00:00:56.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:43.000And Blake, you have big problems like cheering for players because I'm a big Bo Knicks guy.
00:01:47.000You know, if you want to be supportive of him, but you know, when you get these things, it's like when I think Brady Quinn got drafted by the Browns, and then his sister was married to AJ Hawk on the Packers and she got like a double juice.
00:02:00.000It's like, no, you have to cheer for one team.
00:06:05.000We complain about it on the show all the time.
00:06:08.000But it is also fundamentally true that, as we've highlighted in America, what's liberal in this country?
00:06:14.000The universities, a lot of big business, the bureaucracy, your local elementary school, the Boy Scouts of America, everything over and over.
00:06:24.000What is the strongest institution in America that it is plausible for conservatives to have any influence in?
00:06:32.000It is the Republican Party because they are the opposition party in the United States.
00:06:36.000And there are a million things in the United States that cause that to be the case.
00:06:41.000Just organically, who are you going to vote for if you don't like the guy in charge?
00:06:45.000Makes the most sense to vote for the most powerful opposition party.
00:06:48.000And so, and I think it's very easy for conservatives to embrace a like it's psychologically tempting to go doomer and say, there's no hope.
00:07:02.000It's it's cathartic to say that, to sort of scream, but it's not true.
00:07:08.000Would you rather live in a red state or a blue state?
00:07:11.000We can point towards a million different laws that make that the case.
00:07:15.000If you're in this state, you won't be arrested for having a gun.
00:07:17.000You won't be arrested if you defend yourself from a criminal.
00:07:20.000You can, in Arizona right now, for example, you can get money to send your kid to a private school or to homeschool instead of being forced to send them to a crappy public school.
00:07:30.000There are real wins that you can get at the state level.
00:07:34.000And this can manifest at the federal level.
00:07:36.000And Florida's a much freer state than California.
00:07:58.000Yeah, and if you and the other one, 15 pretty good ones and like 10 excellent ones.
00:08:02.000If you try to take over the Republican Party and reform it and fail, you can always try again later, and you may at least mitigate what the Democrats want to do.
00:08:11.000But let's say you try to do your third party and it just, it doesn't quite take, and we end up in an election and the Republicans get 25% and our new third party gets 25%.
00:09:16.000But if you decide to intentionally split your coalition into smaller groups when you haven't beaten the big enemy, you dilute your influence.
00:10:54.000What if I told you that most of the notable diaper brands support abortion, even footing the bill for their employees to travel to have an abortion?
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00:12:24.000And I try to tell Republican leaders this, that there are people that will watch our show, that will donate to us, that will subscribe to us, that will not vote.
00:12:33.000And then when we lose, they will say only fraud could explain that we can't do that.
00:12:37.000And I don't want to defend them, but I'm going to explain and then I'll let you, because I do not like this attitude.
00:12:43.000They think the greatest way they can get people to get to notice them is by not voting.
00:12:51.000It is by absence they will be noticed, which I think is insane.
00:14:09.000We fight for them because it is the right thing to do, as you say.
00:14:12.000And you have to pursue the path that is most likely to bring that outcome.
00:14:17.000And in a system like ours, where the person who gets the most pieces of paper in the box, you have a duty to make sure your piece of paper goes in that box.
00:14:30.000And, you know, will your vote make a difference?
00:16:03.000And have been a fan of your podcast since 2020.
00:16:06.000My profession gets a really bad rap, and I'm sad to say it's well-deserved.
00:16:10.000I've been in this role at three different companies over 15 years and have to address this topic you talk about regularly on your show: wokeism, the decline of meritocracy, COVID, etc.
00:16:18.000For example, the CEO and others at the company I worked for during COVID were very supportive of vaccine mandates and terminating people if they did not comply.
00:16:26.000I was able to prevent both, thankfully, praise God.
00:16:29.000It had to have been divine intervention.
00:16:31.000At a different company, I eliminated the DEI department upon my arrival so the company could invest in more business-impactful initiatives.
00:16:37.000I do this very quietly and under the radar.
00:16:39.000If I was outspoken, I don't think I could do these things.
00:16:42.000So, the question is: what do you think about the group of silent influencers out there?
00:16:45.000You touched briefly on this during an episode this week and how those of us that are silent influencers get to know each other so don't feel alone.
00:16:51.000I'd love to talk to other conservatives in HR that are facing the same things about me and we're challenging.
00:16:55.000Please do not use my name if you're the designer.
00:17:08.000Like, we need more patriots like this.
00:17:11.000Would love to connect you with more silent influencers.
00:17:13.000And I just got to be honest, it gives me comfort that all the work we're doing on the show, like there's like this like sleeper cell HR person that's like smashing wokeism wherever it exists.
00:17:27.000So, what is your reaction to that, Blake?
00:17:30.000And also, how, if you're, by the way, we talk a lot about political power, but if you have corporate power, you should use that power for good.
00:17:37.000And I think there is a type of conservative.
00:17:41.000I don't want to say you don't go around thuggishly saying, like, everyone in this company must vote for Trump or whatever, because it won't work for one.
00:17:49.000But what you should look out for is we run into a lot of people who are like, What can I do for the movement?
