The Charlie Kirk Show - Gov. DeSantis and Florida's Freedom Effect Goes National
Aired: 2021-04-30
Duration: 01:05:15

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[00:00:26]  Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we asked the question, why is America reopening?
[00:00:31]  Why is Ron DeSantis so successful?
[00:00:34]  And other states just seem to now be following his lead.
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[00:02:25]  We got to talking last evening, and the question came up of who's going to lead the Republican Party, which is a question that people are asking a lot now, for good reason.
[00:02:37]  And even before we got to that topic, we started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.
[00:02:49]  It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.
[00:02:59]  It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.
[00:03:02]  It's a very positive thing.
[00:03:06]  I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning.
[00:03:10]  Why is America reopening?
[00:03:13]  Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.
[00:03:17]  We finally have the vaccine distributed.
[00:03:21]  But I think the question is actually a lot deeper than that.
[00:03:25]  The answer, I should say.
[00:03:26]  We're reopening because we have a model for successful reopening.
[00:03:30]  So let me read you a headline this morning, which is how other countries are handling the virus and the lockdowns alongside of it.
[00:03:38]  Germans confront new Chinese coronavirus lockdown that could last until mid-June.
[00:03:44]  Total lockdown in Germany.
[00:03:46]  United Kingdom, very similar.
[00:03:48]  France has been locked down nearly indefinitely since last spring.
[00:03:53]  Why is that Bill de Blasio has now announced that New York is going to be fully open by July?
[00:03:59]  Well, it's because one man, one governor of a large state, decided to be a leader, to trust data and science.
[00:04:07]  Now, I'm not at all discounting the leadership of Governor Christy Noam from South Dakota.
[00:04:13]  She kept completely open.
[00:04:15]  But let's be honest, South Dakota, everyone's basically socially distanced anyway.
[00:04:18]  I mean, it was not exactly the same sort of densely populated conditions of Florida.
[00:04:26]  It took a lot of courage for Governor Noam to do that.
[00:04:28]  But Florida was really where there was a test of whether or not we were going to trust the science and the data.
[00:04:36]  You might remember last May.
[00:04:38]  Last May, we weren't really sure how we were going to handle this going into the summer.
[00:04:43]  We weren't sure if we were going to allow restaurants and gatherings, church events.
[00:04:49]  We already lost Easter on our calendar last year.
[00:04:51]  And we were told by Dr. Fauci and many others that get used to these lockdowns till at least 2045, basically is what they said.
[00:05:00]  Like we will not reopen the normal.
[00:05:02]  Bill Gates was going on television, you might remember, saying this is at least going to be a decade-long thing.
[00:05:07]  And leadership is a very interesting thing because you do not find out who a person really is until there is a pressure-filled situation.
[00:05:16]  Aristotle had a great quote, it's four words, which is, power shows the man.
[00:05:20]  You want to find out who a person is, give them a bunch of money, a bunch of resources, and a pressure-filled environment, and you'll find out who that person is.
[00:05:28]  It's very easy to be a governor when there's a booming economy and very little difficulty, just managing the status quo, when you inherit something rather favorable.
[00:05:38]  Ron DeSantis had the ultimate state-based Churchillian moment where he had to decide whether or not he was going to lead the entire nation and with it, the planet in reopening.
[00:05:49]  And it very well could have backfired.
[00:05:51]  When Ron DeSantis decided to open up Florida last May, when he just said, hey, restaurants are open, schools are open, and businesses are open.
[00:05:59]  He led even Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma.
[00:06:02]  And I think they've done a good job of reopening since.
[00:06:05]  But he boldly said, May 20th of last year, you're open for business.
[00:06:08]  I was in Florida of May of last year.
[00:06:11]  And I remember talking to these restaurant business owners in Sarasota and Naples.
[00:06:15]  And they said, if it wasn't for Ron DeSantis opening now, we would have lost our business altogether.
[00:06:20]  Now, by the way, we lost 40% of small businesses in the last year.
[00:06:24]  Florida has lost about 5%.
[00:06:28]  And I will make the argument that Governor Ron DeSantis, having the one quality that unifies all the other virtues, which is courage, actually has led the nation and the world in reopening.
[00:06:42]  The only reason why Mayor de Blasio is reopening is because now he has to go deal with constituents who have now gotten a small taste of reopening in Florida.
[00:06:51]  Now the people that have a winter home in Palm Beach, they're coming back and they're calling the mayor's office and saying, look, Mayor de Blasio, there's a way to do this.
[00:06:59]  So let me give you one example of how the lockdowns actually hurt the spread of the virus.
[00:07:03]  How the lockdowns actually did the opposite of what we were told they were going to do.
[00:07:07]  And the evidence is very clear.
[00:07:08]  California, which still remains largely locked down.
[00:07:12]  8,900 cases per 100,000 people.
[00:07:16]  Florida, 8,700 cases per 100,000 people.
[00:07:20]  Florida has lower cases, lower death rate.
[00:07:23]  And Florida has the second oldest population in the country.
[00:07:25]  And Florida has a more densely populated population than New York.
[00:07:30]  Let me say that again.
[00:07:31]  Florida is actually more densely populated than New York.
[00:07:33]  Most people don't know that.
[00:07:36]  So let me give you an example of how the lockdowns actually hurt.
[00:07:38]  Human beings are social beings, social creatures.
[00:07:41]  We need to get together with other human beings.
[00:07:43]  So that's going to happen no matter what, whether you lock people down.
[00:07:46]  So here's a question.
[00:07:47]  Would you rather have people gathering for social purposes in a restaurant outdoors or in someone's home?
[00:07:56]  They're going to meet anyway.
[00:07:59]  So in California, they decided, let's get rid of all the social gatherings.
[00:08:02]  Well, the authoritarians and the despots and the central planners thought that people actually were going to listen to them.
[00:08:09]  We don't respect them anyway, obviously.
[00:08:10]  So they said, you know what, we're still going to go meet with our friends.
[00:08:13]  So they went and met indoors in Los Angeles or in Camarillo or in San Francisco, where the virus is actually much more likely to spread.
[00:08:22]  Where in Florida, people said, let's go meet at this restaurant where the windows were open.
[00:08:26]  They were able to meet outside.
[00:08:28]  And by the way, the CDC has now, it was about a month and a half ago, the front page of the New York Times, basically the easiest way to epidemiologically make sure this virus doesn't spread, just open a window.
[00:08:38]  Basically is what every single study shows.
[00:08:41]  A little bit of natural airflow, all of a sudden, 98% of the spread of the Chinese coronavirus gets thwarted.
[00:08:48]  But what the central planners didn't realize is that people are going to meet anyway.
[00:08:52]  The lockdowns actually have the opposite of the intended purpose.
[00:08:56]  So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?
[00:09:04]  And Ron DeSantis said yes.
[00:09:08]  When there is no vision, the people perish.
[00:09:10]  That's actually a proverb.
