Certain dates & events in history stand out as catalysts for dramatic change—Pearl Harbor, The Gulf of Tonkin, 9/11, and now: January 6th, "The Insurrection." On this first anniversary of the day Democrats hoped would change American Politics forever, Charlie pulls back the curtain and analyzes the true and sinister motivations behind their full-throated embrace of the Insurrection Narrative. He highlights their actions leading up to the anniversary, and how their aspirations for permanent change have informed their first annual celebration of the grim anniversary. Could all of their hype and bluster be building up to a fundamental restructuring of American Life? It's more likely than you might think. In this thought-provoking episode, Charlie explains every detail you need to know about why the Left truly needs January 6th for their own viability and survival.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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On a longer episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, we dive into events that have changed the American way of life.
Major changes do not happen on their own.
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Major changes don't happen on their own.
Major changes to a constitution, to a country, to a system does not just happen because it's a Thursday in April.
We 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.
Now, not everything that is old is good.
This is one of the things that I debate with some people that would call themselves traditional conservatives.
They say, Charlie, what is old that isn't good?
How about murder?
How about communicable diseases?
Not 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.
But major changes happen when you have a mandate.
Some of the major changes in American history almost always have events correlating with them.
Changes and events go hand in glove.
It's like the old expression that a man and woman go together in marriage like a horse and carriage.
It's an event and a change must happen through a catalyst.
It doesn't naturally occur.
So let's take one very simple example.
Franklin 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.
Started with Woodrow Wilson.
It 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.
What 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?
Well, it was October 29th, 1929, otherwise known as Black Tuesday.
Stock 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.
The New Deal was made possible because of the Wall Street crash that happened in the late 20s.
There 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.
Warren G. Harding actually wasn't as bad of a president as you might think, despite his suspicious death in office.
He was actually okay, despite the teapot dome scandal.
We look at another restructuring, a massive program.
We talk about World War II, but America was very reluctant to get into World War II.
In fact, there was protest after protest because we were involved in World War I, and it was a mess.
We lost tens of thousands.
I think over 100,000 people Americans lost in the trench warfare of World War I.
It was a messy war.
It was a war where both sides felt as if they were losing countless men to gain almost nothing.
But in World War II, everything changed, of course, in Pearl Harbor.
That event led to massive and systemic change in the military, culturally, and we responded with force.
Catalysts create change.
And 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.
When 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.
No, 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.
Well, 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.
I know that's a radical proposition, but there is a yearning in the human soul, not to hate where you're from.
That'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.
This 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.
The same could be said for their nation.
But 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.
Now, 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.
Those two events led to political changes.
Those two events led towards domestic changes and are large in part why we're living through what we're living through.
Actually, I could say three now that we're still living through one of them.
The first, of course, was 9-11.
Our reaction to 9-11 immediately was correct.
We bombed the heck out of the terrorists.
We 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.
But 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.
Good luck.
Well, a couple trillion dollars later, thousands of lives lost.
It's fair to say that the adventures in the Middle East were a complete and total disaster.
Not to say the veterans who sacrificed themselves and sacrificed their time were not anything but heroes, but the leaders took advantage of them.
9-11 was a catalyst for the security state and the warmongering industry to make trillions of dollars.
The 2008 financial crisis is the second event.
The 2008 financial crisis, of course, happened in the fall of 2008.
Now, 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.
Yes, there was Dodd-Frank and the nationalization.
No, no, no.
Barack Obama was in a tight race against John McCain until the 2008 financial crisis.
If 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.
Now, 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.
The 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.
Hopefully it's going away is the Chinese coronavirus.
Is 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?
And thanks to the federalist system, it hasn't totally been successful.
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Major changes don't happen on their own.
How do we get mail-in balloting in the 2020 election?
Chinese coronavirus.
How do we get Barack Obama, 2008 financial crisis?
How 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?
Well, today, one year ago, one of those events occurred.
One 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.
And we're going to go through that.
We'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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Catalysts create change.
When you have moments that all of a sudden you remember where you were, typically those moments mean something big is coming after that.
So there's only a couple moments like that that define a generation.
For my parents' generation, it's where were you when Kennedy was shot?
My parents could tell you growing up.
They would say, I was here and I remember hearing it on the radio, or I was here and I remember seeing that.
