00:00:25.000In fact, Vicki Osterweil has written a new book called The Case for Looting, which is now a platformed, respected piece of literature that national public radio takes very seriously, which is now going to be the new anthem of the Democrat Party.
00:00:39.000We go into that and so much more of news stories that you might have missed this week.
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00:02:05.000It was one of the more chaotic and important weeks that I've ever been involved in.
00:02:11.000Opened up the Republican National Convention on Monday.
00:02:14.000Had the opportunity to see the President of the United States close out the Republican National Convention on the White House lawn.
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00:02:25.000I went from Washington, D.C. to Colorado, two stops in Montana, stop in Vegas, four speeches in California on Sunday, and now back in the action to give you guys the news that other people are not giving you.
00:02:36.000And we go a level deeper and give you the philosophical and historical reasons why things are happening in our country.
00:02:43.000So let's start with this story that, quite honestly, the activist media doesn't want to tell you about.
00:02:48.000A black police officer died on Sunday after being shot in the head while responding to a call Saturday night in St. Louis.
00:03:00.000St. Louis Police Department Chief John Hayden indicated that eight St. Louis police officers have, quote, been shot in the line of duty since June 1st.
00:03:10.000The war and police that the left has endorsed wholeheartedly continues to turn more and more deadly as BLM Incorporated becomes the base of the Democrat Party.
00:03:20.000In fact, they've already become the base of the Democrat Party.
00:03:23.000A Trump supporter was killed in Portland because of his support of President Donald Trump by a man who claims to be, quote, 100% Antifa on social media.
00:03:34.000And his social media pages are filled with BLM Incorporated propaganda.
00:03:38.000Now, imagine if someone was killed in cold blood that was an outward Trump supporter if they killed a BLM Inc. supporter.
00:04:11.000Your supporters, your supporters, and they are your supporters indeed, shot a young gentleman who, and killed him, not with paint, but with a bullet.
00:04:30.000And I'll tell you what they're protesting.
00:04:32.000They're protesting when they turn on television or read whatever they may be reading and they see a city like Chicago where 78 people were shot and 13 died or a city like New York where the crime rate has gone through the roof or a city like Portland where the entire city is ablaze all the time and a mayor says we don't want any help from the federal government.
00:04:55.000When these people turn that on and they see that, they say, this is not our country.
00:05:21.000And BLM Incorporated is giving no indication at whatsoever that they plan on becoming any less radical.
00:05:29.000What if I told you that BLM Incorporated, and again, we on the Charlie Kirk show call BLM BLM Incorporated because I never want to be confused with criticizing the true phrase, Black Lives Matter.
00:05:43.000But BLM Inc. does not actually even believe that Black Lives Matter.
00:05:47.000That's why they are quiet when police officers, black police officers, are killed in cold blood, such as Tamaris L. Bohannon.
00:05:55.000What if I told you that BLM Incorporated said, if you kill one of ours, it's time for us to kill one of yours.
00:06:03.000That BLM Incorporated speakers and leaders and activists are calling for a race war in this country.
00:06:45.000You play baseball in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
00:06:48.000Great part of our country, hardworking Midwestern patriots are now seeing their communities and neighborhoods burned down to the ground because BLM Incorporated is deciding to manipulate a narrative where two police officers were trying to arrest someone, accused and indicted for sexual assault, Jacob Blake.
00:07:07.000Jacob Blake evaded arrest despite being asked to stop, being tased, goes and tries to grab a deadly weapon, and the police officers shoot him.
00:07:16.000More and more information is going to come out about this incident.
00:07:19.000However, BLM Incorporated saw this as an opportunity to continue to fan the flames of a race war in our country to try to turn white people against black people, and they seized on this opportunity.
00:07:31.000This is an outright threat of full frontal domestic terrorism in our country.
00:07:48.000They have openly embraced their dangerous brand of radicalism.
00:07:53.000It is now destroying and disintegrating the fabric of who we are as a country.
00:07:58.000And as a byproduct of this, President Trump is now surging in the polls.
00:08:02.000Because of the arson and the terror and because of what we are seeing in the cities of our country, President Trump is now seeing very favorable political trends.
00:08:13.000A black police officer got shot in St. Louis over the weekend.
00:08:16.000Just in the last week, there have been five people shot and killed in Chicago, 32 shot and wounded, 37 total shot and five homicides.
00:08:25.000And in August to date, 60 people shot and killed, 426 people shot and wounded, 486 total shot, and 63 total homicides.
00:08:34.000Yet they only want to talk about an incident in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a criminal under an arrest warrant for sexual assault, under indictment for sexual assault, evades arrest and tries to go grab a deadly weapon.
00:08:47.000And meanwhile, the BLM Incorporated Kenosha leadership is saying if you kill one of ours, it's time for us to go kill one of yours.
00:08:56.000And CNN doesn't care that a Donald Trump supporter was killed in the streets.
00:09:00.000So this is happening in real time, everybody.
00:09:02.000In the last 72 hours post-Republican convention, a Trump supporter was killed for being a Trump supporter in Portland, Oregon.
00:09:08.000A black police officer was killed in St. Louis, a total silence on BLM Incorporated.
00:09:12.000And BLM Incorporated is saying that if you kill one of ours, we killed one of yours, calling for white versus black crime.
00:09:19.000If you let this play out, if you continue to allow this to play out, where does this go?
00:09:25.000And the rioting and the looting, which we're going to get to in a second, talking about the case for looting, what exactly does that mean?
