The Charlie Kirk Show - A Cultural Blitzkrieg and North Dakota's Trans Failure

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00:00:26.000 Hey everybody, there's a cultural blitzkrieg happening in our country right now.

00:00:30.000 And for whatever reason, another Republican governor has refused to listen to their voters and the state legislature and the state Senate when it comes to these transgender bills.

00:00:42.000 We spent our whole episode on this topic and it's very important.

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00:02:28.000 That's why we are here.

00:02:30.000 I am fired up at a lot I want to talk about.

00:02:33.000 And I saw something that really set me off.

00:02:38.000 And I've actually become very in control of my temper the last couple years.

00:02:46.000 I was in North Dakota two days ago, hosted by a phenomenal group of people, people who love their country.

00:02:54.000 We had a sold-out event at the Bell, which is the largest venue in beautiful Bismarck, North Dakota.

00:03:03.000 I was hosted by a group called the North Dakota Conservative Advocates.

00:03:10.000 It's a phenomenal group of people.

00:03:11.000 Scott Hennan, who helps run the radio network in North Dakota, The Flag, was a phenomenal host, and we had a great time.

00:03:22.000 We were also at, we broadcasted our show actually a couple days ago from University of Mary.

00:03:27.000 We had an incredible attendance at the Bell, standing room only, probably the largest political event in Bismarck of the year.

00:03:38.000 For North Dakota, to have nearly a thousand people, I've been told that's a very big deal.

00:03:43.000 We were talking about a lot of different things, and one of the topics that came across was why is it that Republican governors and Republican leaders are not honoring their commitment to their voters?

00:03:58.000 And so I was made aware by some of the activists from the North Dakota conservative advocates that there were a couple bills in front of the North Dakota legislature.

00:04:08.000 I commented on one of them, which was a bill that would not allow the governor of North Dakota to issue a mask mandate.

00:04:17.000 I calmly asked the governor in front of all of the activists, the grassroots of North Dakota, to sign this bill to limit government's emergency powers.

00:04:32.000 It was met with a standing ovation.

00:04:35.000 I did not know that the governor of North Dakota, Governor Doug Bergham, who I've met before, very nice guy, very pleasant.

00:04:46.000 I met him at the Republican National Convention in 2016, I believe, when he was thinking of running for governor.

00:04:54.000 I could be wrong.

00:04:55.000 It might have been this.

00:04:56.000 Anyway, it's irrelevant.

00:04:57.000 I met him a couple years ago.

00:05:00.000 I did not know that there was a bill that was on his desk that was a very simple bill to protect female sports.

00:05:12.000 It's that simple.

00:05:14.000 Saying that if you are a man who all of a sudden has a gender change, you are not allowed to compete in female sports.

00:05:26.000 Well, last evening, late last evening, as soon as I had left the state of North Dakota and our event had ended and the potential for national criticism might have passed, Governor Bergham vetoed that bill.

00:05:43.000 The governor of North Dakota has made a public signal to all of you that he does not believe that women's sports are worthy of protection.

00:05:56.000 Governor Bergham has basically said he does not think men and women exist.

00:06:02.000 It's merely a construct.

00:06:03.000 That's the message he's sending to all of you.

00:06:07.000 And this is a pattern that we are seeing from these corporate Republicans that are vetoing these bills.

00:06:13.000 And let me say something.

00:06:14.000 I'm going to dive into this in great detail because the people of North Dakota, I connected with you on such a personal level in the last couple of days.

00:06:23.000 And I could see your anxiety.

00:06:26.000 I could sense your frustration.

00:06:28.000 And we were able to build a coalition of positive energy to try to take North Dakota in the right direction.

00:06:38.000 And your governor just betrayed you.

00:06:42.000 And he did it right in your eyes.

00:06:45.000 And I feel involved in this because spending a couple days there, I would have commented on this, but of course he waited till we left.

00:06:54.000 Maybe there's no correlation there.

00:06:55.000 But in a state like North Dakota, I refuse to believe that.

00:06:59.000 So Governor Bergam, who, by the way, sold his company to Microsoft and his friends with Bill Gates.

00:07:08.000 Just think about that one.

00:07:11.000 He vetoed this bill because he says, quote, to date, there has not been a single recorded incident of a transgender girl attempting to play in a North Dakota girls' team.

