The Charlie Kirk Show - Gov. DeSantis and Florida's Freedom Effect Goes National

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00:00:26.000 Hey everybody, today on the Charlie Kirk show, we asked the question, why is America reopening?

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00:02:25.000 We got to talking last evening, and the question came up of who's going to lead the Republican Party, which is a question that people are asking a lot now, for good reason.

00:02:37.000 And even before we got to that topic, we started talking about how certain states have handled the Chinese coronavirus and the lockdowns alongside of it differently than others, which, by the way, is an attribute of the American system.

00:02:49.000 It is a positive that we are able to have certain states handle this more maturely than others, and that we did not have a one-size-fits-all strategy straight from Dr. Fauci.

00:02:59.000 It's a good thing that Dr. Fauci was giving recommendations and not orders.

00:03:02.000 It's a very positive thing.

00:03:06.000 I started to ask myself the question, I explored this last night and a little bit this morning.

00:03:10.000 Why is America reopening?

00:03:13.000 Now, the obvious answer is it's because virus case rates are going down.

00:03:17.000 We finally have the vaccine distributed.

00:03:21.000 But I think the question is actually a lot deeper than that.

00:03:25.000 The answer, I should say.

00:03:26.000 We're reopening because we have a model for successful reopening.

00:03:30.000 So let me read you a headline this morning, which is how other countries are handling the virus and the lockdowns alongside of it.

00:03:38.000 Germans confront new Chinese coronavirus lockdown that could last until mid-June.

00:03:44.000 Total lockdown in Germany.

00:03:46.000 United Kingdom, very similar.

00:03:48.000 France has been locked down nearly indefinitely since last spring.

00:03:53.000 Why is that Bill de Blasio has now announced that New York is going to be fully open by July?

00:03:59.000 Well, it's because one man, one governor of a large state, decided to be a leader, to trust data and science.

00:04:07.000 Now, I'm not at all discounting the leadership of Governor Christy Noam from South Dakota.

00:04:13.000 She kept completely open.

00:04:15.000 But let's be honest, South Dakota, everyone's basically socially distanced anyway.

00:04:18.000 I mean, it was not exactly the same sort of densely populated conditions of Florida.

00:04:26.000 It took a lot of courage for Governor Noam to do that.

00:04:28.000 But Florida was really where there was a test of whether or not we were going to trust the science and the data.

00:04:36.000 You might remember last May.

00:04:38.000 Last May, we weren't really sure how we were going to handle this going into the summer.

00:04:43.000 We weren't sure if we were going to allow restaurants and gatherings, church events.

00:04:49.000 We already lost Easter on our calendar last year.

00:04:51.000 And we were told by Dr. Fauci and many others that get used to these lockdowns till at least 2045, basically is what they said.

00:05:00.000 Like we will not reopen the normal.

00:05:02.000 Bill Gates was going on television, you might remember, saying this is at least going to be a decade-long thing.

00:05:07.000 And leadership is a very interesting thing because you do not find out who a person really is until there is a pressure-filled situation.

00:05:16.000 Aristotle had a great quote, it's four words, which is, power shows the man.

00:05:20.000 You want to find out who a person is, give them a bunch of money, a bunch of resources, and a pressure-filled environment, and you'll find out who that person is.

00:05:28.000 It's very easy to be a governor when there's a booming economy and very little difficulty, just managing the status quo, when you inherit something rather favorable.

00:05:38.000 Ron DeSantis had the ultimate state-based Churchillian moment where he had to decide whether or not he was going to lead the entire nation and with it, the planet in reopening.

00:05:49.000 And it very well could have backfired.

00:05:51.000 When Ron DeSantis decided to open up Florida last May, when he just said, hey, restaurants are open, schools are open, and businesses are open.

00:05:59.000 He led even Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, Oklahoma.

00:06:02.000 And I think they've done a good job of reopening since.

00:06:05.000 But he boldly said, May 20th of last year, you're open for business.

00:06:08.000 I was in Florida of May of last year.

00:06:11.000 And I remember talking to these restaurant business owners in Sarasota and Naples.

00:06:15.000 And they said, if it wasn't for Ron DeSantis opening now, we would have lost our business altogether.

00:06:20.000 Now, by the way, we lost 40% of small businesses in the last year.

00:06:24.000 Florida has lost about 5%.

00:06:28.000 And I will make the argument that Governor Ron DeSantis, having the one quality that unifies all the other virtues, which is courage, actually has led the nation and the world in reopening.

00:06:42.000 The only reason why Mayor de Blasio is reopening is because now he has to go deal with constituents who have now gotten a small taste of reopening in Florida.

00:06:51.000 Now the people that have a winter home in Palm Beach, they're coming back and they're calling the mayor's office and saying, look, Mayor de Blasio, there's a way to do this.

00:06:59.000 So let me give you one example of how the lockdowns actually hurt the spread of the virus.

00:07:03.000 How the lockdowns actually did the opposite of what we were told they were going to do.

00:07:07.000 And the evidence is very clear.

00:07:08.000 California, which still remains largely locked down.

00:07:12.000 8,900 cases per 100,000 people.

00:07:16.000 Florida, 8,700 cases per 100,000 people.

00:07:20.000 Florida has lower cases, lower death rate.

00:07:23.000 And Florida has the second oldest population in the country.

00:07:25.000 And Florida has a more densely populated population than New York.

00:07:30.000 Let me say that again.

00:07:31.000 Florida is actually more densely populated than New York.

00:07:33.000 Most people don't know that.

00:07:36.000 So let me give you an example of how the lockdowns actually hurt.

00:07:38.000 Human beings are social beings, social creatures.

00:07:41.000 We need to get together with other human beings.

00:07:43.000 So that's going to happen no matter what, whether you lock people down.

00:07:46.000 So here's a question.

00:07:47.000 Would you rather have people gathering for social purposes in a restaurant outdoors or in someone's home?

00:07:56.000 They're going to meet anyway.

00:07:59.000 So in California, they decided, let's get rid of all the social gatherings.

00:08:02.000 Well, the authoritarians and the despots and the central planners thought that people actually were going to listen to them.

00:08:09.000 We don't respect them anyway, obviously.

00:08:10.000 So they said, you know what, we're still going to go meet with our friends.

00:08:13.000 So they went and met indoors in Los Angeles or in Camarillo or in San Francisco, where the virus is actually much more likely to spread.

00:08:22.000 Where in Florida, people said, let's go meet at this restaurant where the windows were open.

00:08:26.000 They were able to meet outside.

00:08:28.000 And by the way, the CDC has now, it was about a month and a half ago, the front page of the New York Times, basically the easiest way to epidemiologically make sure this virus doesn't spread, just open a window.

00:08:38.000 Basically is what every single study shows.

00:08:41.000 A little bit of natural airflow, all of a sudden, 98% of the spread of the Chinese coronavirus gets thwarted.

00:08:48.000 But what the central planners didn't realize is that people are going to meet anyway.

00:08:52.000 The lockdowns actually have the opposite of the intended purpose.

00:08:56.000 So wouldn't it be better to have restaurants go every other table, outdoor dining, and trust the business owners to be able to handle this appropriately?

00:09:04.000 And Ron DeSantis said yes.

