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00:00:46.000If you want to join us in Tampa, Florida, I will be there and I would love to see you.
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00:01:12.000It's the most amazing event of the year.
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00:01:51.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:48.000They love their country, unlike all these wokesters, and they sell you this fake vegan meat made in a laboratory with Bill Gates and Underwater or whatever he's doing.
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00:04:03.000Look, I have a, I'm going to guess, just a wild guess here.
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00:04:21.000I saw a segment last evening on Sean Hannity's program with a guy who is advocating for the counties of eastern Oregon to secede from Oregon and become part of Idaho.
00:04:37.000With him was a friend of mine, Bill White, who was advocating that Buckhead County, which is a not Buckhead County, but Buckhead, the city or the region of Atlanta, divest itself from the city of Atlanta.
00:04:50.000The story was written up in the New York Times about Idaho back on May 22nd.
00:04:55.000Political divisions in Oregon can be to a great degree measured by a river.
00:04:59.000The day shoots with winds, its snakey, circuitous way through the state's midsection.
00:05:08.000Mike McCarter says, quote, those of us in rural Oregon are written off.
00:05:13.000The greater Idaho movement that spurred the special election vote on Tuesday has been simmering for years, but it's picked up steam, as the New York Times says, amid growing political polarization that accompanied the November presidential election.
00:05:27.000Voters in two other counties, Union and Jefferson, voted last fall to address this question.
00:05:33.000And these counties have voted that they want to leave Oregon and be part of Idaho.
00:05:40.000We are seeing something that is happening in front of our very eyes, and most people are not mentioning it.
00:05:51.000Now, I'm about to diagnose this, but I'm not going to say whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing.
00:05:56.000This is simply and merely an observation.
00:06:00.000But it's very important as we ask ourselves, what kind of nation do we want to be?
00:06:05.000And are we going to be a nation much longer?
00:06:08.000We are living through slow-motion secession.
00:06:15.000But in more ways than one, we are already seeing this question that I get asked all the time when I travel the country to churches, to tea party groups, to Republican dinners.
00:06:26.000People say, Charlie, are we going to have secession anytime soon?
00:06:31.000And I answer the question the best I can because for good reason, that word secession brings back memories of the American Civil War.
00:06:40.000Abraham Lincoln argued that secession was not a constitutionally granted right.
00:06:45.000He called the South's declaration against the North.
00:06:55.000Abraham Lincoln wrote extensively, and he said this in his most famous speech outside of the Gettysburg Address, the Cooper Union speech, where he said, the only way we are going to appease the South is if we no longer support the abolition of slavery.
00:07:11.000So for good reason, this term secession kind of stops people in their tracks.
00:08:06.000We have people that are trying to use the constitutional process to either leave the state that they're in or enter a new state.
00:08:14.000So let me give you three examples that we're already living through this slow-motion secession, that we're already dividing ourselves into many countries, that we're already asking ourselves the question, what do I have in common with that guy from San Francisco?
00:08:39.000This is something that Americans don't like talking about.
00:08:42.000I am not saying this is a positive thing.
00:08:44.000In fact, I'm generally saying this is a negative thing, but I'm saying it's happening.
00:08:49.000And I'm not even saying that it's happening for people that want to sow division.
00:08:55.000I think it's happening because people want to preserve something that they can recognize or live in a place where their values and their ideas are not constantly under attack.
00:09:06.000As I mentioned, in Idaho, we are seeing this happen.
00:09:11.000Almost all of eastern Idaho wants to become part, all of eastern Oregon wants to become a part of Idaho.
00:09:18.000McCarter says, most of us in rural Oregon realize that whatever Portland or the Willamette Valley area wants, they get.
00:09:24.000Do we have freedom to vote and who want to govern us?
00:09:30.000Tim Dye, a professor of economics at the University of Oregon, go ducks, he says, these are really small places and tough places to make a living.
00:09:39.000Now, if you look at the map of eastern Oregon, I've been there many times.
00:09:43.000It's a completely different culture than what happens in Portland or Eugene or in Salem or in Corvallis.
00:09:51.000My father, my uncle, and my aunt all went to the University of Oregon, so I understand Oregon rather well.
00:09:57.000We're also very big Ducks fans in our family.
00:10:00.000But this fracturing that you're seeing in Oregon is just one of many examples.
00:10:05.000As I mentioned, this is happening in Buckhead, the Beverly Hills of Atlanta.
