The Charlie Kirk Show - May 18, 2021


Charlie's Back...and He's Got A LOT to Say


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In this episode, President Obama talks about his experience on his honeymoon with his wife, Erica, when they went without their phones for a week and a half. He talks about how the experience changed his life and how important it was for him to try something new.

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00:01:32.000 Hello, everybody.
00:01:34.000 We are back.
00:01:35.000 It's been about 10 days, almost actually, let me think about this.
00:01:38.000 11 or 12 days since we have been in the chair.
00:01:42.000 It's been an amazing week and a half.
00:01:45.000 Got married on May the 8th.
00:01:48.000 Probably the best day of my life.
00:01:50.000 Yeah, it was the best day of my life.
00:01:52.000 And then right after that, went on my honeymoon with my wife, Erica.
00:01:57.000 It was amazing.
00:01:58.000 No phone, no contact with the outside world.
00:02:01.000 And boy, are we going to talk about that.
00:02:03.000 And when I mean no contact, I mean no newspaper, no phone, no computer.
00:02:09.000 In fact, my entire bearing of whatever was happening in the world was overhearing conversations at the very nice resort that we were at in an undisclosed location, of course.
00:02:20.000 And people were just saying, Israel, gas prices, pipeline hacking.
00:02:27.000 And I just tried to zone out of all of it.
00:02:29.000 And I'm so glad that I did.
00:02:32.000 And so I did a lot of thinking, a lot of reading.
00:02:34.000 I actually read 1984.
00:02:36.000 I didn't just read it.
00:02:36.000 I studied it.
00:02:37.000 I have a lot of things I want to share with that because we use that term Orwellian so often.
00:02:42.000 I think people really don't understand what it actually means because I think people read 1984 in some high school literature class and then they just think they really understand what Orwell was trying to warn us about.
00:02:55.000 So I did a lot of thinking, a lot of writing, a lot of things I want to explore and share with you today.
00:03:02.000 I also did a lot of observing.
00:03:05.000 And so with no phone and no smooth screens to distract me, no digital pacifiers to placate me, I realized how much beautiful idle time we as human beings have.
00:03:21.000 For example, you're sitting waiting for food and maybe your wife went to the restroom or maybe she's going to the front desk to get something.
00:03:32.000 And so you have no phone to look at.
00:03:35.000 There's no smooth screen or digital pacifier to burn the time.
00:03:42.000 And so instead, you look up and you look around.
00:03:46.000 There's no tweets to reference.
00:03:48.000 There's no Instagram feed to scroll through.
00:03:51.000 And quite honestly, it was beyond therapeutic.
00:03:53.000 It was freeing.
00:03:56.000 And so I did a lot of people watching while I was on my honeymoon.
00:04:03.000 And every single person that I saw at the resort, in one way or the other, was a slave to their device.
00:04:13.000 We are at a brilliantly beautiful resort.
00:04:18.000 The sunsets were beyond anything you can imagine, the beaches, the natural beauty.
00:04:24.000 And yet we were 30 seconds away from the climax of the sunset in one of the most beautiful resorts on the planet.
00:04:32.000 And I looked to my right and I looked to my left, and people were looking at their phones, texting friends halfway around the world, bringing their friends with them to that moment.
00:04:47.000 And so this was the first time in quite honestly a decade I had been anywhere without my phone for an extended period of time.
00:04:56.000 And so I started to just write notes of how people were interacting with each other.
00:04:59.000 It was almost, in some ways, it became a sociological experiment that Erica and I discussed.
00:05:09.000 What I realized is that this technology was not just accelerating or amplifying pre-existing trends.
00:05:20.000 No, it was creating new behaviors altogether.
00:05:22.000 There is nothing rational.
00:05:24.000 There is no logical explanation.
00:05:27.000 When you are in paradise, the most beautiful place a person can be.
00:05:33.000 And the dozens of people that are also there alongside, they are staring down to their phone.
