The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 108: What is SADS? Tampa Bay Rays Pride? Pelosi Blocks SCOTUS Security? Brookings Institute President Indicted?  And MORE
Aired: 2022-06-13
Duration: 36:53


=== Pride Night Meaning Shift (01:48) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey, everybody, happy Monday Ask Me Anything episode where I take your questions that you've emailed me throughout the week, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:00:06]  What should we think about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers not putting the pride patch on their shoulder?
[00:00:12]  What should we make about Paul Pelosi and also a recent general that has been investigated and looks soon to be arrested for illegal lobbying efforts?
[00:00:21]  What do we make of all these stories?
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[00:01:36]  What is your opinion on several Tampa BAY baseball players who refused to wear the rainbow pride patches on their jerseys during the pride night?
[00:01:43]  Their pride night, instead sent out of the game.
[00:01:46]  I fully support it, I do.

=== Beyond Disagreeing With Lifestyle (08:42) ===

[00:01:48]  I think that players pushing back against quote-unquote pride night is critical and we must understand that what you might think of, as pride night has changed in its meaning.
[00:02:00]  It's no longer about gay and lesbian acceptance no no, no.
[00:02:05]  It's about something much deeper than that and also something that is much more controversial than that.
[00:02:11]  It can mean now bringing children to drag queen bars.
[00:02:16]  It can mean chemical castration of children that this idea of pride month has broadened from just like okay, I suppose tolerance of gay and lesbian people and the spectrum that moves from tolerance to acceptance to celebration, to participation I must give credit to Matt Walsh for that phenomenally brilliant kind of steps is.
[00:02:41]  Now that you must participate, you must wear the pride patch, and it kind of goes back, okay Connor, get the Kramer from Seinfeld, what do you?
[00:02:53]  You don't want to put the button on from the Aids walk.
[00:02:55]  It's one of those great um, great scenes in television history where Kramer, who's kind of an aloof character in Seinfeld, decides to do the aids walk but he doesn't want to put the button on or the ribbon.
[00:03:10]  He just doesn't want to wear the ribbon, and it kind of is the same sort of thing where he ends up getting kind of attacked by the mob, albeit kind of very similar kind of the pride month aids walk mob, where they say, you don't support gay people because you don't want to wear the ribbon.
[00:03:27]  And it's kind of this joke in the show that unfolds into obvious kind of tumultuous hilarity where Kramer's like, no no no, i'm with you, I just don't want to wear the ribbon, I just don't want to wear the ribbon.
[00:03:38]  And they say, what do you mean?
[00:03:40]  You want to put the rib on, and it's like this back and forth, like you must participate, you must be part of this.
[00:03:45]  It's not enough that you tolerate us, it's not enough that you accept us, it's not enough that you celebrate us.
[00:03:52]  No, you must participate.
[00:03:55]  And just out of a general principle of it, I think it's great that the line is drawn, that major league baseball players who earn millions of dollars are willing to say, I'm not going to wear the patch.
[00:04:08]  It's just not going to happen.
[00:04:09]  I'm not going to do it.
[00:04:10]  I don't believe in it.
[00:04:11]  I believe that marriage is one man and one woman.
[00:04:14]  I will tolerate things.
[00:04:16]  I will tolerate people of different lifestyles.
[00:04:19]  I will do so with compassion and truth and grace, but I'm not going to celebrate it.
[00:04:23]  I'm not going to accept it.
[00:04:25]  And I certainly won't participate in it.
[00:04:28]  And we must understand that the previous conception of kind of what Pride Month was 15 years ago is completely different than what it is now, where it used to be like, okay, there's all these people that are afraid to express their sexual, you know, tendencies and that they feel as if they're constantly quote unquote in the closet.
[00:04:49]  Here's just a very simple question.
[00:04:50]  Where does any person in America who is gay or lesbian not feel comfortable to come out as gay or lesbian?
[00:04:57]  Where does that place exist exactly?
[00:05:00]  In fact, and this is not my own, you know, wording of it, but Dave Rubin and many others have said it's actually much more difficult to come out as a conservative than it is as a gay person in America.
[00:05:13]  So the Tampa Bay players that are pushing back against it, God bless them, I totally support it.
[00:05:18]  And of course, the outrage from the media is they are homophobic.
[00:05:20]  No, no, no, hold on.
[00:05:22]  Again, there can be tolerance.
[00:05:24]  You could tolerate something having to wear a sticker on your jersey.
[00:05:29]  That's kind of, it's an interesting component of live and let live, isn't it?
