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00:02:21.000We've been traveling and having some tech challenges.
00:02:25.000I know our tech team's trying the best they can to navigate through all this, but I wanted to make sure that I shared some of these thoughts with you guys in a very important episode, especially piggybacking off of our viral commentary with Jack Hibbs that we did last week at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills.
00:02:55.000And I talked about how this needs to be the prism of how you view otherwise very confusing events.
00:03:00.000For example, the eight promises of the great reset, getting rid of carbon emissions, getting rid of fossil fuels, getting rid of Western values, America no longer being the superpower, you no longer eating meat, which, of course, is an attack on testosterone and let's say the idea of the Western man.
00:03:18.000I actually didn't talk about that at Jack Hibbs, but something that I felt that I left out in the conversation with Jack Hibbs, and not that I did it intentionally, it's just we ran out of time, is that when you have this sort of push for this internationalist, globalist great reset, it also presents the opportunity for people domestically to want that to happen, but they react completely differently.
00:03:41.000And there's a reason why this happens, and it's important to be able to subdivide the people that really truly want to weaken America to create a globalist type utopia and other people that want to weaken America that actually make themselves stronger.
00:03:58.000So same thing, just for different reasons.
00:04:02.000And my friend Jack Pesobic, who you guys have heard before on this program, had a really good piece of commentary that I thought it was really well put, which is we went from managed decline of America to controlled demolition.
00:04:15.000So we went from Barack Obama just kind of seeing the malaise and the slippage of our constitutional republic to we are going to put TNT at the joints of the building and get this thing over with as quickly as possible.
00:04:29.000And it's very important to remember that it's not widespread incompetence that we're seeing, although our government has plenty of it, but this is coming with intent.
00:04:36.000So we must divide the actors and the players into two separate categories.
00:04:41.000For example, George Soros wants the destruction of America for a one-world internationalist type order.
00:04:47.000George Soros does not want the destruction of America so he can rule over the ashes.
00:04:53.000And as we subdivide this into two different buckets and two different groups, the intentions of our political leaders, it actually is a very interesting way to view things.
00:05:04.000So the left, for example, does not have a foreign policy at all.
00:05:08.000They don't have a set of principles or the way they want the world to look in a very specific way.
00:05:14.000Instead, the domestic left here, they use international events to try to strengthen their domestic agenda.
00:05:22.000They weaponize the events happening internationally for power here.
00:05:27.000And we're seeing this in many different ways, especially when it comes to energy.
00:05:30.000And so the recent news is Joe Biden has announced that he is no longer going to have Russian oil imports coming into America.
00:05:38.000Now, we, of course, support that, but he also knows that is going to spike gas prices, which will only further accelerate the push towards green energy.
00:05:46.000So he's not doing this to stick it to Russia.
00:05:48.000He's not doing this to try to expand LNG exploration here in America.
00:05:52.000Instead, Joe Biden and his political domestic cronies, they want a weaker America because it will be easier for them to control.
00:06:00.000I want you to just think about that for a second.
00:06:02.000A weaker America becomes more manageable for people that otherwise would not be able to be in political power.
00:06:11.000Jen Saki has received multiple questions on this in particular.
00:06:15.000Jen Saki is someone that is less convinced about the internationalist global new world order, the great reset, which is very important.
00:06:22.000Sake wants the great reset for one purpose, but not because she wants to rule the world from Brussels.
00:06:28.000They would kick her out for being too stupid.
00:06:29.000Instead, Jen Saki wants a weaker America because it's good for her domestic political ambitions.
00:06:34.000Jen Saki was asked about this, and she said, well, look, Joe Biden, he's taken historic steps to reduce energy prices Americans are paying, play cut 35.
00:06:52.000The president has already taken steps.
00:06:53.000Historic release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, one that's done in a coordinated fashion.
00:06:58.000And clearly, we will continue to have conversations with large oil producers and suppliers around the world about how to mitigate the impact.
00:07:06.000And then Saki finishes taking questions on oil and natural gas.
