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00:00:50.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:58.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:10.000With Turning Point USA and the movement that we have started, I've had the honor of traveling and visiting to college campuses and engage in rigorous debate with the next generation.
00:01:20.000When you talk to as many students as I do, you see several familiar themes.
00:01:24.000I see disillusionment with the media, a lack of hope in their job prospects.
00:01:28.000I hear them claim that they're victims and they deserve better.
00:01:31.000Whether college students realize it or not, they're forming ideologies that will affect the way they think and treat others for a lifetime.
00:01:37.000I'd like to recommend a great book to any young person in this time of life.
00:01:41.000It's called Reflections on the Existence of God by best-selling author Richard Simmons III.
00:01:46.000This guy never shies away from the hard questions of life.
00:01:49.000Reflections on the existence of God is a collection of short essays that tackles the biggest question of all.
00:02:48.000So let me just start first with some of you that did email us early in the morning.
00:02:53.000They said, Charlie, you don't understand.
00:02:54.000Joe Biden is going to get walking up to get sworn in, and everyone's going to get arrested, and Donald Trump will swoop in and get another four years.
00:03:05.000And so I just hope that there will be just an end to some of the hopium message boards that have been used over the last couple of years that have done nothing but just feed a fake narrative that breeds inactivity and also just quite honestly misinformation and disinformation.
00:03:26.000Joe Biden is now president of the United States.
00:03:28.000He was sworn in yesterday and promised unity.
00:03:32.000He promised that he wanted to unify the country around what we really weren't sure.
00:03:38.000So Andrew, did you notice he really didn't tell us what he wanted to unify us around?
00:05:37.000Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lately.
00:05:43.000I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.
00:06:02.000What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.
00:06:15.000They're saying they want a new law, similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.
00:06:27.000And so what Glenn Greenwald is warning about, and God bless him for doing it, he's one of the few people on the left that is actually talking about how dangerous this can be, is that Democrats have found a new war on terror.
00:06:39.000Not one in the Kandahar Valley, not one in Baghdad, not one in Tripoli, but no, one in Philadelphia, one in Chicago, one in Los Angeles, and one in Denver.
00:06:51.000And it gives them now permission domestically, if they pass this legislatively, to infiltrate, monitor, and go after people that are on the political spectrum they don't like, including potentially libertarians.
00:07:09.000Now, John Brennan said that in an interview with MSNBC, and our team is going to get that clip.
00:07:14.000But the question should be: why are the Democrats doing this so quickly?
00:07:20.000And I learned something yesterday that I want to share with you.
00:07:22.000I saw something yesterday I want to share with you, which I think is very important.
00:07:29.000And the Democrats wasted no time to go on offense.
00:07:36.000When Barack Obama was sworn into office in 2008, he did not hit the ground running as quickly as Joe Biden did yesterday.
00:07:45.000Within hours, there were 14 executive orders signed, maybe more.
00:07:49.000A press conference of 35 to 40 minutes that was hosted.
00:07:54.000They wasted no time to take back power in our government.
00:07:58.000And I think that Obama, who is probably the advisor and one of the chief architects behind all of this, advised them that if you do not play offense, Republicans will put you on defense.
00:09:57.000They were called xenophobes completely and totally baselessly.
00:10:04.000With the tragic attack on the Capitol that happened just a couple weeks ago, the Democrats are now seizing this blanket narrative to go after a potential counter movement to anything that they do.
00:10:22.000And John Brennan is wasting no time advertising this.
00:10:25.000John Brennan, who I don't think has an official role in the administration, right?
00:10:41.000Oh, 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,
00:10:58.000where 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.
00:11:13.000And unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated as a result of, unfortunately, the demagogic rhetoric of people that just departed government, but also those who continue in the halls of Congress.
00:11:25.000That's John Brennan, even including libertarians.
00:11:27.000Now, why would he put that kind of grouping together?
