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| Hey everybody, Tana Charlie Kirk Show. | |
| Ali London talks about the corporate equity index. | |
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| Joining us now is Ollie London. | |
| He's the author of a book, Gender Madness, One Man's Devastating Struggle with Woke Ideology and His Battle to Protect Children. | |
| It is a theme we're going to build out this entire hour. | |
| We're going to talk about who's behind this push to get corporations to embrace these trans influencers. | |
| It's very confusing to me. | |
| Ollie London joins us now. | |
| Ollie, welcome to the program. | |
| You have a very important thread I want to draw people's attention to. | |
| Why is Dylan Mulvaney now the face of so many major corporations all of a sudden? | |
| Fortune 500 companies have a CEI index, Corporate Equality Index, which pushes companies to go woke. | |
| What is the CEI index and who is behind it? | |
| How long has it been around? | |
| Okay, so the Corporate Equality Index is this scorecard-based system, which is used for Fortune 500 companies and other major corporations. | |
| And the group behind it, Charlie, is America's largest LGBT lobby group, the Human Rights Campaign. | |
| So HRD, by the way, receives millions of dollars in donations from George Soros's Open Society Foundation. | |
| So there's your first clue who is behind pushing this. | |
| Secondly, this score system means that this LGBT lobby group goes to companies every year. | |
| It gives them a points, a scorecard from zero to 100 based on how diverse they are, based on how many trans people they hire, based on how gender neutral the office uniforms are. | |
| And also, it takes points away from companies that donate or fund projects that are deemed with organizations that may be anti-LGBT. | |
| And according to the New York Post, this includes, could include Christian groups. | |
| So these companies are being lobbied to not give money to Christian groups or churches because it might lower their score. | |
| Yeah, and so let's just dive into this, right? | |
| So you have this very informative thread. | |
| You say a top Hollywood agency, CAA, which I think is Creative Arts Agency, if not mistaken, right? | |
| Or artists agency, yep, which usually only works with A-list celebrities. | |
| They now have access to working with all the biggest brands and relationships. | |
| So is it fair to say they're gatekeeping this? | |
| Is that right? | |
| I mean, they're basically demanding that these companies embrace these trans influencers because basically what I'm getting at is that this is not organic. | |
| It's not, it doesn't have a momentum. | |
| This is artificial. | |
| It is planned. | |
| It is centralized. | |
| Is that fair to say? | |
| Yeah, 100%. | |
| Again, going back to the corporate equality index, these companies are being encouraged to get a higher score. | |
| They must employ trans people. | |
| And for brands, they must have trans people as models. | |
| So this would explain why we're seeing predominantly Dylan Mulvaney as the face of Ole, as the face of Bud Life, and now as the face of Nike Sportsbras. | |
| And again, going back to her casting agency, so the talent agency is one of the biggest ones in Hollywood. | |
| And you know, Dylan Mulvaney is not an A-list, so they're just some person that mocks women. | |
| But, you know, they are being pushed by basically the biggest agency in Hollywood who only normally work with the biggest film stars. | |
| So their agenda is to push trans ideology. | |
| And, you know, they have a lot of power because if you work with Hollywood stars, you have access to every single major brand. | |
| They have contacts everywhere. | |
| So they can easily push this person and get them publicity, get press for the brand as well. | |
| So, you know, they are pushing very hard from Hollywood to normalize this, Charlie. | |
| We see constant transgender people being put in movies and films where it doesn't even make sense in the plotter part of these films to include them. | |
| And then if you couple that with the human rights campaign funded by George Soros, which physically goes to these companies, and if they get a bad score, you know, most of these companies have the same shareholders. | |
| So HRC puts pressure on the shareholders. | |
| BlackRock has shares in most of these companies, like Nike. | |
| So they put pressure on the shareholders to take action, you know, against the DO, whoever. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So tell us more about this human rights campaign. | |
| By the way, Nike is probably the worst offender out of all of these. | |
| I mean, how much contempt does Nike have for its customer base? | |
| I mean, it's extraordinary to me, but tell us more about the human rights campaign. | |
| So this is America's largest lobby group. | |
