The Charlie Kirk Show - Ask Us Anything 248: Marriage Standards? Extreme Democrat Rhetoric? National Unity?

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00:01:31.000 By the way, right before we get into questions, there is a new angle of the shooting in Minneapolis.

00:01:36.000 Alpha News.

00:01:37.000 We had Liz Collin on the show on Monday. 0.95

00:01:40.000 So Alpha News, they got a new angle of that.

00:01:43.000 We're going to pull that up in just a second.

00:01:44.000 Team is working on it.

00:01:45.000 It's very clear in this angle, apparently, that he was the ICE agent was hit by the Honda pilot.

00:01:52.000 So that is a new development.

00:01:54.000 We'll get that in just a second.

00:01:55.000 We're going to start this hour again, members.charliekirk.com with Anthony.

00:01:59.000 Anthony, please unmute yourself.

00:02:01.000 What's your question?

00:02:02.000 Hey, guys.

00:02:03.000 Happy New Year.

00:02:04.000 Happy New Year.

00:02:05.000 So my question is this.

00:02:07.000 So we see all these ICE raids and, you know, going on in Minneapolis, New York, all across the country, and we see all the protesters.

00:02:14.000 And we see how local and state and even federal Democrat politicians are talking.

00:02:19.000 Like we hear the mayor and the governor of Minnesota and Minneapolis say you must protest whatever and cause problems.

00:02:27.000 Is there any Democrat at federal, state, or local levels that may say, hey, we need to start coming to our senses and we might have to rethink this whole protesting and this because it's now it's starting to get out of hand.

00:02:43.000 Is there any Democrat politician willing to do that or are they all just scared, spineless communists?

00:02:50.000 Fetterman, I guess.

00:02:52.000 Yeah, I was getting, that was my, my mind went to Fetterman.

00:02:56.000 I feel like he's the only one that really is.

00:02:59.000 He's the only one that says it, but I don't want to say just him.

00:03:02.000 Is there anybody else?

00:03:04.000 Well, what's interesting?

00:03:06.000 Maybe there's a recent one.

00:03:07.000 What stood out to me was like, you always have these dynamics after an election.

00:03:12.000 They lost bad last year.

00:03:14.000 You had this almost abortive move towards, guys, we may have let this get out of control.

00:03:20.000 We need to go another direction.

00:03:22.000 I think was it Seth Moulton who had that?

00:03:24.000 Yes, I don't know.

00:03:25.000 Yeah, where he was trying to get them to back off on the trans issue.

00:03:28.000 And they just lit him up about it.

00:03:30.000 And I think you saw Gavin Newsome was starting to take gestures in that direction in his interview with Charlie.

00:03:36.000 And they blew up at him really badly.

00:03:38.000 And I don't think he's gone further on that one either.

00:03:42.000 But certainly on this anti-ice radicalism, I really only see a one-way ratchet about this, at least from lawmakers.

00:03:50.000 And I don't know how much of that is deliberate recklessness or deliberate extremism and how much of that is they're just afraid of getting lit up themselves or they don't even fully realize what they're doing.

00:04:01.000 Like Tim Walz, as an example, Tim Walz is just stupid.

00:04:04.000 Tim Walz is dumb.

00:04:06.000 And so when Walls says we're at war with the federal government, I saw that getting shared yesterday.

00:04:11.000 I don't think he was literally doing a whole secessionist, I'm going to go with the war of federal government.

00:04:16.000 I think he was just using dumb words because he doesn't recognize the sort of situation he's in.

00:04:22.000 Yeah, and the implication of saying something like, we're at war.

00:04:25.000 I kind of interpreted that clip the same way.

00:04:28.000 I will say, you know, to Blake's point, there was this debate of which way the Democrat Party was going to turn.

00:04:33.000 Were they going to be moderating their positions or were they going to be radicalizing their positions?

00:04:37.000 And it's very clear a year into the President Trump's second term that they are radicalizing their positions at every turn and that the far left flank of the Democrat Party controls that party.

00:04:49.000 That's why Mamdani is ascendant.

00:04:51.000 That's why you see Democrat socialist mayors in Seattle, Chicago, New York.

00:04:58.000 So for all intents and purposes, Jacob Frey is also one of these people in Minneapolis.

00:05:03.000 Right.

00:05:04.000 And they are controlling the party.

00:05:05.000 And if you step out of line, you're going to take a lot of guff.

00:05:08.000 And I will say, you know, when John Fetterman started speaking sense, which was one of the largest ironies of recent years.

00:05:16.000 It made me a little uncomfortable because you don't want that sense like, oh, did he, did like the brain damage from his stroke actually become more conservative?

00:05:24.000 Exactly.

00:05:24.000 Right.

00:05:25.000 You want brain damage to make you dumb or not smarter.

00:05:27.000 But in his case, I like to think of it as he was healing.

00:05:30.000 He became more sensible.

00:05:32.000 But the point is, John Fetterman, a bunch of his staff left.

00:05:36.000 I mean, he took a lot of internal pushback that you don't hear a lot about, but he kind of just took it on the chin and kept going forward.

00:05:44.000 So kudos to him.

00:05:46.000 And he's the last sort of prominent, sensible Democrat out there that is socially, I would say probably, you know, left, I think economically left, but he's still a patriot.

00:05:58.000 And I think that's the dividing line.

00:05:59.000 And we've said it on the show before that you're either a movement that loves the country, loves what it was founded on, loves our heritage, loves our culture, and has pride in it, or you are somebody that ultimately thinks America is somewhat illegitimate or all the way illegitimate or it's all the way systemically racist and bigoted and oppressive.

00:06:16.000 You know, that is the dividing line.

00:06:18.000 It's really some of the some of the people that you would consider conservative now aren't really even conservative.

00:06:25.000 They are sort of just, you know, not woke, I guess.

