The Charlie Kirk Show - Anti-American Activists Hijack the Olympic Games

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00:00:27.000 What are we supposed to make of an Olympian turning their back on the American flag?

00:00:31.000 Unfortunately, it is part of a trend to try to deconstruct and disrupt and infiltrate our country.

00:00:37.000 What are you supposed to do with insurgents like this that wish to destroy America?

00:00:42.000 We talk about that and the wonderful history of the unifying aspect of sports.

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00:02:17.000 It's been an interesting weekend.

00:02:19.000 I spoke in Vermont yesterday, Burlington, Vermont, actually.

00:02:23.000 Not exactly Midland, Texas, when it comes to the backbone of conservatism.

00:02:29.000 We had a great time with Pastor Todd and his entire team at Ignite Church, and they were wonderful.

00:02:35.000 We had a packed house.

00:02:37.000 And we went there for a couple different reasons.

00:02:39.000 I went there because they defied the lockdown orders.

00:02:43.000 And I just appreciate that in so many different ways.

00:02:46.000 Pastors and churches that stood up against the tyranny of the public health commissioners in the last year.

00:02:55.000 But as I was there in Burlington, anyone who's ever been to Burlington, Vermont, it's kind of a mixture of Berkeley, California and Boulder, Colorado, with a little bit of Manhattan mixed into it.

00:03:07.000 Generally, when I go to some of these liberal towns, I'm met with disgust or protest.

00:03:15.000 It was actually incredible walking the streets of Burlington.

00:03:17.000 We had people coming up saying, I listened to your podcast.

00:03:20.000 Now, this is literally the town where Bernie Sanders was mayor.

00:03:24.000 That's Burlington, Vermont.

00:03:26.000 And we're actually going to be returning, I think, October 18th, right, Mikey?

00:03:29.000 October 18th to Burlington, Vermont.

00:03:32.000 And we're going to have a great time there for our Turning Point USA tour.

00:03:35.000 So we went to Vermont.

00:03:37.000 And over the weekend, some people actually stopped me when I was speaking at that church.

00:03:42.000 They said, Charlie, I listened to your podcast on slow motion secession.

00:03:48.000 I encourage all of you to check out the podcast we did on slow motion secession.

00:03:52.000 We got a lot of feedback from it.

00:03:53.000 And they said, Charlie, I'm already there.

00:03:57.000 These are people that live in Vermont.

00:03:58.000 They say, I want to go to a place that can disconnect from this government.

00:04:02.000 They do not represent me.

00:04:03.000 I say, hold on, slow down.

00:04:05.000 And over the weekend, we received thousands, not thousands, probably hundreds of emails on that sort of sentiment.

00:04:10.000 We received thousands of total emails, but hundreds of emails saying, Charlie, you're naive.

00:04:15.000 It's just a matter of time until we sever ties and we have to form our own country.

00:04:20.000 And so I thought to myself, and a lot of time I had thinking because of my flight being six hours delayed through Chicago, O'Hare International Airport.

00:04:28.000 Thank you, United, was what is the left doing, if anything, to try to heal and mend our society right now?

00:04:39.000 Do they even have an interest to do that?

00:04:41.000 Do they actually want to bring this country together or are they actually forcing the hand where this will either result in a fracturing or a totalitarian, authoritarian moment?

00:04:52.000 And so, right on queue this last weekend, something that used to be not just non-political, not just apolitical, but it was unifying beyond Republican and Democrat, and that is Olympic competitions.

00:05:08.000 Sports are supposed to be, they're supposed to be not just unifying, they're supposed to be transcendent.

00:05:16.000 Sports are supposed to be where you check your own biases and you go towards a common goal, especially in the Olympics where you are wearing the American flag and where you are representing a culture and a history and a people.

00:05:32.000 I love sports growing up.

00:05:34.000 I don't watch sports very much anymore, and it saddens me.

00:05:36.000 I wish I would still watch sports.

00:05:38.000 I tried watching two minutes of the NBA, the Phoenix Suns, and the Clippers, and it was so unenjoyable.

00:05:45.000 The players had such an attitude.

00:05:47.000 The level of play has gone into almost pickup basketball.

00:05:52.000 No one plays defense anymore.

00:05:55.000 And not very enjoyable, anyway.

00:05:57.000 And not to mention the politics in it.

