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00:03:01.000I'm going to do my best not to completely lose my voice as the great Rush Limbaugh says, bear with me as I fight through just not trying to lose all my vocal cords.
00:03:15.000There's a lot of people that are talking about what happened in Washington, D.C. a couple of days ago, two days ago, and we were actually here live as it happened.
00:03:24.000I encourage all of you guys to go back in YouTube and watch about how we were reacting in real time.
00:03:29.000A lot of our predictions actually came true.
00:03:32.000But a lot of people said, are now saying on cable television, sedition and insurrection will not be tolerated under any circumstances.
00:03:44.000And now whether what happened on the Capitol is insurrection or sedition will be up for a court or for law enforcement to decide.
00:03:53.000However, we do have a clear-cut example of insurrection and sedition that happened in just the last six months.
00:04:03.000It wasn't denounced, it was platformed by the left.
00:04:09.000It wasn't repudiated, it was lifted up.
00:04:12.000Remember when not a couple dozen people, many of whom were probably professional leftist agitators and very far, far-right fringe people that call themselves Trump supporters, but they've never been given that title by anyone except themselves.
00:04:31.000They're self-described in their own mind.
00:04:36.000Remember when there was a new country formed in America?
00:04:42.000Do you remember when a group of actual insurrectionists did more than go into the Capitol of the United States for a couple hours and were quickly cleared out?
00:05:51.000Without any official leadership, protesters united behind three main demands.
00:05:57.000Cut Seattle's 409 police budget by 50%, $409 million police budget by 50%.
00:06:02.000Shift funding to community programs and services in historically black communities and ensure that protesters would not be charged with crimes.
00:07:35.000You see, as we predicted, as soon as people start to form their own country in defiance to city, state, local, and national orders and not allow police in whatsoever, You are then going to have a hierarchy replace whatever pre-existed it with vigilantes and criminals.
00:07:59.000On June 20th, early in the morning, two people were shot in Chaz, the leftist paradise of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:08:09.000On June 21st, another shooting occurred.
00:08:13.00017-year-old male was treated for a gunshot wound.
00:08:19.000On June 23rd, a third shooting occurred in Chas.
00:08:24.000And then on June 29th, Antonio Mays Jr., a 16-year-old black male, was murdered.
00:08:36.000He was murdered in a place that was designed by Black Lives Matter Incorporated, BLM Incorporated.
00:08:50.000Do you know that no people have been arrested in connection to the 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. as of today?
00:08:56.000And if anyone can correct me on that, please email me, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:02.000Where was the media calling the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone a deadly protest, a deadly insurrection?
00:09:11.000This was more than a couple of agitators and professional troublemakers going into the United States Capitol and smashing windows.
00:09:26.000And by the way, just so that we are very clear, we're not exactly sure how on earth it was justified for that police officer to fire and discharge his weapon at Ashley Babbitt.
00:09:41.000However, we are about to see hundreds of arrests of anyone that walked into the United States Capitol.
00:09:54.000For anyone that did lead the charge, plan this, plant pipe bombs, smash windows, they should be arrested, absolutely.
00:10:05.000But it's almost a guarantee that the prosecutions are going to go over the top.
00:10:09.000People are talking about using rarely used parts of the United States Criminal Code of sedition.
00:10:22.000And whether or not that is the correct course of action, we'll see.
00:10:26.000But it doesn't get much higher than that.
00:10:29.000The only thing that would be higher would be treason, which would only be applicable if these were government employees.
00:10:36.000However, to this day, 16-year-old black male Antonio Mays Jr. is not living.
00:11:00.000And that sort of insurrection was perfectly acceptable to them.
00:11:06.000But why is it that what happened yesterday was met with widespread, not yesterday, two days ago, widespread bipartisan condemnation, but not the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.
00:11:23.000The reason is what happened on Wednesday is a narrative confirmation bias.
00:11:33.000We could not have designed, which we didn't, a Optic and set of sequences and circumstances that fit everything that the Democrats and the left were hyperbolically saying would happen.
00:11:55.000A white nationalist insurrection in the country.
00:11:59.000And so, because of that, they are now using this as an excuse to expand the surveillance state, expand the security state, and try to eliminate anything or anyone that was ever associated with President Donald Trump's political movement over the last five years.
00:12:20.000President Trump has tweeted he will not attend Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:12:25.000Isabel, it seems as if some Democrats have said a lot of Democrats didn't come to the inauguration back in 2017.
00:12:32.000This idea of boycotting an inauguration over political reasons is not new, so don't let the media tell you that it is.
00:12:38.000We saw literally pages and pages worth of individuals who were publicly elected officials boycotting President Donald Trump's inauguration way back when in 2017.
00:12:48.000California Representative Karen Bass, Representative Alma Adams, Representative Don Beyer from Virginia, Representative Anthony Brown from Maryland.
00:12:56.000I could go literally on and on and on.
00:12:58.000And so it's nothing new for Democrats to boycott inauguration.
00:13:02.000They're going to say, this is unprecedented.
00:13:09.000That's exactly a stand and not attend.
00:13:12.000So also, the House of Representatives is entertaining impeachment against the President of the United States.
00:13:20.000Trump cabinet member on the 25th Amendment, We're Not Doing It, says that Trump wants a smooth transition.
00:13:28.000Members of Trump's cabinet have no plans to invoke the 25th Amendment, which means that almost assuredly by next week, the House of Representatives will impeach President Trump in a Soviet-style impeachment.
00:13:41.000That's Mark Levin's description for something the president did call for peaceful demonstrations, and they're going to try and eliminate publicly in a show trial his political career all in one kind of fell swoop, you could say, next week in the House of Representatives.
00:14:01.000And we'll see if the Senate also takes this up.
00:14:05.000And so he will also, the President of the United States, President Trump, will be the fourth president not to attend the inauguration.
00:14:13.000John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Andrew Jackson also part of that category as well.
00:14:20.000So it's not as if this is the first president ever to do that.
00:14:24.000The president gave a video message last evening.
00:14:27.000I want to play that for those of you that have not heard it, where he addressed this head-on.
00:14:31.000Let's play the message from the president of the United States.
00:14:35.000I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol.
00:14:41.000Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem.
00:14:47.000I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders.
00:14:55.000America is and must always be a nation of law and order.
00:15:01.000And I think we have another clip here as well.
00:15:51.000We're also getting the clip where the president said that he is going to order a seamless transition between the current administration and the Biden administration that is coming in.
00:16:06.000Continue to email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:16:11.000A lot of people are asking us about what exactly is the course of action here.
00:16:18.000There are also people that are asking about some things that are floating around regarding potential next steps for the president and some things happening overseas.
00:16:28.000We are looking into that, and I hope we'll be able to shed some light on that later this hour or the next hour as well.
00:16:36.000I want to can you help build out exactly where the president yesterday said that he is going to order a seamless transition.
00:16:47.000This is kind of a new, this is a tonal shift, right?
00:16:51.000This is the first time he's actually acknowledged that.
00:16:53.000Certainly within the last few days, absolutely.
00:16:56.000And I think just seeing that big tonal shift between a few days ago and now what we're seeing last night and today really signifies that we are moving through a peaceful transition of power.
00:17:05.000Of course, you won't hear that on social media, especially with his accounts being shut down.
00:17:09.000But I think there's definitely conflicting narratives between this continued power struggle we're hearing about in the media and what's actually playing out right before our eyes.
00:17:19.000We're getting lots of emails here at freedom at charliekirk.com asking for some clarity of what is exactly happening overseas in Italy, and we are looking very closely at that.
00:17:33.000But first, I want to play the president's remarks yesterday in its complete unedited fashion.
00:17:42.000And then I want you guys to continue to email us your thoughts and feedback.
00:17:48.000I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States Capitol.
00:17:53.000Like all Americans, I am outraged by the violence, lawlessness, and mayhem.
00:17:59.000I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders.
00:18:08.000America is and must always be a nation of law and order.
00:18:13.000The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy.
00:18:20.000To those who engaged in the acts of violence and destruction, you do not represent our country.
00:18:27.000And to those who broke the law, you will pay.
