The Charlie Kirk Show - Is the Left Waking Up? + Charlie's "Love is Blind" Reaction

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, that's the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 We break down how the left is waking up.

00:00:03.000 Byron Donald joins us and I react to the Love is Blind viral clip.

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00:01:12.000 Go to noblegoldinvestments.com It is a great day in America as we are here live from the imperial capital, Washington, D.C., and it just feels amazing to be driving through this town knowing that President Trump is in the White House.

00:01:29.000 It should never be lost on us.

00:01:31.000 Just God's grace and mercy on all of us, even the days that sometimes you wish things could have went better.

00:01:37.000 And even when you say, I don't know about that, it is still an amazing day in America because President Trump is in the White House.

00:01:46.000 I do want to caution you on something, though.

00:01:48.000 And I'm seeing this start to bubble up.

00:01:50.000 I'm seeing it in the grassroots.

00:01:51.000 I'm seeing it on some of the college campuses.

00:01:54.000 I'm seeing it in some of the crowds that people like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are drawing.

00:02:00.000 The left is waking up.

00:02:03.000 Since the inauguration, even since Election Day, we said, where is the resistance?

00:02:08.000 Where is it?

00:02:09.000 It's not in the streets.

00:02:10.000 It's not protesting.

00:02:12.000 And for a period of time, that was absolutely true.

00:02:16.000 During the inauguration, it was not to be found in the streets.

00:02:19.000 There was no woman's march.

00:02:21.000 The left is starting to wake up.

00:02:23.000 They are getting out of their slumber.

00:02:27.000 And I'm not saying this to try to depress you.

00:02:30.000 I'm not telling you this to say that everything is coming to an end.

00:02:34.000 Exactly the opposite, actually.

00:02:35.000 I'm telling you that.

00:02:37.000 Of course there is half the country that opposes what we're doing.

00:02:41.000 Of course there is a significant portion of America.

00:02:45.000 That wants to see the federal government keep on sending out erroneous checks.

00:02:50.000 The left has been poking around and looking for a spark.

00:02:54.000 This last weekend, Elizabeth Warren drew 2,000 to 3,000 people in Texas.

00:02:58.000 I mean, that's not a game-changer crowd, but it's something.

00:03:03.000 Bernie Sanders drew a similar crowd in Wisconsin.

00:03:05.000 Speaking of which, Donald Trump Jr. and I will be in Oconomowoc, say that three times fast, on Monday, which is a suburb of Milwaukee, will be having a great town hall.

00:03:18.000 These are just some data points that I want you to process.

00:03:21.000 It's very tempting to believe that just because the left has been asleep the last couple of months since we knocked them out in November, that they are going to stay asleep.

00:03:34.000 Bernie Sanders is probably taking the most potent line of criticism.

00:03:39.000 Saying that we must fight the oligarchy.

00:03:41.000 Now, of course, the oligarchy that is actually running the country is an unelected deep state bureaucracy sympathetic to the aims, wants, and ambitions of growing the size and scope of government, not the idea of people like Elon Musk.

00:03:56.000 But for someone that doesn't quite understand what is happening in D.C. right now, the bipartisan bureaucratic regime that has existed for the last 100 years called the administrative state.

00:04:09.000 It sounds and feels good.

00:04:12.000 So the left is starting to awaken from their slumber.

00:04:16.000 Is it going to ramp up even further?

00:04:18.000 Possibly.

00:04:20.000 And that's why everyone in this audience, it's time to continue to stay engaged.

00:04:25.000 To keep the pressure on the Democrats for why they are not supporting President Trump's agenda.

00:04:31.000 To stay involved in your local county committees, to stay involved in your local Republican Party.

00:04:35.000 Some of you might be saying, but Charlie, we just had an election.

00:04:38.000 I'm exhausted.

00:04:39.000 Look, our offseason in politics is like the hockey offseason.

00:04:42.000 It's like 90 days.

00:04:43.000 It's like the baseball offseason.

00:04:45.000 It's like maybe 100 to 120 days.

00:04:47.000 And we have not even rested.

00:04:48.000 We did not take any time off.

00:04:51.000 Neutral gear is the kiss of death in politics.

00:04:54.000 Acting as if you are in the happy, agreeable middle.

00:04:57.000 Instead, if you are not on offense, you are on defense.

00:05:02.000 And if you're not first, you're last, to quote a great scholar from Talladega.

00:05:08.000 This is, the energy of the left is going from one issue to the other.

00:05:12.000 They're still trying to figure out the best one to completely resist us on.

00:05:18.000 You had Al Green shout out at the speech last week.

00:05:21.000 And the Democrats did us a great gift, by the way.