00:06:00.000 And so this last weekend at an Olympic competition, this plays into this point, and it kind of connects the last episode we did in our podcast.

00:06:08.000 I encourage all of you to check out our podcast where we were talking about this idea of slow-motion secession.

00:06:14.000 What happens if, what would you say if we were actually living through a slow-motion, ever-gradual divorce right now?

00:06:21.000 Where people that have values, where they want to own firearms and go to church and raise large families and believe our rights come from God, they want to govern themselves.

00:06:30.000 They no longer feel like the kingdom of Washington, D.C. is properly representing them.

00:06:36.000 They say, we want to make our own choices.

00:06:39.000 And just based on a small sample size of our audience, which we deeply appreciate, people are getting there.

00:06:45.000 And so I made the argument that's not healthy.

00:06:48.000 It's not good for our nation.

00:06:49.000 It's not good for our republic.

00:06:51.000 I think we should be unionists and let the other side try to fracture and break us up if they so choose.

00:06:59.000 And we should push back against that.

00:07:02.000 And so the question then remains: are they doing, is the other side doing anything at all to try to mend this?

00:07:11.000 Well, in the Olympic competition over this last weekend, a person by the name of Gwen Berry, I've never heard that this person before.

00:07:17.000 Gwen Berry allegedly throws a hammer. 1.00

00:07:21.000 That's what she does. 1.00

00:07:22.000 She's a hammer thrower. 1.00

00:07:23.000 That's fine.

00:07:25.000 Did something that plays into this so perfectly is not the right word.

00:07:31.000 It plays into this idea of a national divorce and a national decay and a slow motion secession. 0.93

00:07:39.000 So Gwen Berry finished third or a bronze medalist.

00:07:42.000 Gwen Berry is a black woman. 0.97

00:07:45.000 She's a hammer thrower and she placed third, but her demonstration definitely overshadowed her achievement.

00:07:54.000 United States athlete Gwen Berry said Sunday, the criticism she's received.

00:07:58.000 So, what did she do?

00:07:58.000 Is unwarranted.

00:08:00.000 She turned her back on the American flag during the national anthem.

00:08:05.000 You see, the playbook being used and employed against us is the constant and relentless campaign to usurp and infiltrate transcendent traditions.

00:08:17.000 One of the things that my generation grew up believing was something that should continue is Olympic competition and sport.

00:08:25.000 Keep politics out of that.

00:08:26.000 The nation comes first.

00:08:28.000 Our ideals come first.

00:08:31.000 Now, Gwen Berry, who is a black female hammer thrower, congratulations, finished third.

00:08:40.000 And instead of putting her hand over the heart, I kid you not, she put her t-shirt on her head during the national anthem in sign of protest.

00:08:51.000 And then she had the audacity to say that she was set up.

00:08:58.000 That's right.

00:08:59.000 That she was set up, that she was not actually a victim.

00:09:08.000 That she's the one that people should feel sorry for. 0.55

00:09:12.000 How dare the United States Olympic Commission play the national anthem?

00:09:18.000 And I want to dive into this in great detail because this is now the number one news story in the country.

00:09:23.000 Where Gwen Berry, and she's, by the way, she's getting a ton of support, by the way.

00:09:27.000 A lot of people are coming and supporting her for putting a t-shirt on her head and saying that I do not respect the national anthem because of systemic racism.

00:09:39.000 And I want you to think about this during the break.

00:09:41.000 Is this sustainable?

00:09:44.000 How much more of this cultural blitzkrieg can our nation take?

00:09:51.000 Maybe we're more resilient and we could just take this forever.

00:09:55.000 Or maybe we are now on fragile footing where people like Gwen Berry are going to force a national divorce.

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00:11:14.000 Now, we've talked at length about a guy by the name of Herbert Marcuza, and he is the sort of the godfather of critical theory.

00:11:22.000 He came from the Frankfurt School, and you're starting to hear his name mentioned more and more.

00:11:26.000 He had one of his disciples is Angela Davis, a communist who runs a lot of the education system in California.

00:11:34.000 One of his other disciples was a man by the name, is a communist student activist by the name of Rudy Dutschke.

00:11:43.000 And he came up with this phrase called the long march to the institutions.

00:11:48.000 And Marcuse wrote favorably about this, where Rudy said, if we as communists and as Marxists ever want to be successful, we have to infiltrate and we have to actually do the jobs that the Westerners or the Americans themselves are doing.

