Episode 2955 CWSA 09⧸11⧸25
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Scott Adams talks about the tragic death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, and the ongoing hunt for a suspect. Scott Adams is joined by his good friend Greg Marks to discuss the tragic loss of Charlie Kirk and his impact on the conservative movement.
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everybody. It's a somber day today, for sure. And we'll do the best we can to soldier through
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this and see if there's anything positive we can take away. Doesn't feel like it, but
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you never know. We'll see how it goes today. So come on in and grab a beverage and take
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a seat and we'll work through it all. We'll get to the other side. All right. Don't want
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to do that. All right. We got your comments working? Good morning, everybody, and welcome
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to the highlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and you've
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never had a better time. Although that doesn't make sense today, because I know you're all
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in quite a funk. But we'll work through it. We'll work through it. And if you'd like to
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get to the other side, even though it's too soon, we should wallow in this a little bit
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more. I think that would be appropriate and respectful. But we're still going to do the
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simultaneous dip. And all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass or a tank or
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chalice or a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite
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liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit
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of the day, the thing that makes, well, I hope it makes everything better. This one's for
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Charlie Kirk. Respect. Well, where do we begin? I guess we'll begin with September 11th. Today
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is the 11th. It's the anniversary, of course. And honestly, I don't feel like talking about
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it. Everybody okay with that? September 11th is going to have to take a back seat today.
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Okay. We're not forgetting it. But the recency bias is very strong. So the things that happened
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recently are always going to seem like the bigger things. So while people are still streaming
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in, I'll just say one other thing before we talk about Charlie. So apparently Apple introduced
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the thinnest ever Apple iPhone. It's got a little less battery life, so they have to give up a few
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things to make it thin. But I wonder if they still made it slippery and breakable. Because
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I can't believe Apple used to make the slipperiest phone that was also very breakable. And you would
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always put a case on it. So I'm trying to imagine any scenario in which I would get their thinnest
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Apple iPhone ever, and that I wouldn't put a case on it. So it's not going to be thin when I'm done
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with it. It's going to have a big old clunky case. Anyway, enough of that. All right. We all want to talk
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about Charlie Kirk. Let's just do that. You know that 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie
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Kirk was tragically shot and killed at a Utah Valley University event where he would often do these
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little events where he would go in public and in front of a big crowd, he'd debate people. And as you
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know, a one shot rang out, they think, from 200 yards away. And it took his life. The suspect,
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unless something changed in the last few minutes, is still at large. The manhunter is ongoing. I did
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hear that they found a rifle. There was a rifle in the woods, approximately where they thought he
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might have gone through the woods. And allegedly, this is from Stephen Crowder. He got some
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information on this. Allegedly, there was three unspent rounds, I guess, that had carved on them
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some trans stuff and something about anti-fascism. So if we were to believe the bullets, it might
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be a trans shooter or somebody who's pro-trans and really, really cared about it.
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But we don't know. So I would say that the reports about the gun and the reports about what's
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written on the bullets, I wouldn't fully believe any of that yet. So I would warn you, that's still
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fog of war stuff. So the odds of both of those things being true, I don't know. It'd be hard to put
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odds on it. As many of you have said, and Greg Goffeld said it yesterday, that the name of
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Charlie's organization was Turning Point. That was a hugely successful young people organization
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of conservative, you know, politically active people. Hugely successful. And it was called Turning
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Point. And a lot of people noted that this feels like a turning point. But to what? And turn how?
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We'll talk about that. I also heard Greg say on the five yesterday, that Charlie had substantial
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power, the right kind, you know, the persuasive, I did everything you need to do to get the right
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kind of attention. And that was a big power. And some would say, and I would say this, I don't think
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Trump could have gotten elected at least a second time without his bringing the young people along.
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So how important was he? Really important. How much power did that represent? A lot of power,
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a lot. Especially since he had sway over the younger generation. So it's going to last a while.
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But as Greg noted, Charlie's energy is impossible to destroy. Because energy doesn't get destroyed,
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it just moves. And that energy has to go somewhere. Because he was the keeper and controller of an
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immense amount of energy. Personal energy, but also political energy. That goes somewhere. It
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doesn't disappear. And there are a whole bunch of people in the public who feel like some of that
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energy entered them. I feel that way. As soon as I saw the news, I thought what many of you thought,
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which is, what can I personally do? What can I do? I can't help the wounded, right? Too far away.
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Money isn't exactly the solution for this one. What can you do? So the only thing I could think of
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doing yesterday was, I went live for the people who are my normal audience. And I just knew that you
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needed to not be alone. Because that's what I needed. And I figured you'd feel the same.
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You know, a lot of us live in this weird bubble, where we don't hang around co workers, or even
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family members sometimes, who share our understanding and feelings about all things political. So we
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really, really needed to hang with each other for a little bit. It's what we needed, just to get it out
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of our systems, talk about it. So I went live. And that was one little thing, very little thing.
