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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Yippie K mother.
Not the greatest story, but the10 stories that's going to be
rounded about 2026, 25, scary.
Um, if you missed the lastbatch, please go watch our
previous episode.
(00:21):
It was actually a lot of fun.
We did numbers seven throughten.
And it's interesting becausewhen we do this kind of thing,
people say, you know, like, ohmy god, I can't believe this is
these are the themes that youthese are the themes that we've
covered um in Jesus, 150 oddepisodes every year that we do.
So, you know, this is this iswhat you know episodes four,
(00:42):
five, and six will look like.
And what a surprise that episodenumber six, or our theme number
six, I should say, is woke dead.
You know, it's interestingbecause when Donald Trump was
elected, it was about crushingwokeism.
I mean, that was it.
I mean, he was he was all overthis, and at a certain point we
thought maybe uh maybe it is alittle bit on on the back
(01:04):
burner.
But you know, just like youknow, a bad upset stomach,
sometimes it just doesn't wantto go away and it comes up
again, but in a different form.
Stuart is woke dead in 2025.
SPEAKER_01 (01:17):
Well, woke culture isn't fading because people
became intolerant of it, it'sfading because it's unlivable.
It promised fairness, David.
It delivered division, itpromised inclusion and enforced
(01:38):
exclusion.
And over time, thecontradictions became impossible
not only to ignore, but to live.
Because most people don't wantto live in a society where
language is policed.
David, you've policed mylanguage over the years.
You've brought up words that areno longer considered relevant
(02:00):
because they are hurtful.
The intent is irrelevant, andthe disagreement is treated as
harmful.
They want stability,opportunity, and fairness under
consistent rule.
But the ideology requiresconsistent escalation to
(02:20):
survive, burning out any singlething that would make sense
because it's you know,censorship, uh, not outlawing
things, making things free todo, you know, it's dying because
it's unlivable, David.
And so Americans don't want towake up and fight culture wars
(02:44):
or color wars.
Opportunity, you know, is whatdrives the Western economy and
the Western life.
And woke couldn't offer that, itbecame instable fuel.
SPEAKER_00 (02:59):
Sorry, but but I think woke hasn't died.
Um, woke is still there, and andI appreciate what you just said,
and I think you're absolutelyright.
I mean, I love the idea, thephilosophy.
Woke ain't dead, though.
It just morphed.
It's like everything else, it'smorphed.
You know, we just talked aboutit on our rant from the other
day, is what it being what'sbeing taught in the classroom.
(03:19):
We've just talked about thisnumerous.
Look how many times we've talkedabout it's not called woke.
In fact, the left doesn't evenlike the term anymore, even
though it was their term tostart.
They don't like the term becauseit they realized it it what it
what it's now connotating.
So they're changing, you know,just like Cracker Barrel tried
to change its logo and it'slook, woke is trying to do the
(03:40):
same thing, but the menu's thesame, the food's the same, the
furniture's the same, thepeople's attitudes are the same,
the attitude is the same.
It's woke isn't dead, it's justgonna be it's morphing into a
different body story.
That's uh you're right, it'sintolerable, but it woke ain't
going anyway, David.
SPEAKER_01 (03:58):
You know, uh, we gotta thank Harvard University
for creating such crazyinsanity, and you know, I you
know, they they they practice areligion, and and I think that's
the problem.
They're trying to create a newreligion, and I think wokeness
is gonna be one of thosereligions that ultimately will
die.
(04:18):
You you hit me on the head.
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
I think you hit the it's the best word you could
for, but I would have changedthe word religion to cult
because a religion, you know,there it there's a certain deity
and a certain whatever here.
The deity or the cult, themovement is an ideology that
just you know, it does it, it'swhen you think about it, it
doesn't make real sense, but youknow, you gotta push it and you
(04:43):
gotta push it.
And the priests that are pushingthese ideologies, they're
they're they're you know,they're standing on these
pulpits and they're they'resaying these these things that
people are like, yeah, yeah.
And when you think about it,it's like, what are you talking
about?
