The Charlie Kirk Show - October 28, 2022


ELON MUSK OWNS TWITTER


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Elon Musk has the most significant private purchase of our age, and it's not even close to being the biggest in American history. He bought a company that's been around since before the founding of the internet, and now it's owned by a man who has the power to change the world.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, Elon executes what I think is the most significant private purchase in American history.
00:00:07.000 If you can find a more significant one than this, let me know.
00:00:09.000 Email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:00:11.000 I think it's the Louisiana purchase of our age.
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00:00:38.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:00:50.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:01:20.000 I'm going to say some things that people might deem to be controversial.
00:01:27.000 I actually might say some things that people might say are a little bit exaggerated.
00:01:33.000 But I'm going to provide evidence and I'm going to support them.
00:01:39.000 Elon Musk now owns Twitter.
00:01:42.000 The head of Twitter is gone.
00:01:44.000 Their entire censorship regime is gone.
00:01:45.000 It is like the liberation of France from the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:01:49.000 It's like the fall of the Berlin Wall, the censorship Stasi, the Gestapo that excommunicated the Babylon B and Dr. Malone and Donald Trump and the restriction on speech.
00:02:02.000 It is gone because of who?
00:02:05.000 A man that the entire uniparty can't control. 0.94
00:02:10.000 Now, the story of Elon Musk is such an interesting one.
00:02:14.000 And I am by no means a musk apologist.
00:02:18.000 There's plenty of things he says and does that I don't like his business in China, Neurolink, there's all sorts of stuff.
00:02:25.000 However, Musk is doing something that we have been hitting on this program for quite some time.
00:02:33.000 We believe in hierarchies because we believe in reality.
00:02:37.000 In nature, you are going to have hierarchies.
00:02:40.000 There'll be some people that are richer than others, some people that are smarter than others, some people that are better at sports, some people that are better at making music, some people at performing drama or acting.
00:02:52.000 A law of nature is the Pareto principle.
00:02:56.000 There will be a small amount of people that owns and produces a lot of stuff.
00:03:00.000 By definition, you're going to have elites.
00:03:03.000 The Marxist egalitarian promise of utopian future is nonsense.
00:03:09.000 You're never going to have that.
00:03:10.000 That's why Marxism always results in smaller and smaller groups of people controlling a lot more and more.
00:03:17.000 So we acknowledge that hierarchies must exist.
00:03:21.000 Now, the founding fathers knew that hierarchies must exist.
00:03:25.000 They just wanted the mechanism in which hierarchies are put into place is through consent to the governed, checks and balances, through prudence, and through the proper process.
00:03:32.000 But if you look at corporately, America is not new to having hierarchies.
00:03:38.000 We had very wealthy people that were called robber barons for some good reasons and some bad reasons, if you read the history correctly, in the early 1900s.
00:03:46.000 But those elites, from Carnegie to Mellon to Rockefeller to Chase, they loved America.
00:03:54.000 You can say anything you want about how they had too much power and too much corporate influence.
00:03:58.000 And all of that is probably valid.
00:04:00.000 I've seen historians debate that.
00:04:02.000 And I think there's good points on both sides.
00:04:04.000 But it is unquestioned.
00:04:07.000 It is not questioned at all, I should say.
00:04:09.000 It is agreed upon that they had a deep sense of patriotism.
00:04:14.000 Henry Ford, despite his anti-Semitism, loved America.
00:04:18.000 The great titans and tycoons of the 20th century, leading up until the 1980s when things started to change, if you are on the top of American business, you wanted America to succeed.
00:04:33.000 Said differently, the elites were qualified.
00:04:35.000 Our elites were passionate.
00:04:37.000 They were patriotic.
00:04:38.000 They were generous.
00:04:40.000 And they wanted to see the American project continue. 0.99
00:04:44.000 In the last 10 years, we have seen the rise of an elite class that is filled with fools that are deceitful, that are filled with very, very bad ideas. 0.99
00:04:58.000 They're incredibly confident in their own ideology. 0.99
00:05:02.000 They want to control the entire society.
00:05:04.000 And people like Bezos, people like Jobs, Lorraine Powell Jobs, people like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg, it seems as if they're cheering against America.
00:05:15.000 It's as if the elites on top of society wanted to use their money, their influence, and their power not to make sure America continues to strengthen, not to make sure that this incredible constitutional republic we have grows deeper, grows in deeper roots.
00:05:32.000 No, no, instead, it's, I'm going to use my resources to put $400 million into an election to have mass mail-in voting.
