00:00:42.000Should we have a competitor to July 4th?
00:00:44.000By the end of the episode, I hope to convince you.
00:00:46.000Maybe 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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00:01:00.000This is a topic that many people are afraid to approach, but not on this program.
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00:02:10.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:02:19.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:30.000It's back to school time, and you may be feeling the burden of college bills or private school tuition expenses.
00:02:35.000With home equity and an all-time high and interest rates low, refinancing your house could be a great way to get some cash and pay those bills.
00:02:40.000Look, if you got to take out a loan, maybe you want to buy a home or refinance, throw out the big banks.
00:04:37.000Are minor offenses something that we should consider a concern?
00:04:44.000Well, those of us that know the way society works, we know that small crimes are big crimes.
00:04:50.000We know that graffiti on a window will soon lead to things that are even greater than that.
00:04:56.000But just talking about the crime in and of itself, raiding and looting a store.
00:05:04.000This is happening now at a rapid pace across the country.
00:05:08.000Petty theft has now been decriminalized in San Francisco.
00:05:12.000Anything under $950 is not going to be prosecuted.
00:05:15.000This happened in Walgreens yesterday, and 17 stores have closed so far due to shoplifting.
00:05:21.000And 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?
00:05:54.000But 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.
00:06:08.000You are morally equivalent in my eyes.
00:06:11.000So let's play a clip here of what's happening.
00:07:37.000And by the way, many of your children are learning this in college and in high school.
00:07:41.000Just this week in Chicago, 12 people have been shot and killed, 60 people shot and wounded, 72 total shot, and 12 total homicides.
00:07:50.000And 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.
00:07:58.000And in the Chicago Tribune, published this.
00:08:03.000Reparations are not about economic stability, not a looted pair of $120 Nikes.
00:08:10.000That when you loot and you steal, it's really about giving black people what they want and what they deserve.
00:08:15.000Because someone they were related to 100 years ago was a slave.
00:08:18.000No, not even 100 years ago, 150 years ago.
00:08:26.000Remember, this is the true struggle that's happening in the country.
00:08:29.000And because we have decided to just send a lot of kids to government-run schools, we have lost the moral argument, which is what is a human being?
00:08:40.000Do you want to create better character or do you want to tear down the entire country around you?
00:08:44.000Is it the country that's the problem, or are you the problem?
00:08:48.000And so petty crime is now becoming big crime.
00:08:50.000Rapes are up, murders are up, kidnapping's up, arson's up, and there is flight out of San Francisco.
00:08:58.000Russell Kirk famously said that order signifies harmony.
00:09:03.000There are two aspects or types of order, the inner order of the soul and the outer order of the commonwealth.
00:09:11.000Plato talked this in his Plato's Republic.
00:09:16.000But the educated, the philosopher kings nowadays, to use a Plato word, find it very difficult to grasp this and understand.
00:09:23.000If you do not have an ordered soul and an ordered commonwealth, then yes, you have chaos, disorder, and then you get an autocrat and a tyrant.
00:09:49.000Charlie Kirk here, and I've warned you about home title theft, where cyber thieves remove you from your home's title and you become the owner.
00:09:56.000I said you better get home title lock because it's coming.
00:09:58.000Well, if you're on Facebook, that big breach is here.
00:10:01.000Facebook had 500 million accounts exposed to cyber thieves.
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00:10:10.000Name, address, personal information, it's out there.
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00:10:40.000You might not have noticed this, but the United States Congress has finally found something they can agree on.
00:10:47.000United States Congress, of course, can't agree on whether or not the Constitution is a document worthy of honoring.
00:10:53.000They can't agree on whether or not they should curb inflation.
00:10:57.000They can't address the crisis on the southern border.
00:11:00.000They can't try to bring back manufacturing Jobs to our country.
00:11:03.000But 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.
00:11:15.00014 members of the House of Representatives deserve credit for voting against this, and that is to create a new federal holiday called Juneteenth.
00:11:25.000Now, you might not have heard this before.