[00:05:32]  So if it truly was live and let live, which we've gone through in great detail in recent weeks on how that is a false promise, a utopian dream, never was going to happen.
[00:05:41]  And we were naively put into this sort of paradigm.
[00:05:45]  But if it was truly live and let live, then wouldn't it say put the patch on if you want to put the patch on?
[00:05:52]  Like, okay, if you want to put the patch on, then great.
[00:05:54]  It could be optional, right?
[00:05:55]  No, but instead, it's that if you don't wear the patch, you can't even play the game.
[00:06:01]  That's mandatory participation in something you might not believe in, which, by the way, is one of the great examples to show that this is not the sort of freedom of choice political movement.
[00:06:13]  It's you must, you must conform.
[00:06:16]  You must bend the knee.
[00:06:18]  And remember, it's the same sort of virtue signaling that was demanded with the black squares.
[00:06:24]  I think we were one of the first people alongside Candace Owens to like go full all in against the black square thing.
[00:06:32]  I remember exactly where I was.
[00:06:34]  I was in Sarasota.
[00:06:36]  I had just, Andrew says, I think we were first.
[00:06:39]  Okay, well, maybe we were.
[00:06:40]  I don't know.
[00:06:40]  I don't want to take a victory lap without it being true.
[00:06:45]  Andrew remembers it.
[00:06:45]  This was two years ago, actually.
[00:06:47]  Exactly, I think.
[00:06:49]  And we just decided to go all in.
[00:06:51]  I grew up in America where race meant nothing to me.
[00:06:53]  It means nothing to me.
[00:06:54]  I don't care about race.
[00:06:55]  If you care about race, you're a sick person.
[00:06:57]  You're perverted if you care about race all the time.
[00:06:59]  You're racist.
[00:07:00]  We have a word for that.
[00:07:01]  Race means nothing to me.
[00:07:02]  Zero, irrelevant.
[00:07:05]  And so all these people are posting these black squares as if we're living in this incredibly racist country, that we're living in this like systemically oppressive construct.
[00:07:16]  And I remember, Connor, we're kind of reminiscing on it right now.
[00:07:19]  I remember being in the car and just selfie filming myself and just being like, really?
[00:07:26]  This is what we're doing?
[00:07:27]  Kind of black squares.
[00:07:28]  You're such a good person.
[00:07:29]  You'd be the first one to call the cops.
[00:07:31]  We could actually find that video and replay it.
[00:07:34]  And obviously that kind of was a little bit ahead of its time because eventually people kind of agreed to it.
[00:07:42]  So here's kind of a funny comedic take on it with the Tampa Bay thing.
[00:07:45]  Okay, Cut 100.
[00:07:47]  This is Cosmo Kramer from Seinfeld.
[00:07:50]  What do you mean you don't want to wear the ribbon?
[00:07:51]  It's actually the same sort of group, the AIDS group, Play Cut 100.
[00:07:57]  Okay, you're checked in?
[00:07:58]  Thank you.
[00:07:59]  Here's your AIDS ribbon.
[00:08:00]  No, thanks.
[00:08:01]  You don't want to wear an AIDS ribbon?
[00:08:02]  No, no.
[00:08:03]  But you have to wear an AIDS ribbon.
[00:08:04]  I have to.
[00:08:05]  Yes.
[00:08:06]  Yeah, see, that's why I don't want to.
[00:08:08]  But everyone wears the ribbon.
[00:08:09]  You must wear the ribbon.
[00:08:12]  What you are?
[00:08:13]  You're a ribbon bully.
[00:08:16]  Come back here.
[00:08:17]  Come back here and put this on.
[00:08:24]  Hey, where's your ribbon?
[00:08:25]  Oh, I don't wear the ribbon.
[00:08:26]  You don't wear the ribbon?
[00:08:28]  Aren't you against AIDS?
[00:08:29]  Yeah, I'm against AIDS.
[00:08:31]  When I'm walking on my ribbon, who do you think you are?
[00:08:35]  Put the ribbon on.
[00:08:36]  Hey, Cedric, Bob.
[00:08:39]  And it goes on.
[00:08:39]  He gets beat up by the rainbow cartel in that show.
[00:08:43]  And again, look, we're against racism.
[00:08:45]  I just don't need to put the black square.
[00:08:46]  And he says, oh, because I have to wear the ribbon.
[00:08:49]  That's why I don't want to.
[00:08:50]  And Cosmo Kramer is kind of playing the character, if you will.
[00:08:54]  He is the metaphorical kind of, I don't have to put the Ukraine flag outside of my house.
