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00:02:13.000That strikes near and dear to our heart here on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:02:18.000Luigi Mangione, in a big way, contributed to this rise of assassination culture.
00:02:23.000It's something that Charlie was very worried about.
00:02:25.000And just this morning, Judge Caro, who's overseeing the state case here, has ruled that the backpack that was next to Luigi Mangione in the McDonald's where he was arrested, so he's sitting at a table, there's a backpack either on a table adjacent to him or on the floor.
00:02:45.000And it has been ruled that the contents of that backpack are inadmissible.
00:03:10.000I find that the search of the backpack at McDonald's was improper, warrantless search.
00:03:17.000That the backpack was not within the immediate control or grabbable area of the defendant, and further, the people failed to demonstrate exuding circumstances.
00:03:27.000Therefore, those items found in the backpack during the search at McDonald's will be suppressed.
00:03:34.000However, the people have established that the subsequent search of the backpack at the station was a valid inventory search, and therefore, the items recovered at the station will not be suppressed.
00:03:48.000All right, so the items recovered at the station.
00:03:51.000The gun, which is key, obviously, here.
00:03:55.000But just to go into this rule, because I had to look it up when this ruling came through.
00:04:01.000No, it is typically not illegal to search a suspect's backpack when they have been apprehended under the search incident to a lawful arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment, meaning that for the officer's safety, if the backpack is in or around the person that's been arrested, the suspect in this case, then the immediate association.
00:04:25.000With the suspect that's been lawfully apprehended is then fair game.
00:04:35.000So if the suspect is in the car, in like the police car in the back, he's handcuffed, and they haven't searched the backpack yet, they may need to get a warrant for that.
00:04:43.000So this looks to be basically a gray area.
00:04:47.000My question for this judge would be what was to say that there wasn't a bomb inside that backpack?
00:05:13.000So, just so you know, the idea of a backpack or a possession being in the immediate association or vicinity of a suspect, this includes clothing, wallets, purses, and backpacks that the person is wearing, carrying, or had in their immediate possession.
00:05:31.000Are there any weapons in preserving evidence?
00:05:34.000So, if the backpack is separated from the suspect, as the suspect is being secured, handcuffed in a patrol car, under control, with no realistic access, some courts, like the Fourth Circuit, have provided the reasoning that may require a warrant or other justification, treating it more like a container as opposed to part of the person.
00:05:57.000So, that's obviously what the judge has ruled here.
00:06:01.000Was used in this hearing to come to this ruling.
00:06:05.000Very, very frustrating, though, because obviously they had probable cause.
00:06:11.000They checked his ID, they arrested him at the McDonald's.
00:06:14.000The backpack was on the floor or on the table.
00:06:18.000So, two questions then immediately come to mind.
00:06:20.000What is the distance away from the suspect that it all of a sudden becomes a warranted search?
00:06:28.000And by the way, again, what if there was a bomb in the backpack?
00:06:31.000This feels absolutely like the judge is.0.87
00:06:35.000Sympathetic to Luigi Maggioni, a cold blooded murderer, an assassin.
00:06:40.000Well, so, okay, on the flip side, we should emphasize you see two different headlines, and it kind of shows, I think, different perspectives of media outlets.
00:06:48.000Because some, Fox, certainly, they're leading with all of this evidence is getting suppressed.
00:07:14.000So I think we can be hopeful there's still a lot here.
00:07:18.000What I will say is the uneasy feeling I've had, you've had, I think a lot of people have had, is it seems like every couple months we get a new development and it's always away from what we want.
00:07:28.000So first they're going to seek the death penalty with him.
00:07:31.000Now they can't seek the death penalty for whatever reason.
00:07:34.000And now they're suppressing some evidence.
00:07:36.000Maybe next time other evidence is going to get suppressed.
00:07:39.000One little development after another in favor of this guy who we should remind everyone, heinously murdered, it seems, a stranger in cold blood, a father, because he was angry about the industry the man worked in, which the man did not create.
00:08:06.000So Big Pharma is watching this whole show trial go on and they're overjoyed, right?
00:08:10.000That was an observation that Walter. Kern made, and I agree with it.
00:08:15.000And basically, it's a giant distraction from the fact that this man is a cold blooded killer who is sparking this rise in assassination culture.
00:09:22.000So, President Trump issued a couple new truths over the weekend.
