In this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show, host Charlie talks about what's going on in Brazil and why it's a good thing we don't have an electoral college, and why we should have one in the United States.
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00:01:23.000Brazil is making some international headlines for now unfortunately displacing the great leader Jair Bolsinheiro.
00:01:34.000So look, in Brazil, they have an interesting system.
00:01:37.000They have a straight popular vote system.
00:01:40.000And if Brazil had an electoral college, Bolsiniero would have won.
00:01:44.000So I know very little about Brazil politics.
00:01:46.000I know probably more than an average American, but I'm far from an expert on it.
00:01:51.000But there's different regions, and Bolsiniero won every single region except what is in Portuguese called the Nordeste region, of which I don't know where that is.
00:02:00.000I'm guessing that is the most populated area of the country.
00:02:07.000And so, or, yeah, if it's Northeast, and I don't know what, yeah, I guess that would be, I don't know what, I guess that's the population center.
00:02:16.000I can't imagine Rio de Janeiro is in the northeastern part of the country, as per they describe it.
00:02:21.000Okay, it's not, but he won it in a big way, I guess.
00:02:24.000So if you look at the percentages, though, if you win 70-30 in that one portion of the country, then you are able to basically run the table.
00:02:34.000It's basically like just winning California 75-25 and then you become president.
00:02:39.000You see, the Electoral College is a Republican idea, not a Republican Party idea, but a small R republic idea.
00:02:47.000The American founders were extremely wise.
00:02:50.000The Constitution spreads power across branches of government, but it also spreads over geography and time.
00:02:57.000This is what makes a republic different than a democracy.
00:03:03.000I have been on the record, and I'll say it again: democracy is a bad idea.
00:03:22.000In fact, you can go back to numerous citations of ancient wisdom about the warnings of democracy.
00:03:32.000Look, it's very difficult to take over the American political system on a whim or a passing political moment.
00:03:39.000Think about Floyda Palooza during the summer of 2020.
00:03:42.000You need to convince voters in different states with different backgrounds, demographics, needs, jobs, economic concerns to work in harmony together.
00:03:54.000This system has worked very well to preserve our freedom and liberty.
00:03:57.000You see, a republic is designed to pursue liberty, which is the pursuit of virtue, to protect liberty, which is the pursuit of virtue.
00:09:11.000Bolsonaro loved Brazil, expanded gun rights, and tried his best to turn Brazil into a great country.
00:09:18.000And if you ask any Brazilian, they'll tell you that the government is extraordinarily corrupt and that half the time they don't really know who's actually running the country.
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00:11:06.000Julian, I have to ask, could the Biden administration, could Democrats in Congress, have said or done anything to prevent or even slow down this Musk purchase of Twitter?
00:11:16.000I feel like if George Soros had been buying Twitter, the right would have made far more noise and expressed more outrage.
00:11:22.000Dems just let it happen as if it's fine for Twitter to become yet another platform for misinformation and hate.
00:12:04.000You see, there's a very interesting tension here, which is Elon Musk is the monster that has been created by the pagan cult religion of environmentalism.
00:12:13.000Elon Musk's wealth is made possible thanks to Greta Thunberg and Al Gore.
00:12:21.000Everybody needs to be in an electric car.
00:12:24.000And so then he becomes wealthy, thanks to that.
00:12:31.000So they thought they could control Elon Musk.
00:12:35.000They thought that they could have Elon Musk completely obedient to their wishes.
00:12:44.000Turns out Elon Musk doesn't play like that.
00:12:47.000So now Chris Murphy, the very dangerous senator from Connecticut, says, today I'm requesting the Committee on Foreign Investment, which reviews acquisitions of U.S. businesses by foreign buyers, to conduct an investigation into the national security implications of Saudi Arabia's purchase of Twitter.
00:13:03.000Is it really Saudi Arabia that's buying Twitter?
00:13:06.000I thought it was Elon Musk buying Twitter.
00:13:08.000By the way, Saudi Arabia owned some of Twitter before this.
00:13:11.000They're just mad at Musk, and they're using this as an excuse.
00:13:15.000And by the way, that's a, I'm no fan of Saudi Arabia, but that is just written by the pro-Iranian forces in D.C. That's just, that tweet is written by Iran just to try to slow down Saudi Arabia.
00:13:27.000They're going to throw everything they possibly can at Elon Musk.
00:13:32.000I have said before, and I'll say it again, that Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter is by far the most consequential single private purchase in American history.