[00:09:00]  I don't have to virtue signal to you to actually hate some of the things you also hate.
[00:09:05]  And also, there might be more nuance against this.
[00:09:07]  And also, if you're forcing me, I don't like it.
[00:09:10]  And Kramer just kind of, in this hilarious way, you're a ribbon bully.
[00:09:13]  And the woman just loses her mind.
[00:09:15]  And you kind of look at like, wow.
[00:09:17]  Seinfeld back in the 1990s, they saw these woke people coming well before we did.
[00:09:23]  And what do they do?
[00:09:23]  They made fun of them.
[00:09:25]  It's not enough to not be racist.
[00:09:27]  You have to be anti-racist.
[00:09:28]  It's not enough to be against AIDS, which every reasonable person is.
[00:09:30]  No, you have to wear the ribbon that they tell you against AIDS.
[00:09:33]  Not enough to be tolerant of people's lifestyles, of gay lifestyle, lesbian lifestyle.
[00:09:39]  No, you must wear the rainbow patch as you play a baseball game.
[00:09:44]  And if not, you're not allowed to play.
[00:09:46]  It's the exact same thing.
[00:09:48]  It is mandated celebration.
[00:09:51]  I'm not going to do it.
[00:09:52]  You shouldn't put up with it either.
[00:09:53]  I'm also not going to ask, act as if this is okay, as if this is normal.
[00:09:58]  At the core of every liberalization movement that we have lived through in the last 20 or 30 years is a tyrannical campaign and plan to make you participate.
[00:10:11]  It's not enough that you don't agree with the lifestyle.
[00:10:14]  No, they must force you to all of a sudden celebrate it alongside of them.
[00:10:18]  You must have your child be exposed to the drag queen story hour.
[00:10:21]  You must have your child exposed to these sorts of things.
[00:10:25]  It is not about live and let live and having this beautiful detente of you do you and I do me, man.

=== Tyrants Target Political Allies (05:33) ===

[00:10:31]  No, it's if you don't do me, I'm going to use a gun and put it to your head and force you to put the patch on.
[00:10:38]  Seinfeld was way ahead of its time with that beautiful piece of art there.
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[00:11:57]  Here is a question.
[00:11:58]  It's about Paul Pelosi.
[00:12:00]  Charlie, I'm hearing from an extremely reliable person that night that Paul Pelosi was arrested for a DUI, that he had a sidearm handgun in his possession while intoxicated.
[00:12:09]  It's one of the reasons that the DA is refusing to give more information on the arrest.
[00:12:12]  They might drop the charges altogether.
[00:12:15]  From Nate, who listens up in beautiful North Dakota.
[00:12:20]  So will Paul Pelosi be charged?
[00:12:22]  Probably not.
[00:12:22]  No, he's part of the untouchable class because Nancy Pelosi is very useful.
[00:12:27]  But we also had another question that emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
[00:12:30]  Charlie, I thought, so this is based on the story of Marine General John R. Allen, who led U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and then ran the Brookings Institution.
[00:12:42]  He has recently had his data seized by the FBI in what seems to be a soon-to-be indictment against him for illegally lobbying for Qatar and lobbying for their interests in Washington, D.C. Someone asked, they said, Charlie, I sent the story.
[00:12:57]  They said, Charlie, I thought you said these people were untouchable.
[00:13:00]  Well, there is a little bit of an asterisk to that, right?
[00:13:02]  So they're untouchable as long as they are useful to the regime.
[00:13:06]  But our current regime, they've studied closely and intently how the Soviet Union ran their country.
[00:13:14]  You see that with the show trials.
[00:13:16]  You see that with the erroneous arrests.
[00:13:18]  But we must understand that tyrants, when they're doing what they do best, which is evil, when they are executing their evil at their best, they must always keep the ruled and also the people around them on their toes.
[00:13:34]  So if they want to actually hold on to political power, they must randomly pick off people and keep you on your toes.
[00:13:41]  That think as if the sword of Damocles could drop on you at any time, that there must be a sense of paranoia.
[00:13:47]  This is exactly why they were okay taking out Andrew Cuomo.
[00:13:51]  Andrew Cuomo was unuseful, but they also kind of wanted to make an example.
[00:13:55]  Like, hey, no one is above the rest around here.
[00:13:58]  Everyone kind of worships at the altar of a couple political families, and we are the untouchables and you are not.
[00:14:05]  So Marine General John R. Allen, who is soon to be indicted for his behind-the-scenes effort to help Qatar influence U.S. policy in 2017, it reminds me of something that Joseph Stalin did when he went after his own military generals almost inexplicably.
