The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 76: Can Biden Be Removed from Office? Can Vaccine Prevent Transmission? A Down Side to Civil Rights Movement?  And MORE!
Aired: 2021-08-23
Duration: 43:01


=== Public Policy and Homeschooling (10:50) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, happy Monday.
[00:00:01]  I take your questions on a variety of different issues.
[00:00:04]  What's the downside of the Civil Rights Act?
[00:00:07]  Are you even allowed to talk about that?
[00:00:09]  We talk about forced vaccinations and the erosion of private property.
[00:00:15]  We talk a little bit about anarcho-tyranny and also are cops killing blacks at a disproportionate rate.
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[00:02:14]  Hi, Charlie.
[00:02:15]  My question is geared towards homeschooling.
[00:02:17]  Right now, my two children are in public school, but if they begin to mandate a vaccine in New York, I'm going to have to homeschool them.
[00:02:23]  Do you have any recommendations for Christian homeschooling or how to even get started?
[00:02:28]  Well, I want to, of course, first talk about our partnership that we have with Hillsdale College.
[00:02:32]  They do an amazing job.
[00:02:34]  And you guys can check it out at charlieforhillsdale.com.
[00:02:38]  You know, a lot of people say, Charlie, how do you kind of have the range of topics that you have?
[00:02:44]  Well, I discovered the Hillsdale online courses.
[00:02:47]  I've had the opportunity to get to know Dr. Larry Arn rather well.
[00:02:51]  And I started to take these online courses and I realized that our shows became more interesting, that my ability to predict what was happening came easier, to see things with clarity, because if you study things that came before you that are ancient, that are real, and that are true, then all of a sudden you're able to view history.
[00:03:10]  You're able to view what happens right now without some sort of polluted lens.
[00:03:14]  So, for example, I have completed Intro to the Constitution, Constitution 101, and Aristotle's Ethics, and I'm almost done.
[00:03:21]  I know it's been a couple of weeks of me saying this, but it's been a pretty intense course.
[00:03:26]  Intro into Western philosophy, which is amazing.
[00:03:29]  I finished the great American story, Land of Hope, with Dr. McClay that you guys can get right there at charlieforhillsdale.com.
[00:03:36]  And here are just some of the other courses that if you want to homeschool your kids, first, you should take these courses and get a grasp of these.
[00:03:42]  But if you just teach off the homeschool online courses at charlieforhillsdale.com, your children will have a much higher likelihood of loving the nation, loving the Lord, and really having wisdom.
[00:03:55]  So, for example, there's public policy from a constitutional viewpoint.
[00:03:59]  The U.S. Supreme Court, an introduction to C.S. Lewis, Writings and Significance, Winston Churchill and Statesmanship, the Federalist Papers, a proper understanding of K-12 education theory and practice, great books from the Renaissance to modern, and the presidency and the Constitution, and great books 101.
[00:04:20]  So these are all phenomenal ways.
[00:04:22]  And more specifically, another link that I'm going to plug that if you guys want to see some of their curriculum, it's a hard link to kind of write down.
[00:04:29]  It's k12.hillsdale.edu is another great link that you could check out for specific curriculum, the 1776 curriculum.
[00:04:39]  It's k12.hillsdale.edu.
[00:04:42]  But let me just say this: that your children should be diving into things that came long before them.
[00:04:48]  One of the problems with college in America is that it teaches you that if it was not taught in your lifetime, then you shouldn't, if it wasn't written in your lifetime, you shouldn't study it.
[00:04:59]  We don't believe that.
[00:05:00]  We, as conservatives, as constitutionalists, believe that there's beauty and wisdom in tradition.
[00:05:06]  We believe that nature is the norm.
[00:05:08]  We believe in things that do not change.
[00:05:10]  Wisdom is the knowledge of things that do not change.
[00:05:13]  And our college system and our school system, when you send your kids to public and government schools, they don't teach you those things.
[00:05:19]  They teach you things that are constantly changing, such as gender norms and transgenderism.
[00:05:25]  Instead, search out writers and thinkers that have written about who human beings are.
[00:05:31]  What is truth?
[00:05:32]  What is love?
[00:05:32]  What is beauty?
[00:05:33]  What is courage?
[00:05:34]  Contemplation, friendship.
[00:05:35]  These are things that will make young people develop character, which comes from the Greek word tattoo or imprint or kind of within your soul.
[00:05:46]  Development of character is the most important thing our school system should do.
[00:05:51]  And it doesn't always do that.
[00:05:52]  I would rather have C students with character than A students with cowardice.
[00:05:56]  The United States Senate right now is full of A students that are cowardly.
[00:06:03]  And the nation will be saved by A student, C students, whatever.
[00:06:07]  The point is that the pursuit of just getting grades for grades' sake has made our nation in moral decline.
[00:06:16]  And so I know a lot of people are thinking about homeschooling.