00:05:23.000 They did a great gift last week when they were not applauding the kid with brain cancer.

00:05:28.000 That had real rank-and-file impact.

00:05:32.000 But the base of the Democrat Party, and the Democrats are trying to build a base-first strategy, as you would expect them.

00:05:39.000 The base of the Democrat Party is getting animated and fired up.

00:05:44.000 Yesterday, there was a phenomenal announcement from President Trump and Marco Rubio.

00:05:49.000 Now, President Trump and Marco Rubio's strategy is they want to first find a singular person to deport and make the case around this person.

00:06:03.000 That is on a student visa, supported Hamas, and should be deported back to their country of origin. 0.99

00:06:11.000 So you're going to now know the name Mahmoud Khalil.

00:06:15.000 The left is trying to wake up their rank-and-file troops around this individual.

00:06:21.000 The Trump administration has been trying to deport him.

00:06:25.000 A federal judge just blocked that. 0.94

00:06:27.000 Again, the idea of these judges coming in and blocking the action of the executive branch, it is an intentional run-out-the-clock strategy.

00:06:36.000 Let me be very clear.

00:06:39.000 The Democrats are trying to use district court and circuit court judges to block President Trump's administration to run out the clock.

00:06:49.000 So major protests are now breaking out all over New York City in support.

00:06:55.000 They're trying to turn him into a martyr.

00:06:58.000 Well, President Trump ran on a promise to fight against the pro-terrorist, anti-Jewish radicalism that has been flourishing on college campuses.

00:07:07.000 One of the ways he vowed to do that is by kicking out agitators coming here from abroad to study on our campuses.

00:07:16.000 American citizens have strong freedom of speech.

00:07:19.000 But there is zero reason that America should be welcoming foreigners from abroad whose chief occupation will be agitating on behalf of American enemies who murder women and children as their primary strategy. 0.98

00:07:32.000 And that is exactly what Mahmoud Khalil did. 0.78

00:07:35.000 Now, he's not some kid.

00:07:36.000 He's not 18 or 19 years old.

00:07:39.000 He's a 30-year-old.

00:07:40.000 He's 29 or 30 years old.

00:07:42.000 A former Columbia University graduate student.

00:07:45.000 In the words of the New York Times, Khalil was, quote, the public face of protest against Israel.

00:07:51.000 He wasn't just some guy that showed up at a rally.

00:07:54.000 He was the public front-facing face of what happened at Columbia University.

00:07:59.000 What Khalil did went far beyond attending marches or writing op-eds.

00:08:05.000 Just this past January, Khalil was in a group that disrupted a Columbia class on Israeli history to attack the country and a professor for, quote, normalizing genocide.

00:08:17.000 Khalil collaborated with students who started a tent city on Columbia's campus who illegally took over a campus building, though he didn't participate directly in these events, perhaps to avoid deportation.

00:08:30.000 Khalil distributed pamphlets on Hamas' propaganda titled, quote, Operation Al-Asqa Flood.

00:08:37.000 Al-Asqa is, of course, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

00:08:41.000 Our narrative.

00:08:42.000 Al-Asqa Flood is Hamas' code named for the October 7th terrorist attacks.

00:08:48.000 All of these actions violate the rules that Khalil had to come here as a visitor, to come here as an immigrant.

00:08:57.000 Khalil claims to have a green card at this point.

00:09:00.000 Doesn't matter.

00:09:02.000 It should only come down to this fundamental question.

00:09:05.000 Would you, would we have let this man into our country in the first place, knowing he was a public Hamas propagandist who participates in illegal protests? 0.66

00:09:18.000 If the answer to that question is no, then that's also a perfectly good justification for revoking his green card.

00:09:26.000 Staying in America is not a right.

00:09:28.000 It is a privilege.

00:09:30.000 And Mahmoud Khalil threw this privilege away.

00:09:34.000 Stop subsidizing people who hate you.

00:09:37.000 Stop inviting people into your country, into your living room, that want to kill Jews and kill Americans.

00:09:46.000 Mahmoud Khalil will be the first of many students and many people on these college campuses that are professional agitators.

00:09:54.000 They all have to go back to their country of origin. 1.00

00:09:57.000 Being in America is not a natural right.

00:09:59.000 It is a privilege.

00:10:00.000 You must earn your right into the United States of America. 0.90

00:10:04.000 And if you were out there at Columbia University fomenting anti-Jewish hatred, fomenting anti-American hatred, you are kicked out of the party.

00:10:14.000 You're a guest here.

00:10:15.000 And your guest past has been revoked.

00:10:17.000 And Mahmoud, you are the first of many.

00:10:20.000 And you can go back to your country of origin, of which I do not know, and we'll find out.