00:11:32.000Because the domestic war on terror that they so desperately want to see launched will inevitably stave off another Tea Party.
00:11:47.000They're terrified of another reaction because they want to stay in political power perpetually.
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00:13:31.000They had such overwhelming majorities in the House and the Senate.
00:13:36.000They thought there was no way Republicans could get back in control anytime soon, and they were wrong.
00:13:41.000Because of Obama's unpopular policies, because of the unpopular way that he handled a lot of different issues, including health care, there was a grassroots response that, yes, included libertarians, which is involved, which is included in John Brennan's list of kind of untouchables, like the political untouchables.
00:14:02.000And because of that, the Democrats don't want to make the same mistake that they made in 2008, which is underestimate the conservative movement.
00:14:13.000And so their strategy now is to describe 74 million people as potential insurgents.
00:14:20.000And that's exactly what John Brennan did.
00:14:22.000Now, interestingly, they never would consider what is happening in Seattle and Portland right now as actual insurgency.
00:14:34.000Did you know, last night and yesterday, there were zero, as far as we know of, Trump supporters engaging in violence or public protests.
00:14:44.000However, there were people that were anarchists and Antifa smashing Democrat headquarters in downtown Portland, setting fire to the original Starbucks.
00:14:58.000In fact, let's go to Cut 78 that shows this.
00:15:00.000Antifa on the move in Seattle, a little over eight hours since Joe Biden was inaugurated.
00:16:34.000One of those two cities, the actual Democrat headquarters was attacked.
00:16:39.000And it kind of reminded me, Charlie, of images from early in the summer when you saw like CNN's building get vandalized by BLM as well.
00:16:48.000What the Democrats either don't understand, there's two theories, right?
00:16:52.000Either the Democrats are, the establishment is also a target, right?
00:16:55.000They had that sign that says, we don't want Biden, we want revenge, or they are being secretly behind the scenes sort of dispatched to sort of create additional further left momentum and pressure on the Democrat Party on purpose, right?
00:17:11.000To put pressure on Biden or the administration.
00:17:17.000I'm just saying it's a theory that's being floated out there.
00:17:20.000Or it just could be a bunch of anarchists that take to the streets often.
00:17:23.000And Joe Biden doesn't want the appearance of discord on the streets.
00:17:30.000And this is Joe Biden squashing actual opposition where Donald Trump just wanted peace on the streets.
00:17:36.000And Joe Biden and the federal agents that's now under his jurisdiction and his control are acting more like the fascists that they were afraid that Donald Trump was going to be over the last four years.
00:17:48.000And so there is an idealism that Joe Biden is pushing forward.
00:18:03.000And this is the question that no one is asking that I want to unpack in our next segment, which is, what is the idealism that Joe Biden is trying to push forward?
00:18:12.000Because typically, idealism can actually just be a cover for something that is quite sinister in nature.
00:18:22.000You may not know this about me, but I'm really an undercover studier when it comes to the global economy.
00:19:57.000And they had this really good conversation back and forth about why are we in the position we are in in our country.
00:20:03.000And Eric Weinstein said something I've heard him say before, where he said that the idealism of an era is usually the cover of the theft.
00:20:12.000So, for example, back in the 1990s, there was this entire movement to say, we are the world.
00:20:20.000You know, we are world citizens, which was a cover for betraying the fellow countrymen that you live with.
00:20:27.000For example, the ties that bind an Iowan and a Texan together, it really doesn't matter very much because you should just equally care about the Texan as you do as a Nicaraguan or the person in Vietnam.
00:20:39.000And that was, according to Eric Weinstein, a kind of corporate permission slip to put forward NAFTA, TPP, and expand some of the international corporate theft, as he put, that was really instituted.
00:20:57.000Well, the early 2000s was the continuation of an idealism of the American dream is owning a home.
00:21:05.000Everyone needs that white picket fence.
00:21:07.000And so what ended up happening was that narrative, that cultural conversation resulted in the massive government-subsidized housing bubble.