| It receives millions and millions, tens of millions per year in donations. | |
| And several million of those donations are from George Soros' Open Society Foundation. | |
| And this particular LGBT lobby group, you know, they are the ones pushing trans ideology. | |
| They are the ones lobbying the education system, teachers' unions to include LGBT propaganda absolutely everywhere. | |
| They also have great access in Hollywood, so they are lobbying. | |
| And basically, you know what these LGBT groups are like? | |
| If a company doesn't abide by their rules, they suddenly try to cancel them. | |
| They put pressure on them. | |
| You see trans activists screaming outside of these buildings. | |
| You know, we see that with book companies, book publishers that publish something that might not be what trans activists want to see. | |
| You know, they protest and riot. | |
| New York Times had that when they published articles critical. | |
| So this LGBT lobby group is basically keeping all companies in check so that they don't dare question this narrative. | |
| And they've basically pushed and coerced them to include these trans models and spokesperson for their brands. | |
| It's something to me. | |
| It really is. | |
| So let's go through this other element, which I think is important. | |
| So your tweet here, because there's just so much in your tweet, which I think is great, it pushes millions via the human rights campaign. | |
| Obviously, receives money from George Soros. | |
| So TikTok promotes Dylan's videos heavily. | |
| So tell us about that. | |
| So Dylan Mulverny has got over 10 million TikTok followers, and every single one of his videos gets millions of millions, some of them tens of millions of views. | |
| And that's no coincidence, Charlie. | |
| We've seen since TikTok came about in 2018, suddenly gender ideology is everywhere. | |
| Suddenly, kids in the classroom now want to transition. | |
| So TikTok has a huge responsibility with this. | |
| And the fact that TikTok pushes Dylan is not only China trying to destroy American society, trying to destroy the family unit, but this is also, you know, brands look at Dylan's views and they don't have morals. | |
| No, Nike clearly don't have morals. | |
| Bud Light clearly don't have morals. | |
| They will literally hire anyone if they can tap into that market. | |
| And right now, for brands for advertising, TikTok is the biggest market. | |
| You have a big return on investment if you advertise with influencers on there. | |
| So, you know, these companies see Dylan being successful. | |
| They don't care what message Dylan sends. | |
| They don't care that Dylan mocks with the business. | |
| But that's the question. | |
| I don't mean to cut you off, Ollie. | |
| I'm sorry, we're just short on time. | |
| But is it working? | |
| Are they gaining customers because of this? | |
| That's my, I'm curious. | |
| And I don't know because I'm just in the permanent state of curiosity of the country I live in. | |
| Because I obviously live in a bubble where I think this stuff is insane and I think it's wrong and it's evil and it's perverted and it's just terrible. | |
| But are they losing customers? | |
| Are they gaining market value? | |
| I know that the stocks have gone down a little bit in some of these companies, but they seem to regain it rather quickly. | |
| Is this a success outside of all the ideology, right? | |
| Is this actually a profitable strategy? | |
| Has it been proven to be one? | |
| I mean, we saw Bud Light the other day lost $2 from their stocks, and basically Bud Light have not responded since April 1st. | |
| They haven't posted on social media because I think they weren't expecting that backlash. | |
| I think whoever was advising them, the vice president of Bud Light's marketing department used pronouns in their bio. | |
| They were the ones behind this push. | |
| I think it backfired terribly. | |
| I don't think they're expecting that. | |
| So I think now, you know, we've seen Kid Rock, Travis Tritz. | |
| I don't think they expected that backlash. | |
| So I think in the long run, they are going to lose a lot of customers. | |
| And I mean, Bud Light, it doesn't even taste like beer. | |
| So, you know, choose another brand anyway. | |
| These other companies that embrace this, because I mean, it's just at some point, there's a shareholder duty, right? | |
| I mean, does Nike see an increase in sales because of this? | |
| Well, I certainly think Nike is going to lose a lot of female customers. | |
| We're seeing female athletes calling for a boycott of Nike because this is the biggest offense to women. | |
| So I think it's going to damage their brand in the long run. | |
| But at the end of the day, many Gen Z customers, which these brands are trying to capture them in their market, so they use Dylan to get the young audience. | |
