The Charlie Kirk Show - June 19, 2023


What’s the Matter with Juneteenth?


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Happy Juneteenth! What's wrong with another federal holiday? What s wrong with celebrating the day that marks the end of slavery? Should it be a day off for patriots or a day to honor those who fought for freedom?

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00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody, happy Juneteent.
00:00:02.000 Federal holiday.
00:00:03.000 We talk about why it should not be a federal holiday and we talk about the history behind it.
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00:00:26.000 Here we go.
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00:01:09.000 I am told it is Juneteent. 0.93
00:01:12.000 10 years ago, you would have said, a June what?
00:01:15.000 I'm going to work.
00:01:17.000 Five years ago, you would have said, June what?
00:01:20.000 If you try to go to a bank or a federal government building, you will be met with, sorry, federal holiday.
00:01:26.000 Three years ago, you would be met with that.
00:01:29.000 Now, maybe it's a good thing that the desk people, the desk workers, aren't continuing their reign of terror on America.
00:01:36.000 Maybe we need more federal holidays so that the IRS isn't auditing patriots.
00:01:42.000 The IRS is not showing up to gun stores like they did in Great Falls, Montana.
00:01:45.000 It's an amazing story, by the way, of if everything is true that's coming out of Great Falls, Montana, it is a shocking story of IRS overreach.
00:01:53.000 Maybe it's a good thing that they're off today, that the FBI, oh, I bet the FBI is still working.
00:01:57.000 So it's Juneteenth.
00:01:58.000 What exactly is going on here?
00:02:00.000 Well, very few people are willing to actually call this out.
00:02:03.000 From the first time that this was floated as a federal holiday, I am thankful and proud to say on this program, we opposed it.
00:02:11.000 I didn't like anything about it.
00:02:14.000 Now, of course, the day itself is, of course, inarguably amazing.
00:02:20.000 The emancipation of slaves.
00:02:22.000 No one has a problem with that.
00:02:23.000 I don't have a problem with that.
00:02:24.000 You don't have a problem with that.
00:02:25.000 It's a beautiful thing.
00:02:26.000 So why don't we have Emancipation Day, though? 0.99
00:02:29.000 The Emancipation Proclamation Day is in November, if I remember correctly, not in June.
00:02:35.000 Well, Juneteenth started as a Texas celebration, a pretty good one, by the way. 0.94
00:02:40.000 It was when the news of slave liberation came to Texas on Juneteenth.
00:02:46.000 But they've kind of put other things into it, such as the race riots in Oklahoma, and there's all these other sorts of components here.
00:02:54.000 But most conservatives and most of you in the audience have emailed me disagreeing with my Juneteenth opinion.
00:03:02.000 You kind of do the typical conservative thing.
00:03:07.000 And I put conservatives in quotes, which is this is the attitude of most conservatives as the country continues its decline.
00:03:14.000 I hear things like this.
00:03:15.000 Charlie, what's the big deal?
00:03:17.000 Calm down, pal.
00:03:19.000 What's wrong with another federal holiday?
00:03:21.000 What's wrong with another day off?
00:03:23.000 Just take the win, pal.
00:03:26.000 Sleep in a little bit.
00:03:27.000 Enjoy not working.
00:03:29.000 What's wrong with celebrating emancipation?
00:03:32.000 Now, to take those things out of order, I want to reiterate: there's nothing wrong with celebrating emancipation.
00:03:37.000 We should.
00:03:38.000 We should do it when it actually happened in September 22nd, not November, September 22nd.
00:03:43.000 Ending slavery was one of the great moral victories in America's history.
00:03:48.000 But here's the truth: Juneteenth is not a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery.
00:03:54.000 The context of which Juneteenth was made a federal holiday was during BLM's hostile takeover of our culture. 0.70
00:04:03.000 The way Juneteenth is being communicated, the way that Juneteenth is quote unquote being celebrated, it's not about black progress.
