The Charlie Kirk Show - April 04, 2022


Elon Takes Over Twitter—What It Means for America


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Elon Musk is now the largest shareholder of Twitter. What does this mean? We dive deep into this and look at it from every possible angle that benefits our country and our right to free speech. Today's episode is brought to you by Turning Point USA.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk Show, Elon Musk is now the largest shareholder of Twitter.
00:00:05.000 What does this mean?
00:00:05.000 We dive deep into this and look at it from every possible angle.
00:00:09.000 Very important news item that benefits our country and our right to free speech.
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00:01:51.000 So I want to lead today with a question, which is, how should elites treat their country?
00:01:58.000 How should the people in charge of their country, in the economic elites or in cultural institutions or in the movies or in any form of power, how should they treat their country?
00:02:09.000 Well, 100 years ago, Carnegie, Mellon, and Chase, they were some of the wealthiest people ever in the history of the planet.
00:02:17.000 Now, there is no doubt that they were powerful and that they had wealth, but they used that wealth largely to try and preserve America, build hospitals, libraries, build YMCAs, build things that actually helped the well-being of the nation.
00:02:33.000 They wanted a strong America.
00:02:35.000 Now, over the last couple years, a common lament from this program has been the fact that the people who are in charge of our country, the wealthiest people, are involved in this pattern of self-hatred.
00:02:49.000 They're engaged in this relentless pattern of not doing what's best for the country, of engaging in ideas for the World Economic Forum, the suppression of free speech, woke ideology, the suffocation of the individual.
00:03:06.000 We have talked about how people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and George Soros and the Google people and the Louis Vuitton guy, they seem to be so fixated on using their unlimited wealth to do things that actually hurt the cause of liberty, not help the cause of liberty, that hurt the strength of America and weaken America.
00:03:28.000 This has seemed to be almost overwhelming, especially the last couple years.
00:03:32.000 We've been complaining about how AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Johnson Johnson, and Moderna, they cooperate with Fauci and the FDA and Bill Gates.
00:03:41.000 And it seems like the elites have it all figured out, that they always have each other's back.
00:03:46.000 And basically, the only thing that we have left is the truth, which matters, and common everyday people fighting for that.
00:03:53.000 We felt outnumbered and for good reason.
00:03:56.000 We turn around and we say, why is it that the people that are worth $100 billion are so concerned about crushing the plumber in Marshallton, Iowa?
00:04:07.000 Now, in the last 24 hours, this has now changed.
00:04:10.000 There has been a seismic shift in how the elites, or let me say an elite, engages and treats his country.
00:04:21.000 Free speech is essential towards any country that wants to embrace economic freedom or private property.
00:04:27.000 If you do not have freedom of speech, then you're not even able to have bad ideas be challenged.
00:04:33.000 Tyranny is not able to be cross-examined if you do not have freedom of dialogue or free expression of ideas.
00:04:44.000 Free speech is the first freedom for a reason.
00:04:48.000 It's because we as human beings are the speaking beings.
00:04:53.000 It's who we are, dialogue, which means through reason.
00:04:56.000 In the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God.
00:05:00.000 That word is logos, our ability to make sense of the world by associating terms or labels or names to certain things.
00:05:10.000 This is a phone, this is a laptop.
00:05:12.000 Only human beings can do that.
00:05:14.000 And for most of human history, the few, the leaders or the elites, are able to silence the many.
00:05:21.000 The founding fathers decided to change all of that.
00:05:24.000 And a lot of our wealth and a lot of our prestige and a lot of our greatness as a country is largely responsible to our ability to have free speech be a fundamental and unquestioned American value.
00:05:40.000 Now, the courts still allow free speech.
00:05:43.000 If you want to go get a poster board and show up in front of a state capitol, no one's going to arrest you.
00:05:48.000 Now, of course, that wasn't the case if you didn't wear your mask correctly during the virus, but that's a separate issue.
00:05:55.000 But instead, the fight for free speech is less whether or not you could take a poster board and go in front of your state capitol, but whether or not you're able to speak freely on the internet, online, and whether or not corporate America will actually allow you to speak freely.
00:06:11.000 The fight for free speech is no longer whether or not you could take a poster board and challenge your leader, which no one will take seriously.
00:06:18.000 It's whether or not you're allowed to say those things where they can spread instantaneously, publicly, and virally.