00:10:23.000 And go make that country great.

00:10:26.000 But you're no longer welcome here in America.

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00:11:32.000 So allegedly Mahmoud Khalil...

00:11:35.000 My opinion to the administration, my advice, because I will be going to the White House later today and seeing some folks, my advice both publicly and privately is very simple.

00:11:50.000 Don't make Mahmoud Khalil the singular martyr here.

00:11:54.000 Start rounding up dozens of these people.

00:11:56.000 Make it a group of people.

00:11:58.000 It is a lot harder to have a mass resistance In favor of a group.

00:12:06.000 Because then it just looks like a terror group.

00:12:08.000 Then one person.

00:12:09.000 Because then Mahmoud Khalil is going to start to become a larger-than-life figure.

00:12:16.000 People are going to start wearing pictures with this lunatic's face.

00:12:19.000 Don't underestimate the left's desperation to get out of the wilderness and out of the abyss.

00:12:25.000 Their desperation to try to climb out of this hole that they're in.

00:12:28.000 And they are in a hole.

00:12:29.000 They're in a bad position.

00:12:30.000 But they're starting to wake up.

00:12:31.000 And we can't be too high in our own supply, acting as if the Democrats are going to continually be in this position.

00:12:38.000 They're going to adjust.

00:12:38.000 They're going to adapt.

00:12:39.000 It is driving them nuts that they don't control the federal bureaucracy right now, that they don't control the White House.

00:12:45.000 They are going to adjust.

00:12:46.000 Our enemy is going to come back twice as hard, and we better be prepared.

00:12:50.000 They're not just going to roll over and say, here are the keys to the entire country.

00:12:54.000 Here's Rashida Tlaib, a very suspicious individual, who says this is a big deal about Mahmoud.

00:13:01.000 There is a pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.

00:13:05.000 In fact, I think it might be the entire Democrat Party.

00:13:08.000 Now, I don't know if the pro-Hamas strategy is smart for the Democrats long term, but I do think it will absolutely wake up their rank-and-file.

00:13:18.000 I think their rank-and-file, the college-educated, white, young liberals of New York, LA, Boston, Portland, and Seattle, they're the same people that would...

00:13:29.000 They will change out their shirts.

00:13:31.000 At first, the shirt says, get the vaccine or else you're a terrible person.

00:13:35.000 Then the shirt says, Black Lives Matter.

00:13:37.000 Then the shirt says, no justice, no peace from the river to the sea.

00:13:41.000 Palestine will be free, which is a call for the abolition of the state of Israel and the murder of Jews. 0.58

00:13:46.000 Plague cut 63. Everyone should be concerned about this.

00:13:50.000 Last night...

00:13:52.000 Plainclothes agents approach Mr. Khalid and his wife as they were coming back home.

00:13:56.000 He's a student at Columbia University.

00:13:57.000 She's eight months pregnant. 0.81

00:13:58.000 They're coming back from Iftar because it's the holy month of Ramadan. 0.98

00:14:02.000 And they get approached.

00:14:03.000 And at first, again, they didn't identify themselves as Homeland Security agents.

00:14:08.000 They proceed to threaten the wife before they take him into custody.

00:14:13.000 We're finding out that information is coming out that they were revoking his student visa.

00:14:18.000 Well, guess what?

00:14:18.000 He doesn't have a student visa.

00:14:20.000 He's a green card holder, a legal permanent resident.

00:14:23.000 Again, they proceed to engage the attorney this way.

00:14:26.000 He or she asked for a warrant.

00:14:29.000 They hung up on them.

00:14:31.000 If you believe in constitutional rights, you understand that they're targeting this person, and everyone knows he has been very vocal against the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

00:14:41.000 And they're targeting him and refusing him constitutional rights.

00:14:45.000 Who's next?

00:14:47.000 Okay, a couple things wrong with this.

00:14:49.000 Number one, he's not a citizen.

00:14:51.000 Green cards can be revoked.

00:14:52.000 Hilarious to hear Rashida Tlaib all upset about constitutional rights after peaceful January 6th protesters were hunted down by the FBI for the last couple of years, and Siakam Asakwai, who did not go foment rage in favor of Hamas, but instead took a step into the Capitol and step out, had his pregnant wife hunted down by FBI agents at Van Nuys Airport in, or Santa, whichever one it was.

00:15:17.000 Burbank Airport in California.

00:15:21.000 Really funny to hear her so concerned about this, but Mr. Khalil, Mahmoud Khalil, does not have a right to be here.

00:15:30.000 You must earn your right to stay at the United States of America. 0.99

00:15:34.000 And he has lost that privilege.