00:12:04.000 I'm going to read with what Marcuse said in 1972 in a book called Counter Revolution and Revolt.

00:12:14.000 To the extent to extend the base of the communist student movement, Rudy Dutchke has proposed the strategy of the long march to the institutions, working against the established institutions while working within them.

00:12:29.000 But not simply by, quote, boring from within, rather by, quote, doing the job, learning how to program and how to read computers, how to teach at all levels of education, how to use mass media, how to organize productions, how to reorganize and exchue planned obsolescence, how to design, and at the same time, preserving one's own consciousness and working with others.

00:12:56.000 The long march includes the concerted effort to build up counter institutions.

00:13:03.000 They have been an aim of the communist movement, but the lack of funds was greatly responsible for their weakness and their inferior quality.

00:13:11.000 They must be made competitive.

00:13:14.000 This is especially important for the development of radical, quote, free media.

00:13:18.000 The fact that the radical left has no equal access to the great chains of information and indoctrination is largely responsible for its isolation.

00:13:27.000 Marcuse is saying they're only going to be successful if they infiltrate, if they challenge.

00:13:35.000 And that includes media, education, Hollywood, movies, music, and yes, athletics.

00:13:45.000 You see, athletics were always, by design, outside of some of the cultural radical trends that you might have saw on cable television or in music or in movie production.

00:13:58.000 Sports were always trying to be kept bipartisan or non-partisan.

00:14:03.000 Michael Jordan famously said when he was pressured in the 1990s to endorse a Senate candidate, he said, Republicans buy sneakers too.

00:14:12.000 Now, these rules of non-engagement in American politics are no, they no longer apply because, according to the current revolutionaries, the injustice today is worse than the injustice in the Jim Crow South.

00:14:25.000 The injustice today is worse than any other time in American history.

00:14:30.000 Now, some of you listening right now think, how could anyone possibly believe that?

00:14:35.000 Well, they go to college is how they believe that.

00:14:37.000 They are taught in college that what they are living through right now is the greatest, most unjust time in American history, and that their dramatic revolutionary type action is necessary to change that.

00:14:50.000 You see, athletes used to wrap themselves in the flag and the celebration of victory and something larger than themselves.

00:14:57.000 They used to collapse and cry when they used to say that I am able to deliver a victory for the Americans against the communist Russians.

00:15:06.000 And we're going to remember some of the greatest moments in Olympic history. 0.56

00:15:10.000 You see, Gwen Berry, a very unimpressive sociopathic narcissist who finished third in the hammer throw, is just the latest iteration or the latest manifestation of the ideas that your children are learning in grade school and high school.

00:15:25.000 Do you want to see the real world implications of critical race theory?

00:15:29.000 Gwen Berry embraces it.

00:15:31.000 When the national anthem plays, instead of putting her hand over the heart, or even just how about just putting your hands down and your head down and just say that you are saying a prayer.

00:15:39.000 Be somber and solemn and be one thing, Gwen Berry, if you won your third place.

00:15:44.000 You did not win. 1.00

00:15:45.000 Instead, she wanted all the attention to be put on her because she's a narcissist. 1.00

00:15:49.000 That's what they teach at universities now. 0.97

00:15:51.000 She put her t-shirt on her head that said activist athlete.

00:15:54.000 She turned her back to the flag and she looked bitter.

00:15:59.000 Bitterness is destroying the country, the lack of gratitude.

00:16:03.000 And what did Gwen Berry say in response to all this when she was challenged?

00:16:08.000 She said, That song has never spoken to me.

00:16:10.000 I'm speaking out against all the people that have died under systemic racism.

00:16:14.000 Hey, Gwen Berry, you're a black woman athlete.

00:16:18.000 If we were so systemically racist, how are you able to compete? 1.00

00:16:21.000 How are you able to get a scholarship at a major university?

00:16:25.000 You are the embodiment of how great America is.

00:16:28.000 I just wish you believed it.

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00:17:00.000 We are losing almost anything in our country that hasn't been corrupted or co-opted or hijacked by the activists.

00:17:12.000 We, as human beings, are not wired for this perpetual state of activism.

