Oct. 20, 2025

Power, Policy, and Pushback: A Conservative Look at the Battle for America’s Balance

Power, Policy, and Pushback: A Conservative Look at the Battle for America’s Balance
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In this powerful 1.5-hour episode of The World of Payne Podcast, Tanner Payne takes listeners through five defining events shaping the American moment — from the “No Kings” protests to the Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk, from the World Bank and IMF meetings to the rise of AI at GITEX Global, and the federal intervention in Portland. Told through a conservative lens of faith, accountability, and structure, Tanner examines what these events reveal about leadership, liberty, and the future of American sovereignty. Each segment offers a balanced look — how the Left frames it, how Conservatives see it — and ends with a call for unity through conversation, not chaos. This is The World of Payne — where conviction meets clarity, and courage builds community. 🎙️ Topics: Politics | Business | Faith | Technology | Sovereignty | Conservative Commentary
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You know, every once in a while, this country hits

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a moment where you feel like the tension is just

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humming under the surface, like the whole engine of America

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is just idling way too damn high. That's where we're

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at right now. Every headline feels like a warning light.

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Executive orders, markets twitching, global meetings that sound way more

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like secret clubs than diplomacy, and the average American, the

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one working fifty hours a week and still checking the

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price of groceries before the weekend, is wondering when did

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common sense become so controversial Tonight, We're not about scrolling

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through headlines. We're connecting the dots between power and principle,

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between leadership and overreach, between how policies written in marble

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halls and how it hits the rest of us out

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here on the concrete streets. Because here's what I've learned

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after years of watching this political circus. Power never disappears,

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It just shifts, and the question is always who's holding

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it and who's paying for it. Over the next hour

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and a half, we're going to unpack five events shaking

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that balance right now, the no Kings protests that turns

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city streets into political stages, the Charlie Kirk Medal of

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Freedom award and what it says about who America chooses

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to honor, the World Bank and IMF meetings where debt,

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digital money, and sovereignty all collide. SYE Tech Global twenty

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twenty five, a tech arms race starts redefining freedom. And finally,

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the Portland federal standoff, where local defiance meets federal authority

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head on. These stories aren't random. They're connected by one thread,

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the struggle between control and liberty. Now, I'm not here

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to preach a doom. I'm here to talk about the responsibility,

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because that's what conservatism at its core really means. It's

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not nostalgia, it's not anger. It's stewardship, guarding the foundation

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that generations before is bled to poor. And yes, I'll

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say it plain. Leadership should be strong, Government should enforce

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the law. Families should teach values in media, should seek truth,

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not cloud, not extremism. That's not extremism, that's order. But

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here's the challenge in a world that worships disruption. Disruption

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order looks old fashioned, discipline sounds oppressive, and patriotism gets

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labeled as propaganda and extremism. So tonight we're going to

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strip away the slogans, slow down the spin, and talk

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about what's really at stake, because every protest chant, every

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policy announcement, every global summit comes down to one decision

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we all have to make. Do we still believe America's

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strength lies in her institutions and her people? Or have

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we traded that strength for a spectacle. I don't care

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if you're left right, independent, or still trying to figure

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it out. My goal isn't to shout at you into submission.

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It's to wake you to participation. We can agree, we

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can disagree, we can agree, we should disagree. But disagreement

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without dialogue just noise. And the world of pain wasn't built.

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Was built just to cut through the noise. So grab

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your coffee, your notepad, maybe that valor built hoodie that's

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seen a long few nights of debate, because this isn't

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cable news. This is real talk about the contrary we

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love and the choices that we will define it. All right,

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let's go to work. Let me tell you something right

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off the bat, folks, America's streets have never felt louder, angrier,

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or more restless than they do now. You can feel

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it when you drive downtown. The air feels heavier, not

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with smog or smoke, but with tension. People are tired,

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people are frustrated, and they're shouting not just at politicians,

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but at the system itself. And on October eighteenth, twenty

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twenty five, the frustration erupted into what organizers called the

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No Kings Protests, a name that sounds noble, like a

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cry for liberty, but dig deeper and you'll see the

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irony thousands of people marching against a very structure that

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keeps this country free. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm

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all for protests. It's one of the greatest rights that

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we have as Americans. You can raise your voice in

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the street without fearing tanks rolling down Main Street, and

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that's something most of the world can't say. But freedom

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comes with a boundary. Your rights end where your neighbors begin,

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and too often these demonstrations cross that line. I've watched

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footage in New York, Portland, Dallas, even smaller cities like

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Des Moines and Omaha. Because yes, this reached the heartland too.

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Crowds living signs that read no Crowns, no rulers, and

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my personal favorite, Power to the people. It's really ironic,

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and on the surface that sounds patriotic, right, the spirit

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of seventeen seventy six. But here's the problem. They weren't

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standing for liberty. They were standing against leadership. They've mistaken

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enforcement for oppression, structure for control, and leadership for monarchy.

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What we're witnessing isn't it a rebellion. It's confusion. The

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lines between freedom and anarchy are blurring, and the media

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is feeding that distortion like wildfire. Here's what I saw

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on the footage picture this. It's late afternoon, streets packed

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shoulders shoulder. If you hear that deep, echoing chant of

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no kings, no crowns, no commanders, drums pounding from somewhere

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in the distance, echoing off glass towers. Someone climbs on

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a newspaper stand with a megaphone. They're roughly twenty years old,

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face painted, shouting over about overthrowing systems. They probably just

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learned about a freshman Civics class, or learned about in

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high school government. Across the street, a cafe owners pulling

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in their patio chairs because they know what comes after

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the channing, The shoving symbolic vandalism that somehow always turns

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into real damage. That's not activism, that's theater. And I'll

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say this bluntly. We've created a generation that mistakes destruction

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for participation. We've told them make noise, but forget to

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teach them why. And yet mixed in the chaos were

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people who just wanted to be hurt, Real Americans who

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are scared of losing their voice to politicians who don't

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listen anymore. These folks deserve understanding, not condemnation. And trust me,

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this took me forever. It' took a lot of thought

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to really think about the No Kings protests because I

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am I'll be honest with you, guys, I cannot stand

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with them because of the way that they act, the

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way that these protests always turn violent to some degree,

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they always turn to vandalism to some degree. But there

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are people there that just wanted to be heard. They

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just want to want to make their voices known. They

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want to talk about the things that they feel, the

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things that they believe that this administration is doing wrong.

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And I've seen I have seen both sides. I have

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seen the side of these protests that are terrible. That

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people who want to scream in your face rather than

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have a constructive conversation. I've seen the videos of people

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who would rather hit, punch, tear gas, mace, you get

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you to back away at any means necessary than to

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actually answer your questions. But I've also seen people who

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go to these marches and who go to these No

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King's rallies and go to these other rallies that want

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to have the conversation that are okay with sitting there

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and talking with you. I saw a video of a

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guy who was in the back of a truck talking

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to a guy who was he's more of a conservative influencer.

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He's more of a conservative interviewer, and he at the

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beginning was very hostile towards him, told him to get away.

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He knows what he knows what you're kind. He said,

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I know what your kind's about. But then he's like, okay,

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I hope you have a nice day it, which is

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very nice to the guy. And then eventually the guy,

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just as the guy was walking away, he's like he

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just started carrying on a conversation. And then they started

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talking about church, and the guy gave him a story

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about how he's an atheist and The reason why he's

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an atheist is because his grandma came to live with

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them and she had cancer, and they prayed and they prayed,

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and they prayed to try and figure out and tried

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to get her to be to cure, to be cured

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by Jesus, to be cured by the prayer, to be

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cured by God Almighty himself, but she was never cured.

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And then due to that, this man started questioning the church,

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started questioning what everything stood for, what Jesus stood for,

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everything like that, And my personal belief is that if

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you can't question your faith, if you can't question the Bible,

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if you can't question anything, how do you dig deeper?

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How do you learn? You learn by asking questions. You

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learn how the Bible works, how God works, how Jesus

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did his works in the Bible, by asking questions, because

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not everybody understands everything. And instead he was shunned by

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his church, he was shunned by family members, and he

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eventually just became an atheist because he figured that was easier.

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Puts a hurry up and make this quick. They ended

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their conversation very different than the way it began, just

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because this guy was willing to stand there and hear

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him out after he was after the other guy was hostile,

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The guy who was there to attend the No Kings rally,

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the guy who told him that he didn't want to

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talk to him because he knows what his kind's like,

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and by his kind, I'm not exactly for sure what

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he meant, because the guy is just a conservative influencer,

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a guy who just goes around and asks questions and

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starts debates and starts really making people think about what

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they stand for. And they ended that by exchanging numbers.

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And the conservative influencer offered to take him to church,

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to go to church with him one time, and I

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think that changed his whole That changed the other guy's

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whole perspective. And as conservatives, as liberals, as Americans, we

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need to have more of those types of conversations, more

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of those thought provoking, more of those those conversations that

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can bring out the better side in us as communities.

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I'm getting real tired of seeing this hostility towards one another.

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When we all bleed red, we all bleed red. I

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don't care if you're black, brown, if you're yellow, Kelal Johnason,

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but if you're white, I don't really care. You are

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an American, You bleed red just like the rest of us.

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Because at the every at the heart of every protest,

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even the misguided ones, is the same humid need to matter.