00:09:08.000 When there is no vision, the people perish.

00:09:10.000 That's actually a proverb.

00:09:12.000 And many of these other states had no vision at all whatsoever, no leadership.

00:09:18.000 I'm going to say something very provocative that I know is going to get written up on all the Media Matters websites because it's true.

00:09:23.000 Ron DeSantis is more of a president of this nation than Joe Biden.

00:09:27.000 Ron DeSantis, I think our, thank you.

00:09:30.000 Ron DeSantis has led the nation in reopening.

00:09:34.000 This is why, and we were just talking about this last night.

00:09:37.000 We are far surpassing all these economic projections because the reopening is happening quicker than people could have possibly imagined.

00:09:44.000 It's because of one man.

00:09:45.000 And I'm not discounting the other states that opened alongside of it, but I want you to put yourself in Ron DeSantis' shoes.

00:09:51.000 Florida's a battleground state.

00:09:53.000 Florida is a state that had a lot of consequential congressional races.

00:09:57.000 There was pressure on Ron DeSantis.

00:09:59.000 Hey, are you going to bring home Florida for Trump?

00:10:02.000 Now, by the way, Governor Ducey, as we're here live on AM 960, The Answer in Arizona, and Governor Kemp in Georgia, they didn't deliver Georgia and Arizona for Trump.

00:10:10.000 In fact, they didn't deliver one Republican Senate seat for Republicans.

00:10:15.000 Ron DeSantis had a lot of pressure, and he could have done the safe and easy thing.

00:10:19.000 Instead, Ron DeSantis said, we are reopening.

00:10:21.000 He got rewarded for that.

00:10:23.000 Trump won by 400,000 votes in Florida, more than any other Republican in recent memory.

00:10:31.000 Maybe people right now are waiting for bold and courageous leadership, not just milquetoast, vanilla pandering.

00:10:40.000 So Joe Biden is taking credit for something that I think Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump actually did.

00:10:44.000 Donald Trump on the vaccine production, but Ron DeSantis on the reopening.

00:10:50.000 And we're going to keep on diving into this because this is something that we must repeat because repetition is the soul of memory.

00:10:57.000 And without recognizing and realizing that what we are now seeing in front of us, which by the way is the envy of the world, an open economy, the ability to meet with your friends, we have to ask ourselves the question, how did this happen?

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00:12:40.000 What do you think the unemployment rate in Florida is and California?

00:12:44.000 In California, the unemployment rate is 8.5%.

00:12:48.000 8.5% in California.

00:12:50.000 Now, Governor Newsom, he's so dishonest.

00:12:53.000 He comes out and he says, We have cut the unemployment rate in half since last year.

00:12:57.000 Well, yeah, obviously you have.

00:12:58.000 It was 16%.

00:13:00.000 Now it's 8.5%.

00:13:02.000 Not exactly what I would consider to be a win, where Florida's unemployment rate is 4.7%, about half of that of California's.

00:13:13.000 So, Dr. Fauci, who should have been fired on day one, he's a pathological liar and has never cared about the totality of the livelihood of the American people.

00:13:26.000 And by the way, his epidemiological advice has been proven wrong at every single turn.

00:13:32.000 Whether it says don't wear masks and wear masks, he says that we need to reach 80% for herd immunity, then 90% for herd immunity.

00:13:43.000 The only thing he has ever said is just basically go lock down and keep yourself at home.

00:13:47.000 The first time we've ever entertained a long-term strategy of quarantine the healthy and the people that are not largely at risk when it comes to a certain virus.

00:13:58.000 Again, which actually goes to show it hurt the general health of the population.

00:14:03.000 Do you know that more young people under the age of 30 have committed suicide in California than have died from the Chinese coronavirus?

00:14:09.000 A massive increase. 0.63

00:14:11.000 And I encourage all of you, people say, Charlie, what do I do?

00:14:14.000 I encourage all of you to come very familiar with four letters: F-O-I-A.

00:14:20.000 FOIA.

00:14:21.000 It's called the Freedom of Information Request or Act.

00:14:25.000 Go FOIA your local county government for suicide statistics and then compare them year over year.

00:14:31.000 They're hiding this data intentionally, they're hiding it because it's not good.

00:14:35.000 And the states that have shut down, they have a lot of explaining to do why opioid and alcohol-related deaths have gone up, why all of a sudden we thought it was a good idea to quarantine the abused with their abusers.

00:14:50.000 Where we have seen childhood abuse gone up, where we have seen a nearly tripling in pharmaceutical distribution for antidepressants for children under the age of 10.

00:15:03.000 These are long-term damaging effects of something that we did to ourselves.

00:15:10.000 So Florida has a 4.7% unemployment rate, and California, an 8.5% unemployment rate.

00:15:16.000 Now, in the next couple segments, we're going to explore what's actually preventing the unemployment rate from going down even further, which I believe part of the stimulus package has been one of the most short-sighted ideas that we have decided to do, which is to pay people not to work, which is something we're seeing in low-wage industries all across the country.

00:15:38.000 But as we're seeing America reopen, we must understand this was not a certain thing.

00:15:43.000 This was not something that was a guarantee.

00:15:48.000 But Ron DeSantis led so early and so boldly, other states started to take notice.

00:15:54.000 And the fact he did that with the third most populated state in the country sent a message to the rest of the states, might be third or fourth most populated state.

00:16:04.000 The best stimulus Ron DeSantis has proven is reopening your economy.

00:16:09.000 It's not multi-trillions of dollars created of thin air from Washington, D.C., being spent on these unknown social infrastructure projects, pale in comparison with liberating the American entrepreneur.

00:16:24.000 Power shows the man and pressure shows the man.

00:16:27.000 Governor Newsom, who's now facing a recall fight, who's going to have to explain the fact that California, despite having a younger population than Florida, had a worth virus death rate and case rate, nearly double the unemployment and the structural issues that go alongside of it.

00:16:46.000 And so when you ask Ron DeSantis, why did he do this?

00:16:49.000 Did he have a vision in the middle of the night?

00:16:51.000 Was he clairvoyant?

00:16:52.000 Was he a spokesperson of a prophecy?

00:16:54.000 No, he actually has a pretty simple answer.

00:16:57.000 He decided to stop listening to Dr. Fauci and get experts to actually care about the data and science and not a politically driven vision for the country.

00:17:07.000 And he gave a very simple speech last May.

00:17:10.000 He said, look, we know who's at risk.

00:17:11.000 We have the second oldest population in Florida.

00:17:14.000 We're going to have them be the number one priority.

00:17:17.000 Our resources are going to go to the villages, Boca Raton, and retirement communities.

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00:18:37.000 I want to play some sound here of Stanford University's Jay Bhattachara, who said, quote, Governor Ron DeSantis is incredible.

00:18:47.000 I've never encountered a politician like him.

00:18:49.000 He's actually read all the literature.

00:18:52.000 Play cut 132.

00:18:55.000 But I just want to know, what is your impression of Ron DeSantis having interacted with him at least several times?

00:19:02.000 I mean, I've never met a politician like him.

00:19:04.000 He's extraordinary.

00:19:05.000 He called me out of the blue sometime in mid-September, like on a Sunday morning.

00:19:12.000 I'm not sure exactly I got my number, but he called me up and said, would you like to speak to Governor DeSantis?