[00:14:27]  One in particular was a man by the name of General Tukhachevsky.
[00:14:31]  General Tukhachevsky was such a phenomenal military officer.
[00:14:35]  He was nicknamed as the Red Napoleon.
[00:14:38]  He was prominent between 1918 and 1937 as a military officer and strategist.
[00:14:44]  He was one of the best that they had.
[00:14:46]  But Joseph Stalin started to get very worried about Tukhachevsky.
[00:14:50]  He started to get paranoid.
[00:14:51]  Remember, paranoia goes both ways in authoritarian tyrannical governments.
[00:14:55]  Tukhachevsky was starting to consolidate a lot of support domestically.
[00:15:00]  And he had no ambitions, by the way, to take out Joseph Stalin, but it was enough for Stalin to include him in his multiple-year military purge.
[00:15:10]  When you start to enter authoritarian and tyrannical governments, it's not just the political opponents that the regime goes after, but it's also the temporary political allies.
[00:15:25]  Let me say that again, that authoritarians and tyrants will also go after their allies to try to consolidate support.
[00:15:31]  So in the great purge that happened in 1968 to 1936 to 1938, sorry, basically in the year 1937, Joseph Stalin went on a great purge, killing thousands of random military generals and killing 1.2 million total people in the Soviet system.
[00:15:53]  Now, he did this, he said, to try to get rid of the remaining influence of Leon Trotsky.
[00:15:57]  But what he was really doing is trying to strike fear, a sense that anybody, anytime, could get a knock on their door and be sent to the gulag.

=== Authoritarian Regime Patterns (15:47) ===

[00:16:05]  What does that do?
[00:16:06]  That creates a renewed sense of loyalty and obedience.
[00:16:10]  Our current regime is using that same sort of pattern of behavior.
[00:16:14]  So when they go after this guy, John R. Allen, Marine General, what they're really doing, what the regime is actually doing is making an example, say, hey, you better listen to orders.
[00:16:23]  You better not step out of line.
[00:16:25]  Even he who ran NATO, who you thought was wearing the untouchable jersey, actually was not untouchable.
[00:16:31]  Now, Paul Pelosi, that's not really, that doesn't do much for them.
[00:16:34]  If they all of a sudden show Paul Pelosi going to jail, what's the significance of that?
[00:16:38]  Now, sometimes some of these slip through the cracks where some of their people are such criminals, even though they're useful, they can't cover it up.
[00:16:44]  Like Harvey Weinstein, they just got to throw it to the dogs, like, we can't handle it anymore.
[00:16:48]  We just got to kind of cast them off the island.
[00:16:49]  But Paul Pelosi didn't do anything that we know of that Harvey Weinstein did, had a DUI and a handgun and all that.
[00:16:56]  Those things can be swept under the rug.
[00:16:58]  And Pelosi is furiously, I'm sure, Nancy Pelosi making calls to go bail out her drunk husband who couldn't pay for an Uber, but decided to drive at 5.30 in the morning after a late night of sipping very expensive wine in Napa Valley.
[00:17:13]  A regime will always try to keep you on their toes, but not just that.
[00:17:18]  They need to keep the people around them on their toes because they are actually more paranoid than anybody else.
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[00:18:13]  This is Kevin from Rhode Island.
[00:18:15]  Charlie, what do you make of the assassination attempt against Brett Kavanaugh?
[00:18:18]  Why is the media ignoring this?
[00:18:20]  Well, they're ignoring it because it's not helpful to mention it.
[00:18:24]  The fact that there was a legit assassination attempt against Brett Kavanaugh and his family.
[00:18:28]  Now, we still don't know how the U.S. Marshals knew this person was going to drive up to Brett Kavanaugh's home.
[00:18:34]  I would imagine through cell phone surveillance and all of that, that'd be an interesting thing to find out and actually be the best case for the Patriot Act that I've heard in quite some time because I haven't heard a good one in a long time because the Patriot Act and all this stuff seems to just be abused and spying on moms and dads that show up at school board meetings.
[00:18:49]  But this has been bubbling up for quite some time.
[00:18:53]  Remember back in May, Jen Psaki said that protests have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges' homes, even though that is a federal crime to go try to influence a Supreme Court opinion outside of a Supreme Court justice home.
[00:19:08]  Do you think of a bunch of MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters showed up at Katangi Brown Jackson's home?
[00:19:13]  Do you think they would be arrested?
[00:19:15]  Play Cut 62.
[00:19:17]  I know that there's an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly continue to encourage that outside of judges' homes, and that's the president's position.
