The Charlie Kirk Show - Impeachment Fallout and AOC's Ministry of Truth

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00:01:56.000 Joined again with Isabel Brown.

00:01:58.000 And we are here in this very slow news day to walk through what exactly is happening to our country.

00:02:05.000 So it is official.

00:02:06.000 The president of the United States has been impeached twice.

00:02:09.000 He was impeached in a House of Representatives vote.

00:02:13.000 The quickest impeachment in the history of impeachment.

00:02:16.000 A story started to come out last evening that was showing that President Trump had to be basically held back by his aides not to go defend himself on the House floor.

00:02:27.000 And so the president has been impeached.

00:02:30.000 And there are 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment.

00:02:34.000 Let's get to some sound here.

00:02:36.000 I want to get to some sound here of Cut 92.

00:02:40.000 Holding rioters accountable for their actions is the answer.

00:02:45.000 And we are.

00:02:47.000 And if we'd prosecuted BLM and Antifa rioters across the country with the same determination these last six months, this incident may not have happened at all.

00:02:58.000 And go to Cut 93, which is the best cut, where Representative McClintock on the House floor says, if we impeached every politician who gave a fiery speech, this Capitol would be deserted.

00:03:08.000 Play tape.

00:03:10.000 If we impeached every politician who gave a fiery speech to a crowd of partisans, this Capitol would be deserted.

00:03:19.000 That's what the president did.

00:03:21.000 That is all he did.

00:03:23.000 This is a drive-through impeachment.

00:03:26.000 This is how much time we got.

00:03:27.000 They did this in less than 24 hours, Isabel.

00:03:29.000 Yeah, it was really within a span of two hours once they started debate and then finally wrapped up with voting.

00:03:34.000 It's probably the fastest debate we've ever seen on even the idea of removing a president, let alone following through with it.

00:03:41.000 So Liz Cheney, who is a congresswoman from Wyoming, who does not agree with the president or his supporters on trade, on immigration, on challenging entrenched corporate interests, and definitely does not agree on foreign policy, she came out very forcefully saying that she was going to support impeachment.

00:04:03.000 Now, in the coming segments, I'm going to play some flashback clips to what the media used to think about the Cheneys.

00:04:11.000 Now, if you think the media hates Donald Trump, Dick Cheney was Donald Trump before Donald Trump as far as how much the media hated a figure in American politics.

00:04:23.000 It's hard to put into words the venom and the hatred that the Cheney family and specifically Dick Cheney received for years.

00:04:33.000 Now, maybe this is part of Liz Cheney trying to remake the Cheney brand, trying to say, forget about Halliburton.

00:04:40.000 You know, let's talk about impeachment.

00:04:42.000 I don't know.

00:04:43.000 But if you go back into some of the sound in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, the way the media talked about Dick Cheney, I thought was reprehensible then and today.

00:04:56.000 But now Liz Cheney is being lauded and is being just celebrated by that very same media.

00:05:03.000 So Liz Cheney came out, a congresswoman from Wyoming, and she said that this is the worst betrayal of an oath of office.

00:05:12.000 We'll get the exact quote, but it was pretty aggressive language, wasn't it, Isabel?

00:05:15.000 Like the worst thing a president has ever done in the history of the country.

00:05:18.000 Okay, got it. 1.00

00:05:20.000 So she probably thought in her massive, like her own self-created image that she was going to bring dozens of people alongside of her, maybe 100 people, so that she could run for Speaker of the House. 0.99

00:05:36.000 Well, 10 Republicans followed her.

00:05:39.000 I don't have the full list.

00:05:40.000 I'm sure we can get it.

00:05:41.000 Looks like Adam Kinzinger, Peter Meyer, herself, obviously.

00:05:48.000 I think it's Christine Herrera, and we'll get the other names.

00:05:51.000 I'm just going off of pictures here.

00:05:52.000 I'm sure you can get all the names, Isabel, and list them off.

00:05:55.000 Now, this kind of drive-through sham impeachment should have been rejected by every single member.

00:06:03.000 Now, that's not to say if you hold the opinion that the president shouldn't have given that speech or you think he should have done things differently.