00:19:17.000 I said, okay.

00:19:18.000 And he had read all, I mean, we had a two-hour conversation about COVID policy.

00:19:23.000 This is September of last year, right?

00:19:25.000 And he had read all the papers I referenced and not just my, I mean, not my work, but like lots and lots of other papers.

00:19:30.000 He knew all of the details.

00:19:32.000 It was a remarkable conversation.

00:19:34.000 And then we had this like roundtable on September 25th with Martin and Mike Levitt and with DeSantis leading it.

00:19:40.000 And the next day, he lifted most of the restrictions all across Florida.

00:19:44.000 I mean, there's this combination of like bravery, intellectual bravery, and also willingness to take a stand and sort of knowledge that I've never seen in a politician.

00:19:54.000 So there's Stanford University's Jay Battichara recounting that he just got a call from Ron DeSantis randomly on Sunday morning last year and just called them out of the blue and they talked for two hours about the data, about transmission rates, about mortality rates, all of it.

00:20:13.000 And Ron DeSantis really valued that conversation and reopened the Florida economy.

00:20:19.000 Cut 133, Professor Batachara says that he knew the science better than epidemiologists and any other politician.

00:20:27.000 This is a governor of Florida. 0.91

00:20:29.000 And by the way, for other Republican governors out there, like Governor DeWine from Ohio, who still has Ohio locked down, or Governor Baker, who's a Republican governor from Massachusetts, Ron DeSantis is making you guys look awfully silly. 0.76

00:20:41.000 Cut 133. 0.68

00:20:43.000 You know, he just knew that off the top of his head.

00:20:45.000 For all these people criticizing him for not following the science or governors or whatever, he could go up against any governor in the U.S., seems to me.

00:20:52.000 You go up against epidemiologists.

00:20:54.000 I mean, most epidemiologists don't know the literature as well as he does.

00:20:57.000 I mean, I just, I don't know if that's words.

00:20:59.000 I mean, I'm still stunned by it.

00:21:00.000 I didn't know anything about him, actually, before, you know, basically before September, really.

00:21:06.000 I've just been very impressed.

00:21:07.000 And not only that, let's not forget that Florida has hosted a Super Bowl and the UFC in just the last couple of months, successfully.

00:21:18.000 This goes to this theme, though, of leadership.

00:21:21.000 And we don't have a leader in the White House.

00:21:23.000 I don't even know what we have in D.C., but he's enjoying the benefits of a man of one of the largest states in the country who actually did what leaders are supposed to do, shut off cable television and make informed, rational, and courageous decisions.

00:21:40.000 George S. Patton had two great quotes when it came to this.

00:21:45.000 My favorite one is: lead, follow, or get out of the way.

00:21:50.000 My second favorite quote from George S. Patton is that moral courage is the most necessary yet absent characteristic in men.

00:21:59.000 It would have been easy to just slow everything down.

00:22:03.000 But liberty, once people get a taste of it, is awfully contagious.

00:22:08.000 And once they saw that Florida was reopening at such a rapid and successful rate, other governors did not want to get caught looking bad.

00:22:17.000 And now even the mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, who is probably the worst mayor in the history of New York City, even he is succumbing to the pressure of fully reopening.

00:22:30.000 Governor Whitmer herself, who has Michigan locked down, found it just so irresistible that her team, I believe even her, went down and visited Florida recently.

00:22:45.000 That Governor Whitmer locked down all of Michigan, and her chief of staff came down to Florida and visit, but she wouldn't even open up Michigan herself.

00:22:55.000 At least we know that it works for her.

00:22:58.000 And so as we explore who is the leader of the Republican Party, it's easy to say it's Ron DeSantis.

00:23:05.000 And look, things can change and they change quickly.

00:23:08.000 However, the legacy of Ron DeSantis, whether he runs for higher office or not, and people are already looking at that, in my opinion, will forever be leading us away from this false lockdown abyss, this belief of safetyism instead of liberty.

00:23:25.000 Because it's hard.

00:23:27.000 It's hard to make these decisions.

00:23:29.000 And I have a montage I want to play for you here.

00:23:31.000 Cut 135.

00:23:32.000 For our studio audience here, they can't hear it.

00:23:35.000 But it's a news montage of people just going after Ron DeSantis, saying that he is recklessly going to kill his population, that he's not governing Florida correctly.

00:23:46.000 Cut 135. 0.68

00:23:47.000 Jim Crow textbook. 0.94

00:23:49.000 It's a constitutionally unjust bill.

00:23:52.000 Almost a slap in the face.

00:23:54.000 We want to make it loud and clear that this is not communist China.

00:24:00.000 This was fun.

00:24:01.000 You have just declared war on the First Amendment in the state of Florida.

00:24:06.000 So they're actually talking about here, which I wanted to get to in this news montage, a separate one, that about the anti-rioting bill that Ron DeSantis and Florida have put into law, which is terrific.

00:24:16.000 Every single Republican governor in the country should follow Ron DeSantis' lead on this.

00:24:21.000 By the way, let me not for, we can't forget.

00:24:24.000 Ron DeSantis has also signed an anti-critical race theory piece of legislation and executive order.

00:24:30.000 Why other states have not done that as well, I don't know.

00:24:33.000 He's about to sign pieces of legislation that punish tech companies for kicking conservatives off their platforms.

00:24:39.000 That bill is pending in front of the state House and Senate.

00:24:43.000 I'm not optimistic that that's going to get passed, but we'll see what happens.

00:24:47.000 Ron DeSantis has also championed charter schools.

00:24:51.000 And just so you know, Florida has the third or fourth highest educational output of any state in the country, despite having one of the lowest income populations of students and diverse and minority populations.

00:25:07.000 Ron DeSantis has also banned vaccine passports and said that he will not allow the federal government to come in and mandate passports and identification around that.

00:25:17.000 So if you think I'm doing too much on Ron DeSantis, first of all, I'm not.

00:25:23.000 But where are the other leaders, though?

00:25:26.000 It shouldn't.

00:25:27.000 Look, I want to just point out a couple of them.

00:25:30.000 A governor of Oklahoma, who's a great guy.

00:25:32.000 I met him when we did our Turning Point USA event.

00:25:34.000 He's about to sign in an anti-critical race theory bill that says that critical race theory will not be taught in the schools of Oklahoma, which is terrific.

00:25:44.000 And I think that those of us that want leadership are asking ourselves the question, why is every Republican House and Senate and governor in the country not acting as boldly?

00:25:56.000 And the answer is very clear.

00:25:59.000 It's because very few of them have the courage that Ron DeSantis has.

00:26:02.000 It's easier to be a milquetoast moderate.

00:26:07.000 But when you actually govern with courage and clarity, the voters reward you.

00:26:13.000 Let's play clip of 130.

00:26:15.000 This is UFC Dana White, who just says, look, if it wasn't for Ron DeSantis and Florida, UFC would not have been able to have that event.

00:26:24.000 Just so you know, there were 15,000 people in that event in Jacksonville, one of the most watched events.

00:26:31.000 This stuff is contagious once the model is put forward.

00:26:35.000 You want to know why Florida voted for Trump by 400,000 votes and we have two Democrat senators in Georgia?

