The Charlie Kirk Show - Joe Biden's Inauguration Speech Cross-Examined

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Joe Biden is sworn in as president.

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00:02:35.000 It is official.

00:02:36.000 President Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States.

00:02:41.000 And so that is obviously not an outcome that we wanted on this program.

00:02:44.000 We are not surprised, obviously, as things in the last couple of weeks were pointing to that.

00:02:49.000 But it's just hard to say goodbye to President Trump after all the good he did to our country.

00:02:52.000 It absolutely is.

00:02:53.000 And I'm glad we took the time yesterday to go through and sort of highlight the greatest accomplishments of the Trump administration.

00:02:59.000 If you guys haven't watched that episode or you didn't listen live, you should go check it out.

00:03:02.000 So there's a lot to unpack from that speech, and he predictably talked about unifying the country.

00:03:08.000 But what is his definition of unity?

00:03:10.000 Is a question that I think he needs to answer.

00:03:13.000 He doesn't answer questions at all from the press.

00:03:15.000 Is unity whereas we are going to understand that people have differences of opinions but still come together on shared values?

00:03:22.000 Or is it the Soviet style of unity where it's more unity is the absence of opposition?

00:03:29.000 And I am very skeptical when Joe Biden comes out with very little to any crowd, 25,000 troops in DC and says democracy won.

00:03:42.000 Something about that feels a little bit, let's say, not exactly normal.

00:03:47.000 I understand it's a pandemic and I understand stuff happened in the Capitol, but just the imagery of it and the visual was not like any other inauguration we've ever seen.

00:03:54.000 And so there's a lot I want to unpack from that speech.

00:03:57.000 I'm an American first before I'm a conservative.

00:04:00.000 I'm a Christian first and an American.

00:04:02.000 Let me rephrase that.

00:04:04.000 But when it comes to caring about the country, it comes before my political beliefs.

00:04:08.000 I really hope Joe Biden was telling the truth.

00:04:10.000 I'm enormously skeptical.

00:04:13.000 I believe that Joe Biden probably was lying there.

00:04:17.000 But it's a new president.

00:04:19.000 I'm going to do something the liberals never did.

00:04:21.000 I'm going to say, let's see what happens.

00:04:23.000 And he's already told us what he's going to do today.

00:04:26.000 So it's already worthy of some pushback.

00:04:29.000 However, I'm going to give him a chance.

00:04:31.000 If he really says, let's unify the country, that was one of the most inherently contradicting speeches I've heard.

00:04:37.000 And maybe he means parts of it where he said very clearly, let's talk to each other again.

00:04:44.000 Let's have conversations.

00:04:45.000 You know, maybe not everyone's a bad person.

00:04:47.000 Well, okay, President Biden, that's fine.

00:04:51.000 What about the 75 million Trump voters out there?

00:04:53.000 And he says, even if you didn't vote for me, I'll represent you.

00:04:55.000 Okay.

00:04:56.000 Then I would expect your entire government not to launch an entire new domestic war on terror, as Glenn Greenwald has warned us about.

00:05:07.000 He actually said that that's something he is nearly planning on doing in the coming weeks and months.

00:05:15.000 He said that this is a, I'm paraphrasing, he basically was saying, this is a struggle and we're going to win.

00:05:22.000 Is that about right, Isabel?

00:05:23.000 I don't want to, you know, misstate it.

00:05:26.000 Yeah, struggle against what he called extremism several times in that speech.

00:05:30.000 And I think you hit the nail right on the head, Charlie, in that this was a very contradictory set of words presented to the American people.

00:05:36.000 We heard a lot about unity in bringing the country together, but a sentence later, we would be hearing about extremism, white supremacy, racism that is allegedly raging through the nation right now and must be addressed with basically regulating this new domestic terrorism.

00:05:52.000 Right.

00:05:52.000 And so that is going to be a primary focus of his administration, which runs a little bit contrary to the idea of unifying the country.