You know, you know, it's justyou said it.
(05:04):
Many Americans, many Canadiansare kind of scratching their
heads going, what is thatgarbage?
But wokeism hasn't died.
We're still seeing it in theclassroom, we're still seeing it
with political politics, we'restill seeing it in media.
You know, yesterday, Stuart, Iwas traveling, and there's MSN
MS Now, the new bullshit ofMSNBC, pushing woke ideology on
the on TV as if it's it's it'snormal stuff.
(05:29):
It's not, it's a cult.
You're hitting you hit it righton the head.
This is a cult, and like allother cults, they fade away.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
Now that shifts us right into the next subject.
Number five, media shifts.
The media didn't driftaccidentally, David.
It chose an alignment.
Once storytelling replacedreporting, credible became
expectable.
(05:58):
Viewers noticed long before theexecutives admitted, David, the
collapse in trust in the mediaarena didn't come because the
audience wanted it.
David?
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
Oh, actually, the audience screamed loud and
clear.
Because I'll tell you, I'llquote Michael Jordan that even
Republicans buy sneakers.
Republicans watch late nightshows, or at least they used to,
and the Jimmy Kimmels of thisworld and the rest of them are
all wondering why are theirshows being canceled.
Well, it's really simple.
It's because you're not funny,and if you cater to one group of
(06:38):
people, then so be it.
But you don't see what'shappening is you've seen a lot
of these so-called media folksdisappear and then they reappear
in podcasts.
So while the media houses werethreatened and sued, like ABC,
CBS, with the 60 minutes, youknow, re-editing of the Kampala
Harris uh, you know, uhinterview, ABC called, you know,
(07:01):
you know, George Stopanopoulos,you know, defaming the president
of the United States, and nowBBC stopped with a
bazillion-dollar uh lawsuitbecause they edited, excuse me,
they edited a speech that Trumpgave, but from two different
parts of his speech, and theyspliced it together to make it
sound like one.
(07:22):
Excuse me.
The amazing thing, folks, isthat the media tried to push,
and for the first time, you'vegot a president who's using
power and saying you can't getaway with that, and you're not
to get away with it.
And so while CBS has brought inBarry Weiss, and I talked about
her in previous episodes, she'snow the new news director, and
she's trying to pivot them backto the center, almost a Walter
(07:45):
Crunkheit-like kind of pivot.
The unfortunate thing is thatwithin those that within the
media, there is this rebellion.
That again, they hold this.
We just talked about wokeism.
They hold this moral higherground that you and I no, we're
not moral.
We're not morally at all.
In fact, we're the opposite.
We're immoral because wedisagree with their woke
(08:05):
philosophies.
News is supposed to be reportingabout what happens, not why you
think it happens.
You are supposed to have atleast two credible sources, not
a bunch of you know,philosophies, not a bunch of
people who think they knowwhat's going on.
But media has gone away fromthat.
And the problem is that as soonas you fire somebody who goes
(08:27):
beyond that, they have apodcast.
And you hold on, and then youhave people like Tucker Carlson,
who stands up and get and sayswhatever he wants, and on the
other side you have it, DonLamont, or you have you know
others who are just preachingthis hatefulness.
So media is pivoting in 2025,Stuart.
And with this, I'll I'll wrap itup with this.
(08:49):
If you recall the beginning ofthe year, the sec excuse me, the
press secretary announced thatcertain people won't be won't be
welcomed into the press room,but they brought in podcasters.
How dare they?
The media went on well, losttheir minds because this was the
(09:11):
media room.
Um, you know, folks, people'sconsumption of media has changed
a lot.
You haven't.
SPEAKER_01 (09:19):
Wakey make me until journalism remembers its role,
not as a moral referee, not aspolitical actors, but as
disciplined seekers of truth.
The decline will continuebecause credibility isn't owned
by an institution, it's grantedby the public.
(09:42):
And once it's lost, it's verydifficult to bring it back.
SPEAKER_00 (09:47):
David, introduce well, Stuart.
You know what?
I'll talk speaking of media.