00:04:10.000 It's the opposite.
00:04:12.000 It's the emphasis on race.
00:04:14.000 It's the emphasis on quote unquote systemic injustice.
00:04:18.000 It's very important to remember that all of this is intended to dilute pride in our country and patriotism.
00:04:24.000 How many flags does our country now have?
00:04:27.000 It's hard to even keep track.
00:04:29.000 In order to properly virtue signal, you need to simultaneously switch out outside of your garage or on your mailbox the Ukraine flag, the BLM flag, the pride flag, the Juneteenth flag. 0.78
00:04:43.000 And maybe if it's socially acceptable, for one day, you get to put up the American flag.
00:04:47.000 What's wrong with that, though?
00:04:48.000 You see, the post-modernists and leftists think it's good to have a variety, a buffet, a collection of national symbols.
00:04:56.000 But if you have many flags, you have many values then.
00:04:59.000 If you have many flags, you have many moralities.
00:05:03.000 You see, Juneteenth was made as a federal holiday as an expression of dominance and political power.
00:05:10.000 Activists and Republicans agreed to it as well.
00:05:14.000 You should get the list of all the Republicans that voted for Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
00:05:17.000 It is eye-opening.
00:05:20.000 Activists rammed it through in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, using the worst wave of national rioting in half a century to demand their way on top of a mountain of ashes and spill blood.
00:05:31.000 Remember the context.
00:05:34.000 We burned down the country, now we demand a day off.
00:05:37.000 But it's even more insidious than that.
00:05:40.000 The purpose of this holiday is not to unite Americans.
00:05:44.000 The purpose is actually to divide us.
00:05:47.000 It's typical traditional Marxist tactics.
00:05:52.000 This is not about unification.
00:05:54.000 This is not about e puribus unum.
00:05:57.000 This is not about out of many one.
00:06:00.000 No, it's about a certain skin color now gets their own summertime celebration.
00:06:07.000 The exact same thing that happens before NFL games where they play the black national anthem.
00:06:12.000 The same exact thing happens on college campuses where they get black only graduation ceremonies or black only dormitories. 0.93
00:06:20.000 It's the segregated version of a national holiday. 0.56
00:06:24.000 And mind you, we now have a summertime competitor to our actual Independence Day, two weeks before one of the great moments of human history.
00:06:38.000 If you were to list one of the great moments of human history, I would say, boy, creation, Genesis 1-1, the delivery of the Hebrews, the Jewish people from Egypt, Exodus 20, Sinai and the uploading of the moral app from the divine, the birth of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus.
00:07:01.000 And then 1776 is in that list.
00:07:04.000 I say that and I will defend it.
00:07:06.000 1776 is without a doubt one of the most significant years in human history.
00:07:14.000 We celebrate July 4th for a reason.
00:07:16.000 And by the way, Abraham Lincoln knew that was the true founding of the United States.
00:07:20.000 Unless any history buff can quote in the Gettysburg Address four score and seven years ago, he did not pinpoint our founding to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 or the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, but it was 1776 when Thomas Jefferson penned the reflection of the value system that was held among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them with another.
00:07:49.000 God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
00:07:52.000 Ethical monotheism was the belief of the founding fathers.
00:07:56.000 One God, one morality, and we deserve morally to live free and not under a reign of terror from a far distant despot, king, or tyrant.
00:08:08.000 It was an ode to self-government for checks and balances, for an independent judiciary.
00:08:12.000 Juneteenth doesn't believe in any of that.
00:08:15.000 No, Juneteenth plays into the current divide that we see in the country.
00:08:21.000 And it really is this simple.
00:08:23.000 Do you want a revival of the promise of 1776 or the bitter, insidious lie attempting to divide and destroy of 1619?
00:08:36.000 This recognition of this as a quote-unquote federal holiday comes right out of the 1619 project.
00:08:43.000 Look who's most excited that this is a federal holiday.
