The Charlie Kirk Show - Big Tech's Very Good Week & Why Republicans Refuse to Fight Back

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00:00:26.000 Hey, everybody, we continue our quest to find the 135,000 missing ballots in New York City.

00:00:32.000 We have a parallel government from Menlo Park, California.

00:00:38.000 Unfortunately, big tech had a good week, and we explore that.

00:00:42.000 We talk about what we can do about it, why Republicans are, for many different reasons, unwilling to go after big tech.

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00:01:14.000 Unfortunately, big tech had a good week.

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00:02:59.000 Back in New York, it looks like New York's got a little bit of life, and I gotta say, looking out the window, it's about one in four people are wearing two masks, and so that's.

00:03:09.000 That's a good day to be alive at 25, Ish.

00:03:12.000 Is it going down?

00:03:13.000 That's actually probably less than that.

00:03:15.000 And New York's got some spirit back.

00:03:17.000 I'm cheering for New York.

00:03:19.000 And, you know, we're going to talk about how New York is leading the world in how to run a third world election.

00:03:25.000 And we're going to talk about how.

00:03:26.000 See, I have some questions, and we're going to get into this.

00:03:29.000 Why were there 135,000 test ballots used in the New York mayor's race?

00:03:34.000 135,000 test ballots.

00:03:38.000 Why wouldn't 50 test ballots be sufficient?

00:03:42.000 And so this opened up so many questions in the New York City's mayor's race where Eric Adams went to an early lead and now his lead is ever decreasing.

00:03:50.000 By the way, he is not a Republican.

00:03:52.000 He's not a conservative.

00:03:53.000 He seems like somewhat of a mainstream Democrat who kind of wants to clean up the streets and doesn't believe the abolition of the police is a good idea.

00:04:03.000 So I got to thinking, did Arizona or Georgia use any test ballots?

00:04:09.000 Did Michigan or Wisconsin use test ballots?

00:04:12.000 Who's in charge of deciding whether or not test ballots should be used?

00:04:16.000 And if you have not seen the story in the wonderful city of New York, as we are here on WABC, they had a primary where they decided they couldn't count votes as it is.

00:04:28.000 So they wanted to make it extra confusing.

00:04:29.000 So they implemented this very bizarre way of counting votes called ranked choice voting.

00:04:38.000 Now, I'm a huge critic of ranked choice voting because it panders to the most radical voter.

00:04:45.000 Rank choice voting essentially is you have five options.

00:04:49.000 And your first option, you put number one, and then the person that you like second gets second.

00:04:54.000 And so what happens is the person who gets the least amount of votes gets disqualified.

00:04:59.000 And then those people's votes then go back to their number two choice.

00:05:04.000 If you're confused, so is the New York Board of Elections.

00:05:07.000 And if you're really confused, so is Bill de Blasio, who basically comes out and says, look, man, after he took a big hit, it's really tough running New York elections.

00:05:19.000 It's not like we're New York City or anything.

00:05:24.000 This is, we're a third world country. 0.56

00:05:26.000 And basically, unfortunately, he's somewhat right, but I'm still pulling for New York.

00:05:31.000 Now, the problem with ranked choice voting, again, is that it gives an extra platform to not an extra platform.

00:05:40.000 That's not the right way to word it.

00:05:42.000 It allows the people in last place, so the socialist types, to all of a sudden pick the winner.

00:05:49.000 Instead of allowing a plurality to elect somebody, where it basically should be, they say, you know what?

00:05:55.000 We know that the AOC types, you know the types, whatever the most radical person that wants to destroy the city, that's who they want to have become mayor.

00:06:06.000 And so they designed a system where the normal common sense people, all of a sudden, they did not want that.

00:06:15.000 They didn't want to give them a bigger platform.

00:06:17.000 So you have a system that works where you choose a winner.

00:06:21.000 They say, let's overly complicate that.

00:06:24.000 And so New York City, we still don't know who's going to be mayor.

00:06:27.000 It's going to take them a couple months.

00:06:29.000 You know, we're going to kind of just be like Senegal and we're going to find votes in some sort of a warehouse.

00:06:35.000 But again, I do have a question, which is, did some of these battleground states, did they have test ballots?

00:06:44.000 In fact, one of the sworn affidavits said that in Georgia, they saw some test ballots.

00:06:52.000 And so was New York and what we're witnessing right now in New York, and no one really knows what's going on.

00:06:58.000 No one knows who's in charge.

