The Charlie Kirk Show - What’s the Matter with Juneteenth?
Aired: 2023-06-19
Duration: 33:52


=== Many Flags, Many Moralities (08:43) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, happy Juneteent.
[00:00:02]  Federal holiday.
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[00:01:09]  I am told it is Juneteent.
[00:01:12]  10 years ago, you would have said, a June what?
[00:01:15]  I'm going to work.
[00:01:17]  Five years ago, you would have said, June what?
[00:01:20]  If you try to go to a bank or a federal government building, you will be met with, sorry, federal holiday.
[00:01:26]  Three years ago, you would be met with that.
[00:01:29]  Now, maybe it's a good thing that the desk people, the desk workers, aren't continuing their reign of terror on America.
[00:01:36]  Maybe we need more federal holidays so that the IRS isn't auditing patriots.
[00:01:42]  The IRS is not showing up to gun stores like they did in Great Falls, Montana.
[00:01:45]  It's an amazing story, by the way, of if everything is true that's coming out of Great Falls, Montana, it is a shocking story of IRS overreach.
[00:01:53]  Maybe it's a good thing that they're off today, that the FBI, oh, I bet the FBI is still working.
[00:01:57]  So it's Juneteenth.
[00:01:58]  What exactly is going on here?
[00:02:00]  Well, very few people are willing to actually call this out.
[00:02:03]  From the first time that this was floated as a federal holiday, I am thankful and proud to say on this program, we opposed it.
[00:02:11]  I didn't like anything about it.
[00:02:14]  Now, of course, the day itself is, of course, inarguably amazing.
[00:02:20]  The emancipation of slaves.
[00:02:22]  No one has a problem with that.
[00:02:23]  I don't have a problem with that.
[00:02:24]  You don't have a problem with that.
[00:02:25]  It's a beautiful thing.
[00:02:26]  So why don't we have Emancipation Day, though?
[00:02:29]  The Emancipation Proclamation Day is in November, if I remember correctly, not in June.
[00:02:35]  Well, Juneteenth started as a Texas celebration, a pretty good one, by the way.
[00:02:40]  It was when the news of slave liberation came to Texas on Juneteenth.
[00:02:46]  But they've kind of put other things into it, such as the race riots in Oklahoma, and there's all these other sorts of components here.
[00:02:54]  But most conservatives and most of you in the audience have emailed me disagreeing with my Juneteenth opinion.
[00:03:02]  You kind of do the typical conservative thing.
[00:03:07]  And I put conservatives in quotes, which is this is the attitude of most conservatives as the country continues its decline.
[00:03:14]  I hear things like this.
[00:03:15]  Charlie, what's the big deal?
[00:03:17]  Calm down, pal.
[00:03:19]  What's wrong with another federal holiday?
[00:03:21]  What's wrong with another day off?
[00:03:23]  Just take the win, pal.
[00:03:26]  Sleep in a little bit.
[00:03:27]  Enjoy not working.
[00:03:29]  What's wrong with celebrating emancipation?
[00:03:32]  Now, to take those things out of order, I want to reiterate: there's nothing wrong with celebrating emancipation.
[00:03:37]  We should.
[00:03:38]  We should do it when it actually happened in September 22nd, not November, September 22nd.
[00:03:43]  Ending slavery was one of the great moral victories in America's history.
[00:03:48]  But here's the truth: Juneteenth is not a holiday to commemorate the end of slavery.
[00:03:54]  The context of which Juneteenth was made a federal holiday was during BLM's hostile takeover of our culture.
[00:04:03]  The way Juneteenth is being communicated, the way that Juneteenth is quote unquote being celebrated, it's not about black progress.
[00:04:10]  It's the opposite.
[00:04:12]  It's the emphasis on race.
[00:04:14]  It's the emphasis on quote unquote systemic injustice.
[00:04:18]  It's very important to remember that all of this is intended to dilute pride in our country and patriotism.