00:07:23.000 Huh.

00:07:25.000 North Dakota today has a level playing field in fairness and girls' sports.

00:07:29.000 And he says he trusts the North Dakota High School Sports Association.

00:07:33.000 So Governor Bergham is basically saying, I trust some sort of app, some bureaucracy to enforce this.

00:07:43.000 Is that the way the rest of the country is going?

00:07:46.000 Well, Governor Bergham is probably owned by a cartel of corporations.

00:07:52.000 He just welcomed Amazon into Fargo.

00:07:54.000 And I went on Scott Hennon's radio show in North Dakota, and I said that if they welcome Amazon into their state, they are going to control public policy decisions, and this is one example of that.

00:08:05.000 For example, Governor Bergham says, Well, there's no examples of this, right?

00:08:10.000 Well, just neighboring North Dakota is the Big Sky Conference.

00:08:16.000 Did you know that the female athlete of the week from the Big Sky Conference not too long ago was a man who thought he was a woman? 0.97

00:08:26.000 Just change gender.

00:08:30.000 This person is named June Eastwood, formerly known as Jonathan Eastwood, transitioned and starts to beat all of these women in women's sports.

00:08:44.000 And then, of course, was named the Big Sky Conference Athlete of the Week.

00:08:49.000 So, Governor Bergham obviously is not aware that there are opportunistic men that have gender dysphoria and mental issues that are changing their gender to go destroy women's sports.

00:09:02.000 He does not believe women are necessary of protecting.

00:09:07.000 He doesn't believe that they are worthy of protection.

00:09:12.000 Instead, Governor Bergham believes that he wants to pander to the corporate class.

00:09:15.000 And here's the excuse he gave.

00:09:18.000 What a just gross statement, quite honestly.

00:09:21.000 This bill would unnecessarily inject the state into a local issue by creating a ban with a myriad of unforeseen consequences.

00:09:30.000 He's talking like a corporate libertarian.

00:09:33.000 You see, we as conservatives believe in the natural law, the laws of nature and nature is God, as the Declaration of Independence clearly says.

00:09:40.000 If the state is good for anything, it's good for protecting the chemical castration of children, Governor Asa Hutchinson, or enforcing biological gender standards for women and for men.

00:09:54.000 But there's something a lot deeper going on here that everyone is missing.

00:09:58.000 The state legislatures keep on putting these bills on these governors' desks.

00:10:03.000 You see, the state legislatures are the closest to their voters.

00:10:07.000 These state legislatures aren't just cooking these things up and they're failing in committee.

00:10:13.000 They are enthusiastically getting voted on.

00:10:16.000 In fact, in the North Dakota state legislature house, this passed 69 to 25 in the House of Representatives, in the House of Representatives, or the state house, I should say, House Bill 1298, North Dakota.

00:10:31.000 So the state legislative house, they're listening to their constituents.

00:10:37.000 They're responding to them.

00:10:38.000 The state senate passed it 27 to 20.

00:10:42.000 But Governor Bergham is deciding that the 69 members of the House who represent their voters and the 27 members of the Senate, that he knows better than them.

00:10:55.000 Governor Bergham is just the latest in this trend of corporate Republicans who are perfectly fine witnessing and overseeing the moral decline of America as long as they keep on getting invited to cocktail parties with Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates.

00:11:12.000 Governor Bergham is not a Republican.

00:11:14.000 Asa Hutchinson is not a Republican.

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00:12:52.000 So the governor of North Dakota, Doug Bergnam, vetoed a bill that was enthusiastically passed by the North Dakota House and the North Dakota Senate.

00:13:03.000 The ACLU, which is an anti-American organization within our own country, refuses to hold the Biden administration accountable, says, quote, it was thrilled with Governor Bergham's decision to veto this bill.

00:13:16.000 If the ACLU is ever thrilled with what you've done when it comes to these issues, you're probably not a Republican.

00:13:24.000 So the ACLU says, quote, nobody wins when politicians try to meddle in people's lives like this.

00:13:30.000 Nobody wins when we try to codify discrimination like this.

00:13:33.000 So I have a proposition.

00:13:35.000 We should remove the age requirement for high school sports. 0.99

00:13:38.000 We should allow 35-year-old people to go play high school sports. 0.96

00:13:43.000 If there is no prerequisite to have standards for athletic competition, we should allow people that used to be varsity athletes that want to go relive their glory days to go play high school football, to go play high school basketball, to be able to go back into swim meets.