[00:06:18]  I want to reiterate those two links if you want to check it out.
[00:06:20]  It's k12hillsdale.edu and also charlieforhillsdale.com.
[00:06:26]  Parents should take these classes.
[00:06:28]  And I want to say one other thing about the homeschooling thing.
[00:06:30]  If you are not prepared to homeschool right now, maybe it's just too much time and you just are working a job and it's just not for you, then spend one hour a week.
[00:06:38]  Here's my challenge for you: spend one hour a week where you get to teach your children something that you learned from these Hillsdale online courses.
[00:06:46]  Maybe it's Sunday at 5 p.m. right before after dinner.
[00:06:50]  And you sit down and you say, okay, we are going to talk about Alexander Hamilton.
[00:06:54]  We're going to talk about George Washington.
[00:06:56]  You might say, look, I don't know anything about that.
[00:06:59]  Well, that's why we've partnered with Hillsdale, where you can learn so much in a short period of time.
[00:07:03]  And there's little quizzes after that.
[00:07:04]  CharlieForhillsdale.com.
[00:07:06]  We need to double the homeschooling population in our country quickly.
[00:07:10]  Okay, Erica.
[00:07:12]  I like the name Erica.
[00:07:13]  It's my wife's name.
[00:07:14]  As you may know, New Mexico has reinstated the mask mandate.
[00:07:19]  And I think we're on the brink of another lockdown, if not nationally state-mandated.
[00:07:23]  My question is: how can we stand up for our right to not wear masks or not get vaccinated when it comes to the public?
[00:07:30]  How do we handle businesses that are enforcing the mandate without attacking the employee of businesses personally?
[00:07:37]  From Erica, which is a beautiful name, I have to say.
[00:07:40]  This is a tough one.
[00:07:41]  Unfortunately, courts have really, in my opinion, they have abdicated their duty and their responsibility to stand up for private enterprise.
[00:07:55]  Now, if there's a book I had to recommend that talks about how private business basically no longer was private business, and it details it in such a factual way, the media hates this book.
[00:08:06]  It is a thought crime book, is Age of Entitlement by Christopher Caldwell.
[00:08:12]  And this book goes through in great detail about how after the Civil Rights Act that was passed, it created a new regime where all of a sudden the federal government and governments had the right to go into private businesses and tell them what to do.
[00:08:26]  Now, that's not to say the Civil Rights Act was a mistake.
[00:08:28]  I'm not saying that.
[00:08:29]  I'm saying that the unintended consequences of the rush to market, the monstrosity of the bill, if you actually read the bill, there are five components of the Civil Rights Act, and some that have very little to do with civil rights.
[00:08:42]  There's Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, and Title VI is all about enforcement.
[00:08:48]  And this is a really important point, which obviously the goal of the Civil Rights Act was to try to get rid of racist behavior, which is an admirable and a moral thing.
[00:08:58]  And I personally am, I am invested in trying to make public policy to try to eradicate that.
[00:09:08]  But what was the unintended consequence of all of that was trying to insert oneself into the functions of private business where all of a sudden now they can say, if you don't vaccinate your employees, despite the White House staff not getting vaccinated, then we can shut you down.
[00:09:23]  If you don't wear a mask or a cloth over your face, we can shut you down.
[00:09:27]  And this really all kind of started with the third founding of the United States, as Christopher Caldwell would call it, where you don't have as much rights as you thought you do.
[00:09:38]  I don't understand how this is not a HIPAA violation.
[00:09:40]  I don't understand, especially some people actually have legitimate doctor's guidance that wearing a mask is not good for them, that it restricts oxygen flow.
[00:09:49]  And that's not for everybody, but every single person is medically different.
[00:09:53]  And what we have decided to do is wipe away the entire tradition of personalized medicine under the guise of public health, which has always been a mirage.
[00:10:04]  It's been a false promise.
[00:10:05]  It has been a gateway drug.
[00:10:07]  So people say, well, Charlie, this is the Delta variant.
[00:10:10]  No, it's the tyranny variant.
[00:10:12]  It's the autocrat variant.
[00:10:15]  We know how this operates and how it works.
[00:10:17]  Yet we can't even have a conversation on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, zinc, vitamin C, vitamin D, not being tremendously overweight.
[00:10:27]  If you really want to go back to how all of a sudden your rights were eliminated, go and realize how the radicals hijacked the well-meaning intentions of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s and used it to create a new powerful post-private property regime where all of a sudden, next thing you know, you don't have the right as a business owner to say, you don't wear masks in my restaurant.
[00:10:50]  How did that happen?

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[00:10:51]  Well, it's because the framework of private property was obliterated under good intentions, because good intentions do not always create good public policy.
[00:11:00]  And instead, the bureaucrats and the activists took over the apparatus of the Department of Justice in the 1960s and they realized this can now be a blueprint, a blueprint to destroy individual liberty, and they could tell you how to live your life.