00:06:25.000 The fight for free speech, of course, has been happening on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube.
00:06:34.000 We are still banned from Twitter.
00:06:37.000 It happened a couple weeks ago.
00:06:38.000 Now, I'm not taking credit for anything, obviously, but it was the Babylon Be, then it was us, then it was Tucker Carlson, which seemed to be part of a movement that broke, that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back.
00:06:52.000 It was the final push.
00:06:54.000 As that happened, Twitter decided to ban me and to ban Tucker and to ban the Babylon Bee because of things we did not do wrong, and we refused to press delete, we refused to bend the knee.
00:07:05.000 And this created kind of a revival of interest of people saying, what is Twitter good for anyway?
00:07:14.000 Now, a man who very well had no reason to be interested in this.
00:07:18.000 For example, he had every excuse to kind of just do the Jeff Bezos thing.
00:07:22.000 I'm going to go to space.
00:07:23.000 I'm going to stay on my yacht.
00:07:25.000 What's the big deal anyway?
00:07:27.000 Jeff Bezos is a perfect example of a self-interested, unpatriotic billionaire who gives the minimum amount to charity, who just kind of cares about space exploration and his unlimited power, owning the Washington Post, getting government contracts.
00:07:41.000 He doesn't actually care about the well-being of the country that he lives in.
00:07:47.000 But one elite, in fact, the richest elite, was very disturbed, especially recently, with what Twitter has been doing.
00:07:57.000 So last week, on March 25th, Elon Musk asked his Twitter followers a very simple question, which is, do you think Twitter respects freedom of speech?
00:08:10.000 Do you think that Twitter is a place where speech and ideas can spread freely?
00:08:15.000 He said, quote, Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy.
00:08:19.000 Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?
00:08:23.000 70% of people said no with 2 million votes on Twitter.
00:08:27.000 He also asked, quote, should the Twitter algorithm be open source?
00:08:32.000 Yes or no?
00:08:33.000 82% said yes.
00:08:35.000 And he said after this, the consequences of this poll will be important.
00:08:39.000 Please vote carefully.
00:08:42.000 Now, when Elon Musk says that, he's worth $285 billion, usually makes you take pause.
00:08:51.000 What is he going to do?
00:08:52.000 What's up his sleeve?
00:08:54.000 What is the world's wealthiest man who owns Neuralink and the boring company and Tesla?
00:08:59.000 What is Elon Musk going to do?
00:09:03.000 Now, there were a lot of theories floating around, but we no longer have to live in mystery.
00:09:08.000 This morning, the news came out of an elite, the world's wealthiest man, who has decided to come into the fight that all of us are engaged in on a day-to-day basis.
00:09:19.000 Play cut one.
00:09:27.000 Earlier, it is up 21% after Tesla CEO Elon Musk disclosed a 9.25% stake in the company, potentially making him the largest shareholder.
00:09:36.000 People on Twitter have been pushing him to buy the company as he's been vocal about some of its recent policies, and in particular, censorship.
00:09:45.000 And he did it.
00:09:46.000 Elon Musk is now the largest shareholder in Twitter.
00:09:49.000 Twitter shares have skyrocketed more than 24% after Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man, takes a 9% stake in the social media company.
00:09:58.000 And he's doing it for a very specific reason.
00:10:02.000 Elon Musk is mad.
00:10:04.000 He's mad that people can't speak freely on the internet anymore, and he wants to do something about it.
00:10:09.000 Elon is on a crusade to restore freedom of speech.
00:10:12.000 And we're going to get into the significance of this in great detail because this is more than just a wealthy guy buying a company.
00:10:18.000 No, this has societal, civilizational implications.
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00:11:32.000 We love checks and balances.
00:11:34.000 That's why we love the United States Constitution.
00:11:37.000 And it has felt as if over the last couple of years, there's been no check and balance on the billionaire balance of power.
00:11:46.000 It's felt completely out of whack.
00:11:49.000 I know a lot of you have been watching this and say, there's no way every billionaire believes what Klaus Schwab and what Bezos and what Bill Gates believes.
00:11:57.000 There's no way all of them are on this program.
00:11:59.000 And your gut instinct was right.
00:12:01.000 Is that all it takes is one or two or three to defect from this monolithic way of thinking and then do something about it.