00:08:46.000 And they're not talking about this as a massive celebration.
00:08:51.000 Oh, wow, look how far blacks have come. 1.00
00:08:53.000 It has now become a racial complaining day. 0.99
00:08:58.000 Now we have a full day to be able to smear and slander white America.
00:09:04.000 This holiday is a wedge, and I put in quotes, holiday is a wedge used to push for countless destructive policies demanded by BLM. 0.95
00:09:14.000 And remember what BLM stands for, burn, loot, and murder.
00:09:17.000 They're the people who want racial quotas for jobs.
00:09:20.000 Critical race theory is in our schools and mass reparations to punish some races for their skin color.
00:09:27.000 And you say, well, Charlie, what should we have done instead?
00:09:29.000 Well, instead of having a summertime competitor Independence Day, give people two days off for Independence Day, July 4th and July 5th.
00:09:37.000 There, you get an extra day off and you're actually celebrating something that matters, that is significant.
00:09:44.000 Yes, of course, on the surface, it's something that is inaugurable, but inarguable.
00:09:48.000 What is the actual title of the bill that Republicans voted for?
00:09:53.000 The Juneteenth National Independence Day.
00:09:57.000 That's right.
00:09:58.000 You now have two Independence Days in this country. 0.94
00:10:02.000 And I'm going to walk through the Republicans that pushed for this because they're so naive, they're so weak.
00:10:06.000 And they thought, I'm going to win some points for pushing Juneteenth. 1.00
00:10:10.000 You are a useless idiot pushing forward a Marxist racist agenda. 1.00
00:10:15.000 I said useless idiot. 1.00
00:10:17.000 I meant useful idiot because they're actually very useful for the regime. 1.00
00:10:20.000 Easy to get those two mixed up. 0.98
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00:11:03.000 It's funny, they say hindsight is 2020.
00:11:06.000 I don't think people realize how damaging a single year was to our republic.
00:11:13.000 In 2020, the most evil and pernicious, ferocious, and aggressive forces pushed conservatives and we largely let them.
00:11:23.000 Most states were on board for lockdowns, Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines, the war on early treatments. 0.72
00:11:30.000 2020 was an all-out act of political blitzkrieg.
00:11:34.000 And for many months, we didn't fight back.
00:11:36.000 We tried on our program, but boy, we were ignored.
00:11:39.000 We said, hey, these deficits are running are a bad idea.
00:11:42.000 And why is it that we're locking down schools?
00:11:46.000 And the right largely surrendered practically without a fight.
00:11:49.000 And the left, they smelled our weakness.
00:11:53.000 They saw blood in the water and they just went for it.
00:11:56.000 And then this whole racial stuff happened.
00:11:59.000 The right largely surrendered practically without a fight.
00:12:03.000 So much of the garbage we're living through right now is what happened from January 1st to Election Day in 2020.
00:12:10.000 We disallowed mass mail and ballots, no signature verifications, the COVID tyranny. 0.76
00:12:19.000 We are going to have to unravel, unpack the damage done in just the calendar 2020 for the next couple of years.
00:12:29.000 And one of those things is the race craze.
00:12:33.000 The race craze is one of the most damaging outgrowths of the insanity of 2020. 0.97
00:12:41.000 Largely pushed by white liberals, by the way.
00:12:44.000 I have a very serious question.
00:12:48.000 Is Juneteenth being a national federal holiday a primary cause of concern or demand of black constituents?
00:12:57.000 Is that a top concern?
00:13:00.000 I don't think so.
00:13:01.000 We just hosted an amazing event, Blexit with Turning Point USA, in an urban neighborhood in New York City.
00:13:08.000 It was packed.
00:13:09.000 It was amazing.
00:13:10.000 Trans activists tried to interrupt it.
00:13:13.000 And hearing from the people on the ground, Juneteenth is not a top concern of black America.
00:13:19.000 You know what is?
00:13:20.000 Jobs, economic stability, housing, most importantly, safety.