00:10:09.000They say, we do not want to be part of Atlanta anymore.
00:10:27.000And Governor Jim Justice from West Virginia will happily accept them.
00:10:31.000For decades, there have been rumblings of Texas that want to secede.
00:10:36.000But what if I told you that the slow-motion secession is happening in a way that you might not realize?
00:10:42.000Did you know we're living through the greatest migration of states since Reconstruction, since blacks left the American South and came to North in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1890s?
00:10:55.000Whether it be people going from California to Texas, from New York to Florida, from Illinois to Florida, this movement from one state to the other, which I know a lot of you have done yourselves, is a form that's playing into this broader idea and this movement of separation.
00:11:15.000Now, this word secession, where does it come from?
00:11:19.000Well, obviously, it comes from secede, or it comes from, I no longer want to have an official attachment.
00:11:36.000He says that there's a constitutional right of secession.
00:11:39.000Respectfully, Tom Woods, there is not a constitutional right of secession.
00:11:44.000The Founding Fathers did not articulate that, and the Founding Fathers did not enumerate that in the greatest political document ever.
00:11:52.000I think this is part of the strategy, though.
00:11:55.000I think part of the strategy of what we are seeing culturally and politically is they want to encourage these movements, especially from foreign adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party.
00:12:07.000They want to see America no longer be the United States of America, but instead 12, 15, 17, 20, 25 countries.
00:12:15.000And where this trend is heading right now, that's where we're going.
00:12:19.000We are heading towards, some would call it, a national divorce.
00:12:23.000And the question in divorce is, well, who gets to keep the kids and who gets to see them when?
00:12:29.000Because what's going to happen is then Tennessee and Kentucky might form their own coalition of states.
00:12:33.000The Dakota's country might form their own area.
00:12:36.000And if you think I'm being a little bit hyperbolic or alarmist, I'm only beginning the argument of telling you what we are living through right now, which is a generally negative thing.
00:12:48.000And then we are going to talk about solutions and a remedy of how we can pivot away from this.
00:12:54.000At its current trajectory, we are flirting with, self-separating, and dicing up the greatest nation and republic ever to exist.
00:13:07.000Hey guys, you guys have heard me talk with my friend Kelly Shackelford before.
00:13:11.000Kelly Shackelford from First Liberty is a good person.
00:13:15.000Look, we've talked about court packing.
00:13:16.000It's the tool of left-wing authoritarians.
00:13:19.000Hugo Chavez packed Venezuela's Supreme Court with his socialist cronies and paved the way for his tyrannical regime.
00:13:25.000But now Joe Biden and American socialist radicals want to pack our Supreme Court with four new liberal justices.
00:13:31.000Court packing isn't some policy idea to improve our courts.
00:13:34.000It's a coup, a coup to take away your constitutional freedoms and turn America into a socialist country.
00:13:40.000That's why First Liberty Institute, the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated to defending religious liberty in America, is doing something about it.
00:13:48.000First Liberty recently launched supremecoup.com.
00:13:51.000That's supremecoup.com to serve as a one-stop shop in the fight against court packing and help patriots like you learn the truth about what's happening in the courts.
00:14:00.000But more importantly, there's a big take action button so you could do something to stop the Supreme Court coup.
00:14:06.000So do me a favor, support Kelly Shackelford in this and get involved.
00:14:11.000If you want to defend our God-given freedoms and stop the left's court packing scheme, head over to supremecoup.com slash Kirk.
00:15:21.000Like, who are you and why are you in my town?
00:15:24.000From the moment you get into one of these rural towns in Maine outside of the coastline, outside of Kenny Bunkport and Portland, all the kind of metropolitan ones, they know your name.
00:16:51.000You were here before others came and decided they wanted to be part of this city.
00:16:57.000Folks are not only hijacking your apartments and displacing your living arrangements, they displaced your conversations and said the things that are important to you are no longer important.
00:17:08.000And they decide what's important and what's not important.
00:17:23.000I have a right to put my voice in how the city should run.
00:17:28.000Now, partially I see where he's see what he's saying.
00:17:30.000I kind of respect this idea that don't invade our city and our culture and change it.
00:17:35.000But that kind of resentment of get out, get out, get out, that rift is growing.
00:17:40.000It is bubbling up with almost volcanic activity.
00:17:45.000You see this also in how many people in the legislatures in Kentucky and Tennessee and Iowa and the Dakotas and Montana are basically saying, if you're coming from out of state, we don't want you here.