00:06:59.000 It's a pure egalitarian experiment here, right?

00:07:02.000 Everyone's blaming each other, and there might not be a next mayor.

00:07:07.000 It just might be like the Paris Commune, right?

00:07:09.000 Where everyone's, you can do whatever you want to do.

00:07:12.000 There is no police, but at least there's no more traffic because no one lives here anymore, right?

00:07:18.000 That's kind of the new New York thing.

00:07:19.000 Everyone complains about how New York is right now, except they say, well, the traffic's a lot better.

00:07:24.000 Oh, I wonder why no one's here anymore.

00:07:26.000 I'm half kidding.

00:07:28.000 And the reason is all leadership, and it's a tragedy.

00:07:32.000 I've been coming to New York for the last 10 years of my life.

00:07:35.000 Actually, I first came to New York City at the Occupy Wall Street protests, remember, down in Zuccotti Park?

00:07:43.000 And that was an overwhelming sensory experience, both visually and also the smell.

00:07:50.000 It knocked you off when you were like a block away.

00:07:52.000 You're holy moly.

00:07:54.000 The entire collective Zuccotti Park hadn't showered for quite some time.

00:07:58.000 And it was Occupy Wall Street when I first came and I started Turning Point USA and I came to New York City with more regularity.

00:08:05.000 And I loved New York in 2013, 14, 15, 16.

00:08:08.000 And then something happened in 2017.

00:08:10.000 And this is a great lesson.

00:08:12.000 It is a great, it is a piece of wisdom from the phenomenal Alexander Sochenitsyn in the Gulag Archipelago, which he said that all of the tragedy of the Soviet Union happened thanks to ideology, where you have a group of people that care more to their commitment to an abstraction than what's good for the well-being of the citizens around them.

00:08:36.000 Defund the police.

00:08:37.000 Why?

00:08:37.000 Because I read it in the textbook.

00:08:39.000 Well, is that a good idea?

00:08:40.000 Go ask my NYU professor.

00:08:40.000 I don't know.

00:08:43.000 And what happened in 17, 18, and 19, and I saw it happen in this beautiful city of New York, was all of a sudden, the activists, the ideologues, they were given an opportunity to destroy probably the greatest city in the world, the center of the world, as John Lennon used to call it.

00:09:05.000 And so instead of seeing what is happening and seeing what very well could solve the problem, like more police or not letting first-degree murderers out on bail, minor details.

00:09:17.000 Instead, it's a commitment to an abstraction.

00:09:20.000 It's a commitment to an idea that sounds good in a lecture hall at Fordham University or Columbia University or NYU or Sarah Lawrence, but it really makes no sense in practice.

00:09:34.000 And the reason why New York City really was able to become the greatest city in the world in the 80s and the 90s is when Rudy Giuliani was mayor in the 1990s and even with Bloomberg in the early 2000s, New York City was an anti-abstractionist political environment.

00:09:55.000 Even the Democrats made sense because there was kind of this, there was kind of this attitude, especially of the kind of muscular class in New York City, the taxi cab drivers, the garbage, the garbage delivery people, the police officers was like, no, no, but is that good for the city?

00:10:12.000 And especially after 9-11, there was this attitude of, I don't care your political party.

00:10:17.000 I don't care where you come from.

00:10:18.000 Is this going to make New York safer, stronger, and is it going to make more people want to live here?

00:10:23.000 Now it's the opposite.

00:10:25.000 Now the cost is completely dismissed.

00:10:28.000 And you see that in this vote counting bonanza that we're experiencing right now in New York, where it's going to be a couple weeks, if not months, where we figure out what's going to happen.

00:10:40.000 And they might as well just, and I mean this non-sarcastically, they might as well do the election over again.

00:10:47.000 At this point, no one is going to become, no one is going to trust who wins this current count.

00:11:00.000 No one is going to trust whatever result that they announce.

00:11:09.000 And so the Democrats screwed up the Iowa caucus vote totals.

00:11:15.000 They screwed up the 2020 election results.

00:11:19.000 They can't count election results in New York City.

00:11:22.000 But now they want to control our federal elections at HR1.

00:11:26.000 They want to have a complete nationalization of our federal elections, despite not being able to count ballots correctly.

00:11:33.000 They say, oh, sorry, we are off by 135,000 ballots.

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00:13:23.000 Scott Hennan emailed me and texted me.

00:13:26.000 He said, rank voting is also in Fargo, North Dakota, as the leftists got it on the ballot and it passed.