[00:04:24]  How many flags does our country now have?
[00:04:27]  It's hard to even keep track.
[00:04:29]  In order to properly virtue signal, you need to simultaneously switch out outside of your garage or on your mailbox the Ukraine flag, the BLM flag, the pride flag, the Juneteenth flag.
[00:04:43]  And maybe if it's socially acceptable, for one day, you get to put up the American flag.
[00:04:47]  What's wrong with that, though?
[00:04:48]  You see, the post-modernists and leftists think it's good to have a variety, a buffet, a collection of national symbols.
[00:04:56]  But if you have many flags, you have many values then.
[00:04:59]  If you have many flags, you have many moralities.
[00:05:03]  You see, Juneteenth was made as a federal holiday as an expression of dominance and political power.
[00:05:10]  Activists and Republicans agreed to it as well.
[00:05:14]  You should get the list of all the Republicans that voted for Juneteenth as a federal holiday.
[00:05:17]  It is eye-opening.
[00:05:20]  Activists rammed it through in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, using the worst wave of national rioting in half a century to demand their way on top of a mountain of ashes and spill blood.
[00:05:31]  Remember the context.
[00:05:34]  We burned down the country, now we demand a day off.
[00:05:37]  But it's even more insidious than that.
[00:05:40]  The purpose of this holiday is not to unite Americans.
[00:05:44]  The purpose is actually to divide us.
[00:05:47]  It's typical traditional Marxist tactics.
[00:05:52]  This is not about unification.
[00:05:54]  This is not about e puribus unum.
[00:05:57]  This is not about out of many one.
[00:06:00]  No, it's about a certain skin color now gets their own summertime celebration.
[00:06:07]  The exact same thing that happens before NFL games where they play the black national anthem.
[00:06:12]  The same exact thing happens on college campuses where they get black only graduation ceremonies or black only dormitories.
[00:06:20]  It's the segregated version of a national holiday.
[00:06:24]  And mind you, we now have a summertime competitor to our actual Independence Day, two weeks before one of the great moments of human history.
[00:06:38]  If you were to list one of the great moments of human history, I would say, boy, creation, Genesis 1-1, the delivery of the Hebrews, the Jewish people from Egypt, Exodus 20, Sinai and the uploading of the moral app from the divine, the birth of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus.
[00:07:01]  And then 1776 is in that list.
[00:07:04]  I say that and I will defend it.
[00:07:06]  1776 is without a doubt one of the most significant years in human history.
[00:07:14]  We celebrate July 4th for a reason.
[00:07:16]  And by the way, Abraham Lincoln knew that was the true founding of the United States.
[00:07:20]  Unless any history buff can quote in the Gettysburg Address four score and seven years ago, he did not pinpoint our founding to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 or the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791, but it was 1776 when Thomas Jefferson penned the reflection of the value system that was held among the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands that have tied them with another.
[00:07:49]  God is mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence.
[00:07:52]  Ethical monotheism was the belief of the founding fathers.
[00:07:56]  One God, one morality, and we deserve morally to live free and not under a reign of terror from a far distant despot, king, or tyrant.
[00:08:08]  It was an ode to self-government for checks and balances, for an independent judiciary.
[00:08:12]  Juneteenth doesn't believe in any of that.
[00:08:15]  No, Juneteenth plays into the current divide that we see in the country.
[00:08:21]  And it really is this simple.
[00:08:23]  Do you want a revival of the promise of 1776 or the bitter, insidious lie attempting to divide and destroy of 1619?
[00:08:36]  This recognition of this as a quote-unquote federal holiday comes right out of the 1619 project.

=== The 1619 Project Lie (06:38) ===

[00:08:43]  Look who's most excited that this is a federal holiday.
[00:08:46]  And they're not talking about this as a massive celebration.
[00:08:51]  Oh, wow, look how far blacks have come.
[00:08:53]  It has now become a racial complaining day.