00:09:32.000If you continue to play this out, more and more people are going to go into the streets, like Kyle Rittenhouse, who again, I'm not defending that Kyle Rittenhouse should have been there with an AR-15 walking the streets at 11.30 at night in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when he lived in Antioch, Illinois, about 30 miles away.
00:09:49.000However, I'm also not going to say that he should be guilty of first-degree homicide.
00:09:53.000He was indicted for many different things, one of which was illegally owning a firearm under the age of 18.
00:10:06.000And to try to turn this guy into the poster child of neo-Nazism or white supremacy is a slander campaign, is a character libel campaign on behalf of the activist media.
00:10:18.000And I'm able to have that kind of nuanced approach.
00:10:20.000I'm not going to say that Kyle Rittenhouse did nothing wrong.
00:10:24.000He was owning a firearm under the age of 18, one of the things he was indicted for.
00:10:28.000He probably shouldn't have been walking the streets, but why was he doing that?
00:10:31.000He was doing that because Democrat governor, let me say that again, Democrat governor Tony Evers did not call in the National Guard despite President Trump offering the help via Mark Meadows as chief of staff.
00:10:44.000And when that happens, some people start to think that it's time to play Batman.
00:10:50.000You see, the story of Batman best articulates exactly where this country is going.
00:10:56.000Gotham City was the metaphorical representation of a city run by thugs, criminals, and complete and total lawlessness.
00:11:03.000Let's just talk about the three Batman movies that are of our generation, Batman Begins, Dark Knight, and Dark Knight Rises.
00:11:08.000Those three movies in particular, one of the main characters of the movie is the city of Gotham.
00:11:16.000You see, in certain television shows, such as Breaking Bad, the scenery, the place where the story takes, is actually unfolding, such as Albuquerque, actually becomes a character in the film.
00:11:30.000In Batman, Gotham City actually was part of the story.
00:11:35.000A lot of the characters were always referencing Gotham as if it was a person, as if it was something worth redeeming, something worth saving, as if the journey was not the individual's journey.
00:11:45.000It was a journey to try to bring Gotham through a path of redemption.
00:11:49.000And so we know through Batman Begins, where Bruce Wayne himself goes through that redemption journey, where he himself goes through a hero's journey and embraces his darkest fear and uses that fear for good.
00:12:01.000But really, the story of Batman is what happens when all civil society burns down around you.
00:12:08.000Should someone who engages in vigilante justice rise up and enforce the law?
00:12:15.000The story of Batman is actually very complicated because it doesn't actually answer that question easily.
00:12:19.000On the surface, it's like, oh, yeah, of course he should.
00:12:23.000However, Bruce Wayne, through Batman, through an anonymous way of purveying justice, he's criminalized, nearly dies, has a tough way to go about it, loses his closest friends.
00:12:45.000In fact, the story of Batman, archetypically and metaphorically, really challenges the viewer as to ask the question, what do you do when a city that you love, your home, goes into anarchy and to chaos?
00:13:00.000And this is a constant question in all three Batmans.
00:13:04.000It's actually the one thing that is a continual question that is being asked in Batman Begins, Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises.
00:13:12.000And Gotham goes under different forms of micro-tyranny.
00:13:17.000Remember that term that we've used before on the Charlie Kirk show and chaos.
00:13:21.000And the one that is the most famous, I think, out of all three Batman movies is The Joker, where the Joker is able to have widespread chaos and terror, turning uncertainty within the police force, getting people not to even trust their own neighbor, doing things that are so pathologically sadistic.
00:13:39.000And then, of course, the third Batman movie, where Bain takes over the entire city and holds it hostage, where Bain, and this came out in 2012, was able to almost take over the equivalent of New York City and not just have widespread lawlessness.
00:13:58.000Bane went to the prisons and opened up the prisons and basically said prisons are not relevant.
00:14:05.000Now, I don't want to go too deep into the Batman metaphors or analogies, but I am saying these stories that resonate with hundreds of millions of people worldwide, they resonate for a reason, not just because with cool gadgets and people flying from buildings.
00:14:20.000The Batman story resonates with us because it asks that question of what would you be willing to do if a place that you knew and you grew up in all of a sudden turned into anarchy.
00:14:31.000And the problem with the story is that some people actually think they can then be a superhero.
00:14:36.000When the police are not able to do their job and something turns into Gotham City, you got a problem.
00:14:42.000And that problem is made by Democrat governors and Democrat mayors.
00:14:46.000And it has been a problem for a couple decades.
00:14:47.000And now we are seeing the worst months of riots and arson since the 1960s.
00:14:54.000And if this continues to election day, it will be the worst riots and arson in American history.
00:15:00.000And I'm going to dive deeper into this point in just one second.
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00:16:29.000And just to continue on the Jacob Blake story, which has now dominated our entire news cycle, where Drew Brees, who used to be an American patriot, who's now a BLM Incorporated pandering coward, said he's going to put Jacob Blake's name on his jersey or on his helmet.
00:16:44.000Well, here's some facts: Blake is accused in the criminal complaint, which was obtained by the Post, of breaking into the home of a woman he knew and sexually assaulting her.
00:16:54.000The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said, I want my stuff.
00:17:04.000I'm using a PG word, the record states.
00:17:08.000She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it, and said, quote, smells like you've been with other men, the criminal complaint alleges.
00:17:17.000The officer who took the statement said she, quote, had very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her, end quote.
00:17:26.000This is who BLM Incorporated is raising up: someone under criminal indictment for sexually assaulting a woman.
00:17:34.000Now everyone's innocent until proven guilty.
00:17:36.000But Drew Brees, this is who you want to put on your helmet?
00:17:40.000Drew Brees will not say something nice about our country anymore.