00:05:39.000 Lorraine Powell Jobs is going to spend $15 billion on left-wing causes. 1.00
00:05:42.000 Bill Gates is going to spend $30 billion.
00:05:45.000 You get the point.
00:05:45.000 It's to try to create a global type world, George Soros and many others.
00:05:51.000 Now, when we look at the elites now, they're contrasted very differently than what we grew up with, than what was once in America.
00:06:04.000 And Elon Musk is different.
00:06:05.000 Elon Musk is a diversion.
00:06:08.000 He is a, not a diversion, he is a detour from that.
00:06:11.000 You see, Elon Musk believes deeply in freedom of speech.
00:06:17.000 Elon Musk has made an extraordinary amount of money in his life.
00:06:21.000 By the way, via making electric vehicles and solar panels, the very things that the left says they love.
00:06:30.000 And Elon has now decided to use his resources the way the elites should, which is to actually help humanity, not to crush it.
00:06:37.000 And now he owns Twitter.
00:06:39.000 Play cut 130.
00:06:41.000 This is a Fox News Alert.
00:06:42.000 Elon Musk officially owns Twitter.
00:06:47.000 He bought it not to make money, but to restore free speech to America.
00:06:51.000 If he actually does that, this country will change forever.
00:06:54.000 Immediately after the news came out, the CEO of Twitter, Parag Agarwal, who came to this country and immediately started destroying our most sacred freedom and the CFO Ninsego are both gone.
00:07:06.000 The question really remains is why did it take the world's richest man to deploy $44 billion of his own money to go purchase a company to liberate it from its own tyrants, from its own behavior of tyrants?
00:07:20.000 And the answer is because Elon Musk is a different type of elite.
00:07:26.000 I might disagree with him on a lot of different things, but buying Twitter and excommunicating Parag Agarwal and the entire deep state bureaucracy at the social media platform is a moral good for humanity.
00:07:41.000 And the media is losing their mind.
00:07:44.000 The media cannot grasp this idea that someone with a lot of money might actually defect and want to have freedom of speech online.
00:07:53.000 And this is an open challenge to anybody in the audience to just understand the gravity and the significance of this.
00:08:00.000 Can anybody point to a more consequential purchase, a private purchase of such a serious magnitude in American history?
00:08:10.000 Can anyone?
00:08:12.000 I believe that it's actually the greatest purchase since the Louisiana purchase with Thomas Jefferson.
00:08:17.000 And that was the government doing it.
00:08:19.000 When has there ever been a purchase of a private asset of this size, this scale, for not the not to get rich, but instead to say, freedom of speech is a moral good for humanity.
00:08:32.000 We are the speaking beings.
00:08:34.000 It is through reason that we are able to make sense of a chaotic world.
00:08:39.000 It is through our ability to speak through the common noun miracle.
00:08:43.000 And if we are not able to speak, then everything else falls apart.
00:08:48.000 CNN, MSNBC, they can't believe this.
00:08:50.000 We're going to play some of this tape later in the show.
00:08:52.000 They are so angry.
00:08:53.000 They are so upset that how dare Elon Musk do this?
00:08:56.000 And that goes to show that restricting speech and basically executing rolling social media blackouts, they are pivotal to the tyranny of our time.
00:09:11.000 I really hope Elon knows the game he's signing up for here.
00:09:14.000 This is a civilizational thing unfolding.
00:09:17.000 And one of the controversial things I'm going to say is Elon purchasing and liberating Twitter, he has yet to liberate it, but he's in the process of it, it looks like, is even more consequential than the Republicans winning the Senate in a week and a half.
00:09:33.000 If you said, Charlie, not the House, I think you need to at least control one chamber right now.
00:09:38.000 But if you said, Charlie, what would you rather have?
00:09:40.000 A liberated Twitter or a Republican Senate for two years?
00:09:44.000 If that was the binary choice, I would take a liberated Twitter because that affects everything.
00:09:49.000 That affects the transmission of values, morals, customs, not just a legislative body for oversight that we'll see what they do.
00:10:00.000 But if you want to take back the country, you need the ability to spread your ideas.
00:10:05.000 We're going to talk more about this, the most consequential and massive private transaction, I think, in American history.
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00:11:16.000 Someone said the following.
00:11:17.000 They said, Charlie, Twitter is a liberal echo chamber.
00:11:19.000 It's about as significant as a pimple on the back of an elephant. 0.96
00:11:22.000 If we control the House and Senate, we control the destiny of the country.
00:11:25.000 No, we don't, actually.
00:11:28.000 That's never been the case we've made on this show.
00:11:30.000 You don't control the destiny of the country just because you control two chambers of Congress.