[00:19:29]  They continue to encourage it outside of judges' homes.
[00:19:32]  And that is the president's position.
[00:19:34]  Thankfully, the U.S. Marshals were there to intercept this soon-to-be lunatic, this soon-to-be murderer.
[00:19:42]  He had rope.
[00:19:46]  He had knives.
[00:19:47]  He had a gun.
[00:19:49]  Now, the organization that is organizing this is called Ruth Sent Us.
[00:19:54]  We don't know who's funding Ruth Sent Us.
[00:19:56]  We should find out.
[00:19:58]  Ruth Sent Us is a very radical pro-abortion group.
[00:20:05]  They have hinted for quite some time at targeting Justice Amy Coney Barrett's children and their church.
[00:20:11]  Now, I think it's very fair to say that these justices need protection, that these justices need some form of security.
[00:20:26]  Cut 65, though, House Democrats don't agree.
[00:20:30]  The House Democrats seem indifferent if Brett Kavanaugh gets popped off.
[00:20:34]  I'm not saying they want that, but they seem indifferent.
[00:20:37]  That if Brett Kavanaugh got assassinated, would Nancy Pelosi be upset or would she look at it as an opportunity?
[00:20:43]  I don't know.
[00:20:44]  That's an open question.
[00:20:45]  But what we do know is House Democrats just blocked a bill to provide more security for Supreme Court justices and their family.
[00:20:52]  It passed unanimously in the Senate, unanimously in the Senate.
[00:20:55]  But Pelosi blocked it.
[00:20:57]  Security for Supreme Court justices, even though there's assassination attempts?
[00:21:01]  What is Pelosi getting at here?
[00:21:02]  Of course, Pelosi gets security.
[00:21:04]  Why wouldn't we have more security right now?
[00:21:07]  Well, Pelosi has her own agenda, play Cut 65.
[00:21:10]  With that, Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table S 4160, the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
[00:21:23]  Under the guidelines consistently issued by successive speakers, as recorded in section 956 of the House Rules and Manual, the Chair is constrained not to entertain the request unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee leaderships.
[00:21:37]  Cleared on the Republican side.
[00:21:39]  Is the gentleman asking a parliamentarian question?
[00:21:42]  No, I'm just stating that there is no objection on the Republican side, so that would only be the Democrats holding the bill up.
[00:21:48]  The Democrats are holding up the security for Supreme Court justices.
[00:21:54]  Do they want something to happen to Brett Kavanaugh?
[00:21:57]  I don't think so.
[00:21:58]  They're certainly indifferent for it, though.
[00:22:00]  They just don't care if Brett Kavanaugh or Amy Coney Barrett or Clarence Thomas gets kidnapped with zip ties.
[00:22:07]  Now, I don't know the specifics of this, but I don't know the details if this is legal, but I would imagine that there has to be some sort of an ability to get private security for them, regardless if Congress is going to allocate that.
[00:22:24]  I'm sure there are some amazing veterans through private security contract forces that would be willing to almost volunteer their time to go protect Supreme Court justices right now.
[00:22:35]  All of them, all nine of them, by the way, deserve protection: Kagan, Breyer, Katanji Brown Jackson, Sodomayor, Amy Coney Barrett, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch.
[00:22:49]  They all deserve protection.
[00:22:50]  And Kavanaugh, they all deserve protection, increased protection.
[00:22:54]  Why is this controversial?
[00:22:57]  It does start to make you ask uncomfortable questions.
[00:23:01]  Makes me uncomfortable.
[00:23:05]  They couldn't want this, could they?
[00:23:06]  They couldn't want Supreme Court justices to die.
[00:23:12]  But they're not doing anything to fix it.
[00:23:13]  So it makes you kind of go into this, the waters of uncomfortable, open-ended questions.
[00:23:19]  But CNN is already doing what CNN does.
[00:23:21]  They blame Republicans for the fact that left-wing lunatics want to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh.
[00:23:28]  Play cut 64.
[00:23:31]  Certainly contributes to this overall threat landscape we've been talking a lot about.
[00:23:35]  The major concern here with this abortion ruling from federal officials is that Supreme Court justices will certainly be, you know, potentially targeted by violent extremists who are angered over this pending ruling that is poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.
[00:23:49]  There are emotions on both sides.
[00:23:50]  Federal officials have made clear over and over they believe the risk truly comes from both sides of this abortion debate.
[00:23:57]  So certainly this case is really solidifying what federal officials have been warning about.
[00:24:02]  People are angry.