00:17:43.000Drew Brees once tried to via Twitter, and then he ended up being a spineless coward.
00:17:49.000Drew Brees was going to actually stand up for what was right and good, but Drew Brees cares much more about his tens of millions of dollars.
00:17:56.000Meanwhile, people like Herschel Walker, who we have coming up on our podcast on Wednesday, has been taking a definitive stand against BLM Incorporated and has a backbone, unlike Drew Brees.
00:18:07.000Drew Brees is happy to have the name of a criminal on the back of his jersey.
00:18:14.000And so, in response to the rioting and the looting, I want to replay a tape from Don Lemon last week.
00:18:19.000Suddenly, the Democrats have come into focus, caring about the rioting and the looting and the terror happening in our country.
00:18:26.000As Ernest Hemingway used to say, and we've used this expression a lot here on the Charlie Kirk show, things happen gradually than suddenly.
00:18:33.000A month and a half ago, I predicted that there was going to be a Trump surge.
00:18:38.000Many people thought that we on the Charlie Kirk show were being too bullish.
00:18:41.000I went on the record on Ben Shapiro's radio show with Michael Knowles hosting, saying, Donald Trump's about to get within striking distance in six weeks or less.
00:18:48.000By the end of August, early September, this is going to be Trump's race to lose.
00:18:53.000A lot of people thought we were way ahead of our skis and we were wishful thinking, but that's exactly where the race is right now.
00:18:59.000It is a statistical tie between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
00:19:03.000Now, mind you, as these trends have been continuing, there's a reason for it.
00:19:08.000I grew up in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, and the number one, two, three, four, five issue is not the virus right now.
00:19:14.000It is the riots, looting, and arson amongst swing voters.
00:19:18.000And almost like a wake-up call to the entire media intelligentsia, which is the communications arm of the Democrat Party and the Joe Biden campaign, Don Lemon, who's a Marxist, said on his show in a conversation with Chris Cuomo, almost as a wake-up call to the entire left wing: hey, Democrats, you guys are getting something wrong and you're missing something.
00:19:40.000Not because innocent black lives are being slaughtered in the streets, not because businesses are being burned down, not because black-owned livelihoods are disappearing.
00:19:50.000No, it's because it's showing up in the polling.
00:19:56.000But before I do, just remember this was last week as Don Lemon was trying to raise the alarm, put up the red flag to Democrats, say, hey, guys, there's about to be some polling you're not going to like because you have taken the wrong stance on the riot issue.
00:20:56.000He's got to come out and talk about it.
00:20:58.000He's got to do a speech like Barack Obama did about race.
00:21:01.000He's got to come out and tell people that he is going to deal with the issue of police reform in this country and that what's happening now is happening under Donald Trump's watch and on Donald Trump's watch.
00:21:15.000And when he is the president, Kamala Harris is the vice president, then they will take care of this problem.
00:21:31.000It is the only thing, it is the only thing right now that is sticking.
00:21:38.000And the Democrats tonight stuck with that, right?
00:21:42.000And they also stuck with the theme that you said, the coronavirus.
00:21:47.000You got coronavirus and you have Kenosha.
00:21:50.000So now Joe Biden got the wake-up call and Joe Biden's team got the wake-up call from Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo.
00:21:56.000And this all of a sudden became the dominating news story the last couple of days.
00:21:59.000Don Lemon was the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:22:01.000We've been trying to have a conversation around riots and looting and arson for months now.
00:22:06.000And in a very unusual, very ironic way, BLM Incorporated, which in early June became the nemesis of President Trump's reelection campaign, which became very difficult for Republicans to wrestle with, because BLM Incorporated actually was given power and was given credibility.
00:22:30.000They saw that they wanted to start a race war in this country.
00:22:32.000They saw that they wanted to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family.
00:22:36.000And instead of BLM Incorporated building a sustainable political movement, which very well could have won 100 seats in Congress and had a 60 to 70 percent approval rating, BLM Incorporated might actually now win the president four more years.
00:22:52.000BLM Incorporated might be the reason as to why Republicans keep the Senate and might make record gains in the House.
00:22:59.000Joe Biden comes out at the insistence of his handlers.
00:23:03.000I don't really know what Joe Biden traveling around the country looks like.
00:23:07.000But Joe Biden gave a speech where he was trying to blame the arson and the terrorism and the crime on Donald Trump.
00:23:14.000Now, I don't like doing the I told you so thing, but we did call this before anybody else last Tuesday evening when I said Joe Biden is going to come out and blame the riots and the arson on Donald Trump.
00:23:25.000The moment I saw Don Lemon say what he said, I said, Joe Biden's going to come out and deflect and do the Orwellian gaslighting projection.
00:23:35.000We're going to talk more about what gaslighting means later in this week.
00:23:37.000We have a whole podcast coming out on that because it's a very important term that everybody understands, where Joe Biden is going to completely blame Donald Trump for something he and his party is responsible for.
00:23:47.000Here's Joe Biden saying that it's really Donald Trump's fault that this is all happening.
00:24:14.000And yes, we did it with Democratic mayors in most of the major cities in this country.
00:24:21.000The murder right now is up 26% across the nation this year under Donald Trump.
00:24:28.000Do you really feel safer under Donald Trump?
00:24:30.000Now, in the same press conference, I have to play this tape.
00:24:33.000If you can understand what Joe Biden is saying here, email me and you will win many, many signed copies of the New York Times bestseller of the MAGA doctrine.
00:24:42.000This is a little bit of a tangent and a diversion of what we're talking about today, but can you understand what Joe Biden is saying here?