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Analysts estimate nearly four million people took part nationwide. Huge,

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no questions about it. But think about this. There's that's

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about one percent of the country. One percent was making

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headlines while the other ninety nine were working, taking care

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of families and praying their downtowns don't get trashed. And

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yet the one percent sets the tone because the outrage

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always travels faster than the stability. Peace doesn't trend, calm

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doesn't get clicks, the irony. A recent poll from Pew

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Research found that seventy two percent of Americans believe government

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has too much power, but fifty eight percent believed that

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the president should act decisively during crisis. During crises, that's

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not hypocrisy, that's confusion. We want authority, but we don't

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trust it. We demand leadership, then crucify the leaders who

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take charge. That's the paradox, tearing this country in half.

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So what set this off? The administration had rolled out

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a series of executive orders earlier this month, expanding federal

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oversight in cities plagued by repeat riots, increasing border enforcement,

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and tightening accountability for federal funds going to sanctuary in jurisdictions.

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These weren't surprise moves. They'd been campaign promises, and when

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a president follows through, it's called leadership, not dictatorship. He

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was giving a mandate by a majority of Americans. We

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have to remember that he is a Republican who won

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the popular vote and won the electoral college. On the

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Republican side, that doesn't happen very often because we don't

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have the highly populated cities. Most highly populated cities are

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left leaning, so they usually vote Democrat. But you know

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that from watching the media. They spun it like a

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royal decree, as if constitutional, as if the Constitution evaporated overnight.

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Cable panels stacked with activists talked about authoritarian drift, militarized governance,

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and the end of democracy as we know it. Meanwhile,

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half the country just wanted to see the border secured,

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crime reduced, and schools funded with accountability. That's not radical,

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that's reality, and that's where the frustration cut both ways.

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The more media cried dictator, the more everyday Americans felt

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gas lit for supporting law and order. You can't call

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half your country fascist and expect unity. Now here's something

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I noticed watching those He had two generations standing side

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by side, the older Americans who grew up during the

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Cold War and the younger generation raised on civil social

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media wars. The first understands that freedom isn't free, it's fragile.

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The second thinks freedom means I can do whatever I

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want without consequence. That's the fracture. We stopped teaching civics

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history and the price of freedom, and now we're living

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in the result. A sign that says no kings might

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sound rebellious, but it also is a confession. It says

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we don't understand our own republic because we don't have kings.

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We have representatives, and if you don't like them, you

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vote them out. And if you don't burn down your

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own neighbors businesses. The Constitution doesn't need rewriting, it needs rereading.

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You know what I found fascinating how each network told

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a completely different story about the same event. The mainstream

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outlets showed slow motion shots of marchers with flags and

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called it the new dawn of a civic resistance. Meanwhile,

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independent journalists on the ground streamed footage of vandalized police

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cars and shouted arguments between protesters themselves. You could switch

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between CNN and Fox and think you were watching two

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different planets. And maybe that's the real issue. Our media

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landscape doesn't inform anymore. It performs, It separates, it divides.

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They're not telling stories to enlighten, they're casting characters to enrage.

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And as long as rage equals ratings, truth will always

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be the casualty. But here's where conservatives have to be

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careful too. We can't let righteous anger become cynicism. Cynicism

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is surrendered, dressed like wisdom. Don't fall for it, because

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when we stop believing this country can self correct, we

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hand it to the very people who want to tear

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it apart. Because the heart of the Conservatives stand. Let

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me break down. Break this down simply. Conservatives don't fear protest,

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fear purposelessness. We don't oppose free speech, we oppose chaos

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disguise this courage. And we don't believe in blind loyalty.

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We believe in lawful authority. The founders didn't write a

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document that ban power. They wrote it. They wrote one

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that balanced it. They didn't fear leaders, they feared leaders

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without limits. And that's the line that still matters today.

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The left screams no kings because they don't trust any

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authority that they don't control. The right believes authority is

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earned and through results, through accountability and through the service

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to the people, not obedience from them. One the federal

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government steps in to restore order, that's not tyranny. That's duty.

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When a leader uses the power the constitution gives him,

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that's not monarchy. That's responsibility. And the day we stopped

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respecting responsibility, this country will fall apart from the inside out. Now,

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I know some of you listening might disagree with me.

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Maybe in March that day, maybe you stood on the

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sidelines and cheered, And you know what, that's fine. That's America.

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You have the power, you have the freedom to do so.

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We can disagree fiercely, and I will still shake your

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hand at the end of the day and at the

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end of the debate. What we can't afford is silence

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and segregation by ideology. If you care about this country

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enough to march, he should care enough to live too.

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Protest is easy. Conversation is what is hard, and we're

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building trust. That's harder still. But what that's where real

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change happens, not in the smoke of a march, but

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in the clarity of dialogue. So as you talk about

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No King's movement, I'm not asking you to pick sides,

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I'm asking you to pick responsibility, because in the end,

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freedom isn't protected by the shouting louder. It's protecting by

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are moments when this country pauses for just a second

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and the noise quiets down long enough to remember what

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history actually sounds like. October fourteenth, twenty twenty five was

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one of those moments. The camera rolled the band played,

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and inside of the East Room of the White House,

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a name echoed that half the nation cheered and the

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other half rolled her eyes at Charlie Kirk. Now, love

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him or hate him, you knew who he was. He

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built a movement that gave young conservatives a home on

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campuses where free speech was treated like contraband. He took

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the hits, he made the enemies, and he never apologized

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for being unapologetically American. And that day, the President of

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the United States placed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in

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his honor posthumously. I watched it live, not because I

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needed another headline, but because I wanted to see how

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the country would react, will be recognized the weight of

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what was happening, or would be drowned out with more

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online screaming. Sadly, that answer came pretty fast. Within minutes,

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social media turned a solemn ceremony into a trending battlefield.

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The hashtags weren't about legacy, they were about labels. Half

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the country wrote hero, the other half wrote extreamist. And

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I sat there thinking, is there any honor left that

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we won't politicize? And I'm guilty this too. I politicized

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when they gave when President Biden gave Fauci and the

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other ones, the other ones in that set, the Presidential

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Medal of Freedom. But is there an honor it made

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me and that kind of reinforced it. Is there really

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an honor left that we don't politicize? Because let's picture

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the room, gold drapes, polished floors, sunlight filtering through the

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tall windows of the American history itself, rows of seats

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filled with veterans, families, young turning Point activists wearing navy blazers,

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and nervous bride. The President walks in, no teleprompter, no script.

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He looks at the framed photo of Kirk besides the

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podium and says, this metal represents courage, encourages always about,

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doesn't always come from the battlefield. For a moment, even

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critics in the room stood quiet. Then applause, not thunderous,

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but heavy, like people who knew the man being honored

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had paid a price that most keyboard warriors will never understand.

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Then applause. You can feel that sense of conviction, a

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reminder that belief, even unpopular belief, still matters in America.

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Because Charlie Kirk didn't play it safe. He didn't chase applause.

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He challenged people, sometimes bluntly, sometimes controversially, but always with conviction.

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See the Presidential Medal of Freedom is supposed to honor

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those who embody the nation's highest ideals. And whether he

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agreed with him or not, Charlie kirkha embodied something that's

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getting rare and rare by the day, courage and conviction.

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He fought for free speech when it wasn't fashionable. He

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built a grassroots network of students and young professionals who

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dared to say I'm conservative and I'm not sorry. He

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forced universities, corporations, and media outlets to answer one simple question.

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If we say we're free, why are we so afraid

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of words? That's not extremism. That's principal, and it's one

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of the founders would have recognized instantly. But of course,

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the moment the metal touched the ribbon, the critics came

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out swinging. You had pundits on MSNBC calling it a

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reward for division. Columnists on the Atlantic wrote that kirk

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weaponized youth for ideological gain, and I sat here thinking,

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isn't that exactly what every movement does? You can't build

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a cause without inspiring the young. You can't defend the

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Constitution without passing it to the next generation. But in

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today's climate, if your message doesn't fit the narrative, you're

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not a leader, you're a lightning rod. They called them polarizing,

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But here's the thing. Truth is polarizing in an age

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built on convenience. When you stand for something long enough,

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someone's going to get uncomfortable. That's not arrogance, that's impact. Now,

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Charlie once said, if truth offends them, it means they've

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forgotten how to argue it, And that line's been echoing

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in my head ever since because that's the heartbeat of

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the whole conservative movement. We're not trying to silence anyone,

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although some people on the very fringe sides are, And

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to those people, I say, why why silence the the centers?

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Because if you silence them, you can't convert them, you

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can't change their mind. You can't make any difference if

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you force silence on someone, if you force them to

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stop talking, you don't make a difference in the way

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they think. You can't try to talk them into anything.

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You can't sit there and try to make them understand

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what's so wrong and in the years since, we've watched

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entire institutions bandon dialogue. Universities that used to be arenas

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a debate now look like echo chambers with tuition. Media

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outlets that once asked questions now hand out verdicts. And

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that's what Charlie pushed against. And that's why honoring him matters.