00:26:41.000 Maybe there's a key component missing.

00:26:43.000 CUP 130, Dana White.

00:26:45.000 So it felt good to be here.

00:26:47.000 It felt good to have the mayor, the governor, and all these people working with us to put on a safe event and for people to come out and have fun.

00:26:57.000 It was awesome.

00:26:58.000 Now, what we want to do is we'll move all over Florida and do a lot of different cities in Florida to repay the governor of this state for everything he's done for us.

00:27:10.000 Now, the only concern that Florida has at this point is too many Democrats are going to move to Florida and forget why they moved there in the first place.

00:27:18.000 Is that the Miami mayor, God bless him, a Republican, and I have publicly spoken against him.

00:27:23.000 He says, we want all the New York firms.

00:27:25.000 No, you don't.

00:27:26.000 You do not want Goldman Sachs.

00:27:28.000 You do not want these major firms to come down to Florida because they bring their values with them.

00:27:34.000 But Florida is now really the state of the future.

00:27:36.000 It's a state that, quite honestly, California could have been and should have been.

00:27:41.000 It's a state that now, you know, as we're doing this in the beautiful hills of Texas, is Texas going to be a leader soon?

00:27:46.000 I hope so.

00:27:46.000 I really do.

00:27:48.000 Florida's running circles around Texas right now.

00:27:50.000 The anti-riot piece of legislation, the social media piece of legislation, the no vaccine passports, reopening, open schools and open businesses.

00:28:02.000 And Texas has done a nice job recently.

00:28:03.000 They've opened up, I have to say, but nowhere nearly as bold as what happened in Florida.

00:28:10.000 So people say, what do you want the Republican Party to stand for?

00:28:14.000 The great Phyllis Schlafly had a great quote.

00:28:17.000 In fact, it was the cover of her book, and she was largely responsible for destroying the Equal Rights Amendment, which was the opposite of actually the Equal Rights Amendment.

00:28:25.000 Anyway, she had a great quote.

00:28:26.000 She says, I prefer a choice, not an echo.

00:28:30.000 I would rather have bold contrasts instead of kind of the mushy middle.

00:28:37.000 I'd rather know exactly what people stand for and then be able to make an informed choice and decision from there.

00:28:43.000 And that should be a message for Republicans in Washington, D.C. There should be a clear signal sent that this idea of constantly pandering to the other side because we're afraid they're going to say bad things about us, they actually said to Ron DeSantis that he was going to sacrifice his population because he was reopening the state.

00:29:04.000 And now, of course, he has one of the largest influxes of people, of individuals across the country of outward migration because everyone wants to be there.

00:29:14.000 It's really called the Florida effect.

00:29:18.000 So as we're wrestling with who needs to run the Republican Party, who should be the spokesperson?

00:29:24.000 And, you know, Donald Trump may or may not run in 2024.

00:29:27.000 He even said that he might run with Ron DeSantis if he does run.

00:29:31.000 I think the question is less about who.

00:29:33.000 And the more important question is, what kind of qualities do they have?

00:29:37.000 We need more George Pattons and less Neville Chamberlains.

00:29:41.000 We need people that are not going to sue for peace and instead are going to clearly put forward a vision for success.

00:29:48.000 As I said clearly, it says it in the Bible, where there is no vision, the people perish.

00:29:52.000 And Ron DeSantis put forward a vision.

00:29:54.000 The vision was, I reject this idea of new normal, of wearing two masks when I shower, of having our children forever having to go to school on a laptop.

00:30:05.000 He rejected it.

00:30:08.000 He deserves the type of praise we are giving him here.

00:30:12.000 And I think the Republicans that are serious about winning elections, serious about actually delivering value for their constituents, need to not just take notice, but start implementing it.

00:30:22.000 And here's the thing: Florida used to be a battleground state.

00:30:26.000 You know that Democrats in Florida are giving up.

00:30:28.000 Democrats are basic, you know where Democrats are spending their money now?

00:30:31.000 Texas.

00:30:33.000 Democrats are more optimistic about Texas than Florida.

00:30:37.000 It's true.

00:30:40.000 And there's reasons for that.

00:30:41.000 Florida used to be a state you would win statewide by 10,000 votes.

00:30:44.000 Now, Trump won by 400,000 votes.

00:30:48.000 400,000 votes.

00:30:50.000 Ted Cruz didn't beat Beta O'Rourke by that much.

00:30:52.000 I could get the exact numbers.

00:30:53.000 I don't think it was 400,000.

00:30:56.000 It was thin, right?

00:30:57.000 It was maybe 150.

00:30:58.000 I'll get the numbers.

00:31:00.000 Leadership is contagious, everybody, and that applies to everyone listening right now.

00:31:04.000 Where can you be courageous in your local community?

00:31:06.000 Where can you step up against the mob and make a positive impact for your country, your county, or for the place you care most about?

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00:32:12.000 Okay, so what's going on in Arizona?

00:32:14.000 So we are headquartered in Arizona, Turning Point USA, Turning Point Action, and the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:32:19.000 We have eyes and ears all on the ground in Arizona.

00:32:21.000 So if you're not aware, the Arizona Senate decided to do something rather remarkable.

00:32:25.000 They actually listened to their voters.

00:32:27.000 And the voters in Arizona are worried and terrified that the process in Arizona elections was not followed.

00:32:34.000 It took two weeks to get all the vote tabulation.

00:32:36.000 There were changes in voting centers.

00:32:38.000 And we've been following this very, very closely.

00:32:42.000 Now, the Democrats are trying to say that this is a partisan thing.

00:32:45.000 They're saying that this is a Trump loyalist pipe dream, which is a very bizarre line of reasoning because if they felt that this election was completely properly conducted, they would want the audit and they would say, of course, we'd be happy to audit it.

00:32:58.000 Go look at all the votes and all the tabulation and all the ballots and we'll prove we actually flipped Arizona.

00:33:04.000 But instead, the opposite is happening.

00:33:06.000 Instead, there's lawsuit after lawsuit being filed by Democrats and Democrat organizations, such as the Brennan Center for Justice, such as Perkins Coy, Protect Democracy in the Leadership Conference, and they're actually asking the Department of Justice, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, to get involved in this audit.

00:33:26.000 Now, what's happening in the audit?

00:33:28.000 A couple things.

00:33:29.000 They're testing the machines.

00:33:30.000 They're doing a spot check of some of these ballots to make sure that the voter registration records actually check with the actual ballots themselves.

00:33:38.000 And the state Democrats in Arizona are suing again to halt the audit.

00:33:43.000 And the judge agreed to do it if the plaintiffs posted a million-dollar bond, but the Democrats refused.

00:33:49.000 So now a new judge has taken over the case.

00:33:52.000 Now, people are asking, what has the audit found?

00:33:55.000 We don't know.

00:33:55.000 All we know is that the Democrats are almost hourly filing motions to dismiss of this audit to actually take place.

00:34:03.000 But here's just a guess and a conjecture: there is going to be something that is found here that will warrant further investigation.

00:34:11.000 The fact of how quick this audit is happening, I don't think we're going to find the totality of what I think is the greatest vulnerability in our election system, which is mass mail-in voting that happens without you know who gets the ballot, who submits it, who's filling it in with shaky and questionable voter registration.