00:11:27.000Juneteenth, 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.
00:11:53.000And 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.
00:12:15.000He says, having Juneteenth as a national holiday offers possibilities Americans can't ignore.
00:12:23.000And so they want to create a new July 4th, and they've done it.
00:12:27.000The House and the Senate have passed this with almost no opposition.
00:12:30.000And Joe Biden is now going to create a new Black Independence Day.
00:12:36.000That's right, circled on your calendars from now for the rest of your life.
00:12:40.000There will be a new Independence Day before July 4th.
00:12:44.000And it's not going to have the American flag, no.
00:12:47.000You see, if you look at the symbols behind Juneteenth, it is the African flag, something that's called the Pan-African flag.
00:12:55.000You might not have heard this before because you grew up in America where the American flag actually mattered.
00:13:00.000But now in the new world, after George Floyd or BLM Incorporated or whatever, we now have to say, we're going to preempt this.
00:13:10.000On Juneteenth, we are now going to have a pan-African Black Independence Day.
00:13:17.000And in Congress, in front of the picture of George Washington, we have members of Congress that are not singing the U.S. National Anthem.
00:14:30.000There's so many other dates, by the way, we could choose.
00:14:33.000Why was America not founded on September 17th, 1787?
00:14:38.000Which 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.
00:14:46.000Why 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?
00:15:00.000Well, first, it's actually more important to realize what happened in that year.
00:15:05.000You see, Abraham Lincoln was actually the first American president that made a point of this.
00:15:14.000Other American presidents like Quincy Adams, Monroe, and Madison, they mentioned it, but there was an attachment for Madison for the Constitution.
00:15:23.000Obviously, he was the father of the Constitution.
00:15:25.000Lincoln was the first generation not to actually be directly connected to that founding generation.
00:15:32.000Think of it as almost the greatest generation and their grandkids.
00:15:36.000Abraham Lincoln was truly that next generation.
00:16:43.000That's what Abraham Lincoln was getting at.
00:16:45.000And 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.
00:17:08.000Abraham Lincoln was making an overarching historical, moral, and philosophical argument that what came before us was something that we should actually try to attain.
00:17:16.000What 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.
00:17:39.000This is a speech that he thought would be in the dustbin of history.
00:17:42.000In fact, Abraham Lincoln was given the shortest amount of time to speak out of all the speakers in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
00:17:48.000He thought no one would want to hear from them.
00:17:50.000Little did he know these 272 words would change the trajectory of human history.
00:17:55.000And 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.
00:18:12.000What Abraham Lincoln was saying was that in this declaration, it talked about divine truth.
00:18:20.000When 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.
00:18:31.000That's what Abraham Lincoln was going for.
00:18:33.000He said, that's what we have to aim at.
00:18:35.000That's the nation our founders gave us.
00:18:37.000That's the nation that the generation before us gave us.
00:18:40.000Entitle them a decent and respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
00:18:49.000Do you notice what's not mentioned in that paragraph?
00:19:00.000The idea was that we're going to care about character, spirit, your spirit, and your soul, not how you look.
00:19:07.000So, 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.
00:19:19.000We are now going to have competing Independence Days for the rest of your life.
00:19:24.000You are now going to have an African, a pan-African Juneteenth, quote, freedom day.
00:19:30.000And by the way, I'm all for celebrating the liberation of slaves, but why don't we do it correctly?
00:19:36.000Why don't we celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation signed by a Republican president?
00:19:41.000Why 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?
00:19:50.000Juneteenth is merely the end of what Abraham Lincoln started on September 22nd.
00:20:02.000So that your summer celebration starts with a BLM Incorporated, hyper-racialized day off.
00:20:10.000So what was the movement that actually began in 1776?
00:20:13.000Did you know by the time of the Constitutional Convention?
00:20:17.000This is a very interesting fact to share your friends.
00:20:19.000You 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?
00:20:33.000You know the Northwest Ordinance in Article 6 that says the Northwest Territories will be free territories.