00:17:55.000And or like young people who want to do stuff in politics.
00:17:58.000And it's very common to think, Well, what I could do is start a podcast, or I could write op-eds, or I could do stuff, you know, do like public political stuff.
00:18:07.000But for a lot of people, the single best thing you can do for the movement is be a successful person, be a pillar of your community, and then importantly, pull up people behind you.
00:18:19.000So, make sure that they're, you know, this nation has a lot of systematic discrimination against people based on politics, or frankly, based on race.
00:18:27.000You don't have to cover that with your own, but literally, find talented people who might actually be worth your time and mentor them directly.
00:18:35.000Cultivate those people, make it so you are undermining all of the sinister stuff that is happening by creating new stuff.
00:19:04.000Instead of donating $100,000 to your alma mater, which they will then use to like spray paint the local intersection to say, like, have a rainbow flag and say Black Lives Matter, donate $100,000 and have it be a scholarship that is 100% merit-based or for someone who has worked a blue-collar job like during high school, something like that.
00:19:26.000And instead of, you know, whatever else that they give out scholarships for these days, there's things you can do.
00:20:12.000Okay, you have to admit, sometimes if Joe Biden were to sign a very controversial executive order and he might be having a family crisis, sometimes there is something done by maybe like Bill Clinton supposedly bombed Iraq to distract from maybe it didn't work.
00:20:33.000So I think honestly, I dislike it because it's a pattern on the right to sort of like prove I'm so smart.
00:20:43.000I see through the enemy's lies on the media.
00:20:48.000And like the real distraction is you from, it is distracting you from living your life and not being obsessed with things.
00:20:55.000What I think they might mean, though, is not that there's some sort of grand maestro, is that the media might be covering this more than another story that might be bigger.
00:22:01.000I'm just saying that at times they'll throw smokescreen grenades.
00:22:03.000Yeah, the Times sometimes will announce that they're like the biggest thing with media bias is actually it's not by omission.
00:22:10.000They don't, yeah, it's by omission or by narrative setting or by framing.
00:22:14.000And as I've said before, the New York Times, almost everything they report is literally true in some way.
00:22:21.000It is not that they print fabricated stuff.
00:22:24.000It's their power of what they choose to emphasize.
00:22:28.000So it was like after Russia Gate was a bust, one of the top editors at the New York Times, I can't remember if it was the editor-in-chief or who it was, but he literally did a statement to all the reporters where he says, yeah, well, since Russia Gate was a bust, we're going to have our focus now be on racism in America.
00:22:49.000Well, it was already spiking, but it keeps spiking up through, of course, George Floyd and we have our national reckoning, as they called it.
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00:25:01.000Okay, let's get to another question here.
00:25:04.000Um, what Charlie, a member Kelly, what are your thoughts on all the college campus protesters wearing face coverings or some sort of masks?
00:25:10.000If you were so proud to defend Hamas, why not show your face?
00:25:13.000COVID set the stage enabled the rise in crime overall as criminals wearing a mask and have no fear of being identified.
00:25:29.000I personally was convicted immediately when mask mandates came out and it was indeed evil and the work of the enemy.
00:25:34.000Also, clearly, these are extreme protesting movements organized.
00:25:38.000Anyone working to trace back the money, I think many of these young people are getting paid.
00:25:41.000So I actually do agree that the mask mandate, I'm not saying it was intentional, but an unintentional byproduct is that it's given criminals an ability to be anonymous.
00:26:03.000And I think if you're wearing like a, you know, a balaclava, like you know, the ski mask thing, people are still shady, suspicious about it.
00:26:11.000Wearing masks thing, it's interesting to me because I think we'd agree it's important to be able to be anonymous on the internet.
00:26:44.000I do think that there's a I think it's a little cowardly to go out into the streets and do it.
00:26:51.000You know what they should, what they do is by instinct.
00:26:53.000What they do is, if they use it and then go violent, okay, send in cops, hold them on the ground, take the mask off, identify them, charge them.
00:27:23.000It is a real cause, but I think that there's more of a synthetic nature than I think people realize: that there are outside agitators that go into these things with the signs and the tents, and they organize the 99%.
00:27:36.000So a bunch of petulant children are building tent encampments on college campuses with copycat protests spreading around the country.
00:27:46.000Soros back SJP organized protests at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Ohio State, Emory, and Georgia, and they're popping up across the country.
00:27:54.000So, Blake, it's a real cause, but there's certainly, let's say, lieutenants that come and organize this thing.
00:28:02.000Oh, yeah, there's a long left-wing tradition of that.
00:28:04.000I mean, I was actually just reading a book written in 1870, and it's about a guy who shows up in a town in Russia to set up revolutionary cells, says, Hey, I'm here to organize the revolution.
00:29:34.000I think they're all publishing these demand lists, and they're often very similar to each other.
00:29:38.000So that's just, it's the way the left works is you'll have your national body.
00:29:43.000It will have all their little distributed groups.
00:29:46.000They'll bring in outside people who are really, really good at protesting all of the time.