[00:09:12]  And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.
[00:09:18]  I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.
[00:09:23]  Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.
[00:09:27]  Ron DeSantis, I think our, thank you.
[00:09:30]  Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.
[00:09:34]  This is why, and we were just talking about this last night.
[00:09:37]  We are far surpassing all these economic projections because the reopening is happening quicker than people could have possibly imagined.
[00:09:44]  It's because of one man.
[00:09:45]  And I'm not discounting the other states that opened alongside of it, but I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.
[00:09:51]  Florida's a battleground state.
[00:09:53]  Florida is a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.
[00:09:57]  There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.
[00:09:59]  Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?
[00:10:02]  Now, by the way, Governor Ducey, as we're here live on AM 960, The Answer in Arizona, and Governor Kemp in Georgia, they didn't deliver Georgia and Arizona for Trump.
[00:10:10]  In fact, they didn't deliver one Republican Senate seat for Republicans.
[00:10:15]  Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure, and he could have done the safe and easy thing.
[00:10:19]  Instead, Ron DeSantis said, we are reopening.
[00:10:21]  He got rewarded for that.
[00:10:23]  Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, more than any other Republican in recent memory.
[00:10:31]  Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership, not just milquetoast, vanilla pandering.
[00:10:40]  So Joe Biden is taking credit for something that I think Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump actually did.
[00:10:44]  Donald Trump on the vaccine production, but Ron DeSantis on the reopening.
[00:10:50]  And we're going to keep on diving into this because this is something that we must repeat because repetition is the soul of memory.
[00:10:57]  And without recognizing and realizing that what we are now seeing in front of us, which by the way is the envy of the world, an open economy, the ability to meet with your friends, we have to ask ourselves the question, how did this happen?
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[00:11:15]  History tells us this.
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[00:12:40]  What do you think the unemployment rate in Florida is and California?
[00:12:44]  In California, the unemployment rate is 8.5%.
[00:12:48]  8.5% in California.
[00:12:50]  Now, Governor Newsom, he's so dishonest.
[00:12:53]  He comes out and he says, We have cut the unemployment rate in half since last year.
[00:12:57]  Well, yeah, obviously you have.
[00:12:58]  It was 16%.
[00:13:00]  Now it's 8.5%.
[00:13:02]  Not exactly what I would consider to be a win, where Florida's unemployment rate is 4.7%, about half of that of California's.
[00:13:13]  So, Dr. Fauci, who should have been fired on day one, he's a pathological liar and has never cared about the totality of the livelihood of the American people.
[00:13:26]  And by the way, his epidemiological advice has been proven wrong at every single turn.
[00:13:32]  Whether it says don't wear masks and wear masks, he says that we need to reach 80% for herd immunity, then 90% for herd immunity.
[00:13:43]  The only thing he has ever said is just basically go lock down and keep yourself at home.
[00:13:47]  The first time we've ever entertained a long-term strategy of quarantine the healthy and the people that are not largely at risk when it comes to a certain virus.
[00:13:58]  Again, which actually goes to show it hurt the general health of the population.
[00:14:03]  Do you know that more young people under the age of 30 have committed suicide in California than have died from the Chinese coronavirus?
[00:14:09]  A massive increase.
[00:14:11]  And I encourage all of you, people say, Charlie, what do I do?
[00:14:14]  I encourage all of you to come very familiar with four letters: F-O-I-A.
[00:14:20]  FOIA.
[00:14:21]  It's called the Freedom of Information Request or Act.
[00:14:25]  Go FOIA your local county government for suicide statistics and then compare them year over year.
[00:14:31]  They're hiding this data intentionally, they're hiding it because it's not good.
[00:14:35]  And the states that have shut down, they have a lot of explaining to do why opioid and alcohol-related deaths have gone up, why all of a sudden we thought it was a good idea to quarantine the abused with their abusers.
[00:14:50]  Where we have seen childhood abuse gone up, where we have seen a nearly tripling in pharmaceutical distribution for antidepressants for children under the age of 10.
[00:15:03]  These are long-term damaging effects of something that we did to ourselves.
[00:15:10]  So Florida has a 4.7% unemployment rate, and California, an 8.5% unemployment rate.
[00:15:16]  Now, in the next couple segments, we're going to explore what's actually preventing the unemployment rate from going down even further, which I believe part of the stimulus package has been one of the most short-sighted ideas that we have decided to do, which is to pay people not to work, which is something we're seeing in low-wage industries all across the country.
[00:15:38]  But as we're seeing America reopen, we must understand this was not a certain thing.
[00:15:43]  This was not something that was a guarantee.
[00:15:48]  But Ron DeSantis led so early and so boldly, other states started to take notice.
[00:15:54]  And the fact he did that with the third most populated state in the country sent a message to the rest of the states, might be third or fourth most populated state.
[00:16:04]  The best stimulus Ron DeSantis has proven is reopening your economy.
[00:16:09]  It's not multi-trillions of dollars created of thin air from Washington, D.C., being spent on these unknown social infrastructure projects, pale in comparison with liberating the American entrepreneur.
[00:16:24]  Power shows the man and pressure shows the man.
[00:16:27]  Governor Newsom, who's now facing a recall fight, who's going to have to explain the fact that California, despite having a younger population than Florida, had a worth virus death rate and case rate, nearly double the unemployment and the structural issues that go alongside of it.
[00:16:46]  And so when you ask Ron DeSantis, why did he do this?
[00:16:49]  Did he have a vision in the middle of the night?
[00:16:51]  Was he clairvoyant?
[00:16:52]  Was he a spokesperson of a prophecy?
[00:16:54]  No, he actually has a pretty simple answer.
[00:16:57]  He decided to stop listening to Dr. Fauci and get experts to actually care about the data and science and not a politically driven vision for the country.
[00:17:07]  And he gave a very simple speech last May.
[00:17:10]  He said, look, we know who's at risk.
[00:17:11]  We have the second oldest population in Florida.
[00:17:14]  We're going to have them be the number one priority.
[00:17:17]  Our resources are going to go to the villages, Boca Raton, and retirement communities.
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[00:18:37]  I want to play some sound here of Stanford University's Jay Bhattachara, who said, quote, Governor Ron DeSantis is incredible.
[00:18:47]  I've never encountered a politician like him.
[00:18:49]  He's actually read all the literature.
[00:18:52]  Play cut 132.
[00:18:55]  But I just want to know, what is your impression of Ron DeSantis having interacted with him at least several times?
[00:19:02]  I mean, I've never met a politician like him.
[00:19:04]  He's extraordinary.
[00:19:05]  He called me out of the blue sometime in mid-September, like on a Sunday morning.
[00:19:12]  I'm not sure exactly I got my number, but he called me up and said, would you like to speak to Governor DeSantis?
[00:19:17]  I said, okay.
[00:19:18]  And he had read all, I mean, we had a two-hour conversation about COVID policy.
