The Charlie Kirk Show - 365 Days of 15 Days to Slow the Spread

00:00:00.000 Hey, everybody.

00:00:00.000 It's been the year of 15 days to slow the spread.

00:00:02.000 We reflect on the last year, our lessons, and the path forward.

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00:00:37.000 15 days to slow the spread.

00:00:39.000 It's been a long year.

00:00:40.000 Buckle up.

00:00:41.000 Here we go.

00:00:42.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

00:00:44.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.

00:00:46.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.

00:00:49.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.

00:00:52.000 I want to thank Charlie.

00:00:53.000 He's an incredible guy.

00:00:54.000 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.

00:01:03.000 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.

00:01:12.000 That's why we are here.

00:01:15.000 One year ago, one year ago, we had the speech of 15 days to slow the spread.

00:01:26.000 It has been the year of 15 days to slow the spread.

00:01:30.000 Now, I was a skeptic early on.

00:01:32.000 I remember exactly where I was sitting.

00:01:35.000 Remember that, Connor?

00:01:36.000 I remember exactly the speech that was being given.

00:01:39.000 And I said, I don't know.

00:01:40.000 I think 15 days is quickly going to become 45 days.

00:01:44.000 Now, I was naive.

00:01:46.000 I actually thought that the people in charge valued individual liberty.

00:01:53.000 I actually thought that when Dr. Anthony Fauci and his lies were exposed, he was going to be fired.

00:02:01.000 And I thought that Americans would demand their freedom back immediately.

00:02:07.000 Play tape of Mike Pence saying 15 days to slow the spread.

00:02:11.000 Nothing more important for the American people to do to slow the spread than to heed your state and local guidance in areas impacted by the coronavirus and for everyone else to put into practice the 15 days to slow the spread.

00:02:30.000 Dr. Fauci will reflect on the importance of mitigation and the impact that we believe that it is having around the country.

00:02:38.000 And so I can understand maybe a week or even the 15 days just to see who is being impacted, to see how the virus is spreading, infection rates and death and hospitalization rates.

00:02:51.000 But if you remember back, we did a program on the Charlie Kirk Show podcast where we said, wait a second, we have the data from the Princess Cruise Ship, which was a cruise ship out in the Pacific Ocean where the Chinese coronavirus was spreading throughout the cruise ship.

00:03:09.000 Only about half of the ship ended up getting infected with the Chinese coronavirus.

00:03:14.000 It was an elderly population, and the death rate was about 1.8 to 2% of the elderly population with no therapeutics, no hospital treatment, no social distance, any of that.

00:03:26.000 And so then if you model it for the rest of the society and you factor in the staff, the employees, and the younger people on the ship, it was about 1% at most with no therapeutic help whatsoever.

00:03:38.000 And it's amazing because that one test case of the Princess cruise ship that happened in the Pacific Ocean could have been modeled for the rest of the country.

00:03:47.000 And that data never should have compelled us to shut down our entire country indefinitely.

00:03:55.000 So I understand the 15 days.

00:03:57.000 Even understand a month.

00:04:00.000 But let's say, even after a month, April 15th, when we were shut down, we were told that we had to, quote, flatten the curve.

00:04:09.000 You remember that?

00:04:10.000 Dr. Burks famously said, if everybody in America does what we ask for over the next 15 days, we will see a dramatic difference and we won't have to worry about the ventilators.

00:04:19.000 That was a lie, and she knew it.

00:04:22.000 We won't have to worry about the ICU beds because we won't have our elderly and our people at the greatest risk to be hospitalized.

00:04:28.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci said, quote, the guidelines are a 15-day trial guideline to be reconsidering.

00:04:33.000 It isn't that these guidelines are now going into effect until July.

00:04:36.000 What the president was saying is that the trajectory, the trajectory of the outbreak may go till then.

00:04:42.000 In reality, we should have focused on targeted quarantines of the elderly and the sick.