00:15:36.000 He has lost the privilege to be here.

00:15:39.000 This is cultural suicide. 0.76

00:15:40.000 This is not what the founding fathers had in mind.

00:15:43.000 By the way, as we're talking about it, Blake should pull up some of Thomas Jefferson's very crisp comments on Mohammedism. 0.60

00:15:52.000 The founding fathers were no fans of Islamism at all.

00:15:57.000 Some people say, oh, the founding fathers didn't comment on Islam.

00:16:01.000 That is not true.

00:16:02.000 Thomas Jefferson fought the Barbary Coast Wars, our third American president, and spoke extensively about the medieval savagery of Late 1700s and early 1800s, Islam.

00:16:18.000 Hasn't changed that much, actually.

00:16:20.000 The Barbary Coast Wars were actually in Libya that the American Navy lent support to.

00:16:27.000 But actually, I do agree with that.

00:16:29.000 That would be a good op-ed.

00:16:30.000 What did the Founding Fathers say about Islam?

00:16:33.000 Be a very interesting little nugget.

00:16:36.000 But the Founding Fathers that would say, you know, let's just go allow the importation of people who hate you.

00:16:44.000 What Islam has shown to be in Europe, what Mohammedism has shown to be in Europe, is the rusty sword that is slowly slitting the throat of the West. 1.00

00:16:56.000 Why would we keep these people here?

00:16:59.000 Go back to your own country. 1.00

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00:18:05.000 Byron Donalds is with us here, the next governor of the great state of Florida.

00:18:11.000 Byron, thank you for coming on the program.

00:18:13.000 Great to see you again.

00:18:14.000 You helped us out with the Turning Point USA event the other day.

00:18:17.000 Great to see you, my friend.

00:18:18.000 Good to see you, Charlie.

00:18:20.000 It was good to be with you the other day.

00:18:21.000 Great Patriots supporting you.

00:18:23.000 And side note, everybody, Charlie, you and Turning Point done tremendous work.

00:18:27.000 Thank you for everything you've done, not just for the country, for President Trump, but really for young people in our country.

00:18:33.000 I think it's going to be a bright future ahead for America.

00:18:36.000 So, Byron, tell us your agenda of why you are running for governor of Florida, what you hope to accomplish, and your vision for the great state of Florida.

00:18:44.000 Well, first, we have a wonderful state, best state in the country by basically every metric that's available.

00:18:51.000 So the first thing you want to do is take a great state and make sure it stays that way.

00:18:55.000 We have to continue to be number one in the nation and lead the Florida forward and make sure that the United States and everybody else understands that we're the best state governed, period, full stop.

00:19:05.000 And the agenda is going to be about making Florida the financial capital of the world, having digital assets be the center point of that, and then build.

00:19:14.000 Building around that with some of the financial moves already starting from Chicago and from New York.

00:19:20.000 And then also, if you look towards the Space Coast, where we are already seeing major investments into the Space Coast, allowing that to become a tech hub where you continue to build our state.

00:19:31.000 It makes our economy far more diverse than what it's been in the past because Florida is no longer a destination state.

00:19:38.000 Florida is really an everything state.

00:19:40.000 We have something for everybody.

00:19:42.000 Number two, insurance.

00:19:44.000 We've got to fix the insurance problems in Florida.

00:19:47.000 Insurance rates have gone up against our citizens.

00:19:50.000 My property insurance rates have gone up.

00:19:52.000 So has every other Floridian.

00:19:54.000 We have to find a way to stabilize costs.

00:19:56.000 It's going to mean reexamining some of our reinsurance capital requirements, reexamining cap requirements on insurance carriers, a lot of other things that we're going to have to get into and really figure out how to...

00:20:07.000 Synthesize the Florida insurance market so it can become a little bit more affordable for the people of Florida.

00:20:14.000 Number three, last but not least, is building off of the stuff that's already been done.

00:20:20.000 In our educational system, we are the number one state in the country.

00:20:23.000 We're number one when it comes to school choice.

00:20:25.000 It's taking those legacies, those victories, and building upon that.

00:20:29.000 And one of the things that I want to do is actually create an incubator for AI technologies that can help a student achieve proficiency in math and reading in our state.

00:20:42.000 When you look at state test scores, everything is based around being at grade.

00:20:47.000 What I want to do is help as many students as possible achieve proficiency and mastery of math and reading and of writing skills because those are going to be the baseload skills every child is going to need in order to be successful in the future of Florida's economy and in the future of the world's economy.

00:21:07.000 So let's talk more about just the growth of Florida and the need to have leadership that We'll make Florida probably the center of the planet.