00:12:10.000 Now, it's a big deal to do something about it.
00:12:12.000 So if you go to the world's wealthiest people, the list of the world's wealthiest people, there isn't a long list of people who could potentially come in and change the game in Twitter because not only does it take the resources, it takes the willingness.
00:12:26.000 And also, you have to be willing to basically upend the entire apple cart of what the regime wants.
00:12:31.000 So Bezos isn't going to do it, obviously.
00:12:33.000 He's too concerned with going to Mars.
00:12:36.000 I think he thinks there's a lower tax rate on Mars or whatever.
00:12:39.000 That's all he really cares about.
00:12:40.000 Zuckerberg isn't going to do it.
00:12:42.000 He's too worried about getting your children addicted to wearing goggles all day long in the metaverse.
00:12:46.000 The Google people aren't going to do it.
00:12:48.000 Larry Page or Sergey Brin, they're retired and too busy skiing or doing whatever they do.
00:12:53.000 And plus they must protect their own interests at Google so they can't do a power violation there.
00:12:58.000 The Louis Vuitton guy isn't going to do it.
00:13:00.000 He's bought by the European socialist elite and he can't upset that entire power dynamic.
00:13:06.000 So you go through the list of people, who is there really to do it?
00:13:11.000 And then the Walton family isn't going to do it, obviously, because way too intertwined with government contracts, really kind of left Elon.
00:13:19.000 And Elon is such an interesting story.
00:13:22.000 And whenever he has a success, he takes a bigger risk.
00:13:25.000 And look, there's plenty I could criticize Elon for, his work in China, some of the crony capitalist deals he's done.
00:13:33.000 But I'll be very honest, and I say this publicly.
00:13:35.000 I have a soft spot for entrepreneurs that are trying to make the world a better place.
00:13:38.000 I do.
00:13:39.000 And I don't think Elon wants to run the world.
00:13:41.000 I think it's a big difference.
00:13:42.000 I think Bill Gates wants to run the world.
00:13:44.000 I don't think Elon does.
00:13:46.000 I think Elon's an inventor.
00:13:47.000 He's an entrepreneur.
00:13:48.000 He's a risk taker.
00:13:50.000 And what you've seen today is one of the most admirable and bold and unexpected developments that I think we have seen in the last couple decades.
00:14:00.000 And dare I say, the last 50 or 60 years, of someone who was in the celebrity-protected Oscar invitational front row of the Grammys ruling class who comes down and says, I want to help you guys.
00:14:16.000 This isn't right.
00:14:18.000 Now, here's an important point.
00:14:21.000 Every noble cause requires a benefactor.
00:14:27.000 The American Patriots in the Revolution required the French government to come in with assistance.
00:14:32.000 Even the book of Luke and Acts in the Bible, the first thing that is said in the book of Acts is dear Theophilus, who was the underwriter, literally the benefactor that wrote most of the New Testament.
00:14:45.000 In fact, Luke and Acts together is more words than all of Paul's writing in the New Testament.
00:14:50.000 Good causes need benefactors.
00:14:53.000 And for the last couple years, I have felt, and many others, that we've had some amazing support, but nothing on the size or the scale of Elon.
00:15:01.000 I mean, we have some amazing supporters at Turning Point USA that keep us going and keep us growing.
00:15:06.000 But when we're up against Twitter and Facebook and Google and we're up against the World Economic Forum and we're up against Disney, we kind of put our hands up and say, how does one fight answer one defector and one person who decides to upset the billionaire balance of power?
00:15:22.000 And this noble cause, which is the fight for speech, the fight for freedom of expression, the fight for liberty, now all of a sudden the game has changed this morning.
00:15:33.000 And it's changed for a variety of reasons.
00:15:36.000 Because this is a rounding error for Elon Musk.
00:15:41.000 What is Elon Musk net worth as of today?
00:15:44.000 $267 billion.
00:15:47.000 So, for all of you keeping score at home, he has now deployed less than 1% of his net worth to take over Twitter.
00:15:55.000 Less than 1% of his net worth is all it took to take over Twitter.
00:16:01.000 And Elon's basically saying, want me to go to 2%?
00:16:05.000 3, 4?
00:16:07.000 So you go to the world's wealthiest people.
00:16:10.000 Bill Gates is too busy worried about trying to mandate vaccines for three months old.
