00:00:00.000On a longer episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into events that have changed the American way of life.
00:00:09.000Major changes do not happen on their own.
00:00:11.000And on this anniversary of January 6th, we talk about how they're trying to create January 6th in a Pearl Harbor for a very specific reason.
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00:01:45.000Major changes don't happen on their own.
00:01:48.000Major changes to a constitution, to a country, to a system does not just happen because it's a Thursday in April.
00:01:57.000We as conservatives are conservatives because we understand what should be preserved and conserved, and we're willing to fight, say no, so that certain things can remain the same.
00:02:10.000Now, not everything that is old is good.
00:02:14.000This is one of the things that I debate with some people that would call themselves traditional conservatives.
00:02:20.000They say, Charlie, what is old that isn't good?
00:02:29.000Not everything that's old is necessarily good, but there are some things that are old that are beautiful, like the family, like religion, like a belief in a higher eternal order, things like that.
00:02:41.000But major changes happen when you have a mandate.
00:02:45.000Some of the major changes in American history almost always have events correlating with them.
00:03:18.000So let's take one very simple example.
00:03:21.000Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, which restructured the federal government, which empowered independent regulatory agencies, that strengthened unelected bureaucrats, that was almost the permanent implementation of what is known as the fourth branch of government.
00:03:41.000It started a little bit before that with Teddy Roosevelt, but it was really Franklin Delano Roosevelt that had the mandate to expand the federal government.
00:03:51.000What was it that gave him the public support that gave him the congressional support to restructure and massively expand the leviathan of the federal government?
00:04:05.000Well, it was October 29th, 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday.
00:04:09.000Stock market crashed in an unprecedented manner, led to a massive economic destabilization, a 10-year economic slump that affected basically every industrialized country around the world.
00:04:21.000The New Deal was made possible because of the Wall Street crash that happened in the late 20s.
00:04:27.000There was so much misery, so much suffering, not to mention the Dust Bowl and the higher expectations that were set by presidents in the 1920s, such as Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover.
00:04:41.000Warren G. Harding actually wasn't as bad of a president as you might think, despite his suspicious death in office.
00:04:46.000He was actually okay, despite the teapot dome scandal.
00:04:49.000We look at another restructuring, a massive program.
00:04:54.000We talk about World War II, but America was very reluctant to get into World War II.
00:05:00.000In fact, there was protest after protest because we were involved in World War I, and it was a mess.
00:05:40.000And so when you have an entire political party and their promise to the American people is not to conserve the Constitution, which is the greatest political document ever written.
00:05:51.000When you have a political movement or a political party, the American left, it's not to say that, you know, we really appreciate separation of powers and we appreciate the decentralization of a state-based sovereignty or the independent judiciary or consent of the governed.
00:06:07.000No, instead, their promise to their voters, whether it be in Manhattan or in Glendale, California with Adam Schiff or Rhode Island, wherever it is their mandate is, the Constitution's actually really flawed and we want to change it.
00:06:26.000Well, that's not easy because actually built into the DNA of the average American citizen, first and foremost, is just kind of a desire to actually love the country you live in.
00:06:35.000I know that's a radical proposition, but there is a yearning in the human soul, not to hate where you're from.
00:06:40.000That's why before they went really woke, the Olympics were a unifying project because people want to cheer for the place that you grew up in.
00:06:48.000This is why people give almost inexplicable figures to their alma mater, their college, because they feel almost connected through the identity of the college they went to.
00:06:59.000The same could be said for their nation.
00:07:02.000But in order to obliterate the Constitution, in order to steamroll the consent of the governed, in order to break apart what is the promise of the founders, it takes an event.
00:07:15.000Now, in our lifetime, my lifetime, started in 1993, there have been two events that have done more to erode the promise of the Constitution and the American way of life than any others.
00:07:27.000Those two events led to political changes.
00:07:31.000Those two events led towards domestic changes and are large in part why we're living through what we're living through.
00:07:39.000Actually, I could say three now that we're still living through one of them.
00:07:43.000Our reaction to 9-11 immediately was correct.
00:07:45.000We bombed the heck out of the terrorists.
00:07:47.000We went with a skeletal crew of Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, and we killed more terrorists in the first couple months after 9-11 than we did in the next 15 years.