00:11:33.000 I said you should control one for defense.
00:11:35.000 House would be great for defense. 0.95
00:11:36.000 Twitter will be remembered as a passing fad.
00:11:39.000 That is not true.
00:11:40.000 Twitter is the incubator for elite thought.
00:11:43.000 And you might say, oh, Charlie, what does that mean?
00:11:45.000 Your kids and grandkids are continuously feeding off of the conversation, the ideas, and the perspectives that are shared on Twitter.
00:11:53.000 It is the public square.
00:11:54.000 It is not a passing fad.
00:11:56.000 And it's not going to be a passing fad now that Elon Musk owns it.
00:11:59.000 It's going to get even better.
00:12:01.000 It's going to get even more powerful.
00:12:03.000 I know some of you say, Charlie, I don't use Twitter. 1.00
00:12:05.000 It's a stupid platform. 1.00
00:12:07.000 Every CEO, person in the media, people that have power in America, they go to Twitter to see what they should think about certain things. 1.00
00:12:16.000 Every single media outlet begins on Twitter.
00:12:19.000 All political news begins on Twitter.
00:12:21.000 Every congressperson and their staff reads Twitter.
00:12:24.000 You want to impact legislation?
00:12:25.000 You have to be able to influence people on Twitter.
00:12:27.000 You want to be able to ban CRT?
00:12:29.000 You got to be able to influence things on Twitter.
00:12:31.000 You want to be able to stop medical mutilation of children?
00:12:34.000 You have to be able to influence things on Twitter.
00:12:36.000 It all is on Twitter.
00:12:38.000 You say, well, Charlie, how do we persuade people to our side?
00:12:41.000 You have to be able to speak on Twitter.
00:12:43.000 You have to.
00:12:44.000 For years, I said, ah, you know, I don't know how strong Twitter is.
00:12:48.000 And boy, did I underestimate the strength of Twitter?
00:12:52.000 Let me just say this.
00:12:53.000 A lot of the parents' party of people showing up to school board meetings across the country, that energy started on Twitter with libs of TikTok exposing these groomers on Twitter, with Christopher Ruffo exposing critical race theory, James Lindsay exposing critical race theory.
00:13:11.000 Where do you think a lot of the contrarian energy around the Chinese coronavirus originated from?
00:13:17.000 Twitter.
00:13:19.000 If you are able to have the semblance of a free expression platform, you can challenge tyranny instantaneously in real time.
00:13:27.000 You can call them out for their lies, their deceit, their treachery.
00:13:30.000 It allows you to be able to reclaim the narrative.
00:13:34.000 And that is exactly why the regime is acting the way they are.
00:13:39.000 They are in full freakout mode.
00:13:42.000 Because if they're not able to continue to restrict our speech, then they're not going to be in power for much longer.
00:13:49.000 I'll show you.
00:13:51.000 Let's listen to this one right here.
00:13:53.000 Let's go to Cut 137.
00:13:56.000 MSNBC, Twitter users are very anxious right now.
00:13:59.000 No, actually, it's a better one.
00:14:00.000 138.
00:14:01.000 Elon Musk is a bond villain.
00:14:02.000 Play cut 138. 1.00
00:14:04.000 I think he's a jerk. 1.00
00:14:05.000 I think that he's cavalier. 1.00
00:14:07.000 I think there's something dangerous when the richest guy in the world controls one of the most important political social platforms in the world.
00:14:15.000 I just think there's something very dangerous about him.
00:14:17.000 He reminds me of a bond villain.
00:14:18.000 As I said, when the richest guy in the world buys a social media platform, it's just not a good equation.
00:14:23.000 I think he's a dangerous fellow.
00:14:25.000 Yeah, meanwhile, it was perfectly fine when Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post or Lorene Powell Jobs bought The Atlantic.
00:14:31.000 But if Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter to liberate it, it's a problem.
00:14:35.000 Now, if Elon Musk was a trans activist and Elon Musk was a far left-wing social justice warrior and he bought Twitter, it would be applauded at MSNBC.
00:14:45.000 Oh, what wonderful.
00:14:47.000 This is so great.
00:14:49.000 Has there ever been a private transaction that comes close to this?
00:14:53.000 And honestly, there is a question of what does one do with their resources?
00:14:57.000 What does one do with the money that they have earned?
00:15:00.000 Elon Musk could be buying private islands and private jets and mansions, but he spends $44 billion to just try to better humanity a little bit.
00:15:09.000 I'm not saying it's all for, we don't know his pure intentions or motives, but we do know his actions.
