The Charlie Kirk Show - It's Official—Elon Owns Twitter

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, today at the Charlie Kirk Show.

00:00:01.000 Elon has bought Twitter.

00:00:03.000 We go through the ramifications of that, the people opposing it, and the implications.

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00:00:18.000 Here we go.

00:00:19.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:04.000 I'll be honest, I was cynical.

00:01:06.000 I was very cynical leading into this.

00:01:10.000 I was skeptical and cynical, I should say.

00:01:13.000 To think that Elon Musk would be able to pull off a purchase of Twitter seemed impossible, albeit almost just incomprehensible.

00:01:24.000 You see, we have grown conditioned to believe that the ruling class, the people in charge of our country, the elites, they're largely untouchable.

00:01:34.000 There's very little we could do to actually challenge their power.

00:01:40.000 In fact, I was asked a question last week at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with Candace Owens, and we both kind of had the attitude that it's very unlikely that Elon Musk will be able to pull this off.

00:01:50.000 That Elon Musk, despite being the world's richest man, will be met with poison pill measures and backlash at every turn.

00:01:57.000 That Elon Musk will, despite having more money and more access to capital, he will struggle to be able to navigate the kind of deep state tactics of corporate America.

00:02:09.000 But today, even though we've been very skeptical, it looks like this is more likely than not to happen.

00:02:20.000 Twitter shares jumped today on reports the company is nearing a deal with Elon Musk that could be announced as soon as today.

00:02:25.000 Twitter's board met with Sunday to discuss Musk's financing plan for his proposed bid.

00:02:30.000 The board negotiated with Musk into the early hours of Monday, according to the New York Times.

00:02:34.000 Their investment bankers are telling the Twitter board, like, you better look at this deal very carefully and closely because it's way overvalued, way over what the company is actually valued at, which is closer to $30 a share.

00:02:50.000 Musk is offering, I think, $42 to $43 to $44 a share, upwards of $50 a share.

00:02:55.000 The lawsuits, the backlash would have been overwhelming.

00:02:59.000 And Twitter is left with really no choice.

00:03:02.000 They would have been slammed with fiduciary complaints. 0.55

00:03:05.000 I would have joined it as well as I own two shares of Twitter in case this goes to a tender offer.

00:03:10.000 I want to be able to vote for Elon's takeover.

00:03:14.000 And it looks like this deal could get done.

00:03:17.000 Now, mind you, Elon has to be careful, but Elon knows what he's doing.

00:03:21.000 They're going to do everything they possibly can to try to have undetectable metaphorical minds all throughout the company.

00:03:30.000 That everywhere Elon turns, there'll be another difficult situation to deal with.

00:03:35.000 But Elon knows how to do that.

00:03:37.000 He knows how to navigate all of that.

00:03:40.000 Bloomberg and Reuters reported that two sides could reach an agreement as soon as today.

00:03:44.000 The board negotiated with Musk into the early hours of Monday, according to the New York Times.

00:03:48.000 This has been happening all weekend in real time.

00:03:51.000 Let's play cut six. 0.67

00:03:52.000 CNBC says, it looks like there is an agreement that's being formed, and this may be their only option, play cut six.

00:04:00.000 The company appears to be on track now to reach an agreement with Elon Musk as early as today.

00:04:07.000 A source told CNBC that Twitter's board met yesterday to talk about Musk's financing plan for his proposed bid for the social media company.

00:04:15.000 And I do think we're getting closer with a real concern among the board that the standalone plan, given that there have been no other bidders, would not do it and would not be something that would necessarily get them to the promised land.

00:04:30.000 He's got them.

00:04:31.000 He's got them in a corner.

00:04:33.000 Now, that CNBC guy, I think that's the same guy that was lecturing us about getting vaccinated and wearing a mask.

00:04:40.000 He didn't sound too excited about all this, did he?

00:04:42.000 He didn't sound too enthusiastic about the idea of Twitter changing hands from Pragod Agarwal.

00:04:50.000 Now, again, we've played a part in this entire saga.

00:04:54.000 Babylon B, Our Account, and, of course, Tucker Carlson all being suspended from Twitter has played a part in motivating Elon to take this over.