00:17:21.000 We live in the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world. 0.94

00:17:26.000 So, how could someone like Gwen Berry, a black female hammer thrower, how could she possibly get to the conclusion where she thinks America is so evil and so awful that she will turn her back during the national anthem and she will say that she is protesting systemic racism? 0.60

00:17:47.000 And she said, I felt like I was set up and they played the national anthem on purpose.

00:17:52.000 Oh, yeah, they played the national anthem on purpose, Gwen Berry.

00:17:56.000 That's sort of a prerequisite of being an athlete and winning.

00:17:59.000 Well, I'm sorry, you didn't win.

00:18:00.000 You got third.

00:18:01.000 She said, Quote, they said they were going to play it before we walked out and they played it when we were out there.

00:18:06.000 But I don't really want to talk about the anthem because that's not important.

00:18:09.000 The anthem doesn't speak for me.

00:18:11.000 It never has.

00:18:11.000 Well, then, what does speak for you, Gwen Berry?

00:18:14.000 The Chinese call for arms because you're wearing Nike up and down your uniform. 0.91

00:18:20.000 And we're going to get to Nike, by the way.

00:18:22.000 No American patriot should ever buy Nike again.

00:18:26.000 Nike came out and they said, We are a Chinese company.

00:18:29.000 Did you not?

00:18:30.000 Nike, which started at the University of Oregon when my uncle and my father and my aunt were all there with Préfontaine and Phil Knight and all the gang there.

00:18:39.000 They've now come out and they've said they are a Chinese company.

00:18:42.000 I'll prove it to you.

00:18:43.000 And Barry said, I'm here to represent those who died due to systemic racism.

00:18:50.000 That's the important part.

00:18:51.000 That's why I'm going.

00:18:53.000 That's why I'm here today.

00:18:54.000 My purpose and my mission is bigger than sports.

00:18:58.000 What exactly do you mean, Gwen Berry?

00:19:00.000 So she says we're a systemically racist country.

00:19:03.000 So I was curious and I was just wondering what her story was.

00:19:08.000 Was she beat by police officers growing up?

00:19:10.000 Was she held against her will in solitary confinement?

00:19:14.000 Was she imprisoned for a crime she didn't commit?

00:19:17.000 No, she lived a rather good life, actually.

00:19:20.000 Gwen Berry was born to two parents in Florescent, Missouri, and attended McClure High School.

00:19:25.000 She was a basketball player there.

00:19:27.000 And then she ended up getting a scholarship, and this is where she learned all these wonderful ideas, to Southern Illinois University in Carmondale. 0.99

00:19:35.000 Those Salukis.

00:19:36.000 I think that's what they say. 0.98

00:19:37.000 I think they are the Salukis in psychology and criminal justice.

00:19:42.000 Well, that's obviously where she got all of these bad ideas.

00:19:46.000 She then started competing in the 2008 junior championships.

00:19:51.000 She then went on to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships, and she made her international debut in 2010 in the Under-23 Championship.

00:20:01.000 In her last season at Southern Illinois, she reached new peaks.

00:20:05.000 By the way, this is the longest, most ridiculous Wikipedia page for a hammer thrower. 0.65

00:20:10.000 Let me just say. 0.61

00:20:11.000 Just for someone who throws a hammer, you'd think that she wrote crime and punishment or something.

00:20:16.000 Anyway, it's incredibly detailed. 0.72

00:20:19.000 She goes on, and by the way, this is not the first time she's decided to be a sociopathic narcissist. 0.65

00:20:24.000 In the 2019 Pan American Games, Gwen Berry in Lima, Peru, was awarded the gold medal, but then she raised her fist in protest against the injustice of America and a president who's making it worse.

00:20:38.000 She says, I'm here to represent all the people that have died due to systemic racism and in support of racial and social justice for all human beings.

00:20:46.000 So, Gwen Berry, explain to me, if America was so systemically racist and awful, how could a black woman like you be able to go to college, get a scholarship, and represent our athletics at the highest possible level?

00:20:57.000 Do you think that would be possible in other countries? 0.93

00:21:01.000 Do you think a black woman like you would be able to do that in Hungary or Bulgaria or in any other Eastern European country? 0.99

00:21:10.000 Do you think that would be possible? 0.99

00:21:12.000 Do you think it would be possible to do that in China?

00:21:15.000 Probably not.

00:21:17.000 But she decides that the greatest point of focus for her is the United States of America.

