Josh Hawley says "I’m not going anywhere" in fiery CPAC speech

hello everybody hello cpac how are you doing didn't anybody tell you that you're supposed to be canceled you didn't get the momo you're supposed to ask permission before you came here today it's great to see you it's great to be here among patriots and i tell you what can i just tell you speaking of being canceled the last six weeks the radical left their corporate allies the liberal media have tried to cancel me censor me expel me shut me down stop me from representing the people of missouri stop me from representing you and guess what i'm here today i'm not going anywhere and i'm not backing down not a chance not a chance and neither are you am i right you're not going to back down you're not going anywhere i just want to say to those people who say to us oh you're the past your moment has passed it's over it's joe biden's america now i just want to say we're not the past we're the future we represent the future of this country we represent the next generation of the country we represent what's coming next and there is no way that we're going to back down we're not going to back down to the woke mob we're not going to back down to the canceled culture we're not going to be told what we can say or do but listen we've got to be honest and we've got to face the challenges that are in front of us and i tell you what you know this or you wouldn't be here you know that we are facing a crisis in our country this is one of the great moments of crisis in american history we're facing a fight for the republic itself and we are facing an unprecedented alliance of radical liberals and the biggest most powerful corporations in the history of the world they are standing together you know who i mean people like google facebook if you heard of them twitter these companies have more power than any companies in american history and they're allying with the radical left to try to impose their agenda on this country they want to run this country and if we don't do something they are going to and we've got a word for that it's called oligarchy and that's what we're facing in america right now and we've got a basic choice we can have a republic where the people rule or we can have an oligarchy where big tech and the liberals rule and that is the choice that is the challenge that we face today it's a perilous moment we have to stand up and take our stand on the constitution of the united states and the declaration of independence because last time i checked the declaration of independence said that our inalienable rights to life and liberty come from god and not from government is that right i mean am i forgetting something and i also thought last i checked i thought that the declaration said that our rights come from god not from google is that right i mean last i checked but that's the fight of our time to make the rule of the people an actual thing again to restore the sovereignty of the american people you know what that's always been the fight that's the fight of liberty that's been the fight of liberty since the beginning of human history you've always got a small group of people who think they know best and they ought to be in charge and they ought to be able to tell us what to think and do and today that's the big corporations and the liberal elites that's the oligarchy and what are we fighting for it's the same thing our founding fathers fought for we're fighting for the rule of the people we're fighting to be able to have our own say we're fighting to be able to run our own government we're fighting to have real self-government in america and that's what we're about you know you can see where the oligarchs want to take us just look at the last two months the last two months the big tech corporations have de-platformed conservatives left and right shut them up shut them out shut them down heck they censor the president of the united states if they can censor him they can censor any american citizen and i've got my own experience with this unfortunately you know on january the 6th i objected during the electoral college certification maybe you heard about it i did i stood up i stood up and i said i said we ought to have a debate about election integrity i said it is the right of the people to be heard and my constituents in missouri want to be heard on this issue and so i did what by the way i did what our democrat friends my democrat colleagues have done in every single election where republican president has won the last 20 years you know they've objected to 11 different states in certifications over the last 25 years three different presidential elections so i did that and i said i want to have a debate on election integrity and what was the result of that oh you know what the result was i was called a traitor i was called a seditionist the radical left said i should be resigned and if i wouldn't resign i should be expelled from the united states senate well as i said a moment ago i'm not going anywhere i'm staying right here i'm going to stand up for you because if we can't have free and open debate in this country we're not going to have a country left if we can't have free and open debate according to the law in the united states senate what good is the united states senate why do you send anybody to washington at all i thought it was an important stand to take and for the left has come after me they tried to silence me they cancelled a book book i was writing called the tyranny of big tech these people have no sense of irony it's still going to get published by the way it'll be out soon not long to wait they did all of that it didn't work but listen that's that's just that's just a slice of what they've done a lot of people have had it a lot worse i mean they made lists of trump voters you know this you find online lists of trump voters so they could go and try to punish them one outfit in washington is keeping a list of everybody who ever worked for donald trump including white house interns interns to try to make sure they can never get another job in washington again i was struck by this story about a guy a gal named cara de moplin she's just a she's a lady with a business online she does a consulting on how to get babies to sleep now listen before you say what do we care about that i've got three little kids at home including a newborn my baby abigail my wife and i welcomed her on november the 9th so she's just over three months old thank you so we're really interested in sleep i can tell you the holly household we care about sleep my wife knew of this gal kara de mauplin who had a an instagram online thing where she counseled people on how to how to get their babies to sleep it was great she had like 4 million followers what happened she supported donald trump so what did they do they came after her they came after her tried to shut down her accounts tried to run her out of business i just heard this morning just this morning that a christian worship leader at a church in this country who has albums worship albums he put out he just got a call this morning from his corporate distributor