Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec discuss the life and career of Charlie Kirk, the late conservative commentator and founder of the conservative website, "The Weekly Standard" who died at the age of 35.
00:01:33.480And in addition to the Christianity and moral grounding of it, I just wish more people, especially younger men, would take away that message.
00:01:42.240Where this was a young man in a hurry.
00:03:29.920...taking over the entire country, even Gen X or tech road people, where they see a beautiful landscape, and they go, we need to put solar panels over here.
00:03:37.820And take away nature, and we all need to live stacked up like bugs.
00:03:40.340But now I was thinking about, so Charlie, you know, he does RNC, he raises money, he was always flying people to things.
00:03:46.580People don't, people, that's the thing, that's what frustrates me about all of this, is that they see Charlie at a given point in time, and they don't realize, no, he was flying commercial, and he flew all those kids out for the Black Leadership Summit and the White House.
00:04:06.680Well, when he did the events, when he did the events, if you were a student,
00:04:09.800especially if you were a chapter student, your ticket was subsidized, your ticket and your hotel, and even your airfare could be subsidized through a turning point.
00:04:17.580So he would take donor money, and it wasn't like he would put it in his pocket.
00:11:06.680Am I, because you can have a militancy about you and a warrior aspect about you, but it has to be for a higher cause, and that's the sublimation of ego.
00:11:23.960It was to glorify God, though, even more deeper than turning porn or even more deeper than the country.
00:11:28.560Well, when you go back, and Andrew Colvett's been talking about this, too, when you go back and watch these, you know, it was billed as like a political debate.
00:11:36.420But then when you're going to watch it, you say, wait a minute, he's slipping Christ in there as much as possible.
00:11:42.120And every question, he turns it back to that.
00:11:48.260It was like special operations, get everyone together, and that's the boom, hit him with the gospel, boom, hit him with the word, boom, hit him with this.
00:11:55.600This was like a secret revival happening right in front of our eyes.
00:12:28.320People think, oh, no, no, meditation on death does not mean you're dreading death.
00:12:32.460You're just waking up every day that I could be struck down today.
00:12:36.560And I think the geopolitical trend, at least within America and American Christians, is recognizing that there was an inversion of morality to where somehow we had given the left moral authority.
00:13:13.000They're going to wish that terrible things happened to them.
00:13:15.300This is the evil that you're up against.
00:13:18.160So in what world do you let these Decepticons, these subversives, these people who are clearly tools of the demon, make you feel insecure about how you express your Christianity when that's what they want for you?
00:13:30.320So you see this now happening, especially in the conservative Christian right, where they go, dude, they killed Charlie.
00:13:41.160I don't want you common scolds telling us how we need to live and how we need to express our Christianity and how we need to build America.
00:14:27.340Like, I watch Josiah Trenum videos, and there's another YouTube Orthodox monk, Spiritum Bailey, I think his name is.
00:14:33.880And just by watching them, I feel rebuked.
00:14:36.760Just without them even saying, I'm like, man, you know, because I was watching Josiah, and I go, dude, I was, what am I doing arguing with people about subplots of Charlie's thing?
00:15:25.520And that's what Charlie was all about.
00:15:27.280And it's like the kaleidoscope, like you said, it's that Charlie's dealing with a kaleidoscope world of a coalition, of a right, of a people.
00:15:35.420That's going up against evil, that Charlie walked in the face of evil.
00:15:40.980And he knew, he obviously knew the threats, he knew everything, he did it anyway.
00:17:25.980Ladies and gentlemen, please go follow Mike.
00:17:27.960Make sure you're following and getting all of his, got some videos coming out that I think you're going to really like to talk about this and so much more.
00:18:25.380And this book you put out, it's, I mean, the timing is unbelievable because we had been, of course, in discussions.
00:18:32.820We'd actually already booked you for the show.
00:18:34.760You wrote this book about the siege that your family has been under and all of MAGA has been under and everything they've done to anyone with the name Trump or associated.
00:18:49.760And then two days later, they kill Charlie Kirk.
00:18:56.140I mean, I've got to, you know, I'll ask you as awful as it is.
00:19:01.440I think people are missing, or I suppose the wider narrative, what's missing is that this isn't the first time violence has been used.
00:19:09.320This isn't the first time tactics has been used to silence the Trump right, the Trump movement.
00:20:43.240They made up slanderous lies about, you know, his Supreme Court justices.
00:20:46.940I got 112 subpoenas and I've never done a damn thing wrong.
00:20:50.940They used every power of the federal government to come after me, after the company that I run because my father had constitutional protections.
00:20:58.520They couldn't hit him in the Oval Office other than trying to impeach him.
00:22:03.460And there's never been a book that's rang more true than right in this moment today after, you know, what we all went through last week.
