00:00:00.000Today on the Charlie Kirk Show, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com, Alex Marlow, joins us to preview his new book where he believes he has found the new George Soros, who might be a man or a woman or someone who identifies as neither, who is influencing all of American politics.
00:00:15.000He also talks about his new book, Breaking the News, and we get into some very specific good news and not so good news about the future of our country.
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00:03:35.000And we all know that the media is biased, but it felt like over the last couple of years since Donald Trump really came down that escalator, that it has weaponized.
00:03:46.000It has become less about left versus right and more about executing an agenda.
00:03:52.000And then I started to dig in more and it became even more complex than that.
00:03:55.000And you start realizing so many of the decisions that are made inside of our newsrooms are based off of corporate interests.
00:04:01.000And then you start pulling back that thread and you see that so many of the key decisions that are made are no doubt due to the structure of these multinational corporations that control all of our news.
00:04:13.000And you're an independent guy and I'm an independent guy and there's a handful of other independent guys and media.
00:04:18.000But for the most part, the vast majority of stuff we're consuming, there are puppet masters who are there.
00:04:27.000And if you know any outlet that you're reading from in general, aside from a few of these individuals that pop up, are these big corporate leviathans?
00:04:37.000And so the book really starts delving into those connections, what they mean, and exactly the extent to which they're corrupt.
00:04:46.000They're just, it is unbelievable, Charlie.
00:04:50.000I have a small team of researchers, including some people on loan to me from Peter Schweitzer's shop, GAI.
00:04:56.000He's the best in the game at this stuff.
00:04:57.000And I try to do what he does to the political establishment, but for the media establishment, and you know me, I'm not easily surprised by stuff.
00:05:06.000I'm kind of grizzled veteran in the news business.
00:05:08.000I was surprised multiple, multiple times.
00:05:11.000And I'm happy to get into some of the details and a lot more as we get closer to the day.
00:05:14.000Yeah, just tease it enough so people press purchase.
00:05:32.000I want to ask you a couple more questions about that.
00:05:34.000Then I want to get into the news of the day.
00:05:36.000So let me make sure I understand this correctly because I think it's fascinating.
00:05:40.000You're looking at the business model of these news companies, not just the bias, but actually what is their monetary incentive, which I think is brilliant.
00:05:47.000And if you look very carefully at who takes out the full page ads on the Sunday edition of the New York Times, if you look very carefully at the ownership structure of the Washington Post, which we know is Jeff Bezos, if you look at actually who places the advertisements on CNN in prime time, lowly watched, yet overly priced network, not network, but cable television on the seven, eight, and nine hour, you'll find that there is this confluous confluence of interest.
00:06:13.000For example, the pharmaceutical companies, the hospital lobby, the college cartel is a great example.
00:06:18.000So one of the easiest kind of wins for a journalist would be to send investigative journalists to investigate and audit the finances of the cartel of the colleges, right?
00:06:31.000Well, who do you think is buying these full-page advertisements on the Sunday edition of the New York Times?
00:06:37.000It's Harvard or it's one of the Ivy League schools.
00:06:39.000Can you talk about how the incentive structure of some of these corporations is to pander to specific corporate interests when in reality, that's where a lot of the investigative journalism should be done?
00:06:51.000Yeah, this is a you're you're you're you're really on to something.
00:06:55.000So if you look at, let's take a something like an NBC Universal.
00:07:00.000NBC is part of a huge conglomerate that has entertainment interests and theme parks and distribution of movies, and they own sports arenas.
00:07:11.000And the news business is just a small percentage of that.
00:07:14.000And so you start seeing that their choices on what they investigate, what they highlight, where their politics are, they never stand in the way of the corporate interests of the entire conglomerate.
00:07:25.000And that's why you start seeing things where you think that the, what would a Jeff Bezos be interested in a Washington Post?
00:07:31.000Why would he want to own a Washington Post?
00:07:33.000The Washington Post is worth maybe a quarter of a billion dollars.
00:07:42.000And when people start thinking about this logically, it's going to dawn on them that there is infinite levels of conflicts of interest.
00:07:49.000And you just can't trust virtually a single narrative you're reading in the establishment press.
00:07:54.000There's almost always something that's conflicting with you getting the information you should be getting as a consumer.
00:07:59.000There's something that Glenn Greenwald said many years ago, and I never actually used to risk, I never used to understand him.
00:08:05.000I used to just kind of be the first one to admit it, kind of just label him in the left-wing box and just kind of move on.
