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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:56.000I actually think it's great when people feel that type of devotion that they're willing to give up so many of the pleasures of life or the appetites of life and to devote their life to God.
00:03:07.000I mean, you know, this is a reality Blake and I have been navigating day in, day out, looking at that chair, being in this studio.
00:03:16.000Like you said, just missing our friend, missing a leader of the country, leader of the conservative movement.
00:03:22.000And yet we also understand that Charlie would want us to keep doing this.
00:03:26.000He would want us to keep taking care of Turning Point and keep wanting us to march forward and support Erica in any way we can.
00:03:33.000But this is, like you said, this is your first time kind of coming back to the show and being around this.
00:03:37.000And so I want to give you the opportunity just to kind of reflect on what these last six, seven weeks, what are we at now, have meant to you.
00:03:44.000Well, first of all, I'm just really just so pleased with how people took so many of Charlie's lessons to heart and people making a wholesale change in their life because Charlie inspired them.
00:03:55.000I think, Andrew, you and I even talked about this briefly privately about how we knew Charlie was huge, but it's hard to picture visuals in Croatia or whatever we were seeing.
00:04:04.000I mean, after he passed, which is amazing.
00:04:06.000And also, of course, the connection to his faith is so big, how just the marrying of faith and politics is so overdue in this country.
00:04:13.000The godlessness has just gotten way out of control.
00:04:15.000That's a huge lasting legacy of Charlie.
00:04:18.000But apropos of what we're doing today on the show, he really became a journalist, which I would never say it to his face because that would have been an insult I would never wish on my worst enemies.
00:04:27.000But it is something that the show became a place where thought leaders and political leaders and spiritual leaders would come to get the message out because they knew it was one of the best places to get the message out.
00:04:37.000And I found that amazing that of all the things he was doing, he was also a force in journalism, not just activism and social media and the campus tours.
00:05:23.000And I hope that's something that as the show continues, and those of us who follow in Charlie's footsteps and worked alongside him, I hope we all challenge ourselves to get better at that so that we can make our points crisp and precise.
00:05:34.000So we've got the data, we got the info, so that people can take that and use it to grow his movement and his vision.
00:05:39.000Yeah, you know, that's a really interesting observation, especially when you think about the South Park parody of Charlie and how we were watching and we're like, wow, they actually got that one pretty right because he had gotten some of the arguments down to such a distilled, powerful formula that even when they were parodying the arguments on campus, Charlie had succeeded in making them ubiquitous.
00:06:08.000They'd become cultural and almost memeable, right?
00:06:12.000And that was Charlie's power of taking pretty lofty ideas.
00:06:15.000We think of politics as being lofty, and he would make it so digestible for the common man.
00:06:20.000And you come from the world of DC and the think tank world, and everybody wants to prove how brilliant they are.
00:06:46.000There was a certain humbleness to the fact that he would feel like people weren't going to give him a half an hour and he could entertain you for half an hour and teach you stuff for half an hour.
00:07:01.000And there was something that I thought was really, even though he was a big star, that was something that I thought was very populist of him.
00:07:07.000That I'm not, I'm not expecting you to give me your whole afternoon to hear all the things I've ever done.
00:07:21.000And that was one thing I've been thinking about a lot, where he really was the best at.
00:07:24.000And I hope that people take that to heart in their personal lives.
00:07:26.000Yeah, no, that's that's really well said.
00:07:28.000And yeah, we are, we do attempt to continue on his legacy.
00:07:32.000And, you know, I'll never forget when everything happened and Erica looked at me and looked at some of the people on the team and said, you know, the show, you have to keep the show going.
00:08:25.000But yeah, this is a sacred duty that we have, both on the turning point side and here on the show, to sort of be that drumbeat, be, you know, invite the thought leaders like yourself, be the tip of the spear and get that messaging out there time and again.
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00:08:44.000And today, I want to point you to their podcast.
00:08:46.000It's called Culture and Christianity, the Allen Jackson Podcast.
