The Charlie Kirk Show - Exposing Mark Zuckerberg's Backdoor Plot to Censor Conservatives

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, what does it mean when a company wants to be regulated?

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00:02:01.000 I was watching television yesterday and I saw an advertisement five or six times from Facebook.

00:02:12.000 And I don't watch a lot of TV.

00:02:14.000 I really don't.

00:02:15.000 And I was just doing some work and it was kind of up there.

00:02:19.000 And the advertisement wasn't go use Facebook.

00:02:22.000 The advertisement was go use WhatsApp.

00:02:26.000 The advertisement was learn how Facebook wants more regulation for the internet.

00:02:31.000 Now, all of this is happening in a time where people are starting to realize that technology is actually harming our ability to be fully human.

00:02:46.000 Where we are seeing young girls develop ticks because they're on TikTok too much.

00:02:51.000 That's a real thing.

00:02:52.000 Where we are seeing how people being addicted to their smartphones is a very unhealthy thing.

00:03:00.000 I've said this before.

00:03:01.000 I turn off my phone every night, every Friday night for 25 hours.

00:03:05.000 I do a pretty good job of that, don't I, Connor?

00:03:06.000 I just go radio silent.

00:03:08.000 I check my phone once or twice.

00:03:09.000 It's kind of my Sabbath equivalent.

00:03:12.000 And it's awesome.

00:03:13.000 I get away from my phone, away from all the nonsense, the dinging, the binging, the bells, whatever.

00:03:18.000 And so let's just kind of take a step back.

00:03:20.000 Where were we a month ago?

00:03:22.000 A month ago, we had Facebook on the ropes because of all these leaked Facebook files.

00:03:30.000 There's more Facebook files that are coming out.

00:03:33.000 And we and Turning Point USA, we are mentioned within these Facebook files.

00:03:38.000 We'll get to that in a second.

00:03:41.000 And then we go even deeper into that.

00:03:46.000 We now are seeing a disturbing trend of Facebook and the tech industry being somewhat in the orbit of a push to regulate these companies.

00:04:01.000 And the big kind of psychological op, the big press op, if you will, where it feels as if the entire thing was concocted was the story with Francis Hagen.

00:04:16.000 who testifies in front of Congress.

00:04:17.000 And anyone that has been in this world for even a little bit realized the whole thing seems so fake.

00:04:24.000 It was so artificial.

00:04:26.000 It was so concocted.

00:04:27.000 It was so simulation almost.

00:04:32.000 It was theater.

00:04:34.000 It wasn't as if it was a real whistleblower.

00:04:37.000 And notice the whole thing, it wasn't about how Facebook needs to be broken into pieces.

00:04:42.000 It's that, no, we need more government legislation to try to control what Facebook is doing.

00:04:48.000 And so then new details are showing that the whistleblower, Francis Haugen or Hagen, is actually being funded by the CEO of eBay.

00:05:02.000 That the Facebook whistleblower is funded by the billionaire founder of eBay from PR to legal aid.

00:05:11.000 So his name is Pierre Omendiar, a well-known critic of big tech whose previous advocacy efforts have supported independent journalism and anti-monopoly campaigns and employee activism.

00:05:23.000 And he donated $150,000 to Whistleblower Aid last year, the same nonprofit responsible for her legal representation.

00:05:33.000 And notice what she's advocating for.

00:05:36.000 She's not advocating for a breakup of tech or how technology is making young people have serious health issues and destroying our capacity to communicate.

00:05:48.000 No, what she's advocating for is a new government agency that will police speech, that will criminalize other ideas. 1.00

00:05:58.000 And so the Facebook files continued to come out.

00:06:02.000 And the Facebook files are part, is she the one leaking them?

00:06:07.000 I don't quite know.

00:06:07.000 That's what's so strange about this.

00:06:11.000 But a new one that we are involved in, and I don't know, the Washington Post, for example, this article just posted by Sarah Ellison.

00:06:20.000 We've been knowing this story was going to come out for a while.