00:16:17.000 Bezos is trying to go to Mars.
00:16:19.000 Bernard Arnold, the Louis Vuitton guy, is doing whatever he's doing.
00:16:22.000 And Elon says, I'll do 1%.
00:16:25.000 I think the everyday person who's being banned on Twitter, who's being suppressed by these maniacs, I think it's worth 1%.
00:16:32.000 And here's the thing.
00:16:33.000 He's not doing this to get wealthy.
00:16:35.000 Money obviously doesn't motivate him.
00:16:37.000 He sold all of his homes.
00:16:38.000 He rents.
00:16:39.000 He lives in like a pseudo-RV in rural Texas, right outside of Austin.
00:16:43.000 No, no, what motivates him is improving humanity.
00:16:48.000 And he understands that if you're not able to speak, then it doesn't matter if you got electric cars and you could put things in your brain and you got solar panels everywhere.
00:16:57.000 What good is all that?
00:16:59.000 And Elon is now recognizing all of his accomplishments in the other realm are irrelevant if people can't talk.
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00:18:29.000 So Elon Musk is now Twitter's largest shareholder.
00:18:34.000 Well, over 9% of the company is now owned by Elon Musk.
00:18:38.000 And now he has sent his first tweet.
00:18:40.000 Now that he basically controls the company, he says, oh, hi, LOL, on Twitter.
00:18:46.000 He says, quote, I'm worried about the de facto bias in the Twitter algorithm having a major effect on public discourse.
00:18:52.000 How do we know what's really happening?
00:18:54.000 Now, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, has responded rather in a weak form, I should say.
00:19:01.000 This was Elon Musk in a discussion with the Babylon B where he talks about wokeism.
00:19:07.000 He said, quote, at its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful.
00:19:12.000 It basically gives people more of a reason.
00:19:14.000 It gives them a shield to be mean, cruel, and armored in false virtue.
00:19:18.000 And remember, Babylon B got censored from Twitter and kicked off.
00:19:22.000 We got censored and kicked off.
00:19:24.000 Then Tucker Carlson definitely got the attention of Elon Musk.
00:19:29.000 Play cut too.
00:19:31.000 At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful.
00:19:40.000 It basically gives mean people a reason, it gives them a shield to be mean and cruel.
00:19:52.000 When's the last time you heard anyone with a net worth over $50 billion have the courage to say that?
00:19:57.000 Well, Elon Musk has so much money, he just doesn't care.
00:20:00.000 He has so much money that he's like, well, what are you going to do?
00:20:03.000 Bankrupt me?
00:20:04.000 Now, here's the interesting thing about the left that is losing their mind now that Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and there's a lot of leftists that are just scrambling and Elon Musk is too wealthy, too rich to cancel.
00:20:19.000 And here's something to think about, is that the very same leftists that are pushing for electric vehicles everywhere have only made Elon Musk more powerful.
00:20:31.000 The very same leftists, the very same Democrats that want subsidies for electric-run vehicles, they've created Elon Musk.
00:20:44.000 So the world's wealthiest people goes Elon Musk, Bezos, Bernardo Anault, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Gautam Adani, Indian billionaire, and then Mukash Ambani, another Indian billionaire, and then Steve Ballmer from Microsoft, and then Carlos Slim from Mexico.
00:21:04.000 Out of that list, no one's going to do anything consequential except Elon, and he has.
00:21:09.000 So he's speaking out and he's saying that wokeism is a mind virus.
00:21:13.000 This is why he's doing this.
00:21:15.000 He's deploying 1% of his net worth, not because he thinks he's going to get magically rich, but he's done some deep thinking.
00:21:21.000 He says, wait a second, if I'm really in the mission of trying to improve humanity, which he believes is through driverless cars and through electric vehicles and through Neuralink and through all of this, and I have plenty of problems with some of that stuff, trust me, especially Neuralink.
00:21:36.000 I think it's wrong and it's creepy and it's a violation of the human sovereignty, but whatever.
00:21:41.000 Elon is deciding, though, to use his resources in a moral and courageous way.
00:21:47.000 What is the point of being rich if you can't live in a free country?
00:21:53.000 What's the point of being fabulously wealthy over an unfree nation?