00:08:50.000What makes it unique is Pastor Alan's biblical perspective.
00:08:54.000He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge, Trump in the White House, issues in the church.
00:10:04.000I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
00:10:09.000I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
00:10:25.000Yeah, I have a few things to say about that.
00:10:28.000So, first of all, it's not confirmed, but some people have looked into his alleged aunts.
00:10:33.000And so, first, he's from like a mixed background.
00:10:36.000I don't know if we have the image of it, but he appears to only have one known aunt on his paternal side, which is the one with an Islamic background.
00:10:44.000And she was living in Tanzania when 9-11 happened, and there are no photos of her wearing a hijab.
00:10:51.000So, this may all be quite exaggerated or possibly even made up, though.
00:11:12.000Like, so some people have reacted and said, like, oh, boo-hoo, people didn't like Muslims much after, you know, they murdered 3,000 Americans for no reason.
00:11:19.000But the more galling thing is it's just the complete opposite of reality.
00:11:23.000You can look at the polls, or you could just remember it, if you're old enough like me or you guys to remember all of that, that we got this giant charm offensive towards Islam.
00:11:34.000You know, Bush came out and he said, this is not Islam.
00:11:36.000Islam is a religion of peace, even though Muhammad was not a man of peace and, in fact, repeatedly urged his followers to take sex slaves from enemy populations.
00:11:58.000They went from 35% favorability to 64% favorability, higher than everyone except liberal Democrats.
00:12:04.000Everyone went up in how they viewed them.
00:12:07.000And then, of course, we went and we spent $2 trillion nation building in Afghanistan, a 100% Muslim country, and Iraq, a 95% Muslim country.
00:12:15.000We let in millions of immigrants from the Middle East.
00:12:19.000I think we let in 250,000 Afghans after that war ended.
00:12:23.000And so we basically went all out to welcome tons of Muslims.
00:12:28.000Vast majority of them are not really contributing that much to America, in my opinion.
00:12:32.000A huge, a very disproportionate share of Somalis, Afghans, and so on are just on the dole, effectively.
00:12:38.000And then this guy, this slime ball is coming out and he's guilt-tripping us because he says his aunt felt uncomfortable wearing a hijab on the subway.
00:12:46.000Nothing actually happened to her, unlike the 3,000 people who got blown up on 9-11.
00:12:51.000And then he's coming in and he's saying, oh, my campaign platform is we need to up taxes on white neighborhoods so we can funnel more money to like, you know, my ethnic compatriots, which is what he's running on.
00:13:01.000That's he literally says, tax white neighborhoods more.
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00:16:21.000So I think there's just too much more, Momdani.
00:16:25.000We have so much news we're going to get to, but this is just such a rich topic.
00:16:28.000I want to make sure that we get to all of it.
00:16:30.000And I believe the clip is: this is on memory, cut 90.
00:16:34.000Growing up in the shadow of 9-11, I have known what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion.
00:16:39.000I will always remember the disdain I faced, the way my name could immediately become Muhammad, and how I could return to my city only to be asked in a double-mirrored room at the airport if I had any plan of attacking it.
00:16:51.000To be Muslim in New York is to expect indignity.
00:17:04.000He's doing it through the front door, you could argue.
00:17:06.000He has vowed to, you know, I feel like if a guy went on TV and said, I am going to release every single person from Rikers Island, I think that's the plot line of one of the Manolan Batman movies.
00:17:20.000But now he's just doing it, but because he's a politician, it's a justice reform line, a good line of BS.
00:17:41.000It is the single greatest act of intentional violence against Americans in modern history.
00:17:45.000And he's the guy who said violence is a social construct.
00:17:48.000It's like when you start adding these data points and you ignore the smile with the toilet bowl teeth grin that he's got with the porcelain whites, then it is very scary if you were reading this on paper.
00:17:58.000It seems, oh, maybe, maybe there's something to it.
00:18:01.000But when you actually read it, if you read the quotes, these are truly insane quotes.