00:05:40.000 In the ancient times, or even 100 years ago, we used to look up to the heavens or the cosmos for direction, and now our necks are fixated down for the next dopamine rush that these gadgets and these devices are pushing towards us.
00:06:01.000 It was so refreshing and relaxing and freeing and liberating to be able to sit in front of this beauty without the digital pacifier or the dopamine machine, as I mentioned.
00:06:17.000 So I just asked the question: I said, if all the smartphones on this continent vanished, would America be a happier, more gentle, and less alienated society?
00:06:31.000 So that was the first observation was the phones, was how we are no longer enjoying the natural world around us.
00:06:41.000 People were not even having conversations with their wife or their husband.
00:06:46.000 In fact, Erica and I one evening were just watching, and one couple spent 95% of their meal texting on social media, Snapchatting, and interacting back and forth with people that were not there.
00:07:01.000 And I thought to myself, outside of the nice cool breeze and the food, why not just sit at separate tables?
00:07:09.000 There was no verbal communication.
00:07:11.000 There was no connection.
00:07:12.000 There was no spiritual growth.
00:07:14.000 Instead, it was just merely a collaborative work group while they were exploring social media together.
00:07:24.000 And people did not even realize they were impacting their own humanity while they were doing that.
00:07:33.000 The second thing that was really interesting to see was in an all-outdoor resort, how people still clung to their masks.
00:07:43.000 I heard through one way or the other that the mask issue was a big issue last week.
00:07:48.000 And now, as I start to get back into this news cycle, you know, I kind of feel like I woke up from a coma after nine days.
00:07:54.000 I'm asking all these very logical and rational questions.
00:07:57.000 You see, I was not in the simulation the last couple weeks.
00:08:01.000 So now, as I get back into the simulation, I start to ask very logical and rational questions.
00:08:07.000 And I start to see that we're all playing a rigged game.
00:08:12.000 That the way the news cycle is designed, the way that we talk about these issues, is all within a comfortable, prearranged corporate media framework that is designed to keep you obedient and America unfree.
00:08:25.000 That's basically where we're at.
00:08:28.000 And so, I guess, one of the big issues and stories in the last week was this mask issue: this issue that the CDC now says that you're allowed to walk around without a mask if you're vaccinated or something like that.
00:08:42.000 And so, as I watched other people in outdoor resorts cling to their masks, I wondered: are they doing this because they actually think it's going to keep them safe?
00:08:55.000 Or are they doing this because they've been told to do this?
00:09:01.000 And finally, I observed in kind of my people watching experiment, which, by the way, is what people used to do before these smooth screens designed by the Menlo Park masters in the Silicon Valley oligarchs infiltrated our planet when we decided it would be a good idea to give every single breathing human a device so complex, hardwired for your addiction.
00:09:30.000 Before that, people used to talk to each other.
00:09:33.000 No one was talking to anyone.
00:09:36.000 Not with the people they came with, not with others.
00:09:40.000 The binds that tied us together as a human species were evaporating in real time.
00:09:48.000 And if the conservative movement is going to be good for anything, if the conservative movement is going to have any sort of success in the future, I'm not talking about winning elections.
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00:10:04.000 I'm talking about success of actually saving the country.
00:10:08.000 If the conservative movement's going to have any form of success, it better start addressing what's actually happening in this country.
00:10:14.000 And it's not just high taxes and low taxes.
00:10:17.000 It's not even just gas prices, which I know is something we're going to get into.
00:10:20.000 No, it's deeper than that.
00:10:22.000 It's what is a human being?
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00:10:30.000 Is the conservative movement going to be focused on things that are eternal and lasting and things that matter, or just things that give you a thrill or give you a short pleasure kick?
00:10:44.000 The conservative movement's going to be worth anything.
00:10:48.000 It's not just going to have a conversation about these issues, it's going to seek to solve them, address them, and actually preserve our precious humanity before it disappears for good.