00:34:31.000 Now, the new judge who has taken over this case is a Democrat, and they were able to get the other judge to step down on a technical error because Cyber Ninjas, the firm that was overseeing the audit, had one of their employees that externed with the judge, and they considered that to be a conflict of interest.

00:34:48.000 The judge stepped down.

00:34:49.000 That's what happens when you deal with very high-priced attorneys and lawyers.

00:34:53.000 They file motions to dismiss.

00:34:55.000 They try to paper this thing to death before you're actually able to find a conclusion.

00:34:59.000 Now, Cyber Ninjas, kind of a fun name, they're the ones overseeing the audit.

00:35:04.000 They have said today they plan to release a report within 60 days.

00:35:08.000 Now, let me be very clear: the audit is not going to be used to reverse the election results.

00:35:14.000 And the state senators have said that it can't be.

00:35:16.000 However, the Republicans in the Arizona State Senate say that the audit is simply a means of restoring voters' confidence in the elections process and finding out if there are any irregularities.

00:35:27.000 And look, we all know this.

00:35:28.000 In Arizona, I can't tell you how many people came up to me.

00:35:31.000 They said, Charlie, I got a ballot that I did not request sent to me from my home.

00:35:34.000 Now, the New York Times used to be very worried about this practice.

00:35:37.000 They called this practice ballot laundering.

00:35:40.000 Anyone else?

00:35:40.000 Anyone ever see the movie Ozark or the show Ozark on Netflix?

00:35:44.000 It's a fun show.

00:35:45.000 It's basically this guy, Marty Bird.

00:35:48.000 He launders money in a very sophisticated way.

00:35:51.000 There are people out there that are not, let's say, they're not above the question of being the idea of morally going after people's ballots and submitting them without permission or engaging in that kind of practice.

00:36:08.000 I know that in Georgia, when I did an event in Georgia, I asked an audience, I said, who here got a ballot that they did not request?

00:36:14.000 And almost every single hand went up in the state of Georgia.

00:36:18.000 And I know even in Texas, that's true as well.

00:36:20.000 So the question is: this: Are we going to put in the safeguards and the practices and find out what actually happened?

00:36:25.000 But you can tell by the Democrats' response in Arizona that there is something here.

00:36:30.000 You can tell that either it would be on the voter registration side, on the tabulation side, or the signature verification side, that this was not conducted 100% properly.

00:36:39.000 So the audit is staying on schedule.

00:36:41.000 We have our eyes and ears on the ground of what's happening in Arizona, and we are going to get to the bottom of it.

00:36:47.000 You know, a lot of people ask me, they say, what can we do?

00:36:53.000 What is the step and the course of action to be taken at this moment?

00:36:56.000 Well, something that I think is always a good rule is that you need to form groups that gather to try to make an impact on a local community.

00:37:05.000 So we were just talking recently about how certain schools are passing critical race theory, passing these ridiculous mask mandates.

00:37:12.000 I'm a big believer that if you get people physically in the room together, just as the American Revolution was largely launched thanks to this idea of the tavern, where it was physically in the room together.

00:37:26.000 And, you know, we saw this back in 2009 and 2010 with the Tea Party movement, where the Tea Party movement was large in part thanks to Tea Party groups across the country starting and growing from there.

00:37:40.000 But it really needs to be kind of a mindset shift for conservatives, which is that we have to take this more seriously than other things that we've cared about before.

00:37:51.000 And Democrats have always cared more about being in activism or involvement than we have.

00:37:58.000 And they've always put a preference on that over building families or building businesses or building churches.

00:38:04.000 For a lot of conservatives, that's not something we're comfortable with.

00:38:07.000 It's something we'd say we would much rather just build our business and hang out with our friends.

00:38:11.000 But now we're seeing the country deteriorate around us.

00:38:16.000 And some of us that are conservatives have hoped, I think it was a false hope, that at some point the left was going to stop.

00:38:24.000 At some point, they were going to say, you know what?

00:38:28.000 Maybe we've gone too far.

00:38:30.000 No, this is just the beginning of their plans.

00:38:32.000 This is just the very start of what they plan to do to our nation and to our country.

00:38:38.000 And Donald Trump, I think, only accelerated a lot of their radicalism.

00:38:44.000 You see, what they used to hide, what they used to pretend did not exist, they now lead with.

00:38:51.000 They now say the private part out loud because they know the media will not hold them accountable.

00:38:56.000 A great example of this is the Washington Post has now completely disbanded their fact-checking division.

00:39:01.000 Who needs fact-checking when the Ministry of Truth has taken over the presidency?

00:39:05.000 Where all they did was fact-check Donald Trump's presidency.

00:39:09.000 And most of those fact-checks, fact-checks, were basically critiques of nuance and context.

00:39:16.000 They were not things that actually were necessary for massive front-page fact-checking.

00:39:21.000 But they've disbanded their fact-checking division because who needs to fact-check Joe Biden?

00:39:26.000 Who they want to be put in place.

00:39:29.000 But here's the thing that I think we need to focus on the most, which is every single conservative in the country, and I'm just going to start doing this right after, I'd say late May, early June, which is every single conservative in the country needs to start showing up to these school board meetings.

00:39:47.000 You know, conservatives, we tend to try to make peace, build relationships, build bridges.

00:39:53.000 When you think about it, the kind of activistic mindset requires some sort of an adversarial approach.

00:40:02.000 No one could build a business that way.

00:40:04.000 And so, people that are self-made and people that have built families, you tend to try to find common ground and try to lessen the division.

00:40:14.000 Unfortunately, we have to be more disagreeable at this point.

00:40:18.000 We now have to say, you're not going to teach critical race theory to my child.

00:40:22.000 In fact, I had someone come up to me in Hill Country, Texas yesterday and show me that in a Catholic school, they are teaching eight and nine-year-olds glowingly that Karl Marx is a wonderful figure, that Karl Marx, I saw it myself.

00:40:36.000 And most parents are stunned.

00:40:37.000 They say, well, what can we do?

00:40:40.000 Well, this was decades of work to even get that point of curriculum taught to kids because they view things.

00:40:46.000 It's this, there is a communist revolutionary back in the 40s and 50s by the name of Rudy.

00:40:51.000 I can't remember his last name.

00:40:52.000 We'll look it up.

00:40:53.000 Where he said that we leftists, we believe in the long march through the institutions.

00:40:59.000 In fact, I'm going to find this clip here of, I believe it was Khrushchev.

00:41:06.000 We'll find the Khrushchev or, no, it wouldn't be Gorbachev, it'd be Khrushchev, who said that your children's children are going to be Marxists in America because you Americans have no idea what it means to have intergenerational fights.

00:41:21.000 You guys are going to enjoy the spoils of the free market system, and we're going to use that against you.

00:41:28.000 You know, one of my friends right here from Chicago listening on AM560, The Answer, he just emailed me.

00:41:33.000 He said, the Democrats have declared war on our kids.

00:41:36.000 That's right.

00:41:37.000 And I'm going to be very honest with you.

00:41:38.000 I've said this before.

00:41:40.000 I'm surprised that parents haven't risen up more at this point.

00:41:43.000 I'm shocked that there has not been more of a take back effort.

