The Charlie Kirk Show - July 11, 2024


America's Hottest Trend: Men In Sororities!


Episode Stats

Length

33 minutes

Words per Minute

170.47859

Word Count

5,640

Sentence Count

411

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

Men in sororities? Yep, it is a growing trend. We talk to Sigma Kappa chapter president Sarah Green about the growing trend of men taking over female-only spaces on college campuses, and why it s a problem. We also hear from Sigma Kappa National Chapter President, Sarah Green, who explains how the organization came to the decision to honor a biological man as an honorary member of their sorority and why she doesn t think it should happen in the first place. Join us to learn more about this growing trend, and how it s affecting women across the country, including the University of Kansas and Turning Point USA chapters in Lawrence, Kansas. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments, the company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com/thecharliekirkshow and use the promo code "FREEZE" for 20% off your first month with discount code "membership" at checkout! Learn how to protect your money, your time, and your identity by becoming a member of the Noble Gold Investor at noblegold.investing@noblegold.co.uk. That's where I buy all of my gold! That is NobleGoldInvestments.co and I buy your gold and you get 10% off the purchase price of a piece of my precious metal and I'll send you a free gold watch! It's the best investment opportunity I've ever had in my life! at Noble Gold Investing. . That's what I do! I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to you can do, and you can help me protect my gold and I'm going to do it! Thank you, as always, in the future of the greatest country in the next episode of The Charlie Kirk Show! - Andrew Charlie Kirk - Charlie, Charlie, the Charlie Kirk, the host of the and I hope you'll join me on the show. - The Charlie, Kirk Show ...and I'll be back next week with a call me back next Monday, next Monday! - Andrew, the day after Monday, February 14th, February 15th, 2020! Thanks for listening to Charlie, Charlie - Thank you so much, Andrew, Charlie, Thank you for listening so much for listening and supporting the show, xoxo, Andrew - Kristy, Kristy and Sarah, Sarah


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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, it's Andrew Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:01.000 Men in sororities?
00:00:03.000 Yep, it is a growing trend.
00:00:05.000 We talked to one of our chapter leaders at University of Kansas.
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00:01:35.000 You would think that sororities Being built on the idea as female-only organizations is pretty non-controversial.
00:01:44.000 What if I told you more and more examples are emerging of men that are able to enter sororities, men that are able to go into women's private spaces, and men who are being honored by sororities?
00:01:59.000 How did we get here?
00:02:01.000 Men taking over female spaces Is nothing new.
00:02:05.000 It is part of the trans agenda and joining us to discuss is Sarah Green, who is from the University of Kansas Sigma Kappa Sorority and also the TPUSA and Turning Point USA Chapter President.
00:02:16.000 She did a great job hosting me in Lawrence, Kansas a couple months ago.
00:02:21.000 Sarah, welcome to the program.
00:02:23.000 Hi, thank you.
00:02:24.000 So Sarah, you had a very powerful Twitter thread detailing all of this.
00:02:28.000 Tell us, how did we get here where your sorority, the Sigma Kappa sorority, is now honoring a biological man as an honorary member?
00:02:40.000 What's going on here?
00:02:42.000 Yeah, so this has been going back for over a year at this point.
00:02:45.000 So it was a year ago that I got sent a survey in my email inbox that asked if I would want non-binary people in our chapter.
00:02:53.000 And so this was sent out to 66,000 people, both students and alumni.
00:02:57.000 And following this survey, I joined Zoom calls to find out that we were contracted, Sigma Kappa National was contracted with A company called TA Strategies, and this is run by two people, one of which is Stevie B. Tran, and it's an activist law firm that promotes LGBTQ in fraternal organizations.
00:03:13.000 So that is their specialty.
00:03:14.000 And I was shocked that we paid for something like this nationally and had no idea.
00:03:19.000 So I constantly ask questions of, can we see those survey results before a decision is made?
00:03:25.000 I just, I'm very confident that this is not what college girls are asking for.