00:04:48.000 And we knew that.

00:04:50.000 Let's play tapier of Dr. Anthony Fauci lying, which seems to be a habit every time he opens his mouth.

00:04:56.000 Play tape.

00:04:58.000 I think the question that I think maybe John asked about until July, the guidelines are a 15-day trial guideline to be reconsidering.

00:05:07.000 It isn't that these guidelines are now going to be in effect until July.

00:05:11.000 What the president was saying is that the trajectory of the outbreak may go till then.

00:05:15.000 Make sure we don't think that these are solid in stone until July.

00:05:19.000 President Trump got played by every single person in that picture.

00:05:23.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci and the deep state medical establishment should have been fired just like James Comey was fired.

00:05:30.000 Dr. Anthony Fauci will be responsible for the mental health crisis happening in our country, for the thousands of people that we lost to suicide, to the cost, the human cost of the lockdowns.

00:05:43.000 Outkick.com, an article by Clay Travis, says, Florida versus California, Chinese coronavirus data proves that lockdowns do not work.

00:05:52.000 Florida's unemployment rate is 5.1%.

00:05:56.000 California's unemployment rate is 9.3%.

00:06:00.000 And their death rate is basically the same despite Florida having a much older population.

00:06:08.000 So the Chinese coronavirus and our handling of it taught me a lot about the state of America. 0.94

00:06:16.000 Number one, it taught me that people do not want to be free.

00:06:20.000 They'd rather be taken care of.

00:06:22.000 They believe in safetyism over liberty.

00:06:26.000 Now, the amazing thing about liberty is that we could have opened our country fully and completely, which we should have done one month or even two weeks after we got enough data to understand what we were dealing with.

00:06:37.000 We could have said, look, if you're very scared of this virus, then stay at home.

00:06:41.000 The amazing thing about liberty is no one was going to force you to leave your home.

00:06:45.000 If you believe masks work, then wear a mask.

00:06:48.000 Instead, we did the opposite.

00:06:50.000 We decided to use the heavy hand of government and force everyone to stay at home, sacrificing liberty, treating every single person the same.

00:07:00.000 Florida opened fully last May.

00:07:02.000 Restaurants, school sports, schools, and even gatherings.

00:07:09.000 Going back to last May, I was eating in restaurants in Florida.

00:07:13.000 All throughout the summer, Florida was wide open.

00:07:16.000 And there was no dramatic increase in the spread of the Chinese coronavirus that all the doomsdayers said there would be, despite Florida having the second oldest population in the country.

00:07:29.000 Now, this contrast, you would think, would interest the activist mainstream press.

00:07:35.000 Instead of celebrating Ron DeSantis as a hero and condemning Gavin Newsom as being one of the worst governors, and let us not forget Andrew Cuomo, who's under multiple pieces of scandal right now.

00:07:47.000 It's very funny.

00:07:48.000 I went through the entire New York Times today.

00:07:51.000 I don't recommend you do this.

00:07:53.000 And there is one mention of Cuomo on the 15th page.

00:07:58.000 You would think that the governor of the second largest state, is that right?

00:08:03.000 The second largest state in the country, who's under a nursing home scandal by accusation by Letitia James and under very credible sexual assaults and sexual harassment accusations, you think that would probably be of concern of the New York Times.

00:08:21.000 You know, the state that the New York Times is actually headquartered in?

00:08:25.000 Instead, the New York Times has a picture of, oh no, this is the top story for them.

00:08:30.000 Democrats take a lesson from Obama's caution.

00:08:33.000 This makes me fall asleep reading the headline.

00:08:37.000 So Cuomo handled the Chinese coronavirus terribly, but he never missed a moment to go on television, to tell you how terrific he was.

00:08:46.000 He wrote a book, won an Emmy in the midst of all of this.

00:08:52.000 And the open states with the courageous governors like Christine Noam and Ron DeSantis have the data now to prove that liberty in fact works.