00:06:11.000 None of those necessarily, in any way whatsoever, are impeachable offenses.

00:06:16.000 This is what Liz Cheney said here.

00:06:18.000 And we have the list here, Isabel.

00:06:19.000 Do you want to read it off?

00:06:20.000 So there were 10 individuals in the Republican Party who voted for impeachment, breaking with the President of the United States.

00:06:20.000 We do, yeah.

00:06:27.000 Representative Liz Cheney sort of led the pack with the idea of breaking with the president. 1.00

00:06:32.000 We had Representative Herrera Butler, I believe is how you pronounce her last name. 0.64

00:06:36.000 Representative Catco, Representative Kinzinger, Representative Upton, New House, Mejer, Gonzalez, Rice, and Volodyau.

00:06:44.000 And Peter Meyer is from Western Michigan.

00:06:46.000 I think he's a new representative there.

00:06:48.000 And so let's go to Cut 51 of Liz Cheney talking about how we just had a violent mob assault the U.S. Capitol.

00:06:53.000 No question, the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob.

00:06:56.000 The president addressed the mob.

00:06:58.000 Whoa, okay, play cut 51.

00:07:00.000 Important is to just recognize we just had a violent mob assault the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to prevent us from carrying out our constitutional duty.

00:07:12.000 And there's no question that the president formed the mob, the president decided the mob.

00:07:17.000 The president addressed the mob.

00:07:18.000 He was at the flame.

00:07:20.000 And this is what America is not.

00:07:24.000 There's just been absolutely intolerable and unacceptable.

00:07:29.000 And the mob will not prevail.

00:07:34.000 So I'm going to agree with Liz Cheney, and then I'm going to work backwards.

00:07:37.000 I agree.

00:07:38.000 It was intolerable and unacceptable what happened at the U.S. Capitol.

00:07:41.000 And I agree, the mob will not win.

00:07:44.000 But respectfully, Congresswoman Cheney, you are now engaging in the very same mob behavior.

00:07:50.000 Let me ask you a question.

00:07:52.000 Why do we have due process?

00:07:54.000 Where did it come from?

00:07:56.000 Why do we have defense attorneys?

00:07:58.000 Where do these ideas come from?

00:08:00.000 Well, it came from English common law.

00:08:03.000 The idea of the presumption of innocence and being able to have charges brought against you, cross-examination of witnesses, the submission of evidence.

00:08:11.000 These things take time.

00:08:13.000 The sound that I just played from you is Congresswoman Liz Cheney talking the night of the awful events that happened at the Capitol.

00:08:24.000 She made a claim that is worthy of cross-examination.

00:08:30.000 The president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.

00:08:34.000 Those are some very heavy charges.

00:08:38.000 Now, we know that there were hundreds of people already congregating on the eastern side of the Capitol building before the president even arrived at the Washington Monument two miles away.

00:08:52.000 We know that the president said, please be patriotic and peaceful.

00:08:56.000 Now, you might have the opinion of Governor Mike Huckabee, where he said, I think the president could have chose his words a lot more care much more carefully.

00:09:03.000 That's fine.

00:09:04.000 That's different than what Congresswoman Liz Cheney is saying.

00:09:08.000 And as we read from former Washington, D.C. Attorney General Shapiro, everyone is still responsible for their own actions.

00:09:20.000 Incitement is a very, very high legal bar to hit.

00:09:26.000 If we were to go through every single member of Congress that talks in heavy and charged language, there would be incitement calls all over the place.

00:09:36.000 What about Alexandria Casio-Cortez that talks at BLM Incorporated rallies, and after that they go loot and riot?

00:09:45.000 So, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, I agree with you. 0.60

00:09:48.000 We should not let the mob win.

00:09:49.000 Slow down then.

00:09:52.000 You know what is one characteristic of a mob?

00:09:54.000 Rushing to judgment.

00:09:56.000 Another characteristic of a mob is I only have one opinion.

00:10:04.000 No one can convince me of this, and I don't keep an open mind.

00:10:07.000 Now, I'm not trying to tell Congresswoman Liz Cheney or the people that voted for impeachment to keep an open mind about the events of the Capitol.

