The Charlie Kirk Show - February 26, 2024


LIVE Ask Charlie Anything 177: Kids and Smartphones? A Christian View on Ukraine? The Importance of Fathers?


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Live from Charlotte, North Carolina, with my friends Troy and Penny Maxwell, we have a live Q&A with the Governor of Virginia, Mark Robinson. We talk about the corrupt court system and how we can change it.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, a live AMA episode from Charlotte, North Carolina with my friends Troy and Penny Maxwell.
00:00:06.000 You're going to love it.
00:00:06.000 I love hearing from you.
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00:00:20.000 Here we go.
00:00:21.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
00:00:22.000 Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses.
00:00:24.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:01:19.000 So we're going to do some QA.
00:01:21.000 Now, here's the deal.
00:01:22.000 Here's the rules.
00:01:23.000 15, 20 minutes?
00:01:24.000 Unless you guys want to go home.
00:01:25.000 I mean, it's just, you know, okay, let's do some QA.
00:01:28.000 Now, here's the deal.
00:01:29.000 This is not your opportunity to pontificate about what's going on in your world and get your comment.
00:01:34.000 This is a question opportunity.
00:01:36.000 So come with a question, not a dialogue, not a monologue.
00:01:41.000 I'm sorry.
00:01:41.000 So, or we'll shut you down.
00:01:43.000 Or we'll put the mute button.
00:01:44.000 Yeah, we'll put the mute button.
00:01:45.000 We have the power.
00:01:46.000 And you're not going to hold the mic.
00:01:48.000 They're going to hold the mic because that's just a time-tested pastoral thing.
00:01:52.000 You never give the mic to somebody you don't know.
00:01:56.000 All right.
00:01:57.000 And so jump out of your seat right now and come on up and we'll get you a chance to get away from it. 0.73
00:02:01.000 Right over here.
00:02:03.000 We'll do like 15, 20 minutes.
00:02:05.000 And thank you, first of all, for bringing these people in here and being a non-woke church thing.
00:02:13.000 Come on, thank you, buddy.
00:02:14.000 Appreciate that.
00:02:15.000 I just want to say thank you for the added blessing of bringing in Governor Mark Robinson.
00:02:21.000 So thank you.
00:02:22.000 And Kirk.
00:02:26.000 Charlie, thank you.
00:02:27.000 Charlie, I know you didn't touch on this tonight, and I don't know if you are wanting to, but the way that the woke liberal, progressive, communist, Marxists are going after all of us who speak up, all the heroes of truth, they're litigating them to death.
00:02:46.000 They're sucking them dry.
00:02:48.000 And I'm wondering, you know, as you listen to their court cases, oh, you can't bring all that evidence in here. 0.97
00:02:54.000 That'll get you off.
00:02:55.000 The jury will go.
00:02:56.000 Is there anything you can say about how what we can do to overturn this whole corrupt court system?
00:03:05.000 Boy, that's such an important question.
00:03:06.000 We have zip code justice in our country.
00:03:08.000 Let me say that again.
00:03:09.000 We have zip code justice, and it is a bad, bad trend.
00:03:13.000 If I were to be indicted in Washington, D.C., I would lose.
00:03:16.000 And if Mark Robinson would.
00:03:18.000 I mean, if you are a conservative, they have rigged it that if you get a court in Washington, D.C. or Northern Virginia, the jury's mind is so polluted by cable television and by the zeitgeist, and it is a really, really dangerous trend.
00:03:33.000 How we fix that is there has to be, there could be some adjustments by Congress where you can get change of venues, where if you're indicted in Virginia or D.C., like for example, all the January 6th cases, they should have been handled in West Virginia.
00:03:47.000 And that would have just been a much fairer way.
00:03:49.000 They would have gotten better sentences.
00:03:51.000 Some of them wouldn't have gotten off.
00:03:52.000 But the fact that they're in front of these DC zealots, I mean, these judges are basically trying to one-up each other, trying to destroy these people's lives.
00:03:59.000 How we actually change it is a much deeper and more, is a harder question.
00:04:05.000 And I am increasingly worried that our tradition of the standard bearer of the rule of law is being deteriorated in our country very, very quickly.
00:04:15.000 And we have still some elements that are positive and strong.
00:04:18.000 I mean, I think the Supreme Court's going to allow Donald Trump on the ballot, which is a big win.
00:04:22.000 We'll see.
00:04:23.000 Today did not go well for the bad guys.
00:04:25.000 But yeah, it's an infinitely complex question because they've corrupted the law schools, they've corrupted the judges, and they care much more about progress and their revolution than actually justice.