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Not because he was perfect, not because of what he

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stood for, not because he was a conservative when we

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have a Republican president, but because he fought over the right,

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fight ideas over intimidation, conversation over conflict. You know, medals

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used to mean something bigger than politics. They used to

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be symbols of shared values, courage, sacrifice, innovation. Now every medal,

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every statue, every flag comes with a debate attached. And

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I think that's what we need to talk about. When

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did recagnition itself become controversial? When did we recognize that

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honoring someone automatically dishonors someone else. The left argues that

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giving Charlie Kirk the Medal of Freedom politicized it, But

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wasn't it already political when we gave it to actors, athletes,

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and donors over soldiers and teachers. If anything, the ceremony,

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recalibrated what freedom means away from celebrities and back towards conviction,

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away from donors, away from this whole metal conversation. Just

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bugs me because it was okay to give it to

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doctor Fauci, who knew at the time that the COVID

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vaccine was going to cause harm, and they gave him

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the Presidential Medal of Freedom anyways, and it was okay

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in the media's eyes to do that, to do that

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for someone who knew that multiple Americans were going to

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die or be adversely affected by decisions he made. I'm

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not trying to politicize this, but I'm trying to make

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sense of it. I am trying to figure out why,

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why is it okay to give it to Fauci but

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not to Kirk. I want you to think about that why.

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And the only thing I can think about is because

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Fauci fits the narrative and Kirk won against it. Kirk

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wanted truth and Fauci hid the truth. Think about that.

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Just take a second and think about that. We've got

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to be honest about what that kind of conviction cost.

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Charlie Kirk faced death threats, he was doxed, protested, shouted down,

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and yet he never flinched. He'd stand behind a podium,

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look at the crowd of people calling him every name

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in the book, and respond with data, patience, and a

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grin that said, you can't cancel clarity, you can't cancel

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the facts where that's where courage and it's the kind

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this country desperately needs again, because make no mistake, America

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doesn't need more politicians. It needs builders of the backbone.

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In the middle of freedom in his name was a

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message not just the conservatives, but to the entire country

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that leadership isn't about being liked, it's about being anchored.

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Here's what I took away from that day. The culture

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war isn't about left first is right. It's about noise

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versus values. The left plays for outrage, the right plays

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for endurance. They want to win the moment. We're fighting

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for the century. That medal, that little round emblem of

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ribbon and metal, became a line in the sand. It

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said you can mock us, censorous, deep platform us, but

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you sure as hell cannot erase us. That's the message

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every conservative needs to remember. We're not the counter culture anymore,

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where the conscience trying to pull this nation back from

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the edge. Now, honoring someone like Kirk shouldn't be the

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end of the conversation. It should be the beginning. It

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should make every listener, every parent, every young man or

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woman out there ask themselves, what am I willing to

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stand for when it's unpopular? Because courage isn't inherited its practice,

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and if we want to save this republic, we've got

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to rebuild courage as a habit, not a headline that

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starts in homes. It starts in classrooms, it starts in

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places like this where people talk instead of shout. That's

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how we honor them, not just with medals, but with motion,

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from protests in the politics for a second, because while

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the jargon, the polished smiles is one of the most

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powerful gatherings on the planet where global finance, politics, and

462
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.280
ideology merge into policy that you and I have to

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00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:04.880
live with. Here's what these meetings are supposed to be about.

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Promoting global economic growth and reducing poverty and stabilizing financial systems.

465
00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:15.159
Sounds noble, right, But if you peel back that language,

466
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what you'll find is a global debt crisis, digital currency experiments,

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00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:24.199
and a new push to centralize how money itself works.

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This year's theme was Sustainable Finance for a Changing World.

469
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:34.639
That sounds harmless, but in plain English, it means let's

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find a way to redistribute risk and control who gets

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to borrow, invest, and grow. The IMF reported that global

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debt now exceeds three hundred and twenty trillion dollars. That's

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more than three hundred and thirty percent of the total

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00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:58.280
world's GDP. Every country's swimming and writ ink the US, China, Europe,

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developing nations and the so called solution being whispered behind

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00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:07.800
conference stores, more cooperation, more oversight, and you guessed it,

477
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:14.960
more centralization. They say it's about coordination, but coordination at

478
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:21.000
that level always comes with one thing control. One of

479
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:23.199
the hottest topics on the agenda this year was a

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development of central bank digital currencies or CBDCs. Let me

481
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:33.239
translate that for everyone who's been too busy working to

482
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:38.119
keep up with the alphabet soup. A CBDC is basically

483
00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:43.440
the government's version of bitcoin, a fully digital, trackable currency

484
00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:48.079
that could replace the cash near wallet and the deposits

485
00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:57.000
in your bank. Disclaimer, Bitcoin's a little bit more ambiguous,

486
00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.519
I guess is the better word for it. It's not exactly

487
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.239
I can point to the person who that bitcoin is

488
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:09.480
in their wallet because the wallet addresses are a little

489
00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:11.960
bit more ambiguous. The only way you can tell is

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00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:17.159
when they get transferred to marketplaces to be sold. So

491
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I just wanted to point that out there. But these

492
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ones will be directly tied to your in like the

493
00:38:22.239 --> 00:38:24.519
United States would be directly tied your social Security number

494
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and stuff like that. So it's going to be more

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centralized and more they're going to have a lot more

496
00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:33.840
ability to control the irs. Will be able to know

497
00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:36.880
exactly how much money you made in a year, and

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00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:39.280
we'll be able to know how much you should be

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00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:45.440
paying in taxes, and would be like small gifts and

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stuff like that, unless you claim them on your taxes

501
00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:51.079
as small gifts, they would know exactly how much money

502
00:38:51.119 --> 00:38:54.239
you would owe on taxes even with those with those

503
00:38:54.280 --> 00:39:01.480
small gifts. On paper, it sounds efficient transactions, zero combra

504
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:06.280
fit risk, simplified payments, but in practice it's a dream

505
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:14.719
snario for every bureaucrat who's ever wanted a monitor, manage, monitor,

506
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:20.159
and manage your financial life in real time. Imagine a

507
00:39:20.159 --> 00:39:24.280
system where government or even an international body could see, approve,

508
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:28.400
or deny any transaction you made by a gun, your flag,

509
00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:34.039
donate to a political candidate, logged, transfer money to your church.

510
00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:38.320
It's recorded. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's how the

511
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.159
technology works. It's programmable currency, which means it could be

512
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turned off, frozen, are redirected at will. Now. The IMF

513
00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:50.960
calls it a tool for inclusion, but I would consider

514
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that a leash or at least a very big fence,

515
00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:59.559
because whoever controls your money controls your freedom. And when

516
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that control stops being local, when it stops being national,

517
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when it becomes global, you're not a citizen anymore. You're

518
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just a user. Now, let's bring it home. The US

519
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:19.280
government is sitting on thirty six trillion dollars of national debt,

520
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and interest payments are climbing faster than any other federal expense.

521
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:27.719
That's not a light item, that's a fuse. And while

522
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:32.280
Americans are struggling with twenty percent higher groceries and shrinking paychecks,

523
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the same politicians who cause the debt are sitting in

524
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rooms with foreign ministers talking about shared fiscal responsibility. You

525
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:45.079
know what shared responsibility means In DC speak. It means

526
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:51.480
you pay for their mistakes. It means bailouts disguises relief packages.

527
00:40:51.800 --> 00:40:55.320
It means taxpayers covering loans to nations that never pay back.

528
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:59.960
It means global economy leans on American productivity while lecture

529
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.360
us about equity. We're becoming the lender of last resort,

530
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not because we want to, but because the dollar is

531
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still the world's reserve currency. In the day that it's

532
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:16.360
no longer. The world's reserve currency work screwed, and that's

533
00:41:16.400 --> 00:41:20.199
exactly why there's a growing movement to replace it with

534
00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.760
a global unit, one that would strip the US of

535
00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:29.519
its economic advantage and, by extension, its political influence. Now

536
00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:33.000
here's where it gets tricky. Every one of these policies

537
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:38.239
comes wrapped in empathy. They talk about climate finance, sustainability,

538
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:42.679
inclusive credit access, and sure, who doesn't want cleaner air

539
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.360
for or fairer trade. But follow the money and you'll

540
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:52.079
find climate goals attached to lending conditions, social credit incentives

541
00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:56.840
built into international aid, and green standards that small American

542
00:41:57.000 --> 00:42:03.800
manufacturers could not possibly meet. That's equality, that's economic leverage.

543
00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:07.159
It's the same playbook we've seen from the world economic form,

544
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:13.360
noble language, global coordination, and the slow erosion of individual sovereignty.

545
00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.559
And what drives me crazy is that our own officials

546
00:42:17.639 --> 00:42:22.360
just go along with it. They show up smiling, shaking

547
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:28.159
people's hands, signing memorandums that handcuff American hit industries, and

548
00:42:28.199 --> 00:42:31.320
then they come home and tell us, well, it's just progress,

549
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.719
put progress for whom? Because the American working class, the

550
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.559
farmer in Iowa, the trucker in Ohio, the small business

551
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.679
owner in Georgia. They're not sitting in these meetings, they're

552
00:42:42.679 --> 00:42:45.159
footing the bill. Let's get to the heart of this.

553
00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.119
Freedom and accountability can't survive when economics become globalized, because

554
00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:54.719
but responsibility doesn't. If the IMF makes the rules but

555
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:58.960
you pay the taxes, that's not cooperation, that's colonization by committee.

