The Charlie Kirk Show - A Decade of Lockdowns—Confronting America's Newest Endless War

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00:00:35.000 I spent a lot of time prepping for this episode.

00:00:38.000 There's a lot I wanted to say and warn you about what we're seeing and what you can do about it.

00:00:44.000 We are entering what could be a decade of lockdowns.

00:00:48.000 I explain why we are entering into what seems to be an endless war cycle.

00:00:56.000 We talk about the war on poverty, war on drugs, war and illiteracy.

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00:05:22.000 I was having dinner with some friends over the weekend, and many times people said, Charlie, when is this going to end?

00:05:30.000 The mask mandates are back.

00:05:32.000 Closures of businesses are being floated.

00:05:35.000 When is this going to end?

00:05:38.000 And I told them something that they did not want to hear, which is that we are now probably entering another cycle and another phase of an endless war.

00:05:50.000 My generation knows all about endless war.

00:05:52.000 One of my earliest childhood memories was 9-11, September 11th, 2001.

00:05:58.000 I remember where I was in the classroom that I was in right when that news hit.

00:06:05.000 And our world changed forever.

00:06:06.000 From that point forward, we were at perpetual foreign conflict with either the Taliban or Al-Qaeda or ISIS.

00:06:15.000 And after 20-plus years of being in Afghanistan, the Taliban is actually stronger than it was even when we invaded.

00:06:25.000 You see, Washington, D.C., they're good at endless conflict.

00:06:30.000 Endless war has been almost a defining characteristic of the United States military strategy the last 20 years.

00:06:37.000 I am reminded, cut two, of George W. Bush addressing a joint session of Congress about the war on terror.

00:06:45.000 What if you were to tell George W. Bush and whispered in his ear on September 20, 2001, that many of your military interventions actually wouldn't work?

00:06:53.000 Unfortunately, it would strengthen the enemy.

00:06:56.000 Play cut two.

00:06:58.000 Our war on terror begins with Al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. 0.62

00:07:06.000 It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.

00:07:16.000 Every terrorist group found, stopped, and defeated.

00:07:20.000 It's a very ambitious strategy.

00:07:22.000 We're going to get to the whole idea of defining success and then being able to measure success and knowing when to end a certain cycle of conflict.

00:07:34.000 The most an even bigger failure of endless war was a domestic war waged by Lyndon Baines Johnson and the Democrat Party on American poverty.

00:07:44.000 Instead of focusing on fatherlessness or crime, instead of focusing on issues that tend to cause crime and poverty, Lyndon Baines Johnson decided to subsidize poverty, decided to subsidize behavior that would only make the war on poverty endless, therefore giving the Democrat Party and his successors something to constantly run on.

00:08:09.000 Cut one, Lyndon Baines Johnson declaring war on poverty.

00:08:14.000 Cut one.

00:08:16.000 And this administration today, here, and now declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

00:08:26.000 And I urge this Congress and all Americans to join with me in that effort.

00:08:35.000 Now, of course, the war on poverty resulted in worse, and some would even say, and I would argue, just structural issues than before the war on poverty started.

00:08:48.000 President Nixon declared war on drug abuse, saying that it was public enemy number one, the war on drugs over many decades.

00:08:56.000 And now we have more overdose deaths in America than we do even from the Chinese coronavirus.

00:09:03.000 96,000 people overdosed last year.

00:09:08.000 We are on pace for even more this year.

00:09:10.000 And that's on pace for even more than from dying from COVID.

00:09:14.000 President Nixon declared an endless war on drug abuse, saying it was public enemy number one.

00:09:19.000 Cut three.

00:09:20.000 America's public enemy, number one, in the United States, is drug abuse.

00:09:27.000 In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive.

00:09:35.000 I have asked the Congress to provide the legislative authority and the funds to fuel this kind of an offensive.

00:09:43.000 You see, when Washington politicians talk in terms of war, especially ones against unspecified, undefined objectives, you should be very nervous.

00:09:55.000 You should be anxious.

00:09:56.000 You should be skeptical.

00:09:57.000 You see, the United States government has not won a massive effort to win a battle since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

00:10:05.000 And we only won the battle against the Soviets because Ronald Reagan decided to make it a philosophical and ideological battle, and he was willing to do what was necessary.

00:10:16.000 Now, when it comes to the war against the Chinese coronavirus, some of the media would say it's because we lack resolve.

00:10:23.000 It's because we're not willing to mask up and stay at home.

00:10:25.000 We're not willing to do what is necessary.

00:10:28.000 Now, I think that actually might be partially true.

00:10:32.000 I actually think it's partially true that Americans aren't willing to forsake their entire life for an entire decade just to get rid of a virus that has a 0.04% death rate.

00:10:43.000 But I think there's actually four other more critical reasons as to why, if we are not careful, we are entering another cycle of endless war, like the endless war against poverty, the endless war against drugs, the endless war against terror, where we don't actually ever win, but instead, the entrenched bureaucratic class gets more funding, more prestige, more promotions, more relevancy,

00:11:08.000 while using fear as a propaganda tool to keep you in a state of obedience.

00:11:15.000 Now, before I get into those four things, I want to tell you what some people are already floating out.

00:11:22.000 Iceland has said that we have to be ready for 15 years of lockdowns.

00:11:30.000 I'm reading, and it says, Iceland may see recently reimposed safety protocols in place for 15 years, according to one of the Nordic countries' chief medical experts.

00:11:43.000 It can happen no matter what the future holds, he says.

00:11:47.000 This is what we've been saying all along, that there's no predictability in this.

00:11:52.000 On June 26th, the Icelandic authorities chose to remove all domestic restrictions, but now they have reimposed them, saying that they could last well over a decade and a half.

00:12:05.000 What if I told you that the entrenched medical class is no different than the people at the Pentagon, no different than the people that oversaw the social welfare blitzkrieg on behalf of Lyndon Baines Johnson actually made America more structurally poor?

00:12:21.000 What are we supposed to do when we are faced with these threats of endless conflict?

00:12:27.000 Well, there are four major reasons as to why this is happening.

00:12:31.000 And we're going to go through all four of them.

00:12:33.000 This is a very serious issue as it impacts school closures, mandatory masking, and all of the other issues surrounding us because we're not actually getting to a place where we're going to be able to declare victory against the Chinese coronavirus instead of the exact opposite.

00:12:49.000 It is going to be a confusing, muddled, sometimes, almost always, I should say, not just sometimes frustrating endeavor that we are on.

00:13:02.000 And the question that we should ask is, is it worth it?

00:13:05.000 Is this the right thing to do?

00:13:07.000 How serious is the threat of the Delta variant and the Chinese coronavirus?

00:13:12.000 So to answer the question that a lot of you are asking, when is this going to end?

00:13:17.000 Well, if the people in charge have their way, it's going to be another endless war where they get promotions, military-type-style contracts, endless funding from the treasury, and the enemy actually never gets defeated, but your liberty and your freedom gets eroded.

00:13:34.000 If endless wars don't end in victory, why do we keep on doing them?

00:13:40.000 Well, there's four major reasons.