00:13:43.000If you can find another private purchase that comes close to it of a private actor buying a private asset, then please correct me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:14:06.000After a couple of years in complete and total, we were kind of put on, yeah, you could say we were put in purgatory, but we were kind of put on ALBA.
00:14:50.000There's this whole story about the DHS leaks.
00:14:52.000I haven't had a chance to really dive into it.
00:14:54.000It's the Department of Homeland Security leaks of what's happening.
00:14:57.000Starting in 2020, the Department of Homeland Security began meeting with Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia monthly to coordinate content moderation efforts, which correlates perfectly with in 2020 when they really started to throttle us and they started to censor us and they started to strangle our social media reach on Facebook, on YouTube, on Twitter, and many other platforms.
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00:17:10.000Democracy will lead to a dictatorship every single time.
00:17:15.000Plato wrote, And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty.
00:18:13.000Well, you know, I grew up in Middle America, came out as gay when I was like 15 years old, had no problems at all in Red America, and came out conservative in my early 30s in New York City, where I live, and was immediately canceled, lost all my friends, fired from all my jobs, all of this sort of stuff.
00:18:32.000The impetus was that I was, you know, I worked in liberal media.
00:18:36.000I was editor-at-large for Out Magazine, The Advocate.
00:18:38.000I wrote for New York Times, places like that, as you had mentioned.
00:18:41.000And after the election of Donald Trump, I just sort of was tired of keeping quiet.
00:18:46.000I'd always kept my politics to myself.
00:18:48.000And I kind of hit a breaking point after watching the reaction to Trump's election in 2016 and how most of my colleagues were behaving so unhinged and become so publicly Trump deranged.
00:19:01.000So I, you know, I just wrote a piece in the New York Post basically saying, you know, I don't want people to think that I'm like these other journalists just because I work in liberal media.
00:19:13.000And, you know, I believe in freedom of speech.
00:19:15.000I believe that the leftist media institutions have become a sort of hive mind of Trump derangement and a really destructive form of liberalism and progressivism.
00:19:26.000And that was, you know, a bridge too far for the tolerant and loving LGBT community and, of course, the political left.
00:19:35.000And that was sort of the start in 2017.
00:19:40.000So walk us through kind of your own reaction to that, because, you know, being part of the gay community, you probably had some impressions that there was kind of an open-mindedness or a live and let live nature.
00:20:03.000Because I mean, some of my favorite people to talk to are Dave Rubin and Rick Grinnell, kind of very similar approaches to this topic, but it must have been like a shock and awe campaign, wasn't it?
00:20:16.000At that period of time where you get fired or canceled and kind of driven out because you have a heterodox idea.
00:21:09.000You know, I always sort of thought of the gay community as, and now I use the word community loosely, but as more of that kind of civil libertarian, a kind of libertine attitude that people just want to be left alone by not only their neighbors, but by the government to just live their lives as they see fit, as long as you're not harming anyone else.
00:21:30.000And that has definitely took a radical turn towards authoritarianism, as we see everywhere.
00:21:36.000And the gay community and their bloated nonprofits like HRC and GLAD and all these groups have really, they've only gone way off the rails with this transgender stuff and now bringing kids into it, which is something I would never thought I would ever see in my lifetime.
00:21:56.000They've gone completely off the rails.
00:21:57.000And now most of them, they advocate for censorship.
00:22:01.000They advocate for really destructive policies.
00:22:04.000And they're in favor of things that just, I always thought went completely against the idea of loving freedom and liberty and being left alone to live your life as you best see fit.
00:22:15.000Now it's about, it's not about equal rights anymore.
00:22:19.000It's about instilling a really gross and destructive idea about gender and sexuality onto American society, taking out the family, the nuclear family.
00:22:30.000And now, of course, indoctrinating children and bringing them to drag shows and things like this.
00:22:36.000Not to mention all the disgusting stuff with medically transitioning children and whatnot that is, not only, and most gay people, I would say the majority of gay men, especially, think like I do on these issues.
00:22:48.000They're just too frightened to speak up about it.
00:22:51.000And they're still too turned off to vote Republican.
00:22:55.000So they just kind of keep quiet and they're these sort of zombie Democrat voters.
00:22:59.000But it's a very small, nasty, unhinged minority of activists that have really turned the face of this community into something nasty and a weapon for the political left.
00:23:15.000The book I want to talk about is, so you've been sent to diversity trading, smiling through the DEI apocalypse.
