The Charlie Kirk Show - March 07, 2021


2,000+ Year-Old Playbook to Defeat Joe Biden


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the President of Turning Point USA, a youth organization dedicated to fighting for freedom on college and high school campuses across the country. In this episode, Charlie talks about a 2,400 year old playbook on how to defeat the left.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what if I told you there was a 2,400 year old playbook on how to defeat the left?
00:00:06.000 We go through some age-old wisdom that describes exactly what we are living through.
00:00:11.000 If you want to support our program, go to charliekirk.com slash support.
00:00:15.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:18.000 And if you want to get involved at Turning Point USA, if you're a high school or college student, get involved right now at tpusa.com.
00:00:26.000 Buckle up, everybody.
00:00:27.000 Here we go.
00:00:28.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:30.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:32.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:35.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:39.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:40.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:41.000 His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:49.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:58.000 That's why we are here.
00:01:01.000 Hey, everybody.
00:01:02.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:05.000 Last night I was doing what most people do with their evenings that are under the age of 30.
00:01:11.000 I was reading Aristotle's politics.
00:01:14.000 Well, sort of.
00:01:14.000 I was watching my friend and very wise man, Dr. Larry Arn, talk about Aristotle.
00:01:21.000 I was just kind of going through some of the emails that you guys have sent me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:01:26.000 And he said something, and I had to pause and rewind it.
00:01:30.000 I guess that's the phrase, rewind it.
00:01:33.000 You go back on YouTube.
00:01:35.000 You see, I'm used to the VHS cassette tapes.
00:01:37.000 This is something that most young people have no understanding of whatsoever.
00:01:41.000 Rewinding.
00:01:43.000 You see, you used to have to have something called a VHS tape.
00:01:48.000 And there were two sides, and there was a lot of film.
00:01:53.000 And you could always tell where you were on the movie based on how much film was appropriated from the left to the right.
00:02:00.000 And you could get in a lot of trouble with home blockbuster, family video, local library, if you did not rewind it.
00:02:11.000 My production team is calling me a boomer.
00:02:14.000 Hold on.
00:02:15.000 Anyone that is age 27 to 33 knows exactly what I'm talking about right now.
00:02:22.000 It was a formative time.
00:02:25.000 At least I'm not talking about, you know, I used to listen to Walter Cronkite, okay, so I have a little bit.
00:02:30.000 So I was rewinding after Larry Arn said this.
00:02:34.000 And it was pretty incredible.
00:02:36.000 Because Aristotle, who wrote politics, literally wrote the book called Politics, 2,400 years ago, it feels like he's talking about what we're living through right now.
00:02:52.000 And so dictators, tyrants, despots act exactly the same as they did 2,400 years ago.
00:03:03.000 Exactly.
00:03:05.000 Now, this is not something they'll teach you at your university or your college.
00:03:09.000 At your college, they believe that human nature is malleable.
00:03:14.000 Say that five times in a row.
00:03:16.000 Human nature can be changed.
00:03:19.000 Human nature is nothing more than a product of the circumstances around you.
00:03:31.000 We as conservatives, hence the sweatshirt that I'm wearing that you guys can find at shop tpusa.com, we believe that human nature is naturally flawed, that human nature is a constant battle between good and evil, and that people will act in predictable patterns.
00:03:53.000 The Rassoian view, and yes, Plato had this view in some sense, and this is where Plato and Aristotle disagreed.
00:03:59.000 They thought that human beings can be improved or perfected even if certain things are changed or implemented.
00:04:09.000 Times change, but people do not.
00:04:12.000 This is why the United States Constitution is the most phenomenal breakthrough, because the U.S. Constitution was not written for the times.
00:04:22.000 It was written to stand the test of time.
00:04:26.000 So 2,400 years ago, this was written.
00:04:34.000 Dictators preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:04:55.000 Let's go over that again.
00:04:58.000 What do people that want power do? 0.99
00:05:00.000 They keep the schools closed. 1.00
00:05:03.000 They keep public gatherings shut down.
00:05:08.000 Schools are still closed in California, New York, and we've gone through an entire year of school closures and lockdowns, complete and total societal isolation.
00:05:19.000 They kept you from celebrating Thanksgiving, Easter, Christmas, New Year's, birthdays with your family and friends, and doing everything that will, quote, keep all people as unknown to one another as possible, since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:05:45.000 How do you degrade mutual trust?
00:05:47.000 You have everyone wear two masks everywhere.
00:05:51.000 How do you degrade a sense of familiarity?
00:05:55.000 You have everyone be 16 feet away from each other.
