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April 10, 2023 - The Charlie Kirk Show
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SFSU and the Rise of Campus Radicals
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Trans Terrorists Attack Turning Point 00:09:38
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One of the tricks of the left is they make you fight on issues that shouldn't actually be issues.
If I would have told you 20 or 30 years ago that we would be having protests and screaming matches over having men who are cheaters, narcissists, freaks, compete in female sports, I'd say, hold on a second.
That's not an issue.
This is all by design.
They've moved the overtime window where now we have to defend female sports.
Female sports, as we know it, will cease to exist as a categorization of athletics in the next couple of years if this pace continues.
We see it in weightlifting.
We see it in track and field.
And of course, we saw it in swimming where the cheat, Thomas, man who thinks he's a woman, appropriating womanhood, won the NCAA championship.
And the first runner-up, the person who should have won the national championship, Riley Gaines.
Riley Gaines from the University of Kentucky.
And she has a lot of courage, moral clarity.
She's been speaking out about the injustice, the unfairness that used to always be something the left would talk about.
Justice, fairness.
We need to stand for women's rights.
We just had Women Equality Month, where they actually used Dylan Mulvaney in some advertisements, and they use Thomas as saying, ESPN did a whole thing, Disney, saying, look, we're advancing women's progress.
Here's a man.
They're trying to obliterate the moral fabric of society.
And at Turning Point USA, we are leaning in on this.
There's a lot of conservative groups.
They sit on their hands.
They do nothing, as you could probably tell.
They talk a good game, but they do nothing.
At Turning Point USA, we have proven time and time again, we play offense.
We go to the places that need to hear the message.
We have chapters in every nook and cranny, liberal, conservative, left-wing, totalitarian, Marxist.
We have chapters.
We're trying to get the next generation to embrace the ideas of liberty and freedom and American exceptionalism.
I'm proud of our team at Turning Point USA.
They have courage.
We could have took last week off.
Last week was a holy week, and we didn't have to be hosting events, but no, no, our Turning Point USA team, the front lines, they said, you know what, we want to host an event in San Francisco, not just San Francisco, but University of Albany as well.
I'll get to that in a second.
At San Francisco State University, otherwise known as Stalingrad, Leningrad, very similar to a Maoist-type concentration camp.
And that's not an exaggeration.
You look at what these people, how they act and how they believe, it's unbelievable.
It's beyond comprehension.
It's an island of totalitarianism.
We decided to host Riley Gaines, the woman who was really cheated out of a national championship by a man.
She was there to talk about saving female sports.
That was the name of her speech, to save female sports.
Riley Gaines shows up at the Turning Point USA chapter at San Francisco State University and is met by some of the most angry terrorists you could imagine.
Now, we've dealt with these people.
We get death threats every single day from these kind of trans terrorists.
And there's a reason for it.
There's a reason why they act the way they do.
First of all, they're empowered by society and empowered by the media because there's no guardrails at all.
They're allowed to do whatever you want.
Remember, the victim is allowed to become the victimizer in postmodern politics.
They're allowed to do whatever.
They have a moral license to destroy.
They believe revenge is virtuous.
These are very angry people.
We could show some of the images on screen, but this was planned for a quote-unquote counter-protest and a sit-in.
They call her a transphobic speaker, which, of course, she's not transphobic.
She wants to uphold female sports.
She's very clear about that, but they don't care.
These people are deeply troubled themselves.
They're living under a delusion.
They're living in an imaginary existence.
I'm talking about trans people.
And that should, of course, be treated with compassion and care and should be given serious, addressed very seriously.
The way to address it is not to reaccommodate society and to change our customs or our traditions or our practices or our sports just because a bunch of people have mental problems.
It doesn't work that way.
You don't get an extra seat on an airplane just because you say you have an imaginary friend.
It doesn't work that way.
And they demand treatment.
They demand not just treatment.
They demand special privileges.
Sometimes money, pronoun usage.
And so, because of that, they have a tyrannical impulse.
And the T in LGBT stands for tyranny.
And it has for quite some time.
It's not enough that you live and let live.
It's live and let us rule over you.