00:06:30.000 They're team sanity.

00:06:32.000 They believe in civilization still.

00:06:33.000 They believe in law and order.

00:06:35.000 And that's about the dividing line.

00:06:36.000 It's a thing that is, frankly, it's made it tough to always articulate a conservative agenda on things because it often is just defined by people who don't like the left, at least in America.

00:06:48.000 And also, I'll be frank, I would talk to Charlie about this.

00:06:51.000 Sometimes the issue the right has is they're sort of low self-esteem, if that makes sense.

00:06:57.000 I don't know what the right term for it would be, but they are very eager to welcome people into their coalition, like if a celebrity shouts us out, that sort of thing.

00:07:05.000 And that can actually, it can make it a little too easy for you to get taken over by newcomers, more or less.

00:07:10.000 Yeah, I mean, listen, I think it's great to welcome newcomers, but you shouldn't have them, you know, teach in the class, right? 1.00

00:07:17.000 They should be amongst the pupils in the desks, not at the front of the classroom.

00:07:23.000 So I think that's the dividing line.

00:07:24.000 You just have to make sure that the people that are leading your movement have actually been tried, tested, and found true, real believers, right?

00:07:31.000 So Anthony, I don't know if that answers your question, but it does appear to be, you know, the fact that we can't think of anybody, probably not a good sign.

00:07:40.000 No, I don't know.

00:07:41.000 No, I agree.

00:07:42.000 And I couldn't think of anybody in it, just because I'll be honest, there was a protest at the Border Patrol in a town or two over from me and last night.

00:07:53.000 So, yeah, where are you based?

00:07:56.000 Rochester, New York is the location.

00:07:58.000 Yeah, all right.

00:07:58.000 Yeah, it's it's interesting because you know the far left of the Democrat Party is definitely in control.

00:08:06.000 And I don't really see, you know, it's funny.

00:08:09.000 I got into a little bit of a Twitter debate with somebody that was like, you know, far left and Democrats are two different things.

00:08:13.000 And it's like, okay, I guess.

00:08:15.000 But, you know, who's really wielding the power?

00:08:18.000 I'm not sure how true that is anymore.

00:08:21.000 But, anyways, we thank you as always, Anthony.

00:08:24.000 Great to hear from you.

00:08:25.000 We've got Ian.

00:08:26.000 Ian, unmute yourself.

00:08:27.000 You are up next on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:08:29.000 What's your question?

00:08:30.000 How are you doing?

00:08:30.000 Hi, guys.

00:08:31.000 Doing well.

00:08:32.000 Thank you.

00:08:32.000 How about yourself?

00:08:33.000 I'm doing well.

00:08:34.000 Thank you for asking.

00:08:36.000 I was down at Anfest, so it was great seeing you guys again.

00:08:40.000 Yeah.

00:08:41.000 But my question is: how do we address the difference of perspective on this Minnesota woman being shot?

00:08:48.000 I just feel like both sides are seeing kind of what they want to see to an extent.

00:08:53.000 I think there is an objective truth on what happened, but it's causing so much division.

00:08:57.000 How can we as a country come together and move forward?

00:08:59.000 Because I don't want this to become another George Floyd incident.

00:09:04.000 And if we could also touch on the difference of reactions from Charlie Kirk's assassination recently to this Minnesota woman, you know, they're not holding a prayer vigil and, you know, coming together.

00:09:15.000 So that's just my two cents on it.

00:09:17.000 Yeah.

00:09:17.000 Well, and Anthony, I love the question.

00:09:21.000 And because you're giving me the opportunity, I want to play this new angle.

00:09:25.000 I have not seen it yet.

00:09:26.000 This is 386, a new angle.

00:09:29.000 I believe it's the police body cam or the law.

00:09:31.000 Is this cell phone footage on Alpha News?

00:09:33.000 It looks like it could be body cam footage.

00:09:36.000 It's a 45-second clip, 386.

00:09:36.000 386.

00:09:57.000 Show your things.

00:09:58.000 I'm not.

00:09:59.000 Just look at we don't change our plates every morning.

00:10:01.000 Just so you know, hey, they'll be in the same plate when you come talk to us later.

00:10:05.000 That's fine.

00:10:06.000 You have citizen four?

00:10:10.000 You want to come at us?

00:10:11.000 I say go get yourself some lunch, big boy.

00:10:13.000 Yeah, go ahead.

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00:11:33.000 All right, Ian, we're continuing with you.

00:11:36.000 We played that image that were that alternate angle.

00:11:40.000 If you guys want to roll that as B-roll while we're talking about this, here's my hope, Ian.

00:11:46.000 I think politically the left is captured by the activist base.

00:11:50.000 I don't think there's any getting around that, right?

00:11:52.000 So, politically, they all have to, you know, toe the party line and say this is the Gestapo, this is the Nazis, and these are mass vigilante thugs, and they're illegitimate police, and they're not real.

00:12:02.000 They're fake police, like the Philly sheriff said.

00:12:05.000 But I do believe that mass deportations are popular.

00:12:09.000 I believe that enforcing immigration laws are popular.

00:12:13.000 And I think that ultimately, you just have to press through the activist class.

00:12:19.000 You just have to bowl through this.

00:12:21.000 You have to keep going because this is a popular political movement.

00:12:25.000 And yeah, there's going to be protests.

00:12:28.000 There's going to be uprisings.

00:12:29.000 I don't think you can find political common cause with these people.

00:12:32.000 You just have to tell them the way it's going to be.

00:12:34.000 Civilization will win.

00:12:35.000 Law and order will win.

00:12:36.000 And ultimately, you're going to have to, you, you defeat them by winning.

00:12:40.000 And I just think that it's gotten so hardened into our silos with the activist base of the left that that's just the only way through.

