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June 10, 2020 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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This Is Personal

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A Dangerous Moment in America 00:02:13
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Life is rapidly changing in America.
This is not a good or positive change.
Instead, this is a very dangerous and serious moment.
In fact, it might be one of the most dangerous and serious moments of my lifetime.
The most radical, fundamentally bitter, and hateful elements of society are being platformed and showered with millions of dollars from corporate America.
Our media companies are treating vandals like victors.
Our tech companies are treating arsonists like angels.
And our political elite are treating terrorists like holy beings.
There's a shift happening right now in our country.
This is not a moment that will fade.
This is a digression into despotic groupthink.
Consider this podcast right here, right now, as your fire alarm, your red alert, your danger signal, your crisis siren.
America is now entering a new chapter.
And it very well might be our darkest moment if we don't identify and eliminate it now before this monopolizes modern society.
What am I talking about?
What could possibly be so dangerous and different today than anything that might have happened a couple weeks ago?
The Mob and the Housing Authority 00:11:59
Last week, the Sacramento Kings announced that Grant Napier, their longtime television play-by-play broadcaster, had resigned two days after a, quote, insensitive tweet in an exchange with one of the team's former players.
What did he tweet that was so horrendous?
What did he tweet that was so awful?
What did he say that also made the radio station at which Napier co-hosts a sports show part ways?
He tweeted this.
All lives matter, every single one.
When did that become so controversial or insensitive?
Meet the CEO of CrossFit, Greg Glassman.
This past weekend, Glassman responded to a tweet which read, quote, racism and discrimination are critical public health issues that demand an urgent response, end quote.
His response, it's Floyd 19, end quote.
That's it.
Three words, barely if you count the hyphen.
Because of those three words, people are now writing in the New York Times, quote, will CrossFit survive?
As a result, Reebok said it will end its relationship with CrossFit when its contract is up at the end of the year.
Another major sponsor, Rogue Fitness, is considering to do the same.
This also means that they'll stop paying the company affiliate fees.
Several top athletes, including three-time defending CrossFit games champion Tiara Claire Toomey, has spoken out and indicated that they might not participate in future competitions.
All of what could have been described as a bad joke.
You guys know Drew Brees.
Drew Bees came out and said, quote, never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America, end quote.
Let it sit for 24 hours, and then, all of a sudden, the mob came after him.
Aggressively, Drew Brees was panned as a racist, bigot, and capable of leading a team.
He was savaged by the media, the league, everybody.
So instead of him standing up for his beliefs and standing up for America, Drew Brees is in like the fourth or fifth iteration of the apology.
And even with that, the mob is still not happy.
Former New Orleans Saint Malik Jackson said, quote, he doesn't believe that Breeze is genuine and promised to deliver a message when the two teams meet this season, end quote.
This is one of the lessons that I'm going to talk about in this podcast, but never give an inch to the mob.
Stand for your beliefs.
These people will never be satisfied.
And just right now, Cops, one of the most popular TV shows ever created, has been canceled.
That's right, cops.
Gone.
Canceled.
What does that mean for civil discourse in society?
What does this mean for cinema?
Are they going to start canceling every single show that ever had a police officer in it?
Are they going to cancel anyone that dares mention something favorable at America?
Where do you think this ends?
It's been on air for 31 years since 1989.
What else are they going to cancel?
What else are they going to eliminate?
What else are they going to try to make disappear?
The left is going for the jugular.
Meet Reagan Escude.
She's a turning point USA ambassador.
She was recently fired from her job for posting a video of saying why, because of her faith, she couldn't stand up for Black Lives Matter.
A few social justice warriors found the post and alerted her employer.
Within hours, they were inundated with threats to not only the business, but to other employees.
Listen to what she said that ultimately cost her job.
Play tape.
And we should be devastated at the thought that a man made in the image of God was murdered unjustly by a corrupt cop.
The cop is not, the cop's actions are not a result of systemic racism.
It is not a result of racial prejudice discrimination within law enforcement.
It's a reflection of his heart and a problem that is deep within his heart that can only be reconciled through Jesus Christ.
This is not controversial.
This is what we want our young people to be saying, coming to their own conclusions and allowing their moral faith to guide them.
Meet Stasi Schroeder and Kristen Dote.
They were recently just fired from the popular Bravo reality TV show after news broke about their past, quote, racially insensitive behavior, end quote, against a fellow cast member.
This comes apparently after Schroeder called the cops on a former castmate of hers who was black and said she, quote, looked like a woman cops were searching for in relation to a robbery.
The woman had apparently had an affair with the other cast members, so there was animosity between the cast, which had nothing to do with race, at least for what we can tell.