[00:08:58]  Now we have a full day to be able to smear and slander white America.
[00:09:04]  This holiday is a wedge, and I put in quotes, holiday is a wedge used to push for countless destructive policies demanded by BLM.
[00:09:14]  And remember what BLM stands for, burn, loot, and murder.
[00:09:17]  They're the people who want racial quotas for jobs.
[00:09:20]  Critical race theory is in our schools and mass reparations to punish some races for their skin color.
[00:09:27]  And you say, well, Charlie, what should we have done instead?
[00:09:29]  Well, instead of having a summertime competitor Independence Day, give people two days off for Independence Day, July 4th and July 5th.
[00:09:37]  There, you get an extra day off and you're actually celebrating something that matters, that is significant.
[00:09:44]  Yes, of course, on the surface, it's something that is inaugurable, but inarguable.
[00:09:48]  What is the actual title of the bill that Republicans voted for?
[00:09:53]  The Juneteenth National Independence Day.
[00:09:57]  That's right.
[00:09:58]  You now have two Independence Days in this country.
[00:10:02]  And I'm going to walk through the Republicans that pushed for this because they're so naive, they're so weak.
[00:10:06]  And they thought, I'm going to win some points for pushing Juneteenth.
[00:10:10]  You are a useless idiot pushing forward a Marxist racist agenda.
[00:10:15]  I said useless idiot.
[00:10:17]  I meant useful idiot because they're actually very useful for the regime.
[00:10:20]  Easy to get those two mixed up.
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[00:11:03]  It's funny, they say hindsight is 2020.
[00:11:06]  I don't think people realize how damaging a single year was to our republic.
[00:11:13]  In 2020, the most evil and pernicious, ferocious, and aggressive forces pushed conservatives and we largely let them.
[00:11:23]  Most states were on board for lockdowns, Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines, the war on early treatments.
[00:11:30]  2020 was an all-out act of political blitzkrieg.
[00:11:34]  And for many months, we didn't fight back.
[00:11:36]  We tried on our program, but boy, we were ignored.
[00:11:39]  We said, hey, these deficits are running are a bad idea.
[00:11:42]  And why is it that we're locking down schools?
[00:11:46]  And the right largely surrendered practically without a fight.
[00:11:49]  And the left, they smelled our weakness.
[00:11:53]  They saw blood in the water and they just went for it.
[00:11:56]  And then this whole racial stuff happened.
[00:11:59]  The right largely surrendered practically without a fight.
[00:12:03]  So much of the garbage we're living through right now is what happened from January 1st to Election Day in 2020.
[00:12:10]  We disallowed mass mail and ballots, no signature verifications, the COVID tyranny.
[00:12:19]  We are going to have to unravel, unpack the damage done in just the calendar 2020 for the next couple of years.
[00:12:29]  And one of those things is the race craze.
[00:12:33]  The race craze is one of the most damaging outgrowths of the insanity of 2020.
[00:12:41]  Largely pushed by white liberals, by the way.
[00:12:44]  I have a very serious question.
[00:12:48]  Is Juneteenth being a national federal holiday a primary cause of concern or demand of black constituents?
[00:12:57]  Is that a top concern?
[00:13:00]  I don't think so.
[00:13:01]  We just hosted an amazing event, Blexit with Turning Point USA, in an urban neighborhood in New York City.
[00:13:08]  It was packed.
[00:13:09]  It was amazing.
[00:13:10]  Trans activists tried to interrupt it.
[00:13:13]  And hearing from the people on the ground, Juneteenth is not a top concern of black America.
[00:13:19]  You know what is?
[00:13:20]  Jobs, economic stability, housing, most importantly, safety.
[00:13:26]  And interestingly enough, this trans stuff is not popular in the black community at all.
[00:13:31]  In fact, as a side note to explain as we proceed on this topic with other guests and in the following days and months, I truly believe this trans garbage that has swept the nation opens a once-in-a-generation opportunity to win black voters.