00:05:59.000 Not discounting that there are epidemiological reasons for social distancing.
00:06:06.000 What about the cost?
00:06:08.000 The cost is an erosion of personal trust.
00:06:11.000 I said this to my fiancé the other day.
00:06:14.000 I said, have you noticed how mean America has become?
00:06:19.000 Do you notice how nasty people are to each other?
00:06:23.000 I was in the elevator the other day, walking in.
00:06:27.000 As I'm walking in, I'm putting on my mask because I could see they were very fired up about it.
00:06:34.000 And instead of saying, hi, how are you doing?
00:06:36.000 She said, you know, you should have had your mask on as soon as the elevator doors opened.
00:06:40.000 And I said, who are you?
00:06:42.000 I just turned my back on her.
00:06:46.000 When you do not have that common sense of trust or familiarity, that's where dictators, that's where despots, that's where tyrannical leaders are able to assume ultimate control.
00:07:05.000 This paragraph here that was written 2,400 years ago sounds like something that was written yesterday by a very wise person on Twitter.
00:07:16.000 So how is it possible that something that was written so long ago applies as if we're reading it in real time?
00:07:23.000 Again, it goes back to this idea that human nature does not change, and especially the pattern of power grabbers or central planners, dictators or despots.
00:07:43.000 The treatise continues and it's just so amazing when you read this.
00:07:48.000 It just makes you shocked That not every young person in the country is exposed to this.
00:07:59.000 And I quote: Another art of the tyrant is to sow quarrels among the citizens.
00:08:06.000 Friends should be embroiled with friends, the people with the notables, and the rich with one another.
00:08:12.000 The tyrant will also impoverish his subjects.
00:08:17.000 He thus provides against the maintenance of any guard by the citizens, and the people having to keep hard at work prevented from conspiring against him.
00:08:28.000 What better way to execute a plunder of the people than have a race, class, and gender war perpetually happening, and no one actually questions who's in charge?
00:08:40.000 An art of the tyrant is to sow quarrels among the citizens.
00:08:57.000 The act of a tyrant, the act of a failed leader, and I think a little bit of Biden in this sense, but he's obviously not all there.
00:09:08.000 I think more of Whitmer, I think more of Cuomo, I think more of Newsom, I think more of Pritzker is to sow quarrels amongst the citizens.
00:09:19.000 Times change.
00:09:21.000 People do not.
00:09:22.000 So last evening, I was watching a lecture by Dr. Larry Arn, Hillsdale College, great place.
00:09:29.000 And I couldn't believe the wisdom of what he was saying.
00:09:33.000 He gave this lecture years ago.
00:09:37.000 And it was a lecture on Aristotle's book on politics, which every young person in the country should have to read before they're allowed to comment on anything political.
00:09:46.000 It should be a national law.
00:09:48.000 And he said something that was so phenomenal.
00:09:51.000 And so Aristotle wrote this in Book 5, Chapter 11.
00:09:54.000 Again, this was 2,400 years ago.
00:09:56.000 Aristotle was taught by Plato, who was taught by Socrates.
00:10:00.000 Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
00:10:03.000 We don't talk about this enough in the conservative movement.
00:10:07.000 And I think the reason that people don't like talking about it is it gets too esoteric and too out of reach too quickly.
00:10:15.000 So let me just read this one piece again for you.
00:10:18.000 It couldn't be more real or applicable.
00:10:21.000 Dictators, dictators, preserve themselves by not letting there be any schools or any other college gatherings or collegial gatherings for leisured pursuits and doing everything that will keep all people as unknown to one another as possible since familiarity breeds a greater degree of mutual trust.
00:10:43.000 Basically, when you are familiar with one another, when you have relationships, you are less likely to be controlled by a tyrant or by a despot.
00:10:56.000 Wear two masks, walk around in fear.
00:10:59.000 It says, quote, canceling or not letting there be leisured pursuits, no boating in the state of Michigan, no family gatherings for Thanksgiving, no playing catch with your son in a public park in a constant state of fear.
00:11:19.000 And so this is a strategy that is literally as old as the written word.
00:11:26.000 2,400 years ago, they're talking about closing schools.
00:11:31.000 Why?
00:11:33.000 Maybe if schools remained open during the lockdown, the energy, the camaraderie, the relationships amongst the most ambitious, the most forward-thinking, would be challenging all of this tyranny.
00:11:47.000 But no.
00:11:48.000 If you shut people into their home, you keep masks on them, and they open up their laptop, then they'll be in a constant state of fear, which remember, we've gone over, scared people are easier to command.