00:13:42.000 Let me start with a story about a true story from Chicago, Illinois.

00:13:47.000 There was a street in southwest Chicago, the Cicero area, where every couple weeks there would be a business or a home that would all of a sudden wake up and they would have a brick thrown through their window.

00:14:03.000 And there would be no real explanation for this.

00:14:05.000 They didn't steal anything.

00:14:07.000 But instead, there would be a brick thrown through the window.

00:14:10.000 And so they would do what any sensible business person or homeowner would do.

00:14:14.000 They would call the window repairman.

00:14:18.000 And then all of a sudden, this started to spread to other neighborhoods and people got curious.

00:14:22.000 So they launched an investigative task force of who is randomly throwing bricks through windows.

00:14:30.000 And after a man decided to wait up all night and he got lucky, he caught the man in the act of throwing the brick through the window, and it was the window repairman.

00:14:43.000 You see, it's good business to try and create a problem only you can solve.

00:14:50.000 Why endless war?

00:14:51.000 Because there's an incentive structure for that.

00:14:54.000 Whether it be endless foreign war, defense contractors unfortunately benefit disproportionately.

00:15:01.000 If it's endless war against the war on poverty, big business like Walmart who take food stamps are able to benefit disproportionately.

00:15:11.000 If it's an endless war against drugs, you might say, well, who would possibly win at the endless war against drugs?

00:15:20.000 Well, again, trust me, I'm all against a domestic war on illegal drugs.

00:15:25.000 But when you turn a blind eye on the pharmaceutical companies, but a heavy hand on the drugs being dealt on the street corners in the inner cities, then maybe the biggest pharmaceutical companies benefit.

00:15:36.000 You see, endless wars are great for big business.

00:15:40.000 They can build it into their profit model.

00:15:43.000 They can build it into their growth curve.

00:15:45.000 Every year, we're going to need more drugs, more missiles.

00:15:49.000 We're going to need more buildings.

00:15:51.000 We're going to need more Section 8 housing.

00:15:53.000 We're going to need more ability to provide for people with food stamps.

00:15:58.000 There's an incentive structure behind endless war.

00:16:02.000 The same way that the window repairman goes around throwing bricks through people's windows, Fauci and the pharmaceutical companies are begging for an endless war against the Chinese coronavirus.

00:16:14.000 The same can be said for Amazon and the tech companies.

00:16:18.000 They get stronger and more powerful the more we are locked down.

00:16:24.000 When people still desire human connection, do you think Facebook's new company, Oculus, where you put on your goggles and you can create the world as you see fit, do you think that gets more desirable or less desirable when there's less live events, less people coming in contact with each other?

00:16:41.000 Unfortunately, the multi-trillion heirs or the multi-trillion dollar companies, I should say, they are pushing for the 15-year lockdowns like Iceland because it only makes them permanently more powerful.

00:16:55.000 We know this to be true.

00:16:57.000 We know that Amazon is more valuable than ever before.

00:17:00.000 We know the big banks are richer and wealthier than ever before.

00:17:04.000 And we know that the billionaires in America made over $500 billion in the lockdown cycle this last year.

00:17:11.000 Unfortunately, the first reason why we are entering into another cycle of endless war, why we are engaging and tolerating, and dare I even say, entertaining the Delta variant to the levels that are almost incomprehensible to a lot of people because the data does not support it, is because the people in charge are going to get very wealthy, powerful, and prestigious in their own minds if we lock down again. 0.81

00:17:36.000 It's good business.

00:17:40.000 It's good for their exit bonuses.

00:17:44.000 You see, we must talk about this not just as a term, as certain people have their priorities backwards, which, by the way, is number two.

00:17:52.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:17:53.000 But instead, that the people at the top levels of finance and our economy are actually wanting you to stay locked down.

00:18:01.000 And it's not just the corporate actors, by the way.

00:18:04.000 It's also the political actors.

00:18:06.000 You see, blue states that were structurally bankrupt got massive bailouts from the federal government thanks to the lockdowns of the Chinese coronavirus.

00:18:14.000 New York got bailed out.

00:18:15.000 New Jersey got bailed out.

00:18:16.000 Illinois got bailed out at the cost of states that were fiscally sound like Texas, Tennessee, and Florida.

00:18:25.000 You see, politicians would love to go through another round of lockdowns because they don't have to cut spending in their states.

00:18:31.000 They don't have to challenge the public sector teacher unions.

00:18:34.000 Instead, they'll get another $100 billion from the federal government that will easily bail them out.

00:18:40.000 You see, the incentive structure almost lends itself to people that deal in the deeds of corruption and not innovation to want to keep you locked down.

00:18:53.000 The U.S. national debt is expected to approach $89 trillion by 2029.

00:18:58.000 Real inflation rate is estimated to be upwards of 10%.

00:19:02.000 We are going backwards.

00:19:03.000 And soon enough, the $1 million you have tucked away for your retirement might not even last you a year.

00:19:09.000 Because debt is now growing faster than the economy and the administration in Washington proposes another $6 trillion in spending.

00:19:16.000 The situation isn't likely to improve anytime soon.

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00:19:37.000 So why endless war?

00:19:38.000 And are we entering into it?

00:19:40.000 Let me tell you right now that the people that want to get us into another endless war cycle, this is their big offensive.

00:19:47.000 These couple weeks, we are living through it right now.

00:19:51.000 But is it worth it?

00:19:52.000 The second thing we need to ask ourselves in a list of four things about why endless war that are much more critical things to talk about rather than our resolve is: is this the right thing to do?

00:20:04.000 How big of a threat is the Chinese coronavirus?

00:20:09.000 Well, every single day in the United States, according to data that is publicly available, as of 2019, 1,800 people die of heart disease.

00:20:18.000 Why don't we lock down Burger King, McDonald's, and Wendy's and not lock down businesses of people that are trying their best to get by?

00:20:29.000 In fact, why would we lock down gymnasiums when people are actually literally trying to get healthy?

00:20:34.000 By the way, this is daily.

00:20:36.000 Let me just reinforce this.

00:20:37.000 This is daily.

00:20:38.000 1,800 people die every single day of heart disease, 1,640 of cancer, 470 by accident, 430 of chronic lower respiratory disease, 410 of stroke, 330 of Alzheimer's.

00:20:57.000 And now COVID deaths are below 324.

00:21:00.000 In fact, yesterday, there were 71 confirmed COVID deaths.

00:21:05.000 71 confirmed COVID deaths.

00:21:13.000 And if you look at category by category, last year included, 0 to 17 years old, 340 people died involving with COVID-19.

00:21:24.000 And Alex Berenson says that that is almost immeasurable statistically.

00:21:30.000 51,213 people died from all causes.

00:21:33.000 From ages 18 to 29, 2,493 people died from COVID, and 96,625 from all causes.

00:21:42.000 From 30 to 39 years old, 7,145 people died from COVID-19, allegedly, and 137,000 people, 849, from all causes.

00:21:54.000 You go category to category.

00:21:55.000 Do you know that COVID was not the leading cause of death for any single age group, including last year, including 85 years and older, including 75 to 84?