[00:19:23]  This is September of last year, right?
[00:19:25]  And he had read all the papers I referenced and not just my, I mean, not my work, but like lots and lots of other papers.
[00:19:30]  He knew all of the details.
[00:19:32]  It was a remarkable conversation.
[00:19:34]  And then we had this like roundtable on September 25th with Martin and Mike Levitt and with DeSantis leading it.
[00:19:40]  And the next day, he lifted most of the restrictions all across Florida.
[00:19:44]  I mean, there's this combination of like bravery, intellectual bravery, and also willingness to take a stand and sort of knowledge that I've never seen in a politician.
[00:19:54]  So there's Stanford University's Jay Battichara recounting that he just got a call from Ron DeSantis randomly on Sunday morning last year and just called them out of the blue and they talked for two hours about the data, about transmission rates, about mortality rates, all of it.
[00:20:13]  And Ron DeSantis really valued that conversation and reopened the Florida economy.
[00:20:19]  Cut 133, Professor Batachara says that he knew the science better than epidemiologists and any other politician.
[00:20:27]  This is a governor of Florida.
[00:20:29]  And by the way, for other Republican governors out there, like Governor DeWine from Ohio, who still has Ohio locked down, or Governor Baker, who's a Republican governor from Massachusetts, Ron DeSantis is making you guys look awfully silly.
[00:20:41]  Cut 133.
[00:20:43]  You know, he just knew that off the top of his head.
[00:20:45]  For all these people criticizing him for not following the science or governors or whatever, he could go up against any governor in the U.S., seems to me.
[00:20:52]  You go up against epidemiologists.
[00:20:54]  I mean, most epidemiologists don't know the literature as well as he does.
[00:20:57]  I mean, I just, I don't know if that's words.
[00:20:59]  I mean, I'm still stunned by it.
[00:21:00]  I didn't know anything about him, actually, before, you know, basically before September, really.
[00:21:06]  I've just been very impressed.
[00:21:07]  And not only that, let's not forget that Florida has hosted a Super Bowl and the UFC in just the last couple of months, successfully.
[00:21:18]  This goes to this theme, though, of leadership.
[00:21:21]  And we don't have a leader in the White House.
[00:21:23]  I don't even know what we have in D.C., but he's enjoying the benefits of a man of one of the largest states in the country who actually did what leaders are supposed to do, shut off cable television and make informed, rational, and courageous decisions.
[00:21:40]  George S. Patton had two great quotes when it came to this.
[00:21:45]  My favorite one is: lead, follow, or get out of the way.
[00:21:50]  My second favorite quote from George S. Patton is that moral courage is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.
[00:21:59]  It would have been easy to just slow everything down.
[00:22:03]  But liberty, once people get a taste of it, is awfully contagious.
[00:22:08]  And once they saw that Florida was reopening at such a rapid and successful rate, other governors did not want to get caught looking bad.
[00:22:17]  And now even the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, who is probably the worst mayor in the history of New York City, even he is succumbing to the pressure of fully reopening.
[00:22:30]  Governor Whitmer herself, who has Michigan locked down, found it just so irresistible that her team, I believe even her, went down and visited Florida recently.
[00:22:45]  That Governor Whitmer locked down all of Michigan, and her chief of staff came down to Florida and visit, but she wouldn't even open up Michigan herself.
[00:22:55]  At least we know that it works for her.
[00:22:58]  And so as we explore who is the leader of the Republican Party, it's easy to say it's Ron DeSantis.
[00:23:05]  And look, things can change and they change quickly.
[00:23:08]  However, the legacy of Ron DeSantis, whether he runs for higher office or not, and people are already looking at that, in my opinion, will forever be leading us away from this false lockdown abyss, this belief of safetyism instead of liberty.
[00:23:25]  Because it's hard.
[00:23:27]  It's hard to make these decisions.
[00:23:29]  And I have a montage I want to play for you here.
[00:23:31]  Cut 135.
[00:23:32]  For our studio audience here, they can't hear it.
[00:23:35]  But it's a news montage of people just going after Ron DeSantis, saying that he is recklessly going to kill his population, that he's not governing Florida correctly.
[00:23:46]  Cut 135.
[00:23:47]  Jim Crow textbook.
[00:23:49]  It's a constitutionally unjust bill.
[00:23:52]  Almost a slap in the face.
[00:23:54]  We want to make it loud and clear that this is not communist China.
[00:24:00]  This was fun.
[00:24:01]  You have just declared war on the First Amendment in the state of Florida.
[00:24:06]  So they're actually talking about here, which I wanted to get to in this news montage, a separate one, that about the anti-rioting bill that Ron DeSantis and Florida have put into law, which is terrific.
[00:24:16]  Every single Republican governor in the country should follow Ron DeSantis' lead on this.
[00:24:21]  By the way, let me not for, we can't forget.
[00:24:24]  Ron DeSantis has also signed an anti-critical race theory piece of legislation and executive order.
[00:24:30]  Why other states have not done that as well, I don't know.
[00:24:33]  He's about to sign pieces of legislation that punish tech companies for kicking conservatives off their platforms.
[00:24:39]  That bill is pending in front of the state House and Senate.
[00:24:43]  I'm not optimistic that that's going to get passed, but we'll see what happens.
[00:24:47]  Ron DeSantis has also championed charter schools.
[00:24:51]  And just so you know, Florida has the third or fourth highest educational output of any state in the country, despite having one of the lowest income populations of students and diverse and minority populations.
[00:25:07]  Ron DeSantis has also banned vaccine passports and said that he will not allow the federal government to come in and mandate passports and identification around that.
[00:25:17]  So if you think I'm doing too much on Ron DeSantis, first of all, I'm not.
[00:25:23]  But where are the other leaders, though?
[00:25:26]  It shouldn't.
[00:25:27]  Look, I want to just point out a couple of them.
[00:25:30]  A governor of Oklahoma, who's a great guy.
[00:25:32]  I met him when we did our Turning Point USA event.
[00:25:34]  He's about to sign in an anti-critical race theory bill that says that critical race theory will not be taught in the schools of Oklahoma, which is terrific.
[00:25:44]  And I think that those of us that want leadership are asking ourselves the question, why is every Republican House and Senate and governor in the country not acting as boldly?
[00:25:56]  And the answer is very clear.
[00:25:59]  It's because very few of them have the courage that Ron DeSantis has.
[00:26:02]  It's easier to be a milquetoast moderate.
[00:26:07]  But when you actually govern with courage and clarity, the voters reward you.
[00:26:13]  Let's play clip of 130.
[00:26:15]  This is UFC Dana White, who just says, look, if it wasn't for Ron DeSantis and Florida, UFC would not have been able to have that event.
[00:26:24]  Just so you know, there were 15,000 people in that event in Jacksonville, one of the most watched events.
[00:26:31]  This stuff is contagious once the model is put forward.
[00:26:35]  You want to know why Florida voted for Trump by 400,000 votes and we have two Democrat senators in Georgia?