00:13:26.000 And interestingly enough, this trans stuff is not popular in the black community at all. 0.99
00:13:31.000 In fact, as a side note to explain as we proceed on this topic with other guests and in the following days and months, I truly believe this trans garbage that has swept the nation opens a once-in-a-generation opportunity to win black voters. 1.00
00:13:48.000 It is very unpopular in the projects. 0.99
00:13:52.000 It's very unpopular with black pastors.
00:13:55.000 The abortion thing they can kind of turn a blind eye to, it's kind of in the middle. 0.95
00:14:00.000 There is not a constituency in black America to trans the kids.
00:14:04.000 That is a white liberal phenomenon.
00:14:07.000 2020 was such a damaging year that we're still living with the ground that they were able to take.
00:14:18.000 And it was Republicans, the old Republican Party, that always just says, okay, Democrats, sounds like a great idea.
00:14:26.000 Because a lot of, you know, some Republicans, for example, at the time, there were people that were peddling this America systemically racist lie on the right.
00:14:34.000 They said, okay, you know, there's nothing wrong with a federal holiday to celebrate emancipation of slavery.
00:14:41.000 Is that what is really being emphasized?
00:14:43.000 Of course not.
00:14:44.000 It's a typical subversive communist tactic to use something that looks fine on the surface and use it for something else. 0.97
00:14:55.000 Our side are chumps for going along with it.
00:14:59.000 Here are some of the people in the House of Representatives that voted for it, some of which I like and they vote on good things. 0.85
00:15:04.000 This is the House of Representatives.
00:15:05.000 Oh, is everybody but them?
00:15:07.000 Okay.
00:15:07.000 Everybody in the House voted except these people for it.
00:15:10.000 Mo Brooks, Mike Rogers, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Tom McClintock, Doug Lamalfa, Andrew Clyde, Thomas Massey, Matt Rosendale, Ralph Norman, Scott Desjarlais, Ronnie Jackson, Chiproy, and Tom Tiffany.
00:15:22.000 They did not.
00:15:22.000 So basically everybody else, all the senators voted for it.
00:15:26.000 Because why, why, why would the Republican Senate and most of the Republican House vote for a new federal holiday of Juneteenth?
00:15:35.000 Why?
00:15:36.000 Not because they believe in it, even though some of them maybe do, like Adam Kinzinger probably did.
00:15:42.000 Why?
00:15:44.000 Because they didn't want to be called a racist.
00:15:47.000 That's why the fear of being called a racist has made Republicans do things they otherwise would not do.
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00:17:16.000 I want to reiterate something that I just mentioned briefly previously that I think is really important.
00:17:21.000 Do you know the actual name of the bill that became legislation into law?
00:17:27.000 Juneteenth, National Independence Day.
00:17:31.000 So by law, we now have two Independence Days.
00:17:35.000 That is the official name according to the bill.
00:17:39.000 Not Juneteenth Celebration Day.
00:17:42.000 Juneteenth, National Independence Day.
00:17:46.000 We should have one Independence Day.
00:17:48.000 So let me read an objection that we received from a listener.
00:17:51.000 Respectable objection from Daniel.
00:17:53.000 Charlie, I don't understand your issue with Juneteenth being a holiday.
00:17:56.000 As a lifelong Republican, every Republican should have made the holiday.
00:18:00.000 Every Republican should have made the holiday of the first Republican president doing a great deed that forever changed the country.
00:18:06.000 Democrats have caught tailored our glorious history for so long.
00:18:09.000 We should make the effort to reclaim our history.
00:18:11.000 Well, the issue with this is obvious.
00:18:13.000 Number one, this is so significant in the timing.
00:18:17.000 It's obviously a summertime competitor to July 4th or actual Independence Day.
00:18:21.000 Number two is the wording.
00:18:22.000 It's not Juneteenth Celebration Day.
00:18:24.000 Number three is, does it really warrant a federal holiday?