00:15:14.000 He's already reinstating Twitter accounts.
00:15:16.000 We're already seeing a restoration of some speech on Twitter, and it's been 12 hours.
00:15:22.000 And make no mistake, Donald Trump would not have been president in 2016 if it was not for the ability to tweet out his message.
00:15:30.000 That's why they had to kick him off.
00:15:31.000 They had to kick him off because they cannot allow him to be able to stay on Twitter.
00:15:35.000 All these silly fact checks and all these labels that Twitter was starting to put on.
00:15:39.000 And it's not the reach of Twitter.
00:15:41.000 Yes, it reaches tens of millions of people.
00:15:43.000 It's who is reading it.
00:15:45.000 Every lawmaker and their staff starts the day by opening up Twitter.
00:15:52.000 What am I supposed to believe today?
00:15:53.000 That's what they look at Twitter.
00:15:55.000 The Twitter has become the front page of newspapers.
00:15:59.000 A1 on the New York Times is far less important as what is trending on Twitter.
00:16:04.000 And so, therefore, you have, as I mentioned, an incubator of elite thought in one area that is now going to be able to be a legitimate marketplace of ideas.
00:16:13.000 Twitter is a great place to see what ideas are best.
00:16:17.000 Good ideas get retweeted and shared.
00:16:19.000 Bad ideas die in lowliness, loneliness, and mockery.
00:16:23.000 We know that if we get an equal opportunity to speak, we're going to defeat these people.
00:16:28.000 They have been putting their finger and their hand on the scale for quite some time.
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00:17:56.000 Somebody says here, they say, Charlie, my entire family, here's it.
00:18:00.000 Sorry to inform you, but social media is not used by all, especially Twitter.
00:18:04.000 My entire family doesn't use Twitter or Facebook.
00:18:07.000 Yeah, but all of you are impacted by Twitter.
00:18:09.000 Every one of you.
00:18:11.000 Where do you think the BLM movement was incubated?
00:18:16.000 Where do you think the gay pride movement in the recent years was started?
00:18:22.000 Where do you think Me Too, the Me Too movement, grew momentum on?
00:18:26.000 All Twitter.
00:18:27.000 Yeah, you might not be interested in Twitter, but Twitter is interested in you.
00:18:32.000 Twitter is where all the quote-unquote powerful and cool kids get their information and their news.
00:18:39.000 And you might say, I don't care about those people.
00:18:40.000 You don't care about your lawmakers.
00:18:43.000 You want to know why so many Republican officials are weak?
00:18:48.000 Because they get their information from a biased platform, Twitter.
00:18:51.000 You might say, well, they shouldn't do that.
00:18:52.000 Well, they do.
00:18:53.000 It's a reality.
00:18:55.000 Black Lives Matter started as Twitter hashtag.
00:18:58.000 Me too started as a Twitter hashtag.
00:19:01.000 How about all of the COVID information that your health officials were parroting relentlessly?
00:19:06.000 Do you have a governor that you were upset with that kept things locked down too much?
00:19:10.000 They were trying to get affirmation on Twitter and they were getting news from Twitter.
00:19:14.000 Do you have a voice that you wish could have had to express themselves more?
00:19:17.000 How about Robert Kennedy Jr., Dr. Malone, Dr. McCullough, all kicked off Twitter?
00:19:21.000 So it doesn't matter if you use it or your friends use it.
00:19:24.000 You're all impacted by what's happening there.
00:19:25.000 And to say as if it doesn't matter, all of your lawmakers, every powerful person on the planet, derives some sort of an opinion from what's happening on Twitter.
00:19:37.000 Not everyone is into politics.
00:19:39.000 I understand that.
00:19:40.000 And yet everyone is affected by it.
00:19:42.000 Politics is obviously downstream from culture and Twitter is culture.
00:19:45.000 And Twitter is kind of a snarky, smart person, quote unquote, smart person, I put in air quotes, place where the credentialed class is able to float out their ideas.
00:19:58.000 And we saw that back in 2016 when Donald Trump won.
00:20:02.000 They know the power of a liberated Twitter.
00:20:05.000 Conservatives win.
00:20:07.000 So someone says here, Kelly, will Elon really be able to change it?
00:20:11.000 The elite liberals own everything to control thought, so they lose control of something.
00:20:15.000 They destroy it.
00:20:16.000 How will Elon owning restore Twitter for the better?
00:20:18.000 Well, look, if he has the ability to do this, which is going to be quite a fight, he's already said he's going to fire 75% of Twitter employees.
00:20:26.000 He's gotten rid of the head of Twitter.
