WEBVTT - A Tale of Two Revolutions + AMA 274 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:06.280 My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.160 American student organization in the country, fighting for the future. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:10.800 Of our republic. 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.240 My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:18.160 If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:19.680 you're going to end up miserable. 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:20.880 But if the most. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:25.040 Important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:27.000 is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.120 kids to college. You should get married as young as 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.600 possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.279 attorney point, you would say, college chapter. 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It's where I buy all of 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:23.440 my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments dot com. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:24.720 All right, welcome everybody. 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.880 It is Friday, August seventh, twenty twenty six. We are 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.960 here at the y Reefi Studios in Phoenix, Arizona. How 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.679 we doing, Blake, We're doing lovely. It is a It's 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:36.479 a glorious Arizona morning. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.560 I will tell you, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.680 I like to the glorious Arizona morning yesterday because it 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.640 was actually kind of cool. It was only like seventy degrees. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.119 Is there all beef with Arizona that it's too cold? 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.200 Well, I mean seventy degrees is a good temperature. It's 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.640 not too cold Arizona, which is anytime you step into 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:53.280 a supermarket. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.520 Oh well, we have much to cover, and I want 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:00.960 to get into the current situation on the left. Okay, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.640 the current situation. I was on with Jesse Waters last night. 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.000 It's always nice when he brings me on. 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.560 And there is a civil war brewing on the American 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:11.280 political left. 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:11.640 Right. 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:17.120 There is the establishment Dems. There are the rising we'll 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.320 call them the Young Turks because it ties in of 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:24.239 the DSA and now there are news reports that the 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.880 Establishment Dems are about to dump fifteen million dollars into 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:29.320 trying to unseat these people. 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.799 There is a story that broke on. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.680 A NBC about a paid influencer campaign that was behind 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:36.800 Hailey Stevens trying to. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:37.800 Take at El Sayed. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.680 You even saw the same electioneering that was used against 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.519 President Trump in twenty twenty and twenty twenty four. Possibly 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.720 we can't prove it yet, but it certainly has all 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.880 the earmarks and hallmarks of the electioneering campaign where they 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.919 stuff drop boxes and they released their votes laid especially 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.280 in the black precincts to beat el Sayed. Hailey Stevens 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:02.360 ended up falling short. Nevertheless, we know that the establishment 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.040 was not super ready to cozy up with their radicals. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.760 And last night when I was on Jesse Waters, I 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.080 made a point and I got tons of feedback on it, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.160 which leads me to believe that probably I'm gonna have 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.200 to bring in Blake as the resident historian. We're gonna 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.360 have to do an actual multi part series on this. 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.760 But let's start here. I am of the belief that 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.280 in the United States of America, the Conservative Party, the 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.880 Conservative movement are the inheritors, the believers, the transmitters of 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.800 the ideals of the American Revolution, which is life, liberty, 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:40.200 and the pursuit of happiness. Now, originally that was life, 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.680 liberty and property. We believe in property rights. We believe 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.240 in your ability to own things and to have the 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.640 freedom to trade, sell, buy. All of those things are 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.520 your freedoms and God given freedoms. By the way, now, 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:57.760 the French Revolution does not believe in that. They have 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:08.320 egalatee fraternity, liberty, egality, e galitate, egalitarianism, equal What do 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.640 we always hear from the American left? Equality, equality, equity, equity. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.159 The animal spirits of the American Revolution are alive and well. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.240 On the conservative side, we wish they were more alive 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.000 at times, And the animal spirits unleashed in the French 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.520 Revolution are alive and well in the modern progressive left movement. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.719 One gave birth to the greatest country in the history 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.239 of the world, the strongest, the most prosperous, the most equal. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:38.000 The other gave birth to the French Revolution, which ended 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:44.440 in a bloody terror. Now Blake has ultimately worked out. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.119 Is probably the most complicated topic in world history. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:53.279 Edmund Burke, the famous political philosopher from the mother country. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:54.760 Was he Scottish? 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.039 I don't remember. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:57.919 I believe he might have been Scottish. Either way, he 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:03.719 was from mother England. The point is he basically became 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.400 one of the most famous political philosophers in the world 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.880 because he was a strong critic of the French Revolutions 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:13.600 and the ideas that undergirded that movement and led to 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.320 the bloody terror. I made the other point, and I 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:20.240 remember Charlie making this from time to time. Robespierre was 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.599 one of the leaders, the main figures in the French Revolution. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.800 He was led ultimately to a bloody guillotine death of 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.320 beheading by the same movement that he inspired, and they 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.400 cheered his demise, and they should have. And that is, 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.440 by the way, the Democrat Party probably has this comment. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:44.680 That is a perfect analog for the Democrat Party in 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.960 the establishment. They engineered every step along the way. And Blake, 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.040 you have a great take on this. Two times they 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.000 blocked Bernie Sanders, and now they get Bernie Sanders on steroids. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.360 They get Mom Donnie, they get LSI Ed, they get Hong, 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.599 they get and there by the way, they get Chevalier. 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.480 There is a lot of these people that are coming 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:08.040 up through the ranks. They embrace third worldism, they embrace 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.320 racial grievances, they embraced assassination culture, they refuse to police 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.159 their own when Charlie was assassinated. All of these things 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.760 are eerily reminiscent of a movement in the French Revolution. 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:28.840 And now you've got the young upstarts telling the establishment 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.320 Dems how it's going to be. Here's David Hogg. 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.880 Two, what would you say to the moderates in your party? 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.200 Who would it to the moners our party? You need 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.560 to figure out how to actually offer something new to 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.080 voters that isn't just the same message that you gave 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:45.719 them in twenty twenty four. Increasingly, the reason why the 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.320 establishment of our party is being defeated over and over 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.520 and over again is it's because you don't have the 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.120 right values that are aligned with not the democratic base 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.280 that the American people were. 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.680 Maybe David Hogg is a radical because he's he's angry 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:01.800 he's not getting better reception. 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:04.320 Yeah, he's got terrible reception. David, How you gotta work 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.760 on that bush League. But even worse than that, who 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.720 do you see out front campaigning with all of these 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.360 people Hassan Piker. And if you hear us bring up 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.000 his name, it's because he is so beyond the pale 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:22.360 he should be disqualifying for anybody. Should they embrace his endorsement, 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.200 they should disavow his endorsement. This is Hassan Piker. He's 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:29.720 the same Hassan Piker, by the way, who said that 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:33.560 America deserved nine to eleven, that Rick Scott should be murdered, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.920 that capitalist blood should spill the streets, murder those m efforts, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:44.080 he said. He's also joked about the assassination of President Trump, 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:48.480 saying someone has to do it. And instead of policing 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:53.880 this crook, this absolute cretan, they go out and campaign 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.800 with him. And here's what Hassan Piker is saying. Now 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.480 listen to this. How insane, this is sop four. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.400 I'm one hundred percent closer to the prison abolition is 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.520 perspective than the average Americans framework on this issue, because 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:12.080 oh my god, you guys literally fantasize about the violent 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.520 crimes that someone might have committed, and you fantasize further 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:20.240 about how you need to create an equal avenges structure. 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:27.000 Americans sometimes literally feel Americans sometimes literally feel like they 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.960 want to be the rapist murderers. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.760 Okay, so that's Hassan Piker saying he's pro abolishing prisons 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:41.360 because Americans have a fetishize or fantasize about becoming either 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.400 a rapists themselves or getting raped. That we deserve this 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:47.280 because we're fantasizing about crime. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.200 I mean, it makes sense he would say that, because 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.000 if you really want to get at the heart of 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.720 why the left love's abolishing prisons, normal people want prisons 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.200 because they can imagine themselves being a victim of crime, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.559 and they sympathize with the victim of crime. The left 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.000 they sympathize with the criminal, and they can easily imagine 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:05.600 themselves doing the same things, and so they wouldn't want 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:06.160 to go to prison. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.079 No, exactly. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.480 Well, and I also think it's because somebody like Hassan Piker, 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.920 who was born in America, yes, but then raised in Turkey, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.880 harbors a deep disdain for the American people. He wants 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.000 you to be victimized, he wants you to be murdered 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.000 in the streets, he wants you to be raped because 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:27.360 he actually hates you and he hates this country. And 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.040 this is the man that is going around campaigning with 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.880 all of these crazy dsas. It is the spirit of 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:39.440 the French Revolution alive and well in a singular political party, 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:43.800 and it is consuming that party, and the host establishment 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.480 Dems are powerless to stop it. God help us all. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.240 So one of the reasons I think this is really interesting, Blake, 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.760 is because we're starting to see the contours of this 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.480 movement from Politico, the DSA movement. As results continue to 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.560 come in Michigan's hotly contested Senate Senate race again that 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.160 was l Sied versus Haley Stevens, a class divide is emerging. 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.640 L Cied is performing best in places with higher incomes 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.240 and education levels, while Stevens is doing better in more 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.160 working class areas. So this all made me think of 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.079 something that you brought up. And by the way, we 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.360 could throw that graphic up if we have it. You 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:27.240 mentioned this term on our thought crime show of lower elites. Yep, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:28.880 explain what you mean by that. 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.600 Well, so it's like it says he's doing best with 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.800 people who have higher incomes, higher education levels, and that 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:40.320 often it might pop into your head, oh, this is 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.400 really rich people who are running it. But it's really 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:47.160 not like that. It's often what you might call people 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:51.400 who feel like who are actually doing decently well but 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.560 feel they should be doing a lot better. You might say, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.840 like downwardly mobile elites. So maybe they grew up upper 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:58.960 middle class, they grew up in a nice house in 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:00.840 the suburbs, they got it, they went to school, got 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.679 a bunch of education, but then what they thought their 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:05.720 life was going to be never quite panned out. So 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.160 maybe they got a PhD, but they never became a 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.720 distinguished college professor. They're just doing postdoc after postdoc, or 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.160 they're an associate faculty member who's never going to get 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.400 a tenure track a nonprofit, yeah, or working at a 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.360 nonprofit making seventy k, but they think they should be 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.199 making a lot more, a lot of that. There's a 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.360 great article in The New York's The New York Are 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.920 about Subarus socialists, they call them, and those people are 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.959 objectively actually middle class. They probably if you know two 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.520 people making seventy k each, that's higher than the American 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.600 meeting average, but they'll often feel like they're not getting ahead, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.240 especially if they grew up making even more in a 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.880 household making even more. And so these are the people 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.040 who are the absolute shock troops of the Democratic Party. Like, 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:50.160 perfect way to predict a Democrat voter is someone who 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.480 has a graduate degree or a PhD, making between thirty 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.920 and sixty thousand dollars a year. That's not a person 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.439 who's an outright poverty That is not a person who 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:00.800 is starving, but it is a person who feels super 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.839 frustrated about their life and they're smart enough to feel 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.760 tons of complicated resentment about it. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:10.720 Yes, and you were bringing up ties to maybe the 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:14.000 Bolshevik Revolution, Yes, you're bringing up yeah, exactly, relate to 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.319 those movements. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.720 In the exactly. And if you look almost any revolution, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.920 you'll have famous revolutions, but they're rarely just like a 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.520 peasant uprising, you almost always need someone who is an 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:27.920 angry elite, or a frustrated elite, or like a kicked 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.559 out elite. So the Bolsheviks, a lot of the people 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.120 reading that, they're pretty smart people. They're maybe the children 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.680 of priests, they're the children of like merchants, capitalists who 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.000 got radicalized against the system and decided they wanted to 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.000 blow it up, and then they whip up the workers 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.559 to support them. The French Revolution. Robespierre was Robespierre's job, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:52.400 do you know, I don't. Robespierre was a rural French lawyer. Interesting, 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.040 and tons of lawyers in the French Revolution, tons of 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:59.280 the lower bourgeoisie. Fascinating. Yeah, So Robespierre was not an 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.880 angry peasant. Robespierre was not a he was not a 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.040 starving guy. He was a highly educated, capable person who 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.840 was elected to the Assembly when they first had it. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.640 And he had a bunch of really radical ideas that 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.599 he put into practice. And those are a lot of 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.440 the guys who are the most radical in that revolution. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:22.199 It isn't too far to say that oftentimes these radical 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:27.040 left leaning revolutions are powered by the resentment of the 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:28.120 lower elites. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.400 Yes, and a thing I think about a lot that 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.080 might drive a lot of radicalism. Think about how America 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.959 has been historically. It's been very decentralized. So our capital 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.240 historically has not been that big. Washington, d C. Was 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:42.880 not even one of our ten largest cities for a 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.360 long time, and you had New York is big, but 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.280 compare New York size to how big the country is overall, 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.160 it's surprisingly small. Compared to say, like Tokyo. Tokyo is 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:53.160 a bigger city than New York in a country that's 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:56.000 one third the size of ours. London has almost as 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.880 many people as New York, and Britain only as sixty 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.480 million people, not three hundred million. So you have New York, LA, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.199 you have Houston, you have Seattle, we have widely distributed cities, 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.680 lots of There's like a lot of room to be 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.199 elite in America historically, and what have we seen. We've 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:12.400 seen centralization. More jobs are in just a few cities. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.040 Now everyone moves to New York, to Austin, to the 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:19.440 Bay Area, to DC and there's not as many jobs. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.760 There's not as much ability to be an elite in America. Plus, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.080 you have the Internet, which is making it easier for 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.360 you to feel like you're behind because someone you see 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:30.840 on the Internet is getting ahead of ale. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.840 All social anxiety for young women is based on comparing 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.240 themselves to other waes exactly. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.320 So now instead of comparing yourself to your neighbor, you're 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:40.960 comparing yourself to the planet. You're comparing yourself to everyone 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.119 on the internet. It's so much easier to feel frustrated 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.960 and let down. It's so much easier to feel I 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.520 should have more in my life and I don't have it, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.960 and those sorts of disappointments and resentments are the kernel 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.120 that can build a lot of radical political movements. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.960 Yes, so when we think about who is supporting this movement, 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.720 the rise of the DSA, it is twofold. It's the 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.240 rise of the It's the resentment of the lower elites, 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.240 the white typically educated lower elites that are smart enough 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.680 to work the system and smart enough to have very 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.000 complicated resentment structure. 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.160 And think of another type that you're getting people who 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.240 are think about like olsaied types, A lot of immigrants. 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:23.280 Well that's the group. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:26.120 The other group is the immigrants, the children of immigrants. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.640 L say Ed is a guy that yes, he was 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:33.360 again born in America, this pesky birthright citizenship that President Trump, 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.920 by the way, is trying once again to get rid of. 0:15:36.560 --> 0:15:39.800 But he was raised in many ways in Egypt. He 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.560 spent his summers, he was summering in Egypt. 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.240 And it's super common for these galas their parents might 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.080 have gotten far more elite in their home country than 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.440 they are in America. Lots of really to have resentment 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.480 about that resentment that you're in this other country rather 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.520 than running your homeland. There are so many ways to 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.360 build up a giant ball of anger and resentment and 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:01.520 then say, well, well, actually I'm just I'm angry because 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:02.760 the system is rigged against me. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:09.920 And this is the bifurcated American body politic. The conservative 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:15.640 movement embraces free markets, property ownership, the rule of law, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:22.280 equality before the law, and liberty. The radical left embraces 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:28.640 the Bolshevik spirit, the French revolutionary spirit of equity, equality 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.560 of murderousness, of seizing the means of production, taking from 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.560 you if they don't think you're doing it right, and 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.200 that ultimately is being powered by the lower elites, the 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:46.640 highly educated, not so accomplished, resentful elites, and then powered 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.360 by a mountain of new immigrants and their children that 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:50.240 we brought in. 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:52.080 Because I don't know why. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.200 So I don't know what the last year of your 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.520 life has brought you, But for me, I can tell 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.880 you it is. 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Now he's inviting 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.160 you to come along and meet bold believers whose faith 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.919 will inspire you to a deeper walk with Christ. So 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.680 you get this, this is grab your passport and come 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:48.359 along on a forty day journey. And if you're curious 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.880 what I'm reading, this is his book When Faith is Forbidden. 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:56.880 Forty days on the front lines with persecuted Christians. It says, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.920 we'll meet brothers and sisters who refuse to deny Christ 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:05.920 despite being beaten, imprisoned, or even killed for their faith. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:08.400 When Faith is Forbidden will introduce you to a Chinese 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:13.280 Christian woman who called six months in prison a wonderful time. 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.080 We'll go through arm checkpoints to meet it in Iraqi 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.640 pastor praising God just eight days after an assassin's. 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:22.320 Bullet ripped through his flesh. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.159 And we'll sit down for a cup of tea with 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.000 others from our Christian family in Iran. Eritrea, Turkey, Jordan, 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.760 and other nations. Each stop on this forty day journey 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.560 will provide inspiration and encouragement through the story of a 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:40.320 persecuted believer. You'll also find space for reflection and suggested 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.760 prayers as you grow to understand the realities of living 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:43.639 under persecution. 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:45.880 Beautiful, beautiful book. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.480 Obviously, this is really important to us because I believe 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.639 Charlie was a Christian martyr, and I believe he's a 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.359 modern day Founding Father. I believe that any sort of 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.240 praise for the life that he lived and we got 0:19:58.240 --> 0:20:00.800 to see it behind the scenes, is warranted. He was 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:05.520 a man of incredible integrity and awesome, powerful, courageous faith. 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.399 And so I have told the team that I want 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.600 one of the things that we constantly bring up on 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:16.000 this show to be paying attention to Christians, whether it's 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:18.920 in Nigeria, whether it's in Iran, which we're going to 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:21.040 talk about with Todd. Once we get the tech issue 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:25.480 worked out, that we focus on their stories because that 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.240 is one of our mandates as. 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.200 Christians to remember the persecuted church. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.280 And so I hope that once we get him on 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:34.880 that we are going to be able to inspire you 0:20:35.000 --> 0:20:37.399 to continue thinking about these things, to continue praying for 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.920 your brothers and sisters around the world that are living 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:44.760 their faith boldly and loudly despite incredible, incredible prices. 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.359 You know, we went through COVID, we saw sort of 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.159 the first intimations of what anti Christian repression in the 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:54.240 US could look like, which is, for health reasons, you 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.080 can't assemble with other believers. We saw the Biden administration 0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:01.760 start sending these FBI guys to lurk in Catholic masses 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.640 because that's a sinister thing, and that was all bad, 0:21:03.920 --> 0:21:07.040 very bad, and an American Yet at the same time, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.040 we should remember we have it very easy in the 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:12.480 United States compared to a lot of places. There are 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.920 a lot of countries and a lot of Islamic countries. 0:21:15.520 --> 0:21:18.679 Converting to Christianity legally in the statue book carries the 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.520 death penalty. In a lot of countries, if it is 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.159 rumored that you are a Christian or that you are 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:27.040 sympathetic to Christians, whatever the law says, you can face 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:31.159 mob violence, you can face vigilante justice from people. That 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.040 is the reality in huge chunks of Pakistan, a lot 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.080 of Iran, a lot certainly a lot of Africa. You 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:40.520 can be kidnapped, you can be enslaved, you can be 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.720 tortured because you are a Christian. 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:43.480 Yeah. 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:46.240 Well, and the other aspect of this is that we're 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.760