00:04:37.000 Thank you.
00:04:39.000 In the podcast that we've been talking about all night, you made one almost apology to those girls, and it said, our society or our culture should have given you better men.
00:04:52.000 That's right.
00:04:52.000 Right.
00:04:52.000 I loved listening to that.
00:04:54.000 Here at Freedom House, we don't have that problem.
00:04:56.000 Okay, good.
00:04:57.000 Right?
00:04:58.000 But outside of Freedom House, what do we need to do to spread that strength?
00:05:02.000 And how important is that paternal and manly influence without being classified as toxic?
00:05:10.000 Yeah, that's such a good question.
00:05:11.000 So on this podcast, I said to these young ladies, you deserve better men than what the society is currently giving you. 0.95
00:05:18.000 And this is my attitude, and some people don't like it.
00:05:22.000 For example, there was a young man that came to an event last night with Luke and Angel at Dream City.
00:05:27.000 And he said, Charlie, all the women are not so good, and I can't find a partner. 0.96
00:05:32.000 And by the way, all the women say that about all the men, right?
00:05:34.000 And so that's one thing they can agree on.
00:05:36.000 And honestly, I blame the men.
00:05:38.000 I mean, men have to lead.
00:05:39.000 Men should strengthen, become more interesting.
00:05:42.000 Stop doing drugs.
00:05:43.000 Stop watching porn.
00:05:44.000 Start reading your Bible. 0.92
00:05:46.000 Wake up earlier.
00:05:47.000 If you can't attract women, there's something wrong with you, the man.
00:05:51.000 I do not blame the women.
00:05:53.000 And they say, oh, well, the women, they're all on birth control and all this stuff. 0.97
00:05:56.000 Women will change for a man if they're led. 1.00
00:06:00.000 Am I right, Penny?
00:06:01.000 Let me tell you, I don't care how strong a woman, how whatever, we were designed to stand alongside and have our protector, our leader, our covering.
00:06:14.000 So just to make it clear, even though I am a very outfront person, I am covered.
00:06:21.000 I am covered by the head.
00:06:23.000 I am covered by my husband.
00:06:25.000 That is the way God designed us.
00:06:28.000 So when our men lead, we follow.
00:06:31.000 I don't care how strong she is, guys.
00:06:34.000 She's not going to follow a parked car. 0.91
00:06:39.000 Or a unit.
00:06:40.000 Yeah, or a unit.
00:06:41.000 That's right.
00:06:42.000 So I think we have to hold our men to a higher standard.
00:06:46.000 We must hold our men to a higher standard.
00:06:48.000 Yes.
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00:08:47.000 Hi there.
00:08:47.000 My name is Daniel.
00:08:48.000 I've actually been watching you, Charlie, for about three or four years.
00:08:50.000 This is the first event I've come.
00:08:52.000 So thanks again for coming.
00:08:54.000 My church is actually paired with another church in Kyiv, Ukraine right now called New Life Church.
00:08:58.000 And we're receiving reports about how Ukraine is really suffering right now.
00:09:02.000 But with all the corruption, it is really hard to help them, especially from Russia within Ukraine and even within our own borders itself.
00:09:10.000 How is it that we can truly help Ukraine when they're in such a predicament?
00:09:14.000 That's a great question.
00:09:15.000 The best way to help Ukraine and help all people is there must be a unified call from the church for peace.
00:09:21.000 And it must, the fact that our elected leaders in DC are so uninterested in peace is a human rights violation.
00:09:28.000 And you're right, the reports from Ukraine are awful.
00:09:31.000 War is terrible.
00:09:32.000 This is why I don't like Putin.
00:09:33.000 What Russia is doing is wrong.
00:09:34.000 It's bad.
00:09:35.000 It's evil.
00:09:36.000 Okay.
00:09:37.000 At the same time, we have such a Western view of war.
00:09:40.000 The Russians and the Ukrainians, they've been fighting over this piece of turf forever, okay? 0.98
00:09:45.000 To them, 100,000 lost, 200,000 lost.
00:09:47.000 It's like a rounding error.
00:09:48.000 I know that sounds so strange to you, but they don't view life.
00:09:52.000 It's the same way as the Western tradition.
00:09:55.000 It's very much, does it strengthen the state?
00:09:57.000 Does it move history?
00:09:58.000 It's a very different view.
00:10:00.000 We're going to lose a generation of Ukrainian men. 1.00
00:10:03.000 For what?
00:10:04.000 For what?
00:10:05.000 So that we could have eastern Ukraine be a little less controlled by Russia.