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But it was one positive thing I could do. So I did it. If you can think of anything later,
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that is a positive thing you can do. I'd encourage you to do it. Because right now,
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doing things is part of the recovery. You know, you just got to find a purpose. You got to say,
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all right, that was horrible. And it's, you know, beyond words, horrible. But I'm going to do
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something. I'm going to make something better. I'm going to change something. And we'll talk quite
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a bit about that. Well, so other facts that are either interesting or should be known, the shooter
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was apparently on a roof. And Charlie Kirk apparently had his own private security. Now,
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my question is the same as yours. Nobody was looking at the roof, the most obvious place for a
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shooter, especially after, you know, the Butler event with Trump. Nobody was looking at the roof.
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It was just a clone of that same attempt on Trump. And an event like that, are you telling me that the
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college didn't have a drone that they would just sort of naturally check the rooftops? And the security
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group, they also didn't have a drone or they weren't allowed to run it for some reason? So we got
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questions about the lack of drones, don't we? Because if he was, if Charlie was worried about,
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worried enough that he had his own security, it seems like checking the roofs, at least visually,
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I mean, they could have seen it visually. The guy was in plain sight. So we'll see.
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A lot of people are saying that the hit looked like a professional job. I would say if the gun that was
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being found, in other words, if Crowder's report is accurate, and we don't know that yet, but if that
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really was the gun, the only way that could be a professional job is if they were trying to take you
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off the scent and try to frame somebody else. But that feels a little too clever. That doesn't feel
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real. So the first thing we have to know before we speculate further on the, you know, the motives
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or who did it would be, is that gun real? Because first of all, it didn't seem like a modern,
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it was sort of an old gun with bolt action. Do you think that somebody who was planning to be a
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professional sniper would have had that gun? Now, I don't know enough about that gun to know,
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maybe it's like extra accurate or something. So somebody who knows about guns, maybe can tell
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me, is that a gun you would use if you were a professional? And if you were a professional,
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would you put any kind of message on the bullet? I don't know. So there are some things that don't
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sound professional, but there are other things that do. The fact that he pulled it off, we assume
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it's a he. The fact that he pulled it off, so it was well-planned, well-executed, no pun intended,
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and the shot was good. But those are not impossible things for an amateur to do.
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If I said to any one of you, all right, here's the deal. You know, there's going to be a shot from
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the roof. And, you know, you go to the gun range and you're pretty well-practiced. Do you think you
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could pull off this horrible event? Probably you could. You know, maybe not every time, but only one
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time happened. So according to John Solomon, the FBI has some hot leads, but it, quote, includes a
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little bit of foreign intelligence. Now, that doesn't mean it's a foreign-driven activity,
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but for some reason, some country that isn't America might know something about it.
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We don't know what that means. Maybe they only have information, but maybe it was something else.
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So among the possibilities, my first assumption was that the most likely reason for the shooting
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was it was a trans activist. Somebody born a man, maybe even went through the military,
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but is now living as a woman and decided, and may or may not be on some cocktail of, you know, drugs.
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Um, so that would be the most obvious, but it also has the disadvantage in terms of a hypothesis
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that it's a little too on the nose. So, you know, the thought that it's just an angry Democrat
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who has been convinced that, you know, all Republicans are Hitler, maybe, but that feels it's not something
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we've seen before, right? Have we? It's usually a crazy person. So it might be a Democrat who is crazy,
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but maybe trans, maybe angry Democrat. I'm not ready to say that it's either one of those yet,
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but I'm going to throw in some other theories that, um, I, I, I'm not sure if I'll say it on social
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media because that's a little bit too much of a, too much interest. So if you don't mind, um,
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don't clip this, but let, let, let's keep this to this audience. There are things you can say to
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a specific audience that maybe shouldn't go bigger. So as a favor, don't clip this. And here's what I
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wanted to add to the possibilities. If you were Iran and you wanted revenge on Trump, how would
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you do it? Well, he's too well protected and it would be too big of a problem if you tried to kill
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him. Although there were rumors that they had some kind of assassination teams. I don't know that that
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was ever confirmed, but that was part of the news. And knowing that one of the things Trump did was took
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out your general. Well, actually, you know, you could argue he took out a lot of leaders. If you
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imagine he was working with, uh, Israel, but that's very least Trump took out, uh, Iran's top general
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Soleimani. Could it be that the Iranians said, we can't get to Trump, but we want to, we want to
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respond with something that's in the same lines. And Charlie Kirk looks a lot like a general,
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you know, he looked like somebody who was loyal to Trump and was a professional who woke up every
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day trying to make the Trump world a better place. He seemed like a general. So one of the
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possibilities, I don't think it's a high possibility, but I'm just going to throw it in the mix, is that
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Iran did it as revenge on Trump. Because remember, Trump killed their general, not their leader.