00:20:27.000 But my warning for Elon Musk is be ready for a Twitter deep state.
00:20:32.000 The same way Donald Trump had a deal with Christopher, not Christopher Ray, deal with Peter Struckstroke Smirk and had a deal with Andrew McCabe.
00:20:40.000 We have to be ready for a Twitter deep state.
00:20:44.000 The equivalent of the FISA court applications, spying on Elon, looking through his private communications.
00:20:50.000 I guarantee you that Parag Agarwal left mines throughout that entire company.
00:20:57.000 I guarantee you that Parag Augerwal has little nodes of sleeper cells that are waiting to explode on Elon at any time.
00:21:05.000 So it's going to be a massive challenge.
00:21:09.000 But let me tell you, Kelly, what has he done?
00:21:10.000 He's already restored the Babylon B Twitter account.
00:21:13.000 He's already said today that there's going to be a massive amount of Twitter prisoner of wars released from prisoner.
00:21:18.000 We call them Twitter POWs.
00:21:20.000 Look, Elon has a massive fight ahead of him.
00:21:24.000 And this now, just by the way, this is going to trigger, this is going to really begin the process of liberals now saying that we need government control of our platforms.
00:21:37.000 Oh, wait a second.
00:21:38.000 So you are fine with laissez-faire social media as long as they acted tyrannically.
00:21:44.000 But the second that a rich person goes and buys the platform, you guys freak out.
00:21:49.000 Someone says, Charlie, in the interest of transparency, do you own Twitter shares?
00:21:52.000 And if so, how many?
00:21:53.000 Yes, I own one share.
00:21:54.000 I do.
00:21:55.000 I did that so I could vote for the takeover of Twitter.
00:21:58.000 Yeah, I'm not saying this just because of my shares in Twitter.
00:22:00.000 Yeah, I own a single share in Twitter.
00:22:02.000 It's true.
00:22:02.000 I bought one share when Elon was going to take it over so I could vote in the shareholder meeting.
00:22:08.000 Someone says, you should have bought more.
00:22:09.000 You would have made a lot.
00:22:10.000 I didn't buy Twitter shares to make money.
00:22:12.000 I bought a Twitter share so that I could vote as a, whatever, in the shareholder vote if you were going to take it over.
00:22:18.000 Let's go to cut 134.
00:22:20.000 Along with the head of legal policy, trust, and safety, who reportedly led the team that decided whether or not to ban then-President Donald Trump from the platform, ultimately did.
00:22:30.000 Overnight, the New York Stock Exchange notified investors it will suspend trading in shares of Twitter before this morning's opening bell in anticipation of the company going private.
00:22:40.000 And then cut 135.
00:22:42.000 MSNBC discussing how conservatives are happy that Twitter is now private in the hands of Elon.
00:22:48.000 Play cut 135.
00:22:50.000 And a lot of conservatives really rejoicing yesterday about this takeover being official.
00:22:55.000 Yeah, buckle up really for what's coming here on Twitter.
00:22:59.000 This is Elon Musk's Twitter now, and we're all going to see where it takes us.
00:23:02.000 The reactions are extraordinary.
00:23:04.000 I'm going to read some of these tweets of people yesterday and some of the, to give you an idea.
00:23:08.000 Now, you might say, Charlie, it doesn't matter.
00:23:09.000 If it doesn't matter, why is the New York Times acting like this?
00:23:11.000 This is one of my favorite ones.
00:23:13.000 I have to find this one.
00:23:14.000 The one about the insane asylum.
00:23:16.000 It's my favorite.
00:23:16.000 But let me read this one.
00:23:18.000 Ben Collins, who said, I would be so happy if I'm wrong, but all the red lights are flashing here.
00:23:23.000 Tristan Snell, left-winger, stay, hold your ground like a Ukrainian. 1.00
00:23:29.000 Because Elon Musk is Putin and he's taking over Twitter.
00:23:33.000 Taylor Lorenz, the low-life degenerate who doxed libs of TikTok, she said, it's like the gates of hell opened overnight on this site tonight.
00:23:42.000 Robert Reich, the communist from UC Berkeley, when multi-billionaires take over our most vital platforms, communication, it's not a win for free speech, it's a win for oligarchy.
00:23:50.000 Oh, yeah, Robert Reich, as if the oligarchy wasn't strong before, as if the oligarchy wasn't controlling Twitter.
00:23:56.000 The CDC, Pfizer, Astra, Zenek, and Moderna, Johnson and Johnson.
00:24:00.000 The Independent writes, RIP Twitter, 2006, 2022, dead at the hands of Elon Musk.
