The Charlie Kirk Show - May 06, 2021


How Facebook Became More Powerful than the Federal Government


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When a company decides to ban a former president of the United States from their platform, what does this mean for our country? Is this healthy for our republic? What does it mean for the future of the country? And is this a good or bad thing?

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00:00:26.000 Hey everybody, Facebook has decided Donald Trump is not allowed on their platform.
00:00:31.000 What does this mean for our country?
00:00:33.000 Is this healthy for our republic?
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00:01:02.000 Here we go.
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00:01:36.000 A big news event happened today that we have been waiting for.
00:01:39.000 This is not an unexpected event.
00:01:41.000 This is something that we are anticipating.
00:01:43.000 When the people who actually run our country have decided to tell us whether or not a former president of the United States should be able to access an audience of over 228 million people or 69% of the United States population.
00:02:02.000 I'm, of course, talking about Facebook, a company valued at over $900 billion.
00:02:08.000 Facebook has a 12-digit worth.
00:02:11.000 Facebook is more solvent than the federal government.
00:02:14.000 Facebook has more data than the federal government.
00:02:17.000 No one voted for Facebook.
00:02:19.000 Facebook is not a participant in the promise of the consent of the governed.
00:02:25.000 We are going to walk through what's really happening when it comes to this company and all the tech companies.
00:02:33.000 So this was a day that we've been waiting for.
00:02:34.000 They said on Cinco DeMayo that they were going to come out and happy Cinco de Mayo, by the way.
00:02:40.000 They were going to come out and announce whether or not Donald Trump will be able to regain access to his Facebook properties, most significantly Instagram and Facebook.
00:02:52.000 This came after January 6th, where Facebook decided to ban Donald Trump, but they said they're going to revisit it.
00:02:58.000 I'm reading from the New York Times.
00:03:00.000 Facebook's oversight board, which acts as a quasi-court over the company's content decisions, said the social network was right to bar Mr. Trump after he used the site to foment insurrection in Washington in January.
00:03:12.000 The panel said the ongoing risk of violence has justified the move.
00:03:17.000 But the board also said the indefinite suspension was not appropriate and that the company should apply a defined penalty.
00:03:23.000 And let me just stop here.
00:03:24.000 President Trump has not been charged with any crime.
00:03:27.000 President Trump was acquitted by the United States Senate.
00:03:30.000 And there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that anything that Facebook is saying here is rooted in reality.
00:03:38.000 So Facebook came out today and they said that Donald Trump will not be able to access the Facebook audience of, again, of over 228 million people.
00:03:51.000 So they have this Supreme Court at Facebook.
00:03:56.000 They call it the Oversight Board.
00:03:59.000 Now, any company that has its own Supreme Court is too big and should be broken up.
00:04:04.000 That is not a conservative value.
00:04:06.000 That is a corporatist value.
00:04:08.000 Article 3 of the United States Constitution, which we will explore today on this program, says very clearly and simply who the supreme law of the land is.
00:04:20.000 Facebook is more powerful when it comes to dialogue and speech and spreading ideas than our own federal government.
00:04:29.000 Now, Republicans largely created this situation because Republicans were bought and paid for by these mega corporations for years.
00:04:38.000 They never thought independently.
00:04:40.000 They never listened to their voters.
00:04:41.000 They never understood the concern that these companies poised against our freedoms and liberties.
00:04:49.000 And now today, as this decision comes out, you now are having response from Republicans all across the board.
00:04:56.000 You have Senator Rick Scott who says big tech thinks it can control everything.
00:05:00.000 Companies that censor Americans while giving brutal dictators a pass should not have free reign over your personal data.
00:05:06.000 Ted Cruz says disgraceful.
00:05:08.000 Nikki Haley says Facebook and Twitter ban a former U.S. president, yet some of the world's worst dictators.
00:05:12.000 Okay, that's the new talking point, right?
00:05:14.000 That's not even what we're talking about here.
00:05:16.000 It's a pretty good point, but it's a very superficial point.
00:05:22.000 I'm going to show you what everyone's missing here, which is so much deeper and so much more important.
00:05:30.000 Because you have to understand we're dealing with a corporation here and nothing that corporations that are worth $902 billion at the opening bell today.
00:05:41.000 This is not some sort of mistake.
00:05:43.000 They're making a bet.
00:05:46.000 And so the Republican consensus is now, this is so terrible.
00:05:50.000 Honestly, I don't want to hear their swan song.
00:05:53.000 I don't want to hear their complaints.