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=== The Tony Timpa Case (03:29) ===

[00:12:51]  Hey, Charlie, I'm coming back to school, and I have a professor who says that blacks are disproportionately killed by police than whites.
[00:12:59]  What do I have to say about that?
[00:13:01]  This is a total lie.
[00:13:02]  We're going to have Heather McDonald back on our program.
[00:13:05]  Heather McDonald is the very best.
[00:13:08]  And she details that there were 18, that's right, 1-8, according to the Washington Post, unarmed blacks that were allegedly shot by police.
[00:13:17]  And if you go back through the database, it actually shows that out of the 18 people that were black that were allegedly shot by the police that were unarmed, some of them were driving cars, reaching for police officers' weapons.
[00:13:30]  But isn't it interesting how the apparatchiks and the smear artists in charge of our media, they don't talk about black on black crime or black homicide victims.
[00:13:39]  How many people do you think that are black die by homicide every single year?
[00:13:45]  8,300.
[00:13:48]  So 18 that are unarmed that are killed by police, and some of which are grabbing weapons and charging them, and 8,300 total black homicide victims.
[00:13:59]  And those numbers vary year to year.
[00:14:02]  I encourage everyone to become very familiar with two names.
[00:14:06]  Well, two words, one name.
[00:14:08]  Tony Timpa.
[00:14:11]  Anytime that they mention St. George, George Floyd, which ensued Floyd at Palooza throughout the summer of 2020, you should familiarize yourself with Tony Timpa.
[00:14:24]  Tony Timpa was from Dallas, Texas, who eerie had almost an identical situation to that of George Floyd.
[00:14:34]  Tony Timpa was a 32-year-old trucking company executive from Rockwell, Texas.
[00:14:39]  He'd called 911 for aid, telling the dispatcher that he had schizophrenia and depression, and he had not taken his prescription medication.
[00:14:48]  Timpa had already been handcuffed by a security guard when a group of officers arrived.
[00:14:52]  They restrained him on the ground while he squirmed, repeatedly crying out, you're going to kill me.
[00:14:57]  After he fell unconscious, they kept him prone on the grass for 14 minutes and zip-tied his legs together.
[00:15:05]  The officer said, well, he didn't die down there, did he?
[00:15:07]  And Timpa died within 20 minutes.
[00:15:11]  It took over three years for the footage of the incident to be released.
[00:15:15]  And it was, it contradicted that of the Dallas police officers.
[00:15:18]  The officers involved were Sergeant Kevin Mansell and officers Danny Vesquez and Dustin Dillard.
[00:15:24]  Criminal charges were dropped on March of 2019 as they returned to active duty.
[00:15:31]  No one knows about Tony Timpa.
[00:15:33]  Now, why does no one care about Tony Timpa?
[00:15:35]  Because his life is largely unuseful.
[00:15:38]  And he was also a white male.
[00:15:40]  Tony Timpa died the exact same way as St. George.
[00:15:45]  And yet people don't seem to care about it.
[00:15:48]  I encourage anyone that brings up Floyd for you to go show the video of Tony Timpa.
[00:15:54]  And guess what?
[00:15:54]  You know what you say?
[00:15:55]  This happens rarely.
[00:15:57]  But why is it you care about a white cop on a black person's neck, but you don't care about a Hispanic or a white cop on a white person's neck?
[00:16:07]  Why is that?
[00:16:09]  Well, it's because the killing of Tony Timpa is unuseful to the current BLM regime.
[00:16:15]  The killing of unarmed whites is a rounding error in the pursuit of the revolution.
[00:16:20]  Floyd was useful.

=== China, Taliban, and Money (12:13) ===

[00:16:21]  It was an election year.
[00:16:22]  The video was dramatic.
[00:16:24]  The video took people's breath away.
[00:16:27]  And it fit a narrative that they have been trying to propagandize you.
[00:16:30]  And it was the largest act of confirmation bias in the history of mass media.
[00:16:36]  You're told a lie.
[00:16:39]  And if you dare question it, you're called the R-word, which is the greatest weapon they have.
[00:16:42]  And then all of a sudden, the video confirms the lie, allegedly confirms it.
[00:16:46]  And they say, see, everything I've been telling you last six years is true.
[00:16:50]  Now you must give us a bunch of money and power.
[00:16:52]  And white liberals said, of course we will.
[00:16:54]  Absolutely.
[00:16:55]  In fact, we're going to go put a BLM sign outside of our yard, which I just saw in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
[00:17:00]  I nearly gagged when I saw it on Arlington Heights Road.
[00:17:03]  We've been talking a lot about this idea of anarcho-tyranny, which is policing the law-abiding instead of the law-breaking.
[00:17:11]  And that is what's happened in most of the major cities across the country.