00:10:13.000 That's not what I'm saying.

00:10:14.000 Instead, think independently about, am I really prepared in the span of one week, no representation, no witnesses at all whatsoever, to all of a sudden use the highest level of constitutional power granted to you to impeach and remove a president of the United States.

00:10:39.000 That's a pretty high bar.

00:10:42.000 And you could be like us that are disgusted by the events that happened.

00:10:45.000 I'm watching this video last night of this police officer get bludgeoned by the fire extinguisher.

00:10:51.000 It's terrible.

00:10:53.000 However, if all of a sudden we are going to say we're not going to let the mob win and then you're going to start acting in your own form of a mob, then what exactly are we doing here?

00:11:06.000 I want to keep going through this because these arguments need to be confronted.

00:11:10.000 And without a proper defense, that is not an impeachment.

00:11:16.000 It's a show trial.

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00:12:23.000 I think we have Tucker Carlson loaded up in Cut 96.

00:12:26.000 Let's play Tucker Carlson's remarks.

00:12:29.000 There are a couple of obvious problems with this approach.

00:12:32.000 The first problem is it won't work.

00:12:34.000 By impeaching the president during his final week in office, Congress will not succeed in discrediting Trump among Republican voters.

00:12:42.000 In fact, it will enhance Donald Trump among Republican voters, obviously.

00:12:48.000 And so here's the argument: instead of allowing President Trump to serve out his term, only further platforming him and his voters does the exact opposite than what I think a lot of people are actually trying to do here.

00:13:05.000 And not as if I'm trying to give Democrats advice, but if they're really trying to make Trump go away, they did the opposite of what they should have actually done yesterday.

00:13:14.000 And so Congresswoman Liz Cheney led the charge yesterday to impeach President Donald Trump.

00:13:22.000 She was, at least from the Republican side.

00:13:25.000 Let me put it that way. 0.98

00:13:29.000 Two-thirds of Republicans voted to object to the counting of the Electoral College votes.

00:13:39.000 93% of House Republicans voted against impeachment yesterday.

00:13:43.000 And the interesting thing is that 64% of all polled Republicans, according to an Axios Ipsus poll, says that they support President Trump's recent behavior.

00:13:57.000 Only 17% of Republicans polled said that they think that he should be removed from office.

00:14:07.000 The speeches on the House floor were rushed and were this wasn't an impeachment.

00:14:13.000 This was a show trial. 0.82

00:14:15.000 A show trial is a tactic that was used by the Soviet Union as a way to make it seem as if they had some form of justice, but the end result was already basically well in, not just well in mind, but it's already there. 0.81

00:14:33.000 The president was not even given an opportunity to have counsel have an opportunity to represent himself. 0.52

00:14:40.000 Now, the other impeachment trial that President Trump went through, the impeachment process, last year, they wanted it to go on as long as possible to try to get as much TV time, to try to get as much air and exposure.

00:14:58.000 And the Democrats are torn on whether or not they should send the impeachment articles to the Senate, whether or not they should focus on President when President Biden becomes President Biden, his agenda, or whatever he wants to do to the world, or focus on impeachment.

00:15:19.000 Congressman Louis Gohmert and Cut 83 said something that really upset a lot of people.

00:15:26.000 I'm going to play Cut 83 and Cut 84.

00:15:30.000 Play tapes.

00:15:32.000 Here's a quote.

00:15:34.000 I just don't even know why there aren't more uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be.

00:15:42.000 Or sadly, the domestic enemies of our voting system and honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in Congress of the United States.

00:15:55.000 We were called enemies of the state.

00:15:58.000 Those are all quotes from our speaker.

00:16:01.000 And cut 84.

00:16:05.000 I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the country, and maybe there will be.

00:16:10.000 Sounds like incitement to me.

00:16:11.000 Uprisings all over the country.

00:16:14.000 And so now the state of affairs as it is right now is a Republican Party that actually isn't as nearly fractured as I think Liz Cheney wanted to be or thought it would be.

00:16:32.000 For all intents and purposes, this is the lowest moment of President Trump's presidency.

00:16:37.000 It is also the last moments of his presidency.