00:05:55.000 Republicans controlled the House, the Senate, and the presidency.
00:05:59.000 And you had a chance to challenge the corporate oligarchy into actually listen to your voters when it came to big tech censorship and these monopolies.
00:06:10.000 Instead, you did the exact opposite.
00:06:13.000 Instead, Republicans decided to go cut the taxes of these very same corporations.
00:06:19.000 Do you know Facebook is going to pay a lower corporate tax rate this year than a couple years ago?
00:06:25.000 Thanks to Mitch McConnell and thanks to Paul Ryan.
00:06:28.000 I think Mitch McConnell did a nice job with judges.
00:06:31.000 But it seems Republicans were so short-sighted because they never actually realized that liberty, the pursuit of virtue, absent of tyrannical involvement, might come under threat by a different entity than the government.
00:06:48.000 You see, the conservative movement and many think tanks took a lot of money from Google, by the way, and from Facebook.
00:06:56.000 They never quite understood something that was so obvious to those of us that actually live in the real world, that live outside of K Street and Capitol Hill, that there were two ways that you could lose your liberties in America.
00:07:10.000 You could lose your liberties through the federal government coming through and auditing you and targeting you, maligning you.
00:07:18.000 But we do have a constitutional process and judges that we have put in place that can help push back against that government tyranny.
00:07:27.000 But Republicans, because Republicans were actually never conservatives, they were economic libertarians.
00:07:33.000 This is a very important thing to talk about here.
00:07:36.000 By the way, I think libertarians are really, I think they're correct on speech.
00:07:42.000 I think they're correct on guns.
00:07:44.000 I think they're completely wrong on immigration, drugs, and social degeneracy.
00:07:52.000 But I could play nicely with libertarians on lockdowns.
00:07:55.000 I think that the lockdowns were one of the biggest mistakes ever made by the American people.
00:07:59.000 We led on that while other conservatives were more in a safetyist direction.
00:08:03.000 We wanted to open up the country almost immediately.
00:08:05.000 So I can play nice with libertarians on those issues.
00:08:08.000 Where I will not play nice with libertarians on, as they have taken over most of the conservative movement economically, is this idea that corporations should never be touched, that they're always right, voluntary exchange, creative destruction, or this other phrase that is always so perplexing to me, spontaneous order.
00:08:31.000 Now, some of this comes from very thoughtful literature, of which I have read almost all of the major books, from Rothbard to Mises to Friedman.
00:08:42.000 And I think they make some phenomenal points.
00:08:43.000 And I will also give a little bit of an olive branch to libertarians.
00:08:47.000 I think that they're right on the money supply issue.
00:08:49.000 Inflation is a very big, it's a massive threat against workers.
00:08:53.000 And playing games from the Federal Reserve is a danger to decent society.
00:08:59.000 But something they cannot answer, and the establishment Republicans are still hand-wringing over this because they can't quite figure out why this is happening, is what if I told you that a private company is more of a threat to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution than our government?
00:09:18.000 What if I told you we have a Soviet Union in America that's downloaded in your child's phone?
00:09:27.000 So we're going to continue to explore this, and then I'm going to tell you what's really going on here.
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00:10:44.000 Should a company worth $902 billion with a 12-digit valuation and 228 million users be treated like the local body shop?
00:10:54.000 Does the local coffee shop with six employees that's barely making it be treated the same as a company worth $902 billion?
00:11:04.000 If you say yes, then you are more interested in whiteboard or chalkboard college-style idealism than what's good for humanity.
00:11:15.000 There's a big difference between Sal's body shop with nine workers that does maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars in revenue a year, barely making it, and a company worth $902 billion.
00:11:31.000 One is a private company.
00:11:33.000 The other is a government.
00:11:36.000 Let's play some tape just to give you a more idea of what's happening with Donald Trump being kicked off Facebook.
00:11:42.000 And then we're going to go into the why.
00:11:46.000 I think a lot of people are kind of tripping over themselves with the why.
00:11:48.000 They say, oh, this is censorship.
00:11:50.000 Of course it is.
00:11:51.000 That's the what.
00:11:53.000 That's not the why.
00:11:55.000 Let's start with 56 Facebook decision board director Thomas Hughes, who is more powerful than John Roberts.
00:12:02.000 Play Cut 56.
00:12:04.000 I mean, the decision is very clear insofar as, you know, the board has found that the suspension of former President Trump was necessary to keep people safe, that the actions of the former president encouraged and legitimized violence and constituted what the board has termed a severe violation of the Facebook rules.