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00:12:08.000 Again, I woke up from the 10-day coma, and I'm just asking very rational questions: like, how do you hack a pipeline?
00:12:16.000 How does exactly that work?
00:12:18.000 Still trying to figure out an answer to that.
00:12:19.000 And so then the obvious question is: wait a second, so you can hack a pipeline, but you can't hack voting machines?
00:12:27.000 Now, that's a thought crime.
00:12:28.000 You're not allowed to ask that question.
00:12:30.000 Very simple question.
00:12:31.000 Wait, so you can hack the colonial pipeline and then extort for $5 million while our government calls them hackers and not terrorists, which they obviously are.
00:12:44.000 But somehow our voting system is completely fine.
00:12:48.000 Don't ask any questions. 1.00
00:12:51.000 Sit down and shut up. 1.00
00:12:52.000 You're a racist. 1.00
00:12:53.000 There's also a lot happening in Israel, which happens to be an issue I care a lot about and I know a lot about just because I've visited there so many times. 0.85
00:13:01.000 And I more so than a lot of kind of American social justice activists.
00:13:06.000 I actually appreciate the nuance and the history of what's been happening in Israel over the last couple decades in particular.
00:13:13.000 I want to explore that together.
00:13:16.000 But before I get into any of that, I kind of want to reinforce something that I was saying, which is that the conservative movement has an opportunity.
00:13:30.000 We are going through what I call a slow-motion revolution.
00:13:35.000 This revolution is not happening overnight.
00:13:38.000 It's not always happening in the streets, but it's happening in slow micro doses.
00:13:47.000 Now, at times, the collectivists, the totalitarians, the authoritarians, they overdo the dosage.
00:13:55.000 They go too quickly.
00:13:56.000 They overplay their hand.
00:13:57.000 A great example of this is how they purged Donald Trump down the memory hole and destroyed him from social media overnight.
00:14:08.000 Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, gone.
00:14:12.000 Donald Trump, he's an un person.
00:14:14.000 He never existed.
00:14:15.000 Who is this man you speak of?
00:14:17.000 It's a thought crime to mention him.
00:14:20.000 Now, by the way, a lot of this language might sound like news speak.
00:14:24.000 It's because I actually spent three full days studying 1984, not just reading it.
00:14:29.000 And both sides like to have a claim to 1984.
00:14:33.000 The liberals like to say that Republicans are engaged in Orwellian type behavior because they don't want Liz Cheney to be in leadership of their party, which is a very bizarre, unfounded accusation.
00:14:47.000 And then conservatives at times use 1984 and George Orwell and Orwellian references to worry about big tech tyranny and surveillance and just general political totalitarianism.
00:15:03.000 But I think there's a truth behind 1984 that a lot of people are missing.
00:15:07.000 We're going to explore that.
00:15:10.000 But the conservative movement right now has this great opportunity because there's so much happening that's affecting people's lives, things that matter, families, childhood development, the spirit and the soul of who we are.
00:15:28.000 And as soon as conservatives start to actually talk about these things, people are going to listen outside of just the prearranged goalposts of the current political debate.
00:15:38.000 For example, can somebody in the leadership of the Republican Party come out and say that it's a bad thing, but seven-year-olds are spending eight hours plus in front of the smooth screens of what I call them.
00:15:53.000 An iPad, an iPhone, a computer.
00:15:55.000 Is that a good thing for our country?
00:15:58.000 Is that a healthy thing for the next generation, for us trying to pass down our values?
00:16:05.000 Maybe instead of trying to investigate what they call the greatest threat on democracy in the history of the planet, which is already being done by the Justice Department and every other federal agency, why don't our leaders investigate what the long-term effects to neuroscience and biochemistry that technology is having on six, seven, and eight-year-olds?
00:16:35.000 Or maybe even 14, 15, 16-year-olds, or maybe even 30, 31, and 32-year-olds.
00:16:40.000 The conservative movement should value virtue and eternal truth over thrills and pleasure.