00:06:01.000 And I guess his counter argument would be these are such terrible and extreme voices and forces.

00:06:08.000 However, that's not the way any of the media or any of the coverage has been carrying it.

00:06:13.000 In fact, even the Washington Post yesterday, I remember, I think I sent this yesterday in one of our kind of show prep areas, and it said, quote, federal prosecutors in Washington have charged more than 100 defendants in the past 13 days.

00:06:27.000 But arrests this weekend of several people with alleged ties to extremist groups, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and 3%ers, have offered evidence that the riots were not entirely an impulsive outburst of violence, but an event instigated or exploited by organized groups.

00:06:41.000 Hours of video on social media poured over show investigators have focused on individuals in military-style gear moving together.

00:06:47.000 And so this seems to be something that is focused much more on extremist groups that really are not really rooted in political ideology at all whatsoever.

00:06:56.000 And so look, there is a moment right now where Joe Biden can push back against the most radical forces of the Democrat Party.

00:07:04.000 I'm incredibly skeptical that he's going to do that.

00:07:07.000 There will be a moment, and he didn't mention this at all in his speech, of any of the positives of the Trump administration.

00:07:13.000 I don't think he mentioned Trump at all or the administration prior.

00:07:16.000 It's kind of just the abolition of history that came before us.

00:07:21.000 And the tone and the tenor of the speech, I think, was intentional because that's what the country is desiring.

00:07:28.000 Is that actually what is going to happen?

00:07:31.000 I'm incredibly skeptical of that.

00:07:34.000 I am as well, Charlie.

00:07:35.000 And actions speak so much louder than words, especially when it comes to political and public service.

00:07:40.000 We already know a bit of what President Biden is planning on doing today during his first day in office.

00:07:46.000 And almost all of those actions are centered around repealing anything that was an advancement from the Trump administration.

00:07:52.000 That's right.

00:07:52.000 And so he talked a fair amount about the virus.

00:07:55.000 And quite honestly, he didn't talk in very much specifics.

00:07:58.000 Sometimes in the speeches, a president will use all of the fanfare to say, I'm calling on Congress to do the following.

00:08:06.000 He didn't really do that.

00:08:07.000 Instead, the two major themes were definitely on the virus, and the second was on the threat of domestic terrorism.

00:08:17.000 He did not lay out any form of specific agenda items at all, whatsoever.

00:08:22.000 Where most times that is something that usually presidents will do in their inaugural address.

00:08:28.000 And so the question is: which Joe Biden is going to be?

00:08:31.000 Is it going to be the Joe Biden who says, I'm going to be a president for all Americans?

00:08:34.000 Or is it going to be the Joe Biden that operates like Barack Obama and when he sent the IRS after conservative groups, when he did gun running with Fast and Furious, when he tried to give amnesty to millions of people, which Joe Biden has already signaled what he's going to do?

00:08:48.000 And so it'd be one thing if Joe Biden gave a fiery grassroots progressive speech today.

00:08:54.000 He didn't.

00:08:55.000 So Joe Biden has now set the threshold.

00:08:58.000 He has now put himself in a position where he says he wants to govern as a moderate, basically was that speech was today.

00:09:06.000 I am not going to necessarily govern from the right or for the left.

00:09:09.000 Now, mind you, the speech was awfully depressing and dystopian.

00:09:11.000 I mean, it was just a list of everything, how terrible everything was, and things are not necessarily good in a lot of different ways.

00:09:16.000 I'm a Christian first, then an American, then a conservative.

00:09:19.000 I want to see Joe Biden succeed.

00:09:21.000 I do.

00:09:22.000 I'm not going to do what the liberals did from the moment Donald Trump was sworn into office.

00:09:27.000 They were having rallies planned the next day with Madonna saying, I have thought about blowing up the White House.

00:09:33.000 It's not going to happen.