00:07:10.000And let's go to Cut 34 as Fox then goes back to a reporter who says that Saki was speaking at a report, came out saying that they've actually reached record highs, play cut 34.
00:07:21.000He says that he's had a long-standing requested.
00:07:23.000I'm going to report that GasBuddy.com, aside from the national average reporting that we get every day, is reporting that as she was speaking, in fact, the national average is now at a record high.
00:07:35.000I mean, that is a reality for American families in this country.
00:07:38.000And John, it does not appear that there is an answer like producing more oil in this country is there for this White House.
00:07:46.000But this is not all bad news for her and the cronies in the White House because they believe this will actually be able to not just strengthen the green energy push that they believe in with religious fervor and zeal, but also will weaken the base of the Republican and conservative movement.
00:08:05.000Oil and natural gas exploration, they primarily finance conservative politicians and politics.
00:08:10.000And they think that's one way to try to stranglehold or chokehold the Republican or conservative political movement, which of course is very short-sighted, very Machiavellian.
00:08:21.000However, it's how can we deconstruct the country as quickly as possible so that we can be in charge, regardless if it's an awful place to live, but at least we're going to get the chauffeured cars and we get the lifestyle benefits of the untangled and the, let's say, deconstructed nation.
00:08:39.000So the split is really this, and the subdivision is this, is a weaker America does not mean that the elites will be without power.
00:08:48.000During mass chaos, during confusion, during bedlam, some elites will basically say, we want an erosion of all norms.
00:08:58.000We can have a suspension of the order that was there prior.
00:09:01.000Others look to fasten control domestically.
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00:10:21.000A nation that is constantly going from one chaos to the other, one event of madness to the other, cannot build.
00:10:30.000We as a nation are not able to build and not able to, not just build buildings, which is obviously what comes to mind, but build families, build communities, start new businesses, generate new ideas, become successful entrepreneurs if you are constantly in a state of mass-induced hysteria.
00:10:48.000If you are in a state of mass-induced hysteria where you're always angry, you're always upset, you're not able to calm yourself into a position to properly deploy resources or capital or your ideas.
00:11:01.000It actually makes it a very unhappy, unpleasant place to live.
00:11:07.000Tucker Carlson talked about this on his program rather effectively, and he talked about how name-calling has basically now been used as a means of social control.
00:11:17.000And part of this, by the way, is because of social media.
00:11:19.000Everyone labels themselves as something.
00:11:21.000Because of your Twitter bio or your Instagram bio, you have to be able to label yourself into some sort of description that can hopefully generate some form of respect from people that you know or you might want to know, such as I'm an American patriot.
00:11:39.000I support the flag and the Constitution, and here's my email.
00:11:43.000Or the same can be said in a Twitter bio.
00:11:45.000But name-calling also has the inverse effect that if all of a sudden I put names on you that you don't like, I'm going to do what you want me to do.
00:12:33.000The people in charge don't want you to live in a pleasant America.
00:12:36.000When America is pleasant or we are at a time where the waters are calm, then you're not going to be reaching for the Leviathan.
00:12:44.000Thomas Hobbes wrote about this in the book The Leviathan in the 1500s, where he described human nature as being nasty, brutish, and short to one another.
00:12:53.000He said that human beings are so terrible to one another.
00:12:55.000He's one of the social contract theorists, that we need a strong centralized government, that we need a dictator, a despot, an authoritarian.
00:13:04.000That is the only way that human beings will actually be able to function.
00:13:07.000Freedom, liberty, human beings don't understand such concepts.
00:13:10.000They won't be able to actually be able to reach higher levels of prosperity.
00:13:14.000No, what they need is order and control.
00:13:18.000Now, of course, we believe in order and tradition.
00:13:20.000We believe in the ancestral norms that have built Western society, but also we prefer not to be controlled or in some sort of nanny state.
00:13:28.000We want flex in the joints that people can pursue the life that have the ambition that they see fit to start new ideas.
00:13:36.000The people that believe in the Hobbesian view of social contract theorists, largely the elites in our country, they reject that premise.
00:13:43.000They say, wait a second, if you have freedom and liberty, then that makes me far less important.