and they told him they're not going to distribute his next album what was his sin he supported donald trump in the election this is what corporate america and the radical left is doing this is what they're doing left right and center and they're going to keep on doing it unless we do something about it now the real question is how do we get here how do we get to this point that these oligarchs these massive corporations in hock with the left can do what they're doing and you know the answer to that the answer is is that the policy experts in washington dc and the elected officials there for decades on end have let them do it they have given them the power how did big tech get so big washington gave away the store that's how they got so big washington subsidized google and facebook washington subsidized twitter and what are these companies these other mega corporations these multinational companies what have they done to repay the favor no you know they've shipped our jobs to china they've paid our workers poverty wages they have violated all of the principles that we hold dear that's what they've done that's what these companies that's what they live to do and the left is just fine with it because the left and these companies together these oligarchs they can impose their agenda on the rest of us and that's exactly what they're trying to do so what are we going to do about it i mean that's the real question isn't it in this moment in this moment of crisis our country needs us to take a stand in this moment of crisis our country needs us to stand up and to say we will not be ruled by giant corporations and the liberal elite we will not be told what to do by these modern-day oligarchs what we need is a new nationalism a new agenda to make the rule of the people real in this country and give the people america back give it back to them give it back to you no more ruled by oligarchs ruled by the people that's what we've got to do and i can tell you how i would start i would start by breaking up the big tech corporations just break them up break them up in the name of the rule of the people for the good of the american people and our liberty we need to break those corporations up and and cut them down to size you know what the republican party once upon a time we were the party of trust busters you know what i mean we invented the concept basically it's time to reclaim that legacy it's time to reclaim that legacy and not just for big tech but for all of the huge multinational corporations that have sold us out to china that have sold out our workers that have sold out our jobs they need to be broken up and we need to have free fair competition in this country again that's what it means for the people to rule we've got to stand up to china and not allow them to continue to push us over to take our jobs to cheat on trade we got to put american workers first not illegal immigrants can i just say by the way on that subject just on the subject of immigration you know we get told all the time well if you believe in in a border if you think that borders actually matter if you think that citizenship actually matters well my goodness i mean you're a bigot you're backwards can i just say can i just try to enlighten our liberal friends for a second we believe in borders because we believe in citizenship and we believe in citizenship because we believe in america citizenship you know where i come from in missouri i grew up in rural missouri small town right in the middle of missouri it's a working-class town full of good folks working hard to make it every day and i can just tell you where i grew up we believe in citizenship because we're proud of it we're proud to be americans and when you come to america you join a family and in this family we stick up for one another we protect one another we believe in one another that's what citizenship means that's why it's worth protecting that's why we need a border do you agree i mean that's what it is and we've got to resist the attempts of the oligarchs to divide us you know they will only succeed at the end of the day they will only succeed if we do nothing and if we allow ourselves to be divided you can see what their strategy is i mean we saw this whole last year we heard endlessly from corporate media from big tech from the left how terrible our country is we heard that we are systemically racist you heard that once or twice we heard that the real founding of the country wasn't in 1776 it was in 1619 or whatever you know we heard that america is founded in lies and and evil i mean that was that's what we've been told all of that is false all of that is a lie america is not a perfect place but it's a good place more than that it's a great place it's the greatest nation in the history of the world and part of standing up to the oligarchs in tech and in the media and the liberals is reclaiming our history and saying it is good and we are proud to be americans we're proud to have commented to have lived in a country that started with nothing and became the greatest country in the face of the earth we're proud to live in a country that liberated slaves that liberated a continent that was under the thumb of nazi dictatorship that rebuilt the entire world after a world war we did all of that this nation did all of that and are we perfect of course we're not perfect it's like your pastor says at church have you heard this he said have you ever been to a perfect church the answer well i mean i have never been maybe you have the answer is no of course not why because it's full of people you know every church is full of people america is full of people but it's full of good people it's full of good people who continue to seek the light and continue to strive towards that more perfect union my friends it's up to us to stand up and to remind our fellow americans of what we believe together of what we love together and to tell the oligarchs who want to rule this country that their day has passed that we are going to stand for the liberty that our forefathers fought and died for and we are going to make it real again in this day we can do it we can do it you know it seems now in this moment like the oligarchs and their allies are so powerful but the truth is is that the strength of america is always in the unheard voices of its people all across this great land that's the strength is in you the strength is in us together and i just want to close with a line i've thought a lot about a quote from daniel webster who in some trying years of his own that he knew a trying time before the beginning of the civil war he used to end his speeches in the united states senate by saying union now union forever what he meant was is that for those who said that america's time had passed that the country was hopelessly divided that it was irredeemable sound familiar he said no union now union forever i just want to say my friends america now america first america forever god bless you it's great to be with you take care thank you so much

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 26 2021

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