00:16:42.000 And when they had the most amount of media cover imaginable, when they had the most amount to be paraded in the New York Times, The Washington Post, how many Republicans turned their back on President Trump's voters?

00:16:58.000 And forget President Trump for a moment.

00:17:00.000 I'm talking about his voters, 10 Republicans.

00:17:04.000 That goes to show that Liz Cheney's attempted effort here failed, and it failed dramatically.

00:17:14.000 Now, why is that? 1.00

00:17:16.000 Well, maybe it's because Congresswoman Liz Cheney has always wanted to try and undercut and trying to delegitimize President Donald Trump and his voters on issues like trade, on immigration, and on foreign wars. 1.00

00:17:34.000 And she just saw her opportunity right now to try and do that.

00:17:38.000 I'm going to read from an article from CNN, which is, I think, actually really, really well done right now.

00:17:44.000 It's investigators pursuing signs U.S. Capitol riot was planned by Evan Perez, CNN justice correspondent.

00:17:52.000 Evidence uncovered so far, including weapons and tactics seen on surveillance video, suggests a level of planning that has led investigators to believe the attack on the U.S. Capitol was not just a protest that spiraled out of control, a federal law enforcement official says.

00:18:08.000 Among the evidence the FBI is examining are indications that some participants at the Trump rally at the ellipse left the event early, perhaps to retrieve items to be used in the insult on the Capitol.

00:18:20.000 Okay, so left the early.

00:18:22.000 So these guys came with weapons, tactics, motives, and intention well beyond someone inciting them to do something.

00:18:34.000 It says here that at least some of the arrests made are already part of a strategy used in counterterrorism investigations to find even minimal charge and try to take a person of concern off the streets.

00:18:46.000 That helps ease the possible threat amid concern about possible attacks on the inauguration, officials believe.

00:18:54.000 And that is why they said that they arrested some people in the days leading to that.

00:18:58.000 However, this article itself kind of, I mean, I'm just going to be very honest.

00:19:05.000 It's scary and it is incomprehensible to me that these people would do that, whomever they are, and they should be held fully accountable to the law.

00:19:15.000 If you come to Washington, D.C. with weapons and you have tactics and schematics, to me, that is just reprehensible and horrifying.

00:19:27.000 And so that goes and plays against a lot of the narrative that the media is painting, where it was 100% this rally that led to what happened on the Capitol.

00:19:41.000 Let's listen to Don Laman, Cut 85, where he says Trump voters are on the side of the Klansmen and other very horrible things.

00:19:50.000 Play Cut 85.

00:19:52.000 If you are on that side, you need to think about the side you're on.

00:19:55.000 I am never on the side of the Klan.

00:19:58.000 I am never principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Klan side.

00:20:03.000 Principal people, conservative or liberal, never on the Nazi side.

00:20:07.000 Principal people who are conservative or liberal, never on the side that treats their fellow Americans as less than, that says that your fellow Americans should not exist, that says your fellow Americans should be in a concentration camp, or that sides with slavery.

00:20:26.000 Well, first of all, Don Laman, it was David Duke who endorsed Joe Biden and it attacked Donald Trump for being too sympathetic to the cause of Israel.

00:20:42.000 And also, it is the Democrat Party that founded the KKK, was pro-segregation, and has always cared more about people's skin color than about their character.

00:20:55.000 They cared much more about immutable characteristics.

00:20:57.000 However, Don Laman, let me be very clear.

00:21:00.000 What you're doing here is irresponsible, reckless, and dangerous.

00:21:05.000 You are looping in decent and good patriots with fringe people all into one because it makes you feel good and it proves a political point.

00:21:20.000 And Isabel, we find this all the time on college campuses where all conservatives are the worst people ever. 0.99

00:21:26.000 All of you guys are racist and terrible and awful. 1.00

00:21:32.000 Right, Charlie. 0.99

00:21:32.000 And importantly, we're hearing from Don Lamon, our friend from CNN this morning, that this behavior is treating people lesser than what we're seeing from conservatives in America. 0.99

00:21:43.000 But isn't looping all conservatives in with, you know, Nazis and Hitler and Osama bin Laden, as we heard yesterday from Eric Swalwell and the party of the KKK, isn't that precisely treating half the country as lesser than by assuming that you automatically have these affiliations simply because of how you cast a ballot for president of the United States?

