In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, Charlie talks about the fallout from the FBI raid on Mar-A-Largo, and the impact it has on the political landscape, including the mid-term elections.
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00:01:37.000I'm going to start here together just kind of talking about the fallout politically from the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
00:01:45.000And then I'm going to go into some cultural stories that are very important.
00:01:48.000We've been very focused on politics the last couple weeks.
00:01:51.000We can't keep our eye off the philosophy, the ideology, and the idea pathogens that continue to infect our entire society, including how these ideas manifest themselves into policy.
00:02:05.000They're not just bad ideas if you were to discuss them in a classroom, but they are now being implemented as actual policy decisions.
00:02:14.000They flow downstream from college campuses.
00:02:16.000One of the reasons why I wrote my book, The College Scam, where I talk about how these ideas on these universities don't just stay there.
00:02:25.000It's as if saying that, well, you know, gain of function research only stays at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:03:41.000However, I'm 100% behind him now, and I'm going to support Republicans in the midterms up and down the ballots because of the raid at Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:51.000It has been a massive shot in the arm for Republicans.
00:03:57.000Or will the establishment Republicans just kind of chokehold, you could say, or thwart or stunt this political improvement of political conditions that we're now seeing?
00:04:15.000Because at the moment, right now, many normal everyday Americans feel as if not just their own freedoms and liberties are coming out of grass.
00:04:27.000They see the IRS adding 87,000 new IRS agents.
00:04:31.000They see what's happening at the top levels of our government.
00:04:34.000But when they see someone who is as relentlessly attacked as Donald Trump, similarly as other political figures on the right, like Bannon and many others, in contrast with Liz Cheney, they say, I want to support the person that is being persecuted by the government.
00:04:49.000You see, conservatives right now are actually seeing a rallying cry of a corrupt government that is attacking our entire movement.
00:04:59.000This is something that the ruling class does not understand.
00:05:03.000The ruling class thinks that they are able to demoralize us when in reality the opposite happens.
00:05:09.000We talked about this all the way back in January of 2021, right after Biden was inaugurated.
00:05:14.000You can go look at my speech with the great Jack Hibbs.
00:05:16.000I said, my prediction is that we grow stronger the more they throw at us, that we remain anti-fragile despite the winds of opposition.
00:05:25.000And the polling shows this with a 15-point enthusiasm advantage.
00:05:29.000However, we're still being outspent, we're being outraged, and we have some terrible candidates potentially that are going to be slated.
00:05:34.000We have some great candidates like JD Vance and Blake Masters, Kerry Lake, and others.
00:06:00.000And we do this every so often, where we kind of take a step back and we take a piece of information in a news story and then we broaden it and we extrapolate it and we apply it to your life.
00:06:11.000There's one story I've been wanting to hit for the last couple days, but there's just been so much breaking news, but it's a perfect time right now.
00:06:21.000This is spreading all across the country.
00:06:22.000Now, when I say this, the media, they lose their mind when I say the following.
00:06:28.000But every single person in the audience, you need to listen carefully about this.
00:06:32.000Because if you so happen to have white kids or grandkids, they are entering a country where the policies and the rules very well could be rigged against them.
00:06:44.000Minneapolis public schools defends policy to prioritize retaining educators of color when determining layoffs.
00:07:23.000It is an agreement between the Minneapolis Teacher Union and the Minneapolis School District that says they will lay off teachers based on their skin color.
00:07:35.000They'll do so to lay people off, to give priority to people of color, because they say it will remedy the effects of past discrimination.
00:07:44.000Now, let me take a pause for a second here.
00:07:46.000For many years, I spoke at Lincoln Reagan Day dinner events and tea party rallies and MAGA groups, and I would talk about how dangerous college campuses have become.
00:08:00.000That's always the argument they make is they say, oh, it's rape culture on college campuses.
00:08:04.000No, they're dangerous because of the ideas they're producing and they're infecting them into a very gullible and naive generation and what that looks like when it starts to infect the rest of civil society.
00:08:18.000Now, some people took me very seriously.
00:08:20.000We're so thankful Turning Point USA has grown significantly and tremendously because of our warnings and because of our work and because of our impact, because of our educational focus.
00:08:30.000However, I will say, a vast majority of people, when I tried to warn them what was coming next, did not believe me.