[00:24:03]  They might seek to use the abortion ruling as a justification to cause violence.
[00:24:08]  It can't just be a left-wing thing, right?
[00:24:11]  Really makes you ask uncomfortable questions.
[00:24:13]  Why would Democrats hold that up?
[00:24:16]  And there's no good answer to that.
[00:24:18]  There isn't.
[00:24:20]  So let me get this straight.
[00:24:22]  Nancy Pelosi is willing to sprint at record pace with urgency to go give $40 billion to Vladimir Zelensky, but she blocks and stalls a bill to go give security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.
[00:24:38]  Why?
[00:24:40]  The Senate unanimously passes the bill to give security to Supreme Court justices.
[00:24:47]  This week, a lunatic from Pelosi's home state comes with zip ties to go kidnap and assassinate Brett Kavanaugh and has been indicted for attempted murder, and Pelosi won't move an inch.
[00:25:02]  But Pelosi moves at record pace to give Ukraine $40 billion.
[00:25:09]  Next question, Isaac from Mississippi.
[00:25:12]  Charlie, what is SADS and where does it come from?
[00:25:16]  I'm really confused.
[00:25:17]  Thank you.
[00:25:18]  So if you've been watching the news, that isn't the January 6th Committee primetime show.
[00:25:24]  There is a new thing that is starting to gain some traction, which is called sudden adult death syndrome or sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.
[00:25:34]  Either one works, where all of a sudden, healthy adults are just dropping dead inexplicably.
[00:25:41]  That there are people that are perfectly healthy, they're adults, and they start dropping dead.
[00:25:46]  This is being reported on more and more.
[00:25:48]  Now, we started to see a lot of these stories over the last year, and you've sent us a lot of those stories at freedom at charliekirk.com of a lot of healthy young people that dropped dead inexplicably.
[00:26:00]  Now, it just so happens those young people and those adults had recently got a COVID vaccine.
[00:26:04]  But of course, there's no way that they could be connected because the vaccine is totally 100% safe, 100%.
[00:26:12]  It's honestly a modern miracle, the mRNA technology.
[00:26:15]  It's amazing that we're even able to mention it.
[00:26:18]  In fact, the mRNA technology, the gene-altering technology, it might just be, it might be mana from heaven, actually.
[00:26:26]  Play cut 79.
[00:26:28]  Baffled by increase in sudden adult death syndrome.
[00:26:34]  Are they that stupid?
[00:26:36]  I don't think that they're stupid.
[00:26:37]  I think that they think we are stupid.
[00:26:40]  And I mean, they're kind of right.
[00:26:43]  Sudden adult death syndrome, really?
[00:26:45]  We just have suddenly all these extra deaths.
[00:26:49]  And we know no, we have no idea why, but we do know that it's not the vaccine.
[00:26:53]  That's the one thing that they can tell you for sure.
[00:26:56]  There are too many powerful institutions and stakeholders involved here that all have huge interests in us not knowing what the side effects are of this vaccine.
[00:27:06]  No, but it's definitely not because of the vaccine.
[00:27:08]  That we know.
[00:27:09]  Maybe Trump voters.
[00:27:10]  It might be because of insurrectionists.
[00:27:13]  It might also, you know what?
[00:27:15]  It might be because of the big lie.
[00:27:16]  That's why people are just dropping dead.
[00:27:18]  Or it might be Tucker Carlson's fault, but it certainly is not the vaccine.
[00:27:23]  So, Isaac from Mississippi, here's what I can tell you.
[00:27:26]  It certainly is not the vaccine.
[00:27:27]  White supremacists might be the reason why people are dropping dead.
[00:27:32]  Trump voters, but the vaccine, come on.
[00:27:37]  It's not like we mandated it and a bunch of people took it.
[00:27:40]  Perfectly safe.
[00:27:43]  Let's get to the next question here.
[00:27:46]  We got some really good ones coming here.
[00:27:48]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:27:51]  Let's get to this one here.
[00:27:52]  Charlie, did you see AOC's recent comments on the Republican Party and what is your reaction?
[00:27:58]  I did see them, and that is Andrew from Utah.
[00:28:00]  Thank you.
[00:28:01]  Freedom at CharlieKirk.com.
[00:28:03]  Let's play cut two.
[00:28:04]  AOC says they're doing everything they can to give up, and that's not just the Republican Party to get you to give up.
[00:28:09]  Play cut two.
[00:28:11]  And I'm not trying to give people some kind of like corny.
[00:28:15]  They seek to extinguish your hope.
[00:28:18]  They seek to extinguish your faith.