00:22:07.000 It was not the leading cause of death for any category or any group.

00:22:12.000 Should we ban cholesterol?

00:22:16.000 Should we lock down too much calorie intake?

00:22:21.000 Or is it part of living in a free society?

00:22:25.000 You're able to make choices and those choices have consequences.

00:22:30.000 When you hear the panic stats, the Chinese coronavirus has seen infections rise 148% in the last two weeks and hospitalizations by 73%.

00:22:43.000 You really want to get serious about public health?

00:22:46.000 How about at the very least you say you're no longer allowed to advertise alcohol on television?

00:22:50.000 How about you ban all alcohol?

00:22:52.000 That would make America healthier.

00:22:56.000 Not a big fan of alcohol personally, but I make that choice personally.

00:23:00.000 Don't need a mandate to do that.

00:23:03.000 We need to get our priorities right.

00:23:04.000 Is this the right thing to do?

00:23:08.000 Instead, we're being governed by a very small, vocal, and quite honestly power-obsessed minority.

00:23:22.000 What priorities should we have?

00:23:25.000 The priorities we should first and foremost have is protecting children.

00:23:29.000 Children's well-being, their development, their future.

00:23:34.000 Children should come first in these equations.

00:23:38.000 So, when you try to actually think of a hierarchy of who you're trying to benefit the most, intergenerationally robbing from a nine-year-old, making them wear a mask all day long, making them be subject to an experimental vaccine, that would make sense logically, rationally, or morally.

00:23:59.000 That's exactly what we're doing.

00:24:01.000 The third one is very self-evident, and there are exceptions to this.

00:24:06.000 The third thing, though, is that massive programs tend to bulldoze individual choice.

00:24:14.000 Now, sometimes massive programs can be helpful.

00:24:18.000 Seatbelt laws have generally been a good development. 1.00

00:24:23.000 Now, seatbelts can kill people. 0.94

00:24:26.000 They have killed people because people have trouble getting out of cars in a car accident.

00:24:29.000 They can get suffocated by it.

00:24:30.000 But generally, seatbelts have been good for human mortality rates when it comes to automobile accidents.

00:24:40.000 I don't like them.

00:24:40.000 They're annoying.

00:24:42.000 I don't think they should be overly policed, but I do think seatbelts should be encouraged.

00:24:47.000 So, massive programs can have a place, but they tend to bulldoze or steamroll or get in the way of individual choice.

00:24:57.000 So, you may say, Charlie, what's the rule then?

00:24:59.000 Well, less on principle.

00:25:00.000 Principle is important, but prudence.

00:25:02.000 Use practical judgment.

00:25:04.000 Use it by a case-by-case basis.

00:25:07.000 Is this really a crisis?

00:25:09.000 Is this something that we need to address?

00:25:11.000 And if so, what is the potential downside?

00:25:13.000 Well, that's the other thing, is the downside of these lockdowns is significant.

00:25:21.000 The rise in alcoholism, drug usage, young people self-harming.

00:25:26.000 There's a massive downside.

00:25:28.000 It's not as if you can crush the virus, whatever even that means, and have no cost on the other side.

00:25:36.000 In fact, when you do these massive programs, like the war on drugs, or the war on poverty, or the war on illiteracy, like no child left behind, or the foreign war in Afghanistan or in Iraq, they tend to demand larger and larger interventions.

00:25:56.000 They actually tend to warrant more massive programs, like, oh, well, that didn't work, so now we need another couple trillion dollars that were actually created by the intervention itself.

00:26:07.000 Now, there are certain types of interventions that are necessary.

00:26:10.000 For example, World War II.

00:26:13.000 That's a unique time when people bought into a purpose bigger than themselves to defeat evil in two different hemispheres.

00:26:21.000 These massive interventions can, at times, using prudence, practical judgment, and some would say even common sense, can be the right thing for a society to do.

00:26:31.000 But only, and here's the rule, and here's why World War II is such a good example, if success can be clearly defined.

00:26:38.000 If success can be written down on a piece of paper, what does success look like?

00:26:42.000 Defeat the Nazis, fly our flag over Berlin, and make the Japanese surrender. 0.65

00:26:47.000 Cool, got it.

00:26:48.000 Now we know what we're fighting for.

00:26:49.000 We know that it's going to cost something.

00:26:51.000 We're going to rally for it.

00:26:52.000 We're going to get this done in a couple years.

00:26:54.000 Fine.

00:26:56.000 The problem with the foreign war on terror, the problem with the war on poverty, the problem with the war on drugs, the war on illiteracy, and now this war on COVID with Fauci's own words and the leaked CDC documents call it a war on COVID.

00:27:12.000 What does success look like?

00:27:14.000 Is success now getting the death rate down to 50 a day?

00:27:18.000 Because we had 71 confirmed deaths yesterday.

00:27:21.000 Meanwhile, as I mentioned, we have 1,000 plus, in fact, 1,800 plus dying of heart disease.

00:27:30.000 What does success look like?

00:27:31.000 Massive interventions, when you cannot clearly articulate what success looks like, it almost never works.

00:27:38.000 So then you have this unspecified, kind of confusing, very muddled objective.

00:27:48.000 Oh, we're trying to beat the virus.

00:27:49.000 What the heck does that look like, beating a virus?

00:27:52.000 I know it sounds good.

00:27:53.000 It's a bumper sticker for some public health bureaucrat that works for HHS or NIH.

00:27:59.000 What does that look like?

00:28:00.000 Massive interventions can only work when success can be clearly defined.

00:28:08.000 And here's a very simple question that our leaders need to be asking, especially in the Republican Party, because the Democrat Party doesn't care, because they're seizing on these lockdowns for blue state bailouts, the great reset, currency deterioration, open borders, and remaking America.

00:28:23.000 For them, the endless war on COVID is a gateway drug for redefining America in Marxist terms.

00:28:31.000 Let me say that again.

00:28:32.000 For the American left, the Chinese coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns are a gateway drug to get long desired public policy objectives into law that only a crisis can facilitate.

00:28:48.000 What if we beat the Chinese coronavirus, eradicate it, get rid of it, it never exists, and we lose the country?

00:28:54.000 What if that happens?

00:28:56.000 What kind of cost is there?

00:28:58.000 What kind of measurement are our leaders actually using?

00:29:01.000 And the reason is they're not using a measurement is because going back to the first reason that I articulated, the incentive structure.

00:29:08.000 Endless wars get people rich.

00:29:10.000 Endless wars keep people in power.

00:29:13.000 Endless wars can give generals medals.

00:29:16.000 And in this fact, in this sense, this is not an endless foreign conflict in a country.

00:29:21.000 This is a domestic one.

00:29:23.000 Dr. Fauci gets on the cover of magazines.

00:29:26.000 He gets paid a lot of money.

00:29:28.000 Fauci gets to be really important.

00:29:30.000 He gets put on television.

00:29:31.000 He gets lauded.

00:29:32.000 In fact, he gets treated almost as if he's been canonized by the Church of Public Health.

00:29:38.000 You drive through some neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., they have almost auras around Fauci's little smug face.

00:29:47.000 Why would he want to give up that power?