00:09:02.000 In fact, it works even with a contagious virus.

00:09:07.000 Now, what's so amazing is how some states are still locked down as I do this program right now.

00:09:14.000 And if your state is still locked down, then your politicians have a separate political agenda outside of protecting and preserving the liberty and the welfare of you.

00:09:28.000 You know, what's so amazing is that Democrats and liberals have for years said they care your body, your choice.

00:09:35.000 You can put whatever substance you want in your body.

00:09:38.000 However, then when it came to the Chinese coronavirus, they became what they always were.

00:09:44.000 Inside a leftist is a totalitarian waiting to get out, where they saw this as an opportunity to command you, control you, and make you obey. 0.88

00:09:56.000 The science is clear.

00:09:58.000 Lockdowns do not work.

00:09:59.000 Now, Sweden showed us that early.

00:10:02.000 Sweden has actually been kowtowing to the political correct pressure in the last couple months and they locked themselves down.

00:10:08.000 I want to be very clear.

00:10:10.000 Just because I'm against lockdowns does not mean I think that everyone should go into a meadow and have a mosh pit.

00:10:17.000 It seems as if every time I offer a valid or factual criticism of the lockdowns, people are acting as if I want to see some sort of Woodstock era gathering in the middle of nowhere, almost like burning man.

00:10:36.000 Ending lockdowns simply means that the politicians, the elected officials, trust the people.

00:10:45.000 It's that simple.

00:10:47.000 Now, liberty is very hard.

00:10:49.000 Liberty requires trust, and liberty, by definition, comes at a cost.

00:10:55.000 If all of life was about being kept safe, then prison would be a desirable place for most people.

00:11:03.000 We would get rid of automobiles and cars that result in 50,000 deaths a year, or we would have 10 mile an hour speed limits.

00:11:12.000 We would get rid of all weapons, which Democrats want to do and some moderate Republicans want to do.

00:11:19.000 We would get rid of cheeseburgers, which again, Democrats want to do.

00:11:22.000 Heart disease and high cholesterol is a massive driver of death in our country.

00:11:30.000 If it was all about saving lives, we would get rid of soft drinks, which again, I think I'm saying things Democrats are proposing because it actually is consistent with their safetyism worldview.

00:11:42.000 A retreat to being taken care of instead of trusting people to make good choices and good decisions, and then they will have to pay the price or the consequence of not making good decisions.

00:11:55.000 What Florida shows us is that you can open up a state and some people will still stay at home, and that's okay.

00:12:03.000 In fact, I encourage some of those people to still stay at home over the age of 80, pre-existing health conditions.

00:12:11.000 They already have maybe asthma or they've had some other issues.

00:12:15.000 They should take this virus very seriously.

00:12:18.000 But what the public polling in Florida has shown us is that not only are the lockdowns working, but they're very popular.

00:12:25.000 And people want to have the liberty and the option to be able to make those choices.

00:12:32.000 And when those options are given, it goes to show that you can actually bring your hospitalization rates, infection rates down, and your quality of life improves dramatically. 1.00

00:12:43.000 The biggest reason why the Democrats and some moderate Republicans have kept their states closed for one year in the 15 days to slow the spread is because deep down they actually think they're smarter and better than you and they think you are stupid. 0.98

00:13:02.000 They really believe that you must be micromanaged through every decision. 0.99

00:13:06.000 They have a condescending worldview.

00:13:10.000 We call this ivory tower, elitist, ruling class.

00:13:13.000 All of that is an accurate description.

00:13:16.000 But liberty, by definition, is something that a lot of people are not comfortable with because liberty then puts the pressure on you.

00:13:26.000 Liberty then puts the decision, the choices solely on you.

00:13:34.000 Some people actually want to be told what to do.

00:13:37.000 The American experiment has always put a value on liberty while admitting its cost and consequences and de-emphasized safetyism.

00:13:48.000 And the science and the data are clear.

00:13:50.000 The lockdowns everywhere should be ended.