00:07:57.000But then the military-industrial complex started to lick their chops, and they wanted to try to recolonize northern Iraq to go teach people that have no association with our country math literature and women's rights of a 2,000-year-old Islamic culture.
00:08:13.000Well, a couple trillion dollars later, thousands of lives lost.
00:08:18.000It's fair to say that the adventures in the Middle East were a complete and total disaster.
00:08:23.000Not to say the veterans who sacrificed themselves and sacrificed their time were not anything but heroes, but the leaders took advantage of them.
00:08:32.0009-11 was a catalyst for the security state and the warmongering industry to make trillions of dollars.
00:08:38.000The 2008 financial crisis is the second event.
00:08:41.000The 2008 financial crisis, of course, happened in the fall of 2008.
00:08:46.000Now, some of you are actually probably not old enough, some of our younger listeners, to realize what was really the mandate after the 2008 financial crisis.
00:08:58.000Yes, there was Dodd-Frank and the nationalization.
00:09:01.000Barack Obama was in a tight race against John McCain until the 2008 financial crisis.
00:09:06.000If you go look at the public tracking polls, John McCain and Barack Obama were very close to one another until the 2008 financial crisis hit and Barack Obama became president.
00:09:16.000Now, who knows if John McCain would have been probably the same type of president, but I think it's fair to say that Obama brought in a certain type of Chicago thuggery into the federal government that was basically not seen until Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:09:28.000The third event that we've lived through in our life that was used as try to a mandate to change the American way of life, we're still living through it.
00:09:36.000Hopefully it's going away is the Chinese coronavirus.
00:09:39.000Is that the virus that was done through gain of function research by our own funding in Anthony Fauci in a far and distant land that got spread around the world, that epidemiological Pearl Harbor that killed 800,000 of our own citizens, that then that tried to reshape the American way of life?
00:09:55.000And thanks to the federalist system, it hasn't totally been successful.
00:09:59.000But boy, do the pharmaceutical companies make a lot of money out of this.
00:10:02.000Major changes don't happen on their own.
00:10:05.000How do we get mail-in balloting in the 2020 election?
00:10:09.000How do we get Barack Obama, 2008 financial crisis?
00:10:12.000How do we get a massive military doing adventures around the world, as John Quincy Adams would say, going around the world in search of monsters to destroy 9-11?
00:10:21.000Well, today, one year ago, one of those events occurred.
00:10:26.000One of those events occurred where it was intentionally and disproportionately taken out of context to try to create the mandate to obliterate the Constitution and change the American way of life.
00:10:38.000We're going to go through what Biden has said about January 6th, and we're going to put it in context of how they're looking at this as a catalyst, as a means to the end.
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00:12:59.000I was in a second-grade classroom at Quest Academy in Palatine, Illinois.
00:13:03.000I remember where I was when the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding.
00:13:09.000Gulf of Tonkin was an event, highly suspicious, I want to say, was an event that led to the official declaration of the United States getting involved in the Vietnam War.
00:13:22.000World War I, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, who was the presumptive heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Austrian-Hungary Empire.
00:13:34.000He died in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and everything else unfolded from there.
00:13:40.000One of the messiest catastrophic wars in human history.
00:13:45.000So you look through these dates and then you see what comes next.
00:13:49.000When you have those moments, it creates a mandate for rulers to dramatically change things.
00:14:22.000Because if you look at January 6th, we're one year later, it created this opening.
00:14:28.000It created a window for the worst characters and darkest corners of our government and our ruling class to be empowered and to be given a platform.
00:14:41.000It created this opening where all of a sudden all the ideas were on the table.
00:14:48.000Now, in certain conservative circles, it's rather cliche to say this, but it amazes me, despite how many times people say it, still people don't remember it.
00:14:58.000Tiny Dancer, the first chief of staff to Barack Hussein Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, the five-foot-five ballerina failed mayor of Chicago.
00:15:08.000He had a famous saying when Obama became president, which he said, never let a crisis go to waste.
00:15:18.000Never allow something falling apart to not turn into something bigger.
00:15:24.000And not allowing a crisis to go to waste is precisely how we got the new deal.
00:15:29.000It's also how we got Lyndon Baines Johnson of the Great Society.