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If they also killed one of Trump's generals just to send the message without, without confirming it,
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you know, not, not claiming any credit, but it's possible. There's another possibility that's even
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more horrible, that it's the cartels. Do you think the cartels would not want to be in a war with the
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United States? They can't win a, like a traditional war, but they may find it intolerable that their
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leaders are being rolled up and their boats are being shot out of the water. Maybe, again, this would
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be low priority or low possibility, but not impossible. The cartel said, tell you what we're going to do.
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So we're going to make it really unpleasant to be Trump if he keeps doing this. And we can't get to
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Trump, but we can get to other things he cares about. Yeah, somebody like Maduro, maybe Venezuela,
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maybe the cartels. So again, I wouldn't put high likelihood on the cartels or Iran, but I wouldn't
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rule it out. And I'm not sure how I would even rank that compared to, you know, angry, crazy Democrat who
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got off a lucky shot. So still lots of possibilities. There's some of the rumors that are attached to it
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probably will turn out to be nothing, but I'll let you know what people are talking about. There were
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two people behind Charlie and behind the little tent that were part of the crowd. One of them
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looked like he was signaling something right before the shot. It looked like he touched his hat. Now,
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maybe he was just adjusting his hat, but it looked like it was a tip of the hat. And then the shot rang out.
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And then there was a guy next to him who seemed to be signaling something with his hands. Maybe,
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maybe not. And that also came right before the shot. So if I had to bet, I would bet they're
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unrelated. Just somebody touched his hat and somebody did something we don't understand. So
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probably not. And the reason I say that is that they were standing directly behind Charlie. If you
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were going to signal something or you're part of the plot, the last thing you would do is stand in the
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place that would be most photographed right behind him. And also close to where the bullets are going
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to be flying. So I don't think they would be there doing that. There was also something about an
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airplane. So there are reports. And remember, this is fog of war. So probably all this little
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related stuff, probably all false. Probably every bit of it is false around context. But one of those
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things is that a private jet left only minutes after the shooting. And they turned off their radar.
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They turned off something to go invisible for about half an hour. So and then it flew back, but then it
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was visible again, electronically visible. So people are saying, is that how the shooter got away?
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Probably not. Probably it was a transponder. They turned their transponder off, not the radar.
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I think that sounds right. I think that sounds right. Yeah. The transponder. So they couldn't be tracked
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for a while. So I don't know what that's about.
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We, let's see. So Van Jones on CNN, I think it was one day before the shooting, he was claiming that
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Charlie Kirk, well, he was saying some things about Charlie Kirk. And he probably regrets that the timing of
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that was so close. But we'll see, we'll see where that goes. CNN has a lot more talking to do. We'll
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listen to it. Governor Pritzker of Illinois, he said, quote, political violence, unfortunately,
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has ramped up in this country. I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country.
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I think the president's rhetoric often foments it. Now, Elizabeth Warren also laughed, you know,
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at the idea that it was anything except Trump fomenting the violence, to which I say, are you
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kidding? Do you really believe that we think that Trump's rhetoric is what's fueling this?
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Yes. No. No. And do the other people who get worked up, can they blame Trump for getting
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them worked up? It doesn't work that way. They are responsible for their own actions and words
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and feelings. And MSNBC had to fire one of their on-air people. What was his name? I hate this guy so
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much I don't want to remember his name. But I'll give it to you just so we can embarrass him a little
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bit. All right, we'll get to it. So analyst Matthew Dowd. So his comment was, he suggested that you have to
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expect this sort of thing to happen when somebody like Charlie uses the rhetoric that he uses, which people
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said, are you serious? Are you blaming him for creating, are you justifying the murder based on
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the fact that he had it coming? Because he said things that people didn't like. And he also said,
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same guy, unbelievable, that he said that they hadn't yet ruled out the possibility that it was a Trump
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supporter celebrating by firing a gun. He actually said that. That it might have been a Trump supporter
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celebrating by firing a gun. At what? At a crowd of people and hitting the person who's in charge?
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Like just accidentally firing a gun? Un-frickin-believable. Yeah, that guy got fired.
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And MSNBC, I think, had to. They didn't have any choice.
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Now, as you know, MSNBC, CNN, a lot of the mainstream media has been for now, what, 10 years,
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been calling Trump and his supporters Nazis and calling him the Fuhrer, saying he wants to rewrite the
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Constitution and steal your democracy and become a dictator? Do you think that any of that creates
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some danger for a Charlie Kirk kind of a person? And the answer is yes. There's a direct line.
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There is a direct line from the news and the way they cover it and the language that they allow on
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air. That's what causes us. It's direct. If you didn't have the news architecture that you have,
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this wouldn't have happened. And here's the other thing. Everybody knows. Every fucking person knew that
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this was going to happen. Every fucking person knew this was going to happen. Did we warn about it?