[00:13:48]  It is very unpopular in the projects.
[00:13:52]  It's very unpopular with black pastors.
[00:13:55]  The abortion thing they can kind of turn a blind eye to, it's kind of in the middle.
[00:14:00]  There is not a constituency in black America to trans the kids.
[00:14:04]  That is a white liberal phenomenon.
[00:14:07]  2020 was such a damaging year that we're still living with the ground that they were able to take.
[00:14:18]  And it was Republicans, the old Republican Party, that always just says, okay, Democrats, sounds like a great idea.
[00:14:26]  Because a lot of, you know, some Republicans, for example, at the time, there were people that were peddling this America systemically racist lie on the right.
[00:14:34]  They said, okay, you know, there's nothing wrong with a federal holiday to celebrate emancipation of slavery.
[00:14:41]  Is that what is really being emphasized?
[00:14:43]  Of course not.
[00:14:44]  It's a typical subversive communist tactic to use something that looks fine on the surface and use it for something else.
[00:14:55]  Our side are chumps for going along with it.
[00:14:59]  Here are some of the people in the House of Representatives that voted for it, some of which I like and they vote on good things.
[00:15:04]  This is the House of Representatives.
[00:15:05]  Oh, is everybody but them?
[00:15:07]  Okay.
[00:15:07]  Everybody in the House voted except these people for it.
[00:15:10]  Mo Brooks, Mike Rogers, Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, Tom McClintock, Doug Lamalfa, Andrew Clyde, Thomas Massey, Matt Rosendale, Ralph Norman, Scott Desjarlais, Ronnie Jackson, Chiproy, and Tom Tiffany.

=== De-emphasizing 1776 Values (14:59) ===

[00:15:22]  They did not.
[00:15:22]  So basically everybody else, all the senators voted for it.
[00:15:26]  Because why, why, why would the Republican Senate and most of the Republican House vote for a new federal holiday of Juneteenth?
[00:15:35]  Why?
[00:15:36]  Not because they believe in it, even though some of them maybe do, like Adam Kinzinger probably did.
[00:15:42]  Why?
[00:15:44]  Because they didn't want to be called a racist.
[00:15:47]  That's why the fear of being called a racist has made Republicans do things they otherwise would not do.
[00:15:58]  The Marxists are able to puppeteer the conservative movement to contort to positions of their liking by just threatening the R-word.
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[00:17:16]  I want to reiterate something that I just mentioned briefly previously that I think is really important.
[00:17:21]  Do you know the actual name of the bill that became legislation into law?
[00:17:27]  Juneteenth, National Independence Day.
[00:17:31]  So by law, we now have two Independence Days.
[00:17:35]  That is the official name according to the bill.
[00:17:39]  Not Juneteenth Celebration Day.
[00:17:42]  Juneteenth, National Independence Day.
[00:17:46]  We should have one Independence Day.
[00:17:48]  So let me read an objection that we received from a listener.
[00:17:51]  Respectable objection from Daniel.
[00:17:53]  Charlie, I don't understand your issue with Juneteenth being a holiday.
[00:17:56]  As a lifelong Republican, every Republican should have made the holiday.
[00:18:00]  Every Republican should have made the holiday of the first Republican president doing a great deed that forever changed the country.
[00:18:06]  Democrats have caught tailored our glorious history for so long.
[00:18:09]  We should make the effort to reclaim our history.
[00:18:11]  Well, the issue with this is obvious.
[00:18:13]  Number one, this is so significant in the timing.
[00:18:17]  It's obviously a summertime competitor to July 4th or actual Independence Day.
[00:18:21]  Number two is the wording.
[00:18:22]  It's not Juneteenth Celebration Day.
[00:18:24]  Number three is, does it really warrant a federal holiday?
[00:18:27]  Number four is, again, if you want to celebrate emancipation, do it the day that emancipation was actually signed, which was in September, September 22nd for the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment on December 6th.