[00:17:16]  We are told that there's an epidemic of racially biased police killing.
[00:17:20]  There is an epidemic out there, an epidemic of black-on-black crime.
[00:17:25]  Chicago year to date, 501 shot and killed and 2,399 people shot and wounded.
[00:17:31]  2,900 total shot and 527 total homicides.
[00:17:35]  In August, 60 shot and killed, 278 shot and wounded, 338 total shot and 61 total homicides.
[00:17:41]  And just a couple days ago, a couple coming back from U.S. cellular field, White Sox Park, was shot and killed on the Dan Ryan on the highway going back from the Sox game.
[00:17:54]  But no, we must worry about police and unarmed blacks.
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[00:18:46]  People are asking us about the Arizona audit.
[00:18:49]  Well, Boris, who has worked with President Trump, has a report on this.
[00:18:54]  So let's go to CUT 111 to see what is going to come out of the Arizona audit.
[00:18:59]  Cut 111.
[00:19:01]  Arizona, we are now days away from a report being turned over from the auditors to the Arizona State Senate with its great president, Karen Fan.
[00:19:10]  From what I understand, from what I'm hearing, you are going to have in that report the huge swings in numbers.
[00:19:18]  You're going to see swings of ballot counts of magnitudes of that.
[00:19:24]  And if that is what we see in there, if that is what comes out, there's absolutely no way that this election should have been certified for Joe Biden.
[00:19:32]  So what the remedy for all that is and the truth of it, we'll see.
[00:19:35]  We're going to keep our eyes peeled.
[00:19:37]  And as soon as the audit results are out, you can find us on rumble.com, r-u-m-b-le-e.com is where you can find us as we will be streaming.
[00:19:47]  They'll definitely not be on YouTube.
[00:19:49]  They don't want such free thought.
[00:19:51]  They want to try to be the referees of what people can say.
[00:19:54]  Okay, let's get to some more questions here that you have emailed us: freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:20:01]  Here's one: Hi, Charlie.
[00:20:03]  Big fan of your wife and your show.
[00:20:04]  Keep up the good work.
[00:20:05]  You're not alone.
[00:20:06]  I work for the Tampa Bay Lightning, a professional hockey team in the state of Florida.
[00:20:09]  I was informed by my boss in the hallway of all places that because I work within 12 feet of our players and other hockey ops personnel, that I will be required to get the Chinese coronavirus vaccine due to the NHL's mandate.
[00:20:20]  Meanwhile, our players are not required, but strongly recommended.
[00:20:23]  After eight years of this organization, it looks like my time will be coming to an end over an experimental drug.
[00:20:27]  It's not worth it to me.
[00:20:28]  And complying for the sake of comfort is a cowardly excuse.
[00:20:32]  Therefore, I will not be getting it.
[00:20:33]  Good for you.
[00:20:33]  God bless you.
[00:20:34]  My question is: how do we find companies that are not mandating this poison?
[00:20:37]  Where can I look for employment that are actually practices and uphold my constitutional rights and freedoms?
[00:20:42]  Maybe my second vote.
[00:20:44]  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
[00:20:45]  God bless Rachel.
[00:20:46]  Well, Turning Point USA is not mandating it.
[00:20:48]  I can tell you that much.
[00:20:49]  Rachel, I want to compliment you and I want to encourage you.
[00:20:52]  The nation will be saved because of people like you that stand up and put convenience and lifestyle aside and put truth and courage as a priority.
[00:21:02]  If we had a nation of people like you, Rachel, the country would be turned around.
[00:21:06]  That's what we're trying to do at Turning Point USA, obviously.
[00:21:10]  I can tell you right now that so many people have grown comfortable obeying.
[00:21:19]  And this really frustrates me.
[00:21:22]  You are being forced to get the vaccine, even though the players are not.
[00:21:26]  You're getting forced to get the vaccine, even though the White House staff is not.
[00:21:31]  You're nothing more than the, we are nothing more, Rachel, pawns in the game of the social planners.
[00:21:38]  And I really have to say this: I've been really disappointed in how many Republicans have not stood up for their voters or their constituents when it comes to forced vaccinations on a government level and on a corporate level.
[00:21:54]  Where are the Republicans on this?
[00:21:56]  Well, they're too busy giving speeches on the Senate floor trying to say, well, everyone should get vaccinated and it's okay to mandate it.
[00:22:04]  And the reason they're able to get away with this, as I mentioned earlier, is that we completely obliterated the idea of private business and private property post the new third founding of our country in the civil rights era.
[00:22:17]  So, Rachel, I just want to, again, encourage you and say that you might lose your job, but you will get a life of freedom and you will be convicted to continue to fight.
[00:22:30]  You can always find another job.
[00:22:32]  You cannot get another soul.
[00:22:34]  All right, let's get to another question here that you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:22:39]  Hey, Charlie, do you think that the Democrats are in trouble?