00:15:33.000The Great Society program passed by Lyndon Baines Johnson, a bitter southern racist, might I add, was passed because no one would dare oppose Kennedy's vice president's legislative agenda after the nation was mourning Kennedy.
00:15:46.000Lyndon Baines Johnson saw his opportunity and went for it.
00:16:41.0009-11 gave unprecedented funding to the CIA and to the FBI, might I add.
00:16:46.0009-11 gave all of these assets to people that, quite honestly, never earned them, but under the suffering of 3,000 Americans that were killed on 9-11, whatever you need, let's just get it done.
00:17:00.0002008 financial crisis passed Dodd-Frank, which only made the big banks stronger.
00:17:08.0002008 financial crisis was a mandate for whatever reason.
00:17:11.000Let's reorganize the American healthcare system.
00:17:13.000We got Obamacare, hand out to big insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies and big hospital lobbies.
00:17:22.000Chinese coronavirus, hand out to Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, not to mention the tech companies.
00:17:26.000The tech companies were massive beneficiaries of the Chinese coronavirus.
00:17:31.000People staying at home, staring at their screens all day long.
00:17:33.000Stock prices of tech companies have never been higher.
00:17:37.000And so Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are saying this is comparable to January.
00:17:41.000January 6th is comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
00:17:45.000I want you to think about that because from their perspective, they're not wrong.
00:18:23.000And it's the same with Hillsdale College, the best liberal arts college in America, which means the study of human freedom.
00:18:31.000That's what liberal arts actually means.
00:18:33.000When I want to study the Constitution, I go to Hillsdale College and their online courses.
00:18:38.000Their mission is about pursuing truth and defending liberty.
00:18:41.000It gives undergraduate and graduate students the best education education means to lead forth.
00:18:49.000It is working to make education available to all people from offering free online courses, of which I have taken 11 out of their 27 online courses.
00:18:56.000And my goal is to finish all the online courses by the end of the year.
00:18:59.000The only problem is they keep on making more.
00:20:04.000So when a major event happens like January 6, it is, we should expect the other side to try to capitalize on that.
00:20:13.000Now, a lot of people are attacking Kamala Harris for comparing January 6th to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 9-11, which of course is patently insane.
00:20:24.000They said it was a deadly attack on the Capitol.
00:20:28.000The only deaths actually that occurred at the Capitol was Ashley Babbitt.
00:20:33.000The death of Officer Brian Seitlik was not at all, they said it was a fire extinguisher of the head.
00:21:41.0009-11 gave us Department of Homeland Security, the Iraq War, and 20 years in Afghanistan.
00:21:46.000Pearl Harbor gave us an invasion, not an invasion, but a two-front war in Europe and in the Pacific, and an atom bomb developed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the storming of Normandy Beach, and eventually the Marshall Plan and a Cold War.
00:22:04.000And for Kamala Harris and the regime's purposes, she's spot on.
00:22:13.000She's spot on in the sense that they do want the same sort of structural and permanent historical change post-January 6th that we saw 9-11, that we saw post-the assassination of JFK, that we saw the post-assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, that we saw post-2008 financial crisis.
00:22:42.000So what kind of change do they actually want?
00:22:45.000What kind of catalyst are they looking for?
00:22:49.000What is the game that they're trying to institute?
00:22:57.000Merrick Garland, who is the Department of Justice, the head of the Department of Justice, the Attorney General of the United States, has been saying that this is the most ambitious, greatest domestic manhunt in the history of our country.
00:23:19.000Let's go to Cut 50 where he says the actions we have taken will not be our last.
00:23:26.000We remain committed to hold all the perpetrated accountable at any level accountable under the law.
00:23:44.000The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.
00:23:50.000The Justice Department remains committed to holding all January 6 perpetrators at any level accountable under law, whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.
00:24:08.000We will follow the facts wherever they lead.
00:24:13.000In Cut 49, Merrick Garland connects what they consider to be Pearl Harbor 9-11, which of course is preposterous, but for their own purposes, they're right, with what is one of their current and major goals.
00:24:28.000Cut 49, he says there's been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote.