00:05:07.000 Put simply, Twitter was given an offer they were not allowed to refuse.

00:05:13.000 You know, some people would say, well, it's too good of an offer to refuse.

00:05:15.000 They would have refused it, but it seems as if they're so in the corner because of American security law, they have to take it, that they really have no choice.

00:05:24.000 And by the way, that was Andrew Ross Sorkin, who was the person that was hosting that on CNBC, who is kind of very sadly going, it looks like there's no other offer.

00:05:35.000 I don't really think there's anything we can do.

00:05:39.000 And so, of course, the seed of the equivalent benefit of all of us who have been banned and censored from Twitter over the last couple of years is that it caught the attention of someone with power.

00:05:52.000 And that someone is Elon Musk.

00:05:56.000 He does not have to be doing this.

00:05:58.000 But the backlash he's receiving from the intelligentsia is intense and it's fierce.

00:06:04.000 It's legitimate and it's real.

00:06:06.000 The article continues by saying, Wall Street was likely to view the news of Twitter's openness to a bid as quote as the beginning of the end for Twitter as a public company, with Musk likely now on a path to acquire the company unless a second bidder comes into the mix.

00:06:20.000 Jim Kramer says, quote, I think they have to accept the offer.

00:06:25.000 Twitter is set to report first quarter earnings on Thursday, including Kramer.

00:06:29.000 Expect the company to post disappointing results.

00:06:32.000 Locking up a deal today or tomorrow may sound pretty appealing for someone who knows they're in possession of bad news, but we've gone through this.

00:06:38.000 What is Twitter?

00:06:40.000 Is Twitter a for-profit company?

00:06:42.000 And for years it was not.

00:06:44.000 Twitter was a different type of thing.

00:06:46.000 It was a megaphone of the regime, a censorship tool to shut people up and control the discourse as they see fit.

00:06:54.000 Now, we received an email at freedom at charliekirk.com where someone says, well, why doesn't Elon just buy Facebook?

00:06:59.000 Well, first of all, Facebook's a lot more valuable.

00:07:01.000 But honestly, I don't think it's as important at shaping public opinion.

00:07:07.000 Twitter is the incubator for elite opinion.

00:07:10.000 It's where people that write columns, report on articles, people that host cable news shows, they look at Twitter as the place to find out what they believe and why they believe it.

00:07:26.000 So put plainly, if Twitter is in the hands of Musk and goes private instead of it in its current position, all of a sudden the kind of description of what Twitter is changes fundamentally.

00:07:42.000 You see, Elon Musk is treating Twitter like a company.

00:07:46.000 And the board of directors doesn't know how to react to that.

00:07:49.000 They're like, wait a second, we haven't been a company for quite some time.

00:07:53.000 Twitter only turned a $52 million profit, EBITDA, earning before its interest taxes depreciation and amortization, amortization.

00:08:04.000 And so we're at a place right now where the board of Twitter is left no choice at all whatsoever.

00:08:15.000 If he pulls this off, it will be the greatest rescue mission of free speech in the modern era.

00:08:22.000 Different than Facebook and different than YouTube, Twitter is where the top of the assembly line begins.

00:08:29.000 It's where the tributary starts.

00:08:31.000 It's where that is the starting point.

00:08:34.000 There's a lot of people asking about food shortages.

00:08:37.000 I want to play this tape here.

00:08:38.000 We're going to get back to Elon's stuff in a second.

00:08:42.000 But do you notice how many food plants have burned to the ground recently?

00:08:47.000 It's really suspicious.

00:08:49.000 I'm going to read out a list here.

00:08:53.000 And what's going on here?

00:08:56.000 April 20th, 2022, plane crashed into a General Mills plant in Covington, Georgia.

00:09:01.000 April 19th, fire at Azure Standard Headquartered in Darfur, Oregon.

00:09:07.000 April 13th, fire at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California.

00:09:10.000 April 13th, plane crashed in a Gem State processing plant in Hayburn, Idaho.

00:09:15.000 April 12th, fire at East Conway Beef and Pork in Conway, New Hampshire.

00:09:19.000 March 31st, fire at Rio Fresh Onion Warehouse in San Juan, Texas.

00:09:24.000 March 28th, fire at Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Arizona.