[00:22:42]  It sure seems that way.
[00:22:43]  Thanks so much, Ryan from Louisiana.
[00:22:45]  Well, I'm going to play a certain tape here that demonstrates this from MSNBC, cut 116.
[00:22:51]  I think the Democrats are in political turmoil right now.
[00:22:54]  The January 6th narrative has completely fallen apart.
[00:22:57]  Inflation is now kicking in.
[00:22:59]  Job numbers are not what they should be.
[00:23:00]  Kabul is an absolute mess.
[00:23:02]  I mean, they can't get flights out of Kabul.
[00:23:05]  Americans are stranded.
[00:23:07]  They are in a very difficult political position.
[00:23:10]  And there really is no way they could turn this around.
[00:23:13]  I mean, there is.
[00:23:14]  I shouldn't say it that way, but they'll have plenty of tricks up their sleeve.
[00:23:17]  But the trends are going negative and they're supposed to hit their high watermark now.
[00:23:22]  And then this is before all the attack ads.
[00:23:24]  This is before, you know, try to get rid of one party rule in Washington, D.C. Listen to what MSNBC has to say.
[00:23:30]  Cut 116.
[00:23:32]  Oh, it's just an exaggeration.
[00:23:34]  Law and order, racist, bigoted, whatever.
[00:23:38]  Eric Adams runs on protecting streets and police reform.
[00:23:43]  He wins the Bronx.
[00:23:45]  He wins Queens.
[00:23:47]  He wins, well, Staten Island, and he wins Brooklyn.
[00:23:51]  He wins everything except for the sort of wealthier parts of Manhattan.
[00:23:57]  Democrats have to understand this is coming, and I don't know where mission control is on the Democratic side, but somebody, Donnie, needs to get that, and they need to start responding.
[00:24:10]  Mission control for the Democrats?
[00:24:12]  That's a good question.
[00:24:12]  Who actually is in charge?
[00:24:14]  In some ways, the zeitgeist through the spirit of the times is in charge.
[00:24:17]  Sometimes it's the corporate donors.
[00:24:19]  Sometimes it's the actual shock troops like Alexandria Acasio-Cortez and her group of rioters that are kind of pushing forward the Democrat Party.
[00:24:27]  Who's in charge?
[00:24:28]  No one with wisdom, that's for sure.
[00:24:32]  No one with prudence.
[00:24:35]  That's for sure.
[00:24:37]  But you know what, Democrats?
[00:24:38]  I hope you continue to act in the way you have.
[00:24:44]  I think that it's very important that we continue to push forward, that we play offense, stay focused, and stay optimistic.
[00:24:56]  It's pretty remarkable to see.
[00:24:58]  All right, let's get to another question here.
[00:25:00]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com that you have emailed us.
[00:25:03]  Hi, Charlie.
[00:25:05]  I wish the news was better.
[00:25:06]  Let me throw this thought at you.
[00:25:07]  What if China paid for this to happen and paid Joe Hayden Biden so he could get all the minerals and have a terror group running one of the biggest unmined mineral countries in the world?
[00:25:15]  Let me know what you think, Anthony.
[00:25:16]  Look, I don't think we should trust the Chinese Communist Party with anything.
[00:25:20]  I mean, the Chinese Communist Party is a soulless, atheistic dictatorship that needs to be confronted.
[00:25:28]  And the fact that the Chinese met with the Taliban in late July, which we do know of, I believe that China was aware and involved in the Talibans taking over the nation of Afghanistan and likely gave money to the Taliban to pay off the Afghan government.
[00:25:45]  Meanwhile, the Taliban, they're sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs.
[00:25:52]  And this is why I'm afraid this entire situation is going to devolve into a hostage situation.
[00:26:00]  It just came out that the Taliban is experiencing a cash crunch.
[00:26:08]  The Taliban, they don't have a lot of money because the West, America, we've frozen all their bank accounts.
[00:26:15]  So the Associated Press has come out with a story that says Taliban took Afghanistan but faces cash squeeze.
[00:26:23]  And that might sound like a good thing, except for the fact that there are thousands and thousands of Americans walking the streets of Kabul that they could very well kidnap and use as hostages.
[00:26:36]  The AP says, despite their dominant military blitz over the past week, the Taliban lack access to billions of dollars from their central bank and international monetary fund that would keep the country running during a turbulent shake-up.
[00:26:50]  Those funds are largely controlled by the United States.
[00:26:53]  So what are they going to do?
[00:26:56]  Well, the Taliban is going to be looking for other options.
[00:26:59]  They're either going to get money from China, which would be against international policy.
[00:27:04]  Now, the United States says, well, now we have a pressure point.
[00:27:08]  But here's the problem.