00:06:23.000 Facebook allowed conservative outlets to spread misinformation.

00:06:26.000 And we're mentioned in this, alongside Prager University, Diamond and Silk.

00:06:32.000 And basically, what was happening is that Facebook employees were complaining to the CEO of Facebook, get rid of Charlie Kirk, get rid of PragerU, get rid of Turning Point USA because we don't like the ideas that they are spreading.

00:06:46.000 And so then you take a step back.

00:06:47.000 You have all this kind of happening at once.

00:06:49.000 You have the selective leaks of these documents that are showing that the CEO, Zuckerberg, and his team were not wanting to overly censor conservatives for misinformation.

00:07:01.000 But that's like a false framing.

00:07:03.000 We had our Facebook page demonetized.

00:07:05.000 We've had our posts suppressed.

00:07:07.000 We've seen our engagement go down dramatically.

00:07:10.000 So we've already experienced that.

00:07:11.000 And so it's a complete false framing.

00:07:14.000 And then you have this fake whistleblower come out and demand that Facebook is a company that needs more regulation.

00:07:21.000 And then all of a sudden you see it all come together.

00:07:23.000 Facebook realizes that they are seeing a trend, a very quick trend, where the winds of the nation are going to want to regulate them.

00:07:38.000 And so Facebook is doing the thing that is in their best interest, not the best interest for the country, where they're saying, okay, we are going to then demand regulation that benefits us.

00:07:49.000 Whenever you see a big company asking to be regulated, don't regulate them that way.

00:07:58.000 When you see a big company like Facebook running advertisements on cable television saying, we stand for Section 230 reform.

00:08:07.000 We stand for regulatory reform.

00:08:10.000 What they're really asking for is a set of laws that will make truth social, that will make rumble and make their success more difficult.

00:08:23.000 It'll make it harder for those companies to succeed.

00:08:26.000 Listen to this advertisement that Facebook is running on TV nonstop.

00:08:30.000 Play Cut 46.

00:08:32.000 I've been with Facebook for almost three years now.

00:08:36.000 I'm originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I'm on the Facebook content team.

00:08:41.000 You have a lot of topics that you cover a wide range.

00:08:45.000 What would you say is the most challenging about your job?

00:08:48.000 It's tough.

00:08:49.000 We make a lot of difficult decisions.

00:08:51.000 We work in the spectrum of freedom of expression versus content moderation and constantly trying to figure out where on that spectrum we should land.

00:09:02.000 I don't know if that is right to have a private corporation like Facebook dictating what those boundaries are.

00:09:08.000 And I think that with the right adjustments made to Section 230 and improved regulation, Facebook and the broader industry can receive better guidance in where on that spectrum we should be.

00:09:23.000 Huh.

00:09:24.000 I want you to think deeply about that for a second.

00:09:27.000 That's Facebook running an advertisement saying that Facebook is not positioned to do the regulating.

00:09:34.000 It's that Facebook wants a new government agency to do the regulating.

00:09:40.000 Why would they be running an advertisement like that?

00:09:43.000 They want to run an advertisement like that because if a new federal agency to police speech was created, they get two big wins out of that.

00:09:52.000 Number one, they can no longer be blamed for what they censor and do not censor on their platform because they're tired of this.

00:09:58.000 They're getting exhausted with doing it.

00:10:00.000 They've tried this third-party fact-checker thing.

00:10:03.000 They want to outsource the censorship so they could wash their hands clean of it.

00:10:06.000 But the second thing is their real motivation.

00:10:10.000 They want to add on hundreds of millions of dollars of regulatory compliance to make it impossible to start a new social media company, to make the cost to start up and to compete against Facebook nearly and totally impossible.

00:10:25.000 Facebook is using this sort of propaganda campaign.

00:10:28.000 Please regulate us.

00:10:29.000 Please, please, can you please write?

00:10:31.000 They don't want to get regulated.