00:20:38.000That's why the dividing line, the Ohio River, was always the definition of free and slave state.
00:20:44.000You know, the first ever anti-slavery convention was held in 1775 in Philadelphia?
00:20:50.000Thomas Jefferson's original handwriting in the Declaration of Independence blamed King George for bringing the evil of slavery to the United States.
00:20:58.000Thomas Jefferson wrote extensively about how slavery is not just bad for slaves, it was bad for slaveholders too.
00:21:07.000Before Juneteenth, which has now become a federal holiday, as Joe Biden puts it forward, the most patriotic day of the year was July 4th.
00:21:50.000To have a competitor against the moral, beautiful holiday of the unifying July 4th?
00:21:56.000Somehow July 4th now needs a competitor?
00:21:58.000Somehow 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?
00:22:09.000Or 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?
00:23:00.000Scores of corporations, including the NFL, designated the date paid holiday as the nation scrambled to respond to monumental calls for racial justice.
00:23:07.000Last year's Juneteenth celebrations drew the nation closer to the promise of multiracial democracy that first dawned in 1865.
00:23:15.000Wait, we don't have multiracial democratic institutions?
00:23:18.000So this whole thing is about trying to push us towards what exactly?
00:23:23.000Just one year later, troubling signs of racial backlash abound.
00:23:30.000White 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.
00:23:40.000First of all, we've been through the Tulsa thing.
00:23:42.000It's way more complicated than they ever thought to believe.
00:23:45.000This was a mob gone wrong, and there was a lot of back and forth.
00:23:52.000Juneteenth commemorates June 19th, 1965, the announcement of the end of slavery by a union major general in Texas.
00:23:59.000Long 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.
00:24:11.000Is that really what they're celebrating?
00:24:13.000Because he goes on to say here, historically, must be contextualized.
00:24:17.000History also offers us a guidepost to understand our present, but it rarely repeats itself, especially on racial matters.
00:24:24.000Echoes previous instances of patterns of anti-black sentiment.
00:24:28.000U.S. history holds a chilling warning about restricting votes.
00:24:34.000So then he goes on to this long essay that really Juneteenth is the beginning of racial reconciliation.
00:24:41.000That's why we have to have Juneteenth, according to this person.
00:24:44.000The system of punishment that imprisoned black women and men can be replaced with innovative social policies and investments that produce thriving neighborhoods.
00:24:51.000Well, maybe blacks should get married before they have kids and graduate high school.
00:24:57.000And as Candace Owens says, they're in jail because they commit more crimes.
00:25:03.000In fact, there's an under-incarceration problem if you look at the actual statistics.
00:25:08.000The backlash we have witnessed since last year is old as the Republic.
00:25:11.000And Juneteenth, 2021 will be celebrated against this bittersweet backdrop.
00:25:16.000Yet just because we have been here before does not mean that we must stay.
00:25:20.000Juneteenth still offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a process that can last.
00:25:29.000They are saying this is why they want Juneteenth.
00:25:33.000Juneteenth offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a transformative process that can last.
00:26:11.000If it was, we would actually celebrate Emancipation Proclamation.
00:26:14.000We know that they try to sneak something in and then pervert it and use it to their own political impulse.
00:26:20.000That's exactly what they're doing with it right here.
00:26:24.000And now we are going to have a federal competitor, that's right, against July 4th.
00:26:29.000And there will be essays and movements saying that July 4th is nothing more than a celebration of the white supremacist colonialist tradition that existed.
00:26:38.000The true Independence Day is a pan-African Independence Day.
00:26:45.000Don't believe me, just type into your Google images Juneteenth.
00:26:48.000Every single image is an African flag.
00:27:05.000Our 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.
00:27:18.000Nine states by the Constitutional Convention had abolished slavery well before Juneteenth.
00:27:24.000Abraham Lincoln recognized the true founding of our country July 4th, 1776.
00:27:29.000But now in this new postmodern woke agenda, it's not enough to say that all men are created equal.