The saddest part, uh, I thinkone of the sad parts of 2025,
I'm not saying the, but one ofthe saddest parts of 2025 was
the assassination of CharlieKirk.
And, you know, for many peopledidn't know who Charlie Kirk was
until he died.
(10:08):
Um, I heard a lot of his stuff,his messages.
And while I did not agree with100% of everything that he said,
um, I had respect for this guywho was able to debate, was able
to articulate, and was able tosupport his argument with facts,
but when it was his opinion, hesaid it was his opinion.
(10:30):
Something unfortunately many onthe left never learned.
But the media decided that hewas a villain, and many in on
the left vilified him and inways that was just beyond
disgusting.
Stuart, when Charlie Kirk wasassassinated, and I'm saying he
it was an assassination, I'lltell you something.
(10:51):
I was never more disgusted bythe media and many and people in
America.
SPEAKER_01 (10:57):
You know, Charlie Kirk represented a generational
shift.
It's it's hard to talk aboutbecause he didn't rise because
he thought approval of theacademic elites or the media
gatekeepers.
He rose by meeting young peopleand debated them on their
(11:22):
platform.
He refused to play by the rulesto be silenced, and what was
unsettling was the critics andthe rhetoric as ensued.
When his ideas became dangerousand were challenged openly, they
doubled down.
(11:44):
You're right.
I also didn't agree with all ofCharlie Kirk's views, as I don't
agree with any or all, sorry, ofDonald Trump's views or not
agreeing with any of Biden'sviews.
That is the beauty of a freecountry.
(12:04):
I can agree with some things andnot everything, and not really
want to cancel you.
I'd rather preparecounter-arguments, which Charlie
Kirk was beyond any politician,religious figure, a news
feature, anything I've ever seenin my life.
(12:27):
He promoted a healthy society ofnot fearing debate, not being
afraid of not being influencedby the wealth or the
institutional backers.
Charlie Kirk rose and wasmurdered for those simple views.
(12:49):
And like you, David, I did seeand hear about Charlie Kirk
early in his career because Iactually did see his initial Fox
News invitation where he skippedschool.
And again, I, as you see behindme, watch news all day long.
And the fact that the mediagatekeepers preached and asked
(13:13):
for his murder, and thepoliticians that denied him the
platform to debate freely,openly, whatever the students
wanted, is why I believe thisdeath will be considered a
martyrism and will breed a wholenew culture that will bring life
(13:38):
to Charlie Kirk for years tocome.
SPEAKER_00 (13:42):
You know what's sad is that Charlie did something
that the left hates.
He had facts, he had knowledge,he debated openly, and he
debated in a way where you neverheard him yell and scream, you
didn't hear him vilify andaccuse somebody.
You rarely heard him evenembarrass or denounce someone.
(14:02):
Often he was accused of thingsthat were not true, and he and
you could see that he wasexacerbated of having to repeat
himself.
He talked about Israel in a waythat you I wish Jews wouldn't
talk about Israel.
You know, he visited it, he fellin love with with Israel, and he
supported Israel to the nthdegree, and he so and he made
(14:23):
arguments to the against theleft that the left itself had no
idea what it was talking about.
Yeah, it had he had philosophiesthat were where he he was a firm
Catholic and he believed incertain philosophies that I
don't agree with.
And you know what, Stuart,agreeing with somebody 100% and
surrounding yourself with peoplewho only agree with you isn't a
(14:45):
healthy thing.
That folks is what you'regetting on social media, and
that's what you're getting invery often in the groups and the
cults that you're surrounded by.
And yes, they are cults, andwhen we talked about you know,
woke is a cult, that's whereyou're surrounding yourself.
You're surrounding yourselfaround people who are telling
you you're right, even thoughyou're wrong.
(15:07):
And Charlie Kirk brought outfacts, brought out an argument
that people couldn't figure out,and that was the beauty of it.
But instead, the left celebratedhis death because it was the it
was someone who is actuallygoing to pivot America.
Now, TPUSA has gone around andand trying to and is opening up
(15:28):
you know in in so many differentcampuses.