00:10:32.000 They want to wash their hands of the actual intervention of picking winners and losers. 0.94

00:10:38.000 So if you have this new federal agency that then polices speech on social media, then you're going to see all of a sudden when someone gets kicked off social media, when Trump gets kicked off social media, Facebook doesn't have to have some sort of stupid board or go, they're saying, oh, no, no, it wasn't us. 0.92

00:10:54.000 It's go blame the government. 0.99

00:10:55.000 And of course, there's no right of redress or grievance against that.

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00:12:05.000 The Washington Post writes, the new cache of internal Facebook documents provide more insight into that dynamic.

00:12:11.000 Some memos include assertions by Facebook staffers that when conservative publishers engaged in behavior that ran afoul of Facebook rules, the company often let them off the hook.

00:12:20.000 Quote, a fear of political backlash was a contributing factor in decisions made not to have conservative publishers like Breitbart or Prague or conservative personalities like Charlie Kirk and Diamond and Silk deemed repeat offenders for promoting misinformation, a designation that is supposed to cause a temporary block on ads.

00:12:35.000 By the way, we did, just so we're clear, we lost access to monetization on Facebook and we were suppressed for an entire quarter, for 90 days.

00:12:44.000 This idea that we haven't been suppressed.

00:12:47.000 Another conservative outlet that a Daily Wire, the staffer wrote, quote, seemed to have been consistently exempted from punishment for running afoul of Facebook rules against collaboration with other groups to echo and amplify falsehoods.

00:12:57.000 The documents did not outline what specific violations had allegedly occurred.

00:13:01.000 Referring to Diamond and Silk, the two passionately pro-Trump video bloggers, the Facebook document noted the duo, quote, is extremely sensitive and has not hesitated going public about their concerns around alleged conservative bias on Facebook.

00:13:13.000 A 2020 NBC News story reported that Facebook managers intervened to remove strikes from their internal records for Diamond and Silk, allowing them to avoid repeat offender status.

00:13:26.000 We responded, a spokesman for Kirk maintained the prominent conservatives are, quote, routinely targeted by Facebook and unfairly labeled as misinformation.

00:13:33.000 Any exceptions must have been made only after gross bias has already been demonstrated.

00:13:37.000 And I completely agree with that because that's what we said.

00:13:41.000 That's our story and we're sticking with it.

00:13:43.000 Far from receiving special or favorable treatment, the experience for conservatives like Charlie Kirk has been the exact opposite.

00:13:48.000 Full quote.

00:13:48.000 This is what we said.

00:13:49.000 Fact checkers routinely target prominent conservatives, flagging posts based on technicality, uncharitable interpretations, obvious jokes, or peer opinion labeled as misinformation.

00:13:59.000 Any exceptions must have been made after gross bias has already been demonstrated by third-party fact checkers.

00:14:05.000 So understand what's really going on here.

00:14:07.000 What's going on here is these leaks in conjunction with Haagen-Doss and in conjunction with Facebook running ads is this, okay, these conservatives out of control.

00:14:17.000 They're the ones that are stowing the anti-vaccine stuff.

00:14:21.000 They're the ones that are doing the anti-mask stuff.

00:14:23.000 And Facebook is like, okay, we are no longer to be able to police our own.

00:14:27.000 Facebook is saying we can't do this.

00:14:28.000 If you guys want to shut up Charlie Kirk so badly, go pass a law and do that.

00:14:33.000 And that's where this is headed.

00:14:35.000 This is heading for Congress.

00:14:36.000 And by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if you're going to see states like New York or California start to put some sort of beginning stages, if you will, of censorship boards in their states.

00:14:50.000 Cut 47, Facebook is running this as an advertisement.

00:14:54.000 Privacy on Facebook and legislation associated with it.

00:14:56.000 Play Cut 47.

00:14:58.000 My name is Rochelle, and I'm on the Facebook privacy team.

00:15:02.000 Tell me a little bit about your job.

00:15:04.000 What does it entail?

00:15:05.000 I actually help people understand their privacy because it means different things to different people.

00:15:09.000 You should be able to understand who has your data and how they use it.

00:15:14.000 Federal legislation can give our platforms and other platforms guidelines so we can have a consistent approach.