They both apologized.
Nevertheless, this incident, which happened a few years ago, is being painted as racism and had cost them the job on television.
Meet Professor Gordon Klein.
He was recently suspended by UCLA, the University of California at Los Angeles, after he has now just recently refused to exempt black students from final exams after the death of George Floyd.
He is now under police protection because of so many threats because he dares to make black students still take final exams.
Here's the email response to the students' requests by Professor Gordon Klein.
Thank you for your suggestion in the email below that I give black students special treatment given the tragedy in Minnesota.
Do you know the names of the classmates that are black?
How can I identify them since we're having online classes only?
Are there any students that may be of mixed percentage, such as half black, half Asian?
What do you suggest I do with respect to them?
A full concession or just half.
Also, do you have any idea if any students are from Minneapolis?
Question mark.
I assume that they probably are especially devastated as well.
I'm thinking that a white student from there might possibly be even more devastated by this, especially because some think that they're racist even if they're not.
My teacher assistant is from Minneapolis, so if you don't know, I can probably ask her, can you guide me on how you think I should achieve a, quote, no harm outcome, since our sole course grade is for final exam only?
One last thing strikes me.
Remember that Martin Luther King famously said that people should not be evaluated on, quote, color of their skin.
Do you think that your request would run afoul to Martin Luther King's admonition?
Thanks, G. Klein.
Professor Klein raises logical questions, of course, but logic does not apply in today's marketplace of ideas.
Instead, race and virtue signaling are the only form of currency currently exchanged and accepted.
You've probably heard of Tucker Carlson before.
Probably seen him on TV.
So the Washington Post and the Twitter mafia are currently engaged in a digital assassination campaign against Tucker Carlson.
He's a bold journalist and a prolific truth teller.
Yet when he rightly points out that the violent protests were, quote, not about black lives anymore, which is the truth, an objective truth.
Black lives are currently being left to die in the streets.
Black businesses are being destroyed.
Black war memorials are being vandalized.
The entire Washington Post and Twitter mob comes after him.
And so now one of these hit home.
Let me read from Breitbart story I saw this morning.
The largest church in the state of Alabama has been canceled by the Birmingham Housing Authority.
Why?
Why would the Church of the Highlands be canceled by the Birmingham Housing Authority?
Well, because the pastor of that church liked my content on social media.
This is content that the Birmingham Housing Authority of commissioners found, quote, do not reflect the values of HABD and its residents.
And Hodges' values are not in line with those of HABD residents, end quote.
My tweets.
Now, Chris Hodges, who's the pastor of the Church of the Highlands, liked my tweets.
One of them, I've been saying for over five years, is rooted in truth.
It is rooted in facts.
It is rooted in reality.
Where I said, white privilege is a racist lie, not rooted in truth, designed to divide America.
I've been saying that for five years.
The controversy also extended when, according to AL.com, the activists, not even in Chris Hodges' church, that made a controversy about my social media posts, was one of President Trump standing next to Muhammad Ali and Rosa Parks with the caption, quote, the racist Donald Trump in the 1980s, of course, sarcastically, and the Democratic Virginia Governor Raltham with the two men wearing blackface and a KKK costume, with the caption, progressive leftist Ralph Northam in the 1980s.
Another one that really bothered the activists was a screenshot that showed former President Obama playing golf beneath a quote from Michelle Obama urging people to stay home except for essential activities.
Another screenshot that Hodges liked was a photo of Kirk donating blood.
Oh, what a horrible thing to do to help people.
Above the sentence, quote, we must do our part to defeat the China virus.
Chris Hodges did a public apology campaign at his church where he did not defend me.
He did not defend what I said, even though he liked my posts.
I did not send him my posts to like them.
I didn't ask him to like my content, but he did.
He made the very deliberate decision not to stand up to the mob.
And the mob didn't give up.
The mob is still going after him.
And Chris Hodges said this in his statement on stage, white supremacy or any supremacy other than Christ is of the devil.
Quote, some have even brought our church or even me into the question.
They're wondering, where do you really stand?
I think some saw something on social media that questioned my character, and I'll own it, by the way.
But that is not what I believe, end quote.
So effectively not standing up for me or defending me.
Putting an equivalency of my posts, my character, and my work with white supremacy, which is a disgusting, evil lie.
Pointing out the hypocrisy of how white liberals like Ralph Northam once wore blackface.
Or did he wear a KKK hood?
We don't know.
But instead, the radical mob, who Chris Hodges made the decision not to stand up to, they're not giving up.
So now the Housing Authority of Birmingham is going to break ties with the largest and the most racially diverse church in Alabama, all because he engaged in wrongthink, all because of my social media posts.