00:18:35.000It's just an observation of kind of a fracturing, a separation, of things that are changing, of where people are divesting themselves from the attachments of their nation, their culture, and one another.
00:18:47.000Now, one of these emails here, let me find this.
00:18:50.000We've gotten so many at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:53.000Let me try to find the one that we just got here.
00:18:58.000Charlie, what we are seeing is not secession.
00:19:01.000These individuals do not want to leave the United States of America.
00:19:04.000They believe in our country and our federal constitution.
00:19:07.000They simply want the change of local governance.
00:19:10.000If a region or a city can annex areas into its governance, why can't not citizens of an area reverse annex themselves into a different governance by majority vote?
00:19:21.000But they're leaving parts of the country that don't believe in the country and the federal constitution, is that they're trying to get into their own nation, but they're seceding or they're leaving or divesting or retreating or rejecting a state like California that has decided they do not want to be part of the federal republic or a state like Vermont.
00:19:43.000Did you guys hear about the breaking news with Vermont?
00:19:45.000I will be in Vermont this weekend, by the way.
00:19:48.000I will be in Williston, Vermont at Ignite Church.
00:19:51.000I'm sure we're going to get all sorts of fun protesters now that I've announced that publicly.
00:20:34.000Non-citizen legal residents that will now be able to vote in two cities in Vermont after the state narrowly overrode Governor Phil Scott's vetoes of two bills earlier this month.
00:20:44.000So Canadians can now vote in Vermont elections.
00:20:47.000The real question is, can Americans vote in Canadian elections?
00:21:16.000So in Vermont, they have now passed this measure saying non-citizens can vote in local elections in two Vermont cities after, oh, the governor did veto it.
00:22:17.000I don't want to be governed by the FBI anymore.
00:22:19.000I don't want to be governed by the IRS.
00:22:21.000I don't want to be governed by a federal government and an administrative state that is able to investigate with total impunity my fellow countrymen or my own business or my own church or my own community.
00:22:32.000This trend is the most evident trend of national separation that we have seen since the 1860s.
00:22:42.000We are going county by county, 21 counties in rural Oregon, asking the citizens, do you want to start looking into changing the governance from Oregon to Idaho?
00:22:57.000This is a values issue, just like you're talking about in Atlanta.
00:23:02.000We're faith, family, freedom, liberty, down the blue line of protecting and enforcing laws.
00:23:10.000And we're just watching it go down the tubes.
00:23:13.000Now, people are asking us at freedom at charliekirk.com, why is this happening?
00:23:18.000Well, let me play you a little bit of a tape to show you why this is happening.
00:23:23.000When people feel as if they are living through a nonstop, relentless cultural blitzkrieg, you should be able to understand with some sympathy.
00:23:32.000They say, I don't want to put up with this anymore.
00:23:34.000I'm paying a 13% tax rate and a $57,000 a year tuition to New York private schools to have my daughter learn that there are no men and no women, no differences, have them learn that America is a terrible country, have them learn that they should hate themselves and hate their friends.
00:23:52.000And if the other side wants to double down on this, if the other side believes that you can have a nation without history, language, and culture of commonality, there is only one way they can implement that.
00:24:07.000There's only one solution to all of this for the left.
00:24:10.000And I'm going to tell you what that is, but I want you to play this tape of Michael Eric Dyson.
00:24:18.000Every time he's on television, he talks very quickly with unnecessarily big words to make himself seem smart where he has no wisdom at all whatsoever.
00:24:31.000And speaking about, you know, the maggots, I'm sorry, the MAGA that is so corrosive in this, you know, political moment.
00:24:42.000And we have stood by to see mediocre, mealy-mouthed, snowflake white men who are incapable of taking critique, who are willing to dole out infamous repudiations of the humanity of the other, and yet they call us snowflakes and they are the biggest flakes of snow to hit the earth.
00:25:13.000They have no race and they don't understand theory.
00:25:17.000And if you can't see that, that's on MSNBC.
00:25:19.000The anchor and the fellow guests are chuckling and smirking and laughing.
00:25:24.000And so if a white Christian who lives in rural Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts hears this every single day, they're going to say, I'm done.
00:25:32.000Like, have a nice life, Massachusetts.
00:25:35.000And you're seeing that happen at great, an incredible speed.
00:25:41.000And so what you just heard there from Michael Eric Dyson, that sort of cockiness, that sort of repudiation of his fellow countrymen, the lack of sympathy or understanding where they're coming from.