00:18:30.000We have just been through an intense election and emotions are high.
00:18:35.000But now tempers must be cooled and calm restored.
00:18:39.000We must get on with the business of America.
00:18:43.000My campaign vigorously pursued every legal avenue to contest the election results.
00:18:50.000My only goal was to ensure the integrity of the vote.
00:18:54.000In so doing, I was fighting to defend American democracy.
00:18:59.000I continue to strongly believe that we must reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters and to ensure faith and confidence in all future elections.
00:19:13.000Now Congress has certified the results.
00:19:16.000A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th.
00:19:19.000My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power.
00:19:26.000This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.
00:19:30.0002020 has been a challenging time for our people.
00:19:33.000A menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes, damaged our economy, and claimed countless lives.
00:19:43.000Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together.
00:19:51.000It will require a renewed emphasis on the civic values of patriotism, faith, charity, community, and family.
00:20:00.000We must revitalize the sacred bonds of love and loyalty that bind us together as one national family.
00:20:08.000To the citizens of our country, serving as your president has been the honor of my lifetime.
00:20:14.000And to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning.
00:20:30.000So that is the President of the United States yesterday, who was for the first time talking about a seamless transition and thanking his supporters for everything and the amount of success that has been achieved thanks to really his presidency and what they've been able to do.
00:20:50.000So I want to get into this in a very factual way.
00:20:54.000We've probably received, I would say, 5,000 to 6,000 emails asking about what is happening in Italy.
00:21:02.000And I am a fan, even though he was somewhat of an atheist, of David Hume.
00:21:07.000David Hume, the great skeptic, really did a lot to liberate the Western mind, in my opinion.
00:21:14.000He had a great quote that says, I am ready to reject all preexisting belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
00:21:25.000One of the most dangerous logical fallacies and traps that happen is to dismiss everything always if the media is not reporting it.
00:21:37.000Now, with that being said, there is some wacky stuff that people send us at freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:21:43.000And you look at it independently, rationally, and think through it.
00:21:47.000And so I just want to go through this.
00:21:48.000And I'm not going to, I can't confirm many parts of this, but some of this does look legitimate.
00:21:55.000And Laura Logan has tweeted some of this out.
00:21:59.000So the essence of this, of what is kind of heating up the internet tonight, just to kind of give you some idea of what's happening out here.
00:22:07.000Allegedly, there is an affidavit from an Italian court of a cybersecurity employee working for a company called Leonardo, has said he loaded up the software, which used satellites to switch the votes.
00:22:21.000Using the satellites is the key part, he claims, that went around the normal fiber lines, which apparently makes a difference.
00:22:29.000A signal shot from Frankfurt to Italian-owned satellites was then transmitted to the U.S. to allegedly switch votes on Dominion systems from Trump to Biden.
00:22:43.000It then goes back to Dominion machines, which allegedly they say they were not connected to the internet.
00:22:51.000The allegation is that, yes, they were connected, but it was via satellite.
00:22:57.000This individual, allegedly, during an interrogation, admitted the whole plot involving the satellites, the vote switching, etc.
00:23:09.000The narrative is that they were motivated to come forward, apparently, because of the debt that they felt Italy owed the United States for World War II.
00:23:20.000The affidavit, which we have not been able to independently verify, but Lara Logan did tweet out, is something of the essence that this individual signed and declared in Rome, Italy.
00:23:34.000Other people have confirmed this story.
00:23:39.000We take everything with a skeptical point of view.
00:23:43.000I'm willing to entertain all sorts of opinions and viewpoints.
00:23:46.000I'm not going to instantaneously dismiss anything, especially after all the nonsense that we have seen.
00:23:53.000But just to reinforce the weight and the gravity of exactly what we're talking about here, we're talking about a multi-country potential effort to blast up votes down to the United States into Dominion voting system machines.
00:24:12.000And so we're getting lots of emails about this, and we are going to spend a good amount of time asking about this and looking into it over the weekend.
00:24:22.000And some people, Congressman, I think, Louis Gohmert, has he commented on it?
00:24:28.000Is that the right way to, he has commented on it.
00:24:32.000And so I think that one of the things that is most important when you encounter stories like this is just to always ask for more facts and ask questions.
00:24:44.000What makes us informed, what makes us different than just following the normal party line is our capacity to reason, to think analytically.
00:24:58.000And as Rene Descartes famously said, I think, therefore, I am.
00:25:03.000And just don't throw out things instantaneously, but also when things start to not add up.
00:25:07.000For example, we received an email yesterday, probably from a very good patriot, who said that Mike Pence was in Guantamano Bay facing execution scheduled today.
00:25:21.000And so I looked at it, I thought of this analytically, and then I said, well, no, that's not true.
00:25:28.000And so not comparing one thing to the other.
00:25:31.000I'm just saying that sometimes in the new internet age, there is, I've used this word a couple times, deluge of things that ends up happening there.
00:25:57.000So as predicted from the last few days, obviously, Charlie, we've been in this studio pretty much nonstop for the last three days or so, just taking everything as it comes in real time and analyzing sort of what we predict the next few days might look like as we get closer.
00:26:11.000We predicted that things might get a little crazier when it comes to the rhetoric against Trump supporters, specifically against the president and against individuals on Capitol Hill who objected to the Electoral College vote.
00:26:22.000Right now, we're seeing a lot of that, especially on social media.
00:26:26.000As of a few minutes ago, the hashtag Trump is a domestic terrorist was the number one trending topic on Twitter this morning.
00:26:34.000Another very highly trending topic at number four is hashtag Ted CruzKilled a cop, hashtag MAGA terrorism.
00:26:41.000This rhetoric that all of a sudden I think is going to continue more deeply dividing the United States is really heating up and becoming significantly more serious in the allegations and finger pointing of what we're calling each other.
00:27:11.000If you're a Trump supporter, you love what happened at the Capitol, probably doesn't strengthen your argument that Antifa was at the Capitol, right?
00:27:17.000Just trying, you can't hold, you can't all of a sudden be like, yes, I was cheering those people on, and also it was all Antifa.
00:27:23.000So it doesn't exactly help the argument there.
00:27:33.000He is someone that has been at Trump supporter rallies before.
00:27:38.000And based on his social media posts, Viking man, who apparently was a shaman, that's what I was told, as something of that variety, was a Trump supporter.
00:27:52.000There was one gentleman that was there who will probably be arrested very soon, who was from Utah, who was a professional instigator and agitator.
00:28:01.000He just, he went to, he went to far-right rallies, he went to far-left rallies.
00:28:06.000He is a non-ideological guy that's always just looking for a fight, probably has manic depressant, sociopathic tendencies.
00:28:13.000And to just loop him in as a Trump supporter is very unfair.
00:28:17.000Okay, so that would reinforce the argument there.
00:28:22.000There is also a fair amount of people that would identify on the white nationalist, ethno-nationalist fringe.
00:28:29.000They are not part of the conservative movement.
00:28:34.000One gentleman that went into Pelosi's office had a quote that was, I'm not going to even read on air, from Alabama or Arkansas, I think he is from, and he's been identified since.
00:28:48.000There are other people, though, and this is where the nuance is important, that didn't bash windows, that didn't bring down doors, that got caught up in the heat of the moment, that followed with Trump flags up to the steps of the Capitol or went into the rotunda and then went out.
00:29:04.000And unfortunately, I believe that many of those people are now going to be tried wrongly with terrorism charges, okay?
00:29:12.000And I just want to be very clear that there were Trump, legitimate mainstream Trump supporters there.
00:29:18.000There was a vast majority, there was a lot of professional instigators or agitators.
00:29:23.000And so if I were to try to build out exactly what happened, there were a lot of Trump supporters that came that planned to peacefully demonstrate.
00:29:31.000And then these agitators that know how to get up a crowd, that know how to get emotions flowing, they were the ones that were leading the charge.
00:29:39.000They were saying things that they know are trigger words alongside some of the ethno-nationalist people that are not part of the conservative movement.
00:29:47.000And you have this kind of confluence of events that kind of stirred all of that up.
00:29:54.000That is the factual, nuanced way to describe exactly what we know as of today right now.