[00:27:09]  If the Taliban, if they get motivated enough or they get in a position where they have no choice, the backs against the wall, what's to say that they wouldn't kidnap Americans, which is probably already happening, and use that to get money in return.
[00:27:25]  State-backed projects motivated in part by geopolitics could be a different story.
[00:27:29]  China is the world leader in mining rare earths.
[00:27:32]  You see, China is an evil country, but they're a serious country.
[00:27:35]  America is not currently a serious country.
[00:27:38]  We should be the leader in mining rare earth minerals, but we don't because the environmentalists have destroyed that exploration in America.
[00:27:46]  They said Monday that they have, quote, maintained contact and communication with the Afghan Taliban.
[00:27:52]  China's looking at the Taliban in Afghanistan as another colony where they could get rare earth minerals.
[00:27:57]  You see, China has no moral obligations with the Taliban or al-Qaeda.
[00:28:02]  China loves to see dead Americans.
[00:28:04]  That's China's whole ambition is to kill every Chinese Communist Party would love nothing more than to kill every single American except the weak ones that give them access to our markets.
[00:28:12]  They are a sworn enemy of the United States.
[00:28:15]  And so China wants the lithium to make batteries for electric cars.
[00:28:18]  Joe Biden wants to mandate electric cars.
[00:28:21]  And then China price gouges Americans.
[00:28:24]  All roads lead to China.
[00:28:26]  It's not a coincidence that the Chinese Communist Party met secretly and privately with the Taliban right before all this stuff started to fall apart.

=== Pope on Experimental Vaccine (07:19) ===

[00:28:35]  Talia from Scottsdale.
[00:28:38]  The Pope says that getting the experimental vaccine is, quote, an act of love.
[00:28:41]  Full quote.
[00:28:42]  Thanks to God and to the work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from COVID-19, Pope Francis said.
[00:28:48]  They grant us the hope of ending the pandemic, but only if they are available to all and if we work together.
[00:28:53]  Quote, getting the vaccines that are authorized by the respective authorities is an act of love.
[00:28:58]  And helping the majority of people to do so is an act of love.
[00:29:00]  Love for oneself, love for our families and friends, and love for all peoples.
[00:29:05]  Talia says, is getting the vaccine an act of love?
[00:29:07]  Is the Pope right?
[00:29:08]  Well, let me just say, I do have a soft spot for Catholics.
[00:29:14]  My grandma was Catholic.
[00:29:15]  There's a lot about Catholicism that I appreciate and admire.
[00:29:18]  The Pope is one I just quite honestly can't understand, especially when you have this social revolutionary as a Pope.
[00:29:24]  And I say this as an evangelical, Bible-believing Christian.
[00:29:27]  And you have the social revolutionary that's a pope.
[00:29:30]  That is just, this is just, this is the smallest example of a larger trend where he has politicized the entire Vatican towards left-wing social revolutionary politics.
[00:29:40]  Is getting the vaccine the act of love?
[00:29:42]  Well, here's a very simple question.
[00:29:44]  If the vaccine protects you, then why do I have to get vaccinated?
[00:29:49]  If you're so confident you're going to be protected by it, then why do I have to get vaccinated?
[00:29:55]  Truth is the true way to be able to administer love to other people.
[00:30:01]  Christ talked about this.
[00:30:02]  It says, love your neighbor as oneself.
[00:30:04]  Now, that's a really interesting question because the obvious thing is just, well, be nice to people always.
[00:30:09]  But what is the ultimate way that you want to be treated?
[00:30:12]  You don't want to be lied to.
[00:30:13]  You don't want to be misled.
[00:30:15]  And I refuse to lie to people.
[00:30:17]  I refuse to all of a sudden deceive people and give them the false promise that they have when they get a vaccine that's only 42% effective.
[00:30:24]  They were lied to.
[00:30:26]  In fact, we did the opposite on this program.
[00:30:29]  We said, if you think it works, get it.
[00:30:30]  We're not going to insult you.
[00:30:32]  Like, that's life.
[00:30:33]  Just get it and you'll be fine.
[00:30:38]  If that's your decision.
[00:30:40]  But if you don't get it, then I'm going to defend your rights.
[00:30:42]  Like, we've made the decision not to get it.
[00:30:44]  So, no, the Pope is not telling the truth.
[00:30:47]  He's misleading.
[00:30:49]  Now, if he's doing it intentionally or not, I don't know.
[00:30:52]  Obviously, not a fan of this Pope.
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[00:32:00]  I'm going to get to some questions here.
[00:32:02]  Boy, they're coming in.
[00:32:03]  You guys are really sending us a lot of emails.
[00:32:05]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:32:06]  Thank you.
[00:32:07]  A lot about forced vaccinations.
[00:32:09]  And if you do have a problem with forced vaccinations, I could forward you to some legal help, some people that we're going to be partnering with.
[00:32:16]  There might be some exemptions that you could be granted, but I do want to just manage your expectations that these are tough fights.