We hate you, is what they say.
So Riley Gaines shows up at San Francisco State University and is met by these terrorists.
She's assaulted by them.
And she was held hostage for multiple hours at San Francisco State University.
The police were afraid.
The administration were afraid because remember, our country is currently being held hostage.
And this was just a microcosm.
It was a manifestation of our entire country being held hostage by the alphabet mafia.
This is happening in America.
This is not Mao'China.
This is not Pol Pots Cambodia.
This is not Stalin.
Stalin's Russia.
No, this is America on an American college campus where a woman is being held hostage by freak show.
Really, literally a freak show is holding her hostage.
Play cut three.
And move and move forward with them, okay?
Tell her to pay us.
Tell her to pay us that she could go.
So we could get paid for it too.
And that's not that great of a clip, but basically they're outside holding her hostage, demanding ransom.
She was violently assaulted by these trans activists.
And again, these people deserve care, but when you start to inject testosterone replacement therapy and these people start to act super erratic and violent, don't be surprised.
When you start to inject artificial treatments of testosterone to women and they start acting really violently because it's not in their natural hormone production, don't be shocked.
Play cut four.
This is her getting assaulted by the trans people.
Man, those screams of horror make you remember that in the Bible, demons always use pronouns.
They.
They them.
It's true.
Those screams are not normal.
I mean, she's there talking about female sports and they're just apoplectic.
It's tyrannical.
They have to find a villain.
And she manifested on campus.
Of course, the university vice president complimented the trans activists.
She said they have tremendous bravery and described them as behaving peacefully.
Same sort of thing that happened when I visited University of California, Davis.
Same sort of behavior that happened at Stanford University.
The leaders, the people that are stewards of the university, they want this.
They enjoy it.
The vice president of the university, San Francisco State University, released this statement and she said that, or the head Jamila Moore complimenting the students, called them brave.
It's a good thing that you guys assaulted Riley Gaines.
You ushered her off campus.
She was held hostage.
So the people that are in charge of society, the people that should be saying, this is a bad idea.
Stop doing this, despite it being pseudo-kidnapping and pseudo-extortion, are calling it brave and saying it was done peacefully.
It's so Orwelly and it's such a lie because deep down, Jamila Moore is afraid of the trans terrorists, and she should be.
These people are very, very scary if you don't actually have a plan and an understanding of who these people are because they can do whatever they want.
Riley Gaines Held Hostage 00:08:51
A trans person was going to shoot up a bunch of churches in Colorado.
Is that a national news story?
A trans person shot up six kids in Nashville.
Is that a national news story?
Of course not.
No, we have now decided as a society because good people are too afraid to stand up and do something, that if you have a deep-seated mental illness, then all of a sudden the society is yours.
You could do whatever you want.
And not only that, when you act in illegal ways, you get complimented by the administration as being brave.
You know who's brave?
Riley Gaines is brave.
You know who's brave?
The turning point USA students is brave.
It's not brave to show up in your bacon purple hair and punch her in the face.
That's a coward and you're a freak.
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Riley Gaines tries to show up at a college campus.
Now, we received a couple emails, not a lot.
They say, Charlie, why do you even go to these campuses?
You're provoking them.
That is a bad take.
It's America.
You should show up to any college campus you want to be able to speak about whatever you want, let alone something decent, something virtuous.
That's letting them win.
That is basically saying they control the institutions.
We're not going to show up.
We have a completely different philosophy at Turning Point USA.
It matters that we showed up at San Francisco State University.
By the way, it's not just isolated to that.
We had a Isabel Brown, one of our Turning Point USA contributors, tried to show up at Virginia Commonwealth University, VCU.
Entire event hijacked alongside Student for Life's Kristen Hawkins.
Protesters threw punches and injured a chapter president.
University of Albany, featuring pro-life speaker Ian Hayworth, interrupted by anti-Christian far-left students who proceeded to destroy a Bible, which could be interpreted as a hate crime, or at least an act of hate.
And by the way, you might say, oh, Charlie, that's not true.
Okay.
Let's pretend a gay speaker shows up and a bunch of people start burning the gay flag.