556
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:04.599
There to view on. This isn't isolationism, it's prioritization. America

557
00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:08.559
should lead by example, not submission. We should trade freely,

558
00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:14.199
not surrender sovereignty. We should partner globally, not pledge allegiance internationally,

559
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:20.880
because our debt doesn't just represent dollars, it represents decisions.

560
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And if we hand these decisions to people who don't

561
00:43:24.320 --> 00:43:27.599
live under our flag, we've lost every the very meaning

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00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:35.840
of representation. Here's the reality. Nobody at those fancy bank

563
00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:39.199
what wants to admit. Every time the World Bank approves alone,

564
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and every time the IMF announces emergency support, it sends

565
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:46.480
repels through every currency on Earth. Inflation doesn't just start

566
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:49.559
at your grocery aisle. It starts in these global policy

567
00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:52.800
rooms where money gets printed without production to back it up.

568
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.480
That's why your paycheck buys less every year. That's why

569
00:43:56.719 --> 00:43:59.519
cost of housing keeps rising, and that's why so called

570
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:03.800
economic experts can't seem to figure out why families are

571
00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:08.679
still struggling while GDP looks healthy on paper, because GDP

572
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:12.880
isn't your wallet and Wall Street isn't main street. Until

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00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:19.559
policymakers understand that distinction, or until voters force them to,

574
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:27.719
we're just gonna keep repeating a cycle crisis, bailout, crisis, bailout.

575
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:33.280
History tells us something very powerful here. Every civilization that's

576
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:37.599
ever traded sovereignty for stability ended up losing both. Rome

577
00:44:37.719 --> 00:44:43.159
taxed itself into collapse, Britain inflated its empire into irrelevance.

578
00:44:43.760 --> 00:44:47.760
And if America keeps surrounding decision making to global institutions

579
00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:50.280
in the name of stability, will end up in the

580
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:54.320
same footnote section of history books. But there's a difference

581
00:44:54.320 --> 00:44:57.719
between pessimism and warning. This isn't hopeless. It's a wake

582
00:44:57.800 --> 00:45:01.679
up call. We still have the strongest economy, the most

583
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:05.519
innovative people, and the freest system of enterprise on the planet,

584
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:11.760
but only if we protect it. That starts off awareness,

585
00:45:14.320 --> 00:45:23.639
that starts with rejecting global dependency disguised as diplomacy, and

586
00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.519
it starts with demanding that our leaders stop signing away

587
00:45:26.559 --> 00:45:30.800
American leverage for applause at the international conferences. And now,

588
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:36.119
I know topics like this can feel distant, abstract, but

589
00:45:36.280 --> 00:45:41.719
here's what every listener needs to remember. Economics is politics.

590
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:45.280
When you're paying higher taxes, when your small business loan

591
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:48.840
gets rejected, when your energy built spikes because of climate

592
00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:53.639
credit rules, that's the trickle down of these global meetings.

593
00:45:53.760 --> 00:45:57.920
They're not debating ideas in a vacuum. They're deciding how

594
00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:02.800
to regulate your future. Conservatives don't show up in those arenas.

595
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:07.840
If we keep pretending the economy is too complicated to

596
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.400
care about, we're handing the steering wheel to the very

597
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:13.400
people who want to keep us quiet. The left learned

598
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:18.039
how to weaponize economics decades ago. They call it policy,

599
00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:21.239
we call it dependency. It's time we speak the same

600
00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.360
language and fight back with facts, fiscal responsibility, and moral conviction.

601
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:31.480
Let me sum up this plain and simple. Every system

602
00:46:31.519 --> 00:46:38.199
built on debt eventually demands obedience, and global debt that's

603
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:46.320
just obedience with better branding. If we want to preserve freedom,

604
00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:50.960
we have to start treating economics as a matter of

605
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:56.679
national defense, because in this century, money is might. The

606
00:46:56.719 --> 00:47:02.639
next time you hear phrases like international cooperation, global standards,

607
00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:11.239
or shared accountability, remember freedom doesn't need coordination, It needs courage.

608
00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:14.960
Before we move on to our next sector or segment,

609
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:29.559
we have a word from our partners. You can almost

610
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:36.440
hear it, that quiet, mechanical heartbeat of the modern world.

611
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:41.639
The clicks of keyboards, the hum of cooling fans, the

612
00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:46.320
invisible pulse of data bouncing across oceans in milliseconds. That's

613
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:49.679
the sound of power now, not the roar of tanks,

614
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.400
not the crash of markets, but the soft whisper of

615
00:47:53.480 --> 00:47:58.519
algorithms deciding who gets loans, who gets hired, who gets heard?

616
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:04.000
In no way, where was that more visible than Dubai

617
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:08.239
At get techs Global twenty twenty five if you haven't

618
00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:11.239
heard of it, get text is the largest technology conference

619
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in the world, Bigger than Consumer Electronics, bigger than devas

620
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:26.519
tech Frontier. This year, nearly seven thousand companies, twelve hundred investors,

621
00:48:26.800 --> 00:48:30.719
and one hundred and eighty nations converted on a city

622
00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:35.920
built out of sand, an ambition to showcase what they

623
00:48:35.960 --> 00:48:42.360
call the future of everything, artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing,

624
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:46.639
digital identity systems. It was all there, gleaming under neon lights,

625
00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:50.760
powered by promises of efficiency and progress. But beneath the glitz,

626
00:48:51.119 --> 00:48:55.559
beneath the startup pitches and the pr buzzwords, was something deeper,

627
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:58.639
And if you listen closely, you can hear it, the

628
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:09.000
sound of control shifting hands. Let me paint the picture,

629
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:12.880
and so I. Dubai's World Trade Center, the Exworld floors

630
00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:16.880
looks like a sci fi movie set. Giant robotic arms,

631
00:49:16.920 --> 00:49:21.400
poor coffee for guests, Drone taxis hover overhead holograms deliver

632
00:49:21.760 --> 00:49:24.920
keynote speeches, and in one of the main halls, three

633
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:28.480
delegations stand out above the rest. China, the United States,

634
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:33.960
and the United Arab Emirates. Each of them come to celevision.

635
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:38.280
Each of them came to claim moral ownership of the future,

636
00:49:38.760 --> 00:49:43.880
China's pitch stability through technology, to showcase facial recognitions, street cameras,

637
00:49:43.960 --> 00:49:50.559
AI driven citizen credit systems, and predictive policing tools. In

638
00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:53.480
their world, the algorithm is the law and the state

639
00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:58.039
is the coder. The US delegation took to the stage next,

640
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:02.880
championing what they called open and with guardrails. Sounds great, right,

641
00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:06.880
But the question is who sets the guardrails, because in

642
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:11.480
Washington lately, guardrails tend to mean government hands on the wheel.

643
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Then came the UAE, the host nation, branding itself as

644
00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:22.400
a neutral ground for global tech ethics, a kind of

645
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:26.800
Switzerland for AI. They talked about digital peace treaties and

646
00:50:26.920 --> 00:50:32.079
shared AI governance, but the subtext was clear, if you

647
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:38.039
can't control technology through borders, control it through bureaucracy. Now,

648
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:41.719
let's talk about what AI really means, not in theory,

649
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:47.280
not in the headlines, but in your daily life. AI

650
00:50:47.360 --> 00:50:51.880
intelligence isn't just answering your emails or recommending songs anymore.

651
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:56.199
It's evaluating your mortgage, it's writing your kids' textbooks. It's

652
00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:59.960
scanning resumes and deciding which job applications even get seen

653
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.880
by a human. AI has gone from a tool to

654
00:51:03.920 --> 00:51:07.000
an arbiter, and every time it gets smarter, the people

655
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.760
who control it get richer, and the people who don't

656
00:51:09.840 --> 00:51:16.039
get more dependent. That's why I get text matters, because

657
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:20.400
while Americans are arguing over politics, the world's power brokers

658
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.719
are programming our future. And the question we have to

659
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:29.639
ask is simple who owns the code. If China's model wins,

660
00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:33.679
we lose privacy. If Big text model wins, we lose autonomy,

661
00:51:34.000 --> 00:51:37.519
And if Washington's bureaucracy wins, we lose both wrapped in

662
00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:41.960
a bow of safety. So what's left innovation with accountability,

663
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:47.320
capitalism guided by conscience not compliance. Now let's bring this

664
00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:52.360
back home. While the big speeches were happening overseas, get

665
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:56.400
Texts also showcased hundreds of new automation tools, from AI

666
00:51:56.599 --> 00:52:01.000
customer service to Warehouse Robotics to sell heal coding software

667
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:05.519
that replaces entry level programmers. Great for efficiency, terrifying for

668
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:09.440
job stability. The World Economic form. Yeah, the same folks

669
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that told us you'll own nothing and be happy estimates

670
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:17.000
that over forty percent of existing jobs will be redefined

671
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:20.400
or replaced by automation over within a decade. And they're

672
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:26.480
not wrong. But what they never mentioned is innovation doesn't

673
00:52:26.519 --> 00:52:31.760
destroy opportunity. Bad policy does. If we let global regulators

674
00:52:32.000 --> 00:52:35.840
or overreaching bureaucrats decide who benefits from automation, will create

675
00:52:35.880 --> 00:52:40.639
a two class economy, the coders and the controlled. But

676
00:52:41.360 --> 00:52:45.079
if we let markets adapt naturally, if we empower small

677
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.599
business owners, entrepreneurs and creators to use this tech. It

678
00:52:49.639 --> 00:52:53.199
could be the biggest productivity boom since the Industrial Revolution.