00:22:12.420No, and Charlie's assassination is just something that I really hope, and I'm just going to say,
00:22:18.100I hope it's a cliche, but turning point for our nation where we refer to the, you know, the history of America as pre-Charlie Kirk assassination and after because we need a response.
00:23:04.980I mean, you know, they would call Charlie a Nazi and they would call him a fascist and they'd call me a fascist and they'd call all of, you know, I mean, it was identity politics.
00:23:12.840But yet, isn't it really interesting that they're the ones that are dressing up in black and sitting on top of rooftops with sniper rifles shooting over college kids that are celebrating free speech?
00:23:21.220I mean, you know, it feels like it's a lot more like fascism than, you know, than healthy dialogue where you see these beautiful kids and they're celebrating the fact that they finally have a voice in college campuses because of a guy like Charlie Kirk.
00:23:46.920Eric, I'm sorry for your loss, but I am, I am Charlie Kirk.
00:23:49.120And I'm sitting there saying a guy not born in this country, certainly not the age demographic, and he's literally aligning with Charlie Kirk.
00:23:55.440And then you look at Pretoria in South Africa, and they've got a march in honor of Charlie Kirk, and you see millions of people marching in London, across the London Bridge, and in honor of Charlie Kirk.
00:24:05.200And you see the masses in this country, right?
00:24:07.740I mean, even kids, I have employees who have literally written me emails and text messages.
00:24:11.900Hey, my daughter was literally crying.
00:26:36.700We do it because we have the greatest political movement in history, a movement that's saving this country.
00:26:42.920When I saw Eric out there the other day, when she did that press conference right after the assassination, I have never seen somebody who was more direct, more powerful.
00:31:43.860And so, and I'm not saying that everyone who's slandering somebody is Satan, but they are tools of evil for sure, as we all are from time to time, by the way.
00:31:59.960And our job is not to marinate in it or stare at it like a solar eclipse to the point where we go blind.
00:32:07.000Our job is to fight it with the truth and with love and not abstract love, but actual love, the kind that helps other people, that elevates other people and the actual truth, the deepest truth.
00:32:21.600You know, I got in the wake of the Minneapolis massacre, because, of course, this is not the first act of evil that we've seen so far this month.
00:32:33.680And we saw this narrative coming out, and you had, like, very prominent people, including the governor of California, saying, don't pray, right?
00:32:46.400You had this sort of don't pray message.
00:33:04.560And when people gather, and when people hold church services, when they hold mass, when they conduct gatherings of prayer, this causes immense pain to evil.
00:33:18.080And so who would want you to stop praying, right?
00:33:21.180And then I said that, and that kind of went out, and media got mad at me.
00:34:25.140Well, it's just like, you know, I had a close friend who had an alcoholic spouse, and they got divorced, and everyone was like, you know, your wife was a really bad alcoholic.
00:34:31.940And he's like, I honestly didn't know.
00:34:49.040It's always been this way from the beginning of time, and we just haven't acknowledged it since 1945 because we imagined we were gods because we had atomic weapons.
00:35:17.080The core Christian prayer, the Lord's Prayer, given to us by Jesus, at its essence, at its center, is forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.
00:38:16.880And I'm not sure, I believe, I believe it's Maryland.
00:38:20.100So I'm not sure exactly what level of facility he is in.
00:38:26.120He is being represented by a federal public defender for the district of Maryland and has petitioned not only for the name change, but I imagine we'll be petitioning for sex change.
00:38:39.520Well, I mean, when I was a child growing up in Southern California in a totally secular world that worshiped Sigmund Freud and, you know, Jonas Salk.
00:38:49.340And those guys never got anything wrong.
00:38:53.060The idea was that every civilization in history has been super uptight about sex for irrational reasons, probably because they were badly toilet trained and, like, that's all insane and we need to, there's nothing bad about sex.
00:39:04.600And there couldn't possibly be a vector for sin and, like, what?
00:39:08.580And I completely believe that, actually, because that's the world I was raised in.
00:39:12.960Like, I didn't know anyone who didn't think that.
00:39:14.520And my life has been a process of realizing that that's totally wrong.
00:39:19.060It's not just the trans stuff, by the way.
00:40:38.860That's just the kind of, like, final – you know, it's come to fruition.
00:40:41.660But it's all the sexual sin destroys people and it destroys your society.
00:40:45.480And that's why no society has ever had the view that was common in La Jolla, California in 1980, which is, hey, man, none of it's a big deal.
00:43:39.340If you can't say you porn isn't, like, a locus of evil, way more dangerous than Iran, which is more dangerous to America, you porn or Iran?
00:44:00.080Yeah, but you're right, because we can see this direct line between these types of top-of-funnel elements in our society and that are, by the way, supported and allowed and celebrated in many cases.
00:45:38.020To your point, you know, the pre-1945 America, the It's a Wonderful Life America, which was made, obviously, you know, I think right around that time frame.