00:09:26.000It felt like the rhetoric is ramping up once more because the back and forth seems to be with Iran via the Pakistanis impossible to reach a deal.0.67
00:09:37.000Their whole strategy does seem to be waiting out the clock.0.86
00:09:40.000So, go ahead and throw up this truth.0.98
00:09:42.000It says For Iran, the clock is ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them.1.00
00:10:34.000And it doesn't seem to matter to these guys.
00:10:36.000They are simply playing the long game.
00:10:39.000They are basically pointing to the fact that America has a short amount of patience for this war and that President Trump is incurring political costs.
00:10:52.000In a lot of ways, it's that dynamic where they might be vastly weaker, but they also care vastly more.
00:11:01.000There was a line, Ho Chi Minh, who was the leader of North Vietnam, and supposedly he had a line that says, You can kill 100 of my guys for every one I kill of yours, but still, I am going to win and you're going to lose because I am just that much more fanatical about it.
00:11:16.000And so, yeah, their economy is vastly worse than ours.
00:11:20.000They've taken vastly more losses than us, but they're not.
00:11:37.000At some point, there's really only two options left on the table.
00:11:40.000Either you decide to hit them hard again militarily and you start taking out additional targets and you accelerate the kinetic activity in the region, you break the ceasefire and you make them cry uncle that way, or at least attempt to.
00:11:57.000I'm not sure you can, as essentially where we're at militarily, but that would be one way.
00:12:04.000You know, China has said that they are going to stop supplying.
00:12:07.000Anything to Iran based on that last meeting with President Xi and President Trump.
00:12:13.000However, they'll say a lot of things publicly, whether they'll follow through on anything.
00:12:16.000We're still struggling to get China to follow through buying our soybeans, for goodness sakes.
00:12:27.000This is the way that the Chinese work.1.00
00:12:29.000So getting them to follow through with anything.0.94
00:12:30.000We're also seeing reports that there is actual caravans going overland to get through the sea blockade through, you know, about A dozen different countries from China over to Iran.
00:12:42.000So we know that they're still supplying them with something, right?
00:14:16.000So, my point is, could you domestically, and here's the concern if the audience is wondering why I'm concerned, domestically, this is having political ramifications.
00:14:26.000I am thinking about the midterms, and we want to win the midterms.
00:14:32.000There is a very good chance, based on redistricting, based on the Supreme Court decision, that we would be closer in the midterms than we thought, even with all the political headwinds, even given the economic or sorry, the historic precedent of you usually lose.
00:14:48.000Seats during a midterm race when you're the incumbent power.
00:14:52.000So the question is, can we, when you got essentially what's left, like depending on whose math you're using, 11 to 14 toss up seats, can you win half of those?
00:15:02.000Can you do that and retain control of the House?
00:15:05.000These are really, really important questions for the next two years of the Trump administration.
00:15:11.000Can you avoid the House getting bogged down in constant investigations, chasing the tail, mainstream news media, legacy media going crazy with every new thing that they come out that Tamu Obama comes out with?
00:15:30.000Desperately, I am one of those people that I want to see this wrapped up sooner than later.0.92
00:15:34.000We said at the outset that this was not something that the base had voted for, but if it ended in a few weeks, even if they were annoyed, they would get over it.
00:15:44.000But now those several weeks have passed.
00:15:47.000We're two and a half months into it at this point.
00:15:50.000And if this is still going to the midterms or when the midterms arrive, we should just be frank.
00:15:54.000I think it will be very bad for the party.
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00:16:14.000I don't know if you've got like a road trip coming up or a vacation, some beach place, whatever it is, you got to feel an urgency.
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00:18:31.000Anyways, I'm going to play, first of all, Rededicate 250.
00:18:34.000This was an opportunity to rededicate our nation to prayer, to God, to worshiping the Lord, basically re articulating what the founders believed.
00:18:55.000It was obvious to the founders that our faith was the ground upon which America stands.
00:19:00.000It was our very foundation as a people.
00:19:04.000And if this foundation were to crumble, so too would the very values that make us Americans.
00:19:10.000From our religious inheritance come many of the virtues and institutions we most cherish as a people our system of justice, our generosity to neighbors.
00:19:20.000Our respect for conscience and the moral discipline necessary for liberty itself.
00:19:27.000As my dear friend, the late, great Charlie Kirk put it, all law reflects a morality.