| I think Generation Z are so indoctrinated with gender ideology. | |
| I generally don't think they care. | |
| And I think, you know, for them, they're more likely to buy a product if their favorite TikTok influencer promotes it. | |
| So, you know, I think older categories of customers, the older demographic will boycott. | |
| But I think Generation Z simply won't care because they're already indoctrinated with this kind of trans ideology. | |
| Ali, tell our audience about your book. | |
| Okay, so my book is basically detailing everything that's going on right now with woke culture, with gender ideology. | |
| And I explore what is behind this recent trend that is pushing thousands of young people to transition. | |
| I look at how these clinics, these lobby groups are operating, how different schools are trying to indoctrinate people using drag story hours and classes on pronouns and changing gender, and how we have Hollywood, we have TikTok, we have popular culture, shows like RuPaul, how all of these are taking effect and changing and indoctrinating huge numbers of young people, Generation Z. | |
| So I look at all those issues and I look at how can parents regain their rights? | |
| How can women get their rights back? | |
| Because we saw just the other day Riley Gaines was attacked. | |
| So my whole book covers all of these issues and how we can come together as a society to fix this current system that is causing so much harm to kids and so much harm to women. | |
| So that's an interesting debate. | |
| And it's actually going on right now on Twitter. | |
| Is the question as someone who's gone through this madness, how old are you, Ollie? | |
| So 33 now. | |
| Okay. | |
| So do you think the problem is specifically the trans ideology infecting children or the trans ideology more broadly or more generally, right? | |
| And that's a question I would love you to weigh in on. | |
| Definitely with children, you're getting even to more fundamental issues, right? | |
| The blurring of line of innocence, right? | |
| And not allowing children to go through puberty. | |
| So that's to be agreed, right? | |
| But, and it's an open question that's going to be robustly debated. | |
| And I certainly have some strong opinions on it, but I haven't quite settled. | |
| Is it the transgenderism thing in general? | |
| Or should we just focus on it with children? | |
| Does that question make sense? | |
| Yeah, I think it's transgenderism in general because we see how it is destroying the rights of women. | |
| We see how it is tearing families apart. | |
| So, no, but what these LGBT lobby groups, people like Rachel Levine, they are targeting children because they want the next generation, Generation Z and kids younger than them, they want them to believe these radical things that women do not deserve rights, that men can just go into women's sports. | |
| They want to indoctrinate all these kids. | |
| So that's what they're doing right now. | |
| It's a tactic of brainwashing, you know, very similar to what they did in the Soviet Union, indoctrinating a population. | |
| So, but I think, you know, broadly, we're seeing these university students, and you know, you witnessed this firsthand when you had these radical trans activists trying to cancel your speech and using violence. | |
| So, you know, it's the universities, I think, are breeding grounds at the moment. | |
| These woke places like San Francisco State University, where these trans activists targeted Riley. | |
| So I think, you know, it's seeping through all aspects of society. | |
| And I think it's really only the older generations that are fighting back, you know, people that were born before social media, people that were born before all of this was taught in schools. | |
| They're the ones fighting back. | |
| But we need to get through to the young people, which is what I'm trying to do, and tell them, look, this is harmful. | |
| This is destroying your lives and it's destroying the lives of others. | |
| So I think transgenderism in general has become a very dangerous movement that is destroying society. | |
| And we need to come up with a solution to fix this because we're seeing women violently attacked by these people. | |
| Anyone that speaks up like you were doing a speech, they tried to cancel them. | |
| And that's something I do want to talk about, Ali. | |
| And we only have two minutes remaining. | |
| What is it about the trans mafia? | |
| And if you're offended by that, I apologize. | |
| But that's really what they've become. | |
| They become a group of violent actors that they're so willing to go to outrageous means of cancellation, of interruption, intimidation, harassment. | |
| What is it about this group of people? | |
| Well, you know, you accurately described it as a mafia. | |
