The Charlie Kirk Show - February 27, 2021


Charlie's FULL SPEECH from CPAC 2021


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9 minutes

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151.79024

Word count

1,399

Sentence count

92

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Learn English with Donald Trump. President Donald Trump delivers a speech at CPAC in memory of Rush Limbaugh, who died last week at the age of 64, and lays out his vision for the future of American politics and the country.

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00:00:00.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:01.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
00:00:03.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
00:00:07.000 Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks.
00:00:10.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:11.000 He's an incredible guy.
00:00:12.000 His spirit, his love of this country.
00:00:14.000 He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created.
00:00:19.000 Turning point USA.
00:00:21.000 We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:00:29.000 That's why we are here.
00:00:32.000 It is an honor to be with you guys today.
00:00:36.000 You might be saying, what on earth is Charlie wearing?
00:00:40.000 What kind of tie is this?
00:00:42.000 This is a 1990 Rush Limbaugh tie.
00:00:46.000 And I thought, what better place to honor one of the greatest Americans, quite honestly, ever to live than at CPAC?
00:00:57.000 Let's just remember for a moment the legacy of Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:02.000 I mean, he impacted my life.
00:01:03.000 I know a lot of people here had their lives impacted by Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:07.000 I was honored to be able to call him a friend the last couple years and his generosity, his commitment, his wisdom, how relentless he was to defend our country, never betraying his audience.
00:01:21.000 And my goodness, did we lose a legend last week?
00:01:23.000 So let's give it up to Rush Limbaugh and his family.
00:01:26.000 An absolute gift to our country, Rush Limbaugh.
00:01:45.000 Rush was a fighter for free speech.
00:01:47.000 We talk a lot about free speech.
00:01:49.000 We talk about the importance of the First Amendment.
00:01:54.000 However, sometimes we as conservatives stop short of protecting freedom of speech where it matters most.
00:02:01.000 So I'm going to ask you a question.
00:02:03.000 Which is more powerful, Google or our federal government?
00:02:08.000 Now, we as conservatives are taught to answer that question automatically by saying the federal government.
00:02:14.000 Now, I'm not doubting that the federal government has power.
00:02:17.000 The federal government can imprison people.
00:02:20.000 They can audit you.
00:02:21.000 They have the power of the law.
00:02:24.000 However, if that were to happen, you at least get some due process rights.
00:02:28.000 You at least get, you're supposed to get representation by an attorney.
00:02:33.000 You're able to sue your government if they do something illegal to you.
00:02:37.000 What happens if Google comes after you?
00:02:40.000 What happens if Google decides to digitally assassinate a certain person?
00:02:46.000 Like what we saw happen last month?
00:02:49.000 They can wipe away the existence of an idea, of a human being, of a political movement, instantaneously.
00:02:58.000 So I understand lots of conservatives are hesitant to talk about challenging big tech, hesitant about challenging Menlo Park in Silicon Valley.
00:03:10.000 But we as conservatives should not become corporatists.
00:03:14.000 We as conservatives should ask ourselves, what does it mean to be a conservative?
00:03:18.000 First and foremost, we are here to conserve God-given liberties and freedoms.
00:03:23.000 We are here to protect the family, our country, our American way of life.
00:03:28.000 And when a group of people in a concentrated area controlling trillion-dollar companies decide to impose a viewpoint that is completely contrary to the American way of life, and then we say, well, we can't do anything because they're a private company.
00:03:46.000 Excuse me.
00:03:47.000 As soon as you have 200 million users and 93% of all search results, you're not the local flower shop or the local coffee shop and you shouldn't be treated as such.
00:03:57.000 And we as conservatives must be very clear.
00:04:00.000 If you do not support breaking up big tech or challenging big tech, you are not a conservative.
00:04:06.000 You are a corporatist.
00:04:13.000 You see, the founding fathers were very worried about the centralization of power.
00:04:18.000 I love limited government.
00:04:20.000 But why do we love limited government?
00:04:22.000 We love it so that we can live lives as we see fit.
00:04:26.000 The founding fathers loved liberty.
00:04:28.000 They believe liberty was given to us by God, not by government.