00:09:29.000 March 24th, fire at Benabascot McCrum Potato Processing Facility in Belfast, Maine.

00:09:37.000 March 23rd, fire at Walmart Distribution Center in Plainfield, Indiana.

00:09:41.000 March 17th, fire at Hot Pockets Plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas.

00:09:45.000 22nd of February, explosion at Scherer Food Chips Plant in Hermiston, Oregon.

00:09:53.000 February 16th, fire at Lewis Dreyfus Company Processing Plant in Claypool, Indiana.

00:09:58.000 February 15th, fire at Bonanza Meat Processing Plant in El Paso, Texas.

00:10:03.000 February 3rd, fire at Wisconsin Meats in Moston, Wisconsin.

00:10:07.000 February 2nd, fire at Winston Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

00:10:12.000 January 22nd, fire at Washington Potato Company in Warden, Washington.

00:10:16.000 January 13th, fire at Cargill Neutrina Plant in Louisiana.

00:10:22.000 The 2nd of January, fire at La Vernon Van Drunen Farms in Illinois.

00:10:29.000 The 12th of December, fire at Westside Food Plant in San Antonio, Texas.

00:10:33.000 Back in November, fire at Made Wright Steak Company in Pennsylvania.

00:10:37.000 Back in September, fire at JBS plant in Grace Island, Nebraska.

00:10:42.000 Back in August, fire at Paddock Meat Products Facility in Georgia.

00:10:46.000 Back in July, fire at Tyson's River Valley Ingredients in Alabama.

00:10:51.000 Back in July, fire at Kellogg's plant in Memphis, Tennessee.

00:10:55.000 Back in July, nitrogen explosion at Dippendot's plant in Kentucky.

00:10:59.000 Last January, nitrogen link at Foundation Food Plant in Gainesville, Georgia.

00:11:04.000 Same day, fire at Deli Star meat plant in Fayetteville, Illinois.

00:11:08.000 And then back in January, fire at Raw Farm in Kerman, California.

00:11:14.000 That's all just since last January.

00:11:16.000 And they're picking up with massive acceleration.

00:11:20.000 One every couple days.

00:11:21.000 Is that normal?

00:11:22.000 I'm not in the food processing business, but why are so many food processing centers or food plants blowing up?

00:11:31.000 Why is no one talking about this?

00:11:33.000 Well, Tucker Carlson is.

00:11:34.000 Meanwhile, the media is talking about how Musk's Twitter bid is racist or whatever they're saying.

00:11:40.000 Play cut 15.

00:11:42.000 From the scene right now.

00:11:43.000 This is the second time in a week that something like this has happened.

00:11:47.000 On April 14th, a plane crashed into the gem state processing in East Idaho.

00:11:52.000 What's going on here?

00:11:53.000 Well, it started to get weirder.

00:11:54.000 Food processing plants all over the country seem to be catching fire.

00:11:58.000 A couple of days ago, a fire destroyed the headquarters of Azure Standard, one of the largest organic food distributors in the country.

00:12:04.000 At the end of last month, a fire severely damaged a fresh onion packing facility in South Texas.

00:12:08.000 In Oregon, a potato chip processing plant to support a boiler explosion that sent workers to the hospital.

00:12:15.000 Why is no one mentioning this?

00:12:16.000 Why is the New York Times not talking about this?

00:12:19.000 For those of you in the food packing or processing industry, tell me, is a fire every five days normal?

00:12:25.000 Well, look, if you do not have a good stockpile of food, now is the time to get one.

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00:13:43.000 We believe as constitutionalists that speech is the remedy to our issues.

00:13:49.000 Not that speech is the issue.

00:13:51.000 Big difference.

00:13:52.000 There's many divides in America right now.

00:13:55.000 There's the divide between the moody and the unmoody, the grateful and the ungrateful, the patriotic and the unpatriotic, the thankful and the unthankful.

00:14:03.000 And another divide in America you could add it to the list is do you think speech is a solution or a problem?

00:14:10.000 We believe that speech is a solution.

00:14:13.000 And we believe that speech should be allowed to be free.

00:14:18.000 And we believe that, especially in public forums, especially in public forums online, that speech de-radicalizes our politics.