00:09:35.000 Now, we are going to watch very closely and carefully as Joe Biden lays out his policy agenda, as his rhetoric starts to become clear and his administration takes form.

00:09:47.000 Obviously, I'm unbelievably skeptical that anything he will do will actually benefit our country, not to mention the suspicious Chinese ties that he has.

00:10:00.000 Hunter Biden was there.

00:10:01.000 I think that's going to disappear rather quickly, if I were to guess.

00:10:04.000 However, every president deserves a moment where we just say, okay, show us what you got.

00:10:13.000 And his opening moment was, I'm going to be a moderate president, right?

00:10:17.000 I'm going to be a president for all Americans, he said, regardless of whether or not you voted for me.

00:10:22.000 Again, I'm skeptical to see if that comes to fruition, and actions speak a lot louder than words.

00:10:27.000 But it seems to me that the Biden-Harris administration doesn't necessarily have their own agenda quite yet.

00:10:32.000 Honestly, it just appears that their agenda is defeating anything that Trump has done over the last four years.

00:10:38.000 That's right.

00:10:39.000 And also, it seems the only two things that they really mentioned in their agenda speech, if you could call it that, was fighting domestic terrorism alongside kind of getting the virus under control.

00:10:52.000 He said this is a dark winter.

00:10:54.000 I mean, it was kind of a depressing speech in more ways than one.

00:10:59.000 And so that's the moment that we're in.

00:11:02.000 And so in the next couple of hours, President Biden has pledged to sign a variety of executive actions.

00:11:10.000 One of the first things he is planning to do is to sign an executive action saying no new wall on the southern border, which runs contrary to the idea of being a president for all Americans.

00:11:22.000 They call illegal entry into the United States regional migration.

00:11:27.000 Is that right?

00:11:27.000 Regional migration.

00:11:28.000 That's the new buzzword.

00:11:31.000 He is also planning to sign a variety of executive orders to get us back, I think, into the Paris Climate Accord, Trans-Pacific Partnership. 0.79

00:11:39.000 And his administration is already negotiating on behalf of our country with the largest state sponsor of terror, Iran. 0.93

00:11:47.000 Is that correct? 0.98

00:11:48.000 Correct.

00:11:48.000 We're also expected to rejoin the World Health Organization sometime within the next few days and move towards 100% renewable energy and net zero emissions by 2050, reversing the travel ban instated by President Trump and canceling the permit for the Keystone pipeline, just to name a few.

00:12:04.000 So let's go to some clips from President Biden's speech.

00:12:07.000 I think it's 65, cut 65 here.

00:12:11.000 And then I want to follow it up with a clip from Glenn Greenwald.

00:12:14.000 Play cut 65, then cut 66, please.

00:12:16.000 Now, a rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.

00:12:26.000 So what's the danger in that?

00:12:28.000 It sounds good, right?

00:12:29.000 Well, political extremism.

00:12:30.000 How do you define that?

00:12:31.000 How do you define political extremists?

00:12:34.000 Labels like that can easily be thrown on people like Isabel and I. In fact, they're thrown on our students all the time at Turning Point USA, wrongly and baselessly, because they are inherently subjective terms.

00:12:47.000 And I agree, white supremacy is disgusting and awful. 0.99

00:12:50.000 Define it for me, Joe, because it's not as simple as you might think. 0.99

00:12:56.000 Glenn Greenwald understands this, and he said on Tucker Carlson, this very well might be the gateway to a new security state.

00:13:02.000 Play tape.

00:13:04.000 Well, one thing I think that we're clearly seeing is the initiation of a new war on terror, which I don't say lightly.

00:13:10.000 I say that because the Biden administration, what will be the Biden administration in about a week, is saying explicitly that they want, first of all, a new law to further criminalize domestic terrorism, even though every act that constitutes domestic terrorism is already criminalized.