00:24:59.000It's just, I mean, you think about it.
00:25:02.000More lives this year than any other year for the past hundred years.
00:25:07.000So the Joe Biden speaking to her, not exactly going well.
00:25:12.000And here's the one unintended consequence of BLM Incorporated.
00:25:16.000This goes back to one of our guiding theses here on the Charlie Kirk show that the two political parties in America actually operate much more like sports teams, team right and team left.
00:25:27.000So if you're a huge New York Giants fan, or if you're a big Ohio State Buckeyes fan, when you are cheering your team, you're not exactly impartial.
00:25:40.000For football fans out there, this is something you can really resonate with.
00:25:42.000You always want holding to be called on the other team, but if your own team holds and you score a touchdown, you kind of just easily kind of cast it aside.
00:25:50.000When there's the instant replay and it's kind of unclear whether or not the right foot was in the back of the end zone, but you know it might benefit your team, you really hope you still get that call.
00:25:59.000So in sports and athletics, objectivity and almost that team mindset sets in, and that's perfectly fine.
00:26:10.000The same thing happens in politics, where you put on the jersey of your team and you're cheering for your team no matter what.
00:26:15.000And so because of that, there are certain coalitions that in June, Team Democrat and Team Republican basically were forced to support.
00:26:26.000Team Democrat decided to become the anti-police party.
00:26:29.000Team Republican was the pro-police party.
00:26:32.000And it's not that Republicans were ever not the pro-police party.
00:26:35.000It's actually that Democrats actually always used to win the police votes.
00:26:38.000And because of that, the Democrats have actually decided that they no longer want to be the police party.
00:26:43.000Republicans fell backwards into being the pro-police party.
00:26:46.000Now, the Democrats were happy to see this because in early June, there was widespread condemnation of police, mostly because of the videos that came out from Derek Chauvin putting his knee on George Floyd, resulting in the death of George Floyd.
00:26:58.000And so the Democrats were really happy to see Republicans embrace law and order, embrace law enforcement, and embrace police officers.
00:27:07.000However, as the riots, the looting, and the terrorism continued, the Democrats slowly, and very slowly, I have to say, this was not sudden.
00:27:17.000In fact, I think they were far too focused on lockdowns and masks.
00:27:22.000And the Democrats did not realize that there is real suffering and terror and safety concerns happening all across the industrial Midwest.
00:27:29.000That when decent, reasonable swing voters, especially in the suburbs in the Midwest, started to be filled with fear, which is understandable when BLM Incorporated has a terror campaign all across the Midwest, they retreat quickly to the party that is known as the pro-police party.
00:27:47.000So almost as a pendulum, unintentionally, it's not that the Republicans designed this.
00:27:52.000It was an unintentional stroke of political luck where the crisis that happened with decent and reasonable Americans, as soon as they said, we want more safety, they looked around, they said, wait, who runs the police party again?
00:28:08.000And this is exactly why we have seen Donald Trump have a double-digit boost since mid-July, something that political prognosticators and pundits thought to be nearly impossible.
00:28:19.000Where this race stands today defies the laws of political gravity.
00:28:25.000Not for us, because we actually track these trends.
00:28:30.000We at Students for Trump at Turning Point Action actually knock on thousands and thousands of doors.
00:28:37.000We get hundreds of thousands of points of contact throughout all of our social media channels every single week and millions every single month.
00:28:44.000And we get thousands of emails from all of you at freedom at charliekirk.com, which is exactly why in the top battleground polls, general election, Trump versus Biden, on the 12th of August to the 15th of August, an ABC News Washington Post poll had Joe Biden up 10 points.
00:29:06.000Fast forward to today, as you are hearing this podcast, an Emerson poll has Joe Biden up two points.
00:29:16.000It happened that quickly within the margin of error.
00:29:20.000And we all know that there are silent Trump supporters.
00:29:22.000We all know that there is a silent majority out there.
00:29:24.000If the polls are in striking distance, it's really Trump up two or three.
00:29:29.000This is why there was a shock poll in the last couple days from Trafalgar with 1,048 likely voters, a bigger sample size than the other polls that preceded it, that showed President Donald Trump up two points in Michigan.
00:29:43.000Michigan that had President Donald Trump down 15 points in July.
00:29:50.000So you could probably say, I don't believe the polls, and that's fine, but you can't dismiss the entire trend of a poll.
00:30:00.000That's why I love realclearpolitics.com.
00:30:02.000My friend Tom Bevin does a great job of running this website.
00:30:05.000It's one of the few independent websites left that actually just aggregate news, don't put forth an opinion, and just put forth the data that you can draw your own conclusions for.
00:30:15.000Tom Bevin deserves a lot of credit, and I hope to have him as a guest on our podcast very soon.
00:30:19.000He's a very fair analyzer of the news and a very smart person, very ethical.
00:30:24.000I think very highly realclearpolitics.com.
00:30:27.000People ask, where can I get polls and trends and things I trust?
00:30:30.000Realclearpolitics.com does a great job.
00:30:32.000And so when you look at these moving averages and you put them all together, it's because the Democrats decided to be completely distanced from any sort of law enforcement or police support at all.
00:30:47.000And so then you go back to Thursday evening.
00:30:50.000So on Thursday evening, as the president was wrapping up his speech, I turned to my right and looked over my shoulder, and I started to hear more and more noise.
00:31:04.000The president was giving his last couple remarks.
00:31:10.000I know this noise because I have confronted these people for the last seven years, ever since I've started speaking on college campuses in the earliest days at Turning Point USA.
00:31:21.000And this is the noise of Marxist terrorists.