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I did. I did. I did. I said in 2020, if Biden gets elected, that Republicans would be hunted.
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And it was because I saw a change in the way they talked. The change in the way they talked
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previewed a change in their behavior. And I can see it clearly. It's sort of a hypnotist thing.
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And sure enough, how many Republicans have now been shot or destroyed? You know, I won't even count
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people like me who were canceled entirely by Democrats. There's not a single Republican who
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ever canceled me. Not one. Not even one. But they didn't kill me. So there's that. I got that going
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for me so far. So let's do the score. If you're watching CNN or MSNBC, you have noticed that they're
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trying to do a both sides treatment of this. As in, well, it's not the Democrats who are violent,
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because look at all these other examples where Republicans were violent or where a Democrat got
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killed. So here's the score, even though keeping score is vile. It's part of the conversation now.
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So you should at least have the facts. So we know that Steve Scalise got a shot up during that
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baseball game. Charlie Kirk, of course. Trump was attempted assassination twice.
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And of course, the J6ers were rounded up, etc. So that's a lot of hunting of Republicans. But as Jake
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Tapper and others like to point out, it's not only Republicans who have been killed. In February of 2022,
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some mayoral candidate in Louisville was targeted. So shots were fired, but no injuries. And later,
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yeah, I guess the guy who shot was convicted. All right. So that's 2022. And it was not successful
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in terms of assassination. Then October 2022. By the way, I asked Grok. So this is coming from
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Grok. And Grok says that Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked by the crazy homeless guy
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with a hammer. And so they're carrying that as a Republican attack on Democrats, I guess. Well,
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that's what, you know, Grok is putting it on the list. Then there was that, this one's, this is more
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on point. Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania. There was a crazy guy who was an anti-Semite
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and tried to burn down his house and kill him, but his family was all safe. Then there's a
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state representative in Minnesota, Melissa Hortman, in June of this year. She and her husband were shot
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and killed in their home by that guy who was impersonating a police officer. And apparently
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that was over abortion. So it was a political killing. There was a state senator in Minnesota
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in June that was shot multiple times. And I think that was the same guy who shot the other ones.
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So we've got one guy who shot multiple people. So I don't know if you count that as one or
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multiple. But the Josh Shapiro one is pretty on point. So if you're wondering, does it only
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go one direction? Well, that one time it didn't go one direction. So, and then, so if you're
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wondering, you know, where did all this happen? How did our rhetoric become the dangerous kind
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where people are willing to kill sometimes Democrats, sometimes Republicans? Well,
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according to Stephen Miller on X, you can draw a straight line from Obama's presidency to today's
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assassination. Stephen says he created the activist culture of getting in people's faces, yelling
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at relatives and literally demonizing political opposition. Charles Krautheimer pegged him from day
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one. And Stephen says, may his political party suffer the consequences. Do you buy that? Do you think
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that Obama is the one who elevated the conversation to you got to get tough and get in their faces? And
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did that cause a ripple effect, which led to violence? Well, I don't know. But I do know that Biden and
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and Obama calling Trump a Nazi, which they both fucking did in public multiple times. Yeah, that'll get you
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killed. That will get you killed. So if if they don't have some apologies for the years of risky behavior that
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guaranteed caused the situation, they were part of the contributing factor.
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We're going to hear that there might have been. Oh, he had some apps.
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Well, did you know that BLM still exists? Apparently, they have a leader, somebody named Terry Wilson,
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who went through a Charlie Kirk vigil in front of the Capitol in Idaho, and decided that a smart thing
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to do would be to yell, go through the people mourning Charlie Kirk, and yell F Charlie Kirk multiple times
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as supporters. You might not be surprised to hear that some fighting broke out. But the surprising part
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about this, I didn't even know BLM still existed. Did you? Did you know BLM still had something like an
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organization? To which I say, why? Why does that still exist? I can't even believe it.
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All right. You may have seen a clip of TMZ when they were finding out that Charlie died. They were
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live. And at the same time that they found out that he was dead, there was a big cheer that went out from
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the staff from a back room. And Harvey Levin was talking, and you could see him looking uncomfortable
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when the laughter and cheering happened. Now, I assumed, as many did, that he's going to need to
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have to explain that. I didn't automatically assume that it was connected to Charlie Kirk's death,
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but it looked like it. And the timing looked exactly like it. Well, today, TMZ and Harvey
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apologized and said that that wasn't over Charlie Kirk, but that some of the staff was watching a car
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chase that was unfolding in real time on the other TV in the other room. And that what they were cheering
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for was something, you know, maybe a successful capture of the guy or something. Now, I'm seeing in the
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comments, they're lying, they're lying, they're lying. Maybe, maybe they are, because that would be the end of
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their business, wouldn't it? If it really happened, that's the end of their business. They're out of
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business if that really happened. Now, one possibility is that the staff lied to the boss to save their own
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asses. Uh, uh, uh, no, uh, we were looking at the television and probably they have TVs on all the
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time. But do you believe that at the height, right in the middle of the most tense part of watching the
00:32:29.520
coverage about, uh, about Charlie, when we didn't know yet if he had a chance of making it, you think
00:32:36.500
that they decided to go watch a car chase and that they were all excited about it and they'd completely
00:32:42.540
forgotten about Charlie. Hmm. I don't know. So one possibility is that Harvey thinks or believes
00:32:51.780
his staff because he wasn't in the room when it happened. So I wouldn't blame him for believing his
00:32:58.260
staff. And I, I certainly would understand if they thought, Oh shoot, we better lie. I don't know if
00:33:05.500
they did, but I would understand that if they did, I mean, that would be a normal human weak thing to do.