[00:26:41]  Maybe there's a key component missing.
[00:26:43]  CUP 130, Dana White.
[00:26:45]  So it felt good to be here.
[00:26:47]  It felt good to have the mayor, the governor, and all these people working with us to put on a safe event and for people to come out and have fun.
[00:26:57]  It was awesome.
[00:26:58]  Now, what we want to do is we'll move all over Florida and do a lot of different cities in Florida to repay the governor of this state for everything he's done for us.
[00:27:10]  Now, the only concern that Florida has at this point is too many Democrats are going to move to Florida and forget why they moved there in the first place.
[00:27:18]  Is that the Miami mayor, God bless him, a Republican, and I have publicly spoken against him.
[00:27:23]  He says, we want all the New York firms.
[00:27:25]  No, you don't.
[00:27:26]  You do not want Goldman Sachs.
[00:27:28]  You do not want these major firms to come down to Florida because they bring their values with them.
[00:27:34]  But Florida is now really the state of the future.
[00:27:36]  It's a state that, quite honestly, California could have been and should have been.
[00:27:41]  It's a state that now, you know, as we're doing this in the beautiful hills of Texas, is Texas going to be a leader soon?
[00:27:46]  I hope so.
[00:27:46]  I really do.
[00:27:48]  Florida's running circles around Texas right now.
[00:27:50]  The anti-riot piece of legislation, the social media piece of legislation, the no vaccine passports, reopening, open schools and open businesses.
[00:28:02]  And Texas has done a nice job recently.
[00:28:03]  They've opened up, I have to say, but nowhere nearly as bold as what happened in Florida.
[00:28:10]  So people say, what do you want the Republican Party to stand for?
[00:28:14]  The great Phyllis Schlafly had a great quote.
[00:28:17]  In fact, it was the cover of her book, and she was largely responsible for destroying the Equal Rights Amendment, which was the opposite of actually the Equal Rights Amendment.
[00:28:25]  Anyway, she had a great quote.
[00:28:26]  She says, I prefer a choice, not an echo.
[00:28:30]  I would rather have bold contrasts instead of kind of the mushy middle.
[00:28:37]  I'd rather know exactly what people stand for and then be able to make an informed choice and decision from there.
[00:28:43]  And that should be a message for Republicans in Washington, D.C. There should be a clear signal sent that this idea of constantly pandering to the other side because we're afraid they're going to say bad things about us, they actually said to Ron DeSantis that he was going to sacrifice his population because he was reopening the state.
[00:29:04]  And now, of course, he has one of the largest influxes of people, of individuals across the country of outward migration because everyone wants to be there.
[00:29:14]  It's really called the Florida effect.
[00:29:18]  So as we're wrestling with who needs to run the Republican Party, who should be the spokesperson?
[00:29:24]  And, you know, Donald Trump may or may not run in 2024.
[00:29:27]  He even said that he might run with Ron DeSantis if he does run.
[00:29:31]  I think the question is less about who.
[00:29:33]  And the more important question is, what kind of qualities do they have?
[00:29:37]  We need more George Pattons and less Neville Chamberlains.
[00:29:41]  We need people that are not going to sue for peace and instead are going to clearly put forward a vision for success.
[00:29:48]  As I said clearly, it says it in the Bible, where there is no vision, the people perish.
[00:29:52]  And Ron DeSantis put forward a vision.
[00:29:54]  The vision was, I reject this idea of new normal, of wearing two masks when I shower, of having our children forever having to go to school on a laptop.
[00:30:05]  He rejected it.
[00:30:08]  He deserves the type of praise we are giving him here.
[00:30:12]  And I think the Republicans that are serious about winning elections, serious about actually delivering value for their constituents, need to not just take notice, but start implementing it.
[00:30:22]  And here's the thing: Florida used to be a battleground state.
[00:30:26]  You know that Democrats in Florida are giving up.
[00:30:28]  Democrats are basic, you know where Democrats are spending their money now?
[00:30:31]  Texas.
[00:30:33]  Democrats are more optimistic about Texas than Florida.
[00:30:37]  It's true.
[00:30:40]  And there's reasons for that.
[00:30:41]  Florida used to be a state you would win statewide by 10,000 votes.
[00:30:44]  Now, Trump won by 400,000 votes.
[00:30:48]  400,000 votes.
[00:30:50]  Ted Cruz didn't beat Beta O'Rourke by that much.
[00:30:52]  I could get the exact numbers.
[00:30:53]  I don't think it was 400,000.
[00:30:56]  It was thin, right?
[00:30:57]  It was maybe 150.
[00:30:58]  I'll get the numbers.
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[00:32:12]  Okay, so what's going on in Arizona?
[00:32:14]  So we are headquartered in Arizona, Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action, and the Charlie Kirk Show.
[00:32:19]  We have eyes and ears all on the ground in Arizona.
[00:32:21]  So if you're not aware, the Arizona Senate decided to do something rather remarkable.
[00:32:25]  They actually listened to their voters.
[00:32:27]  And the voters in Arizona are worried and terrified that the process in Arizona elections was not followed.
[00:32:34]  It took two weeks to get all the vote tabulation.
[00:32:36]  There were changes in voting centers.
[00:32:38]  And we've been following this very, very closely.
[00:32:42]  Now, the Democrats are trying to say that this is a partisan thing.
[00:32:45]  They're saying that this is a Trump loyalist pipe dream, which is a very bizarre line of reasoning because if they felt that this election was completely properly conducted, they would want the audit and they would say, of course, we'd be happy to audit it.
[00:32:58]  Go look at all the votes and all the tabulation and all the ballots and we'll prove we actually flipped Arizona.
[00:33:04]  But instead, the opposite is happening.
[00:33:06]  Instead, there's lawsuit after lawsuit being filed by Democrats and Democrat organizations, such as the Brennan Center for Justice, such as Perkins Coy, Protect Democracy in the Leadership Conference, and they're actually asking the Department of Justice, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, to get involved in this audit.
[00:33:26]  Now, what's happening in the audit?
[00:33:28]  A couple things.
[00:33:29]  They're testing the machines.
[00:33:30]  They're doing a spot check of some of these ballots to make sure that the voter registration records actually check with the actual ballots themselves.
[00:33:38]  And the state Democrats in Arizona are suing again to halt the audit.
[00:33:43]  And the judge agreed to do it if the plaintiffs posted a million-dollar bond, but the Democrats refused.
[00:33:49]  So now a new judge has taken over the case.
[00:33:52]  Now, people are asking, what has the audit found?
[00:33:55]  We don't know.
[00:33:55]  All we know is that the Democrats are almost hourly filing motions to dismiss of this audit to actually take place.
[00:34:03]  But here's just a guess and a conjecture: there is going to be something that is found here that will warrant further investigation.