Do you think that there would have been an investigation into that?
Do you think that somebody would have mentioned that?
Of course they would.
Now, by the way, if a trans speaker, let's say that, you know, the Budweiser guy, the Dylan, the Dylan the Freak Show, shows up at a campus, and let's pretend a group of Christian-bearded men interrupted Dylan's speech.
Do you think that that would be national news?
And by the way, there were seven to ten uniformed and plain-clothed campus police officers, and it was just a 75-person event.
And yes, we're ramping up security.
And by the way, just so we're clear, you know, at Turning Point USA, we spend literally close to a million dollars a year on security as it is because of all the death threats.
And so, yes, we're going to increase it.
Yes, we're going to send out more.
But we thought, okay, local campus event, police there.
And okay, fine.
We're going to upgrade it.
Someone said here, Charlie, won't you have security here?
Security is not cheap, okay?
They said, Charlie, where on earth was her competent security?
Okay.
Again, we have literally well over 1,600 campuses, chapters across the country.
She spoke at other ones.
Sometimes there's security stuff.
So yes, this, by the way, the left knows what they're doing.
They want to make it so expensive for us to do our job.
We have to have 24-hour security on our campuses.
We have cameras everywhere.
When I show up at Davis, we had at least 12 of our own security guys.
That's part of their plan.
They laugh when all of a sudden we come to security.
They say, oh, what we're doing is working.
These people are terrorists.
By the way, we have her again at State University, New York, Buffalo, and our great security team will step up.
They're going to do a great job.
We're going to make sure this doesn't happen again.
People say, what about campus security?
Campus security is a joke.
And by the way, half the campus security are actually cool with her getting assaulted.
Just look at the statement from the university.
The fact that she got assaulted is called brave.
So yeah, people are asking, you know, emailing us, well, Charlie, where are the adults in the room?
The adults haven't been running this country for quite a while.
The pandering to the alphabet mafia is complete.
If you are trans and you're outspoken, you're allowed to assault people.
If you want to shoot up a school, you don't get blamed for being part of the trans group, tragically and terribly.
Where are the parents?
I have no idea.
Oh, by the way, if you're trans, you get sponsorship deals with Hershey's, Jack Daniels.
If you're trans and you dress and drag, you can get sponsorship deals with Bud Light.
But if you are a Christian conservative gun owner, you would never get a sponsorship deal with Nike.
Dylan, the man who shows up at the White House, gets treated like royalty, gets a sponsorship deal with Nike, Dylan Mulvaney.
I just call him Dylan the man because I'm so sick of this.
I was on the phone somebody the other day.
They said, well, Charlie, you know, that person, she should not have gotten that endorsement from Budweiser.
I said, no, no, no, just stop.
You got to be more precise with your language.
And not to mention, the Biden regime comes out and they say that trans people shape the soul of our nation.
The people that assault Riley Gaines on campus that punch her, hold her hostage, that's who Biden calls society shapers.
They're soul shapers.
They're like Martin Luther King.
They're the new moral compass of our country.
And I got to blame conservatives for this because for the last couple of years, I've heard conservatives say, well, Charlie, why does it impact you?
If somebody really believes they are somebody, why don't we just lay off this issue?
That sort of line of thinking gets us to a place where Riley Gaines shows up on campus and gets terrorized.
And again, I just want to be very clear.
If a group of trans people show up and speak on a campus, let's just say Dylan Mulvaney or whomever, and a bunch of Christians start, and they wouldn't do this, but a bunch of Christians interrupted them and stormed the event.
That would be treated, maybe not as a hate crime, but it would be treated in the national media as despicable and terrible.
But no, they have a moral license to do this because they're trying to take over the entire country.
And the trans social contagion is how they think they're going to do it.
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An awful shooting has happened in Kentucky.
We don't want to rush to any judgment.
That's what the media does.
I had a clip go viral on the Second Amendment last week.
I'm happy to clarify that, but I do want to finish my point on the Riley Gaines situation.
We're getting lots of emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Let's get to this tape here.
Riley Gaines joined Tucker Carlson to explain what happened while she was talking about women's sports, female sports.