00:18:05.000Well, we should, I mean, we shouldn't even, we should be clear about what it is because, as far as I know, there's no evidence Zoran is a particularly devout Muslim in any way.
00:18:13.000I don't know that we've ever seen him pray that wasn't for a photo op, which, in fact, it'd be fun to ask him what the five pillars of Islam are.
00:18:19.000But instead, what he is, is he's a very real thing you see that is very common on the left.
00:18:25.000It's like a performative, he is taking the Islamic heritage and he's emphasizing it purely to emphasize that he is like not American and is to some extent anti-American.
00:18:36.000It's the sort of Islam as the global religious flag of being anti-West, of having a grievance against the West, of wanting to, in his case, you know, plunder and bring down the West.
00:20:01.000Taking back America, how could this person who just got here a few years ago and is a Ugandan Muslim immigrant, how is he going to take back New York City?
00:21:12.000I thought this was a really interesting look, Alex, into the psychology of the American left.
00:21:18.000Because AOC starts giving this screeching spiel and saying, you know, this city was built by the Irish and the Italians and the Jews and the blacks and the Latinos and the Native people.
00:21:29.000It is literally line by line by line in essentially ascending order of the oppression Olympics.
00:22:14.000Native people standing for themselves.
00:22:17.000Asian Americans coming together in Queens, in Brooklyn, in the Bronx, in Manhattan, in Staten Island in this country in a vision to build the freest, toughest, and greatest city on earth.
00:22:51.000If you do a laundry list of which grievance group built New York, Muslims are not a part of it, which is funny because you wouldn't even think of it.
00:23:56.000So, so what you're, you rightly identified the cause of the shutdown.
00:24:00.000It's Chuck Schumer is terrified that AOC is nipping at his heels and that she has the energy of the activist base of the Democrat Party, which is now really the Communist Party.
00:24:11.000And for a moment, there, after November 2024, we asked the question: what is going to happen to the Democrat Party?
00:24:17.000Are they going to moderate, go to the middle, or are they going to go the way of AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Ilhan Omar, Zorhan Mamdani?
00:24:29.000The last holdouts were Kathy Holkul and Hakeem Jeffries.
00:24:32.000And what that is, is actually sort of the vestiges of the old school Democrat Party that was like, hey, we like capitalism, but we just like more distribution of your money.
00:24:43.000We're going to tax you higher and distribute more because government's the answer.
00:24:47.000And now we're getting into this new iteration where because the old dogs have basically folded like a cheap suit, there is no uniting figure like an Obama or a Clinton that can hold together a centrist coalition.
00:25:00.000And so the powers that be within the American left have completely capitulated.
00:25:07.000It's almost like the Germans coming into France, and it's just like, you know, the country just folded really quick.
00:25:12.000And France is the old school Democrats here.
00:25:15.000And the Germans are going, wow, we took that really easy.
00:25:17.000Zorom and AOC are going, wow, that was really easy to take this down.
00:25:20.000I think a good symbolism of that is that the Democratic primary in New York, the top candidates were Zoran, and then they were running Andrew Cuomo, who was not the most popular Democrat before and then had to leave office in disgrace.
00:25:34.000Over, you know, you can debate the merits of it, but he basically was a has-been Democrat who's making a comeback where the argument was like he's corrupt but gets things done.
00:26:12.000And, you know, Cernovich, who I greatly respect, is saying, you know, Sliwa shouldn't drop out.
00:26:17.000Cuomo should drop out and they should all vote for Sliwa.
00:26:19.000I don't care which direction it goes, but I mean, to be fair, this is a Democrat city.
00:26:23.000So if you actually want to have a chance to beat Zorhan Mamdani with all the normal people coming out to the polls, it does make some sense that it should go to the Democrat, right?
00:26:33.000And we all understand that Sliwa basically has no.
00:26:37.000I don't say it should make sense to go to the Democrat.
00:26:39.000I would say it is understandable looking at the polls to say Sliwa, even if it's a problem, is in a distant third.
00:26:47.000And if he were to drop out and people voted Cuomo, we could avert a really nasty disaster for New York City.