00:14:31.000 Now, Twitter is the place where other opinions are formed.

00:14:36.000 Twitter is the place where people that tell you what to think actually go to find out what they think.

00:14:44.000 Let me say that again.

00:14:46.000 Twitter is the place where people who tell you what to think actually go to find out what they think.

00:14:55.000 People such as New York Times columnists, every single one of them, they always put their Twitter in their bio when they write something.

00:15:02.000 Follow me on Twitter.

00:15:04.000 These people that write these articles, they pretend like they know a lot of different things, but really they're flipping through their Twitter feed.

00:15:12.000 And based on the volume of tweets in a certain direction, they start to shape their opinion.

00:15:20.000 Now, Twitter is a unique social media platform.

00:15:23.000 We cannot and we should not conflate Twitter's power or its potential with other platforms.

00:15:31.000 Now, Twitter at its best, when Twitter was in its heyday, I'd say 2018.

00:15:38.000 Now, 2016, prior to Trump being elected, it was probably the most free.

00:15:44.000 But Twitter was its most powerful, not its most free, but it was still way freer than it is today in 18.

00:15:50.000 And our team, we went all in on a Twitter strategy.

00:15:54.000 We figured it out.

00:15:55.000 We understood how Twitter worked.

00:15:57.000 Short, spiffy tweets, the kind of thinking emoji, asking questions, lists of things that are true.

00:16:05.000 We did it repeatedly.

00:16:07.000 In fact, we built an entire, I would say, Twitter army around that.

00:16:11.000 Axios came out and said that Charlie Kirk's Twitter was the top five most engaged Twitter accounts on the planet.

00:16:18.000 They have not done a study such yet.

00:16:21.000 We were averaging well over 100,000 retweets a day.

00:16:25.000 I remember I was at an event once and I said that and someone didn't believe me.

00:16:28.000 I said, go see it for yourself.

00:16:30.000 It would be considered a bad tweet if we did not get 10,000 retweets on a certain tweet.

00:16:37.000 And of course, then Twitter realized, heading into the 2020 election and heading into post-COVID that they must become a censorship machine.

00:16:48.000 And I remember in the midst of the Fauci virus, our engagement just kind of went off a cliff.

00:16:54.000 So what was going on here?

00:16:55.000 All of a sudden, we were tweeting all the time.

00:16:56.000 We were getting engagement.

00:16:59.000 And next thing you know, there was a shadow ban and a suppression campaign against certain accounts.

00:17:06.000 We were one of them.

00:17:07.000 And of course, Donald Trump got kicked off Twitter in January of 2021.

00:17:12.000 And Twitter was never the same.

00:17:15.000 Twitter has become kind of a highly sanitized version of a Democrat precinct meeting.

00:17:23.000 You can only say what's approved.

00:17:26.000 You're not allowed to challenge the status quo.

00:17:28.000 And Twitter's become a lot more boring.

00:17:32.000 Now, Twitter says that they believe in free speech.

00:17:34.000 Of course, they don't.

00:17:36.000 We're suspended because we quote unquote dead named somebody. 0.96

00:17:39.000 It's ridiculous.

00:17:40.000 Babylon Bee still suspended because they did an article mocking the rear admiral secretary of health or whatever.

00:17:49.000 And now Elon Musk is inches away from announcing a deal, a takeover of Twitter.

00:17:56.000 What's so amazing is he is not just admirable to do this.

00:18:01.000 He's the only one that could do this.

00:18:04.000 Now, someone said the other day, they said, well, Charlie, I don't like Elon Musk because he's eccentric.

00:18:09.000 That's a weird reason not to like somebody.

00:18:11.000 Do you ever notice it's the eccentric people who get good done?

00:18:15.000 They do good.

00:18:17.000 It's the eccentric people that don't care what other people think and they stand up for what is the right, what is right in the world.

00:18:23.000 It's actually the non-eccentric people like Andrew Ross Sorkin, that person that hosts that CNBC show, who's just kind of goes along with the status quo.

00:18:34.000 It's the eccentric people that actually change the world.

00:18:37.000 Elon Musk certainly is changing the world.

00:18:42.000 Let's go to cut for Donny Deutsch from MSNBC.