679
00:52:53.679 --> 00:52:57.400
So the question isn't can AI take your job? It's

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will Washington let you can pete. One of the quiet

681
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:09.119
panels of sittex covered something most media ignored, AI censorship

682
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:12.360
and free expression. Several Western companies admitted that they are

683
00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:15.960
large language models. The very systems that power your surge

684
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:20.199
results to your apps. Even tools like this are being

685
00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:27.159
quietly trained to filter political speech. Algorithms that decide what

686
00:53:27.280 --> 00:53:30.599
you can see are also deciding what you're allowed to think.

687
00:53:31.039 --> 00:53:33.960
Think about that for a second. When a machine is

688
00:53:34.000 --> 00:53:37.280
trained by a handful of corporations that controls ninety percent

689
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:42.119
of the information you consume, that's not innovation, that's invisible regulation.

690
00:53:42.400 --> 00:53:45.880
That's why conservatives can't afford to dismiss AI. It's just

691
00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:50.760
tech stuff. This is why new battleground for liberty, it's

692
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:57.719
the new digital frontier for First Amendment, because free markets

693
00:53:58.079 --> 00:54:02.320
don't survive without free minds. Free minds can't function when

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they're being fed curated truth. And now the bigger picture

695
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:14.920
most analysts miss. For decades, globalism was about free trade,

696
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:19.920
was about trade goods crossing borders, tariffs, treaties, shipping routes.

697
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:24.599
But now globalism is about data. Whoever controls the data pipelines,

698
00:54:24.599 --> 00:54:27.159
whoever controls the culture of the currency and the conversation.

699
00:54:27.800 --> 00:54:33.760
At gettex, China proposed a Global Digital Digital Compact, a

700
00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:37.079
fancy way of saying, let's standardize the information flow under

701
00:54:37.119 --> 00:54:42.840
shared regulations. In other words, global censorship in a tuxedo. Meanwhile,

702
00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:46.480
the US Delegation offered its own version, the so called

703
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:51.000
Digital Freedom Framework, which ironically relies on federal oversight to

704
00:54:51.079 --> 00:54:58.519
ensure to air quotes ensure safety, same control, different branding.

705
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:04.079
Problem isn't the technology, it's the temptation, the temptation to

706
00:55:04.199 --> 00:55:08.039
use data not to inform, but to influence. And once

707
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:13.679
governments figure out how to manipulate AI at scale, elections, economies,

708
00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:16.960
and even wars will be fought with code and not bullets.

709
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:20.880
That's the battlefill of the twenty first century. And most

710
00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:24.719
people don't even know they're in it. So where do

711
00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:29.159
the conservative standard? All this simple innovation should serve humanity,

712
00:55:29.320 --> 00:55:33.760
not replace it. We believe technology should empower individuals, not

713
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:36.880
corral them into systems that can escape. We believe in

714
00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.599
entrepreneurship and the dependency. We believe in freedom with accountability,

715
00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:46.079
and not freedom regulated by permission slips. AI, automation and

716
00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:50.880
robotics can transform the economy if we let markets lead

717
00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:57.280
instead of letting bureaucrats suffocate themselves. We can't regulate progress

718
00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:01.480
into fairness. We can only innovate our way into opportunity.

719
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:08.400
That's the difference between liberal futurism and conservative realism. One

720
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:12.079
dreams of a perfect system, the other builds imperfect people

721
00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:18.800
with perfect grit and get. There's conservative influencers out there,

722
00:56:18.800 --> 00:56:24.119
there's conservative podcast hosts out there that hate AI. They

723
00:56:24.119 --> 00:56:27.039
hate it because they believe it's going to replace jobs.

724
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:31.920
But even some of the more hard against it, hard

725
00:56:31.960 --> 00:56:35.280
fought against AI, have kind of come to the realization

726
00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:37.719
that we can't stop it. And I've came to that

727
00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.800
realization too. We can't stop AI. AI is going to

728
00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:44.480
grow at a rate faster than the human brain can

729
00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:48.719
probably comprehend. At this point. What we can do is

730
00:56:49.000 --> 00:56:54.679
allow the free market to make it to where each

731
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:59.360
individual becomes more and more efficient, and get our small

732
00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:03.239
businesses to adopt these technologies sooner rather than later, so

733
00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:06.559
that way they can become more efficient, they can have

734
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:11.840
higher outputs, they can do better and make a better,

735
00:57:11.960 --> 00:57:20.000
finer product, become more competitive. My thing is is we

736
00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:23.239
need to make sure that the open market, though still

737
00:57:23.280 --> 00:57:31.079
doesn't stop free thought, doesn't make like they talk like

738
00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:35.039
I just talked about with some of the ones, some

739
00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:39.239
of the big language models in the US, they stop

740
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:47.000
certain political thoughts political ideologies from coming through their language models.

741
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:50.119
And that's not right. You shouldn't be able to stop

742
00:57:50.920 --> 00:57:58.199
specific political ideologies from going through your language models. It

743
00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:02.360
should be flat straight across. You should be able to

744
00:58:03.599 --> 00:58:06.159
have political if you really wanted to. You should be

745
00:58:06.159 --> 00:58:09.000
able to have political debate and political conversations with AI

746
00:58:09.119 --> 00:58:13.239
itself and use that to be able to educate yourself.

747
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.440
But I've tried that with some AI models, and I've

748
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:23.280
noticed that there are some that you can't carry on

749
00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:26.760
political debate with political conversations with because they say after

750
00:58:26.800 --> 00:58:30.920
a certain if you ask a certain question, after a

751
00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:36.480
certain time on a topic, they say that I can't

752
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:38.239
remember what the one told me the other day, but

753
00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:40.960
it was we don't. It was along the lines of

754
00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:44.039
where this isn't a safe conversation. I am told that

755
00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:51.880
we are not able to continue basically, and I want

756
00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:56.599
to say this very clearly because I think it gets

757
00:58:56.599 --> 00:59:00.800
lost in the noise. Conservatives really are not about type progress.

758
00:59:02.039 --> 00:59:04.159
We're just not willing to sell out our souls to

759
00:59:04.239 --> 00:59:09.039
get it. We don't worship technology. We use it. We

760
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:13.480
try to use it responsibly, ethically and creatively. And I

761
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:17.360
know that there's some people within the movement that that

762
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:19.920
doesn't apply because they don't use it responsibly, they don't

763
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:25.559
use it ethically. And while Silicon Valley treats humanity like data,

764
00:59:26.239 --> 00:59:31.239
like American Heartland still treats it's still treat it like dignity.

765
00:59:32.199 --> 00:59:36.400
That's why we need more builders, coders, engineers, and dreamers

766
00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:38.920
who aren't ashamed to say I believe in God, country,

767
00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:42.400
and code, because if we don't bring our values to

768
00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.960
the next industrial revolution, someone else will bring theirs, and

769
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:49.920
you might not like the result. I've talked with business

770
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:54.000
owners who already start started feeling the change. A family

771
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:57.920
owned machine shop in Missouri automated half their workflow last year.

772
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:03.559
The owner told me, we're producing more what we're training fewer,

773
01:00:04.280 --> 01:00:10.440
and that's the trade off. I've also talked to some

774
01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:15.199
people who are who run landscape companies who are starting

775
01:00:15.239 --> 01:00:21.639
to actually use robotic mowers, and that's how they're taking

776
01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:27.400
care of their their customers. They allow them to opt

777
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:32.280
into using the AI mowers and that cuts it down.

778
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:35.800
That that makes one person be able to cut three

779
01:00:35.880 --> 01:00:38.559
lawns in this in the same area because they just

780
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:40.760
drop off the mower and they come back and they'll

781
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:44.159
pick it up. You can. And right now he's got

782
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:45.719
three of the A m owers, so he just sends

783
01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:51.880
them out, the GPS driven mowers, the self the robotic ones,

784
01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:56.159
and he do you drop it off? You tell them

785
01:00:56.199 --> 01:01:00.280
what map, what laund it is. It goes out, double

786
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:04.679
checks it's mapping, and it runs, and then he goes

787
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:07.320
the guy who is in charge of them just goes

788
01:01:07.320 --> 01:01:11.719
to the next house, drops it off that that one runs,

789
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:14.480
it goes drops off the last one. Usually by that

790
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:16.880
time he can go back to the first one, pick

791
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:18.719
it up, and then go to the next one and

792
01:01:18.760 --> 01:01:21.079
pick it up and just do that over and over again.