00:29:49.000 You know, if he kind of says, look, COVID is basically, we know what it is, we know how it operates.

00:29:53.000 Act prudently.

00:29:54.000 Don't do anything dramatic.

00:29:57.000 If you're at the risk group, so be it.

00:29:58.000 Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, don't overdrink.

00:30:02.000 If you're overweight, get back in shape.

00:30:04.000 Live your life.

00:30:04.000 Liberty is beautiful.

00:30:05.000 Thanks so much.

00:30:06.000 I've enjoyed the show.

00:30:08.000 All of a sudden, Fauci becomes less important.

00:30:12.000 Instead, he wants to get all the medallions possible.

00:30:17.000 He wants to play into this even more.

00:30:19.000 He doesn't want to relinquish control.

00:30:24.000 So the four major reasons as to why we're about to enter what could be a decade of lockdowns.

00:30:30.000 Let me say that again.

00:30:31.000 A decade of lockdowns is the incentive structure is totally perverse.

00:30:37.000 Our priorities are backwards.

00:30:39.000 The massive programs, as we well know, tend to bulldoze individual choice, and one intervention leads to another intervention.

00:30:47.000 And finally, no one can define success.

00:30:50.000 If anyone is listening out there that actually gets a chance to talk to Fauci, he refused to come on our show.

00:30:56.000 Ask him, what statistically does success look like?

00:31:00.000 Again, World War II.

00:31:01.000 Raise the American flag over Berlin and get the Japanese to surrender. 0.97

00:31:05.000 Once those things happen, we brought the troops home, we brought down our military spending, and we celebrated.

00:31:11.000 What does that success look like when it comes to the Chinese coronavirus?

00:31:15.000 10 deaths a day, five deaths a day.

00:31:17.000 We can never find the virus in a sample tube ever.

00:31:20.000 What does success look like?

00:31:21.000 I know what success looks like.

00:31:23.000 We've already reached it.

00:31:26.000 Well past it in the sense of we know treatments that work.

00:31:29.000 People know how this operates, and we must prioritize the well-being of our children over the safetyism of some unclear objective.

00:31:38.000 I do want to play some tape here about Fauci and Cut 10, about the framing of all of this.

00:31:44.000 Remember, we are entering into an endless war chapter.

00:31:49.000 They found their new war on poverty, illiteracy, war on terror, whatever you want to call it.

00:31:55.000 And it's against an invisible virus, and they cannot define success.

00:32:00.000 Play Cut 10.

00:32:02.000 Are we headed towards a period once again where we're going to see lockdowns, businesses shutting down, masks routine for everybody?

00:32:12.000 Or is this, or is this potentially just a temporary setback?

00:32:16.000 Things are going to get worse.

00:32:18.000 If you look at the acceleration of the number of cases, the seven-day average has gone up substantially.

00:32:25.000 You know, what we really need to do, John, we say it over and over again, and it's the truth.

00:32:29.000 We have 100 million people in this country who are eligible to be vaccinated, who are not getting vaccinated.

00:32:37.000 100 million people.

00:32:39.000 They're the problem.

00:32:40.000 Go find them.

00:32:41.000 We're going to talk all about the forced vaccination strategy, and it's here.

00:32:46.000 We have foreshadowed this moment, and it's here.

00:32:50.000 But instead, I want to talk about what you can do about this endless war that's coming to you right now.

00:32:55.000 Is that you must, if you so choose, maybe you're cool with 15 years of lockdowns.

00:33:00.000 Maybe 15 years of lockdowns doesn't scare you.

00:33:03.000 Maybe you want your kids and grandkids to walk around in masks and be always afraid.

00:33:07.000 Maybe you don't want them to live in the America that you lived in.

00:33:10.000 That's fine.

00:33:11.000 I've got some emails like that.

00:33:12.000 They say, Charlie, safety is the most important thing for me, and I'm going to keep my kids and grandkids locked down until the public health officials tell me I can leave.

00:33:21.000 I think that's insane, and I think that's a bunch of balderdash, and I refuse to do that.

00:33:27.000 Here's the biggest thing you must do: is that at this possible moment, you must find instances where you say, I'm not going to comply.

00:33:37.000 And then you must find the pressure points of people that decide to stand courageously against this decade of lockdowns that is now coming in and support those people.

00:33:46.000 Pastors that refuse to lock down again.

00:33:49.000 Businesses that refuse to lock down again.

00:33:51.000 Politicians that refuse to mandate lockdown orders.

00:33:54.000 You've got to support those people publicly and vocally.

00:33:59.000 And you must give politicians a sense of anxiety that if they support lockdowns, there's going to be a political cost.

00:34:06.000 I'll give you a great example of this.

00:34:08.000 Mark Kelly is running for the United States Senate seat as a Democrat in coming in 2022 in Arizona.

00:34:15.000 Raphael Warnock is running in 2022 in Georgia.

00:34:19.000 They have to hear from the voters in Georgia and Arizona that lockdowns and forced masks, if they don't speak out against it loudly and vocally, they're going to lose their Senate seat.

00:34:30.000 Make the people in charge feel that there's a political cost to this.

00:34:34.000 Make J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, who is definitely the least mobile governor in America, definitely the least agile governor in America.

00:34:46.000 Make him know that there's going to be a cost and he might lose the governor's race because of this.

00:34:51.000 Make people feel that there's a political cost to these lockdowns.

00:34:54.000 And I could tell you right now, this is a silent majority issue.

00:34:57.000 85% of the country does not actually want to go this direction.

00:35:01.000 But unfortunately, we're being led by this minority that is very persuasive at getting on television and making you feel afraid. 1.00

00:35:08.000 But persuasion is no longer working.

00:35:10.000 Instead, they're going to use force.

00:35:14.000 You need to speak out, and then you need to have that testing moment where all of a sudden, if LA, they make you wear a mask in a grocery store, you don't do it.

00:35:22.000 Arrest me?

00:35:22.000 You say, what are you going to do?

00:35:24.000 Because this is how it works now in San Francisco and LA.

00:35:27.000 You go and loot $700 worth of stuff.

00:35:29.000 They don't arrest you.

00:35:30.000 You come in without wearing your mask properly.

00:35:32.000 They call the police.

00:35:33.000 And guess what?

00:35:34.000 The police aren't going to arrest you anytime soon.

00:35:36.000 What I'm calling for is civil disobedience, non-compliance, making noise and pushing back against this tyrannical push to make us in another cycle of endless war where we spend trillions of dollars.

00:35:48.000 Our country becomes less free and unrecognizable.

00:35:51.000 Our children lose their future.

00:35:57.000 There's no doubt in my mind that Americans trust in the media is at an all-time low.

00:36:01.000 I mean, when you turn on so-called respected news channels, all you get is propaganda, shameless virtue signaling, and blatant disregard for the truth.

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00:37:16.000 The United Kingdom has just announced that they are going to be rolling out 32 million booster vaccines by next month to all those over the age of 50.

00:37:26.000 What great business model, isn't this?

00:37:28.000 You need a booster on top of the booster because the first vaccine wasn't as effective as we thought it was.