00:24:47.000It's not about Chewbacca and the QAnon shaman, whatever, who stormed the Senate and now wants vegan food in his 38-month prison sentence.
00:24:57.000It's not about the guy that didn't make the cut for MASH 20 years ago that came in with a hard hat that he bought at some sort of antique store in Tupelo, Mississippi, acting as if he's some sort of strong-armed commando walking around with zip ties.
00:25:24.000There has been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect representatives of their own choosing.
00:25:36.000Those enactments range from practices and procedures that make voting more difficult, to redistricting maps drawn to disadvantage both minorities and citizens of opposing political parties, to abnormal post-election audits that put the integrity of the voting process at risk.
00:25:59.000If you learn anything from the people that I grew up studying, unintentionally studying, because I just grew up watching the news every single day, the people that gave us the Iraq war and the Afghanistan war, you must broaden the horizon of the threat.
00:26:16.000So it's not just that Osama bin Laden was a threat.
00:26:19.000It's not just that al-Qaeda was a threat.
00:26:21.000No, It's a goat herder in central Afghanistan who married a seven-year-old.
00:27:47.000And that's what we did the first couple months after 9-11.
00:27:50.000There was a mandate for justice, but I'm not really concerned about an infrastructure project of building electric vehicle charging stations in central Iraq.
00:28:04.000But that's where a lot of people made money.
00:28:06.000Or the literacy of teenage girls in Pakistan.
00:28:09.000Like, that doesn't, I don't really think that's a role of the federal government while our own borders open and schools are closed in Chicago.
00:28:31.000It's not about domestic violent extremists, this new term they gave us.
00:28:35.000It's not just about, you know, people that get really excited and they do war games in their backyard, the oath keepers, whoever they are, the proud boys or whatever.
00:29:00.000And make no mistake, the root cause of January 6th is still with us today.
00:29:07.000It is the big lie pushed by Donald Trump that is undermining faith in our political system and making our democracy, our country, less safe.
00:29:20.000But without addressing the root causes of the violence on January 6th, the insurrection will not be an aberration.
00:30:56.000Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush supported voting rights.
00:31:04.000When voting rights extensions came up in this body in the past, they passed by large majorities, bipartisan.
00:31:12.000The resistance we see from modern day Republicans is a beast of an entirely different nature.
00:31:21.000Maybe some of them are scared of Trump, but too many of them see this as a way to win advantage to get their hard-right views enacted, even though the public doesn't support them by jaundicing our election process and saying and putting barriers in the way of particular people, not all people, of voting.
00:31:42.000People of color, poor people, people who live in big cities, young people, handicapped people, elderly people.
00:31:55.000As I said in my dear colleague earlier this week, if Republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to prevent action on something as critical as protecting our democracy, then the Senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before January 17th, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
00:32:16.000Voting laws are one of the things they want to change.
00:32:21.000Voting laws are one of the things that they want to use the date of January 6th as a mandate to change.
00:32:26.000I just am failing to see in what world are those connected.
00:32:33.000So you have some guy that probably needs some psychiatric help and some counseling who thinks he's a Star Wars character who storms the U.S. Senate.
00:32:44.000And somehow that has something to do with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
00:32:48.000It's more and more clear as we look at the dates that have changed history the last hundred years.
00:32:55.000They want January 6th to be part of it.
00:33:01.000On this day, January 6th, 2022, the over-rehearsed teleprompter readers that are trying to compare 9-11 to January 6th, people are dismissing it as political hyperbole.
00:33:20.000But that doesn't mean they're not going to stop.
00:33:44.000They redefined what a terror cell actually was when parents started to show up at school board meetings.
00:33:50.000That was only made possible because of January 6th is the argument.
00:33:52.000It's like, hey, when people get really passionate about something, they might storm your school board meeting and they might stand on desks.
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00:36:33.000But for whatever reason, more and more politicians, and both parties, by the way, are calling this a terror attack, just like baselessly pandering to the New York Times and to the Wall Street Journal.
00:36:45.000Well, here's the significance of it, though.
00:36:48.000Then you get very dangerous people like Brad Schneider, a man who I actually, I don't know, but one of my first kind of campaigns I worked on was Bob Dold with a D, not an E, in Illinois' 10th congressional district going from Des Moines, Displains.