00:08:39.000I remember I was once doing a small dinner in Aspen, Colorado, kind of where the ruling class of America go to wine and dine.
00:08:48.000And I said that soon there will be an anti-white crusade that is infecting every major portion of American life, rooted in this ideology called critical race theory.
00:08:58.000This was three, four years ago before CRT was well known.
00:09:01.000And I remember a, let's just say a moderate Republican, a nice enough man, big Jeb Bush guy, said to me, Charlie, that is a conspiracy theory.
00:09:15.000And I told him about Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida and Derek Bell.
00:09:20.000And I told him about Robin DiAngelo and white fragility and Iberam X. Kendi and the quote from Ibram X. Kendi where he says clearly that we need discrimination today to try and remedy discrimination of yesterday.
00:09:34.000And he said, quote, that will never happen in America.
00:10:14.000It was what we call a limiting belief.
00:10:18.000A limiting belief is something where you just put the wall up and you say, well, if that's true, other things I believe could also not be true.
00:10:26.000There's a lot of limiting beliefs happening right now.
00:10:28.000People all of a sudden, with the gene-altering therapy that they call the vaccine, the money to Ukraine, the sinister nature of Joe Biden, the Hunter Biden story, the government being weaponized against Donald Trump.
00:10:43.000There are all sorts of limiting beliefs where people all of a sudden go, what we call get red-pilled, but some people, they enjoy the comfort of their own self-told deception.
00:10:58.000It is a framework of deconstructing the entire world.
00:11:02.000It comes from critical theory, birthed by, of course, the you could call him the kind of pioneer of Western critical theory, Herbert Marcuse, who came from the Frankfurt School.
00:11:17.000He had disciples such as Angela Davis and colleagues and counterparts like Foucault and Derrida, who believed clearly that we must get to the essence that there is no truth, there is no beauty, there is no meaning.
00:12:37.000This is not some sort of paper where I'm saying, wow, look at the stuff they're publishing at the University of Minnesota.
00:12:43.000Or, wow, look at this tweet by a professor.
00:12:45.000It has now gone from the abstraction, from the ideas of the clouds, into something that is now applied in everyday life.
00:12:55.000The Minneapolis School District has now defended its upcoming contract that promotes laying off white teachers over teachers of color.
00:13:05.000Regardless of seniority, regardless of skill, regardless of how good of a teacher they are, regardless of their educational background, we will simply now lay off teachers based on the melanin content in their skin.
00:13:22.000That is the policy now with the Minneapolis public schools, which is remarkable to me, and because it can only be explained in one way.
00:13:31.000And again, the media hates it when I say this.
00:13:33.000Oh, I'm going to get written up everywhere.
00:14:02.000They have no relationship with the Creator.
00:14:04.000So the way that they go atone for their sins is they start beating themselves in the back and they say, well, my skin color must be something wrong.
00:14:12.000Go ahead, black person, have the job and I won't, as some sort of strange, quasi-career suicidal sacrifice that kind of has religious undertones.
00:14:26.000The new contract says that they must, if they're going to lay teachers off, they must prioritize teachers who are a member of a population underrepresented.
00:14:40.000The media doesn't like when I say this, but how on earth is this story right here not a deliberate anti-white campaign?
00:15:05.000But Minneapolis School District is saying that color matters more than character, matters more than expertise, matters more than all of it.
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00:16:27.000Just to remind ourselves, what is critical theory?
00:16:29.000And this is why sending your kids to college, you must be very careful.
00:16:34.000I know a lot of parents right now watching this are probably getting their kid all packed up or they might be listening to this program driving to school.
00:16:52.000They're compelling to a naive young person, to student, and they fester and they germinate against everything that has made Western civilization beautiful and worthy of appreciation.
00:17:06.000So critical theory believes in the following.
00:17:08.000James Lindsay's done a phenomenal job with this on his website, newdiscourses.com.
00:17:13.000Critical race theory believes racism is present in every aspect of life, every relationship, and every interaction.
00:17:20.000They believe in interest convergence, which means white people only give black people opportunities and freedoms when it is also in their interests.
00:17:29.000Critical race theory is against free societies.
00:17:33.000Now, we could go into Marxism and what Karl Marx believed, but there is a very important takeaway here.
00:17:41.000CRT and this idea of hiring black teachers over white teachers and laying off white teachers, it is a deliberate and focused attempt to destroy civil and free society.