9-11, I remember exactly where I was.
I was in a second-grade classroom at Quest Academy in Palatine, Illinois.
I remember where I was when the 2008 financial crisis was unfolding.
Gulf 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.
World War I, the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, who was the presumptive heir to the throne of the Austria-Hungary Austrian-Hungary Empire.
He died in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and everything else unfolded from there.
One of the messiest catastrophic wars in human history.
So you look through these dates and then you see what comes next.
When you have those moments, it creates a mandate for rulers to dramatically change things.
And January 6th was no different.
Now, I am by no means saying that what happened on January 6th is anywhere in the orbit of the catastrophe of World War I, World War II.
However, that is what Kamala Harris and Biden are saying.
We'll get to that in a minute.
Because if you look at January 6th, we're one year later, it created this opening.
It 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.
It created this opening where all of a sudden all the ideas were on the table.
Now, 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.
Tiny Dancer, the first chief of staff to Barack Hussein Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, the five-foot-five ballerina failed mayor of Chicago.
He had a famous saying when Obama became president, which he said, never let a crisis go to waste.
Never allow something falling apart to not turn into something bigger.
And not allowing a crisis to go to waste is precisely how we got the new deal.
It's also how we got Lyndon Baines Johnson of the Great Society.
The 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.
Lyndon Baines Johnson saw his opportunity and went for it.
After Kennedy was shot, what, 1963?
Is that right?
1963 he was shot.
Baines Johnson took over and changed the entire way inner cities operate and basically destroyed the black family.
It was the destruction of the Black Families Act by Lyndon Baines Johnson.
So what change do the Democrats want post-January 6th?
What adjustments are they trying to put forward?
So you have Pearl Harbor, World War II.
You've 9-11.
Just so you know, for all the children out there, you know there was a time where you didn't have to go through TSA to fly in an airplane.
9-11 gave us the TSA.
9-11 gave us the Department of Homeland Security.
9-11 gave us the NSA.
9-11 gave us a domestic spy agency.
9-11 gave unprecedented funding to the CIA and to the FBI, might I add.
9-11 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.
2008 financial crisis passed Dodd-Frank, which only made the big banks stronger.
2008 financial crisis was a mandate for whatever reason.
Let's reorganize the American healthcare system.
We got Obamacare, hand out to big insurance companies and big pharmaceutical companies and big hospital lobbies.
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The tech companies were massive beneficiaries of the Chinese coronavirus.
People staying at home, staring at their screens all day long.
Stock prices of tech companies have never been higher.
And so Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are saying this is comparable to January.
January 6th is comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9-11.
I want you to think about that because from their perspective, they're not wrong.
In reality, they're wrong.
But I'm going to tell you what they mean when they say that.
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So when a major event happens like January 6, it is, we should expect the other side to try to capitalize on that.
Now, 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.
They said it was a deadly attack on the Capitol.
The only deaths actually that occurred at the Capitol was Ashley Babbitt.
The death of Officer Brian Seitlik was not at all, they said it was a fire extinguisher of the head.
That was not true.
But I want to take a different take here.
We could mock Kamala Harris and talk about the death tolls and the differences.
Okay, 3,000 people died at 9-11.
But I want to take a different tack because for her purposes, for the purposes of the regime, this absolutely was a Pearl Harbor moment.
Play cut 55.
Certain dates echo throughout history.
Dates that occupy not only a place on our calendars, but a place in our collective memory.
December 7th, 1941, September 11th, 2001, and January 6th, 2021.
Those dates mean change.
Kamala Harris is saying out loud that, hey, there's now a reference point.
We have a mandate to change things.
9-11 gave us Department of Homeland Security, the Iraq War, and 20 years in Afghanistan.
Pearl 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.
And for Kamala Harris and the regime's purposes, she's spot on.
She'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.
So what kind of change do they actually want?
What kind of catalyst are they looking for?
What is the game that they're trying to institute?
Let's play some more sound here.
Merrick 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.
Let's go to Cut 50 where he says the actions we have taken will not be our last.
We remain committed to hold all the perpetrated accountable at any level accountable under the law.
That sounds like a purge.
It sounds like a Bolshevik versus the Menshevik moment.
We'll get into that history later on in the show.