00:31:26.000This is the noise of people that store me out of a restaurant with the great Candace Owens in Philadelphia.
00:31:31.000This is the noise of the people that try to prevent me from speaking at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Brown University, University of Georgia, University of Texas Austin, Texas State University, DePaul University.
00:31:43.000Anywhere I speak that is major, that has a significant student population, I know this noise.
00:31:49.000It was the trumpets, it was the rage, it was the screaming, it was the shrieking.
00:32:04.000The activist media would love to see nothing more than an ambush.
00:32:11.000This is a political ambush that was set up on the streets of Washington, D.C., where you had 2,500 or so of the most important Republicans in the D.C. metro area and all across the country, donors, radio show hosts, pastors, senators, congressmen, cabinet secretaries, former office holders, all having to leave the White House grounds.
00:32:35.000And if you know the geography of the White House, you can envision it with me, through the east entrance where 4,000-plus BLM Inc. terrorists were waiting for them.
00:32:47.000Now, thankfully, I know the White House grounds very well.
00:32:52.000I have had the opportunity to meet with the president on many occasions.
00:32:57.000So, with the people that I was traveling with, including my girlfriend and their chief operational officer at Turning Point USA, Tyler Boyer, and some of our top supporters, I was able to find another entrance and avoid the BLM incorporated terrorists.
00:33:11.000If I went out there, those terrorists, it wouldn't end well.
00:33:15.000Now, it still took me a couple hours to leave the grounds because I had to go all the way west to go all the way north to avoid the vigilantes, the left-wing vigilantes, that were hunting down Republicans in the street.
00:33:26.000But what ended up happening, Senator Rand Paul got assaulted, pastors got chased through the streets, people got smacked across the face, spit on, harassed.
00:33:34.000Now, I want you to imagine for a second, here's a thought exercise for you.
00:33:38.000I want you to imagine if 4,000 Trump supporters with masks, signs, weapons, were waiting outside of the Obama White House after an event that President Barack Obama hosted when Democrat senators, Democrat donors were there.
00:33:59.000How do you think the media would react?
00:34:00.000They would treat it as Charlottesville 2.0.
00:34:04.000They would say that President Donald Trump has brought chaos and anarchy to the streets, that President Donald Trump is to blame for his supporters assaulting Democrat senators and Congresspeople and people like myself that might not have even been within a thousand miles would be forced to condemn and forced to repudiate the violent mob outside of the White House.
00:34:27.000However, this happened just a couple of days ago, and the activist media didn't cover it.
00:34:32.000The way that the activist media covered Senator Rand Paul being assaulted was this.
00:34:37.000Senator Rand Paul says an angry mob of protesters attacked him, even though there's a video.
00:34:42.000It's just this little slight towards freedom-loving conservatives is so unbelievably blatant.
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00:36:50.000Donna Hilton kidnapped the man, tortured him, raped him, held him hostage, and then murdered him.
00:36:58.000A kidnapper, a rapist, and a murderer spoke at the Democrat convention.
00:37:03.000You probably didn't hear about that from your activist media daily news rundown.
00:37:08.000They hailed her as an example of a civil rights activist, a murderer.
00:37:12.000And this shouldn't surprise anyone because we know exactly who is behind the Democrat Party.
00:37:17.000For us and the Charlie Kirk Show, we have been doing our best to factually warn the entire country that if you give power to the Democrat Party, you are giving power to a party that platforms rapists, kidnappers, and murderers by the name of Donna Hilton.
00:37:57.000At least 13 members of Joe Biden's campaign staff have made donations to a group that helped Minneapolis terrorists get out of jail on bail, according to a report.
00:38:07.000The staffers posted on Twitter that they contributed money to a group called the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which opposes the practice of making people who are arrested pay money to avoid pretrial imprisonment, Reuters reported.
00:38:18.000Campaign spokesman Andrew Bates told Reuters that Biden himself opposes cash bail, calling it modern-day debtor's prison.
00:38:26.000Following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Freedom Fund announced they raised over $20 million over four days.
00:38:32.000Prior to Floyd's death, the group had only raised $75,000.
00:38:36.000And of course, they had people such as Seth Rogan and others contribute to that fund.
00:38:41.000And by the way, PolitiFact, who's not exactly fair at fact-checking, even came out and said that it is true that campaign staffers for U.S. Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden contributed to a bailout fund for terrorists arrested after the police in custody death of George Floyd.
00:38:59.000Even Snopes confirmed that, not PolitiFact.
00:39:03.000Also remember the person that is one heartbeat away and the shadow candidate behind Joe Biden, the most liberal member of the United States Senate, Senator Kamala Harris.
00:39:11.000In June, Senator Harris, who is of course Biden's running mate, said, quote, everyone beware because the protests are, quote, not going to let up and they should not and we should not.
00:39:55.000So there's Senator Harris supporting the perpetual arson and destruction of our country.
00:40:03.000And so now I was flipping through RealClearPolitics.com over the weekend.
00:40:07.000And I just kind of like reading the other side.
00:40:09.000And again, I do a couple hours of reading every single day and I try to distill it into a program for you guys twice every single day and once on the weekend.
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00:40:49.000There's an NPR article by reporter Natalie Escobar, author Vicki Osterweil, whose book, you might not have heard of this, is called In Defense of Looting, came out on last Tuesday.
00:41:01.000I'm actually probably going to order a copy because I'm so curious how she makes these arguments.
00:41:05.000In fact, I want to walk you through her reasoning on this very carefully.
00:41:09.000Now, of course, NPR goes out of their way to platform her with legitimacy.
