The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Charlie Anything 142: Walmart Bails on Chicago? Legos are Gay? Black on Black Crime?
Aired: 2023-04-17
Duration: 33:46


=== Mayors Shut Doors Due to Crime (10:14) ===

[00:00:00]  Hey everybody, today's Charlie Kirk show the Ask Me Anything episode.
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[00:00:23]  We talk about Walmart closing, black on black crime.
[00:00:26]  How do we actually solve the crime problem?
[00:00:28]  The big thing most mayors are missing.
[00:00:30]  We talk about the abortion pill debate and also some new footage you must hear at the end of this episode out of Indiana.
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[00:01:26]  Several questions to get to here.
[00:01:28]  Let's go to, hey, Charlie, did you see this is Anna from Villa Park, Illinois?
[00:01:32]  I know where that is.
[00:01:33]  Charlie, do you see that Walmart is closing half of its stores in Chicago?
[00:01:37]  Why are they doing it?
[00:01:38]  Well, first, I can tell you why they're not.
[00:01:39]  I can tell you a reason why they're not.
[00:01:41]  They're not closing it because of white supremacy.
[00:01:44]  Leave it there.
[00:01:44]  White supremacy is to blame for everything.
[00:01:46]  Yeah, I don't think Walmart is shuttering its doors because of systemic racism.
[00:01:50]  No, they're shutting their doors because of crime.
[00:01:52]  It's very simple.
[00:01:54]  And Walmart is closing stores across the country.
[00:01:57]  Half of them are being closed in Chicago.
[00:01:58]  They're losing tens of millions of dollars at each location, according to Walmart's press release.
[00:02:05]  And the reason is very simple because the looting and the stealing that's happening in downtown Chicago.
[00:02:12]  And you steal under $1,000 and there's no consequences.
[00:02:15]  I mean, imagine thinking like a left-winger.
[00:02:20]  How can we blame racism for this issue?
[00:02:22]  Yeah, this is not a racism issue.
[00:02:24]  This is a crime issue.
[00:02:26]  This is what happens when you allow criminals to do what they want to do, and you don't hold those criminals accountable.
[00:02:30]  They're able to steal $1,000 in no circumstances.
[00:02:33]  And don't be shocked when your Walmart closes.
[00:02:36]  Very similar to Whole Foods in San Francisco, different type of deal.
[00:02:42]  The defecation, the fornication, crime.
[00:02:46]  Don't be shocked when it happens.
[00:02:47]  Walmart is confirming that it will close four of its 10 stores in another far-left city.
[00:02:52]  I'm reading it at freedompress.com, leaving just four locations to serve millions of residents in Chicago, Illinois.
[00:02:58]  Now, I'm really no major fan of Walmart or what they've done to American small businesses.
[00:03:03]  It says, according to the statement, quote, these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year and their annual losses nearly doubled in the last five years.
[00:03:09]  I wonder what has happened in the last five years.
[00:03:11]  Why do you think they're losing so much money?
[00:03:13]  Although the four stores that remain are also unprofitable, the company believes that, quote, this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and serving the community.
[00:03:21]  So Walmart basically says that their stores are becoming kind of like goodwill operations.
[00:03:27]  That's effectively what Walmart is saying in their press release.
[00:03:30]  They're like, yeah, look, we lose money here, but we're going to kind of just keep it open as like a Samaritan's purse thing.
[00:03:37]  Like, I mean, we're not going to make money.
[00:03:38]  Consider it a write-off.
[00:03:40]  We're going to serve the community.
[00:03:43]  Now, they just don't want to close every single store in Chicago because they don't want to be called racist.
[00:03:48]  That's the problem.
[00:03:49]  Walmart is basically going to take a couple hundred million dollar loss because if they closed every store, which would actually be in the best interest of Walmart because they're losing money, then they'd be like, oh, you're creating food deserts or pharmacy deserts.
[00:04:05]  I got such a kick out of this article on Politico.
[00:04:07]  It ties into this.
[00:04:09]  We just, we reread and we read and we read and we read when we prep for this stuff.
[00:04:12]  I read all day long.
[00:04:13]  Oh, this is just such a most delicious articles.
[00:04:16]  Politico.com.
[00:04:17]  So it is: 50 mayors open up about their battles with crime and gun violence.
[00:04:23]  And it goes through 50 mayors, and what are they dealing with the most?
[00:04:27]  And it's extraordinary how they just dance around the most obvious things because these people are ideologically held captive by the radical Marxists.