And what are they doing instead,Stuart?
These campuses, they're tryingto shut them down.
We talked about this in ourearlier rant, how the schools
are trying to brainwash thestudents, and TPUSA is uh is
bringing a different view, adifferent angle, and they're
being told you're not welcome.
(15:49):
Goes to show you what CharlieKirk was trying to do was right,
was to rebalance theconversation.
Wasn't about convincing peopleto go from left to right, but
rebalance so people couldactually know both sides of an
argument and they can make theirown decision.
You want to stay on the left?
Fine, as long as you know whatthe right is saying, and vice
(16:10):
versa.
That's all he was trying topush.
But God forbid, Stuart, that theleft would agree with this
because they have no way ofarguing anything because it's
only about emotion, it was neverabout fact, and Charlie was more
about fact until it was hisbeliefs, and then he said, These
are my beliefs.
You don't have to agree withthem, but these are my beliefs.
(16:30):
Stuart, that wraps up.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
I wanted to give a last little thing on Charlie
Kirk.
Charlie Kirk wasn't powerfulbecause of what he said, he was
influential because the way hesaid it.
And the difference was societywasn't confident, so it had to
shut down the debate.
(16:54):
He invited debate, and thelouder he called, the more they
wanted to silence the clearermessage.
The problem isn't dissent,David.
The problem was how weak theleft was because this man
deplatformed the Americancollegiate violence.
SPEAKER_00 (17:21):
What was very impressive is if you saw him on
podcasts or you heard himwherever he went, and even guys
like Bill Maher, who said hedidn't always agree with Charlie
Kirk, but even he was sickenedby the fact that the left
celebrated his death.
He said this was a guy who allhe wanted to do was have a
conversation, and he died forhis beliefs.
(17:42):
That is the that is where themoral sanity of America has gone
to the toilet.
With that, ladies and gentlemen,those are themes four, five, and
six.
We will be back next episode ofTop 3 2025.
Yippie K mother.
Not the greatest story, but the10 stories that's going to be
rounded about 2026, 25, scary.
Um, if you missed the lastbatch, please go watch our
previous episode.
(00:21):
It was actually a lot of fun.
We did numbers seven throughten.
And it's interesting becausewhen we do this kind of thing,
people say, you know, like, ohmy god, I can't believe this is
these are the themes that youthese are the themes that we've
covered um in Jesus, 150 oddepisodes every year that we do.
So, you know, this is this iswhat you know episodes four,
(00:42):
five, and six will look like.
And what a surprise that episodenumber six, or our theme number
six, I should say, is woke dead.
You know, it's interestingbecause when Donald Trump was
elected, it was about crushingwokeism.
I mean, that was it.
I mean, he was he was all overthis, and at a certain point we
thought maybe uh maybe it is alittle bit on on the back
(01:04):
burner.
But you know, just like youknow, a bad upset stomach,
sometimes it just doesn't wantto go away and it comes up
again, but in a different form.
Stuart is woke dead in 2025.
SPEAKER_01 (01:17):
Well, woke culture isn't fading because people
became intolerant of it, it'sfading because it's unlivable.
It promised fairness, David.
It delivered division, itpromised inclusion and enforced
(01:38):
exclusion.
And over time, thecontradictions became impossible
not only to ignore, but to live.
Because most people don't wantto live in a society where
language is policed.
David, you've policed mylanguage over the years.
You've brought up words that areno longer considered relevant
(02:00):
because they are hurtful.
The intent is irrelevant, andthe disagreement is treated as
harmful.
They want stability,opportunity, and fairness under
consistent rule.
But the ideology requiresconsistent escalation to
(02:20):
survive, burning out any singlething that would make sense
because it's you know,censorship, uh, not outlawing
things, making things free todo, you know, it's dying because
it's unlivable, David.
And so Americans don't want towake up and fight culture wars
(02:44):
or color wars.
Opportunity, you know, is whatdrives the Western economy and
the Western life.
And woke couldn't offer that, itbecame instable fuel.