793
01:01:23.599 --> 01:01:30.920
So there is ways that this can be used without

794
01:01:31.440 --> 01:01:36.519
having to worry about it really affecting humans. I mean,

795
01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:42.039
it's going to make people more efficient. Now, we just

796
01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:46.760
have to have the demand grow with the efficiency. A

797
01:01:46.760 --> 01:01:50.480
startup founder in Arizona said they used AI tools to

798
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:54.480
write ad copy and customer service emails and save thousands

799
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:57.840
of dollars. But then one day the AI flagged one

800
01:01:57.840 --> 01:02:02.280
of their product descriptions as politically sent. He laughed when

801
01:02:02.280 --> 01:02:04.679
he told me that. Then he paused and said, but

802
01:02:04.719 --> 01:02:08.239
it wouldn't let me post it. And that's how control

803
01:02:08.920 --> 01:02:13.760
creeps in, one automated decision at a time. It's not

804
01:02:13.840 --> 01:02:17.480
going to come with marching boots or executive orders. It'll

805
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:22.079
come with software updates. So what do we do. We adapt,

806
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:25.199
We don't surrender. That means teaching the next generation how

807
01:02:25.199 --> 01:02:28.760
to build technology and question it. It means supporting policies

808
01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:35.280
that protect innovation but punished censorship. It means pushing back

809
01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:39.280
when lawmakers try to use safety as an excuse for surveillance.

810
01:02:39.599 --> 01:02:42.800
Because here's the truth. The people who fear technology are

811
01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:47.559
already behind, but the people who worship it are already enslaved.

812
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:50.239
The sweet spot is the wisdom. The wisdom is right

813
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:53.440
in the middle, and wisdom is what built this country.

814
01:02:54.599 --> 01:02:57.039
He wants to know what separates man from machine. It's

815
01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:01.039
not intelligence, its intention. A machine can calculate, but it

816
01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:04.800
can't care. It can predict, but it can't pray, And

817
01:03:04.840 --> 01:03:09.079
it can execute, but it cannot forgive. That's why human

818
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:13.559
beings must remain at the center of every technological revolution,

819
01:03:14.559 --> 01:03:20.000
because without faith, without morality, without accountability, all innovation does

820
01:03:20.199 --> 01:03:24.360
is accelerate destruction. And that's where conservatives stand. We don't

821
01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:30.840
fear of progress, We anchor it. When we come back

822
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:33.400
from this ad break, we're leaving the world to code

823
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:36.360
and data behind and stepping back into the real streets

824
01:03:36.400 --> 01:03:40.000
of America because the real tent because the same tension

825
01:03:40.039 --> 01:03:43.000
between order and liberty that plays out online is now

826
01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:49.239
being tested, and the rain strokes streets of downtown Portland, Oregon.

827
01:03:51.239 --> 01:03:54.639
If there's one city that always seems to find itself

828
01:03:54.679 --> 01:03:59.159
in the crosshairs of America's cultural battles, it's Portland, Oregon,

829
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:05.599
the place where protests has practically have practically become a

830
01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:10.639
civic tradition, where murals, megaphones, and moltovs have all shared

831
01:04:10.679 --> 01:04:13.920
the same streets. And once again, here we are, another chapter,

832
01:04:14.039 --> 01:04:18.239
another headline, another movement that tests what freedom really means

833
01:04:18.280 --> 01:04:26.639
when law and liberty collide. This past October, Portland became

834
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:31.639
the center of constitutional a constitutional storm after the federal

835
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:35.280
government deployed hundreds of National Guard troops, not from Oregon,

836
01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:39.360
but from Texas and California to help restore order during

837
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:43.360
weeks of escalating demonstrations. To one side, it was a

838
01:04:43.400 --> 01:04:46.760
long overdue act of federal responsibility. To the other, it

839
01:04:46.800 --> 01:04:50.920
was tyranny and camouflage. And that defide tells us everything

840
01:04:51.079 --> 01:04:57.480
about where America stands or stumbles. Right now, let's rewind.

841
01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:03.079
Let's back up. Weeks protests had been building, not just

842
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:07.400
in Portland but across the country. Rallies that started as

843
01:05:07.480 --> 01:05:14.840
anti authoritarian marches had spiraled into nightly clashes between activists, police,

844
01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:21.159
and opportunists who showed up for chaos, not change. Businesses

845
01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:27.559
were shuddering again. Graffiti covered government buildings, federal courthouses were vandalized.

846
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:32.599
So the Oregon governor called for calm, but refused to

847
01:05:32.679 --> 01:05:36.400
request federal assistance. So the White House acted under Title

848
01:05:36.480 --> 01:05:40.400
ten of the US Code, which allows the President to

849
01:05:40.480 --> 01:05:44.840
federalize in the National Guard units when a state fails

850
01:05:44.920 --> 01:05:50.440
to maintain public order or enforce federal law. It wasn't

851
01:05:50.440 --> 01:05:53.840
the first time in history. Eisenhower did it in Little

852
01:05:53.880 --> 01:05:58.079
Rock to enforce civil rights. Kennedy did it to the

853
01:05:58.239 --> 01:06:01.960
segregate universities. Trump did it to defend federal property and

854
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:08.239
stop riots. Different presidents, same constitutional authority. But you'd think

855
01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:11.840
for the media reaction that tanks were rolling through downtown

856
01:06:13.679 --> 01:06:17.000
the scene was surreal. You had rain falling on rows

857
01:06:17.039 --> 01:06:19.960
of National Guard vehicles parked in front of the Portland

858
01:06:20.039 --> 01:06:26.119
Federal Building, their headlights cutting through the mists like search beams.

859
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:30.920
Protesters line the sidewalks, chanting this is our city, And

860
01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:33.840
somewhere in the middle of the echo, you could feel

861
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:38.119
America's tension did visible tugle war between state sovereignty and

862
01:06:38.199 --> 01:06:45.599
federal responsibility. Governor Gavin Newsom of California and Oregon officials

863
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:50.239
filed lawsuits within hours, accusing the administration of constitutional over reach.

864
01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:55.960
The federal argument simple, If state governments refused to stop

865
01:06:56.079 --> 01:07:02.280
violence and protect citizens, Washington has both the right and

866
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:05.400
the duty to step in. That's the heart of this

867
01:07:05.519 --> 01:07:12.320
debate is intervention, preservation or intrusion. Now, I'll tell you

868
01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:16.159
where I stand. Law and order aren't political slogans to

869
01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:21.360
the foundation of a civilization. Without them, liberty isn't liberty,

870
01:07:21.519 --> 01:07:24.679
it's lunacy. And I don't care what party you vote for.

871
01:07:25.039 --> 01:07:29.559
If your local leadership allows businesses to burn and people

872
01:07:29.719 --> 01:07:35.119
to get attacked in the name of expression, who failed them?

873
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:41.960
You did, You failed your people. This isn't suppressing protests,

874
01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:44.320
it's about protecting peace. It's about saying you have the

875
01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:48.360
right to shout, but not to shatter. But that's not

876
01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:52.639
how the narrative played out. The media framed it like

877
01:07:52.679 --> 01:07:59.880
a military invasion. Cable pundits used words like occupation, authoritarian display, fascist, theater,

878
01:08:01.639 --> 01:08:04.840
all while ignoring the fact that the local government enforcement

879
01:08:05.079 --> 01:08:11.239
asked for help, they were exhausted, they were outnumbered, and

880
01:08:11.280 --> 01:08:15.039
they were told by politicians to de escalate, which in

881
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:19.000
Portland has come to mean do nothing until something explodes.

882
01:08:20.479 --> 01:08:24.600
You could flip between channels and see two Americas. On

883
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:29.399
one network, peaceful protesters linking arms, chanting on their umbrellas.

884
01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:34.479
On another, masked agitators throwing bricks at squad cars, same city,

885
01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:38.159
same night. Two stories that could be more different. And

886
01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:42.000
that's where the public gets lost, somewhere between footage and framing,

887
01:08:42.520 --> 01:08:45.960
because once again, it wasn't just about what was happening.

888
01:08:46.439 --> 01:08:49.199
It was about who got to define what was happening,

889
01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:55.279
And in America, definition is the strongest power. The truth.

890
01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:59.359
Most Portland residents didn't want war with Washington. They wanted peace.

891
01:08:59.399 --> 01:09:03.319
They wanted their city back. They were tired of knightly chaos.

892
01:09:03.359 --> 01:09:06.039
They were tired of being held hostage by small groups

893
01:09:06.039 --> 01:09:10.600
of extremists who would hijack legitimate movements to feed their

894
01:09:10.600 --> 01:09:14.640
own anger. But chaos is contagious, and in an era

895
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:22.159
where outrageous currency, Portland's unrest became profitable. Now let's get

896
01:09:22.199 --> 01:09:25.159
constitutional for a second, because this is really what matters.

897
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:32.439
Under the Passe Comatas Act of eighteen seventy eight, the

898
01:09:32.560 --> 01:09:36.279
US military can't be used to enforce domestic law. That's

899
01:09:36.279 --> 01:09:39.000
why the National Guard units operate under the authority of

900
01:09:39.079 --> 01:09:43.000
governors unless they're federalized. Once they're federalized under Title ten,

901
01:09:43.079 --> 01:09:45.880
they report directly to the President, not the state, and

902
01:09:45.920 --> 01:09:50.079
the Constitution explicitly allows this when a state is unable

903
01:09:50.520 --> 01:09:57.079
or unwilling to protect federal property or citizens, so legally,

904
01:09:57.600 --> 01:10:01.079
the administration was well within its rights. That's where the

905
01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:06.000
debate really begins. Because federal authority is like fire. It

906
01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:10.720
can warm or it can burn. The balance between depends

907
01:10:10.760 --> 01:10:14.279
on the intent of the hand that holds it. Reporters

908
01:10:14.319 --> 01:10:18.520
describe it like a movie set, rain glistening on the pavement,

909
01:10:27.840 --> 01:10:34.159
the smell of tear gas faint in the air, A

910
01:10:34.239 --> 01:10:43.000
line of guardsmen standing silent while protesters shouted inches from

911
01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:47.079
their helmets. Someone threw a water bottle, someone throw a firework.