00:33:12.540
Um, however, I got to give you some full disclosure. I'm not unbiased about TMZ.
00:33:20.300
Some years ago, there was a little drama with me long before I got canceled. There was something
00:33:27.220
else, uh, that looked like it was going to get me canceled. It was just something taken out of
00:33:32.120
context. TMZ was the only publication that called me at home and said, is this true? And it wasn't
00:33:41.060
true. And I told them it wasn't true. And they said, Oh, okay. And they did not run a story about it.
00:33:47.220
They're the only ones who fact-checked it. The only ones, everybody else pieces of shit.
00:33:54.440
They ran the story like it was true and it wasn't. They were the only fucking ones who fact-checked it.
00:34:02.280
Now, uh, you, I've talked about the power of reciprocity. Unfortunately,
00:34:07.700
because I'd like to be a little tougher on them. Unfortunately, that little experience
00:34:15.700
makes me biased in their favor. So I'm going to say, um, uh, I personally, and this is just me,
00:34:25.640
I'm going to accept Harvey's explanation. I don't know that it's true, but I also don't know that he
00:34:33.320
knows it's true. Um, but if his staff told him it was true and he didn't have a reason to doubt them
00:34:40.420
in general, even if they lied, I'd still give him a little bit of a pass because they may be lying to
00:34:48.120
him. Um, but I absolutely understand if you think, I don't believe a fucking thing about that.
00:34:56.740
They're all lying and he knows it. If you believe that, I respect that. I don't know that you're
00:35:02.660
right, but I would respect your opinion because, you know, certainly there's a suggestion that that
00:35:09.240
might be the case. But Harvey, I personally am going to take your word for it. I think you've earned that.
00:35:15.680
So for what it's worth. However, there were a lot of people in a lot of places that were literally
00:35:26.640
cheering for the death. Now, if you say, my God, they're monsters, you might be missing the larger
00:35:33.740
context, which is half the country has been hypnotized into believing that he was a monster
00:35:40.360
or serving the monster Trump. So if you had heard that a monster, a, you know, somebody who could
00:35:48.520
steal your democracy and ruin the country, if you heard that somebody you thought was that bad of a
00:35:54.780
monster, wouldn't you cheer when, when bin Laden was killed? Didn't you cheer a little bit at all?
00:36:02.600
When Soleimani, uh, the Iranian general got waxed by Trump, you didn't feel a little bit happy?
00:36:08.560
So, obviously, Charlie is not analogous to bin Laden or Soleimani, but Democrats think he is, right?
00:36:21.360
They think he is. So if the thing you, the thing that bothers you is they celebrated, then you're, you're
00:36:28.600
one level away from the real problem. The celebrating is a natural, you'd expect it really,
00:36:35.340
if they've been told that, uh, Hitler is putting together his team and this is one of Hitler's
00:36:41.660
generals. The problem is not the celebrating. The problem is that the public had been hypnotized by
00:36:49.280
the mainstream media and the Democrats into believing it might be a good thing if people like him died.
00:36:57.440
So, I, I'm not really bothered by this celebrating. To me, that's just a symptom of the fact that the
00:37:06.240
horrible thing happened long ago. It happened long ago. It was the hypnotizing ordinary people into
00:37:12.060
thinking that they're living in Germany in 1940 or 39 or whatever it is.
00:37:17.240
So, um, a lot of you, as I said before, when this happened, you thought, I need to do something.
00:37:29.720
Everything's changed. Do you think everything's changed? Um, I'm worried that it probably hasn't,
00:37:37.960
probably hasn't, but I will speculate on a few things that might, that might be big and might
00:37:44.240
change. Um, and we'll, we'll just run through that. Number one, do you believe that there will be
00:37:51.440
gigantic, um, protests in the street over this? The answer is no. And it's not because, as somebody
00:38:00.240
said, Republicans are not the protesting kind of rioting people. That's not the case.