Play cut 50.
The actions we have taken thus far will not be our last.
The 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.
We will follow the facts wherever they lead.
In 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.
Cut 49, he says there's been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote.
What?
Wait, hold on a second.
I thought it was an insurrection.
I thought it was about domestic violent extremists.
Oh, I see.
It's about changing our voting laws.
Okay.
It's not about Chewbacca and the QAnon shaman, whatever, who stormed the Senate and now wants vegan food in his 38-month prison sentence.
It'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.
Watch out, everybody.
No, this is about voting laws.
That's a stretch.
Play cut 49.
There 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.
Those 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.
Broaden, broaden, broaden.
If 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.
So it's not just that Osama bin Laden was a threat.
It's not just that al-Qaeda was a threat.
No, It's a goat herder in central Afghanistan who married a seven-year-old.
He's a threat to America.
Why?
Because he speaks Arabic.
Well, that's weird.
Doesn't matter.
Broaden the horizon.
And neoconservatives are really good at this.
Colin Powell was, again, I don't make a habit out of speak ill out of people that have passed, but he's a liar.
He went to the United Nations Security Council and he famously held up that little vial of anthrax, right?
It was either anthrax.
He said just this one little vial could kill 20,000 people.
And Colin Powell had a lot of credibility.
Condoleezza Rice was working in cahoots.
It was this whole cartel, by the way, of neoconservatives.
You had Colin Powell, you had Rumsfeld, you had Dick Cheney, obviously George W. Bush, and you had Condoleezza Rice.
And you had this whole kind of network, if you will, of people that just couldn't wait to go invade a sovereign country.
But it was all about broadening.
Remember, this is the same playbook.
It's exactly the same.
You know why?
It's the same people.
It's the same people that saw 9-11 and used that as a blueprint to go lie in front of the United Nations Security Council.
And by the way, I'm all for holding terrorists accountable.
I'm all for killing terrorists.
And that's what we did the first couple months after 9-11.
There was a mandate for justice, but I'm not really concerned about an infrastructure project of building electric vehicle charging stations in central Iraq.
But that's where a lot of people made money.
Or the literacy of teenage girls in Pakistan.
Like, 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.
It doesn't matter.
The neoconservatives wanted it.
And you look who's leading the current January 6th committee.
It's Liz Cheney.
Same people.
Broaden, broaden.
What does Chuck Schumer do?
No, no, no.
It's not about domestic violent extremists, this new term they gave us.
It'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.
No, no, no.
It's about anyone who questions our elections.
And this is where they're going to be in a really tough spot.
And it just made sense to me last night.
I kind of had this moment where it all came together.
Play Cut 52.
And make no mistake, the root cause of January 6th is still with us today.
It is the big lie pushed by Donald Trump that is undermining faith in our political system and making our democracy, our country, less safe.
But without addressing the root causes of the violence on January 6th, the insurrection will not be an aberration.
It could well become the norm.
Root causes.
When else did they use that language?
Oh, yeah, you know what the root cause is?
9-11 happened because teenagers in Afghanistan don't have access to clean water.
That was the argument they made.
It's laughable now that we look back at it, obviously.
But this is one of the great, the fact that these people get away with it.
So Schumer says we have to pass voting rights legislation because black people can't vote.
And the next day he comes out and says, it's a big lie that there's anything wrong with our election system.
Which one is it, Schumer?
Chuck Schumer comes out and he says, it's the big lie.
It's the big lie from Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, if you don't pass our voting rights legislation, you're a racist.
Wait a second.
So I want you to listen carefully.
This is Schumer pushing for voting rights legislation.
That we need to change our election system.
I thought our elections were so robust and so safe and so secure.
Remember when they said that after the 2020 election?
This was the safest, most secure election ever.
If that's the case, why do you need to change our voting laws?
If everything was perfect in the 2020 election, what are you trying to change?
Play 26.
Voting rights in the past was a bipartisan issue.
How quickly they forget.
Republican presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush supported voting rights.
When voting rights extensions came up in this body in the past, they passed by large majorities, bipartisan.
The resistance we see from modern day Republicans is a beast of an entirely different nature.
Maybe 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.
People of color, poor people, people who live in big cities, young people, handicapped people, elderly people.