00:13:54.000 Every single member points to that.

00:13:57.000 And that's why Florida has become a total, complete boomtown.

00:14:01.000 But I was in Chicago last week for a whole week, and I went to downtown Chicago, and parts of it were unrecognizable.

00:14:09.000 The lockdown was self-inflicted.

00:14:12.000 We did this to ourselves.

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00:15:32.000 The question remains: did we learn anything in this last year?

00:15:35.000 And I don't think we did.

00:15:37.000 We have increased our federal deficit by $5 trillion, basically asking inflation to come our way.

00:15:44.000 The average billionaire is much wealthier than they were before.

00:15:49.000 The billionaire class has increased their net worth by $600 billion.

00:15:58.000 We've lost 40% of small businesses in some cities, as high as 60% in other cities.

00:16:05.000 And what do we have to show for it?

00:16:07.000 The states that locked down do not have better virus hospitalization or death rates than the states that fully and completely opened.

00:16:18.000 It was an unnecessary move, but an intentional move by Democrat governors that wanted a federal bailout.

00:16:24.000 They wanted a federal bailout well before the Chinese coronavirus came through.

00:16:29.000 And finally, they had their big opportunity to get federal dollars appropriated to broken cities like Chicago and Los Angeles.

00:16:39.000 What I never understood about Chicago and their lockdowns was that if it was all about saving lives and Lori Lightfoot trying to have people stay at home, why didn't Lori Lightfoot ever have that big of a concern for the death in the streets of the city of Chicago?

00:16:59.000 There were 792 homicides in Chicago just last year.

00:17:05.000 And yet she's worried whether or not people are wearing masks when they're showering, some of the strictest mask mandates in the entire country.

00:17:14.000 Because it's actually not about saving lives.

00:17:17.000 It was never about saving lives for Lori Lightfoot or J.B. Pritzker or Andrew Cuomo or Bill de Blasio or Gavin Newsom or Eric Garcetti or any of these guys.

00:17:29.000 Instead, it was about making themselves more important, obey us.

00:17:36.000 And what was so stunning to me is how little backlash there was from free thinking people.

00:17:43.000 And this should be a fire alarm and a wake-up call for all of us.

00:17:48.000 If you do not contest and contend for your liberties and freedoms, they will disappear if they have not already disappeared.

00:17:58.000 I just want to make this point.

00:18:00.000 In the last year, I believe America has undergone the greatest one-year change of any time in American history, except maybe World War II.

00:18:13.000 Maybe.

00:18:14.000 In one year, we have radically redefined how we view race.

00:18:18.000 We have decided to go backwards and view race like the KKK did.

00:18:23.000 We have decided to say that the education of our children does not matter.

00:18:29.000 We have changed the way that we value small businesses and private property.

00:18:33.000 We have pastors facing $2.5 million in fines like my friend, Pastor Mike McClure at Calvary Chapel, San Jose, which, by the way, we have a Turning Point USA campus tour stop in San Jose.

00:18:47.000 We're going to Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Nashville, Vegas, then San Jose, tpusa.com slash genfree if you want to check it out.

00:18:56.000 And we're going to have a lot of fun there, and we're going to be talking about a lot of topics.

00:19:00.000 So pastors were criminalized, but abortion factories remained open.

00:19:05.000 So as we are now looking back on the one year of the 15 days to slow the spread, why should we ever trust anything that the people in charge tell us about public health, public policy, the direction of our country, the best way to solve problems?

00:19:21.000 The answer is we shouldn't.

00:19:22.000 And yet the Democrats and the left, they commonly say, we must trust the science.

00:19:27.000 They don't believe that.

00:19:29.000 They're saying trust the scientists that we like.

00:19:33.000 The entire conversation around the Chinese coronavirus should have always been around therapeutics.

00:19:39.000 Zinc, vitamin D, natural sunlight, hydroxychloroquine, and other potential therapeutics that could have helped with the treatment of the virus.