00:19:33.000Neither law nor morality appears in a vacuum, but ultimately come from religion.
00:19:40.000And the morality and religion that formed the American consciousness were decidedly Christian, founded upon the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ.
00:20:28.000And as you know, Andrew, because I showed you my new book, I mean, because I have written a Book on the revolution, which is coming out in a couple of weeks.
00:20:37.000I have done the research to see that there is no way that America comes into being apart from the revolutionaries, these great men looking directly to God.
00:20:50.000But we've been living in a time where secularists have pushed that away, pushed that away.
00:20:58.000We need to go back to how did we get to be a nation where we govern ourselves?
00:21:03.000It comes from looking directly to God.
00:21:05.000They didn't get this in the French Revolution, which is why it went sideways.
00:21:08.000In 10 minutes and turns into a bloodbath.0.54
00:21:11.000Our revolutionaries from John Adams on down, they understood we're going back to the Sinai covenant, like the Israelites in the wilderness.
00:21:20.000We're going to govern ourselves because we look directly to God.
00:21:23.000And so yesterday was a great day on the National Mall.
00:21:45.000And the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, says, We hereby, you know, it's like the government doesn't need to do this.
00:21:54.000But here we have the Speaker of the House saying this officially as a member of the United States government we hereby rededicate the nation to the God of the Bible.
00:22:04.000And I was privileged to be one of the speakers.
00:22:07.000And I just can't say how happy I am that we did this.
00:22:11.000I expect to see things are going to happen.
00:22:14.000Because we have officially turned to God in the way we did yesterday.
00:22:18.000Well, and that's so scriptural, too, Eric, where we wait on the Lord, you know, with expectation of Him doing something in our midst, of Him acting and moving in our country, in our politics, in our families, right?
00:22:34.000And I totally agree with you that when we rededicate ourselves to the Lord, when we repent, when we cry out to Him, that He will heal our land, that He will bring righteousness in ways that we haven't seen, maybe for a while.
00:22:48.000And when it's coming from the headship of the country, namely the political leaders that have been elected by we the people, I do believe that there is a powerful exchange that happens in the spiritual realms.
00:23:00.000We are not in a war against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities.
00:23:04.000Things move when we pray and we rededicate ourselves to the Lord.
00:23:08.000Well, the important thing I think to say is that this is historical, or I should say, We're being faithful to American history.
00:23:20.000This is not like a bunch of Christians got some crazy idea.
00:23:23.000By doing this, and I write about this in my new book, Revolution, I didn't know this really until I did the research.
00:23:30.000It's not deniable that the men who rebelled against England and said, We're going to take up arms to defend our rights, our rights are given from God, they had a keen sense that this is what the Bible says, and we're doing this because this is what God says to do.
00:23:53.000Like the French Revolution, they themselves understood this.
00:23:56.000And I write about it because I think most Americans are a little bit, we've forgotten how radically, explicitly Christian the revolution was.
00:24:08.000And now I have to be clear this doesn't mean we impose our faith.
00:24:12.000And neither did George Washington or John Adams want to impose their faith.
00:25:09.000We can't be great again unless we know what made us great in the beginning.
00:25:13.000And I think of the 250th, the super centennial year, this is the time for us to relearn what many of us, myself included, had forgotten or weren't so clear on.
00:25:23.000I mean, as you guys have been saying, it really is of.
00:25:29.000Charlie loved that line, John Adams, that our Constitution was for a moral and religious people and it was wholly inadequate to the government of any other.0.54
00:25:36.000That's cited a lot just to say, oh, you know, this was a society founded on Christian belief and principle and it requires that to work.
00:25:44.000But we often glide past that second part, that it's required for it to work.
00:25:47.000And I think about a lot of the stresses our system is under right now, where you especially have the left contemplating much more aggressive reaches beyond what I think our Constitution is supposed to have, where they're talking, let's just 100% pack the Supreme Court.
00:26:03.000Let's create entire new states just to cling to power ourselves.0.86
00:26:08.000Let's do mass amnesty for every illegal immigrant.0.72
00:26:10.000And you can't help but think okay, well, this is a political faction that has abandoned religion, loudly trumpets that it's abandoning religion.0.59
00:26:21.000And as a result, they don't see merit to the endurance of this constitution.
00:26:27.000They don't see as much of a problem with burning down things that have lasted for 250 years and been successful.