00:21:19.000 I mean, there is an opportunity here, Byron, with New York collapsing, with L.A. becoming a massive slum, that Florida could, no exaggeration, Miami and South Florida especially, it could be what John Lennon would say, the center of the world, as New York wants. 0.94

00:21:35.000 Now, I know you don't want all the same liberal nonsense, but talk about how you think you could get...

00:21:41.000 The crypto energy, the finance capital, all to migrate to Miami and to make that the new center of the planet.

00:21:50.000 Well, a couple things.

00:21:51.000 First and foremost, a lot of this movement has already begun.

00:21:55.000 And a large part of that is because of how Governor DeSantis managed COVID-19.

00:21:59.000 You had people who had the ability to move and say, why would I continue to live in a state like New York, where they take away your liberties, they don't allow you to do business, the regulations are out of control, and they look to Florida, they chose Florida.

00:22:13.000 We were open and we were able and we were managing the state through COVID-19.

00:22:16.000 And so they've already started that migration, I think.

00:22:19.000 As we deal with some of the digital asset stuff here on DC, on Capitol Hill, because digital assets has kind of become a hub in Miami already, what you can do is really focus the...

00:22:31.000 Focus Florida towards digital assets.

00:22:33.000 I would like to see a crypto exchange in Florida.

00:22:36.000 So that way you have a center hub of that.

00:22:39.000 Because Miami is already an international hub for Central and South America, it allows more capital to flow to our state.

00:22:47.000 And the last piece of that is, and as Donald Trump is successful with his economic agenda, you're going to see more onshoring and nearshoring of manufacturing.

00:22:56.000 When I say nearshoring, you're talking about Central America, you're talking about South America.

00:23:00.000 Miami becomes a natural hub.

00:23:03.000 For all of those things, I'd say the last piece of that is intentionality.

00:23:07.000 I think if you have an intentional focus to make it the financial hub of the world, now you start looking at Chicago and New York and you're saying, why would you live under that tax regime, that regulatory regime, states that are not safe, when you can be in Florida where we're going to keep you safe,

00:23:43.000 I would liken it a lot more to what California used to be.

00:23:50.000 California used to be the golden state.

00:23:52.000 It used to be the benchmark of the country.

00:23:55.000 No longer.

00:23:56.000 Florida's the benchmark, and if we focus our energies on bringing finance and the tech space to Florida, we will only continue to grow while maintaining the conservative principles that got us there.

00:24:08.000 So I want to ask you something, Byron, that you mentioned during our dinner on Sunday that should have received more news.

00:24:16.000 You went to Selma, and you were the only...

00:24:19.000 I believe Republican kind of part of that delegation.

00:24:22.000 Bring our audience into the room of what you learned there, why you visited, and the importance of your visit.

00:24:27.000 Well, it was in Selma, Alabama.

00:24:29.000 It was the 60th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

00:24:36.000 For people who don't know a lot of civil rights history, there was a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

00:24:43.000 60 years ago that was led by former Congressman John Lewis when he was a civil rights activist.

00:24:48.000 I think he was 25 years old when he organized that march.

00:24:52.000 And when they were crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge to go to Montgomery, Alabama, which is the capital.

00:24:59.000 They were met by state troopers, and essentially they were beat up by state troopers, and that's why it's called Bloody Sunday, because they bled on the bridge.

00:25:09.000 And so I went there really to pay homage to the activists that were fighting for the right to vote for Black Americans in Alabama, and frankly, all through the segregated South.

00:25:22.000 Being there, I felt, was important because a lot of times what's happening today is the assumption is that civil rights history does not include Republicans.

00:25:30.000 That could be the furthest thing from the truth.

00:25:32.000 The federal judge in Montgomery, Alabama, Judge Johnson, he was the judge who was a Republican, appointed by Republicans, that actually started to undo the state laws around Banning Black people from being able to sit anywhere on the bus, banning white-only countertops, banning white-only water fountains.

00:25:53.000 So I felt it is important that not just myself, but any Republican, it's important to be a part of these trips because the history of civil rights in America is a history of where Republicans were the ones who were fighting for civil rights in each one of the Civil Rights Acts that were passed, in the Voting Rights Act that was passed, predominantly Republicans.

00:26:13.000 We're behind those bills.

00:26:15.000 And then also, activists on the ground, many Republicans were on the ground fighting for civil rights.

00:26:21.000 It was really an honor to be there and commemorate something that is a part of American history.

00:26:27.000 So, Byron, I know you've got to dash in a second.

00:26:29.000 Tell us about the CR, how you are thinking about it.

00:26:33.000 Are you going to vote in favor or not?