00:08:14.000But I think he's a lot more courageous and honest than I ever gave him credit for.
00:08:17.000And I'm not afraid to admit that and see, and you've seen that in recent years.
00:08:22.000But he used to say something a couple of years ago.
00:08:24.000I would listen to him on some podcast, and he said the corporate media, the corporate media, kept on saying that.
00:08:28.000And I just kind of dismissed it as typical Bernie Sanders Bolshevik anti-capitalist talk.
00:08:35.000But what I have realized is that the corporate media does not represent American values or free enterprise values.
00:08:42.000It represents a very, it's almost a racketeering class of protecting incumbent corporate interests for a very specific agenda.
00:08:51.000Can you talk about how American journalism has changed over the last hundred years?
00:08:56.000Because it was American journalists in the early 1900s, Ida B. Wells and the muckrakers that used to investigate the most powerful people on the planet.
00:09:04.000Now, you might have think that some people think that was done unfairly.
00:09:07.000It was probably done more aggressively, but I still think it's always a very healthy thing to have powerful people challenged.
00:09:13.000There's a very it seems as if there is, you can almost hear the sound of silence, to use the Simon and Garfunkel term, of the lack of investigative reporting that is done towards Bezos, that is done towards the people that control everything.
00:09:30.000In fact, Alex, I would, one, a argument I would make, and I would defend it, is that Breitbart.com has come under more investigative journalism, more scrutiny, more investigations, top to bottom, almost press colonoscopy than the richest man on the planet, Jeff Bezos, previously.
00:09:50.000And you're drawing a very apt comparison as usual.
00:09:54.000This is, I got into this game with Andrew Breitbart as his first employee about, I guess it was about 14 years or so ago when I started with him in his basement, because he was one guy who wanted to take on the establishment press.
00:10:07.000He wanted to show people what a small group of dedicated, focused truth tellers who had a good time doing it, what they could do to take on the man, to take on the establishment.
00:10:28.000And this is the thing that should really resonate with people in this cancel culture moment we're in.
00:10:34.000There's one portion of the book that I can't tease too much because I think this is one where I really want people to focus on it when the time is right.
00:10:41.000And I've been able to heavily guard this material for a year, which has been no small task in and of itself.
00:10:47.000But there is an individual you're going to meet who is the new Soros.
00:10:51.000This person, he or she is, her or his tentacles are in so many places, not just in the establishment media, but also in the activist media and in Democrat Party politics.
00:11:04.000And when you see the way he or her operates, it will be so clear that, oh, yeah, this is a genius business model.
00:11:10.000If you fund everything and you act like there's all of this institutional agreement, there's not institutional agreement.
00:11:17.000There's one person with purse strings who is shoveling money wherever that person thinks it will best serve their agenda.
00:11:25.000And once this becomes apparent to people, it's going to dawn on them.
00:11:29.000This could be happening 100 different times in this country because now we're at this age where it is we do have a plutocracy.
00:11:40.000I could live with it, Charlie, if they would allow people like you and me and Breitbart and Turning Point to be able to have our operations without having to endure this public colonoscopy by media, as you say.
00:11:54.000At least treat us on, at least investigate the people who are the media reporters of the New York Times as much as you're investigating us.
00:12:00.000If you do that, then maybe we'll be more hands-off.
00:12:05.000We have to fight much harder to expose these people because they want power for power's sake and they're accumulating it at a rapid rate at a stunning rate.
00:12:14.000And I think that what is so important about the book you're writing, and I don't even know who you're talking about, but I could venture a couple of guests.
00:12:21.000I might call you later because I'm super curious, which is why everyone should go buy the book.
00:12:25.000Because if you have me curious enough, I will go buy.
00:12:28.000I think actually we are going to, we bought a couple books.
00:12:31.000We're going to do some giveaways with the book actually on our podcast.
00:12:34.000And so we're going to, if you'll sign them, Alex, I'm going to give them away that we purchase them.
00:13:15.000We should be unafraid to have that kind of, you know, like that multi-tiered analysis where it's as if it's either communistic Bolshevik socialism or, you know, we need, we're going to have Somalia.
00:13:27.000Like that's basically the paradigm that everything exists.
00:13:30.000And I'm just exhausted with that kind of conversation in our country.
00:13:36.000And I know your audience is too, or they wouldn't listen to your show.
00:13:39.000And I think of that way, Reitbart's audience, which is such an edge for us because the left and the people, I know I'm cutting you off, but this is, I think, a really important emphasis.