[00:04:42]  Violence interrupter programs.
[00:04:44]  What in God's green earth is that?
[00:04:48]  That's what one of the mayors said.
[00:04:49]  One of these mayors in this political piece.
[00:04:50]  So they interviewed 50 mayors, like, hey, what are you dealing with?
[00:04:53]  What are your biggest problems?
[00:04:54]  And this one person says, well, you know, we have a crime issue, but don't worry, we have a violence interrupter program.
[00:05:00]  New York City says the violence interrupter expansion is this.
[00:05:04]  It expanded the crisis management system, doubling the number of violence interrupter workers.
[00:05:09]  You're not familiar with the term of violence interrupter?
[00:05:13]  Do you know the best way to interrupt violence?
[00:05:15]  Handcuffs.
[00:05:17]  A prison cell.
[00:05:19]  No, no, no.
[00:05:20]  The new way, according to Politico, the expansion addresses public safety concerns by deploying credible messengers to mediate conflicts and engage with New Yorkers in their communities to reduce reliance on violence and disputes.
[00:05:38]  Woman's getting raped.
[00:05:39]  We need to have someone to go talk him out of it.
[00:05:42]  Effectively, someone's getting thrown in front of a subway bus.
[00:05:47]  We just need someone to kind of just talk to them.
[00:05:50]  These left-wingers, again, this all comes from a flawed philosophy.
[00:05:54]  If you think people are naturally good, you could believe this crap.
[00:05:57]  And Politico, Politico writes this huge article.
[00:06:00]  They make it seem so good.
[00:06:02]  Violence interrupter programs.
[00:06:04]  And the guy comes here and says, Hey, hey, bro, chill out.
[00:06:07]  Stop raping the girl.
[00:06:08]  Let's all just kind of do some weed.
[00:06:10]  Calm down.
[00:06:12]  Politico.com continues by some of these innovative ideas.
[00:06:16]  When they talk to 50 mayors across the country, 15 mayors mentioned drugs or addiction is a major problem in their city.
[00:06:22]  12 mayors mentioned economic inequality, poverty, or lack of opportunities.
[00:06:26]  Eight mayors mentioned guns or illegal firearms.
[00:06:30]  Seven mayors mentioned mental health.
[00:06:31]  Four mayors mentioned car theft or any type of stuff.
[00:06:33]  How about black-on-black gang violence?
[00:06:35]  Like you mentioned that.
[00:06:36]  No, I can't say that.
[00:06:37]  Can't say that.
[00:06:39]  Ah, you can't say it.
[00:06:40]  It is the sacred third rail.
[00:06:43]  Instead, we have to have violence interrupter programs.
[00:06:48]  Nearly half of the 50 mayors in the mayor's club said public safety was the single most pressing issue.
[00:06:52]  I wonder why.
[00:06:53]  Well, BLM took the entire country by the throat and held us hostage.
[00:06:58]  And we changed all of our public safety measures under a lie that America was systemically racist.
[00:07:03]  And we did this under the guise of Floyd Palooza, and you cowards fell for it.
[00:07:08]  Why do you think Politico all of a sudden has this long-ranging article about, well, we talked to all these mayors.
[00:07:13]  This is why the ideological culture fights that so many of you in this audience, respectfully, I say this, were afraid to engage in the summer of 2020, it has real life consequences.
[00:07:28]  Defund the police worked.
[00:07:30]  It worked for the criminals.
[00:07:31]  Criminals are doing what they want now.
[00:07:32]  They run the entire country.
[00:07:34]  Only three mayors out of the 50 said they were not concerned about crime.
[00:07:39]  The majority of mayors said their concerns about crime aligned with their residents.
[00:07:43]  Mayor's Club of the Politico members said their constituents have a mostly accurate view of crime rates in their communities, but they say mostly to blame is gun violence.
[00:07:52]  Not gang violence.
[00:07:54]  Not criminals.
[00:07:54]  No, no, no.
[00:07:55]  Gun violence.
[00:07:56]  These people, man.
[00:07:58]  When talking about adding more police, they say we need more community and social services.
[00:08:04]  What do you wish state lawmakers better understood about crime in your community?
[00:08:07]  Community.
[00:08:08]  How about this one?
[00:08:08]  A mayor of Dubuque, Iowa.
[00:08:11]  This is amazing.
[00:08:13]  He says, we still struggle in Iowa with some small drug offenses.
[00:08:17]  Marijuana is not legalized here for recreational use, and they're just not open to that conversation.