00:23:22.000But I do want to ask an interesting question, though, about what you just said before we get into the book, which is there is this now mass movement around getting this stuff into our schools.
00:23:33.000And we've seen an uptick where now one in four, one in five of young people are identifying as either trans, bisexual, gay, or lesbian.
00:23:42.000Now, you as a gay man, do you think that there might actually be a social phenomenon to part of this that's more than just somebody's sexuality?
00:23:50.000I know that's a very controversial thing to say, but do you think there's a fad aspect to this?
00:23:57.000And you know that if you look at the rates of children who identify as LGBT, it's not LGBT, it's LGBTQ plus.
00:24:03.000The rates are vastly higher in California, for example, than in Ohio.
00:24:07.000So that sort of tells you there is something political going on here.
00:24:10.000Another thing is, is that the Q, and I write about the Q in the book, when I explain what these terms mean, no one's quite sure what the Q means in LGBTQ plus.
00:24:25.000It means, you know, I'm, you know, I support this community or something.
00:24:30.000So when you see these reports, GLAD is one of these organizations that pushes out these reports saying that like one in five Gen Z identifies as LGBTQ plus.
00:24:39.000They're namely talking about the Q, they're talking about fashion statements.
00:24:42.000They're talking about trans trenders, young people on social media who are, you know, confused or want to be cool or want to say, you know, they're part of this community when it's not, it doesn't mean, you know, kids who are same-sex attracted or who have legit gender dysphoria.
00:24:59.000But of course, it works well to pat out the size of the community and to claim that there's some mass movement here.
00:25:05.000Of course, the truly destructive part of this is, and we see this all the time, is a lot of kids are getting roped into gender ideology and doctors and school staff and some parents are encouraging this.
00:25:19.000And it's leading to really destructive, permanently damaging things, not just medically to their bodies, but psychologically.
00:25:28.000And I think that in the coming years, we're going to see a huge backlash against this for kids who are roped into this ideology, brought into it on social media, thinking that it would solve all their problems, when in fact it only caused more problems.
00:25:42.000And we're going to see a big backlash against this.
00:25:44.000And it's going to be really heartbreaking to hear all these stories.
00:26:17.000And namely, I want to talk to just everyday people about their experiences.
00:26:21.000And so, you know, I talked to guys on oil rigs.
00:26:24.000I have a whole chapter about policing, talked to NYPD officers, guys in the military, talked to secretaries, people in IT departments, retail floor workers, just about what did you have to go through in DEI training?
00:26:36.000And, you know, I had got some stories that were, you know, really hilarious and some that were infuriating and kind of learned about this ideology that is really destructive and nasty and does not belong in the workplace whatsoever.
00:26:49.000And yet it's a staple in most workplaces, especially in large corporations.
00:26:53.000So, you know, I looked into the history of it.
00:26:55.000I heard firsthand accounts and then had a lot of fun just sort of describing what this is really about and what you're in store for.
00:27:12.000It started, the way we think of it now started in the civil rights era in the U.S. military.
00:27:16.000And the U.S. military, initially it was, they were worried about strife between the races within the ranks of the military.
00:27:24.000They implemented programs between white and black enlistees and to sort of try to quell what they thought were going to be racial tensions between the two groups.
00:27:33.000The way they approached it initially was to have what they called these encounter groups, where they put a white military member and a black one together in a room and basically have them say everything they didn't like about the other person's race.
00:27:47.000And they immediately realized this was causing more strife and more racial animosity.
00:27:52.000But academia had been working on this for a while.
00:27:55.000And in the 1970s, they began developing these diversity and inclusion programs.
00:28:00.000And in the 70s, you know, women and feminism got involved with it.
00:28:03.000In the 80s and 90s, gay people became part of the curriculum.
00:28:07.000And in the 2010s, it's trans and gender ideology.
00:28:10.000So the military now, the military is one place where you really especially do not need DEI training.
00:28:17.000It's mostly a place of great cohesion.
00:28:20.000If you're in the foxhole, the person next to you's skin color does not exactly matter.
00:28:25.000But the military's training, and I have a chapter about this in the book, has now, under Joe Biden, been relegated to what they're calling anti-extremism training.
00:28:32.000And this happened after his inauguration.
00:28:35.000There was a stand down across the entire Department of Defense to counter anti-extremism training, white supremacy within the military, which is where this kind of stuff takes a really ugly, horrible turn.
00:28:47.000Are we missing something with the Paul Pelosi story?