[00:18:39]  No, but they want a summertime competitor.
[00:18:43]  They want to have two.
[00:18:44]  They want you to have to choose.
[00:18:46]  Do you want the 1776 way, which those evil right-wing MAGA people celebrate, or the 1619 way, which we celebrate now federally on June 19th?
[00:18:55]  The problem about this is not a holiday celebrating a Republican president.
[00:19:00]  The people pushing this holiday actually hate Abraham Lincoln.
[00:19:03]  The people that are celebrating that they got this done as a federal holiday, they despise Abe Lincoln.
[00:19:09]  The same summer, the Republicans folded on making this a fake new holiday.
[00:19:13]  The city government of Boston tore down a monument honoring Abraham Lincoln as the great emancipator, a monument paid for by freed slaves.
[00:19:22]  Do you remember that?
[00:19:24]  They were taking down monuments to Abraham Lincoln while wanting a black federal holiday because it was supposedly racist.
[00:19:33]  That's not what matters here.
[00:19:34]  This holiday is not about celebrating emancipation, regardless of the veneer they put on it.
[00:19:39]  They're not even putting a good camouflage on it because it says National Independence Day.
[00:19:44]  It's being pushed by other people for bad, obviously anti-American reasons.
[00:19:50]  And I have been through this in 11 years far too many times to kind of just take it easy on issues like this.
[00:19:56]  And I understand the temperament that some of you might be feeling.
[00:20:01]  You want to believe the other side means well.
[00:20:03]  You say, oh, come on, Charlie, you're trying to tell me that too, in addition to all this, that this is really a Marxist takeover.
[00:20:13]  It's part of a plan and an agenda, not to unite, but to divide, not to celebrate the promise of 1776, but to play in to the corrosive nature of the 1619 project.
[00:20:25]  They literally want to rip down statues of Abraham Lincoln, which they are doing, in addition to every other white American who lived before 2012.
[00:20:34]  So someone says, well, Charlie, how do I explain to young teenagers about this day?
[00:20:38]  Say that emancipation is great, but that's not what this is about.
[00:20:42]  Regardless of what they say it is, this is a time to complain and advertise every single CRT talking point in the book.
[00:20:53]  You want a real celebration?
[00:20:56]  Let's emphasize the thing that left-wingers hate, which is Thomas Jefferson.
[00:21:01]  The 1619 project, which is the philosophical competitor to the promise of 1776, partnered with the New York Times, pushed by the bitter racist Nicole Hannah Jones.
[00:21:14]  They want to de-emphasize what 1776 is all about.
[00:21:20]  Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday is a nationalized race hustle.
[00:21:24]  Someone says here, Charlie, you're so clueless about Juneteenth.
[00:21:28]  As an 87-year-old white woman who grew up on my father's cotton farm, we hired many black workers.
[00:21:33]  You should do more research on the subject.
[00:21:35]  The Declaration of Freedom was not received in text until July, June 19th.
[00:21:40]  You're being disrespectful, all the blacks who endured slavery.
[00:21:42]  Hold on a second.
[00:21:43]  None of the blacks that are alive today endured slavery, number one.
[00:21:46]  Number two, you're trying to tell me that today is really a recognition of the liberation of slaves.
[00:21:51]  If that was the case, we would have a lifting up of Abraham Lincoln, not a tearing down of Abraham Lincoln.
[00:21:56]  Number three, why do blacks need their own National Independence Day?
[00:21:59]  Because that's what the bill says.
[00:22:01]  Why does melanin content in your skin necessitate your own National Independence Day?
[00:22:05]  We used to have a red, white, and blue Independence Day on July 4th.
[00:22:08]  Now we have one based on the melanin content of your skin.
[00:22:12]  So we already have segregated dormitories, segregated graduation ceremonies.
[00:22:16]  We have affirmative action hiring practices and critical race theory in our schools.