00:26:34.000It's all Blow it up now to get power right now.
00:26:37.000And I just think of what John Adams said.
00:26:40.000No, it's a total, but we have to be clear.
00:26:45.000You can have a country, but it won't be the America that we've had for 250 years.
00:26:50.000If you don't understand the basics, if you don't understand that our rights come from God, I was interviewed by National Public Radio a couple of days ago about this.
00:27:00.000And they were like, Did you know that Pete Hegseth is going to speak and that he says that our rights come from God?
00:27:08.000And I was like, I don't think Pete Hegseth came up with that concept.
00:27:14.000I think it's in our founding documents.
00:27:17.000Like, that's the whole nation is based on that.
00:27:19.000So, the fact that you have major journalists that are unaware of this is a staggering drift away from the basics.
00:27:26.000But that's kind of where we are right now.
00:27:42.000But one word here is that, you know, that Charlie has that famous clip where he's talking about how all the 13 colonies had a statement of faith and.
00:27:51.000Even Maryland, which was Catholic, how the God is mentioned four times in the Declaration.
00:27:56.000It ends in a prayer to the supreme ruler, right?
00:28:00.000The ruler of the nations, which is Jesus Christ.
00:28:03.000I mean, it was so saturating the founding generation that it affected the way that they spoke, their turns of phrases, the way that they constructed the document itself, the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:28:15.000But people kind of missed the end where he says the reason we have a constitutional crisis today is because we have a Christian document and our people are.0.65
00:28:23.000Less and less Christian, and those become incompatible.
00:28:29.000We need revival in this land if we are going to see a reconstitution of the America that we've always known and loved, what's made it such a shiny city on a hill and a beacon of freedom for the world over.
00:28:41.000So we need people to reconnect with Jesus, to meet Jesus.
00:30:48.000It's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand.
00:31:21.000I'm invited to speak on the National Mall about something that to me is one of the most important things in the history of the world, which is God's hand in American history.
00:31:30.000And that's because I wrote the book on the revolution.
00:31:33.000They wanted me in my speech to focus on two times when God did something miraculous.
00:32:35.000They burned parts of the city, including the White House, which at that time, if you can believe it, Did not yet have a ballroom.
00:32:48.000Yes, it's hard to believe that it would take two centuries for the Lord to raise up a great man to bring that ballroom finally to stand where it needs to stand.
00:33:39.000I then find out that David French, who has Trump derangement syndrome, officially, the doctors have confirmed it, and others are on X freaking out.
00:33:51.000That I seem, according to them, seriously said, God has raised up Donald Trump to create the ballroom.
00:33:59.000Like they believed this and they don't understand that I'm joking, even though everybody knows it's a joke.
00:34:04.000Then I read the Daily Beast has written an article about it.
00:34:09.000There's another major article about it.
00:34:11.000I can't even think, I saw it this morning.
00:34:12.000Huffington Post wrote an article about it.
00:34:14.000And the Jerusalem Post mentioned this.
00:34:17.000Like everyone is freaking out, not getting that it's a joke.
00:34:22.000And you just think, This is, on the one hand, the funniest thing ever because it's promoting my book.
00:34:29.000And the other thing is like, it's kind of sad that here's a moment of joking about the ballroom.
00:34:47.000And we're just going to assume that this means you're going to have a new New York Times bestseller on your hands here with the new book on the revolution.
00:37:30.000And that's the shocking thing is that we haven't seen this happen since 2012 with Richard Luger getting primaried.
00:37:36.000And it's senators tend to just keep their spots in the primaries until they get unseated by the other party.
00:37:42.000And that is just not how the country should work.
00:37:45.000And so, it's really good where the voters actually hold people in power and just shows you money, external influences really do manipulate so many of our elections.
00:38:02.000And I'm glad that he got his comeuppance politically.0.96
00:38:04.000And it's a great signal the base is sending to the establishment.
00:38:07.000If you're going to throw down against President Trump over nonsense, mainstream media, hokum, like the Jan 6 stuff, then we're going to vote you out.
00:38:27.000Confirmation hearings and Cassidy was once again a thorn in the side, didn't like some of Kennedy's stance on, you know, vaccines or whatever.
00:38:37.000I mean, I think Senator Cassidy is a doctor, right?
00:38:41.000So he was much more in the establishment camp and was very nervous about that.