00:12:47.000 I like to believe that there is still a normal middle of this country that's more busy worried about the football game and about their golf outings on Saturday.

00:12:57.000 And they kind of, they're kind of checked out of the normal back and forth.

00:13:00.000 And they just know that, hey, we have laws.

00:13:02.000 You got to follow them.

00:13:03.000 So that's my take on it.

00:13:04.000 That's my hope is that we do have sort of still a rational center of the country.

00:13:09.000 Last hour we had Ken Calvert from California.

00:13:12.000 You know, even in California, voter ID law, despite all the back and forth and the vitriol and the hyperbole from the left about it being racist or bigoted or whatever, is still 68 to 71% popular in the state of California.

00:13:24.000 So go figure.

00:13:25.000 I don't know, Blake, if you have anything you want to add.

00:13:27.000 Well, so yeah, the question was: what can we do to bring the country together?

00:13:30.000 And the truth is, there's not an easy answer to that because the idea of a strong united core in America has been greatly diluted by a lot of changes in America, by demographic change.

00:13:44.000 So there's not nearly the same sense of America as a shared country going back a great distance.

00:13:50.000 A lot of people, if half the country doesn't even trace its heritage back to World War II, we could be at that point sooner rather than later.

00:13:59.000 There's not that same sense of a shared society.

00:14:02.000 And especially when there's been a long-term political project to delegitimize the country itself, and by extension, its people.

00:14:09.000 So it's very common to just basically take an attitude of total hate and delegitimization to Americans who are in Middle America, who are in the South, all of that.

00:14:20.000 And it just, it's very hard to have something come together.

00:14:24.000 And, you know, a lot of people have asked us to respond to that Jasmine Crockett tape where she was saying, oh, how did we react after Charlie's shooting?

00:14:31.000 I know how they reacted.

00:14:32.000 A guy on his balcony across the street from us played another one bites the dust while people were trying to pray.

00:14:38.000 I don't know how you unite the country with people like that.

00:14:41.000 And the guy works for the ACLU.

00:14:44.000 And I think at some point you have to say, we have to make sure we stand for something.

00:14:50.000 It has to be an appealing moral message to people.

00:14:53.000 And you have to hope that you can win people over to that and that can become a national core that people can unite around.

00:15:00.000 I think that is what Charlie was fighting for.

00:15:02.000 What Charlie was doing, he was planting the seeds for a future possibly decades hence, the seeds of patriotism, the seeds of Christian faith, something that could appeal to a large number of people, including young people.

00:15:16.000 And you hope the strength of that moral message is something that will win the day.

00:15:23.000 But very truthfully, I don't see an easy way to get unity with people who are saying kill ICE officers.

00:15:31.000 I don't see how you can easily have unity with people who celebrate the murder of Charlie.

00:15:37.000 I don't see how you can easily have unity of people who say the United States is fundamentally an illegitimate country in society.

00:15:42.000 And I know that's a tough answer to give, but it's what I'm feeling.

00:15:48.000 Yeah, no, I think you're right.

00:15:50.000 I think that was really well said, Blake.

00:15:51.000 And I, you know, I've reflected a lot on what Charlie was actually doing a lot.

00:15:56.000 And what he, you're, I think, a thousand percent right, that he was actually selling an image of America and a vision of America that was palatable to the broad core, to that 75% in the middle right, probably middle right.

00:16:11.000 But there was a, there was a, a huge audience for this.

00:16:15.000 And we saw it with the billions and billions of views.

00:16:17.000 He was reclaiming, it was like, so if you sort of think of what America is, it's an unbroken chain of generations that passes on the American dream, the belief in the experiment of America, the American Republic from generation to generation.

00:16:31.000 And Charlie noticed that the chain was getting broken with Gen Z, millennials and Gen Z.

00:16:37.000 And he went out there and he put those chain links back together.

00:16:42.000 Before we move on, I think we should actually, to get at the difficulty here, we should, a lot of people, this is going ultra viral.

00:16:48.000 This clip, no, this clip of the woman who went to the Renee Good Memorial, but thought it was immoral.

00:16:53.000 Let's play 382.

00:16:55.000 So, I mean, I'm just walking here.

00:16:56.000 I'm kind of just day-to-day because I don't know if it's the right thing to do.

00:17:01.000 It feels kind of wrong being here in some way.

00:17:03.000 I don't know why.

00:17:06.000 I don't know.

00:17:08.000 I don't know.

00:17:09.000 Like, I mean, part of it is being like a white woman that I'm privileged and I have a lot of privilege.

00:17:17.000 So I feel like white tears are not always something that's helpful or necessary when black and brown people have been experiencing this for a long time.

00:17:27.000 This isn't new for them.

00:17:28.000 And so I don't know if that makes any sense.

00:17:33.000 It's very difficult to unite to achieve unity with a person whose thought process is that cooked.

00:17:39.000 And I feel bad for her because she's been taught to hate herself.

00:17:42.000 She badly hates herself.

00:17:44.000 She needs help.

00:17:45.000 She needs love, frankly.

00:17:46.000 But it is very difficult.

00:17:48.000 It's the same thing where they say men can't have an opinion about abortion or whatever.

00:17:52.000 It's like she feels like her opinion is illegitimate.

00:17:56.000 I mean, it's a bad opinion, but her opinion's illegitimate, but she'll still go on television. 1.00

00:18:02.000 She'll get in her agency to that extent is truly, truly baffling.

00:18:06.000 All right, Ian, did you have a follow-up question?

00:18:08.000 What I want to know is what made Charlie just such a good coalition builder from what you guys saw?

00:18:13.000 Because I've been trying to talk to people just for TPUSA faith side.

00:18:18.000 And man, there's just a lot of roadblocks that come up.

00:18:20.000 And I'm just, it's like, it almost gets discouraging.