| I also call it, you know, the trans Taliban because they behave like men, the way the men that treat women in Afghanistan do. | |
| You know, they beat women, they try to silence them. | |
| So I, you know, I call them the trans Taliban because this ideology is causing so much harm and they've become an extreme group, Charlie. | |
| Every time a woman does a speech at a university or at a rally, women's rally, these women are violently assaulted. | |
| What happened in Nashville? | |
| I'm sure we need to see the manifesto, but that person was radicalized within the last year when they became trans. | |
| So we need to address this now. | |
| It has become a radicalized movement. | |
| You know, of course, there are people that are trans or LGBT. | |
| They're just living their lives. | |
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Procedural Grounds and Costs
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| They're happy. | |
| I bet that's not the issue, of course. | |
| And you know it. | |
| You and I both know it's not the issue, right? | |
| Yes. | |
| It's the tyranny. | |
| It's the intimidation. | |
| It's the, you must conform. | |
| I'm going to use force to make you agree to certain pronoun usage, certain behavioral changes, certain erosion of institutions that are established for female and male sports, for example. | |
| The issue is not what somebody is doing in their living room, okay? | |
| Of some guy that goes and puts on a dress, right? | |
| Or his own struggles with his imagination. | |
| That is not the issue at hand here. | |
| The issue is: should we reaccommodate society? | |
| Should the ordinary have to stop our code of conduct and our behavior for a very, very radical minority. | |
| Ali London, I think very highly of you. | |
| Thank you for your courage. | |
| Check out his book, Gender Madness, and come back soon. | |
| Thank you. | |
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| Welcome back, everybody. | |
| We now have the Attorney General of West Virginia, Mr. Morrissey, with us, who to discuss their Supreme Court recent decision. | |
| It's just hard to even grasp. | |
| Mr. Morrissey, welcome back to the program. | |
| I know you might have some big announcements soon. | |
| That's not why you're here, though. | |
| Tell us about the Supreme Court's decision. | |
| It's really something. | |
| Yeah, it's pretty interesting. | |
| So, Charlie, first of all, thank you for having me back on. | |
| I know a couple weeks ago, we talked about this very basic concept that biologically men are different than women. | |
| And the West Virginia legislature, I think, in a smart move, drafted a law. | |
| I think it was constitutional. | |
| It was permissible. | |
| And they said that biological males should not participate in women's sports. | |
| We went through an entire process where the district court first slapped an injunction against the law. | |
| But Charlie, we went to work. | |
| We submitted all these documents. | |
| We have an evidentiary record second to none, and we won. | |
| We won at the district court level. | |
| Then we went to the Court of Appeals, the Fourth Circuit. | |
| They reversed. | |
| They said that there should be an injunction in place. | |
| So we thought, look, let's go to the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| Let's take it to the high court. | |
| The U.S. Supreme Court, though, unfortunately, in a procedural setback last week, decided it was not going to lift the injunction. | |
| So there's obviously an injunction now against the West Virginia law. | |
| I think that defies common sense and basic fairness. | |
| But I will say this to you, Charlie. | |
| This was a decision on a procedural ground. | |
| I think we're going to win on the merits. | |
| I'm going to keep fighting. | |
| So this organization wasn't on the merits then. | |
| So can you explain what that means to our audience? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So when we went through the district court process, that was on the merits, right? | |
| So we went on the merits. | |
| Then the Circuit Court of Appeals in the Fourth Circuit, they decided to reinstate the injunction. | |
| And Charlie, they had no reasoning with their decision. | |
| We thought that that was an error. | |
| So we said, lift the injunction to allow us to go back to the Fourth Circuit and just argue the case on the merits. | |
| And the Supreme Court said, no. | |
| So there are different standards when you're trying to remove an injunction versus simply deciding on the merits. | |
| And I think that the plaintiffs had argued that this wasn't an emergency. | |
| We argued that, in fact, it was because it might encourage more people to pursue this pathway. | |
| You're overturning a democratically elected law. | |
| But they sent us back to the Fourth Circuit now, but it's procedural. | |
| I still think we're the very clear favorite on the merits. | |