[00:34:11]  The fact of how quick this audit is happening, I don't think we're going to find the totality of what I think is the greatest vulnerability in our election system, which is mass mail-in voting that happens without you know who gets the ballot, who submits it, who's filling it in with shaky and questionable voter registration.
[00:34:31]  Now, the new judge who has taken over this case is a Democrat, and they were able to get the other judge to step down on a technical error because Cyber Ninjas, the firm that was overseeing the audit, had one of their employees that externed with the judge, and they considered that to be a conflict of interest.
[00:34:48]  The judge stepped down.
[00:34:49]  That's what happens when you deal with very high-priced attorneys and lawyers.
[00:34:53]  They file motions to dismiss.
[00:34:55]  They try to paper this thing to death before you're actually able to find a conclusion.
[00:34:59]  Now, Cyber Ninjas, kind of a fun name, they're the ones overseeing the audit.
[00:35:04]  They have said today they plan to release a report within 60 days.
[00:35:08]  Now, let me be very clear: the audit is not going to be used to reverse the election results.
[00:35:14]  And the state senators have said that it can't be.
[00:35:16]  However, the Republicans in the Arizona State Senate say that the audit is simply a means of restoring voters' confidence in the elections process and finding out if there are any irregularities.
[00:35:27]  And look, we all know this.
[00:35:28]  In Arizona, I can't tell you how many people came up to me.
[00:35:31]  They said, Charlie, I got a ballot that I did not request sent to me from my home.
[00:35:34]  Now, the New York Times used to be very worried about this practice.
[00:35:37]  They called this practice ballot laundering.
[00:35:40]  Anyone else?
[00:35:40]  Anyone ever see the movie Ozark or the show Ozark on Netflix?
[00:35:44]  It's a fun show.
[00:35:45]  It's basically this guy, Marty Bird.
[00:35:48]  He launders money in a very sophisticated way.
[00:35:51]  There are people out there that are not, let's say, they're not above the question of being the idea of morally going after people's ballots and submitting them without permission or engaging in that kind of practice.
[00:36:08]  I know that in Georgia, when I did an event in Georgia, I asked an audience, I said, who here got a ballot that they did not request?
[00:36:14]  And almost every single hand went up in the state of Georgia.
[00:36:18]  And I know even in Texas, that's true as well.
[00:36:20]  So the question is: this: Are we going to put in the safeguards and the practices and find out what actually happened?
[00:36:25]  But you can tell by the Democrats' response in Arizona that there is something here.
[00:36:30]  You can tell that either it would be on the voter registration side, on the tabulation side, or the signature verification side, that this was not conducted 100% properly.
[00:36:39]  So the audit is staying on schedule.
[00:36:41]  We have our eyes and ears on the ground of what's happening in Arizona, and we are going to get to the bottom of it.
[00:36:47]  You know, a lot of people ask me, they say, what can we do?
[00:36:53]  What is the step and the course of action to be taken at this moment?
[00:36:56]  Well, something that I think is always a good rule is that you need to form groups that gather to try to make an impact on a local community.
[00:37:05]  So we were just talking recently about how certain schools are passing critical race theory, passing these ridiculous mask mandates.
[00:37:12]  I'm a big believer that if you get people physically in the room together, just as the American Revolution was largely launched thanks to this idea of the tavern, where it was physically in the room together.
[00:37:26]  And, you know, we saw this back in 2009 and 2010 with the Tea Party movement, where the Tea Party movement was large in part thanks to Tea Party groups across the country starting and growing from there.
[00:37:40]  But it really needs to be kind of a mindset shift for conservatives, which is that we have to take this more seriously than other things that we've cared about before.
[00:37:51]  And Democrats have always cared more about being in activism or involvement than we have.
[00:37:58]  And they've always put a preference on that over building families or building businesses or building churches.
[00:38:04]  For a lot of conservatives, that's not something we're comfortable with.
[00:38:07]  It's something we'd say we would much rather just build our business and hang out with our friends.
[00:38:11]  But now we're seeing the country deteriorate around us.
[00:38:16]  And some of us that are conservatives have hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.
[00:38:24]  At some point, they were going to say, you know what?
[00:38:28]  Maybe we've gone too far.
[00:38:30]  No, this is just the beginning of their plans.
[00:38:32]  This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.
[00:38:38]  And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.
[00:38:44]  You see, what they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.
[00:38:51]  They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.
[00:38:56]  A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.
[00:39:01]  Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?
[00:39:05]  Where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.
[00:39:09]  And most of those fact-checks, fact-checks, were basically critiques of nuance and context.
[00:39:16]  They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front-page fact-checking.
[00:39:21]  But they've disbanded their fact-checking division because who needs to fact-check Joe Biden?
[00:39:26]  Who they want to be put in place.
[00:39:29]  But here's the thing that I think we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country, and I'm just going to start doing this right after, I'd say late May, early June, which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.
[00:39:47]  You know, conservatives, we tend to try to make peace, build relationships, build bridges.
[00:39:53]  When you think about it, the kind of activistic mindset requires some sort of an adversarial approach.
[00:40:02]  No one could build a business that way.
[00:40:04]  And so, people that are self-made and people that have built families, you tend to try to find common ground and try to lessen the division.
[00:40:14]  Unfortunately, we have to be more disagreeable at this point.
[00:40:18]  We now have to say, you're not going to teach critical race theory to my child.
[00:40:22]  In fact, I had someone come up to me in Hill Country, Texas yesterday and show me that in a Catholic school, they are teaching eight and nine-year-olds glowingly that Karl Marx is a wonderful figure, that Karl Marx, I saw it myself.
[00:40:36]  And most parents are stunned.
[00:40:37]  They say, well, what can we do?
[00:40:40]  Well, this was decades of work to even get that point of curriculum taught to kids because they view things.
[00:40:46]  It's this, there is a communist revolutionary back in the 40s and 50s by the name of Rudy.
[00:40:51]  I can't remember his last name.
[00:40:52]  We'll look it up.
[00:40:53]  Where he said that we leftists, we believe in the long march through the institutions.
[00:40:59]  In fact, I'm going to find this clip here of, I believe it was Khrushchev.
[00:41:06]  We'll find the Khrushchev or, no, it wouldn't be Gorbachev, it'd be Khrushchev, who said that your children's children are going to be Marxists in America because you Americans have no idea what it means to have intergenerational fights.
[00:41:21]  You guys are going to enjoy the spoils of the free market system, and we're going to use that against you.
[00:41:28]  You know, one of my friends right here from Chicago listening on AM560, The Answer, he just emailed me.
[00:41:33]  He said, the Democrats have declared war on our kids.
[00:41:36]  That's right.
[00:41:37]  And I'm going to be very honest with you.
[00:41:38]  I've said this before.
[00:41:40]  I'm surprised that parents haven't risen up more at this point.
[00:41:43]  I'm shocked that there has not been more of a take back effort.
[00:41:47]  And that goes to show there's a couple dynamics at play here.