[00:22:19]  And yes, now we have a neo-segregationist view of which summertime holiday you have to take off.
[00:22:26]  I hear all the time, well, Charlie, why is our nation so divided?
[00:22:29]  Well, exhibit A. You get a National Independence Day based on the color of your skin.
[00:22:34]  And what is the subtext of, even if you were to take the national holiday as the emancipation of slaves, the subtext is everything before that is trash.
[00:22:45]  That is the buried lead.
[00:22:47]  The buried lead is that we should not celebrate Washington, Madison, Jay, Hamilton, Jefferson, that we should not celebrate the brilliance of the Declaration.
[00:22:58]  The buried lead here is, it's not as important.
[00:23:03]  We'll have a day made for and by and orchestrated and designed by the CRT con artists.
[00:23:11]  I was listening to MSNBC on my way to work this morning.
[00:23:13]  When they mentioned Juneteenth, it was not about, oh, look how far blacks have come.
[00:23:18]  Look how good their opportunities are.
[00:23:21]  It's the opposite.
[00:23:22]  The narrative is we still have all this systemic racism.
[00:23:27]  You see, I understand the wish that this is what you want it to be.
[00:23:37]  Oh, Charlie, come on, this is one day where we can all agree.
[00:23:41]  Of course, we can agree that emancipation is a good thing.
[00:23:43]  Of course we can.
[00:23:45]  I don't believe a nation that wants to stand for a long time can have two independence days.
[00:23:53]  What is it that Abraham Lincoln said?
[00:23:55]  Get the quote, Blake.
[00:23:56]  A house divided cannot stand.
[00:24:00]  Two Independence Days?
[00:24:02]  What they're trying to say, and they are going to keep on marching as the fundamentalist Marxists do, as the Deconstructionists do, is because they're not going to stop.
[00:24:12]  is they're doing everything they can to chip away at the brilliance, the exceptionalism, the irrefutability.
[00:24:19]  And I believe the divine breakthrough that 1776 represented philosophically, politically, and morally.
[00:24:29]  They're trying to say that, well, we didn't fulfill our promise because they had slaves, all but ignoring that because of 1776, slavery was started to be abolished.
[00:24:40]  Vermont abolished slavery in 1777.
[00:24:43]  10 out of 13 of the states, by the time ratification came in 1787, had already independently abolished slavery.
[00:24:49]  In 1775, was the first ever anti-slavery convention chaired by Benjamin Franklin himself in Philadelphia.
[00:24:57]  These facts are conveniently ignored because it's not about racial progress for these people.
[00:25:04]  No.
[00:25:06]  It's about power and control and taking ground, taking terrain.
[00:25:12]  These people will not be stopped unless you say no more.
[00:25:18]  We have one Independence Day.
[00:25:20]  We are not going to divide this house.
[00:25:22]  Lincoln's in 1838 speech, he said, at what point then is the approach of danger to be expected?
[00:25:28]  I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us.
[00:25:32]  It cannot come from abroad.
[00:25:34]  If our destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.
[00:25:43]  Lincoln said, as a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide.
[00:25:49]  A house divided against itself will not stand.
[00:25:54]  A house divided against itself cannot stand.
[00:25:56]  Thank you, Blake.
[00:25:58]  He says, I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
[00:26:03]  I do not expect the union to be dissolved.
[00:26:05]  I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
[00:26:10]  It will become all one thing or all the other.
[00:26:15]  Here's the most important takeaway.
[00:26:16]  We will become all one thing or all the other.
[00:26:20]  BLM, the woke, want us to become all one thing.
[00:26:25]  Something new and strange and bizarre.
[00:26:28]  And the question is, will we surrender?
[00:26:31]  And the takeaway from 2020 is yes, we will surrender.
[00:26:36]  We will give the revolutionaries whatever we want.
[00:26:38]  We will give the Bolsheviks whatever we want, whatever they want.