00:15:22.000 Asking for federal regulation.

00:15:24.000 Any big business that wants to be regulated, they have many different motives.

00:15:31.000 I could tell you this.

00:15:32.000 You don't find an entrepreneur or a small businessman.

00:15:35.000 He says, you know what?

00:15:36.000 You know what we need?

00:15:37.000 We need more federal regulation on our business.

00:15:39.000 No, you only want federal regulation when you have the following: a powerful incumbency, a steady stream of profit, and a problem that you want to go away.

00:15:51.000 Those are the three things.

00:15:52.000 So, Facebook is making billions of dollars in profit.

00:15:55.000 We know that.

00:15:57.000 Facebook has hundreds of millions of users.

00:15:59.000 We know that.

00:16:00.000 And Facebook doesn't want to compete.

00:16:03.000 You see, regulation is a deterrent to competition.

00:16:08.000 So, instead of trying to compete against Rumble, which just acquired locals.com today, by the way, R-U-M-B-L-E.com, instead of competing in the marketplace of social media apps, Facebook is now running these advertisements.

00:16:20.000 What federal guidelines can do can help us out.

00:16:24.000 Really?

00:16:24.000 That's the motivation here.

00:16:25.000 Are people falling for this?

00:16:28.000 This is the same thing that is if Amazon was coming out and they say, you know what we need to do?

00:16:32.000 We need more regulation around package delivery.

00:16:36.000 The same sort of thing when Google comes out, they say, We need more regulation around search engine optimization.

00:16:42.000 Same sort of thing if Netflix came out and they said, We need more regulation around content streaming.

00:16:48.000 The best example of this, though, is when the big banks came out and supported Dodd-Frank.

00:16:56.000 Barney Frank, was it Chris Dodd?

00:16:58.000 I think it was Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.

00:17:02.000 We're going to go back into a chapter and a period of American history that many young people listening to this program are not well versed in.

00:17:10.000 The 2008 financial crisis.

00:17:13.000 What caused it?

00:17:14.000 What led to it?

00:17:16.000 And what happened afterwards was one of the greatest handouts to the American financial sector in history.

00:17:22.000 A piece of legislation designed by and for the banks that crushed mid-level banks.

00:17:29.000 Internet privacy is extremely important.

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00:19:23.000 When a company is asking for regulation, take pause.

00:19:27.000 When a company wants to be regulated, you must ask why.

00:19:31.000 Well, in 2008, we all experienced, well, some of you actually were very young in 2008, a financial crisis.

00:19:38.000 The 2008 financial crisis changed our life.

00:19:42.000 Actually, not as much, but close to as much as the Chinese corona Fauci virus.

00:19:49.000 The 2008 financial crisis was because of a lot of different factors.

00:19:56.000 Washington, D.C.'s cheap money policies, Alan Greenspan lowering interest rates and keeping them low after 9-11.

00:20:03.000 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a completely immoral and unregulated way giving out low-interest loans to people that did not have the credit scores to back them, looping these loans all together into packages that then could be traded as derivatives on the market, otherwise known as credit default swaps, which was something that was highly, highly controversial.

00:20:33.000 Also, we saw after 1999, because of the repeal of Glass-Steagall, the merging of commercial banks and investment banks together, which further incentivized banks to get more involved in very risky lending and lending practices.

00:20:56.000 So you put all this together alongside the very obvious and important government intervention of Wall Street getting drunk off of the liquor that Washington provided.

00:21:10.000 You ask yourself the question, what happened after that?

00:21:14.000 Well, after that, we saw a massive push by Chris Dodd, who's now a lobbyist, and Bonnie Fank from Massachusetts.

00:21:24.000 If you don't know who Barney Frank is, you missed a wonderful chapter in American politics.

00:21:29.000 I shouldn't say wonderful.

00:21:31.000 You think America was in a bad place now?

00:21:33.000 People were really down in 2009, 2010.

00:21:37.000 The economy was in the gutter.

00:21:40.000 We're in a much worse position now, but it felt bad back then.