00:29:59.000But to say that they were all Trump supporters is completely and totally untrue.
00:30:04.000I want to get into, I want to paint a different scenario for you.
00:30:07.000People say, well, Charlie, were we just supposed to sit there and do nothing when they stole our election?
00:30:44.000It's something completely and totally different.
00:30:47.000Civil disobedience has been used many times in the last 150, 200 years to effectuate mass social change that all of us would look back and we look at those people as heroes.
00:30:59.000Civil disobedience is something completely and totally different.
00:31:02.000Civil disobedience, by definition, is supposed to be nonviolent in nature.
00:31:07.000Civil disobedience is never supposed to harm another person.
00:31:10.000It can temporarily inconvenience someone.
00:31:58.000So Ralph, no, Henry David Thoreau famously wrote his doctrine on civil disobedience when he refused to pay taxes to the federal government.
00:33:03.000Number two, you must be willing to accept the punishment.
00:33:09.000The fact that a lot of these people are still MIA and running around goes to show that they are going against the doctrine of effective civil disobedience.
00:33:22.000Number three, exhausted all other options.
00:33:30.000Meaning you have exhausted all other options.
00:33:33.000Some people say we did exhaust all our options.
00:33:48.000I want you to imagine something as we wrap up this hour, and we're going to carry this into the next hour as well.
00:33:54.000I want you to imagine that this beautiful rally happens with the president.
00:33:58.000And instead of any of these instigators and agitators doing that, all the Trump supporters instead went to Pennsylvania Avenue and sat down and started singing patriotic songs, America the Beautiful, the national anthem.
00:34:12.000And they said, we are going to sit here peacefully.
00:34:15.000You're going to have to arrest us until we get a certification of the 2020 election.
00:35:48.000Well, I think our track history with Turning Point USA and just as individuals too is always to take a stand for what you believe in and to do something when you see injustice, when you're experiencing injustice.
00:35:58.000And we talked a lot the other day on our live stream about how people do feel disenfranchised.
00:36:04.000They feel shut down by their government.
00:36:05.000And of course you should do something about that.
00:36:07.000But there's a very clear line between civil disobedience and civil discord.
00:36:11.000And I know we're going to be jumping into that here in a moment.
00:36:14.000And that doesn't necessarily mean following the letter of the law because civil disobedience has always involved a level of lawlessness, but that doesn't have to go into violence.
00:36:24.000I can't really begin to tell you how many posts I've seen in the last 24 hours listing the names of people who broke the law in the name of true justice throughout history because the law isn't always on the side of justice.
00:38:16.000And then you have hundreds of thousands of people that, and I made this recommendation as the other hour was kind of ending very quickly, is what if this would have happened?
00:38:26.000What if hundreds of thousands of people on Wednesday would have went to Pennsylvania Avenue in a beautiful patriotic display and sat down in Pennsylvania Avenue and just sang America the Beautiful and God Bless America and wonderful patriotic songs.
00:38:41.000Now that would have checked all those boxes, right?
00:38:46.000People want this to be in the history books.
00:38:48.000And I think, unfortunately, now Wednesday is going to be in the history books for a lot of wrong reasons.
00:38:52.000And then who would have been the martyrs in that situation?
00:38:56.000Who would have been in just taught, like who would have been the ones, the people getting arrested for singing patriotic songs for demanding a clear, clear, fair election?
00:39:04.000You know, while they're singing, they're getting arrested.
00:39:06.000They would have been willing to accept the punishment.
00:39:08.000Is why what Henry David Thoreau wrote about here?
00:39:11.000He said, if you're not willing to accept the punishment, your protest is not a protest.
00:39:18.000You're not going to win over public opinion.
00:39:19.000Do you think that public opinion was won over on Wednesday?
00:39:26.000You want to actually effectuate mass social change, then you need to be able to do that.
00:39:30.000So you kind of look at some examples of this.
00:39:33.000Obviously, Rosa Parks is a great example, right?
00:39:35.000Now, the Baxter Anne, Rosa Parks, which is really interesting, is that she was a member of the NAACP before the NAACP became super political as it is now.
00:39:45.000But as a member of the NAACP, she knew that busing was becoming a focus of the local NAACP.
00:40:04.000Now, this is kind of where some people in the movie that you have a Malcolm X interpretation and Martin Luther King interpretation of this.
00:40:11.000And generally, Martin Luther King was a proponent of peaceful demonstration.
00:40:17.000With that being said, where there's history of Martin Luther King that's not always told, he did say positive things about mobs at times too, of which I do not share.
00:40:26.000Probably the best example, though, that is used is Gandhi's salt march, right?
00:40:32.000Where there was my details are hard to recollect.
00:40:36.000There was a salt tax, I think, being put on by Britain, and 60,000, he would go from city to city kind of protesting it.
00:40:41.000And at this 60,000 people went to jail, but they actually ended up getting what they wanted through peaceful demonstration.
00:40:49.000There's many other examples of this, but in the era we live in, in social media and mass media, I think it's easier to win over public opinion and easier to lose public opinion if you mishandle these situations.
00:41:41.000Did you try to take over state legislatures?
00:41:43.000Did you try, you know, did you use all the different maybe sanctuary city provisions that have now been put in before all of a sudden people start shooting and go to violence, right?
00:41:51.000And that's what I kind of want to just build out because we got a lot of questions here.
00:41:55.000They said, Charlie, the founding fathers shot and asked questions later.
00:41:59.000No, that is not the story of the American founding.
00:42:02.000There was a decade of peaceful pushing back against the crown, of negotiation, of deliberation.
00:42:12.000The Declaration of Independence was not a declaration of war.
00:42:16.000The founding fathers wanted to seek peaceful means of the formation of the new country.
00:42:21.000It wasn't until the Boston Massacre and until Lexington Concord came before the Declaration, actually.
00:42:27.000And it wasn't until things really started to bubble up, till things get to that moment.
00:42:31.000The Founding Fathers did not relish conflict, though.
00:42:35.000They didn't actually, they weren't the ones that were like, we must go to war now.
00:42:38.000They knew what was going to happen after the Declaration.
00:42:40.000But there were some people that signed it that were hopeful that Britain, because of how war-wary they were, and because of a rising French power that was being led by Napoleon wasn't totally in power yet, but a rising French power that they wouldn't want the fight, they were wrong.
00:42:55.000But if you read in the Declaration, it says, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to dissolve ties.
00:43:01.000This was a, hey, can we dissolve peacefully?
00:43:05.000But this idea that all of a sudden the founding fathers didn't document thoughtfully specifically of exactly what they wanted to do and try to come to that kind of peaceful conclusion.
00:43:14.000And they just started storming British troops.
00:43:18.000And so I just want to make sure that we add the proper interpretation of American history here for some people that are all of a sudden like doing this massive call to arms.
00:43:27.000And even since then, if you look at domestic changes in our laws, If you look at American history, the most effective way to do it is through the doctrine of Henry David Thoreau's civil disobedience.
00:43:40.000And that's something that I think we must re-educate ourselves on, especially as we get into the looming tyranny we all know is coming.
00:43:48.000We are going through a couple different things.
00:44:02.000Of what's happened in our country and also about how this entire thing was administered.
00:44:06.000And what we were doing in the previous segment is just painting a picture of how things could have been different on Wednesday.
00:44:12.000Still could have been bold, still could have been dramatic and courageous, where that huge march could have happened and went to Pennsylvania Avenue, sat down, sang patriotic songs for 12 hours.
00:44:21.000Imagine if they were there for two days, hundreds of thousands of people.
00:44:25.000Food would have been provided to them.
00:44:27.000And all of a sudden, Congress would have heard hundreds of thousands of people through the halls of Congress singing America the Beautiful, trying to say, please clarify the election, all peaceful.
00:44:37.000There wouldn't have been enough cops in D.C., Virginia, or Delaware to arrest them all.
00:44:42.000The media would say, arrest all these terrible people.
00:44:44.000And the argument would be, wait a second, Washington, D.C.'s locked down anyway.
00:44:48.000Why do they need to leave Pennsylvania Avenue?