[00:26:42]  We will give the Mensheviks whatever they want.
[00:26:44]  We will give the Maoists whatever we want.
[00:26:46]  Stop calling me racist.
[00:26:47]  Stop calling me bad names.
[00:26:49]  I'll give you a federal holiday.
[00:26:50]  We'll give you $100 million in corporate donations, upwards of a billion that were pledged.
[00:26:55]  We'll give you reparations in California.
[00:26:58]  We'll give you affirmative action hiring quotas.
[00:27:01]  We'll give you whatever you want.
[00:27:03]  Appeasement does not work.
[00:27:05]  For normal, ordinary Americans that feel as if your country is slipping away, this day becoming a federal holiday, quote unquote, as a National Independence Day, is a middle finger to the promise of 1776.
[00:27:23]  Now, for the rest of our life, we are going to have two federal holidays within two weeks of one another, and you are going to have to choose.
[00:27:31]  They're going to try to force, quote unquote, the racists of July 4th, because those were those old white guys that founded the nation.
[00:27:37]  But Juneteenth is for the enlightened folks.
[00:27:40]  You're trying to tell me that country can survive, but this was brought to you by Republicans who are deathly afraid of being called a very bad name.
[00:27:51]  If Juneteenth was really about emancipation, why not September 22nd when the proclamation was signed?
[00:27:56]  Or December 3rd when the 13th Amendment was passed?
[00:27:59]  Or January 1st when Lincoln actually gave the speech.
[00:28:02]  If I was a Marxist.
[00:28:05]  Unfortunately, that's how you have to think.
[00:28:06]  If I was a Marxist, what would I want to do?
[00:28:08]  If I hated July 4th, what would you do?
[00:28:12]  Well, you want to do something that could be passed into law.
[00:28:15]  So you make it have a veneer and a camouflage that feels good, that won't be that controversial.
[00:28:20]  But you also have it right up against the actual thing to create division.
[00:28:25]  If I was a Marxist, I would put this as a federal holiday on the heels of our actual Independence Day to preempt it and to compete with it.
[00:28:34]  I'm going to read an email here from the gentleman that I responded to his disagreement.
[00:28:40]  He said, Charlie, I stand corrected.
[00:28:41]  I would support an Emancipation Proclamation Day, but not a new Independence Day based on race.
[00:28:47]  God bless you, Daniel.
[00:28:48]  Thank you for your humility.
[00:28:49]  And that means what we are saying is being persuasive.
[00:28:53]  And it really is something, right?
[00:28:55]  We're at a place where kids are going to be raised in a country where they think we have two Independence Days.
[00:29:03]  And eventually you have to choose one.
[00:29:05]  Which one do you associate with more?
[00:29:08]  And we don't even do a good job, by the way, of teaching 1776.
[00:29:12]  And by the way, this is all in the midst of Pride Month, the regalia of the deadliest sin of all.
[00:29:20]  June has really become a messed up month, hasn't it?
[00:29:23]  By the way, the evidence continues about trying to de-emphasize the founders.
[00:29:30]  And I'll give you another example of this.
[00:29:32]  Do you know President's Day used to be Washington's birthday?
[00:29:36]  But that was too racist because we can't honor a white guy's birthday, right?
[00:29:40]  So then they make it this kind of collective President's Day.
[00:29:44]  And President's Day is still Washington's birthday under law.
[00:29:48]  That is correct, Blake.
[00:29:49]  But how many people honor President's Day as what it actually is, which is Washington's birthday?
[00:29:54]  They say, no, no, no, we need a fully comprehensive day to encapsulate all the presidents.
[00:30:00]  Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm not going to honor Woodrow Wilson on President's Day.
[00:30:04]  I'm not going to honor FDR on President's Day.
[00:30:07]  I'm going to honor the great American president, the man who embodied the tradition of the Order of Cincinnati.
[00:30:16]  But singling out George Washington is way too celebratory of the American founding.

