The Charlie Kirk Show - It's Time to BUY-cott Woke Corporations

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00:00:27.000 What's wrong with America's ruling class?

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00:00:56.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:02:45.000 Major League Baseball announced that they are no longer going to have the L-Star game in Atlanta, Georgia, citing that Georgia does not hold their values any longer.

00:03:00.000 So the obvious question that no one is asking is why only move the All-Star game?

00:03:05.000 Why not move the other games that are happening in Georgia if you actually believe this drivel and this nonsense?

00:03:11.000 And the answer is they don't even believe what they're saying because they're going to allow the other games to happen in Georgia this year.

00:03:18.000 Now, this all started with a very vanilla voter reform bill that was put forward by Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia after a very questionable election in Georgia where Georgia put forward a couple reforms.

00:03:38.000 Number one, you can't give out anything of value if you're a political organization of people going to go vote in line.

00:03:43.000 That's also federal law.

00:03:45.000 Number two, shortening primaries from nine weeks to five weeks.

00:03:49.000 Number three, you must prove who you are when you send in an absentee ballot. 0.68

00:03:54.000 Not exactly sending German shepherds after black people, which is the insinuation of what this is. 0.55

00:04:02.000 And number four, expanding voting times.

00:04:06.000 Actually, making it easier for people to vote and expanding voting hours.

00:04:11.000 That's it.

00:04:12.000 Again, when this bill was suggested and recommended, I gave it a five out of 10.

00:04:16.000 I want it to be passed.

00:04:18.000 I wish it would have gone a lot further to secure elections in Georgia.

00:04:22.000 The Democrats immediately saw that this was a threat to Raphael Warnock's Senate seat.

00:04:29.000 They know that if Republicans put up a pretty good candidate like Herschel Walker, Warnock is done in 2022.

00:04:39.000 And with it, the United States Senate and then the gateway to their revolutionary aims to fundamentally transform America forever.

00:04:47.000 So Georgia, in a lot of different ways, is the gateway for Washington, D.C. becoming a state.

00:04:53.000 Georgia is the gateway for H.R.1.

00:04:56.000 Georgia is the gateway for Democrats being in power forever.

00:05:01.000 Therefore, any reforms in Georgia must be met as if they are going to have forced segregation on everyone, and we're going back to the plantations.

00:05:14.000 You would think based on the outrage, based on the accelerated timeline that we're on, that this bill would classify people based on race.

00:05:26.000 No, that's actually what Kurt Kerrace Theory does, which is what the left is trying to teach our children.

00:05:31.000 But this bill is somewhat boring.

00:05:37.000 It's normal.

00:05:39.000 It's what we would call common sense.

00:05:42.000 The adage goes that common sense is all not so common any longer, but you can't have common sense if you only want power, because common sense requires fairness.

00:05:53.000 You see, they're trying to rig the game.

00:05:56.000 Now, they're trying to place weights on the scales of justice.

00:06:01.000 And so over this last weekend, it's been stunning to see how the left is now using their new playbook to try and keep the gateway to fundamental transformation open.

00:06:19.000 And so traditionally, when the Democrats don't get their way, they will use the apparatus of government.

00:06:26.000 They'll sue.

00:06:28.000 They'll send bureaucrats. 0.97

00:06:29.000 They'll pass laws.

00:06:31.000 They can't do it in this case because the Constitution clearly allows and requires the states to reform their own elections.

00:06:39.000 So then number two, they'll use the media.

00:06:42.000 They'll do a full court press.

00:06:44.000 New York Times, Washington Post.

00:06:46.000 That didn't work either.

00:06:47.000 Brian Kemp signed the law.

00:06:49.000 So then number three, they'll use the colleges.

00:06:53.000 They'll try to stage protests.

00:06:56.000 Didn't really affect anything in Georgia.

00:06:58.000 So number four, they'll use the activists, which is when you saw people trying to go knock on the door of Brian Kemp, massive public displays of outrage.

00:07:07.000 When all of that fails, the left now has a fifth way to try to get what they want.

00:07:15.000 And that is the corporations.

00:07:18.000 We have given more power to politicians in the last year than any other time in American history.

00:07:28.000 But I would also posit with you today that we have actually given more power to corporations in any other time in American history since the early 1900s.