00:26:54.000And, you know, Charlie and I would talk about this: that we do not abandon our cities.
00:26:59.000We do not say, oh, they just deserve this, you know, every bad thing that happens.
00:27:03.000Hey, man, as a resident in California, I can say that the right absolutely does abandon parts of the country.
00:27:08.000We've been totally abandoned for many years out there.
00:27:11.000And so it's interesting for me to watch this.
00:27:13.000And even then, true heroism is sometimes you actually have to step up and try to save people who are not great and don't want to be saved.
00:27:19.000And maybe that's what's going to happen.
00:27:21.000And if New York does choose this, they will get what they voted for.
00:29:55.000Every day, every day in the backyard, just bouncing the basketball, throwing the ball against the wall until the ball is just like frame, man.
00:30:02.000And it just saved me and it got me into college.
00:30:06.000Well, it turns out, if you throw up this image, there's an image of him and his buddies.
00:30:12.000Looks like it's probably from the 80s.
00:30:13.000And it says, Gavin Newsom with Paul Mohan, Andrew Getty, and Bill Getty posing for a Children of the Rich feature that ran in the San Francisco Chronicle.
00:31:28.000They clearly think that he destroyed half of the actual White House.
00:31:33.000There was a tweet where someone was just in one of the rooms of the normal White House.
00:31:36.000They're like, my wife and I in the East Wing can't believe it's gone.
00:31:40.000And then there was some article that was like, they were saying the East Wing has been called the heart of America.
00:31:48.000I have lived in America for 35 years and I have never once in my life heard the East Wing called anything at all other than the less famous wing of the White House.
00:31:59.000No, it literally was built after World War II, which, by the way, it was to cover up a World War II bunker that had been built there for safety during the war.
00:32:07.000And it was, you know, which is the era from like arguably between the 60s and 70s and the 50s, though, where most of the terrible architecture in the United States is.
00:32:26.000Well, yeah, like we have to have, we have to set up, you know, tents and portable bodies to have diplomatic dinners because we don't have a big enough facility to do it in the United States of America.
00:32:37.000There's so many points to be made, and we should make all of them.
00:32:39.000But isn't the point that this is a new, new-ish part of the building, and it was built for staffers after World War II.
00:32:45.000And we're going to replace it by the greatest builder to ever be president, regardless of what you think of his politics, a guy who's so qualified to do this, it's ridiculous.
00:32:53.000And he's going to build a ballroom so that we can host state dinners.
00:32:56.000We can host leaders from all around the world.
00:32:59.000The big shots of the all big shots can come and congregate in this building.
00:33:02.000And not just for his presidency, for future presidencies.
00:33:05.000And this is the thing that kind of blows my mind with Democrats: I think they missed a concession layup here.
00:33:09.000I think they come in, they have one of these Bomb Dami rallies with AOC and Schumer, and they come in and they say, Thank you for building us a new ballroom, Trump.
00:33:17.000We're going to win back the White House.
00:34:37.000And actually, what Trump wants to build, put this B-roll up of this beautiful new ballroom.
00:34:43.000And here's what we can't forget: that this just makes every sense in the world practically and pragmatically.
00:34:48.000Presidents have been wanting an event space for these diplomatic dinners, these fine dining experiences at the White House for years.
00:34:56.000Instead, they've spent millions of dollars on tents, port-a-potties, all this stuff.
00:35:00.000If Trump goes off campus somewhere else, that's millions of dollars annually just in expenses for security and movement and transportation.
00:35:09.000Secret Service has to plan this out in advance.
00:35:11.000Well, I mean, we're talking thousands of people get mobilized anytime there's a movement of the press.
00:35:16.000You know, another great thing about this that makes this funnier.
00:35:18.000There's been this whole movement on the left, people may or may not have heard of.
00:35:47.000We're just going to bam, building's gone.
00:35:49.000We're going to get this new building up within a year or two, you know, unfathomably quickly for America where it takes 18 years to do anything.