00:21:45.000 And so Barney Frank from Massachusetts came out with a massive regulatory package.

00:21:51.000 The regulatory package that he recommended was, it became the bill Dodd-Frank.

00:21:58.000 Dodd-Frank had basically pushed thousands of pages of additional regulation on banks, which ended up actually harming small and local and community banks far more than JPMorgan and Wells Fargo.

00:22:14.000 So community bank share of U.S. banking assets and lending market fell from 40% in 1994 to around 20% today.

00:22:25.000 You want to know why we are being ruled by the tyranny of JPMorgan, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs have been the death of the community bank.

00:22:32.000 Although this is misleading at best, a very likely and accurate number considering Dodd-Frank was implemented 16 years later than 1994.

00:22:40.000 Even in addition to that, small banks have been forced to end some businesses such as mortgages and car loans in response to all these new regulations.

00:22:49.000 The size of regulatory compliance teams have grown, but the big companies, they are able to factor into their budgets.

00:22:58.000 They're able to factor into their multi-billion dollar operating costs.

00:23:03.000 Yeah, we'll spend an extra 20 million on legal.

00:23:07.000 We'll spend an extra 50 million on compliance.

00:23:09.000 Not a big deal.

00:23:11.000 But if you're the local community bank here in Boise, you don't have $50 million to comply with Dodd-Frank, the FDIC, and all of the additional regulation that comes onto this.

00:23:23.000 And so what has happened to JPMorgan's stock since 2008?

00:23:28.000 Well, December 19th, 2008, JPMorgan stock was $30.32 a share.

00:23:34.000 13 years later, it is at $171 a share.

00:23:40.000 They are more valuable than ever before.

00:23:43.000 What is the market cap of JPMorgan Chase?

00:23:46.000 Well, the total capitalization, again, back in 2008, they were about five and a half times smaller.

00:23:55.000 The market cap of JPMorgan Chase is now $512 billion.

00:24:01.000 Let me say that again.

00:24:02.000 $512 billion.

00:24:06.000 JPMorgan has benefited from the PPP loans, benefited from the cheap money that comes from the quantitative easing of the Federal Reserve, the low price of money, the seeming infinite amount of dollar bills that we have.

00:24:22.000 But also any competitor that might go up against JPMorgan, they are going to have to navigate the thicket, the jungle to traverse the side of the wasteland that is the infinite pile of government and federal regulation.

00:24:38.000 What happens when JPMorgan Chase is found violating federal banking law?

00:24:44.000 They pay a fine.

00:24:46.000 What happens when Wells Fargo is found to be, has to break federal regulations?

00:24:55.000 I'll give you an example.

00:24:57.000 Wells Fargo was fined $250 million by federal regulators, while it says a separate 2016 CFPB consent order has expired.

00:25:08.000 These banks don't ever actually go to jail.

00:25:10.000 None of the executives go to jail.

00:25:12.000 They don't get investigated criminally.

00:25:13.000 They just pay a fine and they move on.

00:25:15.000 Wells Fargo was hit with a $250 million fine levied by the OCC related to its mortgage business.

00:25:21.000 This was actually from last month, the Office of Comptroller and of Currency.

00:25:25.000 JPMorgan, anytime they do anything wrong, how about this?

00:25:29.000 JPMorgan, this is from last year, to pay $1 billion fine to resolve U.S. investigation into trading practices.

00:25:37.000 $1 billion fine.

00:25:39.000 Now, I guarantee you that there could have been a criminal nature to that.

00:25:42.000 But for them, that's a rounding year.

00:25:43.000 They're $512 billion company, and they probably put it over 10 years.

00:25:49.000 Total assets in JPMorgan Chase, well over $3.68 trillion JPMorgan has under assets.

00:25:56.000 So now you have a very similar type institution.

00:25:59.000 Facebook is the big bank equivalent of the tech companies.

00:26:03.000 Facebook is going through a 2008 financial crisis equivalent of whistleblowers and tech backlash.