00:18:23.000 So what kind of roadblocks are you?

00:18:25.000 Well, like, if they're like, well, is TPUSA still going to be the same without Charlie?

00:18:29.000 They're like, oh, turning point's causing division.

00:18:32.000 You know, it's like, and I'm like, the cause and the movement doesn't stop with Charlie being gone.

00:18:39.000 In fact, it's more people coming together, you know?

00:18:41.000 I have a lot of, I have a lot of opinions here, Ian, actually.

00:18:44.000 So a lot of these people that you, okay, so listen, Charlie deserved to be lifted up and praised and remembered in such a remarkable fashion because he was so remarkable.

00:18:59.000 There's no doubt.

00:19:01.000 But they're also whitewashing a lot of the road to get there.

00:19:05.000 Charlie came under incredible scrutiny, incredible criticism.

00:19:09.000 From the time I worked with Charlie, there was not a day that went by where he was not being attacked by somebody on the right, by somebody that was part of this larger coalition that wasn't chipping at his heels, wasn't - I mean, I'm telling you, that was just the norm.

00:19:27.000 It was completely a situation where, you know, we have more, I have more memories of people on the right attacking Charlie than I do people on the right praising him in his life.

00:19:36.000 And then obviously, when somebody is martyred the way Charlie was, a lot of those people kind of put that aside.

00:19:42.000 They said nice things, which is great.

00:19:44.000 They should.

00:19:45.000 Charlie deserved that.

00:19:46.000 But these are the same actors that were bubbling up before.

00:19:50.000 So, you know, I think there's just kind of a bit of a misremembering of the past.

00:19:56.000 To the extent that Turning Point is sowing division, like I completely disagree with that.

00:20:01.000 These are, again, these are the same people that see an opening.

00:20:04.000 We had Walter Kern on, and he's, you know, he was talking about the vacuum and how some of these, I think, negative actors kind of rush into the space.

00:20:11.000 Like, Turning Point has not done anything different than we did when Charlie was alive.

00:20:15.000 We brought people together that disagree on different topics.

00:20:18.000 Those people went on stage at Amfest.

00:20:20.000 They let the world know that they had disagreements, but that wasn't something that we did.

00:20:24.000 We didn't tell them to, you know, have a fight in public.

00:20:28.000 That was a choice that they made from the stage at Amfest to do that.

00:20:32.000 Now, any other division, it's not like we're out there, you know, throwing ideological bombs on, you know, inside the movement here or there.

00:20:41.000 It's literally, this is a bunch of people that are rushing into a vacuum.

00:20:46.000 There is a little, there are issues that are fracturing the base, mostly foreign policy issues, mostly issues about Israel or whatever.

00:20:53.000 And so we're not actually the ones responsible for the division.

00:20:57.000 This is just inherent in a coalition this big and this broad and this this rowdy.

00:21:02.000 We have a rowdy group of people that make up the right of center.

00:21:05.000 And our job is to just be a convening force and to allow the best and the smartest and the brightest to come together and have those conversations or, you know, in an election year, hopefully they get more focused and they attack the left.

00:21:18.000 But, you know, we're not the ones really doing that.

00:21:21.000 So I would disagree with that in general.

00:21:23.000 And then the last thing I would say, Charlie became really good at this.

00:21:26.000 He would just bowl through the objections.

00:21:28.000 He would just put his head down, put his shoulder to the plow, and do good work.

00:21:32.000 And that's what we intend to do.

00:21:34.000 And that's what we're going to keep doing.

00:21:35.000 So I appreciate your backup on that.

00:21:37.000 Just push through the objections.

00:21:39.000 Just do good work.

00:21:40.000 And ultimately, there's very few people in the conservative movement or any movement for that matter that do real work, that actually get the job done.

00:21:50.000 And so a lot of people are going to have opinions.

00:21:53.000 At the end of the day, there's only going to be a few left standing that are doing real work.

00:21:56.000 We're going to be one of those organizations.

00:21:58.000 And that has a uniting effect when the chips are down.

00:22:02.000 So thank you for that opportunity.

00:22:04.000 I don't know if you want to add anything.

00:22:05.000 I kind of monologue there, Blake.

00:22:08.000 Charlie was a humble person.

00:22:09.000 I think that helped.

00:22:10.000 That's a big reason he could build coalitions, he didn't take past arguments terribly seriously.

00:22:17.000 And that's just very important because politics is constantly shifting coalitions.

00:22:22.000 And if you want to have a gripe with someone, there are endless reasons to do it.

00:22:27.000 And you have to overcome that if you're going to be a coalition builder in politics.

00:22:31.000 You have to have thick skin and you have to have slick skin, things that just go off you.

00:22:37.000 Yeah, well said.

00:22:38.000 And I'd say that was a very strong talent of Charlie and something that developed over time.

00:22:42.000 Charlie was constantly improving as we've talked about him improving in his faith as a family member, but he was also improving as a politician as he aged.

00:22:51.000 He was maturing.

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00:24:50.000 David, you are next.

00:24:52.000 Hey, how are we doing today?

00:24:53.000 Doing great.

00:24:54.000 Doing great.

00:24:54.000 Dave, what's the question?

00:24:56.000 My question is: first of all, I want to thank you for having Congressman Calvert for coming on talking about voter ID.

00:25:04.000 My second statement would be: how do we get the rest of our candidates front and center so we know right now who to vote for for the primaries?

00:25:19.000 Because it seems like we're lacking.

00:25:22.000 Are you in California, David?

00:25:24.000 I'm in communist California, yes.

00:25:26.000 Okay, so are you specifically asking how you can get your candidates front and center in California?

00:25:33.000 California or yeah, probably in California, yeah.

00:25:38.000 Because you talked about, I heard you talked about that, you know, how do we unite the people?

00:25:46.000 Some of these people we can't unite because they're not our clients.