00:03:29.000 And it took them about six months, and they released two of 15 questions of the survey.
00:03:33.000 Both show girls weren't comfortable and didn't want this.
00:03:36.000 And instead of stopping there, they decided to make a special committee that you had to apply to be on to further decide if we should allow non-binary people in.
00:03:45.000 And so I applied to be on this committee.
00:03:47.000 Surprisingly, I was rejected.
00:03:49.000 And so I was just scrolling on the website.
00:03:52.000 There's a convention this week, and I wanted to see if they were voting on this recently, because, I mean, if this is going on, I don't want to be involved with it.
00:03:58.000 The organization.
00:03:59.000 I joined this to be in a group of women and I came across that the honor initiate is Stevie Tran.
00:04:05.000 The person we are paying to advise us for all of this mess is being initiated honorarily.
00:04:11.000 And it's, you know, I mean, they're going, Nationals is going out of their way to make this happen, which just was shocking to me.
00:04:16.000 So I just, I couldn't keep it in.
00:04:18.000 I had to bring this one out to the members.
00:04:20.000 So help me understand, then, this is happening all across the country where female organizations are being infiltrated by men with mental problems.
00:04:30.000 And they deserve treatment, obviously.
00:04:32.000 They deserve to be treated with everything we have to heal them because they have problems.
00:04:37.000 But that doesn't mean you accommodate spaces or you accommodate places for people that have these problems.
00:04:43.000 So put 90 up there.
00:04:45.000 This is a biological man by the name of Stevie Tran, practicing attorney, authored articles and all this, and in the Sigma Kappa sorority press release or website, they call this man a she.
00:05:01.000 How did our sororities, which of course by definition are about female empowerment and female exclusivity, how did they become So, co-opted and held hostage by the trans agenda.
00:05:17.000 Yeah, it's shocking.
00:05:18.000 So the rules I know change from being a woman to being identified as a woman changed before I even joined.
00:05:25.000 I had no idea.
00:05:25.000 And looking into this, almost every sorority out there on every campus is identified as a woman.
00:05:30.000 So this change has been made for a while.
00:05:32.000 The only change they're trying to make now is non-binary.
00:05:34.000 But it's not coming locally.
00:05:36.000 It's not coming from girls.
00:05:37.000 It's not coming from officers.
00:05:39.000 It's coming from this national board.
00:05:41.000 And I mean, I don't know how much money is being spent on DEI.
00:05:43.000 I have asked.
00:05:44.000 They won't tell me.
00:05:45.000 They aren't being transparent at all.
00:05:46.000 They're not being truthful on a national scale.
00:05:49.000 And it's shocking.
00:05:49.000 You would think sororities would be the last people to defend women's spaces.
00:05:53.000 I mean, we've been going 150 years for a reason.
00:05:55.000 It's been a successful women's organization.
00:05:57.000 It's empowered so many girls.
00:05:59.000 I think there's 226,000 people that have come out of the sorority.
00:06:02.000 And I mean, from just from my tweet, the responses I've been getting,
00:06:06.000 everyone is so disappointed.
00:06:07.000 And so I don't want this organization to fail. And that's why I mean, that's why I'm here
00:06:11.000 where I am today. But it really is just the national organization is these higher people
00:06:15.000 making these decisions that they don't have to deal with.
00:06:17.000 They don't have to live with this.
00:06:18.000 They just get to make the decisions. So that's really disappointing.
00:06:21.000 So when the survey was issued, 45% of Sigma Kappa members say, no, we should not identify people as
00:06:32.000 non-binary.
00:06:35.000 38% said yes, which is just remarkable to me.
00:06:37.000 Who are these young ladies?
00:06:38.000 I mean, they are completely twisted in their worldview.
00:06:42.000 But still, you're in the correct perspective, one.
00:06:46.000 Additionally, I am open to Sigma Kappa amending membership eligibility requirements.
00:06:52.000 Sigma Kappa should not amend the policy.
00:06:54.000 So you are in the plurality Of both.