[00:41:51]  We seek to be agreeable.
[00:41:54]  It's hard to go in to the synagogue and start throwing over tables when you start to see things that aren't supposed to happen.
[00:42:05]  It's tough to do that.
[00:42:08]  It's hard to want to take public stands around this stuff.
[00:42:11]  I get it.
[00:42:12]  In fact, you might lose friends, you might lose business.
[00:42:17]  But at this point, the question you should ask yourself: what is my line?
[00:42:21]  What is the line that I draw when I say no more?
[00:42:25]  I think that line is already largely here.
[00:42:27]  So I want to play tape here, which is there's this professor at a college in California, a community college.
[00:42:37]  We do have that tape.
[00:42:37]  All right, let's play that tape, please.
[00:42:39]  I think cops are heroes and they have to have a difficult job, but we have to have not, I mean, I'd say a good majority of them.
[00:42:48]  I do support our police, and we have bad people, and the people that do bad things should be brought to justice.
[00:42:53]  I agree with that.
[00:42:54]  You're saying police officers should be revered, viewed as heroes.
[00:42:58]  I belong on TV shows with children.
[00:43:01]  I think they are heroes in a sense because they come to your need and they come and help you.
[00:43:05]  They're actually supposed to protect and serve the people.
[00:43:07]  They do protect us.
[00:43:09]  Who do we call when we're in trouble and someone has a knife or a gun?
[00:43:12]  I wouldn't call the police.
[00:43:14]  Why wouldn't you call the police?
[00:43:15]  I don't trust them.
[00:43:17]  My life's in more danger in their presence.
[00:43:20]  Professor, who would you call?
[00:43:21]  I wouldn't call anybody.
[00:43:23]  Oh my goodness.
[00:43:24]  So if you say, what am I listening to?
[00:43:27]  This is a professor.
[00:43:28]  We're going to get to college here.
[00:43:30]  And this young kid on the Zoom call is being berated by his professor because he said cops are generally a good force for society.
[00:43:38]  And she just starts screaming at him.
[00:43:40]  How dare you believe that?
[00:43:42]  This is happening in classrooms all across the country.
[00:43:46]  Parents are subsidizing this and they're paying for this.
[00:43:50]  Cypress College in California.
[00:43:52]  And he's a pretty wise guy.
[00:43:53]  He says, well, professor, who would you call when something bad happened?
[00:43:56]  She says, I wouldn't call the police.
[00:43:57]  I wouldn't call anyone.
[00:43:58]  She's lying.
[00:43:59]  Of course she would call the police.
[00:44:02]  And yet this is a professor who singled him out.
[00:44:04]  She said, does anyone disagree?
[00:44:06]  He said, I do.
[00:44:06]  And she just berated him, and he stood the line wonderfully.
[00:44:08]  We're going to get the kid's name.
[00:44:10]  We're going to get the professor's name.
[00:44:11]  Who are we?
[00:44:11]  We are going to add to our professor watch list at Turning Point USA, professorwatchlist.org.
[00:44:16]  About time we start naming the names of these apparatchiks that are indoctrinating our children.
[00:44:21]  But we need dramatic action, everybody.
[00:44:23]  And the left, they no longer, they are not shy.
[00:44:26]  We are dealing with a new political organization in America.
[00:44:32]  They think they got us.
[00:44:34]  You know what Nancy Pelosi said today?
[00:44:37]  This should be, this either is her being completely confused, or maybe she's saying the private part out loud.
[00:44:46]  Maybe she thinks, maybe she knows something we don't know.
[00:44:48]  Pelosi, I feel very confident the Democrats will hold the majority after the next election.
[00:44:54]  She said that on CBS this morning.
[00:44:57]  She said, elections are always a contest and you see what happens in them.
[00:45:00]  But I feel very confident the Democrats will hold the majority.
[00:45:02]  I think that we're, for all the huffing and puffing the Republicans are doing, the numbers, we're not as good as they'd hoped for.
[00:45:07]  I'm talking about the new maps.
[00:45:10]  She says, I'm very confident we're going to keep the house.
[00:45:12]  Now, maybe she's just blustering and saying that.
[00:45:16]  Or maybe Democrats are so confident because they control every major institution of power in our country.
[00:45:23]  And here's the thing that I hope Republicans and conservatives start to realize.
[00:45:27]  The people are on our side.
[00:45:29]  If Joe Biden had this massive amount of support, why did 11 million people tune into his speech and 39 million people tuned into Donald Trump's speech?
[00:45:39]  If everyone supported the kind of cultural norms that they're pushing, why is it that the Oscars two years ago had 23 million viewers and this year had 9 million viewers?
[00:45:48]  There's more people at home than ever before.
[00:45:49]  Wouldn't you think more people would be watching this nonsense?
[00:45:53]  No, this is something the great Rush Limbaugh taught me when I spent time with him, which is look at the things that are not always reflected in public polling.
[00:46:00]  Look at the things that are leading indicators.
[00:46:05]  I believe firmly that 80% of the American people are with us.
[00:46:10]  I think that a 20% minority that happens to be angrier and louder than the rest of us is now governing us.
[00:46:16]  It is the tyranny of the minority.
[00:46:19]  We are being governed by people that are willing to walk into restaurants and scream till they get what they want.
[00:46:24]  We're being governed with people that are willing to go dress up as Antifa with weapons, which, by the way, I'm happy to report, I had to cancel one of my, I didn't cancel it, Pastor Roger Archer, sweet man, I was supposed to speak at a church on Seattle.
[00:46:37]  It ties right together.
[00:46:38]  And he had to cancel because law enforcement called him and they said 1,300 Antifa people are going to come and possibly burn down your neighborhood.
[00:46:45]  And he decided to cancel.
[00:46:47]  Happy to report, we have a new church we're going to that is hosting us and it's going to be great.
[00:46:52]  And we're not going to allow this idea that if you get enough people in the streets with weapons, you can dictate what we're going to do.
[00:47:00]  The point is this, is that there's actually more of us than them.
[00:47:06]  That decent Americans, they're so concerned with paying the rent and raising their kids that it's going to happen as the wonderful Ernest Hemingway said so many times, gradually than suddenly.
[00:47:20]  So let's tie this all together.
[00:47:22]  How do big things start with one courageous person?
[00:47:25]  The world is reopening thanks to Ron DeSantis.
[00:47:28]  What's the one thing you could be doing right now that might start a movement in your local community, in your local area, that can have ramifications, maybe nationally.
[00:47:39]  And school boards are a perfect place to start.
[00:47:41]  These people have never been challenged before.
[00:47:43]  Most people don't know their school board members.
[00:47:45]  And I'm going to start showing up to school board meetings across the country.
[00:47:48]  I'm going to go back to District 214, where I went to high school in the suburbs of Chicago, a multiracial high school.
[00:47:54]  And I'm going to ask why critical race theory is now being taught in District 214, where when I used to go to school, we used to get along regardless of all this hyper-racialized nonsense.
