The Charlie Kirk Show - Impeachment Sham Goes to Hollywood + France Cancels America's Runaway Cancel Culture

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00:01:22.000 So, what happened in the impeachment trial?

00:01:24.000 Well, the Democrats gave their opening remarks.

00:01:27.000 And to always be honest with you guys, and to just call it actually as it is, the Democrats did far better than the Trump team.

00:01:36.000 And that's not to say their arguments are better, but their performance was much better.

00:01:41.000 The Democrats came better prepared.

00:01:43.000 They gave highly emotional arguments.

00:01:46.000 They showed moving footage.

00:01:48.000 It was very deceiving.

00:01:50.000 It was not rooted in facts, but they did much better than the Trump impeachment team.

00:01:55.000 The Trump impeachment team, specifically, I think one of Trump's lawyers by the name of Bruce Castor, gave one of the most bizarre speeches I've ever heard in the history of law.

00:02:06.000 And I don't really do much law history, quite honestly, but I've never seen a speech quite like it.

00:02:12.000 If you've ever seen my cousin Vinny, that's as close as we're going to get.

00:02:16.000 Just a total and complete choke job.

00:02:19.000 When I was watching this video, and I'll play it for you right now, he just had some very strange remarks and sentences.

00:02:27.000 It almost felt like a bad lip reading video, is what it felt like.

00:02:31.000 You guys, if you're familiar with bad lip reading, it is when you take someone that gave a speech and you impose other words over it.

00:02:39.000 He talked about how he got lost in the halls of Congress, about how the people of Nebraska are wonderful.

00:02:46.000 And here's just some free advice coming from a non-lawyer, someone that does not have a law degree.

00:02:54.000 Don't ever compliment the prosecution.

00:02:58.000 Could you imagine if Alan Dershowitz, when he was defending O.J. Simpson, came up and said, What a wonderful opening statement against my client who you're trying to accuse of murder.

00:03:10.000 This guy starts his remarks by complimenting the prosecution.

00:03:15.000 I would imagine that you could get in trouble for that as a lawyer by, I don't know, I've never heard of that.

00:03:21.000 I've never seen that before.

00:03:22.000 I'm sure there's instances where that's happened.

00:03:24.000 But he said, well, we had to really change our strategy because the House Democrats really blew us away.

00:03:29.000 Well, thanks, man.

00:03:30.000 Bruce Caster, nice enough guy, but choke city.

00:03:35.000 I saw a headline.

00:03:37.000 Representative so-and-so seeks to walk back comments about, I forget what it was, something that bothered her.

00:03:45.000 I don't want to steal the thunder from the other lawyers, but Nebraska, you're going to hear, is quite a judicial thinking place.

00:03:55.000 If the individual state legislatures didn't adopt the Constitution, we would not have it.

00:04:03.000 The floodgates will open.

00:04:05.000 So I was going to say originally, it will release the whirlwind.

00:04:08.000 But I subsequently learned since I got here that that particular phrase has already been taken.

00:04:13.000 So I figured I better change it to floodgates.

00:04:16.000 We changed what we were going to do on account that we thought that the House manager's presentation was well done.

00:04:24.000 We are generally a social people.

00:04:28.000 We enjoy being around one another.

00:04:31.000 Senators of the United States, they're not ordinary people.

00:04:37.000 And boy, this is a diverse group.

00:04:38.000 We still know what records are, right?

00:04:41.000 On the thing you put the needle down on and play it.

00:04:43.000 I worked in this building 40 years ago.

00:04:46.000 I got lost then, and I still do.

00:04:48.000 I represent the great state of fill-in-the-blank.

00:04:52.000 Not a good argument.

00:04:53.000 And so here's what the argument should have been.

00:04:55.000 And we've been making this argument here for days, for weeks.

00:05:00.000 It's very simple.

00:05:01.000 The first thing that Bruce Castor should have said is somebody is missing from this impeachment.

00:05:09.000 And he should have turned around and looked at Senator Patrick Leahy.

00:05:12.000 A partisan Democrat is residing as the judge of this impeachment.

00:05:16.000 Then he should have took out his Constitution.

00:05:18.000 But this should have been the opening argument.

00:05:20.000 In the United States Constitution, it says clearly and specifically, the Chief Justice shall preside over any impeachment proceedings.

00:05:28.000 And he should have pointed a lahey.

00:05:30.000 Nothing against you from the center of Vermont, but you're not the Chief Justice of the United States.

00:05:35.000 This impeachment is over.

00:05:37.000 It's that simple.

00:05:38.000 And then he should have just let the silence continue.

00:05:42.000 Constitution, Chief Justice, Democrat senator from Vermont.

00:05:47.000 All right, let's go back to Bruce Caster, who's just all over the place.

00:05:51.000 Look, I feel bad for the guy.

00:05:53.000 I just don't think he was ready for the bright lights.

00:05:55.000 I mean that.

00:05:55.000 I think that he got called up.

00:05:57.000 And because of the new cancel culture, I think a lot of lawyers said no to Trump.

00:06:03.000 And I'm sure this guy's a phenomenal lawyer, and I'm sure he does a great job representing clients.

00:06:08.000 But let me be very clear.

00:06:10.000 This, what's happening in the Senate, has nothing to do with how good of a lawyer you are.

00:06:14.000 It's how good of a showman you are.

00:06:17.000 Are you able to put on a show?

00:06:19.000 It's that simple.

00:06:21.000 Would you be able to perform in Hamilton?

00:06:23.000 Yes or no?

00:06:25.000 If you're not able to perform in Hamilton, you should not be an impeachment lawyer.

00:06:29.000 You can help with the briefs.

00:06:31.000 Now, mind you, most of law is reading and writing.

00:06:36.000 Very little when it comes to law is this.

00:06:41.000 And even less when it comes to law, especially, and this is what a litigator would do, is performing in front of 100 senators who all have political interests at heart and performing in front of tens of millions of people.

00:06:56.000 You don't compliment the prosecution.

00:06:59.000 You don't talk about how you got lost in Congress.

00:07:01.000 Again, I don't mean to, this is not an attack on President Trump.

00:07:04.000 It just so happens this guy, I think, set the cause back.

00:07:08.000 Republicans yesterday, Bill Cassidy, who inexplicably then voted in defense, no, in favor, I'm sorry, in favor of the constitutionality of this exercise, partially because I think that this was one of the most meandering arguments I've seen in quite some time.

00:07:25.000 And I've heard reports, and I believe they are true, that President Trump was livid at the speeches that were given.

00:07:33.000 Now, that's not to say that Trump's now going to be convicted because of it.

00:07:37.000 It's just, let's just look at this as the best of a seven-game series, right?

00:07:43.000 It's the best of a seven-game series, the NBA Finals or the World Series, and you lost the first day.

00:07:51.000 And of course, the Democrats who are funded by Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese and all of these people, they're going to have the best videos, the best arguments, the best one-liners.

00:08:03.000 They're the party of Hollywood.

00:08:05.000 Of course, they're going to be better at this than Republicans and conservatives.

00:08:11.000 But just a little word to the wise.

00:08:13.000 When you're representing a client, you never, ever say anything. that is contradictory to what your client has said.

00:08:23.000 For example, Bruce Castor then comes up and says, well, the voters voted Trump out of office.

00:08:30.000 You might believe that, but your client does not.

00:08:36.000 You are in the business of defending your clients, not in making your opinion well known of what you think happened in the election.

00:08:43.000 Okay, so it wasn't all a dumpster fire for Trump's defense.