00:26:10.000 People hated the big banks in 2008 and 2009 for good reason.

00:26:14.000 These banks were reckless, and it wasn't just the banks.

00:26:16.000 It was Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

00:26:17.000 It was the FDIC.

00:26:19.000 It was Ben Bernanke.

00:26:20.000 It was Timothy Geithner.

00:26:22.000 It was Hank Paulson, who used to run Goldman Sachs.

00:26:25.000 This happens to be a chapter in American history I know very well.

00:26:27.000 I've studied it very closely.

00:26:29.000 I don't talk about it much anymore because we have other issues.

00:26:32.000 Go look at the biggest companies in America right now.

00:26:35.000 You go look at the ones where it seems as if you can never compete against them.

00:26:39.000 Many of them, if not all of them, benefit tremendously from a series and a set of federal regulators that have an inside-out relationship with them.

00:26:47.000 Look at Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson ⁇ Johnson, and BioInTech.

00:26:52.000 There's an inside-out relationship.

00:26:53.000 You go work for the CDC, then you get to go work for Pfizer.

00:26:57.000 Or how about Scott Gottlieb?

00:26:59.000 Scott, what was Gottlieb's title?

00:27:00.000 He was the head of NIH or something?

00:27:03.000 FDA.

00:27:04.000 I think it was FDA.

00:27:05.000 Scott Gottlieb runs FDA, then he goes and works for Pfizer, vice versa.

00:27:09.000 These companies are not going to actually be targeted for anything they do wrong.

00:27:13.000 No, the incentive structure is to keep the carousel of handouts continuing.

00:27:21.000 And so now Facebook is running propaganda campaign ads saying, please regulate us.

00:27:26.000 Please create a new body of regulators that we have to succumb to.

00:27:30.000 No, Facebook will call the shots in those regulations.

00:27:32.000 Here's why.

00:27:34.000 Is that whoever runs the, let's just pretend, for example.

00:27:36.000 So we have a Federal Communications Corporation, FCC.

00:27:39.000 Is that what it is?

00:27:40.000 Federal Communications Corporation, Commission?

00:27:42.000 I think it's the Commission.

00:27:43.000 The FCC, by the way, regulates everything we say on radio.

00:27:46.000 We have to literally fill out these forms of what we talk about.

00:27:49.000 The Federal Communications Commission, FCC.

00:27:52.000 Every single aspect of American life has some sort of regulatory body over it.

00:27:57.000 The Internal Revenue Service for tax policy, the Employment Prevention Agency, otherwise known as the Environmental Protection Agency for your EPM, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, ATF when it comes to firearms, whatever you want to talk about, you could put it all together, right?

00:28:12.000 So then you have, let's say that there was a new Federal Internet Regulatory Committee, FERC.

00:28:18.000 The Federal Internet Regulatory Committee.

00:28:21.000 FERC.

00:28:22.000 Let's just say, I could just see it kind of created now.

00:28:26.000 Well, let me ask you a question.

00:28:28.000 The person who runs FERC, do you think that person is going to want a job with Facebook after they're done?

00:28:34.000 Of course.

00:28:35.000 It will be the same inside-out relationship that we see at the FDA, the CDC, and the NIH.

00:28:40.000 Oh, we already have the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

00:28:43.000 That's FERC.

00:28:45.000 Oh, we're going to have to have a new one then.

00:28:46.000 How about the Federal Internet Responsibility Coalition for Global Change?

00:28:51.000 FERC.

00:28:53.000 Whatever.

00:28:54.000 Or the Federal Organization for a Better Internet.

00:28:59.000 FIBL.

00:29:00.000 Phobe.

00:29:01.000 Phobie.

00:29:01.000 Federal Organization for a Better Internet.

00:29:03.000 Phobe.

00:29:04.000 Okay.

00:29:04.000 You think I'm joking?

00:29:05.000 This is what these animals, you know, these maniacs think about all day long.

00:29:09.000 Phobie, the federal organization for a better internet.

00:29:13.000 Phobie.