00:13:29.000 What they want to do is increase their power to monitor political groups, to infiltrate them, to criminalize activities that currently are not criminalized, nor should they be, whether it be advocacy of speech or other things.

00:13:42.000 They're saying they want a new law similar to the way that the 9-11 attack and the emotions surrounding it was instantly seized upon to institute a whole series of new laws that endure to this very day.

00:13:54.000 A domestic surveillance state and security state, some of which these proposals have already been put forward.

00:14:00.000 We got an email at freedom at charliekirk.com from Keith.

00:14:02.000 Charlie, I always value your opinion, but I'm sorry, you're naive if you think Joe Biden will succeed or ever do anything good for the country.

00:14:08.000 He has over 40 years of being a self-centered politician.

00:14:11.000 You know darn well he's going to do because he's not even hiding it.

00:14:14.000 Look, I agree, I'm inherently skeptical of this entire operation, not operation, the presidency.

00:14:21.000 And I said that.

00:14:22.000 However, I am not going to do what the liberals did, which is instantaneously bias myself from day one when a new president comes into office.

00:14:31.000 We criticize liberals for that.

00:14:32.000 We told liberals, give Trump a chance.

00:14:34.000 Give Trump a chance.

00:14:35.000 Okay, let's see what executive actions Joe Biden signs in the next hour.

00:14:39.000 Let's see what he's got.

00:14:41.000 And because I was there at the inauguration four years ago for President Trump, and we were so excited and we wanted it to be a moment where President Trump had an opportunity to govern.

00:14:53.000 What did the liberals do?

00:14:55.000 They launched a coup from inside our government.

00:14:57.000 And even on inauguration day, there were plans to entrap Michael Flynn.

00:15:02.000 So in the midst of the inauguration, there were already plans well underway. 0.89

00:15:06.000 And we thought that was disgusting and detestable.

00:15:08.000 And so we're not going to do that, obviously.

00:15:11.000 But we are now going to just give a moment.

00:15:13.000 And the moment might be a couple hours until Joe Biden proves exactly the radical agenda he's going to do.

00:15:18.000 I think it's very, very important that we as conservatives, when we levy a criticism against the left, that we don't also embody that same criticism.

00:15:26.000 Okay.

00:15:28.000 I want to go to some more sound here.

00:15:30.000 But before I do, oh, yeah, the China Jiwan, how do you say that?

00:15:36.000 Oof.

00:15:36.000 Yeah.

00:15:37.000 Xinhua news, maybe?

00:15:39.000 It says, good riddance, Donald Trump.

00:15:41.000 China is very, very happy that Donald Trump is no longer president of the United States, as you probably can imagine.

00:15:52.000 And so I would love to have Joe Biden become this moderate.

00:15:58.000 I'd love Joe Biden to stand up against the most radical forces to say, you know what, we're not going to start a new domestic security state.

00:16:06.000 That not every single person that was in Washington, D.C. on January the 6th was a domestic terrorist.

00:16:12.000 Maybe we are going to take a pause and try to be a president for all Americans.

00:16:16.000 Nobody in his camp is talking that way.

00:16:19.000 No, in fact, they're speaking the exact extreme opposite way.

00:16:22.000 We're seeing people refer to all individuals who voted for President Trump as radicalized terrorists.

00:16:28.000 We're being told that conservative influencers need to be reined in because it's dangerous that they have an audience that's larger than daytime CNN.

00:16:36.000 They're spreading misinformation.

00:16:37.000 Well, I can assure you, at least on this program, we do our due diligence with research and we always tell the truth, even if it's hard for people to hear.

00:16:44.000 And if the truth is all of a sudden a euphemism for disinformation and misinformation, that's when we have a problem in this country.

00:16:51.000 No doubt.

00:16:52.000 And so Joe Biden really didn't say much, to be honest.

00:16:55.000 Nothing that he really didn't say in his president-elect speech.