00:26:35.000 And make the case to our audience, because I will be honest, I know you feel this, Byron, because you're in the grassroots right now running for governor of Florida.

00:26:41.000 People are so upset with Congress.

00:26:43.000 They're saying, where's the goods?

00:26:45.000 Where's the progress?

00:26:47.000 Where are the bills?

00:26:48.000 And we need to start seeing some action, action, action.

00:26:51.000 So bring us into the room, Byron, how you're thinking about this.

00:26:54.000 Well, look, I'm going to vote for the bill.

00:26:55.000 And it's very simple.

00:26:56.000 We got to give Donald Trump the breathing room he needs to get the agenda done.

00:27:00.000 I hate CRs.

00:27:02.000 I don't even want to be in this position.

00:27:03.000 In my view, we should have took care of this back in December, but that didn't happen.

00:27:08.000 So we are where we are.

00:27:10.000 The real game up here is budget reconciliation.

00:27:13.000 If we can get the budget reconciliation bill done, that's the president's agenda mirrored with...

00:27:19.000 Spending cuts that are going to be important to get our debt and deficits to begin to get them under control.

00:27:25.000 I mean, we're not even fully getting them under control, but that's the starting place.

00:27:28.000 That's going to be the best that we can achieve out of the current environment.

00:27:33.000 I think as frustrated as people are, understand Democrats in the Senate, we need six or seven of them to vote.

00:27:39.000 For anything when it comes to spending, they want to be able to still carve out a lot of these spending monstrosities, which is why I think the leadership couldn't negotiate the appropriations bill.

00:27:51.000 I wish we had started that.

00:27:52.000 Frankly, the second the election was over, but that's not what happened.

00:27:55.000 And so, unfortunately, we're in this place where the president has asked for us to support it.

00:28:00.000 I'm going to support it.

00:28:01.000 That way we can get to budget reconciliation, cut mandatory spending and reform mandatory spending while passing his agenda.

00:28:08.000 And then when we do appropriations over the summer, then you can bring in the stuff that Doge has been doing.

00:28:14.000 Those cuts that they've been bringing, you can cut that stuff out.

00:28:17.000 You can do all the other additional reforms and begin to stabilize.

00:28:22.000 Byron, excellent work.

00:28:24.000 We're behind you 100%.

00:28:25.000 Everybody should support Byron Donalds for governor of the great state of Florida.

00:28:29.000 Byron, congrats.

00:28:30.000 We're behind you.

00:28:30.000 Thanks so much.

00:28:32.000 Listen, thanks, Charlie.

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00:29:19.000 That is 1-800-4-RELIEF, 1-800-4-RELIEF. Okay, there is this show that is called Love is Blind.

00:29:28.000 I don't quite understand the premise of it, why they're having their wedding be filmed, what kind of crazy people would do this, and then she walks away at the altar.

00:29:37.000 Anyway, so apparently the whole shtick of this...

00:29:40.000 This TV show, which people voluntarily spend their time to watch, which is if you're watching shows like this, you need to make major life adjustments.

00:29:49.000 So apparently, the way it works is that these people don't see each other in person for the first while, and you propose without seeing the other.

00:29:59.000 That doesn't make any sense to me, to be perfectly honest.

00:30:01.000 I thought they knew each other.

00:30:03.000 She says, I really care about you, and I know about you, so how is it that they didn't know each other?

00:30:07.000 And the whole premise of this show...

00:30:09.000 Seems really like a waste of everybody's time.

00:30:11.000 However, it's very revealing.

00:30:13.000 And what is revealing...

00:30:15.000 Okay, they meet after the proposal, but then how did she say she cares about all this?

00:30:19.000 That doesn't make any sense to me.

00:30:20.000 So, you only meet them in real life very briefly before deciding to get married, and all this is filmed.

00:30:28.000 Again, if you do this on camera, there's something deeply wrong with you.

00:30:32.000 Anyway, okay.

00:30:33.000 So, apparently...

00:30:35.000 Okay, so apparently they talk and talk and talk like speed dating, and then some of them get engaged.

00:30:40.000 People do this?

00:30:41.000 This is terrible.

00:30:42.000 And they all do it on camera.

00:30:44.000 Again, this is so dysfunctional.

00:30:45.000 I can't, it's just...

00:30:46.000 It's a worldwide thing.

00:30:48.000 Who watches this stuff?

00:30:49.000 Losers!

00:30:50.000 Alright, anyway.

00:30:51.000 So, apparently, they have, like, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden.

00:30:54.000 Like, there's so much better stuff to do with your life than watch this stuff.

00:30:57.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:30:57.000 Anyway, all that being said, there's a very viral clip that is awfully instructive of a crazy white liberal woman, which, by the way, men, let me just give you some dating advice and life advice.