00:08:49.000 And the arguments that were being made were not bad by Bruce Castor.

00:08:55.000 They were just presented terribly in almost this kind of folksy, friendly type way.

00:09:02.000 This is a show.

00:09:04.000 This is a Hollywood production.

00:09:07.000 You need to be Atticus Finch.

00:09:11.000 You need to be someone that does not waver an inch.

00:09:15.000 This is not about normal court procedures.

00:09:19.000 This is made for television and by television.

00:09:23.000 This is a Martin Scorsese film.

00:09:27.000 If you are not holding the line about the illegitimacy of this impeachment, then you are not actually doing your job as a lawyer.

00:09:37.000 Ted Cruz says the obvious, cut 63.

00:09:40.000 He went on Sean Hannity's program and said Trump will be acquitted, and the senators know that.

00:09:45.000 They just want a week of political feeder and a show trial.

00:09:49.000 Play tape. 0.81

00:09:51.000 This is going to be just venting the id of the Democrats.

00:09:57.000 And then it's going to end with failure.

00:09:59.000 It is going to end with the president being acquitted.

00:10:02.000 In order for the president to be convicted, it takes 67 votes in the U.S. Senate.

00:10:07.000 That's not going to happen.

00:10:08.000 It's not going to get 67 votes.

00:10:10.000 It's not going to get close to 67 votes.

00:10:13.000 Every one of the 100 senators knows that.

00:10:16.000 Every one of the House managers knows that.

00:10:18.000 But this is political theater because rather than address the real problems, the real challenges we have in this country, rather than focus on getting kids back in school and getting tens of millions of Americans back to work, the Democrats want a week of just political theater raging at Donald Trump.

00:10:38.000 And if I was a Democrat, which I'm not, and my ideas were unpopular and they weren't going to work, and I have been warning against the rise of white nationalism, I would be doing exactly what the Democrats are doing if I actually didn't care about the well-being of the country.

00:10:58.000 That's the if.

00:11:00.000 If I cared about the well-being of the country, I wouldn't be doing that.

00:11:03.000 But if I just cared about my political future and if I cared about holding on to committee position, then that's absolutely what I would be doing.

00:11:16.000 You know how many constructive things could be happening for our country right now?

00:11:20.000 We could be opening up our schools.

00:11:22.000 There could be an infrastructure bill for our country.

00:11:24.000 We could be opening up our economy.

00:11:26.000 Instead, we're doing performance art.

00:11:28.000 One thing I have learned about the left and the Democrats is they are experts in humiliation.

00:11:38.000 In fact, they go out of their way to find opportunities to humiliate the other side.

00:11:44.000 This is a Saul Alinsky tactic.

00:11:47.000 It's performance art in the sense of it's no different than what Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert do every single night.

00:11:57.000 It's completely scripted.

00:11:59.000 They know the outcome.

00:12:01.000 It's made for TV.

00:12:02.000 It's made for cameras.

00:12:05.000 It's not about persuasion, but it's about activation.

00:12:10.000 And it also establishes a narrative.

00:12:14.000 So now you have Jamie Raskin and you have the House impeachment managers that realize that they could not raise the billions of dollars to run the uninterrupted cable television advertisements to reinforce a narrative that helps them politically.

00:12:30.000 Half the country are actually domestic terrorists.

00:12:33.000 You just don't realize it.

00:12:35.000 That's really what their argument is here.

00:12:37.000 They know that it's not constitutionally sound.

00:12:41.000 They know that Trump will not be able to be barred from office based on what's happening here.

00:12:49.000 Instead, they're purchasing free television time for a political aim.

00:12:55.000 Instead of purchasing it, they're just giving these speeches under the auspice of constitutional impeachment with the Chief Justice not even being present.

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00:14:10.000 Doug Nagus, he just made an inherent contradiction in his argument.

00:14:16.000 So I hope that the Trump defense team will come up and say Congressman Negus made a huge mistake.

00:14:25.000 So Congressman Negus came up and he said, well, President Trump was saying this for months.

00:14:32.000 Hold on a second.

00:14:34.000 If your argument is that what he said for months then resulted in violence on the sixths, why was there no violence in November or December?

00:14:47.000 If those words then incite violence, why didn't they have a track record of inciting violence before?

00:14:56.000 Why was the sixth different?

00:14:57.000 Maybe the sixth was different because there were paramilitary people that showed up that didn't even go to the rally with instigators there.

00:15:07.000 Maybe that's why.

00:15:09.000 The argument there that, well, his words were being said for months.

00:15:13.000 Now, the argument they're making is that it had a culmination effect.

00:15:16.000 I think that's a very, very weak argument.

00:15:19.000 Political speech is protected by the First Amendment.

00:15:23.000 The threshold for incitement, as Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr have both said, is incredibly high.

00:15:31.000 The threshold for incitement, Alan Dershowitz said, it would have taken Trump to actually be on the steps of the Capitol and be specific about the points of action that needed to be taken.

00:15:43.000 And then those actions had to be taken specifically.

00:15:48.000 Not someone two miles away that had a rally that was peaceful.

00:15:54.000 No one doubts, by the way, that what happened at the ellipse was peaceful.

00:15:58.000 No one.

00:16:00.000 And then people march two miles to the Capitol.

00:16:04.000 Not everyone, but some people do.

00:16:06.000 And even while the president was speaking, some of the police barricades were already being broken.

00:16:12.000 The timeline speaks for itself in that way.

00:16:16.000 Now, I know a lot of people are exhausted with this impeachment debate already.

00:16:21.000 It seems as if we just got through this with the Ukrainian phone call impeachment with Shmerik Shimarela.

00:16:32.000 And I understand that a lot of people are tired and they want this to go away.

00:16:39.000 But I hope you understand that this is actually not about impeachment.

00:16:45.000 What's happening right now is a debate over the next Patriot Act.

00:16:51.000 What's happening right now is a debate over whether or not we should create a 53rd domestic terrorist law on the books, whether or not we should give the Department of Homeland Security and our domestic agencies power to infiltrate, monitor, suppress political groups here domestically.

00:17:14.000 That's actually what's happening right now.

00:17:16.000 That's the debate that's happening on the House floor.

00:17:19.000 We know the result of this impeachment.

00:17:21.000 What the Democrats are really doing is they're trying to win public approval over for the next Patriot Act.

00:17:28.000 Glenn Greenwald has warned about this at length.

00:17:32.000 And the Democrats want this for a very specific reason.

00:17:36.000 The Democrats want to establish the next Patriot Act because then they'll be able to say we actually got something done. 0.97

00:17:43.000 The Democrats are not dumb.

00:17:47.000 The Democrats know the data on this piece of paper that I'm about to share with you. 0.88

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00:17:58.000 Republicans were just 32,000 votes shy of a House majority in 2020.

00:18:06.000 32,000 votes shy of Nancy Pelosi not being Speaker of the House.

00:18:16.000 Claudia Tenney, Republican from upstate New York, just won her race.

00:18:21.000 Republicans made historic gains in the House of Representatives.

00:18:26.000 Democrats also know that the midterm after a presidential, especially when that presidential was narrow, which it was, is awful for the incumbent party, especially with tough economic conditions and even more so with a president who is not exactly charismatic and with very little following.

00:18:47.000 Democrats know this.

00:18:50.000 Democrats know that Republicans are very likely to take back the House of Representatives in 2022.

00:18:58.000 And their strategy is playing out in this impeachment mess right now.

00:19:05.000 Their strategy is we must pass another Patriot Act and fearmonger in all the swing districts that, yes, Democrats might be awful.