00:10:09.000 So what we need is we need to have Senate Republicans, which they're uninterested, instead of sending more money for missiles, there needs to be peace talks. 0.93
00:10:18.000 There needs to be, I mean, and by the way, blessed are the peacemakers.
00:10:22.000 Why is the church not calling for peace?
00:10:23.000 Like, what does success look like?
00:10:25.000 You think you're going to go take back the Kremlin?
00:10:26.000 You think you're going to displace Putin?
00:10:28.000 I mean, at what point can the people that have been pushing this war acknowledge that it's not going well and that a lot of innocent people are dying unnecessarily and that the most populated country in Europe, which is Ukraine, has lost 10 million people through refugees.
00:10:45.000 It's completely remade the European continent.
00:10:48.000 So the best way to help is there are some charities I can point you to that are actually legit that are doing some good work.
00:10:53.000 And I do have a heart for the Ukrainian people.
00:10:55.000 But my biggest heart for them is that they will not be mowed down the coming killing season.
00:11:00.000 We have a very short window here, everybody, okay?
00:11:03.000 The winter's about to thaw.
00:11:04.000 And the Russians, they are souped up. 1.00
00:11:07.000 They have reinforcements.
00:11:08.000 And there's going to be a killing season happening this spring.
00:11:11.000 And the West is to blame.
00:11:13.000 Our government is to blame.
00:11:14.000 Every day that Joe Biden and Tony Blinken and Mitch McConnell keep on sending missiles over there to people that don't even know how to use them, they are basically putting these poor Ukrainian men as human shields that will meet an unnecessary demise.
00:11:28.000 And so we should be calling for peace, unfortunately.
00:11:31.000 What's the number that just came out of they realized it was, I don't know, like 275 million that just Ukrainian officials took off.
00:11:42.000 Yeah, it's standard operating procedure.
00:11:43.000 I mean, it's just, look, if you know anything about Ukrainian politics, it's a mafia, okay? 0.67
00:11:49.000 This is why they lift up Zelensky like he's Winston Churchill. 0.54
00:11:52.000 I mean, it's repulsive, okay?
00:11:54.000 Again, I don't like Vladimir Putin.
00:11:57.000 I also don't like Vladimir Zelensky, okay?
00:12:00.000 By the way, like the extortion racket, he goes on TV.
00:12:03.000 I want you to understand.
00:12:04.000 He went on TV.
00:12:04.000 He's like, if you don't give us money and give us arms, Americans are going to have to fight this war soon.
00:12:08.000 I'm like, I'm sorry, pal.
00:12:09.000 Like, this whole like uppity foreigner in a t-shirt thing that like I can never put on a suit and tie when you come to Congress. 1.00
00:12:15.000 Like, we're done here, okay?
00:12:16.000 How about you broker peace and put your people first instead of trying to be a proxy for the Central Intelligence Agency and the war machine?
00:12:27.000 Hello, Charlie.
00:12:28.000 I hold in my hand a smartphone introduced around 2012, which has been destructive to children.
00:12:33.000 Isn't it time parents took control of these devices before they take control of their children's lives?
00:12:39.000 Yeah, I mean, I don't think anybody under the age of 18 should have a smartphone, period.
00:12:43.000 And if I'm poking at you as a parent, I hope so.
00:12:49.000 There is no reason why a child should have a smartphone, period.
00:12:52.000 You say, how could you say that?
00:12:52.000 Because I grew up without one, okay?
00:12:54.000 I grew up in an era where I had a dumb phone, and it was great, okay?
00:12:59.000 It was in my backpack in case of emergency.
00:13:01.000 So every argument, it was hilarious.
00:13:03.000 I asked these parents and these wine moms, and they literally wine moms. 0.82
00:13:08.000 They can't, they're the worst with this stuff.
00:13:11.000 Like, oh no, little Henry, he's 13, and he needs to be able to FaceTime me from the pickup line.
00:13:20.000 The pickup line.
00:13:21.000 And I say, really?
00:13:22.000 He needs to FaceTime you from the pickup line.
00:13:25.000 Does the pickup line change every day?
00:13:28.000 Is it like trying to locate somebody in the woods?
00:13:33.000 People were picked up before smartphones.
00:13:37.000 Or my favorite one is, how is my kid going to update social media without a smartphone?
00:13:43.000 There is an amazing graph.
00:13:44.000 You can look at it.
00:13:45.000 We have it at charliekirk.com. 1.00
00:13:46.000 And Zuckerberg is such a liar. 1.00
00:13:48.000 He's such a liar. 1.00
00:13:50.000 Female suicide, female depression, female anxiety went up like a hockey stick as 2013. 0.99
00:13:56.000 It was flat for decades and went up like a hockey stick.