00:31:09.000 Stay away from liberal women. 1.00

00:31:11.000 Please.

00:31:12.000 Stay away from them in this situation.

00:31:16.000 This modern political climate.

00:31:18.000 Now, maybe liberal women like 20 or 30 years ago, it could have worked out. 1.00

00:31:21.000 It is so bad right now.

00:31:23.000 You need to stay away from these far-left zealots.

00:31:27.000 Watch for yourself.

00:31:27.000 Play Cut 65. I love you so much.

00:31:33.000 But I've always wanted a partner to be on the same wavelength.

00:31:40.000 And so today I can't.

00:31:45.000 I love you so much and I know I want to stay with you and keep growing our relationship if you'll let me.

00:31:53.000 We'll see.

00:31:56.000 Okay, I don't understand how they can say I love you so much if they've known each other for six weeks.

00:32:00.000 Whole thing's very dysfunctional.

00:32:01.000 Okay, but then this is what went really viral that I want to comment on.

00:32:05.000 Playcut66.

00:32:06.000 I asked him too, like, what his church's views are and he said he didn't know.

00:32:13.000 And...

00:32:14.000 So then I watched a sermon online.

00:32:18.000 From his church?

00:32:19.000 About, yeah, sexual identity.

00:32:21.000 Okay.

00:32:21.000 And it was traditional.

00:32:23.000 I told that to Ben.

00:32:26.000 And he doesn't really have much to say about it, you know?

00:32:31.000 I want them to think about that stuff.

00:32:33.000 Sometimes I did wonder if it was surface, fun, carefree love that we had.

00:32:39.000 Equality, religion, the vaccine. 0.98

00:32:44.000 Okay, so apparently she says, I'm not going to marry him because he doesn't believe in marriage equality, the vaccine.

00:32:51.000 Here's where he went wrong.

00:32:53.000 Obviously, she's psychotic and should never be married. 1.00

00:32:56.000 If he would have actually stood up to her and said, no, actually, I don't believe in the vaccine.

00:33:00.000 And actually, no, I don't believe in BLM. And I actually love my church.

00:33:04.000 Deep down, she would have respected it even more.

00:33:06.000 The fact that he was neutral is where he went wrong.

00:33:10.000 If he would have stood up to her and would have been like, yeah, actually, what do you mean?

00:33:12.000 She would have actually, deep down, been totally attracted to him.

00:33:16.000 She would have been like, well, maybe I'm wrong.

00:33:18.000 Deep down, women want to be led. 1.00

00:33:20.000 The problem is not that he had different political views.

00:33:24.000 The problem is that he was too vanilla about it.

00:33:28.000 She would have respected him for being strong.

00:33:31.000 Deep down, she would have been like, well, maybe this guy can then end up paying the bills and defending the family.

00:33:35.000 Instead, he was a coward.

00:33:36.000 So everyone is going after this crazy liberal woman here. 1.00

00:33:40.000 In reality, it is the man who is spineless.

00:33:45.000 That's the buried lead of all this.

00:33:48.000 And it continues.

00:33:50.000 Let's play Cut 67, everybody.

00:33:52.000 Issues that came up was the issue of gay marriage and there was a particular time in your time together where you said you couldn't remember your church's stance on gay marriage.

00:34:02.000 Was that true?

00:34:02.000 You simply couldn't remember or was it maybe that you just didn't want to acknowledge the reality of your church's stance on gay marriage?

00:34:09.000 Yeah, it was honestly that I didn't remember because I didn't ever need to know because there wasn't really anyone in my life that it really pertained to and it wasn't something on my head and I'm not proud of it.

00:34:22.000 It's something that I was, you know, as I grow older, I knew I needed to grow into.

00:34:26.000 And so that's probably why I try to go to church every weekend.

00:34:30.000 Don't go every weekend.

00:34:31.000 So, you know, the sermon that Sarah watched, I don't remember because maybe I wasn't there or maybe it just didn't, you know, hit home to me because it wasn't something that was in my life at the time or whatever it may be.

00:34:42.000 So it's this clip going viral.

00:34:43.000 Everyone is...

00:34:44.000 Kind of ragging on the girl. 1.00

00:34:46.000 Of course, stay away from liberal women. 1.00

00:34:48.000 Got that?

00:34:48.000 That should be assured.

00:34:49.000 Stay away from liberal women. 1.00

00:34:50.000 But no, in reality, women should also stay away from men like this.

00:34:54.000 They both lucked out.

00:34:56.000 This guy is the problem with America.

00:34:59.000 Beta, coward, oh, I don't remember the sermon.

00:35:01.000 You know what he should say?