00:16:59.000 But I also saw that, and you kind of see this in some of the imagery on the live stream in your bottom right-hand corner.

00:17:04.000 There's Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez chatting with Barack Obama.

00:17:10.000 Bill Clinton is there.

00:17:12.000 And did Bill Clinton make it through the entire speech?

00:17:14.000 I don't know.

00:17:15.000 He looked at me.

00:17:16.000 He looked a little tired.

00:17:18.000 And there's Joe Manchin, soon to be the most powerful man in Washington, D.C., walking through there.

00:17:23.000 What I did see, though, is kind of from an appearance, and this is just from watching a couple minutes of footage, kind of that kind of chummy, bipartisan ruling class seemed to be back in charge.

00:17:34.000 Would you agree?

00:17:35.000 Absolutely.

00:17:36.000 They all seemed very excited to be back together again, all celebrating the inauguration of one of their old buddies.

00:17:42.000 Yeah, it seemed as if Republicans and Democrats alike seemed a little bit happy that they could breathe easy, that all of a sudden the borders can remain open, the corporations will largely go unchallenged, that the trade deals will not get renegotiated, that the endless wars will remain endless, and that this kind of four years of a hiccup to their master plan is now over.

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00:19:13.000 I want to get to some more sound here from the speech.

00:19:16.000 Exiting the Capitol Rotunda looks to be Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House.

00:19:24.000 How much longer she'll be a Speaker of the House? 0.60

00:19:27.000 We do not know.

00:19:28.000 And at this moment, probably President Biden is heading to the White House.

00:19:35.000 This is a great take from Seth Dillon.

00:19:37.000 I want to say the left believes they own the truth.

00:19:39.000 If you disagree with them, you're spreading misinformation, period.

00:19:42.000 That's why they call for unity, not for liberty.

00:19:46.000 Very important point.

00:19:47.000 Freedom to disagree from their perspective is freedom to lie.

00:19:51.000 And that will not be tolerated by this administration.

00:19:53.000 That's exactly right.

00:19:54.000 That's a really good take.

00:19:55.000 That if you dare say anything outside of what the status quo decrees, then you're somehow an existential threat to the country and with it the administration.

00:20:05.000 And I noticed specifically in the language of this speech several times the phrase our truth was referenced, not the truth.

00:20:12.000 And that speaks so eloquently to this take from Seth Dillon.

00:20:15.000 Well done, Seth.

00:20:16.000 This is great analysis.

00:20:18.000 But the reality is the left is operating in this situation where truth is completely subjective.

00:20:23.000 My truth is different from your truth, and everyone can live in their own reality, whereas the truth is no longer relevant.

00:20:29.000 That's considered misinformation and lies.

00:20:31.000 That's exactly right.

00:20:32.000 And so one of our emails here from Kevin says, though it's hard, please keep encouraging viewers to take the high road and not be vulgar like the left.

00:20:39.000 I agree.

00:20:39.000 I'm going to try to embody that myself.

00:20:41.000 That does not mean that you have to agree or you have to continue in complete obedience to whatever Joe Biden says as president.

00:20:51.000 With that being said, we are not the left, okay?

00:20:54.000 And we are not arbiters of chaos.

00:20:57.000 We are going to continue to embody exactly what we believe, which is hopefully decency and respect.

00:21:03.000 And that's the moment that we are affording the president right now, Joe Biden.

00:21:08.000 And the moment he starts signing all these executive orders, then, okay, then we're going to settle in and we're going to start to go piece by piece and dissect it.

00:21:17.000 But he was given an open argument, opening argument.

00:21:20.000 President Trump was never even given a transition or an opening argument.

00:21:24.000 When President Donald Trump gave the speech at the inauguration, that was at four years ago.

00:21:29.000 The moment he came down, the coup was already in place.

00:21:32.000 What do I mean by the coup?

00:21:33.000 I mean to entrap Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.

00:21:36.000 I mean all the different security state forces, all of that were already in motion, all of it.