00:06:58.000 Both categories on this.
00:07:00.000 And yet, who made the decision to aggressively push this forward?
00:07:06.000 Yeah, it's the Nationals.
00:07:07.000 And from what I know, almost every girl I talked to, they didn't know this was going on.
00:07:10.000 They're not telling local chapters.
00:07:12.000 They're not telling us at our meetings.
00:07:14.000 They're not telling us in our group chats.
00:07:15.000 No one knew.
00:07:16.000 And most girls I talked to didn't even receive the survey, or they don't check their email, which is kind of on them.
00:07:21.000 But, I mean, I don't know anyone from my own chapter who even filled out the survey.
00:07:25.000 So I don't even think it's representative of college girls.
00:07:28.000 It was sent to all alumni and college members.
00:07:30.000 And so, I mean, they only got, I think, 8,900 responses out of sending 66,000 surveys, and there's 226 people that have been involved in the sorority, so I don't think it's entirely representative, but it is shocking that the numbers are so close.
00:07:44.000 But in the end, the Nationals just took it and ran.
00:07:48.000 And they said, the survey results say we don't want this, but we're going to make a committee and basically we're going to do it anyway.
00:07:54.000 I mean, in the interview, they asked me a question that was like, how would you go about telling your individual or your specific chapter about allowing non-binary people in?
00:08:02.000 I was asked that in the interview.
00:08:03.000 I mean, that's that decision was already made by the committee of what's, you know, before the committee was made, they knew what they were trying to do.
00:08:09.000 And so I think this has been in the works for years now.
00:08:11.000 And it's it's crazy.
00:08:13.000 I really can't explain the thinking behind it, because, I mean, girls don't want to Yeah, so it's a fascinating thing.
00:08:20.000 So I know of no examples of women who think they are men and who are allowed into fraternities.
00:08:27.000 Because men would never put up with it and men wouldn't allow it.
00:08:31.000 So the organizational hierarchy is perfectly fine with this.
00:08:36.000 Are there actually any non-honorary, non-binary members joining or living in the house?
00:08:44.000 So tell us more about how this is playing out into practice.
00:08:48.000 Yeah, absolutely.
00:08:49.000 So at my chapter at Kansas, I know there was one person a few years ago.
00:08:54.000 It was before I was at the school, so I don't know a whole lot about it, but as of right now, you can be in the chapter and you just have to say you're a woman.
00:09:01.000 You don't actually have to be a woman.
00:09:02.000 You can say you're a woman, get in, and then you can go, never mind, I'm non-binary.
00:09:06.000 And as of right now, that's, you're good.
00:09:08.000 You can stay in, which that's the current rule.
00:09:11.000 And so they're trying to change it into, you don't have to be a woman or anything.
00:09:14.000 You just have to say, Hey, I'm non-binary.
00:09:16.000 You can hop in.
00:09:17.000 And then do whatever.
00:09:19.000 That's what they're trying to change it to.
00:09:21.000 Well, I'll tell you, this is sick stuff.
00:09:24.000 If we cannot defend women, then what good are we as a civilization?
00:09:28.000 It's just amazing how many, though, women in leadership are okay with young women being preyed upon and the abolition of women as we are seeing it.
00:09:39.000 Sarah Green, chapter of our Turning Point USA group at Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, thank you so much.
00:09:45.000 Thank you.
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00:10:51.000 Joining us now is Mike Benz.
00:10:53.000 Mike Benz is terrific, the Foundation for Freedom Online.
00:10:57.000 I want to dive into some of the breaking news here out of the House Judiciary Committee.
00:11:00.000 Walk us through it.
00:11:02.000 Well, it's amazing.
00:11:03.000 So there is an institution known as the Global Advertisers for Responsible Media, known as GARM, G-A-R-M.
00:11:10.000 And this institution is in charge of $2.6 billion, billion with a B, and annual programmatic ad spending on independent news
00:11:19.000 sites.