00:19:51.000 Instead, all the focus was around sit at home until we have a vaccine.

00:19:56.000 And guess what?

00:19:56.000 President Trump delivered a vaccine quicker than anyone ever before.

00:20:01.000 Joe Biden says there was not even a vaccine when he came into office, despite him taking a vaccine while Trump was president. 0.96

00:20:08.000 Pathological liar.

00:20:11.000 And in the last year of the year of the 15 days to slow the spread, I saw the wealthiest, most prosperous, most blessed country in the history of the world basically sit back and watch as their country got radically redefined by people that do not share American values and want to restore the American promise.

00:20:36.000 What is the American promise, by the way?

00:20:38.000 The American promise is very simple.

00:20:42.000 The American promise is that if you work hard, play by the rules, your children can live a moderately better life than you, and you are able to see your life materially increase and increase in richness in other ways outside of financial.

00:21:00.000 The American promise is that your politicians are going to tell you the truth, that you can speak your mind, you can worship your creator outside of government mandates or edicts.

00:21:10.000 Everything in the last year has been a targeted campaign at breaking the American promise.

00:21:17.000 And it just so happened in the midst of an election year.

00:21:21.000 As you notice, every time I mention the virus, I call it the Chinese virus, the China virus.

00:21:26.000 In fact, I was the first person to tweet out China virus.

00:21:29.000 And then when Trump had a Twitter, he quote-tweeted my tweet, and then he used it ever since.

00:21:34.000 I'm not saying he got it solely from me, but there is public proof of that. 0.84

00:21:39.000 And yet throughout all of this, I feel as if we have decided not to focus on China's role in all this, where it very well could have been a biological weapon that was formed in the Wuhan laboratory. 0.62

00:21:54.000 And then we make a very dangerous conflation with how we talk about what has happened in the last year. 0.75

00:22:01.000 And the New York Times, worthless paper, has a whole section here, all these pictures of these kids that don't have, that had no school sports, that had no activities.

00:22:15.000 And the story is actually pretty compelling.

00:22:18.000 However, it blames the virus for all of it.

00:22:22.000 It says that COVID disallowed these 17-year-olds from having a soccer season or from having dance class.

00:22:31.000 I said, COVID didn't do any of that.

00:22:33.000 The Chinese coronavirus did not prevent any of that.

00:22:37.000 The lockdowns did.

00:22:39.000 And so we are dealing with two separate threats. 0.78

00:22:41.000 One that was a foreign attack on our country from the Chinese Communist Party, allegedly, and with 99% assuredness, I could tell you that this was probably developed with malevolent intent from the Chinese Communist Party, because that's all they do is lie. 0.98

00:22:58.000 They are treacherous, deceitful people. 0.97

00:23:00.000 And the Chinese Communist Party has internationalist goals and ambitions that are so immoral and evil. 0.95

00:23:11.000 And as I said yesterday, a missed opportunity was forming an alliance, not just an alliance, but a in-your-face, come and get us type coalition with Japan, who the Chinese have always feared the Japanese. 0.62

00:23:27.000 You see, the Chinese have always had a heavy emphasis on history and culture. 0.64

00:23:33.000 The one thing the Chinese Communist Party fears is a strong Japan.

00:23:38.000 We should be involved in activating or reinvigorating the warrior spirit in Japan.

00:23:44.000 Instead, we have a base there, which is great, and we have a phenomenal military in Okinawa.

00:23:49.000 In fact, I just spent some time with someone who served in Okinawa, phenomenal guy.

00:23:53.000 But I think it would be in our best interest to help rebuild the Japanese military.

00:23:56.000 Anyway, that's a side point.

00:23:59.000 And so I'm reading this article in the New York Times.

00:24:02.000 And the way that the story is told is: yes, we are pointing out that we remove the freedom and liberty and the way of life from young people, but we act as if we had no choice.

00:24:13.000 In Florida, it shows that we do have a choice.