00:24:06.000 Just the reactions are amazing.
00:24:08.000 And so the New York Times and the Washington Post had all these conference calls because they're freaking out because all of them are able to distribute their fake information on Twitter.
00:24:17.000 And now they're very worried that that is going to be challenged.
00:24:21.000 And so there's one of these quotes.
00:24:24.000 I have to find it about the Arkham Asylum.
00:24:26.000 A reporter in a Twitter space for the New York Times CNN said this.
00:24:30.000 It's like the Joker taking over Arkham Asylum and releasing all the supervillains back into the world.
00:24:36.000 Now, I'm not exactly sure what they're talking about.
00:24:41.000 Was that the Joker or was that Bane that released these insane asylum?
00:24:45.000 I guess it was Joker.
00:24:47.000 But Bain did, he opened up the prisons or something.
00:24:49.000 Anyway, liberal, my other one is this, is that where they say that no one is safe on this platform anymore.
00:24:56.000 They're freaking out.
00:24:57.000 It's a complete, massive institutional freak out.
00:25:01.000 The New York Times and Washington Post reporters hosting a space and saying people are tired, are terrified of him posting in Slack.
00:25:07.000 This is my favorite.
00:25:08.000 This is a really scary time for Twitter employees.
00:25:10.000 These are their lives.
00:25:11.000 They worked really hard on this app.
00:25:12.000 Yeah, yeah, they worked really hard on the modern-day digital Gestapo of banning conservatives.
00:25:19.000 And by the way, Elon Musk has now said he is looking to fix the Twitter algorithm today.
00:25:27.000 And again, you might be naive.
00:25:28.000 You might say, oh, Charlie, none of this matters.
00:25:30.000 Oh, okay.
00:25:32.000 You know, someone says, Charlie, how do we know the heads of Twitter are responsible for a BLM?
00:25:36.000 How many back doors are on Twitter for liberal sabotage? 0.62
00:25:39.000 I know for certain that Me Too, BLM, Mask and Vax support Ukraine. 0.94
00:25:45.000 They allow them to trend on Twitter.
00:25:49.000 They allow these ideas to spread.
00:25:53.000 And then other people latch onto them.
00:25:55.000 I could say this as somebody, according to Axios, we had the fifth most engaged Twitter account on the planet in the calendar year of 2018.
00:26:04.000 It's a fact.
00:26:04.000 I know the platform pretty well.
00:26:06.000 We really kind of built our following on Twitter.
00:26:09.000 Someone says here, you are being duped. 0.90
00:26:11.000 Let Twitter die.
00:26:12.000 Force politicians to non-corrupted platforms that hopefully block Intel spies.
00:26:17.000 No, I'm not being duped.
00:26:18.000 Getting rid of Parag Agarwal and these other people and allowing conservatives back on Twitter is a very good thing.
00:26:24.000 It's a very good thing.
00:26:26.000 And by the way, if it wasn't a good thing, why is the media acting so outrageously?
00:26:30.000 He's a bond villain.
00:26:32.000 And look, we should not abandon all of the alternative technology.
00:26:36.000 I feel very strongly about that.
00:26:38.000 They were for us when things were dark.
00:26:39.000 We should keep posting on Truth Social, on Getter.
00:26:42.000 We should keep posting on Rumble.
00:26:45.000 Maybe Elon Musk is now going to buy Rumble.
00:26:45.000 And we don't know.
00:26:48.000 Who knows?
00:26:49.000 There is a massive amount of activity, positive momentum happening.
00:26:53.000 I want to play another piece of tape here.
00:26:55.000 Mika Brzezinski, Trump could be back on Twitter.
00:26:58.000 That's so scary.
00:26:59.000 Play Cut 136.
00:27:01.000 It's so interesting.
00:27:02.000 And who knows?
00:27:02.000 I mean, Joe's always said that bring him back on Twitter.
00:27:06.000 That actually could have its own consequences.
00:27:10.000 People getting a break and then seeing him again could be interesting.
00:27:14.000 Could be interesting.
00:27:15.000 It's unbelievable.
00:27:17.000 Let's play Cut 140.
00:27:20.000 Twitter is a no-go zone for a lot of conservatives because they feel it was a leftist cesspool, Play Cut 140.
00:27:26.000 Right now, Twitter is a no-go zone for a lot of conservatives, a lot of independents.
00:27:31.000 They just say this is a left-wing cesspool.
00:27:33.000 And Elon Musk says, the reason I acquired Twitter is because it's important to the future of civilization to have a common digital town square.
00:27:41.000 So, and I do want to level with a lot of you.
