guys have planned to do something and it was an idea and it prevented you from becoming a reality all the time?

00:41:51.000 The founders had this idea of an official divorce document with King George for quite some time.

00:41:57.000 This was an official separation document.

00:42:00.000 You know what they did?

00:42:01.000 They did something that no people have ever done before.

00:42:04.000 They organized and they submitted in a formal legal brief.

00:42:09.000 They said, we want to govern ourselves.

00:42:11.000 We want to separate from you and we're willing to do whatever it takes.

00:42:14.000 And the declaration ends with those amazing words.

00:42:17.000 And with it, we pledge our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor.

00:42:23.000 You want an example of a federal holiday that's been taken advantage of?

00:42:26.000 How about Columbus Day, which is no longer called Columbus Day.

00:42:29.000 Now it's called Indigenous Peoples Day.

00:42:31.000 Columbus Day was always a day where we celebrated the discovery of the new world and the entry of Westerners into the North American continent.

00:42:39.000 Christopher Columbus was a, say, a mixed figure, but generally, he was an absolutely brilliant person.

00:42:47.000 You look at someone who took on the task of trying to come into the new world and bring common law and try to then finally open up trade and commerce.

00:43:01.000 Well, Christopher Columbus Day is now over.

00:43:03.000 It is now, we now have Indigenous Peoples Day.

00:43:06.000 Just one small example of how federal holidays can be changed.

00:43:13.000 And so as we get into this, and I want to play some tape here of Tucker because Tucker says very something similar, is that we now have a new Independence Day.

00:43:21.000 Forget James Madison, forget Thomas Jefferson, forget the founding fathers and what they might do.

00:43:27.000 Instead, we now need to have an overemphasis on race because I don't know about you, I don't think we're talking about race enough in our country.

00:43:35.000 Everything is racist.

00:43:37.000 Play tape.

00:43:38.000 Starting this Saturday, our country is getting a new Independence Day to supplant the old one, which people like Lori Lightfoot complained was racist.

00:43:45.000 Not a single member of either party in the Senate opposed it.

00:43:49.000 Republicans, in fact, co-sponsored the resolution.

00:43:51.000 Happy that my bill to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday just passed the Senate, wrote John Cornyn, a supposedly conservative senator from Texas.

00:44:00.000 So why does it matter that certain things should not change?

00:44:04.000 Well, we know the motivations of the other side, especially when you see how happy they are that certain things are being pushed, especially when you see how aggressive they are putting things forward.

00:44:17.000 I think that it should be, it should have a timeout that certain movements of mass progress are actually going to be used to try and push forward transformational social change.

00:44:32.000 And that kind of transformational social change is very bad.

00:44:35.000 In fact, it's harmful for the type of order that might preexist it.

00:44:40.000 You see, when you go to change something, you must have a very good reason.

00:44:44.000 So what is the very good reason that people are using that we need to have Juneteenth?

00:44:50.000 What is the reason that is being put forward?

00:44:53.000 Well, the reason is that we're a racist country and that we need to have a hyper-emphasis on race.

00:44:59.000 That is the reason that they are giving.

00:45:00.000 You don't believe me?

00:45:02.000 Go read the literature of the people that are putting this forward.

00:45:05.000 It has nothing to do with emancipation.

00:45:07.000 Again, if it was about that, it would be about the great leap forward that Abraham Lincoln did with the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22nd, 1862, or 1863.

00:45:16.000 I think it's 1863.

00:45:17.000 Is that right?

00:45:18.000 There's a multitude of dates that could better reflect it.

00:45:22.000 Now, Juneteenth was a particular type of tradition that was passed down in the state of Texas.

00:45:28.000 But actually, no one's talking about emancipation.

00:45:31.000 Instead, they're talking about how this is the opening of a massive reckoning for racial progress and racial justice.

00:45:38.000 That Juneteenth now basically institutionalizes critical race theory, everything we saw from George Floyd to Ahmad Arbery to Breonna Taylor.