00:22:04.000 I find the hypocrisy just stunning in this statement from a CNN anchor on live national television.

00:22:11.000 And it's so ironic to me that they're always seeming to be on defense from the left when people identify the ideologies of Antifa and BLM Incorporated as coming from the left side of the aisle, but they don't hesitate one bit to loop in every conservative in America with the most radical ideology they can think of.

00:22:29.000 And if Don Laman read his own news organization's article, he would take pause and say, okay, based on what our own investigative unit has found, there are people that came there to Washington, D.C. with malevolent and awful intentions.

00:22:48.000 And those people happened to find a moment when there was 300,000 peaceful people right nearby at the Washington Monument.

00:22:58.000 Let's get to cut 91, MSNBC's Nicole Wallace.

00:23:04.000 I mean, I just, working the White House after 9-11, everything, and again, these policies are so controversial, so it's not a perfect parallel.

00:23:12.000 But every policy that was pursued was to find out what the terrorists were saying, and we listened to them.

00:23:16.000 That's what metadata was.

00:23:18.000 I mean, knowing what they said online is just basic intelligence.

00:23:23.000 Why wasn't a memo from Norfolk like that responded to with a show of force to protect against the occasion that that came true?

00:23:31.000 It turns out it did, but why isn't that the practice of the FBI?

00:23:34.000 So this is the new narrative, which is, wait, why aren't you spying on like 70 million people?

00:23:39.000 Why aren't you doing that?

00:23:41.000 And look, I'm with her.

00:23:42.000 If you're a terrorist, then, okay, but the definition of a terrorist is now being looped into tens of millions of voters all across the country.

00:23:55.000 And it's not just her.

00:23:56.000 We've played tape of this now being a constant drumbeat from people on the left, where they are now going to massively increase the security state.

00:24:08.000 I read a really good article this morning, believe it or not, in the Los Angeles Times, where they said we cannot, we have to resist the urge to loop in some of the people that were just walking by the Capitol or the people that were at the Washington Monument or the ellipse and loop them into the people that were actually storming, that were barricades and bashing cops.

00:24:31.000 And the argument they were making is as soon as you do this massive guilt by association exercise, you lose what it means to actually preserve common law and the rule of law in our country.

00:24:43.000 And look, I understand that tensions are still very high.

00:24:48.000 I don't think there's very much disagreement with what a lot of people are saying with what happened.

00:24:54.000 I want to read a quote here from Ken Langogan.

00:24:57.000 He's a co-founder of Home Depot.

00:25:00.000 And this is what he said.

00:25:02.000 He said, I think the biggest mistake anybody is going to make is to try and rationalize what happened last week, what the president did and what the crowd did.

00:25:08.000 There should be no mitigation at all.

00:25:10.000 Whoa, it was horrible.

00:25:12.000 It was wrong.

00:25:12.000 I'm shocked.

00:25:15.000 Last Wednesday was a disgrace.

00:25:17.000 I agree.

00:25:18.000 It should never have happened in this country.

00:25:20.000 I agree.

00:25:20.000 If it doesn't break every American's heart, something is wrong.

00:25:23.000 It breaks my heart for sure.

00:25:24.000 I didn't sign up for that.

00:25:26.000 And so he's coming out very forcibly against Republicans here.

00:25:31.000 However, I will just, you know, respectfully push back and say, if you are all of a sudden going to have no nuance at all whatsoever and say every single person that was in the zip code of Washington,

00:25:44.000 D.C. is equally guilty of the lunatic that planted pipe bombs or the guy that was caravening down the side of the wall or the guy with zip ties or the guy that had the 1960s helmet, then that is not the correct way to handle it.

00:26:08.000 And one of our team members here just messaged me, and this is exactly right, is that the left and the Democrats, they're intentionally leaving out the nuance.

00:26:17.000 That the nuance is there.

00:26:19.000 And that's where our job is, to try to explain the differences and the different gradations of what happened here.