[00:32:24]  They're tough fights to win.
[00:32:25]  They really, really are.
[00:32:26]  So you can email us, freedom at charliekirk.com if you're having them.
[00:32:29]  I can email you to Kelly Shackleford from First Liberty, the Pacific Justice Institute, and many others.
[00:32:36]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:32:38]  Hi, Charlie.
[00:32:39]  Thanks for all you do.
[00:32:40]  For people that got the COVID vaccine and tested positive afterwards, wouldn't they be considered super spreaders?
[00:32:45]  Or does the virus no longer transmit after the vaccine regardless whether you ended up testing positive or not?
[00:32:51]  Thanks.
[00:32:51]  No, I mean, look, you can very much get the, you can get the virus just the same with this vaccine.
[00:32:58]  Just the same.
[00:32:59]  Now, they say it's not as deadly or as harmful.
[00:33:03]  Okay, I'll take them at their word about that.
[00:33:05]  I'll let the scientists figure that out.
[00:33:07]  I'll let the experts figure that out as if they know what they're talking about.
[00:33:10]  But I'm going to swim in my lane.
[00:33:11]  So I'm going to say that it's a massive, it's a massive red flag when all of a sudden the people that are vaccinated and are their biggest pusher of the vaccine, they're the ones that are actually getting sick the most.
[00:33:23]  That should bother you and it should worry you.
[00:33:26]  Here's an email.
[00:33:27]  Charlie, this is Arta from Michigan.
[00:33:31]  Charlie, can we remove Joe Biden for his imminent mental decline?
[00:33:35]  Thanks so much.
[00:33:37]  Well, in Cut 114, Vince Colonaise and Tucker Carlson, they really worry about Joe Biden's mental decline.
[00:33:44]  By the way, we should make fun of it and everything.
[00:33:46]  This is a national security threat.
[00:33:49]  You want a competent president.
[00:33:50]  You do not want a bumbling president.
[00:33:52]  Cut 115.
[00:33:53]  I am nervous about his mental decline and not judgmental of it at all.
[00:33:57]  I mean, but the reality is you wouldn't, this is the kind of person you wouldn't let drive by themselves to go pick up their medication at the pharmacy.
[00:34:03]  So now he's supposed to go to Delaware this weekend for yet another vacation.
[00:34:07]  I do not know what's going on.
[00:34:09]  And I'm really nervous about the state of the country.
[00:34:12]  You can email us freedom at charliekirk.com your questions.
[00:34:17]  And I'm worried too.
[00:34:19]  I'm worried about the imminent mental decline.
[00:34:23]  And I'm worried about what that means for our nation and for the national security apparatus that is supposed to keep us safe from threats, both foreign and domestic.
[00:34:36]  I do want to get to this question.
[00:34:37]  Someone asked about the vaccine and whether or not it can prevent it.
[00:34:40]  Cut 107, the CDC director said the vaccines can't do anymore is prevent transmission.
[00:34:46]  So Cut 107 kind of answers the previous question.
[00:34:49]  Let's go to that one, CUT 107.
[00:34:50]  Our vaccines are working exceptionally well.
[00:34:53]  They continue to work well for Delta with regard to severe illness and death.
[00:34:56]  They prevent it.
[00:34:57]  But what they can't do anymore is prevent transmission.
[00:35:01]  So if you're going home to somebody who has not been vaccinated, to somebody who can't get vaccinated, somebody who might be immunosuppressed or a little bit frail, somebody who has comorbidities that put them at high risk, I would suggest you wear a mask in public indoor settings.
[00:35:16]  Yeah, you want to talk about the people that are skeptics that are actually spreading information about the vaccine?
[00:35:22]  It's the only people in charge of the public health department of our country.
[00:35:26]  This is currently headed in a direction that requires dramatic action from you.
[00:35:31]  It requires you to organize.
[00:35:33]  Show up to city council meetings and school board meetings.
[00:35:36]  It requires you to get in the arena.
[00:35:39]  As Joe Biden has betrayed American service members under fire in Kabul, as Joe Biden has left the southern border open, we have seen that the current regime has no interest in actually protecting or preserving the United States government or our Constitution.

=== American Advantage Explained (07:07) ===

[00:35:54]  It now comes down to us, the people.
[00:35:56]  What are we going to do about it?
[00:35:57]  Well, number one, you pray, you learn, you stay aware, stay alert, and say, we're not going to take it anymore.
[00:36:03]  We are going to push forward with truth in every way we possibly can.
[00:36:08]  We're going to find out what happened in the 2020 election.
[00:36:10]  We're going to take over every school board possible.
[00:36:13]  This is a direct call to action for everyone listening.
[00:36:17]  And you might say, well, Charlie, I don't know what I'm going to do.
[00:36:19]  Can you name every school board member you have by name?