[00:08:22]  Oh, the mayor of Dubuque, Iowa, his main concern is that marijuana is still not legalized.
[00:08:30]  Mayor of San Diego, Todd Gloria, said fentanyl is very powerful, extremely addictive, and very deadly.
[00:08:36]  We need state laws addressing the people directly dealing with that poison.
[00:08:39]  Hey, Todd Gloria, San Diego, California mayor, why don't you close the border where all the fentanyl is coming across?
[00:08:46]  Oh, no, no, no.
[00:08:47]  You actually want more people invading the country.
[00:08:50]  When asked about policing, 34 mayors said that instead they want to hire 34 out of 50 said they want to hire more social workers to handle nonviolent policing duties such as mental health issues.
[00:09:04]  They said we need to spend more on housing and parks and recreation before we spend any more money on police.
[00:09:11]  Randall Woodfin, the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, said that we are seeing access to guns in urban courts.
[00:09:19]  No, no, no, we're seeing access to guns to people that are not raised by fathers.
[00:09:23]  You know, not a single mayor in this article mentions the fact that 75% of blacks are raised without a father around.
[00:09:30]  That's a much greater crisis than gun crime or any how about this.
[00:09:34]  Fathers are not around.
[00:09:35]  Oh, you can't say that because you can't possibly say that blacks need to lower the single motherhood threshold.
[00:09:42]  You can call it racist.
[00:09:44]  Cleveland, Ohio.
[00:09:46]  Justin Bibb, black man.
[00:09:48]  We need more tools at the local level to enforce illegal trafficking of guns in our city.
[00:09:51]  No, you don't, Justin Bibb.
[00:09:52]  You need more fathers in the home, loyally married to their spouse, raising children.
[00:09:57]  You don't need more gun laws.
[00:09:59]  The legislature here in Ohio has undermined home rule for us mayors to cut down on guns.
[00:10:03]  That plays a large driver in homicides we see across the state.
[00:10:06]  What percentage of the homicides that are committed by these gang members in Cleveland were raised by a mom and dad, stable in the home?
[00:10:13]  What percentage?

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[00:10:17]  98% of guns that are used in crime are illegally obtained.
[00:10:21]  Gun control isn't going to stop that.
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[00:11:28]  Hey, Charlie, do you see that electric vehicles won't have AM radio?
[00:11:31]  I know you're a radio guy.
[00:11:33]  How do you think about that?
[00:11:34]  This is a really big story.
[00:11:36]  So whether they're doing this intentionally or not, the consequence will be if the radio industry does not adapt.
[00:11:42]  An all-out attack on AM radio.
[00:11:44]  Now, AM radio was dying.
[00:11:45]  It was basically dead.
[00:11:47]  It was roadkill.
[00:11:48]  It was left on the side of the road, and it was just a joke.
[00:11:50]  It was for just kind of replays of news items.
[00:11:55]  It was nothing.
[00:11:55]  And then a man changed the entire radio landscape.
[00:11:59]  One man did this.
[00:12:01]  One person did it.
[00:12:02]  He resurrected the entire AM dial.
[00:12:07]  Not the FM dial was robust and was growing at the time.
[00:12:10]  The AM dial was just dying and did not have a large audience.
[00:12:13]  It was Rush Limbaugh.
[00:12:14]  Rush Limbaugh saved the entire AM dial.
[00:12:17]  And Rush Limbaugh started to get back on AM stations and really started pioneering this idea of conservative news talk.
[00:12:24]  And even stations that were otherwise not conservative stations, they wanted to have Rush Limbaugh because he drove such an audience in the middle of the day.
[00:12:32]  People would clear their entire schedules for Rush Limbaugh.
[00:12:35]  And from Rush came other amazing talk radio voices.
[00:12:39]  Mark Levin and so many others that are in the talk radio hall of fame, Sean Hannity.
[00:12:45]  And as talk radio started to grow, all of a sudden it kind of became this dissident, decentralized, uncancelable medium of communication.
[00:12:58]  Talk radio was the conservative way to challenge the regime before we had social media.
[00:13:04]  Talk radio is where people would go and they'd rant and they would rave.
[00:13:09]  And by the way, what's really interesting, and this is a psychological topic, of why did why was the liberals never able to succeed in talk radio?
[00:13:20]  They have tried and they have tried and they have tried.
[00:13:24]  They have spent tons of money to try to stand up.
[00:13:27]  It's a very interesting thing.