00:38:06.240
What's true is that every organized protest has organizers. And I don't believe that there's an
00:38:15.880
organizer who would want a bunch of Republicans to go riot. So, there's no organizer. So, I don't think
00:38:22.980
that it's going to be like, you know, public disobedience or something like that. Um,
00:38:28.640
I don't think that there's anything to donate to necessarily because if the internet is right,
00:38:38.480
um, Charlie had amassed a pretty substantial little estate. So, if there's any way to help the family
00:38:46.480
in the short run, please do. And that might include giving some short-term money. Long-term,
00:38:53.760
they might be okay. Um, but that assumes the internet is right when they talk about its net worth.
00:39:01.640
Don't know about that. So, people say that the line has been crossed and everything's different and,
00:39:10.080
uh, I don't know. But let me suggest a few things that might change. Number one, I saw Mike
00:39:19.220
Sardovich helpfully point out that this would be a good time for congressional hearings. Now,
00:39:25.140
he said in a post on X, he goes, uh, every billionaire funding far left wing extremism,
00:39:31.460
Soros, Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, um, massive RICO investigation. Now every dollar accounted for
00:39:38.020
every pass through groups, financial records, public. What do you think of that? Now you might say,
00:39:46.100
well, you know, why haven't they done that anyway? You know, why don't we know by now
00:39:52.740
everything that's happening in these NGOs? We know a lot and we know that they're corrupt money
00:39:58.340
laundering organizations, but maybe even go bigger and just make all NGOs illegal unless they've gone
00:40:06.260
through some specific kind of vetting process. Just make them all illegal. You know, not permanently.
00:40:11.940
You know, you say, all right, you could be illegal, you could be legal, but you're gonna have to answer
00:40:17.380
all these questions and writing, you know, who's, who's in charge and what'd you do and what'd you do
00:40:22.100
with the money? You'd have to agree to be audited, you know, stuff like that. So, uh, I'm 100%, um,
00:40:30.100
in favor of the government going way more aggressive on RICO investigations for this massive criminal
00:40:38.820
enterprise called Democrats. Would it work? Well, remember the Democrats have really good lawyers
00:40:46.900
and lots of them. So probably it would just get all tied up in the courts for a hundred years until
00:40:52.020
Trump was out of office and it all went away. But it's one thing we could do. It's one thing we could
00:40:59.500
do. And I'll tell you one thing that's changed is risk tolerance. When one of your own, and by the way,
00:41:07.980
I take this very personally, I didn't know Charlie personally. Um, my only fleeting connection was he
00:41:15.020
once invited me on his podcast and I thought I was going to be dead in a few weeks. So I didn't
00:41:20.060
return his, uh, his message. So I never talked to him, but it's still personal. This one's personal
00:41:27.420
because I consider myself a, um, say a brother in arms, meaning that we were in the same war
00:41:34.380
in the same platoon. I just didn't know him personally. So the fact that he got taken out,
00:41:40.940
oh, that's personal, that's personal. And so when that happens, my personal risk profile
00:41:48.700
gets adjusted. When I say, oh, you mean there's a chance I'll be shot?
00:41:53.100
All right. Then Rico, every one of these motherfuckers to the ground. I wouldn't have
00:42:01.100
wanted to, you know, destroy the country by going after the billionaires and really making it that
00:42:06.940
overtly political. And it would be massive destruction. Now I'm all in. I'm all in for
00:42:14.140
the massive destruction. Yup. It's risky. Let's do it because there's something we can do. It's not,
00:42:22.940
it's not directly related to Charlie, but it changes my risk tolerance. And I'm all in now.
00:42:29.740
I believe the Democrat party has to be totally dismantled. Um, I wouldn't have said that two days
00:42:36.620
ago, two days ago, I would have said the healthiest thing for the country is that there are two strong
00:42:42.220
political parties battling it out in a, in a war of ideas. But you know who else thought that?
00:42:49.020
Charlie fucking Kirk. He thought that we could talk it out. His whole model was based on polite
00:42:56.700
debate and doing it in public so everybody could see it. That didn't work. He got shot to death.
00:43:04.540
So now we just need to destroy the entire Democrat party legally, not illegally, not with guns, legally.
00:43:14.860
But I am no longer content with the Democrat party existing in its current form with its current
00:43:21.660
supporters. It could be reconstituted into something honest, but at the moment I think it needs to be
00:43:27.900
ripped out by the roots. Now that will be very bad for the country. It will make us, uh, you know,
00:43:35.580
out of each other's throats. And, um, it would be a bad idea if Republicans just had all the power
00:43:42.380
forever and there was no risk that they would lose it. I'm not in favor of that until now, until now,
00:43:50.140
now I'm in favor of it. It would be a big risk, wouldn't it? Okay. Okay. Um, people would get killed
00:44:00.300
if it got this tense. That's, that's very tragic. Do it anyway. We, we can no longer settle for the status quo.