00:18:27.000 Number four is, again, if you want to celebrate emancipation, do it the day that emancipation was actually signed, which was in September, September 22nd for the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment on December 6th.
00:18:39.000 No, but they want a summertime competitor.
00:18:43.000 They want to have two.
00:18:44.000 They want you to have to choose.
00:18:46.000 Do you want the 1776 way, which those evil right-wing MAGA people celebrate, or the 1619 way, which we celebrate now federally on June 19th?
00:18:55.000 The problem about this is not a holiday celebrating a Republican president.
00:19:00.000 The people pushing this holiday actually hate Abraham Lincoln.
00:19:03.000 The people that are celebrating that they got this done as a federal holiday, they despise Abe Lincoln.
00:19:09.000 The same summer, the Republicans folded on making this a fake new holiday.
00:19:13.000 The city government of Boston tore down a monument honoring Abraham Lincoln as the great emancipator, a monument paid for by freed slaves.
00:19:22.000 Do you remember that?
00:19:24.000 They were taking down monuments to Abraham Lincoln while wanting a black federal holiday because it was supposedly racist.
00:19:33.000 That's not what matters here.
00:19:34.000 This holiday is not about celebrating emancipation, regardless of the veneer they put on it.
00:19:39.000 They're not even putting a good camouflage on it because it says National Independence Day.
00:19:44.000 It's being pushed by other people for bad, obviously anti-American reasons.
00:19:50.000 And I have been through this in 11 years far too many times to kind of just take it easy on issues like this.
00:19:56.000 And I understand the temperament that some of you might be feeling.
00:20:01.000 You want to believe the other side means well.
00:20:03.000 You say, oh, come on, Charlie, you're trying to tell me that too, in addition to all this, that this is really a Marxist takeover.
00:20:13.000 It's part of a plan and an agenda, not to unite, but to divide, not to celebrate the promise of 1776, but to play in to the corrosive nature of the 1619 project.
00:20:25.000 They literally want to rip down statues of Abraham Lincoln, which they are doing, in addition to every other white American who lived before 2012.
00:20:34.000 So someone says, well, Charlie, how do I explain to young teenagers about this day?
00:20:38.000 Say that emancipation is great, but that's not what this is about.
00:20:42.000 Regardless of what they say it is, this is a time to complain and advertise every single CRT talking point in the book.
00:20:53.000 You want a real celebration?
00:20:56.000 Let's emphasize the thing that left-wingers hate, which is Thomas Jefferson.
00:21:01.000 The 1619 project, which is the philosophical competitor to the promise of 1776, partnered with the New York Times, pushed by the bitter racist Nicole Hannah Jones.
00:21:14.000 They want to de-emphasize what 1776 is all about.
00:21:20.000 Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday is a nationalized race hustle.
00:21:24.000 Someone says here, Charlie, you're so clueless about Juneteenth. 0.79
00:21:28.000 As an 87-year-old white woman who grew up on my father's cotton farm, we hired many black workers.
00:21:33.000 You should do more research on the subject.
00:21:35.000 The Declaration of Freedom was not received in text until July, June 19th.
00:21:40.000 You're being disrespectful, all the blacks who endured slavery.
00:21:42.000 Hold on a second.
00:21:43.000 None of the blacks that are alive today endured slavery, number one.
00:21:46.000 Number two, you're trying to tell me that today is really a recognition of the liberation of slaves.
00:21:51.000 If that was the case, we would have a lifting up of Abraham Lincoln, not a tearing down of Abraham Lincoln.
00:21:56.000 Number three, why do blacks need their own National Independence Day? 1.00
00:21:59.000 Because that's what the bill says.
00:22:01.000 Why does melanin content in your skin necessitate your own National Independence Day?
00:22:05.000 We used to have a red, white, and blue Independence Day on July 4th.
00:22:08.000 Now we have one based on the melanin content of your skin.