00:19:13.000 We might represent ideas that are unpopular.

00:19:16.000 We might actually want to raise your taxes and expand government, but at least we are an Eric Rudolph.

00:19:22.000 We are at Timothy McVay.

00:19:24.000 We're not Ted Kaczynski.

00:19:26.000 We're not going to hurt you.

00:19:27.000 We're going to protect you.

00:19:30.000 And if there's anything we've learned over the last year is that safetyism sells, that a lot of people do want to be taken care of.

00:19:39.000 That freedom is hard.

00:19:40.000 Freedom is a value.

00:19:42.000 Freedom must be taught.

00:19:44.000 And that if the Democrats can now all of a sudden become the party that gives the appearance that we will protect you against the most evil people out there, because that's half the country, then Democrats think they could be successful in 2022 despite the almost guaranteed Republican avalanche that's about to come.

00:20:14.000 Now, what might interrupt that is universal mail and voting, social media tech censorship, or also a new Patriot Act that suppresses freedom of speech, that keeps conservatives and grassroots patriots in a state of fear where they say, I don't want to get engaged or involved.

00:20:35.000 That's what's actually happening right now.

00:20:38.000 This is not an impeachment.

00:20:40.000 It's not.

00:20:41.000 The Chief Justice is not here.

00:20:44.000 This is a policy debate over whether or not we should dramatically expand the surveillance state in our country, whether or not we should be able to spy on what they call dangerous Christian nationalists.

00:21:00.000 This is a debate whether or not we should be able to give people like John Brennan from the Central Intelligence Agency more funding, more ability, and more capacity than they had previously.

00:21:16.000 That's what's happening here.

00:21:18.000 Brad Schneider has introduced a bill to Congress that has said that he believes that domestic political groups should be more surveilled and infiltrated.

00:21:27.000 The problem is that they never define what radical actually means.

00:21:33.000 Alan Dershowitz is a liberal Democrat.

00:21:37.000 Glenn Greenwald is a liberal Democrat.

00:21:41.000 Both of them are in full agreement that what happens from this point forward in regards to the security state will determine the future of American political discourse.

00:21:56.000 And what's so stunning is that typically this form of surveillance, this form of infiltration, this form of heavy-handed police state activity almost always was used traditionally against liberals and against socialists.

00:22:15.000 They don't care anymore.

00:22:18.000 They are so prideful, believing we're in charge.

00:22:23.000 We control the bureaucracies.

00:22:26.000 We control the civil service now.

00:22:28.000 We are now going to use domestic spying abilities, drone reconnaissance, facial recognition, infiltration strategies, audio interception practices against Christian nationalists, against libertarians.

00:22:45.000 Those are John Brennan's own words.

00:22:50.000 Liberty is for everybody, at least it's supposed to be.

00:22:54.000 You have the liberty to be a socialist in America.

00:22:57.000 You have the liberty to have really awful and bigoted ideas.

00:23:02.000 The Constitution is a framework that allows you protection against government tyranny.

00:23:11.000 The Founding Fathers knew that tyranny was inevitable if they didn't put up firewalls and protections and measures to prevent that tyranny from being used against its citizens.

00:23:23.000 The tyranny of suppressing freedom of speech, the tyranny of taking your firearms away, the tyranny of spying on you, the tyranny of quartering soldiers in your home, the tyranny of being locked into prison without a trial, the tyranny of not even knowing what you're charged with.

00:23:38.000 So instead, the Constitution comes from a perspective of what's called negative rights, where instead the Constitution does not tell you what your rights are.

00:23:51.000 It's one of the biggest lies that our kids are taught in school.

00:23:54.000 The Constitution does not tell you that you have a right to life.

00:23:59.000 It doesn't.

00:24:01.000 It recognizes that right was there before the document was written, given to you by God, but instead, the Constitution says you have a right not to have that right taken away from you.

00:24:12.000 That's what makes the U.S. Constitution different.

00:24:16.000 And you have a right to not be spied on.

00:24:20.000 You have a right not to be monitored, infiltrated for having a different political opinion.

00:24:28.000 The Democrats, in collusion with the intelligence agencies, are now putting on a show trial, and they know the way it's going to end.

00:24:39.000 But the real reason they're doing this is to try to win public opinion to increase the surveillance state.

00:24:48.000 Senator Rand Paul has warned against this for quite some time, and we are going to need to build a broad-based coalition to push back against this.

00:25:00.000 Just how Americans were okay with mask mandates, shutting down schools, and shutting down businesses.

00:25:06.000 When you are afraid, you're easier to control.

00:25:08.000 When you're afraid, you're more likely to give up your freedom and liberty.

00:25:12.000 And if they keep people afraid and they keep people in a state of fear, then why wouldn't we pass a series of laws that treats half the country like al-Qaeda?

00:25:25.000 Joe Nagoos, who is the Congressman from Colorado, played a montage of a lot of people who said, Well, Trump told me to come on the 6th.

00:25:33.000 Trump told me to come on the 6th.

00:25:35.000 So what?

00:25:37.000 You're trying to tell me that someone wanted you to attend a political rally?

00:25:42.000 You booked the ticket.

00:25:44.000 You decided to go.

00:25:45.000 You're responsible for your actions.

00:25:47.000 But even more than that, he told you to show up at the ellipse. 0.61

00:25:52.000 If all of a sudden the standard of guilt is a promotion of an event that then goes wrong, well, then Alexandria Kazi-Cortez should be going to prison sometime soon. 0.98

00:26:03.000 You know why? 1.00

00:26:05.000 AOC was tweeting out, take to the streets, let's go to the streets in New York back in June and July.

00:26:12.000 And then people were throwing Molotov cocktails at the police officers.

00:26:16.000 Is AOC now someone who should be held criminally liable for that?

00:26:20.000 Of course not.

00:26:23.000 There are different components of this, and I hope the Trump impeachment team talks about this.

00:26:28.000 There was a peaceful rally at the ellipse.

00:26:32.000 There was then a peaceful march.

00:26:36.000 And then there was a violent riot.

00:26:38.000 Those are three different components.

00:26:42.000 I've already said my piece that I do not think the president should have said he was going down to the Capitol.

00:26:48.000 He said it seven times.

00:26:49.000 I thought that was an error in judgment.

00:26:51.000 That is not impeachable.

00:26:52.000 And no, that is not criminal.

00:26:55.000 But what the impeachment managers are not doing, what the Trump team is now going to have to get into the details, whether they like it or not.

00:27:02.000 Because guess what?

00:27:03.000 They lost the constitutional argument yesterday because they were talking about how decent people are in Nebraska and whatever Castor was saying.

00:27:10.000 This kind of folksy, I get lost in the halls, you know, kind of strange routine.

00:27:20.000 Now you're going to get into the details.

00:27:22.000 Show the video of when the police line was first broken.

00:27:25.000 Show the president saying that he said patriotic and peaceful.

00:27:30.000 Show the fact that there were pipe bombs planted the night before.

00:27:33.000 Use their own evidence against them.

00:27:37.000 Use the own evidence against them where they are saying, Well, this seems to have been brewing even into December.

00:27:43.000 Time out.

00:27:45.000 If this was brewing all the way into December, according to House impeachment managers, then this was premeditated and not spontaneous.

00:27:54.000 If this was actually about impeachment, which it isn't, then they would be talking about the specifics of how incitement in the criminal code was violated.

00:28:12.000 High crimes and misdemeanors.

00:28:14.000 Do you notice that they're not citing any criminal code?