00:44:50.000And these hundreds of thousands of people would have drawn peacefully a massive amount of, it would have moved the dial.
00:44:57.000And all of a sudden, we would have supported it.
00:44:59.000And anyone that would have been arrested there, it would have been looked like that was the act of tyranny going towards them.
00:45:05.000And every single goal that we might have wanted to see accomplished could have been accomplished when in reality the exact opposite happened.
00:45:12.000And so the question is, why did this happen?
00:45:16.000Well, they were agitators and they were really high emotions.
00:45:19.000And also, quite honestly, in our conservative movement, we have not done a good enough job of educating all of you on what is civil disobedience, how does it work, and what exactly are we doing here?
00:45:31.000Because all this anger needs to manifest itself, hopefully, into something constructive.
00:45:35.000We talked about in civil disobedience.
00:45:37.000You must be willing to accept the punishment, have a clear goal in mind, exhaust all other options, and also, quite honestly, be able to win over public opinion in more ways than one.
00:45:49.000A lot of people have been asking us, well, Charlie, didn't the American founders, didn't they immediately go to violence?
00:45:58.000And Isabel, if you look back in history, that's not exactly the case.
00:46:16.000They burned stamps, all of which led up to a revolution.
00:46:20.000But even then, as we just mentioned in our last segment, the Declaration of Independence was not a declaration of war.
00:46:25.000It was asking for a peaceful dissolution of the United States from the British Empire.
00:46:30.000So they truly did exhaust every other option over a span of literally decades before an actual armed revolution took place.
00:46:39.000And the Declaration of Independence was trying to be a peaceful seeking of remedying differences.
00:46:47.000And also the other important point here is that the Founding Fathers did not have national elections to be able to elect a leader.
00:46:55.000Now, the counter argument that you probably are saying, well, Charlie, we didn't have an election here, and that's why all this anger kind of pent up.
00:47:16.000I'm going to completely and totally check out.
00:47:19.000I think that's a pretty silly argument for a variety of different reasons.
00:47:23.000But also, I'm going to prove it to you.
00:47:24.000I'm going to prove it to you in kind of how we have responded to things and how we have handled things.
00:47:29.000And so, as we kind of come up on the looming Biden presidency, I think that there's going to be a lot of opportunity to learn from this because there will be a tremendous amount of liberties and freedoms taken from us.
00:48:58.000And that's what the West is all about.
00:48:59.000The West is about building something new, not just tearing down the same piece of land and conquering it in some sort of medieval feudal theocracy.
00:49:54.000So maybe there was fraud and there was nonsense, all of that, but enough people voted to get Congresswoman Young Kim to unseat Gil Cisneros.
00:50:05.000Do you believe that Mike Garcia won in California?
00:50:51.000And it's also because of public pressure.
00:50:54.000It's because I'm a citizen in the state of Florida.
00:50:57.000The Florida Republican Party and the Florida legislature got heavily involved in getting secure elections, kicking dominion out of their state, doing these sort of things.
00:51:08.000The point is this, is that we do have certain states where elections are done fairly and transparently with massive amounts of population.
00:51:16.000So if you trust the elections in Florida and if you trust the elections in Ohio, then that means there is some pathway forward that somewhere in this country, you can then get to a point of transparency and trust.
00:51:30.000But a question a lot of people have is, well, how do I trust my elections again in Georgia, in Arizona?
00:52:30.000This is one thing that I hope to instill a little optimism and confidence in you.
00:52:34.000I think far too often we have this belief that things are just always getting worse forever.
00:52:39.000No, Florida is a test case of how things were awful and they're actually pretty awesome now.
00:52:44.000That Florida schools are open, that Florida businesses are open, that in Florida they have the strictest signature verification of the country and Florida is the third most populous state in the country, third or fourth most populous state in the country.
00:54:19.000Now, we have muted this video because we are streaming live on radio stations across the country and there's a lot of swear words and we're not allowed to air those.
00:54:29.000So for those of you on the live stream, you're about to watch a video with no audio.
00:54:34.000In fact, can you keep my mic hot so I can narrate over that?
00:54:37.000So before I play this tape though, this is a tape showing, and I've not seen this tape until this morning.
00:54:43.000They just open up the doors and they allow everyone to come in.
00:54:47.000This is not an act of terrorism, just letting people through a door.
00:54:51.000Now, Isabel, you've spent a lot of time in DC.
00:54:54.000Anyone's allowed to go into Capitol Hill usually, typically, right?
00:57:48.000Charlie, you used a few words a second ago that I don't want us to forget, and that is we don't know.
00:57:53.000I've got a lot of heat in the last few days, especially from people who disagree with me in the political realm saying that, how can I possibly say we don't know?
00:59:32.000Okay, let's get to this question here.
00:59:34.000I'm a 35-year-old conservative mom of two young girls from Houston, Texas, who never really cared greatly about politics until the past year.
01:00:33.000Would you like to share this with us, Isabel?
01:00:35.000We are just now hearing from our team that United States House Democrats are planning to introduce new articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Monday.
01:00:43.000So I think we're going to be hearing a lot of people who are going to be able to do that.
01:00:45.000What the greatest injustice of all this is?
01:00:47.000That's the night of the national championship.
01:00:51.000I'm going to have to be here doing roll call votes of what Republicans are deciding to Soviet-style impeach our president.
01:00:57.000But I think if we have the rights to do it, if we can get it on some sort of public access television, we will stream the national championship on here alongside the impeachment.
01:01:11.000If I can get some sort of legal feed to Alabama versus Ohio State, and I think I'm going to lose a lot of listeners in Huntsville, but I do want to see the Ohio State Buckeys win on Monday.
01:01:23.000And by the way, this impeachment is completely and totally pointless.
01:01:26.000It's baseless, and it invalidates exactly what impeachment actually is.
01:01:53.000An insurrectionist mob came and marched on that Capitol after a rally with the president of the United States where he told them to come to the Capitol and to go wild.
01:02:01.000He was flagrantly disregarding his oath of office.
01:02:09.000He has been in flagrant dereliction of his duty.
01:02:13.000And he will be remembered for having incited this and for having drawn more division into an already divided people.
01:02:20.000So that's Senator Ben Sasse from Nebraska, who calls himself a Republican, who will looks like he'll be supporting impeachments of the president of the United States if it goes there.
01:02:33.000So they're also, we're getting a clip here of the president telling rallygoers to be peaceful.
01:02:40.000So we are getting that one right there.
01:02:44.000It's hard to find, obviously, because it's kind of buried in there.
01:02:59.000That one was only a 12-hour ban, not an indefinite ban, but it's going to be unlikely we'll be hearing directly from him on Facebook or Instagram for a long time.
01:03:08.000Well, that is kind of a byproduct of big tech.
01:03:13.000The fact that big tech can cancel. the account of the president of the United States and we're not hearing more concern from people is wildly alarming to me in 2021.
01:03:24.000Regardless of who the president is, that is a massive power grab.
01:03:28.000Well, and the head of Iran, the Supreme Leader Khomeini, still allowed to have a Twitter account.
01:04:17.000I'm sorry that things feel so out of control and confusing and just this very, very tangled mess of information right now in 2021.
01:04:27.000I think Gen Z people particularly feel this way in America.
01:04:31.000We have been raised in a string of crises from 9-11 when we were very, very, very young children to school shootings when we were growing up, then the COVID-19 pandemic, then everything we saw this week.
01:04:42.000And I want you to know there's power in being involved in the process.
01:04:45.000I think when you start to get involved, when you use your voice in your community, when you actually use your hands to do something in this movement, you just feel so much more empowered with the direction of this country, knowing that you are helping to influence what that looks like.
01:04:59.000I felt confused and overwhelmed before I got involved with Turning Point USA.
01:05:03.000I got involved and I was a college student and my life has looked nothing like it did since then.
01:05:12.000I really had no interest in politics as a career other than a personal hobby.
01:05:16.000Obviously, my life has taken a very different direction since then, but I have so much fallen in love with being involved in the process, with showing up to knock doors and make phone calls and sit here on live streams and tell you guys what's going on.