00:45:47.000 Now it's enshrined in a federal holiday.

00:45:51.000 And in this article that is written in defense of it, it says, quote, Juneteenth in both its historical origins and contemporary resurgence, brings us closer to some uncomfortable truths about American identity.

00:46:04.000 You hear that?

00:46:04.000 This is not a celebration.

00:46:06.000 This is a reckoning.

00:46:08.000 I'm going to say that again.

00:46:09.000 Juneteenth brings us closer to some uncomfortable truths about American identity.

00:46:15.000 So what is the goal of this exactly?

00:46:17.000 Is the goal to bring us closer to some form of hatred?

00:46:21.000 Do you think that we're at a level where we're not hating ourselves enough?

00:46:26.000 We are, I think, I thought we hit a penultimates level of self-loathing, but according to the other side, I think we're just beginning.

00:46:35.000 Listen to AOC.

00:46:37.000 AOC is very clear about what Juneteenth is all about.

00:46:40.000 And by the way, I just want to say this.

00:46:41.000 This is a minority opinion right now in conservative circles.

00:46:44.000 People are telling me I'm getting lots of tweets and everything.

00:46:47.000 I deleted Twitter, so I think clearly, and I know that we're right here.

00:46:51.000 I know that my children in 10 years from now are going to have to be forced to take a knee.

00:46:57.000 And I'm going to be getting all these emails from WeWork to Uber Eats to Starbucks or whatever newsletters that I'm on saying today is Juneteenth. 0.93

00:47:08.000 We recognize that racial progress is always, it's never quite in our grasp. 0.83

00:47:13.000 And that's why we need this bill and this bill and that bill and this bill and this bill and that bill.

00:47:18.000 What does AOC say Juneteenth is about?

00:47:20.000 What does the radical left say?

00:47:23.000 Are they saying it's about emancipation?

00:47:25.000 Are they actually saying that it's about a fulfillment of Abraham Lincoln's legacy?

00:47:29.000 Of course not.

00:47:30.000 Play tape.

00:47:32.000 This is pretty consistent with, I think, the Republican base.

00:47:35.000 And it's whether it's trying to fight against teaching basic history around racism and the role of racism in U.S. history to, you know, there's a direct through line from that to denying Juneteenth.

00:47:50.000 So we're denying Juneteenth.

00:47:50.000 Right.

00:47:52.000 Okay, AOC, I could go through about 30 days that are not currently federal holidays that I think are days that are worthy of remembering.

00:48:00.000 That is not the point.

00:48:01.000 Did you know Constitution Day is not a federal holiday?

00:48:04.000 That's somewhat of an important thing.

00:48:07.000 Maybe like a minor detail of why we're here.

00:48:09.000 The ratification of Bill of Rights was not a federal holiday.

00:48:12.000 The Emancipation Proclamation was not a federal holiday.

00:48:15.000 Hey, what was the end of the Civil War, by the way?

00:48:19.000 How about the signing of the treaty at Appomattox Courthouse?

00:48:23.000 From what I understand, Juneteenth is just when the news hit Galveston, Texas.

00:48:28.000 Am I right?

00:48:30.000 That was when the news hit.

00:48:31.000 It's somewhat, this is going to be totally misquoted.

00:48:34.000 It could have been June 20th or June 21st.

00:48:36.000 It's just when the news hit, and they had a celebration and they decided that was the day they wanted to celebrate it.

00:48:41.000 Fine.

00:48:42.000 Is that April 9th, 1865?

00:48:45.000 Why is that not a federal holiday?

00:48:47.000 April 9th, 1865.

00:48:48.000 Here, and the left knows that this, again, they're so deceptive.

00:48:52.000 We know that.

00:48:53.000 They're so treacherous. 0.96

00:48:54.000 And again, if you still give these people the benefit of good intentions, I hope the Neville Chamberlain Sioux for Peace strategy works well in your life.