SPEAKER_00 (02:59):
Sorry, but but I think woke hasn't died.
Um, woke is still there, and andI appreciate what you just said,
and I think you're absolutelyright.
I mean, I love the idea, thephilosophy.
Woke ain't dead, though.
It just morphed.
It's like everything else, it'smorphed.
You know, we just talked aboutit on our rant from the other
day, is what it being what'sbeing taught in the classroom.
(03:19):
We've just talked about thisnumerous.
Look how many times we've talkedabout it's not called woke.
In fact, the left doesn't evenlike the term anymore, even
though it was their term tostart.
They don't like the term becauseit they realized it it what it
what it's now connotating.
So they're changing, you know,just like Cracker Barrel tried
to change its logo and it'slook, woke is trying to do the
(03:40):
same thing, but the menu's thesame, the food's the same, the
furniture's the same, thepeople's attitudes are the same,
the attitude is the same.
It's woke isn't dead, it's justgonna be it's morphing into a
different body story.
That's uh you're right, it'sintolerable, but it woke ain't
going anyway, David.
SPEAKER_01 (03:58):
You know, uh, we gotta thank Harvard University
for creating such crazyinsanity, and you know, I you
know, they they they practice areligion, and and I think that's
the problem.
They're trying to create a newreligion, and I think wokeness
is gonna be one of thosereligions that ultimately will
die.
(04:18):
You you hit me on the head.
SPEAKER_00 (04:20):
I think you hit the it's the best word you could
for, but I would have changedthe word religion to cult
because a religion, you know,there it there's a certain deity
and a certain whatever here.
The deity or the cult, themovement is an ideology that
just you know, it does it, it'swhen you think about it, it
doesn't make real sense, but youknow, you gotta push it and you
(04:43):
gotta push it.
And the priests that are pushingthese ideologies, they're
they're they're you know,they're standing on these
pulpits and they're they'resaying these these things that
people are like, yeah, yeah.
And when you think about it,it's like, what are you talking
about?
You know, you know, it's justyou said it.
(05:04):
Many Americans, many Canadiansare kind of scratching their
heads going, what is thatgarbage?
But wokeism hasn't died.
We're still seeing it in theclassroom, we're still seeing it
with political politics, we'restill seeing it in media.
You know, yesterday, Stuart, Iwas traveling, and there's MSN
MS Now, the new bullshit ofMSNBC, pushing woke ideology on
the on TV as if it's it's it'snormal stuff.
(05:29):
It's not, it's a cult.
You're hitting you hit it righton the head.
This is a cult, and like allother cults, they fade away.
SPEAKER_01 (05:38):
Now that shifts us right into the next subject.
Number five, media shifts.
The media didn't driftaccidentally, David.
It chose an alignment.
Once storytelling replacedreporting, credible became
expectable.
(05:58):
Viewers noticed long before theexecutives admitted, David, the
collapse in trust in the mediaarena didn't come because the
audience wanted it.
David?
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
Oh, actually, the audience screamed loud and
clear.
Because I'll tell you, I'llquote Michael Jordan that even
Republicans buy sneakers.
Republicans watch late nightshows, or at least they used to,
and the Jimmy Kimmels of thisworld and the rest of them are
all wondering why are theirshows being canceled.
Well, it's really simple.
It's because you're not funny,and if you cater to one group of
(06:38):
people, then so be it.
But you don't see what'shappening is you've seen a lot
of these so-called media folksdisappear and then they reappear
in podcasts.
So while the media houses werethreatened and sued, like ABC,
CBS, with the 60 minutes, youknow, re-editing of the Kampala
Harris uh, you know, uhinterview, ABC called, you know,
(07:01):
you know, George Stopanopoulos,you know, defaming the president
of the United States, and nowBBC stopped with a
bazillion-dollar uh lawsuitbecause they edited, excuse me,
they edited a speech that Trumpgave, but from two different
parts of his speech, and theyspliced it together to make it
sound like one.
(07:22):
Excuse me.