00:04:33.000 But the founding fathers never imagined that a small collection of companies could potentially be more powerful than our own government.
00:04:42.000 Google is more powerful than our government, and there is no check and balance against them.
00:04:46.000 People say, start a competitor.
00:04:47.000 Well, then they'll wipe you out like they did to Parlor.
00:04:50.000 People say, well, what harm has Google actually done to the country?
00:04:55.000 Well, besides addicting our children to their smartphones all day long and destroying the humanity of an entire generation, besides censoring different political opinions, even beyond that, they have the potential power to obliterate any political movement.
00:05:12.000 And we saw it with one of the most grotesque and dangerous acts of political interference in American history.
00:05:19.000 One month out from the election, Hunter Biden's laptop, that story was given to the New York Post.
00:05:25.000 Anyone who tweeted about it, anyone who posted about it, immediately had their account suspended.
00:05:30.000 Just look at the New York Post.
00:05:31.000 We have now given the entire future of American politics to basically two or three companies.
00:05:38.000 And so what's the solution here for us as conservatives?
00:05:41.000 What does this mean?
00:05:43.000 Well, number one, we must identify the problem.
00:05:45.000 And I'm going to just say something that needs to be said. 0.55
00:05:49.000 Any Republican that takes money from Netpack or from Google should leave the Republican Party.
00:05:55.000 Any Republican that is funded by Google has no place in the Republican Party.
00:06:02.000 We, as conservatives, must treat donations that you get from Silicon Valley like we treat donations from Planned Parenthood.
00:06:12.000 We would never put up if a Republican came on stage here and said, oh, I'm financed from Planned Parenthood.
00:06:16.000 Then why do we tolerate big tech companies financing our lawmakers? 0.93
00:06:22.000 There are two governments in our country.
00:06:24.000 There's the federal government and the government of Menlo Park.
00:06:28.000 The ability to process and share information is critical to the future of our civilization.
00:06:35.000 For all the lawmakers that are passing through here and for people that want to win elected office, there are two things that conservative grassroots care about more than anything else.
00:06:46.000 Number one, restoring election integrity in our country for fair and free elections.
00:06:56.000 And number two, it is challenging big tech.
00:07:00.000 It is giving us the ability to speak freely on social media.
00:07:04.000 We should never take a default position just to defend corporations.
00:07:09.000 I love free enterprise.
00:07:11.000 That's why I want to challenge these corporations because they don't.
00:07:15.000 They are not believers in capitalism.
00:07:17.000 They're not believers in free enterprise.
00:07:19.000 They use technology and they use our own slogans and our own phrases and our own books against us as an excuse for us not to challenge them.
00:07:28.000 So in closing, I want to say this.
00:07:31.000 We as conservatives are very careful about identifying existential threats, and we should be.
00:07:37.000 Because we as conservatives believe the biggest problem in your life is probably you and your actions.
00:07:42.000 That personal responsibility, self-discipline is inherent in being a good citizen and leading a happy and full life.
00:07:50.000 But if we do not challenge these big tech companies, if we are not serious about the threat that they pose to our livelihood, to spreading information, or in some ways not spreading information at all, then we will live in a country where every state is like California.
00:08:06.000 Now, this is why Ron DeSantis is a phenomenal governor.
00:08:10.000 Why?
00:08:10.000 Because the states need to rise up against these tech companies, as Ron DeSantis did.
00:08:18.000 So for every Republican attorney general out there, sue these tech companies now for platform access, for monopolistic practices.
00:08:29.000 We as conservatives have more power than I think we realize.
00:08:34.000 We have purchasing power, we have consumer power, and we must, in a variety of different ways, make sure our lawmakers do not take money from these corporations, push back against their pattern of actions, and be unafraid to entertain ideas, to liberate the marketplace, empower real entrepreneurs, because the digital age is upon us.
00:08:55.000 And if we do not have free speech or first freedoms, then we're all going to live in a country that is unrecognizable.
00:09:01.000 And I believe if we do that and restore integrity in our elections, we're not just going to win a little, we're going to win big, and we're going to win for the next couple decades.
00:09:09.000 Our best days are ahead.
00:09:11.000 God bless you guys.
00:09:12.000 Thank you so much.