00:13:48.000And this is a huge advantage for us because we can start bench pressing them intellectually.
00:13:52.000And that's going to be the key to the future.
00:13:55.000And when you do think about things, you're going to have nuance and you're also going to win over public opinion because I think a majority of people are somewhere in the middle of, okay, we want to nationalize everything versus everything that tech companies do is wonderful, beautiful, and must never be challenged.
00:14:13.000There's probably a pretty reasonable middle that I think most Americans embrace.
00:14:18.000So, Alex, the book is Breaking the News, and we're going to have you on as these things start to get uncovered.
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00:16:18.000I want to kind of get to current events here.
00:16:21.000And so I'm going to ask you an unusual question.
00:16:23.000And it's a question I ask a lot of people.
00:16:25.000What's the best thing happening in America right now?
00:16:29.000I would say right now that the best thing that is happening in America right now is I'm hearing more and more people talk about things that they're doing outside of politics.
00:16:41.000We've been so obsessed with politics 24-7.
00:16:47.000I probably need to go to some sort of a, some sort of a talk therapy to get over it.
00:16:52.000But I'm hearing more and more people talking about recommitment to faith, recommitment to going outside, recommitment to reading a book and not hanging out on social media, a commitment to family.
00:17:02.000I've never heard so many people in my generation talk about having kids.
00:17:06.000And I feel like, and talk about their pets again.
00:17:09.000And it feels like that people know that we need to beat the left.
00:17:14.000We need to beat whichever Democrat runs again in four years.
00:17:18.000But we also need to balance our lives in the meantime, that we're in a fight for the next generations.
00:17:24.000We're not in a fight for right this second.
00:17:26.000And I felt like we haven't had that in a very long time.
00:17:51.000If you look at their Twitter feeds, you couldn't roast it, Charlie.
00:17:55.000If we got together with five of your funniest friends and spent the whole weekend trying to parody what the left does on Twitter every day, we could never beat them.
00:18:08.000And I hope I'm right about it because it could be the beginning of something really beautiful if I am.
00:18:12.000I think there's a lot of wisdom to what you just said.
00:18:15.000I didn't know what to expect, but I expected a thoughtful, wise answer, which is exactly what I got, which is the left wants to turn everything to be political.
00:18:23.000They want what you eat to be political.
00:18:25.000They want how you transport yourself to be political.
00:18:28.000They want your children to be political.
00:18:30.000And so your argument is that the more people get back to actually the human aspects of living away from just every single decision must be a political decision, that's actually going to hurt the left.
00:18:43.000That's going to hurt their power struggle because basically they're going to say, well, aren't you guys participating hourly and minute by minute in the revolution?
00:18:51.000And kind of someone says, you know, I didn't like Trump.
00:18:53.000He was kind of a jerk, but no, actually, I'm going to go drive my fossil fuel car and go hunting.
00:20:13.000I'm looking out my window and I see people without masks, their children.
00:20:16.000I see something I have not seen in about a year, which is smiles.
00:20:20.000People are smiling outside, which is a wonderful thing.
00:20:24.000And I think that we're starting to see how different states that have made decisions politically, not contradicting what you're saying at all, actually leads to better and happier and more prosperous lives.
00:20:44.000Maybe if I take a mulligan, because I was down there for your conference in December, and I can't tell you how many friends are moving down there.
00:21:16.000And people are understanding that a guy like DeSantis, who's the leader there, but it's really a whole culture, that you can be a strong conservative and get the job done.
00:21:39.000And we were talking about this earlier, which is that some people love Trump's style.
00:21:45.000I know a lot of people that didn't like Trump's style.
00:21:47.000However, DeSantis is proving that actually Trump's ideas and his agenda are 60 or 70% coalition building ideas.
00:21:55.000If you really do isolate the style, which DeSantis doesn't have a unique style, I mean, he's pretty direct.
00:22:01.000He says some funny things and he stands up for what's right.
00:22:03.000And he's more combative with the press than I think other Republicans would be because of Trump.
00:22:08.000But he allows his decisions to be the forefront of the news cycle of what he's doing, right?
00:22:13.000And I'm not criticizing Trump in either way.
00:22:16.000I think that there was a brilliance to what he was able to do to liberate the American conversation.
00:22:20.000With that being said, I think at times we spent way more time focusing on a specific comma that might be missing from a tweet rather than actually the really interesting substantive policy.
00:22:30.000And you and I spend a lot of time on that.