00:41:12.000That's where your taxpayer dollars are going.
00:41:14.000And that's when Republicans passed the stimulus bill, 97 to nothing with Democrats.
00:41:31.000$75 million they can do journalism like this to interview people like Vicki Osterweil.
00:41:36.000For parents out there, listening to this, of young children or of teenagers or people in college, if you're paying for your children's education to go to college, they're learning these ideas.
00:41:46.000They're learning this Vicki Osterweil garbage that says in defense of looting.
00:41:54.000This is now what's considered intellectual in the university.
00:41:57.000And NPR perfectly platformed it as if this is a widely accepted and reasonable opinion.
00:42:05.000So you read this article and it was done again by Natalie Escobar.
00:42:10.000The first line by the reporter tells you everything you need to know about her feelings, about the author, Vicki Osterweil's book.
00:42:16.000Quote, in the past months of demonstrations for Black Lives, there's been a lot of handwringing about looting.
00:42:49.000There is nothing overwrought about being concerned and terrified about looting.
00:42:55.000She's already trying to dismiss our concerns about other people stealing our stuff.
00:42:59.000She's apologizing and justifying criminality.
00:43:03.000And so she says this: quote, a new energy of resistance is building across the country.
00:43:07.000Now, as protests and riots continue to grip cities, she argues that looting is a powerful tool to bring up about real lasting change in society.
00:43:16.000The rioters who smash windows and take items from stores, she says, and I'm reading directly here, are engaging in a powerful tactic that questions the justice of, quote, law and order and the distribution of property and wealth in an unequal society.
00:43:29.000So now, first of all, it's really hard to go through the amount of Marxist class warfare throughout all of this, but this is where our taxpayer dollars are going.
00:43:38.000And when you educate your kids, the public school system, and give them to colleges, they learn all this stuff chapter and verse.
00:43:44.000They don't learn about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Aurelius, Cicero, Locke, Burke, Hume, or the great thinkers that built Western society, but they will learn about Vicki Osterweil, who tries to justify looting.
00:43:56.000Do you think that Somalians or Venezuelans would challenge that law and order results in a more just society?
00:44:04.000Elon Omar likes this line of thinking.
00:44:07.000Do you think Elon Omar yearns to go back to Mogadishu in Somalia?
00:44:14.000The reporter continues to interview her, Natalie Escobar, an NPR where your taxpayer dollars are going at National Public Radio.
00:44:21.000And it says, quote, when I use the word looting, I mean the mass ex-pro-preation, it's a tough word to pronounce, of property, mass shoplifting during a moment of upheaval or riot.
00:45:05.000It's actually in the definition or theft, which inherently means taken against somebody's will or to forcibly remove property from another person.
00:45:15.000What's most striking is the author is equating the violence and rioting and looting to an act of war.
00:45:24.000In other words, plunder, meaning you have defeated your enemy and you're entitled to your plunder or your loot.
00:45:31.000This is perfectly consistent with the BLM Incorporated leader in Chicago who said that when they stole all those items and merchandise from black-owned businesses, they were getting their reparations.
00:45:42.000No, you're actually just acting like thugs and criminals and stealing other people's stuff.
00:45:46.000You were stealing stuff from Muhammad Ashik, the immigrant who's been in our country for 42 years, who lost over $700,000 in merchandise of other people's products because you owned a watch repair shop business on Wabash Avenue and his whole life is over.
00:46:01.000That's who you're stealing from, BLM Incorporated and Vicki Osterweil, who is a pro-criminal advocate.
00:46:08.000It's actually really disappointing that I have to break this down right now.
00:46:13.000When I was prepping this podcast and I was going through the thoughts for this show and I was going through the facts and I was rereading this article, I actually grew with sadness for our country.
00:46:25.000I grew in a little bit of a mood of despair.
00:46:31.000And I'm not pessimistic about the future of our country, but the fact that national public radio, which actually used to be somewhat reasonable when I was growing up, I grew up listening to national public radio.
00:46:47.000Would platform somebody like Vicki Osterweil, who, by the way, is a white liberal, who is justifying looting and stealing, which is, of course, not just a violation of our laws, but a violation of the Ten Commandments and a violation of stealing private property, which is multi-thousand-year progress that we made that is so obvious.
00:47:12.000So just take what I'm saying very seriously because this is not just some fringe ideology that's sitting on the shelf.
00:47:17.000This is national public radio and a woman that is writing a book that is basically making the case for stealing other people's stuff, for stealing items in a store, because, oh, yeah, people need it.
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00:49:09.000So this interview continues with Vicki Osterweil, who said this, that looting is a highly racialized word from its very inception in its English language.
00:49:18.000It's taken from Hindi, loot, which means goods or spoils, and it appears in the English colonial officer's handbook.
00:49:27.000She turned looting into something white people describe about widespread crime.
00:49:33.000Pretty sure that people of color don't appreciate it when you steal their stuff either.
00:49:40.000The article continues by saying, often looting is more common among movements that are coming from below.
00:49:45.000It tends to be an attack on business, a commercial space, maybe a government building.
00:49:50.000Taking those things that otherwise would be commodified and controlled and sharing them for free.
00:49:57.000Arguing that there shouldn't be private property.
00:49:59.000Remember, we talked about this many times on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:50:02.000This whole thing can be boiled down to a conversation about human nature and should we have private property or not.
00:50:07.000In fact, I said this on the Mark Levin show before all the riots, looting, and arson, back in February when I was promoting my book, The MAGA Doctrine.
00:50:16.000And I said, what's really going on here is a discussion about private property.