00:22:12.000 So we already have segregated dormitories, segregated graduation ceremonies. 0.98
00:22:16.000 We have affirmative action hiring practices and critical race theory in our schools.
00:22:19.000 And yes, now we have a neo-segregationist view of which summertime holiday you have to take off.
00:22:26.000 I hear all the time, well, Charlie, why is our nation so divided?
00:22:29.000 Well, exhibit A. You get a National Independence Day based on the color of your skin.
00:22:34.000 And what is the subtext of, even if you were to take the national holiday as the emancipation of slaves, the subtext is everything before that is trash. 0.97
00:22:45.000 That is the buried lead.
00:22:47.000 The buried lead is that we should not celebrate Washington, Madison, Jay, Hamilton, Jefferson, that we should not celebrate the brilliance of the Declaration.
00:22:58.000 The buried lead here is, it's not as important.
00:23:03.000 We'll have a day made for and by and orchestrated and designed by the CRT con artists.
00:23:11.000 I was listening to MSNBC on my way to work this morning.
00:23:13.000 When they mentioned Juneteenth, it was not about, oh, look how far blacks have come.
00:23:18.000 Look how good their opportunities are.
00:23:21.000 It's the opposite.
00:23:22.000 The narrative is we still have all this systemic racism.
00:23:27.000 You see, I understand the wish that this is what you want it to be.
00:23:37.000 Oh, Charlie, come on, this is one day where we can all agree.
00:23:41.000 Of course, we can agree that emancipation is a good thing.
00:23:43.000 Of course we can.
00:23:45.000 I don't believe a nation that wants to stand for a long time can have two independence days.
00:23:53.000 What is it that Abraham Lincoln said?
00:23:55.000 Get the quote, Blake.
00:23:56.000 A house divided cannot stand.
00:24:00.000 Two Independence Days?
00:24:02.000 What they're trying to say, and they are going to keep on marching as the fundamentalist Marxists do, as the Deconstructionists do, is because they're not going to stop.
00:24:12.000 is they're doing everything they can to chip away at the brilliance, the exceptionalism, the irrefutability.
00:24:19.000 And I believe the divine breakthrough that 1776 represented philosophically, politically, and morally.
00:24:29.000 They're trying to say that, well, we didn't fulfill our promise because they had slaves, all but ignoring that because of 1776, slavery was started to be abolished.
00:24:40.000 Vermont abolished slavery in 1777.
00:24:43.000 10 out of 13 of the states, by the time ratification came in 1787, had already independently abolished slavery.
00:24:49.000 In 1775, was the first ever anti-slavery convention chaired by Benjamin Franklin himself in Philadelphia.
00:24:57.000 These facts are conveniently ignored because it's not about racial progress for these people.
00:25:04.000 No.
00:25:06.000 It's about power and control and taking ground, taking terrain.
00:25:12.000 These people will not be stopped unless you say no more.
00:25:18.000 We have one Independence Day.
00:25:20.000 We are not going to divide this house.
00:25:22.000 Lincoln's in 1838 speech, he said, at what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
00:25:28.000 I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us.
00:25:32.000 It cannot come from abroad.
00:25:34.000 If our destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
00:25:43.000 Lincoln said, as a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
00:25:49.000 A house divided against itself will not stand.
00:25:54.000 A house divided against itself cannot stand.
00:25:56.000 Thank you, Blake.
00:25:58.000 He says, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
00:26:03.000 I do not expect the union to be dissolved.
00:26:05.000 I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
00:26:10.000 It will become all one thing or all the other.
00:26:15.000 Here's the most important takeaway.
00:26:16.000 We will become all one thing or all the other.
00:26:20.000 BLM, the woke, want us to become all one thing. 1.00
00:26:25.000 Something new and strange and bizarre.
00:26:28.000 And the question is, will we surrender?
00:26:31.000 And the takeaway from 2020 is yes, we will surrender.
00:26:36.000 We will give the revolutionaries whatever we want.