01:05:28.000And most importantly, just inspire other people to get more knowledgeable and get involved in the process too.
01:05:32.000So I would highly encourage you to do that.
01:05:34.000It's super easy to get involved with Turning Point USA.
01:05:37.000We can help you with that process as well.
01:05:43.000There's a lot of misinformation happening right now in our country.
01:05:47.000And the greatest thing you could do when you're angry or you're upset or you're high with emotion is to get back to the anchor of reason.
01:05:56.000Renee Descartes famously said, I think, therefore I am.
01:06:01.000And so when you stop thinking, you're no longer, quite honestly, existing.
01:06:05.000And if things sound really good, almost too good to be true in the news cycle, then challenge your premise, as Rene Descartes would say.
01:06:13.000Challenge the given in geometric terms and go back to a place where you then can find comfort and direction and focus in the news you're processing and then chart your course correctly.
01:06:27.000And I truly believe that our best days are ahead of us.
01:06:30.000And I believe that despite all the nonsense that has happened this week, there's still some tremendous victories that we can continue to celebrate.
01:06:38.000Okay, let's play this tape here of what it looks to be some people being let in.
01:06:42.000Let's do it with no sound and then just keep my mic active so I can narrate.
01:07:30.000That looks like people that were trying to overwhelm a police officer, is what it looks like.
01:07:34.000That gentleman was wearing a Q-shirt, it looked like.
01:07:37.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:07:41.000And let's say right here, this is a good question here.
01:07:43.000Charlie, are we watching the end of the Republican Party?
01:07:47.000The Democrats and their allies, including big tech and news media, have flipped the switch to full-blown Marxism and totalitarianism rule of law.
01:07:54.000The Republican leaders are beginning to just wake up and realize it's not the good old buddies across the aisle anymore watching Ted Cruz Mitch McConnell turn their backs on President Trump will not help their cause, nor resigning a cabinet position.
01:08:06.000How do you like big tech's full assault on closing conservative accounts and purging them throughout all of this?
01:08:12.000Personally, I don't think the Republicans understand the tremendous challenge in front of us all with being weak.
01:08:18.000I think we're watching the end of the Republican Party, Chicago guy.
01:08:23.000Honestly, I've said for quite some time that I don't necessarily think we'll have a two-party system within my lifetime anymore.
01:08:28.000You're seeing such a significant fracture, particularly on the left side of the aisle as well, between this new age of socialism and then traditional liberalism.
01:08:38.000And then obviously within the conservative side of thinking between establishment politics and new age conservatism, I think we're seeing that dissolve right before our eyes very, very clearly.
01:08:46.000You're seeing well-known Republicans try to impeach the president of the United States for what?
01:08:51.000For saying something during a speech that was actually contrary to what you're claiming, he says, I'm not exactly sure.
01:08:57.000But we've come to a very unique point in human history and within conservative politics indeed.
01:09:03.000I completely agree with that analysis.
01:09:05.000Email us your questions, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:09:08.000Jack says this, Charlie, I'm 16 years old from Pittsburgh.
01:09:12.000Half of my immediate family is Democrat.
01:09:14.000When I make a good argument with facts, I'm just shut down because, quote, I don't have enough experience.
01:09:18.000I was just having this conversation with one of our team members.
01:09:21.000I want to get involved with Turning Point USA, but not sure how my friends and family around me will react.
01:09:27.000Jack here, I'm not going to say what high school he goes to because I don't want him to lose his job opportunities.
01:09:31.000Isabel, have you ever lost friends because of politics?
01:09:33.000Friends, family members, acquaintances, mentors, you name it.
01:09:37.000That is one of the really unfortunate realities of being an outspoken conservative now in 2021 and has been for the last few years.
01:09:44.000But the people that have come into my life as a result of being outspoken and taking this journey by the reins mean so much more to me than anybody else who chose to walk out of my life.
01:09:54.000That's a decision those people had to make.
01:09:56.000If they feel better going to bed every night, not being associated with a conservative, that's on them.
01:10:01.000But I can't tell you how many people, even those who disagree with me, have come into my life as a result of being so outspoken and well-rooted in my beliefs and respect me a lot more because of it.
01:10:32.000It's stunning, and they're going to go back, you know, to the Olive Garden and to the holiday inn that they're staying at in the Garden Marriott.
01:10:40.000And they're going to have some drinks and they're going to talk about the great day that they had in Washington and they really did something and stand up for something.
01:10:47.000First of all, I think Olive Garden is generally underrated.
01:11:03.000How elitist did that sound, by the way?
01:11:05.000I stated a holiday in a few months ago when I was on the road talking to you guys just to suggest that somehow you're culturally above Trump supporters or conservative people because we happen to eat at Olive Garden every once in a while.
01:11:18.000We can't all afford $800 meals a night for the Vanderbilt heirs of Anderson Cooper.
01:11:25.000His idea of Trump supporters is walking through Times Square and seeing Olive Garden and scoffing and saying, who would dare waste their money on such an establishment like this?
01:11:35.000That is Anderson Cooper's view of the common man in this country.
01:12:59.000If somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike, because that makes sure that that person eats, that makes sure that that person has clothes.
01:13:47.000In the middle of the day, that was not denounced.
01:13:50.000Instead, it was justified by people that wrote a book, The Case for Looting.
01:13:57.000Do you remember that book that came out over the summer where they justified mass looting, arson, as a form of protest and redistribution economics?
01:14:09.000Let's go to, actually, here's a good one here.
01:14:12.000As we look at some of your questions, you guys are emailing us freedom at charliekirk.com, freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:14:19.000Let's go to this one right here, just kind of a fun, lighthearted one.
01:15:01.000Be a good environmentalist by throwing your trash everywhere and expecting capitalist America to pick it up.
01:15:08.000So that is from the great Benny Johnson from our Turning Point USA Productions Department doing a great job of kind of making fun and making light of this.
01:15:17.000Let's go to Cut 97, which remember, one of our Turning Point USA staff members got mobbed and assaulted inside of Chaz.
01:16:06.000Pretty clear trait of Chaz, by the way.
01:16:09.000We touched on that earlier, but in the end, by the time Chaz got shut down in Seattle, their homicide rate turned out to be over 1,200 per 100,000.
01:16:17.000That's a rate nearly 50 times higher than Chicago's.
01:16:21.000So it doesn't exactly sound like a place I want to live in or a place that should have been celebrated by the media, but here we are.
01:16:27.000So here's a point here from Joey, who emailed us freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:16:32.000He said, our social contract was broken on the 6th of January.
01:16:36.000All those who believe in America feel as if we've been punched in the gut by our own government.
01:16:40.000We declare our social contract with our government null and void.
01:16:43.000So those that don't know what the social contract is, there were three major social contract theorists, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.
01:16:51.000They all wrote about the social contract very differently.
01:16:54.000Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that our rights come from government.
01:16:57.000He did not recognize God as the giver of rights.
01:17:01.000He believed in the idea of natural rights.
01:17:03.000Thomas Hobbes did not really give much of an opinion on where rights come from, but he believed that man in its state of nature or mankind is nasty, brutish, and short.
01:17:14.000Therefore, a massive centralized government, what he called the Leviathan, would be necessary.
01:17:20.000Social contract is usually referenced by people on the left saying that part of social contract is free housing and free health care, free food, things of that nature.
01:17:29.000And because of that, the social contract means that because God is not the granter of rights, but government is, we have a right to all these sorts of things.
01:17:38.000I do want to be very clear, though, that our social contract, as John Locke put it, is the protection of our natural rights and liberties.
01:17:49.000If you do believe in social contract theory, as the founding fathers did, you would argue that the social contract was broken a long time ago.
01:17:59.000Now, the response to that is not necessarily in any way whatsoever what I think should be violence in that retaliation.
01:18:05.000But Joey, I appreciate the question or the comment freedom at charliekirk.com.
01:18:09.000Do we have that clip that Andrew's referencing?
01:18:12.000Okay, so this is something that the media has ignored.
01:18:18.000This is the president talking about how he wants all demonstrations to be peaceful.
01:18:22.000He was not calling for an insurrection.