And anyone who knows my character and knows who I am knows that I pioneered alongside Candace Owens the first ever black leadership summit in the conservative movement as someone that has gone out of my way to denounce any form of radical identitarianism in any form or fashion.
So instead of standing on truth and instead of saying that I am currently the most followed podcast of an outspoken Christian in the Apple podcast charts, instead of saying that, hey, Charlie Kirk is a Christian that stands for the gospel of Jesus Christ in the face of the mob, you might not have to agree with what he said, but why don't you get to know the guy that you are trying to couple me with?
Instead, a capitulation to the mob ensued.
And now poor people at the Housing Authority of Birmingham are not going to get help because of the surrendering to the mob.
Poor people will suffer because of the wishes of the ruling class elites.
Poor people will suffer because of a social media post that a pastor liked and the unwillingness to stand up to the mob.
Now the swarm of the self-righteous, mostly suburbanites, have set upon a siege to completely shatter our current normal.
When Unthinkable Becomes Policy 00:04:03
This is the absolute and official definition of the Overton window.
The Overton window, better known as the window of discourse, was named after Joseph P. Overton.
He postulates in the Overton window that there is a spectrum, a spectrum that goes from an idea that is considered unthinkable to all the way where it becomes policy.
Now on the spectrum, it goes from unthinkable to radical to acceptable to sensible to popular to policy.
The Overton window can track and can categorize certain ideas in society.
For example, something that is totally unthinkable, something that we aren't even allowed to discuss, would be legalizing pedophilia.
But there was an op-ed in the New York Times in the last couple years, and there have been movements now to legalize pedophilia.
No, that's a real thing, if you haven't heard that yet.
Op-ed in the New York Times, which has now gone from unthinkable to radical.
So the spectrum is very useful in categorizing where things currently are in the political discourse.
Now, when something gets into the unthinkable range and actually goes in a digression, that then gives license to the referees of moral society to kick you out of the game.
It gives the permission to the moral umpires to eject you from the stadium.
What was once unthinkable is now actually becoming policy.
Like that, in three weeks.
For example, what was unthinkable three weeks ago would be the Minneapolis City Council abolishing their police department.
It was unthinkable, now it's policy.
It moved across the entire Overton window and almost skipped the radical, acceptable, sensible popular policy progression straight into policy.
And the Overton window has worked opposite.
What was once sensible has now become radical, if not unthinkable.
For example, when I said white privilege is a racist lie rooted in untruth designed to divide America, that was sensible when I said it five years ago.
It was sensible when I said it two years ago.
And it was sensible when I said it three months ago.
Now it's unthinkable.
Now it will get you kicked out of a job.
And now it will get you kicked out of modern society.
When America typically experiences Overton window movements and moments, they traditionally happen over time.
They're mostly slow, messy, unhurried, and rather inconclusive.
Rarely, if ever, does the window move overnight.
Some examples where the window did move very quickly would be maybe Pearl Harbor or 9-11 or possibly Kennedy being shot.
Those are just a few examples.
But never in the history of our country or the history of Western society have we seen an isolated incident involving a death of a civilian trigger such a multi-dimensional mass media campaign to transition the unthinkable, like abolishing the police, into policy so immediately.
We have run out of ways to stop this.
Our politicians are mostly corrupt or cowardly.
That's basically the two categories you can put our politicians in.
Corrupt or cowardly.
Our media is purchased or totally propagandized.
Fighting for Truth Against Perpetual Offense 00:09:32
And all we have left is you.
Yes, you listen to this podcast right now.
The incredible number of amazing patriots listening to my words right now.
You're the only hope we have at stopping this.
Because if you think that this culture of metaphorically assassinating people that are not within the Overton window of sensible and acceptable thinking won't come to you, you are wrong.
I am getting hundreds of messages at freedom at charliekirk.com of people that are losing their jobs, of people that are getting kicked out of fraternities and sororities, of young people that are becoming almost suicidal because they hold views that are against the swarm.
If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in 10 years.
If this goes unchecked, we do not have a country in a decade.
This cancer will metastasize.
This tumor will overwhelm our entire American experiment.
I repeat this with intentional severity.
Our leaders do not care.
Their kids will be protected.
They will hire more armed guards.
Their kleptocracy will remain intact.
Most in both parties actually applaud the moving of the window.
The ruling class wants voices that speak reasonably to disappear.
The beach is being stormed.
We are going to lose the fort.
Right now, we just got breaking news that the Birmingham Board of Education is preparing to vote on whether to terminate lease agreements with the Church of the Highlands, ending church services at the campuses of Parker High School and Woodland High School.
Why?
Because their pastor liked some of my tweets.