00:26:38.000 We will give the Bolsheviks whatever we want, whatever they want. 0.99
00:26:42.000 We will give the Mensheviks whatever they want. 0.98
00:26:44.000 We will give the Maoists whatever we want. 0.99
00:26:46.000 Stop calling me racist.
00:26:47.000 Stop calling me bad names.
00:26:49.000 I'll give you a federal holiday.
00:26:50.000 We'll give you $100 million in corporate donations, upwards of a billion that were pledged.
00:26:55.000 We'll give you reparations in California.
00:26:58.000 We'll give you affirmative action hiring quotas.
00:27:01.000 We'll give you whatever you want.
00:27:03.000 Appeasement does not work.
00:27:05.000 For normal, ordinary Americans that feel as if your country is slipping away, this day becoming a federal holiday, quote unquote, as a National Independence Day, is a middle finger to the promise of 1776.
00:27:23.000 Now, for the rest of our life, we are going to have two federal holidays within two weeks of one another, and you are going to have to choose.
00:27:31.000 They're going to try to force, quote unquote, the racists of July 4th, because those were those old white guys that founded the nation.
00:27:37.000 But Juneteenth is for the enlightened folks.
00:27:40.000 You're trying to tell me that country can survive, but this was brought to you by Republicans who are deathly afraid of being called a very bad name.
00:27:51.000 If Juneteenth was really about emancipation, why not September 22nd when the proclamation was signed?
00:27:56.000 Or December 3rd when the 13th Amendment was passed?
00:27:59.000 Or January 1st when Lincoln actually gave the speech.
00:28:02.000 If I was a Marxist.
00:28:05.000 Unfortunately, that's how you have to think.
00:28:06.000 If I was a Marxist, what would I want to do?
00:28:08.000 If I hated July 4th, what would you do?
00:28:12.000 Well, you want to do something that could be passed into law.
00:28:15.000 So you make it have a veneer and a camouflage that feels good, that won't be that controversial.
00:28:20.000 But you also have it right up against the actual thing to create division.
00:28:25.000 If I was a Marxist, I would put this as a federal holiday on the heels of our actual Independence Day to preempt it and to compete with it.
00:28:34.000 I'm going to read an email here from the gentleman that I responded to his disagreement.
00:28:40.000 He said, Charlie, I stand corrected.
00:28:41.000 I would support an Emancipation Proclamation Day, but not a new Independence Day based on race.
00:28:47.000 God bless you, Daniel.
00:28:48.000 Thank you for your humility.
00:28:49.000 And that means what we are saying is being persuasive.
00:28:53.000 And it really is something, right?
00:28:55.000 We're at a place where kids are going to be raised in a country where they think we have two Independence Days.
00:29:03.000 And eventually you have to choose one.
00:29:05.000 Which one do you associate with more?
00:29:08.000 And we don't even do a good job, by the way, of teaching 1776.
00:29:12.000 And by the way, this is all in the midst of Pride Month, the regalia of the deadliest sin of all. 0.94
00:29:20.000 June has really become a messed up month, hasn't it?
00:29:23.000 By the way, the evidence continues about trying to de-emphasize the founders.
00:29:30.000 And I'll give you another example of this.
00:29:32.000 Do you know President's Day used to be Washington's birthday?
00:29:36.000 But that was too racist because we can't honor a white guy's birthday, right? 0.51
00:29:40.000 So then they make it this kind of collective President's Day.
00:29:44.000 And President's Day is still Washington's birthday under law.
00:29:48.000 That is correct, Blake.
00:29:49.000 But how many people honor President's Day as what it actually is, which is Washington's birthday?
00:29:54.000 They say, no, no, no, we need a fully comprehensive day to encapsulate all the presidents.
00:30:00.000 Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not going to honor Woodrow Wilson on President's Day.
00:30:04.000 I'm not going to honor FDR on President's Day.