00:07:43.000 Corporate America has now become the muscle of the Democrat Party. 0.62

00:07:51.000 So Georgia passes this voting law and this foreigner who's a CEO of Coca-Cola, James Quincy, I think that's his name, comes out and says that this is an unacceptable law and it's a step backwards, as if we have to go be lectured about American values and Georgia values. 0.72

00:08:13.000 They sent a guy that went to Oxford.

00:08:15.000 I'm just guessing he went to Oxford because he's so smug.

00:08:18.000 Play tape.

00:08:19.000 Let me be crystal clear and unequivocal.

00:08:22.000 This legislation is unacceptable.

00:08:25.000 It is a step backwards and it does not promote principles we have stood for in Georgia around broad access to voting, around voter convenience, about ensuring election integrity.

00:08:38.000 And this is frankly just a step backwards.

00:08:42.000 He doesn't know what he's talking about.

00:08:43.000 He was given those talking points.

00:08:45.000 How do I know that?

00:08:46.000 Because I've done television before.

00:08:48.000 And if you say the same thing three times, you were told by someone to say it.

00:08:51.000 So he just says it's a step backwards, step backwards, step backwards.

00:08:54.000 Some HR 28-year-old consultant went up to him and said, just say it's a step backwards, even though it isn't.

00:09:01.000 There's no facts to this at all whatsoever.

00:09:04.000 He went to King Edward's School in Birmingham.

00:09:08.000 And he's a famous lecturer in biochemistry at Dartmouth.

00:09:13.000 He seems as if he's perfectly in alignment, University of Liverpool, with American values.

00:09:19.000 So we have to be lectured by him.

00:09:22.000 An American company, by the way, Coca-Cola, that has delivered value for shareholders for decades, is now being run by this guy who wants to go lecture Americans on what our values actually are.

00:09:36.000 And Tucker Carlson brought up the great point.

00:09:38.000 How about you go fix the fact that millions of people suffer from diabetes and die early because of your products?

00:09:46.000 I don't drink Coca-Cola as it is.

00:09:48.000 I haven't in years.

00:09:50.000 Anyone listening right now, if you just cut all soft drinks out of your life, you'll be a happier and better person. 1.00

00:09:50.000 It's garbage. 1.00

00:09:55.000 I guarantee it. 1.00

00:09:56.000 All of it.

00:09:57.000 Drink water, tea, or coffee.

00:09:59.000 I drink a lot of coffee.

00:10:03.000 That is my weakness.

00:10:06.000 And by the way, Coca-Cola is actually more addictive than some drugs, and it can be worse for you than some drugs.

00:10:11.000 Not all drugs, some drugs.

00:10:14.000 But let's remember, Coca-Cola is a beverage company.

00:10:17.000 They're not a super PAC.

00:10:19.000 They're not some political organization.

00:10:21.000 No one asked you.

00:10:22.000 It's kind of like the Hunter Biden thing.

00:10:24.000 Why are you talking?

00:10:25.000 You should be worried about creating healthier products for our people.

00:10:29.000 It doesn't matter if you're located in Atlanta.

00:10:30.000 It's irrelevant.

00:10:32.000 And so then the other weak person, Cut21, the CEO of Delta, this feels like a hostage video.

00:10:42.000 You could just tell he doesn't know what to do with his hands because they look like they're handcuffed.

00:10:46.000 This guy is so weak, but listen to this.

00:10:50.000 Play tape. 0.99

00:10:51.000 We realized that this was restricting their access, our people's access, particularly in the black community. 0.97

00:10:59.000 And it did not step forward.

00:11:02.000 It's important that we take a step forward here in terms of a society that is so polarized.

00:11:08.000 The right to vote is sacrosanct, and we can't do anything to send a message to people that we're going to make it more restrictive and harder to have their voice heard.

00:11:19.000 He doesn't know what he's talking about.

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00:12:47.000 The state of affairs in our country is one that is rather new to conservatives.

00:12:54.000 Where the muscle, the people that administer the punishment, it's not just the government, it's not just the media, but it's massive corporations.

00:13:04.000 It's companies with customers.

00:13:06.000 Now, this is new.