00:13:31.000 The Fargo City Commission already passed mail and balloting.

00:13:34.000 Sadly, it's not just New York City.

00:13:37.000 And you want to know why all of a sudden we are having a hyper-polarized political environment, especially in New York City.

00:13:44.000 It's because instead of the coalition builder that is rewarded, it is the more radical voters that are then given a higher platform.

00:13:53.000 So essentially, the loser voters end up picking the winner.

00:13:56.000 Only if you wanted to have a revolutionary become mayor would you institute a system like this.

00:14:03.000 We've talked at length about big tech.

00:14:07.000 I think the United States Constitution is the greatest political document ever written.

00:14:13.000 The United States Constitution recognizes natural rights given to you by your creator.

00:14:19.000 The United States Constitution has a direct tie to the Declaration of Independence.

00:14:25.000 Not every historian agrees with this, and those historians are just wrong.

00:14:30.000 There is an eternal and there is a divine connection between the truths that are stated in the Declaration of Independence, which we celebrate in just a couple days, and the truths of the United States Constitution.

00:14:42.000 And at the first glance, it looks as if the Declaration is nothing more than a separation agreement with King George, and the U.S. Constitution is then trying to form an idea of how to govern ourselves.

00:14:52.000 But that is a surface-level reading.

00:14:55.000 You dive deeper into the Declaration of Independence, you will see that the complaints that Thomas Jefferson offers in the Declaration are solved in the actual Constitution written by James Madison and with the help of Alexander Hamilton after the Federalist Papers in September of 1787, finally with the Bill of Rights ratified in 1791.

00:15:13.000 And the Constitution talks explicitly, it speaks to this idea, this truth, that you as a human being have the right to speak, assemble, associate, that you have private property rights, and that if something tries to get in the way of those rights, that it is the government's role to stand up for you.

00:15:35.000 You see, the Constitution was written for the people, which means for individuals, your capacity to speak and to reason, to associate, to communicate.

00:15:45.000 Now, we take this for granted, but when this starts to all of a sudden come into real life encounters, we sometimes seem to say the Constitution doesn't apply there.

00:16:00.000 The current example, and we've talked about this, is this example of big tech.

00:16:06.000 Big tech, best described as a coalition of a couple companies.

00:16:11.000 And I'm just looking at the television screen.

00:16:13.000 It's right there: Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and then Alphabet.

00:16:18.000 We can remove Netflix.

00:16:20.000 Let's just talk about, for example, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple.

00:16:27.000 I believe that they represent a parallel government.

00:16:31.000 They represent a power structure that, quite honestly, is more powerful than the own federal government that we give our power and pay our taxes to.

00:16:42.000 They have more information.

00:16:45.000 They have more capacity.

00:16:47.000 Do you know what the combined market cap of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple is?

00:16:54.000 Well, over $5.7 trillion.

00:17:00.000 That's four companies.

00:17:02.000 Four companies that have the combined market capitalization, which means their value in the public exchanges of over $5.7 trillion.

00:17:13.000 That is more than the federal government budget every single year, even with a stimulus package.

00:17:19.000 And they work weekends.

00:17:22.000 And almost every single person that works for Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple, they are committed ideologues.

00:17:29.000 And they are committed to try to remake the American Republic in their image.

00:17:34.000 The question in front of us, and the question here, is what is more important?

00:17:38.000 Your right to speak, or four companies with a combined value of over $5.7 trillion to shut you up.

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00:19:19.000 Federal judge has come out and blocked Florida's social media law, says it's likely violated free speech.

00:19:27.000 What?

00:19:28.000 Likely violated free speech?

00:19:30.000 You're trying to tell me a law that was trying to be passed to protect free speech violates freedom of speech.

00:19:36.000 Fords.com is writing, a federal judge on Wednesday blocked a Florida law passed by Governor Ron DeSantis that would have allowed the state to penalize social media companies for banning or labeling posts made by political candidates, dealing a blow to the Republican-backed effort to retaliate against the likes of Facebook and Twitter for suspending former President Trump.

00:19:57.000 First of all, this guy that wrote this article, Sil.atiya Ray, is completely wrong.

00:20:03.000 The banning and suspending of President Trump is one component of a broader complaint that those of us that care about freedom of speech have against these tech companies.

00:20:16.000 U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle, whoever that is, issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law a day before it was scheduled to go into effect on the grounds that it likely preempted or violated the First Amendment.

00:20:30.000 Hinkle noted that the law was an effort to target social media platforms, obviously.