[00:28:20]  They seek to extinguish your desire to fight for a better future.
[00:28:26]  They are doing everything they can to get you to give up.
[00:28:29]  And that's not just the Republican Party.
[00:28:32]  This is the entire power structure of this country.
[00:28:35]  It's funny because we say the exact same thing that you're trying to get us to give up, AOC, which is exactly what you're trying to do.
[00:28:43]  But she kind of looked disheveled.
[00:28:44]  She's also just, quite honestly, she's just become more delusional recently.
[00:28:48]  I know she just recently got engaged, and good for her.
[00:28:51]  We believe marriage is a beautiful thing, but she's just become completely out of control.
[00:28:57]  And she just went off the grid for a long time.
[00:28:59]  She started like really screaming at Elon Musk.
[00:29:01]  I'm selling my Tesla.
[00:29:02]  Okay, crazy cat person.
[00:29:06]  And she came back engaged, like, congratulations.
[00:29:09]  I hope you live a good life.
[00:29:11]  But she's just saying these crazy things lately, AOC.
[00:29:14]  And that really is saying something because she's set the bar pretty high there.
[00:29:19]  But she's kind of basically giving us a little bit of a window that people on the left are starting to give up.
[00:29:26]  And we're seeing that.
[00:29:27]  We're seeing that in the lack of the widespread abortion protests.
[00:29:31]  Now, there are some very serious, focused abortion protests, obviously, in the assassination attempts and the harassment of Supreme Court homes, but it's not in like every city, every pocket, like we saw in Floyd.
[00:29:41]  What AOC is articulating is that we are an exhausted nation.
[00:29:47]  The left is just as tired as the right is.
[00:29:50]  And to use a sports analogy, it's whoever's going to want it more at this point.
[00:29:53]  It's the fourth quarter.
[00:29:54]  It's the final phase.
[00:29:55]  Who wants it more?
[00:29:57]  The left has done such incredible damage to this country, and AOC has been a beneficiary of that damage.
[00:30:03]  And it looks like they're going to give up is what it looks like.
[00:30:06]  And I'll be honest, they are fragile people.
[00:30:09]  They are.
[00:30:09]  They might be slick.
[00:30:11]  They're deceitful.
[00:30:12]  They're treacherous and they're arrogant.
[00:30:15]  But they're very fragile.
[00:30:16]  You misgender them.
[00:30:17]  They run for a safe space.
[00:30:21]  I don't think the resolve on the left is going to stay.
[00:30:23]  I think they're going to get cynical and disengage.
[00:30:26]  There is not another fever pitch they can get to.
[00:30:29]  Whereas the conservative grassroots, we're here to stay.
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[00:31:33]  Let's go to this one here.
[00:31:35]  Hey, Charlie, the work you're doing is amazing.
[00:31:37]  Life-changing events.
[00:31:38]  Keep it up.
[00:31:39]  Have you ever thought about reaching the Hispanic community?
[00:31:41]  I asked because I'm still new to this.
[00:31:42]  And I don't know if you already have, John Vargas.
[00:31:45]  Yes, we have our Young Latino Leadership Summit at Turning Point USA.
[00:31:48]  We also have bilingual influencers and contributors.
[00:31:51]  I think that we need to do more.

=== State Level Conservative Action (05:01) ===

[00:31:52]  And George Soros just recently purchased major Hispanic conservative radio stations.
[00:31:58]  Now, why conservatives allowed this to happen is beyond me.
[00:32:02]  I think there were some other people involved in trying to purchase.
[00:32:05]  There was this whole backstory here.
[00:32:07]  So this is a story.
[00:32:10]  DeSantis raises alarm over George Soros-backed buyout of Hispanic radio.
[00:32:16]  Warning voters, the left is taking control of your local media, reads an English translation of the DeSantis campaign's ad, which will run on stations set to be acquired by a conglomerate financed by left-wing billionaire George Soros.
[00:32:27]  Conservatives never should have allowed these radio stations to slip out of their grasp.
[00:32:34]  Why are conservatives not doing this?
[00:32:36]  We need to start buying their media assets.
[00:32:38]  We need to start taking their things.
[00:32:42]  Instead, Soros is playing offense and he's good at it.
[00:32:45]  You got to give him credit.
[00:32:46]  He doesn't stop.
[00:32:47]  George Soros is very, very good at it.
[00:32:50]  So, yes, there's a lot.
[00:32:52]  Elon Musk buying Twitter is a big thing.
[00:32:54]  By the way, we got a lot of questions on that.
[00:32:56]  Like, what is going on with that?