00:28:17.000 At least in my portion that I've watched.

00:28:20.000 Instead, it's this overarching thing: Trump called a rally, Trump said some things we don't like, then people came and rioted to the Capitol.

00:28:32.000 It's not the way incitement works at all.

00:28:36.000 But how will the House defense team answer to the point that there was over 150 people that were part of groups, three percenters, oath keepers, that were wearing military gear, gas masks on?

00:28:51.000 They were not there for the rally.

00:28:53.000 They were there for a different reason.

00:28:55.000 And indictments are showing that.

00:28:58.000 The Washington Post has said this is looking less and less like a spontaneous rally and more like a pre-planned attack.

00:29:05.000 They're also going to have to reconcile and explain John Sullivan, the BLM Incorporated activist that disguised himself as a Trump supporter.

00:29:14.000 By no means was that a majority of people there, but he did play a role.

00:29:18.000 The professional agitators.

00:29:21.000 This is a lot more nuanced and complicated than the narrative that the House impeachment managers are portraying.

00:29:29.000 The narrative they're portraying is as if Trump held a deployment.

00:29:34.000 That Trump had a training session with specific marching orders.

00:29:40.000 You cannot convict somebody based on political speech that could be interpreted any single anyway.

00:29:46.000 That's not the way our justice system works.

00:29:49.000 Maybe in the Soviet Union it works that way, but our system presumes innocence, and you have to have beyond a reasonable doubt before you convict somebody.

00:30:00.000 I hope the Trump impeachment managers step up.

00:30:03.000 This is a made-for-Hollywood production.

00:30:04.000 This is not a court of law.

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00:31:17.000 Don't you love all this unity?

00:31:19.000 I'm a big unity fan.

00:31:21.000 Just Democrats uniting America every day trying to impeach a private citizen.

00:31:26.000 That was really nice as it was as it lasted.

00:31:30.000 There's a lot of stories I want to get into.

00:31:32.000 One of the Castro brothers, Joaquin Castro, is speaking.

00:31:36.000 He's actually doing a pretty good job for his cause, I have to say.

00:31:39.000 I mean, I disagree with everything he's saying, but just from a presentation standpoint, he's very factual, at least within the realms of the facts that fit his narrative.

00:31:48.000 And I think that I hope the Trump impeachment team steps up.

00:31:51.000 I do.

00:31:52.000 These guys have been coached and they're prepared, no doubt.

00:31:54.000 I think their case is weak, and I think the facts that they're choosing are incredibly misleading, incomplete, and put forth a narrative that is destructive for the country.

00:32:03.000 With that being said, I think they're actually the presentation they're giving, just from an objective analysis, has so far exceeded my expectations, let alone, you know, just my expectations were very low.

00:32:18.000 So I want to get to a couple stories here.

00:32:21.000 I want to talk about this one.

00:32:22.000 This is my favorite.

00:32:23.000 This is my new favorite story of the day.

00:32:25.000 And we'll just let Wachton Castro go on for whatever.

00:32:33.000 I couldn't believe this story.

00:32:34.000 So, yes, we are a subscriber to the New York Times only because I do the opposition research.

00:32:39.000 That's why you guys help us out here at charliekirk.com/slash support. 0.99

00:32:44.000 And so I've made it a point to kind of poke some fun and some tough love towards the French. 0.82

00:32:56.000 This is of no, I mean, no offense to any people that are watching this in France.

00:33:00.000 And if you're watching it, please email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:33:03.000 I'm sure that there's some wonderful people in France.

00:33:07.000 And but France has been a focal point and a chief exporter of some of the most disastrous and destructive ideas to the American Republic over the last couple decades.

00:33:27.000 And so I read this article in the New York Times.

00:33:30.000 It says, in simmering race and gender struggle, France blames the U.S. ideas.

00:33:35.000 Like, what?

00:33:36.000 France blames United States ideas.

00:33:40.000 It says, woke leftism cited as a threat to nation.

00:33:43.000 That's what it says, literally, in the New York Times.

00:33:46.000 Woke leftism cited as threat to nation.

00:33:49.000 So this is really interesting because typically the ruling class of Paris and the ruling class of New York agree on everything.

00:33:57.000 There's no difference.

00:33:59.000 And so you read this article.

00:34:01.000 It says that Emmanuel Macron says that certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States are an existential threat to France.

00:34:14.000 So there's a couple different ways that we can take this.

00:34:18.000 The first way that we could take it is that our universities have become so rotten that even the French want nothing to do with them.

00:34:27.000 That's the first takeaway.

00:34:29.000 But the more accurate takeaway is where did these ideas come from in the first place?

00:34:36.000 Who has actually been the chief exporter of the ideas of postmodernism and gender and race struggle?

00:34:50.000 France is now going to have to live under the very ideas that they exported to our country. 0.50

00:34:59.000 Back in the 1960s, a philosopher by the name of Jacques Derrida came to Yale and introduced a series of pieces of literature, books, and lectures around the idea of postmodernism and deconstructionism. 0.60

00:35:16.000 Jacques Derrida argued that there is no such thing as absolute truth, that the way that we view indigenous tribes and everything is always painted from a colonialist pro-Western picture.

00:35:27.000 Now, some of it might be a fun thought experiment while you're a freshman in college, but it's all vapid.

00:35:32.000 It's nonsense. 1.00

00:35:34.000 It's garbage. 1.00

00:35:36.000 Jacques Derrida found a fellow French trickster to be able to spread their nonsense throughout the American economy. 1.00

00:35:45.000 Michelle Foucault. 0.93

00:35:48.000 They paired up nicely with the German Frankfurt School philosopher, Herbert Marcuse, who's a Marxist.

00:35:58.000 And it all just kind of got blended together into what is now known as the garbage heap that is higher education in our country.

00:36:07.000 But if you go even all the way back to the French Revolution, it's the French Revolution that argued for liberty, equality, not equality under the law, and fraternity.

00:36:19.000 The French Revolution, brought forward by people like Robespierre and the Jacobins, which led the way for Napoleon Bonaparte after the French Revolution.

00:36:33.000 The ideas that France has always been built on are not the ideas of in God be trust and e pluribus unum and liberty.

00:36:41.000 Their idea of liberty is different than our idea of liberty.

00:36:44.000 Instead, their ideas are the ones that got launched here, deteriorated our country, and now they're getting launched back to France and France is blaming us.

00:36:56.000 And what's so fascinating about this is that France says, well, we don't really focus on race and gender very much here.

00:37:03.000 We're very liberated.

00:37:05.000 So France has always preferred to focus on class, rich versus poor.

00:37:11.000 Whereas America, we've never really focused on race and gender until recently.

00:37:15.000 We tried the class thing in 2010.

00:37:18.000 Why?

00:37:18.000 It didn't work.

00:37:19.000 We're so wealthy and we have so much opportunity.

00:37:22.000 It's hard to convince a family who's earning $130,000 a year and has a couple kids that the country is a complete garbage heap.

00:37:29.000 They're like, yeah, there's some problems, but my kids got to get to school.

00:37:32.000 And I think the system generally works for me.

00:37:35.000 So then we reintroduce these postmodernist ideas, which is class struggle, black against white, woman against man, trans against everybody, rich versus poor, constantly dividing, thanks to Michelle Foucault and Jacques Derrida, which is just as France as Bordeaux, okay?

00:37:58.000 There's no way around it.

00:37:59.000 This was not manufactured within the United States.

00:38:02.000 But now France, in the international section of the New York Times, is complaining that America's ideas are now infecting France.