00:11:20.000 And Garm has been weaponized as a way to destroy conservative and independent-leaning media institutions
00:11:27.000 as part of this long-range plan of the blob class in order to kill alternative news
00:11:34.000 because alternative news was fueling alternative political candidates
00:11:38.000 like Donald Trump and Nigel Farage and Marine Le Pen.
00:11:41.000 And so basically, NATO embarked on this NATO-wide project to try to kill advertiser revenue to independent news so there'd be no opposition to mainstream media.
00:11:53.000 And so Garm is this flagship product of the World Economic Forum, who are essentially
00:11:58.000 the corporate and financial investors, all of our blue chip companies, who very much
00:12:05.000 depend on the US government in a favors for favors relationship with their global markets,
00:12:10.000 as well as on European governments.
00:12:12.000 And they have had this revolving door relationship where since 2017, the advertisers have been
00:12:18.000 pressured by NATO countries to kill alternative news.
00:12:21.000 And Garm has done so happily because these populist groups, who believe in economic nationalism
00:12:27.000 and what's best for their own people, are now at loggerheads with these blue chip companies
00:12:31.000 who basically want to turn countries into economic zones.
00:12:35.000 And so the revelation here, which again, GARM sounds like something that James Bond would be fighting.
00:12:40.000 They always name their stuff so interestingly.
00:12:45.000 That in the House Judiciary Report, it shows how the biggest brands seek to control online speech.
00:12:52.000 The new information reveals that the advertisers and brands are colluding together.
00:12:57.000 So how does exactly this work in practice?
00:13:00.000 Well, this works through what are known as ad exchanges.
00:13:03.000 You see, every website on the internet that has ads There's two ways that you can make ad revenue.
00:13:11.000 One is an individual sponsor deal with a particular company, but that's far less revenue and far more sort of custom-tailored.
00:13:20.000 What most websites do, or at least what was essentially almost all of online advertising, which is how you monetize eyeballs.
00:13:28.000 This is how Facebook began to turn a profit.
00:13:30.000 This is how every news site turns a profit is through advertising.
00:13:34.000 The way it works is if you don't have A particular sponsor deal with an individual brand, you use what's called programmatic advertising, which is, you know, all those cookies that are collected, all of your data and metadata that are swallowed up using spider crawlers, essentially all over the internet.
00:13:50.000 So every, you know, Gmail, for example, scans all of your email for words and then pitches that, essentially gives that to advertisers so that they get, so Google can customize the ads.
00:14:01.000 And that ad targeting is all done through ad exchanges.
00:14:05.000 who swallow up all this data and then in a microsecond, tailor the ad that's most likely
00:14:11.000 for you to purchase the good in combination with how much these advertisers have bid on
00:14:17.000 specific keywords in order to deliver you that ad.
00:14:21.000 You as an independent website, you as Charlie Kirk Show, you as Breitbart.com or OAN, you
00:14:29.000 don't really have control if you're using these programmatic ad exchanges on what ad
00:14:34.000 That's all done by the exchanges.
00:14:36.000 There's two kinds of exchanges.
00:14:37.000 There's the demand side exchange and the supply side exchange.
00:14:40.000 Essentially, these two sides of the ad exchanges talk to each other.
00:14:45.000 But it all goes up to these supply-side ad exchanges who essentially have these relationships with Garm.
00:14:52.000 They have these relationships with the brands themselves.
00:14:54.000 The brands have these relationships with the supply-side ad exchanges.
00:15:00.000 The supply side feeds it to the demand side.
00:15:02.000 The demand side serves it to the website.
00:15:05.000 So if Garm and the supply side ad exchanges are colluding with each other about what misinformation is, and Garm specifically pledged two years ago That it would eradicate all $2.6 billion worth of its annual programmatic ad spend to websites that are designated to be repeat misinformation spreaders.
00:15:27.000 And who determines what a repeat misinformation spreader?
00:15:30.000 Well, it's the same rigged censorship gargoyle firms, NewsGuard and GDI, the Global Disinformation Index, who themselves have people like General Michael V. Hayden, You know, head of the CIA, head of the NSA, four-star general on their board.