[00:32:58]  We don't know.
[00:32:59]  I don't think Elon knows.
[00:33:01]  I think Elon is getting a final report on how many bots there are.
[00:33:07]  And so it remains to be seen whether or not the Twitter transaction will actually go through.
[00:33:11]  We certainly hope it does.
[00:33:12]  Censorship is central to this regime.
[00:33:14]  Their ability to silence you is central to everything they try to do as a central organizing principle.
[00:33:24]  Here's a question here.
[00:33:26]  Yesterday, when I was driving to Austin, I saw a billboard right outside of Austin, Texas, somewhere between Georgetown and Round Rock.
[00:33:33]  It said, quote, Biden started drilling for oil in Texas, not other countries.
[00:33:37]  My question is: can Texas start its own pipeline?
[00:33:39]  Also just caught the segment with Drew Hernandez.
[00:33:41]  I know he showed Arizona what happened to Abbott shipping illegals to Washington, D.C. Abbott only shipped like 800 to 900 illegals.
[00:33:47]  It was mostly a publicity stunt.
[00:33:49]  Texas can do its own pipeline.
[00:33:51]  Texas can build its own border wall.
[00:33:53]  Texas can start its own Texas Border Patrol.
[00:33:55]  And Texas can deport people if they want to.
[00:33:58]  A state is sovereign, whether you want to believe that or not.
[00:34:02]  The states created the federal government.
[00:34:04]  The federal government did not create the states.
[00:34:06]  And if the federal government is not going to do their job, the states have to step up and do it themselves.
[00:34:10]  We need governors who do not believe in excuses anymore.
[00:34:13]  Enforce your own law.
[00:34:14]  Defy the federal government.
[00:34:17]  Make Joe Biden go send a bunch of federal agents after Greg Abbott.
[00:34:22]  It'll be a showdown with the Texas Rangers.
[00:34:23]  Good luck.
[00:34:24]  You'll lose.
[00:34:26]  So can Texas start its own pipeline?
[00:34:28]  Of course it can.
[00:34:29]  These states have way more power than people realize.
[00:34:32]  And it's time for states to start using that power.
[00:34:35]  The tyranny goes all one way.
[00:34:39]  The federal government is squeezing the states every single day, suffocating them.
[00:34:45]  And we just take it.
[00:34:46]  It's time for the states to punch back.
[00:34:48]  The only way to deal with the bully is punch back twice as hard.
[00:34:51]  It's the only way.
[00:34:53]  So why are we putting up with this?
[00:34:54]  Well, it's because of decency and tradition.
[00:34:56]  You mean the tradition of the federal government destroying your life?
[00:35:01]  I don't like that tradition.
[00:35:03]  Here's another story here from Paul or Jen from Fort Worth.
[00:35:07]  Charlie, should we ban drag shows for kids?
[00:35:10]  Is that an appropriate use of state power?
[00:35:11]  Of course it is, obviously.
[00:35:12]  This is not even a question.
[00:35:15]  If the state's good for anything, it's protecting children.
[00:35:18]  For example, protecting children from pornography.
[00:35:20]  That's why we partner with Canopy.
[00:35:22]  Protecting children from predators.
[00:35:24]  Protecting the innocence of children is a moral good for all of society.
[00:35:30]  You can judge a society on how they treat its children.
[00:35:37]  When you think children can be discarded and turned into sexualized objects, what does that say about your culture, your laws, and your society?
[00:35:44]  Laws point towards some sort of desired outcome.
[00:35:48]  And we want laws to be small in number, but strong in enforcement.
[00:35:52]  We do not believe in voluminous laws, as James Madison warned against.
[00:35:57]  But the laws we do have need to reflect virtue.
[00:35:59]  It needs to be done mostly on a state and local level.
[00:36:02]  But every law advocates for some form of morality.
[00:36:06]  There is no something, there is no thing such as a neutral morality.
[00:36:09]  All laws point towards some morality.
[00:36:12]  We should not be afraid of that.
[00:36:14]  The new right, the new conservative movement, is willing to acknowledge that the morals that built the West, separation of powers, consent to the governed, protection of the innocent, the strong protecting the weak, is how we want to live.
[00:36:25]  The left has been preaching their morality forever under the disguise and the camouflage that there's no morality behind their laws.
[00:36:32]  Lies.
[00:36:32]  We're waking up to it.
[00:36:34]  So, of course, we should ban drag shows for kids, and we should be unapologetic for it.
[00:36:40]  Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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[00:36:44]  Thank you so much for listening.
[00:36:46]  God bless.
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