00:24:17.000 We did have a choice.

00:24:19.000 In Florida, it shows that an open state not only can have better virus rates, better hospitalization rates, better death rates, lower unemployment rate, higher growth rate, rising property values, but people are happier.

00:24:34.000 And even the New York Times, which is a worthless paper, haha, I found it, says, quote, I'd much rather be in Florida.

00:24:43.000 Other than New York, no big city in the United States has been struggling with more Chinese coronavirus weeks in Miami, but you'd hardly know it if you lived here.

00:24:51.000 Now, remember, cases are not deaths.

00:24:54.000 And you go through this, and it talks very positively about how the American way of life has been restored in Florida.

00:25:03.000 Ron DeSantis says, you can live like a human being here in Florida.

00:25:06.000 You aren't locked down.

00:25:07.000 People aren't miserable.

00:25:09.000 We've been doing that for over a year in Florida, the governor boasted, and he should boast because he trusts his citizens.

00:25:16.000 And so then the New York Times says, more than 32,000 Floridians have died, an unthinkable cost that the state's leaders rarely acknowledge.

00:25:22.000 Hold on a second.

00:25:23.000 How many people have died in California?

00:25:25.000 The death rate is basically the same.

00:25:28.000 So massive lockdowns and the infringement of liberties make no significant increase or impact on the death rate.

00:25:37.000 Yet the New York Times completely misrepresents this.

00:25:40.000 And an untrained eye of someone that gets the New York Times delivered to their home, they'd say, oh, yeah, that's really bad.

00:25:47.000 Maybe it's not as good as you might think.

00:25:49.000 But there is a good quote here.

00:25:51.000 People here, they have been able to work.

00:25:53.000 The kids have been able to go to school.

00:25:55.000 Again, if you think that this virus is a threat to you, then don't leave your home.

00:26:01.000 That's what liberty is all about.

00:26:03.000 I actually know someone that is deathly afraid of flying.

00:26:09.000 They drive everywhere, even cross-country.

00:26:12.000 There's no federal law that says that this person must get on an airplane.

00:26:17.000 They have the liberty to get in the car and to drive, even though driving is much more dangerous than flying, but that's their belief.

00:26:24.000 The point is that if you believe this virus is a threat to you, then stay at home.

00:26:29.000 Don't prevent others from living their life.

00:26:33.000 This used to be something that liberals, an argument they used to use around mass drug legalization and other socially degenerate causes.

00:26:43.000 But when it comes just going to church, owning a business, and living a normal life, that's when they decide to put up a big fight.

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00:27:46.000 A friend of mine sent me this story last night, and it hits close to home, literally.

00:27:51.000 It's right where I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:27:54.000 So hello to all of our friends on AM560, the answer.

00:27:56.000 But this story should be a national story.

00:27:59.000 So there's a veteran who was hired as a baseball coach at Loyola Academy.

00:28:04.000 Loyola Academy is a Catholic school in the North Shore of Chicago, very ruling class, very, very, not just upper to middle class, it's very upper class.

00:28:14.000 And so he was, he's been brought on to be this baseball coach.

00:28:20.000 And he writes this story for redstate.com, and he says he's become the victim of cancel culture for taking his school's teaching to heart.

00:28:31.000 And without going into any specifics of what he said, and I asked around, and they said he didn't say anything wrong, basically he posted on social media that he thought that the country was adopting wrong-headed approaches to the Chinese coronavirus.

00:28:46.000 He also, like Gina Carano, pointed out that Jews in Germany did not protest throughout their persecution, and it led to their eventual death.

00:29:03.000 That's all he said.

00:29:05.000 And so then Loyola found that to be so objectionable that they fired him, a U.S. veteran, Loyola University, Loyola Academy, I'm sorry, Loyola Academy in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:29:20.000 Now, this is not a story that's going to hit the New York Times or national news.

00:29:24.000 This is just a normal story, which is exactly why I want to talk about it.