00:38:12.000 This would be like China complaining that they have the Chinese coronavirus. 0.72

00:38:17.000 Like, no, it started in your country, probably in a lab. 1.00

00:38:20.000 I don't care what the WHO says. 0.99

00:38:22.000 They're a bunch of liars bought and paid for by your governmental leaders. 0.97

00:38:26.000 And this is not an isolated problem. 0.97

00:38:28.000 You see, the pathogen of class-based, gender-based, and race-based struggle is taking over the entire free world.

00:38:37.000 Why?

00:38:39.000 It's because France and the United States are becoming more secular.

00:38:44.000 It's that simple.

00:38:46.000 Do religious people have problems at times? 1.00

00:38:48.000 Of course. 1.00

00:38:49.000 Absolutely. 0.85

00:38:51.000 But religion is the reason we have a society at all.

00:38:55.000 The ideas of the Bible are a reason, is the reason why the entire West exists.

00:39:00.000 You want to know France why all of a sudden your country is deteriorating under these ideas of critical race theory?

00:39:07.000 It's because you have one of the lowest church attendance rates in the entire world.

00:39:11.000 As soon as people stop going to church, they're going to start finding something to replace it.

00:39:16.000 They're going to need to replace that vertical relationship with something. 0.59

00:39:20.000 And so France, I just, I love this story on just so many different levels because it's just such an unbelievably ironic twist that now France, who has perfected the exporting of these ideas, is now blaming our country for them bringing them back in.

00:39:40.000 And it will be the downfall of Europe.

00:39:42.000 Europe's already in a downfall for a variety of different ways.

00:39:45.000 These ideas are a pathogen.

00:39:47.000 They are.

00:39:47.000 You're seeing what they're doing to our children.

00:39:50.000 One thing that when you study totalitarians and you study authoritarians, they always try to turn their parents, the kids against the parents.

00:39:56.000 Do you notice that?

00:39:58.000 That's, of course, because they don't follow the Bible.

00:40:03.000 Ten Commandments. 0.56

00:40:04.000 What's the one group of people?

00:40:06.000 Oh, the Chinese Communist Party spies speaking, by the way.

00:40:08.000 We'll get to him in a second.

00:40:09.000 It's unbelievable.

00:40:11.000 What's the one group of people that you are told to honor in the Bible?

00:40:15.000 Your parents.

00:40:17.000 And it's the only commandment where there's a promise within the commandment so that you may live long in the land and you may prosper.

00:40:24.000 Totalitarians have always been focused on breaking the child-parent relationship so government can take its place.

00:40:31.000 Well, this is not a trial.

00:40:32.000 The fact that the defense cannot raise an objection when something pathologically untrue is submitted as evidence goes to show this is not a trial.

00:40:41.000 This is a made-for-TV exercise.

00:40:43.000 And the Trump impeachment managers should treat it like the Trump defense team, I'm sorry, should treat it like that.

00:40:50.000 For example, Eric Swalwell, who had a relationship with Fang Fang, said, he came out and he said that Donald Trump said that dead people voted and nothing else more.

00:41:03.000 That's not true.

00:41:04.000 You can go and you can see he linked to an article.

00:41:06.000 He linked to somebody else's journalism.

00:41:08.000 Now, whose that was, I don't know.

00:41:10.000 But you can even tell based on the tweet that he was linking to something else.

00:41:15.000 In any court of law, someone would say objection, that's not true.

00:41:21.000 So now their argument is changing.

00:41:24.000 The House impeachment managers are now saying, well, it's less about what was said on January the 6th, but now it's an overarching multi-month incitement campaign around a lie.

00:41:38.000 You see what's really happening here, don't you?

00:41:42.000 They want to suppress and stop all conversation around voter integrity in the future.

00:41:51.000 Their argument is now, if you talk about the problems with mail and ballots like Jimmy Carter, if you talk about signature verification issues, if you talk about people that are on the voter rolls that shouldn't be, if you talk about granny farming like the New York Times did,

00:42:06.000 if you talk about how developmentally disabled people have their ballots stolen from them, like a whistleblower said in Wisconsin, which was never followed up on, if you talk about how in Nevada, the Nevada Native Project, they were giving cash for ballots in front of Joe Biden for president buses, if you talk about how there was a 1,774% increase in voter registration from 90-plus-year-olds in Pennsylvania, then you're actually inciting insurrection against the country. 0.73

00:42:33.000 That's their argument.

00:42:35.000 You see, the Democrats are trying to lay a foundation for two very specific things.

00:42:43.000 A Patriot Act, which I'll get to in a second.

00:42:45.000 I know some of our viewers are saying, what's the Patriot Act?

00:42:47.000 I just assume everyone knows what it is, but that's okay.

00:42:49.000 I will go through that, so I apologize for that.

00:42:51.000 But they're also trying to get HR1 passed.

00:42:55.000 They're trying to get mail-in voting passed that is federally funded.

00:42:58.000 So they're going a step further.

00:43:00.000 They're not just saying that mail-in voting is safe and secure.

00:43:05.000 No, no, no.

00:43:05.000 They're saying if you dare question it, you're ISIS.

00:43:11.000 That's their argument.

00:43:13.000 That if you question everyone getting a ballot, dead, alive, foreign, whatever, citizen, funded by the government, then you're actually contributing to the downfall of the country.

00:43:29.000 It's really interesting.

00:43:30.000 One of the arguments made by one of the former speakers in the impeachment trial just said, and I'm listening to it in between breaks.

00:43:36.000 I'll do the best job to analyze it so a lot of you guys don't have to listen to it.

00:43:41.000 Said in between the breaks, he said, Well, Donald Trump said that he would not win unless an election was interfered with.

00:43:54.000 That's what Hillary Clinton did in 2016.

00:43:57.000 To this day, Hillary Clinton had not acknowledged Trump was president.

00:44:01.000 She said it was because of Russia, it was because of Putin, the Mueller investigation.

00:44:07.000 You want to talk about a group of people that were inciting action against Trump supporters?

00:44:15.000 That was the Democrats.

00:44:16.000 Jamie Raskin himself was inciting violence against Trump supporters that happened at the Trump inauguration.

00:44:25.000 But for them, the Democrats want to end a certain discussion in this country.

00:44:31.000 They don't want you to ever question voter integrity ever again.

00:44:38.000 That's the other part of what's happening right here.

00:44:40.000 If you look between the lines and you listen carefully, they are trying to say, listen, if you question our voter registration practices, the way we do signature verification, if you question the way we do mail-in voting, then you're actually participating in a terrorist attack against the country.

00:45:02.000 And it's not just that's not true, it's the opposite of the truth.

00:45:08.000 It is a gaslighting projection tactic that is being used by the Democrats.

00:45:17.000 Because they actually know the more people question this mail-in ballot nonsense, the more discovery there's going to be about issues surrounding it.

00:45:28.000 And we know that.

00:45:29.000 We logically can prove it.

00:45:34.000 But they are benefiting from that system.

00:45:37.000 And this is them trying to deter any cross-examination against HR1 before it becomes law.

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00:46:29.000 I do want to get to this cut here.

00:46:32.000 It's more of a cultural point as the impeachment is continuing.

00:46:36.000 It's just so unbelievably misleading.

00:46:38.000 If this is a Soviet show trial, if there was a fair judge, would have thrown it out immediately.

00:46:45.000 Can we go to the Laura Ingram cut, please? 0.58

00:46:47.000 So, one of the things as I talked about, one of the tactics of the left, and if there's any parents watching here, understand the left wants to divide you from your children.