00:21:17.000And the same could be said throughout the 80s and every era has its idealism, as Eric Weinstein provocatively argues, and I think he's mostly right, that that idealism is a cloak for something they're trying to take away from you or they're trying to destroy.
00:21:36.000And it hit me as I was listening that if we take that thesis statement as true, which I think it's generally right and I think it's really interesting, that what is the idealism that is being pushed right now that very well might be the cover of the theft that they're trying to institute?
00:22:54.000But also sometimes idealism can be really, really dangerous, especially when you're at a point where the idealism is now being pushed forward to actually be regressive, to actually move things backwards.
00:23:09.000And so the idealism that is being pushed forward by these peacetime kleptocrats is that we all want to agree and unify that everything that happened in the last four years was awful.
00:23:25.000That's what they want you to unify around.
00:23:28.000Not that we're going to unify on there's only one race, the human race.
00:23:34.000Not that we are going to unify around the idea of e pluribus unim out of many one, liberty and idgon we trust, which Dennis Prager, who's just feet away from us, says is the American Trinity, great guy.
00:23:47.000The unity that they want to bring to our country is much different.
00:23:53.000And that's just a very simple question that the activist media should ask Jen Saki, who again deserves credit, and I say this non-sarcastically, for hosting a press conference the day you move into the White House.
00:24:14.000I mean, it was such a thumb in the nose, and it was an intentional burn to the Trump administration, which obviously didn't hold daily press briefings.
00:24:22.000They tried at the beginning to be more regular, but it was such a war zone every time they entered, and it was such a waste of space.
00:24:29.000People like Jim Acosta were getting famous and getting future book deals on it.
00:24:33.000So they rightly changed it up, and President Trump switched it up as well.
00:24:36.000He went and took questions right in front of Marine One and that sort of thing to sort of reclaim the power and get the cameras looking at him and away from them, which I thought was a good move.
00:24:46.000But what it was was she knew that she was walking into a room full of friendly reporters that were full of puff pieces that wanted to know what did Joe Biden feel like when he went into the Oval Office?
00:24:57.000And she was like, oh, well, you know, he said it felt like coming home.
00:25:28.000So she went almost the entire presser with softball questions.
00:25:32.000Nobody asked about the caravan from Honduras.
00:25:34.000Nobody asked about the coming economic malaise that will happen when you shut down the pipeline and you join the Paris Climate Accord and what that's going to do to business.
00:25:44.000Nobody asked about the Mexico City rule and that sort of thing.
00:25:48.000Well, actually, she did get one question about that, which she deferred.
00:25:51.000But it was just a little bit into friendly territory.
00:26:02.000I mean, it's as if, oh, now we're all in this together.
00:26:05.000And so let's just give an example of this, just because in case you missed it, again, I agree, Andrew, but I still think it's bold to host a press conference in a couple hours.
00:27:00.000I have not had the opportunity to dig into that today, given the number of executive actions, orders, the inauguration, a few things happening.
00:27:08.000I will venture to get you an answer on that, and maybe we can talk about it in here tomorrow.
00:27:53.000And are you willing to achieve that idealism?
00:27:57.000Are you willing as president in your first 100 days when you have the most political capital, absent other times when unexpected things happen, most political capital to say, stand down on impeachment?
00:28:47.000And so, and what's so amazing to me, and I want to find the evidence of this because Glenn Greenwald said Elon Omar and Rashida Taliba are against this new domestic war on terror, which I've seen no evidence of.
00:28:57.000So I want to kind of see where Glenn Greenwald got that from.
00:29:23.000Mitch McConnell would love nothing more and the establishment Republicans than to be able to say those Tea Party, those MAGA people, we want to stifle them and maybe not destroy them, but have them have the threat of surveillance, infiltration, no Fourth Amendment rights.
00:29:40.000We're going to treat them like 70 million Timothy McVeighs.
00:29:45.000If you don't know who Timothy McVeigh is, that's not even worth going through.