[00:48:03]  I was looking for this and I finally found it.
[00:48:05]  I remember reading this years ago from the congressional record January 10th, 1963, which was a hearing in the House of Representatives of what are the communists' goals in America.
[00:48:17]  I don't like that term communist because people hear it and they immediately say, oh, that's just, there's no one that's actually a communist.
[00:48:23]  I completely disagree with that.
[00:48:24]  Let's instead, I'm going to replace communist in this document that they published with totalitarians.
[00:48:31]  I think that's just a fair way to put it.
[00:48:33]  Okay?
[00:48:34]  Let's just say that.
[00:48:35]  So these were their stated goals in 1963.
[00:48:39]  Some of them are not as applicable.
[00:48:41]  Some of them are about like denuclearization and stuff.
[00:48:43]  But let's go into this.
[00:48:44]  Someone actually emailed me this, and I love our listeners.
[00:48:48]  Rusty did.
[00:48:50]  And it's from W. Cleon Skousen, an FBI agent that was in charge of this.
[00:48:56]  And by the way, everyone likes to go after Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin.
[00:49:00]  There was some truth to what McCarthy was talking about.
[00:49:02]  It's an unpopular thing to say, but McCarthy was worried about an infiltration of our values and our systems from a Marxist totalitarian nature.
[00:49:12]  How about this?
[00:49:15]  Number 18, gain control of all student newspapers.
[00:49:20]  Number 19, remember, this is 1963.
[00:49:22]  This is how long they've been working on this.
[00:49:25]  Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under attack.
[00:49:31]  Infiltrate the press and the media.
[00:49:34]  Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, and public policymaking positions.
[00:49:40]  Cut 21, goal 21.
[00:49:43]  Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
[00:49:47]  Goal 22, continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.
[00:49:54]  As an American totalitarian cell was once told to, quote, eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings.
[00:50:00]  Substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms, meaning put meaningless art in.
[00:50:09]  Number 23, control art critics and directions of art museums.
[00:50:14]  Goal number 24, eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship.
[00:50:22]  Number 25, break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and television.
[00:50:35]  Number 26, promote homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy.
[00:50:41]  Number 27, infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion.
[00:50:49]  Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a religious crutch.
[00:50:55]  Number 28, eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the ground that it violates the principles of separation in church and state.
[00:51:03]  Number 29, discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
[00:51:14]  Number 30, discredit the American founders.
[00:51:17]  Present them with selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.
[00:51:21]  Now, if you're just tuning in, I am reading from the congressional record of what the communists in 1963 aimed to do.
[00:51:28]  I wonder if it's resonating with anything that's happening now.
[00:51:31]  Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture.
[00:51:40]  Give more emphasis to history since the communists took over.
[00:51:47]  Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of culture, education, social agencies, or welfare programs.
[00:51:57]  Of course, this is one of my favorites.
[00:52:00]  Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
[00:52:04]  Amazing.
[00:52:07]  Continues by saying, Number 40: Discredit the family as an institution.
[00:52:15]  Encourage promiscuity and easy separation.
[00:52:20]  Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of their parents.
[00:52:24]  Now, I'm going to stop here.
[00:52:27]  There's one that this one always gets me.
[00:52:30]  What is the common through line of communist and Marxist countries?
[00:52:36]  All of them must break the bond between parents and children.
[00:52:40]  You know, it's the only one of the Ten Commandments with a promise in it: honor your mother and father so that you may live long and prosper in the land of which you are in.
[00:52:52]  There's a reason why you ever hear the phrase mother Russia before.
[00:52:56]  It's because Russia came in and they said, Your true mother is the nation, is the state, is the government, not your actual parents.
[00:53:03]  Orwell famously wrote in 1984 that parents were afraid of their children.
[00:53:10]  So, as you see here, number 40, discredit the family as an institution.
[00:53:16]  Boy, do we see that happening?
[00:53:17]  And if only we had a website, BLM Incorporated, that says, quote, they want to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
[00:53:25]  We're playing in their game, everybody.
[00:53:27]  This is their game, their rules, their goals, their aims, their desires.
[00:53:34]  I think it's very telling to actually look through this list and see it.
[00:53:38]  So, the question is: what do we do about it?
[00:53:40]  Well, part of what we're doing is this program in the show because truth and information and knowledge is one of the few things we have on our side.
[00:53:48]  We have truth, they do not.
[00:53:49]  They have the lust for power.
[00:53:53]  However, as Aristotle famously said, you can have integrity, truth, joy, compassion, but without courage, none of those other things actually matter.
[00:54:02]  Courage is the value that ties all those other virtues together.
[00:54:08]  And this is going to go down as when historians write about the 2020s, they're going to either write one of two things: that the American generation that benefited so much from this promise and this experiment decided to do nothing or little when it mattered most.
[00:54:26]  That's what historians are going to write 50 years from now, because that's basically what it's coming down to.
[00:54:31]  The people that have benefited so dramatically and so tremendously are basically most are saying, you know what?
[00:54:40]  We're going to let this play out.
[00:54:42]  Now, believing something and voting is no longer going to be enough.
[00:54:47]  We need our stated goals.
[00:54:48]  We need our 2021 list of we are going to rebuild the American family.
[00:54:54]  We want more American-born children.
[00:54:57]  We want church rates to go up.
[00:54:59]  We want business rates and entrepreneurship to increase.
[00:55:01]  Of course, they want kids to go to college.
[00:55:03]  Of course, they want college to be free.
[00:55:05]  Their goal right here was to take over the colleges.
[00:55:08]  Of course, they do.
[00:55:11]  But the people are actually still with us, which goes to show how bad their ideas are.
[00:55:14]  The fact they have not been able to dominate the American psyche shows that their ideas are actually really unpopular and immoral when they're implemented.
[00:55:22]  The fact that there is now a push to reopen the country and not stay locked down is a very positive thing.
[00:55:29]  Now, our leaders are doing everything they possibly can to not make this happen.
[00:55:34]  There are people right now in the hill country of Texas, where I guarantee you you guys are dealing with this running the restaurant, where people are like, I'm getting unemployment stimulus checks.
[00:55:41]  Why should I go wait tables?
[00:55:43]  Do you know that at McDonald's in Orlando, Florida, they're paying you $50 to show up for an interview?
[00:55:50]  Just for the interview, $50, cash, and they still can't find enough workers.
[00:55:55]  The leaders are doing everything they can to try and destroy something very simple, which is earned success and deferred gratification and responsibility in our country.
[00:56:09]  And the fact that they have not been able to win totally yet should give everyone credit.
[00:56:15]  But you see, cut 60 right here, number 60.
[00:56:19]  Discredit the American founders, present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.
[00:56:25]  Why is that important?
[00:56:26]  Why should we be more interested in American history?
[00:56:30]  Because it's actually built into our human nature and into who we are as citizens to care about how we got here.