00:46:57.000 It's a tactic.

00:46:58.000 They've done this in every totalitarian country, from Mao Zedong's China to Mussolini's Italy to Stalin's Soviet Union.

00:47:06.000 It is a tactic to turn Children against their parents, that we don't need the parents.

00:47:13.000 I can find authority from the state or from some other cultural influence.

00:47:16.000 This is, of course, directly against the teachings of the Bible.

00:47:22.000 Play tape here of Laura Ingram.

00:47:24.000 This woke 18-year-old spotted her own mother in a viral video taken outside the January 6th riot.

00:47:32.000 The mom was the one punched in the face.

00:47:36.000 Her daughter then called her out in a tweet.

00:47:40.000 And then the daughter did an interview with TMZ. 0.90

00:47:45.000 I would have had no idea she was there if that video of her getting punched in the face wasn't viral on Twitter. 1.00

00:47:52.000 Apparently, Family Snitchdom pays. 0.53

00:47:56.000 She's raised $74,000 for college on a GoFundMe page since tweeting about mommy. 1.00

00:48:04.000 Turn the children against their parents. 0.80

00:48:06.000 Now, of course, parents hold the values. 0.66

00:48:08.000 Parents hold the tradition of the generation that comes prior.

00:48:15.000 That's why one of the Ten Commandments is to honor your mother and father.

00:48:19.000 You don't have to love your mother and father, but to honor them.

00:48:22.000 And then there's a promise of what will happen if you do that.

00:48:25.000 Well, the inverse is also true.

00:48:27.000 If you do not honor your parents, then you will not be able to live long and prosper in the land.

00:48:33.000 The totalitarians want to break that child-parent bond because the parents have the best interest of the child at heart.

00:48:41.000 The parents are going to teach self-discipline, they're going to teach self-control.

00:48:48.000 Parents are going to teach their children to be honest and to be clear, not having the children go on national television.

00:48:58.000 And I'm not sure the circumstances around this mother, but apparently she got punched in the face. 0.91

00:49:02.000 I don't think she stormed the Capitol.

00:49:04.000 I'm not sure what the circumstances are around that video in particular.

00:49:09.000 But we've seen this before.

00:49:10.000 Do you remember back in March or April?

00:49:13.000 There was a woman, there was a young lady in Louisiana who did a TikTok.

00:49:18.000 I think she was 16 or 17 years old.

00:49:22.000 And it got millions of views where she said, My parents are so racist.

00:49:25.000 They told me BLM Incorporated is a bad thing.

00:49:27.000 I have to leave my parents. 0.59

00:49:29.000 Look what's happening with Claudia Conway, who films her parents and is able to get away with that.

00:49:36.000 And she is now framed as a hero by the activist press.

00:49:39.000 Good for you.

00:49:39.000 Fight back against your parents.

00:49:41.000 Don't honor them. 0.93

00:49:43.000 And no, this woman did not go in. 0.99

00:49:45.000 She got punched and escorted away, though. 1.00

00:49:48.000 And her daughter then goes on television smugly and arrogantly, being like, Yeah, my mom is basically a bad person. 0.98

00:49:57.000 This is how civilizations disintegrate.

00:50:01.000 And for parents out there, listen very carefully.

00:50:06.000 There is a cultural and educational push to turn you and your kids against each other, more your kids against you.

00:50:16.000 It's happening through a variety of different ways.

00:50:19.000 And for kids out there, students that are listening, don't fall into it.

00:50:24.000 For your parents' sake and your own, you always must honor your parents.

00:50:28.000 But they're doing this as a way to try and create an almost virtue-signaling moral high ground.

00:50:37.000 There's another story here that connects to this, and I kind of want to frame it.

00:50:41.000 So there's the story of this woman in San Francisco who she's now in charge of the San Francisco Renaming Committee to rename all of these schools in San Francisco.

00:50:56.000 And her job is to go tell everyone about how racist Abraham Lincoln is and George Washington is.

00:51:03.000 She's 30 years old.

00:51:05.000 I don't know if she's a mother or not.

00:51:07.000 I don't know if she has kids in the school system.

00:51:09.000 I don't know.

00:51:11.000 What I do know, though, is that the left believes that anyone that came before them was a bigot and an awful person.

00:51:23.000 This goes to show the tragedy of secular America.

00:51:28.000 Dennis Prager talks brilliantly about this.

00:51:31.000 The tragedy of secular America is that you never judge people based on the time they were actually in.

00:51:40.000 There's a beautiful verse, Genesis 6:9.

00:51:43.000 And you might be an atheist listening to this, but you will not be able to deny the wisdom.

00:51:48.000 Remember, as Aristotle said, wisdom is the knowledge of all things eternal.

00:51:53.000 This is wisdom because it comes from the Bible, not some college professor who studied in France.

00:51:58.000 The wisdom is that it says clearly that Noah was a righteous man according to the, in comparison to the people of his generation.

00:52:10.000 Let's get the exact verse here.

00:52:12.000 This is the quote.

00:52:14.000 These are the family records of Noah.

00:52:17.000 Noah was a righteous man, blameless among his contemporaries.

00:52:21.000 Noah walked with God.

00:52:24.000 Why didn't it just say this?

00:52:26.000 These are the family records of Noah.

00:52:28.000 Noah was a righteous man.

00:52:31.000 Maybe because if you compared Noah to Elijah, Noah wouldn't have been so righteous.

00:52:37.000 What that tells us is you must always compare historical people in the context and the time they were in.

00:52:45.000 According to 2021 laws, did George Washington have some problems?

00:52:52.000 Of course.

00:52:53.000 Who was he in the time that he was in?

00:52:57.000 Who is the man that was writing in the draft of the Declaration, the first draft, that slavery was an evil sin?

00:53:04.000 Thomas Jefferson.

00:53:05.000 Who was the man that signed a moratorium of new slaves coming into the United States 20 years after the ratification of the Constitution, written primarily by James Madison?

00:53:14.000 Thomas Jefferson.

00:53:15.000 Who was the man that argued for slavery abolition in the 1790s in the Virginia House of Commons?

00:53:20.000 Thomas Jefferson.

00:53:21.000 Thomas Jefferson also owned slaves.

00:53:24.000 But he was a giant amongst his peers.

00:53:28.000 And to use the quote from the Bible, he was a righteous man, blameless amongst his contemporaries.

00:53:37.000 Thomas Jefferson was surrounded by slave apologists.

00:53:41.000 He was moving the ball forward to the abolition of slavery.

00:53:45.000 We are now renaming schools in San Francisco because they say Abraham Lincoln did not do enough for black lives.

00:53:54.000 You mean like waging a bitter civil war, emancipating the slaves, and saying that we must now live up to our ideals of all men being created equal? 0.99

00:54:04.000 You see, only the left, because they don't believe in biblical wisdom, they believe in this secular, relativistic, prideful, self-centered, narcissistic, petulant worldview that everyone who came before me except Vladimir Lenin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Karl Marx were a bunch of trash. 0.96

00:54:23.000 Everyone who came before me did nothing but make mistakes. 0.86

00:54:26.000 Do you understand how self-centered you must be to believe something like that?

00:54:30.000 You probably go to university to believe something like that.

00:54:34.000 Where in the 1980s or even the 1970s, we used to teach children, you're the problem, America is wonderful.

00:54:40.000 Now we teach children, America's the problem, you are wonderful.

00:54:45.000 So now we have these 30-year-olds tearing down schools all across the country.