[00:13:29]  And I don't quite know the answer to it.
[00:13:31]  There's a lot of interesting theories, which is why do they need another medium?
[00:13:36]  They already own all the propaganda networks because talk radio feels rebellious.
[00:13:40]  It feels contrarian.
[00:13:41]  And we're honored to be partnered with the great Salem Radio Network.
[00:13:44]  They've been nice enough to put us on radio stations across the country.
[00:13:48]  And so as AM radio has grown, it has been this check and balance against the regime.
[00:13:54]  And Dan Bongino is now on AM radio, and so many other great people are on AM radio.
[00:14:01]  And my colleagues at Salem and Eric Metaxas and Sebastian Gorka and the great Dennis Prager.
[00:14:07]  We have FM translators, but the AM dial is important.
[00:14:10]  Well, Biden's new electric vehicle mandate very well might destroy AM radio as we know it and with it would be very damaging to the conservative talk radio space.
[00:14:21]  Ford to phase out AM radio in its new vehicles.
[00:14:24]  Crosstown rival Ford is set to phase out, this is from GM Authority, to phase out AM radio functionality in its new vehicles, starting with the all-new 2024 Ford Mustang.
[00:14:37]  Now, there might be a technical reason for it.
[00:14:38]  Apparently, electric vehicles don't mix well with AM radio.
[00:14:42]  I don't understand the engineering of it.
[00:14:44]  There seems to be some reason for it.
[00:14:46]  But the consequence will undoubtedly be less distribution for conservative ideas.
[00:14:53]  Right now, conservatives dominate the AM dial.
[00:14:55]  Liberals do not dominate the AM dial.
[00:14:57]  NPR is almost all FM.
[00:14:59]  I don't think NPR has a single AM translator.
[00:15:02]  I don't think any AM stations, it was all FM.
[00:15:05]  AM stations are strong conservative.
[00:15:08]  You go to the largest cities, you know, KRLA, you go to the largest places, WIND, WMAL, you know, KFYI, the call signs, especially in these major areas that are AM dominated, all conservative talk radio.
[00:15:23]  Now, here's the thing that people must understand.
[00:15:26]  And this is just a separate engineering question.
[00:15:28]  If AM radio harms electric vehicle technology, that just makes me nervous to drive an electric vehicle.
[00:15:34]  It's just kind of a weird engineering glitch.
[00:15:35]  Someone has to explain it to me and put my mind at ease, just going to be honest.
[00:15:38]  But that apparently does.
[00:15:39]  Apparently, electric vehicle and AM radio does not mix.
[00:15:42]  This needs to be addressed, though.
[00:15:44]  This is a serious issue.
[00:15:45]  Either the radio industry needs to completely adapt and needs to get those FM translators or just go to full streaming.
[00:15:52]  There is an attempt.
[00:15:53]  They've been trying to get rid of AM radio for quite some time.
[00:15:55]  There were huge movements in the early 2000s as Rush Limbaugh was gaining so much power in the country.
[00:16:00]  How do we regulate him?
[00:16:01]  How do we, you know, get the Congress to have to restrict his ability to speak.
[00:16:06]  And so, you know, we are on...
[00:16:09]  We are on radio airwaves right now.
[00:16:11]  We literally have to fill out forms.
[00:16:13]  If I say the wrong word, we're regulated by the FCC, but they've never been able to shut us off.
[00:16:17]  Federal Communication Commission.
[00:16:20]  If they are able, though, to end AM radio through another means, that would be devastating for the conservative movement.
[00:16:28]  I'm flagging this.
[00:16:29]  We've got to figure it out.
[00:16:30]  We've got to see it before it happens, as America is going to go almost all electric, which is so stupid.
[00:16:34]  And it's so damaging.
[00:16:36]  And it's going to make a lot of cobalt miners rich and a lot of people poor.
[00:16:39]  We've got to figure out how we're going to keep talk radio alive.
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[00:18:11]  Elaine from Buffalo, New York says, Charlie, what is going on with this abortion pill dispute?
[00:18:16]  It's very unclear to me.
[00:18:17]  That's a little confusing.
[00:18:18]  I can understand that.
[00:18:19]  Okay, so effectively, here's what's going on.
[00:18:21]  I'm going to play you some of the reaction.
[00:18:23]  So the abortion pill, which is called Mifpristatone.
[00:18:27]  My goodness, I can't pronounce it.
[00:18:29]  Mifpristatone, okay.
[00:18:30]  Is one of two drugs used for abortion via medication as opposed to surgical abortion.