[00:56:43]  If you have no connection to how you got here, then why even preserve this nation at all?
[00:56:49]  Says here, number 29, discredit the American Constitution, calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, and a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
[00:57:02]  So these fights that we get into over whether or not the statue should be taken down, whether or not we should have prayer in schools, these are all ones that they realize are actually binds that tie us all together.
[00:57:14]  So here's what I submit: no more playing defense.
[00:57:17]  No more saying that America is not a racist country.
[00:57:20]  Instead, we should say, we're the most benevolent, open-minded country ever to exist.
[00:57:23]  And if you don't agree with that, you're the bigot.
[00:57:25]  We're not.
[00:57:25]  It's time to play offense.
[00:57:27]  An offensive mindset is what needs to come in.
[00:57:30]  Every one of these things, we're playing defense.
[00:57:32]  Don't you feel that way?
[00:57:32]  It's always just managing ever-eroding territory.
[00:57:36]  So people say, what can I do?
[00:57:37]  Time to take new terrain is what we have to do and build new stuff.
[00:57:41]  No, we're going to go take back this place that was infiltrated by leftists.
[00:57:47]  Because here's the thing.
[00:57:49]  Our ideas, once they are spread, are immensely popular.
[00:57:52]  The missing link is the courage link.
[00:57:56]  The missing link is that one person, and albeit maybe trembling with their voice to speak out.
[00:58:00]  And I get it, it's hard because the left controls the most powerful tool in American politics.
[00:58:08]  You know what that is?
[00:58:09]  They get to call you a racist.
[00:58:12]  It's a really powerful thing.
[00:58:13]  It's a paralytic.
[00:58:15]  You just, I'll do whatever you want.
[00:58:18]  They control that.
[00:58:19]  So because of that, decent Americans think of themselves as not being racist or bigoted, and they start questioning and they're afraid.
[00:58:29]  And they say, man, I don't want to be called that.
[00:58:31]  I don't want to lose my friends.
[00:58:33]  They're going to say those things no matter what.
[00:58:37]  They're going to call you those names.
[00:58:39]  Just look at Senator Tim Scott.
[00:58:42]  How they treated him was so morally reprehensible.
[00:58:45]  Allowing Uncle Tim to trend on Twitter, which is a racial insult towards black Americans.
[00:58:51]  Of course, Twitter gets away with that, but they don't even allow the most minor conservative trend to spread on Twitter.
[00:58:59]  Gain control and key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
[00:59:05]  Have you seen a television show that is not filled with not-so-subtle leftist propaganda?
[00:59:10]  Have you seen what your children are watching on Disney Plus?
[00:59:15]  Nickelodeon just released a seven-minute video on how oil and gas and natural development, development of our resources, environmental racism, and we have to keep it all on the ground.
[00:59:24]  That's Nickelodeon, everybody.
[00:59:27]  So people say, Charlie, what's a good business idea?
[00:59:29]  Whoever gets into, I don't know, creating child content that isn't woke is going to be a billionaire in the next five years.
[00:59:37]  Just children's books, children's movies, because parents are saying, I turn on my television and my kids are getting exposed.
[00:59:45]  Cardi B is considered to be the utmost idol for young Americans.
[00:59:52]  So there are promising trends.
[00:59:54]  The parents rising up in Vail, Colorado, that parent who spoke out in Florida, Ron DeSantis, other governors following suit, the governor of Oklahoma, who's about to sign into the bill of critical race theory.
[01:00:05]  And Ron DeSantis today just came out and he said, I will sign a bill that protects female sports, that says that men who think they are women are not allowed, our live audience likes that to compete in female sports.
[01:00:21]  Put simply, conservatives got to be conservatives have to play offense and not apologize for it.
[01:00:28]  They'll call you names and they'll smear you and they'll try to slander you, but do not allow them to take us off, reclaiming this country.
[01:00:39]  Cut 147, Yuri Bezmanov, who was a Soviet agent, warning Americans: you guys have no idea what you're doing.
[01:00:46]  You guys are happy idiots as the Soviets are taking you over.
[01:00:49]  Play tape.
[01:00:50]  I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic.
[01:00:54]  It sells more deodorants through the advertising, probably.
[01:00:57]  That's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers.
[01:01:04]  But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all.
[01:01:11]  According to my opinion and opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such.
[01:01:23]  The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, actini mirpriatia, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare.
[01:01:36]  What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that, despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.
[01:01:58]  Cut 148, Yuri Bezmanov, Soviet dissident, says we need 15 to 20 years of patriotic education to reverse it.
[01:02:06]  This is a Soviet guy who says it's going to take 15 to 20 years of a reinstallation of values.
[01:02:12]  And he was, actually, that's 149.
[01:02:14]  We'll go 148, then 149.
[01:02:15]  Play tape.
[01:02:16]  It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and it's divided in four basic stages.
[01:02:26]  The first one being demoralization.
[01:02:28]  It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.
[01:02:31]  Why that many years?
[01:02:33]  Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy.
[01:02:47]  In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.
[01:03:01]  The result, the result you can see, most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system.
[01:03:16]  You are stuck with them.
[01:03:18]  And then cut 149.
[01:03:20]  In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.
[01:03:27]  To get rid society of these people, you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society.
[01:03:48]  So what he's saying right there is that without patriotic education, the country is lost.
[01:03:57]  And he says it takes 50 or 60 years to deteriorate a nation.
[01:04:00]  We are right on that 60 years later right now.
[01:04:04]  He called it, and he mysteriously died in Canada as he was a Soviet dissident.
[01:04:08]  This guy was a Soviet dissident, Yuri Bezmanov, who is showing us the playbook, saying, this is what's happening to you.
[01:04:13]  You have a wealthy, free nation, but it's going to take a couple generations.
[01:04:17]  And right here, this is actually the 60-year mark since he has defected, right as he called it.
[01:04:24]  So as we wrap this all together, understand the power of one person acting with truth and courage.
[01:04:29]  We need dramatic action.
[01:04:31]  That's what we're doing every single day at Turning Point USA.
[01:04:33]  And no one person is going to save this thing themselves.
[01:04:37]  We actually have to do something the left does very well.
[01:04:39]  We have to work cooperatively.
[01:04:42]  It's not just going to be a bunch of individuals.
[01:04:44]  We have to work as a team, as a movement.
[01:04:48]  And I'll end with this.
[01:04:49]  The left is terrified we're going to wake up.
[01:04:52]  This is why they are preemptively striking us.
[01:04:54]  This is why they're trying to force HR1.
[01:04:57]  They know that if Americans awaken, their ideas are unpopular and they're going to lose.
[01:05:02]  We are now playing on their terms.
[01:05:04]  It's time to start having them play on ours.
[01:05:07]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
[01:05:09]  Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[01:05:11]  And again, get involved with Turning Point USA.
[01:05:13]  God bless you guys.
[01:05:14]  Speak to you soon.