00:15:44.000 Anders Fogh Rasmussen, former head of NATO, is on the board of advisors for NewsGuard.
00:15:48.000 Rick Stengel, the former head of the State Department's Global Engagement Center, is on the board of NewsGuard.
00:15:53.000 Tom Ridge, the former head of DHS.
00:15:55.000 So you have these apex predators of the national security state who are hell-bent on stopping Donald Trump from winning elections, from stopping people associated with Brexit or people associated with Marine Le Pen or AFD in Germany or Matteo Salvini in Italy.
00:16:10.000 Any populist group around the world can now have their, essentially, their news engine cut off by working with Garm.
00:16:17.000 So Mike, help me understand, what is USAID's role in this?
00:16:21.000 I know you've been mentioning this, you have a great tweet on this.
00:16:24.000 USAID, I thought it was about foreign aid.
00:16:26.000 What on earth are they doing policing domestic advertising?
00:16:30.000 USAID is the visible side of the CIA iceberg.
00:16:37.000 When you see USAID, you are always watching either one of three things happening, either the CIA, the State Department, or the Department of Defense.
00:16:48.000 USAID was created in 1961 to be the sort of centralized logistical aid and financial support to US foreign policy operations related to either national security or national interest.
00:17:02.000 National security is going to involve the Pentagon or the CIA.
00:17:05.000 National interest is going to involve the State Department or the CIA.
00:17:08.000 And so you had this problem that the Pentagon, the CIA, and the State Department had From the 1940s to the 1960s, which they were all tripping over each other, funding their own dissident groups, funding their own media organizations, funding their own economic ecosystems to support their own endeavors, and were basically inefficient and tripping over each other and duplicative, and so USAID xed that all out.
00:17:30.000 USAID actually has a larger budget than the CIA, but make no mistake, USAID is not a charity.
00:17:36.000 USAID is a soft power influence machine, which provides the monetary muscle For both overt diplomacy and covert action.
00:17:45.000 And in this case, it's covert action.
00:17:47.000 And I will tell you, I've been watching these people since the day they set all this up.
00:17:53.000 And I was watching their live streams in 2017 when the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID got in a room together with Google and Facebook to pressure them to take down ad networks.
00:18:05.000 I'm going to give you a great example.
00:18:07.000 In May 2017, There was a guy who was basically the head of research for the National Endowment for Democracy.
00:18:16.000 The National Endowment for Democracy was established in a letter in 1983 from the CIA director of the Reagan administration, William Colby, to the Attorney General who called for a restoration of the CIA's capacities to fund media institutions and political dissident groups that they had lost during the Carter administration when Jimmy Carter fired 30% Instead of having CIA fingerprints on this, we would create a private non-governmental organization called the National Endowment for Democracy to do it instead.
00:18:43.000 What William Colby proposed was that instead of having CIA fingerprints on this, we would
00:18:50.000 create a private non-governmental organization called the National Endowment for Democracy
00:18:54.000 to do it instead.
00:18:55.000 That way, if an operation got busted, it wouldn't look like the CIA did it.
00:19:00.000 The guy who's basically the head of the analytics division for the National Endowment for Democracy
00:19:04.000 got in a room with Michael Chertoff in May 2017.
00:19:07.000 Michael Chertoff was, of course, with the U.S.
00:19:10.000 Justice Department, but he was also the brains behind the Disinformation Governance Board with Nina Jankovic at DHS.
00:19:17.000 He was also the chairman of Freedom House, which is another one of these large State Department NGOs, and most famously, he was the chairman of BAE Systems.
00:19:23.000 Which is the largest military contractor in all of NATO.
00:19:26.000 So this is one of these apex predators of the national security state, together with the head of the CIA's most prolific covert action conduit.
00:19:35.000 And they cornered the executives of Google and Facebook for content moderation in May 2017 And demanded that Google and Facebook change their policies to eliminate the financial incentives for misinformation and talked about the need to rope in advertiser networks to kill advertising revenue to what they called unfiltered alternative news.