00:20:35.000 Too large and too liberal, the judge says, but added that, quote, balancing the exchange of ideas among private users was not a legitimate government interest.

00:20:48.000 The judge also pointed out the discriminatory nature of the law as it offers exemptions for companies that operate a theme park in the state, something observers have referred to as the Disney exemption.

00:21:00.000 Florida's governor Ron DeSantis said he plans to immediately appeal Hinkle's decision, good, and disagreed, quote, with his determination that the U.S. Constitution protects big tech censorship of certain individuals and content over others.

00:21:14.000 Hinkle continues, this judge, the legislation compels providers to host speech that violates their standards, speech they otherwise would not host, and forbids providers from speaking as they otherwise would.

00:21:29.000 The governor's signing statement and numerous remarks of legislators show rather clearly that the legislation is viewpoint-based and parts contravene a federal statute.

00:21:40.000 Well, I would love to have this judge oversee the circuit court in New York because if all of a sudden you have any sort of political motivation behind any sort of action, that should throw out the indictment behind Donald Trump in a second.

00:21:55.000 But almost no judge will take the political leanings into consideration unless they are so extreme and so over the top.

00:22:03.000 So this judge is making the argument that the $5.7 trillion companies, four of them, they should be treated as if they are the local Lebanese restaurant in Midtown New York City.

00:22:18.000 So we have seen what big tech has done and what they are doing and just breaking today on Facebook.

00:22:25.000 There is a new disclaimer on Facebook.

00:22:28.000 If you go to Facebook and maybe you like Charlie Kirk's Facebook page or maybe the Turning Point USA page, Facebook now has a pop-up.

00:22:36.000 It says, are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?

00:22:41.000 We care about preventing extremism on Facebook.

00:22:45.000 Just so you guys know, I want to just train our audience.

00:22:49.000 Anytime you hear the word extremism, someone is trying to control you.

00:22:54.000 Anytime you hear the word extremism, it's someone who is trying to use power to manipulate your actions.

00:23:02.000 Others in your situation have received confidential support.

00:23:07.000 How you can help hear stories and get advice from people who escaped violent extremist groups.

00:23:14.000 And then Facebook says get support.

00:23:15.000 Just so you know, they consider Christians to be extremists.

00:23:19.000 If you believe in the Bible, you're an extremist.

00:23:21.000 If you're a member of the National Rifle Association, you're an extremist.

00:23:25.000 Here's an example of the pop-up you'll get on Facebook now.

00:23:28.000 Carl, you may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently.

00:23:33.000 Violent groups try to manipulate your anger and disappointment.

00:23:36.000 You can take your action now to protect yourself and others.

00:23:39.000 Get support from experts.

00:23:43.000 We did a whole show on that one word, experts, on how that word, if you take the two words that are being used to destroy the American Republic, that actually, I'll put in another two words, public health, experts, and extremism.

00:23:59.000 We should have a word cloud of the words that are being used to remake America.

00:24:05.000 Extremist, expert, public health.

00:24:10.000 Public health being more of a phrase.

00:24:13.000 So Facebook has basically come out and they are no different than a Democrat super PAC.

00:24:19.000 They are acting with a certain pattern that they have a political viewpoint and they are willing to try to do whatever it is necessary to accomplish it.

00:24:28.000 And Ron DeSantis was courageous and heroic to do everything he possibly could to try to at least have a little bit of a check and balance against it.

00:24:39.000 Facebook in this last week also won a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission.

00:24:44.000 In a December 2020 lawsuit, the FTC alleged that Facebook improperly maintained its monopoly in personal social networking services.

00:24:52.000 The FTC complaint focused on two sets of practices.

00:24:56.000 Number one, that Facebook protected its monopoly by acquiring emerging rivals, Instagram and WhatsApp, in 2012 and 2014.

00:25:04.000 And secondly, that Facebook restricted access to application programming interfaces, APIs, that allowed apps and services to be interoperable with Facebook's platform.

00:25:15.000 And more specifically, Facebook declined to share API with apps and services that competed with Facebook's core functionability or supported rival social networks.

00:25:28.000 So now we have basically a set of judges and the way that the laws are currently written that are saying that big tech's right to dominate you is more important than your right to speak.

00:25:44.000 Where is the check and balance against this?

00:25:47.000 A French judge named Montesquieu said that liberty is fragile and temporary if there is not a check on power.