00:25:55.000The obvious question is, how does the left think they're going to govern this country?
00:26:03.000They think they're going to govern the country in a totalitarian nature.
00:26:07.000You cannot govern a country that's a republic that's representative with checks and balances with that sort of attitude unless you decide to be an autocrat.
00:26:18.000That's the only way this ends up working.
00:26:21.000If you're willing to use force to then shut up the other side to restrict dissent to mock the other political party, then that's the only way that you can then be in power.
00:26:37.000This is happening in a way that It's even fracturing family relationships.
00:26:44.000And so the slow-motion secession that we're living through is not just states.
00:26:49.000I'm sure a lot of you right now have lost some of your dearest and closest friends to this sort of cultural fault line.
00:27:03.000I want you to imagine how dark and craven you must be if your brother is a member of Congress with politics that you don't share, and then you decide to go cut an advertisement against him publicly, not doing this privately, not keeping your own opinions to yourself, instead deciding to cut a television advertisement on the public airwaves.
00:27:30.000Do you think this ever would have happened in 1950s America, where your own siblings of a large family would have come out against you to try to destroy your livelihood?
00:27:42.000This sort of state-based secession that we're seeing, it starts at the family dinner table.
00:27:47.000It starts at your Easter, Thanksgiving celebrations, your July 4th celebrations, your Christmas celebrations.
00:27:53.000And I'm sure a lot of you listening here have family members you're not talking to anymore.
00:27:58.000You have family members where it has fractured you completely and you say, have a nice life.
00:28:13.000And that's not a good thing, by the way.
00:28:15.000Play cut 104 of six of representatives Paul Gosar's siblings have endorsed his opponent.
00:28:23.000We have gotten to a point where this is happening so dramatically that you have siblings that are actively involved in the career destruction of their own bloodline.
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00:31:25.000A friend of mine in Chicago says, Charlie, your hour really resonates with me.
00:31:30.000We're getting a lot of positive feedback on this idea of slow-motion secession.
00:31:34.000This week is somewhat of a slow news week.
00:31:37.000And what makes our program always different, by the way, is we try to go a level deeper and tell you the truth of what's happening and what we can do about it.
00:31:43.000He says, Speaking for myself, one of my liberal friends obviously are more personal in their judgment of me.
00:31:49.000The left tends to be more arrogant and self-righteous.
00:31:52.000This was one of our first conversations respecting the free will of others.
00:31:55.000And so then he goes back to say this: he says, His friend says, Hey, we can hang out as soon as you'll get vaccinated and you renounce Trump.
00:32:07.000So he's not going to be hanging out anytime soon.
00:32:09.000We got this question, and it's almost this idea of micro-secessions that are happening all over.
00:32:15.000These micro-secessions of families splintering, of friendships fracturing, of small groups disappearing, of gatherings canceling.
00:32:28.000That then just manifests itself on the national level.
00:32:33.000We got this question: hey, Charlie, love your show and everything you stand for.
00:32:52.000I see what you're doing and what you're saying about the slow secession.
00:32:55.000It honestly reminds me of an abusive relationship.
00:32:57.000It starts as an emotional relationship or abuse on American ideas and quickly moved to the physical abuse to the point of citizens being murdered until everyone identifies as American, not states and men.
00:33:08.000This process will continue until people choose free thinking over brainwashing.
00:34:21.000And so you just retreat to another place.
00:34:24.000It isn't until we commit ourselves to what we believe and why we believe it, and we build coalitions and we organize, is it actually going to be possible to be remedied?
00:34:34.000And then finally, our leaders, most specifically our governors and our state legislatures, they need to pass pieces of public policy that use political power in the aim and the goal of getting people to have unity, to try to mend these divisions.
00:34:51.000That means curriculum that focuses on true history.
00:34:54.000That means some form of national service potentially where people are actually focused on the beauty and the soul of who we are, not the melanin content.
00:35:05.000Do you see all of a sudden how critical race theory and quote-unquote wokeism plays into this entire idea of slow-motion secession?
00:35:16.000It plays together because if we do not have at least something that the gay activist in San Francisco has in common with the Baptist preacher in Oklahoma, the country's done.
00:35:32.000Then all of a sudden we're, it's just a matter of time.
00:35:34.000But outside of a unified currency, which by the way, is also under massive indictment with the success of Bitcoin and crypto, what does the gay activists in San Francisco have in common with the Baptist preacher?