00:25:51.000 Sure, sure, sure, sure.

00:25:52.000 So, yeah, I mean, listen, I will say that, you know, Congressman Calvert, he's probably going to be the congressman at, you know, in the 41st district, the new 41st district.

00:26:03.000 And he's a guy that, you know, just has a great grassroots army behind him.

00:26:08.000 He's been doing this since 1993 in the state of California.

00:26:11.000 So he's probably going to win that race.

00:26:13.000 He's going to be one of the few Republicans on a nationwide basis out of California that remain after Prop 50.

00:26:21.000 So as far as, you know, by the way, people don't realize how expensive a petition drive of that magnitude is.

00:26:29.000 It's about $7 million so far.

00:26:30.000 It's probably going to cost them close to about nine when they're all said and done just to get that very popular measure on the ballot in November 2026.

00:26:39.000 And hopefully that does pass and they are able to withstand the negativity that's about to come their way when it is.

00:26:44.000 Now, regarding the midterm candidates, one, you're just going to see a lot of them here because we obviously give, we had Andy Biggs on as an example just the other day, but you'll see on Monday.

00:26:55.000 Gradually, we're just going to gradually escalate how many of these people are shipping.

00:26:58.000 Wait, Jay Feely, is he the quarterback?

00:27:01.000 Yeah, he was.

00:27:03.000 Or a kicker or something.

00:27:04.000 Yeah, so he's some sort of sports.

00:27:05.000 NFL guy.

00:27:06.000 Man, I'm going to ask you.

00:27:06.000 We're going to ask him.

00:27:07.000 Trump endorsed here in Arizona.

00:27:09.000 That's another one.

00:27:09.000 No, that's awesome.

00:27:12.000 But you'll see more of them.

00:27:13.000 You're going to primarily see them, of course, in the races we're most focused on, Arizona, because they're local.

00:27:19.000 We can have them in, and it's the state we care most about.

00:27:21.000 Swing states generally, the swing races.

00:27:23.000 We're going to be very fixated on those.

00:27:27.000 But we reach further afield.

00:27:29.000 We'll probably end up talking to some, we'll probably end up talking to some of these Indiana Republicans.

00:27:33.000 We're going to have to have unseating state lawmakers there. 1.00

00:27:36.000 You'll primarily see the races we're most involved in, but obviously we care about the races all over the country and we will be doing what we can to raise awareness for them.

00:27:46.000 Currently, we haven't had primaries in most of the places.

00:27:49.000 I was going to say, that's when you're going to see a lot of them.

00:27:52.000 You stole my answer.

00:27:53.000 The primary process tends, I mean, done best.

00:27:56.000 It's supposed to be a sifting process, right?

00:28:00.000 But what ends up happening in a general sense is they spend more money.

00:28:03.000 There's a lot more media spend.

00:28:04.000 They raise money.

00:28:05.000 You're going to hear about them more.

00:28:06.000 They're going to be doing more media.

00:28:08.000 So, I mean, the local GOP, state GOP in California is a pretty divided bunch.

00:28:13.000 There's kind of the more moderate wing versus the more MAGA wing.

00:28:18.000 And it's a mess.

00:28:19.000 I'm not going to lie.

00:28:20.000 Especially in California, it's a bit of a mess.

00:28:22.000 So you got to do your best and be a consumer of the information and be deliberate.

00:28:28.000 And then send us emails, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:30.000 We'll do our best to also listen to you, especially if you're a member.

00:28:35.000 We see your emails come through all the time.

00:28:37.000 Trust me.

00:28:38.000 So hopefully it was helpful.

00:28:39.000 But, you know, the strength of the candidate has to shine through.

00:28:42.000 They have to shine through.

00:28:43.000 They have to cut through the noise.

00:28:44.000 That is the challenge of a candidate, especially in this media landscape.

00:28:48.000 Julia, you're next here on the Charlie Kirk show.

00:28:51.000 Please unmute yourself.

00:28:52.000 What is your question?

00:28:53.000 Hi, can you guys hear me?

00:28:55.000 Yes, we can.

00:28:56.000 Yay! 0.99

00:28:57.000 I'm so excited to be talking to you guys.

00:28:59.000 Thank you so much.

00:29:00.000 Welcome, welcome.

00:29:00.000 Thanks, Julia.

00:29:02.000 So I wanted to ask you guys a question or two if there's extra time.

00:29:06.000 But my first question is: my family and I are from Canada, Communist Canada.

00:29:12.000 And we ran from Canada in 2022.

00:29:15.000 We were persecuted and we lost everything, jobs, schooling.

00:29:19.000 We didn't comply.

00:29:20.000 So we were the outcast of society and ran.

00:29:23.000 Legally, we came to the U.S.

00:29:26.000 And I went to school for music and I graduated.

00:29:30.000 I finished.

00:29:31.000 And now it's now, now what?

00:29:33.000 How can I stay and contribute to this amazing country, not get sent back to communism, basically?

00:29:39.000 So my question is, what do you guys think about H-1B visas?

00:29:43.000 I had a company offer me one, and I know that your show has talked about it a little bit.

00:29:47.000 So what are your guys' thoughts on that?

00:29:49.000 Well, so what we make of on H-1Bs as a national policy, we've been critical of it because it's very clear in our opinion that H-1Bs have been used. 0.99

00:29:57.000 They've helped de-skill America. 0.66

00:29:59.000 We've gotten companies addicted to an alternative way of getting workers so they don't need to train Americans as much.

00:30:05.000 They can pay workers less.

00:30:08.000 But obviously, that's us talking on a national level, on an individual level.

00:30:13.000 We can tell you are a great idea.

00:30:17.000 We would love to have people like you.