[00:18:35]  These are nasty drugs.
[00:18:36]  These are nasty.
[00:18:38]  The drug was approved in 2000, but it's a big deal now because of Dobbs.
[00:18:41]  And the Biden regime pushed through a policy letting it be prescribed via telemedicine and sent people and sent to people through the mail.
[00:18:48]  They're calling it medicine.
[00:18:49]  It's not medical care.
[00:18:50]  Abortion is not health care.
[00:18:52]  Let me just say that again.
[00:18:52]  It's not.
[00:18:53]  You might be okay with abortion.
[00:18:55]  It's not healthcare.
[00:18:56]  Since FDA approval is nationwide, this is a way for abortion pills to be available nationwide, regardless of what the state laws are.
[00:19:02]  So pro-life groups sued, arguing the FDA's original approval was improper and subsequent changes to the pill's prescription were wrong as well.
[00:19:09]  A judge in the Fifth Circuit ruled in their favor and ordered a nationwide stay on prescribing the pill.
[00:19:17]  Let me just be very clear.
[00:19:18]  Some people are saying, oh, this is about the pill.
[00:19:20]  Okay, this is not about birth control.
[00:19:23]  This is something different.
[00:19:24]  This is an abortifation.
[00:19:26]  Okay?
[00:19:27]  Just want to make sure everyone is very clear that there is a birth control pill, which is still very much legal in America.
[00:19:33]  You could have strong opinions either way about it.
[00:19:36]  It can really do a lot of damage to a young woman that people don't talk about.
[00:19:39]  We actually had a great guest on that a couple weeks ago, Dr. Daniel Amon, who talked about it.
[00:19:42]  That's not what this is.
[00:19:46]  This is an abortification.
[00:19:48]  It's a different thing.
[00:19:50]  Meanwhile, another federal judge has issued her own nationwide order saying to ignore the original order.
[00:19:54]  Basically, it's all headed for the Supreme Court.
[00:19:57]  The first question is this: why doesn't Congress take this up as an issue?
[00:20:02]  One of my biggest concerns is how the courts or the administrative agencies are basically playing ball, whether it be on the homosexual marriage issue or whether it be on abortion or on the issue of this abortion pill, where Congress obviously doesn't have the votes to talk about this.
[00:20:24]  They don't want to do this.
[00:20:25]  So it just all gets delegated to the administrative state.
[00:20:28]  The administrative state gets all the power.
[00:20:30]  The administrative state gets all the power.
[00:20:32]  Alexandria Casio-Cortez says, I don't think the courts have the authority to do this to have the authority over the FDA they just asserted.
[00:20:42]  Well, they do, AOC.
[00:20:44]  You're wrong.
[00:20:46]  That the courts are actually supposed to be a check and balance on the administrative state.
[00:20:50]  But more importantly, why don't you do the job?
[00:20:53]  Oh, because you know you don't have the votes in Congress to get this passed.
[00:20:55]  That's why.
[00:20:57]  Play cut six.
[00:20:59]  But I do not believe that the courts have the authority to have the authority over the FDA that they just asserted.
[00:21:08]  And I do believe that it creates a crisis.
[00:21:12]  It creates a crisis.
[00:21:13]  Now, this is the first time.
[00:21:17]  It's the AOC theme music.
[00:21:21]  This is the first time a judge ever overruled an FDA drug approval.
[00:21:26]  And she's right.
[00:21:28]  It does create a crisis because the left wants to ignore the courts.
[00:21:32]  It really comes down to a question of the administrative state: is there a check and balance on the unelected, unknown, and seemingly unchecked branch of government?
[00:21:43]  We call that the fourth branch of government.
[00:21:45]  Okay, so let's go to the next one.
[00:21:46]  I posted a video.
[00:21:47]  And again, I have mixed opinions on this video.
[00:21:49]  I largely think this is good, but it was done obviously a little clumsily.
[00:21:53]  But honestly, there's some righteous indignation here.
[00:21:55]  And of course, the Twitter audience is very upset about it.
[00:22:00]  So there's Lego wears trans stuff, and Lego is a child, obviously, for children.
[00:22:10]  Let's play the Lego cut here.
[00:22:13]  But the question is, why are you all in here with those pens on?
[00:22:17]  Do you think children care about what man sucks at home and what girl eats vaginas?
[00:22:25]  Do you think they care about it?
[00:22:28]  I mean, do you think they care about that?
[00:22:29]  I don't think they think about that personally.