00:44:10.460
Whatever this big Democrat machine is. And again, it's not like the leadership of the Democrats,
00:44:19.260
you know, ordered the hit. I don't think that happened, but I do think that they knew that
00:44:23.580
they were creating a situation that was a mortal danger to Trump supporters. They're trying to kill us
00:44:32.700
indirectly by creating a situation in which somebody is going to take the shot. And that's
00:44:38.060
what happened. It looks like it. It's still possible. There's something about that shooter.
00:44:42.540
We don't know. And I might be wrong about everything, but even if I'm wrong about the
00:44:46.860
motivation entirely, I'm not wrong that they're still creating the situation that it would happen
00:44:52.380
tomorrow because they haven't stopped calling him Hitler. They're blaming him for the shooting.
00:44:58.540
It didn't get better. It got worse. So yes, uh, I'm with Mike Cernovich. Uh, we need to rip open this whole,
00:45:06.780
uh, billionaire game, whatever's going on there.
00:45:13.820
Uh, the second thing that I will commit to you is something I rarely almost never do,
00:45:21.820
but it's time. And I've told you this before. One of the things that happens when you become a
00:45:27.580
trained hypnotist is that if you have any sense of, you know, morality or ethics, you,
00:45:36.860
you gate yourself, meaning that I have too much persuasive ability and I, I literally keep it in a box
00:45:47.260
because letting it out is dangerous and it would take people's, their, their illusion of free will,
00:45:54.700
I guess. Um, and it would give me more power than I should have in society. Um,
00:46:02.300
and one of the reasons, by the way, I don't know if I've ever told you this directly, but
00:46:07.340
one of the reasons that I don't do more of a professional show, you know, obviously I'm not
00:46:12.940
putting any work into my background. I just put a light on my, my shelves. That's it. Is because
00:46:19.100
if you get to the Charlie Kirk level of notoriety, you need security. You can't even walk outside.
00:46:27.820
That's, that's the way things are going. So I have always intentionally stayed below the
00:46:32.780
level where somebody would want to take a shot at me, but still big enough, enough people watching
00:46:39.580
that if I had a good idea or, or I was persuading something, people would notice it would get to the
00:46:45.180
right people. So, um, what I often say is that for reasons of ethics and morality, I do never,
00:46:56.220
I never turn on my power of persuasion to full force. I always hold back. You know, I'm like,
00:47:03.100
I'm like 60, 75%, something like that, because it just doesn't feel right to erase somebody's free
00:47:11.340
will. Basically, I changed my mind. I'm taking all the controls off to destroy the Democrat Party.
00:47:20.220
Uh, it needs to be driven into the sea. Now, not killing anybody, obviously. It doesn't mean they're
00:47:29.180
all in jail, obviously. But their current leadership, they all have to go. And, and the way to make them go
00:47:36.860
is to erase their political viability. And that doesn't require anything physical. That requires
00:47:47.260
good reframe. Maybe a reframe here or there. Might be a nickname. It might be just that we're
00:47:55.660
changing our focus a little bit. But I promise you, you may never see me do it. You may never see
00:48:04.300
a sign of it whatsoever, although some of it you will, because I'll do a lot of it public.
00:48:08.540
So you won't know what I did. You won't know who I talked to. You don't know whose minds I might
00:48:14.220
change. But I'm all in now. I'm all in. I want to destroy the entire existing Democrat Party
00:48:23.100
for the good of the country, because they become just monsters at this point. But I would like them
00:48:29.740
to be reconstituted at some point, so that we have a real system with two parties. That would be great.
00:48:36.780
We don't have that. We've got a criminal enterprise, and then a bunch of people are trying to fix things.
00:48:43.100
And that's not the same. So I'm going to be persuading against the criminal enterprise,
00:48:49.340
the liars, the Hitler-loving or the Hitler-obsessed ones. And I'm going to embarrass them if I can.
00:48:58.620
I'm going to put them in awkward situations if I can. And you may never see a sign of it. But is there
00:49:06.540
a turning point? Probably. Probably. Won't happen fast, but I'm all in. All right.
00:49:19.340
I saw a dated Republican posting on X today who said that no business owner is bringing up tonight
00:49:32.780
in fear of riots. The left and the right are not the same. Well, I agree with that. But I remind you
00:49:41.660
that riots don't happen. They're organized. The Republicans suddenly don't have that machinery.
00:49:49.580
to organize these, or the desire to do it, to organize these fake protests, the fake BLMs,
00:49:55.420
the fake Antifas, the fake no kings bullshit. So they don't have that corrupt enterprise.
00:50:04.460
So that's why. And I just think in general that people wouldn't organize for anything on their own.
00:50:11.500
All right. People are pretty mad and trying to figure out what to do. I saw a post by
00:50:23.740
Matt Van Swal that Elon Musk was boosting. Matt said, if I'm being perfectly honest, Elon was right. I
00:50:32.300
I think I'm beginning to lose the will to be tolerant. So tolerant is what I just gave up.