00:12:00.000 Scared people are easier to control.
00:12:04.000 Dictators, tyrants, and despots use fear as a primary tool for control.
00:12:12.000 So then I had producer Connor go through some other parts of the book.
00:12:17.000 I haven't read it in quite a while.
00:12:20.000 And I just want to read this one sentence.
00:12:23.000 This basically could be the Joe Biden mission statement.
00:12:32.000 Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens and lives with them and invites them to his table.
00:12:44.000 For one of those are enemies, the citizens.
00:12:47.000 But the others, the foreigners, enter into no rivalry with him. 1.00
00:12:53.000 Open the borders. 0.89
00:12:56.000 Let everyone in. 0.99
00:12:58.000 I prefer the 100,000 people in the caravan to the 1 million blacks in Philadelphia or in Chicago. 0.89
00:13:07.000 I prefer to do business with China than do business in Cleveland, Columbus, or Cincinnati. 0.92
00:13:15.000 Then protect American manufacturing.
00:13:17.000 You see, the mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than his own citizens.
00:13:25.000 I love this next one.
00:13:28.000 A tyrant is also fond of making war in order that his subjects may have something to do and be always in want of a leader.
00:13:41.000 We're always in the midst of a crisis.
00:13:43.000 We're always in the midst of an emergency because war, chaos makes it so that his subjects may have something to do and always be in want of a leader.
00:14:00.000 How does a dictator make himself in demand?
00:14:04.000 Always have a crisis.
00:14:07.000 How do you create pent-up demand for centralized control?
00:14:13.000 Say everything's on fire, and it's an unprecedented crisis.
00:14:18.000 So I saw this story this morning, and it's not going to be on the front page of the New York Times.
00:14:23.000 In fact, it's not at the front page of the New York Times.
00:14:25.000 The New York Times is now back on covering the Chinese coronavirus at a funeral home.
00:14:32.000 It says, funeral home can't keep up as bodies roll in.
00:14:37.000 Thanks, Joe Biden.
00:14:39.000 And then Myanmar. 0.98
00:14:40.000 They're really on this Myanmar kick right now.
00:14:43.000 Front page of the Wall Street Journal today.
00:14:48.000 Paul Powell pledges steady policy as yields rise.
00:14:53.000 Federal Reserve's powell reiterated his intention to keep easy monetary policies in place or easy money policies, but provided no sign the central bank will seek to stem a recent rise in treasury yields.
00:15:04.000 That's code for we will create money endlessly and limitlessly out of thin air.
00:15:13.000 But there's a story bigger than all of that that goes to the heart of what we're living through.
00:15:19.000 It's a story that will not get press coverage, but it is a story that in itself is important, but with a broader application, it is critical to understand.
00:15:34.000 Joe Biden's Department of Justice has dismissed more than one-third of the cases against Portland's rioters.
00:15:45.000 This is the Daily Wire.
00:15:50.000 Local news reports: quote, federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of cases stemming from last summer's violent protest in downtown Portland, where protesters clashed with federal agents.
00:16:07.000 Federal agents.
00:16:12.000 The network, who actually did their job, reviewed federal court records and found 31 of the 90 cases have been dismissed by the United States Department of Justice.
00:16:23.000 Some of the most serious charges dropped include four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.
00:16:37.000 All of the charges stem from Antifa rioters clashing with special agents of the federal government brought in to protect the courthouse.
00:16:49.000 You might remember this story.
00:16:52.000 The Multnomah district attorney Mike Schmidt promised that he would drop the lesser charges of the rioters.
00:17:06.000 Ultimately, there were 974 charges, cases that were brought against these rioters.
00:17:17.000 I'm not a conspiracy guy.
00:17:20.000 It's just kind of weird how this always works out, though.
00:17:23.000 Do you know how many cases were rejected?
00:17:28.000 Six, six, six.
00:17:30.000 I kid you not.
00:17:31.000 It's right here.
00:17:33.000 It's weird.
00:17:35.000 And they couldn't have added one more or one less just so that we don't have to get on that kick.
00:17:40.000 I'm not saying it, but a lot of people are saying it.
00:17:44.000 By the way, I used to love going to Portland.
00:17:47.000 That is one dark city.
00:17:50.000 That's all I got to say.
00:17:51.000 That's all I'm going to say.
00:17:56.000 68% of all referred cases.
00:18:00.000 So essentially, the message that this sends is deeper than just the outrage.
00:18:05.000 The outrage is understandable.
00:18:08.000 You riot, you burn, you attack federal agents in Portland.
00:18:11.000 You don't even go to trial.