| Well, I think that's important because I think some of the headlines were a little misleading then because people thought the Supreme Court, like Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, were weighing in on men participating in female sports. | |
| But that is not the case in this regard, right? | |
| No, I think that's right. | |
| It's a procedural issue. | |
| Now, look, would I have preferred to have won? | |
| And I think we should have won yes. | |
| We had Alito and Thomas join in the dissent. | |
| But I still have a lot of hope that when this gets up on the merits, that people are going to say, Charlie, it is consistent with Title IX that was trying to advance women's athletic. | |
| It is consistent with the Equal Protection Clause for the Constitution. | |
| We're trying to help protect women, and that's certainly permissible for a state legislature. | |
| So then what's the next step? | |
| Another appeal? | |
| Are you guys going to try to go back to the process? | |
| Yeah, so here's what we're doing now. | |
| We're going back through the Fourth Circuit. | |
| We're finishing our submissions. | |
| We'll be all done with our submissions by June, and then we'll have an oral argument. | |
| And I bet whatever happens in the Fourth Circuit, there's a very, very meaningful chance that sometime next year, whoever loses at the Fourth Circuit is going to file again to go up to the U.S. Supreme Court. | |
| But let me tell you one other thing, Charlie. | |
| This issue seems to be animating everyone in America, and they've been coming after me. | |
| The woke left has made me their target. | |
| And I would just say, look, if you care about defending women's sports, I need your help. | |
| Go to patrickmorrissey.com and chip in 10 bucks. | |
| Help us out. | |
| We're leading the national charge. | |
| And not only on this issue, but the new federal regulation that was proposed last week as well, which is also terrible. | |
| They're trying to deprive educational institutions of money if people don't agree with their woke ways. | |
| And that's another battle in this incredibly important fight. | |
| So just in closing, just remind our audience what you're running for and what the significance of it. | |
| And then we'll go from there. | |
| Well, I am now running for governor of the great state of West Virginia. | |
| And if people like the work we've done taking on the woke left and defending women's sports, they're going to love what we're going to do as governor. | |
| Chip in 10 bucks at patrickmorrissey.com and let's help us fight because we still need to win this fight and many others. | |
| Mr. Morrissey, thank you so much. | |
| Appreciate it. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Thank you, my friend. | |
| So I want to talk Budweiser. | |
| Last week, I know many of you guys saw the advertisement that came out, or it seemed to be a promotional campaign of Mulvaney getting this can from Bud Light. | |
| And I was really, really confused. | |
| I know many of you were too. | |
| And I'm going to tell you what kind of was the basis of my confusion. | |
| Obviously, this is a bad move by Budweiser, no doubt. | |
| And I was so bothered by this, obviously sent out some tweets and we talked about it on the show. | |
| And I decided to start asking what's going on and ask people that I know that are connected with the issue or at least kind of remotely to the company, like, guys, this doesn't seem right. | |
| Let me tell you why, because, you know, kind of looking at the landscape of corporations, Coca-Cola, okay, I expect strange and weird things from Coca-Cola. | |
| Coca-Cola paid a huge bucket of money to have Robin D'Angelo come in and talk about how to be an anti-racist. | |
| Do you remember that the slideshow that came out of Coca-Cola where they said that we have to try to abolish whiteness or something of that variety? | |
| Or how Nike is one of the worst, as we just talked about with Ali London. | |
| Nike, who hired Colin Kaepernick or Disney, I mean, Disney, who comes out and they publish blatant and flagrant LGBTQ propaganda as actual content. | |
| Expect it from them. | |
| Or remember the major league baseball who comes out and they say, yeah, we're moving the all-star game out of Atlanta, which is heavily and significantly black and going to Denver. | |
| But Anheuser-Busch, I'll be really honest, I was bothered by this because I, like many, I don't drink, and I know many of you drink or you don't, whatever, no, no moral judgment there. | |
| I just personally don't drink, that you feel an attachment to Anheuser-Busch, that it's this Americana brand that started in this country. | |
| And quite honestly, we thought of this brand as something that was supposed to be safe, as something that was off limits. | |
| And so I decided to look into this because it just did not make any sense. | |