The amazing thing, folks, isthat the media tried to push,
and for the first time, you'vegot a president who's using
power and saying you can't getaway with that, and you're not
to get away with it.
And so while CBS has brought inBarry Weiss, and I talked about
her in previous episodes, she'snow the new news director, and
she's trying to pivot them backto the center, almost a Walter
(07:45):
Crunkheit-like kind of pivot.
The unfortunate thing is thatwithin those that within the
media, there is this rebellion.
That again, they hold this.
We just talked about wokeism.
They hold this moral higherground that you and I no, we're
not moral.
We're not morally at all.
In fact, we're the opposite.
We're immoral because wedisagree with their woke
(08:05):
philosophies.
News is supposed to be reportingabout what happens, not why you
think it happens.
You are supposed to have atleast two credible sources, not
a bunch of you know,philosophies, not a bunch of
people who think they knowwhat's going on.
But media has gone away fromthat.
And the problem is that as soonas you fire somebody who goes
(08:27):
beyond that, they have apodcast.
And you hold on, and then youhave people like Tucker Carlson,
who stands up and get and sayswhatever he wants, and on the
other side you have it, DonLamont, or you have you know
others who are just preachingthis hatefulness.
So media is pivoting in 2025,Stuart.
And with this, I'll I'll wrap itup with this.
(08:49):
If you recall the beginning ofthe year, the sec excuse me, the
press secretary announced thatcertain people won't be won't be
welcomed into the press room,but they brought in podcasters.
How dare they?
The media went on well, losttheir minds because this was the
(09:11):
media room.
Um, you know, folks, people'sconsumption of media has changed
a lot.
You haven't.
SPEAKER_01 (09:19):
Wakey make me until journalism remembers its role,
not as a moral referee, not aspolitical actors, but as
disciplined seekers of truth.
The decline will continuebecause credibility isn't owned
by an institution, it's grantedby the public.
(09:42):
And once it's lost, it's verydifficult to bring it back.
SPEAKER_00 (09:47):
David, introduce well, Stuart.
You know what?
I'll talk speaking of media.
The saddest part, uh, I thinkone of the sad parts of 2025,
I'm not saying the, but one ofthe saddest parts of 2025 was
the assassination of CharlieKirk.
And, you know, for many peopledidn't know who Charlie Kirk was
until he died.
(10:08):
Um, I heard a lot of his stuff,his messages.
And while I did not agree with100% of everything that he said,
um, I had respect for this guywho was able to debate, was able
to articulate, and was able tosupport his argument with facts,
but when it was his opinion, hesaid it was his opinion.
(10:30):
Something unfortunately many onthe left never learned.
But the media decided that hewas a villain, and many in on
the left vilified him and inways that was just beyond
disgusting.
Stuart, when Charlie Kirk wasassassinated, and I'm saying he
it was an assassination, I'lltell you something.
(10:51):
I was never more disgusted bythe media and many and people in
America.
SPEAKER_01 (10:57):
You know, Charlie Kirk represented a generational
shift.
It's it's hard to talk aboutbecause he didn't rise because
he thought approval of theacademic elites or the media
gatekeepers.
He rose by meeting young peopleand debated them on their
(11:22):
platform.
He refused to play by the rulesto be silenced, and what was
unsettling was the critics andthe rhetoric as ensued.
When his ideas became dangerousand were challenged openly, they
doubled down.
(11:44):
You're right.
I also didn't agree with all ofCharlie Kirk's views, as I don't
agree with any or all, sorry, ofDonald Trump's views or not
agreeing with any of Biden'sviews.
That is the beauty of a freecountry.
(12:04):
I can agree with some things andnot everything, and not really
want to cancel you.
I'd rather preparecounter-arguments, which Charlie
Kirk was beyond any politician,religious figure, a news
feature, anything I've ever seenin my life.
(12:27):
He promoted a healthy society ofnot fearing debate, not being
afraid of not being influencedby the wealth or the
institutional backers.
Charlie Kirk rose and wasmurdered for those simple views.