As 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.
Voting laws are one of the things they want to change.
Voting laws are one of the things that they want to use the date of January 6th as a mandate to change.
I just am failing to see in what world are those connected.
So 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.
And somehow that has something to do with the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
It's more and more clear as we look at the dates that have changed history the last hundred years.
They want January 6th to be part of it.
But guess what?
It's falling really flat.
On 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.
But that doesn't mean they're not going to stop.
But there's a deeper game here.
And the same way that after 9-11, they wanted to start a domestic manhunt against anyone that might have been connected to terror cells.
They want to try to redefine what a terror cell actually is.
And you saw that this last summer.
They redefined what a terror cell actually was when parents started to show up at school board meetings.
That was only made possible because of January 6th is the argument.
It'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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You know, some low IQ people that are the keyboard warrior types.
Charlie, where were you on January 6th?
I was right here denouncing it.
I don't like when people destroy property, and I certainly don't like when people destroy the U.S. Capitol.
I didn't like it.
I still don't.
Was it a terror attack?
No.
No one's been charged with insurrection, let alone terror.
Mostly misdemeanors and trespassing charges.
Despite that, though, and you're starting to hear more and more people say that it's a terror attack.
It's a terror attack.
Now, why is that?
Why is that such an important thing?
Is that just language?
Because everyone's always kind of charged with hyperbole, right?
Let me tell you the difference.
Because as soon as you start to describe something as a terror attack, you're now entering a legal argument.
You're now entering something that could be charged with a totally different threshold of the law.
The difference would be saying that Alec Baldwin is Charlie Manson or Ray Lewis.
Which one is he?
Did he accidentally kill somebody or did he intentionally kill somebody?
Huge difference, by the way.
But 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.
Well, here's the significance of it, though.
Then 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.
I'm sorry, not Des Moines, Displains, Illinois, all the way up to Zion Benton, right up to the border where Kyle Rittenhouse was from.
And Brad Schneider, real sneaky guy, and won the district against Bob Dold.
And he's been a carbon cutout Democrat the whole time, despite saying he's going to be a moderate.
It is a moderate district.
It's probably a fiscally conservative, socially liberal district, North Shore of Chicago, Highland Park type area.
But Brad Schneider came out last year and he said, look, here's what we need.
We need a new piece of legislation that will be a domestic terrorism prevention act.
We need a whole new division of our government that just prevents conservatives from organizing.
That's effectively what he said.
All right, let's first play Cut 78.
But unlike after the 9-11 attacks, the greatest threat is now from domestic terror groups and radicalized, often racially motivated, violent extremists.
America 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.
Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act gives our government important tools to do just that.
DTPA 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.
These offices will monitor, investigate, and prosecute cases of domestic terrorism.
He wants to create a whole new mandate and division of the federal government to go after political opponents that he didn't like.
Now, 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.
But it's all intentional.
And CNN, of course, is leaning right into this.
Go Cut 58.
This 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.
They want it to be remembered like December 7th or 9-11.
They want it to be remembered more than the day that Kennedy was shot.
Play Cut 58.
And to all of our viewers, thanks very much for joining us as CNN.
Special coverage of the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection continues all day.
I'll be back, by the way, at 6 p.m. Eastern in the Situation Room.
We'll be live from the U.S. Capitol.
And later tonight, please join Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper for a truly unprecedented gathering inside the U.S. Capitol right after a quick break.
Now, 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?
What does that remind me of?
It reminds me of, you know what?
I know, the Hunger Games.
It sounds like the drums that they would play when Katniss Everdeen would be announced.
The drums of war.
Okay, you got a bunch of soccer moms walking into the Capitol.
They're using it as an opportunity.
It's increasingly obvious.
But it's very dangerous.
Now, I don't think that this is resonating at all with the American people.
American 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.
Then it will just be another one of those votes that they have on Capitol Hill, like the Stop Asian Hate Bill or whatever.
Where 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.
It's not insignificant.
Mayorkis, 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.
Cut 48.
I think there are a number of things at play, Jake.
You know, ideologies of hate, false information, false narratives are primary sources of the threat landscape that we confront in the United States today.
The divisiveness in our country is really fueling it as well.
And there's a very important additional element.
Words matter.
And this goes to the issue of false narratives, of false information.