00:17:56.000Critical race theory only treats race issues as socially constructed groups.
00:18:01.000There are no individuals in critical race theory.
00:18:26.000Critical race theory believes science, reason, and evidence are a white way of knowing, and that storytelling and lived experience are a black alternative.
00:18:39.000Delgado and Stefanik, who wrote intro to critical race theory, said that normal science is part of the everyday ordinary racism of our societies.
00:18:51.000Now, you might say, oh, Charlie, come on, that's a bridge too far.
00:18:55.000That's not really what's happening here.
00:19:07.000Also, in the Minneapolis public schools, a lot of this happening in Minneapolis because of white guilt.
00:19:12.000When you have a non-religious majority population that is told to hate themselves, all sorts of wacky stuff starts to happen.
00:19:22.000Minneapolis School District pours millions into woke math, even as student scores plummet.
00:19:28.000Minneapolis School District is spending millions of dollars to racially diversify elementary school math lessons as student proficiency scores plummet.
00:19:38.000Minneapolis public schools will be spending more than $2 million to incorporate ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity in the K through 5 math curriculum.
00:19:48.000The new curriculum, which will be implemented in the fall, reflects the lived experiences of our Minneapolis students, develops positive math identity.
00:19:59.000Minneapolis is not the first school district to prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives over academics, the Free Beacon rights.
00:20:06.000Public schools in Montgomery, Maryland in July amended their fourth and fifth grade social studies curriculum to include social justice standards.
00:20:15.000Seattle has spent $5 million on DEI initiatives.
00:20:20.000This is only going to accelerate, everybody.
00:20:23.000It's going to get into every school district across the country.
00:20:25.000If we don't take our kids out of these schools, take over these school boards, it's going to accelerate at a rapid pace.
00:20:41.000Critical race theory rejects all potential alternatives like colorblindness, and they say they are forms of racism.
00:20:50.000Delgado wrote that, quote, colorblindness or formal conceptions of equality expressed in rules that insist only on treatment that in the same across the board can thus remedy as the most blatant forms of discrimination.
00:21:03.000So if you are colorblind, you're actually racist.
00:21:07.000Critical race theory acts like anyone who disagrees with it must do so for racist and white supremacist reasons, even if the people disagreeing are black.
00:21:18.000And finally, this is the most important point that James Lindsay writes on News Discourses.
00:21:23.000Critical race theory will never be satisfied.
00:21:28.000In this ABC News article where they're covering what's happening in Minneapolis, one of the lawyers who says what's happening of trying to fire white teachers and hire black ones is unconstitutionally said, well, it's a good goal to try to get the teacher body more diverse.
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00:24:37.000But I know a lot of people that would much rather live in the misery of their own discomfort, of their own lies that are created by discomfort.
00:24:47.000They say, I don't know if I want to hear that.
00:24:51.000And look, whether we're talking about 87,000 new IRS agents, we're talking about critical race theory.
00:24:57.000We're talking about the Minneapolis public schools that are saying that white teachers get laid off and black teachers get to keep their jobs, inflation, they all have something in common.
00:25:08.000They are existential threats to our normal Western American way of life.
00:25:16.000It's an existential threat to the Constitution, an existential threat to civilization.
00:25:36.000The Minneapolis Public Schools and Local Teachers Union have recently instituted a new policy in which when it comes to downsizing and layoffs, the rule is white teachers must be laid off before any teacher of color.
00:25:51.000In other words, they've codified racial discrimination against whites in real life, not in fiction.
00:25:57.000In an age we talk a whole lot about discrimination and hate speech, we've actually formally instituted it in the United States against the group who we blame for this stuff, and that is obviously white people.
00:26:19.000It's very easy to say, oh, that's just some academic theory.
00:26:23.000I've said this for a while, but of course it does not happen because Republicans don't have the backbone or the spine.
00:26:30.000Why is it that North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky doesn't have a Republican governor, but these other states, why are they still funding via taxpayer dollars the humanities at these universities?
00:26:52.000Why are you still funding these very ideas that then manifest into we can lay off white teachers and hire black teachers?
00:27:02.000Now, as we talk about the existential threats to our civilization, our republic, I want to focus in on a piece of tape that has just emerged from a man that if you have your child in high school or in college,
00:27:18.000or if you allow your child to be unattended, this person will have more metaphysical, philosophical, and religious contribution to give to your child than a pastor probably will.