00:27:43.000 I understand these sentiments where you say, Charlie, you know, I'm cynical.
00:27:46.000 I'm all this.
00:27:47.000 You should be cynical.
00:27:49.000 And if I end up being wrong, I'm wrong sometimes, I admit when I'm wrong, then I'll be the first one to admit it, okay?
00:27:56.000 Because Charlie says, oh, we've been duped by these people, we've been played, we've been up, all this sort of stuff.
00:28:00.000 Okay, I hear you.
00:28:01.000 I'm already seeing evidence, though, that this is moving in the right direction.
00:28:04.000 Babylon B has been restored.
00:28:06.000 People are getting their Twitter accounts back.
00:28:08.000 I could tell you last night, for example, there is this incredible uptick in our own Twitter engagement, which is great.
00:28:19.000 Someone says, Hal, Charlie, you're completely wrong about Twitter.
00:28:21.000 The only people pushing for its continued use are making money off Twitter.
00:28:24.000 I'm sorry, sir.
00:28:24.000 It's not true.
00:28:25.000 Wake up, Charlie.
00:28:26.000 Help us end the censorship.
00:28:27.000 Every one of your lawmakers is on Twitter getting their opinions from there.
00:28:30.000 Every single one of them.
00:28:32.000 So I'm trying to sit here and listen to all your arguments.
00:28:34.000 There's not a single one that can validate anything other than the complete destruction of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube.
00:28:38.000 We need to completely end the government censorship from these elite corporations.
00:28:42.000 How do you think you're going to go do that exactly?
00:28:45.000 No, seriously.
00:28:47.000 There is no way this corrupt government is going to allow for free and open debate on Twitter.
00:28:51.000 They're already threatening Musk with other unrelated legal investigations.
00:28:54.000 They want to know that he must toe the line or it'll cost him financially.
00:28:57.000 Look, Hal, you could be right, but your entire email is way too cynical.
00:29:00.000 I'm trying to say that there actually might be something good happening, and maybe we should allow ourselves to accept that.
00:29:07.000 I get the cynicism.
00:29:08.000 I totally understand.
00:29:10.000 But maybe this actually is a good thing.
00:29:14.000 Liberal reporter, quote, it's like the gates of hell opened on this site tonight.
00:29:18.000 That's Taylor Lorenz.
00:29:20.000 Look, there's a lot of work to do.
00:29:22.000 I'm going to be optimistic and hopeful.
00:29:24.000 You guys can remain cynical and negative and pessimistic.
00:29:26.000 We'll see who ends up being right.
00:29:28.000 But I know this: a free and open Twitter back in 2016 got Donald Trump elected as president.
00:29:35.000 And a suppressed Twitter of the Hunter Biden laptop story, remember, Hunter, people say, oh, Twitter doesn't matter.
00:29:40.000 Oh, really?
00:29:41.000 They suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story, and no one reported on it because Twitter is the incubator for elite thought.
00:29:46.000 Twitter doesn't matter.
00:29:47.000 No, actually, it did matter a lot.
00:29:48.000 It mattered so much the FBI did a special visit to Twitter and Facebook and told them to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
00:29:54.000 Donald Trump very well might be president right now if that story was allowed to be spread.
00:30:00.000 Optimism and hope is the root of taking positive action.
00:30:03.000 For those of you who are cynical, I hope you're wrong.
00:30:05.000 And I hope you hope I'm right.
00:30:07.000 That's my only ask.
00:30:08.000 You could disagree.
00:30:09.000 I just want you to hope that I'm right.
00:30:12.000 That's my only ask.
00:30:13.000 You have every right to be cynical, by the way.
00:30:15.000 I don't discount you for that.
00:30:16.000 I just see it differently.
00:30:18.000 I'll never forget in 2016.
00:30:20.000 I am going to make a little comparison when some people emailed us and they said, I'll never forget it.
00:30:25.000 Back in 2016, I was, you know, we were working to do some stuff for Trump.
00:30:29.000 I was the body man for Donald Trump Jr. and doing all sorts of stuff.
00:30:31.000 And I remember there were people that said, the deep state will never let Trump win.
00:30:37.000 There was a, what Donald Trump did in 2016 when he won is I think he hopefully gave a little bit of hope that the system can be challenged, that an outsider can become president.
00:30:48.000 He gave a little bit of an example that the way that they think things have to go is not certain.
00:30:56.000 Now, in 2020, obviously, they threw everything they possibly could at him.
00:30:56.000 It's not written in stone.
00:31:02.000 Someone says here, Charlie, you're correct.