00:22:32.000But I think DeSantis is actually proving, and this is why I'm so optimistic about it, that we're actually a much more conservative country than we give ourselves credit for.
00:22:38.000I actually think we're far more likely to swing in that direction if we do a couple of things correctly in the next couple of years.
00:22:46.000And I think we're going to see the people who are leading the party, the Republican Party of the next few years are going to be the people we're talking about.
00:22:53.000But also a lot of the people who are emerging have a good sense of humor too, which I know DeSantis does, but he's super smart and he's super principled.
00:23:04.000And look, I love people and you don't have to be a genius for me to love you as an American citizen.
00:23:09.000And there are a lot of people who are not superly, they're not intellectual heavyweights that do incredible, make incredible contributions.
00:23:16.000But it is, you got to admit, it's exciting when there's a guy who is that high IQ and that bold who is running a major state like Florida.
00:25:07.000And the goals are to empower the status quo, the powers that be, and to destroy the American individual, which has always been the biggest threat to the globalists and the conformists and the corporatists.
00:25:20.000And this is what I'm trying to champion.
00:25:41.000And you look at Florida and that's what's happening.
00:25:44.000I find myself when I debate privately or discuss with the Puritans on the free market side, which again, you and I have talked about this at length.
00:26:02.000And I find myself agreeing with almost everything they have to say on the price system, on how profits work.
00:26:09.000And then I just ask some very simple questions, such as, do you think that a company that has 280 million active users should be treated exactly the same as the donut shop that is Sal's donut shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida?
00:26:24.000And he really is not going to, he's perfectly comfortable with that one donut shop.
00:26:29.000And they say, yes, the law must apply equally to all people.
00:26:32.000And I say, I completely, I agree with that as a soundbite.
00:26:36.000I say, but that's just, that's a pretty foolish thing to implement on Musk to say that a company has 280 million users and AI technology and 29,000 people that are working around the clock in Menlo Park, all of which hate our country just on Google search, just on mind manipulation, that somehow Sal's donut shop is the same sort of existential threat to our freedoms and liberties.
00:26:57.000And that's where you and I start to say, no, I want more people to be like Sal's Donut Shop.
00:27:01.000I'm going to protect that sort of freedom.
00:27:03.000But then also, I'm not going to treat Google, which obviously the company I'm talking about, to have the same, as if they have the same sort of daily incentive or ambition as Sal's Donut Shop.
00:27:15.000And so I just want a free flow of ideas, a dialogue, which now, if you have a free flow of ideas and dialogue, you get thrown off of social media.
00:27:25.000But we were checking in, Charlie, we spoke about this on your show six months or so ago, about how we looked at some of our traffic at Breitbart from Google on searches for Joe Biden and how it went from like 30,000 pages a day and like a million impressions a day or something like that to zero.
00:27:41.000And it was early May, you know, right in the runoff of the election, cut it off.
00:27:46.000No Joe Biden traffic for Breitbart whatsoever.
00:27:49.000And I checked in on it yesterday, and it's still zero.
00:27:51.000It's like they literally, you cannot get to a Breitbart story unless you type in a Joe Biden story, unless you type in the word Breitbart.
00:28:00.000If we break a story, if we have something exclusive, if we have Donald Trump giving us an exclusive quote about Joe Biden, that still will not show up unless you type in the word Breitbart.
00:28:21.000Google is sitting around and they're trying to convince you to have a certain viewpoint by what they feed you to read and to learn and to look at.
00:28:30.000And once we understand that, then we can get a little more nuance in how we deal with it.
00:28:34.000And we want to encourage people to get rich.
00:28:55.000Well, it's also just economies of scale.
00:28:58.000I mean, if we're really looping in, if we're going to have just a purely academic argument around the free market and we're going to compare the backbone of American business, which includes Breitbart.com with a couple hundred employees, to that of which is the combined GDP of all of Eastern Europe of $1 trillion.
00:29:19.000I think that's a fun discussion for a 19-year-old that just got introduced to economics at Stanford.
00:29:25.000I have no interest in governing our country just on pure idealism or soundbites.
00:29:30.000And I say that as someone who understands and respects the literature as a general principle.
00:29:36.000But if you act as if these are uncompromising edicts that we can never, ever violate, I think that that is a very dangerous thing.
00:29:44.000Alex, I want to ask you something else.
00:29:47.000I got kidding because it was too thought-provoking because I was thinking about this in the concept of now what if those people, those super governments, that's your word, I think, for the big tech.