00:38:45.000And Charlie kind of swallowed his pride and reached out to him and said, Hey, get on board with this.
00:38:50.000You know, if not, there's going to be huge problems for you.
00:38:53.000Turns out there were problems for him, anyways.
00:38:54.000Obviously, it's not Charlie's fault or Turning Point's fault, but President Trump definitely.
00:38:59.000Took notice of that impeachment vote and wasn't going to let it go.
00:39:02.000I don't think anybody should be surprised by that.
00:39:06.000Next up is another race that President Trump has weighed in very heavily, and that is involving Thomas Massey in Kentucky.
00:39:13.000Now, it's become sort of a proxy fight on many things on Epstein, on the Iran war, on Israel, foreign money.
00:39:36.000Where, if you pull the Breitbart newsroom, there's going to be a lot of people who are comfortable with Massey, and there's going to be some people who are not.
00:39:42.000I'm in the camp that would like to see him lose.
00:39:44.000I think that he's built up his brand as an online grandstander.
00:39:47.000I don't see him making a lot of productive votes.
00:39:49.000He seems to be the guy, and JD Vance was very articulate about this.
00:39:52.000Whenever Trump needed him to make sure something passed, then Massey is dependably not there and also out on XC Everything app, where he uses the platform to try to fundraise and get clout by suggesting that Trump's government is covering up for pedophiles, which I don't believe that.
00:40:08.000To be the case, I believe we should all get all full information on Epstein.
00:40:11.000But I don't think that Donald Trump's government is going out of their way to try to protect pedophiles.
00:40:34.000Charlie liked some of Massey's principled stands, namely, Uh, anti war, he loved that.1.00
00:40:41.000He was a good maha fighter, he liked that.0.99
00:40:44.000Uh, principled budget hawk, like that.0.96
00:40:47.000Uh, but you know, Blake and I were talking about before the show today.
00:40:50.000I mean, go ahead, yeah, it was your thought.
00:40:52.000It's just, yeah, Charlie liked a lot of things about Massey.
00:40:56.000He said he was a favorite congressman of his for a long time, but Charlie is also a guy who supports President Trump, he supports getting as much as you can done with this administration because he recognizes we're in a national crisis, time is short, and I don't think he would have a lot of patience for.
00:41:13.000Massey, for example, when the Iran action happened, even if Charlie himself would have been very skeptical of that, Massey basically went on and he said, literally, PSA bombing a country on the other side of the globe won't make the Epstein files go away, suggesting the war is this wag the dog effort to distract from the Epstein files.
00:41:32.000Or another thing he said is, I vote with the GOP 91% of the time because 9% of the time they're starting wars, bankrupting our country, or covering up for pedophiles.
00:41:44.000Leaned into this brand that the administration is this pedophile cabal, which is the stuff you can find on Blue Sky.
00:41:51.000It's the stuff you can find in the worst conspiracy swamps.
00:42:04.000It's been embarrassing for a lot of people, but it has not exposed some massive pedophile cabal.
00:42:10.000That's why people haven't been charged.
00:42:12.000If someone can show me this specific person should be charged with crimes against children, I'd love to see some people charge from it, but that's another topic.
00:42:39.000He's got some great positions, and he's got some, to your point, he has made his whole brand about pedophile protection with Ro Khanna.
00:42:46.000By the way, Ro Khanna has stood shoulder to shoulder.
00:42:49.000Trying to make much of this political football with the Epstein thing, with women that have been accused of actually soliciting some of the minors that were abused.
00:42:59.000So, I'm just saying, I have an open mind here, but at the end of the day, I say I will do what JD Vance does.
00:43:33.000It's because we can never count on him for some of the most difficult votes.
00:43:37.000And when you always vote against the party, you can't expect the party to actually back you.
00:43:43.000So, listen, that seems to be pretty logical.
00:43:48.000Listen, again, I don't hate Thomas Massey.
00:43:50.000I actually like so much of him, just like Charlie did.
00:43:53.000But at the end of the day, we got a slim, slim majority, and we got to get stuff done.
00:43:57.000So, Alex, you had another thought that you wanted to convey on the Massey race.
00:44:03.000Yeah, so the positive thing about Massey is he is a real American individual, and I do like that.
00:44:08.000And I want to encourage people to be individuals.
00:44:09.000But his job as a congressman is to vote.