00:30:07.000 I'm going to honor the great American president, the man who embodied the tradition of the Order of Cincinnati.
00:30:16.000 But singling out George Washington is way too celebratory of the American founding.
00:30:21.000 So you just got to loop it all in.
00:30:24.000 How many Americans know that President's Day is actually Washington's birthday and that was the original way to celebrate it?
00:30:31.000 This is a pattern.
00:30:33.000 We see it in our curriculum, in our corporations, our narrative, and language.
00:30:37.000 Okay, so in the last couple of days, RFK Jr., who I am a big fan of, and we have mixed opinions in our own team on RFK Jr.
00:30:45.000 I won't repeat them.
00:30:46.000 You guys can listen to our Rumble show if you want to hear those shows.
00:30:49.000 I think he's great.
00:30:50.000 I don't agree with him on everything.
00:30:51.000 He goes pretty hard on the vaccine thing.
00:30:53.000 I'm not an expert on that.
00:30:55.000 Probably, you know, pushes the boundaries more than most people's comfort, but he does ask some very simple questions, especially on the mRNA vaccine.
00:31:02.000 And Joe Rogan, to his great credit, platformed him, asked really good questions, and it was excellent.
00:31:09.000 So RFK Jr. and Rogan's interview, I think, has been seen millions and millions of times.
00:31:16.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.
00:31:17.000 RFK Jr., play cut 13.
00:31:20.000 22,000 people got the vaccine, 22,000 didn't, and they have six months of data.
00:31:25.000 Some of that is unblinded, but it's six months.
00:31:28.000 And during that six-month period, in the vaccine group, one person died of COVID.
00:31:35.000 And in the placebo group, two people died from COVID.
00:31:39.000 So, that allows Pfizer to tell the public and FDA to tell the public, oh, this vaccine is 100% effective.
00:31:48.000 So, that's just a little snippet.
00:31:49.000 They went deep into the vaccine thing, talking about specifically the COVID vaccine.
00:31:54.000 RFK Jr. has made a career out of trying to expose and hold traditional vaccines accountable.
00:32:02.000 Very controversial.
00:32:03.000 Some people agree, some people disagree.
00:32:04.000 I find it very interesting.
00:32:06.000 He's been on our program before and he'll hopefully come on again.
00:32:09.000 So, what spurred out of this was really something.
00:32:14.000 So, they started talking about this charlatan who I never liked.
00:32:18.000 This guy, this guy is obviously a shill of the vaccine manufacturers, obviously being paid.
00:32:24.000 And he goes on CNN all the time and he's just really nauseating.
00:32:28.000 Peter Hotez.
00:32:30.000 Is that how you say Peter Hotz?
00:32:32.000 And he's a vaccine peddler.
00:32:34.000 And what came out of this conversation with Rogan and RFK Jr. is a challenge to debate.
00:32:40.000 And a ton of money going to charity.
00:32:42.000 It's now up to $2.5 million.
00:32:44.000 Peter Hotez says, I don't do debates.
00:32:46.000 I just do scientific studies.
00:32:47.000 The science is not up for debate, is it?
00:32:51.000 If it's so easy to defend, then just go on the show and make a fool out of RFK Jr.
00:32:56.000 Answer the critical questions.
00:32:58.000 Be willing to engage in the Socratic method.
00:33:02.000 There are millions of people.
00:33:03.000 Now, by the way, the matrix is shaking.
00:33:05.000 Elon Musk overnight came out and tweeted this, and it's amazing.
00:33:11.000 Elon Musk came out and said, I think there's tremendous promise in synthetic mRNA technology.
00:33:18.000 However, I have personally had serious side effects from the vaccines, including myself.
00:33:24.000 Failure to acknowledge this is a lie.
00:33:26.000 As for the deaths that you claim are due to COVID-19, why is the nation of Sweden still alive?
00:33:30.000 Just go on Rogan and do the debate.
00:33:33.000 And he's refusing.
00:33:39.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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00:33:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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