00:50:20.000They want to get rid of private property.
00:50:22.000That's what's really going on here, is a debate on whether people should be able to own property, own things, own stuff.
00:51:00.000It's other people's connection to the material world that they are trying to trade value for value.
00:51:08.000And so the author continues by going to saying, looting gets people what they need for free immediately, which means they are capable of living and reproducing their lives without having to rely on jobs or a wage, which during COVID times is widely unreliable, or particularly in these communities, is often not available or comes at a great risk.
00:51:30.000Most basic tactical power as a political mode of action.
00:51:36.000Now, the fact that Natalie Escobar, the author of this piece at National Public Radio, did not push back at all and platform this book as just a reasonable book.
00:51:48.000When National Public Radio covers anything I ever say, if they were to cover the MAGA doctrine, it would be so combative, so disagreeable, and yet this is where your taxpayer dollars are going.
00:51:59.000The fact Natalie Escobar gave this article credence, gave it credibility, is very troubling about where our country is headed, really is.
00:52:11.000Now, I'm not saying this book should not have been reviewed, but my goodness, Natalie Escobar, the fact that you just verbatim posted what she had to say and platformed it with the preface that you did.
00:52:27.000I'll let you draw your own conclusions to that one.
00:52:30.000So according to her argument, Osterweil here, and by the way, this article is not insignificant.
00:52:35.000National Public Radio is a mainstream publication that is taxpayer funded.
00:52:39.000And this is now going to be an argument that is being made throughout the Democrat Party.
00:52:44.000And this is what they believe, the case for looting.
00:52:47.000And yet most of the activist media does not cover this at all.
00:52:50.000The argument she is making is that if you need something, you should be able to steal something.
00:52:55.000That if you're hungry, go steal a banana.
00:53:54.000The article continues by saying, and it attacks the idea that in order for someone to have a roof over their head and have a meal ticket, they have to work for a boss in order to buy things that people, just like them somewhere else in the world, had to make under the same conditions.
00:54:09.000It points to a way in which that's unjust.
00:54:11.000So right here, right now, Vicki Osterweil, I'd love to have you as a guest on my program.
00:54:17.000I would love to have a conversation where I just ask you questions.
00:56:13.000Stealing somebody else's production, the labor, the patent, the ingenuity, when they make an iPhone and they put it in the store and you can grab it, that is for free.
00:56:27.000I hope you sense and realize the danger of what I'm reading to you in National Public Radio by Natalie Escobar and Vicki Osterweil.
00:56:37.000She continues by saying, human beings are inherently self-interested.
00:56:40.000The very basis of property in the United States is derived through whiteness and through black oppression, through the history of slavery and settler domination of the country.
00:56:51.000Looting strikes at the heart of property and of whiteness and of police.
00:56:54.000It goes to the very root of the way those three things are interconnected.
00:57:00.000Of course, she believes that property and police are racist.
00:57:02.000She believes our entire country is rooted on white supremacy, which is a false, demented lie.
00:57:10.000She also argues that property was only derived through oppression and slavery, wrong.
00:57:14.000The founding fathers never meant private property to be ownership of other human beings.
00:57:19.000It was never a question of if we were going to get rid of slavery as a matter of when.
00:57:23.000That's why in the United States Constitution, it clearly says a 20-year import ban on slaves coming into the United States.
00:57:29.000And Thomas Jefferson, the first day he was able to do so as a third president in 1807, signed an import ban of all new slaves coming into the country.
00:57:37.000Vermont in the year 1777, inspired by the Declaration of Independence, laws of nature and nature's God, abolished slavery in the state of Vermont.
00:57:45.000Many other northeastern states followed suit in the years thereafter.
00:57:49.000George Washington, the Northwest Territories, abolished all slavery in the Northwest Territories.
00:57:54.000Yet she focuses, hyper-focuses, wrongly on also an economic fallacy.
00:58:00.000She's actually saying that slavery makes countries richer.
00:58:12.000Well, it's because the left used to own slaves.
00:58:14.000The Democrat Party is the party of slavery, the KKK, opposing the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment, the Civil Rights Act, black's right to vote, black's right to speak, black family formation, and of course, today is opposing black prosperity and actually wants more black people to be slaughtered in the streets.
00:58:29.000However, the Democrats make this argument a lot that the basis of property and domination came through slavery, that people got richer because of slavery.
00:58:38.000If that's the case, why was the North so abundantly more prosperous than the slave South?
00:58:44.000It's because slavery, which is evil, immoral, and a sin, is not just all of those things.
00:59:21.000So this idea that the American economy was built on slavery was built in the defiance of slavery.
00:59:25.000We got richer as we got rid of slavery.
00:59:28.000Our greatest economic advancements in our country came once we eradicated slavery.
00:59:33.000The Industrial Revolution, the greatest economic boom in American history, happened once we got rid of slavery.
00:59:38.000And the second biggest economic boom post-World War II, 1960 to 1990, thanks to Ronald Reagan and the Republicans, came when we even had more equity in our society thanks to the National Civil Rights Act.
00:59:49.000So this idea that people were benefiting tremendously on the macro because of slavery is just complete and total nonsense.
00:59:55.000And for the slave owners that were doing that, they might have had temporary amounts of wealth and power.
01:00:01.000However, it actually made them so uncompetitive economically and it's immoral and it was a sin.
01:00:07.000And yet she says very clearly here that the idea of property is derived through whiteness and through black oppression.
01:00:14.000How is that possible when the United States didn't technically exist in Vermont and as Vermont is part of the United States and they abolished slavery in year 1777 or the Northwest Territories?