00:13:59.000 These things are, it's the equivalent of digital heroin, okay?
00:14:04.000 And again, I am thankful to the Lord.
00:14:06.000 I was on the last gasp.
00:14:08.000 The iPhone came the year I graduated high school.
00:14:11.000 And it really was that dramatic.
00:14:13.000 It's not cell phones that were the problem.
00:14:14.000 We had cell phones, okay?
00:14:15.000 We were like Mexican drug dealers trying to work these things, okay?
00:14:19.000 You know what I'm talking about?
00:14:20.000 Like, we had like burner phones, and it was a disaster, okay?
00:14:24.000 Like, we had T9 texting.
00:14:25.000 Like, that wasn't the problem, okay?
00:14:28.000 That didn't like destroy our humanity.
00:14:29.000 In fact, it kind of enriched it in some way, okay?
00:14:32.000 These things are completely different ballgame, okay?
00:14:35.000 Two-way cameras, always looking at yourself, social approval, plus the apps that go alongside of it.
00:14:41.000 Yeah, so I mean, if you're a parent, I highly recommend you don't give a child a phone until they're 18.
00:14:48.000 And if you do, you're playing Russian roulette with their future.
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00:15:54.000 Hi, I just wanted to ask for the whole panel.
00:15:57.000 My wife and I were pretty strong Republicans, and we just want to know how do we get involved in this like whole Republican movement?
00:16:04.000 What would be the best way to kind of go about that?
00:16:08.000 Well, God bless you.
00:16:10.000 You can go volunteer for the next governor of the state of North Carolina.
00:16:13.000 That's a good way to start.
00:16:15.000 And then you got two turning point faith leaders right here on the front.
00:16:20.000 Wave your hands there.
00:16:22.000 And the best way, and this is for everybody, we need every single one of you that are engaged to become precinct committeemen, okay?
00:16:29.000 This is the secret weapon of the American right.
00:16:32.000 If you don't know what a precinct committee men is, it's basically you're a neighborhood captain in charge of get out the vote for like a thousand people.
00:16:39.000 It's the best thing.
00:16:39.000 And then get involved in your state party.
00:16:42.000 We need these state party meetings are like long and nauseating, but if you can like put up with like four you know kind of cringy meetings a year, you can make a very big difference, okay?
00:16:52.000 Your input matters on the platform committee.
00:16:54.000 It's all these boring like Robert Rules of Order stuff, but it's so important, right?
00:16:58.000 How important are you?
00:16:58.000 Yeah, please, Mark, yeah.
00:17:00.000 Do you want to say something on the mic?
00:17:01.000 Yeah, head on the mic.
00:17:02.000 Yeah, I'm going to say something to him.
00:17:04.000 I don't want to put you on the spot, but why are you a Republican?
00:17:07.000 Tell me why you're a Republican.
00:17:10.000 He's saying, because of how the country is right now, that's why.
00:17:13.000 You know, the most effective tool of you being a Republican, spreading the word of why you're being a Republican to other people, is being able to tell them why you're a Republican.
00:17:23.000 You're a Republican because Republicans stand up number one for the Republic.
00:17:28.000 The Republic, not the democracy, the Republic.
00:17:32.000 And there's a huge difference there.
00:17:34.000 Number two, and I won't go through this right now, but what I would really encourage you to do is study the history of the Republican Party.
00:17:42.000 And when you study the history of the Republican Party, what you find is this.
00:17:46.000 Our party, the Republican Party, is the party of freedom and liberty and independence and all the great things that America is about.
00:17:56.000 We've always done it, and we have done it for everyone.
00:17:59.000 Women, black people, you name it. 1.00
00:18:03.000 Civil rights is our hallmark.
00:18:07.000 The Democrats and the leftists have hijacked it, but that is the strict domain of the Republican.
00:18:13.000 And so I would encourage you to know that history and be able to recite it chapter and verse to your friends and neighbors, and you can change some minds.
00:18:22.000 So we only have time for like two more, sorry to say.
00:18:27.000 So that's all we'll have time for.
00:18:29.000 But you can watch Charlie's show and you can make sure you're putting comments on all of the YouTube podcasts, everything, and he'll make sure to get stuff answered.
00:18:41.000 So we only have, we can only do two more.
00:18:43.000 Okay, Charlie, sorry, I'm a little long giant.
00:18:46.000 My name is Papa Tom.
00:18:48.000 I got a Father's High Talk show.
00:18:50.000 And the reason I'm asking this question is because I'm really dealing with the issue of fatherlessness in America.