00:30:01.000What if now they have the exact same interests as the actual government?
00:30:06.000And that's what we're seeing with Facebook and Google and with Mark Zuckerberg, with those drop boxes in Georgia, could have swung the whole state of Georgia.
00:30:14.000It's a they benefited Democrats putting those drop boxes that he was paying for to get those cheap by meal ballots, to get them collected and counted in one of the most crucial swing states.
00:30:25.000It's a they're working in concert together.
00:30:28.000And we're supposed to think over the next four years, that's going to get better unless we start being very vocal about it, start making demands.
00:30:34.000And here's another thing, Charlie, because you're a powerful guy.
00:30:36.000We got to start building our own stuff.
00:30:38.000And I know it sounds impossible, but we have to do it.
00:30:42.000But the idea that Amazon, which was selling a few books from the, you know, Jeff, Jeff Bezos' garage or whatever, is now so unfathomably big.
00:30:51.000It's one of the biggest movie studios now in 20 years.
00:31:23.000And I am going to make, I'm going to make the argument: if you do not support breaking up the tech companies, you're a corporatist, not a conservative.
00:31:30.000And I think that's the right place to say that.
00:32:18.000You know, Dave Rubin's thing, rumble.com, Parlor, before they destroyed it, Death Star style.
00:32:24.000I actually am maybe just call me an idealistic believer that maybe someone might figure this thing out and at least disrupt them a little bit.
00:32:31.000So anyway, but I think that's a really good segue to the question I wanted to ask you, which is: so you said what is the best thing happening in America.
00:32:39.000What do you think needs to happen that is not currently happening right now in order for us to accomplish our shared objectives of saving this country?
00:33:36.000It was because the rules were changed for signature verification and they were signed off by Republicans.
00:33:42.000That's the state of Georgia right there in a nutshell.
00:33:44.000It was just given away by Republicans in the state.
00:33:47.000Then we talk about big tech, how we talked about breaking up big tech.
00:33:50.000And I give President Trump credit for threatening big tech, which, of course, Joe Biden is no threat to big tech.
00:33:57.000But there needed to be more that was done.
00:33:59.000There needed to be more people that take on the tech establishment to break them up, to bring antitrust, whatever it is.
00:34:06.000That's a little outside of my expertise in terms of how to fix it.
00:34:10.000But I can tell you right now that if you don't start turning over every leaf, looking at every option, free thought in America is going to be a fraction of what it was.
00:34:19.000And here's my biggest warning on that for any Republicans that are listening who are in power.
00:34:26.000If they keep shutting down the dialogue, and I know your platform, Charlie, I'm platform two.
00:35:07.000And I share your views of the condemnation of political violence.
00:35:11.000And you and I both understand when you shut up an entire country or dialogue or discussion that people are going to resort to means that are regrettable for that society.
00:35:23.000And that's just a very basic fact of human nature.
00:35:26.000And it shouldn't shock or surprise anyone when that ends up happening.
00:35:29.000So I want to ask you, though, Alex, so I hate to, I shouldn't say I hate to, but I we're focusing on Ron DeSantis. now getting his state to stand up to these big tech companies, which is a really promising trend.
00:35:42.000Is that a positive development or is this just kind of more of a, is this more kind of just a box checking thing to say, I did something about it?
00:36:29.000And I love, so I don't know if it's going to work, but I'm optimistic that it's not box checking, that it's a genuine effort.
00:36:35.000And it's going to come from the states, I think.
00:36:37.000I think it's going to come from the states.
00:36:39.000It's not going to come from the federal government at this point because we don't have time to wait for the federal government because Democrats certainly aren't going to help us.
00:36:46.000And I do think some of the states is where it's going to be ground zero.
00:36:58.000I actually read the transcript, which I thought he did a really good job of.
00:37:01.000Texas followed suit similarly, where they said through the state legislature signed by the governor, they're going to fine these tech companies if they do not change their behavior, which I think is a really interesting idea.
00:37:12.000I'm meeting with a bunch of attorney generals in Arizona next week about this.
00:37:17.000And I'm just going to be really interested to pick their brain because I know that there has been Jeff Landry, for example, is terrific from Louisiana.
00:37:54.000I wish he would have instructed the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division, on top of five or six other things he very well could have done to these tech companies that would have made their life very difficult.
00:38:05.000Maybe they would have conformed and fixed some of their behavior, all the while also going after their monopolistic practices.