00:13:48.000And as we have seen the continual growth and strengthening of the proverbial fourth branch of government, the IRS, the EPA, the FDIC, all these organizations, these bureaucrats have basically been incentivized to not have the crisis go away.
00:14:09.000I mean, let's just look at it very rationally.
00:14:12.000If you were trying to build a house or build a family, let's just say build a house, and everyone is always screaming at one another and running around, the house will never get built.
00:15:36.000In times of mass conflict, new structures, new things of value are not given the oxygen or the platform to be able to create and flourish and grow.
00:15:46.000One of my great concerns right now is as we go from one mass hysteria event to the other, as we go from Floyd to Palooza to the non-stop COVID hysteria to now what can be coined as the Putin variant.
00:16:00.000There's an article that actually says that on the American mind, the Putin variant, quote, the regime is repurposing its COVID-19 propaganda playbook.
00:16:09.000The very same kind of instruments of outrage, the same sort of descriptors, if you will, the same sort of language has been repackaged, repurposed towards having you be totally outraged, so outraged against Vladimir Putin that we have to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine, that we have to bomb the Russian convoy.
00:16:30.000And in fact, nuclear conflict just actually might be necessary.
00:16:34.000Now, I don't know about you, but this is creating an exhausted type of civilization where people have had enough.
00:16:42.000From the gas prices to the inflation to the social decay to the degeneracy all around them, they want you to be exhausted.
00:16:49.000You see, the elites thought that they could knock us out in one or two rounds.
00:16:53.000They thought that they could blitz-krieg us into submission, and now they are going to a different strategy.
00:16:59.000They're trying to smoke you out, they're trying to exhaust you, they're trying to bring you into the later rounds of the boxing match and win by decision.
00:17:08.000They know they are not going to be able to proverbially knock out the American patriot.
00:17:15.000Instead, they think that they can exhaust you.
00:17:18.000They can make you say, I'm so sick and tired of just being sick and tired.
00:17:22.000The outrage, the social media, let's say, push notifications that deteriorate human relations.
00:17:31.000It's not healthy for a civilized nation to always be in this posture of table-pounding mass hysteria.
00:17:40.000Tucker Carlson dived into this even deeper, and he said this in Cut 40.
00:17:45.000He said, Tucker talks about how many Republicans in Washington, D.C. are part of the pro-war faction that could be more radical than Joe Biden and how they're not representing their conservative voters, and it can hurt them in the midterms.
00:18:12.000It will hurt them on some deeper level because it does not serve the interests of this country.
00:18:17.000A war fought on behalf of democracy that ignores the will of the country fighting it.
00:18:22.000Republicans are not representing their voters when they move to a position that's way more warlike than Joe Biden's, when they embrace the lunacy that could really hurt this country.
00:18:35.000And Tucker also talked about in Cut 39.
00:18:37.000He highlighted how there's been wars all across the world in the last five years and that no one has heard about them because they're not important enough.
00:18:44.000Lost in the relentless focus on war in Ukraine, by the way, is any perspective about the world or war, which is always lacking in D.C., but never more so than now.
00:19:38.000And then he said something that really went viral.
00:19:40.000He said, quote, all of us are equal in the eyes of God.
00:19:42.000The death of someone in Yemen is just as important as the death of someone in Ukraine.
00:19:46.000But unless you run the American security apparatus, because according to the American national security apparatus, they want a hyper-focus on Ukraine, but not on Yemen, play cut 39.
00:19:58.000We do know that hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the war in Yemen.
00:20:02.000It's a war the Biden administration has continued to fund.
00:20:17.000It's that the hysteria that led to the black squares on Instagram, the hysteria that led to people wearing masks on Twitter, the hysteria of people that nonstop posted selfies of one another during the COVID-19 deal, during the China virus outbreak, I should say.
00:20:35.000The people that showed selfies of themselves getting vaccinated, that same philosophy has now metamorphosized into you better support Ukraine at all costs.
00:20:47.000And this goes to show a deeper philosophical and psychological component of what we're dealing with, is that a lot of people need outrage to continue.