00:44:12.000And when you're consistently voting to make the job easier for the Democrats and for the bad guys politically, then that becomes a major problem for me.
00:44:20.000And think about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act where he opposed that.
00:44:24.000And that was essentially what people voted for in the 2024 election.
00:45:39.000The party and what the agenda of so many of your colleagues are trying to get accomplished constantly, eventually, you're going to have a lot of enemies.
00:45:48.000So, again, if he gets elected, I'll be happy.
00:45:50.000If he doesn't get elected, we're going to deal with that reality as well.
00:45:54.000Bill Cassidy just lost his primary because he was a senator who voted to convict Trump after January 6th.
00:45:59.000That was the reason he lost this primary above all.
00:46:01.000And so, if you are the number one thing that annoys Republicans for the most part is deciding to be a giant thorn in the side.
00:46:11.000Of the president from their party, especially when they would prefer to be in conflict at war with the left.
00:46:17.000And I think there are plenty of lawmakers who have navigated the dynamic of disagreeing with President Trump on specific issues, sometimes strongly.
00:46:27.000There are multiple lawmakers who do that on multiple issues, including even on Iran itself.
00:46:33.000But Massey has carved out a special brand for himself in that regard.
00:46:37.000And that unsurprisingly has created a lot of conflict.
00:46:39.000And listen, part of this is the Trump dynamic.
00:47:17.000And so we're going to let the chips fall where they may.
00:47:20.000But I will say, you know, if there's a tweet here from Stephen Miller that I thought was interesting because Ro Khanna says, you know, Thomas Massey is a man of character.
00:47:27.000He's the type of congressman our founders envision.
00:47:57.000That's a misconception online commonly.
00:48:00.000These are Americans that do care about Israel.
00:48:03.000Whatever you think about that, however, there is another side of the coin here where apparently it's only between like 3% and 5% of the funding on Massey's side, who's actually outraised his competitor, Gowren.
00:48:18.000But there's only 3% to 5% coming from Kentucky.
00:48:21.000So he's getting a lot of support from outside as well.
00:48:24.000And so, you know, if you're going to make that critique on one side, you can make it for both in this race.
00:48:42.000Democrats have basically staked their entire political fortunes on calling Republicans racist after the Supreme Court ruling gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
00:48:53.000We're getting rid of these racially gerrymandered districts, especially in the South.
00:49:00.000Those two dynamics, Iran and racism from the left, how are you looking at all this?
00:49:08.000Yeah, I want to look at this in a neutral way because even though people in our audience, they're going to be so just numb to just being called racist and fascist and all that stuff.
00:49:17.000But the Democrats really do think this is going to be motivational in terms of voting because they're trying to frame it up as the Republican racist redistricting is what they're fighting against and is giving them a narrative.
00:49:27.000It's probably their clearest narrative in a while.
00:49:30.000I was playing a bunch of clips on my podcast earlier today, just going through how the talking points clearly went out.
00:49:37.000It's the entire party, they're all framing it.
00:49:39.000Is all the redistricting is based in racism and they think they can win on it.
00:49:43.000I haven't seen fresh data, but they really do think this is the case.
00:49:47.000This is happening and they do think this is a winning issue to frame it this way.
00:49:50.000I hope the American people burned out on it.
00:49:52.000They don't stand for anything principally, but I think that's a very important point.
00:49:56.000The next thing, Iran, as you mentioned, the Democrats know that the longer the Iran war goes on, the harder it's going to be for Republicans to win in a midterm.
00:50:07.000They want to see it prolonged so that they can continue to dunk on Trump for this stuff.
00:50:10.000They're not looking for him to wrap it up and declare victory.
00:50:13.000Iran also, ironically, would like for things to go on longer because they know that Trump's going to get a bunch of political pressure, both from his party and from the Democrat Party at home.
00:50:23.000The media obviously trying to make it so that, write a narrative that we've lost the war no matter what happens.
00:50:29.000And so these are the two big things that I think are headwinds for President Trump heading into the midterm season kicking off in full flight.
00:51:02.000There are people in this hostile anti black administration that would rather black Americans pick cotton than pick the president, than pick their congressperson, than pick a senator.0.94
00:51:21.000Idiotic, actually, because a sitting senator is chosen by the whole state and they don't have the votes in the South to get their senators in most races.0.99
00:51:30.000Anyways, the point is, Alex, you're totally right.0.99
00:51:33.000I mean, I've got 14 clips of this that I could choose from as well.