00:27:35.000No, now you must have a racial independence day, a black independence day.
00:27:41.000Do you think that's actually going to heal the country and harmonize us?
00:27:44.000Or do you think maybe they might be using this to further sow division?
00:28:10.000Number 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.
00:28:24.000And 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.
00:28:40.000And it says it very clearly in the Declaration, that we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:28:51.000We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:28:53.000That means that a king does not have to tell us this.
00:28:55.000Every 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.
00:29:07.000That 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.
00:29:19.000That to secure these rights, which means to protect them, governments are instituted among men, meaning that governments do not pre-exist men.
00:29:28.000You see, what Thomas Jefferson is doing here is making a more practical argument of John Locke's natural rights social compact doctrine.
00:29:41.000That government did not come before man.
00:29:46.000It is out of our natural state that we voluntarily, through the consent of the governed, create this system.
00:29:53.000That 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.
00:30:14.000Prudence, another word for practical judgment or wisdom, indeed will dictate that governments long established shall not be changed for light and transient causes.
00:30:24.000And 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.
00:30:36.000And so what is the philosophical reason that BLM Incorporated and Patrice Cullers and Ibram X. Kendi, why are they so excited to have Juneteent?
00:30:51.000For the rest of your life, June 19th will now be a day around racial identity politics.
00:30:57.000BLM Incorporated now has a federal holiday.
00:31:01.000You 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.
00:31:23.000Yeah, let's talk about our racial past.
00:33:18.000So they're going to be not raising the American flag, the Juneteenth flag.
00:33:21.000If you've already seen the Pan-African flag, it is a green, black, and red flag.
00:33:26.000Do you think that actually helps heal our divides?
00:33:30.000Do 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.
00:33:42.000We need Juneteenth because the system has been so terrible to black people and therefore systemic racism.
00:33:48.000And there is no systemic racism in America.
00:33:50.000I said this to a reporter recently and the silence on the phone was deafening.
00:33:59.000The only systemic injustice that exists in America is the fact that certain communities are deciding not to get married and we've subsidized that.
00:34:07.000We 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.
00:34:35.000It'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.
00:34:48.000fact, why don't we call it the Nicole Hanna-Jones Day?
00:34:52.000And it's under the excuse of, oh, we're celebrating emancipation.
00:35:23.000The 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.
00:35:36.000While some use Juneteenth to push their hate America agenda, the conservative leader pointed out Juneteenth is a day for recognizing the greatness of America.
00:35:44.000That, 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.
00:36:04.000It's one of the few days that everyone seems so excited to be part of a big national family.
00:36:09.000The people are dressing up like Thomas Jefferson.
00:36:11.000We have readings of the Declaration of Independence.
00:36:15.000Now we have to just go hear about how terribly racist we are?
00:36:19.000K. 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.
00:36:30.000Wait, so she admits that Juneteenth is being used by the critical race theorists?
00:37:30.000However, the symbols of the American flag are really important.
00:37:36.000But 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.
00:37:43.000If you don't send out a tweet on Juneteenth, you're a bad person.
00:37:46.000If you don't celebrate, you're not going to get a contract.
00:37:48.000If you don't celebrate, you're going to get fired from a job.
00:38:38.000When 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.
00:38:52.000And by the way, this doesn't make me a good person.
00:38:54.000It 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.
00:39:00.000Alphonsus Kirk came in 1620, and in every single war, we can trace through our bloodline, someone fought for this nation.
00:39:10.000From 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.
00:39:24.000It was this ideal that they were fighting for.
00:39:26.000They were fighting for the ideal that is enshrined in the United States Constitution.
00:40:08.000But 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?
00:40:44.000They kind of play into the pyrotechnic nature of so many folks across the country.
00:40:51.000But 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.
00:41:02.000You're supposed to remember the cannon fire.
00:41:04.000You're supposed to remember the sacrifice.
00:41:06.000You'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.
00:41:31.000Can 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?