00:50:39.980
When I told you I'm all in, I'm done being tolerant. They have to be destroyed. They have to be destroyed.
00:50:49.820
Musk said, if tolerance means the end of a Western civilization, then we cannot be tolerant.
00:50:55.500
And he goes on, Elon does, if they won't leave us in peace, then our choice is fight or die.
00:51:00.860
Yep. But be smart. Who are you going to fight? Who are you going to fight? You got to know who to fight.
00:51:14.780
So we don't want to be shooting their Charlie Kirks. That's not the fight we want to be in.
00:51:21.180
We need to be smart and use legal means. But boy, do we have to fight.
00:51:27.340
In other news that's related, Trump made a surprise visit to a DC restaurant to show that it was safe to go out again.
00:51:41.420
And apparently there were some left-wing protesters who got wind of it and started shouting at him in the restaurant.
00:51:51.500
Now, the question is, he didn't announce that restaurant. So who tipped off the protesters?
00:51:58.340
Better find that out. Because talk about a security violation. Oh, my God.
00:52:09.860
I should tell you that I posted this on X as well. Several years ago, I stopped doing public events.
00:52:19.380
You know, I wasn't invited to as many after I started backing Trump in 2016.
00:52:24.580
But I still could have been invited to, you know, some colleges that wanted to cause some trouble and stuff.
00:52:31.220
Berkeley invited me at one point. Some organization did.
00:52:34.360
But I started saying no to all public appearances for this reason.
00:52:40.260
It's because once you get called a Nazi or a Nazi supporter, it's not safe to be around a thousand people.
00:52:48.860
Because the odds of one of those people believing it's literally true that you're a Nazi and they've got to do something about it is really high.
00:52:56.440
Okay. So I've been basically, you know, staying home for years.
00:53:07.500
Here's an idea that I've floated before, but it never seemed like a real idea.
00:53:26.440
Dr. Insensitive Jerk, who's the anonymous, he's the anonymous economist I've mentioned before.
00:53:34.680
He said he's got a solution that you should just ban the guns for Democrats.
00:53:39.540
Now, that's an idea you've heard from me before.
00:53:45.260
If you were to reduce guns to Democrats and let Republicans keep them,
00:53:50.960
how much would that reduce the rate of crime in the country?
00:53:58.340
The Democrats think that fewer guns means less crime.
00:54:02.040
And if the Democrats are doing most of the gun violence,
00:54:06.800
I don't know if that's true, but let's say it's half of it.
00:54:10.840
If you could make half of the gun violence go away just by Democrats saying,
00:54:27.000
Now, I don't think there's any chance it could happen for constitutional and legal reasons,
00:54:32.520
but wouldn't you like to make the Democrats have to deal with the question
00:54:37.420
of whether guns should be banned only for them?
00:54:45.320
Let me give you an analogy that may or may not work.
00:54:54.460
Examples are not arguments, but it's just so you have some context.
00:54:57.380
Because you remember the, well, you know that the members of the Sikh religion,
00:55:10.400
But they have as part of their religious practice
00:55:17.860
Now, of course, that was a problem at one time,
00:55:21.140
because people said, no, you can't take a knife to the places
00:55:24.980
where nobody else could take a knife just because it's your religion.
00:55:36.740
Were they not eventually allowed to carry their knives
00:55:39.580
under the understanding that they were a special group
00:55:43.400
who were very unlikely to use them for violence?
00:55:50.480
Now, I've not in my entire life ever heard of a Sikh
00:55:55.820
who used his ceremonial knife to commit a crime
00:56:11.140
that someone could have a weapon and someone could not
00:56:19.640
the Democrats' situation would not be about religion,
00:56:26.860
when they believe that there should be fewer of them.
00:56:29.980
What would be the problem with Democrats being the ones
00:56:40.900
In other news, well, let's see, let's wrap this up,
00:57:28.600
All right, and get some exercise today, please.
00:57:50.520
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00:58:27.440
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00:58:51.420
who were, they thought, safely staying in Qatar.
00:59:16.380
And Netanyahu argued that it was a limited window.
00:59:20.120
You know, they weren't going to be there all day.
00:59:40.600
I feel like he might have been able to get that
01:00:10.680
I would get that people are on different sides of that.
01:00:29.540
Because how often are you going to get, you know,
01:00:36.040
I don't know if Netanyahu calculated this specifically,
01:01:19.820
So I think that that was strategically probably brilliant.
01:01:33.540
You know, they both have some influence over the other.
01:01:50.260
and I want us to be in charge of the United States
01:02:33.400
is intentionally trading off their biggest asset.
01:03:56.120
And I believe that he is very intentionally saying,
01:04:02.000
we're giving up some of that Holocaust goodwill.
01:06:17.520
So they'd have some augmented reality glasses on