| A very legendary brand across the board. | |
| And it was like, my goodness, like you lose Coca-Cola and you lose Nike and you lose Disney. | |
| And Budweiser or Bud Light or whatever, I mean, it was Bud Light, but obviously under Anheuser-Busch, held up its quality for quite some time. | |
| And so I looked into this. | |
| I started to ask around. | |
| And based on all reports, it seems as if it was a mid-level management screw-up of somebody that sent out like a specific can. | |
| It's not a commemorative can, is what I've been told by people associated with the company, that it wasn't being sold in stores or anything like that. | |
| But I do think it's interesting because I said, okay, well, what are their politics, right? | |
| Like, do they associate with us? | |
| Do they not? | |
| And so I looked into it. | |
| In the 2022 cycle, Anheuser-Busch donated nearly half a million dollars to try to get JD Vance elected, nearly $464,000 to try to fire Nancy Pelosi, $250,000 to try to win the Senate seat with Eric Schmidt, $200,000 for just broad Republican efforts. | |
| And they gave a little bit like a micron to Democrats. | |
| It's okay. | |
| So they generally through their contributions, and they say they give it because of taxes and for trade policy, but they're not like some of these other companies that have just gone through the other side completely. | |
| And so it's a massive company. | |
| And it's possible that a few wokeys slipped things through. | |
| And it appears that that is the case. | |
| And look, so they donate money to fire Pelosi. | |
| They donate money to fire JD Vance. | |
| It's not Google, right? | |
| And I think that's why so many of us were bothered from this, because this idea of institutional capture is troublesome. | |
| How many other brands have we just said, wow, that's what it means to be, you know, not Budweiser is what it means to be an American, but it's like an American brand. | |
| We have an attachment to it. | |
| We think highly of it. | |
| It started in America. | |
| Their advertisements were always very pro-American. | |
| Ford, for example. | |
| And based on what I've learned, this seems to be an error. | |
| It seems a mistake. | |
| One that has cost them some money. | |
| And I hope that it's just a one-time thing and they turn away from it. | |
| But they also don't seem to be overly political. | |
| And that's something I do want to mention is that after January 6th, because I started asking around to some of the big kind of DC groups, I said, hey, you know, after January 6th, many people stopped giving money to Republican groups. | |
| Anheuser-Busch continued. | |
| It's like, okay, that's interesting. | |
| And they just seem to want to be non-political at every turn. | |
| That's what made this concerning. | |
| So look, the evidence seems that this is a one-off screw-up. | |
| I certainly hope it doesn't happen again. | |
| I don't know anyone directly to the company. | |
| I didn't talk to anyone directly. | |
| They're just people that are associated kind of in the orbit. | |
| I don't know their personal politics, but you look at this, Harley-Davidson, Levi Strauss. | |
| I just made a list here. | |
| PepsiCo. | |
| You look at one after PepsiCo is gone completely and totally woke, not to mention the ones that have signed on to this trans corporate bathroom bill. | |
| Anheuser-Busch refused to sign on to it. | |
| Airbnb, Amazon, American Airlines, Apple, AT ⁇ T, Capital One, Comcast, Dell, Facebook, General Mills, General Motors, Google, Marriott, MasterCard, Microsoft, Nike T-Mobile, Toyota, Walt Disney, Wells, Fargo, Yahoo, sign on to that letter. | |
| And so I guess we'll find out, right, as time proceeds. | |
| But if they're donating money to go get JD Vance elected and to go get Nancy Pelosi fired, it is possible. | |
| It is conceivable you can have one slip through. | |
| So we'll find out. | |
| And by the way, if we found out throughout our research, because I always want to give you the truth, that these people were super woke and they hate the country, then I would tell you that, obviously. | |
| But it would be a tragedy to lose Anheuser-Busch to the wokies, wouldn't it? | |
| So I hope a lesson is learned here. | |
| I hope that people are held accountable, whatever that looks like. | |
| Because I was bothered by this. | |
| I know you were too. | |
| We got so many emails about it. | |
| Email after email after email. | |
| Because I wanted to find out what the heck was going on, that another American brand that we care so much about. | |
| But it doesn't seem, at least in this case, that that's the entire picture. | |
| And I certainly hope that's true. | |
| Because I, for one, I'm really sick of losing some of the institutions to the radical woke left. | |
| Email us freedom at charliekirk.com. | |
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| I want to get to a question here. | |