00:30:19.000 And we would much rather have an H-1B job go to you than to someone who will be a parasite, who will be a future daycare welfare entrepreneur or something from the Learing Center. 0.67

00:30:29.000 And so if you have that opportunity, we would 100% encourage you to take it because we have to always be reasonable with that.

00:30:37.000 And, you know, an individual good immigrant doesn't mean, oh, we should have open borders.

00:30:42.000 And a person who you could make a good use of an H-1B doesn't mean we should have H-1Bs as widely used as they are now or in the same way.

00:30:51.000 But 100%, if you have a job that would require H-1Bs, just because we are critical of that program doesn't mean you shouldn't take it. 0.97

00:30:57.000 Yeah.

00:30:57.000 And take advantage of your legal opportunity to use an H-1B.

00:31:02.000 And yeah, obviously there's a difference between the macro and the micro.

00:31:05.000 You're going to hear us criticize H-1Bs from a macro, but as a micro, you know, individual level, by all means, pursue that. 0.58

00:31:13.000 Go with God.

00:31:14.000 But yeah, I do hope the H-1B program gets abolished entirely.

00:31:18.000 I think it's been on the whole a very destructive policy for our country.

00:31:23.000 What was your other question?

00:31:25.000 For sure.

00:31:25.000 Thank you guys.

00:31:26.000 And by the way, I also agree with you.

00:31:28.000 So I've been kind of like figuring out what I need to do next.

00:31:31.000 But my next question is, I do want to get married, but and I've met a lot of people in Canada and in the U.S.

00:31:38.000 I don't feel like I've missed my boat by any means.

00:31:41.000 I'm very much with my family and the Lord with this.

00:31:44.000 So I'm not afraid of anything like that.

00:31:46.000 But a lot of the guys that I'm meeting at church down here, there's lots of guys, but they're very young and immature and they are not financially ready to have families and this kind of stuff.

00:31:58.000 So I feel like as the days go by more and more, I'm looking for someone older who's already financially stable, who I guess is just more mature than me and I can look up to them, that kind of thing.

00:32:09.000 So I know the patient.

00:32:11.000 Yeah.

00:32:12.000 How old are you and where do you live?

00:32:14.000 I'm 24 and I'm in Houston, Texas right now.

00:32:17.000 Okay, continue.

00:32:19.000 24?

00:32:20.000 You haven't missed the boat.

00:32:21.000 You're 24.

00:32:21.000 She said she didn't think she'd missed it.

00:32:23.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:24.000 No, I don't think I did.

00:32:25.000 I just, I've met a lot of people and I'm sure some people are like, what are you doing?

00:32:29.000 But anyways, so yeah, I've met a lot of people and they're just, they're really young and I just want to meet someone who I respect, who's older than me, who I can look up to and I trust that they can take care of a family.

00:32:40.000 So do you guys think that women these days just have too high of a standard and like we're part of the problem?

00:32:47.000 Am I, I'm being part of the problem by having too high of a standard?

00:32:50.000 Or is my concerns right, if that makes sense?

00:32:55.000 I don't want to talk too at length about this because I am not married, but I would say, especially at your age, remember that marriage is not, you're not getting married to a finished product.

00:33:06.000 You yourself are not a finished product.

00:33:08.000 An ideal marriage, you are growing together and you're spending your life together.

00:33:13.000 So if there are men who are not financially ready yet, you should be able to use your mind and use a reasonable dating process to think, is this a person who will mature, who will grow into someone who can support a family?

00:33:27.000 And you can make that decision.

00:33:28.000 Like if they're in school, are they studying a serious subject?

00:33:32.000 Are they getting a job that has long-term potential?

00:33:35.000 You know, you're in Houston.

00:33:36.000 So a guy who's getting a job in the energy sector and he's getting a degree in petroleum engineering or in finance, that's very different from maybe a guy who's 24 and he just, he doesn't have a strong sense on what he wants out of life.

00:33:51.000 And you can tell he's not making long-term plans.

00:33:54.000 So I think you can look for those with younger men and then you can still have reasonable confidence, especially if you are a good partner who is supportive, that they will grow into a stronger person.

00:34:07.000 I just throw that out there to say don't be automatically dismissive of guys who are your own age just because they aren't worth $2 million and they don't own a house yet.

00:34:16.000 And I've seen that, I guess, like I said, I'm not married, but I've seen this in my own family.

00:34:22.000 My sister got married while still in college.

00:34:24.000 Obviously, her husband was not wealthy yet.

00:34:28.000 He's not wealthy now, but he was a serious person.

00:34:31.000 He has a good job now, and I'm confident they will be successful in the long term.

00:34:35.000 He didn't need to already be super financially independent yet.

00:34:40.000 That's what I'd say.

00:34:40.000 But I should let Andrew talk about this because he's married.

00:34:43.000 As the married guy.

00:34:45.000 No, I actually don't have a lot to add.

00:34:47.000 I thought that was a lot of wisdom there.

00:34:48.000 Like, my wife and I got married when I didn't have two nickels to rub together.

00:34:54.000 And it was the best decision I ever made.

00:34:56.000 And I would also just say, you know, maybe it's tripe, but, you know, you should find somebody that you're attracted to and that you love and that you share values with.

00:35:04.000 You know, my wife and I, from a faith perspective, shared our values.

00:35:08.000 And, you know, we prayed together and we went to church together and there wasn't, there was zero conflict on that.

00:35:12.000 And the other thing is we just like to do the same things a lot of the time.

00:35:15.000 And, you know, these are basic things that sometimes we can overthink.

00:35:19.000 You know, do you like doing the same things?

00:35:21.000 Do you like hanging out together?

00:35:23.000 And I think you marry that with, you know, pun intended, with everything Blake said: that are they a serious person?

00:35:28.000 Do they have long-term goals?

00:35:29.000 Are they talented?

00:35:30.000 Are they capable?