00:16:49.000 They're having more plastic than the other person.
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00:16:59.000 And the totalitarians, the collectivists that are now, they now basically exercise control over everything.
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00:18:25.000 So one of the stories that has happened in the last couple days that caught my attention is this story of how this man, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer, he's a Space Force commander, removed after saying Marxism is infiltrating the United States military.
00:18:48.000 Now, the reason they removed him is because they said we do not want people to be partisan.
00:18:53.000 Let's go to cut 28 of Matthew Lohmeyer.
00:18:57.000 He was relieved of his command.
00:18:59.000 He went on Sean Hannity's show and explained how he has been noticing over the last several years an increase in Marxism in the armed forces.
00:19:06.000 Now, before I play this, we used to call people like this whistleblowers.
00:19:12.000 We used to put people like this on the front page of our news media and celebrate them.
00:19:21.000 Now they are removed for stating the obvious, for being truth tellers.
00:19:27.000 How dare you stop our revolution, Matthew Lohmeyer?
00:19:30.000 What do you think you are?
00:19:31.000 An American?
00:19:32.000 Play cut 28.
00:19:34.000 What happened is I began noticing some time ago, and not just in the past few months, but over the past several years, an increasing relevance of what I saw was Marxist ideology parading around by other names.
00:19:48.000 The Defense Secretary in February, I think it was February 5th of this year, called for an extremism down day and issued a guidance memorandum to all service members.
00:19:58.000 And in the guidance memorandum, he basically gave an injunction to every service member to combat extremist ideologies within the force where they saw them.
00:20:09.000 To combat extremist ideologies.
00:20:10.000 Now, let's just do a little refresher.
00:20:14.000 Dwight D. Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan.
00:20:20.000 We used to want our military to fight communism.
00:20:26.000 Our military used to be trained against the ideas of Marxism.
00:20:32.000 Now we are purging the ranks of our military for merely stating that they are worried that Marxists are infiltrating the U.S. military.
00:20:40.000 Doesn't that prove his point?
00:20:44.000 Isn't his point proved by the fact that he has been removed?
00:20:48.000 I want to ask you a question.
00:20:49.000 Do you think that someone would be removed from the military if they said that they think there are white supremacists in the U.S. military?
00:20:58.000 No, they would be given an MSNBC contributor role.
00:21:02.000 We went through the CIA recruitment video.
00:21:06.000 The U.S. Army has a new recruitment advertisement featuring lesbians at a gay wedding and an LGBTQ pride march.
00:21:15.000 And let's just do a little refresher.
00:21:17.000 This is the woke Army ad.
00:21:19.000 This is the United States Army.
00:21:22.000 This is their new advertisement.
00:21:24.000 Now, remember, one of the long-desired objectives of the Marxists and the totalitarians has been the infiltration of the armed forces.
00:21:35.000 Cut 37.
00:21:37.000 This is the story of a soldier who operates your nation's patriot missile defense systems.
00:21:48.000 It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.
00:21:53.000 Although I had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, I also marched for equality.
00:22:02.000 I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age.
00:22:05.000 A way to prove my inner strength and maybe shatter some stereotypes along the way.
00:22:12.000 So for those of you listening on radio that might have driven off the street and hit the side barrier of what you were listening, I completely understand.
00:22:20.000 I hope that you're okay because I was listening to this.
00:22:23.000 And no, you are not listening to an MTV LGBTQ advertisement.
00:22:28.000 You are not listening to a Huffington Post dynamic insert advertisement.
00:22:32.000 You are not listening to some sort of virtue signaling corporate propaganda that we have just grown accustomed to.
00:22:40.000 You're not listening to Delta Airlines all of a sudden come on the screen and talk about how good a people they are before they're hopefully flying you safely.
00:22:49.000 No, you are listening to taxpayer-funded advertisement from the United States Army.
00:22:56.000 From the United States Army.