00:13:59.000 If there is this idea of standards, then why have any standards at all whatsoever?

00:14:04.000 For example, the organization is the North Dakota High School Association.

00:14:08.000 Who's to say what a high schooler is?

00:14:10.000 How dare you?

00:14:10.000 It's my truth.

00:14:12.000 Age is just a paradigm.

00:14:14.000 Age is just a number.

00:14:15.000 We create time.

00:14:17.000 Time is not anything that is actually real.

00:14:19.000 Time is of the mystics.

00:14:22.000 Just because I've been on this planet longer doesn't mean that I should be disenfranchised from reliving my college basketball days.

00:14:30.000 What's the difference?

00:14:31.000 But Governor Bergham doesn't believe that any sort of standards are necessary.

00:14:35.000 And so Governor Bergham's rationale is: well, there's no one here yet.

00:14:37.000 Well, first of all, there will be.

00:14:40.000 And so when it comes, I want all of you in North Dakota and across the country to remember when female sports in North Dakota is destroyed, remember this moment when the ACLU gives a standing ovation to Governor Bergham because he's like, well, we don't want to inject the state into these form of standards.

00:14:58.000 Now, here's the, I shouldn't have to do this part of the segment, but let me just do this part of the segment for the slower people that work in Governor Bergham's office.

00:15:11.000 This is a very, I know this is a very obvious thing, but let me just go through this.

00:15:16.000 Women, again, this is a study, study done by the Journal of Applied Psychophysiology.

00:15:21.000 Did you know that women exhibit about 40% less upper body strength and 33% less lower body strength than men?

00:15:27.000 I know this is a shocking thing for most people.

00:15:30.000 A 2006 study in the same journal revealed that men had stronger grips than women.

00:15:35.000 In general, men are also faster than women. 0.80

00:15:37.000 The fastest woman in the world, Florence Griffith Griffith Jr., ran the 100-meter dash in 10.49 seconds.

00:15:44.000 And in 1988, that record remains unbroken.

00:15:47.000 Yet her fastest time wouldn't have even qualified her for the men's 2016 Olympic competition.

00:15:51.000 I know this is a shocking thing for people, but men are faster and stronger and have more muscle mass than women.

00:15:57.000 Literally have the numbers to support that.

00:16:01.000 And so should there be standards for anything?

00:16:04.000 And how are we able to find these standards?

00:16:07.000 Well, this idea and this excuse that we're getting from these Republican governors like Governor Bergham and Asa Hutchinson, who's just completely worthless, by the way, Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas, is, well, we don't like using state power for this stuff.

00:16:22.000 We don't want to abuse our power.

00:16:24.000 What if I told you you not clarifying standards is an abuse of power?

00:16:32.000 What if I told you doing nothing when something evil is occurring is an abuse of power?

00:16:39.000 Your moral indifference to this issue is you abusing the power that the voters gave you.

00:16:48.000 But this is not even about sports, actually.

00:16:51.000 It's something a lot bigger.

00:16:52.000 There's a reason why the state legislative houses keep putting these bills on these governors' desks.

00:16:58.000 It's because they actually have to go home and walk through the grocery stores and walk through the communities that they serve where these governors are escorted in private chauffeured vehicles and they have no idea the wants, needs, and concerns of the states they actually represent.

00:17:14.000 Becoming a governor in America seems as if it's just basically being a spokesperson for the United States Chamber of Commerce.

00:17:22.000 All they care about is job development.

00:17:23.000 All they care about is business.

00:17:24.000 And there's a really interesting moment here where you have a collision course between the state legislative houses and the governor's mansions.

00:17:31.000 What's going on here?

00:17:32.000 What's going on is the state legislative and state senate houses, houses of power, they're the ones that listen to their voters because if they don't, they're not going to be there any longer.

00:17:42.000 Where these governors, they listen to their donors.

00:17:45.000 These governors, like Governor Bergham, is in a love affair with Amazon, who just built a massive facility in Fargo, North Dakota.

00:17:53.000 And Governor Bergham, the worst thing that could happen to him is upsetting Bill Gates and the tech companies.

00:18:01.000 What is this really about?

00:18:02.000 And why are our leaders so afraid?