00:35:31.000 Are they competent?

00:35:32.000 You know, those people are going to are going to ultimately succeed.

00:35:36.000 Something's going to break their way, an opportunity is going to come up.

00:35:39.000 So, you know, you got to bet on somebody sometimes.

00:35:42.000 And, you know, young love can be a really beautiful thing, especially when you have faith in common and values in common.

00:35:47.000 So, Godspeed.

00:35:49.000 I'm sure it's going to work out for you.

00:35:50.000 Seem like a lovely lady, and somebody's going to be very, very lucky to snatch you up. 1.00

00:35:54.000 So, awesome.

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00:37:07.000 Who do we got here next?

00:37:08.000 Is it Gigi?

00:37:10.000 Gigi, please unmute yourself.

00:37:12.000 What's your question, Gigi?

00:37:13.000 Hey, so I really heard a lot from Charlie about the stress of just classic literature and lots of good things for just consuming.

00:37:23.000 And I think he really cared a lot about today the problems that are just within storytelling, I guess, and just all entertainment culture.

00:37:32.000 And people are just always consuming poison and thinking it's just brownies and stuff like that.

00:37:37.000 Yeah.

00:37:39.000 So I'm wondering, what are just like the worst, probably top three, probably just specific problems within the entertainment culture today?

00:37:49.000 And for context, I mean, Charlie really inspired me in my time in Turning Point to, I'm 19, starting a nonprofit myself right now.

00:37:58.000 And it's literally called Create with Purpose because I just want kids and students to just like fight the incoherence in worldviews and try to get back to putting and instilling this godly worldview and the values that are missing from all our stories and stuff.

00:38:13.000 So yeah, I'm really wondering just what are the top three maybe things to really think about in getting students to change, I guess, in this culture.

00:38:24.000 What are the worst, most poisonous influences in entertainment culture today?

00:38:28.000 I think it's, you know, you kind of touched on it, Gigi, but it's this moral cloudiness, the incoherence in the moral viewpoint of the secular left.

00:38:42.000 I mean, there really is no up or down, right or left.

00:38:45.000 It's all sort of what do you feel?

00:38:46.000 What do you make of it?

00:38:48.000 So when we talk about this in education as well, you know, the root word means to lead forth.

00:38:53.000 So you have to, in order to lead forth, you have to know where you're going and it has to be rooted in something transcendent, eternal, good, true.

00:39:01.000 But if you don't know what the truth is, then you're just leading, it's the blind leading the blind.

00:39:05.000 And ultimately, that is modern art, you know, in so many ways.

00:39:09.000 Now, the flip side of that is that the conservative right or the religious right tends to be pretty bad at art because they also close themselves off to a lot of exploration and creativity.

00:39:21.000 And I really do believe, Gigi, that there is something about you have to know the truth in order to lead people to the truth.

00:39:27.000 You have to be able to articulate with moral clarity.

00:39:30.000 And this is one of the things that Charlie did so well.

00:39:32.000 He had such moral clarity.

00:39:33.000 Things were not complicated for Charlie most of the time.

00:39:36.000 And, you know, I would just say that, you know, you kind of have to marry a willingness to explore the frontiers of different ideas and be edgy while also knowing where you're leading people.

00:39:49.000 And that's why conservatives sometimes struggle with bad art.

00:39:52.000 And that's why liberals and progressives tend to make destructive art.

00:39:56.000 And so the best forms and versions of that are with people with a moral clarity and a place where they're leading people to go.

00:40:03.000 And, you know, I would say, look at the Bible.

00:40:05.000 The best narratives in the history of the world have all come out of the Bible.

00:40:09.000 The archetypes are biblical archetypes because they speak to something, you know, truly fundamental about the human experience.

00:40:16.000 And so a lot of the best films and TV shows are essentially tracking on a character arc or a plot arc what biblical narratives have done, right?

00:40:27.000 The Exodus story is one of those.

00:40:29.000 The hero's journey is another one of those.

00:40:31.000 And so these are the stories that animate the human soul.

00:40:35.000 And I think you can use those as a foundation to then build other narratives off of.

00:40:41.000 And I think most of the successful Oscar winners throughout the years, at least classically and traditionally, have been essentially just a biblical narrative that has been adapted to some other context.

00:40:52.000 Well done.

00:40:53.000 I think we have two questions still in queue.

00:40:54.000 Let's get them.

00:40:55.000 Let's get them through.

00:40:56.000 Let's have Christine. 1.00

00:40:57.000 Can you hear us?

00:40:58.000 Unmute yourself.

00:40:59.000 Hi, all.

00:41:00.000 Thanks for having me on.

00:41:00.000 And thanks for all the amazing work you guys are doing.

00:41:04.000 Thank you.

00:41:05.000 My question is, I live in Oklahoma City.

00:41:07.000 I'm a mom of three young kids.

00:41:09.000 And we just applied to two Christian Bible teaching schools for my oldest.

00:41:14.000 And one of the things I remember Charlie talking about the most is how the greatest gift you can give a child is a Christian education from a Bible teaching school.

00:41:23.000 And I think he went on to say, and to also know that there is a God and they are not it.

00:41:28.000 And I think about that all the time when I'm raising my kids.

00:41:32.000 But my question is, the wait list for these schools just outnumbers the amount of spots that they have.

00:41:39.000 And so what can we do just as individuals or as a greater movement to ensure that every child, every parent who wants a Christian education for their child has the opportunity?

00:41:53.000 Well, the merciful thing we have is we do live in a relatively free country.

00:41:58.000 So especially in your state, I have to imagine it's easier than in most if you wanted to start a new one.

00:42:04.000 I'm not putting it on you to say you should start a school, but ideally new schools do open to meet that demand because people do want these Bible, these Christian academies.

00:42:14.000 The other alternative, of course, is there is homeschooling and such.