00:49:04.000 These very same people that are the people that spied on President Trump, the very same people that teach your children credit critical race theory.

00:49:12.000 We're just supposed to, oh, yeah, the Democrats, they want Juneteenth because you know why?

00:49:16.000 They actually want to teach American history.

00:49:18.000 Of course not.

00:49:19.000 They want a competitor and eventually a superior summer federal holiday that diminishes and debases the symbols and the history of what July 4th actually is.

00:49:33.000 And none of them are actually talking about the history of that.

00:49:38.000 You would think that Constitution Day would be important.

00:49:40.000 Nope, of course, the day that we won the Civil War, April 19th, 1865, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the Clain House in the village of Appomattox Courthouse.

00:49:50.000 That's not a federal holiday.

00:49:52.000 Wouldn't that be somewhat more significant than Juneteenth?

00:49:58.000 Juneteenth is, at its most basic reading, I read it, okay, no necessary moral problem with it.

00:50:08.000 But in practice, which is what we are, right?

00:50:10.000 We are practical beings, get out of the clouds and into the weeds.

00:50:14.000 What are we actually looking at here?

00:50:16.000 We're looking at BLM Incorporated's national holiday.

00:50:20.000 We're looking at a direct competitor of July 4th and a Black Day of Independence. 0.70

00:50:26.000 And here's a thought crime.

00:50:28.000 Slavery was not always about race in America.

00:50:30.000 Don't believe me?

00:50:31.000 Read Thomas Sowell's essay about that.

00:50:33.000 It wasn't.

00:50:35.000 Slavery was not always about race. 0.96

00:50:38.000 There were whites that came as slaves.

00:50:39.000 There were indentured servants that came as slaves.

00:50:41.000 Here's another thought crime.

00:50:42.000 Slavery is usually not about race across the world.

00:50:46.000 Slavery was not always about racial domination.

00:50:49.000 And again, for all of the Media Matters, wonderful people that are watching, I refer you to Discrimination and Disparities, Chapter 5, by Thomas Sowell.

00:50:58.000 And you can go call him a racist.

00:51:00.000 I'm merely just referencing what he has to say.

00:51:03.000 So, what we're looking at here, and this would commonly be called as a sneak attack or a Trojan horse.

00:51:10.000 If you look at the left and what they've been trying to do, it's very simple.

00:51:14.000 They're trying to crowd out the unity, the beauty, and the celebratory undertones of July 4th, where everyone pulls up a flag and there's a moment, almost a détente of politics.

00:51:26.000 By its very definition and how they're expressing this, they want this to be political.

00:51:32.000 Again, I'm going to reinforce this.

00:51:34.000 Juneteenth still offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a transformative process that can last.

00:51:43.000 What exactly about 2020 are they proud of?

00:51:47.000 What about 2020 are the BLM incorporated people proud of?

00:51:51.000 What racial reckoning actually happened last year?

00:51:54.000 77% of black kids are still born without a father in the home.

00:51:58.000 How about the racial reckoning in Chicago?

00:52:01.000 How'd that work in Chicago last year?

00:52:06.000 719 people shot and killed in Chicago last year.

00:52:09.000 3,455 shot and wounded.

00:52:12.000 Is that the racial reckoning they're talking about?

00:52:14.000 How about the thousands of storefronts that were looted and burned?

00:52:18.000 Is that the racial reckoning that they want? 0.80

00:52:20.000 Oh, I know which one. 0.58

00:52:22.000 How about the one that says looting is reparations? 0.58

00:52:24.000 Is that the racial reckoning they want?

00:52:26.000 Cut 75. 0.80

00:52:28.000 Care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats.

00:52:36.000 That makes sure that that person has clothes.

00:52:38.000 That's reparations.

00:52:40.000 That is reparations.

00:52:42.000 Anything they want to take, take it, because these businesses have insurance.

00:52:46.000 They're going to get their money back.