01:18:51.000So, Isabel, here's a question you can help answer here.
01:18:54.000Hey, Charlie, I'm 17 years old from the Chicagoland area and about to graduate high school.
01:18:58.000I'm interested in knowing what high school because that's where I grew up.
01:19:01.000It is breaking my heart to see where this country is headed.
01:19:03.000It is frustrating that so many people, especially in my generation, think what the government and big tech are doing is okay.
01:19:09.000Even people in my church are in support of these radical ideas from the left.
01:19:13.000What do you think needs to happen to unite the Republican Party to get people to start listening to what we have to say?
01:19:18.000With all the censorship we have seen, especially in the past few months, it'll be difficult to get our message out, but most definitely a fight worth having.
01:19:24.000Thank you for all you are doing to help empower all conservatives.
01:19:27.000Cameron, he wants a signed copy of the book.
01:19:30.000Isabel, a lot of young people believe in censorship and all this.
01:19:35.000And first of all, thank you for your question.
01:19:37.000I know you're feeling similarly to most people in our generation, and that's incredibly frustrating, particularly from a religious and church standpoint.
01:19:44.000The church is no longer a conservative institution in the United States, and that's really been disappointing to see how many pastors and leaders of faith have decided to instead practice the religion of leftism rather than the religion of Christianity.
01:19:57.000So you're not alone in that feeling either.
01:20:00.000But it starts with just saying something, it starts with speaking up.
01:20:04.000And I think what I've learned more prominently in the last year and a half or so since I've been doing this media side of activism after I graduated college is that all it takes is one person being willing to stand for truth and speak truth to start a momentum and sort of a cultural revolution within the community that you're a part of.
01:20:23.000People are scared to be the first one to say something, but once they see someone else start to post videos, put things out there on the internet, to make speeches on your campus, at your church, get people registered to vote and get involved, that's when other people start feeling inspired to do the same thing.
01:20:37.000And particularly when we look at the culture of conservatism and the Republican Party, I think historically people have been content to watch historical leaders continue to speak up for them.
01:20:48.000That's why you've seen career politicians in power for decades upon decades upon decades.
01:22:51.000In the Old Testament, if a prophet was wrong, they'd stone them.
01:22:55.000Everyone, you know, and from my vantage point, and there's charismatics out there and Calvary Chapels who I'm affiliated with, we call cessationists, which believe certain gifts are not for today.
01:23:14.000But in the same regard, you can speak to the future on certain things, but to be found completely wrong and say, thus saith the Lord, you're disqualified.
01:23:26.000You got to be real careful who you're following.
01:25:58.000Police officer not wearing a mask, police officer, and they're just kind of shrugging their shoulders and saying, I guess we're going to let them in.
01:26:03.000Now, there's a couple explanations here.
01:26:05.000The police could have felt overwhelmed and they didn't want the confrontation, right?
01:26:10.000We'll deal with this, you know, once we get a higher order.
01:26:14.000And maybe they didn't want to be known for killing somebody or doing something, which another police officer did do, whether it was justified or not.
01:26:36.000There's a very, very extreme set of security protocols that you have to go through to make it into the Capitol building, the White House, and the Supreme Court collectively.
01:26:46.000But that's not a typical entrance that even members would use to get in the building.
01:26:50.000So that's definitely interesting to me.
01:26:53.000So let's go back to that, though, that video, because I want to just go to the first couple seconds and rewind it.
01:26:59.000Just look how the doors just kind of go open.
01:28:39.000A lot of folks there, they had nefarious intentions, but it seems as though those that were walking through, their intention wasn't mob-like.
01:28:48.000But I would say just what my father used to say to me: don't go where you don't belong.
01:28:52.000You know, just bad things happen when you're in places you shouldn't be.
01:29:30.000Charlie, I'm a non-denominational Christian mother of five who live and go to public school in the East Bay area in California.
01:29:37.000Today I learned that some of the high school and middle school teachers have taken upon themselves to tell the students what they believe happened at the Capitol the other day, of course.
01:29:44.000An entire generation, just so you know, has now been indoctrinated 10 points away from conservatism because of this.
01:29:50.000And some of you say that doesn't matter.
01:29:55.000One English teacher even told them what happened at the yesterday was a riot, not a protest, and that the BLM protests over the summer were the correct way to protest and were not riots at all.
01:30:05.000She opined that President Trump lied when he said in his speech that the election was rigged and full of fraud.
01:30:10.000Also had a similar opinion given the marine science teacher.
01:30:13.000How should I respond to the school districts as well as the teachers?
01:30:16.000Rob, do you want to start with that as a parent, as a former mayor?
01:30:31.000So the CTA dominates The California Teachers Association is probably one of the most, it's probably the strongest political entity in California.
01:31:37.000Why are you going to invest in bobbles and trinkets and have the three-bedroom, two-bath with the white picket fence while you allow your kids to be indoctrinated, have to endure this when you can make a difference?
01:32:08.000Our children were homeschooled, but when they got to a certain place, some we allowed to go into public school, some went into private school, some completely homeschooled.
01:32:17.000It was all dependent on what they were prepared for.
01:32:19.000And we've done every single form of schooling there is.
01:32:23.000The other thing is, my parents took a really active role when I was growing up to supplement our education by literally just talking to their children about what was happening in the world around them, explaining this person is running for president and this is what they believe in.
01:32:37.000Here's what your dad and I believe, but here's what the opposite side believes.
01:32:40.000And really taking the time to have a holistic conversation with us as children, not waiting for us to grow up, exposed us to so many different ways of thinking, understanding how the world worked, having our challenging perspectives, you know, get to duke it out at the dinner table.
01:32:54.000And way too many children lack that opportunity in the United States.
01:33:29.000Hey, Charlie, I'm a 15-year-old from Denver, Colorado, and I go to Regis Jesuit High School.
01:33:34.000My question is: how do you see the Republican Party coming back from falling behind in the Senate and other areas of government when we see these urban Democratic cities growing at an exponential rate?
01:34:06.000He's worried about the generation going to socialism, worried about where's the future of the party going.
01:34:11.000You know, I'm not sure that there is necessarily a strong future for the Republican Party as we've known it historically, but that's not a bad thing.
01:34:19.000And we have been presented with a very unique set of circumstances in the beginning of 2021 to evaluate what types of qualities we want in the people who we elect to lead us.
01:34:30.000We don't always get opportunities to reflect on that.
01:34:33.000And this is a very, very crucial time in history for conservatives in this country to direct the future of the Republican Party or the conservative movement, or you can enter any other name into that sentence for the first time in a very long time.
01:34:48.000I think the concept of establishment politics has gone out the window on both sides of the aisle.
01:34:54.000And it takes young people like you being willing to speak up and say something.
01:34:59.000I can't tell you how many times I've spoken to older audiences within the last year and a half or so, even to conservative and Republican audiences, and been told, You're 23, you don't have enough quote-unquote life experience to talk about this and be educated and influence culture.
01:35:17.000It was young people that determined what the United States of America were going to be in the first place, and we have an opportunity to direct the future of conservative politics in the future.
01:35:44.000What a great kind of contrast to show that the Trump movement was not defined this last Wednesday.
01:35:50.000That, and again, if you're going to then go civilly disobedient because you don't believe that the election results are valid, let's go through what the rules of civil disobedience are as embraced by effectiveness and a moral compass, right?
01:36:04.000So you can resist in a moral framework.
01:36:09.000But what happened on Wednesday, those people that were smashing windows and all that, was not.
01:36:14.000Here's the rules, as defined by the great Henry David Thoreau.
01:36:19.000Number one, you must be willing to accept the punishment.
01:36:47.000You don't destroy people's stuff and you don't hurt people.
01:36:50.000That is the doctrine of civil disobedience.
01:36:52.000If Trump supporters out there did these four things on Wednesday, I will be there supporting you.
01:36:58.000I will be there backing you, and you will win over public opinion.
01:37:01.000You will do more to advance the cause than going and just burning a bunch of stuff like a, you know.
01:37:08.000When we had agreed with the elders of the church, with the staff, the congregation, that we were going to defy the governor's order when he said that the church was non-essential and that we would violate the emergency restraining order of the judge, we knew what the consequences were.