00:18:04.000 Who's in charge?

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00:19:02.000 It'd be one thing if the state legislatures weren't moving on these issues.

00:19:08.000 It'd be one thing if the state legislatures are like, we don't want to deal with it. 1.00

00:19:12.000 But when you have a singular governor in the state like Arkansas and a state like North Dakota and even in Arizona, I don't understand why Governor Ducey vetoed a bill saying parents should have a right to be able to know what their children are learning in public schools when it comes to sexuality and gender fluidity and this transgender nonsense that is spreading our country. 0.99

00:19:35.000 He vetoed that bill, not sure why, is that the people are with us. 1.00

00:19:40.000 You see, the corporate boardrooms have run the Republican Party for years.

00:19:46.000 And Governor Bergham and Governor Hutchinson are great examples of that.

00:19:51.000 But now the kitchen table is going to run the Republican Party.

00:19:57.000 And these governors that have been appointed and have been spokespeople for the United States Chamber of Commerce that are creatures of these tech companies, they're kind of confused why when they run to the hills in an act of absolute cowardice that they're not applauded for that.

00:20:14.000 So here's why.

00:20:15.000 None of this is actually about sports.

00:20:17.000 I could go through story after story.

00:20:19.000 There's an MMA story.

00:20:21.000 There's a Connecticut high school story here for you on the live stream.

00:20:24.000 You look, here's a man that's literally like 50 yards ahead of all the competition in a women's track event.

00:20:30.000 That's a man who all of a sudden decided to think he was a woman.

00:20:34.000 Actually, do we have a clip from here?

00:20:35.000 Laura Ingram had that clip.

00:20:36.000 I'll let Laura Ingram tell this best play tape.

00:20:39.000 What happened to you that made you feel like you were being treated unfairly?

00:20:44.000 I lost out on countless opportunities to get placements, get titles, and qualify for further meets to display my talents to college coaches.

00:20:52.000 Did you actually lose competitions to meets to male athletes, biological males?

00:20:58.000 Every single meet that I've competed against them.

00:21:00.000 So is that four total or more?

00:21:02.000 Countless times.

00:21:03.000 Oh, countless times.

00:21:04.000 Well, we probably could count, but we will say it's a lot.

00:21:06.000 Alana.

00:21:07.000 Got it.

00:21:08.000 I remember when that segment actually happened.

00:21:09.000 I was on Laura's show the next evening.

00:21:12.000 And so every time the biological man who thought he was a woman in Connecticut competed against these young ladies, he won.

00:21:20.000 But this is not about sports.

00:21:21.000 It's obvious the sports issue.

00:21:24.000 It would just take a little bit of courage.

00:21:25.000 Here's what it's about.

00:21:27.000 The reason why the state legislatures are passing these bills, it's because decent Americans see their beloved country, they see it being ruled by an oligarchy of nihilists who want to impose a corrosive agenda on your way of life.

00:21:47.000 Put simply, the American people want leaders that will act as bodyguards as a measure of defense against the cultural blitzkrieg that we're living through right now.

00:21:59.000 We are living through a shock and all campaign where they are trying to make you submit, run into your bunker, and hope you do not get taken out in the collateral damage.

00:22:11.000 It's suffocating our way of life.

00:22:14.000 But decent Americans, like the amazing people in North Dakota or where I was in Ohio, they turn to me because they still remember a time when Americans have something different in our spirit and they say, Charlie, we want to do something about this.

00:22:31.000 We're not happy just to be called all these names and have to sit down and take it.

00:22:36.000 We're Americans.

00:22:38.000 What do we do next?

00:22:41.000 And Americans across the country, the people, the kitchen tables, not the corporate boardrooms, they know that an American value is that how do you deal with an attack?

00:22:51.000 You counterattack.

00:22:53.000 You fortify your forces and you must have a proportional response.

00:22:58.000 And so the North Dakota state legislature says, okay, you're going to veto all these bills when it comes to men and women competition. 0.62

00:23:06.000 We're going to play offense.

00:23:08.000 But the governor of North Dakota and the governor of Arkansas, they're perfectly fine looking at America as a colony, not as a country.

00:23:17.000 So when there is a man who decides to go compete in women's sports in North Dakota, there could have been an opportunity to protect women's sports forever.

00:23:26.000 But it's not just about sports.