(12:49):
And like you, David, I did seeand hear about Charlie Kirk
early in his career because Iactually did see his initial Fox
News invitation where he skippedschool.
And again, I, as you see behindme, watch news all day long.
And the fact that the mediagatekeepers preached and asked
(13:13):
for his murder, and thepoliticians that denied him the
platform to debate freely,openly, whatever the students
wanted, is why I believe thisdeath will be considered a
martyrism and will breed a wholenew culture that will bring life
(13:38):
to Charlie Kirk for years tocome.
SPEAKER_00 (13:42):
You know what's sad is that Charlie did something
that the left hates.
He had facts, he had knowledge,he debated openly, and he
debated in a way where you neverheard him yell and scream, you
didn't hear him vilify andaccuse somebody.
You rarely heard him evenembarrass or denounce someone.
(14:02):
Often he was accused of thingsthat were not true, and he and
you could see that he wasexacerbated of having to repeat
himself.
He talked about Israel in a waythat you I wish Jews wouldn't
talk about Israel.
You know, he visited it, he fellin love with with Israel, and he
supported Israel to the nthdegree, and he so and he made
(14:23):
arguments to the against theleft that the left itself had no
idea what it was talking about.
Yeah, it had he had philosophiesthat were where he he was a firm
Catholic and he believed incertain philosophies that I
don't agree with.
And you know what, Stuart,agreeing with somebody 100% and
surrounding yourself with peoplewho only agree with you isn't a
(14:45):
healthy thing.
That folks is what you'regetting on social media, and
that's what you're getting invery often in the groups and the
cults that you're surrounded by.
And yes, they are cults, andwhen we talked about you know,
woke is a cult, that's whereyou're surrounding yourself.
You're surrounding yourselfaround people who are telling
you you're right, even thoughyou're wrong.
(15:07):
And Charlie Kirk brought outfacts, brought out an argument
that people couldn't figure out,and that was the beauty of it.
But instead, the left celebratedhis death because it was the it
was someone who is actuallygoing to pivot America.
Now, TPUSA has gone around andand trying to and is opening up
(15:28):
you know in in so many differentcampuses.
And what are they doing instead,Stuart?
These campuses, they're tryingto shut them down.
We talked about this in ourearlier rant, how the schools
are trying to brainwash thestudents, and TPUSA is uh is
bringing a different view, adifferent angle, and they're
being told you're not welcome.
(15:49):
Goes to show you what CharlieKirk was trying to do was right,
was to rebalance theconversation.
Wasn't about convincing peopleto go from left to right, but
rebalance so people couldactually know both sides of an
argument and they can make theirown decision.
You want to stay on the left?
Fine, as long as you know whatthe right is saying, and vice
(16:10):
versa.
That's all he was trying topush.
But God forbid, Stuart, that theleft would agree with this
because they have no way ofarguing anything because it's
only about emotion, it was neverabout fact, and Charlie was more
about fact until it was hisbeliefs, and then he said, These
are my beliefs.
You don't have to agree withthem, but these are my beliefs.
(16:30):
Stuart, that wraps up.
SPEAKER_01 (16:33):
I wanted to give a last little thing on Charlie
Kirk.
Charlie Kirk wasn't powerfulbecause of what he said, he was
influential because the way hesaid it.
And the difference was societywasn't confident, so it had to
shut down the debate.
(16:54):
He invited debate, and thelouder he called, the more they
wanted to silence the clearermessage.
The problem isn't dissent,David.
The problem was how weak theleft was because this man
deplatformed the Americancollegiate violence.
SPEAKER_00 (17:21):
What was very impressive is if you saw him on
podcasts or you heard himwherever he went, and even guys
like Bill Maher, who said hedidn't always agree with Charlie
Kirk, but even he was sickenedby the fact that the left
celebrated his death.
He said this was a guy who allhe wanted to do was have a
conversation, and he died forhis beliefs.
(17:42):
That is the that is where themoral sanity of America has gone
to the toilet.
With that, ladies and gentlemen,those are themes four, five, and
six.
We will be back next episode ofTop 3 2025.
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