00:25:57.000 So let me ask a couple questions for this federal judge and for anyone out there that says that big tech has a right to be a multi-trillion dollar cartel.

00:26:07.000 I would like you to ponder on these questions.

00:26:11.000 Can McDonald's not serve Big Macs to Republicans?

00:26:15.000 If McDonald's said that they will not serve Big Macs to Republicans, do you think that is legal, moral, and should hold up in the court of law?

00:26:25.000 Can McDonald's now say that we will not serve hamburgers to 75 million Americans?

00:26:33.000 Can American airlines kick socialists off their airline and say they can't fly because they want to nationalize the airlines?

00:26:41.000 Can American Airlines now walk the aisle on a flight from Los Angeles to JFK and say, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard flight 2132, non-stop service from LAX to JFK.

00:26:55.000 Before we get going, we want to see your voting records.

00:26:57.000 And if any of you happen to vote for Donald Trump, we will escort you off this airline.

00:27:02.000 Thank you so much, and make sure you wear your two masks.

00:27:05.000 Is American Airlines allowed to do that?

00:27:07.000 Is American Airlines allowed to have viewpoint discrimination based on who uses their airline?

00:27:15.000 Is ATT allowed to disconnect phone calls between LGBT groups?

00:27:22.000 Is Verizon Wireless allowed to disconnect phone calls between environmentalists?

00:27:28.000 What if Verizon Wireless all of a sudden had a meeting and they said, we are now going to not allow phone calls to be made amongst extremists because the experts tell us to do it for public health.

00:27:44.000 Extremist experts, public health.

00:27:47.000 Experts that are always worried about us becoming too extreme because of public health.

00:27:50.000 We must worry about public health because the experts tell us an extremism is on the rise.

00:27:55.000 You know those three things, then you know a lot about how the current masters of the universe are trying to control us.

00:28:02.000 The courts are currently saying that their right to dominate you supersedes the right to speak.

00:28:10.000 Basically, what the courts are currently saying is a multi-trillion dollar cartel has more rights than the vaccine skeptical mother. 0.73

00:28:21.000 That a multi-trillion dollar company has more rights than the pastor who dares post about how he's worried about the transgender craze that's coming to a high school near him. 0.52

00:28:35.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, they are private companies. 0.56

00:28:39.000 So is the highway from South Bend, Indiana to Chicago, Illinois.

00:28:43.000 It's called the Chicago Skyway.

00:28:45.000 Hello to all my friends on AM560, the answer.

00:28:47.000 The Chicago Skyway was built with private funds.

00:28:50.000 It was built for a public purpose.

00:28:53.000 Do you know it's against the law if the private group that owns the Chicago Skyway came out and they said, you know what? 0.78

00:28:58.000 We're not going to allow gay people to drive on the Chicago Skyway against the law. 0.73

00:29:03.000 You know, if the Chicago Skyway came out and they said, you know, we're not going to allow Democrats to drive on the Chicago Skyway. 0.99

00:29:08.000 We're not going to allow conservatives because it's against our community standards.

00:29:11.000 We're not going to allow extremists on our highway.

00:29:15.000 Those are interstate highways, and Facebook and Amazon and Google are information highways.

00:29:23.000 And excuse me while I dismiss myself from the overly theoretical arguments and I get into how I see things as they are.

00:29:32.000 The local Lebanese restaurant that is just right around the corner or Bill's Burgers right around the corner that we know very well, my wife is right there, is a different circumstance completely than a multi-trillion dollar international company.

00:29:52.000 Now, some people say, well, Charlie, the law must apply for the small and for the large.

00:29:58.000 Of course it must.

00:30:00.000 We're simply saying that when you're a multi-trillion dollar company with a user base that is the entire North American continent, basically, certain accommodations are going to have to be made.

00:30:10.000 And those accommodations are we're no longer going to pander to the corporate board of Facebook that kicked off a duly elected president that kicks off millions of people every single day and also is engaging in a pattern of monopolistic practices that is bad for you.

00:30:28.000 I met a restaurateur and he said, Charlie, this last year has been the worst year we've ever had.

00:30:35.000 I had seven restaurants.

00:30:36.000 Now we have three restaurants and we let off 350 employees.

00:30:40.000 Meanwhile, Facebook went from a $700 billion company to a $1.3 trillion company.

00:30:46.000 If we as conservatives are going to remain true to what we actually believe in, we're going to conserve things that are local, that are beautiful, and that are in the tradition of the preservation of natural rights.

00:31:02.000 And the current shadow parallel government we have in Menlo Park, California stands in opposition.