[00:22:30]  Right, so while they're they think about it when they see your parents, yes, they do.
[00:22:36]  It's discussion.
[00:22:37]  That's all grooming.
[00:22:38]  All right.
[00:22:40]  Yeah, if you call security, tell security that you're in here wearing pride fraud.
[00:22:45]  Absolutely.
[00:22:45]  We want to shirt.
[00:22:46]  Come on, guys.
[00:22:47]  It's time to leave.
[00:22:47]  You know what's amazing?
[00:22:48]  Most children don't know.
[00:22:50]  He's been educated by me.
[00:22:52]  I think he's grooming.
[00:22:53]  It's bordered on pedophilia and child abuse for these weirdos to come in here and wear that.
[00:22:59]  And at the same time, kids buy from the store.
[00:23:01]  When does it stutter?
[00:23:02]  I'm sick and tired.
[00:23:03]  You don't have to try.
[00:23:04]  Yeah, but I came here to develop something.
[00:23:06]  When does it stop?
[00:23:07]  At some point, we need to stop pushing this mess on children.
[00:23:11]  So the left is saying that this man is out of control and that he's, you know, shouldn't have done this and he should have confronted him.
[00:23:19]  Look, yeah, he was a little intense.
[00:23:21]  He was probably a little bit clumsier than he probably should have been.
[00:23:25]  He could have been more inquiring.
[00:23:26]  He doesn't do it for a living.
[00:23:28]  But honestly, I'm going to come to his defense.
[00:23:30]  This is a father who's sick and tired of seeing gay pride flags where he's trying to buy his kids' Legos.
[00:23:36]  He's upset.
[00:23:38]  Yeah, he could have been less crass.
[00:23:39]  He could have been more precise in his language.
[00:23:42]  Legos are for kids.
[00:23:45]  And, you know, a lot of people are, you know, responding.
[00:23:47]  I just tweeted it out, and people say, you guys might have an easier time.
[00:23:50]  Vauch, you know, really rich coming from Vausch.
[00:23:53]  You might have an easier time with this culture war stuff you didn't come across as gigantic freaks all the time.
[00:23:57]  Voush, calling us gigantic freaks.
[00:24:02]  We'll handle him later.
[00:24:03]  He didn't confront Lego, Charlie.
[00:24:05]  He harassed random wageies.
[00:24:06]  I don't even know what that means.
[00:24:07]  I guess wagies is a random person who works.
[00:24:09]  I guess that's a new term for a viral video.
[00:24:11]  This is very cringe, Charles.
[00:24:14]  You know what's cringe?
[00:24:15]  Gay pride flags in front of kids.
[00:24:17]  This other woman says the person yelling XYZ and XYZ are like I say what in a toy store is the person being inappropriate in front of kids.
[00:24:26]  This is simple.
[00:24:27]  The dad is the danger to kids here.
[00:24:30]  I would not want my child who has two moms to hear that trash.
[00:24:33]  Oh, you're a lesbian.
[00:24:35]  Got it.
[00:24:38]  It's very simple.
[00:24:39]  A man and a woman can say that they are married, and that is not inappropriate.
[00:24:43]  If they talk explicitly at their sex acts in front of kids, that is bad.
[00:24:47]  It works exactly the same way when two ladies are married or two men.
[00:24:50]  It is so incredibly easy to understand.
[00:24:52]  No, it's not actually Amanda.
[00:24:53]  It's not easy to understand.
[00:24:55]  Are you fighting against the pornography in our schools?
[00:24:57]  Are you doing that?
[00:24:59]  By the way, the tweet has 31 million engagements.
[00:25:02]  I didn't plan for this tweet to go as viral as it did.
[00:25:04]  And again, I'm not doing a full-throated defense of the man.
[00:25:08]  I don't think he acted perfectly.
[00:25:09]  But honestly, we need more citizens to stand up and say this is crazy.
[00:25:13]  Not everyone is going to be as polished as Stephen Colbert when they walk into a Lego store and they see trans flags all over the place.
[00:25:22]  There is a little grittiness to it.
[00:25:23]  There's a little authenticity.
[00:25:25]  He's a dad.
[00:25:26]  He peacefully stands up.
[00:25:27]  He records it.
[00:25:29]  And he gets condemned and ridiculed for people.
[00:25:32]  Oh, I'm sorry.
[00:25:32]  You're worried about his tone?