00:13:09.000 Companies like Delta and Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball is not really a company, but they oversee a massive volume of attention and money in our country.

00:13:20.000 And Coca-Cola, they're acting with the same power, intensity, and capacity of a government, yet the partisan nature of a San Francisco gay activist organization.

00:13:36.000 You see, one of the main reasons why Delta is in a position where anyone cares about what they have to say is the fact that they didn't weigh in on politics the last 30 or 40 years.

00:13:49.000 They brought people from Atlanta to Los Angeles.

00:13:53.000 That's their mission statement.

00:13:56.000 So these companies are now treading into very dangerous territory for themselves and for the country.

00:14:03.000 They're embracing the college campus model.

00:14:05.000 The college campus model is this: we're in charge. 0.86

00:14:09.000 You're terrible.

00:14:11.000 We're right. 0.98

00:14:12.000 Sit down and obey, or else I'm going to call you the R-word.

00:14:17.000 The college campuses have taken over the entire country, and these massive corporations have become college campuses with shareholders and a little bit larger revenue in some cases.

00:14:31.000 And so now Major League Baseball is afraid of having their life significantly altered.

00:14:38.000 And so then you have very weak people like Dave Roberts, who's the manager of the Dodgers, saying that he supports the all-star game being moved.

00:14:46.000 CUT 19.

00:14:49.000 I was curious what your thoughts and opinions were about Major League Baseball deciding to remove the all-star game this year from Atlanta.

00:15:00.000 I support it, Dave. 0.76

00:15:03.000 I think that obviously I'm not completely versed on everything, but I do understand and my takeaway from the bill was essentially to suppress voting for colored people, people of color. 0.94

00:15:22.000 It's unbelievable how it's the opposite of the truth. 0.77

00:15:27.000 This guy's in a position of power.

00:15:29.000 Nobody elected you, Dave Roberts.

00:15:33.000 You did not have to collect signatures.

00:15:35.000 You didn't have to take an oath of office.

00:15:37.000 And that's the point that conservatives must wake up to right now.

00:15:40.000 The most serious point is that the CEO of Delta, Ed Bastian, and the CEO of Coca-Cola, they never had to take an oath of office.

00:15:48.000 No one voted for them.

00:15:49.000 Yet they have power as if they were mayor of a city.

00:15:53.000 That's a problem.

00:15:56.000 You see, the Democrats were not happy just controlling major apparatuses of every single major urban city.

00:16:03.000 They realized they had to take over the corporations.

00:16:05.000 So how did they take over the corporations?

00:16:08.000 They took advantage of two things.

00:16:11.000 They took advantage of actually really three things.

00:16:16.000 It's going to take a while to build this out, but I'm going to say it as quickly as I can.

00:16:20.000 They took advantage of how greedy America's ruling class is, how prideful America's ruling class is, and how weak America's ruling class is.

00:16:33.000 They took advantage of those three things.

00:16:36.000 And they realized that if they can perfect the modern-day guillotine, which is a public firing like they did with Papa John in the corporate world, then they could impact your money, your social status.

00:16:54.000 So Ed Bastion and James Quincy, who run Coca-Cola and Delta, they fear not being able to buy a third yacht in the Bahamas.

00:17:03.000 To them, that's what keeps them up at night.

00:17:07.000 They keep score based on how many tens of millions of dollars they have.

00:17:10.000 Meanwhile, those of you watching right now are just worried about paying rent and getting through life, or maybe having a nation or a country you can recognize.

00:17:20.000 The second thing is their social status.

00:17:24.000 They don't want to be called the R word.

00:17:26.000 You see, many of these CEOs send their kids off to these very liberal universities because that's what rich people do in our country.

00:17:33.000 They end up getting indoctrinated and they come back to their father, Ed Bastion, who has four kids.

00:17:38.000 And I guarantee you this is the case, that one or two of his kids are probably saying, Dad, you need to become more moderate on these issues.

00:17:46.000 I've seen it happen.

00:17:49.000 Because he does not want to be called an R word. 0.99

00:17:52.000 He is willing to pander to the Jacobins.

00:17:55.000 The Jacobins, of course, are the ones that administered the French Revolution.

00:18:00.000 These companies are acting like political super PACs.

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00:19:24.000 We're going through what airlines have to say about politics.