[00:36:21]  Whether or not they do a good job or bad job?
[00:36:23]  Pray for the issues they're dealing with.
[00:36:24]  Have you taken them out to lunch, out to dinner?
[00:36:26]  Are you spending an hour a week with your children or grandchildren, educating them on the beauty and the tradition and the history of our country?
[00:36:31]  That's the least you can do.
[00:36:34]  And we're here to assist and support you.
[00:36:36]  You can always email us or talkfreedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:36:39]  But I want to end spectator conservatism.
[00:36:42]  It's now to get in the arena.
[00:36:43]  The fight that matters.
[00:36:45]  That's what's going to save the country.
[00:36:46]  Not just watching from afar, but doing something about it.
[00:36:52]  The incalculable advantage that the Americans had, I can express in two words.
[00:36:58]  George Washington.
[00:37:07]  Declaring independence was the easy part.
[00:37:10]  Defeating the mightiest military power in the world, that was another matter.
[00:37:16]  The United States, such as they were, the disunited United States, went into this conflict with huge and fairly obvious disadvantages.
[00:37:27]  But all was not lost because the Americans did enjoy certain very real advantages.
[00:37:33]  For one thing, they had only to play defense.
[00:37:37]  They needed not to win every battle.
[00:37:40]  They needed not to win any battles so long as they were able to keep the war going long enough to exhaust the patience and willingness to fight of the British opponent.
[00:37:51]  Another advantage, an incalculable advantage that the Americans had, I can express in two words, George Washington.
[00:38:00]  They had the person of George Washington, a man of such fine and admired, widely, universally admired character and military skills, political savvy.
[00:38:16]  He commanded the loyalty of nearly all Americans and thus served as a unifying force when he was made commander-in-chief of the revolutionary American forces.
[00:38:28]  He signaled his willingness to play this role by appearing at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia wearing his military uniform.
[00:38:38]  So he was ready to play and from June 1775 on was commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
[00:38:50]  He received the position and accepted it on the condition that he received no pay for it.
[00:38:55]  That was the kind of guy George Washington was.
[00:38:58]  He was charismatic, courageous, selfless, tireless.
[00:39:03]  He was not a world-class intellect like Jefferson, but he was always learning and had a great deal of practical and prudential wisdom.
[00:39:13]  The greatest challenge that Washington would face was simply one of recruiting and holding together a credible army.
[00:39:20]  This was not an easy job.
[00:39:22]  There was a sense of fragility about the whole enterprise, so that the morale and willingness to serve of soldiers waxed and waned depending on the circumstances in the field and weather conditions, which were very important in the American Revolution.
[00:39:40]  In August of 1776, not long after the Declaration, he had 28,000 men under his command.
[00:39:48]  By December, that number had shrunk to 3,000.
[00:39:53]  What had happened was that his troops had been driven from New York, New York City, by British regulars back and back and back until they ended up in Pennsylvania.
[00:40:06]  The Army's morale was bad.
[00:40:08]  It was always unstable.
[00:40:10]  It was always hostage to events, to successive peaks and valleys and consequent hope and despair, depending on how the war effort was going.
[00:40:23]  Washington, through all of this, had to keep a cool head.
[00:40:28]  He had to not be too influenced either by the giddiness of success or the despondency of failure.
[00:40:38]  As it turned out, the winter, that winter, 1776 to 77, was an exceptionally bad winter and made for a gloomy time of discouragement.
[00:40:50]  Fortunately for the Patriot cause, Tom Paine chose at that time to write yet another contribution to the war effort, a series of pamphlets called The American Crisis, which the most famous lines from that, which some of you may have heard, go like this at the beginning.
[00:41:09]  He says, These are the times that try men's souls.
[00:41:13]  The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of his country.
[00:41:20]  But he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
[00:41:27]  Yes, he conceded that things looked very bad.
[00:41:30]  But the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
[00:41:34]  Paine put it just the way Washington would have liked to have been able to.
[00:41:40]  And George Washington ordered that Paine's words from the American crisis be read to his troops who were suffering through this bitter winter.
[00:41:51]  And they had the desired effect of rousing them to a new burst of fighting spirit.
[00:41:57]  And then on Christmas night of 1776, Washington struck back.
[00:42:02]  He led a force through snow and sleet across the Delaware River.
[00:42:07]  You've all seen the painting of that, which is not exactly historically accurate, but who cares?
[00:42:13]  It's a beautiful painting.
[00:42:15]  And he surprised at dawn a sleeping force of Hessians, the hated Hessians, at Trenton in New Jersey.
[00:42:24]  A week later, his forces had a similar triumph at Princeton.
[00:42:28]  Two small victories, but reason for hope that they could be auguries of good things to come.
[00:42:36]  It appeared the American forces would not be defeated quickly as the British had hoped.
[00:42:43]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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