00:35:02.000 Yeah, actually my church believes in traditional marriage and believes in the Bible.

00:35:05.000 What are you going to do about it?

00:35:06.000 Love is blind.

00:35:07.000 I don't need all of you guys anyway.

00:35:09.000 By the way, do you know the hilarity of this is that if he would have taken a stand for traditional marriage and Christianity, he would have like 55,000 dating inquiries right now from wonderfully pious, single Christian women that are far more pleasant than the blonde Rachel Maddow that he was going to go marry.

00:35:33.000 He would have become a folk hero.

00:35:35.000 You be true to yourself and you stand up for what you believe in.

00:35:39.000 Again, the easy kind of surface take is yes, of course.

00:35:42.000 Why are you bringing in BLM and the vaccine?

00:35:45.000 By the way, anybody in this audience, let me just tell you, do not marry or date somebody that does not share your values.

00:35:50.000 Period.

00:35:51.000 Do not do that.

00:35:52.000 Conservatives, do not date liberals.

00:35:54.000 If you are dating a liberal, you should break up and find somebody that has your value system.

00:35:57.000 You're not going to change them.

00:35:59.000 The world has changed too much.

00:36:01.000 Maybe 20 or 30 years ago that could have been the case.

00:36:03.000 It is different now.

00:36:04.000 Everything is politicized.

00:36:06.000 Everything comes through that lens.

00:36:09.000 They will raise kids differently.

00:36:11.000 They'll watch different news.

00:36:12.000 They'll listen to different podcasts.

00:36:14.000 They will worship differently.

00:36:15.000 So don't do that.

00:36:17.000 But the big takeaway is this.

00:36:19.000 Is that they're both what's wrong with America.

00:36:22.000 Not just the woman, but the man even more so.

00:36:27.000 Because her views very well could change if she had a man to lead her.

00:36:33.000 The reason why she believes all that stuff is she's never encountered a strong man.

00:36:37.000 She's never encountered a strong man to course correct her.

00:36:41.000 It's the problem with left-wing feminism is it's all just a bunch of women sitting in a circle talking about their feelings and not a man with masculine energy course correcting the error to introduce truth. 1.00

00:36:52.000 And finally, to the audience watching this show, if you watch reality TV, you need to repent and you need to stop doing that.

00:36:59.000 You are wasting your life.

00:37:01.000 You are wasting.

00:37:02.000 Your time.

00:37:03.000 Reality TV is a toxin.

00:37:05.000 It's like alcohol.

00:37:07.000 It's like marijuana.

00:37:08.000 Stop using it.

00:37:10.000 You're so much better stuff that you could use your time.

00:37:13.000 Take a Hillsdale online course.

00:37:14.000 Go for a walk.

00:37:16.000 Work out.

00:37:16.000 Lose 20 pounds.

00:37:18.000 Stop drinking beer.

00:37:19.000 Go to church.

00:37:20.000 Read a book.

00:37:21.000 Any book.

00:37:21.000 Find a job.

00:37:23.000 Listen to a podcast.

00:37:24.000 Listen to the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:37:26.000 Lift weights.

00:37:27.000 Go for a run.

00:37:28.000 Get good at something.

00:37:29.000 Stop playing video games.

00:37:32.000 Do something productive with your life.

00:37:35.000 So that's my take on this program that I never knew existed.

00:37:38.000 I did not even know that love is blind was a thing.

00:37:42.000 But for the women out there, don't become like her. 0.98

00:37:45.000 But for the men out there, that's what you create when you are not a man.

00:37:52.000 Stand up for yourself.

00:37:53.000 Have a spine.

00:37:54.000 Go up against the crowd.

00:37:56.000 Society needs alpha men.

00:37:58.000 And that joke of a beta coward.

00:38:01.000 I don't even know his name.

00:38:02.000 He has a lot to reckon with.

00:38:04.000 And finally, he needs a better pastor.

00:38:08.000 Good pastors create strong men.

00:38:10.000 And if his pastor was actually good, it would have rubbed off on him to then become a leader in the community, which then would have stood up for truth in this ridiculous game show.

00:38:23.000 And finally, you go to church all the time and you're on this reality TV show.

00:38:25.000 What kind of Christian are you?

00:38:27.000 Anyway, stop watching that stuff.

00:38:31.000 Yes, at least that pastor is theologically sound.

00:38:34.000 Pro-traditional marriage.

00:38:35.000 But he's not that good of a pastor, apparently.

00:38:37.000 Hasn't rubbed off on him.

00:38:38.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:38:40.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:38:42.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 11, 2025

Is the Left Waking Up? + Charlie's "Love is Blind" Reaction

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