00:54:48.000 30-year-olds, who's in charge of the state of the renaming committee.

00:54:52.000 The examples she was using are not even factual.

00:54:57.000 I wanted to get into this story deeper, which is from the Daily Mail.

00:55:01.000 And it says, woke San Francisco school board president, 30 years old, defends plan to rename schools which honor racist leaders despite banning decisions on incorrect Wikipedia articles.

00:55:14.000 That's right.

00:55:15.000 So the name of our schools and our history is now based solely on Wikipedia and not even correct Wikipedia sources, incorrect Wikipedia sources.

00:55:25.000 She argued that we need to rename a school by James Russell Lowell, who's a poet, saying that he did not want black people to vote.

00:55:37.000 However, this claim is pathologically false.

00:55:40.000 And scholarly articles assert that Lowell, quote, unequivocally advocated giving the ballot to the recently freed slave.

00:55:46.000 She also wanted to rename Apollo Revere School, saying that, citing an article from the History Channel website.

00:55:54.000 However, members alleged that Revere's military activities were tied to the conquest of the Penobiscot Indians, which is not true.

00:56:04.000 Or James Lick, who resided in San Francisco, was also deemed racist after members failed to critically read an article about the famous 19th century businessman.

00:56:15.000 The committee stated that Lick had funded a sculpture showing an American Indian lying at the feet of white men.

00:56:19.000 However, in reality, Lick died 18 years before the sculpture was created and it was only partially funded by his estate after he died.

00:56:28.000 No wisdom in our country anymore.

00:56:30.000 And this is what you get.

00:56:32.000 You get 30-year-olds, Gabriella Lopez, who's the school board president, who, instead of reopening schools, instead of holding teachers accountable, instead of representing the people of San Francisco, her name is to go on, her job is to go on a renaming blitz throughout San Francisco.

00:56:53.000 And she's doubling down.

00:56:55.000 They are now renaming Abraham Lincoln George Washington School.

00:57:01.000 I hope that they name something after her.

00:57:05.000 And then one day they decide that she's an awful person and they no longer want it named after her.

00:57:11.000 They're renaming the school from Teddy Roosevelt's name.

00:57:16.000 And why don't we just get it over with?

00:57:17.000 Why don't we impeach George Washington now that we're in the process of impeaching people that are no longer president?

00:57:25.000 The guy who's in charge of this is a quote-unquote historian.

00:57:28.000 I think that's probably a very loose description, Jeremiah Jeffers, Jeffries, the chairman in charge of renaming the schools after it was revealed that he refused to consult with them during the decision-making process.

00:57:44.000 Abraham Lincoln High School is being renamed, and they are taking the statue down of Abraham Lincoln because they say he didn't adequately represent black lives.

00:57:56.000 History is a guide.

00:57:58.000 It's a reference point.

00:57:59.000 It's a mirror.

00:58:00.000 It's a roadmap.

00:58:01.000 It's a compass.

00:58:03.000 You remove history.

00:58:05.000 You can do whatever you want to the future.

00:58:07.000 It's what Robespierre did in France, where he literally got rid of the traditional calendar, the Gregorian calendar, and put in a 10-day-a-week calendar. 0.67

00:58:18.000 Mao Zedong did the exact same through his red guard in the little red book.

00:58:22.000 Benito Mussolini did the same.

00:58:24.000 Joseph Stalin did the same because history can inspire.

00:58:28.000 History can instruct.

00:58:29.000 History gives people the capacity to know things of which that are eternal.

00:58:34.000 Totalitarians want nothing to do with that.

00:58:36.000 And for Gabriella Lopez, who's now running the schools in San Francisco as the school board president, believes that she is such a better person than Teddy Roosevelt, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, not having the sort of wisdom to maybe compare them in the times of which they were in.

00:58:56.000 Did Abraham Lincoln make mistakes?

00:58:59.000 Yeah, I guess when it comes to habeas corpus, was he a hero amongst the people around him?

00:59:05.000 Of course.

00:59:06.000 In fact, he might be one of America's greatest presidents, if not America's greatest presidents.

00:59:10.000 Joe Biden said, I've spent my whole career fighting and will continue to fight like hell.

00:59:16.000 He tweeted that out on May 2nd, 2019.

00:59:20.000 Incitement, you be the judge.

00:59:22.000 I do want to take some of your questions here.

00:59:24.000 Funny question from Luke here, who is homeschooled.

00:59:27.000 He says, Are you going to circle back to the Patriot Act questions?

00:59:30.000 Yes, I will.

00:59:31.000 Very funny.

00:59:32.000 Well said.

00:59:33.000 So, yeah, we got a lot of questions.

00:59:34.000 What is the Patriot Act?

00:59:35.000 Okay, the Patriot Act was passed right after 9-11.

00:59:40.000 It was an act of Congress that created new capacity and ability for agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, which was also created right after 9-11, to spy and surveil American citizens.

00:59:53.000 It was the most aggressive overreach.

00:59:55.000 It created the National Security Agency.

00:59:57.000 Everything that Edward Snowden revealed was basically him revealing the Patriot Act.

01:00:03.000 That's the best way I can put it.

01:00:04.000 The Patriot Act was a massive and significant overreach of government power.

01:00:14.000 And I think almost everyone recognizes it except maybe Lindsey Graham and a couple other people who think that the Patriot Act was a good idea and they're not as concerned about civil liberties as those of us that understand the Constitution actually are.

01:00:27.000 So that's what the Patriot Act is.

01:00:28.000 Thank you for the question, Luke.

01:00:29.000 I appreciate it.

01:00:31.000 This is a good point.

01:00:33.000 No one is talking about impeachment.

01:00:34.000 I barely see anyone on social media mentioning the impeachment or watching it.

01:00:38.000 The public doesn't care.

01:00:39.000 They know it's a joke.

01:00:40.000 Most people posted about Kavanaugh in the first impeachment, and they were actually at work then.

01:00:45.000 You're right.

01:00:45.000 We're covering it because it's more about the impeachment.

01:00:49.000 This is an attempt to destroy a conversation around voter integrity and also an attempt to try and lay the groundwork for the next surveillance state.

01:00:58.000 In fact, Richard Blumenthal just said that.

01:01:00.000 Richard Blumenthal was just interviewed. 0.87

01:01:03.000 Da Nang Dick. 0.99

01:01:04.000 That's what we call him, right?

01:01:06.000 Did he actually ever serve in Vietnam?

01:01:10.000 One of the biggest lies, I think, ever told in American political history.

01:01:13.000 Is that fair to say?

01:01:15.000 And he's still allowed to serve.

01:01:17.000 Comes out and he says, we'll get the clip for tomorrow.

01:01:20.000 We don't have to get it now.

01:01:21.000 But he said that this is not really about impeachment.

01:01:28.000 I'm paraphrasing here.

01:01:29.000 He said it's really about stopping domestic terrorism.

01:01:34.000 He's making our point.

01:01:35.000 Our point is that the Democrats want to lay the groundwork for a new surveillance state while also suppressing any conversation in the future around voter integrity.

01:01:49.000 Basically, they're trying to banish the Trump populist movement.

01:01:54.000 This is them trying to kill any future political movement that is rooted in the ideas of stricter immigration, fair trade deals, challenging corporate interests, and ending the endless wars.

01:02:06.000 That drives them nuts.

01:02:10.000 Okay, let's get to some more questions here.

01:02:11.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:02:12.000 Luke says, Thanks for answering my question.

01:02:14.000 You bet.

01:02:15.000 Okay.

01:02:17.000 Here's a question.