The Cost of Armed Citizens 00:15:48
And the head of the university calls the people the assailant, not the assailants, the people that, I guess, is that the technical term, people that committed assault, the assaulters, I guess you could say.
Brave.
Play cut one.
All of a sudden, after my speech, the room was stormed.
The lights were turned off, and I was rushed with no one there to escort me to a safe place.
So I was pushed into a classroom along that hallway where I was barricaded in for three hours.
Three hours?
Why didn't someone with the gun come and bring you to safety?
Because they were terrified.
They were scared to put their hands on these people because they know what these people are capable of.
These people yelled obscene, violent, vulgar things to both myself and the officers.
And the officers, I could tell, didn't feel comfortable putting them in a position that would mean they do their job, which is a really scary, chilling thought.
Well, yeah, I mean, obviously, what they're capable of is acts of violence with total impunity.
I mean, they're able to do whatever they want to do.
The entire society panders to the mentally deranged.
That's where we are at.
I hate to oversimplify, but we're at a place now where they could do whatever they want.
They get lucrative corporate contracts, they can commit acts of violence, they can say whatever they want.
For example, I mean, I can't tell you how many death threats we get from trans people, and the police kind of just shrug their shoulders and like, well, there's not much we can do, and we'll guess follow the process, which, of course, if a Christian conservative put death threats against a trans person, I'm sure that the police would get right into gear.
The rule of law is completely upside down, obviously.
And it's not even a matter of free speech at this point.
It's now a situation where we have to rearrange our speech, our planned campus speeches, what pronouns we use, because we're afraid of them.
And that's what I mean by tyrannical.
You see, the trans lobby, the alphabet mafia, they are willing to use power to force us to act outside of what we know to be correct and true.
And yes, you better believe at Turning Point USA, we're looking at it right now, a civil lawsuit for the assault, a civil lawsuit into all of it that happened there.
We'll see if we're successful or not, as we're also trying to look into a lawsuit for University of California Davis.
But who knows?
The courts are tricky and unpredictable.
I want to play another piece of tape here.
Tucker continues with Riley Gaines, calling the trans movement the most dangerous extremist movement in the United States.
Mind you, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, they say it's all white supremacy, when in reality, it's trans delusion that is the real threat.
No one wants to say it out loud.
Play cut two.
This is the most dangerous extremist movement in the United States right now.
It's getting bigger, not smaller.
It's gaining steam, not losing it.
The White House has endorsed it.
I mean, what does this mean for you?
And I just can't say it again since I happen to know you.
You are an inherently moderate person who means harm to no one.
But are you worried about your safety going forward?
You know, I am worried about my safety.
I have to be now.
When we have people who are willing to do this, and we know why they're willing to do this, it's because they don't have reason, they don't have logic, they don't have science, they don't have common sense on their side.
That's on my side.
And so they protrude by violence, whether it's physical or verbal violence.
But what this means for me, this does not deter me.
This assures me that I am doing the right thing.
This will not silence me when they want me to be silenced.
It just means I need to speak louder.
The side that is trying to use force, censor, stifle, or silence the opposition means they are living in lies.
If you want to go give a speech anywhere about trans whatever, we'll come and peacefully ask questions.
But if you want to go give a speech about the harm that trans surgery could possibly show to children, they'll assault you.
They assaulted our reporter, our Turning Point USA Frontlines reporter.
If you go to a college campus to give a speech about trans, they'll try and kill you and your children.
Just look at Matt Walsh.
Matt Walsh has had to go into basically a form of like the witness protection program.
He's had to cancel all public events because of the amount of death threats going towards his family.
And this is a segue into, I want to talk about the Kentucky shooting, and it's just tragic that we have another mass shooting in our country.
I said something last week at Awakened Church in Salt Lake City that I stand 100% by, but it's being taken out of context by the media.
It's being clipped to try to make me seem as if I said something I did not say.
I'm going to play cut 17, then 18, where I said we need to talk honestly about the purpose of the Second Amendment.
Number one, the purpose of the Second Amendment is to defend ourselves against a potentially tyrannical government.