00:21:24.000 She's a deconstructionist.

00:21:26.000 She has been told that she is oppressed, when in reality, she's the opposite of oppressed.

00:21:31.000 She is one of the luckiest people ever to be born in the history of the world, yet she's made it her job to focus attention on herself.

00:21:38.000 She's been told that this country is awful and terrible.

00:21:41.000 And she is in the mold of Kaepernick and Megan Rapineau, all in the same tradition of this college-educated revolutionary.

00:21:51.000 So Olympic sports used to be healing.

00:21:53.000 You remember this, Cut 10?

00:21:55.000 When we used to unify as a country, because we beat the Ruskies, when we beat the revolutionaries, when we beat the communists themselves.

00:22:01.000 So we went from beating the communists in the 1970s and 80s in hockey to now having them throw hammers for us and act as if they are bitter Marxist revolutionaries.

00:22:13.000 Let's play Cut 10.

00:22:14.000 Remember when sports used to unify us?

00:22:16.000 28 seconds.

00:22:17.000 The crowd born in C. Carlomont. 0.80

00:22:22.000 Putting it into the American end again. 0.67

00:22:24.000 Morrow is back there.

00:22:25.000 Now Johnson, 19 seconds.

00:22:28.000 Johnson over to Ramsey.

00:22:29.000 Will you let them off get checked by Ramsey? 0.97

00:22:32.000 The clown of hand is there. 0.77

00:22:33.000 The puppies still lose. 0.72

00:22:34.000 11 seconds.

00:22:35.000 You've got 10 seconds.

00:22:36.000 The countdown going on right now.

00:22:38.000 Morrow up to soul.

00:22:40.000 Five seconds left in the game.

00:22:41.000 You believe in Melanchool?

00:22:43.000 Yes!

00:22:44.000 Unbelievable.

00:22:50.000 Makes me emotional.

00:22:51.000 Should make you emotional, too.

00:22:54.000 It's when hockey teams and sports and all Americans rallied together because we knew that we were in the midst of a theological struggle against the Soviet Union.

00:23:02.000 We believed we were made in God's image and our rights came from God, and the Russians were the largest atheist country to date.

00:23:09.000 They imprisoned their dissidents.

00:23:10.000 We allowed our dissidents to speak freely in the street.

00:23:14.000 Our athletes rallied around not behind Republican and Democrat, but behind the United States flag.

00:23:21.000 Remember when Dan Snow visited Lake Placid to relive the incredible ice hockey match from the 1980 Winter Games between the USA and the Soviet Union?

00:23:30.000 Let's play Cut 11.

00:23:31.000 The improbable?

00:23:33.000 Well, it became the probable.

00:23:34.000 We had a bunch of college kids ages 19, 20, 21, taking on this professional team from the Soviet Union.

00:23:42.000 So this is really about history.

00:23:44.000 In a political or nationalistic sense, I'm sure this game is being viewed with varying perspectives, but manifestly, it is a hockey game.

00:23:52.000 The United States and the Soviet Union on a sheet of ice in lake classic New York.

00:23:57.000 These are the inspirational words spoken by Herb Brooks, the coach of the U.S. team just before they went out on the ice.

00:24:03.000 Great moments above great opportunity.

00:24:05.000 That's what we have here tonight, boys.

00:24:07.000 That's what you've earned here tonight.

00:24:08.000 One game.

00:24:09.000 It's a goal.

00:24:10.000 Kazetinov has scored.

00:24:12.000 If we played them 10 times, they might win nine, but not this game.

00:24:15.000 Not tonight.

00:24:16.000 Tonight, we're going to skate with them.

00:24:18.000 And the Olympic handbook morrow is described as brutal.

00:24:21.000 Tonight we're going to stay with them and shut them down.

00:24:23.000 Trigger score!

00:24:25.000 What a shot!

00:24:26.000 I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. 0.98

00:24:30.000 Meklarov, goal.

00:24:32.000 Now go out there and take it.

00:24:36.000 That's an international commentator reciting Herb Brooks' speech, the famous speech, Do You Believe in Miracles?

00:24:43.000 Well, the call was by Al Michaels, but the speech itself was in the locker room, saying that they would beat us nine out of ten times.

00:24:50.000 Now, that was actually not the gold medal match.

00:24:52.000 That was the semifinal.