00:51:37.000And that's what they're staking their whole thing.
00:51:38.000I will tell you this I would prefer this over the anti ICE narrative after Minneapolis, where you had Rachel Good and Alex Pretty that were killed.
00:51:46.000Yeah, I think this is far less important.
00:51:48.000I think we got to be able to beat this.
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00:53:48.000All right, without further ado, I want to bring in our next guest, and that is, of course, Eli Steele.
00:53:55.000He is a filmmaker, an American, proudly.
00:53:58.000Whiteguiltfilm.com, and you can find him on Substack at manofsteel.substack.com.
00:54:17.000And you've really taken up his mission, and you're doing a great job.
00:54:22.000I was really profoundly moved by a piece you wrote.
00:54:25.000You published on X. I'm assuming it's on your Substacks as well.
00:54:28.000But you said you're basically taking issue, I think, kindly, gently, with Gad's position, suicidal empathy, who's another guy that we love on this show.
00:54:39.000Contribution to this discussion is important, but he said, Whites, you said this in your piece, you said, Whites stood accused by history.0.52
00:54:47.000They had failed the founding idea of all men are created equal and were stigmatized as a group.0.56
00:54:52.000Whether or not they had personally owned slaves or enforced Jim Crow, the question that haunted many of them was not, how do I feel for you, but how do I prove I'm not one of the racists?
00:55:02.000This condition of societal guilt, not the emotion of empathy, became an organizing principle of American public life.
00:55:10.000You underscore that you believe that so much of our racial dysfunction in this country is caused by fear, not empathy.
00:55:27.000But to your question, yeah, I mean, you're pointing out to something I think that's very fundamental, which is we're talking about collective guilt here.
00:55:37.000America has practiced racism, whether it's slavery or segregation, for almost four centuries.0.55
00:55:46.000And it's another thing that's very important to remember that America was a very Christian country.
00:55:52.000And the civil rights movement was a Christian movement.
00:55:56.000And which form of Christianity was white?0.67
00:55:59.000Because Christianity had been kind of the furthest to explain slavery, to explain deprivation.0.57
00:56:22.000And that created a huge fallout or collision in the 1960s where white America realized, oh, we're not on the top morally as we thought that we were.0.53
00:56:34.000And that spread to all of white America, whether you were a slave owner or you actually participated in deprecation, or even if you didn't, your white skin was enough of a condemnation.
00:56:48.000And I think that story was misty from this whole suicidal empathy question because it sort of focuses on the individual.0.58
00:56:55.000Empathy begins as an individual emotion, and you're kind of trying to steal that out.
00:57:01.000I'm arguing the opposite that there was a collective judgment from the outside on white America, and that went into the minds of many people.
00:57:13.000They said, Okay, how do I achieve innocence?
00:58:05.000It really feels like a regression to, you might even say, pre biblical morality.
00:58:10.000Charlie loved to cite that in the Old Testament, one of its innovations is to say, you do not punish children for the sins of their fathers, that individuals' choices matter, individual decisions matter.
00:58:23.000Whereas many other moral codes don't take that.
00:58:30.000In China, a very common punishment was if someone committed treason, you killed their wife, their children, their parents, sometimes even their friends and associates.1.00
00:59:05.000Fear of being stigmatized with the racist word, fear of being called a bigot.
00:59:10.000We have turned that into American society is the number one insult, the number one.
00:59:16.000You know, assault on somebody's character conceivable, right?
00:59:20.000It doesn't matter if you're a pedophile, if you killed somebody, you know, we'll let you out of bond without cashless bond if you did those things.0.80
00:59:28.000But if you're a racist, then that is the number one chief sin that you can commit as an American.0.59
00:59:34.000And how they did that is really, really fascinating.
00:59:37.000Now, that doesn't, so what we've done, Eli, is we've completely cut out the knees from logical conversations, common sense conversations about crime, about education, about fatherlessness.
00:59:48.000And instead, it's just a blanket pejorative they can sling at you to make sure you're not allowed in polite society.
00:59:58.000You're not allowed to be a part of a church.1.00
01:00:00.000If you are the R word, they will take you out of everything.
01:00:03.000And that has created a paralyzing fear in the American body politic.