That needs to be repeated.
After COVID, I shouldn't have to make the argument that our government can become tyrannical.
They're putting in a social credit system.
They shut down churches and kept strip clubs, marijuana dispensaries open.
The Second Amendment protects all the other amendments.
That's a fact.
And there is a cost to any form of liberty.
That's a fact.
If you have cars, you get 50,000 auto fatalities every single year.
If you have planes, you're going to have some planes crash.
You have the Open Skies Act, you're going to have a bad pilot.
You have pools, unfortunately, you have kids wander into the pool and they die of suffocation.
Happens far too often in Arizona.
You have peanuts, people could be eating alone in their home and they could choke to death.
You get the point.
Liberty has some costs.
But yes, liberty is worth it.
And I say that because we live under this delusion that somehow we can get gun deaths down to zero.
So if you come from the premise that we're going to have an armed citizenry, you're going to have a cost.
And I'm not making light of the tragedies, obviously.
If you hear this video that's being taken wildly out of context by the media, they're making it seem as if I was making light of the tragedies, that I was somehow delighting in this.
That's garbage and it's nonsense.
I was making an honest take.
And by the way, I even went further and deeper into my speech where I said we should talk about reducing gun deaths.
Reduction is possible.
Elimination is not, period.
As long as you have an armed citizenry.
Now, why is that important?
Because the other side, they say, elect us, give us political power, and we'll get rid of all the gun deaths.
The only way you can do that is by confiscating the hundreds of millions of weapons that we have in our society.
We're not delighting or saying that, having joy that there are deaths related with firearms in this country.
We want to try to have the spirit of reduction.
The solution, of course, is hardening schools and increasing the amount of fathers in homes, having more people that are able to own guns to protect themselves.
But if you come, if you present your argument with the perspective, which you should, that an armed citizenry is moral and necessary, then you're not going to eliminate all gun deaths.
That is a fact.
Stop living in Narnia.
Republicans believe that criminals with guns should go to jail.
Democrats do not.
So who wants more gun violence?
I'll prove that in a second.
But let's just play the take that has gone viral and I'm going to defend it because the media is losing their mind.
It's going viral on Twitter.
Charlie Kirk says that it's worth it.
But what did I actually say that was worth it?
I said the deal, the prudent deal, is that if you acknowledge that you have liberty, you're going to have tragic costs with liberty, period.
You have cars, you have tens of thousands of people that die on the road.
But the cost of being able to have automobile transportation, not the cost or the benefit, is worth the cost.
Play cut 17, please.
Having an armed citizenry comes with a price.
And that is part of liberty.
Driving comes with a price.
50,000 people die on the road every year.
That's a price.
You get rid of driving, you'd have 50,000 less auto fatalities.
So we need to be very clear that you're not going to get gun deaths to zero.
It will not happen.
You can significantly reduce them through having more fathers in the home, by having more armed guards in front of schools.
You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won't have a single gun death.
That's not something that I'm celebrating.
It's a fact of life.
You deal with a broken people.
You're going to have deranged.
You're going to have schizophrenic.
You're going to have people that are double personality.
And so therefore, if you acknowledge an armed citizenry is necessary, which of course it is, then you're going to have to live with the fact that some people are going to do some awful and cruel things.
So how do we significantly reduce it?
That's a conversation worth having.
But elimination is unrealistic.
And it preys on people's good intentions.
And it will never happen.
You know what will happen?
Only the government will have guns and the people will not, which will make us significantly less free.
I fully acknowledge this is a hard pill to swallow.
It's not something I find delight in.
It's not something like, yay, no, but it's real.
And again, I'm not running for political office, so I just say things that are true because people tap dance around it.
But the Democrats will say we got to get rid of all guns.
We have to reduce gun deaths to zero because if it was about gun deaths, then it actually wouldn't be quote unquote about assault rifles, made up term, made up distinction.
The vast majority of gun deaths in America are done with a pistol.
Now, they won't tell you this because in the articles where they're mocking me, Charlie Kirk says that gun deaths are worth it.
I never said that.