00:29:14.000 Do you think the person who runs Phobie is going to want a job with Facebook and Google afterwards?

00:29:21.000 Of course.

00:29:21.000 So Facebook is now saying, okay, there will be.

00:29:25.000 In fact, we want to be at the initial, we want to be at the ground level.

00:29:30.000 FACABI, is that the one?

00:29:32.000 The Federal Commission for a Better Internet?

00:29:33.000 Okay. 1.00

00:29:34.000 Fikababi.

00:29:36.000 Fikababi.

00:29:37.000 Fikafabi.

00:29:40.000 We're making these up, by the way, just so you're clear.

00:29:42.000 This is us just spitballing.

00:29:44.000 This is the beauty of podcasting.

00:29:45.000 You get to do things like this.

00:29:46.000 But when the Federal Commission for a Better Internet gets proposed by Kirsten Gillibrand, or when the Federal Commission for a Better Internet gets proposed by Elizabeth Warren, Facebook is making a very smart decision for their own interests and for their stockholders, their shareholders, and for Zuckerberg.

00:30:01.000 They don't want to be caught by surprise.

00:30:02.000 They don't want to seem adversarial to this new regulatory body.

00:30:06.000 They want to help build it.

00:30:08.000 They want to build the very leviathan that is going to come after them when in reality will work in harmony with them.

00:30:14.000 When in reality, we'll just be an extension of their own operation.

00:30:18.000 The same way the SEC is an extension of the hedge funds.

00:30:22.000 The same way the FDIC is an extension of the Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan.

00:30:28.000 And Facebook realizes that the winds of change are going in the direction of federally regulated the internet.

00:30:37.000 And instead of fighting it, they want to control it.

00:30:40.000 And that's what's behind this entire propaganda campaign.

00:30:46.000 The Social Security Administration's computers are 45 years old.

00:30:50.000 Computer servers at Health and Human Services are 50.

00:30:53.000 Charlie Kirk here, maybe that's how cyber criminals hack the U.S. Censor Bureau's computers when everything about you is stored.

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00:31:51.000 How many times have you heard that conservatives need to take back the culture?

00:31:56.000 Well, I could tell you what, if your name is Brandon, you're listening to this, everywhere you go, people are cheering for you.

00:32:04.000 I grew up with a couple of Brandons.

00:32:06.000 I'm sure they're loving this.

00:32:08.000 Let's go Brandon, everybody.

00:32:10.000 And so all of a sudden, we now have rap artists and people that are coming out that are creating songs called Let's Go Brandon, including Bryson Gray, who I think actually came to one of our events a couple of years ago with the Big MAGA hat.

00:32:29.000 That was him, right?

00:32:30.000 And he's an ambassador for Turning Point USA.

00:32:32.000 I think they took down the song, didn't they?

00:32:36.000 YouTube took it down because he said something he wasn't supposed to say.

00:32:41.000 Well, now this is growing great steam.

00:32:43.000 And with Great Stream, I have to tell you, this is one of the most delicious news stories to see very serious people that take themselves very seriously try to report on the Let's Go Brandon story from Washington Post to Slate.

00:32:58.000 My favorite new, and by the way, it's amazing how many people on the left don't even know what's happening with the Let's Go Brandon thing.

00:33:04.000 So Slate.com, the story behind the Let's Go Brandon, the secretly vulgar chant suddenly beloved by Republicans.

00:33:11.000 Oh, you guys are worried about the sudden decline of American vulgarity.

00:33:15.000 Got it.

00:33:16.000 Somehow you guys are trying to say that we need to be pious and we need to be reserved and not swear.

00:33:21.000 Meanwhile, you guys have Drag Queen Story Hour being put on Nickelodeon and absolute pornographic curriculum being put into children's school.

00:33:29.000 But no, no, that's right.

00:33:30.000 It's a vulgar phrase.

00:33:32.000 Well, let's go Brandon.

00:33:33.000 There's nothing vulgar about that.

00:33:34.000 And the FCC, you guys can't come after me for saying, let's go, Brandon.