00:52:48.000 My people aren't getting anything.

00:52:50.000 Oh, if you have insurance, then robbing is okay.

00:52:53.000 So therefore, the FDIC allows you to go hold up a bank.

00:52:57.000 That's her argument.

00:53:00.000 Is that the racial reckoning that we're supposed to support?

00:53:03.000 How about the burning of Kenosha in Chicago, Philadelphia?

00:53:06.000 How about David Dorn being shot, police officer? 0.58

00:53:09.000 Is that the racial reckoning that we should support?

00:53:12.000 How about the dozens of police officers that were killed in cold blood?

00:53:15.000 Is that the racial reckoning that we want?

00:53:17.000 So according to this argument of the top intelligentsia, Pennell E. Joseph, whoever this person is, they're saying that 2020 was a great year and Juneteenth is going to make it permanent.

00:53:29.000 That's their argument.

00:53:31.000 Their argument is not about, hey, look how far we've come.

00:53:36.000 Get your life in order and get your act together.

00:53:38.000 No, it's the opposite.

00:53:40.000 They're now going to use this as a pan-African black nationalist Independence Day to try to directly criticize.

00:53:48.000 You now have a competitor.

00:53:49.000 What happens when you have a competitor?

00:53:50.000 Well, then you have a winner.

00:53:53.000 Let's just play this out for anyone that is still not yet convinced.

00:53:57.000 10 years from now, do you think July 4th or June 19th is going to be more important in the focus and the psyche of American corporations, movies, documentaries, celebrities, and social media influencers?

00:54:12.000 If you want to de-emphasize and eventually almost put in the back burner July 4th, similar to how Columbus Day is, where we kind of really don't take it very seriously, this is how you do it.

00:54:21.000 You overshadow it.

00:54:22.000 You go full court press.

00:54:24.000 You flood the zone, and that's their strategy.

00:54:27.000 They don't want you to talk about James Madison or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington.

00:54:31.000 Instead, they want you to talk about Patrice Cullers, Ibra Max Kendi, how to be an anti-racist, and Angela Davis.

00:54:37.000 That is the agenda behind all of this.

00:54:40.000 It's so clear.

00:54:42.000 People would call it a wolf in sheep's clothing or a Trojan horse, but that would mean that they're hiding something.

00:54:46.000 They're saying the private part out loud.

00:54:51.000 How many years have I been telling you about Relief Factor?

00:54:53.000 Quite a lot.

00:54:54.000 Truth is, I know millions of people, in fact, that over 100 million people that are struggling with some kind of pain, whether it's knee pain, back pain, joint pain, and exercise or getting older or whatever it might be.

00:55:04.000 I'm so impressed with the team at Relief Factor.

00:55:06.000 They are on a mission.

00:55:07.000 You rarely see this kind of commitment.

00:55:09.000 So go to relieffactor.com.

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00:55:16.000 And then after that, less than a cost of a cup of coffee a day.

00:55:19.000 Relief Factor is terrific.

00:55:20.000 It's 100% drug-free.

00:55:22.000 Go to relieffactor.com.

00:55:23.000 That's relieffactor.com.

00:55:27.000 There's a couple, I want to do some quick-hitting stories, one after the other, after the other.

00:55:31.000 Donald Trump came out on Sean Hannity and said children should not be getting the vaccine.

00:55:35.000 Hold on, time out here.

00:55:37.000 Almost as if this program here, the Charlie Kirk Show, engaging in thought crimes, were getting some air support from the former president.

00:55:43.000 Play tape.

00:55:44.000 Now we have to get back and the schools have to get open.

00:55:47.000 And frankly, we're lucky we have the vaccine, but the vaccine on very young people is something that you got to really stop.

00:55:56.000 You know, they're just not affected or affected badly.

00:55:59.000 Having to receive a vaccine, I think, is something that you should start thinking about because I think it's unnecessary.

00:56:07.000 Unnecessary.