00:18:49.000 He says, this is like Dr. Evil taking over the world.

00:18:53.000 Play cut four.

00:18:54.000 And also with us, the host of the podcast On Brand with Donny Deutsch, Donny Deutsch.

00:19:00.000 First, before we go into On Brand, your thoughts on Elon Musk?

00:19:04.000 Take care.

00:19:05.000 Simple equation.

00:19:06.000 I don't know.

00:19:07.000 To me, when the richest guy in the world takes over the most important social media platform, that's just not a winning formula to me.

00:19:14.000 It reminds me of old Bond movies where, you know, Dr. Evil and guys like that or Goldfinger were going to take over the media.

00:19:21.000 I just, my tummy meter says there's something just not great about this.

00:19:25.000 If someone could tell him not to retweet old tweets from five years ago and pretend they're today, that would be good.

00:19:32.000 Yeah, you're so funny, Mika.

00:19:34.000 Mika, you should be allowed to contribute on this one.

00:19:36.000 I don't know.

00:19:37.000 You're able to launch a rocket into space and have it land after you launch it.

00:19:44.000 Then I'll take what you have to say, Mika, seriously.

00:19:47.000 Or when you develop like five simultaneous billion-dollar companies.

00:19:53.000 So, what is Donny Deutsch saying here?

00:19:55.000 I don't like it when rich people decide to come in and tell us how to run our country.

00:19:59.000 I'm sorry.

00:20:00.000 You were perfectly fine with Mark Zuckerberg coming with $400 million to save our elections.

00:20:06.000 You were more than fine with Lorene Powell Jobs buying the Atlantic or Bezos buying the Washington Post.

00:20:11.000 We've said this very clearly.

00:20:13.000 We don't love the idea of rich people determining our speech, but I want to win.

00:20:19.000 And Musk coming in and fighting for the liberation of people to speak is a great thing.

00:20:25.000 We want to win.

00:20:26.000 We want victory.

00:20:29.000 And so while the other side all of a sudden now parades around their principle, you know, kind of a principle-type narrative, like, well, it's against our principles.

00:20:39.000 Well, they've never cared about principles.

00:20:41.000 The left has only cared about victory, which is one of the reasons why they've been so successful the last couple of decades.

00:20:46.000 Maybe it's time for us conservatives to start to realize that.

00:20:48.000 Is it ideal to have the world's richest man come in and have to buy a company?

00:20:52.000 Of course, it's not ideal, but it's necessary right now.

00:20:55.000 It's all we have.

00:20:57.000 The tweets coming out against Elon Musk is just laughable.

00:21:02.000 Leaving Twitter is trending on Twitter.

00:21:05.000 Good.

00:21:05.000 Go build your own.

00:21:09.000 An article came out from the Urban League, whatever that is.

00:21:12.000 The National Urban League pressed Twitter's board of directors to consult with the civil rights community before making a decision on Elon Musk's bid for the company.

00:21:20.000 Of course, remember, when they insert racial politics into our conversation, they want to use this to be able to stop merger and acquisitions they don't like, change voting laws.

00:21:29.000 It's always the final card, the race card.

00:21:32.000 The National Urban League, this is one of the great quotes ever in the history of self-irony, in the history of paradoxical statements, is this.

00:21:46.000 I found this earlier.

00:21:47.000 It's just unbelievable.

00:21:49.000 Okay, yeah, this right here.

00:21:50.000 It's unbelievable.

00:21:52.000 This is my favorite.

00:21:54.000 The National Urban League believes that Elon Musk owning could have serious implications on users' civil rights.

00:22:06.000 So the fact that Elon Musk wants to give people their civil rights back to speak is a big concern for the National Urban League that people might lose their civil rights.

00:22:16.000 The National Urban League says, quote, without key protections and safeguards, much of the concerning activity that we see on Twitter, including white supremacist propaganda, racial and religious hatred, voter suppression through election disinformation, algorithmic bias and discrimination, and the hardening of our national discourse are likely to proliferate under Musk's ownership.