00:38:11.000So with DeSantis's plan, which I went through at Breitbart really closely, and we have great reporting on it.
00:38:18.000People want to kind of dig into the details.
00:38:21.000A few of them that are probably worth highlighting is one of them is this mandatory opt-out for big tech content filters, which is something that we proposed at Breitbart, which means that you can opt out of the content you don't like.
00:38:35.000It's not that the Facebook has to filter it for you.
00:38:38.000It's that you can just choose, I don't want this content.
00:38:41.000And that is the certain thing that where people actually get to choose your own adventure online.
00:38:46.000And you don't have the powers to be telling you you can't have Breitbart.
00:38:50.000If you want Breitbart, you can have Breitbart.
00:38:52.000And if you want to choose to be super closed-minded, then you could choose not to have it.
00:38:58.000It's something that Breitbart, we've been lobbying for for like three years now at this point.
00:39:02.000Other stuff in it is fines for locking out candidates for political reasons, transparency requirements around some of these decisions.
00:39:11.000All of this stuff seems very straightforward.
00:39:14.000And he's going to be using the attorney generals against, or his attorney general, I guess, against tech companies that violate some of these conditions.
00:39:24.000And so he's making it so that they're going to have a big headache if they really feel like we need to start banning these people.
00:39:32.000And it turns out it ends up just being politics in the end.
00:39:40.000Just from a tactical viewpoint, I love the idea of playing offense.
00:39:44.000And I love the idea of keeping the pressure on using Solinsky's rules for radicals.
00:39:48.000This is actually the closest that we're actually getting to using their own rules against them because we're making the enemy live up to their own book of standards.
00:40:14.000I can't wait to learn more about this.
00:40:16.000What is one thing that you've learned recently that you think would be helpful if other people came to the same conclusion that you did?
00:40:23.000What's one thing that you learned the last couple of months, last couple of weeks, where you said, Huh, I didn't know that, or I'm looking at something differently that I want more people to know?
00:40:32.000And some of it is I probably already already gave in the opening to this.
00:40:39.000But I do think that the biggest thing going is on the right, where we prioritize our time has been my biggest frustration since November the 6th.
00:40:49.000And there's a lot of people who will prioritize their time in a different way in service of a similar cause.
00:40:56.000And we're falling in this trap where we're dismissing people who have ideas that are not passing a purity test.
00:41:06.000Like, for example, I was always a skeptic that, you know, it was the Venezuelan voting machines in Frankfurt that was really what overturned the election because I thought it was, you know, Google and the new rules for the coronavirus that were obviously not based in science.
00:41:23.000They were based in wanting to get Democrats elected with more mail-in ballots.
00:41:27.000And then, when people saw that I wasn't on board with the talking all day about the big tech, you know, I'm sorry, the, you know, the flipping of the ballots, you know, people kind of mad at me and stuff.
00:41:37.000And I was getting negative messages and negative phone calls and radio.
00:41:40.000And I think that that's very, it's not a wise move on the right.
00:41:44.000I think the right has a lot of opportunity to fix some of this stuff now before they throw us all off the internet and for Democrats get more power.
00:41:52.000I think we're much more powerful than we think.
00:41:54.000And if we can get on the same page on the right, I'm not talking about unifying with Joe Biden, who calls us all the empty semites and white supremacists.
00:42:03.000But on the right, I can see a unity in the conservative movement.
00:42:07.000It does seem like Trump's ideas prevailed.
00:42:37.000And the biggest thing that I learned the last couple months is the ability is how people want to believe something when they see that there's an injustice, which I think is the most interfered election in American history from the tech side, from the balloting side.
00:42:56.000However, I was pushing back constantly in a different way of people that were emailing me saying that Mike Pence was in Gitmo.
00:44:02.000If we fix those two things, if we come back to a system where people show up on election day with an ID and they vote, unless you're in the military and you absolutely cannot get to a polling place, if we restore that and we made it so that Zuckerberg and Bezos and the freaks over Google stop targeting people who disagree with them politically and Jack Billy Goat Dorsey, if we got those guys to start playing fair, it's over.
00:44:26.000The right is going to start dominating for generations because we're coach up on the values.
00:44:31.000As I said, we're all locked up on the values.
00:44:33.000So now we got to get back on the playing field on those two issues.
00:45:04.000And everybody, if you guys show us your subscribe to the Charlie Kirk show, email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:45:11.000We might send you a signed copy of Alex's book as soon as it comes out with all this very specific and interesting developments that he's uncovered.