Josh Hammer
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197 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 31 Mar
Josh Hammer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Andrew, I'm doing great, my friend. You know, it is morning in America, as a famous man once said about four and a half decades ago, and it's really great to be back on The Charlie Kirk Show with you, my good friend, Andrew Colvin.
and you let me first say that the fact that the enemy is slayed at least for the time being i agree does not necessarily mean that it will not one day god forbid possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to sow the seeds of discourse uh here in america so while i am definitely celebrating i agree that we should not rest on our laurels it is definitely time to keep the momentum going
But the reason that I picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me, I thought it was a very fun title as well, is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of this second Donald Trump administration is the most transformative cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably in our lifetimes. And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back.
Barack Obama declared war on America. He declared war on America and instituted our modern American civil war, our cold civil, roiling cold civil war. This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it. He famously said in February 2008 that he sought to fundamentally transform America and one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve.
And we saw this time and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney general, use so-called disparate impact theory.
That was kind of the predecessor to Ibram X. Kendi and anti-racism, whether it was all the foreign policy nonsense with the Iran deal. Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that he infamously called bitter clingers. that Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to as deplorables.
And that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration, or at least three and a half years or so, until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there. And then we got peak woke.
The past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency, this was peak woke, Andrew, peak woke. He literally chose a vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, because she was a quote unquote woman of color.
He literally chose his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Katonji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote unquote woman of color.
Time and time again, as folks like Chris Ruffo have reported, they weaponized all of the various instrumentalities of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so-called DEI, to overtly discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks, Hispanics, and so forth there.
And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years, this was the moment that woke reached, I think, its apotheosis. It's been slayed. It's been slayed because Donald Trump, Andrew, adopted a mentality to go back to the morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago. He adopted an old Reaganite mantra.
And what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was asked for his approach to the Cold War, and he came into power in 1980, coming off the 1970s. You had differing opinions in the 1970s. There was Henry Kissinger in Dayton. There was kind of the Cold War hawks back then. Ronald Reagan famously said that his approach to the Cold War, we win and they lose.
People said that he was crazy, that he was a cowboy, he was a warmonger. But that mentality, Andrew, helped win the Cold War. I think Donald Trump has taken that exact same mentality to his second term in office. And I'm not entirely sure what the exact moment was that galvanized him to adopt this Reaganite mantra.
I suspect it was probably around the time that Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and so-called special counsel Jack Smith Start to incarcerate him, to prosecute him, try to throw him in jail, bankrupt him, ruin him of all his possessions, basically deprive him of his liberty and his livelihood.
Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, came within millimeters of assassinating him before a global television audience. But at some point, at some point, Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas 1991 Anita Hill moment where he looked at all this radicalization around him and said, you know what? This is enough. I am over this. And you know what?
To quote Barack Obama, get me my freaking pen, get me my freaking phone, because this crap ain't gonna fly anymore come day one. And that was what we saw last week, Andrew. We saw all these executive orders. I mean, the DEI executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing ones, it's hard to know even where to start.
There's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship. It's amazing stuff coming out of this White House. But just the DEI executive order It doesn't just get rid of DEI in the executive branch. It actually goes way past that.
It instructs the attorney general and the secretary of education, the whole cabinet, to enforce Title VI and to interpret the Supreme Court's affirmative action case, Students for Fair Emissions, so as to effectively ban DEI in any taxpayer support institution in America. This is the kind of stuff that wins culture wars overnight. So again – Let's not rest on our laurels.
I understand, like, you know, constant vigilance, and let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead. But for now, for now, what we have seen is the stuff of legends, frankly.
It kind of reminds me, as I said in the column, I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New Amsterdam, and then they renamed it New York City from Peter Stuyvesant to the Dutch in the 1600s. They famously took it over without firing a single shot because Because it was just a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force.
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