00:33:38.000 So for those that don't know, maybe you've been, I don't know, in a coma the last three weeks or, I don't know, navigating the islands of Thailand or something, and you just haven't been really queued into the news cycle, or maybe you were in honeymoon in Sri Lanka.

00:33:54.000 I don't know.

00:33:55.000 So there's a NASCAR driver.

00:33:57.000 His name is Brandon.

00:33:59.000 And he's actually competing soon in Phoenix, if I'm not mistaken.

00:34:03.000 I don't know his last name.

00:34:05.000 And so Brandon won this NASCAR event, and the crowd started, his name's Brandon Brown.

00:34:13.000 The crowd started to chant F. Joe Biden.

00:34:16.000 And the announcer, a lot of people went and attacked the announcer.

00:34:21.000 I actually think she was kind of creative and she unintentionally now gave us a non-vulgar way to now say this. 0.58

00:34:27.000 So then she says, oh, they're all saying, let's go, Brandon.

00:34:30.000 They weren't saying, let's go, Brandon.

00:34:31.000 And it was just so comically wrong.

00:34:33.000 It was just so off the beat.

00:34:35.000 And look, she had to do her best.

00:34:37.000 She didn't want to get an FCC complaint.

00:34:38.000 She obviously was trying to keep it focused on the, try to keep it focused on the sports story.

00:34:48.000 Do I think she intentionally lied?

00:34:50.000 Yeah, of course she did.

00:34:51.000 She knew they weren't saying that, obviously.

00:34:53.000 And so she knew they weren't saying, let's go, Brandon.

00:34:56.000 But I think she unintentionally created a movement where now it's everywhere.

00:35:03.000 Okay, so this chant, Let's Go, Brandon, is everywhere.

00:35:06.000 Last night at our event in Boise, people were just coming up and chanting, let's go, Brandon.

00:35:10.000 And it kind of has these kind of alternate meaning.

00:35:13.000 It's like it's anti-media.

00:35:15.000 It's anti-Biden.

00:35:16.000 It's all over the place.

00:35:17.000 It's also pro-Brandon.

00:35:18.000 We're very pro-Brandon.

00:35:19.000 And so let's go to Cut 41.

00:35:21.000 Harris Faulkner saying, let's go, Brandon.

00:35:24.000 Has now hit the number one on iTunes over Adele, Skinny Adele, now new Skinny Adele's new song.

00:35:31.000 Okay, cut 41.

00:35:32.000 And as the president deals with that favorability issue, problem, disaster, the anti-Biden chants, Let's Go Brandon, which you know are kind of code for cleaning up what they're really saying.

00:35:43.000 But anyway, let's go Brandon now hitting the iTunes top.

00:35:47.000 Top two hip-hop songs.

00:35:49.000 They now sit one and two on iTunes downloads ahead of Adele's new song.

00:35:54.000 Number one and two.

00:35:55.000 We're always told conservatives need to take back the culture where it's happening organically.

00:35:59.000 Now, YouTube took down Bryson's song, Let's Go Brandon.

00:36:03.000 And this is just gaining steam.

00:36:04.000 I am amazed.

00:36:05.000 This is all thanks to meme culture, by the way.

00:36:07.000 This is 100% meme culture.

00:36:09.000 And honestly, when you have Joe Biden's approval rating at 64% and disapproval rating at 64% and approval rating at 30%, so I'm not really going to make a habit out of watching the World Series after what they did with moving the All-Star game or whatever.

00:36:25.000 But I will say this.

00:36:27.000 If anyone can start a Let's Go Brandon chant at the World Series tonight, please do that.

00:36:31.000 If you're watching this and you're going to the World Series tonight, come with signs and do a Let's Go Brandon chant.

00:36:36.000 I think that you'll have a lot of friends in both Houston and Atlanta that will agree with you.

00:36:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:42.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

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00:36:49.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:36:50.000 We will see you in December, Phoenix, Arizona.

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00:36:55.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - October 27, 2021

Exposing Mark Zuckerberg's Backdoor Plot to Censor Conservatives

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