00:12:26.000 So he's more powerful than Neil Gorsuch.
00:12:29.000 No one voted for this person, Thomas Hughes, but now he gets to make a decision.
00:12:33.000 He makes a decision whether or not 228 million users get to see President Trump's content.
00:12:41.000 Cut 57, Mark Meadows' immediate reaction to Trump remaining banned.
00:12:45.000 Now, I will say this.
00:12:46.000 I sat in Mark Meadows' office before he became chief of staff to Donald Trump.
00:12:49.000 Mark Meadows is a good friend of mine.
00:12:52.000 And I remember I said, we got to break up these tech companies.
00:12:54.000 And that was considered to be a radical position then.
00:12:57.000 Oh my, has the Overton window moved?
00:12:59.000 Play tape.
00:13:00.000 The Oversight Board will uphold the ban on Donald Trump.
00:13:05.000 Your reaction.
00:13:06.000 Yeah, it's a sad day for America.
00:13:09.000 It's a sad day for Facebook because I can tell you a number of members of Congress are now looking at do they break up Facebook?
00:13:16.000 Do they make sure that they don't have a monopoly?
00:13:19.000 And I can tell you that it is two different standards, one for Donald Trump and one for a number of other people that are on their sites and suggesting that more nefarious things than what the president has been accused of actually go unnoticed often.
00:13:36.000 Cut 58, CNN correspondents explaining Facebook's oversights board decision.
00:13:40.000 Cut 58.
00:13:41.000 To listen to Facebook's response, which I'm sure was fascinating on the phone call, Doni, explain it to our viewers.
00:13:48.000 Yeah, this is basically, I think, a nightmare situation for Facebook.
00:13:52.000 They set up this oversight board, purportedly independent, to basically make the difficult decisions for them.
00:13:59.000 But what has happened here now is that the board has said, well, you guys were right to suspend Trump at the time in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection, but we're not so sure you were right to suspend him forever and has now given the company six months, so until November, to figure out if Trump should be suspended or not.
00:14:18.000 So what's going to happen next?
00:14:19.000 Well, it's all back on Facebook.
00:14:21.000 It's all back on Zuckerberg and it's going to create a public debate.
00:14:24.000 I'm sure we'll hear from Trump saying that he should be allowed back on, from Democrats saying he shouldn't be.
00:14:29.000 But all the pressure and the decision is now on Zuckerberg.
00:14:33.000 Two years ago, I gave a speech in front of a bunch of business types and I said that the Menlo Park government is more powerful than our own government.
00:14:42.000 Some of them completely disagreed.
00:14:44.000 They said, oh, these are just private companies and they'll be disrupted and they won't have this much power.
00:14:51.000 Have we ever in American history had this much news and attention on a decision a private company makes about whether or not another private citizen or a former president is allowed to use their product or service?
00:15:09.000 This is an unprecedented amount of power.
00:15:14.000 I want you to think what we're talking about here.
00:15:15.000 We're not talking about the United States Supreme Court or the Florida Supreme Court saying whether or not Donald Trump is able to host a rally.
00:15:24.000 No, we're talking about a private company.
00:15:30.000 Is this healthy?
00:15:32.000 Is this the way that our founding fathers desired our country to be?
00:15:37.000 Or are we living in some form of a dystopian corporate oligarchy?
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00:16:38.000 President Trump has been indefinitely banned from Facebook, 228 million users.
00:16:45.000 Do you have an idea?
00:16:46.000 More people use Facebook than vote.
00:16:50.000 More people use Facebook than watch the National Basketball Association, which is not saying much.
00:16:55.000 Major League Baseball, again, not saying much.
00:16:58.000 70% of the U.S. population is on Facebook.
00:17:03.000 And so Facebook put together this board of oversight, which was nicely exposed by my friend Brendan Carr, who is one of the FCC commissioners.
00:17:14.000 One of their other Supreme Court board members, Alan Russbridger, he's a left-wing campaigner who wanted to take President Trump's coronavirus briefings off air.
00:17:28.000 Or how about Nicholas Suzor, who said that Twitter should deplatform the president?
00:17:35.000 Or how about Afia Asana Tiawaya Asari Kai, who is a board member or a program manager on the George Soros Open Society Foundation?
00:17:50.000 She's a board member for Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
00:17:55.000 Or how about Mania Kia'i? 0.90
00:17:59.000 Quote, I think Donald Trump is the jewel in the crown of far-right, fascist, xenophobic, right-wing groups that exist.
00:18:08.000 Or how about Jamal Green?