00:20:00.000 Because unfiltered alternative news was giving rise to populist movements, and populist movements were basically undermining NATO and threatening to have this Brexit, Frexit, Italexit, Grexit, Domino.
00:20:12.000 And so the whole international rules-based order was going to collapse unless advertisers
00:20:18.000 stopped providing funding to alternative news institutions like OAN and Breitbart, and to
00:20:24.000 some extent even Fox News and others.
00:20:26.000 And besides some— Oh, no, I mean, but I got to interrupt here, Mike.
00:20:29.000 I got to interject.
00:20:30.000 We deal with this all the time.
00:20:31.000 We do it through NewsGuard and that Nandini person.
00:20:35.000 They constantly come after us.
00:20:36.000 I don't know if we're part of any of this international USAID thing.
00:20:40.000 I bet we are, but anyway, because we have a big platform and constantly dealing with
00:20:45.000 SEO demonetization.
00:20:47.000 Please, Mike, interject.
00:20:48.000 Yes.
00:20:49.000 Well, you know, Daily Wire and Federalist both have in-process lawsuits, which is being supported by Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas against the State Department on exactly this issue.
00:21:00.000 I have no doubt that you're included, you know, to some extent, you know, in that, that, you know, blacklist item because the State Department has been working with NewsGuard on that.
00:21:08.000 You know, at least that's what's being alleged.
00:21:10.000 in the lawsuit, and there's a whole discovery process that is going to break much of this
00:21:15.000 open.
00:21:16.000 But essentially, as I mentioned, NewsGuard coordinates through the fact that they have
00:21:20.000 on their board of advisors, literally the founder of the State Department's Global Engagement
00:21:25.000 Center and the head of NATO under President Obama, also the former head of the CIA, NSA,
00:21:31.000 four-star general, all of that.
00:21:33.000 And there's a lot of British intelligence intrigues around GDI, which is the Global Disinformation Dex, the other censorship sentinel that's sort of best in class with NewsGuard on this.
00:21:43.000 But one thing that I should note about USAID, and this is at the top of my feed, I just Retweeted it.
00:21:48.000 It's at MikeBenCyber if you want to see these specific links.
00:21:52.000 But USAID put out a primer in February 2021.
00:21:58.000 Joe Biden had been in office for less than a month when USAID published a primer on how to kill advertiser revenue to misinformation news sites.
00:22:08.000 They mentioned 31 times in a 97-page document The imperative of getting advertisers to eliminate financial incentives to misinformation.
00:22:20.000 That means blackballing any news institution that the State Department disfavors.
00:22:26.000 I just have some of these screenshots on screen.
00:22:28.000 What can technology companies do?
00:22:30.000 Eliminate financial incentives.
00:22:31.000 What can national governments do?
00:22:33.000 Regulate ad networks.
00:22:34.000 This is the U.S.
00:22:35.000 State Department, and USAID is, again, the support mechanism for the State Department overtly and for the CIA covertly.
00:22:43.000 Having a foreign influence plan.
00:22:45.000 I mean, think about how evil this is.
00:22:47.000 This is the U.S.
00:22:48.000 State Department who is taking their advice from institutions like the Global Disinformation Index and NewsGuard, and they are telling foreign governments to crack down on private advertiser networks to kill advertising revenue to U.S.
00:23:05.000 news institutions like Daily Wire and The Federalist.
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00:24:13.000 Given the latest Supreme Court decision where they basically allow the government to nudge tech companies, is this legal given the Supreme Court decision?
00:24:25.000 I think the Supreme Court decision has us in a kind of stasis moment right now because the Supreme Court made a standing ruling in the end.
00:24:33.000 In the end, they did not actually make a judgment on the merits.
00:24:36.000 It was a very narrow thing.
00:24:38.000 Up for their consideration.
00:24:39.000 Remember, they only ruled on the temporary injunction, which is a much higher standard than an actual final judgment because a temporary injunction means you need to stop it immediately because you're probably correct and there will be irreparable harm.