00:19:29.000 Again, these are airlines.

00:19:31.000 It's not a political commenting organization or MSNBC.

00:19:35.000 This is an airline.

00:19:36.000 So they're all issuing statements and no one asked them, United Airlines, our mission is to connect people and unite the world.

00:19:43.000 We believe that one of the most effective ways to do this is to engage in the Democrat process, stop it.

00:19:46.000 No one asked you, United.

00:19:48.000 Your job is to get people on your plane, fill the plane with fuel, and safely bring it from Chicago to New York, which begins with a voting, a vital civic duty.

00:19:58.000 America's democracy is stronger when we're all engaged and every vote is properly counted.

00:20:02.000 Some have questioned the integrity of the nation's election system and are using it to justify stricter voting procedures, even though numerous studies have found zero credible evidence of widespread fraud in U.S. elections.

00:20:11.000 Wrong.

00:20:14.000 Legislation that infringes on the right to vote of fellow Americans is wrong.

00:20:17.000 No one's doing that.

00:20:18.000 This is pure psychological gaslighting.

00:20:23.000 We believe that parties and leaders in both parties should work to protect the rights of eligible voters to make it easier and more convenient for them to cast a ballot and have it counted.

00:20:31.000 Nothing about voter security.

00:20:32.000 And again, an airline.

00:20:34.000 I don't care what United has to say about voting, nor should you.

00:20:41.000 So why is this happening?

00:20:43.000 It's happening for a variety of different reasons.

00:20:46.000 And I mentioned it a little bit previously.

00:20:48.000 That the CEOs of these companies, they really don't care about America.

00:20:54.000 They are focused on two things.

00:20:55.000 And the insurgents who run our country, which is the left, they finally figured this out.

00:21:05.000 Instead of trying to get in a policy debate of capitalism versus socialism, they are using the vices of the West against us.

00:21:16.000 They are using what we would consider to be a success of the West as a negative.

00:21:26.000 So what do I mean by that?

00:21:28.000 Well, if you asked Ed Bastion or James Quincy, why is America a great country?

00:21:33.000 Inevitably, they would say, well, it's because we're so wealthy and so prosperous.

00:21:36.000 And they wouldn't be wrong by saying that.

00:21:40.000 And so the strategic thinkers on the left say, ah, that's what they care about.

00:21:47.000 They care about their money.

00:21:50.000 They care about their third yacht in Turks and Caicos.

00:21:56.000 Of course. 0.99

00:21:58.000 Let's design a way where we can threaten what they care about most so they'll do what we want them to do.

00:22:07.000 You see, the left realize that the country actually doesn't matter the most to these guys.

00:22:14.000 That they view America as a colony, not as a country.

00:22:19.000 That James Quincy literally is not from here.

00:22:23.000 It doesn't matter for James Quincy if he was running Coca-Cola in Hong Kong, Tanzania, or Wuhan.

00:22:29.000 It doesn't matter.

00:22:30.000 For him, all that matters is profit.

00:22:34.000 And profit in and of itself is not a bad thing.

00:22:37.000 It's a mechanism for human flourishing.

00:22:39.000 But when the profit incentive supersedes your patriotic incentive, that's where we have a problem.

00:22:47.000 So number one is the ruling class's obsession with maximizing and filling their own bank account.

00:22:55.000 It's not a bad thing to make money.

00:22:57.000 It's not a bad thing to take a risk and be rewarded for it.

00:23:01.000 But it's become, dare I say, an idol.

00:23:07.000 But number two, the pride.

00:23:13.000 Ed Bastion and James Quincy care so much about what other people say about them.

00:23:20.000 They care about what the Wall Street Journal writes about them.

00:23:24.000 That Ed Bastian and James Quincy, and I'm just using them as examples because they're so unbelievably wrong on this issue, and I'm telling you why.

00:23:34.000 And then I'm going to say that it's almost all of corporate America that has looped into this.

00:23:38.000 That for Ed Bastion and James Quincy, if they were to come out in favor of the Georgia bill, the New York Times would write an article about them.

00:23:47.000 But guess what?

00:23:48.000 Delta did come out in favor of this bill.

00:23:52.000 When this bill was in the Senate, Delta issued a statement saying that this is a good bill.