00:41:40.000That's what July 4th is all about, because that's what happened on July 4th, 1776.
00:41:45.000How 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?
00:41:51.000The founders had this idea of an official divorce document with King George for quite some time.
00:41:57.000This was an official separation document.
00:42:01.000They did something that no people have ever done before.
00:42:04.000They organized and they submitted in a formal legal brief.
00:42:09.000They said, we want to govern ourselves.
00:42:11.000We want to separate from you and we're willing to do whatever it takes.
00:42:14.000And the declaration ends with those amazing words.
00:42:17.000And with it, we pledge our lives, our fortune, and our sacred honor.
00:42:23.000You want an example of a federal holiday that's been taken advantage of?
00:42:26.000How about Columbus Day, which is no longer called Columbus Day.
00:42:29.000Now it's called Indigenous Peoples Day.
00:42:31.000Columbus Day was always a day where we celebrated the discovery of the new world and the entry of Westerners into the North American continent.
00:42:39.000Christopher Columbus was a, say, a mixed figure, but generally, he was an absolutely brilliant person.
00:42:47.000You 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.
00:43:01.000Well, Christopher Columbus Day is now over.
00:43:03.000It is now, we now have Indigenous Peoples Day.
00:43:06.000Just one small example of how federal holidays can be changed.
00:43:13.000And 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.
00:43:21.000Forget James Madison, forget Thomas Jefferson, forget the founding fathers and what they might do.
00:43:27.000Instead, 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.
00:43:38.000Starting this Saturday, our country is getting a new Independence Day to supplant the old one, which people like Lori Lightfoot complained was racist.
00:43:45.000Not a single member of either party in the Senate opposed it.
00:43:49.000Republicans, in fact, co-sponsored the resolution.
00:43:51.000Happy that my bill to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday just passed the Senate, wrote John Cornyn, a supposedly conservative senator from Texas.
00:44:00.000So why does it matter that certain things should not change?
00:44:04.000Well, 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.
00:44:17.000I 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.
00:44:32.000And that kind of transformational social change is very bad.
00:44:35.000In fact, it's harmful for the type of order that might preexist it.
00:44:40.000You see, when you go to change something, you must have a very good reason.
00:44:44.000So what is the very good reason that people are using that we need to have Juneteenth?
00:44:50.000What is the reason that is being put forward?
00:44:53.000Well, the reason is that we're a racist country and that we need to have a hyper-emphasis on race.
00:44:59.000That is the reason that they are giving.
00:45:02.000Go read the literature of the people that are putting this forward.
00:45:05.000It has nothing to do with emancipation.
00:45:07.000Again, 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.
00:45:18.000There's a multitude of dates that could better reflect it.
00:45:22.000Now, Juneteenth was a particular type of tradition that was passed down in the state of Texas.
00:45:28.000But actually, no one's talking about emancipation.
00:45:31.000Instead, they're talking about how this is the opening of a massive reckoning for racial progress and racial justice.
00:45:38.000That Juneteenth now basically institutionalizes critical race theory, everything we saw from George Floyd to Ahmad Arbery to Breonna Taylor.
00:45:47.000Now it's enshrined in a federal holiday.
00:45:51.000And 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.
00:46:37.000AOC is very clear about what Juneteenth is all about.
00:46:40.000And by the way, I just want to say this.
00:46:41.000This is a minority opinion right now in conservative circles.
00:46:44.000People are telling me I'm getting lots of tweets and everything.
00:46:47.000I deleted Twitter, so I think clearly, and I know that we're right here.
00:46:51.000I know that my children in 10 years from now are going to have to be forced to take a knee.
00:46:57.000And 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.
00:47:08.000We recognize that racial progress is always, it's never quite in our grasp.
00:47:13.000And that's why we need this bill and this bill and that bill and this bill and this bill and that bill.
00:47:18.000What does AOC say Juneteenth is about?
00:47:32.000This is pretty consistent with, I think, the Republican base.
00:47:35.000And 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.
00:48:54.000And 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.