00:24:54.000 They basically just overturned the temporary injunction, but there's going to be another two years of litigation On that Murphy Supreme Court decision, the State Attorney General still has not received their full merits discovery, so they're going to be getting more and more documents from all of these U.S.
00:25:10.000 government agencies.
00:25:11.000 And I actually do believe when it goes back up to the Supreme Court on a merits decision that it will look a lot different in the final outcome.
00:25:21.000 But what I'll say is they may feel emboldened by the fact that they did not face accountability from the Supreme Court.
00:25:28.000 But we have things that we can do.
00:25:31.000 We are not powerless in this regard.
00:25:33.000 And I would just say three words right up front.
00:25:38.000 House Appropriations Committee.
00:25:41.000 House Appropriations Committee, you have a job to do here.
00:25:45.000 You need to withhold funding to USAID until they get rid of this domestic censorship boomerang.
00:25:51.000 Because understand what USAID and the U.S.
00:25:53.000 State Department are doing here.
00:25:54.000 They want to stop political support for Donald Trump or any sort of populist movement that challenges State Department foreign policy.
00:26:02.000 And what they are doing is they want to knife them directly.
00:26:05.000 They can't because they're forbidden by law from operating on U.S.
00:26:08.000 soil.
00:26:09.000 Instead, they're sharpening the blade of a boomerang and flying the boomerang out to institutions around the world to get them to slice open the heads of U.S.
00:26:23.000 media institutions that are deemed to be supportive of populist movements, like Daily Wire and Federalist, who are a part of this lawsuit.
00:26:32.000 Hundreds of other websites that have been economically deplatformed and effectively decimated by this.
00:26:37.000 So the State Department is not allowed to do it directly, so they are telling foreign governments To use their regulatory power to kill advertisers' ability to actually have a profitable relationship with news companies.
00:26:52.000 And this is the other part of this, is that these blue chip companies in Garm do not want to sanction themselves.
00:26:59.000 When they stop providing, they only do advertising.
00:27:03.000 Advertising is not a charity business.
00:27:05.000 They only do advertising if it is a positive ROI, if it makes them money.
00:27:10.000 So they don't want to cut out $2.6 billion of potential business with independent, centrist, conservative websites around the world.
00:27:20.000 But they rely on the U.S.
00:27:22.000 government for their global markets.
00:27:24.000 Microsoft does.
00:27:25.000 ExxonMobil does.
00:27:26.000 All the blue chip companies, every publicly traded global company relies on the U.S.
00:27:30.000 State Department to fight on their behalf as U.S.
00:27:33.000 national champions.
00:27:34.000 This is what Facebook said.
00:27:35.000 Facebook did not want to censor the man-made theory of COVID.
00:27:38.000 The internal Facebook file subpoenaed by Jim Jordan revealed that Nick Clegg said,
00:27:42.000 we have to think creatively about how to cooperate with the censorship demands of the Biden White
00:27:47.000 House because, quote, we have bigger fish to fry on multiple policy fronts with the Biden
00:27:52.000 administration. You have this situation where a lot of people look at what Garm is doing,
00:27:58.000 and they think, oh my God, the corporations are censoring the speech online.
00:28:03.000 And it's true.
00:28:04.000 This is what corporations are driving.
00:28:09.000 Garm does represent these Blue chip mega company, multinational global brands.
00:28:14.000 But what people do not see is behind the scenes, the boot that is being placed on them by governments around the world who are reliant on favors for those governments.
00:28:24.000 And the example that we were just going over was the incredible reveal by Jim Jordan's weaponization committee who subpoenaed the Facebook files, the YouTube files, the Amazon files.
00:28:34.000 And what was revealed is that Facebook did not want to censor the COVID man-made origins theory.
00:28:41.000 They hadn't been hard about it a lot.
00:28:43.000 They fought the Biden administration tooth and nail for months, ultimately folded, because internally the executive team of Facebook decided they did not want to piss off the Biden administration because they needed the Biden administration.