=== RFK Jr Vaccine Debate (03:30) ===

[00:30:21]  So you just got to loop it all in.
[00:30:24]  How many Americans know that President's Day is actually Washington's birthday and that was the original way to celebrate it?
[00:30:31]  This is a pattern.
[00:30:33]  We see it in our curriculum, in our corporations, our narrative, and language.
[00:30:37]  Okay, so in the last couple of days, RFK Jr., who I am a big fan of, and we have mixed opinions in our own team on RFK Jr.
[00:30:45]  I won't repeat them.
[00:30:46]  You guys can listen to our Rumble show if you want to hear those shows.
[00:30:49]  I think he's great.
[00:30:50]  I don't agree with him on everything.
[00:30:51]  He goes pretty hard on the vaccine thing.
[00:30:53]  I'm not an expert on that.
[00:30:55]  Probably, you know, pushes the boundaries more than most people's comfort, but he does ask some very simple questions, especially on the mRNA vaccine.
[00:31:02]  And Joe Rogan, to his great credit, platformed him, asked really good questions, and it was excellent.
[00:31:09]  So RFK Jr. and Rogan's interview, I think, has been seen millions and millions of times.
[00:31:16]  Let's play a piece of tape here.
[00:31:17]  RFK Jr., play cut 13.
[00:31:20]  22,000 people got the vaccine, 22,000 didn't, and they have six months of data.
[00:31:25]  Some of that is unblinded, but it's six months.
[00:31:28]  And during that six-month period, in the vaccine group, one person died of COVID.
[00:31:35]  And in the placebo group, two people died from COVID.
[00:31:39]  So, that allows Pfizer to tell the public and FDA to tell the public, oh, this vaccine is 100% effective.
[00:31:48]  So, that's just a little snippet.
[00:31:49]  They went deep into the vaccine thing, talking about specifically the COVID vaccine.
[00:31:54]  RFK Jr. has made a career out of trying to expose and hold traditional vaccines accountable.
[00:32:02]  Very controversial.
[00:32:03]  Some people agree, some people disagree.
[00:32:04]  I find it very interesting.
[00:32:06]  He's been on our program before and he'll hopefully come on again.
[00:32:09]  So, what spurred out of this was really something.
[00:32:14]  So, they started talking about this charlatan who I never liked.
[00:32:18]  This guy, this guy is obviously a shill of the vaccine manufacturers, obviously being paid.
[00:32:24]  And he goes on CNN all the time and he's just really nauseating.
[00:32:28]  Peter Hotez.
[00:32:30]  Is that how you say Peter Hotz?
[00:32:32]  And he's a vaccine peddler.
[00:32:34]  And what came out of this conversation with Rogan and RFK Jr. is a challenge to debate.
[00:32:40]  And a ton of money going to charity.
[00:32:42]  It's now up to $2.5 million.
[00:32:44]  Peter Hotez says, I don't do debates.
[00:32:46]  I just do scientific studies.
[00:32:47]  The science is not up for debate, is it?
[00:32:51]  If it's so easy to defend, then just go on the show and make a fool out of RFK Jr.
[00:32:56]  Answer the critical questions.
[00:32:58]  Be willing to engage in the Socratic method.
[00:33:02]  There are millions of people.
[00:33:03]  Now, by the way, the matrix is shaking.
[00:33:05]  Elon Musk overnight came out and tweeted this, and it's amazing.
[00:33:11]  Elon Musk came out and said, I think there's tremendous promise in synthetic mRNA technology.
[00:33:18]  However, I have personally had serious side effects from the vaccines, including myself.
[00:33:24]  Failure to acknowledge this is a lie.
[00:33:26]  As for the deaths that you claim are due to COVID-19, why is the nation of Sweden still alive?
[00:33:30]  Just go on Rogan and do the debate.
[00:33:33]  And he's refusing.
[00:33:39]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[00:33:40]  Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:33:43]  Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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