00:29:30.000 This is a story that people would read and just kind of go on like, oh, he probably said something wrong.

00:29:35.000 No, he didn't.

00:29:36.000 And this baseball coach is you next.

00:29:40.000 One thing you put on social media, one remark that you wish you wouldn't have said, one comment, one text message, your life can be obliterated.

00:29:50.000 We call this cancel culture.

00:29:53.000 It's much more brutal than that.

00:29:54.000 This is life-ending stuff.

00:29:58.000 This is life-altering decisions that are being made.

00:30:02.000 He writes in his article, how could this be?

00:30:04.000 I stood up for what I believe was right.

00:30:06.000 How could that not reflect well on Loyola?

00:30:08.000 Is that not precisely what Loyola told me again and again?

00:30:11.000 He's a graduate of Loyola to become a baseball coach.

00:30:14.000 They noted that I spoke out against the Chinese coronavirus guidelines.

00:30:18.000 No one claims that I do not dutifully follow them or I would not as a coach.

00:30:21.000 That's why he got fired.

00:30:23.000 He lost his job as a graduate of Loyola Academy and a veteran because he posted on social media that he thought that the Chinese coronavirus lockdowns went too far. 0.99

00:30:32.000 Hello, they did.

00:30:35.000 Loyola's case is that they think that not only should they, that he, that they would put kids in danger because he was a baseball coach that thought that the lockdowns went too far.

00:30:48.000 And he literally served in the U.S. military.

00:30:51.000 He said this, quote, had I been given the opportunity to coach at Loyola Academy, I would have followed any and all health and safety guidelines the school prescribed.

00:30:58.000 Even more than that, I would have done my best to build not just a strong baseball program, but solid future leaders.

00:31:04.000 This from Loyola Academy in the suburbs of Chicago goes to show the weakness, the intolerance, and the cancerous rot that has been infecting the education system and our entire country.

00:31:16.000 You have an alumnus of your school who is hired to be the baseball coach, who did nothing wrong, and you decide to fire him before he even comes in for orientation because someone found some Facebook post that they don't like.

00:31:29.000 And shame on you, Loyola Academy.

00:31:31.000 Some of my best friends went to Loyola. 0.99

00:31:33.000 Some great people have graduated from your school, and now you are being run by a bunch of unwise cowards. 0.94

00:31:40.000 This man did nothing wrong. 0.94

00:31:41.000 He wonderfully served our country.

00:31:43.000 You should rehire him immediately.

00:31:45.000 And for anyone listening to this on the live stream, on Facebook or YouTube, and you know anyone involved in Loyola Academy, the only way that this trend gets reversed, everybody, is if we make enough noise and we push back against this.

00:31:57.000 And no, this is not national news.

00:32:00.000 It's just something, it's just a normal story of a local cancellation of a local example.

00:32:05.000 But I'm focusing on it because obviously I know the school and I know a lot of people that go to that school that went to that school, but it's a microcosm of what will happen next.

00:32:14.000 And you know this quote: that when they came for others, I said nothing.

00:32:19.000 When they came for me, there was no one to speak for me.

00:32:22.000 Stand up for this man.

00:32:23.000 His man is, his name is George Kemper.

00:32:27.000 He's an infantryman, infantry mortarman in the 101st Airborne Division, deployed to Syria for most of 2019.

00:32:37.000 He's pursuing a degree in history, hopes to become a history professor.

00:32:41.000 He wanted to be a baseball coach.

00:32:42.000 They hired him.

00:32:43.000 He went to Loyola.

00:32:44.000 They found one post that they didn't like because he challenged the guidelines.

00:32:49.000 And he said, I think they're too aggressive.

00:32:51.000 And they ended his career.

00:32:53.000 Loyola Academy, a Catholic school in the suburbs of Chicago.

00:33:00.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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00:33:16.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - March 16, 2021

365 Days of 15 Days to Slow the Spread

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