00:21:42.000 The kind of probing of the Logan Act, it was in place before the inauguration even started.

00:21:47.000 And so we thought that was an outrage, remember?

00:21:50.000 And we've complained about that rightfully so for years.

00:21:54.000 And so we're better than that.

00:21:56.000 And we should always be better than that.

00:21:57.000 And just kind of the throwing around of vile language is not going to do us anything.

00:22:02.000 I understand people are angry.

00:22:04.000 I understand you're upset. 0.97

00:22:05.000 I understand there were mountains of shenanigans and unanswered questions and tomfoolery and nonsense that continued on while we were just told, sit down and shut up.

00:22:15.000 You don't allow, you shouldn't have your questions answered.

00:22:17.000 And a forum that we wanted to see that happen was interrupted, obviously, on January the 6th, tragically and really unexpectedly.

00:22:27.000 We will keep the feed going in what feels just darker than usual.

00:22:32.000 Maybe it's the masks, maybe it's the distancing.

00:22:35.000 It just does not feel celebratory.

00:22:35.000 I don't know.

00:22:37.000 Even the people involved doesn't feel like they're celebrating, right?

00:22:40.000 No, it feels so solemn.

00:22:42.000 I said earlier, it sort of felt like everyone was at a funeral.

00:22:44.000 People seemed very sad.

00:22:46.000 A lot of people are wearing black masks and it seemed very sad.

00:22:50.000 On the live feed here is Hillary Rodham Clinton, who never became president of the United States.

00:22:54.000 That will go down as one of Donald Trump's greatest accomplishments, taking pictures with Bill Clinton.

00:23:00.000 And they are walking through the hallway there.

00:23:04.000 So Joe Biden has announced his day one actions.

00:23:07.000 Day one.

00:23:08.000 Let's see if this will unite the country.

00:23:10.000 Rejoin the Paris climate agreement, which will heavily impose limitations on oil and natural gas production.

00:23:17.000 Repeal Trump's travel ban in the midst of a pandemic.

00:23:21.000 Halt border wall construction.

00:23:24.000 Mask mandate.

00:23:26.000 Extend the eviction freeze. 0.90

00:23:28.000 Unveil his immigration plan just today. 0.68

00:23:32.000 Extend a student loan pause and then revoke permit for a Keystone XL pipeline, killing thousands of jobs.

00:23:39.000 We also heard this morning from the Biden-Harris team that they plan to rescind Trump's 1776 commission for education today on day one as well.

00:23:47.000 So I think it's safe to expect a lot more critical race theory in classrooms across America over the next four years.

00:23:54.000 No doubt.

00:23:54.000 Oh, how nice of Twitter to notify us.

00:23:57.000 Twitter has just sent out a new notification that says there's an at new White House.

00:24:02.000 Follow for the latest from the new at White House.

00:24:07.000 Glad Twitter is all on board to not want to get broken up from the new power structure.

00:24:14.000 Here's a question here.

00:24:16.000 Hi, Charlie.

00:24:17.000 As a Trump supporter and someone who likes to put her opinions out there, I'm scared for my freedom, my life, my family, and my country.

00:24:23.000 I continue to pray and hope.

00:24:24.000 But other than that, being silent and trying to hide my opinions and viewpoints, what can I do to help this country and protect myself?

00:24:29.000 I just want to add that I express my opinions as a factual, positive manner.

00:24:34.000 Name-calling, hate speech, and accusations get us nowhere.

00:24:37.000 Thanks for always being positive, as positive as possible, Sarah.

00:24:40.000 Look, you know what the number one thing God told his people in the Old Testament?

00:24:45.000 The number one thing?

00:24:46.000 Do not be afraid.

00:24:49.000 Look, I understand fear, but fear does not come from God.

00:24:51.000 Fear comes from the enemy.

00:24:53.000 And fear is understandable, but fear is tempting because fear is an endless pit where you just go down.