00:49:04.000These very same people that are the people that spied on President Trump, the very same people that teach your children credit critical race theory.
00:49:12.000We're just supposed to, oh, yeah, the Democrats, they want Juneteenth because you know why?
00:49:16.000They actually want to teach American history.
00:49:19.000They 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.
00:49:33.000And none of them are actually talking about the history of that.
00:49:38.000You would think that Constitution Day would be important.
00:49:40.000Nope, 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.
00:50:42.000Slavery is usually not about race across the world.
00:50:46.000Slavery was not always about racial domination.
00:50:49.000And again, for all of the Media Matters, wonderful people that are watching, I refer you to Discrimination and Disparities, Chapter 5, by Thomas Sowell.
00:51:34.000Juneteenth still offers a bedrock foundation to make last year's watershed moment of racial and political reckoning into a transformative process that can last.
00:51:43.000What exactly about 2020 are they proud of?
00:51:47.000What about 2020 are the BLM incorporated people proud of?
00:51:51.000What racial reckoning actually happened last year?
00:51:54.00077% of black kids are still born without a father in the home.
00:51:58.000How about the racial reckoning in Chicago?
00:53:00.000Is that the racial reckoning that we're supposed to support?
00:53:03.000How about the burning of Kenosha in Chicago, Philadelphia?
00:53:06.000How about David Dorn being shot, police officer?
00:53:09.000Is that the racial reckoning that we should support?
00:53:12.000How about the dozens of police officers that were killed in cold blood?
00:53:15.000Is that the racial reckoning that we want?
00:53:17.000So 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.
00:53:53.000Let's just play this out for anyone that is still not yet convinced.
00:53:57.00010 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?
00:54:12.000If 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.
00:54:54.000Truth 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.
00:55:04.000I'm so impressed with the team at Relief Factor.
00:55:37.000Almost as if this program here, the Charlie Kirk Show, engaging in thought crimes, were getting some air support from the former president.
00:56:08.000That is Donald Trump saying that we shouldn't maybe be engaging in a mass inoculation strategy with our nation's young people.
00:56:19.000Of 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.
00:56:34.000Donald Trump's looking at what we're looking at.
00:56:35.000He's looking at young people, some of them having some adverse reactions to this that are very, very serious.
00:56:43.000President Trump last night also said in regards to the meeting with Joe Biden in Russia, frankly, it was a good day for Russia.
00:56:50.000We didn't get anything out of the meeting, Cut 68.
00:56:52.000Well, I guess the overall is we didn't get anything.
00:56:54.000We gave a very big stage to Russia, and we got nothing.
00:57:00.000We gave up something that was unbelievably valuable.
00:57:03.000I stopped the pipeline, Nordstrom, and that pipeline was stopped, and it was given back, and nothing was gotten for it.
00:57:15.000And 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.
00:57:23.000And 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.
00:57:31.000Carl 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.
00:57:43.000Now, we went into great detail last week about the moral argument for ownership.
00:57:48.000When you own something, you're more likely to want to preserve it.
00:57:50.000You're more likely to want to contest for the well-being of the community and the place around you.
00:57:55.000But he says right here in this article that renting should become the new norm.
00:58:00.000He said that liquid assets like publicly traded stocks and corporate bonds earn what's known as a liquidity premium.
00:58:06.000Their market price is many times the dividend or coupon that investors get from holding them.
00:58:11.000The more liquid an asset, the higher the premium goes.
00:58:13.000On 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.
00:58:22.000He says these factors make houses a good investment for moderate income families who often lack the cash and risk tolerance for market investments.
00:58:29.000As investment went, single-family homes went cheaply and solar glue grew into times good and bad.
00:58:34.000He goes on to say that this was a failed experiment.
00:58:38.000You see, all that equity you have in your home, the fact you own your house, that's a failed experiment.
00:58:43.000He 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.
00:58:51.000Younger workers might prefer the excitement of the city.
00:58:53.000A couple just starting a family could reunite with their parents or siblings in a small town.