00:42:19.000 I know that is also a lot to ask of somebody, but that has gotten easier than ever, I will say.

00:42:25.000 Homeschooling 30 years ago was really challenging.

00:42:28.000 You had to do it yourself in a lot of ways, and it was associated with weirder people, not saying they are, but that was the association.

00:42:35.000 Now way more people do it.

00:42:36.000 There's endless resources online for every subject.

00:42:40.000 So you don't need to be an expert on everything.

00:42:42.000 There's Christian resources that you can use for every subject.

00:42:45.000 You can have a Christian math textbook.

00:42:47.000 A friend of mine used one for his kids.

00:42:51.000 Can I just, of course, run out of time.

00:42:53.000 So I recently had to go through something similar because I had to move my family to Arizona.

00:42:58.000 There was a wait list for the Christian school that we wanted to send our kids to.

00:43:01.000 We toured like five or six of them.

00:43:03.000 And we just went and met with the leadership of the school and met with some of the teachers and they actually made space for us.

00:43:11.000 And so there's always that option.

00:43:12.000 You know, do a little old school politic and internally.

00:43:16.000 Get in touch with them directly, face-to-face conversations, explain why you would be a value add to that community because schools want good people.

00:43:24.000 They want good families.

00:43:24.000 They want good parents.

00:43:26.000 And so, if they see in you the kind of people that they want populating their community and their student body, they're going to try and make space for you.

00:43:33.000 They really will.

00:43:34.000 And then, on that note, it's already funny because there's been two offshoots from the school that we're now a part of, to Blake's point, that are starting their own.

00:43:41.000 One wants to go more of a classical education direction.

00:43:44.000 One wants to go a little bit more smaller school class sizes.

00:43:47.000 So, there's all these offshoots from the ones the schools.

00:43:50.000 We really are.

00:43:51.000 We complain a lot.

00:43:52.000 We're blessed on the education front that public schools have gotten bad, but the actual options that are available to parents are better than ever.

00:43:58.000 And in a lot of red states, you can now often get-I don't know if OK.

00:44:01.000 Well, no, I'm looking at it right now.

00:44:03.000 Homeschool families qualify for a thousand bucks.

00:44:05.000 You get credit amounts of $5,000 to $7,500 per eligible student based on tuition fees.

00:44:10.000 But also, vouchers for private schools as well.

00:44:11.000 That's what it is.

00:44:12.000 Exactly.

00:44:13.000 So, our options are getting better and better.

00:44:15.000 And so, we wish you the best of luck with that.

00:44:19.000 One last one.

00:44:19.000 One last question here.

00:44:21.000 Yep, and we got Greg.

00:44:23.000 Greg, please unmute yourself.

00:44:24.000 Welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:44:26.000 What's your question?

00:44:26.000 We got okay.

00:44:27.000 Um, first, you had a show that talked about a bill passed in 65 about limiting positions.

00:44:34.000 I think uh, Carmillo was the um Carmu?

00:44:39.000 Carmus, oh, yeah, the data guy, yeah, yeah.

00:44:42.000 Yeah, do you think um, did you bring that up to the Trump administration to see if they could change that anyway?

00:44:49.000 Yes, um, actually, I actually connected him with some people that are working on healthcare stuff.

00:44:55.000 So, okay, I definitely has Windows into the admin, so which is great.

00:45:00.000 That's that's good.

00:45:02.000 Also, um, you talked about the 60-vote filibuster recently, also.

00:45:06.000 And I just saw Pete Ricketts from Nebraska, a Republican, who said that that was part of the way the founders set it up to be.

00:45:13.000 And I was like, Really?

00:45:15.000 These guys need an education, you guys need to get up there and get them right, man.

00:45:19.000 Ricketts, what did he say?

00:45:21.000 Apparently, he said the founders wanted the filibuster to exist.

00:45:25.000 No, well, these are rules that exist that basically date back to I think the 1912 or something.

00:45:33.000 Not even that, I think, really, modern filibuster as we know it is basically 40 years old.

00:45:38.000 Yeah, but the concept of the filibuster evolved starting with a rule change in like the 1912.

00:45:44.000 I looked it up the other day, anyways.

00:45:47.000 You know, and we've we've actually been pushing Senator Lee's idea where you actually make them be on the floor, but apparently, even then, they could that the way that that rule is, is I talked to some other senators, is that it's just on a single issue of a bill.

00:46:05.000 So, you could invent infinity issues.

00:46:07.000 Basically, it wouldn't fix the problem because you get through with one issue, they give up, and then they go into the next issue, and they do the whole process all over again.

00:46:16.000 So, it wouldn't fix the process.

00:46:18.000 So, you've got to sort of say the option that they're now looking at is maybe a limited nuking of the filibuster, but it's partial, and it would only apply to funding bills.

00:46:30.000 This is their new idea.

00:46:32.000 That's how it's really been.

00:46:34.000 So, you used to have you could filibuster Supreme Court nominees, they got rid of that.

00:46:37.000 You could filibuster lower judicial nominees, they got rid of that.

00:46:41.000 Now, they'd be getting it.

00:46:42.000 They're clearly chipping away.

00:46:44.000 I suspect eventually the filibuster is going to die.

00:46:47.000 And the matter is just who's going to do it, and are they going to be able to get value out of doing it?

00:46:52.000 And that's why we've always talked about that.

00:46:54.000 Don't nuke the filibuster unless you will get something useful out of it.

00:46:57.000 Immigration, voter ID, those types of things.

00:46:59.000 Thank you, guys.

00:46:59.000 That wasn't Ask Me Anything.

00:47:00.000 That's a good one.

00:47:01.000 Lots of good questions.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 12, 2026

Ask Us Anything 248: Marriage Standards? Extreme Democrat Rhetoric? National Unity?

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