00:23:28.000 It's about America, the promise, America, the gift, slipping out of the fingers of people who have done everything they've been told to do.

00:23:39.000 Out of people that go to church and raise their families.

00:23:41.000 And they say, you know what?

00:23:43.000 Our way of life is now being strangled out.

00:23:46.000 So, what can we do?

00:23:47.000 Well, the founding fathers gave us a mechanism to do something about this.

00:23:51.000 The founding fathers gave us a representative, representative system of government.

00:23:56.000 I ask this to young people all the time.

00:23:57.000 I say, what was the American Revolution about?

00:24:00.000 It was about consent.

00:24:03.000 So, if you want something done, you show up and you vote.

00:24:06.000 Well, the North Dakota citizens have done that.

00:24:09.000 Arkansas citizens have done that.

00:24:11.000 The Kansas citizens have done that.

00:24:12.000 And by the way, this North Dakota governor is not alone.

00:24:15.000 The governor of Kansas, a Democrat, she's unlikely to sign the Fairness in Women's Sports Act as well because she says it's anti-progressive or really regressive legislation.

00:24:28.000 This word progressive, I find to be, I just chuckle when I see that.

00:24:32.000 So, Governor Laura Kelly, who's a Democrat of Kansas, who never should have been elected governor of Kansas.

00:24:38.000 So, let me get this straight.

00:24:40.000 If we decriminalize or legalize pedophilia, would you sign that into law because it's progressive?

00:24:45.000 Is all progress good?

00:24:48.000 Should we make an idol out of progress? 0.98

00:24:50.000 Some progress is helpful, like abolishing abortion. 0.93

00:24:53.000 Some progress is really bad.

00:24:55.000 For example, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they now legally recognize three men being fathers of one child. 0.93

00:25:05.000 Progress, right? 0.98

00:25:06.000 Who cares? 1.00

00:25:07.000 We're just going to oversee the moral decline of the country as long as we have Amazon in our state. 0.79

00:25:12.000 That's what's important.

00:25:13.000 What's important is all this plastic from China and destroying our small businesses, but at least, hey, I got to buy an extra home in Aspen, is what the ruling class says. 0.95

00:25:24.000 And again, I want to just reinforce this.

00:25:28.000 Here's the positive of this: the people are not going to tolerate this anymore.

00:25:34.000 Does Governor Bergham realize how replaceable he is?

00:25:38.000 Does A.J. Hudson realize how replaceable he is?

00:25:42.000 You don't have some sort of special skill set.

00:25:44.000 In fact, you've been an awful governor of North Dakota. 0.98

00:25:46.000 Terrible. 0.79

00:25:47.000 Well, find somebody else.

00:25:49.000 You know, it's really funny.

00:25:51.000 Donald Trump changed the Republican Party forever because Donald Trump was a bodyguard.

00:25:55.000 He protected us.

00:25:57.000 Donald Trump listened to his voters and he never betrayed a promise of his voters, ever.

00:26:03.000 He has more integrity than every single one of these leaders combined.

00:26:07.000 Because for him, he knew the people who sent them there.

00:26:13.000 He knew why he was there.

00:26:16.000 Donald Trump knew who he worked for.

00:26:18.000 Donald Trump understood representative government.

00:26:23.000 And more than anything else, the people who are in charge, they feel this entitlement to thwart the will of the voters.

00:26:36.000 You know, when a bill passes the state house 69 to 25, you should probably take notice.

00:26:41.000 That's not a narrow vote.

00:26:44.000 That's not just scraping by.

00:26:47.000 It's a big deal.

00:26:49.000 Let's get to some sound here.

00:26:52.000 Let's go to the cut here.

00:26:54.000 Yeah, play tape.

00:26:55.000 Play tape. 1.00

00:26:56.000 Well, when we get down to it, women and girls all share a biological reality. 1.00

00:27:01.000 We are all female.

00:27:02.000 But if any man, if any male person can call himself a woman or legally identify as female, then predatory men will do so in order to gain access to women's single-sex spaces.

00:27:15.000 And this puts every woman and girl at risk.

00:27:18.000 That was, I think it was on either Brett Baer or on Laura Ingram's show.

00:27:21.000 Might have been actually Fox News at night.