00:24:53.000 Most people don't know that.

00:24:55.000 Sports are a reflection of our culture.

00:24:58.000 And ever since we sent all of our best and brightest and most aspirational and ambitious people like Gwen Berry to college, they might as well wear the sickle and hammer themselves.

00:25:10.000 Remember when George W. Bush threw the opening pitch at Yankee Stadium after 9-11?

00:25:15.000 When the country came together after we were attacked by terrorists?

00:25:21.000 I want you to ask yourselves this question while you listen to this tape.

00:25:24.000 If 9-11 happened again today, who would they blame?

00:25:28.000 And would America come together again?

00:25:31.000 I don't think it would. 1.00

00:25:32.000 Cut 12.

00:25:34.000 I felt the raw motion of the Yankee fans.

00:25:43.000 The crowd just erupts in a chant of USA.

00:25:47.000 There is nothing like it that I've ever experienced at a ball game.

00:25:51.000 It was overwhelming.

00:25:52.000 It was just overwhelming.

00:25:54.000 President Bush is standing out there like a brick wall.

00:25:58.000 I'm not afraid of terrorists.

00:26:00.000 I'm going to stand all out here. 0.78

00:26:01.000 I'm going to give you a thumbs up and I'm going to throw a strike.

00:26:08.000 Say whatever you want to about George W. Bush.

00:26:10.000 I certainly have.

00:26:11.000 Joe Biden could not deliver the way in the moment that George W. Bush did.

00:26:15.000 I don't think he'd be able to throw it five feet, let alone a strike straight from the pitcher's mound.

00:26:21.000 Remember when the American Olympians celebrated victories for Team USA?

00:26:25.000 Just this is kind of a montage.

00:26:26.000 Let's play cut 13, regardless of the race, color, or background.

00:26:31.000 When that national anthem plays and you are able to represent this beautiful gift we have been given, that is transcendent.

00:26:41.000 That is beyond you, Gwen Berry.

00:26:43.000 But she is nothing more than a revolutionary, a product of the place that we send our children to go get educated.

00:26:51.000 Play tape.

00:27:07.000 All eyes on you and the flag.

00:27:08.000 What so proudly we've heard your anthem a million times before, but it means a little bit more when you're doing it over the gold medal around your night.

00:27:19.000 At the twilight.

00:27:23.000 The moment is surreal.

00:27:24.000 You know, you think everyone says, man, if they get on top of that podium, they're going to cry.

00:27:29.000 They're going to sing their anthem.

00:27:32.000 Time just to me, just time just stops.

00:27:35.000 Whose brought stripes and bright stars through the parallel sky?

00:27:43.000 All the hard work that you have put in to get to that moment, and you realize that moment is there.

00:27:49.000 For the rubs we watched, we're so gallantly streaming.

00:27:57.000 You realize in that moment that this is so much bigger than just yourself, it was a medal for your country.

00:28:06.000 So much bigger than yourself.

00:28:09.000 It was a medal for your country.

00:28:13.000 Our current athletes that we are sending to compete on the national stage have no such reverence.

00:28:21.000 Look, can I tell you something that really bothers me?

00:28:23.000 When good people get scheduled for cancellation for no reason, that's what's happening to Mike Lindell.

00:28:29.000 I was just with Mike Lindell with 15,000 of my closest friends in Wisconsin.

00:28:33.000 And Mike Lindell was hosting an entire event, and the media went after him like you wouldn't believe.

00:28:37.000 And they're trying to take my pillow out of every single store.

00:28:40.000 Mike Lindell is a good person.

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00:29:31.000 There's only two ways to handle insurgents like Gwen Berry.

00:29:37.000 You can pander to them and you can try to find a middle ground with them.

00:29:45.000 Or you could show them that if you dare break the rules and make a ceremony that is about our fallen veterans, our service members, and the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world, the commonality, the ties that bind us together, if you decide to turn your back on that flag and put the shirt on your head, well, then you're off the team. 0.82

00:30:07.000 You can go throw a hammer for China. 0.85

00:30:09.000 You know what? 0.98

00:30:10.000 You can go throw a hammer for go pick a nation. 0.98

00:30:14.000 How about Somalia? 1.00

00:30:15.000 That would be a good one. 1.00

00:30:17.000 Go pick a country, any country where they do that sort of thing against America. 1.00

00:30:21.000 Iran, Gwen Berry, I'm sure Iran would love to have you throw a hammer for them. 0.94

00:30:26.000 You might have to dress a little bit differently to accommodate the theological, radical, Islamic theological medieval tyrants over there who believe that women should not be clothed the way you were clothed the other day. 0.85

00:30:40.000 But some people are saying, well, she has a free speech right to do this.