01:00:24.000Please come on my show, Vicki Osterweil.
01:00:26.000I would really enjoy a conversation with you.
01:00:28.000She continues by saying, another trope that's very common is that looters and rioters are not part of the protest.
01:00:34.000This has to do with the history of protesters trying to appear respectable and politically legible as a movement and not wanted to be too frightening or threatening.
01:00:43.000Again, every so often the left will tell you who they are.
01:00:59.000They're all part of the same backwards, malevolent, deceitful, bitter, destructive movement.
01:01:07.000And later, she says it even more directly: quote, it also totally erases the black folks who are at the core of the protests.
01:01:14.000It makes invisible the black people who are rising up and who are initiating the movement, who are at the core at its center, who are doing its most important and valuable organizing and its most dangerous fighting.
01:01:25.000She continues by saying, the most popular understanding of the civil rights movement is that it was successful when it was nonviolent and less successful when it's focused on black power.
01:01:31.000It's a myth that we get taught over and over again from the first moment we learn about the Civil Rights Act.
01:01:36.000By the way, just so you understand, you keep reading this.
01:01:38.000There's no evidence at all when she says this.
01:01:59.000Oh, so if you're insured, it's perfectly fine to go take whatever you want.
01:02:03.000If a store is insured, take anything you need.
01:02:05.000Not as if their insurance rates won't go up.
01:02:07.000It does not disrupt the entire supply chains.
01:02:10.000And what happens if a drugstore is insured and you go and steal all the vitamin C, all of the Advil and the Tylenol, all the necessary drugs for the local community, and it's just insured?
01:02:20.000What if you go to a grocery store and steal all the food and all of a sudden the 85-year-old that's at home is not able to access the food?
01:02:40.000Can you believe here on the Charlie Kirk show, I have to make a case against theft?
01:02:44.000This is Joe Biden's Democrat Party, everybody, that I now have to make a case against theft, against stealing.
01:02:50.000If this does not fire you up to go vote for Donald Trump, if this does not make you raging angry, then I have to do an extended program right now about how looting, rioting, arson, and terrorism is being platformed at the highest level.
01:03:06.000I do not know what will motivate you or animate you.
01:03:09.000The only good question of the entire interview, Natalie Escobar asked, was, quote, during recent riots, a recent sentiment I heard a lot was that looters in cities like Minneapolis were hurting their own cause by destroying small businesses in their own neighborhoods.
01:03:21.000Store owners owned by immigrants and people of color.
01:03:24.000What would you say to people who make that argument?
01:03:26.000Her answer is complete gibberish because there is not a good answer.
01:03:31.000She says, but looters and rioters don't attack private homes.
01:03:34.000Well, first of all, yes, they do all the time.
01:03:37.000Secondly, to say you're attacking your own community is to say rioters.
01:03:44.000They might have worked in those shops.
01:03:46.000They might have shopped and followed, been followed around by security guards by the owner.
01:03:49.000You know, one of the causes of the LA riots was a Korean small business owner murdering 15-year-old Latasha Harlins, who had come in to buy orange juice.
01:03:57.000And that was a family-owned, immigrant-owned business where anti-blackness and white supremacist violence was perpetuated.
01:04:03.000So she blames the Koreans again, but this time for white supremacy.
01:04:22.000When it comes to small businesses, family-owned businesses or locally owned businesses, they're no more likely to provide worker protections.
01:04:27.000They're no more likely to have provide good stuff for the community than big business.
01:04:31.000It's actually a Republican myth that has, over the last 20 years, really crawled even into leftist discourse that small business owner must be respected, that a small business owner creates jobs and is part of the community.
01:04:43.000But that's actually a right-wing myth.
01:04:47.000So she says that small business owners creating jobs, that small business owners that must be respected, these are all right-wing myths.
01:04:55.000Over 600 black businesses were burned down in Chicago, rioted or looted in Chicago or Minneapolis in just the last couple months.
01:05:02.000I'd love to have Vicki Osterweiler and her white liberal book deal that she signed, where she gets to sign, sell $21 books on Amazon.com.
01:05:11.000Go tell me what happens if I went and just stole every single copy of the case for looting, and all of a sudden you get an invoice back from your publisher saying that you owe your $100,000 for your advance, Vicki Osterweil.
01:05:24.000What happens if we come and steal all your stuff and this rubbish-filled book?
01:05:33.000You understand how immoral this is, what she is saying.
01:05:36.000And your children are learning this, by the way.
01:05:38.000Your children are learning this if they're at university.
01:05:42.000She continues by saying, police say, quote, we support peaceful, nonviolent protesters.
01:05:46.000We're out here to protect them and to protect them from people who are nonviolent.
01:05:49.000That's a police strategy to divide the movement.
01:05:51.000So a nonviolent protest organizer will tell the police their march route.
01:07:10.000But I think I've gone a long way from allowing that to happen.
01:07:15.000The suburbs are protected, especially with the rule changes that I made.
01:07:19.000I took them out of the Obama administration.
01:07:21.000They were going to be made much worse.
01:07:23.000What we're witnessing today is a result of left-wing indoctrination in our nation's schools and universities.
01:07:30.000Many young Americans have been fed lies about America being a wicked nation plagued by racism.
01:07:37.000Indeed, Joe Biden and his party spent their entire convention spreading this hateful and destructive message while refusing to say one word about the violence.
01:07:46.000They didn't even discuss law enforcement, the police.
01:10:20.000We got to get President Trump four more years because if Joe Biden wins, people like Vicki Osterweil are going to run our government and we will have a country that looks like something similar to Somalia.