00:22:58.000 They are now pushing advertisements saying and pushing the S idea that my fight started by me being raised by two moms by a lesbian parents.
00:23:09.000 That my fight continues by now being able to control the missiles.
00:23:14.000 And what's really happening here, and almost everyone is missing it, is they're posturing.
00:23:22.000 They're showing that the radical, radical is not even the best word for it.
00:23:27.000 It's not.
00:23:29.000 It's pernicious.
00:23:30.000 It's that they control the missiles now.
00:23:34.000 That's the point of that advertisement.
00:23:36.000 The point of that advertisement, they knew it was going to go insidious, is the right word.
00:23:39.000 Thank you, Producer Andrew.
00:23:40.000 It really is insidious.
00:23:41.000 It's menacing.
00:23:42.000 It's all those things.
00:23:43.000 The point of that advertisement is not to try to get more people to join the army.
00:23:48.000 That's not, that's not, no one's going to join because of that.
00:23:51.000 No, that is a victory lap.
00:23:54.000 That advertisement is them saying, we now control the missiles and you don't.
00:24:04.000 Let's go to the next cut here of Lieutenant Colonel Lohmeyer.
00:24:11.000 Cut 29.
00:24:12.000 He says there were videos in the military they had to watch that taught about the founding of America was actually 1619.
00:24:18.000 This is the military, everybody. 0.99
00:24:22.000 And that white people are inherently evil. 1.00
00:24:25.000 Cut 29. 0.99
00:24:27.000 There were videos being sent out to every base service member that we were asked to watch in preparation for our extremism down days and discussions on race, in which we were taught that the country was evil, that it was founded in 1619 and not 1776, and that whites are inherently evil.
00:24:45.000 Now, the military is refuting or challenging this claim.
00:24:49.000 I tend to believe this guy, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeyer.
00:24:55.000 The military was always sacred.
00:24:59.000 In a lot of ways, it still is.
00:25:02.000 Our veterans are heroes.
00:25:05.000 But the same sort of people that have now infiltrated American Airlines and Delta Airlines have infiltrated the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the highest levels of power you can imagine.
00:25:17.000 Let me just be as materialistic as possible.
00:25:22.000 If you control the aircraft carriers, you control the most important things.
00:25:27.000 If you control the bullets and the missiles, you control the satellites and the drones.
00:25:33.000 That ideology now is in charge.
00:25:36.000 And this is a sea change from how liberals and leftists used to view the military.
00:25:43.000 You see, liberals and leftists used to oppose the military.
00:25:48.000 They used to want to disassemble it.
00:25:51.000 That's their utopian dream that they can create a better world where we don't have to have police and we don't have to have any sort of conflict.
00:26:02.000 And there's still some of that within the activist base of the collectivist authoritarian left.
00:26:08.000 But it's different now.
00:26:11.000 Because of Donald Trump and because of how successful the conservative movement has been, the people that don't wish to create a better world, they're no longer in control.
00:26:22.000 It's the people that want to be in power endlessly.
00:26:27.000 And so a lot of times, conservatives ask me, Charlie, what do liberals want?
00:26:33.000 What do leftists want?
00:26:36.000 Let me read you a speech from 1984 as I studied it the last week.
00:26:46.000 This is O'Brien, who is the antagonist of the story, Winston, obviously being the protagonist.
00:26:54.000 Now, I will answer my question.
00:26:58.000 It is this: the party seeks power entirely for its own sake.
00:27:03.000 We're not interested in the good of others.
00:27:05.000 We are interested solely in power, not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness, only power, pure power.
00:27:13.000 What pure power means, you will understand presently.
00:27:16.000 We are different from all other oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. 0.99
00:27:20.000 All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. 0.93
00:27:24.000 The Nazis and the communists came very close to us and our methods, but never had the courage to recognize their own motives. 0.96
00:27:30.000 They pretended, perhaps they even believed that they had seized their power unwillingly and for a limited time, that they just round the corner and a paradise where human beings could be free and equal.