00:23:57.000 We support it.

00:23:58.000 It wasn't until Joe Biden and Raphael Warnock, remember, Georgia is the gateway to fundamental transformation, the fire alarm went off.

00:24:09.000 DEF CON 5, actually, DEF CON 1, long story.

00:24:11.000 The lower the number, the higher the DEF CON.

00:24:13.000 We'll talk about that.

00:24:14.000 It's a completely different podcast.

00:24:15.000 DEF CON 1.

00:24:19.000 Colin Jack Bauer, CTU, worst thing imaginable.

00:24:24.000 We got a problem.

00:24:28.000 So they sent Joe Biden out there and they briefed him incorrectly.

00:24:32.000 Joe Biden just starts saying things that are totally untrue.

00:24:36.000 But what did Joe Biden do?

00:24:39.000 Joe Biden is untouchable, and Joe Biden moved the Overton window by lying about the voting bill because then everyone was able to reference Joe Biden's comments for at least 24 hours to 48 hours to make any sort of radical action justified.

00:24:55.000 Well, if the President Biden says it, it must be true.

00:24:57.000 Then the Washington Post comes out and rates his statement as for Pinocchio's absolute lie.

00:25:05.000 So James Quincy and Ed Bastion, they fear not being able to have their fourth home in Aspen, not being able to fly private the rest of their life, which is hilarious because Ed Bastion runs a commercial airline, and not being able to have their third yacht in the Bahamas to them, that is failure.

00:25:27.000 That possesses them.

00:25:30.000 And then it's pride.

00:25:32.000 They don't want to have a negative thing written about them.

00:25:37.000 So they conform.

00:25:39.000 They know that conservatives are decent.

00:25:43.000 We don't do this stuff.

00:25:48.000 We don't all of a sudden demand that our publicly traded companies agree with our political philosophy.

00:25:54.000 Instead, the decency that is embedded in the conservative movement is: doesn't Delta transport people not weigh in on the pressing political issues of our time?

00:26:10.000 You see, this is the BDS model that they're trying to use against Israel.

00:26:15.000 It's the BDS model that was previously used effectively against South Africa.

00:26:20.000 Boycott divestment sanctions.

00:26:22.000 That's what BDS stands for.

00:26:25.000 So the activists graduating from college infiltrate the C-suite and they go to Ed Bastion or James Quincy and they'll say this as a threat.

00:26:35.000 They'll either say it vocally or they'll say it in code.

00:26:43.000 Hey, Ed Bastian, if you don't speak out against this and Delta doesn't become an activist organization, we're going to get you fired.

00:26:53.000 And you won't get your $17 million a year.

00:26:56.000 Oh, and the New York Times is going to call you racist.

00:27:02.000 And then it comes to the third issue of America's ruling class: their weakness.

00:27:09.000 They value money and social status above the good.

00:27:18.000 They value money and social status above what doing what is right for the nation.

00:27:26.000 So then you have very angry and bitter political activists that are running our massive corporations.

00:27:35.000 So Democrats have now proven that when they want something done big and dramatic for a political aim, all they have to do is go to the major employers in that state and threaten their money and their social status and they can get what they want.

00:27:50.000 That's why it's so important for Governor Brian Kemp to hold the line on this.

00:27:56.000 I've had some very choice words for Governor Brian Kemp in the last couple months.

00:28:00.000 You could probably dig them up.

00:28:02.000 I'm willing to say this.

00:28:03.000 Governor Kemp, if you hold the line, you'll be heralded as a hero.

00:28:08.000 Do not waver to these activists.

00:28:15.000 And we're going to see this all across the country. 0.95

00:28:17.000 American Airlines issued a statement as well, a ridiculous statement.

00:28:21.000 And Dan Patrick responded to that.

00:28:26.000 And so as we have said on this program for years and we are initially scoffed at and we've been listened to, and I hope that this resonates with you because it's true.

00:28:39.000 What happens on college campuses doesn't stay there.

00:28:42.000 It'll soon happen in the corporate boardrooms and the halls of Congress.

00:28:48.000 Can anyone tell me the difference between Coca-Cola and Cornell University?

00:28:55.000 Anyone, except for the fact that Coca-Cola gives people diabetes.