00:27:24.000 If our leaders are not going to protect our women's sports, our female sports, then who will? 1.00

00:27:29.000 The voters want that. 0.76

00:27:30.000 The voters are demanding it.

00:27:33.000 This is an act of treachery.

00:27:36.000 And so how do you deal with this?

00:27:37.000 What's the proper proportional response?

00:27:40.000 Exactly what the state legislature has done in these states across the country.

00:27:44.000 The Republican Party is changing for the better.

00:27:47.000 The Republican Party is no longer going to be a party of profit worshiping.

00:27:52.000 It's no longer going to be a party of idolizing the corporate boardroom.

00:27:58.000 I care much more about the kitchen table values than the corporate boardroom values.

00:28:03.000 That is the distinction.

00:28:05.000 I care much more about whether or not a 14-year-old girl in Bismarck, North Dakota, or a 14-year-old girl in Arkansas or in Arizona is able to play in women's sports without having their dreams and their ambitions crushed.

00:28:19.000 And that's just the beginning of the problem, by the way.

00:28:22.000 This goes into a whole nother issue of moral relativism.

00:28:25.000 My truth: your biology is set very simply by your chromosomes.

00:28:31.000 If the government cannot have very clear rules for the road on that issue, then what good is our government?

00:28:38.000 And the answer is: the only good our government is is to serve the wants, interests, and needs of businesses that hate our values.

00:28:45.000 That's what it's for.

00:28:48.000 And these businesses are now running our government.

00:28:51.000 I want to read this quote from Governor Bergham.

00:28:56.000 He says, Quote: The bill would unnecessarily inject the state into a local issue by creating a ban with a myriad of unforeseen consequences. 1.00

00:29:03.000 Unforeseen consequences, you mean having women's sports the way it's been? 1.00

00:29:07.000 Where are the feminists on this issue, by the way? 1.00

00:29:10.000 Where is Nancy Pelosi and the people that have told us that we need massive, dramatic action to protect female sports, just protect females in our country? 1.00

00:29:19.000 What is a woman? 1.00

00:29:21.000 What is a woman? 0.99

00:29:24.000 I can answer that question. 1.00

00:29:28.000 The corporate class, Democrats, and Governor Bergham can't.

00:29:32.000 And their excuse and their indifference on this issue is very telling.

00:29:36.000 It's basically they're signaling to the rest of the country: I'm either afraid to take this fight, I'm okay with this massive, corrosive deconstruction of the American promise and experiment.

00:29:53.000 It's an act of treachery.

00:29:54.000 How do you deal with treachery?

00:29:56.000 You expose it, you talk about it, and you don't tolerate it.

00:29:59.000 But here's the good news, and I want to reinforce the good news, everybody.

00:30:02.000 These leaders are replaceable.

00:30:04.000 They're only there because we put them there.

00:30:06.000 The people are with us.

00:30:07.000 This is a 90-10 issue.

00:30:10.000 Not even, it's a 95-5 issue.

00:30:13.000 Especially in North Dakota.

00:30:14.000 It's a 99-to-1 issue.

00:30:16.000 Not exactly where I think the transgender movement thought they were going to get a win. 0.54

00:30:21.000 The ACLU is dancing right now in the streets.

00:30:25.000 Because the ACLU now says, well, hey, if we can win in North Dakota, we can win everywhere.

00:30:29.000 But that's okay.

00:30:30.000 The people are with us.

00:30:32.000 We just have to find leaders that aren't cowardly, like Governor Ron DeSantis.

00:30:37.000 We have to find leaders that are willing to do what they say they're going to do, listen to the voters, and then enact their wishes.

00:30:45.000 Because if our leaders are not going to act as bodyguards against this cultural blitzkrieg, then who will?

00:30:55.000 That is where the Republican Party needs to be.

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00:31:03.000 It's probably not as incognito as you think.

00:31:06.000 And why would it be?

00:31:06.000 Incognito mode, like the Chrome browser itself is a Google product, and Google has made its fortune by tracking your movements online.

00:31:12.000 There's even a $5 billion class action lawsuit against the company in California, where it's accused of secretly collecting user data.

00:31:18.000 Google's defense, incognito, does not mean invisible.

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00:32:12.000 But I want to close the loop on this idea of governors acting like philosopher kings.

00:32:20.000 What is a philosopher king?