01:00:08.000And I think we're finally, the further we get away from the 1960s, we're finally seeing a true reawakening where we can have actual discussions about race, politics, culture, and these sorts of things.
01:00:19.000That's why I think your piece is so powerful, Eli.
01:00:22.000Yeah, and I think this staff piece is very helpful in many ways because what he is doing is he is describing, I think, what is the symptom.
01:00:32.000Yeah, you could call it shooting shadow empathy.
01:00:34.000I mean, I agree with it, but I don't think it's invaluable because I think it helps a lot of people focus on what's going on in the country.
01:00:42.000And maybe we should get deeper beyond that because I think that when you were talking about blood, you know, paying for the stains of the fathers, that is about the most anti American principle.
01:01:44.000So now you see how whites all across America, this is why when George Floyd happened, you had the UK, you had Sweden, Finland, Germany, all bowing down to Black Lives Matters.0.70
01:01:58.000Because they responded to this Western guilt, which we should kind of call white guilt in general.0.66
01:02:03.000But all of that, I think the whole purpose of it is to undermine the individual and force us into a tribal society, back into, I guess, what you call any pre biblical times where we are tribal.
01:02:19.000And this is why my father and I, we believe it is the most destructive force that's going on in the Western world, because if we do become tribal, And we will have to redefend America somewhere else.
01:02:36.000And there's nowhere else to go at this point.
01:02:38.000And I think it's very telling when you look at that SPLC story, too, Eli, how they knew that if you could weaponize white supremacy, if you could create a boogeyman that rested upon this foundation, this narrative that had been created in the post 1960s world, then you could monetize it, you could weaponize it, you could send it to the DOJ, and you could criminalize it.
01:02:58.000You can do all of this with the cudgel of racism, of guilt, of fear that has paralyzed our culture.
01:03:05.000And if we are paralyzed by this fear, we will lose Western civilization, we will lose confidence in ourselves, the confidence we need to build this.
01:03:14.000This civilization that we know and love, the greatest that the world has ever known.
01:03:19.000Eli Steele, you can check him out at Substack, manofsteele.com, and check out this new essay.
01:03:25.000I think it's super important, Eli, to the discussion.
01:03:28.000Thank you so much for your time, my friend.
01:04:54.000This was actually from a few days ago, but I thought it meshed well with this.
01:04:57.000Massey was on my friends list, but I have been telling people for a couple of years that libertarians are planning to sabotage MAGA by helping Democrats because they hate tariffs and they are pro China.
01:05:08.000Big tech wants them to fund the libertarians to destroy our movement.
01:05:13.000At some point, it no longer matters whether people are good on some things.
01:06:00.000Democrats are the ones that flooded the borders and want to replace American voters with more compliant third worlders.0.98
01:06:08.000Democrats are the ones that want to blow the entire federal budget to give freebies to foreigners, to give Green New Deal scams, all this stuff.0.95
01:06:17.000They are agents of chaos, quite literally.
01:06:20.000They don't believe in merit, they believe in DEI, they don't believe in equality, they believe in equity.
01:06:25.000Every single point that they choose is equity.
01:06:33.000They want to kill babies at nine months old.
01:06:36.000What could you possibly want to defend them on?
01:06:39.000Now, if you're an accelerationist, right, let me deal with you guys too.
01:06:43.000If you're an accelerationist who wants to burn it all down so that you can rebuild a party in your image, it doesn't work.
01:06:49.000All they will do is get stronger, entrench their power more deeply, and cause more chaos, destruction, and carnage in their wake.
01:06:57.000Do you think that we are going to anytime soon get out from under the 10 to 15 million illegals that they let flood this country in just four years of Joe Biden?0.95
01:08:13.000California is just in perpetual thrall to the worst excesses of labor.
01:08:19.000They basically are just controlled by a cartel that defrauds their state government with the willing connivance of the state government itself.
01:08:27.000That is the future of the country if you lean into this.
01:08:31.000And we're frustrated if Massey is enabling that to come about, even if he is on our side for a bunch of different issues.
01:08:39.000But if you're going to look at this and say, I'm mad over a house race, I am now going to switch to the other party.
01:09:33.000The vast majority of those murders are being enabled or inspired by a very small percentage of people that we can't ever get off the streets because they believe in no cash bail and all this garbage.
01:09:44.000And these judges have been co opted by the radical left.
01:09:47.000There is not one single issue where I could get on board with Democrats.