00:29:03.000 The point is that Coca-Cola and Cornell share the same values.

00:29:10.000 They want the same thing.

00:29:13.000 There's only one thing, though.

00:29:16.000 There's a couple things.

00:29:17.000 There's one main thing that the CEOs are missing.

00:29:23.000 And there's a fear that must be clear and present to them that currently isn't.

00:29:33.000 It's a fear that should be above the fear of being called the R-word.

00:29:40.000 And it's a fear that can go after their biggest fear, which is losing money.

00:29:45.000 And that's this.

00:29:46.000 We're not going to buy your products anymore.

00:29:50.000 That we as conservatives must realize that this is not a policy debate, that we are not exchanging ideas in some sort of Socratic seminar in a professor in a philosophy 101 class, that this is a brass knuckle political fight for the future of our country.

00:30:07.000 Therefore, Coca-Cola, if you're going to act like Cornell University, we're not going to buy your products and we're going to end your tax benefits.

00:30:15.000 For Delta, same for you.

00:30:17.000 The Georgia House did that.

00:30:19.000 For Major League Baseball, you're going to pull an all-star game based on a lie and act as if we're living in South Africa because all of a sudden we expand voting access and ensure voter integrity.

00:30:34.000 Well, then Major League Baseball, you're going to become NBA'd.

00:30:40.000 The NBA had a 20% hit in viewership.

00:30:42.000 Do you notice that all the Black Lives Matter signs are no longer on the floor of the National Basketball Association?

00:30:47.000 Do you realize that?

00:30:48.000 It was an NBA ratings crash.

00:30:51.000 I don't watch the NBA anymore.

00:30:53.000 I'm never going to go to another NBA game again.

00:30:56.000 You don't represent my values.

00:30:58.000 You've made a decision to become a social activist organization with a bouncing ball.

00:31:05.000 Congratulations.

00:31:06.000 I'm sure some of the country wants that.

00:31:08.000 I don't.

00:31:10.000 And you want to talk about a gamble?

00:31:13.000 Who exactly do you think watches Major League Baseball? 0.67

00:31:17.000 If you did a study of who major league baseball, who the biggest supporter of American baseball is, do you think it's the pro-BLM crowd or the back the blue crowd?

00:31:29.000 Just a check, just a guess. 1.00

00:31:33.000 Probably the black, the blue crowd, or at the very least, let me watch baseball so I can disconnect from my crazy life crowd.

00:31:40.000 People are saying, Charlie, is it time to boycott?

00:31:42.000 Donald Trump is calling for boycotts.

00:31:45.000 The best boycott is a competitor.

00:31:48.000 So instead of just pulling your resources and money away from Coca-Cola, don't support PepsiCo either.

00:31:55.000 It's time for us to launch and build our own stuff.

00:32:00.000 It's not just about Delta Airlines and United.

00:32:03.000 Unfortunately, they seem to have a government-created monopoly there.

00:32:06.000 But you want to get them nervous, you want to challenge the woke industrial complex, then it's time for us to support legitimate competitors.

00:32:16.000 I'll give you an example.

00:32:18.000 I mentioned this on our podcast.

00:32:19.000 You guys got to check out our podcast, Charlie Kirk Show Podcast, on your podcast app.

00:32:23.000 Hit subscribe.

00:32:24.000 I was in Naples, Florida last week at my friend Alfie Oates grocery store.

00:32:30.000 No masks, no social distancing.

00:32:34.000 I was on the right side of BLM Incorporated.

00:32:36.000 He has 8,000 customers a day.

00:32:42.000 Instead of boycott, it's time to buycot.

00:32:45.000 Let's find the things that share our values and triple down on them.

00:32:50.000 So we're not going to go to major league baseball games anymore.

00:32:52.000 Sorry, figure it out yourself.

00:32:56.000 We will go to the UFC, though, because they share our values.

00:33:00.000 You want to talk about one sporting institution that's been right on everything?

00:33:03.000 Dana White's been terrific.

00:33:07.000 A boycott is only truly felt when a competitor rises in response.

00:33:12.000 It's not an easy thing to talk about, by the way.

00:33:14.000 It's not.

00:33:15.000 It's not going to happen immediately.

00:33:17.000 It's not going to happen overnight.