00:22:37.000 I love how much they hate him. 0.96

00:22:39.000 This is really dumb for the left, by the way. 0.95

00:22:42.000 Do you want to have Tony Stark on your team or not? 1.00

00:22:45.000 I mean, the left, they're so stupid. 1.00

00:22:49.000 Not because we've earned it, not because we deserve it, but just because we're not them. 1.00

00:22:56.000 The American right is now inheriting Elon Musk to kind of just be an ally.

00:23:04.000 You just lost like the coolest, most interesting person alive.

00:23:04.000 Good job.

00:23:08.000 Whether you like him or not, again, I have a mixed opinion on some of the stuff he does, but he's certainly not boring.

00:23:15.000 The potential to negatively impact millions, the Urban League says, directly undermine our nation's culture and democracy indirectly and is exponentially damaging and should be part of your analysis and reviewing this or any other purchase.

00:23:33.000 The National Urban League is super worried that if people are able to speak, people will no longer be able to speak.

00:23:42.000 Remember, the party that says that men can become pregnant, they're the ones that want to control misinformation on the internet.

00:23:50.000 The party that tells you that men can menstruate, they're the ones that are really worried about misinformation.

00:23:56.000 The party that is really worried about misinformation is the one that told us that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:24:04.000 The party that's really worried about disinformation is the one that said Border Patrol was on horseback whipping migrants.

00:24:11.000 The party that's really worried about misinformation and disinformation told us the vaccine was 100% safe and effective, would prevent against infection, and would prevent against death.

00:24:24.000 These are the people that are worried about disinformation and misinformation.

00:24:30.000 Maybe it's not misinformation.

00:24:32.000 Maybe it's just information they don't like.

00:24:35.000 Maybe it's facts they don't want to be put in the discourse.

00:24:40.000 We believe speech remedies these issues.

00:24:43.000 You see, the narrative industrial complex, the narrative that unites all of this, it's shaking.

00:24:51.000 With a takeover of Twitter, the regime becomes exponentially weaker.

00:24:58.000 In the last week, we have seen some of the most important organizations to get their word out, falter.

00:25:14.000 Let me say that again.

00:25:15.000 We have seen some of the most important organizations for the regime to be able to spread propaganda falter.

00:25:21.000 Netflix is down 40%.

00:25:22.000 CNN Plus has collapsed.

00:25:24.000 And Twitter is about to be taken over by Elon Musk.

00:25:28.000 Disney is down big time.

00:25:30.000 How are they going to be able to propagandize the public? 0.55

00:25:34.000 I love this because it truly is the last gasp of freedom and liberty at work.

00:25:41.000 I have a legitimate question.

00:25:43.000 What on the left has grown stronger in the last four months?

00:25:48.000 Name one thing. 0.68

00:25:49.000 The only thing I can name is the amount of illegals that have come into America, the potential population. 0.99

00:25:56.000 However, Hispanics are turning conservative in record numbers. 0.90

00:25:59.000 So even that, it's a little bit blurry. 0.71

00:26:01.000 What on the left has grown stronger in the last four months, since the new year?

00:26:06.000 Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Johnson, and Johnson, they're on the ropes.

00:26:09.000 Disney is down.

00:26:10.000 CNN Plus is gone.

00:26:13.000 Twitter is about to be taken over and totally changed, which we know censorship is a fundamental need of this regime.

00:26:22.000 If they're not able to censor, they can't exist.

00:26:24.000 They must be able to shut you up.

00:26:28.000 The Democrat Party has lower approval ratings than ever before.

00:26:32.000 Where, what, who, what, where is stronger than they were four months ago?

00:26:38.000 I'll tell you who is stronger, though.

00:26:40.000 Rogan is more popular than ever before.

00:26:41.000 Tucker Carlson is more popular than ever before.

00:26:44.000 Bill Maher's anti-woke tirades are stronger than ever before.

00:26:49.000 Elon is richer.

00:26:52.000 His net worth might have gone down by 20 or 30 billion because of stock prices.

00:26:56.000 But Tesla was up 10% since last week.

00:26:58.000 10%.

00:27:00.000 Our podcast is up amazingly.

00:27:02.000 Our radio program is up.

00:27:04.000 Our social media engagement is up.

00:27:06.000 We can't find spaces big enough at Turning Point USA to be able to fit all the students that want to come to our events at Berkeley and Boulder.