00:37:32.000 Remember, when you're in an endless war cycle, which is what we're about to get into, then the intervention ends up being not sufficient.

00:37:40.000 So you need a bigger intervention to try to solve the first intervention.

00:37:44.000 And don't you dare change the leadership class because they're the only ones that could possibly know how to fix the intervention because they're the ones that solved, that tried to solve it with the first intervention, even though it wasn't big enough.

00:37:55.000 Because the intervention wasn't as big as it should have been.

00:38:01.000 People like Boris Johnson and people like Fauci, they found their new campaign of relevancy.

00:38:09.000 This particular one, the Chinese coronavirus, is powerfully unique because it really does unite a sinister triumphant, you could say, of forces that are typically at odds. 0.95

00:38:25.000 Number one, the media loves this because they get ratings.

00:38:28.000 People read their stuff.

00:38:30.000 They stay relevant.

00:38:31.000 Fear sells.

00:38:34.000 Number two, massive companies, as we've mentioned, literally have their competitors shut down.

00:38:40.000 It's great for Amazon not to have the little small business in Watertown, Wisconsin be able to stay open when they could just deliver packages and over-inundate the market, dump the market with their own products, and create a monopoly.

00:38:56.000 And of course, then politicians and government leaders remain in power thanks to misleading fear-mongering.

00:39:04.000 You see, ending things require a goal and a willingness to revert back to a sense of normal.

00:39:10.000 But we're actually getting further and further away from that sense of normal.

00:39:14.000 We're getting further away from trying to get back to how things were.

00:39:17.000 And it's almost like the people in charge are trying to force a confrontation.

00:39:21.000 It's almost like they want a conflict.

00:39:25.000 If the motivation of our leadership class was to try to almost artificially try to turn people against each other, this is what they would be saying and doing.

00:39:38.000 In cut seven, Cuomo says, it's just unbelievable.

00:39:43.000 The Delta variant mutates to a vaccine-resistant virus.

00:39:47.000 And now we're back to where we started.

00:39:49.000 So now we need a new vaccine for this mutation.

00:39:53.000 What a great business model for the pharmaceutical companies.

00:39:56.000 Good job, Andrew Cuomo.

00:39:58.000 Worst case scenario: a large number of unvaccinated get sick. 0.93

00:40:02.000 And even worse than that, the Delta variant mutates to a vaccine-resistant virus.

00:40:14.000 And now we're right back to where we started.

00:40:17.000 Everybody has to get vaccinated again.

00:40:19.000 And by the way, you have to come up with a vaccine for this new mutation.

00:40:24.000 Oh, so it wasn't sufficient, Andrew Cuomo.

00:40:28.000 Andrew Cuomo is now saying, you know what we didn't do enough of in our country?

00:40:33.000 Segregation. 0.89

00:40:34.000 Andrew Cuomo wants to make segregation great again.

00:40:40.000 For the 100 million people that have decided not to take the vaccine, I being one of them, he's saying, you know what?

00:40:47.000 You can't shop here.

00:40:49.000 You can't eat here.

00:40:50.000 You can't go into this hotel unless you prove that you took the experimental vaccine that I just told you might not even work in the clip before.

00:41:00.000 Play cut five.

00:41:02.000 Private businesses, I am asking them and suggesting to them, go to vaccine-only admission.

00:41:14.000 Go to vaccine-only admission.

00:41:17.000 Medical apartheid.

00:41:19.000 They will now deny service based on your personal medical decisions.

00:41:26.000 What if all of a sudden McDonald says, you know, we're not going to serve people with lupus?

00:41:33.000 Or what if Walmart said, you're not allowed to shop here if you have AIDS?

00:41:38.000 You think that would be tolerated?

00:41:39.000 Or how about this?

00:41:40.000 What if Home Depot or Lowe's or Chipotle or any of these major corporations said, you know what?

00:41:48.000 You're going to have to fill out a medical waiver before you eat here.

00:41:51.000 And if we find something disturbing in your medical history, you're not going to be able to eat here.

00:41:56.000 Now, apparently the lawyers are saying this is perfectly legal.

00:42:00.000 I did not know that medical discrimination is legal in our country.

00:42:04.000 I thought there were some sort of laws about HIPAA privacy, medical privacy.

00:42:09.000 You can't ask people about their own medical decisions.

00:42:12.000 People say none of that actually applies to vaccines because it's not considered to be medicine.

00:42:18.000 The Department of Justice declares it's legal.

00:42:21.000 That doesn't mean it is.

00:42:22.000 They're going to get sued and they are getting sued.

00:42:25.000 This is medical apartheid.

00:42:27.000 So maybe basically Andrew Cuomo basically comes out and he says, you know, you know what we didn't do enough of in our country.

00:42:38.000 We didn't segregate enough. 0.86

00:42:41.000 Mayor Bill de Blasio basically says, look, here's what we got to do.

00:42:44.000 We've got to shake people at this point and say, come on now.

00:42:47.000 We tried voluntary.

00:42:49.000 We could not have been more kind and compassionate.

00:42:52.000 And this, I want you all to take this to heart.

00:42:54.000 This is such an important clip I'm about to take, about to play.

00:42:58.000 This is so important.

00:42:59.000 If you just remember one thing out of all the commentary that I say, this month, Bill de Blasio ran as a workers' party communist style candidate.

00:43:12.000 He won is giving power back to the people.

00:43:15.000 This clip right here is so important because it shows that it's never about the decentralization of power.

00:43:23.000 It's never about the democratization of the government.

00:43:27.000 What it really is about is eventually an authoritarian style government.

00:43:33.000 It always bends back to that.

00:43:36.000 Bill de Blasio ran on promises of giving power to the people and workers' rights and trans rights and we're going to unite together.

00:43:45.000 It's always gibberish. 0.95

00:43:48.000 It's a bunch of nonsense. 0.99

00:43:50.000 It's always give me the power with the quenched fist and I will destroy our enemies. 0.99

00:43:57.000 Cut eight.

00:43:58.000 We've got to shake people at this point and say, come on now.

00:44:02.000 We tried voluntary.

00:44:04.000 You know, we could not have been more kind and compassionate as a country.

00:44:08.000 Free testing everywhere you turn.

00:44:11.000 Incentives, friendly, warm embrace.

00:44:15.000 The voluntary phase is over.

00:44:17.000 We can keep doing those things.

00:44:18.000 I'm not saying shut it down.

00:44:20.000 I'm saying voluntary alone doesn't work.

00:44:23.000 It's time for mandates.

00:44:28.000 It's time for force.

00:44:32.000 Breaking, hundreds of staffers at a pair of San Francisco hospitals have tested positive for COVID-19, the majority of whom were fully vaccinated, but became infected with the Delta variant.

00:44:45.000 The United Kingdom government has just released a 26th report on the adverse event reactions to the COVID-19 vaccines.

00:44:53.000 The UK government have released their 26th report highlighting adverse reaction to the COVID-19 injections that have occurred since the rollout on the 8th of December, 2020.

00:45:04.000 So here's a really interesting question.

00:45:08.000 100 million people doing something or not doing something is a big number.