00:33:19.000 So it's the question: should we stop buying those products?

00:33:21.000 Of course we should stop buying those products.

00:33:24.000 We need to launch our own search engines.

00:33:25.000 We need to launch our own video processors, which is why we're also streaming live on rumble.com, R-U-M-B-L-E.com.

00:33:34.000 Check it out.

00:33:34.000 It's a video competitor.

00:33:36.000 They do a phenomenal job.

00:33:37.000 And just like that, I bet our YouTube numbers go down because their language processor, I'm sure, catches their competitors because they're worried about them.

00:33:45.000 That's why.

00:33:47.000 They're not worried about people stopping using their products.

00:33:49.000 They're worried about another product popping up.

00:33:52.000 You want to challenge despots and tyrants.

00:33:57.000 Create something that keeps them up at night.

00:34:01.000 So Delta's in a comfortable position.

00:34:03.000 That bastion will be on his third yacht in the Bahamas by a real airline competitor.

00:34:09.000 Comes up.

00:34:10.000 Mike Lindell sold tens of millions of dollars of pillows in the last couple of months.

00:34:19.000 There is pent-up consumer demand for this.

00:34:22.000 So yes, every purchase should be a reflection of your values.

00:34:26.000 I'm a big believer that every decision anyway is a reflection of your soul.

00:34:30.000 And the improvement of your soul to improve your character is every micro decision that you make.

00:34:37.000 So when you go and try to make decisions of where you buy t-shirts, I'm wearing a t-shirt from my fiancé, Proclaim Streetwear, all made in America, by the way.

00:34:48.000 Are you buying clothes that are made in China?

00:34:51.000 Why? 0.96

00:34:53.000 Buy your values.

00:34:54.000 Are you purchasing cars that are made overseas?

00:34:59.000 Why?

00:35:00.000 Ford just threatened to move all their jobs to Mexico that they were going to do in Ohio. 0.98

00:35:05.000 Don't buy Ford until they reverse that decision.

00:35:09.000 You have more power than you might think, and you're dealing with industries like Delta that have thin margins as is.

00:35:18.000 A 10% decline can crush these companies.

00:35:24.000 So if they all of a sudden want to act like college campuses, then let them go have gender-neutral Coke.

00:35:32.000 I don't care. 0.88

00:35:34.000 I'm not going to go buy Sprite.

00:35:36.000 I'm done drinking Topa Chico.

00:35:38.000 I hate to say it.

00:35:39.000 It's a big deal.

00:35:40.000 They help distribute it.

00:35:41.000 I love Topa Chico.

00:35:42.000 We're going to go build our own stuff.

00:35:44.000 It's time for us to send out the distress beacon.

00:35:48.000 Is anyone out there creating a soft drink that's healthier than Coke and You Love America?

00:35:52.000 Contact us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:35:55.000 The airline thing, gonna be tough for us to fix immediately.

00:35:59.000 Just a little bit of overhead.

00:36:01.000 It's gonna say there's a minor amount of upfront cost there.

00:36:06.000 But we're getting, and we're gonna consolidate this on CharlieKirk.com.

00:36:11.000 On charliekirk.com, we are going to have a page of the best companies you can support based on category.

00:36:18.000 On charliekirk.com, we are going to have a buycot session section.

00:36:24.000 You want to know what to buy.

00:36:25.000 You don't want to know what to do.

00:36:26.000 We're going to launch it in the next couple days.

00:36:29.000 Textiles, food, cars, coffee, pens, notebook.

00:36:37.000 There's going to be companies that all of a sudden want to act like they're wings of the Democrat Party.

00:36:42.000 You're not getting my money.

00:36:44.000 You want to send a signal to them?

00:36:47.000 That's what you do.

00:36:48.000 And the final thing I'll say, we need more entrepreneurs.

00:36:50.000 Start your own stuff.

00:36:54.000 There's so much market opportunity there.

00:36:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:37:00.000 I encourage you to get involved with Turning Point USA today at tpusa.com.

00:37:06.000 Email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:37:09.000 God bless you guys.

00:37:10.000 Speak to you soon.

00:37:14.000 For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to CharlieKirk. com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 06, 2021

It's Time to BUY-cott Woke Corporations

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