00:26:28.000 And one question I do have, though, is that if there was all this chatter, public chatter leading up to what happened on January the 6th, why was the security so minimal outside of the Capitol?

00:26:41.000 Why did they have barricades that you could skateboard over?

00:26:44.000 Why didn't they have massive fences like they do at the Republican National Convention and the Democrat National Convention?

00:26:50.000 I don't know.

00:26:52.000 That's going to be for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and for the National Guard to have to explain, or at least the people that are in charge of deploying the National Guard.

00:27:03.000 Thomas Soule has a new piece out who's terrific.

00:27:06.000 And he says here, he says, is truth irrelevant?

00:27:10.000 He says this, it is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday's riots was wrong, when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on for weeks or even months in various cities across the country last year, for too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it hurts, helps and hurts politically.

00:27:29.000 Too many people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they're combatants in the political wars.

00:27:33.000 It's well said.

00:27:34.000 And some people say, well, this was a federal building.

00:27:37.000 Well, what about the federal courthouse that Antifa was storming in Portland?

00:27:41.000 What about the new country that they formed in Chaz? 0.55

00:27:44.000 What about their attempts to get into the White House?

00:27:49.000 All of that was looped into mostly peaceful protesting.

00:27:54.000 Let's go to Cut 88 here.

00:27:56.000 And Isabelle, I want to get your thoughts on here.

00:27:58.000 Alexandria Ecasio-Cortez pontificating.

00:28:01.000 Go to CUT 88.

00:28:03.000 You know, I do think that several members of Congress in some of my discussions have brought up media literacy because that is a part of what happened here.

00:28:16.000 And we're going to have to figure out how we reign in our media environment so that you can't just spew disinformation and misinformation.

00:28:32.000 Isabel? 1.00

00:28:33.000 Reign in our media environment. 0.84

00:28:36.000 That is terrifying language.

00:28:38.000 And I say that with a smile on my face because it's kind of comical the way that she's saying that.

00:28:42.000 But just recently, I reread 1984 for kicks and giggles just to revisit what that looked like.

00:28:49.000 It was.

00:28:49.000 It was an instruction manual for the left.

00:28:51.000 And this reminds me eerily of the Ministry of Truth from this book, from Orwell's vision of what the future might look like.

00:28:59.000 You have no freedom of speech if you have no freedom of information, period.

00:29:04.000 And we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but when you control 100% of the narrative, you have a free pass to rewrite history, to determine what's happening in the present, and obviously to guide the future as well.

00:29:16.000 Also, I find it interesting that this is the same individual who once told us it is more important to be morally correct than factually right.

00:29:26.000 Yet all of a sudden, facts seem to be very important to her in this age of media disinformation.

00:29:32.000 And she's saying, she said very clearly, the way I heard it, you know, that First Amendment thing?

00:29:37.000 Can we like get rid of that?

00:29:39.000 The whole freedom of speech thing?

00:29:40.000 That's what I heard when she said that.

00:29:41.000 Look, the essence is this, is that the left, if they had the buttons to push, they would push the button to get rid of freedom of speech and dialogue.

00:29:53.000 Now, thankfully, we have a Bill of Rights, so it's not that easy.

00:29:58.000 But what we consider to be fact-finding and investigation, she considers to be disinformation.

00:30:08.000 And interestingly enough, there's a court case I want to get into in the next segment, New York Times v. Sullivan, which is very, very important about this.

00:30:17.000 Isabel, what's on your mind?

00:30:19.000 A lot's on my mind, Charlie, and I'm frustrated that we've come to where we are today.

00:30:24.000 I will just say our democratic institutions that were established by our founding fathers were meant to stand the test of time, but we're definitely fighting the ability to make those things stand the test of time.

00:30:35.000 Impeachment has just become a total mockery of what it's supposed to be.

00:30:39.000 We saw a total sham impeachment be rushed through yesterday in record time, even before any evidence came out of what happened last Wednesday.

00:30:47.000 We went through a little bit of that this first hour.

00:30:50.000 And obviously now we're seeing the left try to prevent individuals from having the ability to question anything.