00:20:59.000It's a sense of meaning and purpose, that they're not at peace being at peace.
00:21:04.000That building a family, going to church and watching after your community, protecting the good, the true, and the beautiful actually gives them anxiety.
00:21:12.000That the only way to deal with their heightened anxiety, their chronic issues that seem to be pouring over into our decent and civilized society is to actually be in a state of madness perpetually.
00:21:28.000Now, this pains me to say because I'd like to think higher of human nature.
00:21:33.000But isn't it the truth that we have a generation that's looking to go from one social cause to the other, from one protest to the other, that almost seems eager to go into the streets to feel as if their purpose is to virtue signal their own values upon the other?
00:21:48.000I'm such an anti-racist that I need to tell the entire world this, that I'm an anti-racist, that I need to wear a shirt that shows that I'm a BLM type supporter, or I need to go wear a Ukrainian lapel pin or whatever it might be.
00:22:05.000And for those of us that actually want to live ordered and decent and virtuous lives, that at least have the, let's say, the ambition to do that or the goal of living a normal life, we look at this news cycle and it causes not just headspinning sensation, but also it has kind of a split understanding for a lot of different people.
00:22:30.000Some people look at this and they want to dive right into it and fight harder, which is obviously what we've decided to do on this show.
00:22:37.000But other people then decide to check out.
00:24:18.000And as we now dive into some of the things that people have been saying, such as Rochelle Walensky and the people in charge of our public health apparatus, it's very clear that their intent was never to try to make you feel easy or try to make you feel at peace or to empower you.
00:24:36.000It's to have you kind of going from it's almost the crisis circle.
00:24:40.000It's the circle of chaos from one point of outrage to the other.
00:24:46.000And I know a lot of different people reach out to us at freedom at charliekirk.com and they say, it's really hard for me to interpret what's happening in our country.
00:24:56.000And again, that's why I think the great reset episode we've done is so important, kind of tie all these pieces together.
00:25:02.000But domestically, they're not so worried about what the borders of, you know, Senegal or Sierra Leone are going to be or Côte d'Ivoire or South Africa or Vietnam or what the globalist one world government is going to be.
00:25:15.000Instead, they have their own personal aspirations to rule and to govern.
00:25:22.000And so they have their own domestic agenda where they feel as if they can make their own life meaningful by crushing your existence.
00:25:34.000By instituting massive bedlam and chaos at every single corner.
00:25:39.000And of course, getting you to care about the Ukrainian situation and not actually talk about domestic issues at home.
00:25:46.000And so we've received some pushback from some people where they say, Charlie, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:25:52.000We can go to war with Russia while also solving our opioid epidemic, our suicide crisis, our alcohol crisis, our drug crisis, our open border crisis, our inflation crisis, our entrepreneur situation, you know, our entrepreneur crisis, the small business decline.
00:26:06.000We can defeat Putin with our arms tied behind our back and we can rid the world of all of its problems.
00:26:11.000Now, look, this is the problem, though.
00:26:14.000And I don't think anyone would disagree with this.
00:26:16.000I said, what if there was the same sort of three-week news cycle, which we are now coming on to the second or third week of the Ukrainian news cycle, of the same sort of push of raising money, of nonstop chatter, of information just around the fentanyl crisis, just for two weeks.
00:26:34.000What if we had every single podcast, every single commentator, every single speaker, every single person wear a button, wear a bow, wear a shirt, wear a flag that just talked about the fact we had over 100,000 people overdosed from drugs.
00:26:46.000Not all of them are fentanyl, but plenty were.
00:26:49.000And that's the point that those of us that are talking about the outrage with Ukraine and the hysteria company with that say, wait a second, would that actually meaningfully address our drug situation?
00:27:12.000And of course, a lot of it is because we're responding to the news cycle.
00:27:14.000We have to give you guys the clarity to understanding what's really happening there.
00:27:17.000not saying it's unimportant, but what happens though is based on just a very rational and understandable analysis of energy and time allotment is that you are not able to focus two nonstop weeks of issues that matter at home, such as the fact that we have a massive increase in suicides in our country, mental health issues, anxiety, depression, people overly medicating, an entire generation that can't buy homes.