00:37:07.000I'm sorry, not Des Moines, Displains, Illinois, all the way up to Zion Benton, right up to the border where Kyle Rittenhouse was from.
00:37:12.000And Brad Schneider, real sneaky guy, and won the district against Bob Dold.
00:37:20.000And he's been a carbon cutout Democrat the whole time, despite saying he's going to be a moderate.
00:37:58.000But unlike after the 9-11 attacks, the greatest threat is now from domestic terror groups and radicalized, often racially motivated, violent extremists.
00:38:07.000America must be vigilant in identifying, tracking, and thwarting groups and individuals who don't share our values and seek to do us and our nation harm.
00:38:17.000Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act gives our government important tools to do just that.
00:38:22.000DTPA aims to improve the federal government's prevention, reporting, response, and investigation of domestic terrorism by authorizing offices in each of the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:38:37.000These offices will monitor, investigate, and prosecute cases of domestic terrorism.
00:38:42.000He wants to create a whole new mandate and division of the federal government to go after political opponents that he didn't like.
00:38:53.000Now, of course, no one in that party wanted something similar with the BLM riots or Floyd of Palooza, which were far more deadly, far more dangerous than anything that we saw on January 6th.
00:39:16.000This is them dramatically laying out their long plan to commemorate January 6th because they do want January 6th to get into the pantheon of dates that turned history.
00:39:29.000They want it to be remembered like December 7th or 9-11.
00:39:37.000They want it to be remembered more than the day that Kennedy was shot.
00:39:57.000And later tonight, please join Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper for a truly unprecedented gathering inside the U.S. Capitol right after a quick break.
00:40:10.000Now, when you listen to that music and then I say they're trying to beat the drums of war, sure sounds like they're actually beating the drums of war, doesn't it?
00:40:45.000Now, I don't think that this is resonating at all with the American people.
00:40:51.000American people have this as a very, very low priority, but it's still incredibly important because if we do not effectively tell the true story of what happened on January 6th, then their mandate will go uninterrupted.
00:41:04.000Then it will just be another one of those votes that they have on Capitol Hill, like the Stop Asian Hate Bill or whatever.
00:41:10.000Where next thing you know, there's a whole division of the Department of Justice that can police speech and the Senate votes for it 97 to nothing.
00:41:18.000Mayorkis, who's the head of Department of Homeland Security, says that ideologies of hate, false information, and false narratives are primary sources to the threat landscape that we confront in the United States.
00:41:30.000I think there are a number of things at play, Jake.
00:41:33.000You know, ideologies of hate, false information, false narratives are primary sources of the threat landscape that we confront in the United States today.
00:41:46.000The divisiveness in our country is really fueling it as well.
00:41:52.000And there's a very important additional element.
00:42:41.000A democracy, we have forms of our constitutional republic that allows for democratic representation, but a democracy intentionally does not protect the rights of the minority, which is what I always find so interesting about the left wanting to insist that we're a democracy.
00:43:03.000And they're also the ones that are allegedly saying that they want to protect the rights of minorities.
00:43:09.000You see a republic, one of the characteristics of a republic that make it so difficult to sustain is that it's intentionally slow.
00:43:22.000So in a pure democracy, as Don Laman would say, and far too many people on the right would say, the power would be the population as a whole, otherwise known as sprawling inner cities.
00:43:36.000In a republic, the power is held by individual sovereign citizens.
00:43:43.000In a democracy, a voting majority has almost unlimited power to make laws, whereas a republic, the people elect representatives to make laws according to the restraints of a constitution.
00:44:39.000Second Amendment says a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of free state, the right of the people to keep and bear harm shall not be infringed.
00:45:07.000A republic says it doesn't matter if you have 95 votes in the Senate.
00:45:10.000The rules of the road, the Constitution, the eternal principles, the guardrails, the speed bump, the wall do not allow you to get it passed.
00:45:20.000That's a fundamental difference between a democracy and a republic.
00:45:24.000This is the longest-lasting compact between citizens in the history of the world for a reason.
00:47:56.000The individual citizens themselves have untouchable natural rights.
00:48:02.000And this is one of the things that we're really going to have at a collision point in the next decade, which is my big complaint against most conservatives, is that we are going to get into a truth debate with the other side.