00:18:11.000 He is a Supreme Court justice in our country with more power than Clarence Thomas.
00:18:16.000 Let me say that again.
00:18:17.000 Jamal Green has more power than Clarence Thomas. 0.95
00:18:21.000 No one ever voted for this guy, nor should they, because he fantasized publicly about Trump getting shot and killed.
00:18:28.000 And he called Trump's election an unacceptable outcome and failure of American politics, and he pressed for impeachment.
00:18:34.000 Or how about Nigat Dodd called Trump evil, wanted to build a wall around Trump, and said that it's sad to see the kind of country America has become and endorsed Bernie Sanders, perfectly unbiased.
00:18:50.000 Or how about Julio Owanu, who says that federal workers were willing to commit inhumane acts for President Trump at U.S. airports?
00:18:59.000 Would you?
00:19:01.000 Saying that she wished for a quick end to the Trump presidency.
00:19:05.000 Hmm.
00:19:07.000 Or how about Cato Institute's John Samples thinks that people voted for Trump because like Flight 93 passengers on 9-11, they thought they were going to die anyways.
00:19:18.000 And removing incompetent Trump, quote, may well be justified.
00:19:23.000 So these are Supreme Court members that were never voted for, that were put into power and put into place.
00:19:31.000 But we would be fooling ourselves if we thought that Mark Zuckerberg and the other people at Facebook were not directly involved in this decision, that there wasn't some private door meeting, closed door meeting where they really got done what they wanted to get done.
00:19:47.000 So the question is, why would Facebook, a $900 billion company, let me say that again, they're a $900 billion company.
00:19:58.000 Why would they do this?
00:20:02.000 The answer is so clear and it's so obvious.
00:20:06.000 They think Republicans have no backbone at all.
00:20:11.000 They know that if they just bully and push Republicans around, we will sue for peace.
00:20:15.000 We will embrace our inter Neville Chamberlain and we will be decent and complain, but nothing will get done.
00:20:23.000 You see, there's an old story from the Greeks.
00:20:28.000 It's a phrase you'll hear on television every so often when people want to sound a little bit cutesy, but it's actually true, called the sword of Damocles.
00:20:38.000 The sword of Damocles was this idea that when you came and visited the king or the emperor or whomever, if there was something he disapproved of, there would be a sword dangling above and it could go down and kill you at any moment.
00:20:52.000 You see, the Democrats, they mean business now.
00:20:56.000 They're on the move.
00:20:58.000 You have to understand we're dealing with corporate types here.
00:21:02.000 The people that run Facebook, they are trained to be risk averse.
00:21:06.000 The people who run these mega corporations, they're always going to try to make a decision to their best of their ability to maximize their profit.
00:21:16.000 Now, I think Delta and Coca-Cola obviously didn't do that.
00:21:22.000 But Facebook here sat in a private meeting, and here's the conversation that they probably had.
00:21:28.000 And I think almost everyone is missing this.
00:21:30.000 Facebook said, hey, what happens if we bring Trump back on the platform?
00:21:38.000 And someone in the boardroom, probably wearing four masks, said, well, Mr. Zuckerberg, the Democrats might break us up.
00:21:47.000 If we do not pander to the Democrats and their demands, they are going to use antitrust action against us.
00:21:55.000 And they mean it, because the Democrats right now are not talk, they are action.
00:22:02.000 In fact, the Democrat Party tweeted today that Facebook should permanently ban Donald Trump from its platform.
00:22:09.000 So then someone else in the room and Mark Zuckerberg in this private room with his counsel and his top aides asked, well, what happens if we ban Donald Trump?
00:22:19.000 What kind of backlash can we expect?
00:22:22.000 And someone probably chuckled and smiled and said, well, Mr. Zuckerberg, Republicans complain.
00:22:30.000 They don't do anything against us.
00:22:34.000 So Zuckerberg had to make a decision, and then he obviously conveyed that through whatever channels he could to the Facebook Oversight Board. 0.99
00:22:41.000 If we think this is really an independent board, you're being played as a fool. 0.87
00:22:45.000 It's as independent as the Venezuelan Supreme Court. 0.82
00:22:51.000 But instead, Zuckerberg was left with a choice, and Facebook was left with a choice.
00:22:58.000 Alienate Republicans who are experts at complaining or alienate Democrats who have become experts at action.
00:23:08.000 What decision would you make if you were in the best interest of Facebook?
00:23:13.000 Quite honestly, I would keep Trump off the platform because I know Republicans are weak.