01:02:18.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:02:18.000 I'm 14 years old and a freshman in high school.

01:02:21.000 You should get involved with Turning Point USA.

01:02:22.000 I'm sending you to our Turning Point team.

01:02:24.000 One question: why isn't Jenna Ellis or Rudy's lawyers there?

01:02:28.000 I do not know, but I do know that in impeachment, it's a different type of law.

01:02:31.000 It takes litigators more than just lawyers, which are people that are more equipped to be able to argue in front of a court.

01:02:39.000 But I'll be quite honest, they should have just had, they should have had Laura Ingram do this argument or someone that is in the business of language, basically in the business of language.

01:02:51.000 A linguist is the word I'm looking for.

01:02:53.000 Someone that is good at crafting arguments, someone that has sophisticated addiction, not the guy that was all over the place, meandering, complimenting the prosecution.

01:03:03.000 Not exactly, you know, what I would be thrilled about.

01:03:09.000 People who can put on a show and create a compelling narrative.

01:03:13.000 You know who would have been great to have?

01:03:15.000 Newt Gingrich.

01:03:16.000 I don't even know if Newt Gingrich is a lawyer, but who cares?

01:03:21.000 Is Eric Swallow a lawyer?

01:03:22.000 I guess.

01:03:23.000 I guess he was a district attorney or something under the bizarre definition of what's happening now.

01:03:28.000 Oh, and by the way, breaking news.

01:03:30.000 Andrew Cuomo has now announced that New York arenas and venues can reopen February 23rd.

01:03:37.000 Now that Joe Biden is president, we get our country back.

01:03:41.000 Look, I'm just thrilled the country's reopening.

01:03:42.000 I don't know how much more our country can survive this lockdown nonsense.

01:03:45.000 I mean that.

01:03:46.000 Okay, let's get to some more questions here.

01:03:49.000 Hi, Charlie. 0.99

01:03:50.000 Did the pink hat lady get arrested? 1.00

01:03:52.000 Yes, she did.

01:03:53.000 She has been arrested and identified, and I think we're going to find out a lot about her and what her activities were.

01:03:59.000 What she was saying and what we were deconstructing here on the program is she was saying things no one else was saying.

01:04:07.000 We could take the building.

01:04:08.000 I've been there before.

01:04:09.000 I know the schematic layout.

01:04:11.000 There's something there. 1.00

01:04:12.000 Keep an eye on pink hat lady. 1.00

01:04:14.000 There's something not right there, and I hope she gets fully held accountable.

01:04:18.000 Hey, Charlie, we'll never be safe again until the vote is safe.

01:04:22.000 We'll never win again until the vote is safe.

01:04:23.000 Please advocate for blockchain votes only.

01:04:26.000 Thank you.

01:04:26.000 Well, we did a Bitcoin episode yesterday.

01:04:28.000 Is that Bitcoin episode up on the podcast feed?

01:04:31.000 Everyone, check out that Bitcoin episode.

01:04:32.000 If you didn't check it out, I explained in the best way I could with my limited knowledge of it, which is my limited knowledge is more than, I would say, more people that comment on it, what blockchain and what Bitcoin actually is.

01:04:45.000 Mind you, I understand it can be a very, very complicated topic, to say the least.

01:04:51.000 Let's go here.

01:04:52.000 Hey, Charlie, thanks for all you do.

01:04:54.000 I purchased a MAGA doctrine from my father, brother, and myself.

01:04:57.000 Awesome.

01:04:57.000 Thank you.

01:04:58.000 My question is around the indoctrination in our schools.

01:05:01.000 The vote that will happen in Illinois, if passed, will it impact private and religious schools?

01:05:05.000 And is this impacting K through 12?

01:05:07.000 I've talked to some of the admissions office.

01:05:09.000 They have no idea what I'm talking about and saying that if it's true, that's something that would happen for high school students.

01:05:14.000 I'm not okay with this in any grade.

01:05:15.000 Just have to figure out if I have to move out of the state best, Peter.

01:05:18.000 Well, first of all, the fact that your administration does not know what's happening in the Illinois State Board of Education means they got to get their act into gear.

01:05:24.000 Secondly, Peter, I don't know if it'll impact private schools.

01:05:28.000 I don't.

01:05:28.000 We're looking into that.

01:05:29.000 And the piece of legislation that is still being, the piece of legislation that is still being debated in Illinois, you guys have got to get into action right now.

01:05:40.000 You got to get into an action step.

01:05:42.000 It's just absolutely disgusting.

01:05:44.000 Okay.

01:05:46.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:05:47.000 Love the show.

01:05:47.000 Seriously, the only source of real fact, honest-based news.

01:05:51.000 My sister and I listen every day while working from home.

01:05:53.000 Awesome, Leslie.

01:05:53.000 Thank you so much.

01:05:54.000 God bless you.

01:05:55.000 Hi, Charlie.

01:05:56.000 I'm 14 years old and I live in Illinois.

01:05:58.000 I go to a Christian school, but I'm still the only conservative in my grade.

01:06:01.000 How long till woke teaching gets into Christian schools or is it already here?

01:06:05.000 Depends what Christian school.

01:06:07.000 Thank you.

01:06:07.000 I love these 14 and 15 year olds that email us.

01:06:10.000 They are our future.

01:06:11.000 So I'll tell you this, Keaton.

01:06:12.000 You just emailed me.

01:06:13.000 You should get involved with Turning Point USA.

01:06:15.000 I'm going to forward you to our Turning Point team, and you should get engaged and get involved with what we're doing.

01:06:20.000 Look, a lot of Christian schools have already fallen from grace, unfortunately. 0.72

01:06:24.000 And a lot of Christian schools have already become massively woke indoctrination centers. 0.67

01:06:30.000 So that is unfortunately nothing new. 0.70

01:06:33.000 Okay, let's get to another question here.

01:06:35.000 Why now that Biden is president, is everything all of a sudden opening?

01:06:38.000 Wasn't there supposed to be another lockdown or quarantine by now?

01:06:41.000 Well, because they actually don't believe in the lockdowns, and maybe it was a tactic to destroy, or It was a plan to destroy Donald Trump and with it our economy in the short term so that they could be able to implement what other policy measures they did.

01:06:57.000 Nail-in voting, massive trillion-dollar stimulus bills, keeping the schools closed, handouts to teacher unions, the deterioration of wealth, the rich people getting richer and the poor people getting poor.

01:07:08.000 It's a good question, though.

01:07:10.000 Okay, we'll get to a couple more here.

01:07:13.000 This is a question about the renaming of schools in San Francisco.

01:07:16.000 I don't get it.

01:07:16.000 Wasn't Lincoln a Republican?

01:07:18.000 Yes.

01:07:18.000 Didn't he abolish slavery?

01:07:20.000 Essentially. 0.64

01:07:21.000 I know you have a right to be whichever party you want to be, but to denounce Lincoln and his actions and be a black Democrat politician isn't the smartest point. 0.67

01:07:28.000 I know.

01:07:29.000 I'm a descendant of John Brown.

01:07:30.000 This is nuts the way some of their thinking.

01:07:33.000 Well, you're exactly right.

01:07:36.000 Welcome to the thought process of the left.

01:07:43.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

01:07:44.000 Email us your questions, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

01:07:48.000 If you want to support us, please consider doing that.

01:07:50.000 It's charliekirk.com/slash support.

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01:07:56.000 God bless.

01:07:57.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - February 11, 2021

Impeachment Sham Goes to Hollywood + France Cancels America's Runaway Cancel Culture

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