00:28:18.000The idea of morality being behavior that allows people to flourish as if flourishing is the only goal of humanity, not love, not grace, not mercy, not atonement, not glory to the creator, not reflection, not reflection, not peace, not contribution or agape love.
00:29:39.000Sam Harris, who, again, drives forward a lot of the moral teaching of the a religious left, has decided to come out and start talking about the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:29:51.000We are dealing with a group of people that are bragging that they lied and they stole and they cheated away the 2020 election.
00:30:00.000This is Sam Harris talking about why he supported censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story because it was a conspiracy to help Biden win.
00:30:11.000This is consequentialism at its very worst.
00:30:15.000You could call it Machiavellianism, ends justify the means.
00:30:23.000Now, that doesn't answer the people who say it's still completely unfair to not have looked at the laptop in a timely way and to have shut down the New York Post's Twitter account.
00:30:53.000Sam Harris, if you have a child under the age of 30 and they spend any time on YouTube and they start talking about atheism or agnosticism, chances are they were intercepted by the snares of Sam Harris.
00:31:06.000Now, look, deep down, Sam Harris is probably a very miserable person because he doesn't believe that there is any objective beauty or goodness or truth or any sort of metaphysical promise.
00:32:23.000Whatever the scope of Joe Biden's corruption is, like if we could just go down that rabbit hole endlessly and understand that he's getting kickbacks from Hunter Biden's deals in Ukraine or wherever else, right?
00:33:52.000We must do whatever it takes to defeat Donald Trump and the conservatives on the right.
00:33:59.000Now, some of you might be saying, Charlie, why am I, I don't care about Sam Harris and all this?
00:34:03.000This is why the people at the FBI think precisely with how Sam Harris just said: I know what I am doing is wrong, and I don't care because Donald Trump is awful.
00:34:19.000I know I should not be doing this, but the end justified the means because I've been told that Trump University, where did that come from?
00:34:33.000We're dealing with a group of people that are now openly admitting that they will do whatever necessary, lie, steal, cheat, cover for criminals, cut in line, create mass disinformation campaigns, which is what he was defending, Sam Harris was defending, all to make sure that you don't have a voice.
00:34:53.000That's what's so sinister about what Sam Harris said.
00:34:55.000He wasn't even just saying it was about defeating Donald Trump.
00:34:57.000It was about lying to the public so that you could not make an informed decision.
00:35:04.000That Donald Trump was so evil that we must make sure people do not have the proper information.
00:35:59.000Sam Harris is linked to progressivism and linked to all these ideas of trying to usher in a man-made equivalent of heaven on earth that we could perfect man.
00:36:12.000If you do not have the humility under the belief in a divine, then you yourself try to become that very thing that we call God.
00:36:23.000And boy, did the 20th century teach us that's a very bad idea.
00:36:29.000There's a lot of anxiety and unease right now around the new IRS agents.
00:36:34.000And we still get some emails here and there.
00:36:38.000Larry that says, stop complaining about the IRS.
00:36:43.000Just pay your taxes and be a good citizen.
00:36:47.000I was struck by this piece of tape here: Cut 80, Texas cattle ranchers on being audited by the IRS.
00:36:54.000If they want to get to you, they will come with an audit and they will nitpick your entire life apart.
00:37:00.000By the way, every one of you watching this program, if you own a business, if you've given political contributions, they will come for you.
00:38:52.000But they want to be able to do it and unleash them on American taxpayers.
00:38:58.000The priority of this regime, and it will not change, is to terrorize, punish, and bully us, the citizens, while giving illegal aliens luxury hotels in downtown New York City.
00:39:13.000They are prioritizing the foreigner over the citizen.
00:39:37.000But if you run a small business and you take a $500 deduction that you shouldn't take, you might be facing an IRS audit of $20,000, $30,000, $40,000.
00:40:12.000Why would it be that rule followers and law followers are the problem?
00:40:18.000It's because they don't want the law as it is.
00:40:24.000You see, this idea of the law being blind as being the equal scales of justice, that makes it harder for a tyrant to come in and to run your life.
00:40:36.000Now, I know a lot of you have asked us, and you've emailed us, freedom at charliekirk.com, what do these people want?