00:23:20.000 That's why.
00:23:21.000 I'll give you an example.
00:23:22.000 We're on AM 1100 right now in North Dakota. 0.64
00:23:26.000 The governor of North Dakota is a very weak man.
00:23:31.000 And they watch all this stuff.
00:23:32.000 They see how Republicans go do ribbon-cutting ceremonies to bring Amazon and Google into their states like we have in Arizona, AM960, the Patriot.
00:23:41.000 They see how these governors embrace the tech companies coming in as if it's some good thing for your state.
00:23:46.000 They're just bringing in more apparatchiks to infiltrate your school system and artificially inflate property value so you pay more in property taxes.
00:23:56.000 Like, ooh, we get nicer restaurants.
00:23:58.000 Like, really, that's the trade-off.
00:24:00.000 You get a bunch of hipster restaurants and awful politics with it.
00:24:06.000 But they see how weak these Republican governors are.
00:24:09.000 And they know deep down that Republicans will sue for peace instead of holding these companies accountable.
00:24:20.000 The big bet that Facebook has just made publicly is not about censorship.
00:24:27.000 It's not about politics.
00:24:29.000 The big bet that Facebook has just made is that Republicans will never lay a hand on these companies.
00:24:39.000 That's their bet.
00:24:41.000 Everything in corporate life, the way these people think, is to balance risk-reward, and they are always risk-averse, especially when you're running a $900 billion company.
00:24:57.000 So when Zuckerberg had to make this decision and quietly probably influence the Facebook board, this ridiculous Supreme Court board full of people more powerful than our own government, he was surrounded by a platoon of attorneys.
00:25:12.000 And he probably asked, well, it's a counsel, and they probably charge him $3,000 an hour.
00:25:18.000 What's my downside here?
00:25:21.000 And probably a very smart man said, well, if you upset Republicans, you're going to get a bunch of bad op-eds.
00:25:29.000 If you upset Democrats, they're going to submit challenges in court.
00:25:35.000 You're going to have to testify in front of Congress.
00:25:38.000 And they mean business.
00:25:39.000 They might break you up.
00:25:41.000 So you got to keep the revolutionaries in check and give voice and credence to the corporate types in the Democrat Party.
00:25:50.000 The reason this is all happening is because Republicans and the Republican Party have been pandering for the needs, wants, and interests for corporate America for so long.
00:26:05.000 So then the other question that I kind of teased a little bit is: where are the anti-corporate Democrats?
00:26:11.000 Remember when Bernie Sanders used to go on a crusade around America?
00:26:15.000 I actually haven't seen this tape.
00:26:16.000 I just happened to mention Bernie.
00:26:17.000 I didn't even know we had Bernie tape.
00:26:19.000 We'll watch it and hear it together together.
00:26:20.000 Play tape. 1.00
00:26:21.000 You have a former president in Trump who is a racist, a sexist, a homophobe. 0.98
00:26:28.000 But if you're asking me, do I feel particularly comfortable that the president, the then president of the United States, could not express his views on Twitter? 0.99
00:26:36.000 I don't feel comfortable about that.
00:26:37.000 No, I don't know what the answer is.
00:26:38.000 So he's saying he doesn't feel comfortable with him being banned.
00:26:41.000 Is that right?
00:26:42.000 Well, he's making the right choice, the right decision.
00:26:45.000 That's hardly revolutionary type language from Bernie Sanders, though.
00:26:49.000 I don't feel comfortable with that.
00:26:51.000 Usually he's talking about smashing companies up and putting them into millions of pieces.
00:26:57.000 So why are the Democrats, the socialist-type Democrats, so quiet when it comes to Facebook?
00:27:03.000 Because they're patiently waiting their turn for Facebook to do what they could never do.
00:27:09.000 The government does not have the power to do what Facebook just did.
00:27:15.000 It is illegal for the government, according to this beautiful document, the United States Constitution, to do what Facebook just did.
00:27:24.000 So Democrats are saying, hey, we might as well control and influence these massive companies instead of actually breaking them up.
00:27:34.000 Let's use them as Democrat super PACs.
00:27:37.000 And I'm going to tell you what, until Republicans on a state level start introducing bills to ban Facebook from their state, to tax them $5 million a day, which is what I think they should do, and to consolidate with other states, Facebook will keep on chuckling in their private boardrooms, and they will keep on placing their bet on the weakness of Republicans.
00:27:59.000 And quite honestly, I would make the same bet because Republicans do not have the spine or the backbone to take on these fights.