00:32:23.000 Well, if anyone knows they're Plato in Plato's Republic, a philosopher king is someone where Plato argued that philosophers must become kings, or now called kings, must genuinely, genuinely, and adequately philosophize.

00:32:37.000 It's this idea that I'm in a position of power and I know better than you.

00:32:45.000 And what's so scary and disturbing about this trend is that there's a disconnect from the will of the people and the actions of people in charge.

00:32:55.000 So this is where there's only a couple of potential outcomes.

00:33:00.000 When leaders are in agreement with their voters and they do what their voters want, you have peace, you have stability.

00:33:11.000 People ask me all the time, Charlie, why is there so much unrest?

00:33:14.000 Why are we so divided?

00:33:16.000 There's a couple explanations.

00:33:18.000 But a very obvious explanation is you get revolutions when the people feel like they are not being adequately represented by the people in charge.

00:33:28.000 Why would you revolutionize the country if you're getting what you want out of the people in charge?

00:33:32.000 It wouldn't make any sense, right? 0.96

00:33:35.000 If the leaders are listening to their voters and they are getting marching orders, oh, 97% of people in North Dakota think female sports shouldn't have men in them.

00:33:48.000 Maybe I should do something about it. 0.91

00:33:49.000 The state legislature did.

00:33:51.000 The state senate did.

00:33:53.000 But then the governor says, I know better than you.

00:33:56.000 That's the philosopher King syndrome.

00:33:59.000 And so the question is: what do we do about it?

00:34:03.000 Well, thankfully, the people are so dramatically fed up and tired with this pattern, it's a pressure cooker.

00:34:14.000 I don't really know what comes next, but I'm pretty good at predicting this.

00:34:21.000 There's going to be massive political upheaval in the next nine to 18 months.

00:34:25.000 Massive.

00:34:27.000 There will be black swan events that we have not anticipated.

00:34:32.000 The Republican Party is about to become completely redefined.

00:34:38.000 As I mentioned, I was at the RNC meeting in Dallas, and some of the members I talked to got it.

00:34:43.000 And some of them said, Well, Charlie, we love corporations, don't we?

00:34:47.000 I said, Man, you need to watch more of Tucker's show.

00:34:50.000 Where have you been?

00:34:51.000 Most of them got it, though.

00:34:53.000 But when I talk to the voters, when I'm in front of 800 people in Bismarck, North Dakota, when I'm in front of 1,000 people in Missouri, when I'm in front of 1,200 people in Lexington, Kentucky, when I'm in front of a packed group in Oklahoma, and the governor of Oklahoma is doing a nice job.

00:35:08.000 He actually deserves credit.

00:35:09.000 He's been very good.

00:35:10.000 When I'm in front of packed audiences in Nashville, Vegas, and San Jose, and I say corporations are not your friend, I get standing ovations.

00:35:19.000 When I say that it's time for our leaders to do what they say they're going to do, they start applauding for two, three, four minutes.

00:35:27.000 And guess you know what's even more amazing?

00:35:28.000 We just had a group of our investors and donors at Turning Point USA, they get it too.

00:35:34.000 The only group of people that don't get it are the top of the hierarchy of decision makers, which is the governors and the people surrounding it.

00:35:45.000 Because they remember a Republican Party that was asleep.

00:35:50.000 They remember a Republican Party where all you had to do was go to ribbon cuttings for Amazon and talk about cutting taxes, not even actually do it for working people, and you get reelected.

00:36:01.000 That's what Republicans used to have to do.

00:36:02.000 The ribbon-cutting Republicans are so confused.

00:36:07.000 They're like, I thought I just had to cut a bunch of ribbons for a Chinese tech company in Wisconsin and everything's better.

00:36:12.000 No, actually, we want something different. 1.00

00:36:15.000 We need a bodyguard and a defender against this cultural blitzkrieg that's happening.

00:36:20.000 And we want a counter move.

00:36:21.000 We want you to use your political power that we gave you to defend our way of life, not sit idly by and say, you know what?

00:36:29.000 Like Doug Burnham, I don't have the power to do it.

00:36:31.000 No, you do.

00:36:32.000 Why run for office if you're not going to use the power that we gave you, the Constitution granted you?

00:36:38.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:39.000 If you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com and email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:45.000 God bless you.

00:36:46.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 23, 2021

A Cultural Blitzkrieg and North Dakota's Trans Failure

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