01:37:24.000And I'd actually contacted the sheriff and I said, there'll be no resistance from us.
01:37:34.000We're not going to contend with you, but you're going to have to arrest us.
01:37:37.000And we were willing to lose everything and still are.
01:37:40.000But we're in no way going to be violent.
01:37:44.000And then I would add this: in the great Congressman Bob McEwen, he said to an individual, said, You know, we're getting a million people to march on Washington.
01:38:01.000And he says, Could that money be used more profoundly in an election?
01:38:06.000Maybe using that energy to walk precincts, maybe using that energy to be poll watchers, maybe, and we want to say something, but like you profoundly pointed out to me, Charlie, Florida had no irregularities.
01:38:19.000In California, we won some areas of shenanigans.
01:38:23.000Despite massive shenanigans, it's where people participate in the process.
01:38:27.000We've gone through this in California.
01:38:29.000People worked hard to get Garcia in the United States.
01:38:38.000And let's talk about three races, congressional races.
01:38:42.000And this is that all of a sudden, Republicans won, even though there was a broken system in all this.
01:38:47.000But I think part of it, though, Rob, Young Kim, Michelle Steele, Mike Garcia, I think part of it, though, is post-2018, a lot of Republicans all of a sudden got alert.
01:38:57.000They were like, we're going to become election judges, right?
01:38:59.000We're going to all of a sudden put pressure on local county officials.
01:39:01.000I'm sure there was still a bunch of nonsense.
01:39:53.000And well, you're also waiting for it to be so bad that you get to do what you've always dreamed of because you think that's always been, you've been doing this prepping your whole life.
01:41:39.000You can make a difference in a community.
01:41:41.000It's because we've abdicated our responsibility with a government that's of the people, by the people, and for the people.
01:41:46.000We want someone else to do it or we quit.
01:41:48.000Importantly, too, something we can learn from Florida is that they didn't wait until the next presidential election or even gubernatorial election.
01:41:55.000They went out and they knocked on doors and they registered millions of people to vote before DeSantis' election a few years ago.
01:43:33.000I hesitate to tell people one way or another whether they should make that difficult choice of speaking up or not, because it is a deeply personal choice that has ramifications socially, academically, online with your career prospects potentially, especially if you're a college student.
01:43:49.000So it is a deeply personal choice to make.
01:43:51.000I eventually hit what I like to call my breaking point in college where I kind of just snapped and I said, you know, I'm tired.
01:43:58.000I'm tired of not seeing anyone advocate for the things I believe in.
01:44:01.000I'm tired of seeing all these BLM posters line the hallways of my dorm and my student government office.
01:44:07.000I'm tired of the silence from the right.
01:44:10.000So I'm going to do something about it.
01:44:13.000And it was the best decision I ever made, but it didn't come without its consequences.
01:44:16.000And so I think that's a personal choice that you might have to make, but it's 100% worth it.
01:44:21.000And the number of people that will be inspired by your decision to use your voice to speak up, to fight the man, so to speak, of your teachers and your administration, that starts something that's so much bigger than yourself on campus.
01:45:43.000That is not something I think he actually even believes.
01:45:46.000He believes the Republicans to be something they are not.
01:45:49.000The Republican Party has always been and will always be the party of liberation of people that are currently in a less than desirable situation to elevate the individual above the, let's say, the false lies of the collective.
01:46:06.000The Democrats are always about trying to keep people in a collective at a certain position by telling them they are not enough, by telling them they don't have the skills or possess the capacity to rise above.
01:46:20.000The Republican Party has always been the party against racism, and it is today.
01:46:25.000Despite what people tell you on television, despite what people tell you in school and otherwise, the Republican Party has always been the party that has not cared about people's skin color, but instead cared about people's character and values.
01:46:40.000Joe Biden yesterday came out and said that if this was a BLM incorporated rally, the police officers would have shot all of the people in the Capitol.
01:46:53.000I think we have a tape of this, don't we, Connor?
01:46:55.000I'm going to prove to you how racist the Democrat Party is.
01:47:00.000No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, there wouldn't have been, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol.
01:47:17.000So you might say, well, where's the racism?
01:47:21.000He's calling the police officers inherently racist by saying they would have acted in a certain violent way automatically just because the people there would have been black instead of white, judging people based on their immutable characteristics, judging all the police in that fashion.
01:48:05.000I'm sure the Israelites held in slavery by Egypt or even the New Testament Christians that we read, were truly inspired by the Bible, would be willing to trade places with us.
01:48:12.000Despite the negatives we're facing in our country, God is still beyond good and blesses us each and every day.
01:48:52.000I'm a 15-year-old Christian conservative that just moved to Los Angeles from Northern California before the first lockdown.
01:48:58.000I started homeschooling in the middle of my freshman year.
01:49:00.000I've been getting a lot of pressure from my dad and other people in my family to go to college.
01:49:04.000My mom is the only one that thinks I should do what is right for me.
01:49:07.000I personally don't want to go to college, and I don't think I need it to achieve my dream.
01:49:12.000I believe that most of it is a scam, and they're stealing money, people's money, especially since in Los Angeles, the majority of people here, our schools are liberal.
01:49:21.000Do you have any advice on this matter and things that I can do to say to my family so they can stop pressuring me into something I don't want to do?
01:49:27.000Also, thank you so much for what you do.
01:49:43.000I know we've talked about this on your podcast before, all the craziness of this week, too.
01:49:47.000So I'm glad somebody asked us recently again, because if I was making the choice today, this year, whether or not to attend college, I wouldn't go for a lot of reasons, mainly because college means almost nothing in the midst of COVID-19.
01:50:00.000Even all of my friends in the hard sciences, in engineering, in hands-on education where you need to be present in a lab learning about things aren't present in the lab.
01:50:10.000They're being emailed pictures of cadavers for anatomy class rather than interacting with things in real time in person.
01:50:17.000So, first of all, I'm very concerned for the future doctors of America.
01:50:39.000But if that's not something that you inherently love, what drives you, what's your passion every day, college will be miserable for you because that's what it's supposed to be all about.
01:50:49.000If you have a dream that's in a completely different direction, go pursue that.
01:50:53.000We are so fortunate to live in the United States of America where you don't need a college degree to build a business empire, to go after your dream, and most importantly, just to turn your American dream into a reality.
01:51:05.000No one else can tell you what that looks like but you.
01:51:08.000And even if you're receiving lots of pressure from your family, from the people around you, your dream is so much more important than what other people see for your life.
01:51:15.000So here's a good test to what to do: take out a piece of paper and write uninterruptedly why you want to go to college.
01:51:23.000And then on another piece of paper, ask yourself the question, honestly, write to yourself: is it worth borrowing $100,000 to justify the piece of paper you just wrote?
01:51:34.000Then on another piece of paper, ask yourself the question, what is it you really want to do with your life?
01:51:39.000Because that's the opportunity to do it.
01:51:40.000Maybe it's be a mentee under a carpenter.
01:51:43.000Maybe it's to travel, join the military.
01:56:15.000If you can't articulate to your parents and seek their approval because they love you and you're laying that out and the case for why you want to do what you want to do, then you're not really prepared to do that with those that would contend with you.
01:56:29.000God put them in your life so that they are that sounding board of process that they want the best for you, but show them why this is something that is good for you and show them that reasoning.
01:57:37.000In fact, I'm going to give away a signed hat right now.
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01:58:00.000The harder it is for them to kick us off.
01:58:01.000We have grassroots amounts of people hitting that button.
01:59:09.000A church that does not teach critical race theory or has sold out the BLM re-education that has crept into churches due to the events of the last year.
01:59:18.000First of all, Sarah, thank you for that.
01:59:20.000I'm going to have to see kind of where the church I grew up in, Harvest Bible Chapel, is.
01:59:25.000I could tell you that Willow Creek has gone full BLM.
01:59:29.000And I don't know if there's a Calvary out in Chicago where their stance is.
01:59:33.000But Rob, can you talk more broadly about where people should make their church decisions when it comes to these sorts of issues, what they should look for in a church, how they should do that?