00:21:58.000 I personally would rather have $1 million and live in a totally free country versus $5 or $10 million and live in some sort of authoritarian regime and be in charge.
00:22:07.000 I think Elon is with me.
00:22:10.000 When you go to countries like Brazil, which is not exactly an unfree country, but it's not safe like America is.
00:22:16.000 It just isn't.
00:22:17.000 It's becoming safer, but the rich, they drive around in armored cars.
00:22:21.000 They're wealthy.
00:22:21.000 They control things, but they're not free.
00:22:23.000 I want to live in a country where my fellow countrymen is empowered to speak their mind first and foremost.
00:22:30.000 And Elon knows, and this is one of the reasons why I think he's a fan of the Babylon B, that one of the most effective ways to go after wokeism is comedy and freedom of speech.
00:22:41.000 So when the Babylon B got censored from Twitter, you could just start hearing the screaming from Menlo Park right now.
00:22:49.000 You hear that?
00:22:50.000 That is the screaming in the HR department of Twitter. 1.00
00:22:53.000 Why did we have to ban Babylon B, you stupid idiots? 1.00
00:22:57.000 You could have banned anybody, but you decided to ban the one Twitter account that Elon is now a fan of. 1.00
00:23:03.000 Now we work for this guy.
00:23:05.000 Cut 11, Elon continues. 0.76
00:23:07.000 Wokeism is a mind virus.
00:23:10.000 The world's wealthiest man says it's arguably one of the greatest threats to modern civilization.
00:23:15.000 Play Cut 11.
00:23:16.000 Working on some of those problems with the problem of wokeness specifically, you mentioned that's like a mind virus and it's destructive.
00:23:22.000 And why do you think wokeness is so destructive?
00:23:24.000 Like wokeness basically wants to make comedy illegal, which is not cool.
00:23:29.000 We've experienced that.
00:23:31.000 I mean, Chappelle, like what the?
00:23:33.000 Flowerbird.
00:23:34.000 I mean, try to shut down Chappelle.
00:23:36.000 Come on, man.
00:23:36.000 That's crazy.
00:23:38.000 It is a prevalent mind virus and arguably one of the biggest threats to monetarization.
00:23:45.000 One of the greatest threats to modern civilization.
00:23:49.000 So Elon had a choice to make.
00:23:51.000 He could be the wealthiest person ever, have electric vehicles everywhere, but not live in a free country.
00:23:59.000 Now, what's so interesting is that the media has helped create the mystique of Elon Musk.
00:24:05.000 Remember, 2021 person of the year, Elon Musk?
00:24:08.000 The richest man in the world does not own a house and has recently been selling off his fortune.
00:24:12.000 He tosses satellites into orbit and harnesses the sun.
00:24:15.000 He drives a car he created that uses no gas and barely needs a driver.
00:24:18.000 With the flick of a finger, the stock market soars or swoons.
00:24:21.000 An army of devotees hang on his every utterance.
00:24:25.000 He dreams of Mars and bestrides Earth, square-jawed and indomitable.
00:24:29.000 Lately, Elon Musk also likes to live tweet his poops.
00:24:32.000 Is that Time magazine?
00:24:34.000 Time magazine Man of the Year, 2021, Elon Musk.
00:24:38.000 Now, here's another interesting part of this, is that Elon taking over Twitter, Elon challenging all these orthodoxies, he's now keeping the elites guessing.
00:24:49.000 What is he going to do next?
00:24:51.000 What's the next company he's going to take over?
00:24:56.000 Because he just doesn't like what they're doing.
00:24:58.000 What failing or floundering, irrelevant CNN?
00:25:02.000 Is Elon going to just buy CNN for sport and turn it into a museum of what used to be?
00:25:08.000 He could.
00:25:10.000 Is Elon going to just buy MSNBC?
00:25:13.000 He's richer than all of them.
00:25:13.000 He could.
00:25:15.000 Buy Disney?
00:25:16.000 That might be a little bit out of his grasp.
00:25:17.000 It's a $250 billion company.
00:25:20.000 But he could buy 10% of it, $25 billion.
00:25:23.000 He could buy a controlling stake of Disney.
00:25:26.000 You see, what Elon has done is he is now striking paranoia in the minds of the otherwise unchallenged ruling class.
00:25:36.000 He's restoring balance in the force.
00:25:38.000 He is restoring equilibrium to the land of the insane.