00:27:40.000 We are not like that.
00:27:43.000 We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
00:27:46.000 Power is not a means.
00:27:49.000 It is an end.
00:27:50.000 One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution.
00:27:54.000 No, one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
00:28:00.000 The object of persecution is persecution.
00:28:03.000 The object of torture is torture.
00:28:06.000 The object of power is power.
00:28:09.000 Now do you begin to understand me?
00:28:14.000 Orwell wrote this as a prophecy, as a warning, but that is the mission statement of what we're living under.
00:28:25.000 Power is not a means.
00:28:27.000 Power is an end.
00:28:30.000 Control is their highest possible goal that they're trying to reach.
00:28:35.000 It's a hard thing for a lot of Americans to believe.
00:28:39.000 But now they also control the United States military.
00:28:43.000 And so we're living through this slow-motion revolution.
00:28:48.000 You see, those of us that believe in things that are eternal, truths that do not change, not just practical knowledge, but eternal knowledge, we're very vulnerable to these sort of infiltrations and these sort of attacks, the kind of corrosive nature of the left or of the collectivists, because we always have to be the ones that are preserving, and they're the ones that are trying to excite the masses,
00:29:16.000 to allure them to embrace their ideas based on this false premise of progress, on this idea that we are going to always have a better tomorrow.
00:29:29.000 And it's almost rooted in this Hegelian idea of historicism.
00:29:34.000 We don't need to get too philosophical at the moment, but Hegel was a German writer who wrote a very hard book to read that I myself have not even read called The Phenomenology of Spirit.
00:29:46.000 But it's this idea that history is this continuum that moves forward to its inevitable end point.
00:29:56.000 That we must use whatever power we have at our disposal to try to factuate the next end point towards whatever you deem to be good.
00:30:07.000 Now, the problem with that is it viewed history as this overarching trajectory that everyone plays a part in instead of something worthy of preservation and worthy of protecting.
00:30:24.000 That there must always be a moment where we must change what already exists.
00:30:32.000 So it's hard for us that believe in things that work and things that are eternal. 0.62
00:30:40.000 We would call this common sense, but it's becoming less and less common because we are told that any sense that you might have that is common, that is rational or logical, is white, heteronormative, cisgender, Western tyrannical belief. 0.62
00:30:59.000 So the fight is difficult, but it's not impossible.
00:31:02.000 We're going to explore exactly how it's already being pushed back against.
00:31:07.000 But I want to use the couple seconds we have remaining to tell you about something new we have at CharlieKirk.com.
00:31:13.000 It's called Bycott, not Boycott, but Bycott.
00:31:17.000 So you can go to CharlieKirk.com and there is a Bycott tab on it.
00:31:22.000 And we are creating a marketplace.
00:31:23.000 We are creating a portal where we want the best companies that make things in America, that do things the right way to be rewarded.
00:31:31.000 And we want you to refer these companies to us.
00:31:33.000 So if you go to charliekirk.com slash bycott or just charliekirk.com, we have bycott on the top page, and you guys can type in the companies that you think are worthy of being listed.
00:31:46.000 We are going to have a massive influx of businesses.
00:31:51.000 We're going to go through them and we are going to list the top textile companies, food companies, transportation companies, local small businesses that are not pandering to this woke nonsense, that are being courageous, that are standing up against the lies that are dominating our society and are wishing to proclaim truth.
00:32:12.000 CharlieKirk.com, check it out.
00:32:14.000 You can go to the Bycott tab.
00:32:16.000 Maybe it's your business or a friend's business.
00:32:18.000 We want you guys to participate in that.
00:32:21.000 CharlieKirk.com/slash Bycott.
00:32:23.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:32:24.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:32:27.000 And if you want to support us, it's charliekirk.com/slash support.
00:32:30.000 And if you want to get involved with Turning PointUSA, go to tpusa.com.
00:32:34.000 God bless you guys.
00:32:35.000 Speak to you soon.