00:24:58.000 And so here's one just logical way to handle fear.

00:25:01.000 Take out a piece of paper.

00:25:03.000 Write down everything you're afraid of that might possibly happen.

00:25:05.000 Write it down.

00:25:06.000 And then just say, Am I willing to release it?

00:25:08.000 And just understand this is what could happen?

00:25:10.000 And then God's in charge.

00:25:12.000 The most free people, remember, the biblical definition of freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want, whenever you want to do it.

00:25:18.000 No, it's free from fear, free from sin, free from the worry of possibly being a slave to something that you're not in control of.

00:25:27.000 Therefore, surrender yourself and say, you know what?

00:25:32.000 I'm going to do everything I possibly can, but there might be, you know, dark forces that end up not working in my manner or fashion.

00:25:40.000 Fear is understandable.

00:25:41.000 I'm not telling you that you shouldn't all of a sudden stop being afraid, but fear will get you nowhere here.

00:25:46.000 And so I encourage everyone to, you know, read the Bible every night.

00:25:50.000 The more you read the Bible, the more it reads you.

00:25:52.000 It's the only book.

00:25:53.000 The more you read it, the more it will read you.

00:25:55.000 And understand that in James 1, it says very clearly, consider it a pure joy.

00:26:02.000 Consider it pure joy.

00:26:03.000 We're under trial.

00:26:03.000 What is that all about?

00:26:05.000 I don't like that part.

00:26:06.000 I want a pity party.

00:26:07.000 I want to feel sorry for myself.

00:26:08.000 I want to do like the left-wing oppression Olympics.

00:26:10.000 And here's the thing, everybody.

00:26:12.000 The more joy, the more cheer, the more positivity that we endure through this moment, the more it's going to drive the left nuts.

00:26:18.000 They want to see us do the meme where we just kind of, ah, not going to do it.

00:26:23.000 It's not going to happen.

00:26:24.000 Okay.

00:26:25.000 Because we still live in a beautiful country.

00:26:26.000 We're still talking.

00:26:27.000 And if you're hearing us, that means we still have the ability to communicate.

00:26:30.000 And they're not going to break our will.

00:26:32.000 No matter what they throw at us, okay?

00:26:33.000 Throw everything at us.

00:26:34.000 And for those of you that are like recklessly calling for violence and nonsense in our comments, cut it out now.

00:26:42.000 There is no place for that whatsoever.

00:26:43.000 There was no place on January the 6th, and there's no place right now.

00:26:46.000 Just stop it.

00:26:47.000 And that's not needed to be repeated.

00:26:50.000 It just needed to be said because, you know, some people are emailing us about some of the things that are being said in the comments. 0.70

00:26:54.000 It's a bunch of nonsense. 0.97

00:26:56.000 As Hillary Rodham Clinton walks in her full purple pantsuit. 0.84

00:27:00.000 I've noticed a lot of purple today, Charlie.

00:27:02.000 Purple is the color of the royalty.

00:27:05.000 It is the Roman color of the royals, which is what they used to wear.

00:27:08.000 Hillary, very upset that she never became president.

00:27:12.000 And so, look, take this moment as an opportunity.

00:27:15.000 What could possibly be the positive out of this moment?

00:27:18.000 I mean, I'm looking at President Biden, Vice President Harris.

00:27:22.000 What can we possibly lose?

00:27:25.000 What can we possibly have?

00:27:26.000 Well, number one, you can either laugh or cry.

00:27:29.000 And laughing is a lot better for your health.

00:27:33.000 Thanks so much, everybody.

00:27:34.000 If you want to get involved, go to tpusa.com, turning point USA, where we play offense with a sense of urgency to win America's Culture War.

00:27:42.000 Email us your questions, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:27:45.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:27:47.000 God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 21, 2021

Joe Biden's Inauguration Speech Cross-Examined

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