00:48:16.000You know, this idea that you can be politically agnostic or politically neutral and still preserve something that is beautiful is silly.
00:48:29.000It makes moral claims that speech is necessary for human flourishing.
00:48:34.000It makes a moral claim that you need to be able to protect yourself against your government.
00:48:38.000It makes a moral claim that the government is not allowed to put soldiers into your home.
00:48:44.000The Third Amendment makes a moral claim that your privacy is paramount and the government cannot go into your private effects.
00:48:52.000It makes a moral claim that privacy is necessary for freedom.
00:48:55.000Makes a moral claim that you do not have to testify against yourself.
00:49:00.000You have the right to remain silent or you have the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
00:49:04.000Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendment, all around speedy and quick trial and things to do with the court of law.
00:49:09.000Ninth Amendment, what is called by Robert Bork the mysterious amendment, which is that it doesn't cover everything, which I love that amendment.
00:49:17.000We've covered that before on the show.
00:49:24.000Again, we've talked about the structure of the Constitution, that the Constitution really happened in two different buckets.
00:49:29.000It started, of course, in 1787, and then the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
00:49:37.000But when you have Don Laman from CNN say, our democracy is under attack, what democracy are you talking about exactly?
00:49:43.000And this is the most important point, which is that they want loose voting laws.
00:49:48.000They want mail-in ballots going every direction to make it seem as if they have a majoritarian body to be able to squash the rights of the rural minority.
00:51:54.000A former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.
00:52:05.000He's done so because he values power over principle, because he sees his own interest as more important than his country's interest, than America's interest.
00:52:17.000And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution, he can't accept he lost.
00:52:26.000Cut 56, Biden says, from the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.
00:52:34.000Remember, we opened up, talked about the dates that turn history, that major changes don't happen on their own.
00:52:44.000Well, Biden was just continuing the argument of Kamala Harris perfectly by saying, look, the brutality of Bloody Sunday gave us historic voting rights legislation.
00:52:54.000So now we need to use January 6 to go and pass mail-in voting and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
00:53:01.000What do those two things have together?
00:53:02.000It doesn't matter to do it because I'm in charge of your name.
00:53:09.000From the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.
00:53:17.000So now let's step up, write the next chapter in American history, where January 6th marks not the end of democracy, but the beginning of a renaissance of liberty and fair play.
00:53:31.000It's the beginning of a new era where we say goodbye to the Constitutional Republic.
00:53:36.000Again, what are the difference between the Constitution Republic, a Constitutional Republic and democracy?
00:53:42.000Constitutional Republic protects rights for all individuals, regardless of the will of the majority.
00:53:48.000The Constitution reigns supreme because that was created by the sovereign, by the states.
00:53:51.000And those are eternal and beautiful things that are always true.
00:53:54.000Those are claims that are claims on human nature.
00:53:58.000Whereas pure democracy, rights can be overridden by the will of majority.
00:54:41.000No, looking forward that the members of the Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed are now moving in laser-like fashion to try to uncover as much as they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas,
00:54:57.000where they germinate in different parts of a country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently of religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, even libertarians.
00:55:13.000And unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated as a result of, unfortunately, the demagogic rhetoric of people that's just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress.
00:55:26.000It's just, let's just open a political science book and just start reading things out.
00:55:30.000I get to see he has all the notes on his wall when he's doing the cable news hit.
00:55:34.000Nativists, religious extremists, and even libertarians.
00:56:51.000We were pretty dominant, quite honestly, for years.
00:56:53.000We used to have 100,000 retweets a day, and then obviously everything happened.
00:56:56.000And I don't really care that much about Twitter.
00:56:58.000We tweet every so often, but there's other platforms to build on.
00:57:01.000But I really think that one of the things that Twitter has done is that it's done this mass psyop operation where people actually think that's public opinion.
00:57:12.000That some reporter that gets 2,000 likes on some sort of strongly worded thing, it's like, yeah, okay, half those people are, they live in Brooklyn and LA, and the other half are reporters.
00:57:25.000Like, I don't think that's really a good litmus test of public opinion at all.
00:57:30.000But I think we underestimate the amount that Twitter actually dictates, dictates DC public policy.