00:18:15.000 Charges get dropped.
00:18:16.000 Is that our station in Portland? 1.00
00:18:18.000 K-G-A-L-A-M.
00:18:20.000 If you're listening, give us an email, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:18:23.000 There are some great people in Portland.
00:18:26.000 1580 in Portland.
00:18:32.000 The message this sends, though, is that if you are a pastor in San Jose keeping your church open, we will threaten you with arrest and put $2 million of fines behind you.
00:18:43.000 Mike McClure, if you're a rioter who assaults a federal agent in Portland, we will not even press charges against you.
00:18:55.000 If you want to go sing Christian music publicly in Idaho, we will arrest you.
00:19:05.000 You remember this story?
00:19:06.000 Three arrested at Idaho church for singing an event at a singing event in Moscow, Idaho, including a pastor.
00:19:20.000 And so what this sends a message to the whole country is, if you riot, if you attack federal agents, you're going to get off.
00:19:33.000 Unless you riot and attack federal agents Around Trump imagery, then you're an insurrectionist.
00:19:46.000 My position is very clear.
00:19:49.000 Both are worthy of charges.
00:19:53.000 But the Biden Department of Justice is now choosing to not focus on anything that happened in Portland.
00:20:01.000 In fact, 68% of all referred cases dropped.
00:20:08.000 So, what does this say to the rest of us?
00:20:13.000 You say, you see, if there are rules and the punishment and the consequence is generally unknown, then you have a form of chaos.
00:20:24.000 I call this a new anarcho-fascist regime where anarchy is encouraged as long as you're advocating for the correct positions and doing what is socially acceptable.
00:20:41.000 For example, the federal government or a state government under a Democrat mayor or governor will allow you to shoot up with heroin on the side of the street.
00:20:55.000 They'll allow public nudity.
00:20:59.000 However, if you get someone's pronouns wrong in California, you could face jail time.
00:21:06.000 Pronouns, jail time.
00:21:10.000 Heroin, public benefits, and injection sites.
00:21:15.000 About a month ago, a young man who did something he probably shouldn't have done, posted a series of deceiving memes in the 2016 election, got arrested by Biden's Department of Justice.
00:21:27.000 He faces up to 10 years in prison.
00:21:30.000 They were deceptive memes.
00:21:33.000 Does it warrant a decade in prison?
00:21:35.000 Absolutely not.
00:21:37.000 He's going to go to jail.
00:21:39.000 But if you riot in Portland against federal agents, you get your freedom.
00:21:45.000 The law only works if it's accessible to everyone.
00:21:53.000 Cicero had a couple great quotes about this: Cicero being a one-year Roman consul killed right before Julius Caesar was killed.
00:22:00.000 Phenomenal, very wise man.
00:22:02.000 He said, The more laws, the less justice.
00:22:06.000 What he meant by that was that when you have so many laws on the books, so voluminous, all of the power then goes on the implementation and whomever is charged with enforcing those laws.
00:22:23.000 He had another phenomenal quote, which was, in the time of war, the law falls silent.
00:22:34.000 The left believes that they are in the middle of a mass revolution.
00:22:41.000 And you hear them say all the time, well, we have to fight for social justice, environmental justice, racial justice.
00:22:49.000 What does that mean?
00:22:51.000 Well, it's directly at odds with the biblical principle that justice should never show favor to the rich, to the poor, but instead, and we've embodied this in our imagery and the symbols of our justice system, Lady Liberty is blind.
00:23:10.000 The secular nihilist left does not believe this.
00:23:15.000 They believe justice, the role of justice, is to insert themselves to rebalance the playing field.
00:23:25.000 Therefore, the Portland rioters are actually doing something moral, regardless if they burned down half the city, if they started chazz in Seattle, if they killed a young man who still have not found out all of the details of that murder.
00:23:40.000 Who cares?
00:23:43.000 That is in the pursuit, the long march to justice.
00:23:50.000 But if you dare sing in Moscow, Idaho, we will arrest you.
00:23:58.000 If you open your church, we will arrest you.
00:24:03.000 Storm a federal courthouse, get off on all charges.
00:24:08.000 Now, I no longer have to do this theoretical thought exercise.
00:24:16.000 Imagine if 300 or 800 people with Trump flags went into a federal building.
00:24:29.000 Well, we don't have to imagine that, and we've already broken down the facts of it: of the people largely responsible for the instigation was a group of very radical, small group of people, and we've gone through all of the nuance around it.
00:24:46.000 But those people involved are not just being held accountable, but they are having the entire force of the federal government thrown at them.