00:41:47.000 And that goes to show there's a couple dynamics at play here.

00:41:51.000 We seek to be agreeable.

00:41:54.000 It's hard to go in to the synagogue and start throwing over tables when you start to see things that aren't supposed to happen.

00:42:05.000 It's tough to do that.

00:42:08.000 It's hard to want to take public stands around this stuff.

00:42:11.000 I get it.

00:42:12.000 In fact, you might lose friends, you might lose business.

00:42:17.000 But at this point, the question you should ask yourself: what is my line?

00:42:21.000 What is the line that I draw when I say no more?

00:42:25.000 I think that line is already largely here.

00:42:27.000 So I want to play tape here, which is there's this professor at a college in California, a community college.

00:42:37.000 We do have that tape.

00:42:37.000 All right, let's play that tape, please.

00:42:39.000 I think cops are heroes and they have to have a difficult job, but we have to have not, I mean, I'd say a good majority of them.

00:42:48.000 I do support our police, and we have bad people, and the people that do bad things should be brought to justice.

00:42:53.000 I agree with that.

00:42:54.000 You're saying police officers should be revered, viewed as heroes.

00:42:58.000 I belong on TV shows with children.

00:43:01.000 I think they are heroes in a sense because they come to your need and they come and help you.

00:43:05.000 They're actually supposed to protect and serve the people.

00:43:07.000 They do protect us.

00:43:09.000 Who do we call when we're in trouble and someone has a knife or a gun?

00:43:12.000 I wouldn't call the police.

00:43:14.000 Why wouldn't you call the police?

00:43:15.000 I don't trust them.

00:43:17.000 My life's in more danger in their presence.

00:43:20.000 Professor, who would you call?

00:43:21.000 I wouldn't call anybody.

00:43:23.000 Oh my goodness.

00:43:24.000 So if you say, what am I listening to?

00:43:27.000 This is a professor.

00:43:28.000 We're going to get to college here.

00:43:30.000 And this young kid on the Zoom call is being berated by his professor because he said cops are generally a good force for society.

00:43:38.000 And she just starts screaming at him.

00:43:40.000 How dare you believe that?

00:43:42.000 This is happening in classrooms all across the country.

00:43:46.000 Parents are subsidizing this and they're paying for this.

00:43:50.000 Cypress College in California.

00:43:52.000 And he's a pretty wise guy.

00:43:53.000 He says, well, professor, who would you call when something bad happened?

00:43:56.000 She says, I wouldn't call the police.

00:43:57.000 I wouldn't call anyone.

00:43:58.000 She's lying.

00:43:59.000 Of course she would call the police.

00:44:02.000 And yet this is a professor who singled him out.

00:44:04.000 She said, does anyone disagree?

00:44:06.000 He said, I do.

00:44:06.000 And she just berated him, and he stood the line wonderfully.

00:44:08.000 We're going to get the kid's name.

00:44:10.000 We're going to get the professor's name.

00:44:11.000 Who are we?

00:44:11.000 We are going to add to our professor watch list at Turning Point USA, professorwatchlist.org.

00:44:16.000 About time we start naming the names of these apparatchiks that are indoctrinating our children.

00:44:21.000 But we need dramatic action, everybody.

00:44:23.000 And the left, they no longer, they are not shy.

00:44:26.000 We are dealing with a new political organization in America.

00:44:32.000 They think they got us.

00:44:34.000 You know what Nancy Pelosi said today?

00:44:37.000 This should be, this either is her being completely confused, or maybe she's saying the private part out loud.

00:44:46.000 Maybe she thinks, maybe she knows something we don't know.

00:44:48.000 Pelosi, I feel very confident the Democrats will hold the majority after the next election.

00:44:54.000 She said that on CBS this morning.

00:44:57.000 She said, elections are always a contest and you see what happens in them.

00:45:00.000 But I feel very confident the Democrats will hold the majority.

00:45:02.000 I think that we're, for all the huffing and puffing the Republicans are doing, the numbers, we're not as good as they'd hoped for.

00:45:07.000 I'm talking about the new maps.

00:45:10.000 She says, I'm very confident we're going to keep the house.

00:45:12.000 Now, maybe she's just blustering and saying that.

00:45:16.000 Or maybe Democrats are so confident because they control every major institution of power in our country.

00:45:23.000 And here's the thing that I hope Republicans and conservatives start to realize.

00:45:27.000 The people are on our side.

00:45:29.000 If Joe Biden had this massive amount of support, why did 11 million people tune into his speech and 39 million people tuned into Donald Trump's speech?

00:45:39.000 If everyone supported the kind of cultural norms that they're pushing, why is it that the Oscars two years ago had 23 million viewers and this year had 9 million viewers?

00:45:48.000 There's more people at home than ever before.

00:45:49.000 Wouldn't you think more people would be watching this nonsense?

00:45:53.000 No, this is something the great Rush Limbaugh taught me when I spent time with him, which is look at the things that are not always reflected in public polling.

00:46:00.000 Look at the things that are leading indicators.

00:46:05.000 I believe firmly that 80% of the American people are with us.

00:46:10.000 I think that a 20% minority that happens to be angrier and louder than the rest of us is now governing us.

00:46:16.000 It is the tyranny of the minority.

00:46:19.000 We are being governed by people that are willing to walk into restaurants and scream till they get what they want.

00:46:24.000 We're being governed with people that are willing to go dress up as Antifa with weapons, which, by the way, I'm happy to report, I had to cancel one of my, I didn't cancel it, Pastor Roger Archer, sweet man, I was supposed to speak at a church on Seattle.

00:46:37.000 It ties right together.

00:46:38.000 And he had to cancel because law enforcement called him and they said 1,300 Antifa people are going to come and possibly burn down your neighborhood.

00:46:45.000 And he decided to cancel.

00:46:47.000 Happy to report, we have a new church we're going to that is hosting us and it's going to be great.

00:46:52.000 And we're not going to allow this idea that if you get enough people in the streets with weapons, you can dictate what we're going to do.

00:47:00.000 The point is this, is that there's actually more of us than them.

00:47:06.000 That decent Americans, they're so concerned with paying the rent and raising their kids that it's going to happen as the wonderful Ernest Hemingway said so many times, gradually than suddenly.

00:47:20.000 So let's tie this all together.

00:47:22.000 How do big things start with one courageous person?

00:47:25.000 The world is reopening thanks to Ron DeSantis.

00:47:28.000 What's the one thing you could be doing right now that might start a movement in your local community, in your local area, that can have ramifications, maybe nationally.

00:47:39.000 And school boards are a perfect place to start.

00:47:41.000 These people have never been challenged before.

00:47:43.000 Most people don't know their school board members.

00:47:45.000 And I'm going to start showing up to school board meetings across the country.

00:47:48.000 I'm going to go back to District 214, where I went to high school in the suburbs of Chicago, a multiracial high school.

00:47:54.000 And I'm going to ask why critical race theory is now being taught in District 214, where when I used to go to school, we used to get along regardless of all this hyper-racialized nonsense. 0.71

00:48:03.000 I was looking for this and I finally found it.

00:48:05.000 I remember reading this years ago from the congressional record January 10th, 1963, which was a hearing in the House of Representatives of what are the communists' goals in America.