What I did say is that a sad reality, a harsh reality, a tragic reality to having an armed citizenry is people doing evil things.
Therefore, you must say what is the price?
What is the benefit?
What is the cost?
What is the benefit?
What is the cost?
Okay.
The benefit of having guns, unfortunately, is worth the tragic elements that come with reality.
If you're unwilling to say that, then you're living in an alternate universe.
So then the question should be about reduction.
I'm going to show you how we can do that in a second.
And by the way, if you look at the articles where they attack me, they say, well, there's over 40,000 people that die every single year with gun deaths.
We're the only country in the world that counts death by suicide with a gun as a gun death.
Now, I'm not trivializing that, but that's a technically different thing.
That is an act of self-harm that has nothing to do with the gun.
And they'll say, oh, well, it has everything to do with the gun.
That's not true.
They could use other means.
Okay.
So let me just finish my argument here.
This is where they really lost their mind.
Play cut 18.
But I think it's worth it.
I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.
That is a prudent deal.
It is rational.
Nobody talks like this.
They live in a complete alternate universe.
No one wants to say that.
By the way, let's just say that the amount of adverse reactions to the vaccine is just as low.
And then, so then I guess they would say, well, those deaths are worth it, right?
Aren't adverse events to the pharmaceutical drugs worth it?
Let's go to actually how to reduce these gun deaths.
Play cut 19.
Guns off the street.
What we got to do if we really want to see homicides go down is keep bad guys with guns in jail because when they're in jail, they can't be in community shooting people.
So when people talk about what we're going to do different or what we should do different, what we need to do different, that's the thing that we need to do different.
We need to keep violent people in jail.
Right now, the average homicide suspect, the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.
That is a problem.
That is a problem.
The Democrats, they want to make you less free and less safe.
That's remarkable, isn't it?
It would be one thing if they were locking up these criminals for a long period of time and violent crime was falling.
I would still oppose any sort of gun confiscation measures.
But with crime going up and free bail and people that are being released, now's not the time to take the weapons away from the people that want to protect themselves.
Republicans believe that criminals with guns should go to jail.
Democrats don't.
So who actually wants more gun violence?
It's a very simple question.
So yes, to go back to the clip that has now gone viral and the left is losing their mind over it and every decent constitutionalist agrees that having liberty comes with a cost, but of course comes with the benefit too.
The benefit of driving has enriched my life and enriched your life.
The benefit of flying has enriched your life and my life.
It goes back to the Benjamin Franklin quote.
Those who are willing to trade liberty for security will have neither.
And by the way, the gun violence comes mainly from criminals being released onto the streets by Democrats in gang-related situations.
The mass shootings get a lot of headlines.
But urban gang, largely handgun deaths, by the way, is what drives gun violence in this country.
And it's centered really in like 10 or 15 cities, largely Democrat cities, some Republicans, but largely Democrat.
And the Soros district attorneys have no bail.
And so you have Alvin Bragg, who's using power to go after a former president.
And then we have to be lectured by the mainstream media that we have too many guns.
As I said at my show, isn't it interesting how there's no mass shootings at gun shows?
And if there was, it'd be neutralized in just a second.
It's not the technology that is doing it.
You can go to Israel.
In Israel, they have an armed citizenry.
They know how to use the guns.
That is very safe.
I feel very safe in Israel.
Every other street corner has a 19-year-old on a date with an AR-15 or an M-16 around his back.
It's just normalized.
Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, I don't want to live in that kind of militarized society.
I'm afraid we're already heading towards that.
And I would rather have citizens have that ability where it's decentralized than just the government have that ability where it's centralized.
So you must be clear about the purpose of the Second Amendment.
The purpose of the Second Amendment is there to protect all the other amendments.
That only the government having the guns is immoral and it's dangerous and it's wrong.
It's totalitarian and it's tyrannical.
Therefore, you have to be real.
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And of course, our hearts go out to the victims in Kentucky for every one of these situations.
But we cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative.
You must use reason when you look at these things.
And using reason, we're able to make the very simple judgment and argument.
A free society comes with a cost.
And that cost is worth it.
Liberty is worth it.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.
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