01:59:43.000We're getting a lot of questions about that.
02:00:04.000So if your church is not political, meaning it's not educating its congregation on what it means to be an operating citizen in the United States of America and how to deal with issues, avoid the church.
02:00:16.000If your church isn't open right now because of this nonsense of the virus, avoid that church.
02:01:59.000You're being disingenuous when you gaslight and highlight rhetorical questions from Chuck Schumer, such as, quote, I'm surprised this is happening.
02:02:14.000A better question is: if Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, Flynn, General McInerney said they have evidence and it's just told us to wait for it, what are your comments on them?
02:05:53.000That's wildly unfortunate, but that doesn't mean you have to fall into the same trap.
02:05:58.000And I think it's very easy to play the game of the other side.
02:06:01.000If you can't beat them, join them, sort of a mentality.
02:06:04.000But if you continue to treat others with kindness and respect and patience more than anything else, not only will you have an opportunity to gain their respect, but more importantly, you'll have a chance to change their mind.
02:06:26.000And the people I have been the most effective with in changing their mind and getting them to accept a new way of thinking has always been through patience, kindness, and respect.
02:09:27.000Question: If we wanted a landslide and yet all the evidence of fraud wasn't looked at, what stops the Democrats from doing the same thing in the future they did in previous election?
02:09:35.000Won't it be easier for them in four years to cheat because of total government control?
02:10:26.000We're never going to win anything again.
02:10:27.000Okay, again, there's a whole country dedicated to that philosophy, and it's not here.
02:10:31.000And you're going to say, Yeah, those four counties, yeah, those four cities.
02:10:33.000They had Dade County, they've got the same county anywhere.
02:10:39.000They used the dot, but they but they put it out and all of their some people are emailing us saying that may be a cop, it might not be a cop.
02:10:47.000So, for those of you watching the live stream from Media Matters, prove us otherwise.
02:11:24.000He'd been praying and he wanted all these things.
02:11:26.000And to give a perspective, to allow them to see that, you know, God's still in control.
02:11:31.000This is a season that we're learning something, and we need to see what it is He's wanting to show us.
02:11:37.000Recalibrating, giving them a perspective to realize that God moves in the affairs of men, and to give them a grounding so they don't feel as though someone's movement or someone's efforts is going to somehow devastate your life.
02:12:50.000Why don't you give a plug to how to start a chapter, Isabel?
02:12:52.000Well, starting a chapter is a great place to start.
02:12:54.000And we do have part-time staff members across the country acting as campus coordinators, which might be the best solution for you as you get out of high school and into college.
02:13:05.000If you go to tpusa.com/slash get involved, someone from our team can help you to find out if there's already a chapter at your school and how to start one.
02:14:29.000And that the stopping the endless wars MAGA doctrine agenda continues on.
02:14:35.000That's really what matters the most: restricting immigration, fighting for the American worker, challenging entrenched corporate interests, and unapologetically declaring our rights come from God, not from government.
02:14:48.000You were talking about California, a state that has been inundated by secular progressive liberalism.
02:14:54.000You walk in to your central committee as a Republican and you offer to volunteer.
02:15:00.000Within one election cycle, you will be sitting on that board.
02:15:05.000You'll be one of the folks that will be able to drive the platform for that area.
02:15:10.000And then within a short amount of time, you'll be at the capital of Sacramento with all Republicans contending for the platform of the California Republican Party.
02:15:19.000So educate yourself, step in and volunteer.
02:15:21.000Next thing you know, you're going to be driving the narrative.
02:15:39.000I try to take in all of the independent media I can.
02:15:42.000After all podcasts and video I've watched or listened to, I believe that the government could have avoided attention if they just listened to the people.
02:16:03.000I completely and totally agree that if the Supreme Court would have taken up one of these cases, a lot of this pent-up frustration, I think, would have been diffused.
02:17:07.000So I wish that it was, but that is the playbook that we're seeing from the left lately: that they go after you guys for anything about yourself, what you're wearing, who you associate with, who you worship, and automatically call you a white supremacist, Nazi racist because of that.
02:17:25.000Yesterday, I was called white power Barbie.
02:17:28.000So, you know, we get these things all the time, professionally for a living.
02:17:31.000But just remember that you're not alone and that there are people out there who support you, who've got your back, and who believe in the same things that you do.
02:20:00.000If you look at the whole crowd span, you can see who the agitators are and who the Trump patriots are and like who the actual peaceful guys are.
02:20:08.000Those guys wearing those riot, those kind of, those snowboarding goggles, you see those snowboarding goggles right near the kind of center right of that whole thing?
02:26:28.000Go to them and say, I will do anything you ask of me for free, and I want to just learn everything I possibly can from you.
02:26:34.000You might say, how do I find that person?
02:26:37.000Get scrappy, get hustle, and get creative is what I'm trying to say.
02:26:41.000Get scrappy, hustle, and get creative.
02:26:44.000Find that person and just say, I'll work for free.
02:26:47.000I'll do anything you ask of me, right?
02:26:49.000There's a friend of mine whose name will remain anonymous who dropped out of high school at 15 years of age, started one of the largest businesses in the country and is worth quite a bit of money.
02:27:00.000And his comment was, no man would stand in the way of me pursuing what it was I wanted to do.
02:27:11.000And when he would sit down and describe without a high school education, you know, raised in West Texas, and to see what he did, going up against some of the greatest corporations in America and still overcoming it, I would say to that individual, no one stands in your way.
02:28:02.000When I told you about my son, and you said, look, the worst case scenario, he'll be here a year, doesn't do well, but he's going to be dead free and he'll learn a little bit of money.
02:28:19.000Some people are saying that the F Antifa chant is a proud boy's chant.
02:28:23.000I mean, that's kind of like saying the English language is, yeah, I mean, that's not exactly, it could be, I stand open-minded on that, but I'm not convinced that is compelling evidence when you have a group of people.
02:28:47.000Will I find that in the library, that book?
02:28:49.000So let's go to this video again, please, which just the behavior and the way they did, the way they were acting in this video is so uncharacteristic of Trump supporters and just anything we've ever seen.
02:29:03.000But just the mannerisms and the way that they were bashing the window and the way that they were just taking kind of whatever they possibly had with hammers with them.
02:29:13.000That's not anything that I've ever seen at any Trump rally ever before, ever.
02:32:02.000It's unfortunate because today in modern history, there's not really a lot of places you can go to find just facts and information and statistics and data and evidence without any sort of opinion associated with it.
02:32:14.000Frankly, I would say nowhere in the mainstream media does that exist in 2021.
02:32:19.000Small plug, we are working on something like that at Turning Point USA that you're going to be hearing about next week.
02:32:25.000And that's all I can really say about that.
02:32:27.000So, Rob, how do you discern truth from fiction?
02:33:28.000He was actually interviewed on CNN last night or the night before.
02:33:32.000Of course, he wasn't asked why he was in the building, but I do find that very interesting that we're clearly getting information on who some of these people are and interviewing them and making sure we understand more of the story.
02:33:44.000At least some of them are not overt Trump supporters, and that is important to note.
02:33:51.000Okay, just responding to some emails here.
02:35:39.000He just told us that we'll be discussing the insurrection, and she even compared some of the Trump supporters to men in the South during the civil rights period.
02:35:45.000I plan to stand up and respectfully say something.
02:35:49.000So let me help you in your class in real time.
02:35:51.000First of all, say that there were a lot of mixture of people that were there, and a lot of those people were not part of the 74 million Trump voters that voted in November.
02:36:00.000Number two, no one condoned, supported, or got behind what happened there.
02:36:07.000You can judge a movement based on how the leaders react to it.
02:36:11.000And number three, just ask a very, very simple question: will there now be a massive indictment, not literally, of anyone who's a conservative of guilt by association?
02:36:24.000And that's exactly what they're trying to do.
02:36:26.000And so demand nuance from your teacher.
02:36:29.000Your goal, remember, everything you should be doing is a goal in mind.
02:36:31.000Demand to get your teacher to admit that that is not representative of the conservative movement or the Trump movement.
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