00:48:17.000 I don't like that term communist because people hear it and they immediately say, oh, that's just, there's no one that's actually a communist.

00:48:23.000 I completely disagree with that.

00:48:24.000 Let's instead, I'm going to replace communist in this document that they published with totalitarians. 0.86

00:48:31.000 I think that's just a fair way to put it. 0.72

00:48:33.000 Okay?

00:48:34.000 Let's just say that.

00:48:35.000 So these were their stated goals in 1963.

00:48:39.000 Some of them are not as applicable.

00:48:41.000 Some of them are about like denuclearization and stuff.

00:48:43.000 But let's go into this.

00:48:44.000 Someone actually emailed me this, and I love our listeners.

00:48:48.000 Rusty did.

00:48:50.000 And it's from W. Cleon Skousen, an FBI agent that was in charge of this.

00:48:56.000 And by the way, everyone likes to go after Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin.

00:49:00.000 There was some truth to what McCarthy was talking about.

00:49:02.000 It's an unpopular thing to say, but McCarthy was worried about an infiltration of our values and our systems from a Marxist totalitarian nature.

00:49:12.000 How about this?

00:49:15.000 Number 18, gain control of all student newspapers.

00:49:20.000 Number 19, remember, this is 1963.

00:49:22.000 This is how long they've been working on this.

00:49:25.000 Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under attack.

00:49:31.000 Infiltrate the press and the media.

00:49:34.000 Get control of book review assignments, editorial writing, and public policymaking positions.

00:49:40.000 Cut 21, goal 21.

00:49:43.000 Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

00:49:47.000 Goal 22, continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.

00:49:54.000 As an American totalitarian cell was once told to, quote, eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings.

00:50:00.000 Substitute shapeless, awkward, and meaningless forms, meaning put meaningless art in.

00:50:09.000 Number 23, control art critics and directions of art museums.

00:50:14.000 Goal number 24, eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them censorship.

00:50:22.000 Number 25, break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and television. 0.97

00:50:35.000 Number 26, promote homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as normal, natural, and healthy. 0.82

00:50:41.000 Number 27, infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with social religion. 0.99

00:50:49.000 Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a religious crutch.

00:50:55.000 Number 28, eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in schools on the ground that it violates the principles of separation in church and state.

00:51:03.000 Number 29, discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

00:51:14.000 Number 30, discredit the American founders.

00:51:17.000 Present them with selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.

00:51:21.000 Now, if you're just tuning in, I am reading from the congressional record of what the communists in 1963 aimed to do.

00:51:28.000 I wonder if it's resonating with anything that's happening now.

00:51:31.000 Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the big picture.

00:51:40.000 Give more emphasis to history since the communists took over.

00:51:47.000 Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of culture, education, social agencies, or welfare programs.

00:51:57.000 Of course, this is one of my favorites.

00:52:00.000 Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

00:52:04.000 Amazing.

00:52:07.000 Continues by saying, Number 40: Discredit the family as an institution.

00:52:15.000 Encourage promiscuity and easy separation.

00:52:20.000 Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of their parents.

00:52:24.000 Now, I'm going to stop here.

00:52:27.000 There's one that this one always gets me.

00:52:30.000 What is the common through line of communist and Marxist countries?

00:52:36.000 All of them must break the bond between parents and children.

00:52:40.000 You know, it's the only one of the Ten Commandments with a promise in it: honor your mother and father so that you may live long and prosper in the land of which you are in. 0.95

00:52:52.000 There's a reason why you ever hear the phrase mother Russia before.

00:52:56.000 It's because Russia came in and they said, Your true mother is the nation, is the state, is the government, not your actual parents.

00:53:03.000 Orwell famously wrote in 1984 that parents were afraid of their children. 0.71

00:53:10.000 So, as you see here, number 40, discredit the family as an institution.

00:53:16.000 Boy, do we see that happening?

00:53:17.000 And if only we had a website, BLM Incorporated, that says, quote, they want to destroy the Western prescribed nuclear family. 0.50

00:53:25.000 We're playing in their game, everybody. 0.62

00:53:27.000 This is their game, their rules, their goals, their aims, their desires.

00:53:34.000 I think it's very telling to actually look through this list and see it.

00:53:38.000 So, the question is: what do we do about it?

00:53:40.000 Well, part of what we're doing is this program in the show because truth and information and knowledge is one of the few things we have on our side.

00:53:48.000 We have truth, they do not.

00:53:49.000 They have the lust for power.

00:53:53.000 However, as Aristotle famously said, you can have integrity, truth, joy, compassion, but without courage, none of those other things actually matter.

00:54:02.000 Courage is the value that ties all those other virtues together.

00:54:08.000 And this is going to go down as when historians write about the 2020s, they're going to either write one of two things: that the American generation that benefited so much from this promise and this experiment decided to do nothing or little when it mattered most.

00:54:26.000 That's what historians are going to write 50 years from now, because that's basically what it's coming down to.

00:54:31.000 The people that have benefited so dramatically and so tremendously are basically most are saying, you know what?

00:54:40.000 We're going to let this play out.

00:54:42.000 Now, believing something and voting is no longer going to be enough.

00:54:47.000 We need our stated goals.

00:54:48.000 We need our 2021 list of we are going to rebuild the American family.

00:54:54.000 We want more American-born children.

00:54:57.000 We want church rates to go up.

00:54:59.000 We want business rates and entrepreneurship to increase.

00:55:01.000 Of course, they want kids to go to college.

00:55:03.000 Of course, they want college to be free.

00:55:05.000 Their goal right here was to take over the colleges.

00:55:08.000 Of course, they do.

00:55:11.000 But the people are actually still with us, which goes to show how bad their ideas are.

00:55:14.000 The fact they have not been able to dominate the American psyche shows that their ideas are actually really unpopular and immoral when they're implemented.

00:55:22.000 The fact that there is now a push to reopen the country and not stay locked down is a very positive thing.

00:55:29.000 Now, our leaders are doing everything they possibly can to not make this happen.

00:55:34.000 There are people right now in the hill country of Texas, where I guarantee you you guys are dealing with this running the restaurant, where people are like, I'm getting unemployment stimulus checks.

00:55:41.000 Why should I go wait tables?

00:55:43.000 Do you know that at McDonald's in Orlando, Florida, they're paying you $50 to show up for an interview?

00:55:50.000 Just for the interview, $50, cash, and they still can't find enough workers.

00:55:55.000 The leaders are doing everything they can to try and destroy something very simple, which is earned success and deferred gratification and responsibility in our country.

00:56:09.000 And the fact that they have not been able to win totally yet should give everyone credit.

00:56:15.000 But you see, cut 60 right here, number 60.

00:56:19.000 Discredit the American founders, present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the common man.

00:56:25.000 Why is that important?

00:56:26.000 Why should we be more interested in American history?

00:56:30.000 Because it's actually built into our human nature and into who we are as citizens to care about how we got here.

00:56:43.000 If you have no connection to how you got here, then why even preserve this nation at all?

00:56:49.000 Says here, number 29, discredit the American Constitution, calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, and a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

00:57:02.000 So these fights that we get into over whether or not the statue should be taken down, whether or not we should have prayer in schools, these are all ones that they realize are actually binds that tie us all together.