00:27:59.000In fact, the people in charge that want to weak America so they can be powerful, they don't want you to talk about those things because it weakens their power domestically.
00:28:08.000They want the border to be open for sure.
00:28:11.000They want people that have societal strife and domestic strife.
00:28:15.000They just don't want you actually to address it to solve it.
00:28:18.000They instead they'd much rather dangle the carrot of what's happening in Russia and Ukraine, create this massive smokescreen effect where you act as if every single domestic issue is solved and is perfect.
00:28:29.000Meanwhile, you can't afford the gas at the gas pump.
00:28:33.000Taxes are due in just a couple of weeks.
00:28:35.000You're thinking of whether or not to send your kid to an hyper-inflated college where they might learn to hate America, hate themselves, and to betray their parents.
00:28:43.000And all the while, the news media is telling you the most important thing is President Zelensky and Kyiv.
00:28:49.000And again, interesting story, almost like a video game.
00:28:52.000Make no mistake, it's foreign policy escapism is what it is.
00:28:56.000It's a massive news media campaign to try to give you an escape hatch from the tattered and the wrecked and the destroyed country that we're living in right now.
00:29:10.000Again, it is planned and controlled demolition.
00:29:14.000And they don't want you to talk about it because then it can actually weaken their own personal ambitions here domestically.
00:29:21.000Their ambitions domestically is to try and put TNT, put dynamite into the crevices, into the cracks, and into the weak spots of the American culture and country.
00:29:33.000Press detonate all the while you're looking 5,000 miles away while your kids and grandkids can't buy property.
00:29:40.000They're getting married at lower levels and they are unlikely, they're more unlikely to have children than any other generation before.
00:29:48.000And so it is, in some ways, the Putin variant.
00:30:10.000The United States Constitution had clear boundaries and limits on power and sovereignty.
00:30:16.000It doesn't mean I don't care about the Ukrainian people.
00:30:18.000I want to help them any way I possibly can in a humanitarian way and all of this.
00:30:23.000But I look at things in concentric circles.
00:30:25.000When the own people that our leaders are sworn to protect and defend are having not just one problem, but a hundred problems, financial problems, societal problems, spiritual problems, and cultural problems, I want them to put on the metaphorical oxygen mask on themselves or our own country before solving the needs, wants, and problems internationally.
00:30:47.000As I played the clip from Tucker, it's not like this is the first conflict that has happened in the last couple of years.
00:30:53.000There are wars that break out all the time.
00:30:55.000This one just happens to get your attention because the United States government has heavily financed what has happened in Ukraine the last 10 years.
00:31:04.000It's become a client state of the global woke empire.
00:31:08.000The same sort of mockingbird propaganda that was used all throughout COVID.
00:31:13.000Asymptomatic people can spread the same sort of intensity, fervor, name-calling, othering is now being used to try and get you to no longer care about the needs of your fellow countrymen, to no longer have a marshall plan.
00:31:31.000And I want you to imagine that just one more time.
00:31:33.000Imagine two weeks dedicated just to our southern border, two weeks of CNN, two weeks of CBS, two weeks of ABC.
00:31:39.000Do you think that there would be infographics on Instagram that say pray for our southern border?
00:31:44.000How about flags of people that the American flag saying we need to cover up our southern border?
00:31:49.000And some people say that is a red herring.
00:31:54.000It's a sound and a logical argument to make the point that our needs and our wants and our resources are being dedicated away from what would actually benefit the American people and citizenry and towards misadventures abroad.
00:32:10.000Imagine an Operation Warp Speed to get domestic production up.
00:32:25.000It's a smokescreen in more ways than one to have you turn a blind eye to the deterioration of your nation, your home, and keep your eyes elsewhere.
00:32:36.000Be wary of the Putin variant, everybody.
00:32:43.000And we went from a managed decline to a controlled demolition to try to strengthen the people here domestically that otherwise would not be able to get political power.
00:32:54.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:56.000Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and support our show at charliekirk.com/slash support.