00:31:04.000 If anything, Republican lawmakers care too much about Twitter.
00:31:07.000 It exacerbates the divide we see between those and offs on the grassroots.
00:31:09.000 I agree, but it is a fact that they use it.
00:31:11.000 It just is.
00:31:12.000 I wish they didn't care about it as much, but it's the way it is.
00:31:12.000 You're right.
00:31:14.000 By the way, I get, just from my own personal perspective, there are more articles, media inquiries, lawmakers reaching out, people on television, radio show hosts, influencers, pundits, CEOs, and billionaires that text me about what I say on Twitter than anything else.
00:31:34.000 I could talk at length on radio.
00:31:37.000 And yeah, you guys, the grassroots listen to that because you're the backbone of the country.
00:31:42.000 But the people that are actually calling the shots, the elites, if you will, they're flipping through Twitter.
00:31:48.000 And it is actually as simple as, well, what should I believe today?
00:31:52.000 What should I be outraged about?
00:31:54.000 What sort of cause do I want to kind of support?
00:31:58.000 And if you're not able to even voice heterodox opinions around those things, let's go to this.
00:32:03.000 Elon Musk firing top Twitter executives, play cut 139.
00:32:08.000 So he fired several top executives, the CEO, the CFO, head of legal policy, trust and safety, who was allegedly behind banning Trump from Twitter.
00:32:17.000 Firing 75% of the staff.
00:32:22.000 75%.
00:32:25.000 And look, I understand a lot of the different opinions here.
00:32:28.000 Someone says here, Charlie, I agree with you that Twitter is the most important platform for free speech.
00:32:33.000 Musk has got a clean house and bring in trusted software engineers to clean house.
00:32:36.000 That is right.
00:32:37.000 It is a unique platform.
00:32:39.000 It is not the largest platform, but it impacts the most of the elite circles.
00:32:44.000 I'll just be very honest.
00:32:45.000 Those of you that are on Facebook, you're on Instagram, your average congressman is not getting news from Instagram.
00:32:52.000 They're not.
00:32:54.000 Wired.com, a Musk-owned Twitter could be disastrous for women. 1.00
00:32:58.000 What is a woman exactly? 1.00
00:33:00.000 And marginalized communities already facing abuse and targeted harassment on the platform.
00:33:06.000 Charlie, you are spot on.
00:33:07.000 Twitter gives market share of low-information voters back to Trump.
00:33:13.000 Someone says, here, Charlie, read some of the emails of those of us that agree with you on Musk.
00:33:16.000 I just did.
00:33:17.000 Your trusted friend.
00:33:18.000 Thank you.
00:33:18.000 God bless you.
00:33:19.000 I understand it.
00:33:20.000 I get the perspective.
00:33:22.000 However, I see a glimmer of hope here.
00:33:25.000 It's going to take a lot of work.
00:33:26.000 But just the idea of now having the media and the regime divert resources to stop Elon is a very good thing.
00:33:36.000 They're now going to have to expend all this energy.
00:33:39.000 It's now going to be this massive proxy war.
00:33:41.000 We're now a new front in the war where Twitter was comfortably in the regime's pocket.
00:33:45.000 Let's say at least we can all agree on it is now a question mark.
00:33:50.000 Latest article here: Musk's dangerous vision for Twitter.
00:33:55.000 Okay.
00:33:56.000 At the very least, the regime, the people in charge, the Unit Party, are going to have to divert everything they can to derail Musk.
00:34:04.000 Good luck.
00:34:05.000 You're going to wonder who actually has more power.
00:34:08.000 Elon has Starlink.
00:34:10.000 He has the boring company.
00:34:12.000 He's a very, very interesting, incredibly smart person.
00:34:16.000 And regardless of your opinions on what's going to happen, I believe it is a fact and it is agreeable that it is a good thing that someone uses their resources, $44 billion, to try to at least level the playing field of speech.
00:34:37.000 I wish more rich people deployed their resources like this.
00:34:41.000 Better than buying yachts or donating the money to the Democrat National Committee.
00:34:47.000 And by the way, Musk said he's voting Republican this midterm election cycle.
00:34:52.000 Just to give you an idea of what you're dealing with here, I don't think he's a conservative, but he is not a leftist.
00:34:57.000 I truly believe Musk values speech.
00:35:01.000 And in that, I applaud him.
00:35:03.000 Be skeptical.
00:35:04.000 I understand that.
00:35:05.000 But allow yourself to have a little hope.
00:35:09.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:35:11.000 Email me your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:35:14.000 Thank you so much for listening.
00:35:15.000 God bless.
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