00:30:56.000 All of a sudden, questioning voter integrity means you're inciting a violent riot.

00:31:01.000 If you question what's happening online, you're part of the problem.

00:31:04.000 You're part of the mob and your account needs to be deleted.

00:31:07.000 And it's just disheartening for me to see our lack of ability as a society to judge people as individuals.

00:31:12.000 We just have to loop them in in a giant mob.

00:31:15.000 I agree completely.

00:31:16.000 And there is no detail or nuance.

00:31:20.000 First Amendment rights are just being eroded in more ways than one.

00:31:23.000 And people are saying, so what if you have an opinion?

00:31:26.000 If you share that opinion with somebody else, then you must have also done what they did and done it.

00:31:31.000 At the worst possible level imaginable.

00:31:33.000 Now, what we're going to start to unpack here is this tech issue, especially in the next hour.

00:31:39.000 Let's go to Cut 97.

00:31:41.000 John Matzey or Mates says that this attack on them, which it is, this was a coordinated attack on Parler.

00:31:48.000 This is something they may never be able to come back from.

00:31:50.000 Cut 97.

00:31:53.000 It is a real threat.

00:31:56.000 I mean, we're going to fight and do everything possible to come back as soon as possible.

00:32:01.000 It could be never.

00:32:02.000 I mean, we don't know yet.

00:32:04.000 Could be never.

00:32:06.000 So a startup company just wants to get into the social media space, and three $1 trillion companies worked in collusion and said, not so fast, my friend.

00:32:17.000 You're growing too quickly.

00:32:18.000 We are going to suffocate you.

00:32:20.000 Now, the reason they're using is that they were involved because of lack of moderation in the capital attack.

00:32:29.000 However, reports have now come out to show that the people that did this heinous act were mostly using Twitter and Facebook and some of these other publicly traded platforms, YouTube.

00:32:43.000 And so the question is, where was the blame on those tech giants for this?

00:32:48.000 Instead, they saw this as an economic monopolistic opportunity.

00:32:55.000 After a tragedy, these $1 trillion companies all kind of stepped up and did one mostly for Twitter because Parlor was eating into Twitter.

00:33:04.000 And they said, let's take them out.

00:33:06.000 Let's take out their distribution.

00:33:07.000 Let's take out their servers.

00:33:08.000 Let's take out their credibility.

00:33:10.000 And like that, the company may never return.

00:33:12.000 Dan Bongino is saying very clearly that they will return, but they might return in different capacity.

00:33:20.000 Can you read that Apple article there from, I think it's Business Insider?

00:33:23.000 It was Yahoo News.

00:33:24.000 But yeah, we read this interesting headline this morning before the show that made us really scratch our heads when it came to how it was written.

00:33:32.000 Here's the headline from Yahoo News this morning.

00:33:34.000 Parlor, a social media app that was used to organize the attack on the U.S. Capitol, needs to set up moderation to get back on the iPhone, Apple CEO Tim Cook says.

00:33:45.000 That's right.

00:33:46.000 How misleading is that?

00:33:47.000 Yeah, completely and totally.

00:33:49.000 And so it's very interesting because we have now seen a steady assault on every single social media competitor you can imagine.

00:34:00.000 Rumble, Rumble.com is also struggling because they're not even being given distribution.

00:34:08.000 Rumble.com is suing Google and YouTube for monopolistic practices for $2 billion.

00:34:16.000 And part of what makes a free market work is competition, is the ability to be able to take risks as an entrepreneur, present a better idea, and hopefully get support behind that.

00:34:27.000 What makes this pattern of behavior so incredibly dangerous is when these $1 trillion companies can have more power than the government, where we have the country of Twitter, we have the country of Google, we have the country of Amazon that lives in America and shuts them out totally and completely.

00:34:46.000 That's horrifying.

00:34:48.000 In fact, that goes to show that freedom of speech is nothing more than just a esoteric idea that cannot exist on the largest platforms in this country.

00:35:01.000 And to this day, the president of the United States, right today, the president of the United States cannot go on any major digital platform and have his voice be heard.

00:35:13.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - January 15, 2021

Impeachment Fallout and AOC's Ministry of Truth

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