00:24:55.000 Whereas the Biden Department of Justice is now basically saying, anyone involved in the racial justice protests in Portland, you're good to go, including four defendants charged with assaulting a federal officer.
00:25:13.000 And some of them were dismissed with prejudice, which means the case can never be brought back to court.
00:25:23.000 So, what is their intention here?
00:25:25.000 Their intention is to confuse you.
00:25:29.000 We don't know what laws are going to be enforced.
00:25:35.000 You don't know what justice system you're going to face.
00:25:39.000 The left commonly says we have a two-tier justice system, one for white people and for people of color. 0.97
00:25:44.000 That's a bunch of nonsense.
00:25:46.000 We have a two-tier justice system, one for allies of the left and one for adversaries of the left.
00:25:53.000 That is the two-tier justice system we have in our country.
00:25:56.000 Where if you open your church, you will be criminalized.
00:26:01.000 But if you go storm a federal courthouse in Portland, you can do as you wish.
00:26:08.000 And when people do not know the consequences of their actions and they believe that the only way that you'll be held accountable is if you have a different opinion from the predominant viewpoint, then we have lost anything resembling a justice system in our country.
00:26:30.000 I want to get to some sound here.
00:26:32.000 Let's go to Cut 61, my friend Judge Janine.
00:26:37.000 Dreams and ambitions.
00:26:39.000 We've got people being released in Portland right now who've got COVID.
00:26:43.000 Wait a minute.
00:26:45.000 You listen to me.
00:26:46.000 They've got COVID.
00:26:47.000 They've got all kinds of diseases.
00:26:49.000 They are being released into the United States. 0.99
00:26:52.000 Now, you're not going to tell me that a governor is going to shut me down and not allow me to do my job and let in illegals because we've got a heart. 0.99
00:27:01.000 Mexico wants to have a heart. 1.00
00:27:03.000 Mexico stop that.
00:27:05.000 And now Joe Biden has convinced Obrador not to stop them.
00:27:10.000 In March of 2020, hundreds of thousands of these undocumented workers were deemed essential. 0.99
00:27:18.000 Judge Janine is spot on.
00:27:23.000 And as we have gone through in great detail, 2,400 years ago, Aristotle in his book Politics, we've had some people ask about it.
00:27:32.000 What was the name of the book?
00:27:33.000 It's literally called Politics.
00:27:36.000 And Aristotle argued that politics is the ultimate form of community because it combines morality and sociability.
00:27:45.000 How do you know that you're dealing with a tyrant?
00:27:47.000 Quote: Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and he lives with them, invites them to his table.
00:27:56.000 For one are enemies, but the others enter into no rivalry with them.
00:28:00.000 So you open up the borders.
00:28:02.000 Hundreds of thousands of people are coming from Nicaragua, from Honduras, from Mexico, from El Salvador with diseases, potential dependence on the U.S. taxpayer.
00:28:16.000 It's happening at a rate we have never seen before.
00:28:21.000 One of President Trump's crowning achievements was solving the southern border crisis, working with our allies, and constructing a southern border.
00:28:28.000 While Joe Biden wants to give preference to foreigners, and it has been higher on the southern border, but it's spiking and on pace to get to its highest ever levels.
00:28:46.000 But it's the highest it's been in recent years.
00:28:50.000 Let's get to another sound here.
00:28:53.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci, who should be fired, had this to say about Texas opening up their state.
00:29:01.000 Cut 71.
00:29:03.000 You don't want to pull back just now.
00:29:06.000 You want to plan that you will be able within a reasonable time to pull back, but not at a time when we have circulating variants and when you have what looks like a plateauing of the decline in the cases on a daily basis.
00:29:22.000 When people are scared, they are easier to control.
00:29:24.000 Just like 15 days to slow the spread.
00:29:27.000 You want to know why people don't trust their government?
00:29:30.000 Exhibit A as to why you don't trust the government is that guy, Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has failed upwards his entire career, has never been right about anything consequential, wrong about epidemiology, wrong about social distance, wrong about masks, wrong about therapeutics, wrong about mental health consequences.
00:29:52.000 You want to know why people don't trust the government?
00:29:54.000 It's because of people like him.
00:29:57.000 But it's a strategy.
00:29:59.000 Scared people are easier to command.
00:30:03.000 And dictators, tyrants, and despots use fear as the primary tool for control.
00:30:10.000 So how does Joe Biden stay in power?
00:30:12.000 You send Fauci on the airwaves and keep you scared.
00:30:21.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:30:22.000 Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:30:25.000 Support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:30:28.000 God bless you.
00:30:29.000 Speak to you soon.