| Charlie, are you going to talk more about the Restrict Act? | |
| I'm very worried about it. | |
| In fact, yes, we're in touch with a senator's office who is a co-sponsor of the Restrict Act. | |
| And if you are interested in that, you're going to want to see that. | |
| It's going to be amazing. | |
| One of the co-sponsors might come on the program to defend the Restrict Act, the widespread censorship campaign, which is one of the worst pieces of legislation I have seen in recent memory. | |
| And so producer Andrew is in the final stages to try to secure that. | |
| I'm not going to tell you what, Senator, it is. | |
| Our policy remains. | |
| We'll allow you to talk uninterrupted, make the case, whether you're running for president, you're a local congressperson. | |
| Tell us why we need a Patriot Act 2.0, a new censorship regime given to the Secretary of Commerce, an unelected, unknown bureaucrat, to be able to silence our speech. | |
| We're just curious. | |
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| I don't think people realize this because we're getting a lot of emails on Budweiser. | |
| PlayCut 38. | |
| This is actually like an anti-beta mail advertisement. | |
| This is actually a good advertisement from Bud Light. | |
| Play cut 38. | |
| So one email here. | |
| Charlie, you're trying to say that Budweiser is actually political? | |
| No, I actually think they're not political, to be honest. | |
| Like, I think that they're just trying to do their job and that this was a one-time mix-up and mess up. | |
| That's what I'm trying to say. | |
| Paul from Kansas is asking that. | |
| I think that they do what's best for their own interest, and that's actually what we want. | |
| We actually want a company that provides a service and is not trying to be involved in every social cause. | |
| And quite honestly, there are so many other companies to hit, like Coca-Cola that actually lobbies for changing in Georgia voting laws or Nike. | |
| I mean, it seems as if this is just kind of a marketing person that wanted to change the company single-handedly. | |
| It's against the fiber and the DNA of how Budweiser is operated. | |
| So, no, I actually don't think that they're political. | |
| I think that they make beer, and that's what they've always done. | |
| So, to answer that question, okay, I want to play another piece of tape here. | |
| Let's go to this one. | |
| I've been meaning to get to this story, but we've had so many other things going on here. | |
| There's a lot going on with the Pentagon leaks. | |
| We're going to build out that story in greater and further detail tomorrow as it kind of still comes available. | |
| But I think it's really interesting. | |
| John Kirby says leaking classified information has no business on the front page of newspapers or on television. | |
| Now, tax returns are not necessarily classified, but they are private and confidential. | |
| Remember when the New York Times published Donald Trump's tax returns right before the 2020 election? | |
| People forget about that. | |
| Or how about Supreme Court justice rulings that are leaked preemptively? | |
| Who was arrested for that? | |
| Play cut 27. | |
| Again, without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain. | |
| It has no business, if you don't mind me saying, on the pages of front pages of newspapers or on television. | |
| It is not intended for public consumption and it should not be out there. | |
| So they're talking about how it's not clear for public consumption. | |
| That's all they do is reward leaks that fit their narrative. | |
| The Supreme Court leaks, they leak a draft of an opinion of Roe versus Wade. | |
| Now, why did that matter? | |
| It allowed the left-wing donors and activist groups an opportunity ahead of the midterms to be able to ramp up and raise money. | |
| They had a head start. | |
| They had a 45-day head start heading into the midterms to make abortion the number one issue heading into the November 2022 midterms. | |
| Was anybody arrested for that? | |
| Was anybody at the IRS arrested for leaking Donald Trump's tax returns? | |
| Of course not. | |
| Now, they're fine with leaks as long as they challenge the leaders they don't like. | |
| How about another one for you? | |
| The person who listened and leaked the contents of Donald Trump's perfectly fine phone call with Zelensky. | |
| Remember that? | |
| The entire impeachment campaign was built around that. | |
| Nothing is sacrosanct or private when it comes to conservative world. | |
| Everything is off limits. | |
| Leak it all. | |
| Nothing is holy. | |
| Nothing is private. | |
| But everything is private when it comes to Democrats. | |
| Everything. | |
| No leaking of information, no cross-examination, none of that. | |
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