00:28:52.000Well, this is a fascinating story, isn't it?
00:28:54.000I mean, we've got, so I'm most interested in, you know, now the initial reports said there was a third person in the house who opened the door for the police.
00:29:03.000They said the night, the hammer-wielding hippie was in his underwear, and possibly Paul was too.
00:29:09.000For some reason, no security cameras were triggered or security alarms went off.
00:29:14.000We're not sure why there wasn't more security around the Pelosi residents at the time.
00:29:18.000So things were sounding very suspicious.
00:29:20.000Paul obviously has a history of substance abuse.
00:29:25.000So then the gay lover hypothesis came out.
00:29:28.000And of course, mainstream media was freaking out.
00:29:32.000You know, they're saying that because the guy had shouted, Where's Nancy?
00:29:35.000According to one police officer, this was an assassination attempt on Nancy Pelosi.
00:29:39.000Of course he could have been saying that because he wanted to blackmail the guy who knows?
00:29:42.000Uh, now the media is saying that there were mistakes.
00:29:45.000There was no third person in the house, the guy wasn't in his underwear uh, so the story is still unfolding, but what I find interesting is that when we had all these questions about this situation, the media was shutting it down immediately, when they had even less information than we did.
00:30:01.000When the media had the same information about there being a third person and the guy being in his underwear, they swatted around any theories that this was anything but an assassination attempt on on Pelosi.
00:30:11.000Uh, the guy seems like he's some kind of deranged, drugged out hippie from Berkeley uh, who maybe is like a fallen birdie bro or something.
00:30:22.000Um, but uh, it's interesting that that they're also trying to you know, of course, say that political violence only goes in one direction when, of course, we've had assassination attempts on Brett Kavanaugh and and others.
00:30:32.000Um, I do recall though remember, the Andrew Gillum Saga, where he was found naked in a hotel room.
00:30:44.000Well, look, I mean, at the very least, it's a schizophrenic nudist that has no ideological reason to do this.
00:30:51.000At the more speculative reading, there's something here because I think it smells.
00:30:55.000Okay, Chadwick, I want to ask you about your book in particular.
00:30:58.000One thing: what should people do when they're sent to diversity training?
00:31:01.000Is it like the office, which by the way, I do not think Michael Scott in the office diversity day, I don't think that episode would be allowed on television today.
00:31:09.000It was so incredibly politically incorrect.
00:31:18.000That episode, which was a great episode.
00:31:20.000You know, you're gonna, it's challenging your diversities are if you try to do that at your job, nine times out of ten, you can start the clock on your departure from the company.
00:31:29.000You know, I wrote about a guy named Casey Peterson at the Sandia National Labs in New Mexico, government-funded nuclear research laboratory.
00:31:37.000He really blew the lid off a lot of his stuff by exposing what his lab, his certainly funded lab, was doing for diversity training.
00:31:44.000And, you know, he tried to put together his own syllabus.
00:31:47.000He tried to say, well, let me just host a counter class to what they're teaching.
00:31:51.000And he experienced nothing but red tape the entire time.
00:31:55.000And eventually he wasn't allowed to do it.
00:31:57.000So it's difficult, you know, but I think that what you're going to find is that more people agree that this is all nonsense than don't.
00:32:05.000You know, there's a silent majority of people who know that this stuff is all guff, but they're too terrified to speak up.
00:32:11.000So it really depends on your work environment, you know, if it's worth it really to try to be a whistleblower.
00:32:18.000The last question I have, we only have about a minute remaining.
00:32:22.000Do you think there will be a period of time when this thing just falls apart under the weight of its own insanity?
00:32:29.000I'm an optimist, so I have to believe that that is the case and that that will happen.
00:32:33.000I hope it is because, you know, we see these, you know, look at look at the former Soviet Union.
00:32:38.000You have something called, you know, when the Berlin Wall fell down, you had all these people realizing that their neighbors were thinking the exact same things that they were at the exact same time.
00:32:47.000And just the day before, they believed that all their neighbors were party apparatchiks who believed everything that was in the Soviet newspaper.
00:32:53.000When it turned out that wasn't really the case.
00:32:57.000And there has to be a reckoning here and a crescendo.
00:33:00.000And I think it's just going to take people standing up and realizing that none of this stuff makes sense.
00:33:05.000And it's childlike and invantalizing to try to tell adults that the golden rule doesn't apply to them, which is simply just treat others as you'd like to be treated.