00:25:42.000 And only he could do that.
00:25:45.000 Only him.
00:25:46.000 Only him.
00:25:47.000 There's no other person, just the numbers-wise, who could dedicate 1% of their net worth and be the largest shareholder of Twitter.
00:25:53.000 It's impossible.
00:25:54.000 The numbers don't work.
00:25:56.000 And this all happened in the last 24 hours.
00:25:58.000 Elon bought his shares of Twitter today.
00:26:01.000 It was made public in an SEC filing.
00:26:03.000 It was done.
00:26:05.000 PlayCut 18.
00:26:06.000 This is how Elon Musk spends his time.
00:26:08.000 PlayCut 18.
00:26:10.000 You've got your finger in so many different advanced technologies.
00:26:13.000 As I said, SpaceX, Tesla, now you've got Solar City and the Solar Pack that people put in their houses.
00:26:23.000 Are you sincerely trying to save the world?
00:26:27.000 Well, I'm trying to do good things.
00:26:29.000 Yeah.
00:26:29.000 I mean, saving the world is not.
00:26:32.000 But you're trying to do good things and you're a billionaire.
00:26:35.000 I mean, that's.
00:26:37.000 Stephen Colbert interviewing him.
00:26:41.000 So Elon getting involved in Twitter is a glitch in the regime's matrix.
00:26:53.000 Understand that BlackRock, who controls all these companies, they don't own 100% of these woke companies.
00:27:00.000 They often own 9%.
00:27:04.000 And what it takes for us in the trenches to win is we need some air support.
00:27:11.000 And that's exactly what Elon is delivering us.
00:27:15.000 Now, the response is going to be scripted and predictable.
00:27:19.000 People are going to say that Elon is going to turn Twitter into a place of hate speech.
00:27:25.000 And it's not what it used to be.
00:27:29.000 But we know what's really going on here.
00:27:31.000 We know that if it wasn't for Elon's involvement in this company, there would be no check and balance.
00:27:42.000 So we have checks and balances in government, or at least we're supposed to, fair and free elections.
00:27:47.000 What's the check and balance in corporate America?
00:27:50.000 Well, the check and balance is increasingly not being able to start a competitor.
00:27:55.000 The way you start a competitor is you encourage the billionaires not to do this for business purposes, but for moral reasons.
00:28:07.000 I want to reiterate that.
00:28:08.000 Elon is not doing this to make money.
00:28:11.000 Twitter is a failing company.
00:28:13.000 This is a hobby, and dare I say, a moral crusade for Elon Musk.
00:28:21.000 Someone says, okay, Charlie, Elon owns a big chunk of Twitter.
00:28:25.000 Why spend so much time on this?
00:28:28.000 Well, I mean, it's very obvious.
00:28:31.000 This is the first defection from the ruling class that we have seen to substantially try and rebalance the corporate hierarchy in the fight for freedom of speech in my lifetime.
00:28:47.000 This is the world's wealthiest man who's deciding that your concerns actually matter.
00:28:53.000 This is the world's wealthiest man who's deciding that freedom of speech online is just as important as freedom of speech with the poster board in front of your state capitol.
00:29:02.000 And I believe this is going to start a movement of other billionaires doing the same in lesser increments, smaller increments, I should say.
00:29:10.000 Courage begets courage.
00:29:14.000 It's going to take not just the everyday people rising up, but it's going to take some people with some significant resources to start to challenge this garbage that we are seeing. 0.92
00:29:24.000 And if nothing else, just be neutral and take over these companies and take them away from the woke, tyrannical garbage that is plaguing our society.
00:29:35.000 I think it's very admirable for someone that has more money than any other person ever to exist in the history of the world, not just to spend it on themselves, but to help us out.
00:29:46.000 I'm banned from Twitter.
00:29:47.000 This is a direct help to those of us that are trying to speak freely and reach millions of people.
00:29:53.000 Elon is now the largest shareholder.
00:29:55.000 He can combine his voting stake with others.
00:29:57.000 We'll see what he'll be able to get done.
00:29:59.000 Elon can buy more if necessary, and he might.
00:29:59.000 And guess what?
00:30:04.000 Hey, everybody, I want you to imagine, look how unpopular Joe Biden is now.
00:30:08.000 What do you think his approval rating would be if we had a free Twitter?