00:29:51.000And they have that whole dynamic that I think maybe has James Lindsay talked about this, where they'll talk, you know, oh, peaceful protests, peaceful protests, knowing that some of the people aren't peaceful and there's like selected agitators who go further.
00:30:05.000At either Columbia or some other school, they literally started giving people wristbands where take the wristband that's red if you want to be arrested.
00:31:05.000I think there's a strong, it's always a strong impulse on both sides of politics to believe that the other side is sort of faking it, that they are bought off or that they're only doing this for some strokes.
00:31:43.000And I think you can make it a bigger deal, like when you have press outlets that are pushing it and saying this is a big deal over and over again and they influence people.
00:31:52.000But I don't think it's a big deal because someone paid money to make it a big deal, like in some sort of short sight, like in some sort of just, you know, very short order thing of, oh, I pay $20,000 and now Palestine's a big issue on this campus.
00:32:08.000All right, everybody, email us freedom at charliekirk.com and become a member, members.charliekirk.com.
00:32:49.000Now, the primaries that we're most interested in is red states.
00:32:54.000If you are in a very deep red state and you are voting as if you are a Massachusetts liberal, then that disconnect must be addressed and must be exploited.
00:33:05.000We're very successful with JD Vance, by the way.
00:33:07.000We were like one of the first endorsements of JD Vance.
00:33:13.000States where a Republican is the 90-plus percent favorite to win should elect very conservative Republicans where you are wasting your time because we'll get plenty of moderates, hopefully, running in states that are purple.
00:35:25.000And the people who are closer to you on the spectrum are better than the people who are farther away.
00:35:28.000And that's especially the case in a place like Maryland.
00:35:31.000But on the flip side, to emphasize, in a state like Utah, in a state like Idaho, in a state like Nebraska, we should be getting maximally conservative stuff because that's where we can get it.
00:35:44.000Three-star general, Michael J. Flynn, head of the Pentagon Intelligence Agency, knew all the government's dirty secrets.
00:35:51.000He was one of the most respected generals in the military.
00:35:54.000Flynn knew what the intel world had been up to.
00:37:32.000Finally, fight those who do not believe in God in the last day and fight people of the book, Christian and Jews, who do not accept the religion of truth, Islam, until they pay tribute by hand, being inferior.
00:37:41.000Blake, is this taking Islam out of context?
00:37:45.000Why are people afraid of talking about Shia supremacism?
00:39:12.000Iran is this enormously important civilizational power.
00:39:17.000Okay, before we get into this, I just want to say there's plenty of amazing Muslims that I know, Dr. Zudi Jafser being one of them.
00:39:25.000However, Blake has a take that the ideology itself has a lot of problems that go unaddressed.
00:39:31.000Well, so I want to start with, first, it's interesting that you say, and others say Islam needs a reformation, which I know you're Protestant, of course, so pro-Reformation.
00:40:09.000Salafism is a fundamentalist Islamic movement that says we need to go back to the roots of Islam as it's practiced, as it was practiced by the prophet and his companions.
00:41:00.000Maybe Islam made them better over the paganism that they practiced before, but I'd argue it basically made every other civilization it touched worse.
00:41:21.000And they stick around for a while because they were a great civilization and they have a lot of inertia from that.
00:41:27.000But the most flowering parts of Persian civilization were the parts that were Zoroastrian, Jewish, Persian.
00:41:34.000You'd have all these cases where a guy is like an important scientist and you go back and, oh, actually, his father converted to Islam, you know, one generation before.
00:43:50.000It was supposedly revealed to Muhammad, like by the angel Gabriel.
00:43:54.000We obviously don't believe that was the case.
00:43:56.000There's funny parts of it, like for example, where Muhammad speaking, saying, You know, this is what Gabriel told me to tell you.
00:44:03.000And he says, The angel wants you to know that Muhammad's wives are being kind of annoying and are nagging him too much, but Muhammad is too good a person to tell them this.
00:44:12.000But the angel wanted Muhammad to tell you this, and that if you aren't better, he can get rid of you and replace you with better wives.
00:44:59.000Yes, he married a nine-year-old, and you cannot criticize him because Muhammad is above criticism, and it says in the hadiths that anyone who criticizes Muhammad should be killed.
00:45:06.000And so, what the hadiths are is they're testimony from early Muslims and then supposedly passed down.
00:45:14.000So, it'll be Aisha told Omar this, who told Abu Bakr this.
00:45:18.000It's an oral tradition that was then written down about 100, 150 years later.
00:45:23.000And they'll just be accounts of what the Prophet did.
00:45:25.000And some of them will just be absolutely surreal.
00:45:29.000Like, I actually, because I'm a crazy person, I have bookmarks of funny stuff.
00:45:59.000They would say, like, I think there's a hadith where he says, If there's, if people are gathered for a dinner, they should sit in a circle.
00:46:08.000And they're like, Okay, well, the Prophet said to do that.
00:46:12.000Some of it will be like the reason they have the death penalty for adultery in Islam is they have hadiths where someone commits adultery and the prophet orders them to be stoned.
00:46:21.000And this is what you're supposed to look to as your guide for how to do things.
00:46:26.000So, in closing, it is an ideology that is incompatible with a lot of Western values.