912
01:10:47.439 --> 01:10:52.159
The crowd surged, installed and there in that uneasy stillness

913
01:10:52.239 --> 01:10:56.600
is where the entire country found itself reflected, divided and defiant,

914
01:10:57.279 --> 01:10:59.960
both sides claiming to be fighting for freedom, both sides

915
01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.039
convinced they're the heroes of their own story. But freedom

916
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:06.239
without laws is chaos. The law without freedom is tyranny.

917
01:11:06.680 --> 01:11:12.279
And America, my friends, is standing right in that gap,

918
01:11:13.600 --> 01:11:17.880
trying to remember which way is home. So here's the

919
01:11:17.960 --> 01:11:23.359
conservative truth. Leadership isn't always comfortable, and authority isn't always oppression.

920
01:11:23.640 --> 01:11:27.560
When local government's abandoned order, the federal government has to

921
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:31.159
step up, not because it wants to, because it must.

922
01:11:31.520 --> 01:11:34.680
The federal presence in Portland wasn't a power grab. It

923
01:11:34.760 --> 01:11:37.119
was a wake up call, a message to every mayor

924
01:11:37.159 --> 01:11:40.279
and governor across the city, across the country. If you

925
01:11:40.520 --> 01:11:44.800
can't keep your people safe, someone will have to. Now,

926
01:11:44.840 --> 01:11:48.520
the left says that's authoritarian, but the right sees it

927
01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:52.960
as a constitutional duty, the preservation of peace and protection

928
01:11:53.079 --> 01:11:55.319
of property, because at the end of the day, that's

929
01:11:55.319 --> 01:11:57.680
what the government exists for, not to control your life,

930
01:11:57.720 --> 01:12:02.479
but to ensure you have one to live. We've seen

931
01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:05.800
this before. In nineteen fifty seven, President Eisenhower sent federal

932
01:12:05.840 --> 01:12:09.800
troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. He didn't

933
01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.840
want to, but he had to. The state refused to

934
01:12:13.880 --> 01:12:20.000
follow federal law, and the integrity of the nation was

935
01:12:20.039 --> 01:12:24.840
on the line. In that moment. Leadership meant taking action

936
01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:28.119
that half the country would hate, and history proved him right.

937
01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:32.880
The same principle applies now. The president's first job isn't

938
01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:35.880
to be liked, it's to be lawful. And that's what

939
01:12:35.920 --> 01:12:40.119
real leadership looks like. So what happens next Portland becomes

940
01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.079
more than a city, That becomes a symbol, a symbol

941
01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:46.800
of what happens when local politics become louder than public safety,

942
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:50.000
a reminder that freedom isn't the absence of authority, it's

943
01:12:50.039 --> 01:12:55.119
the balance of it. The lawsuits will play out, the

944
01:12:55.239 --> 01:12:59.920
pundits will keep shouting, but at some point we've got

945
01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.199
to decide do we want to live in a nation

946
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:08.359
governed by order or one run by outrage, Because if

947
01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:12.279
we can't answer that question soon, the chaos won't stop

948
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:16.560
at Portland's borders. Now. I'm not going to say the

949
01:13:16.560 --> 01:13:18.880
troops are the answers to every problem, because they're not.

950
01:13:19.680 --> 01:13:23.680
But neither is pretending that disorder equals democracy. The answer

951
01:13:24.000 --> 01:13:27.760
lies somewhere higher, and leadership that knows when to act,

952
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:32.800
citizens who know when to listen. That's why I always

953
01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:38.520
call for conversation before confrontation, because even when we disagree,

954
01:13:38.600 --> 01:13:43.840
we share the same streets, we share the same communities,

955
01:13:47.359 --> 01:13:50.640
we share in a lot of ways, we share the

956
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.640
same love for country. We just have different ideas of

957
01:13:55.760 --> 01:13:59.600
how we get there, how we get to that end result.

958
01:14:00.359 --> 01:14:03.520
Because most of us are not the extreme left or

959
01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:06.760
the extreme right, the people who are burning down cities,

960
01:14:07.119 --> 01:14:11.760
the people who are flying the racist flags. We're just

961
01:14:11.840 --> 01:14:17.239
not that we share the same country, we share that

962
01:14:17.399 --> 01:14:25.399
same flag, and we all bleed red. And maybe that's

963
01:14:25.399 --> 01:14:28.960
where healing starts, not at another protest, not another headline,

964
01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:33.960
but with people willing to talk across the noise. So

965
01:14:34.039 --> 01:14:37.680
as the rain falls on Portland, I hope somewhere out

966
01:14:37.680 --> 01:14:40.359
there a protester and a guardsman look at each other

967
01:14:40.399 --> 01:14:43.479
and realize that they're both fighting for the same dream

968
01:14:43.760 --> 01:14:46.439
to live in a free country that remembers how to

969
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:56.439
stay united. We've walked through the power economy and technology,

970
01:14:58.199 --> 01:15:00.960
leadership and liberty, but at the heart of it all,

971
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:07.600
the common thread is this freedom only survives when courage

972
01:15:07.640 --> 01:15:12.680
and discipline meet. When we come back a close tonight's

973
01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:18.279
show with a reflection on everything we've covered, from the

974
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:21.479
streets of Portland to the halls of DC, and what

975
01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:24.840
it all means for the future of this country we

976
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:33.840
call home, stick around. You know, when you step back

977
01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:37.520
from all the noise, the chance, the conferences, the chaos,

978
01:15:37.840 --> 01:15:40.279
and you look at America not as a headline but

979
01:15:40.359 --> 01:15:44.640
as a living, breathing story, you start to realize something powerful.

980
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:48.920
We're not broken or just loud, or a nation that

981
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.720
still cares enough to argue, still believes enough to march,

982
01:15:51.760 --> 01:15:56.039
and still dreams enough to disagree. And as much as

983
01:15:56.039 --> 01:15:58.079
the world wants to paint us as divided, I'll tell

984
01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:00.800
you right now, division is just prooved that people still

985
01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:08.720
give a damn Because apathy doesn't protest, apathy doesn't debate,

986
01:16:09.079 --> 01:16:15.079
Apathy just drifts, and America, for all her faults, never drifts. Quietly.

987
01:16:16.039 --> 01:16:19.239
Think about everything we've walked through tonight. The no Kings protests,

988
01:16:19.319 --> 01:16:21.600
citizens shouting in the streets, trying to make sense of

989
01:16:21.600 --> 01:16:24.439
the power they don't trust. The Medal of Freedom for

990
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:28.880
Charlie Kirk, Honor encourage when conviction costs everything. The World

991
01:16:28.920 --> 01:16:32.920
Bank meetings, where math of debts meets the morality of sovereignty.

992
01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:38.079
Geitect's global the machines rising faster than the morals that

993
01:16:38.159 --> 01:16:42.680
guide them. In Portland, the living tension between liberty and law.

994
01:16:43.159 --> 01:16:48.680
Five stories, five different battlefields, but one thread runs through

995
01:16:48.760 --> 01:16:53.359
all of them. Structure. Structure is what separates freedom from chaos.

996
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:58.720
Is the skeleton of civilization, invisible but essential, And when

997
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:01.199
we tear out it because we don't like who's holding

998
01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:04.760
it up, we risk collapsing the whole house we're standing in.

999
01:17:05.720 --> 01:17:08.520
The founders knew that, and that's why they built this country,

1000
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:13.079
not an emotion, but on equilibrium, checks, balances tension by design.

1001
01:17:13.399 --> 01:17:19.560
They didn't want comfort, they wanted continuity. They don't want kings,

1002
01:17:19.800 --> 01:17:24.680
they want accountability. And somewhere along the way we forgot

1003
01:17:24.720 --> 01:17:30.159
that accountability doesn't isn't oppression, it's order. You see, every

1004
01:17:30.159 --> 01:17:34.000
generation inherits two kinds of power, the power we earn

1005
01:17:34.199 --> 01:17:38.119
and the power we tolerate. Earn power builds bridges businesses

1006
01:17:38.159 --> 01:17:44.359
and nations. Tolerated power builds empires and eventually resentment. And

1007
01:17:44.439 --> 01:17:47.840
right now we're standing at that crossroads again. You can

1008
01:17:47.840 --> 01:17:51.439
feel it in politics, you can feel in economics, and

1009
01:17:51.479 --> 01:17:53.880
you can even feel it in culture, this tug of

1010
01:17:53.920 --> 01:17:59.359
war between who builds and those who want to borrow forever.

1011
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:04.000
But in truth it's simple. We can't spend, protest or

1012
01:18:04.039 --> 01:18:07.760
program our way out of responsibility. You can only rebuild

1013
01:18:07.760 --> 01:18:11.760
a nation the same way you build a family, through faith, work,

1014
01:18:11.800 --> 01:18:16.079
and accountability. Let's be honest with ourselves. The last few

1015
01:18:16.159 --> 01:18:22.600
years have been exhausting. Every day feels like a new controversy,

1016
01:18:22.800 --> 01:18:25.680
a new crisis, a new reason to pick a side.