00:18:56.000 And I've drawn the connection.
00:18:58.000 I want to show me the connection to LGBTQ.
00:19:01.000 When God told us he's made us in the image and likeness of God, the next thing he told the people to be fruitful and multiply.
00:19:07.000 If you see everything that happens with LGBTQ, transgender, is that people cannot be fruitful and multiply. 1.00
00:19:13.000 Because the interest of Luciferian doctrine is to depopulate the earth, you know, all this background.
00:19:19.000 But the tool that he's using it is taking fathers out of the culture.
00:19:24.000 With the women's movement in the 1960s and further on down in the church says the scripture says, you have many teachers, but you have few fathers.
00:19:31.000 And when you take fathers out of the picture of all seven mountains of influence, what you find is fear comes in.
00:19:38.000 Fear comes in.
00:19:39.000 So tell me your question so we can make sure that how do we bring fathers back in? 0.68
00:19:44.000 Bring fathers back. 0.91
00:19:45.000 Yeah, that's first of all, we have to stop subsidizing single motherhood, and that's a very, very big problem. 0.94
00:19:53.000 And secondly, we have to hold men more accountable for their decisions.
00:19:56.000 There needs to be a greater shame culturally for men that abandon the women that they impregnate.
00:20:02.000 Shame is a very powerful tool, and we don't use it enough for men that impregnate and then abandon.
00:20:08.000 It should be a societal toxin. 0.99
00:20:10.000 Instead, it's become the norm.
00:20:11.000 Okay, final question.
00:20:14.000 Thank you.
00:20:15.000 This is actually kind of a I'm new to Christianity about three, four years, so it's more of a biblical conflict that I have.
00:20:24.000 I need help understanding this in our current context of our government.
00:20:28.000 That's not godly and it's corrupt and pretty selfish in their own interests and not for ours.
00:20:34.000 And I'd be shocked if you haven't had this question before, but Romans 13 says, everyone must submit to governing authorities, for all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.
00:20:45.000 So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.
00:20:51.000 For the authorities do not strike fear in people who are doing right, but in those who are doing wrong.
00:20:57.000 Would you like to live in fear without the authority?
00:21:00.000 You get the point.
00:21:01.000 This is his favorite question, by the way.
00:21:03.000 I had to imagine he's gotten it a lot, but I'm wrestling with the...
00:21:06.000 Oh, you're going to love this answer.
00:21:08.000 So not to put you on the spot, but in America, who is the authority?
00:21:16.000 The people, right?
00:21:17.000 So you don't have to wrestle any longer.
00:21:24.000 And if you were in China and they told you you were not allowed to go to church or read your Bible, would you obey? 1.00
00:21:34.000 Can you put the mic up to his mouth?
00:21:36.000 I said, or California.
00:21:37.000 Yeah, or Californication.
00:21:40.000 Yes.
00:21:40.000 All right, the other thing is that in Romans 13, remember, it says they're there for your good.
00:21:44.000 So then let's go back into is civil disobedience biblical?
00:21:49.000 That's an important question.
00:21:50.000 The answer is yes, and there are two examples that I'll give in the Old Testament.
00:21:54.000 The first is the first book of Exodus, where Pharaoh says the Jews are multiplying too many.
00:21:59.000 We need to throw babies into the river. 1.00
00:22:01.000 The midwives to the Hebrews disobeyed the order, and they even lied to the Pharaoh, and God dealt with them well, and God was pleased, and the midwives said that we fear God.
00:22:10.000 That's why we did not throw the babies into the river.
00:22:13.000 Okay?
00:22:14.000 That's number one.
00:22:15.000 Number two, there was a conspiracy in Daniel 6 to literally take out Daniel.
00:22:20.000 It was unfair.
00:22:21.000 They said, Daniel, you can't pray publicly anymore.
00:22:24.000 And Daniel says, nope, that's not going to work.
00:22:26.000 Daniel disobeyed, civilly disobeyed, opened up the window, and still prayed publicly at what ended up in the lion's den.
00:22:32.000 And so those are the two examples there.
00:22:34.000 I only give that as a caveat because nowhere in the scriptures does it say we must have unilateral total submission to tyranny, right?
00:22:42.000 But even the Romans 13 argument falls apart because the founding fathers gave us a very simple workout, which is that the leaders and authorities are the people, the sovereign.
00:22:52.000 So Romans 13 is actually directed to the lieutenant governor.
00:22:55.000 It's directed to the mayor, and they must actually submit to our authority and our sovereignty.
00:23:00.000 Thank you so much.
00:23:01.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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