00:57:14.000 So here's what I submit: no more playing defense.

00:57:17.000 No more saying that America is not a racist country.

00:57:20.000 Instead, we should say, we're the most benevolent, open-minded country ever to exist.

00:57:23.000 And if you don't agree with that, you're the bigot.

00:57:25.000 We're not.

00:57:25.000 It's time to play offense.

00:57:27.000 An offensive mindset is what needs to come in.

00:57:30.000 Every one of these things, we're playing defense.

00:57:32.000 Don't you feel that way?

00:57:32.000 It's always just managing ever-eroding territory.

00:57:36.000 So people say, what can I do?

00:57:37.000 Time to take new terrain is what we have to do and build new stuff.

00:57:41.000 No, we're going to go take back this place that was infiltrated by leftists.

00:57:47.000 Because here's the thing.

00:57:49.000 Our ideas, once they are spread, are immensely popular.

00:57:52.000 The missing link is the courage link.

00:57:56.000 The missing link is that one person, and albeit maybe trembling with their voice to speak out.

00:58:00.000 And I get it, it's hard because the left controls the most powerful tool in American politics.

00:58:08.000 You know what that is?

00:58:09.000 They get to call you a racist.

00:58:12.000 It's a really powerful thing.

00:58:13.000 It's a paralytic.

00:58:15.000 You just, I'll do whatever you want.

00:58:18.000 They control that.

00:58:19.000 So because of that, decent Americans think of themselves as not being racist or bigoted, and they start questioning and they're afraid.

00:58:29.000 And they say, man, I don't want to be called that.

00:58:31.000 I don't want to lose my friends.

00:58:33.000 They're going to say those things no matter what.

00:58:37.000 They're going to call you those names.

00:58:39.000 Just look at Senator Tim Scott.

00:58:42.000 How they treated him was so morally reprehensible. 0.50

00:58:45.000 Allowing Uncle Tim to trend on Twitter, which is a racial insult towards black Americans.

00:58:51.000 Of course, Twitter gets away with that, but they don't even allow the most minor conservative trend to spread on Twitter.

00:58:59.000 Gain control and key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

00:59:05.000 Have you seen a television show that is not filled with not-so-subtle leftist propaganda?

00:59:10.000 Have you seen what your children are watching on Disney Plus?

00:59:15.000 Nickelodeon just released a seven-minute video on how oil and gas and natural development, development of our resources, environmental racism, and we have to keep it all on the ground.

00:59:24.000 That's Nickelodeon, everybody.

00:59:27.000 So people say, Charlie, what's a good business idea?

00:59:29.000 Whoever gets into, I don't know, creating child content that isn't woke is going to be a billionaire in the next five years.

00:59:37.000 Just children's books, children's movies, because parents are saying, I turn on my television and my kids are getting exposed.

00:59:45.000 Cardi B is considered to be the utmost idol for young Americans.

00:59:52.000 So there are promising trends.

00:59:54.000 The parents rising up in Vail, Colorado, that parent who spoke out in Florida, Ron DeSantis, other governors following suit, the governor of Oklahoma, who's about to sign into the bill of critical race theory.

01:00:05.000 And Ron DeSantis today just came out and he said, I will sign a bill that protects female sports, that says that men who think they are women are not allowed, our live audience likes that to compete in female sports.

01:00:21.000 Put simply, conservatives got to be conservatives have to play offense and not apologize for it.

01:00:28.000 They'll call you names and they'll smear you and they'll try to slander you, but do not allow them to take us off, reclaiming this country.

01:00:39.000 Cut 147, Yuri Bezmanov, who was a Soviet agent, warning Americans: you guys have no idea what you're doing. 1.00

01:00:46.000 You guys are happy idiots as the Soviets are taking you over. 1.00

01:00:49.000 Play tape. 1.00

01:00:50.000 I know that espionage intelligence gathering looks more romantic.

01:00:54.000 It sells more deodorants through the advertising, probably.

01:00:57.000 That's why your Hollywood producers are so crazy about James Bond type of thrillers.

01:01:04.000 But in reality, the main emphasis of the KGB is not in the area of intelligence at all.

01:01:11.000 According to my opinion and opinion of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such.

01:01:23.000 The other 85% is a slow process, which we call either ideological subversion or active measures, actini mirpriatia, in the language of the KGB, or psychological warfare.

01:01:36.000 What it basically means is to change the perception of reality of every American to such an extent that, despite the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.

01:01:58.000 Cut 148, Yuri Bezmanov, Soviet dissident, says we need 15 to 20 years of patriotic education to reverse it.

01:02:06.000 This is a Soviet guy who says it's going to take 15 to 20 years of a reinstallation of values.

01:02:12.000 And he was, actually, that's 149. 0.60

01:02:14.000 We'll go 148, then 149.

01:02:15.000 Play tape.

01:02:16.000 It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and it's divided in four basic stages.

01:02:26.000 The first one being demoralization.

01:02:28.000 It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation.

01:02:31.000 Why that many years?

01:02:33.000 Because this is the minimum number of years which requires to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy, exposed to the ideology of the enemy.

01:02:47.000 In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism, American patriotism.

01:03:01.000 The result, the result you can see, most of the people who graduated in the 60s, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, educational system.

01:03:16.000 You are stuck with them. 0.53

01:03:18.000 And then cut 149.

01:03:20.000 In other words, these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.

01:03:27.000 To get rid society of these people, you need another 20 or 15 years to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people who would be acting in favor and in the interests of the United States society.

01:03:48.000 So what he's saying right there is that without patriotic education, the country is lost.

01:03:57.000 And he says it takes 50 or 60 years to deteriorate a nation.

01:04:00.000 We are right on that 60 years later right now.

01:04:04.000 He called it, and he mysteriously died in Canada as he was a Soviet dissident.

01:04:08.000 This guy was a Soviet dissident, Yuri Bezmanov, who is showing us the playbook, saying, this is what's happening to you.

01:04:13.000 You have a wealthy, free nation, but it's going to take a couple generations.

01:04:17.000 And right here, this is actually the 60-year mark since he has defected, right as he called it.

01:04:24.000 So as we wrap this all together, understand the power of one person acting with truth and courage.

01:04:29.000 We need dramatic action.

01:04:31.000 That's what we're doing every single day at Turning Point USA.

01:04:33.000 And no one person is going to save this thing themselves.

01:04:37.000 We actually have to do something the left does very well.

01:04:39.000 We have to work cooperatively.

01:04:42.000 It's not just going to be a bunch of individuals.

01:04:44.000 We have to work as a team, as a movement.

01:04:48.000 And I'll end with this.

01:04:49.000 The left is terrified we're going to wake up.

01:04:52.000 This is why they are preemptively striking us.

01:04:54.000 This is why they're trying to force HR1.

01:04:57.000 They know that if Americans awaken, their ideas are unpopular and they're going to lose.

01:05:02.000 We are now playing on their terms.

01:05:04.000 It's time to start having them play on ours.

01:05:07.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:05:09.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:05:11.000 And again, get involved with Turning Point USA.

01:05:13.000 God bless you guys.

01:05:14.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 30, 2021

Gov. DeSantis and Florida's Freedom Effect Goes National

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