00:56:08.000 That is Donald Trump saying that we shouldn't maybe be engaging in a mass inoculation strategy with our nation's young people.

00:56:19.000 Of course, the activist media is going to come out full court press against Donald Trump and say very clearly that how dare you diminish science.

00:56:34.000 Donald Trump's looking at what we're looking at.

00:56:35.000 He's looking at young people, some of them having some adverse reactions to this that are very, very serious. 0.87

00:56:43.000 President Trump last night also said in regards to the meeting with Joe Biden in Russia, frankly, it was a good day for Russia.

00:56:50.000 We didn't get anything out of the meeting, Cut 68.

00:56:52.000 Well, I guess the overall is we didn't get anything.

00:56:54.000 We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing.

00:57:00.000 We gave up something that was unbelievably valuable.

00:57:03.000 I stopped the pipeline, Nordstrom, and that pipeline was stopped, and it was given back, and nothing was gotten for it.

00:57:13.000 Nothing was gotten for that.

00:57:15.000 And we have a whole podcast episode that I encourage you guys to check out where we talked at length about Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin's meeting.

00:57:23.000 And I want to end this hour with a story that America should become a nation of renters, said no one who actually cares about America ever.

00:57:31.000 Carl W. Smith, who is a Bloomberg opinion columnist, formerly the vice president of the Federal Policy of Tax Foundation, so he probably is funded by a bunch of corporations, saying that we need to now rent, not own.

00:57:43.000 Now, we went into great detail last week about the moral argument for ownership.

00:57:48.000 When you own something, you're more likely to want to preserve it.

00:57:50.000 You're more likely to want to contest for the well-being of the community and the place around you.

00:57:55.000 But he says right here in this article that renting should become the new norm.

00:58:00.000 He said that liquid assets like publicly traded stocks and corporate bonds earn what's known as a liquidity premium.

00:58:06.000 Their market price is many times the dividend or coupon that investors get from holding them.

00:58:11.000 The more liquid an asset, the higher the premium goes.

00:58:13.000 On the flip side, those same high-flying stocks and bonds can see their prices collapse when investors get spooked and withdraw their cash from the market.

00:58:22.000 He says these factors make houses a good investment for moderate income families who often lack the cash and risk tolerance for market investments.

00:58:29.000 As investment went, single-family homes went cheaply and solar glue grew into times good and bad.

00:58:34.000 He goes on to say that this was a failed experiment.

00:58:38.000 You see, all that equity you have in your home, the fact you own your house, that's a failed experiment.

00:58:43.000 He continues by saying, a nation of renters could lead to a world where location decisions are driven far more by personal preferences and life cycle demands.

00:58:51.000 Younger workers might prefer the excitement of the city.

00:58:53.000 A couple just starting a family could reunite with their parents or siblings in a small town.

00:58:57.000 You hear that?

00:58:58.000 We need a more transient America.

00:59:00.000 We need more people living in urban America and less people living out on the farm or living out in the suburbs.

00:59:05.000 Of course, what's the consequence of that?

00:59:09.000 When you rent, not own, then you don't really care as much about property values.

00:59:17.000 Property values go down with crime, so you care less with crime.

00:59:20.000 You don't care much about property taxes.

00:59:22.000 Renters are less engaged to be involved in the community and the welfare of the place around them.

00:59:28.000 Owning something is a conservative value. 0.98

00:59:31.000 When you own something, then all of a sudden a higher sense of awareness and care for everything around you kicks in.

00:59:40.000 When you're renting, it's the tragedy of the commons.

00:59:43.000 Why should I be concerned for this if it's not actually my stake in that fight?

00:59:50.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:59:51.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:59:54.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com.

00:59:58.000 And if you want to support our program, go to charliekirk.com slash support.

01:00:02.000 God bless you guys.

01:00:03.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 17, 2021

The Most Comprehensive Argument Why Juneteenth Should NOT be a Federal Holiday

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