00:30:11.000 What do you think that, how do you think people would vote in November if we had free and open social media platforms?
00:30:17.000 It's a real question.
00:30:19.000 I want to explore that with you.
00:30:21.000 Yeah, Joe Biden wouldn't be president.
00:30:23.000 I think Elon knows that too.
00:30:25.000 I think Elon, at a fundamental level, knows that he has a moral obligation to do this.
00:30:32.000 Finally, someone with power is stepping up.
00:30:35.000 The current regime is so dependent right now on censorship.
00:30:41.000 Their entire power structure, the equation on how they're able to rule, is based on their ability to shut up voices like mine, shut up voices like Tucker Carlson, shut up voices that dare question their decisions.
00:30:58.000 So this is bigger than just Elon helping out the commoner.
00:31:02.000 This is bigger than an elite defecting.
00:31:04.000 This is bigger than a person of power finally getting into the game.
00:31:07.000 All of that is awesome, and all of that is good.
00:31:09.000 And again, I'm making no judgments on Elon's business activities.
00:31:13.000 I think some of what he's doing is fine.
00:31:14.000 Some of it's pretty cool.
00:31:16.000 Some of it is morally questionable.
00:31:18.000 We can sort that out at a different time.
00:31:20.000 It's completely irrelevant.
00:31:21.000 What's relevant is what is he doing with the fruits of that activity?
00:31:27.000 What is he doing with the fruits of that activity?
00:31:29.000 He's getting in the game and he's starting to fight for something good.
00:31:32.000 That is worthy of praise.
00:31:33.000 It's worthy of public and repeated praise because he doesn't have to be doing this.
00:31:39.000 When people are doing something they don't have to do, that is something that is good for humanity.
00:31:45.000 It takes pause and focusing on that.
00:31:48.000 But understand that.
00:31:49.000 Let's play this out.
00:31:50.000 If Musk is able to get a free Twitter ahead of the midterms, if Musk is able to rebuild Twitter for what it was, I mean, you're talking about if you think that they have come after Musk before, I guarantee you this.
00:32:08.000 You can mark this down.
00:32:09.000 You'll be able to play this tape back just with my fertilizer prediction and many other things, which is they are going to call for the suspension of government contracts with SpaceX.
00:32:20.000 I guarantee it.
00:32:22.000 Democrats will say, you keep this up on Twitter.
00:32:25.000 You're not going to be able to have government contracts with SpaceX now.
00:32:28.000 Elon Musk will say, so what?
00:32:30.000 I'll just do it anyway.
00:32:32.000 I think he's so innovative, so visionary, so smart, so creative.
00:32:36.000 I think he'll be able to do it no matter what.
00:32:39.000 But you have to understand that if you under, and I've listened to a lot of Elon and I've studied him for a while.
00:32:45.000 By no means an expert, but I've probably listened over 200 hours of his interviews, and I have a pretty good idea kind of how he views the world.
00:32:51.000 He believes through all these different kinds of pieces, the solar panels, the electric vehicles, the Neuralink, the boring company, that all of these will kind of work in harmony to try to improve humanity.
00:33:03.000 I think that's overly simplistic, idealistic, somewhat dangerous at times, but that's the way he views the world.
00:33:09.000 But he's justifying this now 1% asset transfer to take over Twitter as none of that will matter.
00:33:17.000 The electric vehicles, the solar panels, the boring company underneath the surface, all of that will be irrelevant if millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people are not able to speak their mind.
00:33:30.000 If creativity is stunted, if people are not able to communicate the way they want, if comedy is dead, then what good are all of those engineering and mechanical breakthroughs if we are actually becoming less free and digressing, or should I say, regressing on the other side?
00:33:53.000 I think Elon wants to leave a positive legacy.
00:33:57.000 I think Elon realizes that speech is a first freedom, that we are the speaking beings.
00:34:03.000 And if you cannot speak freely online, then it puts the entire program at risk.
00:34:10.000 Keep your eye on this story.
00:34:12.000 This is going to develop for days, months, and years to come.
00:34:16.000 You'll remember this day in this story.
00:34:18.000 It's that big of a deal.
00:34:19.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
00:34:20.000 Email us your thoughts as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:34:23.000 Thanks so much for listening.
00:34:24.000 God bless.
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