00:31:08.000 In fact, they stand to try and crush those things.

00:31:11.000 Why haven't Republicans, more of them, done what DeSantis has done to try to put a full court press or pressure on these tech companies?

00:31:21.000 Isn't it obvious?

00:31:23.000 So let me explain to you why Republicans are not prepared for this fight and why it's up to you, the voter, and us, the communicator, to be in unison and demand out of our leaders to use their political power to preserve natural rights.

00:31:42.000 Here's why.

00:31:43.000 You see, in the conservative movement I grew up in in 2012, 13, and 14, there was a book that was referenced and circulated more than any other book.

00:31:51.000 And it is a phenomenal piece of literature.

00:31:54.000 It's called Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek.

00:31:58.000 And this book talks about the threat of government tyranny, of central planning, of picking winners and losers, how you can get famine, hunger, and misery when you overinvolve yourself in the economy.

00:32:12.000 I believe all of those things.

00:32:14.000 But the belief behind F.A. Hayek's literature is that power, if it is not checked and balanced, is something that will be abused.

00:32:23.000 The issue with overemphasizing that particular interpretation of F.A. Hayek's book, Road to Serfdom, results in a seeming indifference to a corporate oligarchy.

00:32:35.000 What if I told you that we could have a road to serfdom that also has corporations dominating us, not government dominating us?

00:32:43.000 You see, the true awokening that needs to happen amongst conservatives is that we have two simultaneous threats to our way of life, one from Washington and one from Menlo Park.

00:32:55.000 If you don't know what Menlo Park, it's Silicon Valley.

00:32:58.000 They both have similar objectives and aims.

00:33:02.000 One of them, we have some capacity to check and balance, and that is in Washington.

00:33:07.000 We at least have some authority for subpoena power.

00:33:10.000 If you get an audit notice from the IRS, at the end of that audit notice, you have a very cop, a very commonly noted and copy-pasted piece of paper called, these are your taxpayer bill of rights.

00:33:21.000 Now you can roll your eyes and shrug your shoulders and say, I hate the government.

00:33:25.000 And by the way, I'm all for all of those things.

00:33:28.000 But at least you have something called due process.

00:33:31.000 There's a process to all of that.

00:33:33.000 But what happens when Google shuts down your email account?

00:33:36.000 What happens when Wells Fargo turns down your banking ability like it did for a Republican candidate for Senate from Delaware last week, Lauren Witzke?

00:33:45.000 What happens when all of a sudden the big companies say, we don't think you should exist anymore?

00:33:49.000 What are your rights of redress or grievance?

00:33:51.000 Do you have any?

00:33:53.000 And the problem why conservatives have not signed on to this and why it's still lacking momentum and why there is not the political will is that there is still this muscle memory of the 1970s that, oh, I thought the companies were on our side.

00:34:06.000 No, they're not.

00:34:07.000 The chamber is against you.

00:34:09.000 They care about being the favored companies in a corporatist agenda.

00:34:12.000 Either we are going to use the political power given to us by voters to restrain big tech and restrain the big fourth branch of government, or we're going to be squeezed by both and they'll fight over the spoils.

00:34:24.000 The reason why Republicans have not done this is they're so afraid that if they dare use the political power given to them by voters, that that power will be abused.

00:34:32.000 Newsflash, you're being abused by the people that actually have the power.

00:34:37.000 The only check and balance that remains against Facebook and Google and Amazon and Apple is the process when you go and vote and the power you give to your leaders.

00:34:51.000 You know why this judge ruled the way he did?

00:34:54.000 Because he doesn't feel as if there is an overwhelming political will to try to make him do otherwise.

00:35:01.000 Alexander Hamilton famously predicted that judges are human beings and they will go the way of the public will almost always, at least in the general direction.

00:35:14.000 We saw that with the gay marriage decision back in 2011, 2012.

00:35:20.000 It's time for Republicans and Republican leaders, especially your governors and attorney generals, to take bold and public and dramatic action. 0.83

00:35:31.000 We are living through the big squeeze of our actual government and a parallel government that wants to crush you, the average conservative American.

00:35:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:35:42.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:45.000 And if you want to join us in Tampa, Florida for the Student Action Summit, go to tpusa.com slash SAS.

00:35:51.000 Hope to see you there.

00:35:52.000 God bless you guys.

00:35:53.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 02, 2021

Big Tech's Very Good Week & Why Republicans Refuse to Fight Back

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