[00:25:35]  And honestly, what the dad was kind of erupting in a volcanic rage was all of the accumulation of the drag queen, the textbook stuff, Mulvaney, the Biden administration, the trans shooter.
[00:25:51]  It was kind of an intersection point because that was his argument.
[00:25:53]  He said, one is enough enough.
[00:25:54]  And I sympathize with that.
[00:25:57]  Yeah, people, he's mad.
[00:26:01]  By the way, he might have full respect for the gay community, but he says, stay away from my kids.
[00:26:07]  Legos are for kids.
[00:26:08]  This is subconscious grooming.
[00:26:10]  It's what it is.
[00:26:11]  This is a child store.
[00:26:13]  There is no place for trans or gay flags around children, period.
[00:26:19]  The trans thing, especially, is a social contagion.
[00:26:21]  Somebody needs to explain why we have seen a 10,000% increase, might be either 1,000 or 10,000% increase over the last decade of kids identifying as trans.
[00:26:33]  The worker says, well, I don't think kids think about that.
[00:26:35]  Exactly.
[00:26:36]  Then why do you have the flag?
[00:26:37]  Why is it necessary?
[00:26:38]  Why are you forcing it about it?
[00:26:39]  You violated the live and let live.
[00:26:42]  That's what that father is upset about.
[00:26:44]  That father, albeit crass, intense, mad, angry, he's upset.
[00:26:49]  The country he used to live in is you can't go to a Lego store without them wearing a gay pride flag.
[00:26:54]  And you know what?
[00:26:55]  The reason this video went so viral is the left enjoys this.
[00:26:59]  The left knows that we get angry when this stuff is there and we get righteously angry and they mock us.
[00:27:04]  They troll us when we get angry.
[00:27:07]  They're like, oh, you're really angry that kids have to be exposed to trans flags.
[00:27:12]  They're the pervert party.
[00:27:13]  They always have been and they always will be.
[00:27:15]  They protect perverts at all costs.
[00:27:18]  That is outright grooming.
[00:27:20]  If the gay thing was as popular as you say it is, why do they have flags all the time?
[00:27:27]  Why do they need to be around kids?
[00:27:30]  The promise of live and let live was a great idea.
[00:27:34]  They violated it.
[00:27:36]  They crossed the line.
[00:27:37]  You need mutual cooperation for live and let live.
[00:27:40]  And now it's tyrannical.
[00:27:42]  You must wear the flag.
[00:27:45]  You must agree with me.
[00:27:48]  Again, I think the father is being miscategorized here.
[00:27:51]  Of course, he could have acted better.
[00:27:52]  This is not his job.
[00:27:54]  He's fighting for his kids, fighting for his livelihood, fighting for his country.
[00:27:59]  Okay, let's get to another question here.
[00:28:02]  We've got plenty.
[00:28:03]  Charlie, did you see the recent clip about social emotional learning?
[00:28:07]  Oh, yeah, this is something else.
[00:28:09]  This is Cynthia from Kentucky.
[00:28:11]  I want to just remind you guys that you have to fight in your local school boards.
[00:28:16]  These people are lying to you.
[00:28:17]  This is an extraordinary piece of tape done by the Accuracy and Media Foundation.
[00:28:22]  Haven't heard much from them recently.
[00:28:23]  This is an amazing accomplishment by them.
[00:28:26]  And basically, they had a series of undercover videos where they showed teachers and administrators, principals, and school board members saying, yeah, we lie to parents.
[00:28:35]  We have CRT.
[00:28:36]  We have social-emotional learning.
[00:28:38]  We have the elements of this, but we call it something else because we don't want the parental backlash.
[00:28:42]  Wait till you hear these videos.
[00:28:44]  Play cut 97 of school administrators in Indiana bragging in undercover video about how they lie to parents.
[00:28:50]  Play cut 97.
[00:28:51]  We've talked about to our textbook companies that are coming in to do presentations, and I actually prep them a little bit because I'm like, we want this in our curriculum.
[00:29:00]  So if you could just not say specifically this, then it won't cause a red flag with the community.
[00:29:06]  What else do you have to relabel or non-label like that?
[00:29:10]  I think really CRT, social emotion are landing up the two beats.
[00:29:16]  And we just have to avoid the words, you know, the labels.
[00:29:21]  We can still do the content, just don't label.
[00:29:23]  Yep.
[00:29:24]  Well, with the CRT stuff, it's not the theory that you're teaching as much as it is the tenets of.
[00:29:29]  Right.
[00:29:30]  Exactly.