Not only that, they're trying to broaden it now to political speech.
Let's get to a tape here, and it's really important.
So Don Lamon, who's a failed talk show host, says January 6th is the closest we've ever come to losing our democracy.
Play Cut 73.
Telling the truth in the face of all the gaslighting and the whitewashing is very difficult.
But the truth is that January 6th was as close as we have ever come in modern history to losing our democracy.
And that threat is not over.
So it's time to explain why we are not a democracy.
We're not a democracy.
A 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.
And they're also the ones that are allegedly saying that they want to protect the rights of minorities.
You see a republic, one of the characteristics of a republic that make it so difficult to sustain is that it's intentionally slow.
So 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.
In a republic, the power is held by individual sovereign citizens.
Big difference.
In 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.
Do you see the difference?
In a pure democracy, there would be no rules for the road.
This constitution that I hold up every time we do our show, brought to you by Turning Point USA.
Beautiful Constitution, I might add.
This is a starting point to stop the democracy activists from doing certain things.
Let me give you a great example, okay?
Let's say right now, the U.S. Senate and the House come together.
They say, you know what we're going to do?
We're going to confiscate all the guns.
Well, they have to get through this.
Second 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.
Okay, can't do that.
Let's say that the Congress wants to gather just because they have the votes and they want to say that they want to abolish Christianity.
Congress shall make no religion, respecting and established a religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
Oh, can't do that.
That's a republic.
A republic says it doesn't matter if you have 95 votes in the Senate.
The rules of the road, the Constitution, the eternal principles, the guardrails, the speed bump, the wall do not allow you to get it passed.
That's a fundamental difference between a democracy and a republic.
This is the longest-lasting compact between citizens in the history of the world for a reason.
Free government is hard.
Protection of rights is something that the left used to care about.
We now are the ones that are the protectors of God-granted natural rights.
Well, in a democracy, rights can be overridden by the will of a majority.
You got 51 votes, you could take rights away.
But in a republic, a constitution protects the rights of all people from the will of the majority.
And it has to be a balance.
Obviously, sometimes the will of the majority and voters are necessary as long as they don't infringe upon your naturally granted rights.
That's the difference.
We are not a democracy.
We need to say that time and time again.
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James Madison described the difference between a democracy and a republic perfectly.
He said, the difference is that in democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person.
In a republic, they assemble and administer it by the representatives and agents.
A democracy, consequently, must be confined to a small spot.
A republic may be extended over a large region.
So, of course, the founding fathers started a representative democracy, but that's still not the system that we are in.
It's a constitutional republic with the means of a representative democracy to delegate authority.
The people are still the sovereign.
The individual citizens themselves have untouchable natural rights.
And 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.
You know, this idea that you can be politically agnostic or politically neutral and still preserve something that is beautiful is silly.
I'll give you an example.
People say, oh, the Constitution is a neutral document.
No, it's not.
It makes moral claims that speech is necessary for human flourishing.
It makes a moral claim that you need to be able to protect yourself against your government.
It makes a moral claim that the government is not allowed to put soldiers into your home.
The Third Amendment makes a moral claim that your privacy is paramount and the government cannot go into your private effects.
It makes a moral claim that privacy is necessary for freedom.
Makes a moral claim that you do not have to testify against yourself.
You have the right to remain silent or you have the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendment, all around speedy and quick trial and things to do with the court of law.
Ninth Amendment, what is called by Robert Bork the mysterious amendment, which is that it doesn't cover everything, which I love that amendment.
We've covered that before on the show.
We don't have to do it again.
10th Amendment, everything not detailed goes to the states or the people.
That's the Bill of Rights.
Again, we've talked about the structure of the Constitution, that the Constitution really happened in two different buckets.
It started, of course, in 1787, and then the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
But when you have Don Laman from CNN say, our democracy is under attack, what democracy are you talking about exactly?
And this is the most important point, which is that they want loose voting laws.
They 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.
That's really what this is all about.
What it's all about is trying to use this idea that we're a democracy so we outnumber you so we can shut you up.
We're a democracy so we outnumber you so we could take your weapons away.
We're a democracy so we outnumber you because there's more of us in Manhattan.
We're all super miserable.