00:28:56.000 To defend them against foreign governments' regulatory actions.
00:28:59.000 That is, they needed Biden's State Department, they needed Tony Blinken to defend Facebook against the Digital Markets Act in Europe, the Digital Services Act in Europe, against all the different IT regulatory issues and tax and labor and data laws all over the world.
00:29:18.000 And so, Nick Clegg, the head of public policy at Facebook, told the team that they had to think creatively about how to satisfy government censorship demands because they had bigger fish to fry on multiple policy fronts.
00:29:29.000 And this is the same calculus that Microsoft goes through, that ExxonMobil goes through, that Walmart goes through.
00:29:39.000 We live in a global world with global markets, and there is not a single U.S.
00:29:44.000 multinational company who most of its dollars come from the U.S.
00:29:48.000 market In the aggregate, because it's a great big world out there and we're only 300 million people.
00:29:53.000 So the rest of the world actually matters more to the bottom line for our exports than our own domestic goods and services.
00:30:04.000 But in order to access those markets and to access them in a way that's profitable to our multinational companies, they need the battering ram of the blob.
00:30:14.000 They need the military to potentially secure supply lines.
00:30:17.000 They need special operations to potentially prime the political environment so that the right leader rises to power.
00:30:25.000 They need the State Department to step in with threats, to step in to negotiate on their behalf.
00:30:31.000 I did that myself while I was at the State Department.
00:30:34.000 We have U.S.
00:30:36.000 national champions.
00:30:37.000 We define our foreign policy as serving Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon.
00:30:42.000 That was MAGA at the U.S.
00:30:43.000 State Department in the cyber division.
00:30:47.000 These companies all know that.
00:30:49.000 When one of the lead administrators for USAID and one of the major officials At DHS, who also runs the largest military contractor, chairman of the largest military contractor in the entire world.
00:31:05.000 It was also at the Justice Department and also at the National Endowment for Democracy, the CIA's top cutout.
00:31:10.000 And when all these forces within the U.S.
00:31:13.000 government who represent our State Department diplomatic apparatus tell Garm Brands, listen, you're going to have to sanction these companies.
00:31:23.000 You're going to have to saw off a little pinky finger.
00:31:26.000 I'm sorry for the colorful analogy.
00:31:28.000 In order to stop this much bigger threat that the U.S.
00:31:31.000 government faces, i.e.
00:31:32.000 the rise of political forces like Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Bolsonaro in Brazil, you name it, the list is virtually endless right now of rising populist forces who are trying to be contained by the same faction.
00:31:46.000 But you have these companies not wanting to do this, but they are being pressured to do this because they are dependent on those same governments doing the pressuring This is a very dirty trick that we have not really had to take on before.
00:32:06.000 From basically time immemorial since the founding of this country, there has been some consistency with the U.S.
00:32:13.000 government and its U.S.
00:32:14.000 National Champions policy, which is to say, if the military takes over the hydrocarbons in the Middle East so that ExxonMobil and Chevron Can make billions from exploiting that shale supply.
00:32:27.000 Well, then Americans get cheaper gas at the pump.
00:32:29.000 That's more people being employed by ExxonMobil and Chevron.
00:32:32.000 That's more 401ks.
00:32:33.000 That's more college savings funds.
00:32:34.000 That's more GDP.
00:32:36.000 But there was never a situation where the U.S.
00:32:38.000 State Department was doing favors for ExxonMobil and ExxonMobil was then, and the CIA was overthrowing a government to take all the resources so that Exxon could profit.
00:32:46.000 And then ExxonMobil turns around and then cuts off gas supply to 50% of the country.
00:32:51.000 But that's what we have now.
00:32:52.000 Mike Benz, fascinating.
00:32:53.000 Excellent work.
00:32:54.000 Check out his organization, Freedom Foundation online.
00:32:57.000 Thanks so much, Mike Benz.
00:32:58.000 Thanks, Charlie.
00:32:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:01.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:33:03.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.