00:30:44.000 Look, freedom of speech is there for us to pursue virtue.

00:30:48.000 And also, freedom of speech has its maxims.

00:30:51.000 Just because you're able to do something at a certain time, is that the right time or the right place to do it as an athlete while you are being commissioned by our nation to go represent us?

00:31:01.000 Of course not.

00:31:02.000 And by the way, if Gwen Berry, all of a sudden during that ceremony, put a Make America Great Again hat on, how do you think the other side would be reacting?

00:31:12.000 If she all of a sudden put up an America first hat on during that ceremony and the exact opposite, they'd say, kick her off the team, kick her off the team.

00:31:22.000 You see, during that moment, it's not about what sort of bizarre protest that you can try and put forward.

00:31:31.000 In some ways, I feel sad for her.

00:31:33.000 In other ways, my sympathy stops short because she's an adult.

00:31:38.000 She should know better than this.

00:31:40.000 I feel sad for her because she has been hypnotized and propagandized to believe America is an awful country.

00:31:46.000 And she looks at herself as a revolutionary.

00:31:49.000 You see, she is doing more damage, not just her, but her type, the LeBron James type, who have never done anything significant or worthwhile in their life.

00:31:59.000 And yeah, people will say LeBron James won championships.

00:32:01.000 He's also lost more championships than he's won.

00:32:04.000 And he's also not a very smart person.

00:32:06.000 And he'll never be Michael Jordan.

00:32:08.000 So for the rest of his life, LeBron James will always be known as the man who chokes under pressure, who blames his teammates, walks off the stage preemptively, and will never be Michael Jordan.

00:32:20.000 And in fact, I think that it should be against NBA code for LeBron James to wear the number 23.

00:32:26.000 He's insulting the legacy of the greatest athlete, one of the greatest athletes of all time.

00:32:31.000 Wayne Gretzky is up there as the greatest athlete ever, but they're right there.

00:32:34.000 Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky are two of the best.

00:32:38.000 But you kind of see this idea of the activist athlete, which was written on her shirt, and she put that on her head.

00:32:44.000 What would drive a person to do that?

00:32:46.000 Well, first of all, she probably has no mentors or people that would hold her accountable.

00:32:51.000 In fact, she has nothing but yes people around her.

00:32:53.000 Number two, she actually deep down believes America is a terrible and awful place.

00:32:58.000 Maybe she hasn't traveled or maybe she has been in an academic environment that has reinforced this idea, this pernicious idea that we are nothing more than an oppressor nation.

00:33:15.000 And it's too bad because our nation is on fragile footing.

00:33:24.000 We can't survive many more chapters in this book of I want to revolutionize America.

00:33:31.000 Therefore, instead of pandering to it or saying that she has a right to do it, which she doesn't, by the way, it must be met with discipline.

00:33:39.000 It must be met with this very quick and decisive action that go compete for another nation.

00:33:45.000 Go renounce your citizenship and tell us how Mogadishu is this time of year.

00:33:51.000 You see, the American Republic is a gift from the Lord.

00:33:58.000 We celebrate that this weekend on Independence Day weekend.

00:34:03.000 We played some tape of some of the greatest sports moments of all time.

00:34:07.000 Do you believe in miracles?

00:34:09.000 George W. Bush reopening, Yankee Stadium.

00:34:13.000 Sports are a reflection of the culture.

00:34:16.000 And Gwen Berry is a Colin Kaepernick Megan Rapineau embodiment.

00:34:21.000 And I hope Team USA kicks her off decisively.

00:34:25.000 And in fact, I would love to see Gwen Berry actually embody her own ideology. 0.98

00:34:30.000 Renounce your citizenship and go find another country because you hate this one.

00:34:35.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:37.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:40.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com.

00:34:43.000 God bless you guys.

00:34:44.000 Speak to you soon.

00:34:48.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 28, 2021

Anti-American Activists Hijack the Olympic Games

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