00:45:14.000 That transcends political lines.

00:45:16.000 Donald Trump, according to the count that is publicly published, got 75 million votes, maybe 76 million.

00:45:25.000 If 100 million people decide not to do something, wouldn't it, de Blasio, Cuomo, or Fauci, wouldn't it do you some good to listen to them?

00:45:35.000 I was eating last evening, a couple evenings ago with my wife, and a woman came up to me and she said, I'm a liberal.

00:45:40.000 I'm not taking this vaccine, even if they kick me out of the country.

00:45:44.000 I said, why?

00:45:45.000 She said, it just doesn't make sense.

00:45:48.000 And I turned to her.

00:45:49.000 I said, this is why the American Project is so beautiful.

00:45:53.000 You can make a decision.

00:45:54.000 I can make a decision with different politics.

00:45:58.000 And no one can force us to do otherwise.

00:46:01.000 Unless they do.

00:46:03.000 And that's what we have to dive deeper into.

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00:47:23.000 You know, if the government of the United States, which is run by Biden and his cartel, if they actually cared about the Chinese coronavirus, why are they allowing thousands of people to enter our country unvaccinated, because they say that's the solution, untested into the interior of the United States?

00:47:44.000 Why would that be the case?

00:47:47.000 I said this previously.

00:47:48.000 I want to reiterate this.

00:47:50.000 This is their big push.

00:47:52.000 I have not seen a push for something so unpopular, so sinister, as quickly as we are seeing right now with total disregard for any sort of political price associated.

00:48:08.000 So we are now entering into medical apartheid.

00:48:11.000 I'm going to define what that is.

00:48:14.000 So segregation is nothing new.

00:48:16.000 The Democrats invented it and perfected it.

00:48:18.000 The Democrats were the party of slavery.

00:48:20.000 They were the party of discrimination, the party of intimidation, then the party of control of black voters through government programs, through their endless war on poverty, which we've covered in great detail. 0.93

00:48:32.000 The promise of the American system, as detailed in the greatest political document ever written in the United States Constitution, is to trust and allow people to make choices without the government forcing them.

00:48:45.000 Now, there are limitations on this.

00:48:47.000 There are exceptions.

00:48:48.000 And you must use prudence, practical judgment, precedence.

00:48:53.000 But usually we yield on the side of rights, not on the side of common good.

00:48:59.000 That is the American tradition and one that I will defend.

00:49:03.000 This is especially true with experimental vaccines and invasive public health orders.

00:49:09.000 So it's one thing to tell people, hey, put on a seatbelt.

00:49:13.000 If not, you're going to get a ticket.

00:49:14.000 I wouldn't overly police it, but I think that seatbelts generally and the push towards seatbelts, as annoying as they are for me, I can't stand it.

00:49:22.000 I think generally that kind of social conditioning hasn't been that harmful to humanity.

00:49:28.000 In fact, I was riding with somebody recently, and I'm glad that I had the habit of putting on the seatbelt.

00:49:35.000 It's annoying.

00:49:35.000 It drives me nuts.

00:49:36.000 I don't like getting tickets for it.

00:49:38.000 But that's not exactly the same sort of issue.

00:49:40.000 We're talking about an experimental vaccine where you have adverse events being reported.

00:49:46.000 You have all these other issues, two totally different things.

00:49:51.000 So the reason why mandates are so dangerous, there's a couple of reasons.

00:49:58.000 And why segregation is obviously immoral and we're entering, I mean, Shake Shack has just said that they're not going to allow unvaccinated people to shop, to eat there, whatever.

00:50:07.000 And I guarantee you, other places are going to follow.

00:50:09.000 I guarantee it.

00:50:11.000 Is that there's this principle that when you mandate something and when you do something from the top down or from a government order, that the error of being wrong or the potential downside of being wrong far outweighs the upside of being right.

00:50:31.000 So when you mandate something to everybody, the first question you need to ask those politicians is, what if you're wrong?

00:50:40.000 What all of a sudden if this has a downside that you aren't experiencing?

00:50:43.000 What if this doesn't actually prevent against the virus like you said it have?

00:50:48.000 He says it has.

00:50:49.000 The cost of a downside of a widespread order is greater than the upside.

00:50:56.000 So if this vaccine is actually not as effective as people say, if all of a sudden there are all these adverse events and more so coming for years, then all of a sudden mandating it and not making it optional, all of a sudden force people to then live in a set of circumstances that was not of their own choosing.

00:51:15.000 That's immoral.

00:51:17.000 And the third, and this is so obvious, of why mandates are immoral and not always immoral, but why mandates can be immoral and they're troublesome.

00:51:27.000 That's a better word.

00:51:28.000 Is that widespread orders don't allow for adjustment, nuance, or customizing.

00:51:36.000 Instead, it forces you to live under the one-size-fits-all tyranny of a largely unelected minority.

00:51:42.000 And a great example is the young lady that came on our podcast who was going to go to BYU Hawaii.

00:51:47.000 They said that students have to be vaccinated, professors do not, and teachers do not.

00:51:53.000 And she had a doctor's note that said she could die if she got the vaccine.

00:51:57.000 BYU Hawaii says, we don't care.

00:52:00.000 We actually have another email from a BYU student where they're saying the same thing.

00:52:04.000 Really weird that BYU is doing this.

00:52:06.000 Newsweek.com: 62% of Americans support vaccine mandate.

00:52:11.000 Doesn't matter.

00:52:12.000 We don't take a popular vote on rights in this country.

00:52:15.000 Doesn't matter if 62%, 70%. 0.76

00:52:18.000 You got to go through the process, and it's a long one, and you're going to fail to try to get laws into place to mandate vaccines.

00:52:26.000 Now, they're going to try other ways.

00:52:27.000 We're going to go through that.

00:52:28.000 They're going to try ways through employers, which unfortunately someone we're going to talk about stands against.

00:52:35.000 But if we were in the French, the Italian, or in the British system, that sort of poll would then become law quickly.

00:52:44.000 The United States Constitution protects your natural rights from an up or down, immediate, quick, hasty vote.

00:52:50.000 Instead, it says, hold on a second.

00:52:53.000 You're going to have to make an argument over a long period of time in both the courts, the legislative, and the executive sector, and on the state-based model before such vaccine mandate comes to pass.

00:53:04.000 When I am a stickler for language, it's for a reason.

00:53:08.000 I'm a stickler of republic versus democracy because a republic, you look at this poll and you say, oh, really?

00:53:14.000 62% of Americans support vaccine mandate.

00:53:17.000 Have a nice day.

00:53:19.000 You can consult a judge.

00:53:22.000 Aristotle famously said that man was a rational animal.

00:53:28.000 At times, I doubt that. 1.00

00:53:31.000 I'm laughing because I see all sorts of extraordinary acts of stupidity. 0.99

00:53:37.000 But generally, the ability to speak and reason is evidence that we are rational creatures. 0.99

00:53:46.000 We're able to make decisions in the world that allow us to travel, that allow us to create structures, build buildings, heat and cool those buildings, be able to mass produce food.