00:27:15.000 Meanwhile, I'm not really sure if people are flocking in big numbers to go hear about critical race theory and Nicole Hannah Jones.

00:27:21.000 Maybe.

00:27:22.000 I don't think so.

00:27:23.000 If you kind of look at these fundamental indicators of where the society is going, Republicans are winning registration wars across the country, and DeSantis wiped out all of the gerrymandering gains that California and New York tried to do.

00:27:37.000 DeSantis basically leveled the playing field.

00:27:40.000 God bless that man.

00:27:41.000 What is going well for the left right now?

00:27:44.000 Because even if they were not popular politically, the left would always be able to point to their institutions.

00:27:52.000 One of the reasons why the left has been so successful is the two eyes, infrastructure and institutions.

00:27:57.000 They're very similar.

00:27:58.000 Words technically different, but they're very similar.

00:28:01.000 The left has always poured their resources into institutions and infrastructure.

00:28:06.000 We as conservatives, what have we done?

00:28:08.000 We've poured our money into their institutions and infrastructure, giving our money to their colleges, giving our money to their companies.

00:28:16.000 Now that's changed.

00:28:18.000 Now you have Rumble.

00:28:20.000 Now you have alternative educational options happening.

00:28:25.000 If you're kind of looking and you're, let's pretend that you're kind of in a war room and your job is to make the American left stronger every single year.

00:28:34.000 Let's pretend that's your job.

00:28:36.000 And you're kind of sitting around and you have a big whiteboard and you're kind of tracking how things are going.

00:28:41.000 Huh.

00:28:41.000 College enrollment is down.

00:28:44.000 Homeschooling has quadrupled. 0.92

00:28:46.000 Moms and dads care more about education. 0.93

00:28:48.000 The president has the lowest approval rating in a generation.

00:28:52.000 Our ability to propagandize the public, Disney Plus is less popular.

00:28:58.000 Oh, don't worry.

00:28:59.000 We got this beautiful thing called CNN Plus coming out in the spring.

00:29:02.000 Gone.

00:29:05.000 Twitter.

00:29:05.000 At least we have Twitter.

00:29:06.000 We can control how people think.

00:29:07.000 Oh, never mind.

00:29:09.000 Don't have that anymore.

00:29:12.000 Well, at least we have the ability to win people over.

00:29:20.000 We have the alphabet mafia. 0.64

00:29:26.000 Okay.

00:29:27.000 I mean, of course, look, they still have institutional power.

00:29:29.000 They have Google.

00:29:30.000 They have all these.

00:29:31.000 I mean, Netflix is down 40%.

00:29:32.000 But it's not that they're powerless.

00:29:34.000 That's not the point.

00:29:35.000 I'm not making that point.

00:29:37.000 They're trending poorly is what I'm saying.

00:29:39.000 They are growing weaker.

00:29:41.000 And we are growing stronger.

00:29:44.000 And this trend has to sustain itself over many years.

00:29:47.000 And dare I say even a decade or two decades.

00:29:50.000 But it's not off to a good start.

00:29:54.000 We are seeing regular, everyday people, the rise of the citizen continue and all these other kind of institutions that they've poured so much money in that were otherwise untouchable.

00:30:07.000 And Disney is going through a reckoning right now.

00:30:09.000 Florida just said you got to pay $200 million extra in taxes every single year.

00:30:13.000 That's a lot of money for any company, even Disney.

00:30:17.000 You look a level deeper, the indicators are showing you that there's a realignment happening in what people are processing information, what movies they're watching, what they're spending money on.

00:30:29.000 And I'm telling you, this Twitter thing comes through with Elon.

00:30:32.000 We believe speech remedies issues.

00:30:34.000 If you think the left is doing poorly now, just wait till we get our speech back.

00:30:40.000 It'll make this country a lot freer.

00:30:42.000 Thank you so much for listening, everybody.

00:30:43.000 Email us your thoughts as always.

00:30:44.000 Freedom at charliekirk.com or support the Charlie Kirk show at charliekirk.com slash support.

00:30:49.000 Thank you so much for listening.

00:30:50.000 God bless.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - April 25, 2022

It's Official—Elon Owns Twitter

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