00:28:10.000 Instead, they're full of bluster, endless platitudes and op-eds, and angry cable news appearances and no action.
00:28:20.000 Facebook knows that, and they are betting on the conservative movement's weakness.
00:28:26.000 You have to understand, we are dealing with corporate types that are still interested in some form of profit drivers, and they are just playing the table here.
00:28:35.000 Facebook is playing the odds, and this is the way that they believe they can make the most money and not get broken up.
00:28:43.000 So, the only way that this changes is Republicans have to prove them wrong.
00:28:49.000 And so, one of our team members here messaged me, producer Andrew, who's great, who's going to be filling in for me a little bit next week.
00:28:56.000 He said, the left has won, therefore they present more of a risk to corporations.
00:29:01.000 And I pushed back a little bit.
00:29:04.000 I said, no, we won too.
00:29:06.000 We control state houses. 0.79
00:29:08.000 We control attorney generals.
00:29:09.000 Here's the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
00:29:12.000 It's not that Democrats have won more than we have.
00:29:16.000 It's that they're willing to use their power and we're not.
00:29:20.000 It's the only difference.
00:29:22.000 They're enthusiastic about using political power, media power, and cultural power.
00:29:27.000 So we have the Neville Chamberlain Republicans sue for peace, say that it's a threat on the horizon, but don't actually do anything about it.
00:29:36.000 It was famously Winston Churchill who talked about the threat of the National Socialist Workers' Party.
00:29:43.000 And we have an example, actually, of one courageous Republican, one.
00:29:48.000 Ron DeSantis just signed into law a bill that tech companies try to defeat, which would tax the tech companies for banning politicians off of social media.
00:29:57.000 It was somewhat of just kind of a little bit of just kind of a public relations bill.
00:30:03.000 It wasn't that much meat on it.
00:30:05.000 I wouldn't call it toothless, but it should have gone a lot further.
00:30:08.000 But the tech companies still were very worried about it.
00:30:11.000 And so Facebook has made their big bet.
00:30:14.000 And so have all these other tech companies.
00:30:16.000 Their big bet is this.
00:30:17.000 We are going to spend $45 to $50 million a year donating to candidates, funding think tanks, running television advertisements.
00:30:29.000 And we believe that Republicans are so weak, are so interested in their own election, that they will not take the steps to hold Facebook and Google accountable.
00:30:42.000 Meanwhile, they are terrified of Elizabeth Warren and Alexander DiCasio-Cortez.
00:30:48.000 That's where the real threat to them is.
00:30:51.000 So to them, they're going to pander on political censorship and racial politics at all costs.
00:30:59.000 Because the worst thing that could possibly happen for these tech companies is all of a sudden if the Republican Party starts to take this seriously.
00:31:10.000 So this is where you come in, the voters.
00:31:14.000 Here's a question.
00:31:15.000 Why is it that a company worth $902 billion with 228 million users doesn't have to be held accountable for kicking off a former president of the United States?
00:31:28.000 Do we no longer have an Article 3 of the United States Constitution that clearly states and defines the Supreme Court of the United States?
00:31:38.000 Article 3.
00:31:41.000 The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time order and establish.
00:31:51.000 The judges of the Supreme and Inferior Courts shall hold their offices during good behavior and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
00:32:02.000 The tech companies know how weak Republicans are.
00:32:08.000 But Republican voters aren't weak.
00:32:12.000 And that's the thing that frustrates me the most: Republican voters are active.
00:32:17.000 They're getting involved in school board elections.
00:32:19.000 Republican voters are demanding that their elected officials start to listen to them and make dramatic action.
00:32:25.000 Let me be clear.
00:32:26.000 If you take money from Google or Facebook or Twitter, leave the Republican Party.
00:32:30.000 If you take money from any of these tech lobbyists, leave the Republican Party.
00:32:35.000 If you spend time with these tech lobbyists, leave the Republican Party.
00:32:39.000 It's that simple.
00:32:41.000 Start listening to your voters because the tech companies believe they can execute their own version of the Red Terror, the Knight of the Long Knives, the Purge against Republicans because they think you're too decent.
00:32:55.000 They think that your leaders don't care about you.
00:32:57.000 And it's time for the voters to start to say to our leaders, if you do not act on these issues, you're no longer Republican.
00:33:04.000 We will primary you and we will remove you from office publicly.
00:33:10.000 And that's a conservative value.
00:33:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:33:14.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com and get involved with turningpointusa at tpusa.com.
00:33:20.000 God bless you guys.
00:33:21.000 Speak to you soon.