00:54:02.000 And so, if we are generally a rational animal, and I'm chuckling because it doesn't always seem that way, but it's true, then why isn't Fauci and the others trying to persuade us?

00:54:14.000 Why are they treating us like golden retrievers?

00:54:18.000 Make them take the vaccine, no conversation necessary.

00:54:21.000 If 100 million people say, Hold on a second, you're telling us it does this and we don't want to do it.

00:54:26.000 Why do you think 100 million people are skeptical?

00:54:29.000 That's more than Trump voters, by the way.

00:54:32.000 The least vaccinated group in America is black Americans. 0.70

00:54:37.000 Is Fauci picking on the black population? 0.94

00:54:39.000 Is Fauci a racist? 0.79

00:54:42.000 He does want segregation. 0.61

00:54:43.000 Maybe Fauci is a racist.

00:54:45.000 But we're not leftists, so we don't say that stuff here.

00:54:49.000 Look, I do believe that incentives can be helpful at times.

00:54:54.000 This is a conservative argument, not a libertarian argument.

00:54:57.000 For example, incentives around family creation.

00:55:00.000 I'm a big fan of trying to have public policy, trying to have more American-made children or boring children, I should say, not American-made, more American-born children. 0.76

00:55:09.000 I guess American-made would be right.

00:55:11.000 And not having as much foreign both legal and illegal migration to this country.

00:55:15.000 But the reason why I support government incentives for family creation is that's a multi-thousand year proven moral good.

00:55:25.000 Families, lots of children, good for people, good for connection, good for social well-being, good for the nation.

00:55:33.000 Okay.

00:55:33.000 Now, a libertarian argument would say, okay, I'm against the vaccine because it's experimental, and I'm against having sort of incentives to have a lot of children because who am I to say which one is better?

00:55:44.000 I think this argument falls apart very quickly.

00:55:47.000 Value judgments are made all the time by governments.

00:55:52.000 However, when there's confusion, and there is no confusion about having children, by the way, that is a non-negotiable.

00:55:57.000 That's not to say that people don't have children can't be happy, but the general trend is that having children and getting married is a way that you can live a flourishing and fulfilling life.

00:56:07.000 And your society, by definition, is then able to replicate itself and continue, especially if that society is a beautiful country like the United States of America.

00:56:16.000 But when you have uncertainty, this is where the founding fathers were so clairvoyant.

00:56:22.000 They were so special and unique.

00:56:26.000 When you have confusion or uncertainty, or you have people asking questions, then you must immediately yield towards rights.

00:56:38.000 What do I mean by that?

00:56:42.000 When you don't know the answer to the question, or maybe you think you know, but there's a lot of different opinions, you got to go towards rights.

00:56:54.000 You have a right of refusal and you have a right of acceptance.

00:56:58.000 That is what the natural rights doctrine is all about.

00:57:00.000 That is the promise of the American project and Constitution.

00:57:04.000 I don't know about this vaccine.

00:57:06.000 I don't like it.

00:57:07.000 Thanks to our system, you don't have to take it.

00:57:07.000 Cool.

00:57:10.000 I don't know.

00:57:11.000 I'm reading a lot of different stuff and people are saying one thing and doing another.

00:57:14.000 You don't have to take it.

00:57:16.000 Same thing with firearms, by the way.

00:57:18.000 We do not have mandatory firearm ownership in this country.

00:57:22.000 I don't know.

00:57:23.000 I don't like guns.

00:57:23.000 I don't know how to use them.

00:57:24.000 Okay, you don't have to use it.

00:57:25.000 Don't prevent someone else from getting it.

00:57:28.000 Forced or rushed or experimental medicine is not a multi-generational proven good like incentivizing people to have children.

00:57:38.000 And again, this is a conservative argument, not a libertarian argument.

00:57:42.000 Just want to be very clear.

00:57:44.000 I have a soft spot for certain libertarians on certain issues, not on this sort of thing, because the founders then said, look, we are going to design a system that should allow you to be able to say no.

00:57:58.000 I'm not going to have forced speech.

00:58:00.000 I'm not going to have to worship someone I don't want to worship.

00:58:03.000 And I should be able, and this is a conservative argument, not a corporatist argument, and now we're going to get into it.

00:58:10.000 I should be able to keep my job and have a sustainable wage without having to violate my own medical decisions.

00:58:23.000 So a friend of mine, someone who I've known and defended, tweeted something over the weekend, and it's a friend of mine.

00:58:29.000 And I texted her, I said, hey, can you help me make sense of this?

00:58:32.000 I'm not going to be nasty or mean like a lot of people on Twitter were over the weekend.

00:58:36.000 I don't like that.

00:58:37.000 I am going to comment where I fundamentally disagree with her on this as a friend.

00:58:44.000 And that's Governor Christy Noam.

00:58:46.000 Governor Christy Noam came out and she said that workers whose employers are mandating a vaccine for continued employment have the power to say no.

00:58:58.000 Our robust economy and job market gives them the option to find a new employer that values personal choice and responsibility and doesn't force mandates on their employees.

00:59:13.000 That is a corporatist libertarian argument.

00:59:18.000 That's not a conservative argument.

00:59:20.000 Harmeet Dylan in response said, quote, I want to make sure I get it, the state can also have the power to make vaccination status a protected employment category.

00:59:31.000 That would be a bold move.

00:59:33.000 So as conservatives, not as libertarians, again, I agree with libertarians on plenty of things, but this is a conservative program.

00:59:41.000 We believe that things that have lasted for a little while should not be uprooted for bad reasons.

00:59:46.000 It's a general conservative principle.

00:59:49.000 For example, if you live in South Dakota and you have worked at the same place in Mitchell, South Dakota or in Aberdeen, South Dakota for 20 years, and you've been a faithful and loyal employee and you enjoy your job and you enjoy the people around you, you should not all of a sudden be forced to take medicine or go find a new job.

01:00:10.000 That is an overly simplified, not protective of individual rights argument, especially in confusing times.

01:00:19.000 Other people agreed.

01:00:21.000 Joe Sneb said, don't like your employer's vaccine rules?

01:00:24.000 Noam says find a new job.

01:00:27.000 Again, that sounds so easy, but I'm not going to yield that point.

01:00:33.000 After the 500th email I've received here on the Charlie Kirk show, of people that have said, Charlie, are you trying to tell me I now have to take the vaccine or lose my career?

01:00:46.000 I'll give you an example.

01:00:47.000 In Hawaii, Charlie, how do I keep my job?

01:00:50.000 My employer, a private university in Hawaii, directed all employees to provide a vaccine card or submit to testing or demand to wear a mask and face shield at all times.

01:00:57.000 I want to work, but I find these demands unreasonable.

01:01:00.000 Help, question mark, question mark.

01:01:02.000 Conservatives should be unafraid to intervene and help our voters and our citizens to be able to make medical decisions if their employer decides to infringe on them.

01:01:15.000 We as conservatives should say vaccine mandates from the government are wrong and vaccine mandates from the corporations are wrong.

01:01:22.000 Discrimination is generally a really bad thing.

01:01:26.000 I might say, well, Charlie, what do you mean generally?