The Birmingham Board of Education is going to dissolve ties potentially with the largest church in Alabama because their senior pastor liked my tweets where I used facts.
Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions tweeted out: The radical left and politically correct crowd is trying to silence and cancel one of the great pastors and ministries in the state of Alabama.
This must not stand.
The forces that for years dwelled in the outskirts of civil dialogue are on the cusp of storming the Bastille.
Storming the Bastille is what actually happened in the French Revolution, where the radicals, led by Robespierre and others, stormed the top levels of government and killed the opposition.
At this rate, left unchecked, they will silence me.
Me, our efforts, and anyone who does not bow or pay penance to the idol of group guilt humiliation.
The only tool we have is truth.
But that's actually not enough.
Privately knowing truth is very useful for you.
In fact, it's critical.
Standing and fighting for truth is a categorically different thing.
Jonathan Turley, who is a wonderful legal mind, very fair, has said this: quote: The tragic killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis resulted in an important focus on race relations and justice in this country.
However, it is being lost to an emerging radicalism that challenges people to prove their faith by endorsing farce.
This metamorphosis of America is not something you're able to change at the ballot box.
The left has crossed the Rubicon.
The left has lost their Alinskyite cover.
They're embracing the deepest, darkest parts of their ideology.
This is not something that you can recall by collecting petitions.
This is not something that you can countersue.
This is an intellectual and cultural melee for America.
One of the reasons this is happening is because the left is on offense.
While the president is not doing his rallies because of the lockdowns, while those of us are not able to communicate and be on the road, like we are able to have the flexibility that we typically have had, the left sees this as their chance to take out our country.
We are now on perpetual defense.
We're not able to set the tone.
We're not able to set the rules of engagement.
We as the right, we've lost our home field advantage.
The churches are closed.
Our moral institutions are shuttered.
We don't have our rallies.
And we feel as if we're on defense.
And those of us like myself that are trying to launch a counteroffensive, that are trying to talk about truth and data and statistics, anyone who associates with us, usually on social media, by the way, which all the social media platforms are run by the left, they get canceled and they get eliminated.
Our TV anchors are at risk of getting boycotted, one by one.
When they trap you in the home, they trap you in the box, and the left controls the box.
There's no water cooler discussion over how good of a job President Trump is doing.
When you limit human contact, the left controls the instruments of communication.
The left is playing a very intentional game of perpetual offense.
The reason why Trump was able to succeed the way he was is for three and a half years, he had the left on defense.
That is not the case right now.
We are on defense.
This is why this is happening.
And the left is taking metaphorical scalps one by one, creating precedents.
If you're a pastor and you like Charlie Kirk's tweets, we're coming for you.
If you work in corporate America and you use your faith to go after Black Lives Matter, you will lose your job.
If you say all lives matter, you're no longer allowed to be a commentator for the Sacramento Kings.
If you say something good about the flag, you can't be an NFL quarterback.
They will cancel you.
Dave Rubin has in his Twitter bio, or at least he had, I don't know if he changed it.
Twitter is not real life.
I used to agree with that.
But now they're bringing the digital assassination campaign that they had on Twitter for so many years where they could silence other opinions into real life.
Just like Vlad the Impaler, they put our heads on a virtual stake for the world to see, a warning for the right.
They want to show all the rest of the conservatives and people listen to this podcast, you dare associate with Charlie Kirk, we're coming for you.
You dare say anything that is not within what we, as the ruling class, deem acceptable, you can't have a job.
You can't exist.
You can't speak.
The left is ready to deal a death blow to America, to suffocate the soul, spirit, and future of our country.
You are what can stop this.
Will you?
I hope so.
Thanks for listening, everybody.
This was an important message I needed to share.
It's one of the most consequential times in American history.
We've never seen the window and the reality with it move so quickly, so dramatically, and so dangerously.
I know so many of you are up to the challenge, but without speaking up, without rising up and fighting for truth, we will not have a country anymore.
And that's exactly what the left wants.
Email me your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
And if you want to do something about this and you say, Charlie, I'm ready.
This is not the country I want to live in.
That's why you got to go to TurningpointUSA, tpusa.com, tpusa.com.
If you're a student, get involved, or else you won't have a country.
You'll look around and you will see cultural carnage, the likes of which none of us want to live through.
You can chip in some money if you're an adult.
You can support our students.
But tpusa.com is the mothership that will launch the most important counteroffensive against the left in American history.
You guys can support our show at charliekirk.com, charliekirk.com.
But I want to thank all of you for your commitment.
This is your fire alarm.
If we do nothing, we will not have a country.
Thanks for listening, everybody.
God bless.
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