But the reason we're miserable is because someone owns a shotgun in Pure South Dakota.
Like that's the problem.
That some guy goes to church and shoots pheasants.
Like we need to go after him.
It's very imperialistic if you actually think about it.
But as we look at January 6th, they're trying to frame that this was a threat to our democracy or attacking our democracy.
And you have to think to yourself, hold on a second.
If we were just a pure democracy, then the states wouldn't have any sort of say in this at all whatsoever.
The decentralization component wouldn't exist.
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Biden spoke, cut 60, and he said the exact same thing, cut 60.
I did not seek this fight brought to this Capitol one year ago today, but I will not shrink from it either.
I will stand in this breach.
I will defend this nation.
I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy.
We will make sure the will of the people is heard, that the ballot prevails, not violence.
Throat of democracy.
What exactly fight is that?
That sounds like someone who is beating the drums of war against the citizens that he's pledged to actually serve.
Biden continued in Cut 61 to commemorate January 6, blaming Trump, casting a web of lies, saying he can't accept he lost.
Play Cut 61.
And here's the truth.
A former president of the United States of America has created and spread a web of lies about the 2020 election.
He'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.
And because his bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution, he can't accept he lost.
Cut 56, Biden says, from the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.
Remember, we opened up, talked about the dates that turn history, that major changes don't happen on their own.
It's typically an event occurs.
That catalyst creates change.
Well, Biden was just continuing the argument of Kamala Harris perfectly by saying, look, the brutality of Bloody Sunday gave us historic voting rights legislation.
So now we need to use January 6 to go and pass mail-in voting and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
What do those two things have together?
It doesn't matter to do it because I'm in charge of your name.
That's what.
And you're a racist.
Play Cut 57.
From the brutality of Bloody Sunday on the Edmund Pettus Bridge came historic voting rights legislation.
So 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.
It's the beginning of a new era where we say goodbye to the Constitutional Republic.
Again, what are the difference between the Constitution Republic, a Constitutional Republic and democracy?
Constitutional Republic protects rights for all individuals, regardless of the will of the majority.
The Constitution reigns supreme because that was created by the sovereign, by the states.
And those are eternal and beautiful things that are always true.
Those are claims that are claims on human nature.
Whereas pure democracy, rights can be overridden by the will of majority.
That's what Biden wants.
In fact, he wants an oligarchy.
He wants rights that could be overwritten by the will of the leaders and the rulers.
John Brennan, who used to run our security apparatus, says that we need to quell this insurgency.
It's kind of like no different than if they were playing war games in Burma or in Sierra Leone.
The Constitution Reigns Supreme00:03:28
We need to quell the angry chattering class right now.
In fact, it includes libertarians, like just randomly inserting that into there.
PlayCut 81.
No, 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,
where 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.
And 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.
It's just, let's just open a political science book and just start reading things out.
I get to see he has all the notes on his wall when he's doing the cable news hit.
Nativists, religious extremists, and even libertarians.
What?
Okay.
But it all comes together, and this is the good news.
The good news is that this has fallen completely flat.
This is a dud on a dud on a dud for them.
There is no social media chatter.
There is no consensus.
And Ron DeSantis said it perfectly.
Ron DeSantis basically was like, look, in Florida, people care about whether or not they could fill up their car with gas.
They can get their supply chain figured out.
Whether that their kid has a good education.
How about crime?
Play cut 79.
Today is going to be, I mean, honestly, I'm not going to watch any of it, but you're going to see the DC New York media.
I mean, this is their Christmas, January 6th, okay?
They are going to take this and milk this for anything they could to try to be able to smear anyone who ever supported Donald Trump.
The DC New York's Christmas, and it is.
And again, this is the same pattern.
They do this every couple years.
They can't help themselves.
And Twitter is a very destructive tool.
I used to love Twitter.
Connor and I loved it.
We were pretty dominant, quite honestly, for years.
We used to have 100,000 retweets a day, and then obviously everything happened.
And I don't really care that much about Twitter.
We tweet every so often, but there's other platforms to build on.
But 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.
That 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.
Like, I don't think that's really a good litmus test of public opinion at all.
But I think we underestimate the amount that Twitter actually dictates, dictates DC public policy.
I really do.
As Dave Chappelle said, Twitter is not the real world.
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