00:30:04.000And if they did, they would be accessory to the crime.
00:30:08.000And the crime, in some cases, was murder.
00:30:10.000Yeah, and this president is an accessory to that crime.
00:30:14.000Okay, this kind of language has got to stop.
00:30:16.000And look, you can be, and I've said this before, you can be critical that President Trump might not have used, he shouldn't have used certain phrases at that speech at the ellipse.
00:30:26.000Maybe he was not specific enough about, you know, certain ways.
00:30:30.000He did say patriotically and peacefully protest.
00:30:33.000But I think that there's a kind of argument that can be made, a run of the, like just a normal argument that he might have excited the crowd and he should have just been really insistent about what he wanted to see happen.
00:30:47.000However, to all of a sudden then connect every single bad thing that happened 100% to President Donald Trump's speech is first of all inaccurate and it runs against even the Washington Post on reporting.
00:30:58.000Yeah, and you said it first, she's got to knock off this language.
00:31:29.000Let me tell you what he should do, what he won't do, though.
00:31:32.000And even Obama did this back in 2008 and 2009, where Joe Biden should invite not like moderate Republicans, but he should invite actual grassroots conservatives that are and were MAGA people and say, I don't think you are Timothy McVeigh,
00:31:48.000and actually have a legitimate conversation because nothing that Joe Biden has done yet has proven or has said to us in any form or fashion whatsoever that the way he views half the country is not with resentment or bitterness or hatred or not even bitterness or hatred,
00:32:13.000but he believes that they are part of what would be called a counterinsurgency in our country.
00:32:28.000We need a conversation about the political divide in this country.
00:32:34.000You want to see a truth and reconciliation project?
00:32:38.000Well, then why don't you bring in Trump and MAGA people to go talk to now their new government as their new government is proposing a new domestic war on terror on them?
00:32:48.000Wouldn't it be nice if you talked to them?
00:32:49.000When was the last time Joe Biden sat down with a Trump voter?
00:32:51.000Has Joe Biden ever sat down with a Trump voter?
00:32:53.000Has Joe Biden ever talked to a Trump voter?
00:32:55.000Not a Republican that is like George W. Bush who whispers in Clyburn's ear that you're the greatest thing.
00:33:00.000You know, thank God you saved the Republic.
00:33:02.000No, no, I'm talking about a real Trump supporter.
00:33:04.000I'm talking about someone that has done thinking about this that does not have bigotry, hatred, and resentment in their heart.
00:34:03.000Biden will never do this because he will get such a left-wing flack from his flank for even talking to Trump supporters, even having the conversation, even saying, you know what?
00:34:21.000I'm president, but I want to be a president of all Americans.
00:34:25.000When was the last time Joe Biden sat down, if at all, for 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes, and heard it from the mouth of a dedicated Trump MAGA supporter of why they voted for Trump and what's really in their heart?
00:34:39.000Or is he just going to continue to govern the country through a lens of MSNBC, CNN, and Vox.com of what all the staffers say Trump supporters are?
00:34:50.000Because I could tell you what, and we've been through this multiple times, that, and I said this on, I said this on television, Trump supporters were repulsed by what happened at the Capitol.
00:35:06.000We've been through the different groups, in fact, but more and more evidence is coming out that these fringe groups that I've never heard of before, Boogaloo, boys, Oath Keepers, whatever, they were the ones that had pre-planning, that had an agenda, and they were the ones that were instigating.
00:35:25.000We've played plenty of tape here about suspicious behavior.
00:35:28.000Pink hat woman screaming through a megaphone about schematics, architecture, points of entry, the people changing in the trees from black to MAGA gear, the BLM Incorporated activists that stormed the Capitol, John Sullivan and his friends.
00:35:46.000And so the question is, will Joe Biden offer any nuance whatsoever?
00:35:53.000Again, I love my country, and I want, I'm praying, and I know this probably won't happen, that he'll be a moderate in many things.
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