[00:29:30]  You're not teaching it a theory.
[00:29:32]  You're just teaching that, you know, these are the events of history.
[00:29:35]  Yes, exactly.
[00:29:37]  Okay.
[00:29:37]  That's what history teachers are approaching.
[00:29:39]  Yeah.
[00:29:39]  Right.
[00:29:40]  So by the time they get into the higher education, they hear the theory and it's complete.
[00:29:44]  It's not out of left field.
[00:29:46]  It's not out of left field.
[00:29:47]  Exactly.
[00:29:48]  There's some context there.
[00:29:50]  Yeah, not out of left field.
[00:29:51]  They know all about CRT by the time they go to an overpriced college, go into debt.
[00:29:55]  Continues, cut 98.
[00:29:56]  Those are administrators, by the way.
[00:29:58]  These are administrators that are making decisions.
[00:29:59]  They're saying, we just have to be careful how we brand it.
[00:30:02]  You know, we're going to teach CRT, but we're not going to call it CRT.
[00:30:05]  We're going to do social-emotional learning, but we're not going to call it social-emotional learning.
[00:30:08]  This is happening in Indiana, everybody.
[00:30:11]  Indiana.
[00:30:12]  Play cut 98.
[00:30:14]  Don't have an equity department or anything like that.
[00:30:17]  So honestly, so we had what we've decided to do is not call attention to it because when you call attention to it, then questions are asked.
[00:30:26]  And I really believe that you can do more good under the radar.
[00:30:31]  Right before COVID, we had started some really deep diving into our curriculum and kind of doing that like white privilege walk and making sure, like just understand.
[00:30:43]  Right now I will tell you that we did tweak the name of our equity and inclusion committee just because we just didn't want to make a target of it and we we felt for the people that were a part of that membership and so we renamed it.
[00:31:01]  But that's the work we do is, when you rename it, right now it's named a work group.
[00:31:09]  That's innocuous.
[00:31:10]  Nobody's coming for a work group, a work group.
[00:31:16]  Is your kid involved in a work group?
[00:31:19]  Don't assume your school is telling you the truth.
[00:31:21]  You have to assume they are lying to you, as this explosive video show I mean, these teachers and these are not just teachers, these are administrators, the people in charge.
[00:31:32]  They say, yeah, you know, we still have the diversity, equity, inclusion committee.
[00:31:37]  We still have the elements of it.
[00:31:39]  We just call it a work group.

=== Schools Lie About Work Groups (02:03) ===

[00:31:42]  And they plot and they plan and they lie.
[00:31:45]  They have such contempt for parents.
[00:31:47]  They hate you.
[00:31:50]  They want to turn your children into revolutionaries.
[00:31:53]  And yeah, we still have social-emotional learning.
[00:31:55]  And yeah, we still have all the elements here.
[00:31:58]  We're not going to call it that because we don't want the backlash.
[00:32:03]  We don't want the parents coming after us.
[00:32:07]  I will say, though, there's a hidden lead, a buried lead of this entire video that the Accuracy and Media Foundation have done.
[00:32:16]  What do you think that buried lead is?
[00:32:19]  Shows that they're scared of the parents.
[00:32:21]  That's a good sign.
[00:32:23]  The buried lead is that there is, finally, an interest.
[00:32:28]  The buried lead is that these teachers have to lie.
[00:32:31]  It shows that what we are doing is working.
[00:32:35]  Exposing them.
[00:32:36]  It shows that you guys are listening and taking action.
[00:32:39]  That is an infuriating series of videos.
[00:32:42]  But the larger takeaway is that they have to lie.
[00:32:47]  They're no longer able to do this in public.
[00:32:49]  They can't own it.
[00:32:50]  They know now they're going to be called out.
[00:32:53]  And that should mean we should have the foot on the accelerator.
[00:32:57]  They know what they're trying to push is unpopular if they had to tell the truth.
[00:33:01]  For decades, they worked with impunity.
[00:33:04]  And now the secret is out.
[00:33:06]  That series of videos right there are groups of teachers that are afraid of the parents.
[00:33:15]  It's the first time in a long time that's ever happened for them.
[00:33:17]  So they have to be sneaky.
[00:33:18]  It should infuriate you, but it should also encourage you.
[00:33:21]  It means they know who's actually in charge and that they're coming for your jobs, for your pensions, for your job security.
[00:33:28]  So there's an encouraging wrinkle there.
[00:33:31]  Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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[00:33:36]  Thank you so much for listening and God bless.
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