1017
01:18:25.920 --> 01:18:27.960
But the older I get, the more I realize that

1018
01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:32.199
outrage is easy. Order is what is hard. Building is hard,

1019
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:36.359
forgiving is hard. And maybe the real test of this

1020
01:18:36.439 --> 01:18:40.119
generation not whether we can yell loud enough to be heard,

1021
01:18:40.359 --> 01:18:44.600
but whether we can sit still long enough to understand.

1022
01:18:45.199 --> 01:18:49.760
When people say America is in decline, I don't buy it.

1023
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:53.960
Because the client requires apathy, and this country, for all

1024
01:18:54.000 --> 01:18:58.239
its mess, still shows up. Still we still vote, we

1025
01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:02.000
still volunteer, We still will help strangers when the floodwaters

1026
01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:05.359
rise and pray that the neighbors, pray with the neighbors

1027
01:19:05.359 --> 01:19:09.279
when tragedy hits. That's not decline, that's endurance. So, my

1028
01:19:09.359 --> 01:19:13.039
friends on the left, your passion is real. Your compassion matters.

1029
01:19:13.600 --> 01:19:17.520
But compassion without discipline becomes chaos. You can't fix what

1030
01:19:17.560 --> 01:19:21.880
you refuse to define. And sometimes the hardest thing to

1031
01:19:21.920 --> 01:19:27.199
accept is that fairness doesn't mean sameness. To my friends

1032
01:19:27.199 --> 01:19:29.520
on the right, your principles are strong. Your love for

1033
01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:33.640
order keeps this country standing. But remember, structure without empathy

1034
01:19:33.720 --> 01:19:38.479
becomes stone. We can't defend what we've built. We've got

1035
01:19:38.520 --> 01:19:44.039
to inspire others to believe in it. Again, this isn't

1036
01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:48.439
about winning culture wars. It's about surviving them together because

1037
01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:51.840
when the dust settles, were still Americans and the world

1038
01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:55.119
is still watching to see if we remember how to

1039
01:19:55.199 --> 01:20:01.319
be united without being uniform. You know, I talk about

1040
01:20:01.359 --> 01:20:04.319
money a lot on this show, not because I worship it,

1041
01:20:06.600 --> 01:20:11.760
but because I understand what it means, what it represents freedom.

1042
01:20:12.199 --> 01:20:16.399
Economic freedom is moral freedom. It's the right to create,

1043
01:20:16.920 --> 01:20:19.479
the right to fail, the right to rebuild, to give,

1044
01:20:20.000 --> 01:20:23.079
and to grow. But somewhere along the line, we let

1045
01:20:23.079 --> 01:20:28.760
the global institutions that envy our prosperity start writing our rules.

1046
01:20:29.439 --> 01:20:32.039
They dress it up in words like equity and sustainability,

1047
01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:35.800
but what they're really selling is dependents and the moment

1048
01:20:35.880 --> 01:20:38.439
that a nation forgets how to live within its means,

1049
01:20:38.439 --> 01:20:40.920
if it gets how to live with meaning, That's why

1050
01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:44.479
entrepreneurship matters. That's why hard work still matters. And that's

1051
01:20:44.479 --> 01:20:47.039
why faith still matters, because faith is the belief that

1052
01:20:47.359 --> 01:20:50.880
your effort has purpose beyond a paycheck. And when you

1053
01:20:50.880 --> 01:20:53.560
combine all three of those things, faith, freedom, and work,

1054
01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:57.920
you get the American engine. It doesn't run on oil,

1055
01:20:58.439 --> 01:21:01.159
it runs on optimism. If we keep believing in that,

1056
01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:05.239
we're not running out of fuel, we're running out of will.

1057
01:21:06.600 --> 01:21:11.600
And now I'm not afraid of technology. I'm afraid what

1058
01:21:11.640 --> 01:21:14.800
will happen if the humans forget the work that they're

1059
01:21:14.840 --> 01:21:17.359
the ones supposed to be in charge of it AI

1060
01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:24.159
automation data. They're tools, but tools are only as good

1061
01:21:24.199 --> 01:21:27.000
as the hands that hold them. If we build machines

1062
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:32.079
without morals, they'll reflect our worst instincts. If we build

1063
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:37.640
them with purpose, they'll amplify our best. That's why I

1064
01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:42.039
keep saying the centuries revolution won't be fought with muskets

1065
01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:46.800
or marches. It'll be fought in code and policy and conscience.

1066
01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:50.760
The next frontier of freedom isn't physical, it's digital. And

1067
01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:53.039
if we want to stay free, we've got to teach

1068
01:21:53.119 --> 01:21:58.119
the next generation not just how to use technology, but

1069
01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:03.520
how to question it, because wisdom, not power, is what

1070
01:22:03.680 --> 01:22:10.520
keeps progress human. Somewhere out here there tonight, a single

1071
01:22:10.560 --> 01:22:13.159
mom is working the night shift, wondering how to stretch

1072
01:22:13.199 --> 01:22:16.239
her paycheck. Somewhere else of a young man's praying for

1073
01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:19.439
direction after losing his job, and somewhere as soldiers sitting

1074
01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:21.880
in sions thinking about what it really means to serve.

1075
01:22:22.479 --> 01:22:28.560
They're not watching pundits or scrolling through outrage. They're living

1076
01:22:28.600 --> 01:22:32.199
at the quiet kind of courage that never trends. And

1077
01:22:32.239 --> 01:22:35.479
that's what still gives me hope, because for every angry voice,

1078
01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:38.920
there are a one hundred hands helping. For every headliner

1079
01:22:38.920 --> 01:22:42.319
of division, there's still a storage of story of redemption

1080
01:22:42.840 --> 01:22:46.239
that just doesn't make the front page. Faith isn't hasn't

1081
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:49.520
left America. It's quieter than the noise around it, but

1082
01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:52.880
make no mistake, it's still here and it's still the

1083
01:22:52.920 --> 01:22:56.960
only thing that's ever held this country together when politics

1084
01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:59.920
and policy fail. Just take a look at what happened

1085
01:23:00.079 --> 01:23:05.560
in churches in conference halls. It's even happening on the

1086
01:23:05.560 --> 01:23:09.279
football field now and has only gotten more prominent since

1087
01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:13.439
Charlie Kirk's passing. You're seeing more and more people worship

1088
01:23:13.520 --> 01:23:20.199
and faith worship to Jesus. You're seeing more football players,

1089
01:23:20.319 --> 01:23:26.680
more athletes taking a knee to pray to God before

1090
01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:38.359
and after games, to give the Lord credit. Here's what

1091
01:23:38.399 --> 01:23:41.159
I want you to take from this episode. Power without

1092
01:23:41.159 --> 01:23:45.720
purpose destroys. Purpose without power fades, but structure with courage.

1093
01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:49.079
That's how nations endure. When the Founders wrote a more

1094
01:23:49.119 --> 01:23:56.119
Perfect Union, they didn't mean flawless. They meant fixable, repairable, redeemable.

1095
01:23:56.159 --> 01:23:59.800
That's why this country keeps bouncing back, because we're built

1096
01:23:59.840 --> 01:24:04.119
to bend without breaking, and every generation, it seems, has

1097
01:24:04.239 --> 01:24:08.560
to just rediscover that truth. It's our turn now. We

1098
01:24:08.600 --> 01:24:14.319
can't rebuild trust without through hashtags. We rebuild it through honesty, humility,

1099
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:18.760
and hard conversations and That's what we're doing here every week,

1100
01:24:19.039 --> 01:24:24.720
every few days on this show, not shouting, not blaming,

1101
01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:29.000
or building, because freedom isn't given, it's built, and it's

1102
01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:32.479
built on honest conversation, one honest conversation at a time.

1103
01:24:33.319 --> 01:24:36.760
So tonight, wherever you are driving home from work, sitting

1104
01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:39.720
on your porch, maybe folding laundry while the kids are asleep,

1105
01:24:39.800 --> 01:24:42.119
I want you to remember this. The noise won't stop,

1106
01:24:42.199 --> 01:24:45.000
the headlines won't sew it down. But peace doesn't come

1107
01:24:45.039 --> 01:24:47.640
from silence. It comes from strength. Be the strength in

1108
01:24:47.640 --> 01:24:50.199
your community, be the voice of the calm and your family,

1109
01:24:50.359 --> 01:24:52.720
and be the person who says, let's talk this out

1110
01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:58.039
instead of let's burn this down. Because unity doesn't start

1111
01:24:58.079 --> 01:25:01.920
in Washington, it starts where you are. And when we

1112
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:05.079
find courage to talk again, to listen again, that's when

1113
01:25:05.079 --> 01:25:09.560
this country will remember who she is. Not red, not blue,

1114
01:25:09.920 --> 01:25:15.399
just resilience, just American. You've been listening to the World

1115
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:18.960
of Pain podcast. I am your host, Tanner Pain, reminding

1116
01:25:19.000 --> 01:25:23.279
you that courage builds character, character builds community, and community

1117
01:25:23.279 --> 01:25:27.920
builds a nation. Stay grounded, stay grateful, and remember freedom

1118
01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:32.920
doesn't live in comfort, It lives in conviction. Valor isn't given,

1119
01:25:33.319 --> 01:25:33.960
it's built.