01:01:28.000 Well, I do believe that religious schools should be able to have religious tests.

01:01:32.000 Obviously, that's a form of discrimination. 0.98

01:01:34.000 We don't like using the D-word for that, but it is discrimination.

01:01:37.000 When it comes to medical decisions, though, we shouldn't all of a sudden be screening people for lupus, rheumatoid arthritis.

01:01:45.000 Like, oh, sorry, you can't work here because your medical history is questionable.

01:01:50.000 And so the argument that Christy Noam is making, and I don't know if she actually tweeted this, is a chamber of commerce style argument.

01:01:59.000 Don't like it?

01:02:00.000 Just move to New York City.

01:02:02.000 Come on, just pack up the car and go find someone that reflects your values.

01:02:06.000 Libertarians make this argument because they don't believe there's anything special or anything unique about having a bond to your land, your area, the customs, your family, or tradition.

01:02:19.000 We as conservatives believe that if it's not necessary to change something, it's necessary not to change it, as Lord Falkland would say.

01:02:27.000 That uprooting chaotic, disruptive type change can have its place in a market, but if it's overdone and we overindulge in that type of process, then all of a sudden you can have societal chaos and you lose the ties that bind you together.

01:02:43.000 Will Chamberlain tweeted, I'm reading from DailyWire.com, you're the governor of your state.

01:02:48.000 If you don't intend to protect your citizens, resign and let someone else do the job.

01:02:51.000 I'm not going to say resign.

01:02:52.000 I'm not saying that.

01:02:53.000 Governor Noam is a friend of mine.

01:02:56.000 But I'm failing to understand this argument where all of a sudden you are going to tell someone that loves their job and supports their family that, oh, yeah, just go find another job.

01:03:07.000 It's not a big deal.

01:03:09.000 That's you imposing your own simplistic view of the world on people that might have roots to an area, a community, a skill, or a trade.

01:03:21.000 Conservatives should stand for things that last and matter.

01:03:28.000 And if people don't want to have to quit their job because they're working, which is an objective moral good, by the way, working is an objective moral good.

01:03:39.000 We should defend them against the creeping autocrats that want to force them into compliance.

01:03:46.000 The Bible tells us that wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord.

01:03:51.000 And this guy that is very big, I mean, he is buff.

01:03:54.000 I'll tell you what, this guy is massive.

01:03:56.000 You've probably seen this video a couple hundred times.

01:03:58.000 I think I was texted this video 200 times in the last five days.

01:04:01.000 Just random Charlie, you see this, Charlie?

01:04:03.000 You see this?

01:04:03.000 Yes, I know.

01:04:04.000 Yes.

01:04:05.000 He definitely has wisdom and he sees forward.

01:04:09.000 I'm not saying he's a prophet.

01:04:10.000 I'm just saying that he might see things that happen before they happen.

01:04:14.000 It is creepy how well he was able to predict all of this.

01:04:19.000 It's lighthearted media matters.

01:04:20.000 Relax.

01:04:21.000 I'm not calling him Elijah.

01:04:22.000 Okay.

01:04:23.000 Cut 15: Jim Bro or Buff Nostradamus or whatever you want to call him, or highly flexed Isaiah or something, or Jim Bro Nehemiah.

01:04:36.000 All right, I'm done.

01:04:36.000 From early 2020, predicted more lockdowns and the ineffectiveness of the vaccine.

01:04:42.000 It's a two-part clip.

01:04:43.000 It's worth listening.

01:04:44.000 Play tape.

01:04:46.000 The mask is about compliance because they know Canadians like to do what they're told.

01:04:46.000 Don't need a mask.

01:04:50.000 So if they tell you you have to wear a mask, next they're going to tell you you have to contact trace.

01:04:54.000 Then they're going to tell you you have to take the vaccine.

01:04:57.000 And because Canadians like to do what they're told, they're hoping that everyone just complies.

01:05:00.000 And then guess what, kids? 0.96

01:05:02.000 Once you take your vaccine, like a dumb person that doesn't know any better, they're going to tell you, sorry, the vaccine isn't as effective as we thought it was going to be. 0.85

01:05:10.000 So now you still got to wear your mask, still got to get contact trace, still have all the restrictions and social distancing, and still take your vaccine. 0.93

01:05:18.000 It's a perpetual cycle that you never get out of.

01:05:22.000 And it's a way to take your rights, your freedoms, close your business, take your wealth.

01:05:27.000 Why?

01:05:27.000 So you become dependent on government.

01:05:29.000 Why?

01:05:30.000 If you're independent, the government works for you like it's supposed to.

01:05:33.000 If you depend on the government to give you a paycheck to feed your family every month, because they closed your business on you, now the government doesn't work for you.

01:05:41.000 The government rules you.

01:05:42.000 So instead of a middle class, we have the government, upper class, and the lower class dependents that rely on the government to survive.

01:05:51.000 In other words, we have a slave class. 0.87

01:05:53.000 And that's what they're trying to do.

01:05:54.000 It's that simple.

01:05:56.000 He predicted the whole program before it even started.

01:06:01.000 I want to just kind of summarize all these points together to give you an idea of how they are marching forward.

01:06:06.000 Literally, Cut 19, Joshua Johnson says that it's time for a revolutionary war to push vaccinations.

01:06:14.000 They are not playing around everybody.

01:06:16.000 They're calling it a war.

01:06:18.000 They're acting like it's a war.

01:06:21.000 They are trying to provoke some form of conflict.

01:06:23.000 Cut 19.

01:06:25.000 This fall marks 240 years since the Revolutionary War ended.

01:06:29.000 Perhaps it could mark the end of another war if we fight it with everything we've got.

01:06:34.000 See, America's fight for freedom only began with rebellion.

01:06:38.000 It ended with wisdom.

01:06:40.000 Just know that our young country depended on more than firing bullets.

01:06:45.000 It depended on taking shots, the kind of shots that save lives.

01:06:49.000 Sick of the mandates?

01:06:50.000 Tired of the restrictions?

01:06:52.000 You want your freedom back?

01:06:54.000 Maybe consider doing what George Washington did.

01:06:58.000 You know, I'm looking at the Constitution here.

01:07:00.000 Nowhere does it say in the preamble anywhere, thou shall only have freedoms and rights if you get the Pfizer vaccine.

01:07:09.000 We the people, in order to make AstraZeneca rich, to try and boost corporate profits for Moderna, do say that we try to perform a more perfect union for only the vaccinated.

01:07:21.000 You see, the founding fathers with the longest-lasting political framework in history, the United States Constitution, they gave us the tools to fight this.

01:07:30.000 We must sue.

01:07:32.000 We must not comply.

01:07:33.000 We must lean on the courageous governors and leaders that say no more, do not comply, that stand up for their employees against the HIPAA violations that are happening, that say that employers cannot mandate vaccines, schools cannot mandate vaccines, and governments cannot mandate vaccines.

01:07:49.000 Until we have Republicans that stand up for that, Republicans are going to be nothing more than the spokespeople for the Chamber of Commerce.

01:07:55.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - August 02, 2021

A Decade of Lockdowns—Confronting America's Newest Endless War

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